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Adam Teicher
NEW ORLEANS — The late-season collapse in 2023 was not enjoyable on the time for anybody related with the Philadelphia Eagles, and definitely not for coach Nick Sirianni.
However Sirianni stated Monday he is pleased for it now as a result of it arrange the Eagles for the 2024 season’s Tremendous Bowl championship run.
“I look again on final 12 months and the way final 12 months ended and I am grateful. As loopy as this sounds, I am grateful how final 12 months ended as a result of it formed us to who we’re right now [with] the adversity of the start of the 12 months and the adversity by the season, by accidents, by ups and downs, by all the things,” Sirianni stated the morning after the Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in Tremendous Bowl LIX.
“I believe that once you embrace adversity, it does one thing to you, proper? It does one thing to you personally, proper? Every particular person on that soccer crew, the adversity does one thing to you, and it does one thing to you as a soccer crew as effectively. So, our guys, I believe that may very well be the largest attribute. They labored their butts off to attach.”
The 2023 Eagles, after beginning the season 10-1, misplaced six of their final seven video games, together with a wild-card spherical playoff matchup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Sirianni stated his pregame message to the Eagles was easy: “Powerful, detailed, collectively.”
“We talked about that every one 12 months,” he stated. “My job is to not encourage them. It is simply extra to simply remind them of the issues they already know, and I hold it actually quick. I discuss so much all through the week so earlier than the sport, it just about is constant. Week 1, Week 37, no matter, we’re on ‘powerful, detailed, collectively.’ That is our core worth. That is what we speak about. And the hardest crew wins, normally essentially the most detailed crew wins, normally the crew essentially the most collectively wins.”
The Eagles will rejoice their championship with their followers in a parade scheduled for Friday in Philadelphia.
