Tremendous Bowl: Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni ‘grateful’ for staff’s collapse late in 2023 season

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni stated he was “grateful” for the staff’s collapse late within the 2023 season as they dismantled the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs in Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl.

The Eagles ended the Chiefs’ bid to win an unprecedented three straight Tremendous Bowls as they ran out 40-22 winners in New Orleans.

Philadelphia’s protection dominated and pressured Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes all through the night, sacking him a career-high six occasions and intercepting him twice.

Reverse quantity Jalen Hurts was named probably the most helpful participant after he threw for 221 yards and two touchdowns, in addition to scoring one himself, because the Eagles avenged their defeat to the Chiefs two years in the past.

In November 2023, the Eagles had been 10-1 after a house win towards the Buffalo Payments in additional time.

Nevertheless, they went on to lose three straight and 5 of their final six to complete the common season, culminating with a 32-9 loss at Tampa Bay within the wild-card spherical and Sirianni admitted being “grateful” now for the way that season ended.

“As loopy as this sounds, I am grateful how final yr ended as a result of it formed us to (who) we’re right now (with) the adversity of the start of the yr and the adversity by means of the season, by means of accidents, by means of ups and downs, by means of all the pieces,” Sirianni instructed reporters in New Orleans.

“I feel that once you embrace adversity, it does one thing to you, proper? It does one thing to you personally, proper?” he stated.

“Every particular person on that soccer staff, the adversity does one thing to you, and it does one thing to you as a soccer staff as effectively. So, our guys, I feel that could possibly be the largest attribute. They labored their butts off to attach.”

When the Eagles started the 2024 season 2-2, it was perceived as a hangover from 2023 as followers and the media cranked up the warmth on Sirianni, however following a bye week, Philadelphia went 16-1 the remainder of the way in which to seize the franchise’s second Lombardi Trophy.

“Simply because the skin world tells you to really feel a sure means does not imply that we had been feeling that means,” Sirianni stated. “We knew we had a particular staff. We knew we had a bunch of men that would do particular issues, but it surely was going to take day-in and day-out work. It was simply placing your head down and dealing.

“My job is to not encourage them. It is simply extra to only remind them of the issues they already know, and I hold it actually quick. I speak lots all throughout the week so earlier than the sport, it just about is constant. Week 1, Week 37, no matter, we’re on ‘robust, detailed, collectively.’ That is our core worth. That is what we speak about. And the hardest staff wins, often probably the most detailed staff wins, often the staff probably the most collectively wins.”