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 mentioned Monday he is blissful 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 immediately [with] the adversity of the start of the 12 months and the adversity via the season, via accidents, via ups and downs, via all the pieces,” Sirianni mentioned the morning after the Eagles beat the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 40-22 in Tremendous Bowl LIX.
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“I believe that while you embrace adversity, it does one thing to you, proper? It does one thing to you personally, proper? Each 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 believe that might 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 mentioned his pregame message to the Eagles was easy: “Powerful, detailed, collectively.”
“We talked about that each one 12 months,” he mentioned. “My job is to not encourage them. It is simply extra to simply remind them of the issues they already know, and I maintain it actually quick. I speak quite a bit all through 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, normally probably the most detailed staff wins, normally the staff probably the most collectively wins.”
The Eagles will have fun their championship with their followers in a parade scheduled for Friday in Philadelphia.
