Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni mentioned he was “grateful” for the group’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 instances and intercepting him twice.
Reverse quantity Jalen Hurts was named essentially the most priceless 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 have been 10-1 after a house win towards the Buffalo Payments in additional time.
Nonetheless, 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 at the moment (with) the adversity of the start of the yr and the adversity via the season, via accidents, via ups and downs, via the whole lot,” Sirianni informed 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 mentioned.
“Each particular person on that soccer group, the adversity does one thing to you, and it does one thing to you as a soccer group as nicely. So, our guys, I feel that could possibly be the largest attribute. They labored their butts off to attach.”
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Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni gave an emotional interview after successful Tremendous Bowl 59
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 surface world tells you to really feel a sure means doesn’t suggest that we have been feeling that means,” Sirianni mentioned. “We knew we had a particular group. We knew we had a gaggle of men that would do particular issues, nevertheless it 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 simply remind them of the issues they already know, and I hold it actually brief. I discuss quite a bit all in the course of 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 group wins, often essentially the most detailed group wins, often the group essentially the most collectively wins.”
