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The screams surprised everyone on the field – and everyone in the stands.
Although he wasn't nine years old in the morning, Nick Silianni was Livid. This was back in July 2019. This is one of the early training camp practices that seem to never end. The sun was suffocating, the crowd was quiet, and Syrian was the Indianapolis Colts' attacking coordinator and steaming. His player looked tired and unprepared. Someone cried on the block. Someone dropped the pass. Someone went the wrong route. Finally, Siriani stopped practicing.
“All right!” he cried. “You need to study your sh-!”
My head turned. My eyes were shot. For a while, there was an uneasy silence.
It was a snapshot into Syriani's polishing coaching style. The man runs hot. I always have it.
“Man, he's not changed a bit,” says wide receiver Paris Campbell. “He's still doing the same thing as us.”
The Cirian fire penetrates the locker room and ratchets the strength, whether it's a sleepy July morning in Westfield, Indiana, or halftime in the NFC Championship game, as many players say. “That's what makes him good at his job…wait, I shouldn't say it's good – wonderful said Eagles wide receiver coach Aaron Moorehead. “Our team is an extension of him, so we're playing really hard.”
“That's one of the reasons I wanted him on the staff,” former Colts coach Frank Reich said.
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When Silianni left Indianapolis in Philadelphia in 2021, he took over the spotlight, improved roster, and more serious scrutiny. The eruption never stopped – now they are just public. Coaches can't help themselves. He can be emotional. Impulsive. It's small.
After beating the awful Colts team in 2022, Silianni cried out bolting into the stands. Holmes' crowd (who had been fired a few weeks ago). A year later, after beating the Chief in a Super Bowl LVII rematch, Silianni couldn't help but groan on his way to the locker room. “I don't listen to SH. I'm a Chiefs fan!” he cried out in the tunnel. “See YA!”
This season, he set his sights on his fanbase and appeared to untook the home crowd in the final minutes of his 20-16 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week, 6 week A month later, a post-match exchange between former Eagles star Silianni and Washington commander tight end Zach Ertz demanded that the two be separated.
“He's always going to be fine,” says Philadelphia, who left Jordan Meertata. “It's just Nick. What you see is what you get.”
Is he intense? no doubt.
Are you overstated? sometimes.
boy? You can make a point.
“After the game with the Browns, I cried out to the fans and it made me mad,” says lifelong Eagles stubborn Edward Wakeley, who traveled to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX. . “Look, you barely beat the Browns. Please relax a little.
“But I think he represents the city. He's pretty rude and pretty offensive, like most of us.”
The Browns Game Incident involves inhaling gasoline into a fire that had already been lit. Fans of Lincoln Financial Field were chanting “Firenic” during the contest. The Fire Nick Sirianni website, which emerged in the collapsed finish last season, gained traction.
The coach, who had a record of 37-19 up until then, was asked on a radio show about his job safety. One radio host said: Apologise to the fan base or pack the office and leave. …We're distracted by the head coaching location. ” ESPN's Damien Woody went a step further and called Sirianni a “clown.”
The 43-year-old coach, who apologised for his antics after the Cleveland game, knows who he has acquired.
“I'm definitely different from other head coaches, but I'm myself,” Siliani said earlier this week. “I'm not trying to comply with anything other than who I am.”
And he wins. At an incredible speed. Sirianni's 48-20 regular season record four seasons career is a great start for a coach hired since 2000. He is the only coach who led the Eagles to two Super Bowls (Andy Reid, Doug Pederson and Dick Vermeil each led to one) and only the third coach in league history will be his first four seasons ( He reached the big game twice with Mike Tomlin and Joe Gibbs.
Nick Sirianni is set to appear in the Super Bowl for the second time since being hired as the Eagles head coach in 2021.
Reich saw it before someone else when he was the Chargers OC and Siliani was his wide receiver coach. Reich was sometimes delegated during meetings, asking his assistant to explain certain concepts to the players. Sirianni was as skilled as anyone in the building. Through a series of video fragments, he made the player care About the basics and techniques. He made them understand, not just the reason behind the offensive pattern.
“He was exceptional – we're talking about the elite – by explaining what we're doing,” Reich said. “This wasn't a lecture. People really got hooked on it. And ultimately, that's what the players want: a coach who can make them better.”
When Reich won the Colts head coaching job in 2018, he told general manager Chris Ballard he needed to do “anything” to acquire Syriani as an offensive coordinator. Three years later, the conversation continued for hours when Lurie and Eagles general manager Howie Roseman called Reich to ask about possible surveillance of Sirianni's head. Reich was able to tell him that Brass from Philadelphia did his homework. Syriani was impressed with them.
“When they enter their process, Howie and Lurie are unforgiving at their due diligence. “They talk to everyone.”
Since Silianni landed in Philadelphia, the Eagles have made four playoff trips in four years. They have the opportunity to win the franchise's second Super Bowl on Sunday. Still, the frequently asked questions about Philadelphia are: how much of the Eagles' incredible success is actually responsible? – rest.
Following last season's collapse, the Eagles began 10-1 to drop six of their sevens at the end, including a 23-point loss to the Tampa Bay's Buccaneers in a wildcard round – Lurie was his head Return to the team where the coach waited nine days to make sure he would do so. Both Sirianni's hand-picked coordinators, Brian Johnson and Sean Desai, have been fired. At the end of the season press conference, Syriani sat next to Roseman and was disappointed.
Some of his voice had been stripped. Silianni called the offense he overseen in 2023 “old” and despite being hired for offensive insight, the new coordinator was “in charge” on that side of the ball. I admitted.
“What is your role?” Sirianni was asked at one point.
“Head Coach of the Football Team” was how he began to answer.
This move certainly hurt Syriani's ego and they kept him in the crosshairs of fans this offseason. But he knows that the story doesn't decide the game.
He also knows he has the advantage of working for Lurie, one of the league's most keen owners, and Roseman, one of the best roster builders of his time. Sirianni quarterback Jalen Hurts can't flap his wings. His running back, an explosive offensive centerpiece, Saquon Barkley. His DC, Vic Fangio, is one of the best in history. His OC, Kellen Moore, is likely a few days away from becoming head coach for the New Orleans Saints. Offensive line Gurdjiev Stoutland is one of the most respected position coaches in the game. The list continues. Philadelphia's infrastructure is the same as the rest of the league on this side of Kansas City.
The year that began with a report of “cutting” between Sirianni and Hurts – “Relationships are still work in progress”, AthleticDianna Russini pointed out at that time. It will reach its peak on Sunday on the biggest stage of the sport. This league is a cure for most illnesses, and that's what almost all of the Eagles did since Silianni arrived.
That doesn't mean that there are not frequent storms. After a uneven 2-2 start this season, some of the Eagles offensive linemen, including veteran right tackle lane Johnson, piped up to the team meeting after calling for work again in the city did. The message was direct: There's Saquon Barkley and this offensive line. We need to lean on it. Syriani heard them. The offensive approach has shifted. Berkley took off. The Eagles won in 10 straight sets.
Pivot spoke to one of Syriani's greatest strengths: his ability to connect and work together. He develops bonds with his peers and then he guides them hard. The strength rarely fades. He is a screamer. Tanter. Competitors. His players say he will stop practicing and even one of his stars will tear him to someone he is far apart.
“He's crazy about the details,” Campbell says. “In other words … Unusual. It doesn't matter who it is, it could be Jalen, it could be AJ (brown), it could be Smitty (Devonta Smith). He does it in front of everyone. ”
Moorehead, who coaches the receiver position where Sirianni played in college and then coached as a young NFL assistant, is an easy target.
“I sometimes catch bullets, which means screaming a lot. There's a few blasphems in general,” Moorehead said with a laugh. “But the great thing is, five seconds later, he's close to what he's coming.”
That's the key, people close to Silianni believe. His anger only boils for a long time. It serves that purpose and then listens whenever he needs to. Kevin Paturo, whose time with Silianni goes back to years in Indianapolis, works closely with him, just like anyone in the Eagles building. Philadelphia's passing game coordinator and associate head coach have seen subtle shifts that look like four or more thrilling but taxable seasons.
“He's really grown,” Paturo said. “How stoic he has become. …He's still him, but he has a sense of calm with him.”
stoic? Quiet? Nick Silianni?
“Yeah,” Paturo said. “And that's because of what we've been going on. Every year there was something dramatic that he had to deal with… he said, in order for us to get better. He is humble enough to realize that he has to get better.”
“He's growing. He's always growing,” Lurie told reporters earlier this week. “We've seen it with every coach we've had before. Nick is a very representative example of that. … He's as a human being and as a real person (as he is). (To) he connects with himself and says, “What was I thinking?” It's of great quality. ”
So, what was he thinking when he screamed at Colts fans? Chief fan? His own fan? Sirianni knows that the explosion doesn't look good. But he also knows whether his fire will cool down, he is not the same coach.
“I think there are times when we have time to show emotion and sometimes we don't show emotion. As the years go by, I think it's better,” Syriani said. “After winning a touchdown, do you stop getting excited, put everything on the line, stop being excited after a victory that I'm not going to praise or praise? That's who I am It's not.
“You're constantly trying to improve and improve,” he continued after the pause. “But then I have a habit of about 43 years that is difficult to break.”
(Illustrated by Demetrius Robinson / Athletic;Photo: Terrance Williams / Associated Press)
