Head Coach Nick Sirianni reviewed the key moments from the loss to the Buccaneers with the players during Monday’s team meeting and wrapped it up with a simple message.
“We went through adversity here already after the Atlanta game and we got better from it,” Sirianni said.
“Use it.
“Get better from it.
“We’re going to get better from this.”
The Eagles enter the early bye week with a 2-2 record and get to watch next week’s opponent, the Cleveland Browns, travel to Washington to square off against the NFC East rival Commanders. Philadelphia will get the benefit of rest and a boost from the home crowd in their only game at Lincoln Financial Field this month (although several road games feel like home games at this point).
Still, Sirianni has seen what this team is capable of when everything is clicking, whether it’s the offense that ranked in the top five in points after the first two games or the defense shutting down a Saints offense that currently ranks first in scoring.
The key, Sirianni notes, is consistency across the board.
“That’s on both sides of coaching and playing,” Sirianni said. “But we’re in this thing together, and it takes everybody. So the answer on – it’s never going to be 100 percent here and 100% there, because that’s just not the way this game is played. That’s why it is the greatest team game, and I’ll stand on that it’s the greatest team game whether it’s a win or a loss. But that’s how you continue to come together through the tough times, through the good times, to become a team.”
What is consistent is Sirianni’s reliance on the core values and looking to those as the starting point for improvement.
“I know one thing that we can say our identity is as a football team that we talk a ton about is our team, our accountability, our detail, and our toughness that we’re constantly trying to work on and become better at that at all times,” Sirianni said.
The coaches spent the bye week mining through the first four games, looking for any possible edge that could be gleaned and implemented once the players return from the bye week and begin preparation for the Browns.
