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by Tommy Lawlor

Nick & Jeff Speak

Posted April 1st, 2025 | Comments Off on Nick & Jeff Speak

Nick Sirianni and Jeffrey Lurie both spoke to the media while down at the owners meetings. I would love to tell you that we got all kinds of great insight, but that would be stretching things a bit.

Here is Nick.

The takeaways from Nick. He’s going to miss the players who left. He is high on the young talent the team has. He’s also very excited about all of the players the Eagles added. He did offer his thoughts on the tush push. Nick talked about the White House visit. He addressed the Dallas Goedert situation.

None of his answers were all that interesting. That’s not a criticism. Nick was in Coachspeak 101. I thought his best comments came when talking about the challenges of coming off a SB win. He made a great point when talking about whether players will be hungry after winning. If anything, that may make them hungrier than ever. They got a taste of what being a champion is like. That’s got to be an overwhelmingly powerful feeling. Who wouldn’t want to repeat that?

Nick also talked about how team leaders like Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley would keep everyone focused and working hard. Those are incredibly driven people. They aren’t going to let teammates slack off.

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And here is Jeffrey.

I found his comments a bit more interesting. He was asked about Sirianni being in the final year of his contract. Jeffrey said that Nick will be the Eagles coach for a while. The extension will happen. Lurie got questions about Howie Roseman and offered a lot of praise for his GM.

Lurie made the Eagles case for keeping the tush push. The most interesting point was when he said it is actually safer than the traditional QB sneak.

Lurie got multiple questions about the moves the Eagles made this offseason and the players who signed elsewhere. He stressed that this was all done so that the Eagles can keep the young talent they have drafted in recent years. He used the phrase “win big” multiple times. As much as you want to keep everyone, you have to focus on keeping the key stars and building around them.

The 2024 roster was loaded.

You just can’t keep everyone.

Maybe the most interesting nugget to me was a comment made about the players being people and not just names. He then talked about having dinner with some of the players. That’s not a huge deal, but it has to help with player relationships. Any advantage a team can get when it comes to bonding with players can be a good thing. If players feel the owner genuinely cares about them, that’s a good thing. Clearly not all 31 owners (GB is group owned) have strong relationships with their players.

It is funny to think there was a time when Eagles fans would have probably killed to have Jerry Jones as the owner and not Lurie. That was a long time ago. Lurie has helped deliver a pair of SB wins to Philly and has the team in position to keep winning.

And just maybe winning big.

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The tush push vote got tabled. The situation will be re-visited in May.

Most experts say that’s not good for the Eagles. The powers that be new it wouldn’t pass with current language so they tabled it. They will adjust the language and have another discussion after the draft.

There were some rules adjustments.

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