The Eagles' Secret To Special Teams

Sirianni’s attention to detail is one of his strengths as a coach, and he never cuts corners, noting that even 15-year veteran Brandon Graham was still helping on field-goal blocks late in his career.

“I think you look back, like some of our good pushes from the last couple years, you have Jordan Davis on it, you have Jalen Carter, you had  Brandon Graham on it, and it's like, ‘oh, you know, Brandon Graham's a 15-year vet and he's still on this,’” Sirianni explained.

When the culture says potential future Hall of Famers aren’t too good for extra work, it’s pulls along the younger players who may have been the Big Man on Campus in college. 

“I give so much credit to Jason Kelce, Brandon Graham, Fletcher Cox of them carrying that culture, and Lane [Johnson] and now all the guys that we have now of carrying the culture and it's team, it's together,” said Sirianni.

The Eagles’ coach also praised the conditioning of Davis, who dropped significant weight in the offseason and had enough gas left in the tank to lift the Eagles to victory on his 57th snap of the afternoon Sunday, with 12 of them coming on special teams.

“Jordan Davis, there's been a lot of talk about how he's in the best shape of his life, but you saw that yesterday in the sense that the very last play of a dog fight where you're in the bottom of the dog fight and you're trying to fight your way back up, it's even more tiring,” Sirianni said. “But in a moment like that, [Davis and Carter] were still able to give this extreme effort to help us win the game, because they still had stuff in their tank.

“… Those two guys showed that all the way till the very end, which ended up helping us win the game, and then we didn't need Jordan to scoop and score, but he did, and he had the energy to be able to finish that off as well.”