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“To me,” Wilson said, “the best thing is the way he handles the stress. “He’s transparent with everything he does,” Jonathan Gannon said of Nick Sirianni. Johnson has learned the importance of authenticity. Gannon, with a self-admitted penchant for winging it, said he needed to learn the importance of hammering out the details of everything ahead of time. Though he led the team to a Super Bowl appearance in just his second season on the job, it’s not as if he’s doling out decades worth of wisdom like some kind of modern-day Sid Gillman.

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Of course, last offseason was the only one after which Sirianni had experienced a full year of life as a head coach. I think most people that are great leaders or good leaders, they try to teach everyone underneath them. I’ve had other guys like that I was around. This is what I would do as a head coach.’ … He’s been intentional on talking to me about those things.

During the offseason, we’ll have certain meetings and he’ll be like, ‘This is what happened when I got into that position. “And he’ll put it on the table and he’ll ask ideas. “Nick likes to talk through everything, right?” Wilson said. Wilson, the defensive passing game coordinator/defensive backs coach who is considered the best in-house option to replace Gannon, said he’s taken cues from Sirianni as well. His trusted group of head coaches in training went beyond just Gannon and Steichen. But Sirianni’s situational meetings served as de facto head-coaching prep for future in-game decision-makers. And it’s like, ‘Wow, boy I was behind on that one.'”ĭuring the season, the staff has less time to think about anything other than game prep. “Sometimes it’s like, ‘Yeah, I have thought about that,'” Gannon said, “and other times you get done with a meeting and I go and write it down.

Gannon and Steichen both said Sirianni went out of his way to quiz them throughout the year on different aspects of running an organization, from seemingly small things like the weekly messaging to the team to administrative things like offseason practice schedules to heavier situations like dealing with a player in trouble. He’s transparent with everything he does.” It’s a great process because it’s so open. He pulls you into meetings that sometimes you don’t want to be in. “This has been one of the first coaches and head coaches I’ve been around that you’re in any meeting that you wanna be in.

But Sirianni said last week that replacing departed coaches with in-house options “is always going to be where I start because that’s just always kind of been how I’ve learned, grooming the people that you have … for when this day happens that you’re ready to go.” On defense, the net has been cast wider, with former Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, Seattle Seahawks associate head coach/defensive assistant Sean Desai and former Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard all reportedly interviewing for the role. So far, the Eagles have reportedly yet to interview any outside candidates for the vacant offensive coordinator position. And I try to give them things that helped me throughout my career. “From our position coaches to our coordinators, all the way to our quality control coaches and assistant position coaches, I want them involved in everything. “I’m obsessed, personally, because of the stock that people have put in me, of how we develop our football coaches,” Sirianni said during the Eagles’ end-of-season news conference. Whether he can rebuild a strong staff depends a lot on how well he prepared for this moment. Last offseason, the singular change to Sirianni’s group was the departure of consultant Jim Bob Cooter. Now, with both gone, along with linebackers coach Nick Rallis, Sirianni faces a challenge he hasn’t before, one that has proven difficult for head coaches over the years. Steichen and Jonathan Gannon are the first two members of the Nick Sirianni coaching tree to realize their dream of becoming head coaches.