The Philadelphia Eagles are mired in a two-game losing streak after closing out a stretch of playing five consecutive teams with winning records. Even though the Eagles went 3-2 during that stretch, they lost their last two games by a combined score of 75-32.
Nick Sirianni gave his tired team walks for the first practice of the week. That changed on Thursday, as the Eagles had a full-padded practice in December instead of a walk-through.
Yes, Sirianni is changing things up this week.
“You can easily change schedules to get what you need,” Sirianni said Thursday. “We’re not locked into any schedule. Everything is fluid in trying to get better. I feel like here this is an opportunity for us to get better in the sense that we have to go and work on our fundamentals.
“We’re late in the year. Sometimes late in the year you don’t get this opportunity because you have to balance them resting, have to balance them playing fresh, while also being ready physically and mentally.”
The Monday night game, a product of the new flexible schedule of the NFL, certainly helped. The Eagles were the first team bent from Sunday’s game into Monday night’s spot, hence an opportunity for Sirianni to work on things.
“We have an extra day. We have a little extra time and a little extra rest from the last game. That’s why we’re going out today and practicing,” Sirianni said. “During the later parts of December we usually haven’t had that here in my past two years.
“We felt like we wanted to come out today to work on some fundamental things. Does that mean that’s going to happen next week? No. Every week is a little different. Every week allows you to do different things. We feel as a football team we had to do that this week.”
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The Eagles put the pads back in front, in front of Sirianni. During the Super Bowl season in 2017, the players asked Doug Pederson to put the pads back on to lead until the playoff opener after two bad games to close the regular season. The Eagles ended up winning Super Bowl LII.
Philadelphia is turning things around to get back on track. The players approve the change.
