Eagles HC Nick Sirianni isn’t concerned about the team starting slow over the last stretch of games and said the team has traditionally started off games on a more positive note.
“I’m not hitting a panic button by any means,” Sirianni said, via PFT. “I think we’ve been pretty good on our first drive, pretty good starting in general, obviously the last two games, but I get it, you’re judged off the last two games, not the whole body of work sometimes. So, we’ll make sure we’re working hard as coaches to put the guys in positions to succeed. So not just scripting. I think a lot of times what happens, because you asked scripting, so that’s going to mean play calls and all that stuff. It’s design of plays, too, right? And so, when a play doesn’t work, we put it on ourselves as coaches. It’s not just about the play call, it’s about the design of the play and our detail of which we go about teaching it and instructing it. So, any time I take something like, ‘Hey, that’s us as coaches’, I’m not speaking of play calls. Sometimes it’s the play call, but sometimes it’s the design of the play which goes into that. So, we look at all that and we’ll be better.”
Giants HC Brian Daboll did his best to pour water on a pre-game report that there was a lot of tension between him and DC Wink Martindale. Daboll gave Martindale a game ball after the team’s 10-7 win against the Patriots and downplayed the report after the game.
“I’d say the biggest argument that Wink and I have had is who has the last piece of pizza,” Daboll said via Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. “I have a lot of respect for Wink. He’s done a good job. I’ll leave it at that.”
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