Eagles' Nick Sirianni Reveals Why Reliving Super Bowl is 'Very Healthy'

The Philadelphia Eagles coach will study the L.A. Rams and others to try to figure out why it is so difficult to make the big game and even the playoffs the following year

PHILADELPHIA – Every now and then this past offseason, a four-letter word would escape the office of Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni. Early on, any passerby down the hallway outside would pop their head in to make sure everything was all right.

It wasn’t. It still isn’t.

The source of Siranni’s angst? The three-point loss in Super Bowl LVII.

“Yeah, am I watching clips from the game when I’m doing our postseason thing and thinking to myself, yelling an obscenity out if I see us make a mistake or I see myself make a mistake,” said Sirianni in early June during an embargoed session with beat writers.

“There’ve been times I’ve been sitting in that office and an F-bomb came out of that office and like someone says, ‘Is everything all right?’ ‘Yeah, I’m good!’”

Sometimes even his home offers little comfort. Outfitted now with a TV on his screened-in porch, Sirianni and his son Jacob have seen a replay of the game. And it hurts, not the Jalen kind of Hurts, either.

“There was something on NFL Network, highlights of the Super Bowl or whatever it is, and we watched that, and I found myself like, ‘Aw, man!’ (smacks his chair)," he said. "But to me, it’s very healthy to do that.”

To a point, yes, it is. It’s also healthy to move on, and Sirianni has done that.

He is studying why there haven’t been many teams to not only lose a Super Bowl and come back the following year and win one - only three in fact - but also teams that have gone to the Super Bowl and have failed to make the playoffs the following season.

The Los Angeles Rams are the first example Sirianni said he would glimpse.

L.A. lost the Super Bowl in the 2018 season, came back in 2019, and missed the playoffs, going 9-7.

The Rams then won the Super Bowl in the 2021 season, but failed miserably last year, going an ugly 5-12.

“That was the first thing I looked at was the Rams and this last year, where they were,” said Sirianni. “If there’s anything that you can take from that, you’ll take it. There might not be anything that I get from it, right?

“We’ll definitely study it. I think probably one thing that I feel when you go to a Super Bowl the people come back thinking overconfident or not as hungry. We didn’t win. I know how hungry our guys are.

“And our mindset too, which never changes, truly. The only time you’re going to hear me say Super Bowl - or look at the hat of my guy wearing the Super Bowl hat right now - is when y’all bring it up. I’m not focused on that. I’m focused on the same thing I was focused on last year at this time. Just getting incrementally better each day.”

That said, the coach believes that Super Bowl loss will forever haunt him, unless, maybe, he goes on to win at least one or more. Even then, a fierce competitor like Sirianni is, he probably won’t.

“I’ve already dragged myself through the mud on it,” he said. “Fifty years from now, 30 years from now, 20 years from now, whatever, if I watch that game, I’m going to have a knot in my stomach. 

"That still happens to me with the national championship game my senior year (at Mount Union). You’re just always going to be upset. That’s any game you lose.”

Ed Kracz covers the Philadelphia Eagles for SI's EaglesToday.

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