As soon because the teams were set, the theme speak about Super Bowl LVII immediately shifted to it being the “Andy Reid Bowl,” considering Reid’s success because the Eagles head coach before he joined the Chiefs and led them to much more success.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni may need something to say in regards to the Andy Reid Bowl before the approaching week is claimed and done.
After the 2012 NFL season, Sirianni was just wrapping up his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Chiefs, the last of which was as receivers coach, and Reid was hired as the brand new head coach in Kansas City.
Reid opted to not retain Sirianni on his Chiefs staff, sending him on a run of three different assistant-coach posts with the Chargers before he hooked on with the Colts as their offensive coordinator for 3 seasons.
A decade later, Sirianni, at 41 years old and in his second yr because the Eagles head coach, stands in the way in which of the 64-year-old Reid winning his second Super Bowl.
There aren’t any hard feelings between the 2, but still, the person whom Reid omitted for his staff has a likelihood to show the Andy Reid Bowl the wrong way up.
“Once I got here here [to Kansas City], I used to be told Nick Sirianni is a very special coach,” Reid said. “But I had David [Culley]. David was my assistant head coach, and he had been with me for 14 years, and so he was coming with me. I needed to make that determination to maintain Nick or not, and I knew being nearly as good as he was and the popularity he had, I knew he was going to get something.
“So, it’s worked out great for him.”
Sirianni, who holds Reid in high regard, understood the character of the business.
“It was just sort of receiving my fate there,” Sirianni recalled. “[Reid] told me face-to-face that he had a man, but had heard good things about me. And I appreciated that, his honesty, his ability to get to me as soon as he possibly could so I could move on and find one other job.
“I didn’t get a likelihood to select his brain in any respect on anything like that, but got a ton of respect for Coach Reid and who he’s as an individual and who he’s as a coach. His record speaks for itself, but you refer to anybody, and so they think even higher of him as an individual. Do I do know him all that well? No. But I actually have a high amount of respect for him.”
Reid had a 140-102-1 record in his 14 years in Philadelphia (including postseason), getting to at least one Super Bowl and losing it, and is 128-52 with one Super Bowl title in his 10 seasons in Kansas City. He recalled this of Sirianni: “I loved his personality.”
Sirianni’s success in such a short while with the Eagles — he’s 25-12 with playoff appearances in his first two seasons — got here as no surprise to Reid.
“He’s a man which you could refer to and [he] communicates well, he’s got a hearth to him that you just appreciate — and the players appreciate, and he’s smart,” Reid said. “I believe he’s perfect for Philadelphia. That’s a tricky place and he’s a tricky kid, and he relates well to those people there.”
Sirianni, too, pertains to his players, connecting with them in a way that may surprise you considering his cringeworthy introductory press conference that was so awkward it made you ponder whether he would last a yr in hard-to-please Philadelphia.
“He won me over when he first came,” Eagles veteran defensive end Brandon Graham said. “It was cool because after that press conference he had when he did all that stuff, said all of the mistaken things and loads of [reporters] got on him, he got here into here and gave us his honest answer about how he felt about it. He was pissed about it. I loved that, because loads of coaches wouldn’t admit to the media getting under their skin.
“It was down-to-earth cool. That’s when he won me over, man, just coming in and being real about how he feels. He does an actual good job of owning it and moving on.”
Eagles veteran center Jason Kelce praised the culture Sirianni delivered to the team.
“The atmosphere and culture he builds inside this constructing are a very big reason why the [assistant] coaches have flourished and why the players have flourished,” Kelce said. “That’s what a head coach’s fundamental role is. His No. 1 job is to facilitate a company that is concentrated on working, that comes into the constructing with energy, that’s motivated to get well.
“This stuff far outweigh what play we call on third down. I believe Nick does an outstanding job of that and he deserves all of the credit in world for it.”
Sirianni said the most effective thing he got out of his experience in Kansas City had nothing to do with football.
“I met my wife there,” he said. “That may all the time be a special place to us due to that. Kansas City is a fantastic town. We actually enjoyed our time there. I made some good friends there, as well, none of which I might assume are rooting for us or our family this weekend, but that’s OK.”
