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PHILADELPHIA — A Super Bowl loss is not an easy thing to escape.
Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni has faced this reality since the clock hit zero at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, Arizona on February 12, the score at 38-35 in favor of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Reminders are everywhere. Sirianni recently sat down with his son, Jacob, at the family’s home in South Jersey to enjoy the newly installed television in their screened-in deck, only for a program showing highlights of the game to come on. Sirianni said he let out a series of dang-its and aww-mans as plays he wished he had back passed by.
The language grew more colorful when he’d watch clips of Super Bowl LVII at work.
“There’d been times I’m sitting in that office and an f-bomb came out of that office and someone was like, ‘Everything alright?’ ‘Yeah, I’m good,’” said Sirianni.
“Thirty years from now, 20 years from now, whatever, if I watch that game I’m going to have a knot in my stomach.”
But a new year beckons, one that will require Philadelphia’s full effort and attention if it wants to become the first NFC team since the 1974 Minnesota Vikings to return to the Super Bowl after losing it the season prior.
It’s tricky terrain to navigate, knowing last year’s finish is something that both can’t be ignored or overly focused on. It falls on Sirianni to thread that needle. His first attempt at it came on the opening day of the Eagles’ offseason training program in…
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