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Eagles HC Nick Sirianni said that he’s used AI this off-season to help advance the team forward and admitted that expectations are lofty.
“You come off a ’22 season and we did what we did, and I think that that standard has been what’s been expected — not only from the outside, I think we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to play to a standard,” Sirianni said, via The Athletic. “It’s going to push us to become better, because they’re so high. …We all struggle. We all wrestled with that, like, ‘Man, that’s maybe not fair that the expectation is that high,’ or, ‘Hey, man, we’re going to become as good as we possibly can, because the expectation is so high.’”
Sirianni has focused on internal progress and rebuilding the team culture, which aren’t able to be measured.
“There’s a common denominator of these good teams that they just want to play for each other, and so we’ve talked a lot about that, and tried to live that — and that’s tricky, and that’s hard, because how do you come together as a team?” Sirianni said. “You come together as a football team through shared hardships, so you get that right through the offseason. You come together as a football team through building trust of consistently doing what you’re supposed to do, consistently on a daily basis, and you come together as a football team through the time that you put in with each other. That time, sometimes it feels like it’s invisible progress.”
Panthers HC Dave Canales handed off offensive play-calling duties to OC Brad Idzik this offseason, marking the first time he isn’t calling plays since taking over in 2024. Carolina GM Dan Morgan feels Canales’ decision epitomizes what it means to be a great leader, as he’s willing to do whatever it takes for the team’s success.
“I think that’s what good leaders do,” Morgan said, via the team’s website. “You’ve got to make hard decisions, and sometimes it’s not comfortable, and whether it’s moving on from a coach and replacing him with somebody else, that’s where I’ve just really seen him take the next step to where he’s always going to do what’s best for the team.”
Canales said he’s remaining heavily involved in the process, and brought up the addition of associate HC Darrell Bevell, who brings plenty of experience running NFL offenses.
“For all that I may have in my brain or in my notes or in my cut-ups, they’ll remember things I didn’t remember about how we came to certain parts of our scheme from an offensive standpoint,” Canales said. *“So that to me was an opportunity to build that out. The opportunity to allow Brad to be fully focused and locked in on the offensive play-calling side, while I’m still involved, while I’m still having conversations, and we’re all there to really support him. And Darrell’s been a play-caller for years, able to give Brad his...
