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Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie fires back at Tush Push detractors - NBCSP
“You know what?” Lurie said. “I remember reading about the forward pass and they said it really was an odd play that is no part of American football. It was controversial when the forward pass came out. I think aestheticism is very subjective. I’ve never judged whether a play looks, OK. Does a screen pass look better than an in-route or an out-route? I don’t know. To me, it’s not a very relevant critique that it doesn’t look right or something like that. I don’t know what looks right. Scoring. We like to win and score.” The Eagles spent the week at The Breakers fighting for a play that they have been able to perfect, unlike most of the other teams who have tried it. They’ll likely continue to battle for it going into the meetings in May. Although it seems possible all these efforts might be in vain if the league wants to return to pre-2004 rules, which prohibited pushing or pulling on all plays. “I don’t ever remember a play being banned because a single team or a few teams were running it effectively,” Lurie said. “It’s part of what I think I personally, and I think most of us love about football, is it’s a chess match. Let the chess match play out. “And if for any reason it does get banned, we will try to be the very best at short yardage situations. We’ve got a lot of ideas there, but I think it’s a credit to using our personnel in a way. There aren’t that many teams that have 600-pound squat quarterbacks and that offensive line. Listen, if there were any injury concern, I would be concerned.”
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie indicates Nick Sirianni extension is coming - NFL.com
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni went from the hot seat to the precipice of a long-term extension. Eagles owner and CEO Jeffrey Lurie indicated this week that an extension for Sirianni, who enters the final year of his contract, is on the way following Philly’s Super Bowl run. “Yeah, superb job. I mean, Nick’s going to be our coach and we don’t talk publicly [about contracts], never have,” Lurie said Tuesday from the Annual League Meeting. “You guys, I’m sure, will find out soon enough that Nick will be our coach going forward, and he’s done an outstanding job.”
Eight takeaways from Jeffrey Lurie’s ‘State of the Eagles’ address - PhillyVoice
6) Lurie discussed the decision to accept an invitation from ‘the White House.’ “We just felt this is a time honored tradition being invited by the White House. So there was no reticence whatsoever. To be celebrated at the White House is a good thing. There were special circumstances back then that were very different, and so this was kind of an obvious choice and look forward...
