Apology Blog: I Was Wrong About Nick Sirianni
I've been writing nonsense here on Barstool Sports [dot] com for 10 years now. That's a decade worth of blogging close to every day. Thousands upon thousands of blogs.
The thing about this job is that you end up being wrong a lot. Like, a lot. If we're just playing the numbers here, thousands and thousands of blogs means that most likely I'd be wrong at least hundreds and hundreds of times.
Nick Sirianni this season was someone who I was completely wrong about. Here are a few headlines from earlier in the season that have aged like the saggiest set of titties you've ever seen in your life.
Now typically the way that folks "in the media" handle having extremely bad takes is to just pretend like they never happened, and keep moving on to new takes. But I wouldn't be able to fully enjoy this run the Eagles are currently on if I still have this black cloud of all that Sirianni hatred hovering around me.
So allow this to be a formal apology to Eagles Head Coach Nick Sirianni. I'm stupid, you're smart. I was wrong, you were right. You're the best, I'm the worst. You're very good looking, I'm not very attractive. Fact of the matter here is that ever since that Browns win, Nick Sirianni has clearly done a lot of self-reflection and has leaned into making sure the right messaging is always getting through to that locker room every single week.
This is how the CEO of a team is supposed to operate. Those first few weeks of the season it just seemed like Sirianni was focusing on trying to prove a point that last year's collapse was a fluke. But once that bye week came and he had a chance to reset, everything has been focused on playing the season each week at a time, and making sure that the locker room understands that nothing else matters besides that week. He's even gone as far as to break out the "rat poison" phrase from Coach Saban. He's growing up right in front of our eyes into one of those elite coaches who find ways to block out all the noise and brainwash their team into taking the season week-by-week.
The late, great philosopher Tim Robinson once said, "People can change". Just because someone used to be a piece of shit, doesn't mean that they have to be anymore. And after the last few weeks, it's apparent that Nick Sirianni has changed. The numbers speak for themselves.
Winners win. Plain and simple.