Eagles HC Nick Sirianni shares simple key for a fully healthy roster after 18 week season
The Philadelphia Eagles will have all of their starters ready to roll for their playoff run, which is pretty impressive after 18 weeks of hard-fought football. Of course, luck plays a role in it, however, head coach Nick Sirianni and his staff made it a focus to strategize all year to ensure their roster remained healthy […]
The Philadelphia Eagles will have all of their starters ready to roll for their playoff run, which is pretty impressive after 18 weeks of hard-fought football.
Of course, luck plays a role in it, however, head coach Nick Sirianni and his staff made it a focus to strategize all year to ensure their roster remained healthy for the long haul.
"I feel like the main thing that you want to do is make sure you’re getting better throughout the year," Sirianni said. "So you always push it so you’re practicing, doing the details and the fundamentals in practice, while you’re also very conscious that it’s an 18-week season. It’s a balance that a lot of people contribute to."
The Eagles held walkthroughs on Wednesdays to give the entire team a rest but kept their starters sidelined or limited. Then the closer they got to the regular season, they gave the starters who needed it two rest days.
While those rest days were important, Sirianni said the key to keeping his players healthy was constant communication.
"Ultimately, I have to make the final decisions on what I think is best for the team of how we practice and all those different things, but I get a lot of different contributions from the strength staff, from the training staff, from the doctors," Sirianni said. "Couldn’t do that without them. And then you also talk to the players, how they’re feeling and always being in constant communication with them.
"But at the end of the day, yeah, sure, luck has something to do with it because there are some unlucky situations that happen where you lose guys. But you can’t say enough about how much the guys have put into taking care of their bodies, from the nutrition, being at the weights that they’re supposed to be at, to how they pre-hab, to how they rehab, all the different things that they do."
The very healthy Eagles host a banged-up Green Bay Packers team in the wild card round on Sunday.
The winner of that game advances to the divisional round.
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Keeping the boys healthy!
