Nick Sirianni is putting the "fun" back in football around here, and I am very curious to see if it has an impact in the regular season.
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The Eagles completed their final OTA workouts this week before training camp starts in late July.
Attendance wasn't perfect. And it wasn't a huge deal.
Practices weren't very intense. And not much was made about it.
The head coach admitted he has handed play-calling duties over to the offensive coordinator. And it wasn't earth-shattering news.
Things feel, dare I say, relaxed and drama-free around here.
Sirianni was all smiles on the field and his players seem to follow suit.
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Everything is a competition.
The coach offered an assistant a thousand bucks if he could knock the ball out of a running back's hands with a boxing glove attached to the end of a stick.
Sirianni hosts free throw contests during team meetings on a hoop set up in the middle of the auditorium.
They called off practice on the final day after an assistant coach was able to cleanly field a punt.
Gone are the days of anonymous leaks from the locker room, cliques amongst players, and Chip Kelly not talking to anyone in the hallways.
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I mean, Sirianni actually went around the room and gave a fist bump to every single member of the media because he missed everyone!
Is it possible that things can continue this carefree?
Well, if it results in winning -- it sure can.
We still have a couple of months before we'll know whether or not F-U-N can turn into W-I-Ns.
But I'll tell you this much; I'm enjoying it so far.