Around this time a decade ago, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was just another assistant trying to make it in the NFL. The then-31-year-old had just put a bow on his first year as the Chiefs‘ wide receivers coach, during which Kansas City slumped to a 2–14 record.
The Chiefs responded by sacking coach Romeo Crennel and replacing him with Andy Reid, and Reid elected not to retain Sirianni—something that motivated Sirianni as he climbed the coaching ranks.
“Do you always have this little chip on your shoulder? Sure, yeah, you do,” Sirianni said, via ESPN. “But that’s who I am as a coach and as a person—I want to make sure I’m working my butt off to get as good as I possibly can. And sure, you hold on to some of those things.”
