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For Nick Sirianni, AI offers fresh material entering another pivotal Eagles season – The Athletic<\/a> Spadaro: Nick Sirianni reveals the secret to team success – PhiladelphiaEagles.com<\/a> Nick Sirianni\u2019s ability to adapt again will be put to the test in year six with the Eagles – Inquirer<\/a> Eagles coach Nick Sirianni: DeVonta Smith is \u2018capable of doing even more\u2019 – PHLY<\/a> Everybody loves new Eagles CB Riq Woolen – PhillyVoice<\/a> Eagles schedule preview: Panthers – BGN<\/a> Changes – Iggles Blitz<\/a> NFL All-Backup Team: Could a roster of bench players contend? – ESPN<\/a> Eagles 2026 most important list: Jalen Hurts – NBCSP<\/a> Eagles\u2019 Landon Dickerson hosts DIY workshop for kids – 6ABC<\/a> Authorities will explore whether Saquon Barkley burglary was part of a broader ring – PFT<\/a> 3 Cowboys who could become household names this season – Blogging The Boys<\/a> Why the Washington Commanders drafted QB Athan Kaliakmanis – Hogs Haven<\/a> Why can\u2019t MetLife Stadium have grass for NFL games? – Big Blue View<\/a> Giants RB Cam Skattebo \u2018perfectly fine\u2019 after botched backflip: \u2018I will not hurt myself before the season\u2019 – NFL.com<\/a> Can you guess this NFL tight end in today\u2019s in-5 trivia game? – SB Nation<\/a> Social Media Information:<\/p>\n BGN Facebook Page: Click here to like our page<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Twitter: Follow @BleedingGreen<\/a><\/p>\n BGN BlueSky: Follow @bleedgreennation.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Instagram: Follow @BleedingGreenInsta<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Manager: Follow Brandon Lee Gowton on Twitter<\/a> | BlueSky<\/a> | Threads<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Radio Twitter: Follow @BGN_Radio<\/a><\/p>\n Each day, we highlight a BGN community post here in this space. Head over to The Feed<\/a> to submit your entry and have a chance to be featured in The Linc!<\/p>\n
Nick Sirianni discovered ChatGPT this offseason. It\u2019s his sixth season as the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 head coach, now longer than any stop in his NFL coaching career, and the stories are beginning to repeat themselves. How many times can he preach his \u201ctough, detailed, together\u201d mantra before it feels like a rock star playing the greatest hits on tour? That\u2019s why Sirianni logged into the artificial intelligence chatbot on a Monday in June \u2014 a program he knew so little about that he couldn\u2019t get the name right \u2014 and began his research with a prompt: \u201cGive me a great relentless effort true sports story.\u201dThis rabbit hole is how Sirianni learned about Anthony Robles, an Arizona State wrestler born with one leg who won a national championship in 2011. Sirianni planned to incorporate the anecdote into a speech to the team, a way to tell an old message in a new way. [\u2026] \u201cWe\u2019ve created stories, things that people are looking up on ChatGP \u2014 fill me in on the letters,\u201d Sirianni said in June during a roundtable interview. \u201cWhat keeps it more fresh than what we\u2019ve done?\u201d Or what they\u2019re about to do. That seems to be at the crux of Sirianni in Year 6, with the Eagles reporting to training camp on July 28.<\/p>\n
Nick Sirianni is in a relaxed state of mind as his Philadelphia Eagles wrap up their offseason program. He is in the Jefferson Health Training Complex auditorium answering questions from reporters who cover the team every day, who have been dug in with the Eagles for each of Sirianni\u2019s five seasons here. Sirianni\u2019s core, what he\u2019s all about and what he cares about the most, is the requested topic here: How to win big in the NFL. How to win it all. Sirianni has won big \u2013 postseason appearances in each of his five seasons \u2013 and he has won it all \u2013 an NFC Championship in the 2022 season and a win in Super Bowl LIX in the 2024 campaign \u2013 and he knows the most important component and it is the piece that he works on every \u2026 single \u2026 day. \u201cHow do you come together as a team? You come together as a football team through shared hardships. So, you get that, right, through the offseason,\u201d Sirianni said, gaining passion. \u201cYou come together as a football team through building trust of consistently doing what you\u2019re supposed to do. Consistently on a daily basis. And you come together as a football team through the time that you put in with each other. And that time, sometimes it feels like it\u2019s invisible progress. It\u2019s like, am I really making progress here, but you have to keep putting it in, knowing that at some point it\u2019s going to show itself up. Guys are working really, really, really hard to come together as a team because we know how important that is at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flights were canceled, which meant new Eagles offensive coordinator Sean Mannion, a few weeks into the job and prior to his family making its move east, was facing a delay returning to the office. It was a few days into free agency, and NFL draft prep was in full swing. Mannion could have picked up the phone and called his new boss, Nick Sirianni, to tell him his return trip to Philadelphia would be delayed. Instead, he got in the car and started driving the 900-plus mile route to his new home. Sirianni called his new offensive coordinator to check in and was surprised to learn that Mannion was five hours away. \u201cThis dude loves football and he loves to work,\u201d Sirianni said last month during an extended interview session with Eagles beat reporters. \u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed being around him. \u201cI think we think \u2014 about everybody \u2014 \u2018Man, he\u2019s just got it.\u2019 But it doesn\u2019t happen \u2014 whether it\u2019s a player, whether it\u2019s Sean \u2014 without this obsession to get better. Sean has this obsession to get better, this obsession with his craft, which is why he\u2019s excelled in this profession and I\u2019m really looking forward to continuing to work with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
There has been a palpable enthusiasm surrounding DeVonta Smith stepping into a more featured role than he already occupied in the Eagles offense as a result of the departure of A.J. Brown this offseason, and Sirianni suggested as much a few days after Brown was traded to the New England Patriots back in June. \u201cDeVonta, he\u2019s a special player that can continue to get even more targets than he has,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cHe\u2019s so capable of doing even more. And he\u2019s just such a good football player.\u201d As I wrote earlier this offseason, there\u2019s internal belief that Smith could be among the league\u2019s most productive receivers if he creeps closer to the 150-target mark that the likes of Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Puka Nacua surpassed in their respective offenses last season. Smith finished last year with 113 targets, 77 catches and 1,008 receiving yards. He had a career-high 136 targets in 2022 and caught 95 of them for 1,196 receiving yards. But his yards per route run in 2025 might be the most instructive when assessing the Eagles\u2019 case for optimism. On the 51 routes he ran with Brown off the field last year (admittedly a small sample size), his 2.67 yards\/route run ranked fourth in the NFL among qualifying receivers.<\/p>\n
Nick Sirianni doesn\u2019t typically like singling out players for playing well in practices, but he made a rare exception for one in an interview ahead of Eagles training camp. \u201cThere are so many guys working their asses off that I never want to be like, \u2018Oh, this guy looks good, and I didn\u2019t mention this guy.\u2019 But Riq Woolen, I\u2019m really excited to have him,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cAnd I feel like every day I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow, that was an impressive play.\u2019 \u201cWe can get so caught up in wow plays. What wins is consistency. But the wow plays are fun to watch. And like, he has a lot of wow plays and he is consistent. He\u2019s being consistent with that. And so I\u2019m really, really looking forward to him and Quinyon and Coop kind of roaming back there. \u201cAnd Riq works his butt off, and you\u2019re not supposed to look like that when you play corner. Like he just looks the part. I have these guys throughout the NFL of like, \u2018Hey that dude didn\u2019t look real.\u2019 You look at somebody like \u2013 I remember I used to think that way when I saw Calvin Johnson as a receiver. I always thought that of Julio Jones. You ain\u2019t supposed to look like that. And I feel like that with Riq. Like, you ain\u2019t supposed to look like that at that position. He\u2019s freaky. And yeah, excited about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2025 Panthers were not really interested in actually trying to play football. The 2026 team doesn\u2019t seem to be either. Tet McMillian was the only Panther with more than 400 receiving yards, Carolina\u2019s biggest additions to their WR room were John Metchie and his 686 career yards, and a Josh Heupel WR. Devin Lloyd and Jaelen Phillips (when he\u2019s healthy) should improve the defense, but this is an offense that scored fewer than 14 points seven times last year. You\u2019d need the 1985 Bears defense to win with that kind of output. While the Panthers did pick up Bryce Young\u2019s fifth year option, putting him under contract for 2027 for a guaranteed $26M, they are\u2013correctly\u2013not expected to sign him to a contract extension this offseason.<\/p>\n
Handling change goes beyond the GM. It takes a whole organizational commitment. You need the college scouting staff to find young talent to replenish the roster. You need good pro scouts to make sure free agency is another good source of outside talent. Ownership has to be willing to spend money, on both staff and players. You also need the coaching staff to embrace young and\/or new players. The Eagles check all of these boxes. Some people are concerned this offseason because the Eagles lost AJ Brown, Jaelan Phillips, Nakobe Dean, Reed Blankenship and Jahan Dotson. Roseman anticipated the players moving on and had contingency plans for them. That doesn\u2019t mean all the moves will work as planned. Roseman has been around long enough to know there will be misses. Andre Dillard didn\u2019t work out as Jason Peters replacement. Bryce Huff didn\u2019t pan out as a difference-making pass rusher. You can\u2019t be afraid to miss<\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES \u2014 TE Eli Stowers, CB\/S Michael Carter II. Our second-round rookie, Stowers offers athleticism as a \u201cmove\u201d tight end to supplement an underwhelming group of wide receivers. The Vanderbilt product caught 62 passes for 769 yards in his final year at school, winning the Mackey Award in the process. He\u2019s not going to be an every-down tight end in Philadelphia\u2019s offense (or this Team Backup one), but Stowers could be a valuable playmaker before taking over for Dallas Goedert as the Eagles\u2019 starter in 2027. Carter emerged as a solid slot cornerback for the Jets under Robert Saleh and earned a three-year, $30.8 million contract extension before the 2024 season. But he fell out of favor with Aaron Glenn and was traded to the Eagles last season. He took a pay cut to stay in Philly, where he might compete to take over at safety for the departed Reed Blankenship. He\u2019ll stick in the slot for us, though.<\/p>\n
Jalen Hurts. The quarterback is always going to be first on this list. But this year it was an absolute no-brainer. It\u2019s a big year for Jalen Hurts and the Eagles\u2019 offense. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a make-or-break season. It doesn\u2019t mean the Eagles are going to be ready to move on if things don\u2019t go well. But there are a lot of changes coming under new offensive coordinator Sean Mannion are there are legitimate questions about how all this is going to work. Hurts is entering Year 7 in the NFL and Year 6 as the Eagles\u2019 full-time starting quarterback. As much as Hurts has yearned for consistency in an offensive coordinator and play caller, he\u2019ll have another new one in Mannion this season. And the offense is expected to look a lot different. Perhaps the most encouraging thing from the spring, though, were the early indications that the bond between Mannion and Hurts is strong. They seem to enjoy working with one another. Hurts\u2019 comments about Mannion were notable:<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Eagles lineman Landon Dickerson and his wife, Brooke, brought their viral DIY platform to life Sunday, hosting a handson workshop for local children at Billy Penn Studios in Kensington. The \u201cDickerson DIY Workshop\u201d drew families interested in the couple\u2019s growing socialmedia presence, where their homeimprovement videos routinely receive tens of thousands of views. The workshop featured activities including birdhouse building, terrarium making and rugtufting. The Dickersons said they hoped the projects would inspire confidence, curiosity and independence in young participants while giving them a chance to create something of their own.<\/p>\n
Two years after multiple NFL stars had their residences burglarized while they weren\u2019t home, the home of Eagles running back Saquon Barkley was invaded on Saturday while he and his family were inside. In addition to trying to solve the case, the authorities will attempt to determine whether the incident is connected to any of the criminal groups that target athletes.<\/p>\n
Ryan Flournoy. CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens understandably get a lot of love, but there is another wide receiver on the Cowboys who could have a breakout type season for the team in Ryan Flournoy. Sometimes things simply shake out weirdly when it comes to pass-catching options. Things work in a certain way, rhythms fall into place, and you blink your eyes and all of a sudden Laurent Robinson is having a season where he catches 11 touchdowns. Robinson is a great example of the way things can happen, but we all feel better about Flournoy\u2019s prospect in the Cowboys offense than Jacksonville did with Laurent in theirs by the end. Flournoy could be the primary beneficiary of coverage going elsewhere, and given the fantasy football nature of the NFL, he could quickly become more well-known than he is currently.<\/p>\n
The intangibles are there as well. Kaliakmanis has a high football IQ and understanding of the game and called his own pass protections on the field. He has the ability to go through full-field progressions if given the necessary time. Athan is considered a plus culture fit, and the Commanders decided to bring him in for a Top 30 visit. That is where he sold the staff on his intangibles, coachability, and potential upside. In fact, he was the team\u2019s third three-voter caucus pick by the Commanders\u2019 war room. There was enough there that, with Kaliakmanis visiting six teams in the last eight days before the draft, the team decided not to risk losing him in the scrum for undrafted free agents. Why did the Washington Commanders draft Athan Kaliakmanis? As Adam Peters explained to him following the selection, the quarterback had convinced them there was no other choice.<\/p>\n
It had to be galling to New York Giants (and Jets) fans when MetLife Stadium was announced as one of the venues for the 2026 World Cup. Not because fans are protective of their beautiful stadium (which MetLife most certainly is not), but because soccer\u2019s governing body FIFA requires that all matches be played on a grass pitch rather than artificial turf. Giants fans have been pleading for years for the Mara and Tisch families to replace the infamous turf at MetLife, author of Malik Nabers\u2019 season-ending ACL injury in Game 4 of the 2025 season, with real grass, as so many other NFL stadiums have. It\u2019s fallen on deaf ears\u2026until this year. Money talks, and for several more days, we will see MetLife in all its natural grass glory until the final match between Spain and Argentina is over.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I mean, so I\u2019ve been doing backflips since I was like four years old. So it\u2019s natural to me. I\u2019m gonna address the elephant. I will not hurt myself before the season\u2026\u201d the running back said. \u201cYeah, so what happened was, I don\u2019t know if you guys know WWE or not, those floors are bouncy. So when I took off, I was mid-air, like, holy cow, I\u2019m not gonna land this, I\u2019m way too high. Landed, but it had too much cushion. It wasn\u2019t a stiff, firm ground. So that\u2019s why I kinda like went back, safely landed, got back up, was good to go. So nothing came out from that. I\u2019m perfectly fine. Nothing happened. We\u2019re good.\u201d<\/p>\n
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