get into their stances<\/a>.<\/p>\nTo no surprise, then, effort was a theme of the week, specifically when reporters had a midweek chance to pose questions to coach Nick Sirianni.<\/p>\n
Asked whether there was an issue with effort on Monday night against the Cowboys, and how the coaching staff gauges whether effort is an issue, Sirianni said this: \u201cWe grade every play based off of what they did, we grade every play based off of their assignment alignment and we grade every play off of effort. That\u2019s not only in games, but that\u2019s also at every practice, because if we were just grading it in games and not emphasizing it on every play in every practice, then we wouldn\u2019t be doing our job. <\/p>\n
\u201cI did not see an effort issue on Monday night. Obviously, it was other things, which I\u2019m sure you guys will ask me about. There were other things, but effort in no way, shape [or] form was an issue there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plays — now, do you bat 100% on effort? No, you don\u2019t play a perfect football game. The plays, anytime there is an effort stand out in a positive way, we show it to the team and show what the standard is. Anytime there\u2019s one that we feel like there was a loaf, we point that out and show that to the team. But I didn\u2019t think that we had — I didn\u2019t look at the tape and say, \u2018Hey, this was an effort issue, and this is why this play happened or that play happened.\u2019 That\u2019s how I graded the film.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later was asked whether players get grades on a weekly basis regarding topics like assignment, alignment, and effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would be crazy not to tell them what they\u2019ve done and what they haven\u2019t done,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cWe go over that with them. We watch the game with them, and everything is discussed with these guys. I guess I\u2019m a little confused by the question. If we want them to get better, we\u2019ve got to go over all the mistakes and everything with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reporters eventually attempted to address the confusion by explaining to Sirianni the perception that effort was an issue. So what does Sirianni think about the questions in that regard?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in that situation, everyone\u2019s going to look to find answers in a five-game losing streak,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cJust because the result — If we win that game, do they still question the effort? I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t — I\u2019m not them. My job is to look at the daily process of it and the daily work and what objectively happened in that game and not react based off of the outcome. I get it. I would understand [that] everyone\u2019s looking for answers. I don\u2019t give you a lot of answers up here. I get that. I understand that. I do respect the job that you guys have to do, but I\u2019m always going to probably keep it tight to the vest.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut again, it\u2019s not about the outcome. . . . We\u2019re outcome-aware — but it is about the process that goes [into] it, what happens Monday through Saturday. What happens Monday through Saturday is usually what happens in the game in my experience. That\u2019s why you need great week of preparation, but I\u2019m not letting the outcome dictate how I grade the film. I\u2019m grading the film objectively based off of what I see on a weekly basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
What everyone sees is a team in a tailspin, with the most recent Super Bowl win fading deep into the rear-view mirror. They get their next chance to turn things around on Sunday night, when they face the 1-4-1 Commanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Eagles plunged to their fifth straight loss, questions emerged regarding effort, or lack thereof. Or, more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-901831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}