There was a MUCH ANTICIPATED media availability with Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni on Tuesday, the capital letters signifying sarcasm because we just heard from both of them at the season-ending press conference last month.

Since then, the new coaching staff was completed, and media reports described various levels of locker room discontent, but there hasn’t been anything Earth shattering unless you consider the A.J. Brown/WIP thing as a box checker.

Regardless, the beats at the Combine are doing God’s work and sharing these clips with us:

Sirianni was also asked about Jalen Hurts’ leadership style, and said:

There’s not a book that is written on ‘this is how you lead.’ People lead in different ways. One thing I learned early about in leadership is that you have to be yourself, because if you lead and you’re trying to be somebody you’re not when you lead, that gets seen through. That’s the same scenario I was put in when I became the head coach or an offensive coordinator or whatever it was. Everybody has to lead their way, and Jalen has special qualities that people will follow, and people will want to follow. And he’s got to do what he needs to do to lead in that way. Some people’s leadership style is loud and aggressive; some people’s leadership style is by example; and some it’s a mixture of both.

So, Jalen needs to lead how he needs to lead, right? And [WR] A.J. [Brown] needs to lead how he needs to lead. Whoever it is. [CB Darius] Slay’s got to lead how he needs to lead. Because that’s leadership, right, is being who you are and leading by example. At the end of the day, if you’re leading by example, that’s a great style of leadership. So, Jalen needs to lead how he needs to lead, and I think he’s done a great job of doing so. And he’ll get, just like he has done in other things, he’ll get better at that part of his game, and he’ll get better, just because I know he’ll continue to work on getting better no matter what part of the game he needs to work at.

It sounds like a pretty obvious answer, but people often lose sight of the obvious. I don’t recall any “leadership issues” when the Eagles were 10-1. But when things started to go south, now Jalen isn’t demonstrative and vocal enough? And there are other places that exist besides the sidelines. Just because we see something during a game that looks ‘off,’ doesn’t necessarily mean that’s also what’s taking place in the locker room, or behind other closed doors.


NBC got the whole thing if you wanna watch it, but there’s not much here: