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Lane Johnson is Tired of Nick Sirianni’s Basketball Player Quotes
By Kyle Pagan
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Lane Johnson was on Bussin’ With The Boys and mentioned that he’s sick and tired of Nick Sirianni’s quotes from basketball players:
Can’t blame Lane here. When you’re in year 13, those team meetings probably all start molding together at this point. How much more can you learn or get excited about when you’ve heard it all over the course of your career? I’d fall asleep through all of them if I already put together a Super Bowl and Hall of Fame career. And Lane’s right. Lets see Michael Jordan take on a zone blitz. Could Steph Curry go across the middle on 3rd and 6th with James Harrison in the vicinity? Absolutely not. Sirianni should start mixing in some quotes from football guys and war generals.
Some good ones: “Straight cash homey.” This could be used to teach young guys if you commit a facemask penalty or stomp on some guy’s junk you’re going to be looking at a fine. Discipline is one of coach’s pillars. Then there’s teaching points for Cam Jurgens from one of the greatest coaches of all-time, John Madden, “The purpose of the center during the snap is to get the ball to the quarterback; and if that doesn’t happen it usually results in a fumble.” Brilliant. Then there is my personal favorite from Lawrence Taylor, which is just a good life lesson more than anything, “Don’t smoke crack.”
What is it with Sirianni and basketball? For a guy who grew up in a football family and played in college, he sure loves basketball. He plays HORSE against prospects and installed a hoop in the Birds auditorium. Is it one of those rappers-want-to-be-athletes and athletes-want-to-be-rappers situations? Did Sirianni want to be a basketball star, but was crippled by this pigment and knew his calling was a gritty wide receiver in upstate New York? He wanted to be Jordan but knew he was more of a Julian.
Between Jalen Hurts and Sirianni that locker room is just that one giant Chicken Soup for the Soul book you had on top of the shitter growing up. Just a bunch of dudes talking in soliloquies and homilies. Then you’ve got AJ Brown talking about flat Earth and god knows what at his locker. Coop is DM’ing every chick this side of the Mississippi. Jalen Carter is being fed a football for lunch. Landon Dickerson is whittling down wood with a pocket knife like he’s Huckleberry Finn. Big Dom is putting in a call to hide another body. Imagine if CJGJ and Slay were still there. That had to be the most bizarre locker room in the league last year and we had Christian Wilkins getting freaky in Vegas.
I won’t lie though, Sirianni cooked on this one:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com