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We Need the Eagles Reporters to Take Back the Press Conference
By Kyle Pagan
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John Kincade is unhappy with a January press conference. It’s the worst he’s ever seen from a professional franchise:
“That was the worst press conference I have ever heard in my life from a professional franchise — Head coach or otherwise. They took eight days to prepare for that, and what we got was more questions.”
– @JohnKincade on yesterday’s Eagles press conference
📸Mitchell Leff/Getty pic.twitter.com/IPT4rwbuzN
— 97.5 The Fanatic (@975TheFanatic) January 25, 2024
They had eight days! EIGHT DAYS! To prepare for 50 guys to yell over each other for 40 minutes. EIGHT DAYS! HOW WERE THEY NOT PREPARED?! Pack 2024-25 up. Who cares who they hire as the offensive coordinator? Everyone knows that what happens inside those walls six months before training camp determines your success the following year.
Peter Griffin:
Worst press conference ever? Did we forget the introductory Nick Sirianni press conference? If an Eagles season was based off of press conferences, this stuttering fool would’ve never won a game:
TA-TA-TA-TODAY JUNIOR!
Press conferences are STUPID. It’s a bunch of reporters yelling at two PR-prepped jamokes on stage and the Eagles love it. They could easily give the reporters a mic to pass around. You get 1-2 questions or abstain. Instead it’s chaos, which is exactly what the Birds want. It sounds like a 1980s Wall Street trading floor and not a press conference.
OOH! OOH! HOWIE! NICK! PICK ME! PICK ME!
How is it that jackass UFC fans at press conferences are more organized than the Eagles beat? Band together. Stand up for yourselves! Roob needs to give Bob Lange a wedgie next time he sees him to set the tone. Stand on business, Tim McManus! Jeff McLane stop playing dress up and have a spine! Two more questions? Fuck your two more questions. We want to know how you’re going to turn the ship around and we want to know now.
Did we learn anything Wednesday other than Nick was basically neutered over the last week? After T Mac asked him, “So what do you do here?” we got nothing of substance. I mean Adam Schefter even reported that Vic Fangio was expected to become the next DC and Nick’s answer was PR 101:
Nick Sirianni and Howie Roseman were asked about the Vic Fangio rumors that he is their next DC per @AdamSchefter pic.twitter.com/hsNuMGzAkH
— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) January 24, 2024
Less than 24 hours later a lot of “good targets” turned into Fangio as DC.
Make the Press Conference Great Again. Look how organized this used to be! The only chaos was Jeff McLane’s outfit:
Howie Roseman Jeff McLane Fingerless Gloves pic.twitter.com/7Jcrqi1K41
— CB Burner (@CBroadBurner) January 18, 2024
Kinkead: Agree that the press conference is overrated as a general concept. Everybody thinks they have some super-cool “read between the lines” type of observation, when really these are just sanitized obligations that rarely result in something interesting. Plus, we all know these guys are making shit up. A.J. Brown told us as much a few weeks ago, in regard to the final play of the Seattle game. Nick was just covering for his guys.
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