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Nick Sirianni was Uninterested in Telling the Media What He Told Jalen Carter
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First four questions from Nick Sirianni’s Wednesday press conference:
Q. Hey, Nick, has Eagles DT Jalen Carter learned his lesson? (Dave Zangaro)
Nick Sirianni: Yeah, everything we do with any conversations or anything like that, again, I’ll tell you guys again, I know I respect the job that you guys have to do, but I’ll always keep those conversations in-house. I’ll continue to do that much like if I had a conversation with you and we work together and you would probably expect me to do that same thing and that’s my job as the head coach and all things like that with any conversations with players, whether it’s of something that happens in a game, a moment in the game, there’s information that I’ll always keep in house.
Q. With respect though, Nick, I’m not asking about the conversation you might’ve had with him. I’m asking – (Dave Zangaro)
Nick Sirianni: Yeah, I answered it how I wanted to answer it.
Q. What’d you think of the league’s discipline? (Jeff McLane)
Nick Sirianni: Again, I’m not going to ever get into the same thing with anything with the league. If I agree with a call or if I don’t agree with a call, if I agree with a discipline or if I don’t agree, again, I owe the league that same respect that, again, you don’t air business out there, so won’t get into that either.
Q. How much do league decisions weigh into how you handle things? (Brooks Kubena)
Nick Sirianni: Yeah, same. Won’t get into that. Again, there’s just certain things, again, I respect the crap out of the job that you guys have to do, but there are certain things that I’ll keep close and there are certain things that I’ll share with you. As you guys know, this isn’t one of them.
A concerted effort by the beats, but nothing from Sirianni.
I suppose the only matter of true importance moving forward is whether or not Carter will face any additional discipline from the Eagles. It doesn’t seem like that will be the case, i.e. the option of suspending him for the first quarter on Sunday, or something along those lines. Otherwise, this has been litigated at the league level, and now relegated to annals of disciplinary history, placed on the figurative bookshelf next to Nigel Bradham and the Cabana Boy, plus other New York Times best sellers.
There’s a further question here of whether or not the fans should be privy to deeper Carter information. If you believe that everything stemming from the accountability tree should be shared with fans and media in the interest of transparency, then you’d like to know how the club handled one of their best players making one of the most bone-headed decisions you’ll ever see. But if your stance is that it’s none of our business, then you obviously don’t care, and since the Eagles run a pretty tight ship when it comes to discipline and character, you give them the benefit of the doubt that they’ve handled this one properly.
So we move on, and “look forward to the challenge of playing the Kansas City Chiefs,” as Andy Reid would say.
sidenote: The lighting in the auditorium always makes me laugh. It makes Sirianni look all sinister and dark because his hat creates these shadows over his eyes:
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com