Nick Sirianni Understands Eagles Have Pressure, and He's Happy About It

It's literally impossible to ask any NFL team, franchise, or any sports team, for that matter, to win a championship every single year. At the same time, that doesn't mean the expectations aren't for teams to win it all. 

It seems like the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, and others in the NFL are genuinely expected to win every single year. Whenever those teams don't win a Super Bowl, it's always viewed as a disappointing season.

However, there have to be some standards set within the organization that suggest that even if they don't win it all, a year can still be viewed as decent. 

That's something Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni recently spoke about with The Athletic, adding that while it's always disappointing when they don't win it all, Philadelphia has also done a good job understanding that the expectations need to be sky-high within the organization.

“You come off a ’22 season and we did what we did, and I think that that standard has been what’s been expected — not only from the outside, I think we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to play to a standard,” Sirianni said, per The Athletic. “It’s going to push us to become better, because they’re so high. …We all struggle. We all wrestled with that, like, ‘Man, that’s maybe not fair that the expectation is that high,’ or, ‘Hey, man, we’re going to become as good as we possibly can, because the expectation is so high.’”

There's a reason why certain players come to Philadelphia, New York, and other big cities and simply don't play as well as they should. 

That's because the expectation from the organization, the fan base, and everything in between is sky-high.

I'm glad that the Eagles at least understand what these expectations are, and instead of running from them, they look them in the face and play hard every single Sunday to ensure they have the best opportunity to win.