PHOENIX – Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie met with the media at the NFL Annual Meeting late on Tuesday at the Arizona Biltmore and was asked questions on a variety of topics. Here are some of the takeaways from his State of the Eagles press conference …
1. On NFL owners reportedly tabling a plan to allow for flex scheduling for late-season Thursday night games, and approving giving teams 15 days of notice when schedule changes are coming: “So it’s an ongoing discussion, as you may know. It was brought up. It’s a big jump to have an NFL package on streaming. We know we’re headed to a very digital universe. More and more people are watching games through streaming. I think we know that’s where it’s all headed. So, there’s an attempt at wanting to make the Thursday night package even more attractive. You know, there’s ways of doing that. We could allow teams to be on there more than once and not require every team to have to be on there so that you can create some matchups in May when you’re doing the schedule and try to have somewhat of a better series of matchups for Amazon and for the ratings and for the fans on Thursday night. Flex scheduling, we’ll have to see. There’s more talk about that. Nothing has been resolved on flex scheduling for Thursday.”
2. On the Eagles re-introducing a new alternate jersey for the 2023 season, one the fans have been buzzing about for a long time: “This is the season we’ll reintroduce the Classic Kelly Green, and I’m super excited. I don’t know what date that’s going to be, but I think the fans will love it. It’s why we’re bringing it back. We really took the feedback seriously over the years, and the first moment we could get the Kelly Green helmet approved, we’ll finally be able to see it on the field.”
3. On Head Coach Nick Sirianni reshaping the coaching staff after coordinators Shane Steichen and Jonathan Gannon left to become head coaches: “He (Sirianni) had made it very clear during the season that we have an outstanding, outstanding quarterback coach in Brian Johnson, and so he was going to go through an interview process, but he was very, very hopeful that we wouldn’t lose Brian because there were several teams looking to sign Brian, and we didn’t know if Shane was going to be a head coach.
“The other thing is he was relentless, Nick was, and this is something I really appreciate about him. He not only grinds on football and on connections and culture, but when it came time, and this was a first for him,…
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