In today’s FOX Sports Insider with Martin Rogers: Nick Sirianni and the Eagles are blooming at the right time with their dominant season … Could Patrick Mahomes overtake Tom Brady as the GOAT one day? … and more! It is nice to give flowers and even nicer to receive them. You don't need to know anything about flowers except they're pretty and colorful, sometimes romantic, always thoughtful, capable of brightening up a home, or a ward, or an office, or, undoubtedly, someone's day. However, somewhere in Philadelphia, amid the Eagles' presently rapturous and always noisy fan base, there is someone who should feel a little silly for their delivery of a fateful bouquet just under 15 months ago, long before anyone was thinking about Super Bowls. On Nov. 7, 2021, the Eagles lost to the Los Angeles Chargers at home, and, as head coach Nick Sirianni exited the field and was about to head down the tunnel, a bunch of flowers was tossed in his direction from the stands and fell at his feet. Sirianni stopped, visibly perturbed, and glared towards the offender — quite rightly given that it was a cheap shot, and a classless, boneheaded move. The precursor to it was a press conference Sirianni, then in his first season, had given a couple of weeks earlier. Trying to make a point about the team being a work in progress, he told reporters he'd used an analogy of a flower when addressing the squad. For the rest of the story, click here. |