Jason Kelce added to his legendary status in Philadelphia, as the Eagles released their postgame locker room video today and at the end, Kelce addresses the team and says, "Keep them roots growing baby, roots on three!"
"Enjoy this one tonight… round 9 starts tomorrow."
Listen in to Coach Sirianni's locker room speech following the win over Detroit.@novacare | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/PmvGFTSTiE
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) November 1, 2021
Obviously, Kelce is referencing Sirianni's—now famous—flower speech, which was mocked by the fans and media. Last week, Sirianni used a flower analogy, saying the Eagles need to keep fertilizing and growing until they pop.
Well, it was Sirianni, Kelce, and the Eagles who had the last laugh, as Philadelphia—as Sirianni put it in his postgame speech—"physically dominated" the Lions en route to a 44-6 blowout win to improve the 3-5.
On his Monday morning call-in with the 94WIP Morning Show, Sirianni said he does believe the flower message got across to the team and worked.
"I think that they did," Sirianni told Angelo Cataldi on Monday when asked if he thought his team responded to the flower message. "I think in the sense that we all want results right away. I could have used any analogy. I could have said skyscraper, with the foundation underneath. I could have said plants, which I do believe I said in the team meeting. I said flower. Bamboo tree, they start their roots underground and it takes bamboo trees five years before they spring out and I didn't want to wait that long, right? The main thing right there is just like, 'Hey, I see growth. Everybody here sees growth.' And there's different ways we look at that here in this building, but we just have to keep growing. And it's just another way to say get better every single day. I just know a lot of teams in this league, they plateau, and I've seen that over and over and over again. But if you just continue to grow and get a little bit better each day, and leave each day this building a little bit better than you were before, than good things will happen. That was my message."
