Nick Sirianni is embracing the underdog role heading into Sunday's NFC Championship rematch against the San Francisco 49ers.
"Good, we like being the underdog," Sirianni told Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie on Tuesday's 94WIP Morning Show. "I think the first thing I ever knew about the city when I was a little kid was Rocky, he's always the underdog. We like being the underdog. No one thought much of us going into last season and we played the underdog role well and here we are, good. We like to be the underdog again."
The 10-1 Eagles are currently 2.5-point underdogs at home on Sunday vs. the 49ers, on FanDuel Sportsbook.
The Eagles, of course, defeated the 49ers 31-7 in last year's NFC Championship game, but San Fran lost their starting quarterback Brock Purdy during the game to an injury.
Many 49ers players, most notably WR Deebo Samuel, have been vocal about Purdy's injury being the reason why San Fran lost the game. Samuel repeatedly echoed this message throughout the offseason.
"We lost because we played with ten people," Samuel said in May. "I ain't going to keep going on about what could've happened and what would've happened, but yeah it would've definitely been a different outcome."
Samuel also called Eagles cornerback James Bradberry "trash" and stood by his comments on Monday.
"Talk is cheap," Eagles linebacker Haason Reddick told KYW's Dave Uram after the Eagles' win over the Bills on Sunday, when asked about the upcoming game against the 49ers.
"They get to come back in the Linc. It was a lot of boo hoos last year, a lot of crying, a lot of what if, a lot of this, a lot of that. They get a chance to come back in here, line that s**t up and prove it again."
The 49ers have won three straight games and are 8-3, while Philadelphia is an NFL best 10-1.