You wouldn’t expect a punt returner to have this much insight.
You were wrong if you thought that.Sophomore returnee Britain Covey seems like one of the most charming people in the world, and there’s no doubt the Philadelphia Eagles scored a real hit in signing the undrafted rookie in 2022.
Hindsight is- he touches ? Yes of course. However, unlike any medical science, Covey can get up and walk out.
This is grit. That’s how you convince people. Here we are, and Covey is doing some press rounds in Las Vegas during Super Bowl week. It’s been about a month since the Eagles’ season ended and we’re still searching for answers about what he brought and what happened during the teams’ terrible collapse.
The ever-reliable Covey gave us some answers. Yes friends. You’ll want to hear what he said.Britain Covey’s visit to Radio Row provided insight into the Eagles’ season. There were a thousand theories about this disappearance: did Nick Sirianni lose the locker
room? Does Jalen Hurts lack leadership? Did Sirianni’s avoidance of adding anything new to the offense contribute to this?
Did this lower the ceiling on offensive production? Was Big Dom DiSandro literally the heart of the team? Was Matt Patricia a sleeper agent sent by Bill Belichick to sabotage the Eagles? Was it just one thing or a combination of things? To find out, you have to put things together.
Britain Covey went on Radio Row and gave us some really good information in an interview. Information that seems reliable.Consider Covey’s situation.
He’s in the offensive room and the special teams room. He hears things directly from the offensive end and he hears things from some defensive players in special teams meetings. He gets information from the whole team.
It seems like Covey’s words might be a pretty good indicator of the current situation.Let that sink in for a second. Well, that makes a lot of sense.
There are some conclusions from what you said. The first is emotional escape.
Emotional escape is difficult to analyze. We are not talking about ordinary people like you and me. We’re talking about extremely competitive, world-class athletes coming off a Super Bowl loss.
Covey said, “…we became emotionally fatigued trying to figure out what the problem was…”It certainly appears to be a big part of a “Super Bowl hangover.” The expectations of the team, both from the outside and from within, were so high that it resembled a house of cards.
When he started to collapse, there was panic. “We must use all our resources to stop this bleeding. » Unfortunately, this hemorrhage was a brain hemorrhage and there was no cure.
If you spend all your energy trying to find a solution to something, and all your solutions are unsuccessful and fruitless, you will be exhausted. On a human level it is understandable. Another thing Covey brought up was finger pointing.
He said: “…there was finger pointing from player to player…” To be honest, the context in which he said this was almost as if he was listing parts of a communication breakdown, for how annoying it is to listen to that. If fingers were pointing from coach to coach, that’s one thing.
We know the offensive and defensive plans, designs and playcalls were objectively poor. If the coaches wanted to start blaming each other, then that makes sense.
