Why Eagles’ Sirianni followed ‘winner’ Purdy closely in college

Lengthy earlier than 49ers rookie Brock Purdy was making waves within the NFL, Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni already was accustomed to the quarterback’s sport.

Because of a shared Iowa State connection, Sirianni is aware of precisely what his group faces in Purdy as they put together for Sunday’s NFC Championship Recreation.

“Simply that he is a winner,” Sirianni mentioned Monday when requested what he knew about Purdy earlier than this week. “Clearly, I at all times comply with Iowa State and their program as a result of I’ve so many faculty teammates and roommates that coach there.”

Sirianni performed faculty soccer on the College of Mount Union within the early 2000s alongside Iowa State coach Matt Campbell, who handed Purdy the reigns of his offense in the course of the quarterback’s freshman yr in 2018.

Regardless of coming in as a third-string quarterback (sound acquainted?), Purdy went on to start out all 4 years for the Cyclones. He and Campbell led Iowa State to certainly one of its most profitable seasons ever in 2020, full with a Fiesta Bowl victory, and Purdy held 32 college information when he left this system a yr later.

And Sirianni adopted all of it, particularly as he was scouting late-round quarterbacks.

“You noticed what [Purdy] did for that program, proper? Matt’s clearly a fantastic head coach, however he acquired a fantastic quarterback in Brock Purdy,” Sirianni continued. “… I would test the rating, Purdy had an superior sport they usually received once more. And that is what I seen with him, that he is a winner.

“Once you’re shut with different coaches like that, you could have conversations backwards and forwards — and that is going again to when Brock was at Iowa State — like, ‘Hey, what are you doing? We watched this on tape proper right here, this seems to be good, this and that.’ The widespread theme, at all times, from them was that we have got a quarterback that may prepared the ground and discover the correct place to go along with the soccer constantly.

“Only a playmaker.”

Sirianni left no stone unturned in his compliments of Purdy, and the quarterback has lived as much as these scouting studies throughout his time because the 49ers’ starter. Purdy has but to lose a sport he has began for San Francisco, making loads of franchise and NFL historical past alongside the best way.

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His largest problem but will come when he faces the NFC’s No. 1-seeded Eagles on Sunday at Lincoln Monetary Area, with loads at stake.

However as Sirianni famous, Purdy is aware of a factor or two about the way to win.

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