What's going on, everybody? Well, it finally happened. We have heard from Sean Mannion. He was a real person. He walked down the hallway to the podium. He got up there. And for the first time, as Eagles offensive coordinator, we heard from Sean Mannion. And look, I'm going to have all of my thoughts in tomorrow's daily Go Birds Pod, right? But I think with some press conferences, it's important you hear all of them. And I actually want you guys to hear it, get your own thoughts, and then kind of let me know what you think. So go to Gobirdsinsider.com. The link will be in the podcast description. Listen to the presser and tell me what you think. And I'll chat with you guys. And then I'll have my takeaways for the Daily Go Birds tomorrow morning. But quickly, I would say I thought he did well. I thought he did exactly what the Eagles hoped he would do. He was confident. He didn't give any,

like, major headlines. I thought he did a good job navigating some, some difficult questions.

And he reminded me a lot of Nick Siriani, like a football guy, right? Like, better at the first

press conference than Nick was his, but a football guy that you can tell has done press

conferences and that played in the league.

So I couldn't have a lot of thoughts on it, but I wanted you guys to hear it.

So here is Sean Mannion's introductory press conference.

Come in here for the first time and start a relationship with Jalen.

How does that process work?

Like getting to know a guy, what he likes to do?

How did you kind of navigate that? Yeah, you know, I think it starts really just connecting with him on a personal level, get to know him, get to know kind of what his interests are, what makes him tick. And then once you start to kind of get to know a guy on a personal level, I think the football connection becomes pretty easy. It's been a great process with Jaylen. He's been a pleasure to work with, and really since I got the job, being able to connect with him on a personal level and then on football, it's been great. What do you want the identity of the office to be? Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing we want our offense to look like is we talk about play style a lot, playing with, playing with great effort, great physicality, being

great teammates.

So I think it's when you turn on the tape, what does the Eagles offense look like?

Those are the things we really want to stand out just as a broad strokes.

What was the interview process?

What I was wondering how you balance, like, what scheme you believe in versus what you think is the best for the players you battle in. Yeah, obviously there's things I believe in, and there's things, you know, that schematically, you know, I have a background in, but ultimately it's going to be a blend, and it's constantly going to evolve, and it's all with that exact goal in mind that you just said right it's about

maximizing things for the players how to make the Eagles the best team we can be how to make the

Eagles offense the best that can be and how we put all of our players in a position to really

really succeed and maximize their strengths how much of a learning process is it going to be for

jalen because he's had a bunch of different coordinators obviously during, during his career. Like, is this kind of starting over for him again? Or what's that way? Yeah, you know, I think Jalen's been outstanding in the meetings. And, you know, I think having gone through, you know, multiple coordinators and stuff, you can tell he's a really capable learner. And that's been really fun to work with on a daily basis.

You know, I think there's always going to be some degree of connection. And like I said, it's a blend of all the things, the things that he's really thrived in here and some of the new things are bringing to the table. But it's been a great process to get to really build this thing from the ground up with him and with our staff. And, you know, I think we're really being deliberate with the teaching and building this thing with a strong foundation because it's constantly being built. It's constantly evolving. We're always looking at how can we make this better. So that process has been great so far. What was the interview process like for you getting this job? And how do you know that you're ready for this big of a job in your career? Yeah, you know, I was at the East West Shrine game and got an interview virtually. And, you know, I felt like we just really, really hit it off right away. I felt great about the football conversations and getting to connect with Nick and Howie and Mr. Lurie and all the people involved. There is a lot of people involved on the interview and things like that. But from there,

you know, came in here for an in-person interview. And again, it was just even more validating,

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