The Philadelphia Eagles are following in Sean McVay’s footsteps.
The Eagles are set to tackle the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday in London. However as an alternative of touring to the UK early, head coach Nick Sirianni revealed on Monday that his crew goes at in regards to the final attainable second.
They’ll observe at house all week, after which depart on Friday. That plan, Sirianni stated, >, “felt like the most effective factor for our crew, taking every thing under consideration — jet lag, included.”
Now, it’s not that huge of a distinction from Philadelphia to London. It’s a roughly seven hour flight throughout the Atlantic Ocean, and London is 5 hours forward. That signifies that, as soon as the Eagles land on Friday evening, they’ll have all day Saturday to regulate earlier than the sport begins at 2:30 p.m. native time on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
That’s not a number of time to regulate.
Whereas there isn’t any proper strategy to put together for a global recreation like this, journey plans have been known as into query after McVay and the Los Angeles Rams opted to fly all the way down to Australia for his or her season opener towards the San Francisco 49ers on the final attainable second. The Rams ended up spending roughly 30 hours within the nation between their two flights, one thing the crew had been engaged on for greater than a 12 months.
Then the 49ers, who landed a number of days upfront, rolled to a straightforward 27-7 win in Melbourne.
The Eagles will enter Sunday’s recreation with a 2-2 document, and are coming off back-to-back losses. They blew a 10-point fourth quarter result in the Rams on Sunday, too, and are probably down each operating backs Saquon Barkley and Tank Bigsby. Beating the Jaguars, who’ve received two straight and are getting ready for back-to-back video games in London over the subsequent two weeks, isn’t going to be a straightforward activity no matter the place the sport is held or how the Eagles get there.
But when issues go poorly, it’s straightforward to surprise how lengthy coaches will maintain pushing the “out and in” journey technique for worldwide video games.