Remember when winning Super Bowls was going to be the Eagles’ “new normal?” Eagles head coach Doug Pederson made that pronouncement in the aftermath…
Remember when winning Super Bowls was going to be the Eagles’ “new normal?”
Eagles head coach Doug Pederson made that pronouncement in the aftermath of his historic Super Bowl LII triumph. On Monday, Pederson invoked the same phrase in a very different context.
Pederson’s faith in the viability of the NFL’s plan for opening training camps this week, and then playing a 16-game season, seemed undaunted, despite the coronavirus outbreak on baseball’s Miami Marlins that caused that team to be quarantined in Philadelphia and postponed Monday’s Marlins-Orioles and Yankees-Phillies games.
“The protocols that the NFL has put into place with the players’ association, the agreement there… it gives us excitement moving forward,” Pederson said on a Zoom call with reporters. “We understand that the virus is real, and we do everything we can, in our power, to stay safe, protecting ourselves when we’re in the building, protecting our players. It’s unfortunate what has happened, but we do have a lengthy set of protocols that we have to abide by, and this is our new normal, right now. We’re working in these conditions, as probably most of you are working in your conditions as well.
