Fearless. No fear.

The most common answers across four days of Super Bowl media availability with the Philadelphia Eagles players questioned on their headline-grabbing, head-shaving polarizing head coach.

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Sirianni wears his heart on his sleeve[/caption]

Polarizing to anyone outside the building that is, but Jordan Mailata summed it up nicely.

“He is probably one of the greatest men I have ever met,” he told talkSPORT without hesitation.

“He’s so passionate, he’s caring and he is a man who leads through his words but also his actions.

“If he says he is going to be somewhere or do something – he is going to be there and he is going to do it.”

Just a couple of minutes in the company of the O-line or the cornerback group will bring the same message.

A one-to-one with 350lb offensive tackle Mekhi Becton brings a string of one word descriptions.

“No fear, hungry, dominant,” the former New York Jet tells us.

“That makes us fearless, everybody follows his lead.”

A podium huddle with Eagles legend Brandon Graham, or a table sit down with defensive tackle Milton Williams or a press conference with star quarterback Jalen Hurts will tell you all you need to know about Sirianni.

The Eagles head coach from Jamestown, New Jersey who caused a stir by beginning the season with a shaved head against the Cleveland Browns.

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The Eagles head coach who shed a dramatic single tear two years ago as the Eagles were beaten by Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs.

And the Eagles head coach who is the third HC in NFL history to reach two Super Bowls in their first four seasons in the position

Which brings us to that remarkable stat.

Four previous coaches have met in Super Bowl matches, and on every occasion the man who won the first was victorious the next time.

That includes Reid against Kyle Shanahan last year, Tom Coughlin against the great Bill Belihick. Chuck Noll over Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson over Marv Levy.

Big names for Sirianni to be mixing with.

But as talkSPORT discovered on the ground in New Orleans, Sirianni the coach – the man who goes head to head with Andy Reid on Sunday – is fiercely protective of his players.

He will hand the floor to them in the final speeches on Saturday night, just as he did two years ago in Arizona.

But he will also choose his moments. Defensive tackle Milton Williams told us that he empowers them with moments of inspiration ranging from music and cartoon clips, to goosebump inducing speeches.

Dallas Goedert called his coach ‘one of the most competitive guys I have ever met’ and described the standard that ‘makes everyone in the build better.’

And he has their back whether it’s declaring them winners in press conferences or fronting up to fans – both his own and the opposition.

That feeling is paid back in buckets. “I don’t care what anyone outside the building thinks,” Mailata said.

Goedert’s answer was almost identical, which underlines the culture that was has been created.

It was evident all over the players faces all week, it’s evident in the 14-3 record that took Philly through the regular season and it was on display with gritty playoff wins and record-breaking NFC championship game wins.

Like his team’s city, there are no half measures with Sirianni. No stone is left unturned, as Landon Dickerson explained. “He does a great job of educating guys of situations and football IQ.

“There isn’t a situation that we haven’t gone over where we wouldn’t know what we have to do.

“There is going to be weird things that will happen and coach does a great job of talking us through citations we know what we do.

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After a meltdown in the second half of last season could have brought a firing, instead it brought change.

Vic Fangio and Kellen Moore control the leagues best defence and a balanced offense, Saquon Barkley and Zach Baun arrived in free agency and ended the season on the NFL Honors lists.

Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean did the same after coming in via the NFL Draft and a rebuilt Eagles team are back in the Super Bowl

There had been a business like feel to Philly on opening night, at odds with the chaos around them, and the feeling was they were maybe a little too focused.

If such a thing exists.

But as the week wore on and press availability turned into more availability, a more relaxed Eagles squad emerged. Happy to answer questions at the final day of three with the press on Thursday and the smiles were more frequent.

Just 15 minutes before the whole squad emerged to the media room, their head coach had fielded the final questions from a packed conference room at the Hilton Hotel, and Sirianni’s story of evolution struck a chord.

Asked about dealing with viral moments in relation to Liam Coen’s ‘Duval’ opening press conference, Sirianni recalled his own first day in front of the media as Eagles HC.

Awkward, nervous  and strange,were thrown around in headlines as the first year HC struggled at the podium to convey his feelings.

But Sirianni is an emotional man, they captured how he was feeling, and as he said to the media on Thursday, “I think I’m getting a little better at it.”

There might be one more step to go, a win on Sunday would make him the second Eagles head coach to bring a Lombardi back to Broad Street.

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