When the Philadelphia Eagles face the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, the Eagles defense will be focused on stopping 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. The seventh-round rookie is 7-0 as a starter since taking over for Jimmy Garoppolo and is trying to emulate Tom Brady’s miraculous run from backup to Super Bowl champ back in 2001. As good as Purdy has been, the Eagles may have the best chance of stopping him, and it has nothing to do with the players on the field. Philadelphia’s secret weapons in the fight to defend Purdy are two defensive coaches way down the pecking order on the staff of Eagles head coach Nick Siriani, D.K. McDonald and Tyler Scudder.

2 Eagles coaches know Brock Purdy well

When Nick Siriani took over the Eagles in 2021, he went looking around the football world for coaches to add to his coaching staff. He brought defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon with him from the Colts and tapped Shane Steichen, who he coached with in the Chargers organization, as offensive coordinator.

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