Saquon Barkley reveals he 'couldn't stand' Nick Sirianni before joining Eagles

Saquon Barkley embodied the rivalry betwixt the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles erstwhile helium was moving the shot for Big Blue earlier the 2024 season.

Barkley played for the Giants from 2018 to 2023 and admitted connected Wednesday helium was nary instrumentality of Eagles caput manager Nick Sirianni during that time. But present that helium torments defenses arsenic portion of Philadelphia, helium can’t get capable of him.

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Saquon Barkley #26 of the Philadelphia Eagles celebrates with caput manager Nick Sirianni against the Dallas Cowboys astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Sept. 4, 2025 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

"I couldn't basal that mother-bleeper," Barkley said, via NBC Sports Philadelphia. "I could not."

Specifically, it was aft the Eagles eliminated the Giants from the playoffs during the 2022 play – the past clip New York was successful the postseason. He said the infinitesimal of Sirianni relishing successful the triumph for the cameras was thing that didn’t beryllium good with him.

"And that benignant of stuck with maine for a precise agelong time. And truthful I wasn't a instrumentality of him," helium added.

Now, it’s wholly different.

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Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley celebrates a archetypal down against Washington Commanders information Will Harris (3) during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot game, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, successful Landover, Maryland. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Barkley said helium believed that Sirianni "doesn’t get a batch of respect" and his attraction to item was the crushed wherefore he’s had truthful overmuch occurrence with Philadelphia.

Sirianni took implicit arsenic caput manager successful 2021 aft helium had a stint with the Indianapolis Colts arsenic the violative coordinator. Since then, the Eagles person ne'er had a losing play and were successful 2 Super Bowls, winning 1 implicit the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this year.

He’s 58-25 successful 83 games and is 6-3 successful the playoffs.

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The Eagles person 2 much games near successful the regular play earlier heading backmost to the postseason. Philadelphia already clinched the NFC East title.

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