This time, Sirianni was strangely calm. He spent Sunday morning doing “the same crap I always do,” he said, which meant playing with his kids, poring through his game management sheet and spitballing with offensive coordinator Kellen Moore and associate head coach Kevin Patullo.

During training camp we all wondered if Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts could ever get along. It was a big deal, in fact, for the two to simply to share a ride on Big Dom DiSandro’s golf cart. That’s one of the things that made Monday morning’s news conference in the New Orleans Convention Center so surreal and so special.