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Glenn Erby

WATCH: Javon Hargrave compares Eagles chill practice habits to the 49ers hard-nosed style

The Eagles have grown soft, and a big reason for this late-season collapse could be found in the departures of Javon Hargrave, T.J. Edwards, Marcus Epps, and C.J. Gardner-Johnson, among others.

Hargrave took his talents to San Francisco, and with the 49ers now the No. 1 seed in the 2024 playoffs, the talented defensive tackle has had an up-close approach to the inner workings of coaching staff and game week programs.

During a sitdown with Coach_YAC, Hargrave described the Eagles’ love for sports science and compared San Francisco’s approach to Pat Riley’s grind-it-out style with the Miami Heat.

Hargrave compared the Eagles’ weekly “relaxed, chill” approach to that of the Golden State Warriors.

In the Eagle’s defense, the new approach to practice started when Nick Sirianni got the job, and came after three or four years of Philadelphia leading the NFL in soft tissue injuries and having late-season breakdowns in personnel with players consistently on the injury report.

The comments are an indictment of a laid-back approach and a talented team’s ability to turn it on when the lights come on.

The late-season meltdown could change practice habits and do away with the late-season Wednesday walk-throughs.

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