Adrian Fedkiw
The culture and atmosphere of playing in Philadelphia can be a shock to a players system, but not to Jim Schwartz.
He loves it.
The Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator joined the WIP Morning Show Wednesday to discuss why he always looked forward to coming to the City of Brotherly Love for a road game.
“There’s no better place to play a game than Philadelphia and there’s no better place to win,” Schwartz said.
The fans are more hostile and raucous than any other in the NFL, but Schwartz embraces that.
“If you shy away from that sort of criticism, that sort of scrutiny, it goes to what I said before, you’re not in it for the right reason,” he said. “You’ve got to embrace all of that. I think that the best players do, the coaches do, you just embrace.”
Schwartz continued.
“Don’t shy away from the crowd,” he said. “You have to use their energy back sort of against them, but you had to prepare your teams for coming in here. And they had to understand the history of the 700 level, Santa Claus, and everything that went into it.”
You can listen to the entire interview below.