"I couldn't be more excited about football."
Specifically, Eagles football.
Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie has overseen the best era in Eagles history – four Super Bowl appearances since 2004 (three in the last nine seasons) with two Lombardi Trophies and nine division titles in that same span.
But Lurie is as hungry as ever for more. Entering his 32nd season in charge of the franchise, the obsession and desire to win remain paramount.
"I love owning the Eagles. I love trying to make us better in every way. And that's what I'm focused on. I know we've got the greatest fans, but we also have a franchise that we're incredibly proud of," Lurie said on Tuesday at the NFL's Annual Meeting in Phoenix. "I think we still have a chance to win multiple more Super Bowls. We're in this phase where there's nothing I want more than the third Lombardi."
Lurie is optimistic about the direction of the team following changes to the coaching staff after the 2025 season ended to restore a "championship-level offense."
"Incredibly excited about the offensive staff that Nick (Sirianni, head coach) has put together," Lurie said. "This is a real kudos to Nick to recognize clearly what was needed in terms of our overall offensive effectiveness. It's never about one coach, one scheme, one staff, or anything like that. That's not the way we operate."
After a process that allowed the Eagles to gain insight into the bright, young up-and-coming offensive minds in the game, the team named Sean Mannion as the new offensive coordinator. A nine-year NFL quarterback, Mannion enters his third season as a coach after spending 2025 as the quarterbacks coach in Green Bay. It is not lost on Lurie that the Eagles had an outstanding run the last time the team hired a quarterbacks coach from Green Bay when Andy Reid was named head coach in 1999.
"Incredible impressive is all I'm going to say," Lurie said of Mannion. "Work ethic, A+. Innovativeness and dynamism, A+."
Lurie acknowledges that he's involved as ever when it comes to running the Eagles organization, but relies on a senior leadership team that largely has been together for the majority of his tenure.
"We've had some of the same outstanding senior executives for almost a quarter of a century. Our team president (Don Smolenski) is really one of the best in sports. Our GM (Howie Roseman), I think is definitely one of the best in sports," Lurie said.
On whether the Eagles will play an international game in 2026: Lurie said that the Eagles are open and willing to play as a road team overseas. But after losing a home game to open the 2024 season in Brazil, the Eagles will not lose another in the near future.
On the growth of the game internationally: "It's why flag football has enormous potential. We're all invested in a professional flag team. We're invested in women around the world playing flag. We're invested in boys playing flag and it's low cost. It's like basketball in the sense that it's almost like a pickup game and it's taken off incredibly. It's going to be in the L.A. Olympics. We hope to have it in the Brisbane Olympics, which will really solidify it as a new global sport. And how great to have a sport now that could incorporate enormous numbers of women and girls, it's fantastic."
On the impact of the Eagles Autism Foundation with April being Autism Acceptance Month: "I always dreamed when I bought the team that a sports organization could be that influential and dynamic and have that value. And we've really achieved it. Ryan Hammond, our executive director, is incredible.
"It's just growing geometrically, and our players, everyone in Philadelphia, has just rallied around it. I know that's not on the top of your mind for football questions. But in terms of this owner, it's important to me and what we can accomplish owning the team to both be as terrific a steward of the franchise on the football field, but also in the community, the nation, and especially around a condition like autism."
