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'He can crush food': Stories that shaped the Doug Pederson-Matt Nagy friendship

PHILADELPHIA -- Forget "Philly Special," the Super Bowl run or aggressiveness on fourth down. When Matt Nagy thinks of Doug Pederson, he thinks of late-night raids of the Eagles cafeteria back when they were just a couple of fledgling assistants trying to earn their stripes.

"At night time when we're drawing cards, and it's like 9, 10 o'clock at night, we'd take a little breather, and we'd go down downstairs at the cafeteria there at the NovaCare, and he'd always destroy the vanilla soft ice-cream server," Nagy said of Pederson. "He'd fill that bad boy up and put a bunch of rainbow sprinkles on top of it and just devour it.