Allen Park — Former Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia couldn’t wait to get Darius Slay out of the building.
Which makes it a tad bit ironic that Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni said Wednesday during a conference call with local reporters that he literally couldn’t wait to name Slay, a 10th-year corner who was drafted by the Lions with a second-round pick in 2013, as a team captain this past week.
“When Slay was voted captain, I was holding the votes until the next day,” Sirianni explained. “I’m like, ‘Alright, I’m gonna tell them in the team meeting who the captain is tomorrow,’ but because of my love for Slay as a player, and the teammate and the leader that he is, I couldn’t hold it in.