This is the week for work.
Coaches with Super Bowl experience often say that the first week after the conference championship, when you’re still in your own facility and the distractions are manageable, is when you install your game plan and do much of the heavy lifting-type preparation for the game, though kickoff remains more than a week away.
Once you’re on site – in this case, Minneapolis, where the Eagles are scheduled to arrive at 3:30 p.m. Sunday – there is going to be a Prince cover band playing in the hotel lobby, while your cousin Rudolfo texts you looking for tickets, while the buses to practice get lost and aimlessly circle the Mall of America, while you have to sit every day at a table answering the same questions from wave after wave of reporters from every nation on earth.