Speaker 1: Eagles Entertainment Okay, and overtime victory for the Eagles tonight
Speaker 1: against the New York Giants twenty three to seventeen. The
Speaker 1: Eagles come from behind. Yes, they've been making a sweat
Speaker 1: kind of every single game lately. It feels like and
Speaker 1: good to see the losing streaks snapped here with a
Speaker 1: good win in the rain tonight. Welcome to the postgame show.
Speaker 1: Fran Duffy I greet Amy Campbell. Who wants to go first?
Speaker 1: Initial thoughts good. I wish people could see behind the
Speaker 1: scenes of the last couple of minutes when we're watching.
Speaker 1: We're watching the end of the game in position, and
Speaker 1: you know a lot of times we don't know what
Speaker 1: we're about to be talking about a camera. He flipped
Speaker 1: the desk, sighting. Very exciting to get especially against an
Speaker 1: NFC East opponent. Relieved, definitely relieved. Ending the three game
Speaker 1: losing streak obviously is big here. Getting to win tonight
Speaker 1: against this team. Wish it wasn't as difficult, but just
Speaker 1: like everything in the twenty nineteen season has been, this
Speaker 1: game was a direct reflection of that. But unlike most
Speaker 1: of the season, the Eagles found the way to pull
Speaker 1: this game out. Really a gutsy performance by this team.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many guys left the game. I
Speaker 1: don't even know who was out there at the end
Speaker 1: of the game for Carson to play with on offense.
Speaker 1: Just um, a good win to keep this season alive.
Speaker 1: We're in a tie for first place. I know it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it, but it's been a long time
Speaker 1: since I had anything to smell about. You know what,
Speaker 1: I am going to enjoy this. It's been three weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy this. Oh yeah, right, So it's
Speaker 1: been almost a month since we enjoyed that Chicago Bears win.
Speaker 1: So good win tonight. Look, I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be a fun one to watch the film on
Speaker 1: because we really did see the offense kind of get
Speaker 1: it together as the game progressed. They didn't score a
Speaker 1: touchdown until the third quarter, just that one field goal
Speaker 1: the only points for this Eagles offense. But with guys
Speaker 1: like Boston Scott stepping up tonight, Greg Ward stepping up tonight,
Speaker 1: Josh Perkins having a couple of big moments with a
Speaker 1: lot of the main offensive guys out are injured. I mean,
Speaker 1: guys were dropping like flies out there. Are a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries across the board that I'm sure we're going
Speaker 1: to be getting updated on as the week progresses. What
Speaker 1: are you going to be looking to see when you're
Speaker 1: watching the film of just all these contributors starting to
Speaker 1: find some rhythm there. Well, you saw all these guys
Speaker 1: starting to get into space, right, So we saw the
Speaker 1: bubble screens to Boston Scott, bubble screens to Greg Ward,
Speaker 1: allowing those guys to get into the flat and find
Speaker 1: open space, get to the sideline, get down field. We
Speaker 1: still didn't see a lot of big chunk plays for
Speaker 1: the most part. We saw, you know, some catches by
Speaker 1: zach Ertz and catches by Dallas Goddard down the field,
Speaker 1: j j Arthega Whiteside coming up with that great over
Speaker 1: the shoulder catch on the fade down the right sideline
Speaker 1: to help tie the game. But ultimately, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see how all these things came together, the offense just
Speaker 1: finding a gritty way to get it done, because you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fun on the back half of this game
Speaker 1: to see how they were able to string things together.
Speaker 1: It was not a fun first two and a half quarters.
Speaker 1: So to see them go what did they put off
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards in the five straight drives. It's five straight,
Speaker 1: three an ounced. It was an ugly, ugly start, but
Speaker 1: they were able to bounce back. And I think the
Speaker 1: resiliency goes to the players on the team, the leaders
Speaker 1: on the team, and also the coaches as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Carson Wentz. You know, after watching this
Speaker 1: first half, they go to the locker room and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of thinking, Okay, this is the test for the leadership, Like,
Speaker 1: who's going to come out here and say this is
Speaker 1: not good enough. We are better than this. We are
Speaker 1: going to be better than this. I'm going to will
Speaker 1: us there. Carson Wentz tonight, finishing with three twenty five yards,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, completing sixty six percent of his passes to
Speaker 1: an array of different targets. I thought that he really
Speaker 1: carried the team tonight in a big way. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't even think I'm going out on a limb and
Speaker 1: saying this this was his best game as a pro. Wow. Well,
Speaker 1: when you think about the circumstances that was there, obviously
Speaker 1: what was at stake, the fact that he doesn't have
Speaker 1: premier weapons to get the ball to. They had to
Speaker 1: win this game to go down the way they were,
Speaker 1: what seventeen nothing or seventeen to three, whatever the score was,
Speaker 1: and to be able to fight back in the middle
Speaker 1: of that third quarter, fourth quarter, in the overtime, two
Speaker 1: big drives late in this game to tie the game up,
Speaker 1: and then the one in overtime. I mean, obviously he's
Speaker 1: had better numbers and other games throughout the course of
Speaker 1: his career, and he's looked dominant at some other games,
Speaker 1: particularly in two seventeen. But I'm just looking at the
Speaker 1: circumstances and the way that he was able to rally
Speaker 1: this team. Amy you just mentioned going in that locker
Speaker 1: room at halftime, being booed off the field deservingly so,
Speaker 1: by the way in the first half, with no production
Speaker 1: from the offense, to rally those guys, what he had
Speaker 1: left available to him, Miles Sanders in and out of
Speaker 1: the lineup, You lose your right tackle, you lose your
Speaker 1: best wide receipt. He's out there throwing to Josh Perkins
Speaker 1: and making some some key throws there. I mean, I thought,
Speaker 1: whence his uh, it's I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: what his stat line was for as far as completion percentage. Man,
Speaker 1: he dropped some nice dimes in there to these guys
Speaker 1: tonight and these in this weather condition with gloves on
Speaker 1: his hands. I really do think it was it was
Speaker 1: his best performance as a pro. Well, there were a
Speaker 1: couple of drops there too that I thought, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: pretty good throws as well that I'm not going to
Speaker 1: blame the receiver on that when I thought he was
Speaker 1: you know, it would have been a nice catch if
Speaker 1: he made that nice catch, Yeah, Fran would you see
Speaker 1: from Carson? I thought we saw resiliency. You know, I
Speaker 1: goes back to what I said earlier, if the whole
Speaker 1: team showed it. But I think ultimately, when you look
Speaker 1: at the quarterback in this game, what he was able
Speaker 1: to do with some of those weapons being out on
Speaker 1: you know, on the sideline, you lose Alshon Jeffrey, you
Speaker 1: lose Miles or Miles Sanders for a good chunk of
Speaker 1: this game, you lose Lane Johnson. So some of the
Speaker 1: key pieces in this offense that you know weren't available
Speaker 1: you already came in obviously, no Jordan Howard, no Nelson
Speaker 1: Igilore you how you knew you were gonna be shorthanded?
Speaker 1: They come out and then the way that he was
Speaker 1: able to fight get through that adversity. You get Bood
Speaker 1: coming off the field at halftime. They had the drops,
Speaker 1: you had sacks. They didn't turn the ball over, but
Speaker 1: they still had a lot of adversity. They were able
Speaker 1: to bounce back. He made some great throws down the stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had the one fumble early in the game that
Speaker 1: I thought his knee was down, but they obviously couldn't
Speaker 1: determine it and didn't overturn it and didn't give credit
Speaker 1: to these young wide receivers. These guys were thrust into
Speaker 1: the lime night limelight on national TV. The leader goes
Speaker 1: down to the group and now Sean Jeffrey. So now
Speaker 1: these guys are going to be relied upon even more
Speaker 1: and they needed to step up and make big plays.
Speaker 1: Arthega Whiteside with a great over the shoulder catch on
Speaker 1: the sideline on that key drive to help tie his
Speaker 1: game up. Greg warred with some big catches, some nice
Speaker 1: runs after the catch where he was able to get
Speaker 1: that yards after the catchyardage. I just thought these young
Speaker 1: guys stepped up, and I mentioned Josh Perkins already, he's
Speaker 1: another guy they had to step up tonight and was
Speaker 1: called upon to make some big catches and came through.
Speaker 1: And how about our gout Boston Scott, I mean, Boston
Speaker 1: Scott was some nice tough running there to help tu
Speaker 1: to score up seventeen. Or wasn't it get the Eagles
Speaker 1: first touchdown on the board. Yeah, get the first touchdown
Speaker 1: on the Eagles on the board. All right, And with
Speaker 1: that we have Davi Spernaro standing by from Lincoln Financial.
Speaker 1: Dave a gritty, grinded out win in overtime for the
Speaker 1: Eagles here. Why didn't you see from the players on
Speaker 1: the sideline in terms of the emotion to be able
Speaker 1: to overcome so many things that went wrong to be
Speaker 1: able to get a win tonight. Yeah, I mean a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of emotion, both negative and positive. I mean
Speaker 1: the Eagles, as you said, got booted off the field.
Speaker 1: It was loud, it was lusty, It was deserved, and
Speaker 1: the players were none too pleased with that reaction from
Speaker 1: the fans, although they know they deserved it. Now to
Speaker 1: get this thing going in the second half, the defense,
Speaker 1: which gave up big plays in that first half, stepped up,
Speaker 1: put some pressure on Eli Manning and really limited what
Speaker 1: the Giants did down the field, and the offense just
Speaker 1: kept coming, kept coming. I love the contribution from Boston Scott,
Speaker 1: who just changed the tempo of the offense. You could
Speaker 1: feel it down here at field level. The way he
Speaker 1: was just a little bit quicker than Miles Sanders two
Speaker 1: and through the hole they got him involved in the
Speaker 1: screen game. He really ran with rocket fuel in his
Speaker 1: cleats tonight might cause my cleats. And he certainly played
Speaker 1: extremely well on the Eagles. I mean, this is not
Speaker 1: probably in the category per se of miracle victory against
Speaker 1: the Giants, but I don't see any reason why it
Speaker 1: can't be classified in that tier just below, because to
Speaker 1: come back from seventeen to three in a dead stadium
Speaker 1: and Lincoln Financial Field was dead, the sideline was dead.
Speaker 1: Players were walking off the field, Jalen Mills among them.
Speaker 1: You guys didn't I don't know if you mentioned him
Speaker 1: earlier before I got on. But and then to turn
Speaker 1: it around like the way the Eagles did. All this
Speaker 1: is what we wanted to see from Carson Wentz. A
Speaker 1: second half comeback, a fourth quarter comeback, and overtime drive
Speaker 1: down the field to get the ball in the end zone.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of game that even though you
Speaker 1: might not have Lane Johnson, you might not have Alshan
Speaker 1: Jeffrey the rest of the way. Who knows. You've really
Speaker 1: used this game as a spark plug, because I'm telling
Speaker 1: you the feeling here that this game was dead in
Speaker 1: the building. Yeah, and I was over there, Dave, and
Speaker 1: you could almost hear a pin drop aware in that
Speaker 1: stadium in the first half. Really a tale of two halves.
Speaker 1: You talked about Carson and the performance he had. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have that performance, Dave, without these young receivers stepping up.
Speaker 1: Just talking a little bit about these young guys really
Speaker 1: being thrust in a position of where they needed to
Speaker 1: come up big in order for them to pull his
Speaker 1: game out. Yeah, and you know, this is such a
Speaker 1: game of how you feel about yourself, the level of
Speaker 1: confidence that you have. We've been waiting for JJ to
Speaker 1: have that signature game, that breakout game, and it battled it.
Speaker 1: He wasn't getting playing time. How to drop it at
Speaker 1: the end of the Detroit game. You know, these are
Speaker 1: the kinds of games that lift young players. Boston Scott
Speaker 1: now knows without a doubt he can play at a
Speaker 1: very high level in the NFL. Joshua Perkins move moving
Speaker 1: around the formation, getting open, creating some space. Still, the
Speaker 1: staples exist in this offense with zach Ertz and with
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard. But the Eagles and Greg Ward, who had
Speaker 1: the chance to put the ball in the end zone,
Speaker 1: didn't do it. Came right back with the catch, a
Speaker 1: tough grab in traffic in the red zone, broke a tackle,
Speaker 1: got the ball down to the two yard line, set
Speaker 1: the Eagles up for the tying touchdown. These are the
Speaker 1: kinds of games, These are the kinds of plays that
Speaker 1: young players use to really take their games to the
Speaker 1: next level. Because the Eagles a short week here going
Speaker 1: into Washington, they're gonna need all of them. The Eagles
Speaker 1: stretched their roster about as far as you can go
Speaker 1: in this game tonight, using vitalet right tackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were down Russell Douglas. How about this one. Sidney
Speaker 1: Jones comes in for his only play of the game,
Speaker 1: I think, on defense and gets a key stop pass
Speaker 1: defense on third down late in the fourth quarter. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the kid who's been sent to the very bottom
Speaker 1: of the depth chart, and yet when he was needed,
Speaker 1: he stepped up and got to stop. You know, Dave
Speaker 1: we've talked about the quarterback, We've talked about some of
Speaker 1: these young guys have stepped up. One guy we haven't
Speaker 1: talked at about yet on the show is zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: You know, he put a lot on himself last week
Speaker 1: eight days ago with you know how that game ended
Speaker 1: down in Miami. He had a couple of critical drops.
Speaker 1: He comes back, he leaves the team into receiving nine
Speaker 1: catches ninety one yards scores the final two touchdowns, has
Speaker 1: the two catches in the first half that helped propel
Speaker 1: the team into field goal range for their only points
Speaker 1: of the first half. Talk about what you saw from
Speaker 1: zach Ertz, and you know the energy from him coming
Speaker 1: off the field as well. Yeah, and fran against a
Speaker 1: defense that does not give up much to tight ends.
Speaker 1: I mean, throughout the season they've been torched on the
Speaker 1: outside with their young cornerbacks, but they've been doing a
Speaker 1: pretty good job for the most part against tight ends.
Speaker 1: The Eagles found a way to scheme to get Zach open,
Speaker 1: create a little bit of space on the inside. He
Speaker 1: caught the ball very well, caught the ball in traffic
Speaker 1: and really a good comeback game for zach Erz, who
Speaker 1: did feel the weight of his performance in Miami, very
Speaker 1: unhappy with himself throughout the week, and in fact, wouldn't
Speaker 1: really go out in public very much. I think he
Speaker 1: had one appearance that he went out later in the week,
Speaker 1: but you know, throughout Wednesday did not want to go
Speaker 1: out because he was so down on himself. He took
Speaker 1: it so hard the loss in Miami and his feelings
Speaker 1: that he was responsible for the defeat. Well, he certainly
Speaker 1: stepped up his game tonight and played a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: level game. Was terrific. Knowing but the Giants obviously know
Speaker 1: that the ball is going to go to Zach and
Speaker 1: to Dallas Goddard, and yet those two really contributed a lot.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dave, I'm expecting some good vibes in that
Speaker 1: locker room today. Will be catching up with you a
Speaker 1: little bit later with that coverage as well, and we
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your insights. All right, Thanks
Speaker 1: so much, guys. Okay, I love hearing what it's like
Speaker 1: at these games, especially a game like today. Really good
Speaker 1: points raised there by, Dave. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: some of the guys who caught passes tonight from Carson
Speaker 1: wentz ERT's the leading receiver there with nine catches. Boston
Speaker 1: Scott the second leading receiver with six, followed by Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard Josh Perkins with five catches on five targets. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good percentage there. Greg Ward had four catches, Arthega
Speaker 1: Whiteside two, Miles Sanders, I guess also had four, so
Speaker 1: I guess it's out of order on here. And then
Speaker 1: all Sean targeted twice without a catch there, So that's
Speaker 1: kind of not necessarily usually the order you're used to seeing.
Speaker 1: What can we say about this Eagles offense where Carson
Speaker 1: was able to spread the ball around just so many
Speaker 1: guys who had not been big contributors. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Dave nailed when you say it's a confidence builder
Speaker 1: for a lot of young guys. Yeah, And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things where when you
Speaker 1: look at this offense, you know they have to mix
Speaker 1: and match. It's almost like you have to make it
Speaker 1: up as you go. And that's obviously not what the
Speaker 1: coaches have to do. But with what you're doing and
Speaker 1: cycling guys in and out, you just you have to
Speaker 1: just keep going. And I don't know, we've talked about this.
Speaker 1: We talked about last year with the injuries of this
Speaker 1: team faced on both sides, and you know what it
Speaker 1: takes to have guys that you know, weren't playing football
Speaker 1: or just came up off the practice squad. Boston Scott,
Speaker 1: Josh Perkins, Greg Ward, all these guys there were three
Speaker 1: in the top five receivers in this game. We're on
Speaker 1: the practice squad to start the season or not on
Speaker 1: the roster to start the season. What it takes for
Speaker 1: those guys to come in and become playmakers when you
Speaker 1: need it most. Yeah, that's why you know, I was
Speaker 1: that much more impressed with what Carson was able to
Speaker 1: do tonight because really he's in an offense where, other
Speaker 1: than Zach Ertz, he doesn't have a reliable security blanket,
Speaker 1: so you know, and would not much practice with these guys.
Speaker 1: He basically is filling his way through this thing with
Speaker 1: these receivers because there's not a lot of experience a
Speaker 1: plane with each other out there. So for a quarterback
Speaker 1: and receiver who typically has great chemistry, has a lot
Speaker 1: of repetition together, so you can get a feel for
Speaker 1: where that guy likes the ball placed where, and both
Speaker 1: guys have that feel. As a quarterback in the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: There's no way Carson could be absolutely comfortable throwing the
Speaker 1: ball out there. He just has to trust that those
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be where they're supposed to be at
Speaker 1: and just let it go. He saw a couple times
Speaker 1: he had to hold on to it, but I give
Speaker 1: him a lot of credit and those guys because for
Speaker 1: the most part they were worthless. We're supposed to be. Then,
Speaker 1: I like the fact that there were some plays where
Speaker 1: Carson had to extend plays with his legs and he
Speaker 1: allowed these guys to get open. Right, So when he's
Speaker 1: able to extend plays, these guys can break free from coverage. Well,
Speaker 1: especially that when we saw with Zack Arts, don't worry,
Speaker 1: Carson extend to play and Arts was able to run, run, run, run, run,
Speaker 1: get open make that catch and that was a big catch.
Speaker 1: So yes, we've talked a lot about Greg Ward, Boston
Speaker 1: Scott Tonight, two younger Eagles who had some really good games.
Speaker 1: They both spoke with Dave Spernaro after the game. So
Speaker 1: let's check out those interviews. All right, Welcome down to
Speaker 1: the field. Eagles insider Dave Spernarow with wide receiver Greg Ward,
Speaker 1: one of the heroes. If this remarkable Eagles victory tonight
Speaker 1: against the New York Giants, Greg, how did this thing
Speaker 1: turn around? We all so are man. We went in
Speaker 1: the locker room, we talked, we got everything together. Man,
Speaker 1: we can't out here, and we played together mindset in
Speaker 1: the huddle in that last quarter. We gotta get it.
Speaker 1: That's it. We gotta get it. We all believe in
Speaker 1: each other. We may plays, man, So which is why not? Then?
Speaker 1: Did it the way everything work? Greg? Did you feel
Speaker 1: like whatever you called you were gonna find a way
Speaker 1: to get something done here? For sure? It didn't matter
Speaker 1: what it was. It didn't matter what it was, Man,
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it work. Well. Thank you, Greig gotting.
Speaker 1: Now we've got Boston Scott Eagles running back. Big contribution
Speaker 1: from you tonight, Boston, great game. How to feel out there? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be able to help out my team. Man,
Speaker 1: We've been going through a lot of adversity all year,
Speaker 1: but we pushed through. Man, we overcome. We stayed close
Speaker 1: in that locker room, and Man, I got a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for the guys in that room. Man. A
Speaker 1: leadership starting with coach Doug pe Man We appreciate you'all
Speaker 1: as fans too for sticking with us. Man, We're gonna
Speaker 1: get this thing rolling. Boston Scott Eagles running back, great contribution.
Speaker 1: More from the field coming up in just a few moments. Okay, Frand,
Speaker 1: I know you usually break down the film, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna break down that film really fast because a couple
Speaker 1: of big things stood out to me. One love the
Speaker 1: chemistry between those guys. I love when a guy jumps
Speaker 1: in on another guy's interview with some positivity. Two A
Speaker 1: plus journalism sidelined reporting move there for Dave Spannaro to
Speaker 1: hang on to that guy and get two interviews for
Speaker 1: the price of one. Dave, I gotta get holding penalty thrown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta play. That is some sideline reporting elite challenge
Speaker 1: right there. Let's talk a little bit about Greg Ward,
Speaker 1: a guy who has been around this program for a
Speaker 1: long time but on the practice squad, who has been
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of in the in this Eagles
Speaker 1: program for a long time and is now really getting
Speaker 1: some chances and it's slowly slowly starting to carve out
Speaker 1: a place for himself in this offense. Can talk about
Speaker 1: his development a little bit, really I mean ever since
Speaker 1: he's been here, guys, you've always kind of heard that
Speaker 1: in the building. Was man, you know, every day of practice,
Speaker 1: Oh greg Ward made a play. Oh he made another play.
Speaker 1: Oh he did you know, he had another great day
Speaker 1: against these guys in practice. But it was just practice,
Speaker 1: and you knew quarterback making the transition to wide receiver
Speaker 1: it was going to take time. It's not just as
Speaker 1: simple as can he catch the ball and can he
Speaker 1: make a play. He's got to learn routes, he's got
Speaker 1: to no assignments. He's got to know what he's got
Speaker 1: to do in the run game where he's gonna line up.
Speaker 1: So when he's now gotten his opportunity, he's not this
Speaker 1: outstanding game breaker that's going to take the top off
Speaker 1: the defense, you know, change the game that way. But
Speaker 1: he's been a pretty reliable possession threat in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field where they've needed that over the course
Speaker 1: of this season. At this point now where they are
Speaker 1: the guy like greg Ward helps them now, there are
Speaker 1: still ways that they've got to go, ways that they've
Speaker 1: got to improve. He did have some other biscues tonight,
Speaker 1: but I think when you look at a young guy
Speaker 1: that you're going to try and build around. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that you can see, you could see, Okay, he
Speaker 1: could be in the future plans. Yeah, continues to show
Speaker 1: that development. Like you said, why don't we get to
Speaker 1: your takeaways? Like, what's the first one? Well, the first
Speaker 1: thing I the team came out flat tonight. You know,
Speaker 1: for a game that was as important as this one was.
Speaker 1: To play the first half the way that they did
Speaker 1: that was a little disheartening, but they were able to
Speaker 1: fight back. But that's the first thing that I took
Speaker 1: away from the game is that they didn't hit the
Speaker 1: field ready to go. They didn't hit the field with
Speaker 1: the energy that you needed, you know, taking on a
Speaker 1: two and ten New York Giants team, really allowing New
Speaker 1: York to believe in themselves and have life and really
Speaker 1: start to believe they can win. This game for to
Speaker 1: have was just one that you want to burn the
Speaker 1: tape and not look at. They didn't hit the field
Speaker 1: ready to go tonight, and I was a little surprised
Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, definitely, what did you see in that department?
Speaker 1: I'll sell They did come out flat. And the one
Speaker 1: thing that we taught me in order from them the
Speaker 1: show resiliency and that, you know, the ability to come back.
Speaker 1: You had to start flat in order to be able
Speaker 1: to show that resiliency. They did not look good at
Speaker 1: the start of this game, certainly, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it. I I mean they got boot off the field at
Speaker 1: the end of the second quarter, rightfully. So they did
Speaker 1: not play well on either side of the football offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: a lot of miscuse and look they were able to
Speaker 1: bounce back. Yeah, And I think the way we saw
Speaker 1: ourson go down the field and over time to me
Speaker 1: said so much. I mean, that was, like Dave said,
Speaker 1: that was what we'd been looking to see from him
Speaker 1: this season, to be able to go down the field
Speaker 1: and to kind of take control of the situation and
Speaker 1: march the team down the field and show that leadership.
Speaker 1: You know, this game, like you said, that first half
Speaker 1: was really unpleasant to watch. He starts to see some
Speaker 1: signs of life from the Eagles, able to to tie
Speaker 1: it up and then to just be able to just
Speaker 1: you know, seal that win in overtime. I think it's
Speaker 1: something huge and a great way for this team to
Speaker 1: build some confidence. Yeah. And as a team, you know,
Speaker 1: when you when you're a struggling team, right, and it
Speaker 1: seems like you can't do anything right and sustain it right.
Speaker 1: You get a game like this, you're saying itself, here
Speaker 1: we go again, Here we go again, no positive reinforcements
Speaker 1: out there happening on the field, and you can start
Speaker 1: to doubt yourself and you can start to have self pity.
Speaker 1: But whatever they did in that locker room and have
Speaker 1: time whoever said whatever they needed to say in there
Speaker 1: in the locker room, you do have to give them
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for coming out in the second
Speaker 1: half and fighting. And that was on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. And it's typically you know, one side is
Speaker 1: playing well and the other side isn't playing well. And
Speaker 1: that brings me to my second takeaway is the first
Speaker 1: half in the defense, we had done a great job
Speaker 1: for about a month of keeping big plays down right,
Speaker 1: once we got all our guys back out there on defense,
Speaker 1: I thought they did a great job. But at four
Speaker 1: week stretch going against Buffalo, Chicago, New England, and Seattle
Speaker 1: of keeping big plays to a minimum, and then they
Speaker 1: got back into some bad habits last week against Miami
Speaker 1: and then what I think happened on one of those
Speaker 1: plays you got maybe a busted coverage on the second
Speaker 1: slate touchdown, and on the first touchdown, you know, Darby
Speaker 1: there when you realize you're going with an all out
Speaker 1: blitz and you're the last defender there, you just gotta
Speaker 1: come up and make that tackle, right, You just gotta
Speaker 1: come up and make that tackle and get short of
Speaker 1: the first down. And the Giants are probably kicking the
Speaker 1: field goal there because they would have been like fourth
Speaker 1: and seven. So I just thought the defense given up
Speaker 1: the big plays in the first half was unlike them,
Speaker 1: but give them a lot of credit because they basically
Speaker 1: shut the Giants out. The Giants didn't score again the
Speaker 1: rest of the game after the first half, no question,
Speaker 1: I think. And that's one of the things I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring up, was, you know, all we've talked about
Speaker 1: the offense this whole show. We haven't talked about the defense,
Speaker 1: and it was not a good start. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: those big plays they gave up. Eli Manning finished fifteen
Speaker 1: to thirty two touchdowns, two sacks, sayqual Barkley finished six
Speaker 1: point six or sorry, sixty six yards three point nine
Speaker 1: yards to carry. They kept those guys shut down for
Speaker 1: the most part, But that was that was a good
Speaker 1: beforeance overall. Looking at the stats at the end for
Speaker 1: the defense, well and Eli had one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine yards two touchdowns in the first half, finished with
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and two hundred and three yards, so twenty
Speaker 1: four yards in the second half. If my math is correct. Um,
Speaker 1: I believe we are about to hear from coach Chuck Peterson.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what he has to say. Did you a lot? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all right, Um, it's it's just a great feeling.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys are so excited. Um, the guys
Speaker 1: are thrilled. And they know how hard they worked, how
Speaker 1: hard they've battled, UM, how hard they practiced this week,
Speaker 1: and and to really you know, trust the process, stay
Speaker 1: the course. It didn't look pretty obviously early in this game.
Speaker 1: And uh, to to hang together. Something we talked about
Speaker 1: this week is hanging together and they did that. And
Speaker 1: so the guys were very, very excited. But I know
Speaker 1: it's a team win. What do you think is Bector
Speaker 1: Carson's long term development to lead them fourth quarter come back?
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's great. I think it
Speaker 1: could be the start of hopefully many many fourth quarter
Speaker 1: You know, comeback type UH wins for him and UM
Speaker 1: just you know again, to me, this was this was
Speaker 1: a big team win today. UM. Our defense played played outstanding.
Speaker 1: A lot of our young players really stepped up and
Speaker 1: had impact, you know, impacts in this football game. UM
Speaker 1: Carson obviously was a big part of that, and he
Speaker 1: had an impact. But great team effort today. UM, and
Speaker 1: the credit, uh really credit the defense for keeping us
Speaker 1: in there. Your team, I had time you down seventeen three.
Speaker 1: Y any think especially just told him it's not really Um.
Speaker 1: Everybody kind of understood what was going on, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was just a matter of pride, you know,
Speaker 1: we just had to we just had to just kind
Speaker 1: of kind of figure it out, you know. And and
Speaker 1: UH defense again did a great job in a second
Speaker 1: half the uh uh kind of shutting everything down, you know,
Speaker 1: for them, and given the offense opportunities and uh again
Speaker 1: we struggled offensively to start the third quarter, but then
Speaker 1: kind of got into a little bit of a hurry
Speaker 1: up tempo and uh got into a rhythm and scored
Speaker 1: those three scores. A simple emotion like that, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: just it is, it just comes down to that, quite honestly,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just a want to, a will desire,
Speaker 1: you know. Um and and and that's what That's what
Speaker 1: I saw at halftime from the guys, you know, just
Speaker 1: uh um when they embarras. Yeah, I mean they were talking.
Speaker 1: I could hear them talking. And you know, and at halftime,
Speaker 1: I could hear them, you know, defense and offense they
Speaker 1: were they were, but they were encouraging each other. That
Speaker 1: was the thing about it. It was it was not
Speaker 1: a you guys think them crazy, but it's not a
Speaker 1: it's not a shouting match in there. You know, we're
Speaker 1: not throwing stuff and getting getting all up in arms
Speaker 1: at each other. We're we're coming together, we're figuring it out.
Speaker 1: We're putting a solution together. You know. We talked about, hey, defense,
Speaker 1: big possession to start, you know, three and out, and
Speaker 1: they did and offensively. It took us a few series,
Speaker 1: but we finally got it going. And it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of that win one. What went into the decision
Speaker 1: don't only carry three time? Well, we were trying to
Speaker 1: get Nelly obviously to the game, and it just just
Speaker 1: unfortunate we just didn't kind of ran out of time.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, we had Perk who's been working.
Speaker 1: And Perk really is a versatile you know, he's listed
Speaker 1: as a tight end, but he can play a slot receiver,
Speaker 1: so we kind of rotated him in there with it
Speaker 1: with the other two tight ends tonight. What did you
Speaker 1: do anything with Carson the second half to get him going?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously first half and second half were different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was it? I mean, the the weather was probably
Speaker 1: a little nastier in the first half. I mean, the rain,
Speaker 1: the rain stopped in the second. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think for us too, and and for him, just
Speaker 1: kind of getting getting into some tempo a little bit offensively,
Speaker 1: just kind of no huddle, um, just lining up and
Speaker 1: playing and you know, just just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: using that to our advantage. I think really really settled
Speaker 1: him into this game and had a tremendous second half.
Speaker 1: The guy said that the guys this week, we're a
Speaker 1: little ordinary whenever you want to go. Guys got pissed
Speaker 1: off the times that did you see that and you're thinking,
Speaker 1: maybe that's a good thing. Maybe that's what we need
Speaker 1: right now, you know, I think, um, you know, listen it.
Speaker 1: We hadn't won a game since our buy up until tonight.
Speaker 1: And and so guys are disappointed, Guys are mad, guys
Speaker 1: are frustrated. I'm frustrated, you know. Uh, and and so
Speaker 1: you know it. It sometimes it kind of kind of
Speaker 1: flushes out some things, you know, during the week. And
Speaker 1: and uh, we had a we had a really good
Speaker 1: week of practice. And and and the guys. I could
Speaker 1: really see the guys kind of turn a corner from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of coming together as a football team. And
Speaker 1: you know, especially at this time of the year. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're into that last month of the season, and we
Speaker 1: know what's in front of us. We know it's at stake,
Speaker 1: and the guys do. And it was a good week,
Speaker 1: you guys, And guys who had you know, roughie years
Speaker 1: by Tie comes in and play as well. Perkins, who
Speaker 1: hasn't been you know, included very much. He plays very well.
Speaker 1: Sydney Jones, you had to use him in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and he's been buried. You know, he got you,
Speaker 1: he got you off the field right after us who
Speaker 1: got hurt. He talked about the I guess the preparedness
Speaker 1: of those guys could do what they did to today
Speaker 1: compared compared maybe with other other instances. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you could just go down the list. I mean you
Speaker 1: had JJ, had Greg Ward, you had Perk, had Boston
Speaker 1: Scott on offense, Sydney on defense. I mean guys just really, um,
Speaker 1: you know, big V stepped in. I mean, guys, some
Speaker 1: of our younger players really really had an impact and
Speaker 1: did have an impact because UM and and I credit
Speaker 1: UH obviously, I give a lot of credit to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff too, you know, for preparing these guys and
Speaker 1: get them prepared during the week. It's not easy for
Speaker 1: a young players, especially had our receiver positions for Greg
Speaker 1: to play an X and then a Z and JJ
Speaker 1: to go back and forth. And that's what we did
Speaker 1: in this this game plan and to move these guys
Speaker 1: around from different spots. And that's a credit to the UH,
Speaker 1: to Carson Walsh and Micro and the offensive staff for
Speaker 1: you know, having those guys prepared and and ready to
Speaker 1: go U in this game. And then it was up
Speaker 1: to them obviously once they once they took the field
Speaker 1: to execute and and and perform, and they and they did.
Speaker 1: They did that well without many reps with those guys.
Speaker 1: In particular, person seemed to be his most efficient in
Speaker 1: weeks with guys that he you know, doesn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: a river before with just because of when practice is good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and he's we we've we've practiced
Speaker 1: these guys, you know, the last couple of weeks. I
Speaker 1: mean even when Greg, before Greg got promoted to the
Speaker 1: to the active, even he on practice squal he was
Speaker 1: working with the with the starting offense just because we
Speaker 1: were having to you know, rest some guys during practice
Speaker 1: during the week. So, Uh, Carson's been throwing and working
Speaker 1: with him and obviously you know, getting little more comfortable
Speaker 1: JJ and uh Perk was probably the newest guy you know,
Speaker 1: to to really add to that mix. And um, I
Speaker 1: just think it's a credit to all of them, honestly
Speaker 1: for for the amount of work that they put in.
Speaker 1: Uh again, Uh, just just a overall team win tonight,
Speaker 1: and proud of the guys. Boston Scott the way he
Speaker 1: did And did you know he had that gump. I
Speaker 1: did know that he had it in him. Obviously we
Speaker 1: saw it in preseason, you know, with some of the
Speaker 1: explosive runs that he had, and um, you know, you
Speaker 1: just never know sometimes, you know, I mean, Miles did
Speaker 1: some great things for us too. What a great run
Speaker 1: at the end there too. You know, really the play
Speaker 1: was dead and and uh they had the right defense
Speaker 1: and Miles, Miles creased it and made it made a
Speaker 1: couple of you know, tough runs there, and of course
Speaker 1: Boston and Boston got in there and a a little more
Speaker 1: change of pace, you know, and you saw the you
Speaker 1: saw the quickness and the speed and um did a
Speaker 1: great job, you know. So, uh, we just gotta gotta
Speaker 1: find ways to get him all in the field and
Speaker 1: incas a credit to the carson, you say, it's a
Speaker 1: team win. He has to be dropped back to fifty
Speaker 1: three times. He doesn't have a started right sees just
Speaker 1: started running back and starting right tackle. He pulls it
Speaker 1: out in open time. So you've got to give quarterbacks
Speaker 1: credit a lot of credit, a lot of credit for
Speaker 1: trusting his guys, Uh for trusting me you know from
Speaker 1: play play called play design and you know, uh and
Speaker 1: really trusting you know, trusting our process, trusting what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And that that's a big credit to him. And and
Speaker 1: you know it's not easy when you got that many
Speaker 1: you know, new faces out there playing in a in
Speaker 1: a must win game, you know, against a division opponent.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's tough. It's not easy to do.
Speaker 1: And um, Carson does get a lot of credit, you know.
Speaker 1: And and then but at the same time, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: we made some plays on defense that kept us in there,
Speaker 1: and and uh uh you know we're able to pull
Speaker 1: it out tonight to start, we still got three games,
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, it's a start. We know it's a
Speaker 1: four game season, and tonight was one. Um, obviously we
Speaker 1: got a we had a great road road test next weekend,
Speaker 1: and we got to get prepared for for another another
Speaker 1: opportunity lame and invocation. I'll find out tomorrow. Find out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Let you know. Okay, coach says it's now a four
Speaker 1: game season, so I guess this team is one to know,
Speaker 1: which is definitely something to be excited about. Credits the
Speaker 1: defense for keeping them in it. I think that was
Speaker 1: a really good point. And a friend, like you said,
Speaker 1: we spent a lot of the first half of this
Speaker 1: show talking about the offense. We've just scratched the surface
Speaker 1: of the defense. That was one of your takeaways as well.
Speaker 1: I thought we had a nice moment from Sidney Jones
Speaker 1: tonight and just the result that he showed to make
Speaker 1: a play in the moment that he had. What can
Speaker 1: you take from that, Well, I mean, listen, it's one play,
Speaker 1: but it was certainly a big play in the game,
Speaker 1: and it was a crucial third down. And to not
Speaker 1: have seen any game action in what four or five
Speaker 1: weeks and to not even be active in some of
Speaker 1: those games, they're down so many people they had to
Speaker 1: activate in the night, and thank god he did because
Speaker 1: they lost a couple more dvs out there with Jamon
Speaker 1: mill In, Den Roseul Douglas getting injured. And give Sydney
Speaker 1: credit for being ready when being called upon. He's cold
Speaker 1: coming off that bench, and you knew the Giants were
Speaker 1: going to go right at him because he's knew in
Speaker 1: the game. So giving me credit. It was a slant.
Speaker 1: It's not an easy play. He was able to get
Speaker 1: a jam in there, get his hand in there, break
Speaker 1: that passed up. Happy for him. No. One guy who
Speaker 1: I thought stood out was was Nate Garry, second leading tackler,
Speaker 1: second led the team with two pass breakups. It was
Speaker 1: really active. You know, it made some plays sideline the sideline.
Speaker 1: The last time the Eagles took the field here at
Speaker 1: like a financial field, he was in the spotlight with
Speaker 1: that miss tackle that led to that long play. But
Speaker 1: I think when you look at Nate Garry, he slowly
Speaker 1: has gotten better over the course this year, has seen
Speaker 1: more and more playing time due to injuries of the
Speaker 1: linebacker spot. Not say that he's, you know, a world
Speaker 1: beater right now, but I think ultimately, when you look
Speaker 1: at the way that he has progressed over the course
Speaker 1: of his career, his turn to one nice player. Well,
Speaker 1: I think for the coaching staff to say, hey, when
Speaker 1: Camus out or when Brownham's out, obviously both it's time
Speaker 1: for them to say, hey, we have a reliable guy
Speaker 1: who can go in there and get the job done,
Speaker 1: is definitely something for them to feel some confidence in.
Speaker 1: All right, time for one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the show, Merrill cam Let's hear from Mike and Merrill,
Speaker 1: a compilation of their finest moments from this great Eagles win.
Speaker 1: Slides them up, Sanders behind them, Slot to the far side,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey to the near side. Motion now wins a back
Speaker 1: under center. I'm first down, he drops, he looks, he
Speaker 1: pumps down. He's rolling to his left. Now he's rolling
Speaker 1: to his right, motioning downfield. He is looking for hurts
Speaker 1: has got it at the forty. He's down to the
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Wins did a very good job of extending
Speaker 1: that play and hitting zach Ertz for a twenty five
Speaker 1: yard game. It's first and goal from the three Wins
Speaker 1: and the gun. Wentz takes the football, gives it the Scott,
Speaker 1: He slashes. He then touch down. Eagles bos let's go.
Speaker 1: Wenz takes the snap. He screams it out Scott. Scott
Speaker 1: makes a man miss. He's got a first down. He's
Speaker 1: got more. He's at the forty. He's at the forty five.
Speaker 1: Busted Scott, Yeah, I think I think we've got a
Speaker 1: Darrence throws number two on our hands on first down.
Speaker 1: Manning looks backs up. He is dumped and sacks back
Speaker 1: at the twenty five yard line by Vinny Carry. Wenz
Speaker 1: takes the snap. He's back, he looks, He gets looping
Speaker 1: it for Whiteside, who makes the catch. He makes the catch,
Speaker 1: even though he was held down at the forty one
Speaker 1: yard line. A great catch. Win Sunder's center, he's back,
Speaker 1: he's looking, he fires, He's got him. It's complete. Diving
Speaker 1: forward is Gunnard inside the fifteen down at the thirteen.
Speaker 1: What a throw? By Wentz WinCE under center, Wentz back,
Speaker 1: he fakes, he looks, he fires touchdown, touchdown. Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: win sem gun Scott to his left, what takes the
Speaker 1: step he's looking? He fires complete touchdown Eagles when zach
Speaker 1: Ertz that's why right there, that's why Dog called that
Speaker 1: time out. Dog wanted to reset. See what they're doing,
Speaker 1: strep them out, get the football to all reliable. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz came over Aagles come from a two touchdown deficit
Speaker 1: and for the time playing, they have saved the season.
Speaker 1: That is impossible to watch that without a big smile
Speaker 1: on your face. Gotta love that stuff from Mike Marrill,
Speaker 1: especially all right, let's get to you your third takeaway.
Speaker 1: Third one is my best one. Oh is it? Gut
Speaker 1: check win, big time win. There's no way the Eagles
Speaker 1: could lose this game. Quite frankly, I mean listen, I
Speaker 1: mean the technically there was a way they could have lost.
Speaker 1: But yes, it was a it was a gutsy win, man,
Speaker 1: to be down seventeen to three, playing the way that
Speaker 1: they played in the first half. I think we all
Speaker 1: sort of had that sick feeling in our stomach that
Speaker 1: this thing felt like it was going to end in
Speaker 1: a loss and we would have to try to explain
Speaker 1: how the Eagle season isn't over with yet. But they
Speaker 1: find a way to get the win, and it was
Speaker 1: probably their best win when you think about the adversity,
Speaker 1: when you think about the guys they lost in this game,
Speaker 1: you think about the way they played in the first half,
Speaker 1: and pretty much I leave the games at halftime to
Speaker 1: come over here, and half the stadium was leaving with
Speaker 1: me at halftime. That's how disappointed that crowd was. And
Speaker 1: for them to go in that locker room at halftime,
Speaker 1: dig deep, do some soul searching, and come out and
Speaker 1: play the way they did in the second half, they
Speaker 1: basically played a night and day game. I mean, they
Speaker 1: look like a completely different team in that second half.
Speaker 1: Big time win. You hope too, that this can be
Speaker 1: a launching pad for the final three games, because the
Speaker 1: stakes only get higher. Now, yeah, why each and every
Speaker 1: game the you know, the importance of each matchup only
Speaker 1: increases increases because now going down to play Washington next week,
Speaker 1: that could be to take the lead sole lead to
Speaker 1: the division. Because the Dallas Cowboys play the La Ramps,
Speaker 1: who are now hot they've found their magic again. So
Speaker 1: you know, they go on the road, they lose that game.
Speaker 1: Week sixteen is for the division to clinch it like
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen year resting starters. So each week now
Speaker 1: becomes more and more and more important. So you're hoping
Speaker 1: that this win, as sloppy as it was, as ugly
Speaker 1: as it was in the first half, you're hoping now
Speaker 1: that that can kind of propel you because momentum is
Speaker 1: a real thing. When it is a real thing in football,
Speaker 1: that can that can carry you into a week after
Speaker 1: week after week. Yea yeah, And when these teams don't
Speaker 1: have anything to play for, they sometimes can be the
Speaker 1: most dangerous teams. Yep. And we should have learned that
Speaker 1: last week versus Miami in the NFL. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who you're playing against. Your tip cle gonna get a
Speaker 1: good effort from that team. Now, they may not give
Speaker 1: it to you for sixty minutes, but if you keep
Speaker 1: them in the game, they're going to try to win
Speaker 1: the game. And when you go down to Washington next week,
Speaker 1: that's a team that hasn't experienced a lot of wins,
Speaker 1: just like the Giants tonight. They lost eight straight games.
Speaker 1: You think they they're tired of losing every week. So
Speaker 1: they felt like, oh the Eagles don't want this game.
Speaker 1: We're in this game, and they get confidence the res
Speaker 1: games will be the same way. A young team. They
Speaker 1: got an intim coach down there, and if you go
Speaker 1: down there and you're playing sloppy and they find a
Speaker 1: way to get up early, you're gonna find yourself in
Speaker 1: another dog fight. They just punched screen bear in the
Speaker 1: mouth and they got a coaching staff fired the week
Speaker 1: before in Carolina, totally totally unexpected there. Yes, of course,
Speaker 1: So I think we talked a lot about the resolve
Speaker 1: of this team in this game, and one of the
Speaker 1: players who I think shows the most resolve is Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham on this defense. This is a guy who is
Speaker 1: always focusing on what to do next and on the positive.
Speaker 1: He is one on one with Dave Spernaro after this win.
Speaker 1: Take a look Graham Eagles defensive end BG down seventeen three.
Speaker 1: It was not pretty here. What turned it around? We
Speaker 1: just stay, you know, just gone hard. You know, um
Speaker 1: sometimes they was making plays and you know, we just
Speaker 1: wasn't making the plays. But second half we came out
Speaker 1: and we wanted to make sure that we uh that
Speaker 1: we tightened up and I'm happy that we uh we
Speaker 1: that we kept fighting. Did you feel the momentum change
Speaker 1: in the second half? Oh yeah, we knew on defense
Speaker 1: we had to make some key stops, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we just was letting stuff. Little things
Speaker 1: was catching up to us. But the second half we
Speaker 1: did good. Team was looking for a spark. This game
Speaker 1: could be the spark for these final three games of
Speaker 1: the regular season. Hey, we see, you know, one game
Speaker 1: at a time. We ain't gonna look too far ahead,
Speaker 1: but I'm enjoyed this one. Get ready for wast All.
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, thank you so much. Eagles tied for first
Speaker 1: place in the NFC East. Love it, Love Brandon Graham.
Speaker 1: Let's continue talking about this Eagles defense and um let's
Speaker 1: highlight Anny Curve because he had two sacks tonight, the
Speaker 1: only player to get a sack and he got two
Speaker 1: of them, which is pretty good. What did you see?
Speaker 1: How did he do it? On both plays they had
Speaker 1: a tight end and a tackle over him. Nate Solder,
Speaker 1: who they paid a ton of money to him creasy
Speaker 1: last year, has not worked out for them. He was
Speaker 1: credited with both sacks and then, like I said, a
Speaker 1: tight end was there on that side as well. So
Speaker 1: good for Vinny, you know, comes in. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what his expectations were in terms of playing
Speaker 1: time and things like that coming back here from Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: but got his first chance in the starting spot tonight
Speaker 1: with Derek Barnett out and he came. He came through
Speaker 1: with the most of the two sacks and they were critical.
Speaker 1: They were big plays in the game. Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: tell the difference with Eli, right, he had a clean
Speaker 1: pocket in that first half, had plenty of time to
Speaker 1: throw the ball, got the ball out of his hands
Speaker 1: quick and you read the numbers that he had in
Speaker 1: the first half were in the second half, they got
Speaker 1: to him a little bit more, hit him on a
Speaker 1: couple of plays and then Eli started short arm and
Speaker 1: a few throws. And that's always been the book on
Speaker 1: Eli Manny right, if you hit him a couple of times,
Speaker 1: you can rattle him back there, and that's what they
Speaker 1: did in the second half. They just didn't get enough
Speaker 1: pressure on him. In that first half. He had time
Speaker 1: to sit back there, good skill position guys get the
Speaker 1: ball to him. In the second half, I thought the
Speaker 1: defensive line picked it up a little bit. Even though
Speaker 1: Vinnie was the only one with sacks that were a
Speaker 1: couple other times you had guys in that backfield did
Speaker 1: a nice job also on say Quon Barkley tonight. You know,
Speaker 1: say Quon was fighting tooth and nail to get every
Speaker 1: yard that he could get and this Eagles defense, Jess
Speaker 1: wouldn't let him break free for the big running night
Speaker 1: and it was huge. Two big stats. Eagles were double
Speaker 1: in time of possession. They had the ball for almost
Speaker 1: forty three minutes of this game. The Giants were two
Speaker 1: of twelve on third down. That's that's big, that's huge.
Speaker 1: You're not going to win the game like that. When
Speaker 1: we talk about the defense in the second half, what
Speaker 1: they did to really limit Eli. Did they make changes there,
Speaker 1: did they scheme it up differently, or was it just
Speaker 1: what they were doing started working in the second half.
Speaker 1: It's it's tough for me to say based off without
Speaker 1: being able to see it. So that's what I'm honestly
Speaker 1: watching the defense. I will go to the film on
Speaker 1: that and see what see what comes up. But to me,
Speaker 1: it just looked like, look the plays they gave up.
Speaker 1: I mean they were bad plays by Ron Darby, honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean he missed a tackle and the second one,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned the blow coverage, it was either too
Speaker 1: on him or Rodney McLeod was to that side. It's
Speaker 1: tough to be able to tell just looking at the
Speaker 1: play live and then even just off that replay. I
Speaker 1: want to go back and be able to watch that.
Speaker 1: But to that side, certainly some kind of a bust
Speaker 1: of coverage. Yeah, I look at those plays and I say,
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz called a good game tonight. You know, the
Speaker 1: two touchdowns they had wasn't due to the defense that
Speaker 1: was called. You know, if Ron Darby makes that tackle
Speaker 1: on the first touchdown, it's fourth down. I mean that
Speaker 1: was a throw that was short of the first down,
Speaker 1: and I think they were blitzing on that place. So
Speaker 1: Darby is the last line of defense. That's his guy.
Speaker 1: You just gotta break down, come up and make that tackle.
Speaker 1: Forget about getting a big hit or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Make the tackle is fourth down. And on the other play,
Speaker 1: I think they were anticipating a route at the sticks right,
Speaker 1: So I think Rodney McCloud was coming to play underneath
Speaker 1: that route, and I guess Darby was going to be
Speaker 1: over the top of that, so maybe they thought slay
Speaker 1: was gonna run like an outcut at the sticks to
Speaker 1: pick up the first down. Well, the way you beat
Speaker 1: that sort of over and underneath an over coverage is
Speaker 1: you just run a goal route. You don't give him
Speaker 1: a chance to cut you off. And that's pretty That's
Speaker 1: pretty much what they did because they know the Eagles
Speaker 1: run that defense where it's either Rodney or Malcolm who
Speaker 1: will be at the line of scrimmage and then run
Speaker 1: out up under that number one wide receiver. It's almost
Speaker 1: like an inverted cover too, right, And the Giants must
Speaker 1: have saw that and said, okay, they give us that look,
Speaker 1: you just run the goal route Eli and the receiver
Speaker 1: on the same page there, and Slayton just ran straight
Speaker 1: down the field. You could tell that the Eagles weren't
Speaker 1: expecting that route because, I mean Darby let him eat
Speaker 1: up the cushion. I mean they he never even stayed
Speaker 1: on top of him. So I think that was just
Speaker 1: a busted coverage right there. Everything else they had to
Speaker 1: work for. I thought Jim Schwartz called a good game
Speaker 1: to night. Those are just execution sort of mishaps as
Speaker 1: opposed to scheme mishaps. I think we're maybe a minute
Speaker 1: away I'm hearing from Carson Wentz Fran. Are there specific
Speaker 1: things that I just touched on with those defensive moments,
Speaker 1: specific things that you're going to be looking to see
Speaker 1: as you kind of start breaking things down this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it kind of mirrors what we saw last week,
Speaker 1: where it wasn't necessarily a schematic issue that led to
Speaker 1: the breakdowns. It was more an individual kind of mistake
Speaker 1: or an individual error that led to those plays. But
Speaker 1: I interested to go back and kind of watch that.
Speaker 1: I'll field tomorrow. Yeah, I think I'm interested to hear
Speaker 1: it more about that, all right, as we continue our
Speaker 1: Carson watch, let me look at the Giants or the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. When it came to just kind of a
Speaker 1: breakdown here of the offense. We can look at the
Speaker 1: total net yards. They allowed two hundred and fifty five
Speaker 1: yards from the Giants and in the first half the
Speaker 1: Giants had two hundred and twenty six, so really we're
Speaker 1: able to turn things on in the second half. We
Speaker 1: talked about how much they limited Eli Manning as well,
Speaker 1: and continuing to just limit se Quon Barkley, which I
Speaker 1: thought another thing that was interesting rambling a little bit
Speaker 1: here because we're going to see Carson any minute now,
Speaker 1: But with sae Quon Barkley to be able to limit
Speaker 1: him to six six yards when last year he ran
Speaker 1: all over the field on this team. Even though the
Speaker 1: Eagles got to win and pretty decisively against the Giants
Speaker 1: last year, both times, Quan was still very, very productive.
Speaker 1: He's having a less productive year this year. Is this
Speaker 1: just a matter of teams getting some film on him
Speaker 1: or did the Eagles do something different with him? Many
Speaker 1: thoughts about that. I would imagine it is a little
Speaker 1: bit of film studying on sa Quon banged up, not
Speaker 1: really fully one hundred percent, so he's been working through
Speaker 1: that high angles frame. And then when you when your
Speaker 1: offense can be bogged down at times, it makes it
Speaker 1: easy for a defense to really key in on him.
Speaker 1: Teams are really going into games when he's available to play,
Speaker 1: focusing on him on not letting sa Quon Barkley beat you.
Speaker 1: And I could tell with some of the defenses we
Speaker 1: were running, they were certainly playing sa Quon Barkley to
Speaker 1: break that ball back to the backside, and they kept
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills or corner typically slow, playing that on the backside,
Speaker 1: not allowing him to get outside the defense. When you
Speaker 1: played in your in your career, when you played some
Speaker 1: of the best running backs, Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, when
Speaker 1: you saw those guys the second time, was it a
Speaker 1: little bit different because like that wow factor of like
Speaker 1: man like that that's Barry Sanders, like trying to run
Speaker 1: by me or run through me? Because that was it
Speaker 1: a little bit different than second and third time you
Speaker 1: face those guys? Oh for sure? For sure. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: first time you face them. You want to ask the
Speaker 1: story time with story time with Carson Wentz Um here
Speaker 1: in a minute, here the Eagles quarterback getting the win again,
Speaker 1: completing sixty six percent of his passes three hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five yards, two touchdowns. Person swing, was this for
Speaker 1: this team emotionally standing twice and all being down like this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's huge for us. UM. You know, obviously we realized
Speaker 1: there's a sloppy game for a while. UM, But the
Speaker 1: way guys just hung hunk tough, hung tough and stayed together.
Speaker 1: More importantly, and obviously we dealt with some injuries and
Speaker 1: other guys stepping up making plays and that was huge.
Speaker 1: You know, the you know Perk, you got g Ward,
Speaker 1: you got JJ big V's out there. Um, you got
Speaker 1: guys all over the field, Boston, Scott, you know, guys
Speaker 1: stepping up making plays. And I think that's huge for
Speaker 1: for each of those individuals, confidence and ours as an offense,
Speaker 1: as a team, and each of those guys that they're
Speaker 1: gonna keep making plays and that's big for us whoever
Speaker 1: we're down there. But you realize you would pack it
Speaker 1: down up one receiver and gave the game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that was just the way it happened. And obviously
Speaker 1: the injuries part of it is unfortunate, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what's going on with some of those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to him here tonight, but um, that's
Speaker 1: unfortunate a part. But again, like I said earlier, guys
Speaker 1: stepped up and made plays and that was huge for us.
Speaker 1: How much of them have guys that were playing out
Speaker 1: of really typically would play and how much did that
Speaker 1: the part out of you in terms of figuring out
Speaker 1: where you're going to guys? But yeah, um so, I
Speaker 1: mean it happened quite a bit. I mean you go
Speaker 1: into the game with three receivers and how you got
Speaker 1: you know, Greg Wards usually the slot, he's out there
Speaker 1: playing ex receiver, and you got guys moving around, and
Speaker 1: for me, I got no choice but to trust these
Speaker 1: guys and and some of these routes I've never even
Speaker 1: read before in those situations. But they stepped up in
Speaker 1: may plays. You know, they did a great job, and
Speaker 1: like I said, that's huge for our confidence going forward. Earlier,
Speaker 1: you guys maybe the Atlantic game up in line when
Speaker 1: you would get injuries to ring the game in the
Speaker 1: lust time adjusting today you had injuries and you had
Speaker 1: guys have been being less experience, you're plugging in. What's
Speaker 1: been the difference? Um, that's a good question. UM, good
Speaker 1: question I think tonight. UM I can really fully answer that,
Speaker 1: you know, what's the difference. But the guys stepped up,
Speaker 1: you know, that was the biggest thing. Guys stepped up
Speaker 1: and we realized our back backs for against the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, and the first half was obviously very ugly,
Speaker 1: and um, we just stayed together and guys may plays
Speaker 1: and it was a huge for US guys. Team three.
Speaker 1: What did you did you say think your offensive you
Speaker 1: to if you came back from that. Just keep believing,
Speaker 1: keep believing, and time to make a decision. How how
Speaker 1: this is going to define us? You know tonight. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously we knew it was not our first half that
Speaker 1: was off when I was an ugly one. Um, but
Speaker 1: you know, we just said, they keep believing, keeps staying together,
Speaker 1: defense is going to take care of their piece, which
Speaker 1: they did. Um. And and we were able to do
Speaker 1: enough offensively to get this win. What about the game
Speaker 1: winning Blake, tell me what you saw. It looked like
Speaker 1: nobody followed was off the line. Yeah, I still got
Speaker 1: to watch the table. I'm not really sure what happened.
Speaker 1: I'd probably cover Rks in the red zone. Um, I
Speaker 1: think you know, I think they had some miscommunications there
Speaker 1: when we brought him in motion. So um, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a sweet way to win your actres. Seeing the
Speaker 1: first half, I'm sure you bring was not perfect or
Speaker 1: blow throws things all, but those last two touchdown drives,
Speaker 1: I think you only missed too. Yes, did you see
Speaker 1: something that candically or fix something that Candi clely to
Speaker 1: get that going? No, I think it just you know,
Speaker 1: being confident as the game went on, you know, just
Speaker 1: just playing confident and at the same time, guys, guys
Speaker 1: are getting open, guys are getting open making plays, and
Speaker 1: UM coach was dialing and up, dialing up and giving
Speaker 1: us the best chance to succeed. And UM coach called
Speaker 1: a great second half. And you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: we did enough to get get this wint past the
Speaker 1: after basketball through him. Yeah, it's hard. I appreciate. I
Speaker 1: mean again that some of those plays UM late in
Speaker 1: the game, Like I said, we knew that our backs
Speaker 1: were against the wall. You know, I think they brought
Speaker 1: covers here on a couple of those. UM, Zach did
Speaker 1: a great job. He had opened him and sealing the deal.
Speaker 1: You stood up your after cement the fourth quarter drive
Speaker 1: this season, what's the level of personal ratification? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, this is huge for for this
Speaker 1: whole team. UM. I mean to come in and um
Speaker 1: that after the after halftime, to be where we were
Speaker 1: and obviously knowing that our backs are against the wall.
Speaker 1: This is kind of seasons on the line type thing.
Speaker 1: And UM for guys to just stay tough, stay together
Speaker 1: and UM late in the game, and I was a
Speaker 1: little bumbled in we didn't win in in regulation. You know,
Speaker 1: came up a yard short on that UM third and
Speaker 1: long or whatever. But UM, to come out and overtime
Speaker 1: and get to win and drive down and score right away,
Speaker 1: that's huge for for me personally and for this entire team.
Speaker 1: Follow up on you who had less team to come
Speaker 1: back for your series, keep winning. Feel this this was
Speaker 1: as dramatic as this was, it had to get a
Speaker 1: little more than just yeah, like I said, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's big, it's big. It's big for me and for
Speaker 1: all these guys. UM, and you know, the emotional roller
Speaker 1: coaster of of the day, obviously realizing how how how
Speaker 1: poor we were in the first half and and just
Speaker 1: how we kind of just springboards us in the second half.
Speaker 1: We just made plays and kept making plays, and UM
Speaker 1: winning late in overtime, Like that's been a while. I shoot,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've had an overtime win. UM. That's
Speaker 1: just it's a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: What was half time? Like, UM, like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: guys just kept saying, just keep a leaving, hang tough,
Speaker 1: keep a leaving. And you know, we knew we had
Speaker 1: a ton of a ton of confidence in the defense.
Speaker 1: You know, they had a couple of big plays, but
Speaker 1: we knew the defense was gonna get those things fixed
Speaker 1: and um, which they did, which they did, And we
Speaker 1: knew on offense we just had to you know, put
Speaker 1: a couple of drives together stay together. Um, as you
Speaker 1: guys know, we have long sustained drives and that's how
Speaker 1: we you know, how we win games on offense. And
Speaker 1: we were able to do that a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I was huge for us. Do evaluate how you play?
Speaker 1: Did you place greater weight on good plays you're making
Speaker 1: bigger moments? I mean, does that? Does that matter to you?
Speaker 1: And wait, you evaluate yourself and maybe other play. I
Speaker 1: mean I evaluate every play, you know, to be honest,
Speaker 1: and I expect it to be dialed in every play.
Speaker 1: And there's there's obviously plays I want back today. Um,
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen every game. So I realized, you know,
Speaker 1: for for everybody else, they're gonna put a lot of
Speaker 1: weight on situational ball and I tend to do that
Speaker 1: as well. But at the same time, I'm going to
Speaker 1: evaluate every play and there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: I can clean up and be better at as well.
Speaker 1: Is there a conversation that you had or or something
Speaker 1: they've reminded yourself as you got later at the game,
Speaker 1: that kind of allowed them, you know what, the switch
Speaker 1: not really, um, not really. I just you know, again,
Speaker 1: I just just kept trusting the players, trusting guys and um,
Speaker 1: just trying to play fast, you know, trying to play
Speaker 1: fast and just you know, make make checks of the
Speaker 1: line and do things and just get in out of
Speaker 1: the huddle and play fast. And again guys, guys kept
Speaker 1: making plays. And I can't say enough good things about
Speaker 1: the guys that stepped up and made the place for
Speaker 1: a receiver basically at the end of the game. There,
Speaker 1: I mean, is this stuff you're not you're practicing as
Speaker 1: far as hitting there and that's about yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: we've wrapped it here and there. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, a lot of guys were in
Speaker 1: positions that we haven't that we definitely didn't practice this week. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's that's the way it ghosts sometimes
Speaker 1: when when guys go down and um, guys you know
Speaker 1: the wherewithal of each guy to know, you know each position.
Speaker 1: You know, we're we're switching X and Z in the
Speaker 1: huddle and guys are getting lined up making plays and
Speaker 1: so not only making the physical plays but mentally being
Speaker 1: locked in. That was huge for us the driver. Early
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, you came up short this field
Speaker 1: well or everything like that. I mean, what was the
Speaker 1: feeling like you were still down a touchdown? You do
Speaker 1: feel like there was still more time that we were
Speaker 1: moving the ball a least you had another chance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we still felt, you know, really confident in offense. You know,
Speaker 1: we came up short on that one and I think
Speaker 1: I think that was one I just miss Gregg in
Speaker 1: the end zone there. Um, we thought we had one there.
Speaker 1: They made a great play, so we knew we were
Speaker 1: still moving the ball and you know, we felt, you know,
Speaker 1: very confident in offense. Um, just came up short on
Speaker 1: that drive, but we were able to get another one
Speaker 1: and then went down to score. Parson mentioned a lot
Speaker 1: of guys contributing, but it just seemed like Boston Scott
Speaker 1: really Uh it was kind of the spark plug. He
Speaker 1: really got the crowd energized with some of those big
Speaker 1: runs and catches that he had. Did you kind of
Speaker 1: sense that lift that he was providing, Um, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean Boston, I mean we've seen I mean shoes
Speaker 1: started the year I think on the practice squad, and
Speaker 1: we've seen what he's done in camp and UM in preseason,
Speaker 1: but obviously his opportunities have been limited throughout the season
Speaker 1: and UM tonight to step up the way he did UM,
Speaker 1: you know, running between the tackles, outside the tackles, making
Speaker 1: plays in the screen game, and UM in the passing game.
Speaker 1: I mean, he did a great job. And like you said,
Speaker 1: he's kind of a little spark plug for us there
Speaker 1: and UM, just like each guy that I mentioned tonight,
Speaker 1: I mean, those opportunities for them to step up in
Speaker 1: key situations like this, it's huge for their confidence going forward. Dude,
Speaker 1: you guys lost Lean, if he lost all Sean obviously,
Speaker 1: all of those guys, it was like he's being long term. Possibly.
Speaker 1: You got to love these guys three weeks Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know they're injury status is yet, And like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna talk to those guys, but if
Speaker 1: that's the case, you know, like I said, the confidence
Speaker 1: that each of these guys UM gained from tonight, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of with our backs against the wall, UM was
Speaker 1: huge for for us, for me to trust in them
Speaker 1: and keep believing in them and this whole team to
Speaker 1: kind of rally behind those guys and going forward. You
Speaker 1: know that this one was big for us and hopefully
Speaker 1: we can feed off it. You mentioned Perk, Boston and
Speaker 1: great Board all all three four on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: Yeah for the chuck of the season. Um, but when
Speaker 1: you see guys have the veterans kind of you know,
Speaker 1: the what's the process as far as accept the guys
Speaker 1: on the practice squad and working with them and yeah,
Speaker 1: sure they stay up Daly. Um. You know it's funny
Speaker 1: because each week to week it's so fast. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of time to sit and
Speaker 1: you know, make sure everyone's ready. It's just hey, you're in.
Speaker 1: You know, it's next man up, It's time to go,
Speaker 1: and um, you know it just it shows that those
Speaker 1: guys have been working all year. You know, even though
Speaker 1: they're on practice squad, they're going scout team reps um
Speaker 1: that they've been working getting better at their craft all
Speaker 1: year long, and they're still locked in to the game
Speaker 1: plan each week so that tonight when they're asked to
Speaker 1: play X or Z or F or why whatever it is,
Speaker 1: they're ready to go and make place. Carson One of
Speaker 1: the things Bles was saying was that the kind of
Speaker 1: show leadership though in the second half, Like, did you
Speaker 1: do anything differently? I mean it was it. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Just again just trying to make everyone keep believing,
Speaker 1: you know, because we knew the first half we struggled,
Speaker 1: but we just say just keep believing and shoot, I
Speaker 1: said that our backs are kind of against the wall,
Speaker 1: is time to go, And guys stayed together and did
Speaker 1: a great job. Thank you guys. All Right, great stuff
Speaker 1: there from the Eagles quarterback. A couple of highlights here
Speaker 1: talking about how huge this win is, of course, but
Speaker 1: continuing to credit all the playmakers, especially the guys who
Speaker 1: he didn't have a ton of game rests with, really
Speaker 1: stepping up there talking about how we all stayed together.
Speaker 1: We knew that that was not our first half. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the realness there as well. Guys. Any takeaways from
Speaker 1: Carson in its press conference. I think one of the
Speaker 1: big things for me, uh you know, I think when
Speaker 1: you look at just kind of think about this overall,
Speaker 1: this is a game that was big for Carson, you know,
Speaker 1: just showing hey, you know, I can win with these
Speaker 1: guys and you gotta lean back on that success, you
Speaker 1: know who. I think it was also Big four. I
Speaker 1: think it was big for the fans to kind of
Speaker 1: see that comeback. Yeah, like you you you talk with
Speaker 1: them every day on the radio. Being able to see
Speaker 1: that in person and that kind of game against the
Speaker 1: New York Giants and that kind of atmosphere, I think
Speaker 1: that was really big for the fan base. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always been a lot of talk with Carson and
Speaker 1: being able to win games in the fourth quarter, being
Speaker 1: able to put the team on your back and come
Speaker 1: from behind and get victories. So to see that tonight,
Speaker 1: I'm with frand now. I think it does a lot
Speaker 1: of fans some good to be able to see that
Speaker 1: and to start to have faith that a game isn't
Speaker 1: over until it's finally over. Because Frans right out talking
Speaker 1: to a lot of fans. That's one of the knocks that,
Speaker 1: whether it's fair or unfair, that gets tossed his way
Speaker 1: is him having the ability to pull some of these
Speaker 1: games out right, pull some of these one score close
Speaker 1: games out in the final drive, leading this team to
Speaker 1: a victory. We've seen it on the other on the
Speaker 1: other side where we fall to these type of victories.
Speaker 1: It was good to see him be able to lead
Speaker 1: this team, and for me, he did it under not
Speaker 1: ideal situation, right. I mean, you're talking about having guys
Speaker 1: out there. Every time I say these names, it sounds
Speaker 1: like we're talking about a preseason game, because I'm just
Speaker 1: not used to see speaking of those key names for
Speaker 1: the Eagles to night zacharts he's not a present for
Speaker 1: the Eagles series side of the Eagles tight end, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, m kind of a staple play for us. Obviously,
Speaker 1: three tight ends in the game. Um, and Uh, we
Speaker 1: had Josh and Dallas kind of shift. Um. I think
Speaker 1: you kind of throw them off a little bit. UM,
Speaker 1: and I ran, I ran an inside post, just attack
Speaker 1: and leverage. UM. And right when I crossed face, I
Speaker 1: knew I was gonna get the ball. Um, and I
Speaker 1: was gonna be the game that game. UM. I wish
Speaker 1: you'd say it wasn't the first time that we had
Speaker 1: to make a ton of adjustments on the sideline. Um,
Speaker 1: guys are just battle tested right now at this point
Speaker 1: in the year. Uh, We're not gonna flinch. Obviously, We've
Speaker 1: dealt with a ton of adversity this year, and Uh,
Speaker 1: we just gotta find a way to win. And we're
Speaker 1: down seventeen to three at halftime, and no one point
Speaker 1: of the finger, and no one panicked. Guys just said, hey,
Speaker 1: let's empty the tank in the second half and see
Speaker 1: what happens. And our defense played their butts off in
Speaker 1: the second half, and on offense, we just made plays
Speaker 1: and Carson did the heck of a job getting us
Speaker 1: in the right place frequently. Um, Doug stayed aggressive and
Speaker 1: just guys made place week that you didn't make the normally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he came back in a big game as
Speaker 1: it built first. Yeah, I mean it was. It was
Speaker 1: tough last week, you know, physically and mentally. Um, probably
Speaker 1: the worst game that I played in a long long time.
Speaker 1: And so just being able to come out here and
Speaker 1: kind of rebound and have the coaches and the guys
Speaker 1: kind of trusting me and kind of never lose face,
Speaker 1: obviously it means a lot to me, Um, But it
Speaker 1: was kind of the message after the game that our
Speaker 1: best players, our leaders, kind of we have to be
Speaker 1: playing our best at this point in the year. And Uh,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys took it hard last week. Obviously
Speaker 1: the performance wasn't us me in particular, but it definitely
Speaker 1: feels great to find a way to win and be
Speaker 1: a big part of it. And UM, it was definitely
Speaker 1: fun out there. Like, UM, yeah, I don't know exactly, UM,
Speaker 1: it was covered zero UM and I don't know if
Speaker 1: the pre snap shift kind of messed him up or whatnot. UM,
Speaker 1: but once I saw the guy's eyes, he wasn't really
Speaker 1: locked in on me. UM. And right when I knew that,
Speaker 1: right when I kind of saw that, UM, I knew
Speaker 1: that Carson was gonna find me and we were gonna
Speaker 1: be walking off. UM. I think every spot, uh skill
Speaker 1: position besides running back, UM, I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 1: line up there. UM. But overall, I mean I've been
Speaker 1: in this offense for four years now and I take
Speaker 1: a lot of pride and being able to help the
Speaker 1: guys line up and UM, today we just kind of
Speaker 1: had to find a way obviously, UM. Three receivers. UM.
Speaker 1: Losing Auston early, it's tough. UM. But Greg Ward, JJ,
Speaker 1: Josh Perkins, Boston Scott. I mean, those guys are the
Speaker 1: guys that allowed us to be in this situation, to
Speaker 1: allow to make plays at the end of the game. UM,
Speaker 1: those guys are freaking studs, and so proud of all
Speaker 1: of them to kind of be out there dealing with
Speaker 1: all these cards and guys that do positions. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's not easy. Obviously as a quarterback, chemistry and
Speaker 1: trust and timing is the number one thing, and um,
Speaker 1: guys are just playing their butts off. Obviously, he's putting
Speaker 1: trusting guys that he doesn't have a ton of reps with, UM,
Speaker 1: and I think that speaks volumes about him being able
Speaker 1: to go out there and it doesn't matter really who's
Speaker 1: out there an NFC East opponent down seventeen to three
Speaker 1: and kind of play his best football in that second
Speaker 1: half probably all year. UM. So extremely proud and happy
Speaker 1: for him. Obviously, as a team we've been through a lot, Um,
Speaker 1: and as a quarterback you kind of um deal a
Speaker 1: lot with that pressure. You know, you probably got a
Speaker 1: little bit of too much blame when you lose and
Speaker 1: a little bit of too much praise when you win, UM,
Speaker 1: And that's just the nature of the position. So really
Speaker 1: proud of him tonight, just the way he led us.
Speaker 1: You're usually aware of milit crisis, he says, more and
Speaker 1: more to drive. Yeah, I mean, we just understood as
Speaker 1: a team, UM that we just had to find a way.
Speaker 1: And I've always said it's not always on It's never
Speaker 1: always on the quarterback, UM, and we just got to
Speaker 1: we had to play better around him, and the running
Speaker 1: game was clicking, so kind of took a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure off him. UM. Five guys up front, even UM
Speaker 1: when big V win in the game, those guys are
Speaker 1: kind of controlling the line of scrimmagem against a good
Speaker 1: defensive front, and we just had to find a way
Speaker 1: to make plays. We went a third and manageable. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be a good offense. UM. In the past. The
Speaker 1: last game we were facing a lot of third and
Speaker 1: ten pluses and the NFL, you're not going to be successful.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a personal Uh, he's happy that
Speaker 1: we won the football game. He doesn't really care how
Speaker 1: we win. Obviously, as people, you want to be a
Speaker 1: big part of wins, UM, but all he cares about
Speaker 1: is a winning right now, the first twelve weeks haven't
Speaker 1: been gone exactly the way we wanted, but we have
Speaker 1: three games left with everything in front of us, and
Speaker 1: you can't really ask for much more for a while.
Speaker 1: So how important is the confidence wives for a guy
Speaker 1: like Ward to get to be a part of what
Speaker 1: happened tonight. I mean, j Ward is is a ball
Speaker 1: for sure. Um. I've seen him in the past two years. Um,
Speaker 1: kind of just going against the defense each and every day,
Speaker 1: consistently getting better, consistently working as a butt off to
Speaker 1: be a receiver. You know, it's a new position obviously
Speaker 1: for him, and the guy asks a ton of questions,
Speaker 1: he's eager to learn. And so he's just a guy
Speaker 1: that I'm really proud of being able to go in
Speaker 1: there and we're able to lean on him to make
Speaker 1: big plays in the fourth quarter, in and overtime and
Speaker 1: just allow us to win the football game. And all
Speaker 1: the work he's put in the past two years has
Speaker 1: obviously paid off. But he's gonna be a really good
Speaker 1: player for us. Cool. Thanks you guys. Okay, that's it
Speaker 1: from Eagles tight end Zach Er. It's big night for
Speaker 1: him tonight again. Nine catches, ninety one yards, including two chtchdowns,
Speaker 1: one in overtime, and his longest catch of the ninth
Speaker 1: thirty yard catch, which I believe will be the subject
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Speaker 1: Eagles win in Monday Night Football over NFC East opponent,
Speaker 1: the New York Giants and arts coming up clutch with
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in this one, including the overtime one to
Speaker 1: seal the deal. He also had a big first down
Speaker 1: catch for thirty yards. That play is the subject of
Speaker 1: tonight's RICO review, fran Duffy take it away. So after
Speaker 1: the twenty four yard game to zach Ertz on the
Speaker 1: scrambled drill, very next snap, what do we get a
Speaker 1: thirty yard completion to the veteran tight end this one
Speaker 1: inside the structure of the play, this is a really
Speaker 1: well designed three level stretch. It's been one of the
Speaker 1: staples of Doug Peterson's offense going back to when he
Speaker 1: first arrived here in Philadelphia, and a three level stretch
Speaker 1: is exactly what it sounds like. You are attacking the
Speaker 1: defense at all three levels. So you've got one receiver short,
Speaker 1: you've got one receiver in the intermediate area, and you've
Speaker 1: got at least one receiver deep, So all three levels
Speaker 1: of the field all being attacked. The third part of
Speaker 1: the field is going to be attacked by these two
Speaker 1: deep post routes, so you've got a double post combination
Speaker 1: from those two receivers on the field and Greg Ward
Speaker 1: and j j Arthega White style. The short part of
Speaker 1: the field off play action is gonna be Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: just going into the flat. He's gonna just kind of
Speaker 1: serve as flat control and a checkdown for Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: The intermediate area here is gonna be attacked by zach Kertz.
Speaker 1: So zach Kertz is gonna be brought in motion here
Speaker 1: from right to left, and at the snap of the wall,
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like he's running an over route, but
Speaker 1: he's actually gonna bend this back right into the intermediate
Speaker 1: area and you're gonna see that he's wide open off
Speaker 1: play action. Let's let this role and you're gonna see
Speaker 1: exactly how it happens. This is a route we see
Speaker 1: zach Ertz running a handful of times a game. They
Speaker 1: usually hit on him at least once every single time
Speaker 1: they take the field, and you're gonna see when Carson
Speaker 1: hits the top of his drop right here. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a well defined picture because again you've got those
Speaker 1: two deep post routes. They're going to lift the coverage.
Speaker 1: So these two defensive backs from the Giants they're gonna
Speaker 1: be removed from the action. That's going to create a
Speaker 1: huge void here in the middle of the field. And
Speaker 1: Zach Kurtz has already started his break. He acts like
Speaker 1: he's running across and now he's gonna break it back.
Speaker 1: So this defender he has no idea that Zach Hurtz,
Speaker 1: he thinks he's passed him off. He has no idea
Speaker 1: that he's about to run behind him. So off play action.
Speaker 1: They kept Dallas Goddard as an extra protector just to
Speaker 1: give Carson Wentz another beat, and we'll let this run.
Speaker 1: And you can see Carson's just going to deliver this
Speaker 1: to a wide open zach Ertz. Nobody within at least
Speaker 1: ten yards of him as he makes the catch. Because
Speaker 1: they able to get up field for a few more
Speaker 1: Eagles get first in goal, they turn it into a
Speaker 1: field goal, make the score seven to three early in
Speaker 1: the second quarter. All right, one more quick break. When
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Speaker 1: for the Eagles Zach Ertz, running back Boston Scott, and
Speaker 1: quarterback Carson Wentz, You're three nominees. There three really solid choices. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm going with. I think I
Speaker 1: think it has to be Carson for me. What do
Speaker 1: you think? Wow, this is a tough one. This is
Speaker 1: tough because I could you could say all three of
Speaker 1: these guys had moments tonight that turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: I think all three were absolutely required and I could
Speaker 1: argue a turning point based on a play by any
Speaker 1: of these guys. I agree, you know what you're going with, Carson.
Speaker 1: I think I'll give the little fellows love. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think Boston Scott man his energy when he got in
Speaker 1: there and got an opportunity. I thought his play was
Speaker 1: really breathe life back into the team. You know, he
Speaker 1: had a couple of nice runs there on the screens
Speaker 1: and on the draws, and once he had those plays,
Speaker 1: I think the offense started to ignite. So that's a
Speaker 1: tough one this week to fig Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: got to give him credit there, and you could really
Speaker 1: see it, even even from watching it on TV. You
Speaker 1: could see the energy and the hunger and just how
Speaker 1: much drive and fire that he really ran with and
Speaker 1: totally sparked this offense. I think very well said all right,
Speaker 1: time to look ahead two. Next week's opponent another NFC
Speaker 1: East game, which is going to be the case. We're
Speaker 1: the remainder of the regular season. The Eagles on the
Speaker 1: road against three and ten Washington, a Washington team that
Speaker 1: lost to the Packers last week twenty to fifteen. But
Speaker 1: hide green Bay on the ropes there for a second.
Speaker 1: Of course, had that win over Carolina the week before
Speaker 1: as well, So never never an opponent to be slept
Speaker 1: on across the NFL. Initial thoughts about this matchup, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should be another tough game. I mean, Bill Callahan
Speaker 1: has these Redskins playing hard, right whenever many games left
Speaker 1: in the season, He's at least been able to reach
Speaker 1: them and get them to give him a good effort.
Speaker 1: And you talked about the way they played against green
Speaker 1: Bay yesterday up in green Bay really gave Green Bay
Speaker 1: a nice scare coming off of beating Carolina and Carolina.
Speaker 1: So Dwayne Haskins, the rookie quarterback, is showing some flashes.
Speaker 1: This is another one of those teams that you gotta
Speaker 1: jump on him early. You know, if you get off
Speaker 1: to another slow start, and this time on the road,
Speaker 1: you get that crowd into the game, it could be
Speaker 1: a difficult win to try to come away with. So
Speaker 1: I would say, going into this game, let's get off
Speaker 1: to a fast start and not even give the Redskins
Speaker 1: a thought of winning this game. Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: that rookie quarterback to start gaining confidence and he comes
Speaker 1: into Washington knowing that he is not the guy that
Speaker 1: former head coach j Gruden wanted. Now he has a
Speaker 1: new coaching staff, starting the game, some confidence, putting together
Speaker 1: some nice moments. You don't want him to catch fire.
Speaker 1: And of course we will be right back here as
Speaker 1: always to preview that game with the kickoff show presented
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Speaker 1: thirty on Sunday, fran Duffie. Of course we'll be joining
Speaker 1: me and then we will be right back here afterwards
Speaker 1: to break it all down. We will hear from coach,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Carson. Hopefully we'll be breaking down another
Speaker 1: another NFC East win, and again a lot to play for.
Speaker 1: Every win, every game a must win at this point
Speaker 1: in time as we enter this little final stretch here
Speaker 1: of the regular season, And of course I'm going to
Speaker 1: be glad that we have a one pm kickoff and
Speaker 1: we won't be here at close to getting close to
Speaker 1: one am. All right, it's time for everyone to go
Speaker 1: to bed, us included. We will see you next week.