Speaker 1: All right, good morning. UM, just update you quickly on
Speaker 1: on some injuries. Alan Barber Um gonna listen him as questionable,
Speaker 1: but it looks like he'll be fine and we'll be
Speaker 1: back at his left guard position there. Jordan Matthews again
Speaker 1: questionable with the ankle, but feeling much better. Isaac the
Speaker 1: right ankle high ankle spraying I will also be listed
Speaker 1: as questionable. Darren Sprowles is okay and it'll be good
Speaker 1: to go for the game. And then Big V his knee. Um,
Speaker 1: he practiced this week and did a nice job, but
Speaker 1: he'll be listed as questionable. What does it mean if
Speaker 1: Val does play to have your offensive line, Well, it's
Speaker 1: it's definitely a blessing that, you know, this late in
Speaker 1: the season, to have all five guys back to their
Speaker 1: original spots. And you know, it's something that we definitely, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when we lost Lane back, you know, after
Speaker 1: the fourth game, and you know you kind of marked
Speaker 1: this date on the calendar hoping, hoping to be in
Speaker 1: a little better situation at the time. But you know,
Speaker 1: for that, for it is what it is, and we're
Speaker 1: here now. But we're fortunate to have all five guys back.
Speaker 1: He's looked good. He's got a lot of energy obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, we always we always kid the guys with
Speaker 1: you know that that missed time with fresh legs. I
Speaker 1: mean he's he's energetic, and he's eager, and he's ready
Speaker 1: to go. Had a good week of practice, uh mentally
Speaker 1: into it and uh, you know, he's he's excited. Do
Speaker 1: you think he could last an entire game or do
Speaker 1: you have to have play a righty just in case?
Speaker 1: Or how is that? Now? We feel and I feel
Speaker 1: like he'll be He'll be fine. You know, his stamina
Speaker 1: will be there and and I'm sure there will be
Speaker 1: a little fatigue. He's he hasn't played, you know, ten weeks,
Speaker 1: and and uh might be a little fatigue early. But
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll be fine. He only really
Speaker 1: had one full practice. I mean it could be hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard on everybody, but for him. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's better just to get back out on the field
Speaker 1: instead of having that long week of practice. But I
Speaker 1: think there is something too a longer week, a normal
Speaker 1: week where you can kind of condition yourself, um, you know,
Speaker 1: get ready for a Sunday game. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: we're just glad to get him back, Will Sproles go
Speaker 1: back to his normal role in the backfield, or do
Speaker 1: you use more Byron Marshall sprowls will well, we will
Speaker 1: return to his normal normal backfield duties as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unusually you have two rookie offensive lineman who weren't super
Speaker 1: high picks, who both played a lot or played a
Speaker 1: little bit at least and started the game at least
Speaker 1: the game moving forward into next year in the future,
Speaker 1: just talk about what Big V and Isaac give you
Speaker 1: as a versatility just having a couple of young guys
Speaker 1: in there. Well, these are two guys that obviously have
Speaker 1: got a lot of experience this first year, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know they can grow with Carson and Carson grow
Speaker 1: with these guys now, and uh a lot of familiarity
Speaker 1: with with both of these guys. We know exactly who
Speaker 1: they are and what we have in both of those
Speaker 1: guys are. They're too, uh you know, hard workers, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's what you gotta have. You gotta have
Speaker 1: that young pipeline that's coming in because you know, as
Speaker 1: as each year goes, you know, whether it be an
Speaker 1: injury or retirement, or somebody moves on in free agency,
Speaker 1: you need that pipeline of guys, and these two guys
Speaker 1: will you know, eventually I think at some point to
Speaker 1: take over as starters for us, and UH are very
Speaker 1: capable of doing that. And and the fact that they're
Speaker 1: working with Carson and had had played with Carson already
Speaker 1: this season, UM, just gives them that that much more
Speaker 1: of an advantage going forward. Nine percent of snaps this season.
Speaker 1: UM just got voted into his seventh Pro Bowl. It
Speaker 1: was an eagle. UM. I mean, is he he continue
Speaker 1: to play, I mean beyond this year based on how
Speaker 1: he's done this year. Yeah, And you know, UM, congratulations
Speaker 1: to both Fletcher and and Jason for for making the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl off our team. But getting back to Jason,
Speaker 1: I think he's very capable of another couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's really done a great job, you know,
Speaker 1: for with a health standpoint and his wit and managing
Speaker 1: all of that. And you know, I think I think
Speaker 1: Stout's done a good job with him monitoring him in
Speaker 1: practice and not not taking the full you know, compliment
Speaker 1: of reps throughout the week. And and UH he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys, I mean, I can go back to
Speaker 1: some of the conversations we had way back in the spring,
Speaker 1: and how do you manage a Jason Peters And I
Speaker 1: feel like we've we've done that extremely well this season,
Speaker 1: and he feels he feels fresh, he feels healthy, you know,
Speaker 1: again a Pro Bowl season. So I'm excited for him
Speaker 1: and I really do look forward to working with him
Speaker 1: in the future. Future with him at all. Have you
Speaker 1: guys talked future with him at all? Doug Express not
Speaker 1: at this point. Now, we still got the two games,
Speaker 1: and we'll address that in the off season. I think
Speaker 1: I had the same one. Well that's that's he said
Speaker 1: that he wanted to return here. Oh Jason, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, he definitely and I want I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not you know, I love him. I want him on
Speaker 1: the team. You know, I don't want him to go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I want him to be an Eagle for the for
Speaker 1: the rest of his career. So, you know, we get
Speaker 1: through these next two games, we'll have to address all
Speaker 1: that in the off season. Thinking of these next two
Speaker 1: games you have, both are in the division. If you
Speaker 1: don't win either of them, you'll be winless in the
Speaker 1: division for like the third time Enfranchise history. Did you
Speaker 1: think going into the season that the division would be
Speaker 1: as formidable as it's turned out to be, and does
Speaker 1: this kind of change the narrative for the Eagles and
Speaker 1: trying to build a team here going forward. I think
Speaker 1: the division speaks for itself. I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the one of the toughest divisions in the National Football
Speaker 1: League and uh, um, you know, it's it's been one
Speaker 1: of those divisions where, um, you know, any team at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year obviously has high hopes and
Speaker 1: expectations to win that division. We were one of obviously
Speaker 1: one of those teams. Um, nobody wants to not win
Speaker 1: a game in their division, and so we're trying on
Speaker 1: Thursday night and our best to to try to try
Speaker 1: to eliminate that. And you know, it's, uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's just a um to me's I mean, you know, um,
Speaker 1: you look at you look at all the teams and
Speaker 1: where I mean, the three teams ahead of us obviously
Speaker 1: are still sort of you know, outside of Dallas. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're still trying to and you know, fighting for those
Speaker 1: spots and staying alive. And I think it speaks volumes
Speaker 1: too for our for our division that you can have
Speaker 1: two sometimes three teams that are that are looking to
Speaker 1: the postseason. I mean it just shows you the strength
Speaker 1: of our division and how well these teams are playing
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know we hope to, uh in
Speaker 1: the near future obviously be one of those, uh be
Speaker 1: the team you know in the NFC East that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's consisting, you know, consecutively and consistently, you know, playing
Speaker 1: for the postseason. The Giants defense, statistically they're not all
Speaker 1: that impressive accepted points allowed during the stretch. What are
Speaker 1: they doing that has made them disaffective? I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is, you know, um, they're they're playing well
Speaker 1: as a team. I mean, their secondary is a good group,
Speaker 1: a solid group. You know, they don't have a ton
Speaker 1: of injury obviously on on the on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Um, guys are relatively healthy. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: know Pierre Paul is a is a big loss for him.
Speaker 1: But you know, these guys are these guys are are
Speaker 1: jelling at the right time, and um, you know that's
Speaker 1: what you see. And it's a it's a defense that
Speaker 1: the plays extremely hard and extremely extremely fast. Um, they've
Speaker 1: been opportunistic and creating some turnovers. And and um, you
Speaker 1: know they Spags has got those guys. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not a not a complicated scheme, and he's got just
Speaker 1: got them playing fast and downhill and aggressive. Right now,
Speaker 1: you guys need to win and to get that feeling
Speaker 1: back in that locker room. How much do you want
Speaker 1: to prevent the Giants from clinching on your own turf? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean the bottom line is we want to win
Speaker 1: the game. And and um, you know, I know what
Speaker 1: the Giants have at stake, And um, you know they
Speaker 1: obviously want to they want to do the same thing.
Speaker 1: They want They want to win a game too, and
Speaker 1: for for their own reasons. But you know, for us,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of just going out and executing
Speaker 1: and playing playing our style and playing physical and doing
Speaker 1: the things that we've we've done these last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: learn from our mistakes and finish these football games these
Speaker 1: next two weeks. And um, I think we got a
Speaker 1: great opportunity. The guys are excited and looking forward to
Speaker 1: Thursday night when two games and side my seven parts
Speaker 1: of guys, you guys are all at six. I mean,
Speaker 1: does that kind of show like the fine line between
Speaker 1: you know, team that's probably guys. I mean, just again,
Speaker 1: it is it's such a fine line in this league,
Speaker 1: and you're you're a player two away from your season
Speaker 1: being totally different. And you know, of the thousands of
Speaker 1: plays that you execute throughout the year, it's going to
Speaker 1: come down to just a handful of those plays, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's the difference. And and UM has nothing. You know,
Speaker 1: I can tell the guys all the time. There's no
Speaker 1: magical defense or magical offensive play that's going to get
Speaker 1: things done. It boils down to your players and how
Speaker 1: well they fight and scratch and do whatever it takes
Speaker 1: to win to win football games. And UM, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a it's a great opportunity again
Speaker 1: for our guys. And and again it just shows the um,
Speaker 1: you know, how how close we have become, UM to
Speaker 1: winning and really flipping our season. But you've seen so
Speaker 1: many different situations probably that didn't expect this year where
Speaker 1: you learn about being a head coach. Well, the thing,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing I think is just the uh you
Speaker 1: know the challenge of getting your team ready to play
Speaker 1: through adversity. UM, that's that's been probably the biggest thing
Speaker 1: for me, you know, the football side of it, Um,
Speaker 1: this is what we do as coaches. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: playing the game and then and then coaching for for
Speaker 1: several years. And you know, so the coaching part of
Speaker 1: it is is is just football and and you know everybody, Um,
Speaker 1: you study and all that, but it's the it's those
Speaker 1: things of of making sure that all fifty three are
Speaker 1: on the same page and and and the twenty one
Speaker 1: coaches that you have, and and I'm making sure that
Speaker 1: the messaging is consistent. And you're not you know, you're
Speaker 1: not wavering there and and you're you know, standing in
Speaker 1: this position, you're sort of you're you're the rock of
Speaker 1: the football team and you usually keeping everybody together. And
Speaker 1: and that's been you know, that's also been sort of
Speaker 1: a blessing for me because in this first year, having
Speaker 1: this type of adversity, UM, it's challenged me, you know
Speaker 1: as a coach to to make sure that I'm doing
Speaker 1: things right and stay in the course and stay and
Speaker 1: staying true to what what I've said to this team
Speaker 1: way back in OTAs and that and that's what you're
Speaker 1: seeing out of this group. There's no quit you know,
Speaker 1: in this group. They've they've last couple of games it's
Speaker 1: been right down to the last play, So um, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot better down the stretch obviously from
Speaker 1: from these and and uh, you know it just makes
Speaker 1: us all better, all right,