Speaker 1: That's more like it. Welcome to the postgame Show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico and the Eagles go overseas to London and
Speaker 1: knock off the Jacksonville Jaguards by a score of twenty
Speaker 1: four to eighteen to get to four and four heading
Speaker 1: into the bye week from Chris mcfierson join alongside former
Speaker 1: Eagles linebacker Ike Reas. Much different vibe than a week ago,
Speaker 1: with the Eagles getting in a similar situation, a similar predicament,
Speaker 1: getting up seventeen to six and a second half after win.
Speaker 1: Those small ones catch it running for a touchdown, but
Speaker 1: the defense stands tall, the offense adds to their point total,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles do just enough to escape London with
Speaker 1: the victory. Yeah, nice job today. It can never be easy.
Speaker 1: We got to sweat these things out. A great job
Speaker 1: of the Eagles going over to London coming back with
Speaker 1: a much needed win. Four and four. They go into
Speaker 1: the bye week on a high note. You know you
Speaker 1: hit the reset button. Get ready in a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to take on a Dallas Cowboys prime time at
Speaker 1: the Link. Great way to head into the buy week.
Speaker 1: Just a hard fought, tough win from really two desperate
Speaker 1: teams you know, Jacksonville came in in this game three
Speaker 1: and five. They certainly played like a desperate team trying
Speaker 1: to hang on to some hope in their season. So
Speaker 1: they gave you a great effort today. And I thought
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you know, great job of them. Struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit early with some turnovers, got out of the
Speaker 1: gate slow first two possessions, two turnovers from Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: able to overcome that and put points on the board,
Speaker 1: and really, I thought the defense, except for a couple
Speaker 1: of plays, I thought the defense played outstanding today. Indeed,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna hear from head coach Doug Pearson and
Speaker 1: cornerback Carson once from Wembley Stadium in a little bit.
Speaker 1: We'll also here from Eagles entire days, Spidero and Amy
Speaker 1: Campbell as well, and we'll go inside the film room
Speaker 1: and break down the biggest players of the game with
Speaker 1: Fran Duffy and Great Cosell. But first we're gonna recap
Speaker 1: the action and what transpired on the field. Again, the
Speaker 1: Eagles dominated the game early on, okay, and basically we
Speaker 1: were able to move the ball up and down the field.
Speaker 1: But Ike mentioned the turnovers were the biggest bugaboo early
Speaker 1: on for the offense where Carson Wentz was stripped to
Speaker 1: the ball fumbled, it was recovered by the Jaguars, and
Speaker 1: then on the next drive they drive down the field
Speaker 1: and trying to get Josh Perkins in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey came up with the interception, very uncharacteristic. But
Speaker 1: the Eagles were able to keep moving the ball throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the game, and they finally broke through
Speaker 1: as dal Goddard got the catcher run touchdown at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half to put the Eagles ahead
Speaker 1: and really set the tone for the game. From there after,
Speaker 1: Avante Max forced a fumble that was recovered by Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: and then in the second half the Eagles were able
Speaker 1: to finally capitalize on those possessions as they could tinue
Speaker 1: to move ball down the field. But what it was
Speaker 1: interesting from this standpoint here Ike was going into the game,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville had a depleted secondary. There was the report or
Speaker 1: the arrest of the nightclub incident that took place where
Speaker 1: for the defensive backs, a couple who played in this
Speaker 1: game didn't pay the bar bill. They were arrested and
Speaker 1: detained for nine hours in London. Not what you want
Speaker 1: to see on a quote unquote business trip with such
Speaker 1: a big game, as you mentioned, both teams need to
Speaker 1: try to get to five hundred by the bye week.
Speaker 1: So as good as Jacksonville's past defense is, you wondered,
Speaker 1: how would Carson Wentzon company attack him? Would Doug Pierson
Speaker 1: be aggressive? Would he still trying to focus more on
Speaker 1: the run to try to protect Carson wins? And even
Speaker 1: after both linemen up front, the both tackles got hurt
Speaker 1: up front Jason Pierson Lane Johnson, still Doug Pierson trusting
Speaker 1: in the lineman who came in, trusting in his quarterback
Speaker 1: to unlease the ball and attack the Jacksonville secondary knowing
Speaker 1: that it was weakened. Yeah, may have been the biggest
Speaker 1: win or best win of Doug's three year coaching tenure
Speaker 1: here and considering the guys that he had out, considering
Speaker 1: your overcrowlseas planning in this game, I thought he did
Speaker 1: a great job keeping a nice balance offensively rand the
Speaker 1: ball didn't get away from it even when they weren't
Speaker 1: having a ton of success that Jackson field, the defensive
Speaker 1: front line is very difficult to move. Those bodies, big
Speaker 1: Calais Campbell up there and Jackson. Those guys in the
Speaker 1: middle of that defense, it's hard to get running room.
Speaker 1: But credit to Doug, credit to Jeff Stoutlin's guys up
Speaker 1: front sticking with the run, and then the running backs
Speaker 1: running downhill north and south getting behind their pads. Some
Speaker 1: real tough running from these guys. And then Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: he bounced back. You know, he had really had the
Speaker 1: one bad play, the interception that Jalen Ramsey head. You
Speaker 1: can't make that throw when you're down in scoring area
Speaker 1: trying to force it in there to Perkins. But other
Speaker 1: than that, I thought Carson Wentz made some outstanding throws.
Speaker 1: Considered he was under duress a lot today. The past
Speaker 1: protection at time was leaky. So it kind of puts
Speaker 1: the offensive play calling in a little bit of a
Speaker 1: quandary because you know, we're we like to throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field at times, but if you can't protect,
Speaker 1: Carson's not gonna have enough time for those plays to
Speaker 1: develop down the field. Had to make some quick throws,
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands, and listen, we
Speaker 1: put the ball in the ends. One great job of
Speaker 1: putting the ball in the ends on today didn't set
Speaker 1: up a field goals. That's really what hurt Jacksonville. They
Speaker 1: had to settle for field goals instead of scoring touchdowns. Indeed,
Speaker 1: also when I love situational football, you look at the
Speaker 1: statistics from this game. The Eagles were seven to twelve
Speaker 1: on third down. Now, some of the Carson Wentz did
Speaker 1: it on his own, literally were threw the ball on
Speaker 1: the first drive, it was deflected. He caught it and
Speaker 1: converted the first down. But nonetheless, though Jordan Matthews was
Speaker 1: some huge third down conversions time after time again, when
Speaker 1: the Eagles needed to extend drives, they were able to
Speaker 1: do so. And late in the game they also got
Speaker 1: a little luck as Josh Adams, who had lost the
Speaker 1: ball it was originally ruled a fumble on the field,
Speaker 1: well you could call a booty call of swords as
Speaker 1: the arrests, you know, went to the replay and it
Speaker 1: showed that the cheek was down, and you know what,
Speaker 1: the Eagles kept possession and were able because I mean,
Speaker 1: right there, that could have been the ball game because
Speaker 1: the ball would have been recovered in Eagles territory, deep
Speaker 1: in Eagles territory, just outside the red zone and Jacksonville
Speaker 1: would have been right on the doorstep there to get points.
Speaker 1: From a defensive standpoint. Ike, you mentioned how overall the
Speaker 1: defense played hard, they played fast. You know, they able
Speaker 1: to get after Blake Bortles, and you know, credit Bortles.
Speaker 1: He made some good plays with his legs, which you
Speaker 1: knew was going to be a challenge coming into this
Speaker 1: game here. But the biggest thing for me, and this
Speaker 1: is more of a big picture thing moving forward, because
Speaker 1: late in the game, in the fourth quarter, the defense
Speaker 1: was not able to get pressure on Boardles. Okay, where
Speaker 1: they did a great job. I thought Schwartz was very aggressive.
Speaker 1: He mixed up the Blitz package as well. Today when
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter when he was relying on that front four,
Speaker 1: because you don't have Derek Barnett, because you don't have
Speaker 1: Tim Jurne get a defensive tackle, you were taxing the guys.
Speaker 1: You're taxing Chris Long, You're taxing Michael Bennett, You're even
Speaker 1: taxing Fletcher Coxon. Hello, who's just coming back, Yeah, Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham at that point in the game. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be something to watch booming forward, is what can they
Speaker 1: do to get more or to help that front four
Speaker 1: because it's tough to rely on young guys like Josh
Speaker 1: Sweat and Bruce Hector and Treyvon Hester to have those
Speaker 1: guys step up for you. But overall, though, the coverage
Speaker 1: was so much better than a week ago. And the Eagles,
Speaker 1: you know, they were so disheartened, so dejective or last week,
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to say that we were not
Speaker 1: gonna let this happen again. Well, look the situation. The
Speaker 1: opportunity presented itself one week later and they came through
Speaker 1: in a big way. Yeah. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: good football team. There is good talent on this team.
Speaker 1: They just haven't been playing up to their potential. We
Speaker 1: know that every game has been a close game, even
Speaker 1: the losses that they've suffered. Everything has been basically a
Speaker 1: one possession game. They've been in every football game. They
Speaker 1: just needed to get out of their own way and
Speaker 1: hopefully this is something they can build on, you know,
Speaker 1: not like the Giants game where we thought that was
Speaker 1: going to be a game build on. Yeah, to get
Speaker 1: a week off after this, get some rest, get some
Speaker 1: people back healthy. We lost Jalen Mills in this game
Speaker 1: as well. We got to get guys back on the field,
Speaker 1: and as long as they played to their potential, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be in the being the thicket thist playoff race
Speaker 1: all the way to the end. They got a lot
Speaker 1: of divisional games still left to play. This division is
Speaker 1: here for the taking. When I look at the NFC East,
Speaker 1: I still see the Eagles as the class of this division.
Speaker 1: And once they start plan to the level that we
Speaker 1: know they're capable of, they will run away with this division.
Speaker 1: I have no concerns about this team. This team just
Speaker 1: needs to get out of his own way, stop beating
Speaker 1: itself and believe that they are the team that that
Speaker 1: takes the field every week. That's probably the best team
Speaker 1: on the field. It's used the best team on the field,
Speaker 1: but there's a difference between having that talent on paper
Speaker 1: and carrying over to the game action. And there are
Speaker 1: some silly penalties. I remember on special teams, DJ Alexander,
Speaker 1: you call for a palty which hurt field position. It's
Speaker 1: little things like that which can add up over the
Speaker 1: course of the game, especially when it becomes a one
Speaker 1: possession score late in the game. Where last year we
Speaker 1: were getting accustomed to the Eagles blowing out teams, Well,
Speaker 1: that's not a the norm in the NFL, and it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be the case with this team. Now. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a different team than twenty seventeen. You're gonna need
Speaker 1: to scratch and claw and fight through these some adversity
Speaker 1: in the fourth core of these ball games, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles were able to rise to the occasion. And it
Speaker 1: was so great to see the Egels do this on
Speaker 1: an international stage because it was the most attended game
Speaker 1: for an NFL venue at Wembley Steam or NFL matchup
Speaker 1: at Wembley Stadium since they've been doing the London series,
Speaker 1: which is great because Eagles fans took over the stadiums
Speaker 1: as usual. You can hear, you can hear watch on TV,
Speaker 1: you can hear on the third downs, you can hear
Speaker 1: the Eagles fans chanting. Okay, even though it was technically
Speaker 1: a Jacksonville home game, and London has been a home
Speaker 1: way home from home for Jacksonville, It's basically it's been
Speaker 1: a second home because they go there each and every year.
Speaker 1: And Jacksonville had actually want its last three contests over
Speaker 1: there and play Bortles had actually played very well overseas,
Speaker 1: so for the Eagles to bring it on this type
Speaker 1: of stage was very important because, like you said, it
Speaker 1: gets the ball rolling for the second half of the season,
Speaker 1: because in the back of their minds they know that,
Speaker 1: like you said, they're probably the best team in a division.
Speaker 1: But you can't dig yourself such a big hole going
Speaker 1: into the second half of the year where you need
Speaker 1: everything to go right, where you have no margin for
Speaker 1: error whatsoever. Now you have five of your final eight
Speaker 1: games against division opponents. You're right there with Washington going
Speaker 1: toe to toe with them. They're playing the New York
Speaker 1: Giants today. Don't expect the Giants to come out with
Speaker 1: a win, but you never know, you never know. You know,
Speaker 1: we got the call with Josh Adams that can overturn.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get another one to guard away and the
Speaker 1: Eagles will really be rolling to go into the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. But like you mentioned, they get
Speaker 1: the bye week, get some key pieces healthy, Hopefully none
Speaker 1: of the injuries from today are too serious, and they
Speaker 1: could be able to actually get this momentum going into
Speaker 1: the second half of the year, where like you said,
Speaker 1: we did think that was gonna be the case. After
Speaker 1: the Giants, they blew out the Giants, they're gonna steamroll
Speaker 1: from there. They're finding themselves again for the second week
Speaker 1: in the row. I thought the offense was clicking throughout
Speaker 1: the game. The difference is they were able to finish
Speaker 1: and likewise on defense, when the game was in their hands,
Speaker 1: they were able to get off the field and secure
Speaker 1: the wins. So after what happened last week, you didn't
Speaker 1: want to see the loss of Carolina beat this team
Speaker 1: twice yea, And they did a great job of rebounding,
Speaker 1: learning from that and being able to get the win
Speaker 1: today against the tough Jacksonville team, which at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, when this game was put on the calendar,
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought super Bowl preview. Okay, two
Speaker 1: of the final four teams, the Super Bowl champions and
Speaker 1: a team that could have should have won the AFC.
Speaker 1: You know, but obviously it became a desperation game and
Speaker 1: the Eagles proved to be the hunger hungrier team right there.
Speaker 1: But looking at the Fox score right here, you know
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville wanted to run the ball coming into this game. Okay,
Speaker 1: they trade for Carl's hod he made his debut, but
Speaker 1: really it was Blake Bortles was the one who was
Speaker 1: doing the damage in the ground only one. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: tough slid and running against this Eagles defense, one of
Speaker 1: the best in the league over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Another great job today not letting these mediocre running backs
Speaker 1: get going. When you're planning against a guy like Blake Bortles,
Speaker 1: who's athletic, who can, who can run, at times, it's
Speaker 1: always difficult to contain him. We saw it last week
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton. He was the only guy who had
Speaker 1: success running the ball last week from that quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles played a half decent game today. He really did,
Speaker 1: didn't Uh, I don't think he turned the ball over? Right?
Speaker 1: Did he turned the ball over? Non? The turnover was
Speaker 1: the fun like hell and cole Force, and then there
Speaker 1: were some drops. Yeah. I thought Blake played a good
Speaker 1: game today. Yeah, he really did. And when you get
Speaker 1: a guy that can scramble around, that's difficult on a
Speaker 1: coordinator because he can't play man to man defense. When
Speaker 1: you get a quarterback that can run, it's sort of, uh,
Speaker 1: put your your your pass rushing guys at a disadvantage
Speaker 1: because they can't just go all out and rush because
Speaker 1: he'll take off on them. So I thought his legs
Speaker 1: really kept Jacksonville in the game. He was able to
Speaker 1: pick up some key third downs for him. But again,
Speaker 1: the defense doing a great job against the uh the
Speaker 1: the running backs, Carlos High t J Yelden, those guys
Speaker 1: didn't get anything going, didn't do a great job of
Speaker 1: covering them out of backfield. Was able to get some
Speaker 1: passes off to t j Yelden, but I thought they
Speaker 1: had timely stops and every point. This out real quick
Speaker 1: about the offense that I was impressed with today when
Speaker 1: the Jags went for it on fourth down and the
Speaker 1: Eagles stopped them late in the game. For the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense to be able to AsSalt away that, yeah, not
Speaker 1: give it back to the Jags, that was big. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen that a whole lot this year. Picking up
Speaker 1: key first downs running the ball, great run from josh
Speaker 1: Adam and then Windale Small with a tough run to
Speaker 1: pick up that first down. Just a real nice job.
Speaker 1: But the offense closing out the game and not putting
Speaker 1: the defense back out on the field having to come
Speaker 1: up with a defensive stole another hallmark of the team
Speaker 1: from last year. They looked at that Los Angeles Chargers
Speaker 1: game where they ran the clock from eight minutes like
Speaker 1: six seven minutes a game. You pretty much took them
Speaker 1: out of it. So you wondered, and everybody's been questioning
Speaker 1: the depth of running back. Could these guys get the
Speaker 1: job done? And you go to the run game again
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. Look right now, you look at Carls Hoyden
Speaker 1: TJ Yellton. They combined for eighteen rushing yards on the afternoon.
Speaker 1: The Eagles defense, one of the best run defenses in
Speaker 1: the league, up to the task once again. But like
Speaker 1: as we get into your big takeaways, we'll start with
Speaker 1: the running backs. But only good things from the Eagles perspective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought the Eagles did a great job today. You
Speaker 1: look at some of the things they were able to do,
Speaker 1: the good use of the running backs today. You know,
Speaker 1: Windale Smallwood, Corey Clement and really Josh Adams had nice
Speaker 1: days running the football and Doug stuck with it. They
Speaker 1: not only did they run the football well, catching the
Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield thirty six yard touchdown for
Speaker 1: Windale Smallwood on a play where he catches a nice
Speaker 1: little screen out there in the flats. So I thought
Speaker 1: we did a great job of using our running backs today,
Speaker 1: not in forgetting that they're a big part of this offense.
Speaker 1: And then when you look at the adversity the offense
Speaker 1: went through, losing Lane Johnson, losing Jason Peters early in
Speaker 1: the game, having to shuffle around guys. I mean, great
Speaker 1: job from this old line that is Saxonville that they
Speaker 1: were going up against. And we gave up a few
Speaker 1: sacks today, credit to Jacksonville. But those young guys samlu
Speaker 1: Big v Hallapuli Voji Viety, great job going in the
Speaker 1: other day in a tough situation, having to fill in
Speaker 1: for two all Pro tackles. Even though Jason Peters came
Speaker 1: back later in the game, it was still a nice
Speaker 1: job from those guys. And then went a fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm on the air every day or five
Speaker 1: days a week, and for some strange reason, this narrative
Speaker 1: started this week about Carson Winson, whether or not he's clutch,
Speaker 1: whether or not he's clutch or not. And I don't
Speaker 1: know where it came from, but I thought Carson today
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, really throughout the game was outstanding.
Speaker 1: That touchdown to Zach Erst was what they needed, you know,
Speaker 1: to get to twenty four points to get over that
Speaker 1: twenty three point threshold. It was big, and I thought
Speaker 1: Carson was huge all day to day. Indeed, so we'll
Speaker 1: go into these three takeaways. You talk about the run
Speaker 1: game and there's a lot of questions about do the
Speaker 1: Eagles need to make a move at the trade deadline
Speaker 1: which is coming up this Tuesday, or running back and
Speaker 1: Josh Adams, I thought, gave you a lot today because
Speaker 1: pretty much up to this point in the season he
Speaker 1: would utilize on outside runs. Okay, but we saw a
Speaker 1: lot of great cutback runs up the middle today in
Speaker 1: between the tackles. And that's the thing is with this
Speaker 1: Jacksonville defense look outstanding in pass coverage, outstanding in terms
Speaker 1: again after the quarterback from a rush perspective, but you
Speaker 1: could run this defense in between the tackles, and even
Speaker 1: with those mismatched parts there along the offensive line, Josh
Speaker 1: Adams was able to get things going and then Wendell
Speaker 1: Smallwood screen just a perfect play call at the perfect time,
Speaker 1: caught Jacksonville way off guard and credit eighteen Shelton Gibson
Speaker 1: for blocking Jalen Ramsey down there about the five yard
Speaker 1: line to make sure Smallwood could get in the end
Speaker 1: zone and Corey Clement mixing as well, but I definitely
Speaker 1: agree though there was nice and Josh Adams bring a
Speaker 1: little bit of juice to this running game slack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And like I said, you know, Doug gets a lot
Speaker 1: of to me unwarranted criticism about sticking with the run
Speaker 1: or does he run the ball enough, while I'll tell
Speaker 1: you coaches they like having successful plays and you'll stick
Speaker 1: with the run if you're having success running the football.
Speaker 1: And that's what you saw today. And it started earlier
Speaker 1: in the game where these guys you could tell they
Speaker 1: were getting behind their pads running north and south breaking.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna make a lot of guys miss in
Speaker 1: the open field, but they are tough runners and they
Speaker 1: run behind their pads, and I like that's what they
Speaker 1: were able to do today. And then again sticking with
Speaker 1: the run, not only to run game, but even getting
Speaker 1: the ball to him out in the flats in the
Speaker 1: passing game. And you talk about the adversity, because fran
Speaker 1: and I talked about this on the Kickoff Show. He
Speaker 1: made a very valid point. When you're on the road
Speaker 1: in unfamiliar circumstances, unfamiliar territory again. Jacksonville does this every year.
Speaker 1: This is the first international regular season game in franchise history.
Speaker 1: So the Eagles, coming off that crushing loss of Carolina,
Speaker 1: they go out across the Atlantic, they fall behind early.
Speaker 1: You don't know, you're gonna find out about what this
Speaker 1: team is truly made up. Okay, do they have the metal?
Speaker 1: Do they have the mindset to be able to rally
Speaker 1: and come back against an equally desperate Jacksonville team, And
Speaker 1: the Eagles then all of a sudden had to bow
Speaker 1: injuries on top of that. Okay, So you lose Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: you lose Lane Johnson, You're gonna lose Jalen Mills in
Speaker 1: the second half of the ball game. But the offensive line, though,
Speaker 1: where you have to bring in Wiz to come in
Speaker 1: to play left guard, Sayamalo is going over to right tackle,
Speaker 1: Big Vas switching back and forth between left tackle a
Speaker 1: right tackle during the game. And for Doug Pierson and
Speaker 1: Mike ro because Mike row has been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of slack in recent weeks, for Micro and Doug Pierson
Speaker 1: to come up with the enough play calls, the right
Speaker 1: play calls to get Carson Wentz on the move Okay,
Speaker 1: you know that you have a mobile quarterback. You know
Speaker 1: that he can evade some of that pressure. You know
Speaker 1: you have an offensive line that's banged up. All right,
Speaker 1: we let's move the pocket and take some of the
Speaker 1: pressure off of them. Also, Jacksonville a fast flow defense,
Speaker 1: especially at that second level. You need to get that
Speaker 1: misdirection going. Okay, make him see one thing and do
Speaker 1: something else. So I thought the play calling was very good.
Speaker 1: I thought the offensive line stepped up to overcome the adversity,
Speaker 1: and just overall, when the backs were against the wall,
Speaker 1: we found out a little bit about this Eagles team
Speaker 1: because again, up seventeen to six in the second half,
Speaker 1: we could have wondered, look are they gonna allow Jacksonville
Speaker 1: to come back into the game. Dedy Westbrook got the
Speaker 1: touchdown in the back of the end zone and a
Speaker 1: lot of fans were PRIs saying, oh, here we go again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are we watch? Are we literally watching a replay of
Speaker 1: last week's game? Okay, but the Eagles mature. That didn't happen.
Speaker 1: They over so, they overcame the trip overseas and you
Speaker 1: know the time adjustment, the what the effects adds on
Speaker 1: your body, the jetlag all that stuff. You know, overcame
Speaker 1: some adversity early on in the ball game. We're able
Speaker 1: to finish the job. And then to your point about
Speaker 1: the narrative about Carson Wentz, Okay, you know, I know
Speaker 1: that everybody's loving Pat Mahomes and Deshaun Watson has been
Speaker 1: playing great of late and the New Toy anybody, but
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is lost in the middle of it. Okay.
Speaker 1: You know he threw his first interception today since his
Speaker 1: first game back against the Colt back in week three. Okay,
Speaker 1: he rallied the team to come up with the points
Speaker 1: in the fourth core way and heated him. May you
Speaker 1: remember that one play where he ducks from the sack
Speaker 1: attempt by Clay's Campbell and Clay's Cambell just sitting there like,
Speaker 1: what did I just watch here? He can do another
Speaker 1: but laugh. I mean, that's what we've come to expect.
Speaker 1: And then when Carson Wentz is using his feet to
Speaker 1: get first downs when there's nothing opened down the field,
Speaker 1: he's taken on defenders. Okay, all right, he's not. He's
Speaker 1: not sitting there trying to slide and come up short.
Speaker 1: He's willing to put himself in harm's way, which, of
Speaker 1: course we're all gonna set back and say you're the
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, you don't need to do that. But he
Speaker 1: knew he had to win this game. He was gonna
Speaker 1: point this team on his back and do what he
Speaker 1: needed to do to come away with the win. And
Speaker 1: look at the numbers. Okay, okay, I understand. You know
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville had all the injuries in the secondary, and
Speaker 1: they're all the question marks with you know, the arrest
Speaker 1: that happened on early Saturday morning, but seventy percent completion personage,
Speaker 1: almost three hundred yards, three more touchdowns again with an
Speaker 1: offensive line that's bang up going against, like you said,
Speaker 1: Saxonville here in this game here, so Carson Wentz. Look,
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna get the national acclaim that he
Speaker 1: deserves because of the shiny new toys, but it was
Speaker 1: great that like a primetime game when you're playing the
Speaker 1: nine thirty am contests, everybody's watching you, okay, And look
Speaker 1: it's it's a Sunday when everybody's getting selled in getting
Speaker 1: ready to watch a day of football. They're getting up
Speaker 1: nice and oily to watch you play. And you put
Speaker 1: on a show like that and show why you were
Speaker 1: an MVP candidate last year and why this team was
Speaker 1: a championship squad just a year ago. Man, he made
Speaker 1: a couple of unbelievable the roles today. Um, But the
Speaker 1: thing I loved about his game also was the fact
Speaker 1: that he was willing to take off when he needed to. Um.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to judge. Oh all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna sit across the pond to Wembley Stadium where the
Speaker 1: victorious head coach Doug Peers and standing by. Okay, I
Speaker 1: just think, uh, um, you know, it's communication a halftime
Speaker 1: that we had to finish the game. You know, we
Speaker 1: had to play for another another thirty minutes, a full
Speaker 1: full sixty And I think the guys really embraced that
Speaker 1: and did a nice job finishing and making plays when
Speaker 1: they had to. Um about defense did a nice job
Speaker 1: just kind of holding number three there late and then
Speaker 1: and then offense going down and being able to win
Speaker 1: the game with a couple of runs. So just just
Speaker 1: a great way to finish. Say that again, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's on the line. I just think
Speaker 1: every game is every game is tough, every game is Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, a great opportunity to you know, take
Speaker 1: a step forward. Um, you know, things haven't really gone
Speaker 1: our way the first half of this season. But it's
Speaker 1: great to get this victory today and and uh go
Speaker 1: into the break with with positive thoughts obviously, and um
Speaker 1: get ready for the next one. But I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was necessarily a must win, you know, a situation.
Speaker 1: I haven't met with the medical team yet, so I
Speaker 1: can't I can't speculate on that until I do probably
Speaker 1: know something probably tomorrow. Great play on the ball, um,
Speaker 1: it's what we talk about during the week. We need
Speaker 1: we need defensive turnovers and and uh they were able
Speaker 1: to do that one. Then obviously the fourth down late
Speaker 1: in the game, but a great job coming up rallying,
Speaker 1: you know, putting his putting his hat on the ball,
Speaker 1: ball comes out, Malcolm picks it up and then offense
Speaker 1: can can capitalize on that. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: things I think that's kind of been missing the first
Speaker 1: first half of the season is just quite frankly, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, turnovers and then short fields for the offense.
Speaker 1: And uh, um I told the team, you know, even
Speaker 1: after the game, you know, that's that's a positive that's
Speaker 1: what you know, we can do that, and we need
Speaker 1: we need more of that, you know. Second half. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just felt comfortable with Josh. I mean he the
Speaker 1: other two guys play a lot of special teams and
Speaker 1: just keeping everybody fresh and rotated. I thought Wendell did
Speaker 1: a nice job as well. Corey came in there and
Speaker 1: and uh, and he runs extremely hard. But but you know,
Speaker 1: Josh had the hot hand today and just kind of
Speaker 1: kept him going. Got another one, keep going. No, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of where the ball went. Jordan made some
Speaker 1: great plays on the ball, some third down to catches. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he's really strong to the football right now,
Speaker 1: he's been able to elevate and and uh he's he's
Speaker 1: really kind of fitting in, you know to what we're
Speaker 1: what we're asking him to do. And uh, he had
Speaker 1: a really good game today. Yeah you eliminate those two turnovers.
Speaker 1: Thought he played extremely well, you know, led the team played, Uh,
Speaker 1: played well, played tough, made some tough scrambles for some
Speaker 1: first downs, I mean, being hung in there, you know,
Speaker 1: and and um just made a couple of great throws
Speaker 1: on those touchdowns to the tight ends. And then and
Speaker 1: obviously the screen passed the window. But yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: he played played played aggressive, he played hard, played tough
Speaker 1: and and really really kept us in the game. He's
Speaker 1: really he's really settled in to that role. Um. It
Speaker 1: seems like he's just gotten gotten better each week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, even having like Malcolm and Corey Graham and
Speaker 1: even Rodney you know McLeod out there helping him, you know,
Speaker 1: during the week and talking to him and of course
Speaker 1: you know coach on Lynn and Tim and those guys
Speaker 1: preparing him. He's done done a nice job. He's really,
Speaker 1: um kind of understood his role, understands his role, I guess,
Speaker 1: and and just uh fits within the system. And it's
Speaker 1: been been improving every week. Just told him, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: congratulations you know on on a on a hard fought win.
Speaker 1: Nothing's ever nothing's ever given to you. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to go earn everything you take. You got to
Speaker 1: take games. I mean, it's just against a great opponent.
Speaker 1: And so I just my hat was off to our
Speaker 1: players and coaches for you know, being able to come
Speaker 1: over here and and and um, you know with the
Speaker 1: travel and being able to handle that and be disciplined
Speaker 1: with that. And h was really really a positive for
Speaker 1: the team and and just sort of embraced the moment
Speaker 1: being around the guys, and so I just told him
Speaker 1: it was just a great, great experience overall and and
Speaker 1: a great way to uh to finish the first half
Speaker 1: of the season. It was a great crowd, great crowd,
Speaker 1: eighty five plus. I think it was um a lot
Speaker 1: of Eagles fans and and uh, you know we we
Speaker 1: uh we expect that each week, quite honestly, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, our our fans travel well. The the UK
Speaker 1: fans were in full force, and it was felt like
Speaker 1: a home game force. Yeah. One more, well, you saw
Speaker 1: what happened right away. They took a shot, you know,
Speaker 1: and went after him and he's so he's so long
Speaker 1: at great speed, and I thought he thought he played well.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll evaluate the film on the plane went
Speaker 1: home and get a chance to watch it. But I thought, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought Razil really stepped in and and
Speaker 1: we'll see you know, Jalen's injury down down the next
Speaker 1: couple of days. But um filled it nicely. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: all right, there's head coach Doug Pearson and you know,
Speaker 1: going back to last year, Eagles fans taken over on
Speaker 1: the road another home game. Okay again, maybe it's one
Speaker 1: of those situations where look London seeing Jacksonville a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, this is new for the Eagles and Eagles fans,
Speaker 1: and let's take advance. Let's make a trip across the pond.
Speaker 1: Why not. And let's face it, they are the defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champ so you're gonna get and it's the
Speaker 1: first time a defending Super Bowl champ has played over
Speaker 1: in London, so you knew that there was gonna be
Speaker 1: an exciting crowd to see these guys out there today.
Speaker 1: And let's face it, these Eagles fans, they take pride
Speaker 1: and and and being able to go on the road
Speaker 1: and being heard, uh taking over other team stadiums. So
Speaker 1: you know, even though that was a sort of a
Speaker 1: neutral site and it was way over in London when
Speaker 1: this game was announced that it was gonna happen last year,
Speaker 1: these Eagles fans they couldn't wait to book these flights
Speaker 1: to head over because they wanted to be a part
Speaker 1: of what essentially it's history. It's the regular season game
Speaker 1: the Eagles have played over there, and it's the first
Speaker 1: time a defending champion has played over there in the
Speaker 1: following years. So you know, I'm not surprised. Our fans
Speaker 1: are the best in the world. They show up everywhere,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear them. They don't show up and
Speaker 1: be quiet. They up, you know, sell and nicely. No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make ourselves loud and proud. And it's Eagles everywhere. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are everywhere taken over. So again, here's one thing,
Speaker 1: you know, looking back at, you know, from the Eagles
Speaker 1: and what they've endured so far here in twenty eight teams,
Speaker 1: you wonder if being go through these balld tested type
Speaker 1: games and being almost playoff ready in the middle of
Speaker 1: the season is going to help the team. Because Doug
Speaker 1: Pierce has talked about, you know, Rasul Douglass and I
Speaker 1: get touched on the adversity that this team overcame today
Speaker 1: and you're getting these young guys ready, Okay, Avanti Max
Speaker 1: having a great game, Dallas Goddard having to go ahead
Speaker 1: touchdown here today, Josh am stopping in a big way,
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Sweat getting valuable reps now at defensive end.
Speaker 1: It's not situations that in training camp in preseason you
Speaker 1: draw up and say, hey, you know we're gonna rely
Speaker 1: on these guys. It becomes a situation where it's do
Speaker 1: or die and you need players to step up. It's
Speaker 1: that next man up mentality, and guys need to step
Speaker 1: up and show why the Eagles had faith in them
Speaker 1: in the first place. So you wonder as they get
Speaker 1: ready for the second half of the season, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna some of these guys back and healthy, and some
Speaker 1: guys who were bumped and Bruis will have some more
Speaker 1: time to rest. All of a sudden, you'll have a
Speaker 1: healthy team again. You get the meat of your NFC
Speaker 1: East Lake coming up here where you have five of
Speaker 1: your last eight games or against division opponents. Okay, you've
Speaker 1: got some tough non division games. Okay, you got to
Speaker 1: go to New Orleans, you go to LA to face
Speaker 1: the Rams. You got Houston coming to the Lake. In
Speaker 1: Houston's highs can be his won five straight games and
Speaker 1: Houston is certainly thanking Philadelphia for taking care of the
Speaker 1: Jaguars today. So the second half of the season is
Speaker 1: not going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1: But unlike last season where this is where they were
Speaker 1: winning nine straight and blowing teams out of the water
Speaker 1: and games weren't decided by halftime when we were all partying.
Speaker 1: This is a situation now where the Eagles have to
Speaker 1: learn to win close games and that is going to
Speaker 1: help them moving forward. So that's gonna be the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for this Eagles team is you know, they're being
Speaker 1: balld tested. Now they're gonna be playoff Freddie for the
Speaker 1: second half of the year, when typically your best teams
Speaker 1: start to rise to the occasion. Okay, come off the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl year. You knew it was going to be
Speaker 1: kind of an extended preseason. You were getting cars Beck,
Speaker 1: You're getting Alice on, Jeffrey back. You know, some guys
Speaker 1: like Jordan Hicks were working their way back from season
Speaker 1: ending injuries. Now this is the team you're rolling with.
Speaker 1: This is your squad. Okay, Hawary Roseman. Maybe he makes
Speaker 1: a move at the trade deadline, we'll wait and see
Speaker 1: on that, but by large, this is gonna be the
Speaker 1: team that you're gonna be rolling with in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. So you get a big win
Speaker 1: on the road today against Jacksonville, and again I understand
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's lost four straight games, but still this was a
Speaker 1: team that should have won the AFC a year ago,
Speaker 1: and they blew out the Patriots earlier this season, and
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be their coming of age game,
Speaker 1: that they showed that they could overcome their miscuse from
Speaker 1: a year ago. But they've just not been able to
Speaker 1: get the ground game going again. Only seventy yards today,
Speaker 1: all right, So Blake Burrows had to do it with
Speaker 1: his arm, with his legs, and you know what, he
Speaker 1: was actually kind of undone by his past catchers five drops,
Speaker 1: I think on the day today. You know, Djhark had
Speaker 1: the one touchdowns should have been a touchdown. That should
Speaker 1: have been a touchdown. You know, Malcolm Jenkins did a
Speaker 1: great job breaking up the past to Dd Westbrook that
Speaker 1: could have been a touchdown, forcing them to self for three.
Speaker 1: Those little things add up and it's only gonna be
Speaker 1: a play play here or there. Okay, Jaguars fans are
Speaker 1: gonna watch this gatement saying if we had done this
Speaker 1: or we had done that, we would have gotten the win. Okay.
Speaker 1: That's what the Eagle season has been. It's come down
Speaker 1: to one or two plays every week, you know, outside
Speaker 1: outside of a couple of games. But we got all
Speaker 1: special Tree here. We're setting it back to when we
Speaker 1: see him zach Ertz is standing by Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: we ran kind of a similar player early in the
Speaker 1: game when I broke to the post. Unfortunately, um, I
Speaker 1: kind of lost my footing on the play. Um. So
Speaker 1: the presentation is pretty much the same presentation. You know,
Speaker 1: you widen your release and then you kind of give
Speaker 1: a heavy nod to the post and then run a corner.
Speaker 1: And it was It was a play that we've had
Speaker 1: for a long time, and it was really the first
Speaker 1: time we've called it. Um So it was a really
Speaker 1: good play design and I thought, um, it was a
Speaker 1: really good throw and I just try to go up
Speaker 1: and make a play. Yeah, I mean it was huge.
Speaker 1: I mean we had all the reasons and to make
Speaker 1: excuses for this week, a lot of adversity, not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of sleep Thursday night, flying seven hours, going
Speaker 1: right to meetings. But the thing about this locker room
Speaker 1: is that it's a full of guys that really love
Speaker 1: the game of football. Everyone really loves to compete and
Speaker 1: play for the person next to them, and so we
Speaker 1: just wanted to go out there and play full sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: That was a message this entire week, you know, We've
Speaker 1: put games, we've put drives, we put quarters together, but
Speaker 1: we really haven't put a sixty minute game together. And
Speaker 1: so I was proud of the way we battled today
Speaker 1: for full sixty minutes against a really good defense. From
Speaker 1: an offensive standpoint, yeah, I mean, I thought, I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy is as mentally strong as they come. He's
Speaker 1: never gonna show that he's down. He's always looking forward
Speaker 1: to the next play. And I think that really resonates
Speaker 1: with a lot of guys in this locker room because
Speaker 1: we understand that we have so much talent on offense. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we face a lot of adversity today too. On the
Speaker 1: offense side of the ball. We lost the best right
Speaker 1: tack in the league. JP was out for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we were still able to move the ball. Obviously
Speaker 1: early in the game game if we finished touchdowns, the
Speaker 1: game is really a different game. UM. So the red
Speaker 1: zone we gotta be better in UM, but I thought
Speaker 1: that improved as we continue. We kind of got a
Speaker 1: feeling for how they were playing us UM and Carson's
Speaker 1: a stud. I mean, he's one of the best players
Speaker 1: in the league, and that his play kind of speaks
Speaker 1: for himself. Yes, huge I mean, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of good playmakers on this offense, but um, the game
Speaker 1: plan is going to be dictated, and who gets the
Speaker 1: ball is gonna be dictated by what the defense is
Speaker 1: giving up. Um, We're not going into a game saying
Speaker 1: the eighty six has to have this many targets. Seven
Speaker 1: teams gotta have that many targets. Um, we're gonna Carson's
Speaker 1: the type of quarterback. He's not gonna lock into a guy.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go to the guy who who the scheme
Speaker 1: is getting open, who who who? They're kind of dictating
Speaker 1: who should get the ball. Um, and a game like
Speaker 1: today was it was. It was really good to see
Speaker 1: Nelson Jay Matt have some big plays. It really opened
Speaker 1: up the offense. Really happy for Dallas having that long
Speaker 1: touchdown showing some emotion finally. Um, so I mean it
Speaker 1: was that's the type of football that we want to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a little slick, obviously, a little wet, um,
Speaker 1: a little muddy, but overall I thought it held up
Speaker 1: pretty well. Um, I think I slipped one time. Obviously,
Speaker 1: key moment in the game. Never want to happen. But
Speaker 1: we spoke about it last night that we weren't going
Speaker 1: to let that be an excuse for us. M guy slipped,
Speaker 1: that's part of the game, But that wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: an excuse no matter how the game went. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: loved it. I mean, this game was honestly a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. It was kind of a Super Bowl experience
Speaker 1: in the sense that there's a lot more going on
Speaker 1: than just a football game. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I loved hearing the other national anthem and during warm ups,
Speaker 1: I thought it was really cool. I loved how everyone
Speaker 1: was singing it as a collective group, UM, and knowing
Speaker 1: kind of the history of the soccer and how passionate
Speaker 1: soccer fans are football to you guys, Um, it was
Speaker 1: a really cool environment. Obviously it is kind of a spectacle, UM.
Speaker 1: And I did like playing here a lot, honestly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously those two games didn't didn't end the
Speaker 1: way we wanted them too. UM. But we continue to
Speaker 1: preach sixty minutes this week, and that was that was
Speaker 1: the message that stuck with us, that no matter what
Speaker 1: was going on in the game, that we were gonna
Speaker 1: play a full sixty minutes and we were gonna execute UM.
Speaker 1: And we wanted to finish the game with the ball
Speaker 1: in our hands. As an offense, we didn't want to
Speaker 1: give the Jaguars a chance to go down there and
Speaker 1: make some plays. Um. We've put a lot of pride
Speaker 1: in executing as an offense, especially late in the game
Speaker 1: when teams know what we're gonna do. Um, and still
Speaker 1: having the execution ability to go there and make plays
Speaker 1: and finish with the football. UM. So I think that
Speaker 1: was a big stepping stone for our offense. Well, if
Speaker 1: he freaking got the ball to me, it wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been needed it. But I mean the guy, I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing surprised me with that guy. Everyone always says, where
Speaker 1: he surprised he does? This? Was he surprised he does
Speaker 1: that he knew exactly what happened the moment he threw
Speaker 1: the ball, and to have the knowledge and the wherewithal
Speaker 1: to catch the ball and know exactly where the first
Speaker 1: down marker was just speaks to how competitive he speaks
Speaker 1: to his football IQ and he makes our job very
Speaker 1: easy as as receivers as skill position players. Cool all right,
Speaker 1: tight end zach Ertz meeting with the media at Wembley
Speaker 1: Stadium in London. The numbers for the year just mind blowing. Okay,
Speaker 1: halfway through sixty one catches six hundred and forty four
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns. Arguably, I mean, we already said
Speaker 1: he's in a conversation for best tight end in the game,
Speaker 1: but arguably he's had the most dominant first half of
Speaker 1: the season of any tight end in the league. And
Speaker 1: I love the way he went out and got that
Speaker 1: touchdown reception in the fourth quarter, going against a rookie
Speaker 1: freezing corner and Trey Herndon again Jaguars secondary limited by injury.
Speaker 1: There was also all the stuff that happened with the
Speaker 1: nightclub early Saturday morning, but he went out one on
Speaker 1: one and look, Hernon had pretty good coverage on the
Speaker 1: play first just took it away from him. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Zach came into this game second in the league to
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling and catches receptions on the year, so we
Speaker 1: know that he's a great target and it'll it'll be
Speaker 1: one of these debates for years until I guess Gronk
Speaker 1: retires or what have you. But no shame for Zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: He is certainly if it's not Gronk, if it's not
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, is Zach Ertz, so he's one of the
Speaker 1: best tight ends in football. I'm taken to claim that
Speaker 1: he's the best what I'm trying to do right now,
Speaker 1: and you can and you can. I think that's a
Speaker 1: fair argument, except especially this year. He's certainly owned his
Speaker 1: way to another Pro Bowl, so we know heats that
Speaker 1: going for him. And in the red zone, he's starting
Speaker 1: to get back to being that security blanket for Carson
Speaker 1: as he was last year when he had a career
Speaker 1: high eight touchdowns. Has three now and that's really the
Speaker 1: only thing really missing from his game is the amount
Speaker 1: of touchdowns. And when you get down in the red zone,
Speaker 1: he is a legitimate threat down there where you're starting
Speaker 1: to see some teams double team Zach Ertz down in
Speaker 1: the red zone, so he's able to get single coverage
Speaker 1: and if it's on a dB, Carson's gonna put it
Speaker 1: up there to him because he's just too big, too good,
Speaker 1: soft hands, and Carson knows if he puts it in
Speaker 1: that catch radius area for Zach, Zach's gonna bring it in. Well.
Speaker 1: Ert only has three touchdowns because dal Scoddard has been
Speaker 1: a Scots getting his this year, so that's a nice
Speaker 1: touchdown he had that wasn't beautiful touch. We get to
Speaker 1: see highlights of that little bit later on in the show.
Speaker 1: But right now, okay, first international regular season game and
Speaker 1: win in franchise history. So who better than to deliver
Speaker 1: it than the voices of the Eagles Mellor Reis and
Speaker 1: its Hall of Fame partner Mike Quick. Let's check out
Speaker 1: the best plays from today's game victory in Marrow camp
Speaker 1: and get it from their perspectives. It is third and
Speaker 1: eight for Jacksonville ball at their own twenty two portals
Speaker 1: in the gun. He steps up, he is head and
Speaker 1: he has sacked back at the ten yard one by
Speaker 1: Chris Long, and that will do it for the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Really nice job by jam Schwartz confusing that offensive line.
Speaker 1: He lines up a lot of guys at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and if he's gonna all out blitz on
Speaker 1: the snap, the back off and only four come, but
Speaker 1: they get him to the ground. This will be a
Speaker 1: thirty one yarder shorter than an extra point. Ball is spotted,
Speaker 1: the kick is up, and the kick is gonna retide
Speaker 1: at three. Let me second down and nine for the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Hide the sat back motions of the near side. Portles
Speaker 1: fakes to hide. Portals is head. Portals has dropped another
Speaker 1: stack back near midfield. They got the Bordles and it
Speaker 1: was Jordan Hicks. Malcolm Jenkins in there too. Portals takes
Speaker 1: the snap again. Here comes the rush. He lets it
Speaker 1: go over the middle wide open receiver and the football
Speaker 1: comes flows from Coal. It's picked up by the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Eagles haven't Cole made the catch. The hip was made
Speaker 1: by Maddox and they pick up the football and it
Speaker 1: looks like Malcolm Jenkins hasn't. The Eagles and back in
Speaker 1: business that they finally get a turnover. It's been a
Speaker 1: while fall At the thirty three play, action Wentz running,
Speaker 1: He's looking, he is firing and is complete Dalla the
Speaker 1: five breaking a tackle and full of touchdown. It has
Speaker 1: Connard Dallas Connard creaking a tackle of the five of
Speaker 1: the Eagles and finally scored a touchdown and taking the leader.
Speaker 1: I love the design of this play. Carson Wentz on
Speaker 1: a little roll out. He didn't have anything in the flat,
Speaker 1: but he really wants that throwback pass to Dallas guarded
Speaker 1: his rookie tight end. South Dakota State got it, catches
Speaker 1: the football and then he gets an assist on his
Speaker 1: way into the end zone. Second down in the yard
Speaker 1: He's got Carlos hide to his right, three savers left
Speaker 1: the tight end grivage to the rights. Black, he goes Bordals,
Speaker 1: it's hit. They've gone him. They've got him Black at
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line and give that one to Jordan
Speaker 1: the Hicks. Thank you so much The Sports Radio ninety
Speaker 1: four w IP for providing us with Merrill camp. Was
Speaker 1: that one of those videos where you gotta like tell
Speaker 1: what happened in the middle, like the costume change that
Speaker 1: happened midway through with with Mike Quick throwing the hat
Speaker 1: on there. You know, Chie, did he get a lottle cold?
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess. It's also interesting seeing the work
Speaker 1: of Joe McPeak, the producer for the broadcast, as well
Speaker 1: as Anthony Vonnagura, who's from the Eagles Media RELATIONSHI department.
Speaker 1: He works at the spot or during the game, so
Speaker 1: he's telling Meryl what happens on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: pointing to the key players, key players, what the call is.
Speaker 1: He's really helping relay that information to Meryl. So he's
Speaker 1: kind of like the eyes a second, Steve Eyes for
Speaker 1: Meryl up there, so important, job too huge, that's pressure.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about pressure? You're gonna be doing that
Speaker 1: for for the goat the voice of the Eagles, been
Speaker 1: doing it for forty two years. You can't you can't
Speaker 1: screw up. You can't mess up on that one. There.
Speaker 1: So we're waiting to hear from quarterback Carson Wentz and
Speaker 1: just a little bit a little later, odd we'll get
Speaker 1: into our unsung heroes of the game as well as
Speaker 1: what we thought the turning points were, and we'll also
Speaker 1: have the Toyota Player of the Week nominees. But you know,
Speaker 1: as we prepare for Carson Wentz, you know, it was interesting,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned at the top of the show about
Speaker 1: how the narrative became he can't do this or that
Speaker 1: in the in the fourth quarter of games. Well, for me,
Speaker 1: it's like he's still so young in his career. He
Speaker 1: hasn't really had the opportunity to do it. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: only had a handful of chances, and we kind of
Speaker 1: remember going through those last week on the show. The
Speaker 1: Baltimore game as a rookie came to mind, but really
Speaker 1: didn't have it last year and again, this goes back
Speaker 1: to being battle tested. This is one area where you
Speaker 1: want to see Carson Wentz have the highs and the
Speaker 1: lows to get the experience good and bad, so that
Speaker 1: when you get into December, when you get into those
Speaker 1: pivot and it's the East Games or you know, if
Speaker 1: it's a Houston game, which could help determine a playoff
Speaker 1: spot at the end of the year, that he'll have
Speaker 1: been through the fire before and you're not wondering, You're
Speaker 1: not sitting there wondering what is Carson going to do
Speaker 1: in that type of situation. So it was great to
Speaker 1: see him bounce back from last week. Okay, where look,
Speaker 1: they moved the ball down the field. Alston Jeffrey you know,
Speaker 1: drew the pass interference call, and then the questionable one
Speaker 1: was when he forced the ball into the end zone
Speaker 1: versus taken you know, the safe route with Wendell Smallwood. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you can argue today look on early in the
Speaker 1: game when he threw the interception that was intended for
Speaker 1: Josh Perkins, when all Smallwood was open on that play
Speaker 1: as well. The only thing was I like to throw
Speaker 1: because Perkins was open. There was a win there. The
Speaker 1: problem was the pass rush got to Wentz forced him
Speaker 1: to hesitate, step up in the pocket and that little
Speaker 1: bit of time and I think at that point Wentz
Speaker 1: pretty much said I'm going to Perkins. Ramsey had enough
Speaker 1: time with that hesitation to cover the field and it
Speaker 1: was tremendous because he came out of nowhere. You watched
Speaker 1: he came off for aushot. It wasn't even his man
Speaker 1: and it was just a great play by a great
Speaker 1: player from Jalen Ramsey's point, But Carson knows there. You
Speaker 1: either got to pull that ball down and just take
Speaker 1: off and get what you can. But like I said,
Speaker 1: you gotta to me, you just gotta accept the good
Speaker 1: with the bad when it comes to Carson, because the
Speaker 1: good is gonna far outweigh any negative place that he has.
Speaker 1: He's able to bounce back from that, uh that that
Speaker 1: interception and still throw three touchdowns today. So um, let's
Speaker 1: hear from Carson himself as we were sitting across the
Speaker 1: pond once again to Wembley Stadium. Yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: we moved the ball. Well, you know that's the thing
Speaker 1: that was the positive sign obviously post drive into the
Speaker 1: turnovers on my part, things we got to clean up. Um.
Speaker 1: The interception, I mean, Ramsey made a heck of a play,
Speaker 1: kind of came out of nowhere on us. That's that's
Speaker 1: a good player making a play. I gotta make a
Speaker 1: better read. UM. And then the fumbles unfortunate. UM. But again,
Speaker 1: the positive sign was that we knew we were moving
Speaker 1: the ball. We knew we were capable capable of it
Speaker 1: right away, UM, and so we just built off that.
Speaker 1: That was great. I mean, the line got got on
Speaker 1: front and uh, Smallwood took care of the rest. I mean,
Speaker 1: everyone did their job. And you gotta love those those
Speaker 1: screen passes that go big like that. Yeah, yeah, they did, yep, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean third down is huge, I mean anytime, and
Speaker 1: we always talk about situational football being third down and
Speaker 1: red zone football. UM. And today, UM, obviously third down
Speaker 1: was big. UM. Staying on the field, that's you know,
Speaker 1: something we pride ourselves on. We were great at it
Speaker 1: last year. UM, so it's big for us to down
Speaker 1: the field when we did today. Yeah, that's what that's
Speaker 1: what we like around here. You know, we're pretty confident
Speaker 1: in the guys we have, whoever it is, catching the
Speaker 1: football out of the backfield, the running backs tight ends
Speaker 1: you know everybody, Um, and it's usually a good thing
Speaker 1: when we get lots of guys involved. Shoot, even I
Speaker 1: had a catch today, so we were spreading the ball out.
Speaker 1: A great play call, you know, a huge play call
Speaker 1: in that situation by coach. Um had time to set
Speaker 1: up and let it rip and he made a great
Speaker 1: play after the catch, you know. So that was just
Speaker 1: gotta give a lot of credit to the play call. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's just what you're taught on screens. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't overanalyze it, overthink it. I mean it really
Speaker 1: was though line taking care of it and small would
Speaker 1: doing the rest. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I'm always unhappy,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm ticked off. I get frustrated, But um,
Speaker 1: it's just the mentality that you've developed from this game.
Speaker 1: I'm playing it so long, you know, that's just Adversity's
Speaker 1: gonna strike h in a season at Verse. He's gonna
Speaker 1: strike in within a game, and um, sometimes you just
Speaker 1: make bad plays and you gotta bounce back from in.
Speaker 1: That really shows the type of player and the type
Speaker 1: of character that you have. Yeah, I mean the nice
Speaker 1: thing for me is it's pretty easy. You know, because
Speaker 1: those guys come in ready to go. You know, guys
Speaker 1: have to show full around, move around, and we're asking
Speaker 1: a lot for them running backs, you know, we're asking
Speaker 1: a lot of them out of the backfield, running the
Speaker 1: ball and a little bit of everything. So, um, you
Speaker 1: might think it's it's a big deal, but I gotta
Speaker 1: give credit to the line and those guys just just
Speaker 1: coming in being ready to go, and it just shows
Speaker 1: that we have good depth there. I mean, we finally
Speaker 1: we finished. You know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we finished. We still finishedly. We wanted offensively. You know,
Speaker 1: we had that chance to kind of seal the deal
Speaker 1: and went three and out, which was unfortunate, but but
Speaker 1: defense stepped up, you know, and so I think we
Speaker 1: just at the end of the day, we finished well
Speaker 1: this week, and we obviously didn't last week. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel extremely confident the guys that we have. You know,
Speaker 1: it's m like you said, it's been kind of up
Speaker 1: and down for us offensively. Um, some weeks we start
Speaker 1: fast and slow or vice versa. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: just good for us to kind of go into this
Speaker 1: bye week with a little momentum against a really good defense,
Speaker 1: you know, really good overall team, really good defense in
Speaker 1: the Jags, and to put a good performance like that
Speaker 1: was was big for us. I mean, I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it more myself, but um, that's when instincts take over,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day. Um, like
Speaker 1: you said, when I scramble, I want to throw first.
Speaker 1: But Um, the way they were covering everything, playing a
Speaker 1: lot of soft coverage, playing deep, um, and the and
Speaker 1: the plays that we had on I was able to
Speaker 1: try and extend some and and pick up the first
Speaker 1: down a couple of times. Yeah. I mean again, hats
Speaker 1: off to coach calling, calling some really well designed plays.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we had a couple more that
Speaker 1: we just missed. Um. And uh, you know, he called him,
Speaker 1: called him at the right time. And Guy's making plays.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, anytime you got
Speaker 1: a play down the field, the old lines got to protect,
Speaker 1: you know, they got to pick it up. And they
Speaker 1: did a great job giving me time to make those plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a huge, huge difference. Um. You know, being five
Speaker 1: hundred again, still not where he wanted to be or
Speaker 1: where we had hoped to be. But Um, going into
Speaker 1: the bye we knowing that the real meat of our
Speaker 1: scheduled NFC East is ahead of us when we come
Speaker 1: back from this by huge momentum and a huge win
Speaker 1: for us heading into this. Yeah. The thing I love
Speaker 1: about jam Ads you can put him at Z and
Speaker 1: can put it on at X. You can put him
Speaker 1: at FUM and he's gonna get the job done, you know,
Speaker 1: both blocking and all the stuff we asked our receivers
Speaker 1: to do blocking wise, but he can make place. You know,
Speaker 1: he can beat man coverage. He can. I mean we
Speaker 1: saw him do it a couple of years ago here,
Speaker 1: you know, for a while, and um, it was big
Speaker 1: for him to step up the way he did today.
Speaker 1: And I was cool to have him, you know, be
Speaker 1: the leading receiver again. It's been a while, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you know, we go we go in every week
Speaker 1: with a handful of movements and ways to move the pocket. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, we had a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: this front, you know, and and and this this secondary
Speaker 1: as well. So we knew if we could just move
Speaker 1: the pocket a little bit, do some things like that,
Speaker 1: get me on the perimeter you know where I feel
Speaker 1: really comfortable and guys really react well, Um, when things
Speaker 1: break down, you know that was big, big for us today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a huge win. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: huge win. You know, everyone's obviously excited heading into the
Speaker 1: bye week, you know, to get a week off, get
Speaker 1: our minds, to get our bodies right. That's huge. And
Speaker 1: you know, we got a long flight ahead of us,
Speaker 1: that we're in London. There's a lot of things going on,
Speaker 1: so I thinks everyone's pretty excited that we're going back
Speaker 1: with winning out of lass. Okay, I mean I think
Speaker 1: everyone needs a week off, you know, I think, um,
Speaker 1: this is the National Football League are getting guys are
Speaker 1: getting hit and beaten up all year long, and um,
Speaker 1: fortunately are just really falls right in the middle of
Speaker 1: our season, which is nice. Um, but but that week
Speaker 1: off is huge both for people's minds and their bodies
Speaker 1: to just really heal up, get away from the game
Speaker 1: for just a couple of days and everything and get
Speaker 1: your mind right so that we can come back and
Speaker 1: make this run. It was really cool, you know, it
Speaker 1: was really cool. Um. Coming in obviously, I'd really no
Speaker 1: idea what to expect or or when everyone was going
Speaker 1: to be cheering or who you know, what the fans
Speaker 1: were going to be cheering for. And everything. Um, but
Speaker 1: it was an awesome experience, awesome environment, um and you know,
Speaker 1: it was definitely a fun one over here. What's that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it sucks, you know, something I gotta clean up.
Speaker 1: It's something we gotta I gotta look look in the
Speaker 1: mirror and say, how can I protect them all a
Speaker 1: little bit better? And sometimes it's just getting the ball
Speaker 1: out earlier, you know, and finding my guys faster. And
Speaker 1: he had something I'm definitely looking at. Thanks guys. Quarterback
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz meeting the media in London, and my biggest
Speaker 1: takeaway for Carson is I'm happy they want today because
Speaker 1: after what Carson went through last season ike where he
Speaker 1: had the MVP type season, got the Eagles on the
Speaker 1: precipice of winning the division and getting home field advanced
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, and knowing full well that should have
Speaker 1: been him out there on the field at US Bank
Speaker 1: Stadium in Minneapolis back in February helping the Eagles win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And certainly he was helping from the
Speaker 1: sidelines as a coach, but he should have been playing
Speaker 1: in that game. Okay, that was his moment. That's what
Speaker 1: he was drafted to do, was to bring the Eagles
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl championship and hopefully championships down the line.
Speaker 1: I would have been crushed for him to work as
Speaker 1: hard as he did in the off season, to get
Speaker 1: back on the field in the third week of the
Speaker 1: two eighteen campaign, and for the team to be all
Speaker 1: but out of it at the midway point of the season,
Speaker 1: go into the bye week, and yes, they could have
Speaker 1: been three and five, and you could have said that
Speaker 1: they have the division games and you know things could
Speaker 1: break right and no one's running away with the MBC East.
Speaker 1: But you basically have no margin for error whatsoever. And
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, those non division games are not
Speaker 1: easy at all. No game is easy. But you're playing
Speaker 1: three of the hottest teams in the league in the Saints,
Speaker 1: the Rams, and of course the Houston Texans. And yes,
Speaker 1: maybe the matchup is different because you could have said
Speaker 1: the end of last season, you would have thought that
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was gonna play in certain games and he
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Yes, that could be the case, but I
Speaker 1: would have been crushed to seek what Carson has gone through,
Speaker 1: what he's done in his rehab. No one with this team,
Speaker 1: with this game means to him to have a second
Speaker 1: half of the season that just wouldn't, for all intensive purposes,
Speaker 1: be meaningful. Okay, we all want meaningful football into November
Speaker 1: and December, but I would have been devastated for Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz come off last year not to be able to
Speaker 1: experience that. Yeah, and he listened, he's not ready for
Speaker 1: his season to be over with And so you saw
Speaker 1: the way that he played out there today making things happen,
Speaker 1: not just with his arm, but I love the fact
Speaker 1: that when he had opportunities to take off, he was
Speaker 1: able to use his legs as well. So you know,
Speaker 1: as long as you have Carson Wentz leading this team,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be Okay, we're gonna be in every game,
Speaker 1: may not win every game, but you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about that guy and whether or not he's gonna
Speaker 1: give you a full day, a full day of work
Speaker 1: when he shows up. Like you talked about the rehabbing process,
Speaker 1: everything he went through to try to get back as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. We know what this season means to him,
Speaker 1: how he fought to get back coming back from that
Speaker 1: reconstructive knee surgery. And he's playing that way. He's playing
Speaker 1: as if this season means everything to him, and now
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to balance out trying to do too
Speaker 1: much and then doing enough to get you w's. But
Speaker 1: he's one guy on this team. I don't worry about
Speaker 1: when that ball is kicked off because I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the best of Carson Wentz every week. Indeed,
Speaker 1: So let's get into our unsung heroes from today. I'll
Speaker 1: start with running back when Dell Smallwood okay, because going
Speaker 1: into this game, look, you knew the run game had
Speaker 1: to step up in some way, shape or form, because
Speaker 1: last week they were not able to assault away the
Speaker 1: game when they had the seventeen nothing lead over Carolina.
Speaker 1: And you know that Darren Sproles is out, you know
Speaker 1: that j GI has done for the year, So you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go with a rotation of facts. And
Speaker 1: when Delle Smallwood okay, he was on the roster bubble
Speaker 1: coming into this season, and the big knocked on him
Speaker 1: had been could he stay healthy? Well, he has been
Speaker 1: the one guy you could rely upon to be on
Speaker 1: the field weekend and week out. And look, he didn't
Speaker 1: just deliver in the run game, hit twenty four rushing yards.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the leading rusher Josh Adams was, but he
Speaker 1: had the big touchdown in the third quarter which really
Speaker 1: helped break the game open for the Eagles on a
Speaker 1: screen pass. So for me, you know, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: probably talk about small One. It is one of the
Speaker 1: players of the game. He's not one of our Player
Speaker 1: of the Week nominees. But you know, for someone who
Speaker 1: is in the role that he's in where he's rotating in,
Speaker 1: he's sharing time with Clement and Ams for him to
Speaker 1: come through and to deliver a big play to help
Speaker 1: move the chains in the run game, you know, my
Speaker 1: hats are small One and what he's been able to
Speaker 1: do with the opportunities presented here in twenty eighteen, once again,
Speaker 1: the Eagles need a chance or have a chance to
Speaker 1: assault away the game in the fourth quarter and he's
Speaker 1: able to help get that done. So that Carolina, you know,
Speaker 1: the lawsuits to Carolina doesn't impact this week's game against
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and we have a repeat episode of what is transpired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: huge tough yards for Windale Smallwood late in the game
Speaker 1: picking up a big first down. So kudos to him
Speaker 1: of being your ensong hero. And I'll go to the
Speaker 1: guys who blocked for Windale Smallwood today. That offensive line,
Speaker 1: primarily Hallapoulivati Viti and Isaac salm Model. Those guys moved around.
Speaker 1: They are the swing offensive line and Manna play guard
Speaker 1: or tackle left or right, and they were both needed
Speaker 1: today as the Eagles lost Lane Johnson on that Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz sack fumble. When Carson fell on the back of
Speaker 1: his legs, Lane was lost for the rest of the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Jason Peters went down with a
Speaker 1: head injury for a while, so Isaac Salamal who had
Speaker 1: to move out there to left tackles. It was it
Speaker 1: was a it was a It was a valiant effort.
Speaker 1: I thought from the offensive line to day, primarily those
Speaker 1: two young guys being forced into action, uh in the
Speaker 1: drop of a hat to go out there and had
Speaker 1: to play and listen, they gave up some sacks. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: did a great job overloading the rushes to him. But
Speaker 1: I thought all in all, they held their own in there.
Speaker 1: Carson was able to do a good job throwing the
Speaker 1: bar and then we just mentioned the running game that
Speaker 1: was effective and that that that has to be credited
Speaker 1: to those guys up front as well. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: go into the game, Siamles preparing to be left guard,
Speaker 1: YETI preparing for both tackle spots. It's one thing when
Speaker 1: last year, because you talk about these being young guy
Speaker 1: obviously settled in as a starter last season, because you know,
Speaker 1: once Peters was out, he knew he was the guy
Speaker 1: left tackle. He could focus on that weekend and week out. Well, third,
Speaker 1: the course of a game, in the week of preparation,
Speaker 1: you're preparing to play on both sides, which is very difficult.
Speaker 1: I think it was Michael Bennett who said a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago it's like, you know, try spending your whole
Speaker 1: life writing with your right hand and then try to
Speaker 1: do it with your left hand. Okay, And then in
Speaker 1: the middle of the game in Sam Miles case, where
Speaker 1: he's focused on starting at one spot, that you're playing
Speaker 1: on the outside, you're playing on the edge and facing
Speaker 1: different players. So that scouting report that you might have
Speaker 1: had on you know, the interior alignment of Leek Jackson,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now it's like, okay, you might
Speaker 1: have you know, Dante Fowler and Clay's Campbell to add
Speaker 1: to the mix there as well. Just make it that
Speaker 1: much more challenging. So I certainly agree with you on
Speaker 1: that standpoint or the offensive line of the job that
Speaker 1: they did for the turning point in the game. For me,
Speaker 1: it came late in the first half, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the rookie. We talk about baptism under five
Speaker 1: and a player who was battling for the nickel cornerback
Speaker 1: position in training camp along with Sidney Jones. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: Vonta Max was making his hey on special teams early
Speaker 1: this season. Ronnie McCleod gets injured and they say, who's
Speaker 1: a guy who has similar body type, skill set, could
Speaker 1: provide the same kind of range and playmaking ability to
Speaker 1: go with a Vonta Max. He didn't play safety at
Speaker 1: pitt but he's gone in. He's taking the job head on.
Speaker 1: He has flourished back there and he delivered a blow
Speaker 1: to Keelan Cole to force the ball out on a
Speaker 1: nice crossing route in the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jakin scooped it up. The Eagles were covered and
Speaker 1: this was when when Jacksonville was looking to score at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half and then you know,
Speaker 1: extend its lead at the time and then they would
Speaker 1: go into halftime not just ahead, but getting the ball
Speaker 1: back to start the second half. They were going for
Speaker 1: a two for one there, while Vonte Max coming up
Speaker 1: with a huge play there to turn things around. Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard got the go ahead touchdown and the Eagles never
Speaker 1: relinquished the lead after at that point. So a Vonte
Speaker 1: Max stepping up in a huge way, and you know,
Speaker 1: really the rookie class, Okay, a lot of people were
Speaker 1: talking about the Eagles only had five draft picks this year,
Speaker 1: and you know, one of those players Jordan Mailatta, who
Speaker 1: you know is not played to this point and obviously
Speaker 1: is a developmental guy for down the road. But you
Speaker 1: are getting impact plays from Dallas Goddard, Avonte Maddox and
Speaker 1: now you're dying Josh Schweaton and makes you have Josh
Speaker 1: Adams as a rookie for agent who's contributing as well.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of a great job of
Speaker 1: by Howard Roseman and Joe Douglas for getting them with
Speaker 1: bang for your buck. Understanding that this year's draft class
Speaker 1: you didn't have a lot of volume, but you were
Speaker 1: going to try to get some as much quantity as possible,
Speaker 1: and you probably weren't thinking you were gonna get this
Speaker 1: much quality play in year one. You figure, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: Dallas Godder is a nice compliment to Zach Ertz. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe Ivanta Max worked his way on special teams. You
Speaker 1: weren't expecting him to step up and be your starting
Speaker 1: free safety, you know, at the quarter point in the season,
Speaker 1: and now flourishing in that role. So for me, the
Speaker 1: turning point of the game was late in the first
Speaker 1: half there, and of course, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: things happened after that, the Eagles got the big lead
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville trying to fight back. But for me, Avonte
Speaker 1: Max forcing that fumble. The Eagles have not done a
Speaker 1: good job of generating takeaways this season. That was huge
Speaker 1: in my opinion and really provided a spark to this
Speaker 1: Eagles team needed. Yeah, you talked about Jacksonville fighting back
Speaker 1: when they eventually fought back and got in this game
Speaker 1: within two points and score seventeen to fifteen, and I'm
Speaker 1: over here tight, I mean tight, Yeah, I'm over here
Speaker 1: tight worrying about the Eagles blowing this game. And my
Speaker 1: turning point comes when the Eagles were able to push
Speaker 1: the score to twenty four to fifteen. I thought that
Speaker 1: was huge. Jacksonville had all the momentum going for them.
Speaker 1: Eagles last game didn't score any points in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: so you got that cloud sort of hanging over their
Speaker 1: head where they give up a seventeen point lead last
Speaker 1: week to the Carolina Panthers, and you start to see
Speaker 1: this charge coming from the Jacksonville Jags, and you're wondering,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, are we about to experience this thing again, No,
Speaker 1: we're not. Eagles take the ball down the field. Great
Speaker 1: job marching down the field. Big touchdown to Zach Ert
Speaker 1: from Carson Wentz to get that score to twenty four
Speaker 1: and really put a lot more pressure on the Jacks,
Speaker 1: making it a two score game, pumping it back up
Speaker 1: to a nine point lead. That I thought that was
Speaker 1: the turning point because if the Eagles don't score there,
Speaker 1: if they don't get a touchdown there, I don't think
Speaker 1: a field goal is enough. Jacksonville has an opportunity to
Speaker 1: possibly win by kicking the field goal. As a score
Speaker 1: eventually got to twenty four to eighteen, who knows what
Speaker 1: happens then, So I thought that touchdown to Zach was huge.
Speaker 1: Points have been hard to come by. Especially scoring over
Speaker 1: twenty has been difficult for this team at times this year.
Speaker 1: That touchdown to ZAC I thought really gave them a
Speaker 1: little breathing room. Indeed, So what we're gonna do now
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Speaker 1: of Appleifications. So we just talked about the rookie impact
Speaker 1: in the last segment, especially from Dallas Scoddard who had
Speaker 1: the go ahead touchdown late in the first half after
Speaker 1: Vonte Max forced the Keel and Cole fumble. Well, how
Speaker 1: did that big touchdown come to fruition? Let's send it
Speaker 1: into the film room for the RICO review as the
Speaker 1: RICO whiteboard where fran Duffy and Great co Sell are
Speaker 1: standing by. Well, Greg, from your lips to the football
Speaker 1: gods Eeries, you get a Dallas god Or touchdown catch here.
Speaker 1: You just called for him to get more involved in
Speaker 1: the passing game. Well we get him here on this
Speaker 1: great play show us here on first and ten. What
Speaker 1: we're looking at, how does Dallas reach the end zone? Well,
Speaker 1: one of the things that we've seen with the Eagles
Speaker 1: all year is they're very good out of their multiple
Speaker 1: tight end packages. Two tight ends, three tight ends. This
Speaker 1: play has three tight ends for m and they're all
Speaker 1: to the same side of the field in a closed formation.
Speaker 1: And by a closed formation, we mean there's no one
Speaker 1: outside the three tight ends, so they're all tight to
Speaker 1: the formation. Now, when you study the Jaguars defense, and
Speaker 1: you and I have talked about this, every team defensively
Speaker 1: has a particular player they like to match up man
Speaker 1: to man to tight ends, to the best tight end.
Speaker 1: For Jacksonville, that's the safety Tayshawn Gibson. But look where
Speaker 1: he is. He's on the other side of the field.
Speaker 1: So what is that an indicator of zone coverage? So
Speaker 1: the Eagles know that before the snap of the ball
Speaker 1: that this will be a zone concept. And I really
Speaker 1: love this play call because I love to see when
Speaker 1: the Eagles attack down the field and when they do
Speaker 1: it by design. And this is a throwback concept because
Speaker 1: Goddard actually works across the formation and then we'll break
Speaker 1: back inside. And what they do is they have boot
Speaker 1: action with Carson Wentz. He's booting to his right, so
Speaker 1: this looks like boot that way, and that generates a
Speaker 1: reaction by the defense. They're not thinking throwback. So this
Speaker 1: is a really well designed play and let's take a
Speaker 1: look at it and you'll see how this works. Because
Speaker 1: the boot action defenses have rules for boot action. As
Speaker 1: you know, the rules don't include throwbacks. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is a throwback. Goddard makes the catch, is able to
Speaker 1: break the tackle there and get in the end zone.
Speaker 1: This was really a well designed play out of what
Speaker 1: we call thirteen personnel, the three and the thirteen being
Speaker 1: three tight ends, and we can point them out once
Speaker 1: again right here there you see the three tight ends
Speaker 1: in the closed tight formation. And how the Jaguars matched
Speaker 1: up to this was with their base four three personnel.
Speaker 1: But one difference is they took Jalen Ramsey and they
Speaker 1: put him as the single high safety. That was purely
Speaker 1: a function of the thirteen personnel. He was not matched
Speaker 1: on alshon Jeffrey here he was the single high safety.
Speaker 1: So let's clear it and just see this now from
Speaker 1: this angle. Really a beautiful play as we run it,
Speaker 1: great design. The Eagles were just oh they were outside
Speaker 1: the high red zone, just a little beyond the thirty.
Speaker 1: This is a shot play area for an offense. This
Speaker 1: was a shot play concept. And you know what I
Speaker 1: love about Goddard, such good hands and then transition so
Speaker 1: quickly into being a runner. Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 1: You got to see the total package there with Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard and with Jacksonville being so shorthanded. I was very
Speaker 1: excited to see how they would try and match up
Speaker 1: to the Philadelphi Eagles and their multiple personnel packages. We
Speaker 1: got to see a great example of it there. Great touchdown,
Speaker 1: makes a ten to six right before halftime. Great stuff
Speaker 1: as always from France and Greg, and make sure to
Speaker 1: check out the full All twenty two review. I hope
Speaker 1: they would release it a little earlier since we played
Speaker 1: at nine thirty in the morning, but maybe you have
Speaker 1: to wait still till Monday morning for the full twenty.
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Speaker 1: that segment right there. But again, it's a great play call.
Speaker 1: You're taking advantage of the tendencies of Jacksonville knowing what
Speaker 1: that defense is going to try to do. They're trying
Speaker 1: to be trying to be aggressive, understanding it's a mass
Speaker 1: unit along the offensive line. The front four. R is
Speaker 1: great at bringing the heat. They can bring some extra bodies.
Speaker 1: Why not get Carson on the move, which is he's
Speaker 1: comfortable doing, and then you know, setting the play in
Speaker 1: the other directions to kind of off set the fast
Speaker 1: flow of the linebackers. Yeah, great job by Dallas really
Speaker 1: sitting down in that zone or finding a hole in
Speaker 1: that zone so that Carson could get him the ball.
Speaker 1: He threw that ball on the rope, did a good
Speaker 1: job there after catching it, not going down yard exactly,
Speaker 1: the catch able to get in the end zone. Nicely
Speaker 1: designed play, great throw, great catch, And you know who
Speaker 1: actually made the underrated play there. He was in my
Speaker 1: thought process for Unsung Hero. But obviously he's just off
Speaker 1: this one play. Josh Perkins a tight end because he's
Speaker 1: blocking Clay's campbell and does just enough to keep Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz clean. Actually did a very good job of not
Speaker 1: just keeping Wentz clean, but not getting called for a
Speaker 1: block in the back penalty. That was the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: Because I saw Perkins go for you, You're like, don't
Speaker 1: make the penalty, because the way the game had been going,
Speaker 1: you would have one of those self inflicted wounds that
Speaker 1: would come back to haunt the Eagles. Fortunately, that wasn't
Speaker 1: the case there and the Eagles were able to get
Speaker 1: the touchdown and take the lead into halftime. Now speak
Speaker 1: of Dallas got is he one of the Toyota Player
Speaker 1: of the Week nominees. You have to stay tuned for
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Speaker 1: here with the rookie of Vonte Max. Again, to me,
Speaker 1: the game was going much of the same direction as
Speaker 1: last weekends Carolina from the standpoint where the Eagles were
Speaker 1: ahead of halftime gainst Carolina. But they were moving the
Speaker 1: ball but left a lot of points on the board. Okay,
Speaker 1: And you felt that Jacksonville, despite the injuries in the
Speaker 1: secondary the off field incident, that they had to feel
Speaker 1: good about themselves that while the Eagles were moving the football,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville had the lead and they were moving the ball
Speaker 1: down the field to try to extend that lead into halftime.
Speaker 1: And of course they were gonna get the ball to
Speaker 1: start the second half. But here we go of Vonte
Speaker 1: Max reading the play perfectly, knocking the ball from Keelan
Speaker 1: Cole recovered by Malcolm Jenkins. That turned the game around
Speaker 1: right there. So for me, that's why he's one of
Speaker 1: the nominees for the Toyota Player of the Week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that play right there on third and one
Speaker 1: where he stops Carl's hide. So the thing I'm starting
Speaker 1: to like more and more about this kid. I can
Speaker 1: see why Jim Schwartz likes him out there on the field.
Speaker 1: This dude loves contact. He doesn't mind tackle. He's not
Speaker 1: the biggest guy out there on the field, but he
Speaker 1: has a big heart. And that was the book on
Speaker 1: him coming out a pit that. Forget about how small
Speaker 1: he is. This kid loves to hit guys. And that
Speaker 1: was a great play right there on third and one,
Speaker 1: coming up to tackle Carlos high right there. All right.
Speaker 1: So Ifante Maddox rookie is our first nominee, well why
Speaker 1: don't we go back to another member of the twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen draft class. How about the first pick, Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: taking advantage of the turnover and score on the touchdown.
Speaker 1: We broke it down at the Rico Review and it
Speaker 1: was interesting from a game plan standpoint to see how
Speaker 1: involved Goddard would be because with the injuries to Jacksonville secondary,
Speaker 1: with the Eagls, just try to spread the field out
Speaker 1: and try to make Jacksonville play some of those third
Speaker 1: and fourth string defenders. Well, you still have to involve
Speaker 1: number eighty eight. He's one of your best weapons on
Speaker 1: offense and he has a knack for finding the end
Speaker 1: zone and scored his third touchdown of the season here today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's never gonna get a bunch of targets, right, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of weapons in this offense. But the
Speaker 1: key for Dallas is take advantage of the targets when
Speaker 1: they come to you. And that's what he was able
Speaker 1: to do today. I said earlier, great job of running
Speaker 1: after the catch. Carson certainly trust him. That is a
Speaker 1: frozen rope to Dallas, and I love the fact caught
Speaker 1: it with his hands, didn't allow to the ball to
Speaker 1: get into his body where to bounce off of his chest.
Speaker 1: That's confidence in your hands. So you'd like to see
Speaker 1: that soft hands for a tight end. As a zach
Speaker 1: Ertz replica, I mean that's what he is. I mean
Speaker 1: they're wearing the arms leeve yeah, the number, the numbers
Speaker 1: look look the same. I mean, so that's that's that's
Speaker 1: good news for US Eagles fans that you know, if
Speaker 1: this kid turns out to be anywhere near the player
Speaker 1: that Zach is, uh, We're gonna be happy with our
Speaker 1: tight ends for the next decade. The spike is the same.
Speaker 1: They spiked the football the same way as everything is
Speaker 1: pretty much the same. North Dakota State to South Dakota State.
Speaker 1: There you go, sne coda connection right there on a
Speaker 1: world stage, nonetheless, and our last nominee. Great seeing number
Speaker 1: eighty being a featured part of the offense once again,
Speaker 1: it was early on. It was some big third down
Speaker 1: to receptions, but ninety three yards just whenever Carson wentz
Speaker 1: had had a go to play that had to be made,
Speaker 1: he went to his trusty, reliable guys. Guy has so
Speaker 1: much faith in great chemistry, great relationship, not just on
Speaker 1: the field but off Jordan Matthews, who you know has
Speaker 1: been quite a fine for the Eagles. This for a
Speaker 1: right here, God, that was a heck of a play
Speaker 1: from Carson right there. Great job of Jordan catching the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to see Jordan Matthews back with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Was always one of my favorite guys. Just a class
Speaker 1: great kid, kid, great teammate, great locker room guy. And
Speaker 1: you know the relationship that he and Carson built during
Speaker 1: Carson's rookie year and Jordan not able to be a
Speaker 1: part of the super Bowl team last year. It's gonna
Speaker 1: play a big role in this offense as the season
Speaker 1: goes along, starting to build that rapport of Carson again,
Speaker 1: where Carson knows that he can trust Jordan, and Jordan's
Speaker 1: making plays when he gets the opportunities. I thought every
Speaker 1: catch Jordan made today was a big catch. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it seemed like a game at a big time
Speaker 1: and this play right here was a huge catch. We
Speaker 1: talked about the trust factor. That's Carson saying I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put the ball up to you. You go up and
Speaker 1: make a play for him, and Jordan was able to
Speaker 1: go up and make a play for him. Big play
Speaker 1: right here where Carson was able to get the ball
Speaker 1: to Jordan late in the game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So it's just great to see Jordan having success being
Speaker 1: back here in Midnight Green. I love that after a
Speaker 1: big win like this, the Toyota Player of the week.
Speaker 1: Nomination process is difficult because there's other deserving candids. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to pick a winner quite honestly, out
Speaker 1: of the bunch as well. All three of them are
Speaker 1: very deserving. You know, it's gonna be a toss up.
Speaker 1: We'll see who comes out with the win later on
Speaker 1: in the week. So as the Eagles enter the bye week,
Speaker 1: we can start looking ahead to the second half of
Speaker 1: this season. The Eels are four and four, and we
Speaker 1: talked about Dallas Goddard well against his first stase of
Speaker 1: playing against Dallas in primetime at the Link in two
Speaker 1: weeks November eleventh. It's gonna be the Salute the Service
Speaker 1: game for the Eagles. But what a way to start
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. Well rested, feeling good,
Speaker 1: come off the win over Jacksonville, knowing you need this
Speaker 1: win to spark things in the second half of the
Speaker 1: season for you. Dallas is on the by this week,
Speaker 1: so they're watching things from afar. But you know, you
Speaker 1: look at the start of that second half of the season,
Speaker 1: you need to get that win over Dallas because you
Speaker 1: go on the road to New Orleans and then you
Speaker 1: got a trifecta of NCY East games against the Giants
Speaker 1: Washington and then Dallas once again. To set yourself up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could have asked for a
Speaker 1: better game to come off the bye week two. The
Speaker 1: fact that this would be a nationally televised game Sunday
Speaker 1: night against the hated rival Dallas Cowboys. The players won't
Speaker 1: have any problem getting up for this game. It'll be
Speaker 1: at night, the link will be rocking. I can't wait
Speaker 1: two weeks from now. Sunday Night, Eagles Cowboys. A great
Speaker 1: way to start the second half of the season. You know,
Speaker 1: the energy won't be an issue for this team, and
Speaker 1: they have to get off to a fast start. We
Speaker 1: just mentioned the other opponents after the Dallas Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: Saints sandwiched in between all NFC East games there, so
Speaker 1: they need to get started on the right foot against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in two weeks. And why it's gonna be
Speaker 1: even more important with the NFC East. Washington leading the
Speaker 1: Giants by the score seven and nothing early in that contest.
Speaker 1: So you are on Giants, you know, the Eagles, you know,
Speaker 1: doing their part by getting the foreign form. We'll take
Speaker 1: a look at the standings here, but Washington, look if
Speaker 1: it wins five and two, they're gonna be they're setting
Speaker 1: the tone so while no one's running away with it.
Speaker 1: It was so important that the Eagles got the win today,
Speaker 1: getting Dallas on the Bot and the Giants one and six,
Speaker 1: and you know they were sellers last week Trainway snacks
Speaker 1: Harrison and so they're they're done for twenty eighteen. They're
Speaker 1: looking ahead to the future right there. Yeah, And a
Speaker 1: great thing about this situation where the riskins are is
Speaker 1: that you still play the riskins twice so you get
Speaker 1: a chance to handle your own business. You gotta take
Speaker 1: care of on the field. And that's the great thing
Speaker 1: about this second half is that we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of divisional games. Yes, all right, So so tomorrow afternoon,
Speaker 1: so pretty much twenty four hours from now. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be back on the air Sports Radio ninety four
Speaker 1: wap Marks and Rees show. What's gonna be the hot topic?
Speaker 1: Is gonna be a sense of relief that the Eagles
Speaker 1: were in the same situation a week later and persevered.
Speaker 1: Is there going to be concerned whether the team can
Speaker 1: turn things up for the second hal of the season,
Speaker 1: or do you think Eagles fans say you know what,
Speaker 1: we got the big one going to the five. We've
Speaker 1: got Dallas coming up. Let's get used and see what
Speaker 1: the second half of the season brings us. I would
Speaker 1: imagine tomorrow the fans will be excited to be happy
Speaker 1: that the Eagles has got to win. Listen, four and
Speaker 1: four is not gonna get a fan base overly excited
Speaker 1: better than three and five, no doubt about it. We'll
Speaker 1: take it, no doubt about it. But you know, I
Speaker 1: would imagine the week will be filled with or spent
Speaker 1: reflecting on the first half of the season. We'll be
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, opportunities that we missed. But I
Speaker 1: think a lot of the fan base is still behind
Speaker 1: this team. They're still excited for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Not that there's a lot of football left to be played.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure much of the week will be
Speaker 1: spent trying to focus on how this team can get
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a streak going right. They've
Speaker 1: been able to win a game. They haven't won two
Speaker 1: games in rows, shocking at any point this season. The
Speaker 1: record says that right there, four and four, so they
Speaker 1: need to start stringing together a couple of victories. Fans
Speaker 1: will be happy about getting the w but you know
Speaker 1: this fan base, they won't be satisfied. No, nor should
Speaker 1: they be satisfied being four and four. But you mentioned
Speaker 1: the energy the link will have in two weeks, whether
Speaker 1: they host the Cowboys in prime time feels lost today,
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be there. Okay, it's still you still get
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys prime time. It wouldn't be the same
Speaker 1: knowing that you get to win today and at least
Speaker 1: you have four and four in the whole second half
Speaker 1: of the season ahead of you. So again marks the rees.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow afternoon Sports Radio ninety four WIP, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's press conference to get the bye rolling. That's
Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon on philadelphias dot Com, our app an
Speaker 1: all of our social media channels. So for ike reason,
Speaker 1: all of us here at the Philadelphia Eagles, I'm Chris McPherson.
Speaker 1: You've been watching the postgame show presented by Rico. The
Speaker 1: Eagles go across the pond and knock off the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Jaguars by a score of twenty four to eighteen. Everyone
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of this glorious Eagles Day.