Speaker 1: Welcome into the postgame show, presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella
Speaker 1: di Giovanni, joined by fran Duffy. That's it, it's a
Speaker 1: rap on preseason football. The Eagles are going to head
Speaker 1: back to Philadelphia and the fifty three man roster is
Speaker 1: almost assembled. Yeah, and I think I could speak for
Speaker 1: Eagles fans everywhere when I say that we are thrilled
Speaker 1: at the preseason is over. The next one counts excited
Speaker 1: now to talk about some real regular season action kicking
Speaker 1: off in just a couple of weeks. That preseason game
Speaker 1: number three is a tough one because, as we talked
Speaker 1: a lot in the kickoff Show, there are quite a
Speaker 1: few players fighting for a job. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you're not going to see the starters. Really. We saw
Speaker 1: Miami's their first team offense. They played about three series,
Speaker 1: but you gotta consider this week they didn't really see
Speaker 1: much action. So it was tough to match up because
Speaker 1: of course their offense was going against the Eagles defensive
Speaker 1: either second string or third string players. But still a
Speaker 1: good challenge for that defense. Yeah, a good challenge, and
Speaker 1: there are certainly going to be things that when the
Speaker 1: coaches go back and watch it. When the players go
Speaker 1: back and watch that, they're gonna want to clean up.
Speaker 1: There's no getting around that. But that's what the preseason
Speaker 1: is for, and for these backups, this is a good challenge,
Speaker 1: maybe as big as the challenge that they're gonna see. Hopefully.
Speaker 1: You know, the Eagles don't have lots of injuries, and
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys aren't going to be on
Speaker 1: the field too often on offense or defense. But I
Speaker 1: think when you're looking at guys trying to fight for jobs,
Speaker 1: compete for jobs, this was a really good audition in
Speaker 1: that respect. We want to really zoom out and start
Speaker 1: to look at the big picture. What is the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two Philadelphia Eagles going to look like? There are
Speaker 1: some positions that it's very clear how it's going to
Speaker 1: shake out, but others not so much, or at least
Speaker 1: what are the four and five positions on the depth
Speaker 1: chart going to look like. Let's start with the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. Nick Sirianni fielded some questions earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. Is he's gonna stick with two quarterbacks
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks? He didn't want to commit either way. We
Speaker 1: did see a lot of Gardner Minshew reads in it,
Speaker 1: Carson Strong at the end. Interesting to see what they
Speaker 1: do there. But when we get make our way through
Speaker 1: the offense the wide receiver group, there's some obvious selections
Speaker 1: at the top, but we saw some other receivers really
Speaker 1: try and make a push here tonight. Yeah, no question,
Speaker 1: And I think ultimately, when you're talking about those decisions
Speaker 1: that are gonna be made by the front office to
Speaker 1: coaching staff over the next couple of days the deadline
Speaker 1: being four pm on Tuesday, I think ultimately there's a
Speaker 1: lot of factors at play right because it's not just hey,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're an outside receiver, or if you're
Speaker 1: a running back, or if you're a left tackle, it's
Speaker 1: about what else can you do for this football team?
Speaker 1: And that's at the end of the day. That's why
Speaker 1: the saying that the old adage is, it's the more
Speaker 1: you can do, and it's not just on your side
Speaker 1: of the ball, but also on special teams. If you're
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, like I mentioned a left tip, if
Speaker 1: you're a left tackle, can you also play left guard?
Speaker 1: Can you play right tackle or right guard? If you're
Speaker 1: an outside receiver and you're trying to make it as
Speaker 1: a backup, well, you better be able to play on
Speaker 1: the inside as well. Can you play all three receiver spots.
Speaker 1: Can you make it as a kick return or a
Speaker 1: punk return? Can you cover kicks? So all of those
Speaker 1: different things come into play, and that versatility so so
Speaker 1: pivotal for the guys on the back end of the
Speaker 1: roster as well as from the starting lineup. We talk
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. I think Ross Tucker mentioned this
Speaker 1: on the broadcast. Offensive line is a tough position where
Speaker 1: you are extremely lucky if all five guys that start
Speaker 1: the season finished this season. It's the nature of that position.
Speaker 1: As we know in Philadelphia the past few years, there
Speaker 1: have been various injuries suffered across the offensive line. So
Speaker 1: building depth in that area is super important for the
Speaker 1: Eagles and it's something that as we know, they put
Speaker 1: a lot of emphasis on year in and year out.
Speaker 1: But if we look at the five that we know
Speaker 1: of right now, Jordan Mailatta, Landon Dickerson, Jason Kelsey was
Speaker 1: about to say Cam Jurgens because that's who we've seen
Speaker 1: the most up but I can't forget the goat Isaac
Speaker 1: Ciumalu and then Lane Johnson. That's a strong core five.
Speaker 1: But you have to think about Jordan Mailatta is just
Speaker 1: entering year two as the starting left tackle, Landon Dickerson
Speaker 1: year two in the National Football League, and also as
Speaker 1: the starting left guard, and then Isaac Cimala making his
Speaker 1: return on the right side. What do you see from
Speaker 1: this group of five going into twenty twenty two. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no question it's one of the best units in
Speaker 1: the entire NFL. I know Joe Thomas, legendary All Pro
Speaker 1: former with the Cleveland Browns, talked about how this is
Speaker 1: the top offensive line in the entire league, made some
Speaker 1: headlines this week. He is not the first analyst to
Speaker 1: make that statement. I think widely regarded this group as
Speaker 1: one of the best in the NFL. You talk about
Speaker 1: not just that first team unit, but when you get
Speaker 1: to the second team and you talk about Cam Jurgens
Speaker 1: and Andre Dillard and you go straight down the line
Speaker 1: the rest of that group, You're going to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: these guys all could could buy to start for a
Speaker 1: number of teams in the NFL, not just one or two,
Speaker 1: but six, seven, eight different teams would love to have
Speaker 1: some of the Eagles backups along the offensive line. So
Speaker 1: It's a very deep group, a very talented group, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be one of the lynch pins for this offense,
Speaker 1: both in the run game and in the past game
Speaker 1: with all that they can do in both facets of
Speaker 1: the of the game. When we talk about a strong
Speaker 1: starting five up front, it leads us to the run game,
Speaker 1: which the Eagles were known for across the National Football
Speaker 1: League last year. For the run game that they established
Speaker 1: throughout the season going into twenty twenty two, that's what's
Speaker 1: expected of the Eagles to have a good run game,
Speaker 1: but you can't forget the weapons that have been added
Speaker 1: to the offense from a wide receiver perspective. So how
Speaker 1: does that change to other teams around the league preparing
Speaker 1: for the Eagles When they know they can get you
Speaker 1: on the ground, right, that's a given, but now what
Speaker 1: can they offer, especially as Jalen Hurst has continued to
Speaker 1: develop as well. I think the big thing is that
Speaker 1: just having the ability to beat an opponent in a
Speaker 1: number of different ways, and you could break that up
Speaker 1: both run game and pass game. I think starting with
Speaker 1: the run game the Eagles, one of the biggest things
Speaker 1: about that over the last few years is that it's
Speaker 1: not just oh they're a great outside zone run team
Speaker 1: or they're a smash mouth downhill. They can beat you
Speaker 1: in a number of different ways. They can go between
Speaker 1: the tackles downhill and come right at you Defensively, They've
Speaker 1: got the ability to get out in the perimeter, not
Speaker 1: just with speed at the running back position, but with
Speaker 1: athleticism in the trenches. We've seen this summer the Cam
Speaker 1: Jurgon's blocks out in the edge. But we know number
Speaker 1: sixty two Jason Kelsey with what he can do out
Speaker 1: in space. So they can beat you in a number
Speaker 1: of different ways there. But then also you factor in
Speaker 1: the QB run element with Jalen Hurts, the option run game,
Speaker 1: the misdirection, the deception, all those different angles. Now you
Speaker 1: have lots of different ways that you can attack an
Speaker 1: opponent and how they line up on a given basis.
Speaker 1: And then you get to the past game, and we've
Speaker 1: talked about that all summer. When you talk about Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard and A. J. Brown and DeVante Smith, and you say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: all these different body types, all of them can line
Speaker 1: up inside, are outside, all of them can impact all
Speaker 1: three levels of the field. You factor in Quez Watkins
Speaker 1: and Zach Pascal and Jalen ragor the running backs, and
Speaker 1: you start going down the list and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts has a lot of weapons at his disposal.
Speaker 1: So depending on the scheme that you're going up against
Speaker 1: on any given week, well you've got answers now for
Speaker 1: whatever an opponent is going to present to you. That's
Speaker 1: really the value in the way that the Eagles have
Speaker 1: built this roster, and it'll take its final shape here
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I think what's unknown too going into twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two is what does Jalen Hurts look like as
Speaker 1: a developed quarterback. Their teams around the league can hear
Speaker 1: what is coming out of Eagles camp and hear about
Speaker 1: the progress that he's making, but we haven't quite seen
Speaker 1: it yet. He played that first series against the Jets
Speaker 1: in the preseason opener. We haven't seen him since then
Speaker 1: in a game situation. So we're out of practice every day.
Speaker 1: We see what's going on going on out on the
Speaker 1: practice field, but other teams have not game planned for
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts in year two. So that's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting as well because last year it was what's a
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni offense, What is Jalen Hurts as a starter?
Speaker 1: There were so many unknowns. Now we know a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But as everybody kind of continues to develop
Speaker 1: and the pieces keep getting put into place, what is
Speaker 1: this really going to look like? We just don't know.
Speaker 1: What every team in the NFL saw was what Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts put on tape against the New York Jets where
Speaker 1: he went six for six for eighty yards and a
Speaker 1: touchdown you throw on the touchdown run that came back
Speaker 1: off the penalty in that first drive. So I think
Speaker 1: when you look at Jalen Hurts his ability to impact
Speaker 1: both as a passer and as a runner, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of what we saw a year ago. But those
Speaker 1: developments that he has made as a passer, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned it all, we've seen now over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks in joint practice what he's done against Cleveland
Speaker 1: and against Miami. That last practice against the Dolphins. Nick
Speaker 1: Sirianni just said it was the best practice he's seen
Speaker 1: from Jalen Hurts since he's been in Philadelphia over the
Speaker 1: last two years. So I think when you look at
Speaker 1: what his trajectory is at this moment. You've got to
Speaker 1: be excited as an Eagles fan, and if you're an opponent,
Speaker 1: you've got to be left wondering, what is this offense
Speaker 1: going to look like? Are they going to throw the
Speaker 1: ball at a sixty five, seventy to seventy percent rate?
Speaker 1: We saw six plays from Jalen Hurts. All of them
Speaker 1: we're through were pass plays, right, So what exactly is
Speaker 1: this offense going to look like? Are they gonna lean
Speaker 1: heavily into the run game? Are they gonna lean heavily
Speaker 1: into the pass game, or is it like what we
Speaker 1: just talked about a few minutes ago, depending on what
Speaker 1: that looks like on a weekly basis, on a game
Speaker 1: from a weekly game plan. Well, they've got a lot
Speaker 1: of answers. Let's move to the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: We saw both rookies in Jordan Davis and a Kobe
Speaker 1: Dean's start tonight. What did you see from Jordan Davis
Speaker 1: when he was put up against another new challenge in
Speaker 1: the NFL tonight? A consistent ability to push the pocket
Speaker 1: and change the line of scrimmage. And look, I know
Speaker 1: that you know Miami ran for a bunch of yards.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of mistackles at the second and
Speaker 1: third level. There are things that again the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna want to try and take back right But ultimately,
Speaker 1: when you look at the play of Jordan Davis, saw
Speaker 1: a number of times where he was able to change
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and force the running back to
Speaker 1: bounce our cutback and that's what you're looking for from
Speaker 1: a guy playing in that position. I'm excited to go
Speaker 1: back through the tape tomorrow in the day after just
Speaker 1: to kind of get a real sense of how it looked.
Speaker 1: But just fresh eyes just watching the broadcast and taking
Speaker 1: it in, it seemed like he had another performance that
Speaker 1: was impressive and reps, reps, reps. That's what's important right
Speaker 1: right now in the beginning of his NFL career, to
Speaker 1: just keep putting a hat to a hat and see
Speaker 1: what he can do in the trenches. For Nakobe Dean,
Speaker 1: he's going to be in a linebacking room with veteran
Speaker 1: players like Kaiser White, Hassan Reddick, and now t J. Edwards,
Speaker 1: who is going into another year is more of a
Speaker 1: leader on this defense. How can that benefit a player
Speaker 1: like Nakobe Dean, Well, it allows him to come along slowly.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing with Jordan Davis. You mentioned
Speaker 1: when you come into a room, as you know the
Speaker 1: Eagles have up front and the defensive line, there's Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox and Javon Hargrave entrenched right. Milton Williams came on
Speaker 1: last year as a rookie and now going into his
Speaker 1: second year, you gotta feel good about where he's at.
Speaker 1: But then you factor in Jordan Davis. I would be
Speaker 1: shocked if you told me that there was a better
Speaker 1: group of defensive tackles one through four than the Eagles
Speaker 1: have here in Philadelphia. Then you look at what they've
Speaker 1: got off the edge with Josh Sweat and Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: and Derek Barnett. You factor in Hassan Reddick and what
Speaker 1: he's going to bring to the table, right, So, I
Speaker 1: think when you look at what the Eagles bring up front,
Speaker 1: that's certainly going to be the strength of this defense
Speaker 1: is their ability to impact the line of scrimmage, change
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, get after the quarterback, stop the run.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the lynchpin of what they do on
Speaker 1: that side of the football. And their versatility, their multiplicity upfront,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be another feather in their cap as well.
Speaker 1: And then when you talk about building this fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster, there are areas where you wonder who is
Speaker 1: going to take those places when you get into the
Speaker 1: safety position, the cornerback position, and those answers will come
Speaker 1: in the next few days. But when we also talk
Speaker 1: about this defense as a whole, when you talk to
Speaker 1: these defensive players throughout camp, they're much more confident going
Speaker 1: into year two under Jonathan Gannon. Last year, they were
Speaker 1: under some fire throughout the weeks in the beginning of
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon's tenure as the defensive coordinator here, and then
Speaker 1: they start to get into a rhythm and they figured
Speaker 1: it out. But now there's a different kind of confidence
Speaker 1: when they talk about Gannon's scheme that I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see how it plays outcome week one. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: everybody that's watching the show or you know, you've probably
Speaker 1: taken a language course in high school and college. Well
Speaker 1: you take it. The first few weeks you said, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting it. I see that word, but
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure if I'm using it the right way.
Speaker 1: Am I saying it the right way? Well, now, after
Speaker 1: the first year. After the first semester, you feel a
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable, right, And now all these guys
Speaker 1: now for the most part, minus the rookies and the
Speaker 1: free agent editions, these guys feel comfortable. You know what
Speaker 1: you're doing. And I always kind of compare it too
Speaker 1: to learning how to drive. When you're first learning how
Speaker 1: to drive, you're thinking about everything that you're doing, turning
Speaker 1: to turn to you know, turning the turn signal on,
Speaker 1: changing it into gear, right, shifting into gear. Everything you're doing.
Speaker 1: You have to think about it before you do it.
Speaker 1: But the more reps you have at driving, well, then
Speaker 1: it's just second nature and hopefully you're doing it well.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what all of these defenders are going on
Speaker 1: offense too. When you go into year two in a scheme,
Speaker 1: everything just becomes second nature. Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: the Eagle schedule coming up here, as we're fifteen days
Speaker 1: away from kickoff in Detroit. They hit the road first.
Speaker 1: They're in Detroit. It's a one o'clock kickoff. As we
Speaker 1: know last year, that's kind of where the run game
Speaker 1: took shape was against Detroit last year. It was their
Speaker 1: coming out party and then the home opener is Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football against the Vikings. I like this matchup Frand
Speaker 1: and Monday Night football at home at the Link. It's
Speaker 1: going to be rocking. It's a good NFC opponent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no question. This is our really interesting first four games
Speaker 1: for the Eagles here and looks it all starts Week
Speaker 1: one against the Detroit Lions, which, by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously look the Eagles they made They made a big
Speaker 1: turn after that game in Detroit. It was a big win.
Speaker 1: They were two and five entering that game. That really
Speaker 1: kind of got things going in the right direction for
Speaker 1: this football team. But Detroit they also kind of figured
Speaker 1: things out as well. Down the stretch. It was right
Speaker 1: after they made a change from a play caller standpoint,
Speaker 1: their new offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson. He took over play
Speaker 1: calling duties in Week ten. And what we saw from
Speaker 1: that point on down the stretch the final seven eight
Speaker 1: games was the number one they featured big time the
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver at that point, Alman ross Saint Brown,
Speaker 1: who was a fourth round pick, and they did all
Speaker 1: kinds of things moving him around the formation. Huge uptick
Speaker 1: in motion in play action in screens. So I think
Speaker 1: when you look at what they're going to bring to
Speaker 1: the table against the Eagles in Week one. Well, we
Speaker 1: know the last year it was TJ Hockinson and DeAndre
Speaker 1: Swift and those were the vocal points. Well, now you
Speaker 1: added an Alman Ross Saint Brown. They go out and
Speaker 1: they get DJ Chark and free agency. He brings a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a vertical element. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit more explosiveness now with this Detroit offense, and so
Speaker 1: that will be a big test. They were one of
Speaker 1: the most injured teams in the entire NFL last year,
Speaker 1: so this is the team that's going to be healthy.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have to be ready for a test here
Speaker 1: out in the Motor City in Week one. When you
Speaker 1: look at those first four matchups, they're twenty twenty one records,
Speaker 1: don't really jump off the page, but all four of
Speaker 1: those teams look very different than they did last year.
Speaker 1: Week three, the Eagles are going to see the Commanders.
Speaker 1: They're going to see a familiar quarterback, but a new
Speaker 1: quarterback to Washington in Carson Wentz. And then of course
Speaker 1: the Jaguars would look completely different as Doug Peterson, who's
Speaker 1: also very familiar here in Philadelphia went in and try
Speaker 1: to turn the whole thing upside down and revamp it.
Speaker 1: It's going to look completely different. Are they going to
Speaker 1: be contenders this year? I'm not so sure. But it's
Speaker 1: a different football team with a stronger culture and much
Speaker 1: more disciplined coaching than we saw last year than of course,
Speaker 1: they're on the road in Arizona and then Sunday night
Speaker 1: football against the Dallas Cowboys, which that Cowboys team looks
Speaker 1: pretty different than it did last year as well. Right
Speaker 1: obviously suffering a big injury this past week with their
Speaker 1: left tackle Tyrant Smith going down. But look, this is
Speaker 1: one of those things that I'm sure that if if
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni was sitting to your ride, He's like, we
Speaker 1: can't talk about games in middle October about week one,
Speaker 1: And I think that's almost if you're an Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: you gotta approach it that way. It's all right, what
Speaker 1: happens now? What's next? So all you got the final
Speaker 1: cutdown here on Tuesday, those announcements, we may make sure
Speaker 1: you stay tuned to Philadelphiagles dot com, all the Eagles
Speaker 1: digital and social channels. Follow Dave Spernaro on Twitter, stay
Speaker 1: tuned for his calm breaking all of those roster moves down.
Speaker 1: But after that it's full steam ahead to Detroit and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out a way to beat that team
Speaker 1: on the road. You want to start the season the
Speaker 1: right way, Go one, and oh then you worry about
Speaker 1: to going too, and oh the worry about going three.
Speaker 1: To know, the beauty of the NFL is even when
Speaker 1: you look at that schedule we're just seeing. We talk
Speaker 1: about the Eagles team, they look different than they did
Speaker 1: last year. All of these teams that we're looking at
Speaker 1: that are upcoming on the schedule look different than they
Speaker 1: did last year. And that's the beauty in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We see out of the bye the Eagles faced the Steelers,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna see Mitchell Dremissy, or they're gonna see
Speaker 1: a rookie Kenny Pickett. Who knows. And that's why when
Speaker 1: you get into the grind of the season and it's
Speaker 1: week by week, because you truly don't know what's in store,
Speaker 1: what's coming around the corner. It's a one week season.
Speaker 1: At seventeen one week season's eighteen one week season's really
Speaker 1: now with the current schedule format. But look, this is
Speaker 1: a team and la you and I were talking about
Speaker 1: this watching the game. If you look at this Eagle's
Speaker 1: roster and you compare it to where they were a
Speaker 1: year ago, and you just go position by position, you
Speaker 1: can't help but think this team is a lot more
Speaker 1: talented than they were a year goo, a lot more
Speaker 1: proven than they were a year ago. This is a
Speaker 1: team that went to the playoffs last year, that obviously
Speaker 1: caught fire down the stretch, and they found different ways
Speaker 1: to win games. You can't help but be excited about
Speaker 1: what this group looks like. I know tonight is a
Speaker 1: little bit different, right It was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different squad out there, but think back to what
Speaker 1: this starting unit has looked like in these two games
Speaker 1: against the Jets and against the Browns, you can't help
Speaker 1: but be excited. This is going to be a really
Speaker 1: fun team. I can't wait to see them take the
Speaker 1: field in September eleventh. We're gonna bring up the second
Speaker 1: half of the season schedule here for fans to take
Speaker 1: a look. But you mentioned this team, and we talked
Speaker 1: about this in the Kickoff show. Nick Sirianni earlier in
Speaker 1: the week said what he learned about this team is
Speaker 1: they're tough, they're gritty and physical. What I think is
Speaker 1: also important to notice Howie Roseman in his opening press
Speaker 1: conference of training camp, he said, they learned what they
Speaker 1: have in a head coach in Nick Sirianni last year
Speaker 1: when they start the season two and five, you learn
Speaker 1: a lot about people, about players, about coaches when your
Speaker 1: backs are against the wall, and how he said, now
Speaker 1: we know who we have in our head coach. So
Speaker 1: when you look at the second half of this season,
Speaker 1: it gets a little tricky, gets tough. The Colts they're
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good this year with Matt Ryan a quarterback.
Speaker 1: The Packers are always good. The Titans are gonna be good.
Speaker 1: A J. Brown he's gonna have a little chip on
Speaker 1: his shoulder on December fourth, And then you can never
Speaker 1: count count out those conference matchups like the Giants, and
Speaker 1: then of course down the stretch the Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: Giants yet again. So it gets a little tougher in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. And December is pretty stacked, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you've got four division games, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the second half, some of those tough teams that the
Speaker 1: Packers and Titans both finished as one seeds a year ago,
Speaker 1: So the Saints, they have a lot of confidence going
Speaker 1: into the season. It's gonna be a tough schedule. So
Speaker 1: the Eagles. All you can do when you have you
Speaker 1: have to go one game at a time and just
Speaker 1: stack week after week, week after week, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you sit there after the first half, you're
Speaker 1: all right, we're going into the buye uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and you have a winning record. You feel good about
Speaker 1: where you're out as a football team. Well, with that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna head over back down to Miami where we're
Speaker 1: here from Head coach Nick Sirianni. Yeah, we we. Mike
Speaker 1: and I talked a bunch this week and I knew
Speaker 1: they were playing them. Yeah, no, No, I felt like
Speaker 1: our guys got two good days of working, um while
Speaker 1: we were here. So you know, I thought we thought
Speaker 1: they were ready to, you know, for that week, and
Speaker 1: I didn't want to over push them and coming into
Speaker 1: that game after the amount of work that we did
Speaker 1: in those two days. UM. So I was comfortable with
Speaker 1: the starters obviously, you know, when you play like that,
Speaker 1: but it's not acceptable no matter who's against two UM.
Speaker 1: But you know, they didn't. They did a nice job,
Speaker 1: you know, moving the ball and stopping us. But you know,
Speaker 1: obviously that's not up to our standard play a while
Speaker 1: playing vas national call this game. Well, you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: in a different situation and different um, you know, scenarios.
Speaker 1: You know, we we wanted Read to get some work,
Speaker 1: We wanted Gardner to get some work. And you know
Speaker 1: that that was a little bit more about that than anything.
Speaker 1: That we wanted to make sure that those two guys
Speaker 1: got to work, that the reps that they needed. Coach
Speaker 1: nick Um, obviously things changed this week with the stomach
Speaker 1: virus for them. So how do you use this as
Speaker 1: an evaluation tool that sort of affect that No, No,
Speaker 1: because again, like the second day was good work against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins the first day and then the second day,
Speaker 1: you know we got to practice just like we were
Speaker 1: back at Novocare, right. Um. It just so happened to
Speaker 1: be to be here, obviously, So we worked hard there
Speaker 1: um at practice on whatever day that was Thursday. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: just disappointed in the um, the execution in the in
Speaker 1: the game today. I just didn't think we did a
Speaker 1: good enough job as coaches or players. And but you
Speaker 1: know that doesn't diminish the amount of good work that
Speaker 1: we got and for the last month plus in training camp. UM.
Speaker 1: So you know that's not a good way to leave
Speaker 1: with a bad taste in our mouth, to leave with um. UM.
Speaker 1: But we'll we'll fix it, like we we we UM
Speaker 1: attempt to fix everything, and we'll go back to work.
Speaker 1: We'll look at ourselves in the mirror first as coaches
Speaker 1: and then uh, and we'll get the corrections made the
Speaker 1: way we need to play, the decisions to have like
Speaker 1: guys like Kobe and Georgian leave earlier, and then you
Speaker 1: had guys on the team for like, yeah, some of
Speaker 1: it came down to the numbers that we had. UM.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, you know, we we everybody
Speaker 1: was discussed individually, right from you know, from Slay to
Speaker 1: Jalen to you know, everybody on the roster. So um,
Speaker 1: everyone was discussed. Uh, some of the twos, you know,
Speaker 1: we we didn't play our ones. We didn't play some
Speaker 1: of our ones. Part of me are twos that we're
Speaker 1: in with the ones during practice because again, like we
Speaker 1: felt like we got good work with them, um this week.
Speaker 1: So there were some twos that didn't play and then
Speaker 1: read two was discussing whether we were playing them a
Speaker 1: couple series, whether we're playing them two quarters, whether they
Speaker 1: were low on a position and you know we had
Speaker 1: we were low on position as far as the numbers, uh,
Speaker 1: and then they might head to be ready to go
Speaker 1: all game. We didn't let guys that um that came
Speaker 1: out of the game this time take their pads off
Speaker 1: because just because of the number situation. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: it wasn't anything there, just a numbers thing where where
Speaker 1: Davey almost continuing to play. However, No, obviously I'll have
Speaker 1: to go watch the tape. But you know, I thought
Speaker 1: he had a good week of practice this week. It
Speaker 1: was good to see him back on the field, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and then today I'll have to walk off
Speaker 1: to watch it. Man, nice catch on that shallow and
Speaker 1: showed some uh and showed some acceleration after that, which
Speaker 1: was good to see. Um, how many catches did you have?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure too. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if I remember what the second one was right off
Speaker 1: the top of my head. But um, so he did
Speaker 1: a couple good things. But I'm gonna have to look
Speaker 1: at the tape. I'm go and look at it. A
Speaker 1: lot the stuff out there and uh. Um, but I've
Speaker 1: been happy with them in practice, something that's gonna take
Speaker 1: a lofer. So yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's something
Speaker 1: right with the some of the f tight ends that
Speaker 1: have been you know, been more of receiving threats in
Speaker 1: in um in college. That that's an adjustment that they
Speaker 1: have to make. But you know, they can't be a
Speaker 1: liability in the in the run game, right, They have
Speaker 1: to be able to go in there and execute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you limit what you ask them to do in this
Speaker 1: and that, but um, yeah, that's just something that we're
Speaker 1: gonna always be working on to get better with him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, because he doesn't have a lot of experience
Speaker 1: with it right now. Obviously you have to watch the film,
Speaker 1: but Grant was involved in that that pick six and
Speaker 1: looked like maybe they weren't on the same page. Maybe
Speaker 1: reread takers coming out. What did you see? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna tell you. I mean, I know what happened,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to put it on somebody. We'll
Speaker 1: fix that in the film room. Um, and so you
Speaker 1: know it's all exactly what happened. Uh yeah, Just I'll
Speaker 1: keep that with within and we'll fix it and get
Speaker 1: better from it. I feel to give a self assessment
Speaker 1: on yourself phone this preseason best of players for the
Speaker 1: last season, how would you great yourself? How? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just so much it's so much different, right, I
Speaker 1: have a whole full season of coaching in playoff game
Speaker 1: under under my belts, So uh yeah, I feel everything hopefully.
Speaker 1: You know, we ask our players to get better every
Speaker 1: single day, um, and we can't ask them to do
Speaker 1: that unless we're doing that ourselves. So you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like three hundred and sixty five days, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit better each day. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: if I hit that mark every single time, but um,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get better just like we want our
Speaker 1: players too. So I feel I feel I feel better
Speaker 1: about I feel better about myself at this point than
Speaker 1: I did last year at this time. A competitor, we
Speaker 1: all know that you're a little frustrating coming out the field.
Speaker 1: What was your nactually change sort to the part, Yeah
Speaker 1: that that's hard when you know we got a bunch
Speaker 1: of competitors in that in that room, right, um, and
Speaker 1: so it's hard no matter what you lose something like
Speaker 1: that bad, Like you know, that's tough. That's tough to stomach, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know that that you come out there and and
Speaker 1: hats off to Miami. They did a good job and
Speaker 1: they're well coached. I got a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: for coach McDaniel, I got a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: uh coach Boyer that they're well coached. Um, and they
Speaker 1: got good players. Um. But yeah, you just you just
Speaker 1: want to You never want to. You want to never
Speaker 1: want to come out there and lay an egg like
Speaker 1: we did. And so it you know, I don't. My
Speaker 1: message was we got to look at it, and we
Speaker 1: gotta and we gotta all look at ourselves in the
Speaker 1: mirror and get better from it. And it starts with
Speaker 1: and I'll always put it on us as coaches. First,
Speaker 1: we gotta, you know, we're the ones that prepare them,
Speaker 1: and then they gotta they have to be the ones
Speaker 1: they go out and play. So we all gotta look
Speaker 1: at ourselves in the mirror and get better from it.
Speaker 1: And that's the philosophy, no win or lose, that we
Speaker 1: have after each game, each and every game that we
Speaker 1: play here in Philadelphia. Thanks. That was head coach Nick
Speaker 1: Sirianni following the preseason finale fran He said, he knew
Speaker 1: that the doll We're going to come out with their
Speaker 1: first team offense, he said, but that didn't change his
Speaker 1: plans at all, which leads me to believe that he's
Speaker 1: confident in the work that they did accomplish down in Miami,
Speaker 1: even with just one joint practice. You were there for
Speaker 1: those two days. Does he have a lot to be
Speaker 1: confident about after those two sessions, Yeah, no doubt. It's
Speaker 1: like we talked about on the Kickoff show, that that
Speaker 1: second practice that was just the Eagles on Thursday. It
Speaker 1: was a sharp practice. They got out, they went through
Speaker 1: four or five team periods, including a seven on seven,
Speaker 1: and then they went in and had to walk through
Speaker 1: for about a half hour and that was it. But
Speaker 1: it was a sharp practice to end the week and
Speaker 1: to really to end the training camp and preseason for
Speaker 1: this football team. And so to me, it made sense
Speaker 1: that they were going to change their plans just because
Speaker 1: Miami was going to send out their starters. You're not
Speaker 1: going to just follow suit and do exactly what they
Speaker 1: would need to do. Let them get their work in.
Speaker 1: The Eagles got their work in earlier this week, so
Speaker 1: that makes plenty of sense. From that standpoint, all right, friend,
Speaker 1: last one of the preseason, what's your RecA review? All right?
Speaker 1: So we talked earlier in the show about what players
Speaker 1: could do across the roster to try and see if
Speaker 1: they can stake acclaim for one of those coveted fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster spots. Well, one example of that, we're
Speaker 1: gonna cover it here in the Rico review happened from
Speaker 1: wide receiver Devin Allen. Here in the third hoarter does
Speaker 1: an outstanding job on punt coverage, getting down and helping
Speaker 1: to force a muff kick on the punt return. Watch
Speaker 1: him beat the jam here. That's a jamber from Miami
Speaker 1: does an outstanding job with an outside stem uses that speed.
Speaker 1: One of the fastest men in the world, does a
Speaker 1: great job of helping to force that because if you're
Speaker 1: a punt returner, you're feeling that heat, you're feeling that receiver,
Speaker 1: that gunner bear down on you. So he did an
Speaker 1: outstanding job screaming down towards the punt returner, helped force
Speaker 1: the fumble. It's that kind of effort that can try
Speaker 1: and see if you can earn a job. Not just
Speaker 1: here again, not just here in Philadelphia but with the
Speaker 1: other thirty one teams, because all thirty one teams get
Speaker 1: this film. So nice job by Devin. Owl will see
Speaker 1: if if it's enough for him. But I think ultimately
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking for across the roster. If you're
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman, if you're Nick Sirianni, if you're this Eagle's
Speaker 1: front office, you went all ninety of these guys at
Speaker 1: eighty at this point, you went all eighty of your
Speaker 1: players making plays like that in the preseason. Well, I'll
Speaker 1: do it for us for the preseason. That's it for
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Speaker 1: kicking off the twenty twenty two season from Detroit. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us, and as always, go Birds.