Speaker 1: And that's a rap from MetLife Stadium tonight, the Eagles
Speaker 1: closing out their final preseason game. Welcome to the postgame show,
Speaker 1: presented by Rico and Gabriella d Givanni, joined by fran Duffy.
Speaker 1: Here we are closing it out preseason football. Goodbye, preseason
Speaker 1: is over. It ended a little bit differently than we expected.
Speaker 1: A thirty one thirty one tie, but an entertaining game.
Speaker 1: Some good things on both sides of the ball from
Speaker 1: this Eagles team. Not the finish that you would like ideally,
Speaker 1: but a good performance. Donetheless, Head Kushnick Sirianni still looking
Speaker 1: for his first win at the Helm. But there was
Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff in that first half, I thought,
Speaker 1: especially from the offense. There was a ton of bright spots,
Speaker 1: a lot of patients throughout that first half, and a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, especially Kenny g really showed up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought we saw some really good things offensively, and
Speaker 1: you saw some crisp offensive play. I thought Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: looked sharp. He really had a good week of practice
Speaker 1: as well up there in Floren Park, so going up
Speaker 1: against his former team, I thought he showed up this play.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much else to say outside of
Speaker 1: Boston Scott doing a great job in the open field,
Speaker 1: really well executed play. I think I'll be breaking this
Speaker 1: one down a little bit later in the show. The
Speaker 1: Eagles being able to finish off drives, and what's the
Speaker 1: thing we talked about in the Kickoff Show, right is
Speaker 1: I want to see them finish and I thought the
Speaker 1: offense did a good job. Three of the first four
Speaker 1: drives ended in touchdowns. That's what you're looking to see
Speaker 1: from an offensive standpoint. You'd like to be able to
Speaker 1: see the quarterback captain. The offense moved the football down
Speaker 1: the field. You had some big plays, but then you
Speaker 1: had had some drives where they had to matriculate it
Speaker 1: and get dink and dunk and get the ball down.
Speaker 1: They did a good job overall tonight. Joe Flacco was
Speaker 1: wheeling and dealing out there. He came up with some
Speaker 1: good good stuff. He was extending plays, which I think
Speaker 1: is something that the Eagles are working on. It's it's
Speaker 1: a strength. It's been ash strength in the past few weeks.
Speaker 1: And we talked about also in the Kickoff Show. That
Speaker 1: offensive line. We got to see a lot in terms
Speaker 1: of the depth, which was something that we mentioned before
Speaker 1: the game started and Andre Dillard. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: what you thought of his performance. Because Jordan Mailatta has
Speaker 1: been the big talk at left tackle. Andre Dillard has
Speaker 1: been banged up through camp, so we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to see much of him, although Jordan Milatta has been
Speaker 1: pretty dominant at that position. But we got to see
Speaker 1: Andre Dillard for a long time tonight. We did, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to kind of dig into the tape tomorrow
Speaker 1: and really get a sense of how he did overall.
Speaker 1: But we got to see some flashes where you know,
Speaker 1: he releases out to the perimeter on some screenplays and
Speaker 1: he's able to get you know, big on big and
Speaker 1: get and get some defenders out of the way out
Speaker 1: in space. So look, that plays in his athleticism. That's
Speaker 1: something you'd like to see from Andre Dillard. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to dig into the film and see how he looked
Speaker 1: in his first extensive preseason action since twenty nineteen. On
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball, t Y McGill, Yes,
Speaker 1: what are our thoughts? There? A really strong performance and
Speaker 1: this is a guy that has flashed almost on on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, not just here in the preseason, but
Speaker 1: throughout training camp as well. He's really really quick, really active.
Speaker 1: He's got heavier hands than you would expect for an
Speaker 1: undersized defensive tackle. He's been on and off the roster
Speaker 1: ella for the last couple of years, and he really
Speaker 1: just kind of flashes. And what flashes most about him
Speaker 1: is his effort, his energy, his play personality. I thought
Speaker 1: that showed up today. We saw him chasing the football consistently,
Speaker 1: but you saw some TFLs. We saw a couple of
Speaker 1: sacks there from t Y McGill, so showing off one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why he's been able to stick in
Speaker 1: the NFL for as long as he has. Looking at
Speaker 1: the big picture now, like we said in the Kickoff show,
Speaker 1: guys were fighting for a job tonight and you can
Speaker 1: see that fight in jaj arthego whiteside, he was fighting
Speaker 1: for it. Now the next few days until Tuesday, where
Speaker 1: those roster cuts are made from eighty players to fifty three.
Speaker 1: What is that going to look like after tonight's performance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see exactly when those official cuts are made. And
Speaker 1: make sure you're tuned in to at Eagles on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're tuned into Philadelphiagles dot Com, the Eagle's
Speaker 1: mobile app, social channels all across the board. Make sure
Speaker 1: you're tuned in because once those cuts are official, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to find them on all of those channels.
Speaker 1: But at some point for Tuesday's deadline, the Eagles will
Speaker 1: get down to fifty three. Then the next day, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: is when they can get to that sixteen man practice squad.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so obviously a lot of tough decisions that
Speaker 1: will be made here in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Definitely decisions that coaches around the league would say it's
Speaker 1: not the best part of the job, but being a coach. Now,
Speaker 1: they have joint practice film, they have training camp film,
Speaker 1: and they have three preseason games. What does it look
Speaker 1: like for them when they're gonna all sit down, They're
Speaker 1: gonna go back, They're gonna look at this film before
Speaker 1: they make these decisions. What does it look like from
Speaker 1: a coach's perspective. You're evaluating the whole body of work,
Speaker 1: and we set it in a kickoff show that it's
Speaker 1: all about the more you can do. So, if you're
Speaker 1: an offensive player, what can you do in your own position?
Speaker 1: If you're a running back, can you help as a blocker.
Speaker 1: Can you help us a pass catcher obviously as a runner?
Speaker 1: Can you move around the formation? Can you go play
Speaker 1: special teams? Are you're a returner? Can you cover kicks?
Speaker 1: Can you be a punt block on the punt block team?
Speaker 1: What else can you offer this football team? And so
Speaker 1: the guys that can answer or could check more boxes there,
Speaker 1: they've got more of a chance to be able to stick.
Speaker 1: And those are the discussions that it's not just they're
Speaker 1: going to start now that the front office, the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: they've been having those discussions over the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and months. Now it's going to all come down
Speaker 1: to these next couple of days. It's it's gonna be busy,
Speaker 1: that's for sure around here at the Novacare Complex. Now,
Speaker 1: as we said before, Nick's Arianni really views these joint
Speaker 1: practices as preseason games. So again doing that math, they've
Speaker 1: the Eagles and played a total of seven preseason games.
Speaker 1: Looking at all those joint practices and the film from
Speaker 1: those preseason games for in, what do we know now
Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty one Eagles. I think we know
Speaker 1: that they're gonna play really, really hard, and that's been
Speaker 1: the One thing that has stood out is that the
Speaker 1: energy level has been consistent from Practice one all the
Speaker 1: way up through was a fifteen practices total. Sixteen practices
Speaker 1: total plus those games, I think we've seen a really
Speaker 1: high level of energy on both offense and defense. The
Speaker 1: coaching staff they are going to harp on development and
Speaker 1: players getting better week after week, game after game. That's
Speaker 1: been consistent here in camp. I think we'll continue to
Speaker 1: see that as well. That's gonna be big for a
Speaker 1: lot of these young players. The first year players, second
Speaker 1: year players, third year players, expect to see them make
Speaker 1: incremental improvements throughout the course of the season. So teaching
Speaker 1: and then the energy level, I think those are going
Speaker 1: to be constants here with this football team. And I
Speaker 1: think it's important to note that now after that whistle
Speaker 1: was blown, there's sixteen days until the Eagles hit the
Speaker 1: road to take on Atlanta for Week one. So that's
Speaker 1: a lot of time, right to get the wheels in
Speaker 1: motion with your fifty three guys. What's that going to
Speaker 1: look like over the next sixteen days to prepare this team,
Speaker 1: keep them focused for Atlanta. So basically what happens now
Speaker 1: once training camp is over Obviously, the media, we're not
Speaker 1: at practice every single day throughout the entire practice. So
Speaker 1: once that media session ends, that little media window where
Speaker 1: cameras are out there for the first fifteen twenty minutes, cameras,
Speaker 1: media all go away, and now the team starts working
Speaker 1: on game plans. And not only will they focus so
Speaker 1: you're here on Atlanta, but a lot of teams will
Speaker 1: also maybe sneak in a couple periods here and there
Speaker 1: every day, especially this coming week where we're looking at
Speaker 1: Week two San Francisco, Week three, four, you're looking at
Speaker 1: those opponents as well. But next week, that's when it's
Speaker 1: gonna be all Atlanta all the time, getting ready for
Speaker 1: that Week one opponent. Obviously, look this this coming week here,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all about the decisions, everybody getting their
Speaker 1: body right, making sure you're good to go, but getting
Speaker 1: ready for Atlanta that starts tomorrow. Sure, and this week
Speaker 1: can be kind of treated like a bye week, right,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna want to try and get your bodies back,
Speaker 1: get your guys healthy and ready to go, which is
Speaker 1: a certainly a benefit of not playing next weekend. However,
Speaker 1: with those sixteen days, I know people get a little
Speaker 1: worried all that time off, but I know Nick Sirianni
Speaker 1: is going to have these guys ready to go. And
Speaker 1: that was the point of having these joint practices the
Speaker 1: way that they had them. It was hot up there
Speaker 1: in New York and New Jersey this week. Both days
Speaker 1: of practice Tuesday and Wednesday were scorchers. It was hot
Speaker 1: and humid out there after the rainstorm even tonight. So
Speaker 1: those guys got a lot of great work in and
Speaker 1: you know they're going to continue to recover, be ready
Speaker 1: to go. Here. We got a couple of weeks that
Speaker 1: sixteen days is gonna go fast, all right. So now
Speaker 1: this week's approaching, it's busy around the Novacare Complex. For you,
Speaker 1: what's some things that you're going to break down? So
Speaker 1: for me personally, I mean, we'll dig a little bit
Speaker 1: into this film here from the third preseason game against
Speaker 1: the Jets. But all eyes are now going to start
Speaker 1: looking ahead towards Atlanta. So whether it's on the Eagle line,
Speaker 1: the Sky Podcast will be preparing for that, but also
Speaker 1: as well for Eagles game plan our weekly show we
Speaker 1: do our film breakdowns of the Eagles upcoming game, the
Speaker 1: opponent and how they're going to win the matchup. That's
Speaker 1: the goal every single week over on Eagles game Plan.
Speaker 1: So production for that has already started. We'll have film
Speaker 1: breakdowns every week with coach Siriani. We'll have great co
Speaker 1: sell My Quick, John Clark, I Grease. It's always a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. So all of those breakdowns they all
Speaker 1: start right away. So excited to get going there. But
Speaker 1: for look for the team, like I said, it is
Speaker 1: all about getting now to that regular season. You've made
Speaker 1: it through camp, you've made it over that hill. Now
Speaker 1: it's about trying to get yourself ready for week one. Now.
Speaker 1: One position group that we talked a lot about on
Speaker 1: the Kickoff show was the running backs. Now we didn't
Speaker 1: see Miles Standers, we didn't see Jordan Howard, But what
Speaker 1: did we learn about the other running backs tonight that
Speaker 1: maybe we didn't know before. I'm see Kenny Gainwell still
Speaker 1: proving to be what he's shown in the past few
Speaker 1: weeks at camp, but what can we really learn about
Speaker 1: them after tonight? Yeah, I think it wasn't even necessarily
Speaker 1: about like learning something new. It was also about just
Speaker 1: let's just see the guys perform. We haven't seen Kenny
Speaker 1: Gainwell have that level of performance up to this point.
Speaker 1: And we talked about it earlier that he did not
Speaker 1: play in twenty twenty, right, he opted out of his
Speaker 1: sophomore season in Memphis. But great to see him perform
Speaker 1: the way he did under the lights. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: speak in a Kenny Gainwell. We're going to head over
Speaker 1: to the press conference, and here from the running back himself. Hey,
Speaker 1: questions for Kay. Hey, can't you just talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: the progress you made you the preseason and how just
Speaker 1: how you feel about yourself going into the regular season.
Speaker 1: Let's just came a preseason too, ready to work, you know,
Speaker 1: And I came in with my head down. It's ready
Speaker 1: to take every I since it came my way. So
Speaker 1: came into ready to work. And going into the season,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just ready to work. Put it all
Speaker 1: out there on the field. Did you feel like in
Speaker 1: the beginning of training camp that you have like any
Speaker 1: rush to knock off because you didn't play last year? Um? No,
Speaker 1: not really. Um I just I mean I came in
Speaker 1: ready regardless of anything, you know, just came in ready
Speaker 1: to work. Over the last month, where do you think
Speaker 1: you've improved the most um, overall just you know, um learning,
Speaker 1: you know, learning from the older guys listening, Um, just
Speaker 1: being smart with just the place, you know, just taking
Speaker 1: it day by day. They practice a sweet We saw
Speaker 1: you get a lot of work as first team back
Speaker 1: and hurry up situations. How can you help when that
Speaker 1: role in particular? Um, just being ready when my name
Speaker 1: is called, just going in, attacking everything I had to
Speaker 1: do whatever, you know, whenever my name is called, Just
Speaker 1: going in and just do my job. Along those lines,
Speaker 1: how how was past protection coming along? It's been coming
Speaker 1: home good, you know, um easing every day. I try
Speaker 1: to work hard to get better and you know, do
Speaker 1: everything I had to do. They moved around a lot
Speaker 1: in the formulation here. Um is that something that you
Speaker 1: experienced a lot of Memphis? Yeah, that's exactly why it's
Speaker 1: marriage in Memphis. Can moved from slot outside to inside. Um,
Speaker 1: playing outside of the tackle, like right outside the tacking.
Speaker 1: You know exactly what's going on now. So I'm very
Speaker 1: comfortable with that. I'm good to pick one guy on
Speaker 1: the team is gonna have a big season? Us here
Speaker 1: who we're you just saying? I say myself, you know,
Speaker 1: and basically the whole team but I'm gonna bet on
Speaker 1: myself every chance I get how to feel together in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Man, it felt good. You know I
Speaker 1: had to let less team all. You know, I felt good.
Speaker 1: You show some patients on that run. Do you think
Speaker 1: like the game has slowed down for you since you
Speaker 1: since you first started OTA? So where you are now?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for sure. You know. Um as you go
Speaker 1: day by day, you learned play, knowing what to do.
Speaker 1: You know, everything is slowed down. Okay, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: All right. We heard from running back Kenny Gainwell again
Speaker 1: we were just speaking about in before turning over to
Speaker 1: his press conference. What do you think adding him to
Speaker 1: the running back room is really going to do for
Speaker 1: this offense in this team. Well, I think it just
Speaker 1: gives the offensive coordinator, the offensive coaches another dimension, another
Speaker 1: running back that can impact the pass game as a
Speaker 1: pass catcher, because we've seen him at Memphis be moved
Speaker 1: all around the formation. He just talked about it there,
Speaker 1: how he was moved into the slot, he was moved
Speaker 1: out wide, and yeah, he can break off big runs
Speaker 1: like we saw today in chunks, but he also can
Speaker 1: run routes like a wide receiver. He has the ability
Speaker 1: to finish at the catch point like a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: just such a natural pass catcher, and you love having
Speaker 1: that out of the backfield. It's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: mismatches in the sport is getting a running back on
Speaker 1: a linebacker on a safety at the second level. With
Speaker 1: that ability to make plays down the football field and
Speaker 1: all three levels, it's something that's going to be a
Speaker 1: big part of this offense. As we're learning more and
Speaker 1: more about these running backs and now these wide receivers,
Speaker 1: it's going to be really interesting to see how Stiken
Speaker 1: in Sirianni kind of use them together. YEA, use the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, use the running backs in unison, how they
Speaker 1: can complement each other on this offense. Yeah, And we've
Speaker 1: seen a little bit of that in the preseason where
Speaker 1: you'll have those split back looks where the quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the shotgun. You have a quarterback or a running back
Speaker 1: on his right, another running back on his left. You
Speaker 1: can do a lot of different things from a motion
Speaker 1: standpoint and a matchup standpoint, and sometimes it's eye candy.
Speaker 1: Neither of those guys get the football, but it opens
Speaker 1: up space for others. So I'm really excited to see
Speaker 1: what they can continue to do out of those looks.
Speaker 1: And if you're in defense, how hard is it to
Speaker 1: look at that either game plan or to be able
Speaker 1: to read the offense correctly. That's the thing is that
Speaker 1: if you're in man to man coverage, you have to
Speaker 1: figure out who's going to be covering each of those
Speaker 1: backs one on one. Not every team is going to
Speaker 1: have two linebackers that you feel comfortable with matching up
Speaker 1: to running backs in space. And if you're gonna play
Speaker 1: a play in zone, like I said, those motions that
Speaker 1: can really mess with the eyes of a zone coverage defender.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a running back going across your
Speaker 1: face this way, another one going this way, if you
Speaker 1: go this way or the other, well, now you open
Speaker 1: up a gap behind you and can you throw it
Speaker 1: to a tight end or a streaking receiver whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So you know, we've seen that from the Eagles a
Speaker 1: little bit it here in the preseason and some of
Speaker 1: these games. We'll see if they continue to do it
Speaker 1: into the regular season. And we know Sirianni is not
Speaker 1: going to show no, not at all, anything exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And that's a huge benefit that the Eagles have this
Speaker 1: year is there's really no film on this team. Right.
Speaker 1: We can sit here and we can talk about the preseason,
Speaker 1: we can talk about joint practices until we turn blue
Speaker 1: in the face, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we don't know what this Eagles team is truly, truly
Speaker 1: going to look like until it's Week one in Atlanta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, no NFL team knows what Nick Sirianni's offense,
Speaker 1: his offense where he is calling shots, what that is
Speaker 1: going to look like. No one knows what a Jonathan
Speaker 1: Gannon defense where he is calling shots, what that looks like.
Speaker 1: That is something that the Eagles have to their advantage
Speaker 1: going into Week one, and then even then for the
Speaker 1: San Francisco for nine ers to only have one week's
Speaker 1: worth of tape, that's not a lot, that's not a
Speaker 1: very large sample size. So the Eagles certainly have that
Speaker 1: going to their advantage going into this game. And talking
Speaker 1: about Jonathan Gannon's defense, a big thing that he has
Speaker 1: been very vocal about is his focus on takeaways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw that towards the end of the game there
Speaker 1: they had a big takeaway the Eagles defense. How important
Speaker 1: was that do you think to Cap that off for
Speaker 1: the defense before they head into the next week. It's
Speaker 1: a good question because it's something he talked about Jonathan
Speaker 1: Gannon this week at a press conference up in North
Speaker 1: Jersey where he mentioned it was a forced fumble last
Speaker 1: week in New England late by Raekwon Williams. And it's
Speaker 1: just a good example for these guys to be able
Speaker 1: to show something on tape and say, look, all these
Speaker 1: things we practice every single day. Here's a good example
Speaker 1: of it. Look it happened here in the game. This
Speaker 1: is what we were trying to preach. This is what
Speaker 1: we're doing. It's one thing when you show the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts do it, or you show the Minnesota Vikings do it.
Speaker 1: But it's great to have your own film and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: like we have done this, this is what we want
Speaker 1: it to look like. This is the standard. And so
Speaker 1: anytime you can have that, even if it is just
Speaker 1: preseason film, it goes a long way. Absolutely. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the defense, a big name on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball that we talked about in the Kickoff show
Speaker 1: was Milton Williams. Would you think of his performance tonight?
Speaker 1: He flashed, he did some good things Honestly, I thought
Speaker 1: a lot of the rookies on the defensive side did
Speaker 1: some good things here tonight. We saw Zach McPherson come
Speaker 1: up with that interception in the end zone on the
Speaker 1: two point play. We saw Tarron Jackson make plays to
Speaker 1: we polo to a bunch of these guys. So it's
Speaker 1: to see Milton Williams in the first half showed up
Speaker 1: at defensive tackle. He looks like he played most of
Speaker 1: his time inside tonight. I'm excited to go back through
Speaker 1: the film, but I thought he flashed and he's continued
Speaker 1: to flash. He has gotten He's one of those guys
Speaker 1: ella that on the short list of who has gotten
Speaker 1: better week after week after week. Milton Williams, he is
Speaker 1: on that shortlist at the top. Absolutely. Now, when you
Speaker 1: look at the team off the field, right and you
Speaker 1: think of Jalen Hurts, who's stepping into this new role
Speaker 1: as the quarterback of this team, what does the preparation
Speaker 1: look like for a guy like him, Well, it's first off,
Speaker 1: it's tough because you have to prepare for your first
Speaker 1: time as a starter, right Because I remember this guy
Speaker 1: who's only started four games coming into this year. This
Speaker 1: is brand new for him. He was the third string
Speaker 1: quarterback a year ago at this time, so he's got that.
Speaker 1: But then you're also preparing for a ridiculous defensive scheme
Speaker 1: Week one against the Atlanta Falcons. Demps is one of
Speaker 1: the toughest coordinators to prepare for in the NFL. Comes
Speaker 1: out of retirement, took last year off, now he's back
Speaker 1: here with the Atlanta Falcons. He is a beast to
Speaker 1: prepare for. From a blitz standpoint, a disguise stamp point.
Speaker 1: So all the things that Jalen's got to worry about
Speaker 1: from a first time starter standpoint. Then you add on
Speaker 1: top of that, oh yeah, I gotta go up against
Speaker 1: Dean P's in Week one. That's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: storyline that we're not talking about now, but a week
Speaker 1: from now that'll be a big question of press conferences
Speaker 1: and a big thing that we know about Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: that we've heard all through his college career at both
Speaker 1: Alabama and Oklahoma and now since he'd been here at
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Of course, as those intangibles, right, we hear
Speaker 1: about his leadership, we hear about his passion. We were
Speaker 1: talking about how excited he was, he was ready to
Speaker 1: go for practice. Right. Sometimes he's up at the podium
Speaker 1: and it's like Nick Saban is speaking out of his mouth. Right.
Speaker 1: He is just wired to win. And we remember when
Speaker 1: he was at Oklahoma, right, he would just win a
Speaker 1: game and then there were photos of him all over
Speaker 1: Twitter in his dirty Oklahoma soon as uniform lifting weights
Speaker 1: in the weight room. That is how he is wired.
Speaker 1: And we know that's the kind of Jalen Hurts we
Speaker 1: will get here in Philadelphia. But when you start to
Speaker 1: talk about now, you know this is this his show, right,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be going up against a tough
Speaker 1: defense week one and once that's going to look like
Speaker 1: in terms of preparation he's got He's got some work
Speaker 1: to do, no question. And you and I are both
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia. We understand how much everybody here loves the passion, right,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts absolutely matches that. And that's something that
Speaker 1: fans will continue to see from him during his time
Speaker 1: here in Philadelphia. But it's a big test obviously, Like
Speaker 1: I said, you're preparing for your first time as a starter,
Speaker 1: and you've got a big test. And they're even looking
Speaker 1: past that, and he's not looking past it, but those
Speaker 1: first few defenses a lot to prepare for down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Early on. You know, it was mentioned, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was this past week or two weeks ago camp,
Speaker 1: the week start to blend together. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what danas, but it was mentioned that he quizzes guys
Speaker 1: in the hallway where they're walking around the Novacare Complex.
Speaker 1: How important is he for the development? You know, we've
Speaker 1: been talking about these young guys on offense, for that
Speaker 1: wide receiver group, for some of these running backs. How
Speaker 1: important is it to have him a guy like Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts who's a proven winner be here and he has
Speaker 1: that mentality where he's always going to keep them on
Speaker 1: their toes and he's going to get the best he
Speaker 1: can out of these guys. Well. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: like when you talk about all you know, it's a
Speaker 1: younger team, you don't have a lot of veterans, But
Speaker 1: when you have guys that are wired the right way,
Speaker 1: even if they're young, if they are put in a position,
Speaker 1: in a leadership position, like Jalen Hurts is the number
Speaker 1: one quarterback. You know, you look at Davonte Smith and
Speaker 1: what his role is offensively. Now you've got that authority
Speaker 1: to be able to assert yourself and be able to
Speaker 1: kind of set that standard. And I think you're going
Speaker 1: to see that from a lot of these young guys.
Speaker 1: You still have those vets, you still have on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football lane, Johnson, Jason Else, zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: you still have those guys. But then to have some
Speaker 1: of the young guys able to show the way and say, hey,
Speaker 1: look this is how we're going to continue to do things.
Speaker 1: You love having that in the building. It's interesting to
Speaker 1: see the balance, right because you have an offensive line
Speaker 1: that the dudes on that line won a Super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: then you've a young guy like Jalen Hurts coming in
Speaker 1: kind of taking the reins of this offense. So finding
Speaker 1: a balance in the leadership on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, I think it's interesting. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to really be a huge part in how this offense
Speaker 1: is built as weeks roll on. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good things, a lot of hope, a lot of
Speaker 1: things to be excited about. If you're a Philadelphia Eagles fan. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: When you have those young guys, it's so fun to
Speaker 1: be able to watch them continue to develop. I've made
Speaker 1: the comparison in the past, just looking to last year,
Speaker 1: two of the bright young players that kind of took
Speaker 1: that next step, and we were like, wow, really excited
Speaker 1: about their development. Jordan Milatta on offense, Josh Sweat on defense.
Speaker 1: Two members of the twenty eighteen class in their third
Speaker 1: year who took that next step. We're expecting big things
Speaker 1: from here this fall in year four. It's fun to
Speaker 1: be able to watch players develop, but it takes time.
Speaker 1: Josh Sweat was not Josh Sweat. Josh Sweat now was
Speaker 1: not Josh Sweat in twenty eighteen. Jordan Milatta, we've said
Speaker 1: before he didn't know how to buckle his chin strap
Speaker 1: three years ago, right, you don't know how to put
Speaker 1: his pads on. Now, all of a sudden, he's let's start.
Speaker 1: He's got his pads off the entirety of Game three. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the way that we've been able to watch
Speaker 1: these guys develop, you got to do the same thing
Speaker 1: for the young guys, whether it's the rookies or the
Speaker 1: second year players. You look at Jalen Hurts, Jalen Raager,
Speaker 1: the rest of that sophomore class, same idea. You gotta
Speaker 1: let them continue to develop. And you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of veteran blood that was brought in in
Speaker 1: the off season on the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: as well. That has been so great for that side
Speaker 1: of the ball when you have Anthony Harris Stephen Nelson
Speaker 1: who joined the team later on in the off season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even like the Eric Wilson's great, I'm gonna cut you off.
Speaker 1: We're going to head to the press conference with Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: Some guys, I didn't see you all last year at
Speaker 1: all in person. I don't think huh, it's all over FaceTime.
Speaker 1: But whatever, Joe, the collection of honeybacks here, how much
Speaker 1: did they fit what they wants to do on offense
Speaker 1: and the different lessons you didn't Yeah, well, listen, I
Speaker 1: know that those guys are doing a good job. I
Speaker 1: mean it's yet to be you know, we're still pretty
Speaker 1: in pretty early stages here in terms of how things
Speaker 1: are going to fit in and especially since we haven't
Speaker 1: gotten into the regular season to see what we're really
Speaker 1: gonna you know, really end up coming out of this
Speaker 1: season being good at But these guys are doing a
Speaker 1: really good you know, they're doing doing really good at
Speaker 1: you know, picking everything up and being as versatile as possible.
Speaker 1: Go that throw to h Jay j everything await side.
Speaker 1: You like your rules, you're right, but you know, just
Speaker 1: take us through them, play with just see where we're looking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're you just running two basically two corner routs with
Speaker 1: some flats and trying to get out of bounds at
Speaker 1: the end of the half and pick up another chunk.
Speaker 1: Gets a little bit closer. Um felt like the left
Speaker 1: side where I was looking wasn't really working. It got
Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure, was able to escape out right,
Speaker 1: and then just that portion of the field was you know,
Speaker 1: it was open, and he kind of felt that. He
Speaker 1: turned up Um and did an awesome job catching the
Speaker 1: ball and then getting into the end zone from the air. Obviously.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that was all him once the
Speaker 1: ball got in the air, it was it was all
Speaker 1: him catching the ball and then getting those last ten
Speaker 1: yards or whatever it was to get get himself in
Speaker 1: the end zone for a touchdown. That was huge. I
Speaker 1: pointed a little bit, but I think he was already
Speaker 1: turning up given given everything you've done in your career, Joe, Like,
Speaker 1: what what is your juice? Love for a preseason finale.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I think people probably see that, they see,
Speaker 1: you know, guying has been third he's playing in the
Speaker 1: last preseason game, and they probably think, oh, he's just
Speaker 1: he's just out there hanging out playing football, you know,
Speaker 1: just playing a game. But no, I mean, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in the hotel today getting myself ready, just like I
Speaker 1: would any other game, you know, especially we haven't you know,
Speaker 1: obviously still we haven't won in this preseason and his
Speaker 1: Nick's first job as a head coach, and this first
Speaker 1: you know, a new staff, so you know, I've been
Speaker 1: there before, and you know, these guys want to get
Speaker 1: a win. So these games are these games are still importantly.
Speaker 1: Some of the guys are out there with are obviously
Speaker 1: trying to make a roster sometime, some of them for
Speaker 1: the first time. How much do you put on yourself together,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I mean, that's why you cannot
Speaker 1: take any games, any plays for granted, they all count
Speaker 1: as NFL football games, and and guy's lives are and
Speaker 1: livelihoods are always at stake. Guys, livelihoods are always a stake.
Speaker 1: So you want to be a guy that can help
Speaker 1: those guys achieve whatever they want to achieve and not
Speaker 1: not kind of way them down. So so given that
Speaker 1: you wanted to get a win, what like, what was
Speaker 1: the reaction after the win that came into that was
Speaker 1: all good? It was all good. I mean, everybody was
Speaker 1: excited and and listen, there was a lot of really
Speaker 1: really cool plays out there that out there today. So
Speaker 1: I think coach Sirianni was excited for everybody and just
Speaker 1: really proud of how hard we played and and all that.
Speaker 1: Long time is there is there a right or wrong
Speaker 1: approach to the preseason and whether you'll play your starters
Speaker 1: even in the final game went the Chiefs to tonight
Speaker 1: or like the way you guys have handled it year. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I it's tough to say there's probably no right or
Speaker 1: wrong way. It's it's probably we all sit there afterwards
Speaker 1: and if something bad happened or if something good came
Speaker 1: from it, six weeks down the road, you know, you realize, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe it's because they played their preseason that their guys
Speaker 1: in the last preseason game where something bad happened, It's like,
Speaker 1: why why were they doing that? You know? So I
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things that we can all
Speaker 1: all kind of look at, you know, whether them depending
Speaker 1: on what happened, and give our critiques of it or
Speaker 1: our applause for it. So just one of those things.
Speaker 1: You gotta do what you feel is right with what
Speaker 1: your team has and how much they've played before and
Speaker 1: all those things, and just stand by your decision. Joe,
Speaker 1: about the way you played and just came through to prision.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's tough to kind of answer questions
Speaker 1: about yourself. But listen, I was excited to get out
Speaker 1: there today and be able to move the ball down
Speaker 1: the field and score some points. So that was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Joe. Playing with the second team offensive
Speaker 1: line throughout the summer, what did you learn about your
Speaker 1: offensive line depth heading into this year. Oh, you could
Speaker 1: tell pretty quickly that we have a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: up there that can play football. You know, they're not
Speaker 1: just big guys that can move and block, but they
Speaker 1: understand the game. And that's you know, nobody You can't
Speaker 1: see that necessarily on TV or you know, or if
Speaker 1: you don't really necessarily know exactly what you're looking for,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the guys up front have you know,
Speaker 1: really good football IQs. They just have football sense. They
Speaker 1: know how to play, they know how to you know
Speaker 1: where to go naturally and things like that, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's really big at every position. But when
Speaker 1: you can get a group of offensive linemen that can
Speaker 1: do that well, it just takes your team to the
Speaker 1: next level. The next time you play might need to
Speaker 1: be a situation you don't expect coming in cold, something
Speaker 1: like that. I guess from I'm from now going forward,
Speaker 1: what do you do to prepare for that type of scenarios?
Speaker 1: Right listen. I mean obviously before last year, I hadn't
Speaker 1: had a lot of experience at that and it is different.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to make sure that you attack,
Speaker 1: you know, the early parts of the week just as
Speaker 1: if you were the starter, even though you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to get the reps, because the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is making sure that you feel prepared going into
Speaker 1: the game without getting the reps throughout throughout the practice week,
Speaker 1: and that's just nothing to be taken lightly. You have
Speaker 1: to you know, you have to work your tail off
Speaker 1: and approach it the right way. And as long as
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing for me, as long
Speaker 1: as I do that during the week, which I know
Speaker 1: I will, and I can go on into Sunday feeling
Speaker 1: confident that I'm prepared and if something happens, then yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you're there for. Joe. You touched on the
Speaker 1: running backs at the beginning of this when you when
Speaker 1: you stay at a Kenny there at that second drive, guys, man,
Speaker 1: you put me on the spot. It's it's tough for
Speaker 1: me to kind of listen. We had some room out
Speaker 1: there to run. I think our alignment did a good job,
Speaker 1: and I think those guys hit the whole. They didn't hesitate,
Speaker 1: they went. I know on one of those I scrambled, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was looking for my receiver and I
Speaker 1: scrambled to the left, and he did an awesome job
Speaker 1: showing up for me, getting you know, getting the attention
Speaker 1: to my eyes, kind of grabbing me and giving me
Speaker 1: a spot to go with the ball. And that was
Speaker 1: a big play to kind of move the chains and
Speaker 1: keep going. So um, I think he's starting to kind
Speaker 1: of get his legs underneath of him out there and
Speaker 1: feel confident about just making decisions quickly and going and
Speaker 1: trusting his feel and I think he was able to
Speaker 1: do that today than y y'all doing what do you
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna walk off touchdown into a conversion? We're
Speaker 1: going through your mind at that time, you had to
Speaker 1: win in your hand. Yeah, you know, yeah, obviously we
Speaker 1: all wanted to win that game, and we wanted to
Speaker 1: execute at the end of the game, and we didn't
Speaker 1: do that. What do you say to Michael Jacquett who
Speaker 1: is making a positive play? But obviously from a situational
Speaker 1: awareness standpoint, it might have questioned, sure, yeah, no, we
Speaker 1: talk about that all the time and it's a it's
Speaker 1: a no Moss situation. Well, that's what we call it
Speaker 1: in that scenario. So you get a turnover, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to stay down. Um, we didn't communicate that well enough
Speaker 1: with him, so he just tried to make a play.
Speaker 1: We got to do a better job coaching it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: nobody on No Stars and Defense played everyone except for
Speaker 1: a few white receivers. But why did you want to
Speaker 1: get some of the youngs savers work? I just I
Speaker 1: feel like they still needed they need a little bit
Speaker 1: more work to get out there, catch a couple of
Speaker 1: balls and go. We try to run a big deep
Speaker 1: all the quiz. It just Joe got hit on the
Speaker 1: play and just wanted to get him a touch and
Speaker 1: get him a catch and then get him out. What
Speaker 1: is your kind of Uh yeah, yeah, because he got
Speaker 1: that one shallow the little shallow route, he got that catch.
Speaker 1: We finished a drive and then he came out. So
Speaker 1: it gets preseason. But what is your messaging? Is it
Speaker 1: the same after a game like this it would be
Speaker 1: the regular season? How do you what's the teaching moment?
Speaker 1: What do you kind of tell the guys? When do
Speaker 1: you get packed to him? You know, it kind of
Speaker 1: just wrapped up that training camp and preseason's over, and
Speaker 1: you know we got another week before we are into
Speaker 1: a preparation for Atlanta. But you know, the talk was, hey,
Speaker 1: we got one more week of work, but training camp,
Speaker 1: you know, training camp, preseason's over. We'll get better from
Speaker 1: this week and then we'll be onto onto Atlanta the
Speaker 1: following week. Handle this next week? How do you handle
Speaker 1: this next week? Because it is like a an extra one.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, competitive situations to get you know, good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Get the guys um. You know, obviously we'll be down
Speaker 1: on numbers, you know, because we're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: some cuts and so it will be more reps for
Speaker 1: the ones um just to make sure that they're getting ready,
Speaker 1: you know, continuing to get ready. We've really ramped up
Speaker 1: their their reps as it is, but continuing to get
Speaker 1: ready to play seventy plays or plus, uh that week
Speaker 1: one at Atlanta And so big picture, what's your takeaway
Speaker 1: of where you are after three games in playing and
Speaker 1: four weeks of practice. Yeah, well, you know what, we
Speaker 1: we talk every every day about getting better every day
Speaker 1: and you know, loving the climb of a season and
Speaker 1: just continuing to do that. And so I do I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like some of the veterans players
Speaker 1: and might have talked talked yesterday. You know, it's really good.
Speaker 1: One thing that was really good we were all in
Speaker 1: the hotel together for the past four nights. It was
Speaker 1: kind of like old training camp when you went away, right,
Speaker 1: And so that was good. I felt a lot of
Speaker 1: connecting um with the players there. But the message was
Speaker 1: the talks that we had had is like, hey, this
Speaker 1: was a physical training camp. It was a fat I mean,
Speaker 1: we those guys practiced hard, you know. And and again
Speaker 1: I think that you know, I know, we weren't on
Speaker 1: the field, you know, there's times we were on the
Speaker 1: field for an hour and fifteen there out of times
Speaker 1: we're an hour and a half. Times we're hour and
Speaker 1: forty five times there or two hours. But you know,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of work done. And so I
Speaker 1: do believe like the only way you're getting better every
Speaker 1: day is if you're practicing hard and you're going full speed.
Speaker 1: And I believe that we did that through the four
Speaker 1: weeks of training camp and got better every day. And
Speaker 1: now it's hey, we got another week of that to
Speaker 1: get to get ourselves righty, we still got two weeks
Speaker 1: before we play, so let's just stay on that course
Speaker 1: of Hey, continue to get better, continue to get better,
Speaker 1: continue to get better. So we have all those points accumulated.
Speaker 1: So to say, once once we step into Atlanta, how
Speaker 1: do you think ya will see? Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: have to watch the tape that that's a that's a
Speaker 1: tough spot. Like I'm kind of looking. My eyes are
Speaker 1: more in the in the secondary and you know sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, you know, Stouts looking at him a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, and Roy his assistant. But so sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: I'm only seeing if a bad thing happens to to
Speaker 1: a tackle. But um, you know it was important for
Speaker 1: him to, you know, because he had had been out
Speaker 1: to get some reps in there and and go out
Speaker 1: there and play again. I thought he was having a
Speaker 1: great camp before he got hurt, and so I'm excited
Speaker 1: to watch the tape. You know. It felt like he
Speaker 1: played pretty good. We had we had to Joe was
Speaker 1: what thirteen or sixteen with a with a drop and
Speaker 1: you know, so he had time to throw. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to watching him play and have a better
Speaker 1: evaluation for you after that. We've seen teams like the
Speaker 1: Chiefs tonight, for instance, they play their starters into um,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple series. We see teams like the
Speaker 1: Rants of Play. Anybody, Why had you guys decided to
Speaker 1: follow this philosophy and not playing the starters? Jeff, I
Speaker 1: thought like it with the way we practiced the last
Speaker 1: two days, like the way we practiced against that that
Speaker 1: you guys were at the practice against the Jets, that's
Speaker 1: that second day and even in the first day. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a hard physical practice there, and to me,
Speaker 1: that's a game. The way we played that that practice
Speaker 1: was a game, and we treated the post practice just
Speaker 1: like we would treat a post game. When we came
Speaker 1: in and evaluated, we did the whole film session and
Speaker 1: the charts that we look at just like a post
Speaker 1: game and to me, like, you don't ever come off
Speaker 1: of two days rest and play another game. So, um,
Speaker 1: I didn't think that would be good for our guys healthwise,
Speaker 1: and I felt good about where we were, and that
Speaker 1: was the decision I made with the ramps. This is
Speaker 1: four years. I think this is something they've decided. Is
Speaker 1: this something that you guys went into the preseason thinking yeah, there,
Speaker 1: you know, because because we don't want to get our
Speaker 1: guys injury. Yeah, not necessarily. I mean everything was evaluated
Speaker 1: like we we had every intention even even that we
Speaker 1: practiced against the Patriots, we had intentions of playing them
Speaker 1: in that game. So it was just everything was a
Speaker 1: case by case and that. Like I said that the
Speaker 1: last two days, and I appreciate coach Sala and his
Speaker 1: staff and his players because we got a lot, a
Speaker 1: lot of work done against them, and um, I know
Speaker 1: we left, we're leaving New York a better team than
Speaker 1: when we came to New York, and so again appreciate
Speaker 1: them for that. And you know, it was we felt
Speaker 1: like we got the work done. We needed to and
Speaker 1: nothing was final until you know, after that practice and
Speaker 1: we're like, all right, we're probably good. We don't need
Speaker 1: to see them seen through three games. Now you've gotten
Speaker 1: to go through the process of you know, getting the
Speaker 1: plays in and communication and stuff. Have you learned anything?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna maybe adjust anything now that you've got
Speaker 1: I thought it. I thought it was really smooth. I
Speaker 1: mean I thought it was really smooth operation. I thought
Speaker 1: we were getting plays off pretty quick. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we did. We did a you know, I thought a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I never felt like we were down
Speaker 1: low at all. I mean we were getting the play
Speaker 1: in and we were getting snapped a lot of times
Speaker 1: at twenty, which is good. That's how That's how I
Speaker 1: want to play. I mean, more plays, you get more yards,
Speaker 1: you get more points you get So I thought the
Speaker 1: operation was really what really good. Um, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Shane did a good job. You know, I was calling
Speaker 1: the play to Shane. Shane did a good job of
Speaker 1: talking in there. When when we're in two minute situations,
Speaker 1: Kevin Patulo is really doing a lot of Hey, here's
Speaker 1: our scenario of of what we're in him. Um, Jim
Speaker 1: Bob Cooter is is uh, he is UM getting all
Speaker 1: the scenarios for us from the two minute around the
Speaker 1: league so we can prepare for it. So you know,
Speaker 1: I just I felt I felt really good and those
Speaker 1: two minutes, you know, I don't, I don't. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what happened against UM New England. I can't remember
Speaker 1: if we went down to the three and the two minute,
Speaker 1: but I know two of the three games we had
Speaker 1: good two minute drives and and that's where you're really at,
Speaker 1: situational football at its greatest. And so felt really good
Speaker 1: with the operation on the headsets and UM talking through things,
Speaker 1: and you know, UM didn't get any challenges, but hey, uh,
Speaker 1: there's the regular season for that. Before the game, you
Speaker 1: talked about your message to the team was there's been
Speaker 1: final preseason games where guys have won a job, changed
Speaker 1: minds and stuff like that. Were there any cases of
Speaker 1: that here tonight? Making decisions more difficult? Again? I think
Speaker 1: I think what you saw is I thought, I think
Speaker 1: you saw a lot of players, you know, play their
Speaker 1: hearts out and that and and and play hard and
Speaker 1: play physical. And I saw a lot of guys, you know,
Speaker 1: have some success. And I don't want to single anybody out. Again.
Speaker 1: I got to watch the tape and see it, but
Speaker 1: that was definitely the message I wanted to get across
Speaker 1: last night, that hey, there's here's five guys that have
Speaker 1: made the team on that last on that last game.
Speaker 1: Like sure, you don't discredit what they did all the
Speaker 1: way to that last game, but you know, in particular,
Speaker 1: like here's what and we've kind of showed clips of
Speaker 1: those guys. Here's the plays that they made in that
Speaker 1: last game that changed our minds as coaches, that got
Speaker 1: him stick. And I think the guys, the guys really
Speaker 1: felt that, and they and they you know that then
Speaker 1: they they thought I really I thought the meeting last
Speaker 1: night was good in the sense that it put that
Speaker 1: sense of urgency. I know they all had their sense
Speaker 1: of urgency with it, but you know that you guys
Speaker 1: can change our minds and go out there and play
Speaker 1: player player tails off. And I really felt like they
Speaker 1: did that tonight. They left it all out in the field.
Speaker 1: And again I have to watch the tape, but all
Speaker 1: those guys should be proud of themselves of how they
Speaker 1: played and should feel good as to the sense that's
Speaker 1: that that you know, they put left it all on
Speaker 1: the field and put it all on tape. Which what's
Speaker 1: your personal philosophy about weighing what a player can do
Speaker 1: for your week one versus maybe the upside that they
Speaker 1: have down the line and making these decisions. Say that
Speaker 1: in in as you look at the players, weighing what
Speaker 1: they've done so far and how they can help right
Speaker 1: now compared to their upside and how they can help
Speaker 1: down the line. Yeah, I think everything you do is
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready to win that first game. And
Speaker 1: they all count, right, they all count big time. And
Speaker 1: it's such a good parody in this league. So whoever's
Speaker 1: gonna give us a chance to win, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: them on this team. Well, on the one drive, I
Speaker 1: think the second drive, how is he different now than
Speaker 1: he was when he first got in the building? Which, yeah,
Speaker 1: he he was hyatt when he first got in the building,
Speaker 1: And now I just see his personality coming out, just
Speaker 1: be getting more comfortable. He's a great kid. And uh,
Speaker 1: um you kind of you see his personality coming out
Speaker 1: because he's had some success. Um. One thing that that
Speaker 1: you really notice about him, you know, Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: shifty and he can make guys miss and he's got
Speaker 1: great hands. He can run routes. Um, he can he
Speaker 1: can hit the whole and make and make big runs.
Speaker 1: He is tough and you know you see that on
Speaker 1: his college table when you're when you're with a guy
Speaker 1: every single day and you're watching him practice every single day. Um,
Speaker 1: he just shows his physical toughness and his mental toughness
Speaker 1: every day. And and usually guys that are tough players,
Speaker 1: those are guys that you're like, I can't go to
Speaker 1: the game without him. Um, And so that's what he
Speaker 1: showed me. It really is really stuck out, particularly in
Speaker 1: in you know, the joint practices, how tough he is,
Speaker 1: and then it just goes over to the game. Can
Speaker 1: I answer your questions though, Yeah, there's your first year
Speaker 1: and this is also you're there's one less preseason game,
Speaker 1: so personally, think how ready do you feel to start
Speaker 1: the season. Let's go. I'm ready. I'm ready, Uh you know,
Speaker 1: but again, you know, I'm excited for this team. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for the guys that we have on this team
Speaker 1: to to get going and getting to game one. But
Speaker 1: you know, if we're we're truly a process driven team
Speaker 1: where we want to get better every single day, because
Speaker 1: we know if you make those deposits every single day
Speaker 1: of getting better, you know, and you and every single
Speaker 1: day you pay the deposit, pay the deposit, pay the deposit,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be ready playing. We still have two weeks
Speaker 1: of preparation. So am I really excited? Yeah? I want
Speaker 1: to go start game playing in Atlanta right now. And
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about a goose mumps thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: going up there and playing playing at Atlanta and with
Speaker 1: with this team, with this, with these guys. But you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta be as as the head coach.
Speaker 1: I gotta practice what I preach, and that is, Hey,
Speaker 1: we got two weeks left before we step on that field.
Speaker 1: Deposits are due every single day. All right, Thanks, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you. J You've obviously been through a lot your
Speaker 1: first two years here. How big was it to be
Speaker 1: able to kind of cap this third preseason with the
Speaker 1: performance like this? Um, I mean, I'm never a lot
Speaker 1: feel good. But at the same time, you can't look
Speaker 1: in the past. I mean, she's gotta take a day
Speaker 1: by day. Um. The moment you start looking too much
Speaker 1: in the past, started looking too much into the future,
Speaker 1: you miss your opportunity, um where you're at today. So
Speaker 1: that's just kind of been my mentality. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: day by day, no matter what happened yesterday, whatever happens tomorrow,
Speaker 1: like you know, be focused and be present. But today,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about your your chances to remaining
Speaker 1: I mean, like, it's not my job, you know, my
Speaker 1: job to go out there and play football and whatever
Speaker 1: it happens happens. As you know, I can't worry about that, um,
Speaker 1: and you go out there and play, have fun doing it,
Speaker 1: helped this team win games? You feel like you put
Speaker 1: together a good enough summer to do that. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I really haven't had time to reflect on
Speaker 1: you know, the past and the last three four weeks, um,
Speaker 1: just because like I said, I just try to you know,
Speaker 1: day by day, you know, get better every day, UM
Speaker 1: do it. I can't help this team win games and
Speaker 1: then everything else is out of my control. Kind of
Speaker 1: take us through the touchdown from your perspective, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just you know, really really happy that Joe
Speaker 1: gave me a chance to go up there and make
Speaker 1: a play, especially you know at the time when team
Speaker 1: needed it, right before halftime. Go up put some port,
Speaker 1: uh some points up on the board, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just just just happy that he trusted me to
Speaker 1: come down, and I'm just happy obviously that I came
Speaker 1: down and did it, and uh I was able to
Speaker 1: do it for the team. Come back out and just
Speaker 1: keep playing. Nick said, he showed you, guys examples of
Speaker 1: players that kind of change the coach's mind. Making a
Speaker 1: couple of plays in the preseason for this game, you
Speaker 1: have a touchdown, but then immediately afterwards you make a stop.
Speaker 1: On special teams, how much have you worked on your
Speaker 1: special team's prowess to kind of get in in that
Speaker 1: kind of mode. Yeah, I mean, you know, going into
Speaker 1: the training camp, I told myself, you know, big players
Speaker 1: are going to happen, states are going to happen. But
Speaker 1: one thing you can control is give an effort. And
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, as a receiver, blocking is
Speaker 1: something that's always effort based. You know, either you give
Speaker 1: effort and you do a writer or you don't. Special
Speaker 1: teams is the same way. Either you give effort, go
Speaker 1: down and hustle and make a player at least disrupt
Speaker 1: the play, or you know, hold your guy up and
Speaker 1: then you know like punt, you know, making sure your
Speaker 1: guy doesn't get to the point the punter. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's just kind of like my mentality is
Speaker 1: going into it controlling what I can control, which is
Speaker 1: like effort, um, being aggressive when I when I get
Speaker 1: a chance to be aggressive, and making a play when
Speaker 1: when it comes to me, if you think back to
Speaker 1: your first preseason, you didn't dress in the final preseason game.
Speaker 1: You know, you were coming off that big third preseason game.
Speaker 1: What perspective do you have now that you didn't have then.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, two years you get it. You're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of experience, you know, the ins and
Speaker 1: outs of things that go on in the league. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, back then it was different. I was a rookie.
Speaker 1: I was still you know, getting my foot and trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what this whole league is about. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, two years later, now I got a pretty
Speaker 1: good grasp of how things working. Um, the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that I learned is at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: were still playing football and uh doing the things. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I think in one of the interviews way
Speaker 1: back is it's just going back to what work for
Speaker 1: me in college, and that's showing effort, giving effort in
Speaker 1: and doing the things that take no talent and um,
Speaker 1: the things that do take talent at the talent take
Speaker 1: over and don't worry about the result. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that you know, I was able to
Speaker 1: come down with a few players tonight and you know,
Speaker 1: help this team out preseason. But it's kind of a
Speaker 1: tough way to end, you know, on that hail Mary past.
Speaker 1: What's the move to the team like after something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it would have you know, it always is
Speaker 1: good to win, especially after such a big play by
Speaker 1: your quite but UM, I mean, like like you said,
Speaker 1: it is the preseason. UM, a lot of things we
Speaker 1: can look back, uh from the last three weeks, the
Speaker 1: last three games and learn from um and then going
Speaker 1: forward getting better. At the end of day, if we're
Speaker 1: getting better, I feel like, you know, progressively we've gotten better,
Speaker 1: UM every week as a team, UM individual league, you know,
Speaker 1: collectively connecting with each other and you know, just building
Speaker 1: that team chemistry and you know, now it's now it's
Speaker 1: time to let a show for real. When you look
Speaker 1: at the overall town level, the wide receiver, what do
Speaker 1: you see as far as I mean obviously there are
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys like yourself and everything, But
Speaker 1: how do you kind of view the depth of the
Speaker 1: wide receiveries year. I mean, we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: talent in that room. Um. The biggest thing I feel
Speaker 1: like that you guys probably don't knows. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of uh great personalities in there. And you know
Speaker 1: it's all about competing obviously, but you know, getting each
Speaker 1: other better collectively and individually, and you know, learning from
Speaker 1: each other. Um. I mean I ask guys, you know,
Speaker 1: things that can help me with my game sometimes you
Speaker 1: ask me things. Um, you know, it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: great group of guys to be around. Um, and you
Speaker 1: know we're we're real, real friendly to each other. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just just a great group of guys to be
Speaker 1: around in and a great room to be in. Thanks,
Speaker 1: thank thank you guys. All right, we heard from Joe Flacco,
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni and right there jj Art Thako Whiteside. Do
Speaker 1: you think coach is ready for Atlanta? Ready for Atlanta?
Speaker 1: I think we're all ready for Atlanta absolutely absolutely well.
Speaker 1: Earlier this evening, Fran was able to break down Boston
Speaker 1: Scott's forty nine yard touchdown. We're gonna head to that,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's bring this all the way back to
Speaker 1: the opening drive of the game. Eagles getting into the
Speaker 1: end zone on three of their first four drives in
Speaker 1: the first half. You love to see it from this
Speaker 1: Eagles offense. And we're gonna take a look at the
Speaker 1: long forty nine yard touchdown from Joe Flacco to Boston
Speaker 1: Scott comes on one of my favorite plays in football.
Speaker 1: If you've been following me here on Philadelphiagles dot com,
Speaker 1: you know I love to talk about some mesh. That's
Speaker 1: the play. Let's take a look at exactly why it works.
Speaker 1: What you see with mesh is you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of routes over the football and what that does,
Speaker 1: as you can see, it creates a lot of traffic
Speaker 1: here in the middle of the field. And when you
Speaker 1: have lots of traffic, you've got the ablity for receivers
Speaker 1: to gain some separation. On defense. If you call us
Speaker 1: a pickplay on offense, this is a great job to
Speaker 1: get receivers open and a nice job to get a
Speaker 1: quarterback a nice easy lay up throw. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: here on Boston Scott. You can see he comes in
Speaker 1: late motion, he's gonna run a little bit of a
Speaker 1: wheel route. Now, once the quarterback gets the sense that
Speaker 1: the defense is in man coverage, you could see that
Speaker 1: this defender he also traveled over with Boston Scott. So
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a tip for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: This is man to man coverage. This defender is one
Speaker 1: on one with Boston Scott and knowing that he's got
Speaker 1: all of these routes working over the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: this defender he has got to work around this garbage, right.
Speaker 1: He has got to get over the top and stay
Speaker 1: clean just in case Boston Scott works vertically. This is
Speaker 1: going to play right in the Scott's hands because he's
Speaker 1: got the speed to get to the sideline and out
Speaker 1: leverage that defender. So we're gonna let this roll just
Speaker 1: for a little bit and we'll see how that comes
Speaker 1: to be. Again, you're gonna get all those receivers working vertically.
Speaker 1: That creates that traffic over the middle of the field. Now,
Speaker 1: Boston Scott's got the football. Now he's got to just
Speaker 1: be a playmaker. And what's great about this is that
Speaker 1: once he's won on one in the open field, he
Speaker 1: knows he's got that ability to cut this back inside.
Speaker 1: The defender knows that too, he's got to protect against that.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see Boston Scott throw that little stutter
Speaker 1: as if he's gonna cut back, and now he's just
Speaker 1: gonna put his foot in the ground and bust it
Speaker 1: down the right sideline. Let it roll. Watch the move.
Speaker 1: He leaves the defender in his wake right there, cuts
Speaker 1: him up, and now he's gone off to the races
Speaker 1: forty nine yards catching run. Love the mesh play. Here's
Speaker 1: a great example why Eagles get on the end zone
Speaker 1: here on the opening drive, they go up seven nuts
Speaker 1: and ella. That play is just one of my favorite
Speaker 1: plays in all of football. It was a key central
Speaker 1: play to the Eagles for their Super Bowl run back
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. That mesh concept. So as soon as
Speaker 1: I saw it, I was like the Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff
Speaker 1: like paul I point. I stood up in my chair,
Speaker 1: but I was like, that's gotta be the Rico review
Speaker 1: this week. Got a touch on the mesh play to
Speaker 1: Boston Scott for the touchdown. Very exciting for a preseason
Speaker 1: game especially, But that's a rap on the preseason we
Speaker 1: made it. Training camp, check race season games, check off
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. We go Sunday, September twelfth. The kickoff show
Speaker 1: we'll air at twelve fifteen, and then it's off to
Speaker 1: the races. We're on the home stretch, excited to get home.
Speaker 1: Now we are for fran Duffy. I'm Gabriella Djevanni. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us for the postgame show
Speaker 1: presented by Rico. Have a good night.