Speaker 1: Ike Rease, an outstanding game against this Denver Broncos team.
Speaker 1: They come in with a number one defense in football,
Speaker 1: fifty one to twenty three. A fifty burger against the
Speaker 1: number one team in football. I'm Friend Duffy, joined by
Speaker 1: NFL former NFL linebacker Ike Rease, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: post game show fors Myrica. I'm so excited. This game
Speaker 1: has been ridiculous. It's been a long game where we
Speaker 1: even start going in to buy eight and one. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously eight and one through nine games. An outstanding start
Speaker 1: up for his team, and they just I don't know,
Speaker 1: they cease to amaze us week in and week out.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is gonna be a tough game, friend,
Speaker 1: you got the number one defense coming in here. They've
Speaker 1: lost three straight. I'm thinking, okay, this may be an
Speaker 1: ugly game, but the Eagles will pull it out. And
Speaker 1: I tell you, man, week in and week out, this
Speaker 1: team comes prepared to play. Credit to Doug Peterson and
Speaker 1: this staff for getting this team ready to go. Could
Speaker 1: be a difficult mental game when you're heading into a
Speaker 1: bye week facing the team that seems to be out
Speaker 1: of it. You have nothing, Seemingly the game only things
Speaker 1: to lose. But this team, like a true championship caliber team,
Speaker 1: comes in, takes care of business. They don't play down
Speaker 1: to the level of their competition. They make you raise
Speaker 1: your game. And guess what, the Broncos cannot raise their
Speaker 1: level of play to match what the Eagles put on
Speaker 1: the field. That was one of the things I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask it right out of the game. Your Eagles
Speaker 1: teams were known as so being so great coming off
Speaker 1: of bye. How difficult was it going into a game
Speaker 1: where you have to buye week on the horizon. You're
Speaker 1: seven and one, You've got an conference opponent coming into
Speaker 1: town who's lost three straight games, quarterback change, everything going
Speaker 1: on with that team. You've got some division in the
Speaker 1: locker room. How hard is it to stay focused and say,
Speaker 1: you know what we've got to We've got to go
Speaker 1: one to know this week, come in and just knock
Speaker 1: this ball out of the park. It really can be
Speaker 1: a tough mental challenge for the team. But I tell
Speaker 1: you what you don't like. When they kicked off the day,
Speaker 1: they were already ready to go. You know this started
Speaker 1: Wednesday when they put in the game playing. The tone
Speaker 1: was set in the meeting rooms out on the practice field.
Speaker 1: You can tell this club came to work every day
Speaker 1: last week with one thought in mind. We're not losing
Speaker 1: before the bye week. We're coming in to take care
Speaker 1: of business next Sunday. And kudos to the coaching staff
Speaker 1: for getting these guys ready, and then hats off to
Speaker 1: the players for being able to get laser light focused.
Speaker 1: Forget about the record of the opponent. Showed a proper
Speaker 1: respect to the Denver Broncos. Listen, this team won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl just a couple of years ago, and we
Speaker 1: know how good that defense is. So speaking to a
Speaker 1: couple of players throughout the week, you could tell defend
Speaker 1: they felt like they had to match what the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos were bringing to the table. You know, they weren't
Speaker 1: taking anything for granted. If it was going to be
Speaker 1: difficult for our offense to score against that number one defense,
Speaker 1: it seemed like our defensive players had the mindset that
Speaker 1: we weren't going to give up any points either, and
Speaker 1: that's the way that the game pretty much rode for
Speaker 1: three quarters until they gave up a couple of garbage
Speaker 1: touchdowns in that fourth quarter. But hats off to this coach,
Speaker 1: coaching staff starting with Doug Peterson getting his guys ready
Speaker 1: and then the players going out there and executing. It
Speaker 1: can be a mental hurdle for you to overcome when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a team that you know that you're
Speaker 1: superior then and you got a bye week coming up.
Speaker 1: Everyone's been patting you on the back, telling you how
Speaker 1: great you are. You almost feel like you can just
Speaker 1: roll your helmet out there and you're winning the football game.
Speaker 1: But that's the different thing about this team, man, regardless
Speaker 1: of who they played this week, they've met that challenge
Speaker 1: and that's why they sit right now eight and won
Speaker 1: the best record in the NFL, no question about it.
Speaker 1: And when you look at this offensive performance, because I
Speaker 1: think defensively, going to this game, we kind of expect,
Speaker 1: you know what, bronckos Wilder, he struggles coming yeast, he
Speaker 1: struggles against teams with winning records, and he's coming off
Speaker 1: his first start, hasn't played all season long. And then
Speaker 1: you look at the run game, they've been very, very
Speaker 1: up and down. And then now you look over to
Speaker 1: the defensive side and you say, hey, they should have
Speaker 1: some success against this Denver team. I expected a low
Speaker 1: scoring game, like a twenty six to thirteen kind of game.
Speaker 1: That was the case. In the first quarter, Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: first four touchdowns, Jaygi, he reaches the end zone off
Speaker 1: a big play. Corey Clement reaches the end zone three
Speaker 1: times in this game. Talk about this offensive performance in
Speaker 1: the game plan from Doug Peterson. Well, if you look
Speaker 1: at Carson's numbers, you say, okay, I mean he's four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The game wasn't necessarily on his shoulders to day, but
Speaker 1: he made the plays when they needed to be made.
Speaker 1: And you talked about that first quarter putting up to
Speaker 1: twenty something points. I mean, the defense gets a turnover,
Speaker 1: we're able to cash that in for a touchdown. I
Speaker 1: thought he had PenPoint accuracy for the most part. Today. Listen,
Speaker 1: it is tough sledding when you're throwing against this Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos secondary. They got three pro bo caliber he backs
Speaker 1: out there, and they got a front four with a
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer and Von Miller that likes to
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback. But I liked that the defense
Speaker 1: gave a short fields to play on and we mixed
Speaker 1: it up. You know, we ran the ball when we
Speaker 1: needed to run the ball. But I thought the play
Speaker 1: action was the best thing today. And then to play
Speaker 1: to Alshon Jeffrey right the touchdown to Alshon Jeffrey Earl
Speaker 1: in this game. I hadn't seen that play before and
Speaker 1: neither had a key to leave because when Carson fakes
Speaker 1: that ball to Jaya Jaii and basically bootlegs out a
Speaker 1: key to leave, didn't know what to do. Alshan takes
Speaker 1: off and it's an easy floater touchdown for Carson to
Speaker 1: al Shan's good to see al Sean so to get
Speaker 1: himself going the last couple of weeks. Three touchdowns for him,
Speaker 1: but then the running then and then the running game today.
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness. You know, al Shann e Levin
Speaker 1: targets six catches, could have had a couple more. I
Speaker 1: mean Corey Clement Man, I mean, I really am happy
Speaker 1: for this kid, local kid glass Borrow. Three touchdowns to day.
Speaker 1: Has there been another player that has made the most
Speaker 1: of the opportunity on these that he's been given this year?
Speaker 1: This kid, it seems like every time he touches the
Speaker 1: ball something positive is happening. He's catching the ball out
Speaker 1: of the backfield, which he really wasn't known for coming
Speaker 1: out of Wisconsin undrafted free agent. Really am happy to
Speaker 1: see him having success. And then the Jay Train. We
Speaker 1: got to see a little bit of the Jay Train today. Jagie,
Speaker 1: the new acquisition that we traded for from the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He got a few carries in there, got a chance
Speaker 1: to break one. I mean, fran you and I could
Speaker 1: have ran through that hole at the offensive line opened
Speaker 1: up for him, one of us, both of us great
Speaker 1: blocking from the offensive line on that play there. But
Speaker 1: it was great to see jay Agi get his first
Speaker 1: touches and then score his first touchdown of the season
Speaker 1: right here in Philadelphia. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: I loved just about this entire game plan going in
Speaker 1: is that we knew that Denver Broncos were soft against
Speaker 1: the tight end position, and you know, coming into the game,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz is questionable. He warms up pregame and then
Speaker 1: he's declared an active he's out. Does the game plan change? No,
Speaker 1: They go out with Trey Burton to go out with
Speaker 1: Brent Selleck. Very early in this game. They come out
Speaker 1: with multiple tight end sets and they challenge that Denver
Speaker 1: base defense to say, you know what, match up to
Speaker 1: Trey Burton on the outside, match up to Brent Selleck
Speaker 1: on the outside. Brent Selleck has a couple of key
Speaker 1: receptions early in the game. And then you got Trey
Speaker 1: Burton matched up on linebacker Brandon Marshall on a long
Speaker 1: touchdown where they knew that they were gonna get that
Speaker 1: matchup and they ran Trey Burton vertically down the field
Speaker 1: off a double move. Brandon Marshall had no chance. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz delivered a pinpoint accurate throw to the outside shoulder
Speaker 1: on the move. Just an outstanding play. And that all
Speaker 1: starts with game plan that goes with Doug Pearson, the
Speaker 1: offensive coaching staff really just knowing where are they going
Speaker 1: to push their buttons against this opposing defense, and they
Speaker 1: found a matchup they liked and they exploited it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love the fact that you mentioned the confidence
Speaker 1: that the coaching staff has and regardless of who's playing,
Speaker 1: they talk about next man up mentality. Well, when you
Speaker 1: lose that Urts prior to the game, that's your number
Speaker 1: one offensive weapon. Trey Burton has to go in there.
Speaker 1: And like you said, it didn't change the game plan whatsoever.
Speaker 1: They still wanted to attack those safeties when they had
Speaker 1: an opportunity with the tight ends and it was great
Speaker 1: for us. Now, the energy level at Lincoln Financial Field
Speaker 1: was outstanding. And for more on what was going on
Speaker 1: in that atmosphere at Lincoln Financial Field, let's go to
Speaker 1: Eagles insider Davis Sparo. Dave an outstanding game. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody really expected fifty one points against this Denver defense.
Speaker 1: What was it like seeing that out in the field.
Speaker 1: Talk about Carson Wentz and his performance. You know that
Speaker 1: when you come back, Denver goes down the field and
Speaker 1: kicks a field goal to begin the game, and then
Speaker 1: Eagles came. Just no flinch, no panic, just go down
Speaker 1: and dissect the defense. And I agree with what you
Speaker 1: guys are saying. A brilliant game plan once again by
Speaker 1: the Eagles and this coaching staff that just finds matchups.
Speaker 1: And then you've got a quarterback good enough to exploit,
Speaker 1: You've got an offense that's versatile enough to gash you
Speaker 1: in so many ways to go one ninety eight on
Speaker 1: the ground against a run defense allowing three yards to carry.
Speaker 1: I think five of the first six opponents this year,
Speaker 1: or six of the first seven opponents didn't even average
Speaker 1: three yards to carry against Denver, So I mean just
Speaker 1: it's you sit there and you kind of after a
Speaker 1: while ago. Please don't pinch me. I don't want to
Speaker 1: wake up from this dream. That. That's kind of the
Speaker 1: way it is at Lincoln Financial Field, David, I thought
Speaker 1: one of the big things and and I talked about
Speaker 1: it just now, was just the mindset of this team
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson keeping that team ready going into a
Speaker 1: bye week against a team that's lost three straight from
Speaker 1: another conference. What have you seen from Doug Pearson and
Speaker 1: the staff and knowing what buttons to push with this team?
Speaker 1: It's it's there's no there's no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: look when you go down the roster and talk about
Speaker 1: all the players having career years, Patrick Robinson, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Jim Jernegan, Fletcher Cox playing his best football, Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: playing great off at Nelson Agelo. I mean, up and
Speaker 1: down the line of Corey Klenning comes out of nowhere
Speaker 1: and has three more touchdowns today. You know, Stephen wiz
Speaker 1: newskeezer starter at left guard. They don't they lose Jason
Speaker 1: Peters and big vegos in they don't skip a beat.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is really remarkable how everything kind of
Speaker 1: started as I was kind of writing this. It all
Speaker 1: started on the Jake Elliott sixty one yard field goal.
Speaker 1: It just kind of it meant so much that game.
Speaker 1: It was Carson's first game where he led the last
Speaker 1: drive points to win the game. Jake makes the field goal.
Speaker 1: Everybody really started to believe all the way wholehearted, go
Speaker 1: all the way in, and now every time they step
Speaker 1: on the field, they're playing their very best football up
Speaker 1: and down the roster. It's you know, I guess I've
Speaker 1: never been around. I've certainly got a taste it. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, Ike, when you know that you're
Speaker 1: a great team and you're going to be a playoff team,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go deep in the playoffs. This is what happens.
Speaker 1: Everybody raises their level of game. I believe it starts
Speaker 1: with a quarterback when you have somebody very special. But
Speaker 1: certainly has made Doug a better coach, It's made Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz a better defensive coordinator. They're having a great just
Speaker 1: a great run here, seventh straight wins. It's remarkable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that run we went on day back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, a little bit expected run. I mean, we
Speaker 1: obviously were a proven team, a team that had been
Speaker 1: in the playoffs several years conference championship games. Getting TiO
Speaker 1: was really like the issen on the k Forces that year.
Speaker 1: This year with this team, the reason why I'm more
Speaker 1: impressed with what they're doing is that they're doing it
Speaker 1: so early in the stages of this unit. I mean,
Speaker 1: Carson is in his second year, Doug is in his
Speaker 1: second year as a head coach. Some of the players
Speaker 1: they brought in this all season haven't had a whole
Speaker 1: lot of time to jail together. So to come together
Speaker 1: the way that they have so quickly, I think it's
Speaker 1: been remarkably impressive. And I mean it just doesn't happen
Speaker 1: like that everywhere around the league, where you get a
Speaker 1: unit to play this well, this fast, And I'm with you,
Speaker 1: it starts with number eleven that that guy is playing
Speaker 1: at a whole other level. You know, I think the number,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys got this number. He
Speaker 1: is the youngest quarterback in the history of the NFL
Speaker 1: to have in the history of the NFL, and I
Speaker 1: think only one of five quarterbacks in the history, but
Speaker 1: if the youngest to have twenty three touchdown passes and
Speaker 1: five or fewer interceptions in the first nine games of
Speaker 1: a season. So he's playing at an entirely different level
Speaker 1: than anyone we've seen. And finally, I'll see this two
Speaker 1: thousand and four. There were a couple of close games
Speaker 1: in that early run. It was Chicago. It's a tough game,
Speaker 1: Baltimore a tough game. This group has been blowing teams
Speaker 1: out lately, and I mean, how do you stay sharp? Well,
Speaker 1: we'll think about it for a week, because the bye
Speaker 1: week comes in absolutely the perfect time. Well, Davis, I
Speaker 1: appreciate the time as always. Over from Lincoln Financial Field,
Speaker 1: We're gonna head over to the press conference shortly. I
Speaker 1: know you've got a run inside to hear from Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson and Carson Wentz. So thank you very much, Dave.
Speaker 1: Like I think, bouncing off of what Dave said, I
Speaker 1: think you see the momentum that this team is carrying
Speaker 1: going forward, and I think going into the bye it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really big for Doug Peterson and the staff
Speaker 1: to build on that as they go into this week
Speaker 1: of rest or rest up. And you know, all the
Speaker 1: things that Doug is saying to the team right now
Speaker 1: in the locker room, take care of your bodies, rest up,
Speaker 1: but stay focused, come back. We've got Dallas on Sunday
Speaker 1: night in two weeks. Yeah, I mean that that becomes
Speaker 1: the challenge now for Doug and this coaching staff and
Speaker 1: put the vetchan players on this team. Right, you're sitting
Speaker 1: at eight and one. Nope, you're not going to surprise
Speaker 1: anybody anymore. You got a week. Also, people will continue
Speaker 1: to talk about you. You're the best team in the
Speaker 1: league record wise. Now you're gonna have to deal with expectations, right,
Speaker 1: you have these next seven games. Everybody's gunning for you
Speaker 1: in the NFC, and I'm excited to see how how
Speaker 1: this team handles it. You know, when you it's a
Speaker 1: little different when you're flying under the radar and they're
Speaker 1: low expectations, you kind of use that as a motivational
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder. Well, when these guys come back
Speaker 1: from the break, they're gonna find out that they are
Speaker 1: the hunted. Now everybody's gonna be hunting the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: and it's going to make for an exciting November, December,
Speaker 1: and January. I can't wait. It's been a few years
Speaker 1: since we had this level of football around here. To
Speaker 1: be excited about. And now we're gonna get into the
Speaker 1: winning months of the National Football League calendar. Right, this
Speaker 1: is the time whether the games matter most. There's playoff
Speaker 1: jockeying that will be going on, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to block out that noise. That's gonna be the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge, right, stand healthy and then blocking out the
Speaker 1: outside noise, the ulation, everybody wanting to patch you on
Speaker 1: the back, everybody wanting to crown you champions before you
Speaker 1: actually go get it done. This team, that's the hardest
Speaker 1: work they're gonna have to do. Talent wise, we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that anymore. There are no more
Speaker 1: measuring sticks, there are no more barometers you need to
Speaker 1: live up too, with the exception of playing up to
Speaker 1: the level of your expectations every week. And listen, now
Speaker 1: they're the hunting. That's right, it should be. It should
Speaker 1: be fun. Hey, well, Doug Pearson, the mindset has always
Speaker 1: been one to know. We're gonna go one to know
Speaker 1: each and every week. And really, and like you mentioned
Speaker 1: these couple of months now, November December, those are the
Speaker 1: games that people remember. Yes, you know what you've done.
Speaker 1: Now through September and October has been outstanding, going eight
Speaker 1: and one, winning seventh straight. But now it's about closing
Speaker 1: this season, so they're gonna rest up. We got a
Speaker 1: couple of guys banged up. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: time for those guys going to the buy. But, like
Speaker 1: you said, a huge win before we get into Dallas
Speaker 1: and we start talking about moving forward. Coming into this game,
Speaker 1: I think the big concern we all had was von
Speaker 1: Miller and this pass rush, and I thought, going back
Speaker 1: to the game plan and the execution of that game plan,
Speaker 1: they did a great job of really negating what he
Speaker 1: could bring to the table because you've got the ability
Speaker 1: to beat the right tackle lane Johnson off the edge,
Speaker 1: and I think that what they did was with the
Speaker 1: quick game, they got the ball out of Carson's hands
Speaker 1: very quickly. There wasn't a lot of designed deep shots
Speaker 1: down the field in this game. And then also moving
Speaker 1: the pocket a couple of those plays as well. Where
Speaker 1: they're reading von Miller, you know he's gonna have the
Speaker 1: ability to where he can't be right on the player
Speaker 1: you talked about earlier, the touchdown passed to alshon Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: They're reading von Miller at the snap of the ball,
Speaker 1: and then on the touchdown to Corey Clement, they're reading.
Speaker 1: They're reading von Miller off the snap of the ball.
Speaker 1: So you've got the ability where he can't be right
Speaker 1: and you're really you say, you can't block him. Let's
Speaker 1: read him, and now you don't have to block him.
Speaker 1: Want to take care of him. You get the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. That goes back to the game plan
Speaker 1: that they put together. I mean, listen, when you talk
Speaker 1: about number fifty eight being on the other side, you
Speaker 1: had better account for him every snap. And when you
Speaker 1: watched this game plan, you know that they wanted to
Speaker 1: know where number fifty eight was at and you said
Speaker 1: it best instead of running away from him, they ran
Speaker 1: at him. They read off of him. You know that
Speaker 1: option played to Corey Clement was a nice red play
Speaker 1: where Von Miller you got a choice. Either you go
Speaker 1: out to Corey Clement and Carson is going to keep
Speaker 1: the ball and run up the field, or you're gonna
Speaker 1: try to get the Carson, which we know Von Miller
Speaker 1: wants to hit the quarterback, and he sucked him in
Speaker 1: good enough to where he was able to pitching to
Speaker 1: Corey Clement and he basically went the end zone untouched.
Speaker 1: That's what you do when you have a defensive player
Speaker 1: that's as disruptive as von Miller is. You don't try
Speaker 1: to go away from him. You go right at him.
Speaker 1: You go right at him, make him make decisions as
Speaker 1: opposed to being free over there. And it wasn't until
Speaker 1: Lane went out of the game and we had a
Speaker 1: couple of backups in there that Von Miller was even
Speaker 1: heard from today other than jumping off sides once or twice.
Speaker 1: So just a real nice game plan in my mind
Speaker 1: leaning up to these games, right, I try to come
Speaker 1: up with ways where I think the Eagles are gonna
Speaker 1: lose the game. Just that's just because I worry throughout
Speaker 1: the week and I'm saying to myself, were the only
Speaker 1: way they're gonna lose his game is if Denver's defense
Speaker 1: forces a bunch of turnovers, And that's the only way.
Speaker 1: And I thought the offense did a great job taking
Speaker 1: care of football and really not playing necessarily conservative against
Speaker 1: this defense, but being calculated in the shots when they
Speaker 1: wanted to take the shots. Like you mentioned, the rollouts,
Speaker 1: the bootlegs, the misdirections, that's what you do to a
Speaker 1: speed defense. Even a key to lead. I thought, way
Speaker 1: he took al Sean Jeffrey and went right at a
Speaker 1: key to leave. I mean al Sean had eleven targets today,
Speaker 1: six sketches for eighty four yards, two touchdowns. Most I
Speaker 1: guarantee you a key to leaves. Nothing used to seeing
Speaker 1: that much action now. And I think the other play too,
Speaker 1: where you look at the ability to prey on that
Speaker 1: aggressiveness from the Denver defenses. How many times did Carson
Speaker 1: draw them off sides? I mean Shane Read, the second
Speaker 1: year guy was off sides a few times. He's got
Speaker 1: von Miller a couple of times as well. Just the
Speaker 1: ability to use those hard counts and just steal yards
Speaker 1: from that defense I thought was great. And you mentioned
Speaker 1: he believe to go after a key to lead. But
Speaker 1: let's focus now on that run game and namely Jaya.
Speaker 1: What were your expectations going this week? We saw, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in there for a handful of plays.
Speaker 1: He ended up double digits and carriages, which I don't
Speaker 1: know that many of us expected. But what did you
Speaker 1: see from Jaji in this game? And was it about
Speaker 1: what you expected coming out of the game. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: listen for us first week here, he's only been here
Speaker 1: for a few days. And to get in there and
Speaker 1: to be able to be productive eight carries seventy seven yards.
Speaker 1: I was eleven. I wanted to see some more. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see some more of the Jay train. So
Speaker 1: excited about this acquisition. This isn't just for this year,
Speaker 1: these eight games. Of course, he's going to be important
Speaker 1: for the stretch run, but I'm excited about the future
Speaker 1: with Jagie as well. I mean, this is a twenty
Speaker 1: four year old Pro Bowl running back. These guys just
Speaker 1: don't become available, and he became available this week for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. How we jumped on it. We had the
Speaker 1: picks available to get him here. And this offense was
Speaker 1: already an explosive offense with the running game fourth in
Speaker 1: the league in Russian prior to today. So to add
Speaker 1: a guy like JAYAJII to this already stacked backfield, I mean, wow,
Speaker 1: when's the last time we had a backfield like this
Speaker 1: with the power? And then Corey Clement the way he's
Speaker 1: running the ball as well. So, man, I tell you,
Speaker 1: Deuce has his hands full trying to figure out who
Speaker 1: to putting there in the game. And the thing about Jayaji,
Speaker 1: He's going to be able to play all three downs question.
Speaker 1: So I mean just a big plus big acquisition this week.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite parts of that touchdown was shortly
Speaker 1: afterwards and the Miami Dolphins played tonight. Jarvis Landry, one
Speaker 1: of those stars of the Miami Dolphins, tweets out Jay
Speaker 1: Train and you saw You're like, oh, maybe maybe he
Speaker 1: wasn't a bigger problem in the locker room and some
Speaker 1: of his team has missed him. The players weren't happy
Speaker 1: that he was gone. Believe me, Yeah, the players were
Speaker 1: not happy. And you get those two physical backs and
Speaker 1: just seeing how this coaching staff is gonna be able
Speaker 1: to incorporate both Jayagi and Lagarrett Blunt moving forward to
Speaker 1: really big, physical running backs. They're built for the second
Speaker 1: half of this year when it starts to get colder.
Speaker 1: And you can speak as a defender, when you have
Speaker 1: a two hundred twenty five pound two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: pounds Lagarrett Blunt maybe two hundred forty two and forty
Speaker 1: five pound running back coming down the hall at you
Speaker 1: and it's thirty degrees outside. Yeah, yeah, it builds. It
Speaker 1: takes a tall Yeah, a lot of business decisions get
Speaker 1: made by guys in the back seven of a defense
Speaker 1: when you got a tackle these big boys. And you're
Speaker 1: right when December rolls around here, we play up here
Speaker 1: in the northeast. Who knows what the weather is gonna be. Like, Man,
Speaker 1: that's what you want. I mean, that's what you want.
Speaker 1: Big guys that will punishing, that will wear your defense
Speaker 1: down as you go through a game and you get
Speaker 1: to that fourth quarter, I'm telling you, guys on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of that ball, they're looking for somebody else
Speaker 1: to make the tackle because they don't want to tackle
Speaker 1: those big boys. Well, let's shift over now to the
Speaker 1: defensive side, and I've got a great linebacker next. Man,
Speaker 1: We've maybe spent thirty seconds talking about defense this entire show,
Speaker 1: But this Eagles defense came out and had an outstanding
Speaker 1: day against Denver and that offense that's been very much
Speaker 1: up and down. Patrick Robinson made an outstanding play that
Speaker 1: really swung the momentum towards the Eagles way. It's seven
Speaker 1: to three, he jumps a pass and intended for Demarrius
Speaker 1: Thomas and really and really kind of swings the tide
Speaker 1: towards the Eagles. Yeah, just a terrible throw about brock Oswald.
Speaker 1: I needed to get that out of there. I mean
Speaker 1: that Patrick Robinson interception. Great job by him. He's been
Speaker 1: one of the biggest unsung heroes as well this season.
Speaker 1: You know, struggled in training camp a little bit, even
Speaker 1: through his own admission, didn't know he was gonna make
Speaker 1: the final cut. He's here. He's been able to find
Speaker 1: a niche in this defense as our nickel corner, which
Speaker 1: we definitely needed, and I think he's excelled at that position.
Speaker 1: You know, we got a nice problem in that secondary
Speaker 1: when it comes to the corners. A lot of talent,
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys, and Patrick Robinson this is
Speaker 1: a former first round draft pick, right you know, he's
Speaker 1: moving around a little bit from New Orleans to Indy
Speaker 1: and now coming over here. I think he's found a
Speaker 1: home playing that that nickel back in this defense. With
Speaker 1: that great front four up there, they're gonna disrupt a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks in the pocket, and these guys on
Speaker 1: the back end, they're starting to reap the benefits. You know,
Speaker 1: early in the season there were some drop balls and
Speaker 1: dropped interception things of that nature. You're starting to see
Speaker 1: those balls being caught now and I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: bowl well as the season goes on. And the other
Speaker 1: thing I learned about with those secondary guys, there's competition
Speaker 1: going on in that group. There's competition going on in
Speaker 1: that group. And these guys when the ball is in
Speaker 1: the air, not only do they want to get it interception,
Speaker 1: they want to take it back to the house and score.
Speaker 1: We found that out last week when Jail Mills took
Speaker 1: it to the house. Those guys are all rooting for
Speaker 1: each other. It's a really fun atmosphere in that room.
Speaker 1: And now Katchack Robinson a huge play. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it made the cut for the Merrill Cam segment
Speaker 1: this week, but let's find out. Let's go to see
Speaker 1: inside the Booth with Merrill Reese and Mike Quick Robot touchdown,
Speaker 1: what a beautiful seenter up with the fake ins of
Speaker 1: the belly of a g talk at back and went
Speaker 1: to Jeffrey thirty two yards touchdown play action O spoiler
Speaker 1: over the middle. I ter recepted Robinson Robinson at the thirty,
Speaker 1: at the twenty, at the fifteen and out of bounds.
Speaker 1: Robinson fine money backs that Brown goes or you know
Speaker 1: one of the top crushing defenses in the NFL. Obviously
Speaker 1: one set a tone with running the ball week. How
Speaker 1: much do you think they wanted to make a scene
Speaker 1: Tom here with gut um. Well that's um, let me
Speaker 1: start again. That is a good defense, and that's a
Speaker 1: good rushing def um. And they're that way for a reason.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I just think that that when
Speaker 1: you hear um, when you hear that all week, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's got a lot of pride. They want to they
Speaker 1: want to do their jobs and do them do them right,
Speaker 1: and and uh you know, it's it's a good test
Speaker 1: for offensive line. And uh they they really stepped up
Speaker 1: to the occasion and uh gosh, they rose up and
Speaker 1: did a nice job today. Uhcribing parts, Well, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was it was all part of our game plan. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was all part of our game plan. We wanted
Speaker 1: to utilize the tight ends. Obviously we do every week,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, we got a lot of confidence.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, and Trey and Brent and listen,
Speaker 1: they they uh they do a great job. They do
Speaker 1: a great job. And and Justin Peel does a great
Speaker 1: job with getting them ready to play. And and you know,
Speaker 1: we had to make some some last second adjustments, you know,
Speaker 1: prior to the game. But you know what that's that's
Speaker 1: what that's coaches, that's what that's what our job is,
Speaker 1: you know, to make those adjustments. And and uh, guys
Speaker 1: were ready to play. And uh did an I job
Speaker 1: on a double move you know early in the game.
Speaker 1: Uh oh al Sean Okay, took us through that play.
Speaker 1: I know that carting those the ball really well on
Speaker 1: the move. I mean just drop it in there, refresh
Speaker 1: my memory. Oh yeah, the read Okay, So it's it's
Speaker 1: just a play. I mean it's a read option. Um,
Speaker 1: uh read the defensive end. It it just so happened
Speaker 1: we're on the right hash so I think Vaughan was
Speaker 1: over there and uh we knew their d m's closed
Speaker 1: a little bit and and then um, it's just it's
Speaker 1: something that we build into that play. It's something where
Speaker 1: we've it's a day one training camp, Day one OTA
Speaker 1: play and um it's just a one step hitch and
Speaker 1: go and and we got twenty one to bite on
Speaker 1: the on the play and um did a great job
Speaker 1: throwing the ball on the run and and and all
Speaker 1: Shana game in the end, zone. It's got some explosion,
Speaker 1: you know, explosion this things we saw in film. Um again,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to give him a big workload, but
Speaker 1: it's same time wanting to get him in the game
Speaker 1: and and see what he could do. And and uh
Speaker 1: did a nice job for us. Obviously had the long
Speaker 1: touchdown and run there I believe in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: Um and and uh did it did some really nice
Speaker 1: things for us. You know, we'll just we'll just keep
Speaker 1: increasing his workload as as we go. Is the first
Speaker 1: eaves a quarterback to have a stretch of five teas
Speaker 1: or seventeen touchdowns like he has, get even better, get
Speaker 1: every week in your own he improves every single week.
Speaker 1: And and uh, Um, you know, the guys around him
Speaker 1: really elevate their game. They they I think we talked
Speaker 1: about this quite a bit with um with with with
Speaker 1: great quarterbacks and good quarterbacks that make the other guys
Speaker 1: really want to play at a high level. And that's
Speaker 1: and that's what you're doing, is it's taking it. It's
Speaker 1: a team effort. Obviously offensively, offensive line has to protect.
Speaker 1: But he's doing a great job. He knows where everybody's
Speaker 1: going to be. He he prepares so well each week
Speaker 1: and and uh um, it's it's fun to watch and
Speaker 1: when when things are really clicking like that, and to
Speaker 1: see the guys having having fun doing that. The first
Speaker 1: one Big said in a game, I can't remember the
Speaker 1: down and distance actually might have been second? Was it first?
Speaker 1: And ten second down? I can't remember. But it's it's
Speaker 1: a play that it just so happened. I mean I
Speaker 1: wanted to put it on the right hash. The ball
Speaker 1: was on the right hash fifty eight lines up to
Speaker 1: our right and and uh it was. It was one
Speaker 1: of the plays that we had worked on all week.
Speaker 1: And um, like I said, it's it's something that we've
Speaker 1: it's been in our playbook. It's actually actually in our
Speaker 1: tempo package. Um, and we we pulled it out this
Speaker 1: week just uh um kind of dusted it off and
Speaker 1: worked on it all week and and executed it to
Speaker 1: the perfect. What you haven't seen is the United person
Speaker 1: again same thing. Take advantage of their their their defensive ends. Um,
Speaker 1: you know those outside lbs and and um, um you
Speaker 1: know actually we kind of got the idea from Kansas
Speaker 1: City on Monday night they did the same thing. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, Carson's very athletic to do it.
Speaker 1: Corey did a great job and and again it was
Speaker 1: on the right hash exactly what we wanted. And uh um,
Speaker 1: credit to our guys for the execution on both of
Speaker 1: those places. It was a struggle to get in seven
Speaker 1: weeks last years down in nine games. Is there a
Speaker 1: personal validation for you at all? You know what? Um?
Speaker 1: I know, I mean listen, I come to work every day.
Speaker 1: I'm the same guy and and and I just want
Speaker 1: to win the week. And uh um, you know, last
Speaker 1: year's last year, it is what it is. This year's
Speaker 1: this year. Um, we are where we are because that
Speaker 1: that group in the locker room and uh they're playing
Speaker 1: with a lot of confidence. They're there. They they love
Speaker 1: to play together. They practice extremely well during the week
Speaker 1: and prepare themselves and and they're doing they're doing the
Speaker 1: little things right and uh um, that's what you want
Speaker 1: out of your football team. And then and then you know,
Speaker 1: uh they do that. These these types of games are
Speaker 1: going to happen. And um, whether that's validation or not,
Speaker 1: I you know, I really don't care. Just focused on
Speaker 1: now this bye week and then then getting ready for Dallas.
Speaker 1: Give them the bye week and yeah, I'm gonna give them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him the week and and uh, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: they've they they talk about having something special, and I
Speaker 1: want them to remind themselves that this is a this
Speaker 1: is a special group. And and you know we we've
Speaker 1: uh we were at eight and one for a reason,
Speaker 1: and we don't need to go backwards now, So enjoy
Speaker 1: the time. We need to get healthy. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: a good week for us to get healthy and make up,
Speaker 1: make a push and and and get ready for the
Speaker 1: second half of the season. Surprised, like Courty Clement that
Speaker 1: the way he continues to develop, I mean, drop Din
Speaker 1: on the screen today for a touchdown and second effort runs.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm not because I you know, when
Speaker 1: we had them all the way back into rookie camp,
Speaker 1: you started seeing us sort of flashes and signs of
Speaker 1: what what he was is and was capable of doing
Speaker 1: then and now and he again, he's another one that
Speaker 1: that uh you know, we sort of increase his workload
Speaker 1: each week, and uh, he's a smart guy. He's he's
Speaker 1: really picking up the offense extremely well, and he runs
Speaker 1: hard and he's aggressive, and um, you know, he can't
Speaker 1: do it obviously without the offensive line, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one that very very special running back right now,
Speaker 1: and we'll just keep him, keep him coming. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he tried to tried to go on his on his
Speaker 1: on his leg there and and just um, you know,
Speaker 1: just didn't feel right. Um. So you know, made the
Speaker 1: decision with with seven games remaining, having a buy a
Speaker 1: couple you know, really a couple of weeks here to rest,
Speaker 1: just made the decision that that we need him more
Speaker 1: for the long term than than than this game, and
Speaker 1: uh just decided to keep him out. He passed running
Speaker 1: all because that team ran pretty well as a team,
Speaker 1: very good defensive, team of execution, operationally, love him almost
Speaker 1: the keys. I just think it comes down to the
Speaker 1: way the guys practiced, the way they prepare during the week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of a lot of pride with
Speaker 1: that offensive line that kept here in all week, how
Speaker 1: how good this and this is a good defense, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but they kept hearing all week how
Speaker 1: good you know, uh this defense is. And I think
Speaker 1: our guys got a lot of pride too, and they
Speaker 1: want to take that upon themselves. And I think the
Speaker 1: offensive line wanted to um, also kind of rebound too
Speaker 1: from the week before. I don't think they played necessarily
Speaker 1: great the week before, and and uh they were up
Speaker 1: against a good opportunity and a good team this week,
Speaker 1: and then you know, rose to the occasion thinking that
Speaker 1: that progress might move bottle or around or the probably
Speaker 1: week did today. I just think that. I just think
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson played today and how I think he's played
Speaker 1: through the entire I think Lane, Lane has listened. Lane's
Speaker 1: playing playing extremely well, playing at a high level right now. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they got to Carson the one time. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it might have been in the
Speaker 1: second half. I can't really remember where it was a stunt,
Speaker 1: but he did a great job on on on Vaughan,
Speaker 1: who's a tremendous pass rusher. And you know, Lane's Lane
Speaker 1: is one of those guys man that that uh um,
Speaker 1: when he gets locked in in his own he's he's
Speaker 1: a tough he's a tough tackle and and uh um,
Speaker 1: hats off to him the way he the way he
Speaker 1: prepares too, and the way he practices to get ready
Speaker 1: for guys like like baub Miller. They did, they did,
Speaker 1: and you don't ask their deal. You know they're gonna
Speaker 1: play a lot of their bass defense and rush five
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know they also played with a
Speaker 1: lot of five D linemen in there, uh late in
Speaker 1: the game, and and just just try to put pressure
Speaker 1: on Carson and um, we did a great job of
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, sort of moving the pocket around,
Speaker 1: a little bit ball out of his hand, quick throws,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of the screen game, and
Speaker 1: then the ability to run try to keep him off balance.
Speaker 1: The best we can. Defense is unbelievable. Defense is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Takeaways to stop that team. I think they are thirty
Speaker 1: something yards rushing at the time, and um, they're they're
Speaker 1: playing it's it's uh, it's fun to watch our defense
Speaker 1: right now. Um, they're playing at a high level. They're
Speaker 1: playing well together. Pass rushes there, getting after the quarterback
Speaker 1: and the takeaways and and uh it's it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: like they're you know, it's like the offense. I mean
Speaker 1: they get better every week too, playing together. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch those guys. Start of the season,
Speaker 1: we weren't half exceeding. Might mean it's a team I mean, well,
Speaker 1: I mean you'd love to be undefeated going in near by,
Speaker 1: but you know we're not. Um. I mean, listen, you
Speaker 1: you have you have those expectations coming out of training camp.
Speaker 1: You think your team's going to be a certain way
Speaker 1: or you know, you you go, you look at the
Speaker 1: schedule and the way we started on the road, you know,
Speaker 1: and okay, if we can get this, this and this
Speaker 1: to fall our way. But listen, these guys, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just a matter of women the week, um.
Speaker 1: And and for us to be at eight and one
Speaker 1: right now, I mean it's a it's a tremendous credit
Speaker 1: to the to the guys and the coaches in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Hats off to those guys for the way
Speaker 1: they work, the way they practice, prepare um and standing
Speaker 1: here today looking back at it, I'm not surprised by
Speaker 1: the way they by the way they work. Thanks all right.
Speaker 1: So that's head coach Doug Peterson, which a victorious locker room.
Speaker 1: A lot to say after that really dominant win over
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. So we cut away from our Merril
Speaker 1: Camar point of view camera inside the booth there with
Speaker 1: Merrill Reese and Mike Quick. Very much thanks to ninety
Speaker 1: four WYP for the access to these radio calls. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to that piece now for some of the
Speaker 1: big plays of the game. A GI gets no, that's
Speaker 1: a fake pass to Jeffrey in from the touchdown. What
Speaker 1: a beautiful center up with the fake into the belly
Speaker 1: of a Gia tuck it back and what the Jeffrey
Speaker 1: thirty two yards touchdown? Play action O spoiler over the
Speaker 1: middle at are recepted Robinson Robinton at the thirty, at
Speaker 1: the twenty, at the fifteen and out of bounds. Robinson
Speaker 1: took bad football away over the middle under center is Wins, Wins, fakes,
Speaker 1: he rolls, he swings it out to Clement clement As
Speaker 1: at the five. He takes for the touchdown. Beautiful Wentz
Speaker 1: is back, Lenz Fax. He looks, he is firing it
Speaker 1: and it has caught touchdown inside the pylona. Now I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for the signal, still waiting. It was thrown the
Speaker 1: tray Burton. It's Tray Burton and it's a touchdown. It's
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Wentz again in the shotgun. Wentz comes back
Speaker 1: to a joy again. He's at the forty, He's at
Speaker 1: the thirty, at the twenty, at the fifteen, ten to five,
Speaker 1: he dies, and he is and for the touchdown, his
Speaker 1: first touchdown as an Eagle, a forty six yard explosion
Speaker 1: by Jay A Joy. You know, when you're listening to
Speaker 1: Marylyn Mike, it almost feels like you're in the booth
Speaker 1: with them. So now having access to be able to
Speaker 1: watch them make those calls, I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah, I'm telling you, I was jumping up
Speaker 1: and down the saying where they were, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure the voice got a little tired with fifty one
Speaker 1: points is a lot of points. But I tell you,
Speaker 1: Uncle Merrill, he does a great job. Every touchdown seems
Speaker 1: like the first touchdown or the game winning touchdown. No
Speaker 1: one's more excited for this team. The Merrell Reese, who
Speaker 1: has been here for what forty years? Almost something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to dat him. And then the great
Speaker 1: Mike Quick. I mean that's a great duo right there.
Speaker 1: Those two, no question. So let's obviously they were put
Speaker 1: to work often today because of how successful the sequel's
Speaker 1: offense was. And there was an interesting quote that came
Speaker 1: out of the Denver locker room. Chris Harris, who's an
Speaker 1: outstanding cornerback for that team, told reporters that he felt
Speaker 1: that the Eagles offense knew everything Denver's defense was going
Speaker 1: to do from snap to finish. And that's a testament
Speaker 1: to Doug Peterson. Yeah. I mean, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: Doug coming over from Kansas City a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: he's obviously used to facing this team twice a year,
Speaker 1: and even though they have a new head coach, the defense,
Speaker 1: the tendency, things of that nature, what they like to
Speaker 1: do on that side of the football, he's very familiar with,
Speaker 1: and he understood where the weak spots would be in
Speaker 1: that defense. Listen, it wasn't an offensive day where Carson
Speaker 1: just shredded the defense left and right. It was up
Speaker 1: and down for him. But the fact that they The
Speaker 1: thing I was most impressed with was the amount of
Speaker 1: success we had running the football against this defense. They
Speaker 1: were right behind the Eagles and rushing defense allowed in
Speaker 1: this season, and to put up one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: seven yards against this defense, man, that's that's taking another
Speaker 1: team's will, right as as a former defensive player, when
Speaker 1: the team is running the ball down your throat like that, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty much saying we're gonna bully you. Even
Speaker 1: though you know what's coming, you can't do anything about
Speaker 1: it to stop it. And that's the way these running
Speaker 1: backs ran the day. All three guys, Corey Jayagi and
Speaker 1: and la Garrett Blunt. When they had opportunities to run
Speaker 1: the ball, they ran downhill. Uh, this is against a
Speaker 1: physical defense that loves to tackle, come up and hit you.
Speaker 1: And I thought we did an outstanding job in the
Speaker 1: running game. Can I say the moment where I knew
Speaker 1: the game was over and it was thirty one to
Speaker 1: nine at this point, I wasn't like going out on
Speaker 1: a limb. It wasn't like a hot take. But coming
Speaker 1: out of the second half, the Eagles get the football
Speaker 1: and they run the ball so well. In that opening,
Speaker 1: Driver said Denver's done, their will is gone to put
Speaker 1: it to take your words, they really, I thought, took
Speaker 1: it to one of the best run defenses in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Denver was the only team in the league ike that
Speaker 1: didn't allow a rushing touchdown through the first eight weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. The Eagles reached the end zone three
Speaker 1: times today on the ground, So it really goes to
Speaker 1: show the kind of success that they were able to
Speaker 1: get We talked about that jays I run. We're gonna
Speaker 1: break that run later on down on the show with
Speaker 1: Greg Kosell in the Rico review. But you see that
Speaker 1: long run from Jasi, really solid steady runs there from
Speaker 1: Corey Clement. They were able to get the Garrett Blunt
Speaker 1: downhill a number of different times in this game. So
Speaker 1: you're talking about that Eagles offensive line, the physicality they've
Speaker 1: shown even with backups in the game. Lane Johnson comes out,
Speaker 1: You already had halipool of body viti in, but now
Speaker 1: you put Isaac say Amilo in at right tackle, your
Speaker 1: your fourth tackle really entering the game, and they're still
Speaker 1: able to control the clock and run the football. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think you brought up a great point. That first
Speaker 1: drive coming out of the locker room really broke the
Speaker 1: wheel of the Broncos that they had any any hope
Speaker 1: of putting up a fight in that second half. The
Speaker 1: Eagles basically doused at with that first drive. I mean,
Speaker 1: to go down and score seven plus minutes on the drive,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how you come out of the locker
Speaker 1: room saying we're not taking our foot off the gas pedal,
Speaker 1: We're gonna put our foot on your throat and basically
Speaker 1: bury you this half with this first drive. And that's
Speaker 1: what the Eagles were able to do. And from that
Speaker 1: point on, the Broncos really were looking for the exit door. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when you go on the other side of it,
Speaker 1: you flip the coin. In the Eagles defense one point
Speaker 1: eight yards to carry in this game, they allowed the
Speaker 1: Denver offense. I mean they shut down whether it's Davante Booker,
Speaker 1: whether it was Anderson, no matter who was carrying the
Speaker 1: football for this Denver offense. The Eagles defense really came
Speaker 1: to play. Not that we expected anything less because this
Speaker 1: is the best rushing defense in the entire NFL entering
Speaker 1: the week. But if you're gonna beat this Denver offense,
Speaker 1: you had to make them one dimensional fourth brock Oswalder
Speaker 1: to beat you. That's exactly what they did. They stopped
Speaker 1: the run and they turn it around three sacks, two
Speaker 1: picks on brock Man. This defense plays with an attitude
Speaker 1: with a disposition of nobody's running the ball on us,
Speaker 1: and when you stop the run, you're basically playing bullyball.
Speaker 1: And that's what this ego defense wants to do. They
Speaker 1: want to make every offense they face one dimensional. You're
Speaker 1: not going to run the ball on this defense. Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins with the personality of it's not happening. Those guys
Speaker 1: set the tone upfront. That defensive line, Tim Jernegan, Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, Vinny Curry. That's been outstanding against the run
Speaker 1: this year, several tackles for losses, I honestly believe, and
Speaker 1: we can check the numbers to look back, but I
Speaker 1: know for a fact the defenses I played with under
Speaker 1: Jim Johnson, we never had a run defense this good,
Speaker 1: never had a run defense this good, and would I
Speaker 1: would dare to say it's the best run defense that's
Speaker 1: been around here. You gotta go back to Buddy's days
Speaker 1: or either Bug Carson that night ten ninety one defense
Speaker 1: to have a run defense. We played great pass defense
Speaker 1: under Jim Johnson, but running stopping the run wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: our primary goal. Stopping the pass, not giving up touchdowns
Speaker 1: was our primary goal. This team refuses to let anybody
Speaker 1: run the ball against them. I think they like the
Speaker 1: fact that they are number one against the run in
Speaker 1: the league. They know that and they go in there
Speaker 1: every week saying, not on our watch, you're not running
Speaker 1: the football, and it's a beautiful thing to see because
Speaker 1: when you stop the run like that, that's a mentality
Speaker 1: that permeates throughout that whole side of the football, and
Speaker 1: it's a nasty attitude you want to play with and
Speaker 1: you want to have. It's intimidating, it really is. When
Speaker 1: when you force the team to say, now we're gonna
Speaker 1: throw the ball today and then go up against that
Speaker 1: defensive line in the pass rushing mode. Man, I just think,
Speaker 1: I just think we got something special that they're building
Speaker 1: on right now with the way that they're playing defense.
Speaker 1: And that's how you win and get in December and January.
Speaker 1: You better be able to stop the run. Yeah, run
Speaker 1: defense travels when you when you go into the playoffs
Speaker 1: and you have to go on the road, and right now,
Speaker 1: the Eagles team won't have to go on the road
Speaker 1: if they were going to the playoffs. But really that's
Speaker 1: something that carries with you. And when you look at
Speaker 1: this defense, the energy that they play with and that
Speaker 1: fanatical pursuit of the football. We see it in all
Speaker 1: the mikings each week. You know, you mike up Nigel
Speaker 1: Bradham last week against San Francisco and you just see
Speaker 1: the energy Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, Jalen Mills, Rodney McLeod,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins. Those guys are flying to the football NonStop.
Speaker 1: And you just see that relentless pursuit of excellence on
Speaker 1: that defensive side. And I think we're shooting Eagles game
Speaker 1: plan this week, and you know, we have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun when we're shooting Eagles game plan, and John
Speaker 1: Clark bust out of stat and I think all of
Speaker 1: us kind of raised our eyebrows. Kareem Hunt is the
Speaker 1: only running back on the Eagles schedule that has rushed
Speaker 1: for more than forty yards a single player, and he
Speaker 1: did all that on basically one carrier. So if you
Speaker 1: took that one carry out, they haven't given a forty
Speaker 1: yard rusher all season long. Just a ridiculous performance by
Speaker 1: this front seven, even despite the injuries. You had Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox out for a couple of games. You've missed now,
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks for a couple of games. Vinny Curry was
Speaker 1: out for a little bit. In this game, you've seen
Speaker 1: mix and matching a personnel, but still the same result.
Speaker 1: This defense is really really solid upfront. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: because I believe the attitude starts in practice. The way
Speaker 1: that they've practice, they've already made up their minds that
Speaker 1: they aren't gonna allow anybody to run the football on
Speaker 1: this We're gonna force you to throw the ball against
Speaker 1: our pass rush, but you will not run the football.
Speaker 1: And it starts up front, it starts up the middle.
Speaker 1: You mentioned not having Jordan Hicks, that certainly could have
Speaker 1: hampered this defense, but Nigel Bradham has been able to
Speaker 1: move in there. Joe Walker has been able to play
Speaker 1: as a young player against the run. Michael Kendricks, the
Speaker 1: Angry Bird, one of my favorite players have He's re
Speaker 1: emerged in this defense, and when you watch them swarm
Speaker 1: to the football, that's how you play great run defense.
Speaker 1: You know, a runner may get through that line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: but what you aren't seeing is ten yard, fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: yard runs from running backs. And that's because you're getting
Speaker 1: so many people to the football. If one guy misses
Speaker 1: the tackle, there are two or three guys right there
Speaker 1: to clean it up for him. So you mentioned not
Speaker 1: really since that Kareem Hunt run which came in the
Speaker 1: second half, really on a play where one of our
Speaker 1: linebackers kind of over pursued the gap and he was
Speaker 1: able to come out of the back door, and I
Speaker 1: think they took that personal and said they're not gonna
Speaker 1: let that happen again. It's really been a pleasant surprise
Speaker 1: to watch them play this style of defense, and me
Speaker 1: being a defensive guy, and with so much going on
Speaker 1: with Carson Wentz and the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: and all the hoop law and adulation over the rightfully,
Speaker 1: so it's good to see that defense just handling their
Speaker 1: business week ind and week out, and talking to talking
Speaker 1: to Jalen Mills earlier in the week, you know, they
Speaker 1: had to answer questions about this Bronco defense all week
Speaker 1: and how great they were. So as a good defensive
Speaker 1: unit themselves, you sort of get tired of hearing about that.
Speaker 1: You get tired of hearing about how great the defense
Speaker 1: is for the other team. And it reminded me of
Speaker 1: that Carolina game on Thursday night when they had to
Speaker 1: hear about how good Carolina's defense was. So the defense
Speaker 1: sort of takes it as a challenge, like we play
Speaker 1: good ball on this side of the football too. In
Speaker 1: Midnight Green and so I think they go into every
Speaker 1: week trying to prove they are the best defense in
Speaker 1: the league. Let me ask you a question. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you to kind of take your radio hat off
Speaker 1: and put your team captain hat on. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: looking at this team, and you're in this locker room. Now,
Speaker 1: you're eight and one, you're going into the by How
Speaker 1: difficult is it to maintain that focus and maintain that
Speaker 1: steadfast focused on winning one at one game at a
Speaker 1: time and looking ahead, where as opposed to you know,
Speaker 1: kind of telling or letting everybody tell you how good
Speaker 1: you are, and hey, you're the number one seed. You're
Speaker 1: you're gonna be Uh, you know, the road's gonna go
Speaker 1: to through the Super Bowl to Philadelphia. How do you
Speaker 1: stay focused? Now? How do you keep your teammates focused?
Speaker 1: It's difficult. You try to remind them and I know
Speaker 1: after this, uh, at the after the game, in the meeting,
Speaker 1: you probably had veterans trying to remind every everybody be smart.
Speaker 1: Remember we still got a season left to play. You
Speaker 1: want it, You want them to know. You go and
Speaker 1: enjoy yourself on the break, but make sure you keep
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind that we still have
Speaker 1: a goal that we're trying to achieve and what's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting with this team. I mentioned it when
Speaker 1: we were talking to Dave. This team, this corp of
Speaker 1: guys don't necessarily have an extensive pass together. You know
Speaker 1: the difference with the teams that we played on. We've
Speaker 1: been in the playoffs year in and year out, so
Speaker 1: we kind of knew how to handle everything. This is
Speaker 1: really the first year of success for this core group
Speaker 1: of guys, and this will be the biggest challenge for them.
Speaker 1: It's on their bye week, whether some go back home,
Speaker 1: the younger guys may decide to go back to school.
Speaker 1: Everybody's going to tell them how great they played the
Speaker 1: first half of the season. Everybody's going to tell them
Speaker 1: that no team in the NFC, possibly the NFL can
Speaker 1: beat them. They got to block that step out, all right.
Speaker 1: So from what I'm sure he's gonna ask about this,
Speaker 1: let's go over to Carson Wentz across the street like
Speaker 1: a financial field, people prenning game going. It's a very
Speaker 1: good defense. How was this effort? Did not these ways? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great effort. Um. The beautiful thing about
Speaker 1: what we did today is we were balanced. We spread
Speaker 1: the ball around the way we did UM, both in
Speaker 1: the run game in and throw game. Um, you know
Speaker 1: Zach went down obviously, we we thought Urch was gonna
Speaker 1: be ready to play, and uh we didn't miss a beat.
Speaker 1: You know. We had Selik and Trace tap up and
Speaker 1: make some big plays, and um, that's just how we're wired.
Speaker 1: That's how we're built. Next guy up and shooting, and
Speaker 1: the old line, I mean, hats off of them as
Speaker 1: that d line, Um, that front seven. I hear all
Speaker 1: about them, and that's a great defense. So our old
Speaker 1: line really handled some business today and it was a
Speaker 1: it was a good team win. And did you guys
Speaker 1: adjust that during the game. Yeah, No, we had a
Speaker 1: we had a pretty good idea how we want to
Speaker 1: utilize him in the running game, um with some of
Speaker 1: our simple stuff, and um, you know he I mean
Speaker 1: he's picked up on things pretty quickly. He's a smart kid.
Speaker 1: So um, it was a sweet to get him in,
Speaker 1: get him on that long run, get him going early. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he he's a talented back. So it's cool
Speaker 1: to be able to spread the ball to him, to
Speaker 1: lea Garrett to Corey today when Dell at the end.
Speaker 1: You know, I think just having those guys, um makes
Speaker 1: my life a lot easier to come in and within
Speaker 1: five days, you know, to have a big role. It's
Speaker 1: in present. I mean it hats off to him. You know,
Speaker 1: he came in with a he wanted to work attitude
Speaker 1: right away, and um that was great too, great to see. Um,
Speaker 1: great communication. He fits in well in the locker room
Speaker 1: and everything as well. So like I said, he's a
Speaker 1: smart kids, so he's picked up on things pretty quickly. Um.
Speaker 1: And like I said, huge to to see him get
Speaker 1: that that big score of down to al Shank. You
Speaker 1: take us through that the read and yeah alone, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just his own read. Um, his own read
Speaker 1: play with that little tag to al Shan there, so
Speaker 1: he knew, um to leads a pretty aggressive corner. So
Speaker 1: with that action, you know, I just knew I had
Speaker 1: to just get enough time um to let Alshan win.
Speaker 1: And and and he did the rest of Carson, we're hearing
Speaker 1: from a couple of Broncos defensive players saying, it seem
Speaker 1: what you guys on this knew what they were running
Speaker 1: on defense. He's that something all week or even need
Speaker 1: a game as well. Did you feel that way? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think we felt really confident in our
Speaker 1: in our plan. Um, and then the looks that they
Speaker 1: were showing us. You know, we study the tape every week,
Speaker 1: you know, you dive into it. Um, And with some
Speaker 1: of the blitz pickups and everything, today we felt really
Speaker 1: confident and it worked, it worked out, and UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: we just we had a great plan and we executed
Speaker 1: it well. You talk before about out each week having
Speaker 1: o's having multiple ways been to this offense. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Jags has more fast. You know, how can you guys
Speaker 1: between keep doing this? Um? Do you feel like you
Speaker 1: have to have that kind of Yeah? I think that's
Speaker 1: first of all, just what makes us tough to defend
Speaker 1: because we can spread it out. And the best part
Speaker 1: about it is we have a ton of unselfish guys.
Speaker 1: You know, any week it's somebody different, um, and no
Speaker 1: one really cares who it is, you know, as long
Speaker 1: as we're winning games and making plays. Um, we just
Speaker 1: have a bunch of unselfish guys, and we do feel
Speaker 1: we can keep spreading the ball around, spreading the love
Speaker 1: like that, um and making play. You're vibing just has
Speaker 1: that sound that you turn up that slowly? All right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it feels good, you know, it feels good.
Speaker 1: Especially coming off a big win like this, UM at home,
Speaker 1: you know, against a great defense offensively to put up
Speaker 1: what we did today, Um, you know we we obviously
Speaker 1: feel like we have some momentum and we're gonna enjoy
Speaker 1: this or relax and kind of get away and then
Speaker 1: come back ready to go. Stings out with the way
Speaker 1: it stands out, with the way Duck's calling plays right
Speaker 1: now and keeping defenses off balance, you nailed it. He
Speaker 1: keeps them off balance, you know, just with with the
Speaker 1: the nakids that we do, the sprint outs, the drop back,
Speaker 1: the quick game. Um, we have a bunch of different
Speaker 1: running sets and everything as well. We did someone balanced today. Um.
Speaker 1: We just mix it up so well. And you know,
Speaker 1: being able to mix it up well like that, and
Speaker 1: like I already talked about, spread the love the way
Speaker 1: we do, UM, I think it makes us really tough
Speaker 1: to defend. We touch the US today for a rookie
Speaker 1: h and I guess it was the first option for
Speaker 1: all of those. How much is he grown? Yea the
Speaker 1: soul offense to the point where you're coming, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: growing a bunch, you know, seeing Corey all through even
Speaker 1: training camp, you know he's just a guy that wanted
Speaker 1: to work, wanted to learn, you know, and he's um
Speaker 1: just always ready whenever his numbers called in today. Um,
Speaker 1: he made the most of them. He made the most
Speaker 1: of them. And he's a heck of a back, heck
Speaker 1: of a player, heck of a teammate as well. You know,
Speaker 1: I just love seeing those backs celebrating when they're other
Speaker 1: guys scores. You know, that's just the culture that we have,
Speaker 1: that's just the relationship they all have, and UM, it's
Speaker 1: pretty special to be a part of it. What's the
Speaker 1: game player to kind of counter? Yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: first of all, we studied it. We had a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea of how we wanted to call protections. You know,
Speaker 1: we did some some chips and some different things to um,
Speaker 1: kept the tight end a couple of times, did some
Speaker 1: different things and UM then they kind of got the
Speaker 1: ball out fairly quick as well. So I thought we
Speaker 1: did a good job of that. Absolutely. Absolutely, We're never
Speaker 1: going to settle. Um. Like I said, We're gonna enjoy
Speaker 1: this this break that we have. UM, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back. You know, we got a good Dallas team
Speaker 1: to to go up against next and UM, Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll never settle. There's always things to learn from on
Speaker 1: the film. Well personally, um, you know, there's definitely some
Speaker 1: players want back um. There always is. UM. But I
Speaker 1: thought I thought we executed as an offense pretty well.
Speaker 1: We stayed pretty efficient. We had a couple of drives
Speaker 1: that that would definitely would want back um. But you know, overall,
Speaker 1: I thought we were fishing. They able to spread the
Speaker 1: ball around pretty good. Um. Oh the speed option, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was part of the plane. Um. We practiced that,
Speaker 1: um a little bit in training camp, but but not
Speaker 1: a lot. And just this week we got some good
Speaker 1: reps at it, and um, it worked out working. I
Speaker 1: mean see something Yeah, yeah, just the way they set
Speaker 1: their front and down in the low red zone, the
Speaker 1: way they kind of called their defense. We knew it
Speaker 1: was just you know, just read him, make the right reading.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a touchdown. Four touchdowns again they leave
Speaker 1: the league in touchdowns past. Did you expect this is
Speaker 1: kind of production to see? Yeah, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I don't touchdowns whatever. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's all great, but being eight and one is what
Speaker 1: it's all about. You know, I didn't really know what
Speaker 1: to expect with how stats all that stuff that doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. Um, but I will say I've always had
Speaker 1: high expectations for myself for this team. UM, so we're
Speaker 1: fortunately where we're at it. Did you anything, I'm just
Speaker 1: some formations and stuff. UM, I think formationally, um in
Speaker 1: personnel wise, just pregame, you know, we have to just
Speaker 1: kind of make some tweaks. But um, nothing too major,
Speaker 1: you know. I think having sealec, having Trey, Um, those guys.
Speaker 1: First of all, they're smart, so they could they know
Speaker 1: kind of everyone's position, so that helps you just plug
Speaker 1: them in. But um, not only are they're smart, they're talented.
Speaker 1: So they were always they were ready to go. They've
Speaker 1: always been. Um they made some big place today touchdown
Speaker 1: play they started what you see from that match. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just they ran a linebacker out there to cover
Speaker 1: Trey on this land and go and we knew we
Speaker 1: had a mismatch there from from from early on and
Speaker 1: uh traded the rest. What's that? What you uh, just relaxing,
Speaker 1: maybe get a little hunting in, you know, hang out. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll be We're excited to get back though. Is
Speaker 1: definitely time for you kind of wish party kind of
Speaker 1: wish that want to keep this going or is this
Speaker 1: story time for the everybody right now? I think it's
Speaker 1: a good time, you know. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: time just being in the middle of the season. I
Speaker 1: think we're fortunate this year kind of where our by falls, um,
Speaker 1: just for mentally and physically, UM, to kind of just
Speaker 1: get away, get refreshed and so we can come back
Speaker 1: and make our run. You okay, I mean you got
Speaker 1: dropped the card a couple of times, so yeah, great,
Speaker 1: the right time for you too. Great. I'm great, fortunate,
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate this being this far in the year. Obviously
Speaker 1: I've taken some some hits today there's really just the
Speaker 1: one um. But yeah, I'm fortunately. I'm feeling great. We're
Speaker 1: here to add ways. Yeah for you. You amos a
Speaker 1: lot of times, yeah, a lot of times. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean the relationship Doug and I have, UM, I just
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in the way he's called
Speaker 1: things um and and we obviously we've talked about it before,
Speaker 1: but him and I are meeting up quite a bit
Speaker 1: and just dropping ideas to each other. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a really good, really good feeling of how
Speaker 1: he's gonna call the game, and when he stays to it,
Speaker 1: obviously like today, good things happen. Yeah, we did. We
Speaker 1: built a relationship, um during I mean we have the
Speaker 1: same agent. I think that's been documented. But um, you
Speaker 1: know last week when we played the Niners, we had
Speaker 1: some crossover film and I shot him a couple of
Speaker 1: texts and um, he's a great dude and he's playing well.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how they did today, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's playing well. So I'm happy for him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we can just keep getting better. I mean at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, Um, al sean kind of
Speaker 1: every week. You know, the biggest thing with him is,
Speaker 1: first of all, he's unselfish. Um. Second of all, even
Speaker 1: when the weeks he's not getting the ball, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's drawn the attention, he's drawn the best corner, he's
Speaker 1: drawn some cloud safety, some different things. So um but yeah,
Speaker 1: with with Alshan, with Jay now and just again, the
Speaker 1: way we can spread the ball around, Um, I think
Speaker 1: that'll make us even more nam going forward. Thanks everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so a lot to unbutton there. From quarterback Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: My favorite part Ike was talking about Ji and the
Speaker 1: preparation and just the fact that he arrived, he had
Speaker 1: his head down, he wanted to get to work, and
Speaker 1: really kind of proved those Dolphins wrong, the team that
Speaker 1: traded him. What was your takeaway ultimately there from Carson?
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, it's here's a guy that seems like
Speaker 1: everything is going well for him, and I just love
Speaker 1: the way that he keeps that laser like focus. He
Speaker 1: never gets too high, never gets too low. And that's
Speaker 1: really the tone that's being set for the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: it starts with the quarterback and the way that he
Speaker 1: approaches the game. Everyone's gonna follow his league just so
Speaker 1: impressed with this young man to only be in his
Speaker 1: second year and to have been able to not only
Speaker 1: have the success he's having on the field, but I
Speaker 1: think the impact that he's having in the locker room,
Speaker 1: that he's having away from the game and the meeting
Speaker 1: rooms is really the thing that I've been most in with.
Speaker 1: It's rare that you get a young guy from a
Speaker 1: small school like North Dakota State come into a building
Speaker 1: and really change the atmosphere in the building, and you
Speaker 1: you work here every day and you see it more
Speaker 1: than anyone that this kid has really set the tone
Speaker 1: for everyone in this building. And that's a good thing,
Speaker 1: because when you're a quarterback of his magnitude and of
Speaker 1: his caliber, you should be the one that's setting the
Speaker 1: tone and having everyone follow your lead. So for him
Speaker 1: to be as young as he is, it's so impressive,
Speaker 1: the maturity level, the focus that he has, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he wants everyone included. This is a guy
Speaker 1: that's not about me, me, me, me me, It's about
Speaker 1: everyone else. And getting Jaya Gie in here in the
Speaker 1: first week, working with him, making sure he's caught up
Speaker 1: with everything and making sure they're on the same page.
Speaker 1: That just goes to show you that a guy like
Speaker 1: a GII comes in here and not to speak out
Speaker 1: of turn about anything that's going on in anybody else's
Speaker 1: locker room, but just knowing the quarterback that's down there
Speaker 1: in Miami from a farm. He ain't Carson Wins. Let
Speaker 1: me just put it that way. It ain't Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: So nothing surprises me at this point with Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: and his approach to the game. It's the reason why
Speaker 1: he's having the success that he's having, But more importantly,
Speaker 1: it's the reason why he's able to sustain that level
Speaker 1: of success and have the impact on his teammates because
Speaker 1: he puts the work in first and foremost, and everybody
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Speaker 1: So we've got a lot still to kind of unpack
Speaker 1: from this game, and one of the things we definitely
Speaker 1: want to look at was that Jayagi long touchdown run.
Speaker 1: The Jay Train was set loose in Philadelphia on Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon and everybody was happy to see it. Let's go
Speaker 1: over to the RICO review with Greg Kosel from NFL Films.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. One thing everybody was excited to see was Jayagi,
Speaker 1: the newest Eagle. He's been one of my favorites since
Speaker 1: I watched him coming out of Boise State. He's tough, physical,
Speaker 1: he can get to the perimeter, and he scored on
Speaker 1: a touchdown run right at the end of the first
Speaker 1: half to make it thirty one that really put this
Speaker 1: game away. It was the fourth touchdown against the number
Speaker 1: one ranked defense in the NFL coming into this game.
Speaker 1: And what you're going to see here is basically, I
Speaker 1: think it's an inside zone type run, but because of
Speaker 1: the nature of the front by the Broncos, you're going
Speaker 1: to see Jason Kelsey right here with a little bit
Speaker 1: of a fold block. He's going to work around. Looks
Speaker 1: like he's pulling, but it's really a fold block. So
Speaker 1: what that does, and this is the critical block at
Speaker 1: the point of attack is Wiznuski right here on the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. This is an absolutely critical block. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't make this block, this play does not happen. So
Speaker 1: let's clear it and take a look right now as
Speaker 1: we watch this, let's run it right here. Oh that
Speaker 1: is beautiful. There's the block we're speaking about by Wiznuski.
Speaker 1: That block has to happen because then what you get
Speaker 1: you get Kelsey, he's able to work around to get
Speaker 1: into the second and third level, you get Brooks. He
Speaker 1: gets to the second and third level, he's gonna end
Speaker 1: up taking out two. So this is really well executed,
Speaker 1: well done. We can run it now. There's a Ji
Speaker 1: with the left sideline. Now totally clean, really really well done.
Speaker 1: A Ji scores on a long run. As we said,
Speaker 1: this came at the end of the first half, and
Speaker 1: what this did was really wrap up the competitive phase
Speaker 1: of this game. I don't know about you, Ike, but
Speaker 1: to me, that was one of the biggest players of
Speaker 1: the game and something that I was really hoping we
Speaker 1: would see was a big run from jays I. And
Speaker 1: then when you look at his acquisition. To me, all
Speaker 1: these other teams around the league, and you talk about
Speaker 1: all these other playoff contenders, they're all kind of licking
Speaker 1: their wounds right now, everybody. It's a battle of attrition
Speaker 1: at this point. The Eagles are going into the bye
Speaker 1: and on the outside of that, they're gonna be becoming
Speaker 1: a better football team because now you're gonna have Jasi
Speaker 1: Off a full compliment of the playbook. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: the return of Ronald Darby we hope coming out of that.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have Zach Ertz back fully healthy. All these
Speaker 1: guys are kind of nicked up, are gonna get fully healthy,
Speaker 1: but potentially rookie corner Sidney Jones coming out of that.
Speaker 1: So as other teams get weaker, the Eagles are gonna
Speaker 1: be getting a little bit stronger on the other end
Speaker 1: of this. Yeah, and adding jayagi E to this mix,
Speaker 1: I just think he brings an explosive dimension to the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football from a running game perspective,
Speaker 1: and la Garrett Blunt has done a fantastic job with
Speaker 1: the carries that he's been given so far this year.
Speaker 1: Corey Clement been outstanding in his surprising role. But Jayagi
Speaker 1: Jai is a Pro Bowl running back that was fourth
Speaker 1: in the league and rushing last year, had three games
Speaker 1: of two hundred plus yards rushing, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he became available at the trading deadline due to the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins wanting to move on from him. I'm not
Speaker 1: even so short that the Eagles were out looking for
Speaker 1: Jaya Jaii just because you don't get that caliber of
Speaker 1: player to become available in the middle of a season.
Speaker 1: And so there's a working relationship there between Mike Tannemaum
Speaker 1: and Howard Roseman. They've done business in the past, so
Speaker 1: they're able to work something out. We had the picks
Speaker 1: available to get Jayajii, And not only do I love
Speaker 1: this for the rest of the season, he's certainly going
Speaker 1: to help as they moved down the rest of this season,
Speaker 1: but this was a move that was made for the
Speaker 1: future as well. He's on his rookie deal. He'll be
Speaker 1: here for a full year next year, highly motivated, ready
Speaker 1: to go, and I believe they acquired a three down
Speaker 1: running back that has explosive ability, has the ability to
Speaker 1: take the play, take the ball to the house like
Speaker 1: we saw there, and you give him a little bit
Speaker 1: of a hole and he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: run through it. And we didn't even get to see
Speaker 1: his his his run breaking tackles. I mean, how did yeah,
Speaker 1: his ability to break tackles ability. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to say. We didn't even get to really see
Speaker 1: that today. Just wait until we see that in December.
Speaker 1: Really happy about the acquisition of Jaya Ji. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think through two it just kind of mirrors some
Speaker 1: of the other acquisitions that Howie Roseman and his team
Speaker 1: have made over the course of the offseason. You have
Speaker 1: a whole of defensive tackle with the departure Bunny Logan.
Speaker 1: Let's find a defensive tackle shore. But how about we
Speaker 1: get a young budding star and Tim Journey. Oh, we
Speaker 1: have a hole of corner. Oh, instead of trading for
Speaker 1: an older vet corner, they are picking someone off the street. Now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna trade for Ronald Darby, who not only can
Speaker 1: help us in the short term, but also can be
Speaker 1: resigned long term. And just like Journegan and just like
Speaker 1: jays I, Now you didn't just find band aids to
Speaker 1: kind of say, Okay, we're good for now, but we
Speaker 1: need to worry about it in the future. You've got
Speaker 1: people that connect. He help you in the short term
Speaker 1: and the long term. And that's one of the other
Speaker 1: things that I love about this Jays I pick up.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of exciting things going on with this
Speaker 1: Eagles team. Yeah, I mean, and that's a big key
Speaker 1: point you mentioned about some of the other young players
Speaker 1: they brought in. They brought in guys with the exception
Speaker 1: of Tim Journegan that are still on under contract. I
Speaker 1: know tim iz deal is up at the end of
Speaker 1: this ship, but the Eagles that had the ability to
Speaker 1: bring him back if they so desire. But they brought
Speaker 1: in a mixture of veterans. You brought in La Garrett Blunt,
Speaker 1: you brought in al Sean, Jeffrey, Tory Smith, Chris Long,
Speaker 1: all guys that are contributing. He took to the success
Speaker 1: that this team is having. But they've also been able
Speaker 1: to replenish some of the young talent and set themselves
Speaker 1: up for the future with the acquisition of Journeying, Darby
Speaker 1: and now Jaya Jay. Just a masterful, just masterful moves
Speaker 1: being made by Howie Roseman Joe Douglas in the front office.
Speaker 1: Given the coaching staff, the players that they need that
Speaker 1: they can be successful, and not only that, bringing high
Speaker 1: character guys in here. But I know Jaya Jay may
Speaker 1: have been baggage on him somewhere else, but here, this
Speaker 1: is a winning coacher. It's a great locker room with
Speaker 1: great leadership. And he's already talked about how excited he
Speaker 1: is to come in and just contribute to what they've
Speaker 1: already started here. That's the type of mentality you want
Speaker 1: when you bring in new guys. Not guys that want
Speaker 1: to come in and get all the recognitions, but guys
Speaker 1: that want to come in and add to what you've
Speaker 1: already started here. Yeah, you've put that money in the
Speaker 1: bank with the character that they've instilled in the locker room.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take one more break and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna answer the question of the day. I think
Speaker 1: everybody is excited. It's why you're still watching. You want
Speaker 1: to know who are in the nominees for the Toyota
Speaker 1: Player of the Week. We're gonna find that out and
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at the upcoming schedule right after this break.
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Speaker 1: to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go
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Speaker 1: brand new Toyota. And now for your first nominee behind
Speaker 1: door number one, of course, number eleven, the franchise quarterback
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz a huge day against this Denver Broncos defense.
Speaker 1: Fifteen to twenty seven, one hundred nine nine yards, four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: long way towards a fifty burger against this defense. This
Speaker 1: kid every week four touchdowns twenty three on the season.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta pinch yourself to wake up and realize
Speaker 1: just how good we have it right now with Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz is the quarterback of this franchise, Just so many
Speaker 1: more of these days to come down the road. He's
Speaker 1: a nominee every week, brand I mean, I think he's
Speaker 1: in this category every week. He's got to be. He
Speaker 1: makes plays every single week that that just make you
Speaker 1: go wow. Yes, whether it's whether it's him moving in
Speaker 1: the pocket, little things like even late in the two
Speaker 1: minutes You're old, late in the first half, he makes
Speaker 1: a throw over a defendered alshon Jeffrey Long the sideline
Speaker 1: that makes you just say, like, is he a human?
Speaker 1: Is he a robot? Like? What is going on with
Speaker 1: this kid? Just outstanding and you just saw a lot
Speaker 1: of the big players if he had in this game.
Speaker 1: A really outstanding performance from Carson Wentz in this game.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our second nominee, and I
Speaker 1: think this guy is very much well deserving. Rookie running
Speaker 1: back Corey Clement twelve carries fifty one yards, two touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the ground. He adds one catch for fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown through the air his career day so far.
Speaker 1: And he does it in front of a home crowd,
Speaker 1: which is great obviously from Glassburg, New Jersey. So he
Speaker 1: got lots of friends and family in attendance there for
Speaker 1: the rookie running back. If he's smart, he's not buying tickets.
Speaker 1: You make those family members by their own tickets. Man,
Speaker 1: he was undrafted. This is my boat. He gets my vote. Friend,
Speaker 1: guy's just been outstanding when called upon. Three more touchdowns
Speaker 1: for him today. Didn't I mean, was a serious long
Speaker 1: shot to make this roster when training camp began. But
Speaker 1: he's done nothing but impressed every time he touches the ball.
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns for him today. I gotta give him my boat.
Speaker 1: He gets my boat this week. All right, Well, maybe
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Speaker 1: all right, So let's get go behind door number three
Speaker 1: here for our only defensive option in today's game, and
Speaker 1: that's cornerback Patrick Robinson, who was just outstanding. Two tackles
Speaker 1: in the day, doesn't do them any justice. One interception,
Speaker 1: two passes defend, and I'll tell you what the score is,
Speaker 1: seven to three. The Devin Brown goes at scored on
Speaker 1: their opening drive, we come down, we score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then you get this play from or not exactly
Speaker 1: this play, but you see Patrick Robinson go and pick
Speaker 1: a pass off and really just help turn the tide
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles, And it was just an outstanding
Speaker 1: way to get momentum going in their way. Outstanding read
Speaker 1: on the football. I'm gonna break it down in the
Speaker 1: All twenty two review with Great coastl tomorrow. But you
Speaker 1: just saw those instincts in that veteran leadership from Patrick
Speaker 1: Robinson on that play. Yeah, I gotta be impressed with
Speaker 1: the way Patrick Robinson has played this year. We talked
Speaker 1: about him earlier coming out of training camp, unsure of
Speaker 1: his role on this team, has found his niche as
Speaker 1: the nickel defensive back in this defense. It seems to
Speaker 1: be in the right place at the right time every week.
Speaker 1: He's certainly deserving. He and coreyklan Man. I mean, tell
Speaker 1: me about two guys that prior to this season, if
Speaker 1: you would have said back in July, will they even
Speaker 1: be on this roster, most people would have probably guessed
Speaker 1: that they would not have been on the roster, and
Speaker 1: both have played huge roles that they've been given and
Speaker 1: seemed to be in the right spot all the time.
Speaker 1: Really impressed with Patrick Robinson this year. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a microcosmo with this whole Eagle season. Right Like,
Speaker 1: if you had said back in training camp that Patrick
Speaker 1: Robinson was going to be winning Toyota Player of the
Speaker 1: Week against the Denver Broncos where we score fifty points,
Speaker 1: you just said that's a long shot. Where the eight
Speaker 1: and one Eagles, Well, guess what, that's exactly where I
Speaker 1: at right now, Patrick Robinson. I mean you said it earlier.
Speaker 1: He may not have been made the team coming out
Speaker 1: of camp, but he has just been outstanding both inside
Speaker 1: and outside for this Eagles defense. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a look now at the next few games coming up,
Speaker 1: and it's really gonna be a really tough stretch for
Speaker 1: this Eagles offense. But let's take a look at the
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Speaker 1: you see there's a few one. There's a few games
Speaker 1: in there like that. Yeah, we're eight in one, but
Speaker 1: this season can turn still because you've got a couple
Speaker 1: of really big road games, four out of the next
Speaker 1: five on the road. What are your initial thoughts looking
Speaker 1: at the final part of the schedule. Yeah, you're talking
Speaker 1: about teams that they're still fighting for their playoff lies.
Speaker 1: We finally get a chance to see the Cowboys. We
Speaker 1: know what that game means to everybody in the Philadelphia area.
Speaker 1: So when we come back from the buy, we'll be
Speaker 1: there prime time on Sunday Night. Bears a better defense
Speaker 1: than people give them a lot of credit for, you know,
Speaker 1: a struggle on offense, but they play hard on defense.
Speaker 1: And the key thing there Frand is three of those
Speaker 1: four games are on the road, back to back in
Speaker 1: La and Seattle. You gotta play three straight. I mean
Speaker 1: that's four out of five. I'm sorry, four out of
Speaker 1: five games that are on the road. Three straight on
Speaker 1: the road. That's gonna be a difficult stretch. The Giants,
Speaker 1: you know, as a divisional opponent, they'll want to play spoiler.
Speaker 1: This is where the real season begins, right. They come
Speaker 1: back after the bye week, those finals, seven games against
Speaker 1: teams at least five of them will be fighting for
Speaker 1: playoff positionings somewhere, keeping their playoff hoax alive. And the Eagles,
Speaker 1: the thing that we have to hope and I have
Speaker 1: confidence in is that they haven't peaked, right, they're Aiden one.
Speaker 1: You hope they still have good football, a lot of
Speaker 1: good football left and then to play because those teams
Speaker 1: will be playing their best football when they come back
Speaker 1: for the second half. The Eagles have to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're able to match that intensity of some of
Speaker 1: these desperate teams they're gonna wind up facing when they
Speaker 1: get off the bye week. Yeah, It's like you said earlier,
Speaker 1: Aiden one is outstanding. It's beyond imagination where I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people expected for this team outside the
Speaker 1: building going into the year. But now these games in
Speaker 1: November and December, they're other ones you remember, and it's
Speaker 1: going to be a really tough stretch for the Eagles
Speaker 1: team coming out of the bottle'll be up to this
Speaker 1: coaching staff, which has passed checked every single box along
Speaker 1: the way so far this season. I think it'll be
Speaker 1: a huge test for this team coming out of the bye. So,
Speaker 1: like I think, I'll do it. Man, it's the first
Speaker 1: show you and I have ever hosted together. We've done
Speaker 1: podcasts together, we've worked together for now for five six years. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we missed Chris McPherson who had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a medical procedure done. He'll be back at this desk
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