Speaker 1: Eagles Entertainment. All right, Eagles win twenty two to fourteen
Speaker 1: over the Bears to go five and four heading into
Speaker 1: the bye week. Thanks for joining us on the postgame
Speaker 1: show presented by Rico, Amy Campbell friend Duffy. I crease you, guys,
Speaker 1: an ugly winn is still a win, as they say
Speaker 1: in the football world, and we have to give the
Speaker 1: Eagles credit, especially that last drive sixteen plays, eight minutes
Speaker 1: and fourteen seconds with the Jacob Elliott field goal to
Speaker 1: ice it. Let's just start to put a bow on
Speaker 1: this thing for the people. Well, I mean, a tough game,
Speaker 1: you obviously just want to come out with the victory.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be pretty. They all count as
Speaker 1: a w a as long as you have more points
Speaker 1: than your opponent at the end of the game, that's
Speaker 1: all it truly matters. And going into the bye week,
Speaker 1: they obviously needed to keep the momentum from last week.
Speaker 1: Going back at home after three weeks. You know, you
Speaker 1: get up on a team like Chicago who doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to pose a big threat to you, you can sort
Speaker 1: of be lethargic a little bit, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what it was in the first half didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of juice going out there offensively, but they fought
Speaker 1: through that and wind up making the big plays late
Speaker 1: in the game, which you needed to do to win
Speaker 1: to salt Await his victory. Yeah, I think too that
Speaker 1: this is while this team Chicago obviously is not playing well,
Speaker 1: this is a battle tested team that was in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of veterans on that team, so
Speaker 1: they weren't just going to go away. So you know,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, they keep them in the game. They were
Speaker 1: able to fight back into it, and then you had
Speaker 1: the close game at the end, but really good to
Speaker 1: pull away with the victory. Well, and this is a
Speaker 1: good defense. The defense that was very good today, very disruptive,
Speaker 1: really gave the Eagles offense a lot of fits, and
Speaker 1: yet they were still able to get enough points, more
Speaker 1: points than the Chicago offense was able to put up
Speaker 1: a lot of penalties for them. Eagles absolutely dominated in
Speaker 1: the time of possession. If I can pull up this
Speaker 1: number here, forty minutes for the Eagles to nineteen forty
Speaker 1: two for Chicago. You can't win a lot of games
Speaker 1: when you don't have the ball that long. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: a lot of that is due to the way the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense played today. We know that this Bears offense
Speaker 1: struggled coming into this game. Mitchell Trubisky struggled at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, and I like what the Eagles defense did,
Speaker 1: particularly in the first half. A lot of three announced
Speaker 1: they're really smothering this Bears offense, keeping everything in front
Speaker 1: of them, taking away the running game. And then to
Speaker 1: compliment what the Eagles defense was doing, is the offense
Speaker 1: was possessing the ball. We didn't get a lot of
Speaker 1: touchdowns there in the first half, but I thought they
Speaker 1: drove the ball down their first two drives with efficiency,
Speaker 1: got it in the red zone, unlike the Eagles not
Speaker 1: to cash in for touchdowns. But the Bears again the
Speaker 1: standy defense that they're gonna make you fight for every
Speaker 1: blade of grass, particularly when you get down there in
Speaker 1: the red zone, and the Eagles weren't necessarily able to
Speaker 1: capitalize and get touchdowns. It's the only reason the Bears
Speaker 1: were still in this game. It's because their defense were
Speaker 1: able to help hold the Eagles offense to field goals
Speaker 1: early in that first half as opposed to touchdowns. Or
Speaker 1: this may have been a blowout which really allowed the
Speaker 1: Bears to get back in the game. So you get
Speaker 1: their deepense some credit for really fighting to keep their
Speaker 1: team in but quite frankly, with the exception of the
Speaker 1: one big play Trubisky hit for the fifty three yards,
Speaker 1: I think it was the Gabriel Yeah, yeah, the Bears
Speaker 1: offense really wasn't a real thread out there. Yeah, two
Speaker 1: hundred and two yards in the first half of the
Speaker 1: Eagles offense. Nine for the defen Yeah, that's all the
Speaker 1: defense allowed in the first half, and it was one
Speaker 1: before that final possession in garbage time the end of
Speaker 1: the second quarter. So oh for six on third down
Speaker 1: that the Bears offense was to start the game in
Speaker 1: the first half. Really, the defense, they came out like
Speaker 1: gangbusters early on. We talked about it. They you know,
Speaker 1: they came out really really strong. Like you mentioned that
Speaker 1: the offense was able to salt away drives. They did
Speaker 1: a really good job possessing the football. You just want
Speaker 1: to see them punch it in in for touchdowns at
Speaker 1: the end of those drives, really make the defense pay
Speaker 1: and really put them out of their misery early in
Speaker 1: the game. Obviously that was not the case, and they
Speaker 1: were able to bounce back well and really giving Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky a difficult time today as well. He completed only
Speaker 1: ten of twenty one passes forty seven point six percent
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five yards. He was sacked three times.
Speaker 1: His longest pass was that fifty three yard but quarterback
Speaker 1: rating of sixty six point six percent not a great day.
Speaker 1: And you could just see that he was emotionally affected
Speaker 1: by what the Eagles defense was doing to him today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know it when you know, when you get into
Speaker 1: a quarterback's head and you've got them early on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you remember that feeling. I mean, that's what that's The
Speaker 1: Eagles had them on the ropes, and so they came
Speaker 1: out with a nude game plan in the second half,
Speaker 1: and that was even though they were behind, they were
Speaker 1: still going to run the football, extra tight ends, extra
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, play action, make things well defined for the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then they were able today. It was a form
Speaker 1: of that work for them earlier in the game. And
Speaker 1: let's be honest, the last two weeks, the Eagles didn't
Speaker 1: have to face a real offensive threat, right, you know,
Speaker 1: two offenses that will run the ball, quarterbacks will scramble
Speaker 1: around a little bit. But for the most part. You
Speaker 1: gotta give this Eagles defense credit for basically taking care
Speaker 1: of business like they should. All Right, we have Dave
Speaker 1: Spedero standing by from the Lincoln Financial Field to give
Speaker 1: us a little bit more on this Eagles victory. Dave,
Speaker 1: you or had a front row seat to this victory
Speaker 1: for the Eagles today. What allowed them to get this W?
Speaker 1: Not a not a beautiful W. You will take the
Speaker 1: ugly win on this one. I'll take the ugly win.
Speaker 1: I don't mind that at all. Um. I will say
Speaker 1: this as much as you're talking about the defense, I
Speaker 1: just off the tail end of what I was saying.
Speaker 1: I will say the way the Eagles again consumed some
Speaker 1: clock at the end of the game, converted three third downs,
Speaker 1: the first third down of ten yards or more that
Speaker 1: the Bears have allowed all year, and they did it
Speaker 1: as al Sean Jeffrey comes off the field limping. So
Speaker 1: they had jj Arthega Whiteside, Nelson Aghalore and two tight
Speaker 1: ends on the field and they were really resourceful and
Speaker 1: that was good to see. You know, Carson Wentz doesn't
Speaker 1: get the credit here for the fourth quarter comeback win,
Speaker 1: but the way that he managed that last possession, the
Speaker 1: way that he got rid of the football accurately, tight windows,
Speaker 1: very impressive to ice this victory. I'm wondering, Dave, when
Speaker 1: you look at the offense, right, DeShawn in practice all week,
Speaker 1: unable to go after the first series, how much did
Speaker 1: you think that sort of played into what the Eagles
Speaker 1: were able to do the rest of the game offensively. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much they actually counted on DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson to be a major part of today. And I
Speaker 1: will hear the update from Doug. Just in my sense
Speaker 1: is that it's nothing that's really a setback here. It
Speaker 1: just didn't open up for Deshaun in the game situation.
Speaker 1: But I mean, they've obviously gotten used to playing without Deshaun.
Speaker 1: They've had to utilize their personnel, group their groupings, their
Speaker 1: ability to move Ertz and Goddard in and out and
Speaker 1: interchange them, to use Miles Sanders as a receiver. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a terrific play, the release and the throw from
Speaker 1: Carson and his ability to gain that third and long play.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're there. It's not explosive, it's not pretty.
Speaker 1: They're not scoring enough points, okay, on a consistent basis,
Speaker 1: we all expect more, but in this case against a
Speaker 1: very good defense, the Eagles held the football for the
Speaker 1: duration of the fourth quarter, and that was critical without
Speaker 1: two of their big weapons, not only Deshan Jackson but
Speaker 1: for the most part here after that first catch, without
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey Well, Dave, the only question I've got for
Speaker 1: you is, obviously, you know you're so close, you're so
Speaker 1: tied in as the Eagles Insider, I'd love to know
Speaker 1: what is the state of this team, what's the mindset
Speaker 1: of this team now going into the bye week. You're
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna touch on it on the Eagles
Speaker 1: Insider podcast after the game, but give us your thoughts
Speaker 1: until where this team is now as they go into
Speaker 1: the break. I would say, friend, very relieved, very very
Speaker 1: much looking forward to the bye week. Bye week never
Speaker 1: comes at a bad time, right, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a really great time for the Eagles to catch their breath.
Speaker 1: Nine games into the regular season. They're exhausted, physical game today,
Speaker 1: no major injuries that I'm aware of, so I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles will say, look, we are gonna enjoy this
Speaker 1: next week. Don't matter. It doesn't matter if it's ugly
Speaker 1: or not. Today, who cares you don't get style points here,
Speaker 1: and then come back for these final seven games to
Speaker 1: feel really good about this football team. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it counts as a win, especially with
Speaker 1: a week off. Great to have that kind of good
Speaker 1: taste in your mouth heading into a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break. Dave, thanks so much. We'll catch up with
Speaker 1: you later. All right, thanks guys. All right, Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's it's nice to be able to talk about a
Speaker 1: win for a couple of weeks. Guys. Well, I used
Speaker 1: to work with a coach who say after games like that,
Speaker 1: you say, it sure feels like it feels better than
Speaker 1: feeling like crap tomorrow. Yeah, that's exactly what you know.
Speaker 1: No one will remember in six days what this win
Speaker 1: was like, all the matters. You got that w in
Speaker 1: the win column. Absolutely. Let's have a little bit about
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. He had a really good day today, some
Speaker 1: big plays. That fourth down with a spin move I
Speaker 1: thought was super exciting, and of course the touchdown. He
Speaker 1: had nine catches on eleven targets today, one hundred and
Speaker 1: three yards for zach Ertz a twenty five yard catch
Speaker 1: as well. I think that's one of the last second
Speaker 1: longest of his career. I think I saw that on
Speaker 1: Twitter from our John Gnude. Their great game for the
Speaker 1: Eagles tight end up. Could you could say a bit
Speaker 1: of a breakout game for him this season? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that was a big topic of discussion throughout
Speaker 1: the course of this week, over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: is how did they get zach Ertz more involved? And
Speaker 1: the response had always been, well, you know, he's I mean,
Speaker 1: he was top five and tight ends in the NFL
Speaker 1: in targets, he was being targeted. They just for whatever
Speaker 1: reason hadn't been able to hook up for sustained success
Speaker 1: in any one given game. And this was the game
Speaker 1: where you know, naturally possitively regressed back towards the zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: The production that works were used to from him at
Speaker 1: the tight end position, right and really in crucial situations.
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking third and fifteen, or are third
Speaker 1: and fourth and two early in the game, third and
Speaker 1: one early in the game, two fifteen yard pickups on
Speaker 1: those first two drives that helped the Eagles put points
Speaker 1: on the board to start the game. And then obviously
Speaker 1: that touchdown catching him in the end zone. Some crucial situations,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz is able to come through. Yeah, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different defensive game plan from the Bears.
Speaker 1: You know, most of these defensive game plans have been
Speaker 1: centered around not allowing zach Ertz to really take over
Speaker 1: football games the way he has in years passed and
Speaker 1: credit the Carson all year long not trying to force
Speaker 1: the ball to him right. Obviously, as a quarterback, you
Speaker 1: know how much you can rely on the guy, and
Speaker 1: when things aren't going well on the outside, you almost
Speaker 1: want to be you almost want to go back to
Speaker 1: your security blanket. But I give Carson a lot of
Speaker 1: credit of being able to sort of stay away from
Speaker 1: trying to force in the ball and just let it
Speaker 1: come to him naturally. And today there were some opportunities
Speaker 1: there to get in the ball and he was able
Speaker 1: to get it to him. Zach Ertz still one of
Speaker 1: the best tight ends in football. I don't understand the
Speaker 1: noise from the outside about on the ball to him
Speaker 1: too much. Where I come from, you try to get
Speaker 1: the ball to your best players as much as you can,
Speaker 1: and zach Ertz is one of the best offensive weapons
Speaker 1: we have well, and it's about taking what the defense
Speaker 1: gives you and I think well said that. We've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of teams this week or this season play
Speaker 1: the Eagles and really gives Zach Ertz a lot of attention.
Speaker 1: He's been doubled team to multiple times this year. That's
Speaker 1: not you know, that's not what they got today today.
Speaker 1: He was the guy who got things going. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the play calling a little bit, because, like you,
Speaker 1: like you said, this sparts defense and different kind of
Speaker 1: defense than this team has faced before. They were able
Speaker 1: to really be aggressive and cause a lot of problems
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. What did you see from Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: in terms of his creativity taking what the defense gives them.
Speaker 1: I like the play calling from the day. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously there are some players they want to hit on.
Speaker 1: There were some opportunities there against the team. Like the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, you have to be calculated when you take
Speaker 1: chances down the field. This team hadn't given up a
Speaker 1: play pass a play pass over twenty five yards all
Speaker 1: year long. They just don't give up deep balls, and
Speaker 1: you had better be patient as an offense or they'll
Speaker 1: take advantage of it because they're an opportunistic defense. I
Speaker 1: thought the day the Eagles kept them off balance. They
Speaker 1: stayed true to their running game, but more importantly, they
Speaker 1: threw the ball on first down at times. Right, you know,
Speaker 1: coming into this game, most of us are thinking, stick
Speaker 1: to the running game, get the second and short, third
Speaker 1: and short, and then you try to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: What the Bears are thinking that as well? They load
Speaker 1: up the box for the run game on the first down.
Speaker 1: I thought the Eagles game plan take advantage on the
Speaker 1: outside out routes to the Sean out routes to Al Sean.
Speaker 1: When they were able to catch the ball, the players
Speaker 1: were there, So I liked the game playing today. I thought,
Speaker 1: when you're planning against the depense like the Bears, you
Speaker 1: want to respect them, but you also want to challenge them.
Speaker 1: You just want to be smart about it. And I
Speaker 1: didn't think the ball was in harm's way very much
Speaker 1: today from an offensive standpoint. Carson even at times took
Speaker 1: some negative plays because that's what needed to be done
Speaker 1: in that situation, not forcing the ball, just take what
Speaker 1: the defense gives you and literal fied another day. I
Speaker 1: mean that twenty five yard touchdown by Zach Ertz. That
Speaker 1: was the longest touchdown they've allowed all year Chicago. I
Speaker 1: mean that was they had not allowed to touchdown, run,
Speaker 1: or pass of more than twenty yards. So to me,
Speaker 1: that kind of speaks to what we're talking about with
Speaker 1: this defense, the number that's going to bother them the most.
Speaker 1: In Chicago, the Eagles were eight of eighteen on third
Speaker 1: down down. I mean, I mean they were near fifty percent.
Speaker 1: Talked about coming in here, Ques, that was what you
Speaker 1: were watching, Yeah, no question, I mean that's going to
Speaker 1: be a stat that they're going to look out tomorrow
Speaker 1: and say, man like, that's we could have had a
Speaker 1: lot better of an outcome if we had done better
Speaker 1: on third down. When the Eagles do a great job
Speaker 1: of taking her in the football today. No turnovers actually no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, they lost one fumble right, yeah, they lost late, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: at the end. But yeah, a pretty clean game all around.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the offensive line and we talk another
Speaker 1: thing coming in here we were looking at was this
Speaker 1: matchup of Khalil Mack and everybody that was going to
Speaker 1: be matching up against him. But all eyes on Andrean Dillard,
Speaker 1: the rookie with that start. When did you see at
Speaker 1: first at first glance from him in this matchup well,
Speaker 1: I will say this number one, It would be the
Speaker 1: number one thing that I'm most excited to watch tomorrow
Speaker 1: when studying the film is exactly what they did in
Speaker 1: terms of trying to you know, chip him and sliding
Speaker 1: protection and things like that. So I'll chart that for
Speaker 1: the Eagle line the sky column for tomorrow. But to me,
Speaker 1: the game plan we talked about the play calling earlier.
Speaker 1: I mean it was damn near priture perfect early on.
Speaker 1: I mean you saw play action, you saw a quick game,
Speaker 1: you saw run game, you saw RPOs everything, missdirection, screen
Speaker 1: game things to keep them get the ball out quickly
Speaker 1: or at least keep the defensive line on their toes
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. If you're Cleil Mac, you had
Speaker 1: no idea to just say we're just gonna dial us
Speaker 1: back and go. It's very, very hard to do that
Speaker 1: when the offense is mixing things up as well as
Speaker 1: they were. Absolutely, and we know we talked also a
Speaker 1: little bit pre game about Jordan Howard facing his former
Speaker 1: team and just how great he's been here with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard nineteen rushing yard or nineteen attempts, carries eighty
Speaker 1: two yards for a touchdown. Today against his former team,
Speaker 1: and he is one on one with Eagles insider Day
Speaker 1: of Spadaro. The Eagles running back Jordan Howard, A big
Speaker 1: game for you and obviously an emotional game. What was
Speaker 1: it like out there against your former team? I mean,
Speaker 1: it was great just talking to those guys. I've been
Speaker 1: with it for like three years, so it was great.
Speaker 1: Just in him again. The way this offense performed today,
Speaker 1: the running game the last couple of weeks, it's really
Speaker 1: been there. Yeah, whatever it takes to win, that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna that's what we're gonna do. So we gotta
Speaker 1: get him by any mains. Jordan, how do you feel
Speaker 1: at five and four about this team with a buy
Speaker 1: week ahead? I feel great. Trying to get even healthier
Speaker 1: and just get on a roll. Eagles convert three third
Speaker 1: downs on that last drive. That was huge. The ability
Speaker 1: to execute there obviously kind of one football game. Oh yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: because at first day was stoping. It was on third down,
Speaker 1: so what did it matter? We were able to get it,
Speaker 1: so does aut that matters? Jordan Howard, Thank you very much. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: Eagles running thank you, Davey, thank you, Jordan. Really exciting
Speaker 1: I'm sure if this this win means a little extra
Speaker 1: something Tim and all Shone too, but it's a little
Speaker 1: bit fresher for Jordan Howard, who's been having a really
Speaker 1: great season here with the Eagles, a huge addition to
Speaker 1: this offense, like yeah, starting to find his rhythm. It's
Speaker 1: clearly established himself as sort of your lead runner, getting
Speaker 1: to touches in between the tackles, and you're starting to
Speaker 1: see that the more carries you give him, he can
Speaker 1: start to wear down a defense, you know, and they're
Speaker 1: not going to be very many explosive plays. When you
Speaker 1: get the ball to Jordan, what you're gonna get great
Speaker 1: ball security. And the thing that I love about him,
Speaker 1: that Fran loved about him is that he typically falls forward.
Speaker 1: There very few times where he's losing yardage and going backwards.
Speaker 1: He's typically falling forward. It's great to see him go
Speaker 1: up against his former team today, get a touchdown, do
Speaker 1: a nice job. So I mean, listen, we're formulating a
Speaker 1: nice one two punch here. It's rare in this league
Speaker 1: that you have sort of a three down back, so
Speaker 1: to have guys like Jordan Howard and Miles Sanders where
Speaker 1: you can sort of mix and match and keep defenses
Speaker 1: off balance. I think the Eagles are starting to establish
Speaker 1: an identity in their running game. What is that like
Speaker 1: as a defender when you know you feel like you've
Speaker 1: got the guy. You know, I fit the run perfect,
Speaker 1: I read run pass, I got down him in my
Speaker 1: gap two yard game all right, I got I did
Speaker 1: my job and then you look up and like that
Speaker 1: guy game five? Yeah, Well what does that do to
Speaker 1: you as a defender? Or it's the moralizing. It's the moralizing,
Speaker 1: right because you feel like you're in place, But when
Speaker 1: you're going against a guy like a Jordan or Eddie
Speaker 1: George or Brandon Jacobs, you know these guys, these guys.
Speaker 1: All right, coach is ready at the podium. Let's hear
Speaker 1: what he has to say after this win. Stand by
Speaker 1: stand by Peterson impressor Peterson impressor stand by coach Dallas.
Speaker 1: Were you thinking at all? We get through these next
Speaker 1: two games, gets two pretty good teams, get to the
Speaker 1: buy and get a little healthier, get things a little
Speaker 1: bit back together. I know it's a one week at
Speaker 1: a time of league, but is that kind of what wait,
Speaker 1: you're sitting here right now thinking about it? Um, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously we didn't like how we
Speaker 1: played in the uh in the Cowboy game. Um just
Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't uh you know what we expected and and
Speaker 1: and just you know, we we I hate to look
Speaker 1: down the road. I hate to look past the next opponent, obviously,
Speaker 1: but but we knew we knew, Um, we had a
Speaker 1: you know, a tough road schedule right there, three games
Speaker 1: in a row, and UM, but we looked up to
Speaker 1: and we said, hey, we can we can weather that storm.
Speaker 1: We got, you know, a couple of three games here
Speaker 1: at home, and um, we just try to take it
Speaker 1: one of the time, honestly, and we get guys healthy,
Speaker 1: get guys back offensively and defensively, and uh, and see
Speaker 1: what we can do. You know, you still got a
Speaker 1: lot of trust. I still have a lot of faith
Speaker 1: and trust and the coaches and the players, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we were fortunate to get these last two.
Speaker 1: How was this Ton Jackson doing after coming out? Was
Speaker 1: at the plan? Like, what was the plan with DeShawn to? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: the plan was to play him, obviously, And so we're
Speaker 1: gonna we'll have some more testing done in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'll have a probably more better update on him. But
Speaker 1: the plan was to was to play him you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: did he tweak himself versus precaution just precautionary right now,
Speaker 1: we'll get some more testing on him, find out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Team after this plant going into the buy and getting
Speaker 1: some more been them for the rest of this Well,
Speaker 1: the first thing I told him was, you know, this
Speaker 1: is really a really good team win today all three phases.
Speaker 1: We saw it on offense, we saw it on defense,
Speaker 1: and then of course special teams there at the end.
Speaker 1: And um, so a great, great team win, a way
Speaker 1: to finish out um you know, the first you know
Speaker 1: nine games of our season anyway, and and uh heading
Speaker 1: into this buy. But you know, more importantly, I just
Speaker 1: challenged the team now with with some time off, you know,
Speaker 1: for everybody to really uh soul search, dig deep and
Speaker 1: come back and in a frame of mind that's ready
Speaker 1: to to continue what we what we sort of started
Speaker 1: here in the last couple of weeks, and just to
Speaker 1: challenge them that way, you know, to think about how
Speaker 1: we want this second half the season to look to look. Um.
Speaker 1: But I was really proud of the guys for for
Speaker 1: battling today. It's a good football team. You know, the
Speaker 1: Bears are a good team. They're well coached, got great players,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, our guys hung in there and
Speaker 1: fought any feel for this team and flows so big
Speaker 1: you know throughout the season, brought you down. You feel
Speaker 1: where you are. Um, you know, I just, um, what
Speaker 1: what I see with this football team and kind of
Speaker 1: what we've done, what we've gone through, some of the
Speaker 1: adversity we've been faced with with injury and all the
Speaker 1: you know, all the nitpicking here there on the outside
Speaker 1: from the media or whatever. Is this team. This team
Speaker 1: finds a way to stick together and to to battle.
Speaker 1: And you saw it again today and and and I
Speaker 1: know the type of guys that we have, and it's
Speaker 1: guys that you know, I can trust my offensive line,
Speaker 1: I can trust my quarterback, I can put it in
Speaker 1: their hands. I can trust you know, the guys on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, our defense, Our defensive line is getting healthy
Speaker 1: and added some some talent there. And I just things
Speaker 1: are starting to come for us, you know, And um,
Speaker 1: we just got to continue to trust our process, um
Speaker 1: and and and continue to build and grow and um,
Speaker 1: you know, just take it one at a time, one
Speaker 1: game at a time, and and um, you know, and
Speaker 1: see what happens the obviously a lot of UM collaboration
Speaker 1: with players who were here for the Super Bowl. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you see someone like Miles come through
Speaker 1: and trust that process by into it as well, I
Speaker 1: wonder whether you feel like the foundational weeded that Super
Speaker 1: Bowl is a knock on effect for some guys who
Speaker 1: have come since. Well, obviously you know that's that's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a great thing to accomplish in this league,
Speaker 1: and you know it's something that we can we can
Speaker 1: look back and we can sort of draw our strength
Speaker 1: sometimes from that journey and what we went through. You
Speaker 1: know that year we were faced with adversity late in
Speaker 1: the season. You know that year as well the last
Speaker 1: two years and and uh kind of kind of that
Speaker 1: same way at the beginning of this season. But you
Speaker 1: you constantly, for me, it's about you know, speaking the
Speaker 1: same language and and talking the same language to the team,
Speaker 1: and you know, being transparent with the guys and being
Speaker 1: honest with the guys, and you know, bringing new guys
Speaker 1: and whether the free agents where their draft picks, and
Speaker 1: then our culture just sort of surrounds those guys and
Speaker 1: then buy in and and they just help us continue
Speaker 1: to grow and and and win games like today, you know,
Speaker 1: and and um, because it's not easy to win in
Speaker 1: this league. And I think sometimes people think it is
Speaker 1: you just can line up and go play, and it's not. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not easy. And uh it's not easy to coach
Speaker 1: in this league. And it's it's hard. Um. But but
Speaker 1: just being able to buy into what we're what we're
Speaker 1: all about. Uh, it's been been a tribute and a
Speaker 1: credit to the players that that we've brought in and
Speaker 1: the ones that are that have been here about the
Speaker 1: offense the second League and really a company basically had
Speaker 1: an eight minute drive to put away the games and
Speaker 1: Keith thurn Downs can be able to help pull them
Speaker 1: all for that long and basically put but I mean
Speaker 1: we talk about that all the time. You know, we
Speaker 1: talk about our our four minute offense, and and you know,
Speaker 1: we really weren't in four minute mode, but we're in
Speaker 1: in that mode where an offensively, we kind of kind
Speaker 1: of sputtered there in the second half a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, we had some opportunity and you know, we
Speaker 1: we just didn't capitalize. But for them to kind of
Speaker 1: take it upon their shoulders to the defense was was
Speaker 1: fighting and battling and and and and doing their part,
Speaker 1: and um, the offense needed to go and it was
Speaker 1: time for them to go. And um again it goes
Speaker 1: back to you know, trusting the players, trusting the guys
Speaker 1: up front, trusting our quarterback, putting our guys in position
Speaker 1: to make plays. And um, they did that. And it's
Speaker 1: it's a credit to go down and obviously you know,
Speaker 1: kick that field goal and then uh and get to
Speaker 1: get the ball, you know on the kickoff. But just
Speaker 1: a just a great effort for the offense or he
Speaker 1: creative did you have to get on those third gowns?
Speaker 1: Excuse me as a play call or hell creative that
Speaker 1: you had to get a third hands. We didn't have
Speaker 1: to get real creative. I just had to find the
Speaker 1: right play. And that's not easy either, you know. But uh, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike grow my coordinator, did a great job. We had
Speaker 1: great communication during a game, especially late in the game,
Speaker 1: and gave me some ideas, gave me some suggestion, some
Speaker 1: suggestions that to get to and and uh and and
Speaker 1: obviously they were they were plays that we went to
Speaker 1: and worked and so I gave him a lot of
Speaker 1: credit um in that situation, um to to really help
Speaker 1: and helping me out and um, you know, finding the
Speaker 1: right play and and again guys, guys made plays for
Speaker 1: us and we needed that at the end. What did
Speaker 1: you see if that part of the game, does you
Speaker 1: got on screen? Call? Um? Well, I we we felt
Speaker 1: like that obviously. Um, you know they were you know,
Speaker 1: chance of you know obviously the rush getting after Carson
Speaker 1: and all that, and just take advantage of that and
Speaker 1: and and use a tight end screen in that situation,
Speaker 1: and um, gosh, it's just a great play. Well blocked.
Speaker 1: I think you know, we we got one guy, one
Speaker 1: guy off of the off of h Dallas there and
Speaker 1: he was able to uh take it, you know, make
Speaker 1: the first down. But again well executed play. Um. Credit
Speaker 1: the guys. This was a breakout game for ERDs. What
Speaker 1: did you see in this matchup? What was what? How
Speaker 1: was Carson allowed to focus on him as much? You
Speaker 1: get the ball to him? Well, Zack's a big part
Speaker 1: of our offense as we all know. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's necessarily a breakout game, but
Speaker 1: he definitely was targeted a little bit more in this game.
Speaker 1: And and and rightfully. So, I mean he's he's a
Speaker 1: guy that can you know, uh, when you when you
Speaker 1: when you throw him the ball, he can he can
Speaker 1: catch it. And he did a great job today. And
Speaker 1: I think it was just a credit to the obviously
Speaker 1: to to Carson to find him. Um, he ran, he
Speaker 1: ran really good routes today. He was tough, he was physical,
Speaker 1: made some made some contested you know catches and and
Speaker 1: that's that's whose acc is. And it was good to
Speaker 1: see you get a little bit of a break now
Speaker 1: and get to do some self scouting sort of backward
Speaker 1: other things. Is still mystify you a little bit about
Speaker 1: the way this season's gone so far that you want
Speaker 1: to dig into a little bit to make sure that
Speaker 1: they don't recur. Yes, what are you already? Yes? I
Speaker 1: want um yeah, I mean I mean obviously, uh, we
Speaker 1: we do our we do our standard, you know, self
Speaker 1: self evaluation, self uh uh scouting. I mean we'll look
Speaker 1: at we'll look at third downs. Uh, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: look at red zone. U. We'll look at how we
Speaker 1: start games. You know, I got look at all of that.
Speaker 1: I'll even look at how we practice and if they
Speaker 1: need to make any changes in practice, and different things
Speaker 1: that way. And it's and it's more so about the
Speaker 1: situations and how we're using guys and then and then
Speaker 1: breaking all that down. So we can not have a
Speaker 1: lot of tendencies moving forward, but we can kind of
Speaker 1: um and not not start over, but at the same
Speaker 1: time try not to give our opponents any advantage that way,
Speaker 1: playing a lot of one high making eventually really try
Speaker 1: to move us on meeting you guys, what do you
Speaker 1: want to have a well, UM, you know our defense
Speaker 1: plays a lot of one high defense and UM, you
Speaker 1: know that's that's part of Jim's Jim's background in his
Speaker 1: m O. Uh. You know, we we we definitely wanted
Speaker 1: to UM. It felt like we could get after get
Speaker 1: after him a little bit, put pressure with our defensive line,
Speaker 1: which which we did earlier in this game, and you know,
Speaker 1: play a little bit more man to man and and
Speaker 1: just just make things harder. UM. When you can do that,
Speaker 1: I think it's a carryover from from last week. You
Speaker 1: know in the Bills game. Our defense did that, UM,
Speaker 1: and and it's it is a credit to the d
Speaker 1: line though, uh, putting putting pressure with our four and
Speaker 1: then some of the blitz package is being able to
Speaker 1: get home and disrupt some timing yards is a defensive
Speaker 1: two minutes ago when I happen say that again, Never
Speaker 1: been in a game where your defense is allowed negative
Speaker 1: to ten yards two minutes ago? I don't. I don't think.
Speaker 1: So they played well today. They played well today minus
Speaker 1: a couple of big you know it's close the plays
Speaker 1: in the second half, they played really well. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Coach says he's giving his team the charge due some
Speaker 1: soul searching during the by week and kind of think
Speaker 1: about what they want their identity to be in this
Speaker 1: second half. Where do you see the team's identity right now,
Speaker 1: let's go big picture for a second. Well, I think
Speaker 1: they're trying to still find their identity. They're starting to
Speaker 1: find a little bit of it offensively with their running game,
Speaker 1: But I still think from a passing game standpoint, they
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know who they are and what they want
Speaker 1: to be because in part it's inconsistency in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Right If you know where you're going to get every
Speaker 1: time you drop back and throw the ball, then you
Speaker 1: can start to establish an identity. But when you have drops,
Speaker 1: when you have protection, breakdowns and things of that nature's
Speaker 1: hard to establish an identity from a passing standpoint, So
Speaker 1: I think it's something that through nine games, because a
Speaker 1: personnel hasn't been available to them on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball, it's really kind of been hard to find
Speaker 1: that identity. It's great that they're starting to get everybody back.
Speaker 1: You get a week to extra week to compare with
Speaker 1: the bye week coming up, so I think they can
Speaker 1: figure out what they want to do through these last
Speaker 1: seven games. And also, this was the most difficult part
Speaker 1: of their schedule, right they make it through it. Over
Speaker 1: five hundred the second part of the schedule I think
Speaker 1: sets up well for them. They just have to go
Speaker 1: out there and take advantage of it. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: to your point, I mean every team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I know it's tough for fans sometimes to make this connection,
Speaker 1: but every team every year has to find their identity
Speaker 1: and that's really what the first quarter, the first third
Speaker 1: of the season is all about. Okay, who are we
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. Are we are we
Speaker 1: a run team? Are we a pass team? Are we
Speaker 1: a quick game team? Or we're gonna strike downfield? How
Speaker 1: do we want to try and attack you every team
Speaker 1: every year has to go No team is alike from
Speaker 1: year after year, so you want to try and figure
Speaker 1: out who you are. And the first half of year
Speaker 1: is all about stacking wins. They got five wins to
Speaker 1: start the season. Now you got to go out and say, okay,
Speaker 1: how we're gonna play down the stretch. This this is
Speaker 1: the first time that this coaching staff can kind of
Speaker 1: put put the brakes on and say, okay, let's see
Speaker 1: what's worked really well for us, because you don't have
Speaker 1: that ability when you're game planning for other teams and
Speaker 1: you're worried about what are you doing tomorrow. Now you
Speaker 1: can say, okay, what's working for us, how do we
Speaker 1: fine tune it, what do we improve on? Now, let's
Speaker 1: go and win the final seven. Well, the other thing
Speaker 1: people always forget about this time of year is teams
Speaker 1: that are built for the long haul, are built for
Speaker 1: the winter, are built for the cold weather games, and
Speaker 1: we always see those teams have the most success. And
Speaker 1: so that's not the same formula that usually works early
Speaker 1: in the year. Yeah, I was just gonna say. And
Speaker 1: the good thing for the Eagles they had the running
Speaker 1: game to match that and a defense that plays well
Speaker 1: against the run. Those are two things you want when
Speaker 1: it comes to November and December. That's the formula run
Speaker 1: game and the defense. Let's get to your takeaway, Sanke, Well,
Speaker 1: we talked about the big win, right Obviously, getting to
Speaker 1: win going into the bye week I think was very important.
Speaker 1: You know this stretch coming off they rode three game
Speaker 1: road trip, when they lost two out into three. They
Speaker 1: got the big win to finish up the road. Gag
Speaker 1: a road stretch with Buffalo last week. You wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure you go into the bye week feeling good
Speaker 1: about yourself. No way you want to sit an extra
Speaker 1: week with a loss under your belt. Is yet becomes
Speaker 1: too difficult, especially with the defending Super Bowl champions waiting
Speaker 1: on you after the bye week. So I thought it
Speaker 1: was critical that they get this win against what I
Speaker 1: view as an inferior opponent at home. You had to
Speaker 1: get this w today. I think that's the first big
Speaker 1: takeaway I take away from this game is that they
Speaker 1: managed to take care of business at home. I think,
Speaker 1: especially kind of building off that point and what I
Speaker 1: was trying to say just before, it's all about trying
Speaker 1: to find ways to win. How are they one are
Speaker 1: the different ways that you can win games. You know,
Speaker 1: are you gonna be able to you know, you want
Speaker 1: to prove that you can win a game running the ball.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to prove that you can
Speaker 1: win a game with great defense. They've shown that they've
Speaker 1: been able to win games in different ways, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's been important. And to your guys point,
Speaker 1: you want that defense, you want that run game. I'll
Speaker 1: also take great head coaching and great quarterback play. Eagles
Speaker 1: have proven that they have both of those as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: checking all those boxes and of course I know it's
Speaker 1: going to be just a lot more fun, positive vibes
Speaker 1: around these four walls with that wind going into the
Speaker 1: by weekend this morning. Yeah, and we need it. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: it's been a up and down first half of the season.
Speaker 1: Some games that you know you had right in your
Speaker 1: grasp and if you just were able to make the
Speaker 1: plays late in the games, your record will look a
Speaker 1: whole lot different. So I know, from a players standpoint,
Speaker 1: those are some of the things you can draw on
Speaker 1: when you're trying to figure out whether or not this
Speaker 1: team has what it takes to make a run in
Speaker 1: the second half. There are a lot of positive things
Speaker 1: from this first half, but then there are some reminders
Speaker 1: that you have to make sure are also in your mind,
Speaker 1: not to where it hampers you, but to a point
Speaker 1: where it's just a reminder that this is where we
Speaker 1: could go back to it if we don't continue to
Speaker 1: pay attention to all the small details. Right, that's what
Speaker 1: they need to do coming down the stretch. I thought
Speaker 1: in the first nine games, too much sloppy play, penalties,
Speaker 1: turning over the ball at times. If you look at
Speaker 1: the four losses, look at the penalties and the turnovers
Speaker 1: in those games. That'll tell you how they ended up
Speaker 1: with four losses in the first nine games. All right,
Speaker 1: let's you mentioned Carson. I thought his play wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: spectacle of to day. Did what he needed to do,
Speaker 1: made big throws, could have used a little help from
Speaker 1: those those weapons on the outside. I thought he put
Speaker 1: the ball in position where his guys can make some plays,
Speaker 1: and as every quarterback will tell you every week, there's
Speaker 1: a couple throws he would like to have back. But
Speaker 1: I thought his biggest part of the game came with
Speaker 1: the final drive of the game, right when he had
Speaker 1: to make plays on third down, make the right decisions
Speaker 1: on third down. And it's not easy when you lose
Speaker 1: a guy that you expect to have, like the Shawan
Speaker 1: Jackson after the first series of the game, then lose
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey at the most critical time of the game.
Speaker 1: And Carson didn't blink, found the way to make plays,
Speaker 1: gave his weapons an opportunity to make plays, and more
Speaker 1: importantly against this defense, took care of the football today.
Speaker 1: Well look a lot of those balls went right through
Speaker 1: there and shout out the quarterback. Yeah, the one that's
Speaker 1: people that final drive, I mean the thirties a third
Speaker 1: and eight, right around midfield, third and eight, they take
Speaker 1: a false start penalet So now it's third and thirteen.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz drops back, doesn't like what he sees downfield,
Speaker 1: gets quickly to his check down to Miles Sanders, puts
Speaker 1: it out early enough that he can now get up
Speaker 1: field cree yards after catch, and he goes for a
Speaker 1: first down. That's the kind of quarterback layer talking about.
Speaker 1: It was a really nice moment from him there. What
Speaker 1: about your third takeaway? And then we started to show
Speaker 1: by talking about Andre Dillard and the job he did
Speaker 1: on Khalil Mack over there today. I mean until Khalil
Speaker 1: mac tackled Jordan Howard out of bounds in that fourth
Speaker 1: quarter late, I didn't know Khalil Mack was playing today.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the type of job they not
Speaker 1: only Dillard, but this offensive line did and containing Khalil
Speaker 1: make My biggest concernan coming into this game was he
Speaker 1: has the ability to disrupt your whole offense if he
Speaker 1: can get to the quarterback. And I was wondering how
Speaker 1: they were going to sort of scheme him up. As
Speaker 1: two games in a row going against the Bears in
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and then this game today that
Speaker 1: they've been able to neutralize arguably the best pass rusher
Speaker 1: in football. Well, again, I'm looking at Khalil Max's stats
Speaker 1: right here. Four tackles, four of them were combined. One
Speaker 1: quarterback hit two tackles for a last friend. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it kind of speaks to, you know, it's easier
Speaker 1: to trying to get an edge rusher than it is
Speaker 1: a guy like a Fletcher Cox or Eric Donald on
Speaker 1: the inside. It's easier to kind of give those guys
Speaker 1: help on the outside as opposed to you know, interior
Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do and trying to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stop a guy like Fletcher, and they lined
Speaker 1: him up just about everywhere. They were trying to get
Speaker 1: him free, trying to find and you know, you would
Speaker 1: think Andre Dillard would be the guy because he is
Speaker 1: the youngest one on that offensive line. So if he
Speaker 1: moves somewhere else, that means he wasn't having success against
Speaker 1: Let's get stuff there as you talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: the interior defensive line. I think on the eagle side
Speaker 1: of things, I thought Fletcher Cox really seemed to come
Speaker 1: alive today. What did you guys see from him? I
Speaker 1: thought Fletcher, along with Brandon right, these guys the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, you need these You need your star players
Speaker 1: to step up and sort of lead to charge. And
Speaker 1: we know if the Eagles defense is going to have
Speaker 1: any opportunity to slow down offenses, it's going to start
Speaker 1: up front and being able to control that running game.
Speaker 1: It starts with number ninety one. And when number ninety
Speaker 1: runner is being disruptive. You know, sometimes it doesn't show
Speaker 1: up in the stat sheet, but I vividly remember three
Speaker 1: or four plays where he just took the guard and
Speaker 1: just walked him back and took Mitchell Chubisky's laugh. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it led to a sack for someone else, sometimes it
Speaker 1: led to an errand pass. But ninety one was being
Speaker 1: heard from out there to day. So after the commercial break,
Speaker 1: I'm going to break down Jenard Avery's first half a
Speaker 1: sack as an Eagle, and I took a little bit
Speaker 1: of a look at it before I came over the studio.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let me just see what
Speaker 1: I can kind of think about a little bit before
Speaker 1: I break it down. Let me just say the Fletcher
Speaker 1: cocks a little bit of an impact, a little bit
Speaker 1: of an impact dinner or something like that. I mean
Speaker 1: you could say the same about Brandon Graham's sack as well, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, Brandon Graham has six six sacks of season.
Speaker 1: That's he had four last all last season. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Brandon over the last four or five weeks
Speaker 1: have really just taken off, I mean, feeling comfortable out there.
Speaker 1: He certainly looks healthy, usually in the backfield, great against
Speaker 1: the run, had another tackle for loss today. Just happy
Speaker 1: to see that. You know, a lot of his quarterback
Speaker 1: pressures and quarterback hurries are turning into sacks because Brandon
Speaker 1: pretty much has laid the league and getting close to
Speaker 1: the quarterback and getting hurries and hits on him. Those
Speaker 1: quarterbacks tending to get rid of the ball before he
Speaker 1: gets there. I think the last month or so he's
Speaker 1: been able to bring those guys down and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's rewarding for him. We saw some cool things too
Speaker 1: from a pressure standpoint from the Eagles this week. I
Speaker 1: thought Josh schweat sack, it looked like the Dirk Barnett
Speaker 1: came in, cleaned off the opposite side, looked like they
Speaker 1: were running some kind of a stunt or a twist there.
Speaker 1: I think with the addition of Jennard Avery, who's a
Speaker 1: really explosive, twitchy pass rusher that can you know, bend
Speaker 1: and yeah and kind of beat you from all different angles,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what this Eagles defense now. You know,
Speaker 1: we talk about the bye week and what are they
Speaker 1: able to do. This defense now is healthy. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're getting all their horses back at the right time
Speaker 1: because now they can go into the bye week and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got we've got Tim Jarnagin back, We've got Jalen
Speaker 1: Mills and round Derby back, we have a Vante Maddox back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get Nigel Bradham back. We've got the new
Speaker 1: addition of Jennard Avery. What is this defense? What can
Speaker 1: we now do? We've got a little bit of time
Speaker 1: to prepare. Absolutely. As a side note, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Tim Jernigan's impact. Carson Wentz is about
Speaker 1: to take the podium. But as a side note and
Speaker 1: a fun fact, twitchy is one of my favorite adjectives
Speaker 1: to describe an NFL player because there's really just it's
Speaker 1: you know, there's only that one word, fun words saying
Speaker 1: it just describes exactly that kind of thing. All right,
Speaker 1: we are about to hear from quarterback Carson Wentz on
Speaker 1: his win against the Chicago Bears. We know that he
Speaker 1: did not He was on the sideline the last time
Speaker 1: the Eagles beat the Bears in the playoffs, so really
Speaker 1: interested to hear his experience the first time facing the
Speaker 1: spare's defense this year and uh getting a win over
Speaker 1: the over Chicago um which needed a much needed wind.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he's rocking the black like the rest
Speaker 1: of us are. We know they had the all black
Speaker 1: uniforms today we'll see, uh and here he comes. Well
Speaker 1: kind of all right, thir Miles said that when you
Speaker 1: hit him with the swing pass that he had blocking
Speaker 1: responsibilities first one'd you guys seem pretty snapped. That kind
Speaker 1: of made you turn to him first. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they were playing really soft his own coverage, um, and
Speaker 1: Miles was just chipping them the helping chip to d
Speaker 1: N and then had a flat route and um, I
Speaker 1: just saw him kind of get really deep and um,
Speaker 1: try to play fast and get it to him. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he made a great play the second week in a
Speaker 1: row with an ain't bitted drive the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: kind of word. I mean, it's huge. It's what we
Speaker 1: it's our recipe, you know, it's what we want to
Speaker 1: do and finished games like that. Um, obviously there and
Speaker 1: you know, the third quarter a little bit, we kind
Speaker 1: of got a little stagnant and stuff, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: we stayed with it. We stayed with it. We grinded
Speaker 1: it out and picked up a bunch of key third
Speaker 1: downs and I moved the ball in the game and
Speaker 1: that was huge for us. Sean didn't play very long,
Speaker 1: but when he was in there, did you feel that
Speaker 1: that wasn't so congested and he shortly intermediate there is
Speaker 1: hard to say, hard to say, I mean he was
Speaker 1: only out there a little bit, and um, but you
Speaker 1: know it was it was a spark when he was,
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what he was doing. So, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully he'll be fine and getting back out there.
Speaker 1: Did you say anything, No, al Sean after a couple
Speaker 1: of drops there, I just told him coming right back,
Speaker 1: coming right back to him. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: part of football. It's part of the game. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make mistakes, and UM, nothing but confidence in
Speaker 1: him when when he does do that that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come right back to him, much like we did on
Speaker 1: that third down later in the game. He made a
Speaker 1: great play Dallas Goddar screen their own. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a great call. Uh, you know, obviously it worked out great,
Speaker 1: and then Dallas did a tremendous job of creating separation
Speaker 1: and I was kind of back there just trying to
Speaker 1: find the lane to get get him the ball. And um,
Speaker 1: that first down was was huge for us and came
Speaker 1: up came up big in that in that situation orlotivating
Speaker 1: connectionally earth so that um, hard to say exactly why.
Speaker 1: You know, I think my connection with zach Is is always,
Speaker 1: you know, really solid, really strong. You know, some weeks
Speaker 1: it just shows up out there more than others, you know,
Speaker 1: but when he's there, when he when he's called upon,
Speaker 1: nothing but confidence in him every single time. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of the way they were playing defensively, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of led us to to use him
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And you know he was you know,
Speaker 1: a primary like he has oftentimes, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: it worked out really well for us, and he made
Speaker 1: some great places. Evaluate yourself every game like this, How
Speaker 1: much way do you putting on your performance in that
Speaker 1: final drive, the fact that you guys were able to
Speaker 1: move the ball when you did, and if you don't
Speaker 1: you might lose the game. Do you stand back and say,
Speaker 1: I did what I'm supposed to do when I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to do it. I mean, you know that's a very deep,
Speaker 1: you know question. There there's levels to that, But you know,
Speaker 1: coming out of the game, you just kind of want to, um,
Speaker 1: just critique everything. You know, there's throws I left out
Speaker 1: there early in the game, later in the game plays
Speaker 1: we left out there as an offense and so um.
Speaker 1: But but at the end of the day, being able
Speaker 1: to sustain that drive and that's what we have to do.
Speaker 1: That's what good football team's, good offenses have to do.
Speaker 1: Stay in the field comfort, you know, grind the clock
Speaker 1: out like we did, and that was that was really
Speaker 1: big Forcene reach. There's third down the play and do
Speaker 1: you feel like there's a difference. Who are slower in
Speaker 1: your thought process as you can figure out those things
Speaker 1: compared what do you mean, I'm sorry, as you figure
Speaker 1: out the right player making on third down, how to
Speaker 1: play force inferenstives and you know, I do feel lators
Speaker 1: and that lotion. Um. You know, again, it's kind of
Speaker 1: neither here nor there. You know, it's just based upon
Speaker 1: what what the defense has given me, what they're showing,
Speaker 1: and also a lot of respect for the pass rushers
Speaker 1: that they have, you know, and not wanting to stand
Speaker 1: back there and hold the ball all day, and um,
Speaker 1: get it up to our playmakers. So if it's Miles
Speaker 1: in the flat on third and thirteen, that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do, you know, And he was able to make
Speaker 1: play and um, that's just kind of how this offense
Speaker 1: is and just you know, we want to play fat,
Speaker 1: want to read fast, and guys are playing fast out there.
Speaker 1: Giving that the sputtered a little bit and say what
Speaker 1: was the message going into that last drive the team also, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just stay together, stay together, and just finish the game.
Speaker 1: You know, at the end of the day. Um, like
Speaker 1: you said, we had a little dry spell there. We
Speaker 1: you know, didn't capitalize a couple of third downs, didn't
Speaker 1: stay on the field and UM put our defense in
Speaker 1: some tough spots a couple of times, and then they
Speaker 1: stepped up, made some plays and UM, but it was
Speaker 1: just a stay together. You know. We had those long
Speaker 1: sustained drives early in the game. We basically said, hey,
Speaker 1: we need one more of these, one more of those
Speaker 1: go down to score, and we were able to. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't score, but we got the field goal, and
Speaker 1: the kind of sealed the deal. Was the key playing
Speaker 1: that drive. Boy, that's a that's a big question. I'd
Speaker 1: just say those third downs, you know, obviously being able
Speaker 1: to stay on the field on you know whatever however
Speaker 1: we did, um, just hand the field on those third downs.
Speaker 1: Those are huge for us at break. Now, where do
Speaker 1: you think the team is compared to where you were,
Speaker 1: say a couple of weeks ago coming out of Dallas,
Speaker 1: where you guys just saying, hey, let's get to the break,
Speaker 1: let's maybe when a couple games against co good teams
Speaker 1: and then yeah, it's aboutment from there. Where How do
Speaker 1: you feel where you are right now? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think we all feel feel good about where we're at.
Speaker 1: You know, again, there's there's things the last two weeks
Speaker 1: that we we've left out there for sure, But to
Speaker 1: be able to go against two good football teams, um
Speaker 1: and come away with a win, Um, you know, defense
Speaker 1: playing great, offensively, sealing the deal late in the game
Speaker 1: on both these last two weeks. Um, I think it
Speaker 1: gives us a lot of confidence going in the bye week,
Speaker 1: and um, you know we were able to you know,
Speaker 1: whether the storm of you know, those couple of losses
Speaker 1: and um kind of everything going on and everyone stayed
Speaker 1: together and you know, it's been h I've really liked
Speaker 1: what I've seen from everybody, and you know, we're a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence going forward. So forward, what purpose we
Speaker 1: like to see if the right season being big band
Speaker 1: well in the playoffs, Yeah, I mean, we just got
Speaker 1: to be able to stay on the field. You know,
Speaker 1: I think early in the game, you know, we had
Speaker 1: a couple of third downs that we didn't execute, you know,
Speaker 1: late into the game third quarter. Um, same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to be able to stay on the field, convert.
Speaker 1: You know, we want to want to be able to
Speaker 1: create some big plays again. Um, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we'll just keep getting better with that pliables
Speaker 1: being able to absure not just the pay. So the
Speaker 1: mentality of this team is so clear to be how
Speaker 1: do you see her doing? Yeah, I mean he's been great.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough, you know, really good things about
Speaker 1: about him and really all the running backs, you know,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard him, you know, it was nice to get
Speaker 1: Scrolls back out there. Um. But just the way he's
Speaker 1: coming as a rookie, just willing to learn, you know,
Speaker 1: willing to learn. We've asked a lot of him from
Speaker 1: obviously running the ball, catching the ball out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: picking up protections. UM, put a lot on his plate,
Speaker 1: and he's really handled everything well and been able to
Speaker 1: make a lot of splash plays, a lot of big
Speaker 1: plays for for this offense. And uh, you know I
Speaker 1: love going to work with that guy. Well, I thought
Speaker 1: a little bit about the performance of your offensive line
Speaker 1: and how they were able to contain Khalil Mack especially,
Speaker 1: but they have some really good pass rushers and how
Speaker 1: they were able to contain them for the most part. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's off to our line. You know. That's you know
Speaker 1: last week as well, um being able to just establish
Speaker 1: the run game and today, um, both in the passing
Speaker 1: game and on the ground. Those guys are moving guys,
Speaker 1: you know, moving guys giving me time. Um, And they
Speaker 1: played great. That's an impressive front that they had to
Speaker 1: go up against with you know a lot of playmakers
Speaker 1: and uh, they handle it really well. Or the middle
Speaker 1: of that last round, how much you a pair of
Speaker 1: the interchanging personnel versus you know what players? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't fully know why they're out. I just
Speaker 1: I see who's in the huddle with me, you know,
Speaker 1: and we don't have time to to think or were
Speaker 1: we just we just play ball, you know, and guys
Speaker 1: are just kind of running there and fill in and
Speaker 1: we're making plays, you know, And um, that's that's the
Speaker 1: tough part of football. But guys is a good job
Speaker 1: stepping up. Well, you guys have that running game. Are
Speaker 1: you a better offense within union, especially the last thing better,
Speaker 1: you know, without a doubt, you know, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean I think every I think every team in
Speaker 1: the NFL would say they're they're a better team when
Speaker 1: they're able to establish the ground game. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that's just um the recipe you know, to to
Speaker 1: open up the passing in the play action, the bootlegs,
Speaker 1: all of that. Um. And you know, like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: hats off to are big guys up front for forgetting
Speaker 1: that going um, which just helped open up some things
Speaker 1: about the team from a big fixture perspective. Nine games.
Speaker 1: How about you? How do you feel like you're playing
Speaker 1: at this point in the season. Yeah, I mean, like
Speaker 1: I said, there's there's always plays I want back. You know,
Speaker 1: there's always stuff I'm gonna go watch the tape and
Speaker 1: kick myself from, you know, making a missing a call,
Speaker 1: missing you know, physically missing the throw, um all of
Speaker 1: those things. But um, you know those are definitely things
Speaker 1: I can keep cleaning up and just keep building the
Speaker 1: chemistry with all these guys. You know, we got you
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys changing out and then um,
Speaker 1: just keep building the chemistry and UM, but I can
Speaker 1: definitely play better. And I think as an offense will
Speaker 1: just keep getting better. Is good too, I think too, right,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean there's there's obviously lots of
Speaker 1: good stuff on the tape too and um but but
Speaker 1: like I said, we just want to keep you know,
Speaker 1: finding ways to stay on the field and make big plays. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think offensively, we can just keep
Speaker 1: getting better for us. Thank you, guys. Okay, casual Friday
Speaker 1: vibes there for Carson was I said, it's that bye week,
Speaker 1: bye week outfit, bye week outfit. Yeah, he's gonna go
Speaker 1: have a nice little a little bit of time off,
Speaker 1: well deserved. I'm sure. Let's just talk about his performance
Speaker 1: a little bit today. We did touch on it a
Speaker 1: little bit, but when it comes to the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: just remaining unshakable. You know, it was a kind of
Speaker 1: an ugly winning, a hard fought win. Nothing came easy,
Speaker 1: but Carson Wentz still able to do things at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. I mean, this has been a
Speaker 1: group of tough defenses that he has faced over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. You know, you look at this defense,
Speaker 1: you look at at Buffalo last week, you look at
Speaker 1: Dallas the week before Minnesota, the week before that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a stretch of really good defenses. So to
Speaker 1: see Carson come out and perform in this way, the
Speaker 1: numbers aren't always going to look great. I know he
Speaker 1: didn't win fantasy games for you this week, but ultimately
Speaker 1: he came out and played very efficient football, put the
Speaker 1: ball where it needed to be. You saw some drops
Speaker 1: and some key moments that deflated some of the numbers
Speaker 1: at the end, and didn't turn it over. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that was most important against his Bears defense. They're
Speaker 1: so opportunistic, they thrive on getting short fields for that offense.
Speaker 1: So the fact that the Eagles, particularly Carson Wentz, able
Speaker 1: to take care of football today, I thought that was huge.
Speaker 1: And then you watch him in the fourth quarter. You
Speaker 1: know when they put these stats up about come from
Speaker 1: behind wins and being clutch, and it isn't any other
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I mean, to me, it was
Speaker 1: clutch in the fourth quarter, but that won't go down
Speaker 1: as a fourth quarter sort of clutch win when it
Speaker 1: really was on that final drive three for three on
Speaker 1: third down, using his legs, using his arm, without two
Speaker 1: of his top receivers out there. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: big when he needed to be big, and there was
Speaker 1: no other time that he needed to be bigger than
Speaker 1: that final drive of the game. All Right, we need
Speaker 1: to create a tangible clutch stat for the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a real actual clutch shot in the NBA. We
Speaker 1: should make one for the for the NFL and for
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz especially. All Right, as always, we have Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson one on one with Mike Quick. Let's take a
Speaker 1: listen to what the coach I'd say after this one
Speaker 1: for school's congratulations. You started the game out with your
Speaker 1: deep threat to Shawan Jackson in the game. But how
Speaker 1: big of an adjustment when he had to come out
Speaker 1: and he couldn't play any longer. Well, we you know,
Speaker 1: we obviously have a backup plan in that case, and
Speaker 1: then you know, you're hoping that he could play the
Speaker 1: whole game. But um, you know, we basically just had
Speaker 1: to had to go back to to you know, um,
Speaker 1: what we had done the previous you know, eight weeks
Speaker 1: and and and let's just get guys in position and
Speaker 1: something we talk about during the week. But you know,
Speaker 1: definitely wanted to get him involved in this game. We
Speaker 1: were hoping that he could play, you know, the entire game.
Speaker 1: We'll see where he's at this week and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully he'll be ready in a couple weeks.
Speaker 1: With what's you're starting, You're doing the run game in
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard and Mouse Sanders. How big is that in
Speaker 1: terms of especially in a game like this, Well, it is.
Speaker 1: It's big, um, And it's big especially down the stretch
Speaker 1: when you can control the game. You know, when you
Speaker 1: when you have the lead and um, you know again,
Speaker 1: I credit credit the offensive line, the tight ends. They
Speaker 1: do a great job of sustaining blocks, playing on their
Speaker 1: side of the line of scrimmage, and and and and moving,
Speaker 1: you know, moving, moving guys out of there. And then
Speaker 1: and then the backs are patient enough to find the
Speaker 1: lanes and then having enough burst to really get four
Speaker 1: or five six yards in a play. You saw it
Speaker 1: with nice lead. Then they come back with fourteen points.
Speaker 1: We got a little bit nervous after that. So how
Speaker 1: do you get the team back on track when the
Speaker 1: momentum starts to swing the other way? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of the things where you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta make sure that we don't lose focus. You know,
Speaker 1: in those situations. And obviously the offense came out of
Speaker 1: the second half and we went right down and scored
Speaker 1: the touchdown that was big to put us up nineteen
Speaker 1: at that point. But and then we can't just lose focus.
Speaker 1: We got to make sure we um continue to play.
Speaker 1: Are a lot of football ahead of us in this game,
Speaker 1: you know, and again this is uh, this is a
Speaker 1: good football team. And then um, they did some nice
Speaker 1: things offensively that two big explosive plays that really kind
Speaker 1: of got them back into this football game. And then
Speaker 1: something we got to evaluate as we move forward. You
Speaker 1: mentioned explosive plays. Is that a part of the losing
Speaker 1: focus that you mentioned? Sometimes it can be you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's a bust of coverage or lack of a
Speaker 1: communication on the on the deep ball, um, how how
Speaker 1: running back gets it gets that wide open. Those are
Speaker 1: all things that sometimes gets kind of lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 1: And we got to figure out why and why the
Speaker 1: why the communications you know, broke down in those situa
Speaker 1: and and and fix it as we move forward. Early
Speaker 1: in the game, the Bears couldn't do anything offensively. Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox is now healthy. How big is that for your defense?
Speaker 1: It's big? You could see it today. His get off
Speaker 1: um was tremendous. And he is feeling good. I would
Speaker 1: say he's not He's not one hundred percent obviously this
Speaker 1: time of year, but he is feeling better. And um,
Speaker 1: he is such a big part of that defensive line,
Speaker 1: you know, being aggressive to uh come off the ball
Speaker 1: as quick as he does, put pressure, you know, on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. It's just good to see him back to
Speaker 1: his old self. Now you get to breathe a little bit.
Speaker 1: You got the bye week. What does the head coach
Speaker 1: goo during the bye week, Well, we spend these first
Speaker 1: first half of the week and we look at our
Speaker 1: next next opponent, obviously the Patriots, and then and then
Speaker 1: spend some time just self self scouting, self evaluation, and
Speaker 1: and try to break down all our tendencies and see
Speaker 1: if there's there's anything that we're putting out there that
Speaker 1: we can, uh we can get better at. And and
Speaker 1: it's something that uh, um, you know, as a staff, offense,
Speaker 1: defense and special teams, we got to do that and
Speaker 1: and uh really you know, and then take some time.
Speaker 1: We as coaches too need to take time and rest
Speaker 1: and be fresh for the next seven games. I know
Speaker 1: it's always better to go off and the bye with
Speaker 1: the wind. So congratulations, enjoyed the bye. All right, thanks Mike,
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Mike, Thank you, coach. I think
Speaker 1: we are all looking forward to a little bit of
Speaker 1: time off, and of course that self scouting process that
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson mentioned going to be very critical over
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks with the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: waiting on the other side of the bye. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to this win over Chicago though, and we know
Speaker 1: we always love to get a closer look inside the
Speaker 1: booth with Mike and Merrill. Here's Merril Kim from this
Speaker 1: Eagles win, wing to the nearest side, slot to the
Speaker 1: far side. Second of five, handoff again to Montgomery and
Speaker 1: he's thrown for a loss. They were all over Montgomery
Speaker 1: is he tuck? My hand off and rushing us to
Speaker 1: the backfield was Brandon Graham and he spills him for
Speaker 1: a loss of three wins. Looking for the football fakes,
Speaker 1: he looks, he steps up, he fires complete and it
Speaker 1: is a touchdown. Zack Hurtz. It is third and ten,
Speaker 1: shotgun slot to either side. Eagles lead twelve. Nothing back
Speaker 1: goes Trabisky. He has head he is buried. They've got
Speaker 1: him again and inside the twenty five. On the very
Speaker 1: first play for Avery as a Philadelphia Eagle, they blitz
Speaker 1: him off the edge and he hits home and it's
Speaker 1: a gift to Jordan Howard. He breaks a tackle. He's
Speaker 1: at the thirty five, he's at the forty and he
Speaker 1: is up to the forty four yard line. What a
Speaker 1: run by Jordan Howard, how about seventeen yards? Just love
Speaker 1: the way this young man runs the football. On first down,
Speaker 1: it is a hand off Howard up the middle five
Speaker 1: and for the touchdown. Jordan Howard thirteen yard runner. That's
Speaker 1: how you clear an alley. Here is a huge play
Speaker 1: for the Eagles defense. Bears with a slot to the
Speaker 1: far side. Montgomery the single setback. It's third nine. Rabiesky fakes,
Speaker 1: he rolls, he's back, he fires, and it's incomplete and
Speaker 1: tended for Shaheen. They folded the tight end and it
Speaker 1: was knocked down by Avontae Maddox. Man that's a little guy,
Speaker 1: but boy he plays big Avonte Maddox in a big
Speaker 1: situation going up and getting the ball away from the
Speaker 1: big tight end. Shaheim big big play with twenty five
Speaker 1: seconds left. Elliott pooches it and the Bears come up,
Speaker 1: but bounces around and the Bears are after picking it up.
Speaker 1: They fumble it, fight for the football. I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles have it back. The Eagles have recovered it, and
Speaker 1: that's the game. Duke Riley on the football as he
Speaker 1: poots punted it. It bounced picked up by one of
Speaker 1: the Bears up men, and the Eagles come away with
Speaker 1: the ball. It was picked up or tried to picking
Speaker 1: it up, was Adam sheheen. Yeah, and that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it with twenty three seconds left. Always my favorite part
Speaker 1: of the show. I don't care what anybody says. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling extra inspired. And do you think that we
Speaker 1: could get like a behind the scenes like of our show?
Speaker 1: It would probably not be as Funa, I would say,
Speaker 1: definitely not as fun. Definitely not as fun. There's always
Speaker 1: like a random like spider that I find that's always
Speaker 1: very scary, not terribly exciting. Um friend, we will catch
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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about that. Genard Avery Sack.
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Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by RICO. Jannard Avery acquired by
Speaker 1: the Eagles just this week from Cleveland, and he's already
Speaker 1: making an impact in this Eagles defense with a half
Speaker 1: a sack shared with Malcolm Jenkins. He is the subject
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Speaker 1: a look. Okay, get ready, Okay, thanks Amy, We're gonna
Speaker 1: break down the third down sack here by Jenard Avery
Speaker 1: and Malcolm Jenkins. A split sack here from those two
Speaker 1: guys late in the second quarter. Really good design. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who this place starts with. It starts
Speaker 1: with the threat of this man right here. That's number
Speaker 1: ninety one, Fletcher Cox. Opposing offenses always have to respect
Speaker 1: what he's able to do and how he's able to
Speaker 1: take over a game. I want you to look at
Speaker 1: what the Eagles are presenting here pre snap. You've got
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, Josh Sweat, and Jannard Avery. All three of
Speaker 1: these guys lining up off the football and potential pass
Speaker 1: rushing positions one, two, three guys all that side that
Speaker 1: should be sending alarm bells for Mitch Drobiski in the
Speaker 1: offensive line that you know what, they're probably running some
Speaker 1: kind of a pressure, some kind of a stunt something
Speaker 1: over to that side. I don't trust it. We should
Speaker 1: slide protection that way. Conventional wisdom would say you probably
Speaker 1: want to do that, but Chicago does not do that. Instead,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take their center James Daniels, and he is
Speaker 1: going to slide towards number ninety one Fletcher Cox. This
Speaker 1: is all the respect in the world towards one of
Speaker 1: the best interior defensive players in the league. They're gonna
Speaker 1: slide protection this way to make sure that you essentially
Speaker 1: have a double team on Fletcher. What that means is
Speaker 1: is that you now have man to man protection on
Speaker 1: this side with two offensive lineman and your rookie running
Speaker 1: back David Montgomery trying to handle three defensive ends in
Speaker 1: some kind of a stunt or twist. The Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna send Jannard Avery inside. He's gonna get home on
Speaker 1: this stunt. We're gonna let this run. The other guy
Speaker 1: to watch is twenty seven Malcolm Jenkins. He actually sees
Speaker 1: that the running back stays in for protection and he
Speaker 1: takes off a green Dog Blitz. Huge play for this
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. You saw the versatility from Avery, you saw
Speaker 1: the smarts there from the veteran Jenkins, but it all
Speaker 1: started with the respect the teams have to pay to
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox. Just a really cool play to break down.
Speaker 1: Always great stuff there from Fran and very exciting to
Speaker 1: see the new Eagles defensive ent already making some noise
Speaker 1: in that Eagles defense. When we come back, We've got
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Speaker 1: I think for me it's it's zach Ertz with a
Speaker 1: little hundred yard performance, twenty five yard touchdown there like
Speaker 1: what you got? I think I like that, Amy, we
Speaker 1: think a right here for this one. You gotta go
Speaker 1: with zach Ertz breakout game of the season four him
Speaker 1: nine catches, over a hundred yards and a touchdown. Pretty sure.
Speaker 1: A lot of fantasy owners have been waiting to see
Speaker 1: this zach erst as they become accustomed to. So yeah,
Speaker 1: my vote would have to go to the offensive guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all three of these guys. A great day. Another sack
Speaker 1: for Brandon Graham, and of course Jordan Howard continues to
Speaker 1: daddy as you go productive and to continue to get
Speaker 1: those nominations. All right, as we put a bow on Chicago,
Speaker 1: we have a buy everyone's excited about it. If you
Speaker 1: haven't heard, we've been talking about it all day. And
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots on the other side of it,
Speaker 1: they play the Ravens to night. They're a perfect eight. No,
Speaker 1: they will be facing the Ravens tonight. And then it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a one two punch there with
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and then you got some you know, every
Speaker 1: opponent is to be respected, but then you got a
Speaker 1: couple of the Dolphins who got their first win today,
Speaker 1: so you know they're they're not off to the best
Speaker 1: start herecause we look ahead to the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. We're at the halfway point now, just over
Speaker 1: the halfway point with the Eagles at five and four.
Speaker 1: What's the outlook for this team? Well, I think the
Speaker 1: outlook is positive as long as they can continue to
Speaker 1: build off the last two weeks, continue to get healthier.
Speaker 1: I think the passing game will have to become a
Speaker 1: little bit more consistent as they go down to stretch here,
Speaker 1: especially if you're talking about beating the Patriots in the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: those are two teams that play very good defense. Is
Speaker 1: going to be very hard to be a one dimensional
Speaker 1: team against those teams. So I think coming right out
Speaker 1: of the bye week, we're gonna find out exactly where
Speaker 1: we are. When you get two of the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time, no not two of the two greatest of
Speaker 1: all times at their prospective positions and Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady coming in, I think it's a great measuring
Speaker 1: stake coming out of the bye week at home to
Speaker 1: see exactly where you are. I'll tell you what, Amy,
Speaker 1: I know that crowd will bring their a game and
Speaker 1: the Eagles being well rested going into that game, I
Speaker 1: can't wait get get rested up this week during the
Speaker 1: bye week, but that those seven days leading up to
Speaker 1: that game at four twenty five against the Patriots, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a good one. Well, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: are not the only team going to be well rested
Speaker 1: that day because the Patriots have the same bye week
Speaker 1: is the Eagles, So both of these teams have a
Speaker 1: little bit of time off, and you know they're going
Speaker 1: to be making adjustments to get even better. Which it's
Speaker 1: crazy to say, but even though they are undefeated right now,
Speaker 1: their defense has really been what's doing it for them,
Speaker 1: which is not the classic New England that we're used
Speaker 1: to seeing their offense is still really trying to find
Speaker 1: their identity, a lot of turnover at the receiver position.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, who set the Patriots schedule, Bill Belichick? I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, the toughest games will be tonight against the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, and then coming out of their bye week,
Speaker 1: the second toughest game will be at against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So the Patriots, you know, it does it does listen,
Speaker 1: it becomes a team. Well, I mean, obviously playing this
Speaker 1: team in the Super Bowl, we know what it's like.
Speaker 1: You you almost have to play a perfect game, and
Speaker 1: that's what they were able to do in Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty two. To beat that team, you won't. You're gonna
Speaker 1: need something very similar because that's just how the Patriots are.
Speaker 1: They rarely beat themselves. So it's I think it's an
Speaker 1: advantage for the Eagles coming out of the bye week,
Speaker 1: getting ready for them being at home. So it'll be exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And as you said, that game set for four twenty
Speaker 1: five kickoff for twenty five pm kickoff, which means that
Speaker 1: we will be back here thirty minutes before kickoff as
Speaker 1: always at three fifty five pm on November seventeenth. That's
Speaker 1: my sister's birthday. That'll be an extra special day for
Speaker 1: us here on the postgame show, and yes we will
Speaker 1: be The kickoff show will be at three fifty five
Speaker 1: as always on November seventeenth. Everyone have an awesome bye week.
Speaker 1: You got any plans, No, just keep working. No bye
Speaker 1: week for me, Bye week for me. Grind every day,
Speaker 1: no days off. We play like a champion. I don't
Speaker 1: know if throwing every clash. They all sound good. It's
Speaker 1: good to have a win. It's good to go into
Speaker 1: the bye with a win. We will see you November seventeen,
Speaker 1: three fifty five pm. Until then, Fly Eagles Fly,