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Speaker 1: b e A beautiful day, Eagles back on the practice field.
Speaker 1: Good to see everybody knocking off the rust getting ready
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, A big matchup in
Speaker 1: the Desert, two teams both five and one. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you go back to the long story of history
Speaker 1: between these two teams, they have never had this good
Speaker 1: a record hiring this matchup this late in this season.
Speaker 1: This is arguably two of the best teams in the conference,
Speaker 1: both playing outstanding football this point. There should be a
Speaker 1: great when we're looking forward to that kind of left
Speaker 1: to get to before we get the Sunday. First things first,
Speaker 1: Eagles getting some good news today on the injury front,
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Speaker 1: Our Eagles three sixty update presented by Sports Authority. Well,
Speaker 1: it was a day of getting back to work at
Speaker 1: the Novacare Complex here on Tuesday, as the Eagles returned
Speaker 1: to practice here at the Novocare Complex after last week's
Speaker 1: bye week and they got a lot of healthy bodies
Speaker 1: back here on the practice field. It wasn't a padded practice,
Speaker 1: but there were plenty of returning players like Darren Sproules,
Speaker 1: who was injured a couple weeks ago, like Jason Kelsey,
Speaker 1: like Evan Mathis, who didn't practice today. But we'll practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, said head coach Chip Kelly. And we talked
Speaker 1: to a few of those returning players, Sprules and Kelsey
Speaker 1: specifically about what it was like to get back in
Speaker 1: the action. Obviously I wasn't full participant. I was just
Speaker 1: kind of out there moving around. I'm still hesitant to
Speaker 1: put a date on it, even if matthis isn't But
Speaker 1: you know, we all really focused on this week is
Speaker 1: being prepared for Arizona and making sure that we have
Speaker 1: a game plan down for that. We got our hands full. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Darren's out there. He was moving around. He looks real good.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just, you know, it's how he feels.
Speaker 1: You know, no one knows how he feels but him.
Speaker 1: So you know, we just gotta, you know, hope for
Speaker 1: the best. Like when you played his game, your goal
Speaker 1: is to play like you know what I'm saying, Like whatever,
Speaker 1: it takes you to play. That's what I'm all about.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Nick Foles. His feelings towards Darren Sproles were made
Speaker 1: clear if you watch that miked up segment against the Giants.
Speaker 1: He very much values his little running back teammate, and
Speaker 1: Foles talked about what it would mean to get Sproles
Speaker 1: back and what it will mean once he gets that
Speaker 1: offensive line back intact. It's great. Uh it was. It
Speaker 1: didn't look good. I was right there when it happened.
Speaker 1: It didn't look good. But he's a resilient guy and
Speaker 1: he's very He's taking some hits in his career, and uh,
Speaker 1: it was great to have him back out there. He's
Speaker 1: recovering fast. Kelsey wasn't able to do monkey out there,
Speaker 1: but just to see him, you know, yeah, just to
Speaker 1: see him out there, see mathis out there. Just getting
Speaker 1: guys back is is always great. Getting them healthy. They've
Speaker 1: been approaching every single day since they've been injured with
Speaker 1: great work and recovery and it's shown because they're getting
Speaker 1: out here fast. That is your three sixty update, presented
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Pat Shermer and defensive coordinator Bill Davis. It's
Speaker 1: great that the offensive line is closer to coming together.
Speaker 1: And later on in the show, I'll talk to one
Speaker 1: of the key pieces of that offensive line, a right
Speaker 1: tuckle Lane Johnson one on one. But our next Instuti
Speaker 1: interview is a head coach himself, Dave. Yeah. Chip Kelly's
Speaker 1: stopping by for his Tuesday one on one and he's
Speaker 1: got some updates for us. How did some of those
Speaker 1: injured Eagles look in practice? Will find out when Eagles
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Speaker 1: joined by head coach Chip Kelly. The Eagles back at
Speaker 1: work training session today. Everybody excited after the bye week.
Speaker 1: In coach, everybody really excited to see Darren Sproles on
Speaker 1: the field. Michael Kendricks, Jason Kelsey, all those guys. Chris Polka,
Speaker 1: what can you tell us about how they performed out there?
Speaker 1: They look good. What's the next step in there? In
Speaker 1: there just weekly from today's training, and today's a light
Speaker 1: day for us, so we'll see. We won't know anything
Speaker 1: until later on in the week. For them to get
Speaker 1: back out there, it seems just a lot of energy
Speaker 1: in the building. I mean not just because of them
Speaker 1: being out there, but just coming back from the bye week.
Speaker 1: At our guys are excited to play football, they're excited
Speaker 1: to train football. So they get a chance to get
Speaker 1: back out on the field. They got a break, you
Speaker 1: know for us that happened at the midway point and season.
Speaker 1: We played ten games so far, four preseason, sixth regular season,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a halfway point for us, and
Speaker 1: they were excited to be back out the field. Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals five and one. What have you seen studying that team?
Speaker 1: Very good team, great personnel, you know, obviously offensively, Carson
Speaker 1: Palmer is back playing very very high level right now.
Speaker 1: He's got some outstanding receivers and Larry Fitzgerald and Floyd
Speaker 1: you throw the young rookie John Brown in there, who's
Speaker 1: a real speedster and can do a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: They got an outstanding running back and Andrea Ellington, a
Speaker 1: couple really good tight ends, the old lines playing well.
Speaker 1: You know, they do a lot of different things. Offensively,
Speaker 1: Bruce is known as an offensive you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a mind and does a really good job with them.
Speaker 1: And then defensively, they're very talented. Two outstanding corners and
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson and Cromartie. Dan Williams is as good a
Speaker 1: nosegard as there is in the league. They're playing really
Speaker 1: well at the linebacker with a Rackpo on the outside
Speaker 1: and Acho on the outside, and then Larry Foot's doing
Speaker 1: a really good job. And they play in a lot
Speaker 1: of different packages on giving you a lot of different looks.
Speaker 1: So it's it's gonna be There's there's a reason they're
Speaker 1: five and one. They're a talented team. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a heck of a game. First, and Palmer had some
Speaker 1: injuries earlier that nerve probably looked if you look as
Speaker 1: good as he did pre injury, Yeah, well he looked
Speaker 1: really good in this last game against Oakland, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what he did from a rehab standpoint, but
Speaker 1: he looked really sharp. What kind of challenge is it
Speaker 1: to have Fitzgerald and Floyd and Brown and Andre Ellington
Speaker 1: kind of does it all? What kind of challenges that
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of weapons, you know, and you
Speaker 1: just can't focus in on one because they have so
Speaker 1: many weapons. So you know, you got to be sounding
Speaker 1: in your approach from a defensive standpoint when you attack
Speaker 1: these guys. Chip one of the players I want to
Speaker 1: talk about here, dmik O. Ryan's one of your veteran leaders.
Speaker 1: Played hurt on Sunday, two Sundays to go against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Never complains always on the field, and the way the
Speaker 1: players speak about him, it's with such respects, almost a reverence.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about what he brings to you on
Speaker 1: and obviously he's a tremendous football player, a great leader.
Speaker 1: I would argue that he didn't play because if he
Speaker 1: was hurt, we wouldn't have played him. So he was
Speaker 1: healthy and ready to go. Does a great job in
Speaker 1: terms of getting our defense lined up. He makes all
Speaker 1: the calls for us, is a real student of the game,
Speaker 1: always puts us in the right situation. Is a tough,
Speaker 1: physical football player, and I think everybody in the locker
Speaker 1: room just respects him because not only his approach to
Speaker 1: the game, but the way he lives at every single day,
Speaker 1: and then the way he comes to work every single
Speaker 1: day and the professionalism that he shows and in what
Speaker 1: he does. And he's always study and tape, He's always
Speaker 1: on top of things. He does a great job with
Speaker 1: the younger guys really kind of coaching them in our defense.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he's he's a guy that everybody
Speaker 1: in this organization looks up to. You run across so
Speaker 1: many guys like that in your coaching career. Now he's
Speaker 1: one of the real special guys. You know that there's
Speaker 1: just everything you want and a football player both on
Speaker 1: and off the field, and that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: Trent Cole interesting story. One of the most prolific sackers
Speaker 1: in the history of the Philadelphia Eagles eight years with
Speaker 1: his hand in the ground, has made the transition here
Speaker 1: to the stand up linebacker position. Why what's he done
Speaker 1: so well to be so productive? I just think it's
Speaker 1: the same Trent that everybody's seen. He's very relentless in
Speaker 1: terms of his pursuit of whether it be the ball
Speaker 1: carrier or the quarterback. He's he's physical. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: always been a physical football player. Um, the differences, he's
Speaker 1: just doing it from a two point stance now as
Speaker 1: opposed to a three point stance. But another just football
Speaker 1: player that you love to see run around. You love
Speaker 1: to see the passion that in the energy that Trent
Speaker 1: plays with. I'm on that team and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the offensive side here with with Brent Sellick, You've
Speaker 1: talked about him and his selflessness and it really does
Speaker 1: seem to permeate through the locker room, that approach to
Speaker 1: the to the day every every day. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Brent's another guy that just does everything you ask and
Speaker 1: that you ask him to do on a daily basis
Speaker 1: as a football player. You know, he isn't really concerned
Speaker 1: with the overall statistics, doesn't care if he has a catcher,
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Speaker 1: the victory. And um, you know, has really set a
Speaker 1: tone for for a lot of guys in this program
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Speaker 1: too early to start talking and thinking about fantasy football
Speaker 1: for this week in the NFL, and a lot of
Speaker 1: things happening after some big trades, Percy Harvin gets moved,
Speaker 1: a bunch of injuries, and Chris what about Bryce Brown
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Speaker 1: Come up now is our it's been with Bo Wolf
Speaker 1: and Joe Dolan from Fantasy Guru dot com. Back from
Speaker 1: the bye. It's bow Wolf and Joe Dolan for your
Speaker 1: fantasy spin, as we do every week here on Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles dot com. Joe, of course, the managing editor of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Guru dot com and Joe. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: matchup for the Eagles this week, coming off that by
Speaker 1: going out to Arizona against the first placed Cardinals, a
Speaker 1: very good defense, but a defense that like last year,
Speaker 1: is vulnerable against tight ends. Is zach Ertz a big
Speaker 1: player for you this week? Yeah? Absolutely, Bo, He had
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns against the Cardinals last year. He actually
Speaker 1: had sixty eight yards in that game, which was his
Speaker 1: season high during the regular season. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what zach Ertz. I think really had the bounce back
Speaker 1: game against the Giants a couple weeks ago that we
Speaker 1: needed to see from him to start putting him back
Speaker 1: in our lineups. And I just thought it was a
Speaker 1: matter of Nick Foles and zach Ertz getting on the
Speaker 1: same page. We saw Foles with some inaccurate throws in
Speaker 1: previous weeks, but Ertz also was dropping the pass here
Speaker 1: and there against the Rams. You might make that example,
Speaker 1: but I think this is a great week for them
Speaker 1: to continue what they started last week the Giants. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz in a league that's been really, really tough for
Speaker 1: tight ends for fantasy, especially this past week, I am
Speaker 1: excited to put him back in my lineup this week.
Speaker 1: Big trade in the NFL last week, Percy Harvin going
Speaker 1: from the Seahawks to the Jets. Likeank, you, Percy Harvin
Speaker 1: a little bit of a distraction in the locker room,
Speaker 1: but he gets it done on the field when it matters.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the trade for both signs
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks and the Jets. Well, when it comes
Speaker 1: to Percy Harvon, if I have Percy Harmon, I'm probably
Speaker 1: excited about this move because the way I look at
Speaker 1: it is he wasn't doing anything anyway. You know, he
Speaker 1: averaged six yards a catch on twenty two catches this year.
Speaker 1: That is really not getting it done. He averaged fewer
Speaker 1: yards per catch than Darren Sproles has per rush, so
Speaker 1: he really wasn't doing a whole lot for the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And if you watched Russell Wilson this week against the Rams,
Speaker 1: even in a loss, he had a monster game. So
Speaker 1: I didn't think the trade hurt Russell Wilson at all.
Speaker 1: But for Percy Harvin, I think if he gets force
Speaker 1: fed the ball in New York, which is more is
Speaker 1: more possible than it was in Seattle, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna work out for both sides. For fan it reeks
Speaker 1: of a desperation move for the Jets for me, but
Speaker 1: ultimately I think this is a pretty good move for
Speaker 1: both sides. For Fantasy Purple, you mentioned the Seahawks lost
Speaker 1: to the Rams, a big surprise, but a big surprise
Speaker 1: in the Rams backfield as well as Zach Stacy no
Speaker 1: carries on the field for one snap. I believe Benny Cunningham,
Speaker 1: who he thought was the number two guy, had a
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown, but he wasn't the main guy. It was
Speaker 1: the rookie Trey Mason for the first time getting carries
Speaker 1: and he was the bell cow all day. How much
Speaker 1: do you buy him moving forward? Buying him big time
Speaker 1: bow because this was a lot like the Ram team
Speaker 1: that we saw last season when they were winning games
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, and what they did
Speaker 1: was they limited their quarterback. They made them throw accurate,
Speaker 1: quick throws. Austin Davis did a very good job in
Speaker 1: this game against Seattle. They played with defense, and this
Speaker 1: was really the first good defensive performance from the Saint
Speaker 1: Louis Rams this year. They got after Russell Wilson, they
Speaker 1: had the trick play on special teams that worked for them.
Speaker 1: They really made a lot of plays defensively, and they
Speaker 1: controlled the clock with the running game. Here's the difference
Speaker 1: from last year. Trey Mason, to me, is just a
Speaker 1: much more talented back than Zach Stacy, and the Rams
Speaker 1: are realizing that if they're gonna win games, if Jeff
Speaker 1: Fisher let's say it is gonna save his job. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to start winning tough games. They were one
Speaker 1: and four while they come in. They beat the Seahawks
Speaker 1: at home. That's an impressive resume building win. And Trey
Speaker 1: Mason is their best back when it comes to running
Speaker 1: the ball. I think he is going to be the
Speaker 1: bell cow going forward. And yeah, Benny Cunningham is going
Speaker 1: to be out there on third downs and in passing
Speaker 1: situations because he can protect. But I want to take
Speaker 1: this opportunity to kind of use this as a lesson
Speaker 1: when it comes to a back like Zach Stacy, an
Speaker 1: under talented back who gets this perceived volume, this label
Speaker 1: of a volume back before the season. These guys never
Speaker 1: seem to live up to their draft status. If you
Speaker 1: drafted Zach Stacy in the second round, you're dropping a
Speaker 1: guy this week who you expected to be a two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two hundred and seventy five carried guy
Speaker 1: who just lost his job to somebody who's a lot
Speaker 1: more talented. Whenever that opportunity comes up in future years,
Speaker 1: just to remember to pass on a guy like that
Speaker 1: and take a wide receiver instead, because it just never
Speaker 1: works out. For guys like Zach Stacy in the long run.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, another running back situation influx up in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: A crazy win for him this week, but they lost
Speaker 1: both Fred Jackson and C. J. Spiller for a little
Speaker 1: bit of time. Our old friend Bryce Brown in the mix,
Speaker 1: as is Anthony Dixon, who's the one to own. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick up Bryce Brown because I'm a gambler
Speaker 1: and I'm always going to gamble on talent. But as
Speaker 1: you know that Philadelphi Eagles traded Bryce Brown because he
Speaker 1: had some struggles with the playbook. He never really played
Speaker 1: to a consistent level. But we did see with Bryce
Speaker 1: Brown when he was filling in for Lashaw McCoy a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, the kind of talent that can
Speaker 1: really carry your fantasy team. We saw him with some
Speaker 1: huge games with some big runs. He has really really
Speaker 1: amazing straight line explosion, and I would think the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills are going to use this opportunity to get him
Speaker 1: a significant number of touches. But I do want to
Speaker 1: give you one piece of advice. Don't expect Bryce Brown
Speaker 1: to be a world beater. And if the Bills expect
Speaker 1: Fred Jackson to only be out a couple weeks with
Speaker 1: his groin injury. I wonder if they'll go with Anthony
Speaker 1: Dixon just because they can stay the course a little
Speaker 1: bit more. They went to Kyle Orton a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago because they thought he was the safer option at quarterback.
Speaker 1: That turned out to be the right move. The Bills
Speaker 1: are four and three, They're going to be competing for
Speaker 1: a playoff spot in an AFC. That looks pretty soft
Speaker 1: to me. I wonder if they just feel Anthony Dixon
Speaker 1: is the safer, stay the course option, But if they
Speaker 1: really want to gamble, they will go with Bryce Brown
Speaker 1: because he has monster upside and I think Bryce Brown
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy in the long run
Speaker 1: that you want to own in this backfield. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: a bunch of running backs we've talked about on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire this week. If you've sort of been saving
Speaker 1: your free agent budget or if you've got high waiver priority,
Speaker 1: are you using it all on Mason? Are you going
Speaker 1: for Brown? Are you going for Dixon? How do you
Speaker 1: spread it out? I would put my top priority on
Speaker 1: Trey Mason because I think this really well mirrors what
Speaker 1: the Rams did last year when Zach Stacy emerged. I
Speaker 1: think Mason is going to be able to emerge in
Speaker 1: a similar role. So he'd be my number one, Brown,
Speaker 1: number two, and Dixon number three. I would take a
Speaker 1: shot on all of them if I need running back help.
Speaker 1: But that's my personal order as we stand right now. Well,
Speaker 1: he is the man with all the information. Joe Dolan
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Speaker 1: fg Underscore Dolan, and we will see you next week
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Speaker 1: joined by starting right tackle Lane Johnson. And Lane, what
Speaker 1: did you do with your bye week? Because you just
Speaker 1: had a month off to start the season. Um, I
Speaker 1: stayed around here for a few days and I made
Speaker 1: a trip to Vermont pretty random, but it went up
Speaker 1: there with the family for a few days and hung
Speaker 1: out and then came back. So what was it like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago you make your return against
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Rams, very talented defensive line. What was that
Speaker 1: like for you getting your first action back on the Oh?
Speaker 1: It was awkward, you know, just not having the practice reps,
Speaker 1: you know, with a team and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: it felt weird just having you know a few days
Speaker 1: of practice and hitting the field. So it's pretty awkward,
Speaker 1: But made the best of it and felt a lot
Speaker 1: more comfortable this past week against Johnts. Did you rely
Speaker 1: on your athleticism you think more than anything else against
Speaker 1: in that Rams game? Yeah, I mean playing a position
Speaker 1: this long, I mean you kind of know what to do.
Speaker 1: Is just sometimes when you haven't been doing it as much,
Speaker 1: you kind of get wrestling. So what was the biggest
Speaker 1: difference going from usually say from night and day. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say from day because if the Rams game was
Speaker 1: in the afternoon to that primetime showdown against the Giants.
Speaker 1: I felt comfortable. More comfortable against the Giants, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: having played them last year, so kind of knowing some
Speaker 1: of the guys that I'm going against, UM felt comfortable
Speaker 1: and I knew we had a good scheme going in
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, felt felt good. What did it
Speaker 1: mean for you that not only did you have to
Speaker 1: go against matthis Kiwanuka, who has been a very good
Speaker 1: vetter in the league for a long time, but the
Speaker 1: Giants seems so frustrated with Jason Pierre Paul not being
Speaker 1: able to gain passwords they moved him over to your
Speaker 1: side and still not able to get to Nick Foles
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah yeah, um, just next next guy up.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what's what they're gonna do if they
Speaker 1: can't get any pressure. So I imagine to see it,
Speaker 1: you know, probably even more coming up in these next
Speaker 1: few games. But you know, it felt good. I felt
Speaker 1: good in my technique and I felt strong. How tough
Speaker 1: was it to see Lashawn McCoy have the struggles that
Speaker 1: he had in the first month of the season. It
Speaker 1: was tough. You know. Obviously with Kelson Evan out, it's
Speaker 1: a big part of our offensive line, so I mean
Speaker 1: that played the factor in it. But you know, it
Speaker 1: was tough to watch this stone. You know, I couldn't
Speaker 1: be a part of it. But now I think we're
Speaker 1: starting to pick things back up and things are looking better.
Speaker 1: McCoy said. One of the reasons he was glad that
Speaker 1: you're back in action is because he knows how to
Speaker 1: follow your blocks. Can you explain from the offensive tackle
Speaker 1: standpoint what that means? Just sometimes inside zone he's gonna
Speaker 1: follow my block usually either cut behind me or go
Speaker 1: front side, So usually he's reading the backside tackles blocks
Speaker 1: on some of those inside zones. Is there chemistry thing though?
Speaker 1: Just knowing how you block and just yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: just repetition, repetition over and over. He's so used to,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess my style and what I want
Speaker 1: to do, so he knows kind of, you know, where
Speaker 1: to go with the football. So what is it going
Speaker 1: to mean that the next couple of weeks that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get Kelsey back in the mix. Evan Mathis will
Speaker 1: return soon enough that you'll finally have that starting offensive
Speaker 1: line that you had all throughout the two thirteen season.
Speaker 1: It would be good. You know, Evans a pro bowler.
Speaker 1: I think Kelse, you know, it's another top center. Um.
Speaker 1: You know last year we did really well and I
Speaker 1: think you know this year we could do even better
Speaker 1: with those guys. Um, just know the offense more and
Speaker 1: uh be more compact. What do you recall about last
Speaker 1: year's matchup with Arizona. Um, it was a good game.
Speaker 1: We know they have a good secondary, so um then
Speaker 1: you know, I think, um, we ran the ball pretty
Speaker 1: effectively last year with him, you know, against them, So
Speaker 1: something we're gonna try to do again this year. What
Speaker 1: makes them so good? They're number one in the league
Speaker 1: and run defense? Obviously, you guys are coming off for
Speaker 1: your best game for a run standpoint. What makes them
Speaker 1: so tough to go against? In that same Um, they
Speaker 1: did have class Campbell in there. They're ninety three, big
Speaker 1: long guy who's pretty disrupted there in the middle. UM
Speaker 1: and as far as darneld doc and he's out to
Speaker 1: another guy that was really really a big contributor. But uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're just sounding the defense. They got some big
Speaker 1: bodies up there and they do a good job of
Speaker 1: maintaining their gaps. Last question for you, Lane is what's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that you want to prove upon in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. You can't into the
Speaker 1: year saying you want to dominate. Now that you're back
Speaker 1: in the mix, now that you're finally you know, got
Speaker 1: your feet. Why you're back on the field. What are
Speaker 1: the things you want to prove so you can take
Speaker 1: that next step. You know, I felt this pass gay
Speaker 1: is probably the most dominant game I've had. I felt comfortable.
Speaker 1: And you're going back to go back to your rookie season. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean just I just felt comfortable. I felt confident,
Speaker 1: and whenever I'm confident, and you know, I felt I
Speaker 1: can play with anybody. So um, you know, try to
Speaker 1: keep that going. Just maintain consistency. So that's probably the
Speaker 1: biggest biggest thing that's being consistent. Lane Johnson starting. We're
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Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Cardinals have certainly had some memorable
Speaker 1: games over the seasons, back when the Cardinals were in
Speaker 1: Phoenix and in the NFC East before your time, Chris,
Speaker 1: not quite beformance, but still there were some great ones.
Speaker 1: And there was another great one back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and two. Donovan McNabb playing on a broken ankle. That
Speaker 1: game and certainly a play within that game the subject
Speaker 1: of this week's Old School All twenty two with Dan Klecko.
Speaker 1: What's up, Eagles fans. I'm Dan Klecko and welcome back
Speaker 1: into the Old School All twenty two, Week eight. This
Speaker 1: week Arizona Cardinals, team that just missed the playoffs last year.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna take a look back to the broken
Speaker 1: ankle game with Donovan McNabb just to show you how
Speaker 1: tough he was and what a player he was back
Speaker 1: in the day. We want to see this so we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a look back at one of the plays
Speaker 1: from that game. The Eagles entered Week eleven of the
Speaker 1: two thousand and two season at six and three with
Speaker 1: plans for the playoffs and beyond. Those plans were altered, however,
Speaker 1: went on the third play against Arizona, Adrian Wilson and
Speaker 1: LaVar Woods sack McNabb on third and three, causing a
Speaker 1: fumble that led to an Arizona touchdown and injuring his
Speaker 1: right leg in the process. McNabb sat in the pocket,
Speaker 1: immobile for the remainder of the game and limping his
Speaker 1: way to two hundred and fifty five yards and four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It was his final TD though, that not only exhibited
Speaker 1: Number five's toughness, but the grid of some of his
Speaker 1: teammates as well. All Right, so this isn't so much
Speaker 1: about coverages or routes. That's not really what this is about.
Speaker 1: That we'll go into a little bit. This is more
Speaker 1: about looking at Donovan, watching him in the pocket, seeing
Speaker 1: how how much it struggled just for him to get
Speaker 1: into his drop, and realizing how tough he was here.
Speaker 1: But the thing we look at also we'll get to
Speaker 1: in the end zone copy is these guys right here,
Speaker 1: these five guys that stepped up. This guy right here,
Speaker 1: his running back. Let's see how tough this is right here,
Speaker 1: as Donovan drops back once again, it's cover one is
Speaker 1: you can see a man to man safety in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field right here, No one's open. As
Speaker 1: you look, who do you want Donovan to throw the
Speaker 1: ball too? All right? So as you see as Deuce
Speaker 1: Staley comes off this wheel route cover linebackers got him,
Speaker 1: does a great job. But watch Deuce and how tough
Speaker 1: he is right here, young covers. He sees his quarterback
Speaker 1: in trouble, He's gonna come back to him. Donovan throws it,
Speaker 1: and watch this, watch this fight. A lot of this,
Speaker 1: you know, I think was for Donovan McNabb. Look at
Speaker 1: this right here. This just shows you how much the
Speaker 1: Eagles were growing as a team in these seasons and
Speaker 1: becoming really, like we said before, one of the great
Speaker 1: teams of the two album. Watch this right here. Look
Speaker 1: at this pocket and we always talk about that, right
Speaker 1: Look at this pocket right here. Look at that we
Speaker 1: get all clean. Donovan is right there and as you
Speaker 1: want to see, John's got his guy roll all the
Speaker 1: way out to the right. Donovan's got plenty of time
Speaker 1: to look and as we said before, Deuce comes back
Speaker 1: to him. Let's just watch that one more time. Just
Speaker 1: look at how much this team stepped up for him
Speaker 1: and they could barely move and watch them Deuce just
Speaker 1: fights to getting that end zone. That's pretty awesome and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun to watch and remember those teams.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow the Eagles will get into full pads and
Speaker 1: we'll have a better sense of where Sprowls and Kendricks
Speaker 1: and Polk and Kelsey r as they look. Potentially for
Speaker 1: some of them to play on Sunday against the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals would be great to have some of them. Mac Yes,
Speaker 1: certainly against the Arizona defense. You would love to have
Speaker 1: Polk and Sprowls back in the mix and number one
Speaker 1: rushing defense in the entire league. Sort would help have
Speaker 1: those suit back on the field in action. And it's
Speaker 1: a big day on Wednesday at the Novacare Complex. We
Speaker 1: hope you're with us every step of the way. Coordinators
Speaker 1: Bill Davis and Pat Churmer meet the media before practice
Speaker 1: and then after practice, running back Lashawn McCoy is he
Speaker 1: all the way back? We'll find out just how he
Speaker 1: feels coming off the bye week. After practice on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and of course Eagles three sixty returns at five o'clock.
Speaker 1: We know that Jill join us. Then for Christ McPherson,
Speaker 1: I'm Dave SPIDERO. We thank you for joining us today
Speaker 1: on Eagles three sixty have yourselves all great Eagles Day