Speaker 1: The Eagles moved to seven and O, beating the Steelers
Speaker 1: thirty five to thirteen. And it was the A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown Show that was touchdown number one? Here comes touchdown
Speaker 1: number two. How about touchdown number three? It was a
Speaker 1: hat trick for A J. Brown today, but he was
Speaker 1: the only receiver that found the end zone. Zach Pascal
Speaker 1: scores his first touchdown as an Eagle. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella de Givanni, joined
Speaker 1: by friend Duffy and I Greece Ike. I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: how much juice you were gonna have coming off the
Speaker 1: bye week, you know, but no rust whatsoever. Mid season
Speaker 1: form from my crazy weren't rusty. You weren't rusty. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you. I didn't realize the team was gonna looked
Speaker 1: as good either coming off the bye week. Man, this
Speaker 1: was a blast to watch this play today. I mean
Speaker 1: the offense, ball through the air. A J. Brown. Outstanding
Speaker 1: game from him with Jalen Hurst today, My goodness, career
Speaker 1: high four touchdown passes. He just looked flawless out there today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then the defense one for twelve, oh third down, you
Speaker 1: have three sacks a couple more turnovers. This defense continuing
Speaker 1: a high level of play here against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: But this is what you want to see from a
Speaker 1: team like the Eagles. On paper, they should win this game,
Speaker 1: there is no question about that. But to be able
Speaker 1: to do that through all four quarters frame You and
Speaker 1: I talked about this in the postgame show. Can they
Speaker 1: put together a performance in all four quarters? And I
Speaker 1: think they did that today. Yeah. And you're so right.
Speaker 1: When you're going up against an inferior opponent like the
Speaker 1: Pitchburgh Steelers, sometimes it's human nature to let your guard
Speaker 1: down and think it's gonna be a casual day for you.
Speaker 1: But I like what the Eagles did. Man. They came out,
Speaker 1: they delivered the first punch, and they didn't let their
Speaker 1: foot up off the gas all day until they got
Speaker 1: that final touchdown and they put the backup staying there.
Speaker 1: This is what you want to see from a football
Speaker 1: team that's undefeated. I think it's been their most dominant
Speaker 1: performance of the season. When you think about start to finish,
Speaker 1: If you think about playing a young team or with
Speaker 1: a young quarterback like the Pitchburg Stablers, you don't want
Speaker 1: this team to hang around and think that they can
Speaker 1: win this game. You want to put your foot on
Speaker 1: the firth boat and basically choke him out. And that's
Speaker 1: what they did. That's what dominant football teams do, and
Speaker 1: that's what the Eagles did today. Yeah, h I think
Speaker 1: you hit the nail on the head. This was a
Speaker 1: four quarter game. That's one of the things that was
Speaker 1: the only complaint that you heard about this team was
Speaker 1: all the difference between the first half and the second half.
Speaker 1: What happens with the offense on the first drive of
Speaker 1: the second of the second half, they come out in
Speaker 1: completion on first down and then four straight plays of
Speaker 1: ten plus yards that leads to a touchdown, and then
Speaker 1: defensively boat two turnovers in the second half. You let
Speaker 1: up three points on the scoreboard. Just an outstanding job
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. Really good complimentary football
Speaker 1: from this team, but a really strong way to finish
Speaker 1: after the fast start. All right, Eagles fans, We're gonna
Speaker 1: head over to Lincoln Financial Field where Dave Spernero joins
Speaker 1: US live from the field. Dave WelCom in. The Eagles
Speaker 1: are seven and oh that's the top. What are your
Speaker 1: big takeaways from today's game. You know, Ella, great energy
Speaker 1: from this football team today. We wondered how they would
Speaker 1: come off the bye week, wondered about the sixteen minute
Speaker 1: game as you guys talked about, and they showed right away.
Speaker 1: As Jalen Hurts said during the week, do you remember, Ella,
Speaker 1: that he talked about elevating that intensity, that focus, that urgency,
Speaker 1: and they did that today. I thought Jalen was really
Speaker 1: great throwing the football down the field, and that is
Speaker 1: something that you'd heard in the past, the Eagles not
Speaker 1: throwing the ball down the field a lot. His accuracy
Speaker 1: down the field in question. Some of the balls he
Speaker 1: had today were absolutely fantastic. And a J. Brown going
Speaker 1: up and making plays and adjusting to the football and
Speaker 1: stealing those fifty fifty passes away from defensive backs. It's
Speaker 1: everything we've seen from AJ. And then that on the
Speaker 1: other side that the confidence that Jalen Hurts has throwing
Speaker 1: the football down field really really impressive. Then they got
Speaker 1: the run game going in the second half, so really
Speaker 1: good Yin and yang there offensively, and then offensively Eagles
Speaker 1: very content giving up that short stuff to Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 1: But when the time came to put the pressure on
Speaker 1: to take the football away. They did it. It was
Speaker 1: just a really impressive performance and again a sixty minute game.
Speaker 1: As Franz said, something that the Eagles had been talking
Speaker 1: about all year. We finally saw it today. Eagles scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown in every quarter of this afternoon. Dave, what
Speaker 1: does that say about the productivity from the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. Yeah, great consistency. It's what they've been
Speaker 1: looking for. And you know, not coming out slow, putting
Speaker 1: up points on the first drive, still just coming at
Speaker 1: the Steelers, coming at the Steelers in a variety of ways.
Speaker 1: Getting Zach Pascal involved. I just really like what Zach
Speaker 1: brings to the game, So getting him involved, keeping him
Speaker 1: going really important there. Dallas Goddard another very quiet but
Speaker 1: six catches. Eagles spreading the football around, doing a great job.
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith some nice catching runs. I just again, if
Speaker 1: this team can put together four quarters like they did today,
Speaker 1: I don't care who the opposition is, really really tough
Speaker 1: team to be. She objected for this defense was limiting
Speaker 1: explosive plays going into this afternoon. What can you say
Speaker 1: about their performance? Yeah, I thought again, you know, the
Speaker 1: clay Pool Pickens, I think I think he did not
Speaker 1: have a catch and at least till the very end,
Speaker 1: I mean last I look, he had zero catches, so
Speaker 1: really good job by James Bradberry and company working on
Speaker 1: him down the field. Good job on Deontay Johnson and
Speaker 1: his speed, Clay Pool, same thing. I mean, the Eagles
Speaker 1: not we talked about it before the game, do not
Speaker 1: give up the big play, which they didn't do. They
Speaker 1: really they did a very nice job containing Pittsburgh, keeping
Speaker 1: everything in front of them, and then being able to
Speaker 1: have those two takeaways huge keeps the streak alive here.
Speaker 1: Sixteen takeaways in seven games is remarkable. And then a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on Picket and some sacks and the
Speaker 1: defense again you know that one touchdown and after the
Speaker 1: Eagles scored. Okay, you go out, Teas, I want to
Speaker 1: see a perfect game. Other than that, it was pretty
Speaker 1: much a perfect game from the Eagles defense. Dave, what
Speaker 1: was that crowd? Like? Seven to zero? The Eagles were
Speaker 1: dominant all game. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you, like
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I think the crowd might be a little
Speaker 1: partied out from the weekend and they're sitting here and
Speaker 1: they're they're sitting here any good time in the morning.
Speaker 1: I think everybody kind of expected the Eagles to take
Speaker 1: care of business today against the Pittsburgh Steelers. A few
Speaker 1: times they had to get loud third downs they did,
Speaker 1: but otherwise, I think the fans sat back, understood what
Speaker 1: they were watching, and that was a domination by the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles over the Pittsburgh Steelers. They sat back in
Speaker 1: this beautiful October day and enjoyed every bit of it.
Speaker 1: Late night baseball Game's gonna be a late night on
Speaker 1: Thursday all week ahead for Philly fans and a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Everybody's really enjoying all the positive vibes, and I think
Speaker 1: the players are feeding off that too. It's just a
Speaker 1: it's a great sports environment in Philadelphia. Great Dave, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. All Right, that was Eagles Inside or
Speaker 1: Dave Spinnaro. But Eagles fans, while you're tuning in, be
Speaker 1: sure to write in the Facebook comments any questions you
Speaker 1: have for Ike and or ask Ike segment. You can
Speaker 1: type them in the faceboo comments will ear them on
Speaker 1: the show. All right. Listening to some things that Dave
Speaker 1: had to say, I thought it was interesting when he
Speaker 1: said Eagles fans are kind of sitting back and enjoying this.
Speaker 1: It is something to enjoy and a moment to just
Speaker 1: be very present for it. But when he did get
Speaker 1: get into the weeds of what we saw today, and
Speaker 1: you think about I mean, he said George Pickens had
Speaker 1: zero receptions. Say, weekend and week out, we see this
Speaker 1: defense completely shut down very productive wide receivers. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: We've said it before. This is the best secondary in football.
Speaker 1: And I'm actually a little surprised they weren't able to
Speaker 1: come up with a few more interceptions off Kenny Pikett.
Speaker 1: But he kept the ball out of harms right for
Speaker 1: the most part, Kemp everything underneath. The times he did
Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field, it certainly wasn't harms
Speaker 1: where they finally got one with C. J. Gardner Johnson
Speaker 1: picking him off late. But I'm you don't want to
Speaker 1: take for granted what this defense is doing. But it's
Speaker 1: almost expected, all right, It's almost expected. That's the level
Speaker 1: and the standard that they've set by the way that
Speaker 1: they've played so far this year. And you look at
Speaker 1: the schedule and you say to yourself, what quarterback is
Speaker 1: going to be able to throw the ball against this defense?
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. When you look at how
Speaker 1: the defensive line plays up front, and they played complimentary
Speaker 1: football on the back end, there's no one to throw
Speaker 1: the ball too. I mean, it just is it. I
Speaker 1: just don't think that you can have any issues with
Speaker 1: the defensive performance in this game. The only touchdown allowed
Speaker 1: in this game came on that fourth and one trick
Speaker 1: play off the jet sweep throw from Chase Claypool, and
Speaker 1: that happened after a penalty on the field goal. Right,
Speaker 1: So you have a long drive in the end of
Speaker 1: the beginning of the third quarter, fourteen plays, you're up
Speaker 1: eighteen points, so you go fourteen plays that ends in
Speaker 1: the field goal. That drive, by the way extended by
Speaker 1: the fake punt. So when you look at all the
Speaker 1: points that Pittsburgh was able to score, some flukey plays
Speaker 1: involved in there, I thought this defense was really really impressive.
Speaker 1: One for twelve on third down. The only third down
Speaker 1: conversion a QB sneak from Kenny Pickett on third and
Speaker 1: one that was all the way back in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: So this defense absolutely showed up in a big way
Speaker 1: today against the Steelers. Six sacks for the Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: two of those coming from jay Von Hargrave, against former team.
Speaker 1: What can we say about the pressure we're seeing from
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense affront? I just mentioned the complimentary defense, right,
Speaker 1: so very want to get into Kittie Pickett no problem
Speaker 1: because he has nowhere to go with the football. You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they do a great job getting off the ball,
Speaker 1: beating the one on one blocks, but there were times
Speaker 1: a day where he had to hold the ball back
Speaker 1: there and it was great to see Javon Hargrave has
Speaker 1: his success against his old team. I thought the play
Speaker 1: where he got the strip fumble there really put out
Speaker 1: the last little ditch of holding in Pitchburgh had of
Speaker 1: getting back into this game, and that was a huge
Speaker 1: play there. Yeah, no doubt it. It's always great to
Speaker 1: be able to see guys perform in that kind of situation.
Speaker 1: One thing I loved too from the Seagles defense. We
Speaker 1: saw a number of blitzes. We saw a number of
Speaker 1: stunts that resulted in some big plays that CJ. Gardner,
Speaker 1: Johnson or sack came off that nickel pressure. And then
Speaker 1: we saw the sack from a Son Reddick on the
Speaker 1: first third down of the game that came on that
Speaker 1: three man stunt. We haven't seen a lot of that
Speaker 1: from the Seagles defense. I thought that was impressive to
Speaker 1: take away as well. Thirteen tackles for t J Edwards today,
Speaker 1: another game where he was the team's leading tackler. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to UI. What have you seen from him
Speaker 1: in terms of growth? Right, he was a good linebacker
Speaker 1: last year, obviously that he was believed to him when
Speaker 1: they gave him a contract extension. But now he's played
Speaker 1: a different kind of ball. Yeah, his football IQ is
Speaker 1: so high and you can tell he's rarely out of position.
Speaker 1: That's the thing I love about TJ. Not the biggest,
Speaker 1: not the fastest, so he's not going to overwhelm you
Speaker 1: with his measurables, but he has it up here. He
Speaker 1: knows where to be at those guys trusting you talk.
Speaker 1: You talk about the thirteen tackles that he had. He
Speaker 1: also tipped that ball that CJ partner Johnson was able
Speaker 1: to pick off TJ. TJ to me, he's obviously an overachiever.
Speaker 1: He's talking about the guy was undrafted. He's played different
Speaker 1: positions coming out of Wisconsin. Man, he's just a hard worker.
Speaker 1: That's why I love his story. I love his journey
Speaker 1: to the NFL and what He's become on this football
Speaker 1: team really one of the leaders over there own defense.
Speaker 1: Even though they have all the big money players around him,
Speaker 1: TJ is the guy in the middle that they all
Speaker 1: look to. Yeah, let the team and pass breakups. Today
Speaker 1: you had a couple of so leading the team and
Speaker 1: tackles and pass breakup. I've always been a fan of
Speaker 1: t J. Edwards, and I think that his play shows
Speaker 1: up so so well in this scheme. When you're gonna
Speaker 1: play with lighter boxes, you need your guys in the
Speaker 1: front seven that are playing close to the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage to be able to play through contact defeat blocks.
Speaker 1: You can't just be one for one up there when
Speaker 1: you've got six guys in the box. And I think
Speaker 1: you see that time and time again from t J. Edwards.
Speaker 1: His ability to be a ball magnet and just get
Speaker 1: to the football time and time again shows up every
Speaker 1: single week. All Right, we haven't asked that question. Let's
Speaker 1: see what we have. I get one more victory from you.
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta perform for the people like victory.
Speaker 1: He might not be able to talk. The rest I get,
Speaker 1: I get nervous. They're getting really intense. He's getting more
Speaker 1: of the body into than these days. I'm worried he's
Speaker 1: gonna go back chair down. Tell you if I do
Speaker 1: fall out of his chair to go to blank real quick.
Speaker 1: I don't think you got a fray with that on.
Speaker 1: You're going viral on that one. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: back to the defense. It's funny the Eagles put up
Speaker 1: thirty five points, but we're talking about the defense. But
Speaker 1: I have another question for you guys. Seeing CJ. Gardner
Speaker 1: Johnson get his third interception, I'm sorry, another interception in
Speaker 1: his third straight game, I should say he's still a
Speaker 1: new addition to this team. When you see guys like him,
Speaker 1: like Hassan Reddick, I mean, he kicked things off of
Speaker 1: the defense with that sack in the opening drive against
Speaker 1: the Steelers, And then you get a guy like Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn and how's he going to find his place in
Speaker 1: this defense? What can you say about Jonathan Gann and
Speaker 1: what he's done to really bring all of these pieces together,
Speaker 1: really has done a masterful job this year. You know,
Speaker 1: these guys usually you need game experience together to sort
Speaker 1: of be able to play off of each other on
Speaker 1: that defensive side of the ball. And watching what these
Speaker 1: guys are doing, given the fact that most of them
Speaker 1: got here this year on that side of the football,
Speaker 1: It's been amazing that jan I said he's JG. Now
Speaker 1: he went since JG has the ability to do the
Speaker 1: what we call it the multiple multiple defenses. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: multiple defenses give you different looks. I love how he's
Speaker 1: using guy's Fran brought up the sack the Hassan Reddick had.
Speaker 1: You rarely see a three man game like that where
Speaker 1: the ind comes all the way around and at least
Speaker 1: have it work, and he came through that Scott free.
Speaker 1: So Jonathan Ganning up at night mad scientists coming up
Speaker 1: with different ways to put these guys in position so
Speaker 1: so that they can make place and C. J. Gardner
Speaker 1: Johnson is playing safety, where a position power of coming here.
Speaker 1: He had some reps at it, but didn't do it
Speaker 1: a whole lot. He was more of a nickel corner.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that he's back there as
Speaker 1: a ball hulking player and a playmaker man. This defense
Speaker 1: is only going to get better as the season goes on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the big things that I've heard a lot
Speaker 1: over these last couple of weeks of the Eagles you know,
Speaker 1: plus twelve and turnover ratio. Coming into the game, was
Speaker 1: all like, is that sustainable? Are they're always gonna be
Speaker 1: able to count on those turnovers? Well, I think with
Speaker 1: the way that the Eagles have set this team up,
Speaker 1: not just from a player's standpoint, when you get a
Speaker 1: reddick and you're adding Robert Quinn, all those guys are
Speaker 1: certainly out to it. I'm sorry I have to cut
Speaker 1: you off with the man of the hour aj at
Speaker 1: the podium. Every one, good man. When there's a gold
Speaker 1: ball for you, when you enjoy moms, you know something, Uh,
Speaker 1: I think I enjoyed the most being single covered. You know.
Speaker 1: Um my eyes light up because I know I got
Speaker 1: a possibility. It gets the ball and it's my ball
Speaker 1: to nobody ball. And I'm kind of upseting myself because
Speaker 1: I know the opportunity laying a game even though it's
Speaker 1: a flag, but I knew I could have caught the
Speaker 1: ball and another opportunity in the ball I had dropped
Speaker 1: where I let the sun just dictate my whole everything.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see the ball in and so that I'm
Speaker 1: really kind of upset right now because I know I
Speaker 1: could have had like a I had a big day,
Speaker 1: but I could have had an even bigger day, you know,
Speaker 1: if I made the most of them opportunities. So it's
Speaker 1: definitely wrong for improvement. So James, I kind of if
Speaker 1: you kind of talk about those late hands you were
Speaker 1: practicing during the summer, um kind of showed up today.
Speaker 1: Yea with a couple of those, how much you take
Speaker 1: you I prove that I'm always trying to like work
Speaker 1: on something and continue continue, uh getting a bigger bag,
Speaker 1: you know, the building my arts on them, and uh
Speaker 1: yeah I did. I did show late hands and I
Speaker 1: squeeze them, squeezing back inside to give myself some room
Speaker 1: for the over the shoulder. Jenna gave me a great
Speaker 1: ball on them on both of the sideline passes, and
Speaker 1: you know, I just ots over the shoulder. So what
Speaker 1: was stealing that that first touchdown? Pastics like it sort
Speaker 1: of slowed up mid round before you saw the ball
Speaker 1: in the airline. Yeah, that's the thing with Jenen. You
Speaker 1: never know like what to expect because I did not
Speaker 1: supposed to get that ball, and I looked I was
Speaker 1: just trying to clear it off for Smitty and you know,
Speaker 1: get the safety out of out the way and Uh.
Speaker 1: I looked up the ball was in air, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I mean and at I gotta at least
Speaker 1: try to go do something. You know. I know Miko
Speaker 1: back there and he was he was playing like the
Speaker 1: center field. I'm glad he wasn't that aggressive, you know,
Speaker 1: so you know I had to be aggressive. So on
Speaker 1: the other two touchdowns, you did you know it was?
Speaker 1: It was different? Yeah, I knew I had a possibility
Speaker 1: to to get the ball right there and he got
Speaker 1: called for a Tony Pann. Yeah, you're saying to the Steelers, Uh,
Speaker 1: I just said one two, that's not enough. You know
Speaker 1: what you form, the kind of cemetry, what's physical? Me
Speaker 1: and jam Um, I think we just we just want
Speaker 1: to be great. You know, this is somebody that I
Speaker 1: called myself, called myself, called my friend, and he knows
Speaker 1: or he knows what I want to accomplished, and I
Speaker 1: know he want to complished. So when you're playing for
Speaker 1: somebody you know that you love. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that you call family, you know, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a different it's a different it's a different meaning behind it.
Speaker 1: You know. You know, I know I can't let him down.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So we just we just
Speaker 1: haven't fun to playing for one another. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he knows that I got his back and
Speaker 1: I know he got mine. So I just think that's
Speaker 1: that's exactly what this is. Like on your last reception, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, when you got caught the ball over the
Speaker 1: middle and then kind of like ran past the defense,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you think you were going in for
Speaker 1: a touchdown? Yeah, that's another one I'm upset about too.
Speaker 1: My teammates gave me a hard time for that, Uh,
Speaker 1: especially Zach Pascal and he just got called so he
Speaker 1: made a little better. Um, But yeah, I definitely, I
Speaker 1: definitely felt like I was on the score. You know, Mika.
Speaker 1: You know, he did a good job of you know,
Speaker 1: swiping my legs and get me down, But I was
Speaker 1: I was upset, you know, that's I think, like, I
Speaker 1: think that's the first time I got caught in the NFL. So,
Speaker 1: you know, my teammates let me here here like that,
Speaker 1: so we've all good to see what you guys have
Speaker 1: like back in your president you kind of also open
Speaker 1: it up stuffing the white jokes also passed all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most definitely, Um, when I got out to a hard start,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, we knew that's gonna start doubling me. Um,
Speaker 1: and they did, and so it was another opportunity for
Speaker 1: someone else, you know. And then and I don't mind that.
Speaker 1: I don't mind that at all. But whenever, I just know,
Speaker 1: whenever I get the opportunity to go on on one,
Speaker 1: I got to make the most of it, you know.
Speaker 1: So like a lot of that, a lot of the
Speaker 1: touchdowns were on blitzes by Pittsburgh exact. Got the point
Speaker 1: of emphasis during the bye weeks. It was kind of
Speaker 1: the focus there. Um Yeah, we most definitely wanted to
Speaker 1: clean that up. But I didn't even know if it
Speaker 1: was on blitzes to be honest, but we most definitely,
Speaker 1: uh this this buy, you know, we wanted to try
Speaker 1: to clean up everything is possible and picking up the
Speaker 1: blitz and you know what I'm saying, calling the hot
Speaker 1: routes was definitely one of the things that we worked on.
Speaker 1: You talked about how player at your level you're still
Speaker 1: trying to add you know, stuff to your bag and
Speaker 1: the proud we're a team that's seven to do. How
Speaker 1: do you guys as a group of board, Uh, just
Speaker 1: remaining humble. We wasn't perfect out there. It made the score,
Speaker 1: may may say something, but we wasn't perfect and we know, um,
Speaker 1: we got stuff to clean up. You know, Like I
Speaker 1: said a couple weeks ago, this team is hungry. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying most importantly humble, but we know
Speaker 1: it's a lot of work to be done. Man, we
Speaker 1: still have not played like a complete game. And and
Speaker 1: I promise you everybody's wrong gonna know when we played
Speaker 1: a complete game, you know what I'm saying, because we
Speaker 1: believe in each other and once we once we do
Speaker 1: that the whole world. And know that I just enjoyed
Speaker 1: this one and playing again for this Let's do it again.
Speaker 1: You know, a quick turn around. You know, you gotta
Speaker 1: do as necessary, get your body prepared, and um, we
Speaker 1: even we're starting that now in the locker room, you know,
Speaker 1: doing doing stuff that we have to do to get
Speaker 1: our bodies ready for Thursday. You know. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. J has a lot of critics on um.
Speaker 1: You know, people say things about his arm. What do
Speaker 1: you think a forecasting touchdowns today? I don't want to
Speaker 1: answer that question because he would answer that question, you know,
Speaker 1: because he he doesn't care about that, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: but crazy just you know you kind of talking about
Speaker 1: your really, but what do you know about is spier
Speaker 1: right now, I'm gonna answer it from a free standpoint
Speaker 1: almost definitely, you know what I'm saying. I want him
Speaker 1: to accomplish everything you know he set out to achieve,
Speaker 1: you know, from a players a players standpoint, you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: he hasn't done nothing yet, so you know he's still working.
Speaker 1: He's in the lab, and you know that's the mentality
Speaker 1: he has too. So Jay, when you think office to
Speaker 1: make gets about different people all year at different times.
Speaker 1: We have a game like this one, we have rout
Speaker 1: or don't feel like we're having a game like this one. Um,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine. We as you saw, we was
Speaker 1: out there doing celebrations and everything and it's fine. It's
Speaker 1: fun man, It's it's nothing like it. You know that
Speaker 1: I could say, like you know, not to throw you know,
Speaker 1: bad blood on anyone, but like it's most time, like
Speaker 1: we are having fun. It's offense this team, like we're
Speaker 1: enjoying each other. Kelsey Kelsey on the sideline with the
Speaker 1: batman mask, Like like, guys, we're thinking about stuff to
Speaker 1: do and we're doing it, you know, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's so fun. I just can't. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't got the words for it. Like if we
Speaker 1: just enjoying each other and playing ball, doing what we love. So,
Speaker 1: like A. J. Brown said, they're just having some fun.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep having fun on this show right here.
Speaker 1: So Eagles fans, get your comments in on the Facebook amens,
Speaker 1: ask any question you have. We'll get him answered right
Speaker 1: here on the show. Very interesting. He had a three
Speaker 1: touchdown day and he says, upset with his performance. I
Speaker 1: had a big day, but it could have been bigger.
Speaker 1: That's a true competitor right there. But also speaking from
Speaker 1: a veteran and understanding, you know that there's always more
Speaker 1: you can strive for. Yeah, and you love the fact
Speaker 1: that his standards are high. He expects more from himself
Speaker 1: and receivers. They only had so many opportunities in the game, right,
Speaker 1: So he had a couple chances there where he feels
Speaker 1: like he could have had an even bigger day. And
Speaker 1: that's just a caliber of player than he is. He
Speaker 1: expects those things out of himself and I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he reminds me a lot of Jalen. You
Speaker 1: can tell all these guys are very good friends. They're
Speaker 1: around each other, they have sort of the same mentality.
Speaker 1: We've heard Jalen at their games this year. Obviously they'd
Speaker 1: won every game, but Jaalen not necessarily be happy with
Speaker 1: whether it was his performance or the team's overall performers,
Speaker 1: saying that the standard is high and we hadn't met
Speaker 1: the standard yet. So be interesting to hear Jalen's comments
Speaker 1: today because I think they met the standard today today,
Speaker 1: I believe was their most dominant performance. Well, you know
Speaker 1: that they're always going to hang on those players that
Speaker 1: that could have been something else. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: is that when you have a guy like Jalen who
Speaker 1: is leading the offense and that's the tone that he sets,
Speaker 1: like that's when we talk about on field standard. That's
Speaker 1: the off field standard that Jalen Hurt sets and all
Speaker 1: those guys they have to match it behind him. And
Speaker 1: so hearing aj Brown kind of follow that, it has
Speaker 1: been fun to watch. Well, another guy who's having some
Speaker 1: fun today, Jason Kelsey. This is when he was strolling
Speaker 1: around the sidelines looking like a j Brown mentioned it
Speaker 1: he put the Batman mask on. That's a new one.
Speaker 1: We've seen the cape. Now we got a mask out
Speaker 1: here now and Kelsey has it on. Yeah, we all listen.
Speaker 1: Everybody's favorite, the mayor of Philadelphia, Jason Kelsey. Who else
Speaker 1: would be perfect for doing that on the sideline. It
Speaker 1: had to be Jason Kelsey. So this is great to see.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys are enjoying playing with each other.
Speaker 1: Winning It brings a lot of that out of you.
Speaker 1: And so I just love the fact that they have
Speaker 1: that sort of culture set on the team that you know,
Speaker 1: they know when they have a little fun. I like
Speaker 1: to touchdown celebrations. That's starting to get creative as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hear from coach himself, Nick Sirianni at
Speaker 1: the podium chair. I got a chair? Can you get
Speaker 1: a chure? He tailor? Are you good? All right? Fire away? Nick?
Speaker 1: There seemed to be less RPO today as we've seen
Speaker 1: in earlier in this season. Was there an emphasis during
Speaker 1: the bye week to do more traditional drop backs? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: because RPOs have been pretty good for us. RPO has
Speaker 1: got to think that we're we're looking to run the
Speaker 1: ball first on RPO. So when we do pass, it's
Speaker 1: an extra pass that happens. Um, but we're looking to
Speaker 1: run at first there. So but no, we we uh,
Speaker 1: we definitely we worked hard in the bye week. I'm
Speaker 1: really happy for our coaches of how much time they
Speaker 1: put in and how much you know, information we got done.
Speaker 1: Like and it was a it's a group effort, right
Speaker 1: and so analytics department giving us a lot of different things, uh,
Speaker 1: defensive coaches looking at things for the offense and vice versa. Um.
Speaker 1: So um, we found like we fixed some tendencies. We
Speaker 1: were able to get a couple of things off of
Speaker 1: some tendencies and create some explosive plays off some tendencies
Speaker 1: that we had. Um. And that's what the bye weeks for.
Speaker 1: It's in a very very important part of the process.
Speaker 1: All right, see you guys later. Games like that from A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown before, you know, I sure have it when I
Speaker 1: was in Indianapolis and he is having him on our defense.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've seen that. I've seen that before. Was
Speaker 1: this any different or more special? Immunity was his biggest game? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big, big time game. It was special
Speaker 1: because I was on the same sideline with him, right. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you know, just so much credit to Howie and
Speaker 1: his staff to get that done and um Man because
Speaker 1: he makes he makes us so much better. He's just
Speaker 1: doing a great job. Jalen and him had an instant
Speaker 1: can have an instant connection on the field. We know
Speaker 1: they had the connection off the field, and he had
Speaker 1: a big time game for us today and it was
Speaker 1: good to see that adj Mener on his first touchdown
Speaker 1: he wasn't the primary read. What was that play supposed
Speaker 1: to look? First touch? Gosh? Oh um you know there
Speaker 1: there we had a couple of different things going on there.
Speaker 1: Uh we felt like um manka was a little low
Speaker 1: on the play and j and Jalen took advantage of that.
Speaker 1: And uh so there was was whether he was the
Speaker 1: primary or not. Jalen did a good job of getting
Speaker 1: through his read and finding uh you know, finding it
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. And said that Jalen is still in
Speaker 1: the lab becoming the player that he can be. How
Speaker 1: close to the teams I think I think that's been
Speaker 1: asked to me before and what I've answered with that
Speaker 1: is that we don't know. Jalen's just the type of
Speaker 1: guy that's going to continue to get better. Um because
Speaker 1: you know, the type of person he has, the type
Speaker 1: of football IQ he has, the type of football character
Speaker 1: he has all you know, the toughness that he has,
Speaker 1: how much he loves football right Uh, and he's just
Speaker 1: gonna keep keep extending. You know, I've all I was
Speaker 1: always taught those are the types of guys that reached
Speaker 1: their their ceiling. And I don't know if we know
Speaker 1: what what a ceiling is going to be. I know this,
Speaker 1: I know he's getting better every day and he's he's
Speaker 1: committed that. And that's a good thing for the rest
Speaker 1: of your team when you're when your best players and
Speaker 1: your captain's getting better every day, especially fired up on
Speaker 1: the I mean obviously you're pried up a lot of night,
Speaker 1: especially till in the Zach Pascal touchdown there that fake
Speaker 1: scream to God or um what each either. I love
Speaker 1: Zach Pascal, Um. You know, UM, he Zach Pascal for
Speaker 1: the five years or the four years I've been with him.
Speaker 1: UM has always done the dirty work, always UM. And
Speaker 1: it's great when you can reward a guy that does
Speaker 1: the dirty work, who might not have the stats, um,
Speaker 1: but that you know, it's it's awesome to be able
Speaker 1: to reward him for that. And and that's what happens
Speaker 1: sometimes when a guy's doing dirty work, everyone's focused on
Speaker 1: the other guys. When he's doing the dirty work that
Speaker 1: he ends up wide for touchdown. So you know, Zack
Speaker 1: doing all those little things, all the little things that
Speaker 1: are important to a football team. Um, that's sweet, right,
Speaker 1: And I loved it. I love to see that because
Speaker 1: I love the guy. Um, you don't you're around a
Speaker 1: guy for that long and not and not have a
Speaker 1: good relationship with him. And I'm so glad he's here. Um,
Speaker 1: I knew he could do all the dirty work we
Speaker 1: wanted him to do, and man, it was that was
Speaker 1: that was sweet. Um. You know, I think even I think,
Speaker 1: even to this day, to this day, my son and
Speaker 1: maybe not you, but is that's one of his favorite players,
Speaker 1: is Zach Pascal. Because I think what happens is just
Speaker 1: the same thing that happened when I would go home
Speaker 1: and hear my dad talk about the guys that he
Speaker 1: loved on his football team or his track team. You know,
Speaker 1: my son's heard you know, he's a little too young, Taylor,
Speaker 1: Taylor's a little too young, But they've heard me say
Speaker 1: so many things good about Zach Pascal. It's is one
Speaker 1: of his favorite, you know, favorite guys out there, so um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was awesome to get him to reward him for
Speaker 1: all the hard work that he's done. Even with all
Speaker 1: these wins, everyone seems to be emphasizing that you haven't
Speaker 1: played a complete game yet. What would a complete game look?
Speaker 1: Game look like? In your eyes? I thought we had
Speaker 1: a good first dance second half today. I do that's
Speaker 1: a good I think that's a I think that's a
Speaker 1: good to make him. I think that's a good football team.
Speaker 1: I know that's the extremely well coached football team. I
Speaker 1: can't say enough good things that heyl stuff that don't
Speaker 1: do that anymore. But I can't say enough good things
Speaker 1: about coach Tomlin. I mean his resume speaks for himself
Speaker 1: that that's a really good team. And I think we
Speaker 1: played a pretty complete game and we needed to today
Speaker 1: to be able to close that out. We really wanted
Speaker 1: to emphasize how we start the second half. You know,
Speaker 1: we have had some second half woes and we we
Speaker 1: really traced it back to how we started second half
Speaker 1: and it was good to be able to go down
Speaker 1: and execute today. Um to start things off to set
Speaker 1: the tone um that we needed to play a good,
Speaker 1: a complete game, and I thought I thought we did that.
Speaker 1: I thought we did a good job of that today
Speaker 1: and it and it changes you go. You go up
Speaker 1: three scores and you're at the end of of course
Speaker 1: you're going to take some air out of that and
Speaker 1: not be quite as aggressive and run the clock. And
Speaker 1: so I thought today was was one of our most
Speaker 1: complete games that we've had all year. Was there's something
Speaker 1: you guys did during the bye week in terms of
Speaker 1: something you found about the team that you've got showed
Speaker 1: itself to that. Yeah, there was a lot um I
Speaker 1: really do like without getting obviously, and I can give
Speaker 1: you all the all the answers, but I think we
Speaker 1: we we did a lot and the players went out
Speaker 1: and executed, uh you know. We It's such an important
Speaker 1: part of the process. The bye week is such an
Speaker 1: important part of the process. You And it's not just
Speaker 1: the coaches that that it's going into Taylor, babystop. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not just the coaches. It's it's the entire building, right,
Speaker 1: It's the analytics department, it's the strength and conditioning staff
Speaker 1: of how we're going to finish better in the second
Speaker 1: half that you know, we had our ideas of how
Speaker 1: we wanted to start the second half better, but the
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning staff and the training staff and the
Speaker 1: doctors also had you know, Uh, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough to say the word that the
Speaker 1: how the body works there going into the second half.
Speaker 1: And we'll do anything we can to make this team better.
Speaker 1: And h and just a credit obviously all the credit
Speaker 1: goes to the guys, but so many parts of this organization.
Speaker 1: Mister Lori is you know, the head of this organization,
Speaker 1: and he and he is always he supports us in
Speaker 1: everything and uh in all departments and and then you
Speaker 1: see something like that after a bye week and all
Speaker 1: the hands on deck. Um, that's why it's the greatest
Speaker 1: team game, because it's not just the coaches and players.
Speaker 1: It's the front office, it's the analytics department, it's the
Speaker 1: equipment staff with with Greg all right, it's Tom in
Speaker 1: the security right, it's it's it's everybody. It's Ted in
Speaker 1: his his strength and conditioning staff, it's Tom all right
Speaker 1: in the in the U, in the training staff, and
Speaker 1: I'm Pat Dolan and the video staff. It's every we
Speaker 1: asked fat doling for everything and how many different things
Speaker 1: can you give us in cut ups? And so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't say enough good things about the organization Jalon's development.
Speaker 1: What does it say about weird dsers quarterback that he
Speaker 1: can have this type of game with wod rushing the
Speaker 1: whole plus laughs them. Uh, you know, it's it's It
Speaker 1: says a lot. I mean, because you want to be
Speaker 1: able to win many different ways. And he went out
Speaker 1: there and he uh he executed, baby don't all right?
Speaker 1: He executed today um and um, you know in the
Speaker 1: air um and through some great deep balls and and
Speaker 1: read the defense well. And he just continues to develop.
Speaker 1: One of the meetings, Uh, you wouldn't mention a couple
Speaker 1: of six and over team seven and one whatever coming
Speaker 1: out against teams that weren't doing as well and kind
Speaker 1: of lay today. What does it show you about your
Speaker 1: team that they came off to buy in that type
Speaker 1: of situation. We got great We got great leaders, right John,
Speaker 1: We got great leaders that are um that are making sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know who wrote who wrote it earlier today,
Speaker 1: but I got the thing on my update on my
Speaker 1: phone was like Robert Quinn uh fletch went right up
Speaker 1: to him and said, hey, we practice hard here, And
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn said, that's all I needed to hear. How
Speaker 1: awesome is that? Right? The best teams that I've been
Speaker 1: around practice hard and uh and and that's and they
Speaker 1: just they picked up the process of what they we've
Speaker 1: done each and every week, and they just picked it up.
Speaker 1: They got their rest, but then they came back ready
Speaker 1: to go. And that doesn't happen unless you have great
Speaker 1: people on your team and you have great leadership under team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go, Chris and that John, Yeah, we have
Speaker 1: a guy like a j grout number one quarterback has
Speaker 1: that how much does you know? You know what helped quarterback?
Speaker 1: But what is all to do for the rest of
Speaker 1: the receivers so that we get open? That's basically my
Speaker 1: old Zack pass. Yeah, help, Well, when you have a
Speaker 1: j when you have Devonte, when you have Dallas, Like
Speaker 1: all the attention was on Dallas on that play on
Speaker 1: Zach's touchdown, right, and so you got these playmakers and
Speaker 1: then you got guys making plays off of them because
Speaker 1: of the attentions on them. And and that doesn't just
Speaker 1: go It also goes for the run game as well,
Speaker 1: and you know, we felt like the way the game
Speaker 1: played today, we didn't run it as quite as much
Speaker 1: as we normally do, and it was great to be
Speaker 1: able to win that way. And uh, but Aja opens up,
Speaker 1: Davante opens up, and so does Dallas opens up the
Speaker 1: run game as well. John, I think you mentioned jayalas development.
Speaker 1: They're just wondering what you've seen from him in that department,
Speaker 1: probably you know, the play game things that go to
Speaker 1: Welton now when you guys are just cruising, how he's
Speaker 1: handled that development also, especially the pressure, but I would
Speaker 1: imagine goes when playing that position in the city. Yeah,
Speaker 1: j Jalen is ultra focused and he's focused on the
Speaker 1: process and how he gets better every day. And he's
Speaker 1: not focused on what his next contract might be, or
Speaker 1: what what we're gonna do in three weeks, or what
Speaker 1: the outcome of this season is or or anything like that.
Speaker 1: All he's focused on is day by day and he
Speaker 1: and he's in a leader of our team. That's huge,
Speaker 1: right because then everybody falls falls with that, and so
Speaker 1: he's just it says if he had grown up in
Speaker 1: a football household and he knows what to do and
Speaker 1: he knows how to handle the waves of a season,
Speaker 1: because there are waves of the season, but it's important
Speaker 1: that we don't ride that those waves, right, And I
Speaker 1: know you guys got you guys got a job, a
Speaker 1: really hard job that you gotta feel like and you
Speaker 1: got you got a whole week into well four days
Speaker 1: today where when we play next you there's got to
Speaker 1: be a lot of stories, so there can be a
Speaker 1: lot of d riding of the wave. But Jalen doesn't
Speaker 1: allow himself to do that. And and I'm done answering
Speaker 1: your question unless I did I answer that, And I
Speaker 1: just wanted to say, like, unbelievable. I've been to I've
Speaker 1: been to stadiums where Steeler fans take over, but no
Speaker 1: way did I think that would ever happen in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: And I barely saw any of now I could, I
Speaker 1: barely saw any of those terrible towels. I didn't see
Speaker 1: any any of those Our fans came out and supported us.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. But um my, uh my mom's cousin,
Speaker 1: I'm not even I'm not even claiming them. And they
Speaker 1: didn't sit in our sections. They just live in Philly
Speaker 1: and they grew up in Pittsburgh. You guys saw something.
Speaker 1: My parents grew up in Pittsburgh and everything like that,
Speaker 1: And and my mom's cousin and she's like, hey, they
Speaker 1: want to say hello to you before the game. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: they know they can't wear steels stuff. And coming out
Speaker 1: of silence, she's like, well, we're not giving them on
Speaker 1: the sideline and they were wearing they were wearing Steelers gear.
Speaker 1: So I just the cute Christmas cards with this one
Speaker 1: and this one and my other son. They will not
Speaker 1: be receiving one of those cute Christmas cards this week,
Speaker 1: but so much of a shout out to our fans
Speaker 1: of coming out, not giving like just this Philly, this
Speaker 1: is Philly, this is what Philly's, what makes Philly is
Speaker 1: one of the best, the best sports town in America.
Speaker 1: It's freaking awesome. Right. We've taken over stadiums in Arizona,
Speaker 1: they took over a stadium in Washington. And then like
Speaker 1: when a team that like Pittsburgh travels, well, no traveling
Speaker 1: here because none of our guys, none of our our people,
Speaker 1: gave up tickets. And then my mom, my mom's and
Speaker 1: I'm not claiming they won't get a Christmas card. He coach,
Speaker 1: we got one. Yeah, here is with us today. She's
Speaker 1: a more more flag Football League participants sheet. A question
Speaker 1: for yeah, so would be more like quick turnaround for
Speaker 1: next week? Thirty applayment action. What do you hope to
Speaker 1: emphasize with the team history. Well, well, it's all about recovery.
Speaker 1: And those guys are in there right now because we
Speaker 1: just have such an unbelievable training staff of strength staff,
Speaker 1: um uh, training, the trainers and the doctors. They're in
Speaker 1: there getting massages right now, eating the right thing. So
Speaker 1: it's that quick turnaround is you know, what are we
Speaker 1: going to do to make sure that our bodies are
Speaker 1: ready to go? Um you know, coaches have a short,
Speaker 1: short turnaround as well. We got to make sure that
Speaker 1: we uh, you know, get the plan together for for
Speaker 1: our guys, that you know that on a short week,
Speaker 1: and that our guys can go and go out and execute.
Speaker 1: So great question, Thanks Nia. Next, All right, guys, thanks,
Speaker 1: we're out. It's a family affair except for Aunt Susie
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. It's not a good day for her. No,
Speaker 1: it's very filly. Now you don't ride with him. You're
Speaker 1: done right either. You're all in or you're all as
Speaker 1: we know for Lane Johnson with us, how boy fan
Speaker 1: relatives doesn't fly here? Love it well. He was asked
Speaker 1: a little bit about Jalen Hurts, and we know Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts in the way that he described him as he
Speaker 1: doesn't ride the waves. He doesn't get honestly, he doesn't
Speaker 1: get anywhere down the road. He doesn't look anywhere past
Speaker 1: what he's doing right now in this moment. But you
Speaker 1: have to kind of look back and look at where
Speaker 1: he's come up until this point. And today he surpassed
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and Donovan McNabb for the longest active wind Street.
Speaker 1: He's at ten straight regular season games now as a starter,
Speaker 1: which is very impressive. But when you think about what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do and the journey he has
Speaker 1: been on to see him throw four touchdown passes today,
Speaker 1: it's kind of remarkable. I continue to be amazed about
Speaker 1: his kid and his growth at the quarterback position almost
Speaker 1: night and day. From what you saw last year and
Speaker 1: even the short period he played in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: He looks like a polished NFL quarterback right there right now.
Speaker 1: He's confident, he knows where he wants to go with
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, I'll watch him on those deep
Speaker 1: throws to aj the second touchdown, in the third touchdown,
Speaker 1: when he gets to that back foot, he lets the
Speaker 1: ball go. He knows exactly where he wants to go
Speaker 1: with it. He sees that man and man coverage out there,
Speaker 1: and he says that safety is not going to be
Speaker 1: able to get over there in time. That's Mica Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: back there, and that's an arguably one of the best
Speaker 1: safeties in the game today. So to be able to
Speaker 1: get those throws over the top with number thirty nine
Speaker 1: hanging back there, that's just let you know where Jalen
Speaker 1: hurts is that. I don't know if he attempts those
Speaker 1: throws last year, because I know he's mindful not putting
Speaker 1: the ball in harm's way. But when you watch those
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, that looks like a quarterback to me that
Speaker 1: has all the confidence in his arm and his ability
Speaker 1: and more importantly in the guy that he's throwing the
Speaker 1: ball to giving him an opportunity to make a play.
Speaker 1: Those weren't easy throws over the shoulder, tight window. That
Speaker 1: was good coverage that they had on a J. Brown.
Speaker 1: It was just a better throw it just browsing through
Speaker 1: just some of my notes real quick. Four of those
Speaker 1: touchdowns that he threw today, right, he threw four passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Three of those touchdowns came on plays after there was
Speaker 1: a negative or no game the previous play. So when
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni talks about he's not a guy that rides
Speaker 1: the wave, he's not going to be like this off
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, absolutely true. On the field, that's the
Speaker 1: same way with Jalen. Look, it was not always pretty.
Speaker 1: It was a really good stat line today. Not all
Speaker 1: of those passes were beautiful, not all. You know, some
Speaker 1: of those sacks were tough sacks to take. But Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts is unflappable if he has fights through adversity, so
Speaker 1: so well continues to be one of the most impressive
Speaker 1: traits about what he brings to this team was tight end.
Speaker 1: Just talk to him reporters in the locker room. Here's
Speaker 1: what he had to say about Jalen Hurts's development him
Speaker 1: all along. You know, there was a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: in the air if Jalen was going to be the guy,
Speaker 1: But everybody in the building knew he was the guy.
Speaker 1: He was going to be the guy. That was never
Speaker 1: a question in any of our minds. And you know,
Speaker 1: throwing with him all offseason, he just he was swinging
Speaker 1: out of things, zipping it, you know, and then you
Speaker 1: start camping. He starts making checks, making reads, throws on time,
Speaker 1: goes through his progression. It's the open guy. It's fun
Speaker 1: to see, it's fun to play with. When you got
Speaker 1: a quarterback there can deal it like you guys, I
Speaker 1: wasn't any question now. Jalen Hurts also through the Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard six times today. Earlier Sirianni said, you know, you
Speaker 1: might not have seen him scoring touchdown today, but he
Speaker 1: is such an impact player on this offense. He was
Speaker 1: still making plays and he's such a big reason as
Speaker 1: to why this offense rolls. Here's like two straight games
Speaker 1: where you don't realize that Dallas Goddard had a pretty
Speaker 1: good game down throw on the field. Obviously, aj is
Speaker 1: catching the touchdown passes, but Dallas being able to extend
Speaker 1: drives key third down catches. And I still love to
Speaker 1: see him with the ball in his hand after he
Speaker 1: catches the ball because you rarely bring him down with
Speaker 1: one defender. He's a strong runner, he's a smart runner,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's a huge target for Jalen
Speaker 1: that gives him all the confidence to be able to
Speaker 1: put that ball anywhere and Dallas will come up with it. Yeah, Ellie,
Speaker 1: you mentioned he was targeted six times. He caught all
Speaker 1: six of those targets, and not all of them were
Speaker 1: like easy little screen passes either. A couple of them
Speaker 1: were intermediate, like those sail routes along the sideline. He
Speaker 1: saw the one hander behind them on the shallow cross.
Speaker 1: So Dallas godd are continuing to make some of those
Speaker 1: really impressive tough catches at all areas of the field.
Speaker 1: If you told me when twenty twenty one ended that
Speaker 1: this Eagles team would only rush for twenty three yards
Speaker 1: in the first half, I would not believe you, because
Speaker 1: last year that was the bread and butter. They were
Speaker 1: just running the ball down their throats. Twenty three yards
Speaker 1: on the ground in the first half. They ended the
Speaker 1: day with over one hundred. But the way that they're
Speaker 1: able to adjust, you know, it was tough to get
Speaker 1: the ball going in the first half, but they also
Speaker 1: didn't need to because they were so successful in throwing
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. I just think it's so
Speaker 1: interesting to see the leap that this offense is made
Speaker 1: from last year to this year. Yeah. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: not a one dimensional offense, and they can throw the ball.
Speaker 1: If you want to load the box to try to
Speaker 1: stop the run, then they're gonna throw the ball on
Speaker 1: the outside when there's one on one covers there. And
Speaker 1: then if you want to play a two high safety
Speaker 1: to keep the ball from going over your head, that's
Speaker 1: a lightbox. They're going to run the football, and that's
Speaker 1: what they did. When they came out at halftime. They
Speaker 1: realized Pitchburgh said, okay, we got to start giving a
Speaker 1: little help over the top to some of these guys,
Speaker 1: and Miles Sanders was able to break off some big
Speaker 1: runs there. What did that do? That opened up the
Speaker 1: play action pass for the offense. So I'm not concerned
Speaker 1: about the running game. Sometimes you think, okay, did we
Speaker 1: forget we can run the football, But then you have
Speaker 1: to realize, no, this is what the deepness is dictating
Speaker 1: that we do. And they threw the ball with so
Speaker 1: much success it forced Pitchburg to come out of that
Speaker 1: defense they were in and then we were able to
Speaker 1: run the ball in the second half. Yeah, only thirty
Speaker 1: one snaps in the first half from this Eagle's offense,
Speaker 1: and we talked about it on the Kickoff Show. The
Speaker 1: secondary for Pittsburgh, they've been banged up throughout the year.
Speaker 1: I thought that they were really good at the catchpoint,
Speaker 1: but they gave up a lot of separation and we
Speaker 1: saw that in this game. They gave up a bunch
Speaker 1: of explosive plays coming in. Well, they gave up a
Speaker 1: bunch of explosive plays going out here. In Week eight,
Speaker 1: we have another question for Ike. Let's see what the
Speaker 1: fans have to say and or ask Ike sayment think
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn will fit into this defensive scheme moving forward
Speaker 1: close to a few sacks in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: think Robert Quinn is gonna fit in here very nicely.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a guy that has over a hundred
Speaker 1: sacks in his career. He can come, he can roll
Speaker 1: out of bed and rush the passer. It's just about
Speaker 1: getting familiar with the defensive schemes, what's his responsibility in
Speaker 1: those games, and then accepting his role. He understands he's
Speaker 1: coming to a good deepense. We have a defensive line
Speaker 1: where we rotate, so he may not play as many
Speaker 1: snaps as he was playing out there in Chicago. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna benefit from being fresher throughout the game and
Speaker 1: he can rush the passer. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if he does get if he doesn't get his first
Speaker 1: Eagle sack this next game, because he was close on
Speaker 1: a couple of those today. Yeah, there are a number
Speaker 1: of flags in this game. The couple that could have
Speaker 1: been some offensive holding on some of those pass rushers.
Speaker 1: The Eagles could have had more than six sacks in
Speaker 1: this game. But Robert Quinn, he can get off the ball.
Speaker 1: We saw that first step, the first step a number
Speaker 1: of times today. Well if you're a vet though, so
Speaker 1: this situation where it is a rotation may actually end
Speaker 1: up working in his favor. Give his legs a little
Speaker 1: bit of a break so he can really still play
Speaker 1: to his high stability. I really believe it will. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy, he had eighteen and a half sacks last year.
Speaker 1: He didn't even get how to rush the passer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one year he's playing out there in Chicago. No disrespect
Speaker 1: to Chicago, but he's probably the best guy on their
Speaker 1: deepest line. Khalil Mack isn't there anymore, So you get
Speaker 1: a lot of offenses that are going to focus their
Speaker 1: blocking schemes on him. I think he was either the
Speaker 1: second or third highest rush and to be a double
Speaker 1: team this season. That's how that's how much double team.
Speaker 1: And he was getting out there in Chicago. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that here because Hassan Reddick
Speaker 1: is out there, So you have to focus on where
Speaker 1: he's at. I think Robert Quinn is gonna love playing
Speaker 1: his defense because now he has playmakers all around him
Speaker 1: and it's going to allow him to be the best
Speaker 1: that he can be. Yeah, you talk about a guy
Speaker 1: that can get the football on the ground as well
Speaker 1: get the ball back for his offense. Seven forced fumbles
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. All Right, we have the
Speaker 1: quarterback himself, Jalen Hurts at the podium. We pushed out
Speaker 1: passing a quarter red zone, double coverage, perfect strike. Teach
Speaker 1: what you're next. Cloud of Zoe wasn't like U you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I wasn't the zone. I
Speaker 1: feel like I could have done more, feel like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the third quarter. I think
Speaker 1: there was an opportunity to make some plays. Um had
Speaker 1: some negative plays there. I think two minute drive before
Speaker 1: half time took some sacks and I feel like I
Speaker 1: could have avoid it, probably could have got the ball out, Um.
Speaker 1: And then we kind of kind of started off hitting
Speaker 1: something low, you know, And so a testment to the
Speaker 1: to the receivers. We have the protection we had all day, Um,
Speaker 1: and you know we were on waivering, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I think we just kind of kept
Speaker 1: focused to playing to the standard and chasing that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And hell of a game by aj.
Speaker 1: You know, he's making big time plays. I know you're
Speaker 1: wanting something back for sure, UM, but hell of a
Speaker 1: game by him. Can you break down how much you're
Speaker 1: improved this year? Is you and more people to get better? Yea?
Speaker 1: How much of the guys rounding with you, guys around
Speaker 1: you've got better or guys you had. It's hard for
Speaker 1: me to really talk about myself and that in that standpoint, Um,
Speaker 1: people don't see the work that's put in not just
Speaker 1: by me individually, but by a j by Smitty Um
Speaker 1: by Dallas guarded by Jason Kelsey, you know, by our
Speaker 1: miles by Um Nick Sirianni by everybody. You know, it
Speaker 1: takes work, and it's a grind. And the beautiful thing
Speaker 1: about this team is we've grinded together. We've had OTAs,
Speaker 1: we've had training camp, we bonded, we we put it in,
Speaker 1: put in so much valuable time together to chase this
Speaker 1: feeling of achievement and chase this feeling of you know,
Speaker 1: going out there and playing at the hot level. So
Speaker 1: not I tell you, after after every game, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's there's always much more out there for us
Speaker 1: to do. You know. Obviously we have a short week
Speaker 1: this week, so it's a different mentality as well. But
Speaker 1: it's a testament to the work we put in as
Speaker 1: a team. You know, it's no man is an island.
Speaker 1: You gotta draw your strength from others. And you know,
Speaker 1: when a guy may miss a throw low, or guy
Speaker 1: may miss a miss a pass or miss a block
Speaker 1: or whatever, we got each other back. We got each
Speaker 1: other's back. Um, what's what's that life? And I ball
Speaker 1: up to him and having to come down with interest
Speaker 1: at the time. I have a lot of trust in Aja,
Speaker 1: have a lot of trust in him. I think that's
Speaker 1: a lot of the reason why he's here. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, we've We've always had a great relationship, and
Speaker 1: I think it's been beautiful to see how it's unfolded
Speaker 1: throughout the year. How that, you know, personally for him
Speaker 1: and I and also us on the field. You know,
Speaker 1: I've always had a lot of admiration for his mentality,
Speaker 1: his want to and he's been doing great things for us.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of him as a friend and as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Whatever you do, you gotta do something before is that
Speaker 1: headway or just where you were that way. I call
Speaker 1: him formative experiences, call him formative experiences. I think I've
Speaker 1: endured a lot. I think I've been fortunate to go
Speaker 1: through things that have built character and me. They have
Speaker 1: made me a stronger individual, stronger man, and it's allowed
Speaker 1: me to understand the points of competition, the importance of
Speaker 1: seeing something through, and the importance of working for what
Speaker 1: you want. And I'm just always prided myself on that.
Speaker 1: And that's something that I saw my dad do as
Speaker 1: a kid. I saw how he handled being a coach.
Speaker 1: I saw how he uplifted the people around him, how
Speaker 1: he was a service to the kids, high school kids.
Speaker 1: I saw my mom did it, I saw everybody did it.
Speaker 1: And I was just always trying to learn from the
Speaker 1: people around me the work that goes into a jail.
Speaker 1: And when we were talking to h he kind of
Speaker 1: you don't wanted to bring up the place he didn't
Speaker 1: make anyfore he talked about the place he did. You're
Speaker 1: the same way. It does. It take work to do
Speaker 1: that to get that find set. But it seems that
Speaker 1: a lot of players have on this steam. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't think it takes work. I think you either have
Speaker 1: it or you don't. I think the great players are
Speaker 1: eager to be the best and be the best all
Speaker 1: the time. And when you look at the opportunities that
Speaker 1: you didn't take advantage of, you know, like you can
Speaker 1: go out there and you'll have a statistically perfect game,
Speaker 1: catch every ball or do everything, but there's always something.
Speaker 1: There's always something and enough is never enough, and we
Speaker 1: just strive for that. We strive for you know, we
Speaker 1: strive for something that we may never get, but we
Speaker 1: continue to go chase it said that first touchdown. It
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to content designed that play work. When we
Speaker 1: said that play year, you have to be were it
Speaker 1: all ties to wall might be coming to Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: one thing I try and tell all the receivers is
Speaker 1: you know, although the balls is not supposed to go
Speaker 1: to you, be aware because I may see something on
Speaker 1: the field that man enticed me to make that throat
Speaker 1: to him. So I always encouraged them to be ready
Speaker 1: at all times and run every route to win. And
Speaker 1: he did a great job today being ready in a
Speaker 1: couple of different situations and we made some big time players.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of him. It's mean for you to go
Speaker 1: home down the teams, you know, seven and old you're
Speaker 1: playing like this, or your friends and family going to
Speaker 1: get to see him. What is that going to be like?
Speaker 1: I think, um going back, going back home and playing
Speaker 1: in Houston. It's always been a dream of mine and
Speaker 1: I never had the opportunity to go playing and reliant
Speaker 1: as a kid now known as NRG, I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time in the Houston Texas Facility, Houston Texas Facility,
Speaker 1: my godfather being on staff as a child, and I
Speaker 1: have a lot of memories at that place. So it'll
Speaker 1: be it'll be exciting, and I think we've definitely transitioned
Speaker 1: fairly quickly. You know, we talked about having a twenty
Speaker 1: four hour rule and you know, enjoyed for twenty four
Speaker 1: hours where and we ain't got we ain't got that
Speaker 1: much time having a Thursday night game. So I think
Speaker 1: the team is going to enjoy it for I gave
Speaker 1: him like eight o'clock to night or so after after
Speaker 1: they eat dinner or something like that. But um, come
Speaker 1: back tomorrow when we go, when we go to the
Speaker 1: facility and re lock in and and attacked upon it,
Speaker 1: that's in front of us. I'm not sure, it seems
Speaker 1: for two years when we've asked you about the passing game,
Speaker 1: you've spoken about efficiency and consistency to have this type
Speaker 1: of performance where you I think you run the VA
Speaker 1: only twice. What is I'm that to say about your
Speaker 1: development as a pastor? Yeah, I think I think it's
Speaker 1: bigger than just the overall development of one part of
Speaker 1: my game. Think it's about being able to be a
Speaker 1: threat in many different ways. And that's something that a
Speaker 1: guy like me, I have the ability to do that naturally,
Speaker 1: being able to run and you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: doing that that I like to call it a triple threat.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to you know, be able to
Speaker 1: kill them with your legs at times and make the
Speaker 1: throws when you need to in the passing game and
Speaker 1: killing what you killing them with, killing them with your
Speaker 1: mind and what you what you see and how you react,
Speaker 1: you know, because you get into a point where you
Speaker 1: get different looks and they try to get you, but
Speaker 1: you just want to try and be ready for all
Speaker 1: of those looks and have an answer for it. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's that testament to the preparation, to the to
Speaker 1: the people that have around me, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just an uphill climb. That's what we always
Speaker 1: talk about. It's an uphill climb. So that's that's what
Speaker 1: it is, you know what I mean. And I honestly
Speaker 1: feel like there is no arrival. There is no arrival.
Speaker 1: You will never get to a point where you say
Speaker 1: I've arrived. There is no arrival. There's only the journey.
Speaker 1: And I've embraced that journey and I'll continue to do
Speaker 1: that and take it day by day and just try
Speaker 1: and climb. Say more your arm or you're buying It
Speaker 1: was everything. It was every thing. It was the whole
Speaker 1: trip of threat, you know. And I think it's attestment
Speaker 1: to the preparation. Like I said, Um, the guys around
Speaker 1: me AJ making big time plays that coming in and
Speaker 1: making big time plays well deserved. Um, it's it's, it's,
Speaker 1: it's it's important, you know, the preparation. How good is
Speaker 1: it go to have guys like you know, like AJ
Speaker 1: and people like I mean the DeVante Smith and and
Speaker 1: Dallas Got or how comforting him that that you can
Speaker 1: go to any one of those guys and also get
Speaker 1: other guys involved. Yeah, when when you're on the high
Speaker 1: Street like everyfore, you know, it's I have far with
Speaker 1: it because I've seen all of these guys do amazing things.
Speaker 1: I've seen DeVante Smith do crazy things in college. I've
Speaker 1: seen AJ as a friend, as a fan take slants seventy.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen Dallas got To make the craziest
Speaker 1: catches in the game and in practice. Um So when
Speaker 1: I see him make those plays in the game or better, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I'm playing with him in the game, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got my popcorn radio. After I throw them the ball,
Speaker 1: I don't want to make sure I'll do my job
Speaker 1: to getting from the ball and then I can I
Speaker 1: can be a fan and kind of watch them go
Speaker 1: to work. I mean, I think that's just a testament
Speaker 1: to them you know, and I think for us, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks differently by the day, but we always prepare together,
Speaker 1: and we always going to the field going to a
Speaker 1: game trying to be on the same page. And I
Speaker 1: think that's allowed us to be productive and we just
Speaker 1: want to continue to building it. Okay, thanks guys. Thanks,
Speaker 1: that was Jalen Hurds diving into the offense. But earlier today, friends,
Speaker 1: if you broke down the big sack, Hassan Reddick set
Speaker 1: the tone with in the first quarter. So here's his
Speaker 1: Rereaco review. All right, so this week here on the
Speaker 1: Reco Review, want to rewind all the way back to
Speaker 1: the first third down of the game for this Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: third and long. What does this defense look like coming
Speaker 1: out of the bye week. Well, they run a really
Speaker 1: creative stunt on third down. Now, the Eagles coming into
Speaker 1: this game had run less stunts than anybody in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and so adding this wrinkle to the pressure scheme impressive
Speaker 1: to see from Jonathan Gannett and this Eagles defensive coaching staff.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna get is a unique alignment. This sack
Speaker 1: is gonna come from Hassan Reddick, who has lined up
Speaker 1: inside over the left guard. Now, let's just take a
Speaker 1: look at the alignment of everybody else here. At right
Speaker 1: defensive end, you've got Josh Sweat in his normal spot,
Speaker 1: but everyone else has some creative alignments. Here. You've got
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick over the guard, You've got Javon Hargrave over
Speaker 1: the center. Here, you've got Brandon Graham, and all the
Speaker 1: way out of defensive end, you've got Fletcher Cox. So
Speaker 1: right now, alarm bells are going off in the heads
Speaker 1: of every single Pittsburgh Steeler involved with the protection scheme.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let this run for a second, and let's
Speaker 1: just take a look at the stunt the Eagles run.
Speaker 1: This is a three man game, often referred to as
Speaker 1: a pirate stunt, where you've got the two defensive lineman
Speaker 1: inside they're slanting, and then you're gonna get the looping
Speaker 1: rush from Hassan Reddick coming all the way around. When
Speaker 1: you have these three man stunts, that's tough to pick
Speaker 1: up as an offensive nan. And you could tell this
Speaker 1: right guard he has no idea that Hassan Reddick is
Speaker 1: looping all the way around here, and he's going to
Speaker 1: close in on the rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett. We can
Speaker 1: let this run and you can really see the athleticism
Speaker 1: from Hassan Reddick I really put on display. He turns
Speaker 1: that corner. Josh Sweat was right there as well to
Speaker 1: combine for the sack. But a creative rush there from
Speaker 1: the Eagles defensive line, all the different alignments you get
Speaker 1: the three man stunt. They get home for a sack
Speaker 1: on the first third down of the game. Now is
Speaker 1: your chance to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: Go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player of
Speaker 1: the Week to cast your vote and get a chance
Speaker 1: at a brand new Toyota. All right, three nominees, here
Speaker 1: we go. Number one Surprise Surprise eight Jay Brown six receptions,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty six yards, three touchdowns. Look at
Speaker 1: that yards after the catch, all right. Next up, Javon
Speaker 1: Hargrave against his former team. This was a striped sack
Speaker 1: that Avonte Maddox recovered and it later resulted in a
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders touchdown. But not least Jalen Hurts. You gotta
Speaker 1: give it to the quarterback. Two hundred and eighty five
Speaker 1: passing yards and four touchdowns through the air. What do
Speaker 1: we think, guys, Well, we're not going defense today, es,
Speaker 1: I'm going Jalen Hurts. I mean, I'm a J. Brown
Speaker 1: had a big day, but I think Jalen Hurts with
Speaker 1: the type of throws that he made, I was in
Speaker 1: press tight windows over the shoulder. Yeah, Jalen Hurts was
Speaker 1: almost flawless today. Yeah, fifteen years since we've seen an
Speaker 1: Eagles receiver do what AJ Brown did today with over
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards and three touchdowns. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go number eleven here. I'm gonna go a J. Brown
Speaker 1: with the big day. All right, we'll get your votes
Speaker 1: in now. You heard Jalen Hurts. You have about till
Speaker 1: eight pm and then we're turning the page. It's onto
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. So for tonight's Jamison night cap, let's
Speaker 1: look ahead to Thursday nights opponent, another night for prime
Speaker 1: time for the Eagles. They are one four and one currently,
Speaker 1: they sent fourth in the AFC South quarterback he's doing
Speaker 1: all right, fifty percent completion rate, eleven yards right now
Speaker 1: and an interception. What do we think about Thursday, guys,
Speaker 1: short week? Yeah, obviously it's an interior opponent and as
Speaker 1: long as the Eagles are preparing as if they're playing
Speaker 1: an undefeated team, it shouldn't be a difficult match out
Speaker 1: for him. But on a short week and on the road,
Speaker 1: I would expect Houston to come out at least gamed
Speaker 1: and ready to play. It's really about the Eagles from
Speaker 1: this point on right not playing down to anybody else's level.
Speaker 1: Seeing if these teams can play at that level. They're
Speaker 1: the best in the league right now, so that's the
Speaker 1: way they need to go. I think offensively, they've got
Speaker 1: a couple of young playmakers there. Davis Mills actually playing
Speaker 1: pretty well. I've been impressed with watching the second year quarterback,
Speaker 1: former third round pick out of Stanford. He is really
Speaker 1: cool and collected. He's making tough throws, he's accurate, he's
Speaker 1: got a good arm. And then Damian Pierced, the rookie
Speaker 1: running back, is running his tail off. He is really
Speaker 1: fun to watch, really violent as a runner. Defensively, they've
Speaker 1: got two more young playmakers there in Jalen Petrie, the safety,
Speaker 1: the rookie second round pick, and Derek Stingley Junior, a
Speaker 1: top five pick. Both guys playmakers in that secondary that
Speaker 1: you've got to be aware of in Lovey Smith scheme.
Speaker 1: And when you look at their schedules, interesting, I gotta
Speaker 1: get through Thursday night, but then they'll have all for
Speaker 1: the weekend and the following weekend because they don't play
Speaker 1: until Monday night. So if they can have this quick
Speaker 1: turnaround and not let this one, you know, get out
Speaker 1: of their sight, they have a good stretch coming up
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, it's a good football team. Now, it's
Speaker 1: just going to be whether or not they're planning to
Speaker 1: their standard. You're the best team in the league. You
Speaker 1: become the team that everybody circles on their calendar, not
Speaker 1: as if it's going to be an easy win, but
Speaker 1: they know you are the best team, so they don't
Speaker 1: want to get embarrassed. They're typically gonna bring their gig.
Speaker 1: They're good effort the end. But the Eagles, you look
Speaker 1: at you live at the schedule right here, man, the
Speaker 1: Eagles have a chance to run off a few more ws.
Speaker 1: I Yeah, and look when you look at the injuries
Speaker 1: and some of the teams coming up on the schedule here.
Speaker 1: But again, it's gonna go back on what Nick Sirianni
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts. The rest of this this this team has
Speaker 1: preached and it's a it's every seventeen one game schedules.
Speaker 1: It'll be big for this team moving forward. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: that'll do it for us here on the postgame show,
Speaker 1: Big night, Thursday night. Okay, I know we got the
Speaker 1: Phillies coming up. Can the Phillies beat Houston? Can the
Speaker 1: Eagles beat Houston? It's big week for Phillies sports fans.
Speaker 1: But I'll do it for us myself, friend Duffie and
Speaker 1: I Greece. Thank you so much for tuning into the
Speaker 1: postgame show and go Birds.