Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome Eagles, three sixty Eagles and Saturday SPIDERO.
Speaker 1: Glenn macnow on this Thursday in Philadelphia, and we are
Speaker 1: ready for the Dallas Cowboys. The question, Glenn is, is
Speaker 1: Eagles offensive line ready for Greg Hardy and Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: and that very good group up front. You decided to
Speaker 1: start with the top right. Yeah, I'll give you eighty
Speaker 1: six randomis I mean, that's the toughest one story of
Speaker 1: the day. Well, it is the story of the day.
Speaker 1: And Jason Peters doesn't practice again today, and so far
Speaker 1: this year, nobody who has failed to practice on Thursday
Speaker 1: has played on Sunday. That doesn't mean it can't happen,
Speaker 1: but it's not looking great right now, which means that
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson gets to debut at left tackle, where we
Speaker 1: all figured he would eventually be, maybe not this year,
Speaker 1: maybe not yet. And here's this is my biggest concern.
Speaker 1: So so He's gonna play left tackle, which means that
Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly's gonna play right tackle. Were Tobin Covin plays
Speaker 1: outside of tackle, Kelly plays inside and guard. But the
Speaker 1: right side of the line is a little untested, which
Speaker 1: to me means guess where they're gonna move Greg Hardy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna move Greg Hardy around. They're gonna
Speaker 1: flip flop with Randy Gregory, who's no slouch, very quick
Speaker 1: off the edge of the Eagles will have to make
Speaker 1: adjustments and it is a game of adjustments throughout the
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen season, a lot of stress on this coaching staff.
Speaker 1: And it's a great test for Chip Kelly. It's a
Speaker 1: great test for the offensive strategy. It's a great test
Speaker 1: for how they want to block this thing up. It
Speaker 1: is and kind of this is the time. I know
Speaker 1: everybody hates must win. I'm not gonna give you must win.
Speaker 1: Actually I'll tell you it's must win for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: which makes me a little bit nervous, but not that much.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you just want to look at the
Speaker 1: offensive line, that's the biggest challenge of the the Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna have. They're gonna have to protect the quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to not fumble the ball. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to not throw interceptions. And this is the game where
Speaker 1: you learn if the Eagles are in fact contender. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We heard from Sam Bradford yesterday and he feels like
Speaker 1: he's making progress slowly, steadily, and maybe Glenn in the
Speaker 1: big picture here, we kind of just went overboard on
Speaker 1: after watching the Eagles in the preseason pile up the
Speaker 1: points leave the NFL and points scored, thinking that would
Speaker 1: cross over to the regular season so quickly. Nah, But
Speaker 1: you know what, and I keep thinking this, and presumably
Speaker 1: I'll be right one of these weeks that they're gonna
Speaker 1: snap and the offense is gonna come together. And we've
Speaker 1: seen this with Chip Kelly's team. We've seen an offense
Speaker 1: that becomes unstoppable, and we've seen it in the regular season.
Speaker 1: I haven't really seen it yet this season except bits
Speaker 1: and pieces. Maybe this is the week we'll see a
Speaker 1: lots going on with the Eagles. Today. Let's take you
Speaker 1: out to the training field. We've got Alex Smith our
Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty update. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and
Speaker 1: this is your three sixty update. A cloudy Dave work
Speaker 1: here at the Novacare Complex for the Eagles as they
Speaker 1: get set for Sunday night's game in Dallas. Today, we
Speaker 1: heard from Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, who spoke about
Speaker 1: how the Eagles running game was mapped out at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season when both the Marca Murray and
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews were signed to the team. We didn't sell anything.
Speaker 1: We were just very honest in terms of what we're doing,
Speaker 1: and we were bringing two guys in here and those
Speaker 1: are the two guys we wanted. So explained it straight out.
Speaker 1: They knew that they were both here. They're actually both
Speaker 1: here at the same time, so they knew exactly what
Speaker 1: was going on. And I think there's any selling job
Speaker 1: that has to go on and says, this is what
Speaker 1: we do, here's the offenset we've run, and these are
Speaker 1: the guys we want to have be a part of it.
Speaker 1: And they both liked it. So while there have been
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about how the Eagles would distribute
Speaker 1: carries between Murray and Matthews, today Mary spoke about how
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter how many carries he gets as
Speaker 1: long as the team comes away with a win. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I knew, Um, you know, that's a discussion
Speaker 1: that we've had and you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: share what we had, but like I said, this is
Speaker 1: you know, this is a good team. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: this is our team. We're not making any changes. This
Speaker 1: is you know what we have with you know, us
Speaker 1: as individual players, we got to step up every single day.
Speaker 1: We can't look back and say, oh we had this,
Speaker 1: I had that, And this is a group of guys
Speaker 1: that we're going to battle with and every single day
Speaker 1: you got to come to work and put your heart
Speaker 1: hat on him and learn and can try to be
Speaker 1: had the white belt mentality that we talk about just
Speaker 1: learning the new things. Continue to grind and grind and
Speaker 1: grind until it gets fixed. For Mary, this weekend's game
Speaker 1: will be his first visit back to Dallas since leaving
Speaker 1: the team via free agency. Today, Mary spoke about how
Speaker 1: it's just another game as the Eagles SOPs to get
Speaker 1: back to their winning ways. I don't think it will
Speaker 1: be you know, I spent a lot of time there,
Speaker 1: but you know I'm here now and you know this
Speaker 1: is where I've been and obviously I'm sure emotions be
Speaker 1: high for you know a lot of people. But just
Speaker 1: another game. And finally, an injury update here from the
Speaker 1: novicare Complex. Linebacker Kiko Alonso and left tackle Jason Peters
Speaker 1: once again did not practice, nor did running back Ryan Matthews.
Speaker 1: Full participants in today's practice where Kiko Alonso, Nelson Agilor,
Speaker 1: Brandon Bear and Brian Brayman. And for all the latest
Speaker 1: Eagles news, be sure to keep it right here on
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Thanks so much, Alex, We've got
Speaker 1: so much to get to today. Great show for you.
Speaker 1: We are going to hear from Meryl Reese, the Voice
Speaker 1: of the Eagles, in a bit. This guy's got some
Speaker 1: bold predictions, which presumably he will get right. But when
Speaker 1: we return, I guarantee you I'm not gonna be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Well that's that's he got one right. When
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Speaker 1: team's official site, David, look at the quarterback position there
Speaker 1: for Dallas. What does Maccastle bring to its table that
Speaker 1: gives the team the best chance to win on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night against the Eagles. You know, has it would have
Speaker 1: been an easier question to answer a week ago coming
Speaker 1: off that loss of the Giants. I mean, he did
Speaker 1: have three interceptions in that game, but you know, he
Speaker 1: threw it around, He hit some deep targets. He had
Speaker 1: the confidence to go downfield and stretch the Giant secondary.
Speaker 1: Fast forward a week and he didn't turn the ball
Speaker 1: over against Seattle, but he only threw for ninety seven
Speaker 1: yards on the day. Granted, Seattle's got about as good
Speaker 1: a secondary as they call him in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: it didn't leave a whole lot of I didn't lead
Speaker 1: to a whole lot of inspiration around the fan base
Speaker 1: and around the NFL about you know, his ability to
Speaker 1: utilize Dez Bryant and the Cowboys other targets in the
Speaker 1: passing game. I still think he's probably the best option
Speaker 1: because we've seen him do it before. He does have
Speaker 1: a you know, an eleven year track record in the
Speaker 1: NFL of being able to do that, so I think
Speaker 1: it's back to the drawing board and trying to find
Speaker 1: a better way to get all of these guys utilized.
Speaker 1: Like I said, he showed the ability to do it
Speaker 1: against a pretty good Giants defense. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they responded that setback against the
Speaker 1: kat It'll be very interesting for the standpoint where the
Speaker 1: Eagles saw Castle with the Vikings a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He toured him for nearly four hundred passing yards Minnesota
Speaker 1: got the upset win. Well, it would be that Castle
Speaker 1: or the one that we saw last week when he
Speaker 1: played for the Cowboys against Seattle. You mentioned des Bryant David.
Speaker 1: How encouraging was it for the Cowboys even though he
Speaker 1: didn't have the numbers, just two castes for twelve yards,
Speaker 1: to come out of the game healthy. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think, you know, obviously a disappointing result. I mean,
Speaker 1: they didn't win the game and he only had two
Speaker 1: catches for twelve yards. Richard Sherman really erased him from
Speaker 1: the field, so to speak. But like you said, I mean,
Speaker 1: he came through it healthy. It's only been seven weeks
Speaker 1: since he broke his foot, so he's right in that
Speaker 1: range where you were expecting him to come back. Obviously
Speaker 1: a lot of speculation about how healthy he is, but
Speaker 1: he practiced today, the first day of operation for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: He figures to practice fully this week, so it certainly
Speaker 1: doesn't look like there have been any setbacks. Otherwise, I
Speaker 1: think he would have seen him you know, pulled off
Speaker 1: the field or at the very least limited. So that's
Speaker 1: certainly a good sign. Now now it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of getting him the ball, getting him involved in the
Speaker 1: game plan. And again, you know, like I said, I
Speaker 1: think it's about as good a secondary as there is
Speaker 1: in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks, So it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they adapt against Philadelphia. David Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones said this week that he does not regret the
Speaker 1: decisions not bring back to Marco Murray to Dallas office.
Speaker 1: He's signed here with the Eagles. He talking about Arren
Speaker 1: McFadden and he's done to steal the starting running back job.
Speaker 1: He's been the feature guy head over one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards of all purpose offense against Seattle last week.
Speaker 1: What has he done to secure that job? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna say that I'm not going
Speaker 1: to confuse what Darren McFadden has done these last two
Speaker 1: weeks with DeMarco Murray's eighteen hundred yard season here in
Speaker 1: Dallas last year, but McFadden has probably been the closest
Speaker 1: they've come to Murray since he left. I mean, he
Speaker 1: pounded away on the Giants for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards on twenty nine carries. Not the best day against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I mean, he only averaged three point two
Speaker 1: yards per carry, but he just consistently gained yards, and
Speaker 1: he's softened up that defense. And you know, we already
Speaker 1: talked about how bad the Cowboys passing attack wasn't that game,
Speaker 1: So all of those things considered, I think you'd have
Speaker 1: to call it a solid performance. So through two weeks
Speaker 1: at least, he's kind of showed that ability that DeMarco
Speaker 1: did last year to take twenty to thirty carries a game.
Speaker 1: And I think that's really Jason Garrett's focus these last
Speaker 1: couple of years, especially with this offensive line, is you know,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily about making big runs or breaking big
Speaker 1: plays every down, but you want to consistently pound and
Speaker 1: tire out that defense and soften him up for the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I think that's something mccadden's been able to
Speaker 1: do these last two weeks. The big question for him is,
Speaker 1: you know, how how well can he hold up? I
Speaker 1: think injury concerns have been one of the biggest storylines
Speaker 1: of his NFL career, and he certainly hasn't been a
Speaker 1: guy that's been used to getting you know, twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty carries a game on a consistent basis. So this
Speaker 1: will be the third week in a row where he
Speaker 1: figures to be the primary running back and you know,
Speaker 1: and I think it's crucial for the Cowboys that he
Speaker 1: stay healthy and stay productive. David looking at the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football for Dallas a player, I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about his first round pick Byron Jones
Speaker 1: and the way that the Cowboys have utilized him. He's
Speaker 1: been a safety, He's also been used as a slot
Speaker 1: corner going against the tight ends like Brent Cell Again,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz on Sunday Night, how do you think Beagles
Speaker 1: or how do you think Dallas will try to defend
Speaker 1: Beagles tight ends? Yeah, it's been really interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know, kudos to Buyer and he took over
Speaker 1: a starting safety job last week against the Seahawks. But
Speaker 1: really the story of his rookie year has been, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been the guy that they use in nicolinime situations.
Speaker 1: Like you said, the tight end has kind of been
Speaker 1: in his primary target. I mean, he played fantastically against
Speaker 1: Arts up in Philly in Week two when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won that game twenty to ten. He held Rob Gronkowski
Speaker 1: to about his pedestrian a day as you can expect.
Speaker 1: I think he held him to sixty yards on four
Speaker 1: or five catches in that game. He certainly didn't kill
Speaker 1: the Cowboys the way he's killed a lot of other teams.
Speaker 1: So you know, for that reason alone, I really thought
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would probably keep him in that nickel dime role,
Speaker 1: but they moved him up into the starting lineup last week.
Speaker 1: And you know, his versatility is amazing. You know, they
Speaker 1: drafted him thinking he'd probably played corner, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's playing nickel dime corner and now he's
Speaker 1: a starting safety and he's done well at everything they've
Speaker 1: asked him to do. So it's been impressive considering he's
Speaker 1: a rookie. What all he's able to do. I think
Speaker 1: you'll probably still see him move down and move out
Speaker 1: wide and deal with some of these tight informations when
Speaker 1: you know when Felic and Arts are out there, or
Speaker 1: potentially when they're both out there. But you know, for
Speaker 1: the time being, it looks like he's going to be
Speaker 1: handling starting safety job duties as well, which is just
Speaker 1: kind of a testament to how well he's handled everything.
Speaker 1: David Helban from Dallas Cowboys dot com, thank you very
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Speaker 1: thanks so much, David. Good talk, factual talk about the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Cowboys. So we go from the real
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Speaker 1: It's Eagles three sixty here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com,
Speaker 1: and it's now my time to sit back and chuckle
Speaker 1: as Glenn macknow offers three of us five bold predictions
Speaker 1: for Sunday. Here you go here you go. Number one,
Speaker 1: the Eagle. This includes Sam Bradford. By the way, the
Speaker 1: entire Eagles will not turn the ball over this game.
Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys defense has only four turnovers all year.
Speaker 1: Of course three of them were against the Eagles in
Speaker 1: that first game. But they don't get the ball, they
Speaker 1: don't force turnovers. They're not going to do it. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a perfect zero turnover for the Eagles
Speaker 1: this week. You're like that one critical if the offensive
Speaker 1: line comes together. We don't know the status of Jason
Speaker 1: Peters at this point, so clearly, if the Eagles win
Speaker 1: the battle up front, that makes it a whole lot
Speaker 1: easier for Bradford, for DeMarco Murray, for Ryan Matthews, and
Speaker 1: for a pass catching corps that needs to secure the football.
Speaker 1: All right, Number two, little more optimism on this one.
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray will rush for one hundred yards this game.
Speaker 1: I know I predicted this earlier this year, and I
Speaker 1: think it would get eighty five something like that. I
Speaker 1: got close. But here you go. Dave Spidero the lead
Speaker 1: runner on opponents against the Dallas Cowboys since they played
Speaker 1: the Eagles, which would include DeVante Freeman, Mark Ingram like
Speaker 1: Garrett Blount, or Leans Darkwa and Marshawn Lynch have averaged
Speaker 1: four point six yards per carry. You can run on
Speaker 1: this team, Orleans Darkwa, for God's sakes, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: run on this team. The Ryan Matthews, of course, is
Speaker 1: a little uncertain. I think Murray's gonna get the carries,
Speaker 1: and I believe he will get those hundred yards. Going
Speaker 1: back to Dallas big incentive this week, and he's talked
Speaker 1: about it today. He's very stoic. It's just another game.
Speaker 1: But do you know that DeMarco Murray is going to
Speaker 1: be fired up to go back to that stadium to
Speaker 1: the people he knows to put on a good show.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the reaction will be from the crowd
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. How would they react, Well, we reacted great
Speaker 1: when Donovan McNabb came to town and Brian Dawkins came
Speaker 1: to town, and Andy Reid came to town. So I
Speaker 1: expect a classy reaction from the Dallas Cowboys crowd and
Speaker 1: then clasback Dallas Cowboys stand. I think I'll have a
Speaker 1: big game. Also, there you go, all right, here you go.
Speaker 1: Number three? Actually one more optimism. Kiko Alonso's coming back,
Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna finally get that Kiko Alonso
Speaker 1: that everybody thought when the Eagles picked him up in
Speaker 1: the Lashawn McCoy trade. Remember, this guy was the AFC
Speaker 1: actually the NFL defensive rookie of the year in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that kid yet. He floats to the ball,
Speaker 1: he's instinctive. Actually, here's the prediction. He will either get
Speaker 1: a turnover, force a turnover, receive a turnover, or have
Speaker 1: a sack this game. It's going to be big time
Speaker 1: return for Keiko Lunch. It will be remarkable if he
Speaker 1: has that kind of impact after not playing for more
Speaker 1: than a month here, after playing very sparingly in the preseason.
Speaker 1: To think that a guy can come right in and
Speaker 1: just boom make an impact, then you're speaking about a
Speaker 1: very special player. And I think Kiko has great ability.
Speaker 1: I just think there's some rusts to be knocked off here,
Speaker 1: Glenn and I hope. So this is why they're bold prediction.
Speaker 1: I understand it. I'm actually he'll come back and be okay.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a I'm looking for something like Keiko
Speaker 1: Alonso will hold Jason Witten to under thirty yards receiving.
Speaker 1: That would be a bold prediction that I would buy
Speaker 1: and that would be a big impact. Well good, So
Speaker 1: next week you can grade me on. We've got two
Speaker 1: more coming your way from Glenn on the Kickoff Show
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Speaker 1: from the bye week, which I know we all enjoy it,
Speaker 1: but it's no Eagles football, So no. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have a good time during the bye week. I relax,
Speaker 1: play a little golf, watch a lot of football, but
Speaker 1: I wish it were twenty straight weeks plus. Well, we've
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Speaker 1: Cowboy's first question, must win? I know mathematically it isn't,
Speaker 1: but in your mind must win for these No? No,
Speaker 1: because must to me also indicates mathematical and late in
Speaker 1: the season, when things are all at the point where
Speaker 1: you cannot afford to lose. Now, I'm not telling you
Speaker 1: that a loss would be good or accepted by anybody.
Speaker 1: I certainly think a win would be huge, but it's
Speaker 1: not do or die because of the mathematics involved in
Speaker 1: the NFC East, where the lading teams have four loss
Speaker 1: I will never ask you again until it is a
Speaker 1: mathematical It doesn't exactly I thought. For example, I thought
Speaker 1: earlier this season the Jets win was a must win
Speaker 1: because they didn't have any yet. They needed to win
Speaker 1: that game. At that point, that was almost a must win.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to go Ohen three, who goes anywhere?
Speaker 1: If you're oh and three, you can come back from
Speaker 1: Owen two and have a season, But Owen three almost
Speaker 1: historically knocks you out of the box. So that was
Speaker 1: more of a must win. Again, a win in Dallas
Speaker 1: or Arlington, Texas would be huge. Biggest concerns playing the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: particularly from the Eagles offensive side of the ball. That
Speaker 1: first meeting went so poorly for the Eagles. It did,
Speaker 1: it did. They've got to be meticulous, They've got to
Speaker 1: be accurate. Sam Bradford's got to have a very good game.
Speaker 1: The receivers have got to start catching the football. And
Speaker 1: I think they can and I think they will, and
Speaker 1: I think this is a team that really needed to
Speaker 1: buy more from an emotional and mental standpoint than from
Speaker 1: a physical standpoint. The offensive line picture is unclear. Jason
Speaker 1: Peters not practicing on Thursday, we don't know about Friday
Speaker 1: or Saturday. If the Eagles have to re arrange and
Speaker 1: put Lane Johnson, for example, at left tackle Merrill, how
Speaker 1: does that impact the offense? And it done significantly, I
Speaker 1: know that, But in your mind is Chip say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we now have to max protect him. What kind of adjustments?
Speaker 1: What do you have to make? I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he won't even broach things like that at his press conference,
Speaker 1: is his media sessions, he basically says, we'll deal with
Speaker 1: that when it comes. I'm not going to I'm not
Speaker 1: going to deal on hypothetical. See he may unaffuse that
Speaker 1: word this time, but he said it many times and
Speaker 1: we get his message. So I don't know what he's
Speaker 1: going to do. It would seem logically that you're going
Speaker 1: to take Lane Johnson and make him the blindside protector.
Speaker 1: And I think eventually Lane Johnson's going to be a
Speaker 1: left tackle anyhow, although I'm not so sure that Jason
Speaker 1: Peters isn't going to be the one lining up, because
Speaker 1: usually when there's a chance he is out there, he
Speaker 1: goes down and you think, oh, he's done for the season,
Speaker 1: and then suddenly he rises and he's ready and he's
Speaker 1: a top flight protector. Your view, Merrill on the running
Speaker 1: back situation DeMarco Murray and Ryan Matthews, Where do you
Speaker 1: go there? How would you like to see those carries divided? Well,
Speaker 1: I think the guy who was going to come into
Speaker 1: this game with a lot of emotion, not the kind
Speaker 1: of emotion that plays with you, but the kind of
Speaker 1: emotion that you play with, is DeMarco Murray. He's playing
Speaker 1: against the team who basically said to him, we think
Speaker 1: a lot more of Dez Bryant than we do of you,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that you set all kinds of franchise
Speaker 1: records with your yards from scrimmage and everything else that
Speaker 1: he had that he not records because that was Sammon Smith,
Speaker 1: but led the NFL in yards from scrimmage and ball carries.
Speaker 1: I think I think that he's got a lot in
Speaker 1: him who carries the ball more, Meryl, You make the
Speaker 1: call DeMarco Murray DeMarco Murray for two reasons. Number one
Speaker 1: was the scenario, and number two was the fact that
Speaker 1: that at this point Ryan Matthews hasn't been active in practice.
Speaker 1: He's done some drills, but next to his name in
Speaker 1: the daily report is the parentheses, and in that parenthesis
Speaker 1: it says growing. So I don't know that he's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. If you are Bill Davis merriland you're going
Speaker 1: against Matt Castle and you know des Brant is out there,
Speaker 1: what are you trying to take away one, two and
Speaker 1: three from the Cowboys? Well? I think number one does Bryant.
Speaker 1: I don't think he played particularly well in last week's
Speaker 1: game against Seattle, but that was his first game back
Speaker 1: in ages. But he's their weapon. He's the guy who
Speaker 1: can really put teams on their heels. He's the guy
Speaker 1: who last December almost single handedly wrecked the Eagles. Of course,
Speaker 1: Tonny Rumbo had to get him the ball, but does
Speaker 1: Brian at his best is very very difficult to stop.
Speaker 1: So I think he's the number one guy. You can't
Speaker 1: take him away, but you have to minimize what he
Speaker 1: does to you. Okay, number one? Who's number two? Number two?
Speaker 1: I think that you've got to account for Greg Hardy.
Speaker 1: He is, Okay, you're just talking about offense, Bill Davis
Speaker 1: versus the offense. Bill Davis versus the offense. Okay. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys running game doesn't really worry me too much.
Speaker 1: Darren McFadden is a is an average or slightly above
Speaker 1: average back. There's no more Joseph Randall. They deep six him.
Speaker 1: So I think the biggest thing the other guy you
Speaker 1: always worry about. His number eighty two, the guy who
Speaker 1: has caught more passes than anybody in the history of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. That's Jason Witten. So you'd take those
Speaker 1: two guys away. And then there's the other guy who
Speaker 1: annoys me. He always annoys me. I'm thinking, what is
Speaker 1: he doing out there? But he hurts the Eagles? Is
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley? That number a little number eleven. I will
Speaker 1: tell you that my number one is the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will try to run the football
Speaker 1: and jam it down the Eagles throw. I don't think, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great match up Eagles interior, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the agreement. Meryl. It's not a must win,
Speaker 1: but it's a very big game, very meryle recent studio
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Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys and Eagles. But first, the game
Speaker 1: plan crew might quicken I Greece discussing well one of
Speaker 1: the offensive linemen who he was going to be key
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, a progress report on guard tackle offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Matt Tobin. All right, my progress report brings us
Speaker 1: to Matt Toby's been our starting right guard pretty much
Speaker 1: all year long. Had to switch over left tackle last
Speaker 1: game Jason Peters was injured early. I thought he did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job here at filling in for Jason
Speaker 1: Peters on such a short notice. I sold on him
Speaker 1: several times, and he did a really nice job filling in.
Speaker 1: But he's just gotten better and the offensive line has
Speaker 1: gotten better because of it at guard as well as
Speaker 1: his play at the left tackles. So you watch him
Speaker 1: here again, this run play. He's on a tag team
Speaker 1: block here and he gets up to the second level.
Speaker 1: And that's the difficult position these guys find themselves in
Speaker 1: playing line for the Eagles, is that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do more than just single block. More often than not,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do tandem blocks. Nice job of
Speaker 1: Matt Tobin right there. Watch him here against Jared Allen
Speaker 1: here on the outside again. He knows he's gonna be
Speaker 1: one on one with Jared Allen. But I like his
Speaker 1: I like his quiet feating what I mean by that,
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to panicking. He trust his technique and
Speaker 1: he punches at the right time. Looking at Jared Allen
Speaker 1: on the ground, you know this is not a normal,
Speaker 1: average pass rusher. This is one of the better pass
Speaker 1: rushers in our league. And he does a really nice
Speaker 1: job on him, gets him to the ground and giving
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford's space to work in the pocket. Watch him
Speaker 1: here again, single it up on Jared Allen again. I
Speaker 1: like his technique. He knows he's single blocking here. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get the punch in there. He's gonna riding by Listen,
Speaker 1: you're talking about three or four feet and betaking he
Speaker 1: and Sam Bradford. That's how you keep your quarterback clean.
Speaker 1: That gives your quarterback a lot of confidence to throw
Speaker 1: the ball, to stand in that pocket and make throws.
Speaker 1: This is just outstanding played by the offensive line and
Speaker 1: they need a lot more of that. Again, being forced
Speaker 1: in a difficult position having to fill in, but Jason
Speaker 1: Peters did a nice job. He'll be back at his
Speaker 1: natural spot at right guard, where he's been doing a
Speaker 1: fantastic job all year. Thanks so much, guys. We've got
Speaker 1: a feature coming your way online here. We're gonna call
Speaker 1: it and Glenn and I did it on Tuesday talking
Speaker 1: about some of the Eagles that we felt so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys that we disliked the most. Well, now we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the Eagles heroes in this rivalry against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Will tease you with some of the runners up, the
Speaker 1: guys who didn't make the list. I'll throw one out there,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Joe scar Patty nineteen sixty six, stole the
Speaker 1: ball from Dan Reeves, saved the Eagles win before my time,
Speaker 1: before your time, but significant to those who were there.
Speaker 1: I like old school, all right. I'll give you an
Speaker 1: old one. Timmy Brown, Timmy Brown, the great Timmy Brown
Speaker 1: head to receive me too, returning excuse me? Touchdowns in
Speaker 1: one game against the Dallas Cowboys. Not bad? Eh? How
Speaker 1: about this one? Jesse's small nothing they ever do the
Speaker 1: Bounty Bowl. How about this one? How about how about
Speaker 1: the guy? This guy does not make our list. Wilbert
Speaker 1: Montgomery doesn't make our list. No, I guess he does.
Speaker 1: Have the big run against the Cowboys in the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty NFC Championship game. Touchdown sent the crowd into delirium.
Speaker 1: He's not on our list, all right, one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: and again close but not quite. We talked about this
Speaker 1: guy earlier in the week, Bobby Taylor. The Eagles Railroads
Speaker 1: specifically drafted him to cover Michael Irvin, and he did.
Speaker 1: They played Take Take Out his rookie year. They played
Speaker 1: six games against each other. Michael Irvin had only twenty
Speaker 1: two catches, three hundred and fifteen yards one touchdown against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. That's because Bobby Taylor could cover him, the
Speaker 1: big cornerback, shutting down the big receiver. And finally, Ron
Speaker 1: Jaworski didn't make our list. Now that's going to segue
Speaker 1: me into our amrosos. On the menu segments for you,
Speaker 1: what's ahead, Well, we hope you check out the last Word,
Speaker 1: a new feature of Q and A that I'm doing
Speaker 1: with significant names faces people who have shaped this Eagle's franchise.
Speaker 1: First up, a little chat with Ron Jaworski about the
Speaker 1: Eagles Cowboys rivalry. He had very little success against Dallas,
Speaker 1: but a lot to say about the rivalry, the success
Speaker 1: of the Eagles in that nineteen eighties season, and an
Speaker 1: opinion on this two and fifteen team. Also on the menu,
Speaker 1: We've got you covered with crunch Time Chris marrig in
Speaker 1: studio and then Key matchups Eagles Cowboys, Christ M. Pearson
Speaker 1: and I on Eagles three sixty on Friday. So there
Speaker 1: you go. It's good. It's gotta be a great week.
Speaker 1: Last week is always a great. Great week, great weekend,
Speaker 1: big football game ahead. Glenn, Thank you so much. We
Speaker 1: look forward to you finding out how many of your
Speaker 1: bold predictions come true on Sunday night. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next week for Glenn mcnow Dave Spidaro, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Have yourselves a great Eagles Day.