Speaker 1: On the road to victory. See that fall sail now
Speaker 1: there after Torry Smith's long touchdown as the Eagles route
Speaker 1: demolished crushed the Arizona Cardinals to be the best third
Speaker 1: team in this matchup, winning by a score of thirty
Speaker 1: four to seven to improve to four and one on
Speaker 1: the season. Hello ever when I'm Chris McPherson, and welcome
Speaker 1: to the postgame show presented by Rico. I'm joining a longstime,
Speaker 1: Ike Reese and like, what a game in South Philadelphia today?
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have given the Eagles problems over the years,
Speaker 1: so you figure Cardinals hungred two and two coming off
Speaker 1: a tough overtime win against a division rival. The Eagles
Speaker 1: got to win on the West Coast against Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: come home, need to take care of business, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles just drop the hammer on Arizona, getting up twenty
Speaker 1: one and nothing and never looking back in what made
Speaker 1: it look like a very very easy win. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this statement game for Doug Peterson and Carson Went
Speaker 1: says he gets his first career four touchdown outing in
Speaker 1: this blowout over the Cards. We're just a great job
Speaker 1: of this team being prepared and ready to go you know,
Speaker 1: I talk about Doug every week, and I think sometimes
Speaker 1: it can go unnoticed how important it is for a
Speaker 1: head coach to have his team ready to go and
Speaker 1: playing at their highest level weekend and week out. And
Speaker 1: that's what you saw this week. They're planning against a
Speaker 1: team quite frankly, they are better than but you never
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get when that ball is kicked
Speaker 1: off on a Sunday. Great job by this Eagles team
Speaker 1: coming out taking care of business. They jumped on the
Speaker 1: Cardinals early. The one thing I'll said in all five
Speaker 1: of these games this year, as the Eagles have come
Speaker 1: out as the aggressor in every game, even the loss
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. I thought the Eagles came out as
Speaker 1: the aggressor in that game and put the Chiefs on
Speaker 1: their heels. They just didn't come away with the w. Today.
Speaker 1: They put their foot down on the throat of the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and they were able to keep that momentum going.
Speaker 1: When you score that many points in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: you sometimes wonder, Man, we fire all our shots early,
Speaker 1: and now we got to figure out how to hold
Speaker 1: onto this thing and remain aggressive. Well, great job by
Speaker 1: this team coming out of the locker room. In the
Speaker 1: second half, they were still the aggressors. They took their
Speaker 1: chances down the field when the opportunities presented itself, and
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz had as finest day as a quarterback four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: had the one bathroom, I'm sure he would want back
Speaker 1: right before the half. But other than that, I mean,
Speaker 1: is there any third down and whatever the distance you
Speaker 1: want to put up there that this guy can't convert?
Speaker 1: I mean third and nineteen and you go for seventy
Speaker 1: two yards to Nelson Agilor on a touchdown. I think
Speaker 1: we had better start believing what our eyes are seeing,
Speaker 1: which is this is one of the best teams, not
Speaker 1: in just the NFC East or the NFC, this is
Speaker 1: one of the best in the NFL right now through
Speaker 1: five weeks. I can't name five teams plan better than
Speaker 1: the Eagles that played through five straight weeks. Like, what
Speaker 1: is the secret to getting a team ready to go
Speaker 1: the way the Eagles have this season? I mean, you
Speaker 1: play with deals for a long time. You're with those
Speaker 1: great indie read teams that came out and scripted those
Speaker 1: first fifteen plays, and we're able to add to to
Speaker 1: take advantage of opponent's weaknesses. What goes into making sure
Speaker 1: a team is revved up and ready to go, so
Speaker 1: when kickoff happens, you're playing at peak performance like the
Speaker 1: Eagles were today, or it starts on Wenday Wednesday. Once
Speaker 1: you hand out that game plan and it's it's the
Speaker 1: tone that's set in those meeting rooms. You know, Doug
Speaker 1: is echoing making sure everybody is focused. You can't celebrate
Speaker 1: the last week's win. You got to get focused on
Speaker 1: the next week's task at hand. And the coaches when
Speaker 1: they go to put the game plan in the are
Speaker 1: they are already setting the tone for what it's going
Speaker 1: to be like that week. But I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: else we have on this team that I'm starting to
Speaker 1: recognize as well. We have good leadership on this team.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys realize they have something special that
Speaker 1: they could do this year, and they can't take any
Speaker 1: game for granted. So when they get to the facility
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays and that new team's game plan is handed out,
Speaker 1: they are locked in. They're paying attention to detail. They
Speaker 1: go out to the practice field and they make sure
Speaker 1: they dot every eye and cross every team. When it
Speaker 1: comes to being meticulous and paying attention to everything that
Speaker 1: the coaches want them to do. You don't go by
Speaker 1: the time you get the Sunday, it's too late to
Speaker 1: be mentally prepared. It starts early in the week. And
Speaker 1: you can tell that every week this team, when they
Speaker 1: start off with handing out their game plan, they are
Speaker 1: ready to go. And that starts with the head coach. Man.
Speaker 1: That's where the head coach sort of puts his imprint
Speaker 1: on the team is having them ready to go the
Speaker 1: tempo with practice. You know, little things that you decide
Speaker 1: to let slide or you don't let slide. And you
Speaker 1: can tell that these coaches don't let anything slide. They
Speaker 1: realized they have something good right now. But it can
Speaker 1: be fleeting three and one start to last year's season
Speaker 1: and we saw how that ended. I think having that memory,
Speaker 1: having that sort of experience in the back of their minds.
Speaker 1: The thing I love about this team the coaches and
Speaker 1: the players, as they aren't resting on their laws right,
Speaker 1: they aren't listening to us on the outside pat them
Speaker 1: on the back and tell them how great they are.
Speaker 1: They keep the blinders on and they focus in each
Speaker 1: week on the next opponent and that's what you get today.
Speaker 1: Today was a culmination of a team being focused for
Speaker 1: the last month. The first four games we had to
Speaker 1: win it in a fourth quarter. But today they came
Speaker 1: out and beat an inferior team and never gave them
Speaker 1: room to breathe. You bring up a great point comparing
Speaker 1: last year to this year, because everyone said last year
Speaker 1: this team was three h three and one, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden things slipped away. Okay, they lost ten
Speaker 1: to nine games, struggled down the stretch, and just were
Speaker 1: not the same team after losing Lane Johnson. Now they
Speaker 1: lost Lane Johnson for the second half of today's game
Speaker 1: due to a hen injury. It can be very interesting
Speaker 1: to watch his stass with a short week battling Carolina
Speaker 1: this coming Thursday night. But Doug Pearson admitted that last
Speaker 1: year's three and one team, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: masking was a word he used, a lot of things
Speaker 1: that had to be covered up, a lot of mistakes
Speaker 1: that you know you wouldn't normally see from a three
Speaker 1: and one team. Well, this year they've erased a lot
Speaker 1: of those mistakes. And you made a great point about
Speaker 1: the memory of that learning from those mistakes and be
Speaker 1: able to carry it over to this season. So for
Speaker 1: our first look at behind the scenes perspective from the wind,
Speaker 1: we're gonna send it over to the lake now where
Speaker 1: Eagles Insire Dave Spadero is standing by Dave Carson wentz
Speaker 1: four touchdown performance, the first time he ever had more
Speaker 1: than two touchdowns in a game. What did you think
Speaker 1: of his signature moment here as a member of the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. You know, Chris really amazing on third downs.
Speaker 1: The numbers. I don't know if you guys talked about him,
Speaker 1: but check this out. Eleven of twelve on third down,
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty five yards and three of those
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. An offense it really hadn't been delivering. The
Speaker 1: chunk plays delivered big time today. Everything you wanted in
Speaker 1: that first quarter, jumping out to the twenty one to
Speaker 1: nothing lead, the defense start things off and shuts down
Speaker 1: Arizona Kenyon Barner, a couple of big pun returns, and
Speaker 1: then the offense doing it through the air early and
Speaker 1: on the ground late. Just a complete demolition of an
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals team that is not that bad. You know,
Speaker 1: it makes you think, It makes you wonder, guys, just
Speaker 1: how good is this Eagles team. I know, carsonal get
Speaker 1: all the kudos as he showed he played a great
Speaker 1: game today, but the fact that the offensive game plan
Speaker 1: was a nice mixture of runs and pass he was
Speaker 1: in all three running backs. Talk about Dougs game plan
Speaker 1: today and the way that he was able to keep
Speaker 1: this Arizona Cardinals team all balance. Yeah, I love the
Speaker 1: fact that they mixed Kenyon Barner in there with leg
Speaker 1: Garrett bluntamed Corey Clement, kept everybody fresh. They got the
Speaker 1: screen game going, They stayed away from Patrick pet And
Speaker 1: for the most part, and they attacked the rest of
Speaker 1: the Cardinals secondary. You know, they got the tight ends
Speaker 1: involved going early to Tray Burton. I mean, I just thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was a great game plan.
Speaker 1: I thought it was smart, I thought it was effective.
Speaker 1: I thought it was daring, aggressive. And the success on
Speaker 1: third down, I'm not sure that you know, on that
Speaker 1: first drive, you often have a lot of third and
Speaker 1: eleven plays. The Eagles converted to third and elevens on
Speaker 1: that first scoring drive. So I'm not sure if that's
Speaker 1: Doug or Carson or a little bit of everything. But
Speaker 1: it was a beautiful performance against a pretty good defense. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you look at when you look at the defense
Speaker 1: that we played the day, I mean Jim schwartz game
Speaker 1: plan against this Arizona Cardinal team. I thought that was
Speaker 1: also a good game plan considering he's missing his best
Speaker 1: defensive player in the middle when Fletcher Cox. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you knew going in the Cardinals couldn't run the football.
Speaker 1: The Eagles did an excellent job tackling. They limited Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: How about that look on third and long where you
Speaker 1: rush for and play seven back at the line at
Speaker 1: the first down stick? You know, I thought it was
Speaker 1: just a really interesting wrinkle and it forced Arizona to
Speaker 1: keep everything short. The Eagles wanted to keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of him. They did that, they tackled well. Kudos
Speaker 1: to a great game plan and great execution from a
Speaker 1: defense that really went after Carson Wentz, Carson Palmer and
Speaker 1: did the things they needed to do and even played
Speaker 1: to the very end there with the forced fumble at
Speaker 1: the goal line. I mean, that's a mark of a
Speaker 1: team that is going to play hard for its coaches
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes every week. Dave, what does it mean
Speaker 1: that Tory Smith, who admitted last week that he's been
Speaker 1: going through the worst stress of his career, that the
Speaker 1: coaches stand behind him, get him the big deep ball
Speaker 1: and had a huge touchdown there in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: What does that mean that the coach were able to
Speaker 1: stick by him. Yeah, he comes through and produce it
Speaker 1: the way he did. Yeah, and everybody was kind of
Speaker 1: in the stadium holding their collective breath with the ball
Speaker 1: in the air because Tory was wide open and he
Speaker 1: had to wait a little bit for the football. I
Speaker 1: think everybody feels really good for Tory SMI if it
Speaker 1: was very unusual to see him on Twitter apologize for
Speaker 1: drops in the first four games. He wanted to start
Speaker 1: the second half of the second quarter of the season
Speaker 1: off the right way. He did that. You see that
Speaker 1: that kind of speed over the top stretches a defense.
Speaker 1: It really opens up everything for zach Ertz underneath, for
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffrey underneath. It means the world. Eagles have a
Speaker 1: lot of weapons, as we saw with Tory and once
Speaker 1: again guys with Nelson, Aguilo or making big plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great job on Nelson to day, I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: to that defensive side of the ball. Day. If a
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't get a lot of fanfare. People were
Speaker 1: a little concerned about him in training camp, didn't know
Speaker 1: what position to play him at, outside or inside as
Speaker 1: a cornerback. Patrick Robinson, I thought Patrick Robinson had a
Speaker 1: real good day. Could have had a couple of interceptions,
Speaker 1: but made a lot of good plays being matched up
Speaker 1: against Larry Fitzgerald as well, And no doubt about it,
Speaker 1: I guy agree with you. The Eagles collectively did a
Speaker 1: good job against that deep, lasting game, passing game. They
Speaker 1: really shut down those options for Carson Palmer. I thought
Speaker 1: Robinson played well. I thought look in the first series
Speaker 1: of the game, Jalen Mills makes a tackle on the
Speaker 1: first down run, he breaks up a pass for Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald on second down, and then he tackles JJ Nelson
Speaker 1: short of the first down. Stick That set the tone
Speaker 1: this Eagles defense. The cornerbacks, they're young, they may not
Speaker 1: be the most talented, they're not the fastest, but they're
Speaker 1: going to battle you. They're gonna be tenacious, and that's
Speaker 1: something that has been missing from the likes of Leontis
Speaker 1: McKelvin and Byron Maxwell and Namdi awesome Walk. This group
Speaker 1: will battle you. They fit Jim Schwartz's personality just perfectly. Dave.
Speaker 1: Last question, though, we know you gotta get your podcast
Speaker 1: done there the Eagles Life Podcasts make sure a download
Speaker 1: later this evening. But when you look at last year's
Speaker 1: team and start out three and one, and you look
Speaker 1: at what the Eagles have done thus far, what do
Speaker 1: you think is the biggest difference between the two teams?
Speaker 1: I think the biggest difference is probably a coaching staff
Speaker 1: that knows the players, the players know the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: And then your quarterback, who is clearly a huge step
Speaker 1: up from last year. I mean, look put it all,
Speaker 1: how he rolls and did a really nice job. You're
Speaker 1: putting the roster together. There are a lot more weapons
Speaker 1: on offense, and the defense just keeps coming after you
Speaker 1: and coming after you in waves. So I guess that's
Speaker 1: a lot of differences, Chris. I just think that as
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, as Doug Peterson said mask a little bit
Speaker 1: last year that three and one started, I think there's
Speaker 1: no deception here. The Eagles are a legitimate four and
Speaker 1: one team with a great primetime matchup on Thursday against Carolina. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Dave Spanner, don't thank you very much. Make sure to
Speaker 1: read is on the Inside column later on Philadelphia dot
Speaker 1: com and download the Eagles Live podcast. Dave, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Thank you so mentioned the Thursday night primetime
Speaker 1: showdown Eagles Panthers a boll of two four and one
Speaker 1: teams there as the Panthers hold on to defeat the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lion. So Thursday football can be very very interesting
Speaker 1: to say, at least, Yeah, you'll be going down in Carolina.
Speaker 1: You know, CBS or the NFL network, who's ever carrying
Speaker 1: that game. You're talking about two teams that are playing well,
Speaker 1: Carolina going into Detroit today up a big win against
Speaker 1: a very good team and the Detroit Lions. And you
Speaker 1: know what, when you are playing as well as the
Speaker 1: Eagles are, you're not sneaking up on anybody, no, right,
Speaker 1: So you know it'll be a great matchup on a
Speaker 1: short week. It'll be a tough one going on the road.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. This team is resilient, this
Speaker 1: team is confident. I like the way that they play,
Speaker 1: and I believe this team is going to step up
Speaker 1: to the challenge, you know, step up to the challenge
Speaker 1: a play on a short week on the road, in
Speaker 1: a game I'm pretty sure they won't be favored to win,
Speaker 1: but guess what, that doesn't matter to this team. They've
Speaker 1: answered every challenge they've had too so far this year.
Speaker 1: What impressed me about this team is you look at guys.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Patrick Robinson outstanding day at cornerback, also at
Speaker 1: the blockfield goal at the end of the first half
Speaker 1: to keep it twenty one to seven at the intermission.
Speaker 1: There the guys are Kenyon Barner wasn't on this team
Speaker 1: two weeks ago and making key plays not just in
Speaker 1: special teams, but as in the running back rotation as well,
Speaker 1: with Wendell Smallwood not being in there today, bo Allen
Speaker 1: starring once again for the injured Fletcher Cox, and then
Speaker 1: Tim Jurgen stepping up and making some big plays there
Speaker 1: early in the game to help set the tone there
Speaker 1: for the defensive line. So just across the board, it's
Speaker 1: not just the stars, not the big name guys coming through.
Speaker 1: It's the guys like the Nelson Aglors and those depth
Speaker 1: guys who are stepped up and making big contributions to
Speaker 1: help this football team. From player one to all the
Speaker 1: way to fifty three, everyone on this Eagles roster has
Speaker 1: helped this team get to four and one and where
Speaker 1: they're at right now, and it's what they need. I mean,
Speaker 1: this team is certainly more talented than it was last year.
Speaker 1: But the thing I like this the big difference is
Speaker 1: the amount of veterans we have on the team. I
Speaker 1: mean we we brought in guys like Lagart Blunt, Chris Long,
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffrey. I mean you need that type of veteran
Speaker 1: experience when things aren't going well, those guys aren't going
Speaker 1: to panic. And then Carson has just taking his game
Speaker 1: to the next level. I mean, he's taking his game
Speaker 1: to the next level. And I thought it may take
Speaker 1: another year or two for him to jump up to
Speaker 1: that top five class of quarterbacks. Yeah, he's knocking on
Speaker 1: next door this season. When you look at the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks around the league, not many of them are playing
Speaker 1: better than Carson Wentz. And it's not always the numbers
Speaker 1: that he puts up. It's just the way that he's
Speaker 1: operating the offense, you know, getting you out of bad
Speaker 1: running plays and putting you in the right passing plays
Speaker 1: or if there's a chance to run the ball against
Speaker 1: a six man box or seven man box. He's being
Speaker 1: able to check into those running plays as well. And
Speaker 1: Carson on third down, man, it's hard to describe. I mean,
Speaker 1: the numbers that this offense is putting up one third
Speaker 1: and long situations just do not happen. And then NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a defensive player, our goal was to
Speaker 1: get an offense to third and seven, third and five
Speaker 1: because the percentages are in the defense's favor. This guy
Speaker 1: doesn't blink when it's third and nine, third and eight,
Speaker 1: third and nineteen does not matter. He's finding a way
Speaker 1: to make plays. That's why they are the best team
Speaker 1: in the league in third down conversions, third down conversions,
Speaker 1: time of possession, just dominating, dominate the lion scrimmage on
Speaker 1: both sides of the football. But in our sort of
Speaker 1: ode to Carson Wentz here, the trade impresses me the
Speaker 1: most and it comes up big on third down. His
Speaker 1: calm and poise in the pocket. I mean, the Cardinals knew,
Speaker 1: you knew they were bringing the blitz today. They love
Speaker 1: those pressure skiings, especially those a gap rushers where they
Speaker 1: trying to get the offensive line confused and get a
Speaker 1: free rusher at the quarterback. Carson Wentz almost is inviting
Speaker 1: the blitz and saying bring it because I'll be able
Speaker 1: to stand in there, I'll take my time, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to rush the throw, and then just you'll get
Speaker 1: that one on one matchup and you're trying to get
Speaker 1: away from Patrick Pearson. So I know it was Bethel
Speaker 1: on the outside. Justin Bethel they were attacking today. You
Speaker 1: know it was Buddha Baker, the rookie defensive back they
Speaker 1: were attacking at times, Dion Buchanan. It was just they
Speaker 1: found a matchup nightmare somewhere else around the formation. And
Speaker 1: I just love how Carson Wentz calmly goes through the progressions,
Speaker 1: finds the matchup that he likes and is able to
Speaker 1: exploit it. So you could tell he puts in the
Speaker 1: time during a week when it comes to film study,
Speaker 1: and then he has this that innate calm that sets
Speaker 1: of timing to know when to get rid of the
Speaker 1: football and to know when he has to be on rythem.
Speaker 1: It's just so amazing that you see a quarterback who
Speaker 1: was a twenty one career starts now his NFL career
Speaker 1: to have that type of performance. So, like you said before,
Speaker 1: it's not been the most prolific performance in the terms
Speaker 1: of yardage. But it's been more efficient. But today the
Speaker 1: Eagles need to rely on him just a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Delivers over three hundred yards and his first career four
Speaker 1: touchdown day for Philadelphia. And you made a great point
Speaker 1: about his poise under fire, under pressure, and the good
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this league they want you to blitz them
Speaker 1: because the good quarterbacks, when you blitch, you bring that
Speaker 1: extra man. You help define where to go with the football,
Speaker 1: and so and so when Carson Wentz sees extra pressure coming,
Speaker 1: the best thing about him is he knows where to
Speaker 1: go with the football. All the great quarterbacks they aren't
Speaker 1: afraid of blitzing. When you blitzed them, you helped them
Speaker 1: out by defining where the coverage is at. And all
Speaker 1: he has to do is make good throws to the
Speaker 1: right guys. He's been able to do that through the
Speaker 1: first five games of the season. All Right, So a
Speaker 1: little bit we're gonna hear from hey, coach Doug Pearson
Speaker 1: and quarterback Carson Wentz himself. First though, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of great highlights in this game. So what was
Speaker 1: it like to be in the booth with Merrill Reese
Speaker 1: and Mike Quick. We're going to present Merril cam to
Speaker 1: get their reactions. Courtesy of Sports Radio. Actually, first, Doug
Speaker 1: Pearce is about to go to the point we're gonna
Speaker 1: go in that first here on the postgame show were
Speaker 1: presented by a Rico as to think through two would
Speaker 1: be this good this team at this point considering all
Speaker 1: the things that have happened, key players missing. I know
Speaker 1: this about our football team and it's been this way
Speaker 1: now for a year and a half. Is it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what happens with injury in our on our roster,
Speaker 1: the next guy, the coach is doing outstanding, outstanding job
Speaker 1: of getting that guy ready and prepared to play. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously coming into this season, to kind of
Speaker 1: follow up on the question, UM, I think in the
Speaker 1: back of my mind you kind of you hope and
Speaker 1: you you want to be a good football team. Everybody
Speaker 1: aspires to be good football teams. UM. But the way
Speaker 1: we're doing it with the amount of backup players in
Speaker 1: these first five weeks, UM, is a testament to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the players in that dressing room. Uh,
Speaker 1: and the resiliency that they have to never quit and
Speaker 1: never finish. I think sky's the limit, you know, sky's
Speaker 1: the limit. And you know, the key is just staying
Speaker 1: rounded and staying focused on our job and focused on
Speaker 1: the next game. And and uh, I mean, as you know,
Speaker 1: these these wins, these losses, whatever are short lived in
Speaker 1: this in this business, and and you got to get
Speaker 1: yourself ready to go within twenty four hours. Was eleven
Speaker 1: for te touchdown passes. He's got one hundred one thirty
Speaker 1: seven point seven third down passer rating this season. A
Speaker 1: year ago he had some of the worst third down
Speaker 1: members in the league. Is it just a guy that's
Speaker 1: a year older and wiser or or what. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's part of it. I also think that the
Speaker 1: personnel we have on offense, um, you know, can helps that.
Speaker 1: I think the you know, the offensive line protection in
Speaker 1: some of those areas obviously helps that. But but this
Speaker 1: is one of the things that you know, we talk
Speaker 1: about all all spring and summer with him, was was
Speaker 1: the third downs and emphasizing the third downs. And um, um,
Speaker 1: he does an outstanding job, he and Jason Kelsey both
Speaker 1: with U with protection, redirecting protection because there were a
Speaker 1: couple extra blitzers today that um Carson either's you know,
Speaker 1: sidestepped or got the ball out and then listen. It's
Speaker 1: just a credit to the guys down the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are some big plays made today that hum, you know,
Speaker 1: we expect. We don't want to be in those long
Speaker 1: situations obviously, but we do actu to execute that way
Speaker 1: and hopefully hopefully stay on the field. It's the biggest treason.
Speaker 1: It's confis total confidence, and it's and it's you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, it's me believing in him, the
Speaker 1: coaching staff on offense believing in him, the players around
Speaker 1: him believing in him. And you know I see this
Speaker 1: kid every single day and the way he walks into
Speaker 1: building with confidence. Um, nothing, nothing gets him down. He
Speaker 1: works extremely hard and uh he's he's playing playing at
Speaker 1: a high level. Right now, yourst quarter to get a touchdown,
Speaker 1: legs clicking and what did that? Yeah, it was it
Speaker 1: was obviously the opening drive, you know, to start things off.
Speaker 1: And and you know I talk every week about about
Speaker 1: starting fast and and uh, um defense, you know, getting
Speaker 1: off the field, offense going down and putting the points
Speaker 1: up and um, you know the challenge this week and
Speaker 1: this is a good this is a good front you
Speaker 1: know to run the ball against and and it wasn't
Speaker 1: pretty good times, but we were we were patient there
Speaker 1: being able to run the ball and then and then
Speaker 1: the big play. You know, it's it's something we haven't
Speaker 1: seen offensively, uh in recent weeks, and it was good
Speaker 1: to see that today and that that helped us jump
Speaker 1: out to that lead. You had a six minute uh
Speaker 1: forty four drive for fourty four second drive last week.
Speaker 1: This week you weren't exactly clinging to a small lead,
Speaker 1: but you had a thirteen play, nine plus minute drive
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that shoot up basically the whole fock. What
Speaker 1: do you attribute to your for minutive offense and success
Speaker 1: that this year or again you know last year wasn't
Speaker 1: as kid Well again, it starts with the offensive offensive
Speaker 1: line and um, you know they they take it upon
Speaker 1: themselves to uh um, you know run block and because
Speaker 1: they know the run game is coming, especially in that situation.
Speaker 1: And um, you know coach Stotland doesn't now standing job
Speaker 1: each week, you know, preparing those guys and again running
Speaker 1: the football is a mindset and uh you know, to
Speaker 1: see our backs you know, spring free, and to see
Speaker 1: the Garrett and Corey and Kenyan to to bust tackles
Speaker 1: and and and you know, extend the extend the run
Speaker 1: is and then to see the excitement by the offensive line. Um,
Speaker 1: they feed off of that and they they get motivated
Speaker 1: by that, and UM, they just take it upon themselves
Speaker 1: to dominate in that situation. Plays not clicking early. You've
Speaker 1: heard a lot about that, whether it's drops or Carson missfiring.
Speaker 1: How important is it to get some success with those
Speaker 1: keep balls to that? It's huge, It's huge. It's um again,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a tribute to the way
Speaker 1: the guys work, uh, in practice, after practice, even before
Speaker 1: practice throwing those balls. Carson really wants to detail that
Speaker 1: with with all Shaan, with Tory, obviously, with Nelson and
Speaker 1: Zach and the guys. UM, and it just doesn't happen
Speaker 1: if they don't work at it. Um. I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer that if you don't work it during the week,
Speaker 1: it's hard to it's hard to do it on game day.
Speaker 1: And these guys just work at it, you know, every
Speaker 1: every day in practice. Left with the head injury, can
Speaker 1: you confirm that doesn't concussion this so it's an even
Speaker 1: possible perfect They're the concussion protocol by Thursday. UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't confirm uh at this time obviously until we
Speaker 1: get more more information with him. But uh uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just will say this that that that big V
Speaker 1: did a nice job in his absence. I'll find out
Speaker 1: more tomorrow. But the Cardinals happen pretty good secondary. Did
Speaker 1: you see anything specific today? And then you don't believe
Speaker 1: you can explete that today? Now, I just felt like
Speaker 1: this was a this is a pretty sound defense. Um.
Speaker 1: I know they were missing one of their top pass rushers, um,
Speaker 1: you know, but but they uh, they they really do
Speaker 1: a nice job against the run, and they got some
Speaker 1: some really good athletes and secondary guys that can defend
Speaker 1: the past. But again, I just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: you get into the game, you get into the flow
Speaker 1: of the game, and you kind of kind of test
Speaker 1: the waters a little bit on certain plays and you
Speaker 1: want to see what you can kind of do and execute.
Speaker 1: And um, I thought today are our execution was was
Speaker 1: was pretty good. I wasn't perfect, but overall was pretty good.
Speaker 1: And and um, you know, Carson being I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: some accurate throws today. And again, the guys down the
Speaker 1: field did a nice job, you know, route running on
Speaker 1: the other side. Second I thought they played, um played well.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm really outside of the one one touchdown drive. UM,
Speaker 1: I mean, our defense played lights out all day and
Speaker 1: our secondary you know, um, we're gonna make some of
Speaker 1: those plays. Obviously, we had chances to to to intercept
Speaker 1: the ball and we were in position to make plays
Speaker 1: and they battled. I mean again, that's a you know,
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald is one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 1: one of the you know in the league right now
Speaker 1: as a receiver and where he has it at a
Speaker 1: veteran UM leader on that football team, they got a
Speaker 1: couple of fast, you know, uh receivers. They can they
Speaker 1: can get open. I just thought our defense did an
Speaker 1: outstanding job, and it really starts with the pass rushing
Speaker 1: and uh they were able to get to Carson a
Speaker 1: little bit today. You mentioned redirecting the protections. Two long
Speaker 1: past plays on people on touchdowns on the third down.
Speaker 1: The second one was in blitz. It looked like, I mean,
Speaker 1: Carson did a great job of slipping away from a guy.
Speaker 1: But the first one he had plenty of time. I mean,
Speaker 1: how am I of that was reading in the line? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the both of those were uh were opportunities
Speaker 1: to to redirect and and really anytime a team, you know,
Speaker 1: zero blitz is are always gonna be one extra typically
Speaker 1: and um, I think I'm both of those, both those
Speaker 1: opportunities did a nice job of of, you know, sliding
Speaker 1: the protection, he and Kelsey on the same page. And
Speaker 1: then the backs, the backs doing a good job in
Speaker 1: their protection too. Um, I thought Corey and and uh
Speaker 1: Le Garrett Kenyon also in past protection did a nice job,
Speaker 1: you know, keeping keeping the hit off of Carson what
Speaker 1: he from tore this week and how he am kind
Speaker 1: of the struggles and the importance of him being able
Speaker 1: to deliver him, you know, the big play what he
Speaker 1: was brought here for. He's another one. He's a veteran player. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he never gets down on himself. He just
Speaker 1: he keeps coming to work every day and works extremely hard.
Speaker 1: And um works with Carson you know, in practice before
Speaker 1: and after and and you know he's another one that
Speaker 1: just says, hey, okay, I've made a couple of mistakes.
Speaker 1: It's behind me. Let's let's move forward. And it was
Speaker 1: exciting for him today, made some made some big plays
Speaker 1: obviously down the field, and um, you know that's the
Speaker 1: type of player he is, and uh, you know things
Speaker 1: are gonna happen. Guys are gonna make mistakes out there. Um,
Speaker 1: when you're you know you're you're playing sixty five or
Speaker 1: seventy snaps a game, there's gonna be mistakes. But it's
Speaker 1: how fast they could put it behind them and move forward.
Speaker 1: And that's that's one thing Tory has the ability to do.
Speaker 1: Just uplifts the whole team obviously puts this in great
Speaker 1: field position. Uh offensively, Um, I thought he did an
Speaker 1: outstanding job there today in the return game. Also as
Speaker 1: a runner, I think was this for you men consider
Speaker 1: a short term around at Carolina? I know a game
Speaker 1: is big. You try to think of the one game
Speaker 1: at a time, but how important was this before you? Well,
Speaker 1: it's big, I think in a number of reasons. One
Speaker 1: and in front of our fans back at home. We
Speaker 1: haven't had too many of these games at home yet.
Speaker 1: I mean this is the second one, and crowd did
Speaker 1: an outstanding job for us, and uh love to see
Speaker 1: them here early and stay late. Um. Great to get
Speaker 1: the win obviously at home, and it just kind of
Speaker 1: gives you momentum even on short weeks. It just gives
Speaker 1: you a little bit of a little bit of a
Speaker 1: shot in the arm going forward this week, and um
Speaker 1: you know, again it's really a short lived victory because
Speaker 1: we're back to work tomorrow. But we just gotta ride
Speaker 1: this wave and keep it, keep it rolling. Talking to
Speaker 1: them just now, what was the message Basically that um,
Speaker 1: I was so proud of them the way they the
Speaker 1: way they worked another team, team effort, all three phases.
Speaker 1: UM I told them that, uh, you know, I felt
Speaker 1: like this year that by far, in our in our
Speaker 1: five games, that that was the most dominating performance that
Speaker 1: they've had as a team. UM And and basically get
Speaker 1: ready on a short week, it's time we gotta flip
Speaker 1: it around. And really tomorrow's like a Wednesday, so we
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta come to work, ready to go. Is
Speaker 1: it important for the team like yours after four very
Speaker 1: close games to get a game like this where they
Speaker 1: work dominant as you said, it is? It is? It's
Speaker 1: really Uh, it's good for the football team as a whole.
Speaker 1: It's great to score uh touchdowns, which we kind of
Speaker 1: failed to do a little bit last week. UM. Down
Speaker 1: in the red zone, we were able to take advance
Speaker 1: and then the big play offensively was that was that
Speaker 1: was key I think in this game. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to to have one of these performances, um, you know,
Speaker 1: uh is great for the guys in the locker room,
Speaker 1: coaches and players, and and again it's just something we
Speaker 1: gotta just continue to ride the wave and uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, get ready for him, get ready for another
Speaker 1: another good up, you know, opportunity on Thursday. You know what,
Speaker 1: I caught it. I caught it late, so I think
Speaker 1: he hit a home run or something, did he? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff. Thanks all right. Head coach Doug Pearson
Speaker 1: addressing the media after the Eagles walloped the Arrows of
Speaker 1: It Carlals by score of thirty four to seven. I
Speaker 1: just think about some of the games of recent years
Speaker 1: against Arizona. Feel so good, feel so good. I still
Speaker 1: have nightmares about that two thousand and eight MC Championship
Speaker 1: game lost there in Arizona when the Eagles were riding hot. There.
Speaker 1: Last couple seasons, the Eagles lost to the Cardinals and
Speaker 1: games which basically determined whether or not they would make
Speaker 1: the postseason. So hopefully they get this one and it
Speaker 1: propels them to bigger things. So again, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a big matchup on Thursday night going against the Caroline Panthers,
Speaker 1: who are also four and one after defeating the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: And the side note for everyone watching at home, John
Speaker 1: row and five, that one you think about used to
Speaker 1: having nightmares about oh eight, I'm still having nightmares about
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. Marte Jenkins, Jake Dummer. Those Cardinals
Speaker 1: many usually playing. I was very strong. They usually do
Speaker 1: and this is a team that has struggled so far
Speaker 1: this year. But I gotta give the Eagles credit for
Speaker 1: not playing down to their competition. You know, they forced
Speaker 1: the Cardinals to basically step their level or play up,
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals couldn't. They are one dimensional team with
Speaker 1: no running game and with a defense like we have.
Speaker 1: That's that's a recipe for a disaster. Because if you
Speaker 1: can't run the ball and you have to drop back
Speaker 1: in row it every down, man, We're gonna pin our
Speaker 1: ears back and get at you. Speaking of bad and
Speaker 1: merrill impressions, why don't we bringing the real one himself?
Speaker 1: I tas a little while ago, Mary Can. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go inside the sports radio ninety four w I P.
Speaker 1: Booth to hear the best of the calls from Meryl
Speaker 1: and Mike Quick So Curtseys Sports Radio ninety four WP.
Speaker 1: Here is Meryll cam. It is second down and seventh
Speaker 1: at the Arizona fifteen. Let's looks flow in and it
Speaker 1: is cut touchdown inside the pieline. The crave Burton want
Speaker 1: to throw and want to back shoulder catch by Crayburt
Speaker 1: third and six, takes it, backs up, looks fire complete
Speaker 1: and into the end zone. Goes back, hurts touchdown, lets
Speaker 1: into a long count, takes the snappy back looking stepping up.
Speaker 1: He is going deep and it is caught at the
Speaker 1: county the fifteen, the ten, the five touchdown Tory Smith,
Speaker 1: but ba mama at a second down to nine under center.
Speaker 1: This Palmer on second down, he's back pedals. Here comes
Speaker 1: from rush. They hit him, they sack him, They've got him.
Speaker 1: It's Vitty Curry, his first sack of the season. Back
Speaker 1: at the twenty five yard line. Whence the third down
Speaker 1: takes a low snap. Here comes to Lush. He steps up.
Speaker 1: He is floating the teeth out. It is Coagalo at
Speaker 1: twenty comes back at the ten at the five. He
Speaker 1: is for the touchdowns. He pulled backwards seventy two yard
Speaker 1: Bob tagalog he feat Boom the Baker. I just love
Speaker 1: watching those reactions in the booth. You know, may one
Speaker 1: second leaning back and the arms folding back and everything,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden's got to get all animated
Speaker 1: and get set to go. So NI allowed downtime for
Speaker 1: the dynamic Hall of Fame duo right there today in
Speaker 1: the boots So again, Merril camp Curtsey Sports Radio ninety
Speaker 1: four w I P. We're waiting here from quarterback Carson Once.
Speaker 1: One player whose contributions I think probably go a little
Speaker 1: under the radar today tight end zach Ertz. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean teams have not figured out how to stop this
Speaker 1: guy last in all of this season. He could go
Speaker 1: back to the middle of last season when he started
Speaker 1: taking over games, but he has been the go to
Speaker 1: guy for this offense. You know, another twelve targets, six catches,
Speaker 1: sixty one yards. It gets in the end zone, had
Speaker 1: a beautiful catchdown the left sidel and also where he
Speaker 1: got a lot of yards after the catch, which is
Speaker 1: like the new complaint about zach Ertz used to be
Speaker 1: he only performs in the last four games of the season.
Speaker 1: Then he doesn't get enough yards after the catch. Well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that so he kind of you know, quelled those
Speaker 1: concerns today. But another big performance with some big third
Speaker 1: down receptions today, including the one that got the Eagles
Speaker 1: up to four team nothing today. Yeah. And the best
Speaker 1: thing for me, I'm no longer surprised about Zach putting
Speaker 1: up numbers. Right, He's gonna catch the ball you throw
Speaker 1: it to him. He has some of the best hands
Speaker 1: on the team. The thing I was excited about the
Speaker 1: days he's able to get in the end zone again.
Speaker 1: You know, Zach and I talk this all season, right,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I got your physical league. Man. It's
Speaker 1: great yard as you give me in great receptions in
Speaker 1: the PPR league, but I need you in that end
Speaker 1: zone thing. All seriousness, he knows that's the one element
Speaker 1: missing from his game. It's the touchdowns. Those are those
Speaker 1: are the type of numbers that are gonna get him in,
Speaker 1: get him over to Hawaii. And through five games, he
Speaker 1: has been the best tight end in football this year,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to see he's getting the recognition that
Speaker 1: he deserves. And it's obvious that he and Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: have a rapport going there. He's certainly benefited from you know,
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews used to be the guy who worked the
Speaker 1: middle of the field with him, so they had to
Speaker 1: share a lot of those targets with Jordan Matthews not
Speaker 1: here anymore. Zach Hurst has become that guy that's works
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, and he's the guy that's
Speaker 1: directly in the site of Carson Wentz, and he's a
Speaker 1: security blanket for him. I mean, if the guy catches
Speaker 1: just about everything you throw to him, I throw it
Speaker 1: to him more as well. So he's become that guy
Speaker 1: we sometimes take for grant because we don't appreciate some
Speaker 1: of the things he does. But he's certainly been the
Speaker 1: most reliable weapon on this offense outside of Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: through five games. He's also benefit from the fact that
Speaker 1: you have look on the outside of this year, Alan
Speaker 1: Jeffrey A man, do you compare what the Eagles had
Speaker 1: last year just night and day. You know, it's kudos
Speaker 1: to Howary Roseman and Joe Douglas for building it, for
Speaker 1: realizing the weaknesses and working quickly to address them. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jordan Matthews. It just makes me think of
Speaker 1: how this defense is gonna look when Roald Darby is
Speaker 1: back on the field. Okay, so right now, this defense
Speaker 1: which performed outstanding today against a high flying Cardinals offense,
Speaker 1: which you know, you know they're one dimential. You knew
Speaker 1: that come into the game. But still Carson Palmer's second
Speaker 1: in the league in passing yards. You knew that no
Speaker 1: matter what the down this is, situation would be, he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw He'll throw it deep and you know the
Speaker 1: X players. That was the one buggaboo about this Eagles
Speaker 1: defense through the first four weeks of the season. Well,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now they do a great job
Speaker 1: of forcing turnovers, getting rid of the ball, deflected ball,
Speaker 1: the key situations, getting off the field in those third
Speaker 1: and laws, unlike what the Eels were able to do.
Speaker 1: So you just think about, you don't have your best
Speaker 1: lineman right now with Fletcher Cox, you'll have your best
Speaker 1: cornerback and Royal Derby, you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna send it back to the link to
Speaker 1: hear from mister Ford touchdowns himself. Carson wentz, I mean
Speaker 1: the stuff and for that, I mean, you hope for
Speaker 1: something like that, you I mean, I'm kind of the guy.
Speaker 1: And I know this offense is we expect to come
Speaker 1: out off to a hot start. Um quite imagining going
Speaker 1: quite like that. Um, you know, maybe not quite that much.
Speaker 1: But the defense was rolling. We had the big punt
Speaker 1: return early and we just had the momentum and we
Speaker 1: just stayed on third down lumbers. I think you guys
Speaker 1: can learned your first and seven to finished ten of
Speaker 1: eleven on third down with touchdowns? What was about third
Speaker 1: down today? And how much more equipment for those third
Speaker 1: and laws? Do you feel out the most? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's just guys playing on time, playing in rhythm,
Speaker 1: and um, you know something we just take pride in,
Speaker 1: you know. I think I mentioned it earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: just how we put so much extra extra time into
Speaker 1: both in practice and then in the film and meeting
Speaker 1: room as well. Um, and I think we're seeing that
Speaker 1: pay dividends on Sundays seem they brought they brought in
Speaker 1: all old blitz there and um, if you guys go
Speaker 1: back and watch it, Jason Kelsey made an unbelievable play.
Speaker 1: He ended up blocking two guys, so, um, I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have had the time to get that one off, but
Speaker 1: he made an unbelievable play. So and then Nelson did
Speaker 1: the rest. He made the catch and made the guy
Speaker 1: look silly. So, um, yeah, hats off of the big
Speaker 1: boys up front and Nelly getting open where he's been
Speaker 1: struggling the first four weeks of this season, but he
Speaker 1: kept going back killing. To see him get that touchdown today,
Speaker 1: What did I feel like? This is big? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's big for both both he and I. You know,
Speaker 1: we've missed a couple down the field. Um, both of
Speaker 1: us have had our had our share of faults on
Speaker 1: those and so um to hit that one today, hit
Speaker 1: it on a third down like we did. Um, that
Speaker 1: was a huge play in the game. And um, just
Speaker 1: good to see. Good to see. And I've never lost
Speaker 1: faith in him, and you know that's it showed today.
Speaker 1: Just keep going back to him, and um, he got
Speaker 1: the job done few year ago this time. You guys
Speaker 1: have lost the closet, one lost last week, a lot
Speaker 1: of years. How do you feel personally person last ye, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I mean personally, I feel I feel good.
Speaker 1: I mean, the game's just continually slowing down. But as
Speaker 1: a team, I mean, I said earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: was just we're built differently. I think we're built differently.
Speaker 1: We know what to expect um, and we're just hungry.
Speaker 1: We're hungry. We're never gonna get too high after wins.
Speaker 1: We're never gonna get too low after losses. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep plugging along. And we know we're a special team.
Speaker 1: We just got to keep go prove it, uh, every week.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure. We'll see we'll see
Speaker 1: on the film. I know. Offensively though, I mean we were,
Speaker 1: we were doing some things, doing some things pretty well.
Speaker 1: I mean to come out swinging like we did early
Speaker 1: in the game, I'm to put twenty one up right away,
Speaker 1: um and kind of just stay on it. Do we
Speaker 1: have mistakes, for sure, I still miss some throws we had.
Speaker 1: We had our share mistakes too, But um, I think
Speaker 1: collectively we played some some really good football to day wins.
Speaker 1: More when it seems like all three bases really good. True. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know when you come into locker room and you know,
Speaker 1: shoot the defense other than the one touchdown, I mean
Speaker 1: they played lights out of defense. Um. Special teams was
Speaker 1: big with the big punt return, and Jake you know
Speaker 1: he's been he's been rock solid and then offensively, Like
Speaker 1: I said, the way we came out swinging and stayed
Speaker 1: on it. You know, it's just it's a rewarding win.
Speaker 1: And um, it just shows a sign of a good team.
Speaker 1: We saw Donovan in the locker room. Just what's your
Speaker 1: relationship like with Hivin what's it like to be signing
Speaker 1: auto breath for his son. Yeah, it's cool, it's cool relationship.
Speaker 1: I've met Donovan before. He's a great dude. Um, now
Speaker 1: to meet his kids, you know, that was really cool,
Speaker 1: really cool, and UM, it's cool to see him come
Speaker 1: back to come back, come to the game and still
Speaker 1: show his support for the team and um and for
Speaker 1: the city. It's the team to early, especially receivers were
Speaker 1: getting a lot of press coverage, beating guys like a
Speaker 1: lot of serviences. That's something you guys expected to prepare
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, Arizona plays a lot of man coverage.
Speaker 1: You know, they play a lot of man coverage. They
Speaker 1: like to get up and u press and so, um,
Speaker 1: we took advantage of it with some of the things
Speaker 1: we did. The first touchdown to Trey and we took
Speaker 1: advantage of that. That mismatch there, and um, you know
Speaker 1: those are things we got to just keep doing. Of
Speaker 1: the guys, we have the playmakers on the edges that
Speaker 1: can get out and get off man coverage and get
Speaker 1: open um. And so it makes my job easy. First
Speaker 1: of course, is that you look at the improve me
Speaker 1: you made this ship. Um maybe personally, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think again we talked about earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, was just situational football. And so that's something
Speaker 1: that I personally and from coaches, from the whole offense
Speaker 1: we took. We went in and we said, all right,
Speaker 1: situational football is huge. You know, that's what separates good
Speaker 1: good teams and UM. To be effective on third down,
Speaker 1: staying on the field, I mean that helps the time possession,
Speaker 1: helps the defense. Um, it's a it's a big part
Speaker 1: of the game, you know, call the money down. So
Speaker 1: UM to be that efficient on third downs as big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I forced it, you know, I forced it
Speaker 1: end a half UM safety me an, unbelievable play. You know,
Speaker 1: you never think he's gonna come from the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. Um, but you know I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: keep my eyes on him and I make a better throw.
Speaker 1: Was there a play like in the third course about
Speaker 1: to give up, you hurt at all or I'm good.
Speaker 1: We're good close games album, nice little bold are you guys? Man?
Speaker 1: Wins a win at the end of the day. Wins
Speaker 1: a win, especially winning at home. We love it. We
Speaker 1: love playing here and um, like I said, to come
Speaker 1: out swinging the way we did to get this this
Speaker 1: building going, Um, there's nothing quite like it. Kelsey was saying,
Speaker 1: they stayed in base. I guess even when you guys
Speaker 1: were going three wide and we're playing a lot of
Speaker 1: single high, did you expect them to really just to
Speaker 1: be a game where you really had to move the
Speaker 1: ball through the air. Yeah, you know, we weren't sure
Speaker 1: how they sometimes we don't know how they treat some
Speaker 1: of our different personnel packages. And um, you know, they
Speaker 1: did stay based at a number of different things. So
Speaker 1: we tried to take advantage of that. You know, we
Speaker 1: um it's something every week going in, How are they
Speaker 1: going to play us when we go, um our speed
Speaker 1: tight ends, how are they going to play us? Win? Um,
Speaker 1: we go three wides with Selik in there and some
Speaker 1: different things like that. So I think we exploited that
Speaker 1: to some extent. Of course, what's the challenge of a
Speaker 1: short week, preparation, preparation, then everybody just making sure everyone's
Speaker 1: physically ready to go. You know, Thursday's coming quick, coming quick,
Speaker 1: and just all the preparation, everything speeds up, and um,
Speaker 1: we just we gotta get We'll get going tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: right away. Take away about the way we played, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think just offensively. I think, I mean
Speaker 1: we we can be dynamic, we can be explosive. Um.
Speaker 1: We you know even today when we when we came
Speaker 1: up short, it was usually us just hurting ourselves. I'd
Speaker 1: missed a throw, we had penalties, different things. So we
Speaker 1: just got to keep learning from that, keep learning. We
Speaker 1: can't shoot ourselves in the foot. We gotta keep making
Speaker 1: plays and um, we know we can be an explosive
Speaker 1: unit of talk about all the kind of night important
Speaker 1: to have. Just yeah, I think that's a big part
Speaker 1: of why we're why we've been successful up to this
Speaker 1: point is, Um, we're able to move the ball in there,
Speaker 1: We're able to move it on the ground, play action, pass, nakeds,
Speaker 1: you name it. Um, And I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: us tough to tough to defend at times. And you know,
Speaker 1: we just gotta keep being sharp with that. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that's um again, Like like I just say,
Speaker 1: kind of a sign of a good, good offense and um,
Speaker 1: we gotta keep keep doing it. See last year Lane's
Speaker 1: absence for you hurt new offense into second a half
Speaker 1: today and how did that affect you? And going forward
Speaker 1: to through missus time not even Yeah, honestly, UM, off
Speaker 1: to go back and watch the tape. But I didn't
Speaker 1: really notice, you know, didn't miss a beat. Um A
Speaker 1: Big V stepped up and it seemed like he did
Speaker 1: a great job. Again, We'll go back and watch the tape.
Speaker 1: We know Lane's a heck of a football player. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he can recover and be ready to go. But we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: Big V had tons of tons of valuable experience and
Speaker 1: reps last year and he got a ton better. So
Speaker 1: we feel solid. If if Lane's not ready to go,
Speaker 1: we know Big Val'll be ready. Remember the last boy,
Speaker 1: I know, I threw five in college ones. Other than that,
Speaker 1: it's been a while. Umpire on the celebration, but I
Speaker 1: had no idea. That was all just on a whim there.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Thanks guys. All right, there's quarterback Carson
Speaker 1: What I don't know about the on a whim part
Speaker 1: with the baseball celebration because they had a really really
Speaker 1: good one during training camp where he did the bowling
Speaker 1: for pins. Yeah, they scored. It was I think the
Speaker 1: last play of practice score touchdown and the offensive line
Speaker 1: all got lined up like bowling pins, and I think
Speaker 1: it was Nelson actually bowled them over. So I think
Speaker 1: I think agelas the one who is behind some of
Speaker 1: these great celebrations, but fun nonetheless, so and I love it.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that the league changed their celebration rules.
Speaker 1: They're allowing teammates to get involved as well. And as
Speaker 1: long as it's not tasteless and it's about having fun,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. And Mike Trout was at the
Speaker 1: game to day in his normal seat, and that was
Speaker 1: a great baseball celebration indeed, so attribute to him there,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, greageles fan there in the end zone. All right,
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our first break here on the postgame show presented by Rico.
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Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico. One injury note that's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to watch her out the course
Speaker 1: of the week is to have right tackle Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: did not play in the second half due to a
Speaker 1: head injury, so we'll have to see exactly how severe
Speaker 1: it is and whether or not he would be able
Speaker 1: to come back for the Thursday night game. But you know,
Speaker 1: like you didn't even realize for most of the second
Speaker 1: half that it was YETI Fullibody Vyetie in there right
Speaker 1: tackle and that's a good thing. Yeah, Lane is not
Speaker 1: in there, obviously, but the fact that this replacement comes
Speaker 1: in and you don't give up a bunch of sacks
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. In the offense is still
Speaker 1: able to roll. That's a good sign when your backups
Speaker 1: can come in and there's not much of a drop
Speaker 1: off for at least a half a game. Now you're
Speaker 1: talking about a short week, that's going to be difficult
Speaker 1: in Lane Johnson with the concussion, be interested to see
Speaker 1: if he can get back by Thursday. But you know,
Speaker 1: anytime the backup layers can come in there and do
Speaker 1: a good job and Carson doesn't feel like he needs
Speaker 1: to panic or rush throws out of there, that's certainly
Speaker 1: a good sign. And that's where they had experienced from
Speaker 1: last year for Big V comes into play where he
Speaker 1: had to fill in for on lane. All right, So
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson was a first run back in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Nelson Agiler was the team's first run selection two years
Speaker 1: later in twousand and fifteen. Natalie obviously had the struggles
Speaker 1: first two years, but has come on in a big way.
Speaker 1: He's found his role in the Eagles offense. You know,
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier about how the dynamic change when Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews were sent to Buffalo, But one of the things
Speaker 1: that you get a more dynamic, explosive player in the slot,
Speaker 1: and Nelson Agilor and Carson Wentz has enjoyed having another
Speaker 1: available option to get those chunk plays in this offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Hats off to Nelson Agilo listening.
Speaker 1: He's taken a lot of heat the first couple of
Speaker 1: years of being here. Is pressure that comes with being
Speaker 1: a first round draft pick, high expectations. I think bringing
Speaker 1: in guys like Tory and al Sean Jeffrey has also
Speaker 1: helped Nelson sort of find a nice little niche in
Speaker 1: a role in this offense. Doesn't get a ton of targets,
Speaker 1: but the ones that he get it he typically catches.
Speaker 1: So and you mentioned it that slot receiver position, there's
Speaker 1: an explosive element there with Nelson Agiloor there, and I
Speaker 1: think that just makes this offense that much more dangerous.
Speaker 1: That Carson just spread the ball around and you look
Speaker 1: at the receiving numbers today, I don't know if anybody
Speaker 1: had more than four catches on his team, and he
Speaker 1: was able to spread it around to just about everyone,
Speaker 1: and not only that, they were big plays three three
Speaker 1: catches for Tori, three catches for Nelson. I think three
Speaker 1: or four for Zach Ertz, couple for Trey Burton. All
Speaker 1: four those guys were on the receiving end of touchdown
Speaker 1: passes as well. And again it's about a dynamic offense.
Speaker 1: What makes it much more difficult for defense to sort
Speaker 1: of game plan to take your starved player out. If
Speaker 1: guys are going to load up on alshon Jeffrey to
Speaker 1: try to stop him, then that's when the other guys
Speaker 1: in the receiving corps are going to be able to
Speaker 1: make plays. And Nelson through five games, when he's been
Speaker 1: given the opportunity, he's made the most of them. So
Speaker 1: was a third in eternity on that touchdown? It might
Speaker 1: as well have been. It was third and nineteen, I believe,
Speaker 1: and he converted on a seventy two yard touchdown throw
Speaker 1: from Carson Wentz, a big time play in the second
Speaker 1: half to keep the pressure on Arizona as they eventually
Speaker 1: went on to win by score thirty four to seven.
Speaker 1: For all twenty two announces of how the play came
Speaker 1: to be, we're going to go to the RICO whiteboard
Speaker 1: for the RICO Review with fran Duffy. All right, let's
Speaker 1: wrap this up down by looking at Carson Wentz his
Speaker 1: fourth and final touchdown pass, this time a seventy five
Speaker 1: yard to Nelson Agila over the top. Came on third
Speaker 1: and nineteen third and a mile here for this Eagles
Speaker 1: offense and pre snap, Arizona is showing a single high look.
Speaker 1: But this won't be single high. This is going to
Speaker 1: be pressure, a cover zero pressure from this Arizona front.
Speaker 1: Now what does cover zero Well, cover zero means you're
Speaker 1: gonna have straight man coverage across the field with zero
Speaker 1: safety help. Hence the cover zero. There will be no
Speaker 1: safety in the middle of the field here for the
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the Eagles are expecting this. As we let
Speaker 1: this run, you're going to see that they run the
Speaker 1: perfect concept against cover zero because you're gonna get Alshan
Speaker 1: Jeffrey here at the bottom, he's running a little bit
Speaker 1: of a comeback route, holding that corner to that side.
Speaker 1: Here's Nelson Agilore. He's matched up on the rookie defensive
Speaker 1: back Buddha Baker, and Nelson Agila is gonna run straight
Speaker 1: across the field. There is a ton of space here
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz to deliver this football. There's no way
Speaker 1: that Buddha Baker is covering this much ground and how
Speaker 1: about this pocket from this Eagles offensive line. They do
Speaker 1: a great job blocking out this all out blitz. They've
Speaker 1: got more defenders and the Eagles have blockers. They find
Speaker 1: a way to get it done. Carson Wentz steps up
Speaker 1: and delivers a beautiful ball to Nelson Agiler in the
Speaker 1: open field. As we let this run, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Nelson just go out and make a play. This
Speaker 1: is an outstanding job tracking the football over his shoulder,
Speaker 1: reeling it in with a fingertip grab, and then making
Speaker 1: a play in the open field. He makes Baker miss
Speaker 1: he gets into the end zone. I love the swag
Speaker 1: falling in backwards. He looks like he's a usc He's
Speaker 1: having a ton of fun. I love seeing that from
Speaker 1: Nelson Agler. Outstanding day. Thirty four points for the Philadelphi
Speaker 1: Eagles offense here against the Arizona Cardinals. A huge day
Speaker 1: and I hope to see it again on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Great stuff there. Fran will have the All twenty review
Speaker 1: available breaking down all the big plays tomorrow morning for
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Speaker 1: Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player
Speaker 1: of the Week. Go to Philadelphi Eagles dot com slash
Speaker 1: Toyota Player of the Week to cash your vote and
Speaker 1: get a chance at a brand new Toyota. Question is
Speaker 1: who are you voting for? Well, first off, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with running back punt returner ken Jon Barner. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you knew he was coming to his game to
Speaker 1: help out power returns, but you didn't know what Windelle
Speaker 1: Small would out, whether or not he would be an
Speaker 1: impact player in the offense. Well, he had a huge
Speaker 1: seventy six yard pump return and then also contribute some
Speaker 1: key runs on the ground to keep look Garrett Blunt
Speaker 1: and Corey Clement fresh. But this play really flipped the
Speaker 1: field position and set the Eagles up perfectly for the score.
Speaker 1: It really just all around when you look at guys,
Speaker 1: great effort and just It's another example of guys who
Speaker 1: you didn't think would have roles all of a sudden
Speaker 1: stepping up in a big way to help this team. Out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about him. The pump return was great. The
Speaker 1: pump return was great to see because we hadn't seen
Speaker 1: a big pump return so far in this shift, so
Speaker 1: that was certainly great to see. But I was pleasantly
Speaker 1: surprised at how much he was involved in the game
Speaker 1: plan today. I mean, he had some nice runs out there,
Speaker 1: and you know, kudos to Doug and fright right for
Speaker 1: incorporating him in the game plan this week. You needed
Speaker 1: that change of pace back to sort of feel Windelle
Speaker 1: small Woods Row and ken Yan Barnot. Nice job, man,
Speaker 1: he was on the street a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Great job coming in this week and not just filling
Speaker 1: a minor role just catching punts. I mean able to
Speaker 1: do some good things on the offense as well. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing you can find a guy like that on
Speaker 1: the street, you know, through the first month of the season.
Speaker 1: So I say about guys like Jake Alley and Kenyon Barner,
Speaker 1: those guys who weren't here on opening day helping out
Speaker 1: in huge waves number two. All right, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a landside to vote again this week. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, four times I was shocked
Speaker 1: at the stat was on the broadcast. It's the first
Speaker 1: four touchdown performance since the Nick Foles seven touchdowns against
Speaker 1: against Oakland back in twenty thirteen. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: been a while, obviously, the first of Carson's career. Easil. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and listen, he you knew there would be some opportunities
Speaker 1: against this Arizona off defense. They are a swing for
Speaker 1: the Fensis type of the defense. They do a lot
Speaker 1: of blitzing. You're gonna get a lot of zero coverage
Speaker 1: on the back end. And look at that throw there
Speaker 1: at a Zach erst a nice tight window. He's able
Speaker 1: to get that pass in and listen, put the game
Speaker 1: in his hands. I mean, Arizona does a decent job
Speaker 1: number ten against the run coming into this game, so
Speaker 1: we knew we would have half the sort of running
Speaker 1: success that we were able to have the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: but we knew there'd be opportunities on the back end.
Speaker 1: Kudos putting in an aggressive game plan. Not only did
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, but his receivers everybody being involved in this game.
Speaker 1: He spread the ball around and maybe sixty six seven
Speaker 1: different guys today. So nice job from Carson wentz. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it had the one throw, I'm sure he
Speaker 1: would want back right before the half because he was
Speaker 1: grooving on that drive as well. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: been moving the ball down the field very well. And
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about what he's been able to
Speaker 1: do on third down through five games. Man, it really
Speaker 1: is amazing to see that these aren't third and ones
Speaker 1: and third and twos. This guy is converting third and nineteen. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Typically on third and nineteen you just run a draw
Speaker 1: play and just pump the ball off. But they have
Speaker 1: so much confidence and in his kids are for him
Speaker 1: to make the right decision. And we've talked about the
Speaker 1: deep ball, right. He laid a couple good deep balls
Speaker 1: out there today and that one to Nelson that was
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty allowing Nelson to run to run
Speaker 1: that ball down. Fran talked about the open space that
Speaker 1: was available there. Great job of Carson putting that ball
Speaker 1: out there for Nelson to run it down. He had
Speaker 1: one to al Sean, which if al Shan looked a
Speaker 1: little the ball was there, Yeah, would have been every
Speaker 1: big one. The thing I love about the first touchdown
Speaker 1: and we've seen it here to Trey Burton was basically
Speaker 1: it was wide open from the start that Tory Smith
Speaker 1: basically stopped and single touchdown before Carson even threw the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to see the time difference between the
Speaker 1: time when the ball was in there and when Tory
Speaker 1: threw his arms up, because it looked like that as
Speaker 1: soon as as Trey Burton broke off the line scrimmage
Speaker 1: beat Buchanan, it was like boom, he's right there. He
Speaker 1: got the arms signal and just had to get in
Speaker 1: there for the touchdown. So great job at that throw
Speaker 1: the earth is a pro quarterback throw, tight window, reverse
Speaker 1: pivots man. Man, it's just a nice throw. We're not
Speaker 1: doing a good job of building up drama for this
Speaker 1: week's Player of the Week Nomineques. Okay, the other throw
Speaker 1: that it was impressive and it's not going to really
Speaker 1: show up in the statute is anything huge, But it
Speaker 1: was a third and short. It was a quick slim
Speaker 1: to Marcus Johnson, who was Marcus Johnson's first career tight
Speaker 1: window puts in their great job by Marcus to come
Speaker 1: up with it, But having faith in those guys out
Speaker 1: there on the field, because you can easily say this
Speaker 1: is a guy who hasn't had a big play yet,
Speaker 1: but nonetheless he's coming up there and stepping up in
Speaker 1: a big way. So again, kudos to Carson Wentz. Just
Speaker 1: each every week we realize as Eagles fans how lucky
Speaker 1: we are to have him be the quarterback. Okay, both
Speaker 1: on and off the field in every way shaping form.
Speaker 1: But the future of the franchise looks so bright because
Speaker 1: of number eleven back there. Who's the other candidate for
Speaker 1: Flare of the Week? It's gonna be one. We're going
Speaker 1: defense here. Look, the Eagles gave up seven points on defense. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: we'll fast forward here. Okay, Brandon Graham had a sack
Speaker 1: in the first half. And then to start the second half, Okay,
Speaker 1: Arizona comes out. Okay, you know it's their first drive
Speaker 1: after the Eagles milt a bunch of time off the clock,
Speaker 1: and you figure it's like the last desperate chance for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals to make it a ball game. And on
Speaker 1: back to back plays, Brandon Graham gets tackles for loss.
Speaker 1: Always in the backfield. I know some people don't value
Speaker 1: the tackles for loss as much as they do sacks,
Speaker 1: but those tackles for loss they put you behind the
Speaker 1: sticks for the offense. So Brandon has always been great
Speaker 1: at getting penetration, getting inside there, disrupting your running game,
Speaker 1: and if you try to run the ball away from him,
Speaker 1: he's gonna run it down. So Brandon, another solid effort,
Speaker 1: got a sacking at a day. But again, those tackles
Speaker 1: for loss, those are just as big as getting sacks. Again,
Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia Eel dot Com slash Toyota Player of
Speaker 1: the Week to cash your vote for Carson Wentz or
Speaker 1: maybe if you want to just throw one for either
Speaker 1: Kenyon or Brandon Grahams just to make him feel good. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I think when the highlight video comes out, it will
Speaker 1: be number eleven getting to win. So now it's time
Speaker 1: to take a look at the upcoming NFL schedule. Eagles
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Speaker 1: Thursday Night's game, they've got to be ecstatic about the
Speaker 1: fact that you get the four and one Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: traveling to Carolina to take on the four and one Panthers.
Speaker 1: You got Carson Wentz against Cam Newton. I mean, just
Speaker 1: big playmakers on both sides of the football. You know,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey scoring his first NFL touchdown today for the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and the Panthers beat up on a very good Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions team held on for a three point win. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: though Carolina beat the Patriots a week ago, came back
Speaker 1: this week to beat Detroit. They've had an impressive start
Speaker 1: to their season. Two years ago, once to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl last year had that Super Bowl lost hangover. Well,
Speaker 1: they look like they're back and raid to contend in
Speaker 1: the NFC at four and one. You know why, it's
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Cam Newton is healthy. He had the offseason
Speaker 1: shoulder surgery. I believe it was first couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Didn't look sharp the last two weeks. New England Detroit
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards passing in both games, three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in both games, and they will throw the ball. We
Speaker 1: have our work cut out for us against this receiving corps.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Christian McCaffrey ed Dixon one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: yards receiving today. Devin Bunches, Yeah, right, Ed Dixon planned
Speaker 1: for Greg Olsen, Devin Funches, Calvin Benjamin. You're talking about
Speaker 1: two six, four six, five wide receivers. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be ready to defend on a short week. Our
Speaker 1: biggest challenge thus far, I think even a bigger challenge
Speaker 1: than going to Arrowhead Stadium, because at least you had
Speaker 1: a whole week to prepare for them. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to take on an offense that's rolling the last two
Speaker 1: weeks on a short week. But I like it because, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Man. In order to be
Speaker 1: the best, you gotta beat the best. Love it. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You mentioned the Chiefs game. Hegel's only lost
Speaker 1: as the Kansas City arguably best team in football, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles had a chance to win that game in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. The thing is, if Eagles lost that game,
Speaker 1: you said to yourself on the road, great team, it's
Speaker 1: the AFC game, Okay, you could afford to lose that game.
Speaker 1: This one's in the NFC. You're looking for playoff positioning
Speaker 1: down the line. You want to set yourself, You want
Speaker 1: to set yourself up again if you win next week
Speaker 1: to go to five and one. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: guaranteed a playoff spot. You just want to get yourself
Speaker 1: in position. But the benefit to winning this game on
Speaker 1: Thursday night would be your five and one. I have
Speaker 1: three straight games at the Link where the Eagles have
Speaker 1: been outstanding, three straight home games, four wins in the conference,
Speaker 1: four wins in the conference. You get three straight games
Speaker 1: home the bye week, it will set you set yourself
Speaker 1: up nicely to get into the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to accumulate those wins now, however, you
Speaker 1: can get them so that you're in position when it
Speaker 1: becomes playoff football in November into December. So again, Thursday night,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be quite a fun one to preview, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have it all week long, and it's a
Speaker 1: short week. We don't even have to wait long. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a great win. But pretty much by tomorrow we're
Speaker 1: gonna be moving on to Caroline, to say the least,
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun, more exciting week shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: Everybody will be happy tomorrow and as well as they should.
Speaker 1: We got a good football team that we need to
Speaker 1: embrace and enjoy. And uh, it's just beginning. This is
Speaker 1: a good ride this season. Feel good about this tip going.
Speaker 1: I feel good and the shows have been great. So again, well,
Speaker 1: we're all twenty two review tomorrow on Philadelphias dot com
Speaker 1: as well as Doug Pearson's day after press conference. You
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles beat up on the Arizona
Speaker 1: Carlinals by score of thirty four to seven. Frank Rease,
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the postgame show presented
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