Speaker 1: Eagles Entertainment. All right, welcome to the postgame show, presented
Speaker 1: by Rico Amy Campbell, joined by Ike Grease and Fran Duffie.
Speaker 1: Is always an exciting win for the Eagles in land
Speaker 1: of our Maryland. They take down Washington thirty seven twenty
Speaker 1: seven in a game that that score is a little
Speaker 1: deceiving because I was a close one and I had
Speaker 1: to kind of remind myself to take a breath there
Speaker 1: until the Frand I know we all have a lot
Speaker 1: of thoughts, but I think Ike is like bursting at
Speaker 1: the team's over here, so we're going to go to
Speaker 1: him first. Well, I mean, just an exciting win. I mean,
Speaker 1: listen to game. We've come to realize with this team,
Speaker 1: it's never going to be easy, right, They're never going
Speaker 1: to give us one of those sundays where we can
Speaker 1: kick our feet up and they're up by double digits
Speaker 1: and we relax on our way to a victory. This
Speaker 1: is just the identity of this football team this year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to sweat it out all the way through.
Speaker 1: But true to form and true to character of this
Speaker 1: coach and his team, they were resilient today. They're able
Speaker 1: to put out a big win on the road. Obviously
Speaker 1: you were liked for it to be a little easier.
Speaker 1: But in the bottom line, in the end, Amy, the
Speaker 1: only thing that matters is they walk away with a will.
Speaker 1: Must ship at Florida always used to say no such
Speaker 1: thing as an ugly win. Silhou that that game was
Speaker 1: tighter than like my neck and my back up and
Speaker 1: down all over me. After Greg Ward catches that Touchdop,
Speaker 1: I just give you a peek behind the curtain here
Speaker 1: and what was going on in the studio and greg
Speaker 1: Ward catches that touch. I also want everyone to know
Speaker 1: at home that I had to move this table back
Speaker 1: in my place just a moment ago because Ike was
Speaker 1: jumping up and down on franch shoulders. Okay, let's break this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's very exciting. We got to get into
Speaker 1: it here. That's what makes it fun, all right. Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders a couple of Miles stones for him there on
Speaker 1: that one. DeShawn Jackson, he passes to Shawn Jackson in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight from most scrimmage yards in Eagles
Speaker 1: rookie history, passing Deshawn's mark of one thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: also passing Lashawn McCoy in two thousand and nine with
Speaker 1: most reshaards for an Eagles rookie six hundred and thirty seven.
Speaker 1: This is also the first one hundred yard rushing game
Speaker 1: of his career. Let's talk about this Eagles rookie who
Speaker 1: continues to be a huge part of this offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: easily the best game of the season for Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: when you just look at it from a rushing standpoint.
Speaker 1: We've obviously watched him be explosive in the passing game
Speaker 1: throughout the season, but it was nice to see him
Speaker 1: today finally looked like the back that they took out
Speaker 1: of Happy Valley last year in the second round where
Speaker 1: he had explosive runs, none bigger than the run that
Speaker 1: he had I believe on third and eleven where he
Speaker 1: was able to I think dark for like fifty plus yards,
Speaker 1: the second longest run of the season for him. Nice
Speaker 1: job by the rookie really having his breakout game to day.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at some of the struggles
Speaker 1: that he's had early in the season where it was
Speaker 1: you know, what is his vision like between the tackles
Speaker 1: when things are a little bit tight, a little bit congested,
Speaker 1: There's a lot of traffic in the box. How is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to navigate through those creases? But
Speaker 1: on those plays like dude, that fifty six yard or
Speaker 1: that draw play, it's third and eleven. The defense is
Speaker 1: backed up. They're trying to play against the past. Took.
Speaker 1: Jerson never runs the ball on third and long neverns.
Speaker 1: He did it twice in this game, and they converted
Speaker 1: both times on those draws. Again, where the running lanes
Speaker 1: are wide open. You're not worried about Miles Sanders pitter
Speaker 1: pattering his feed or anything like that. It's just get
Speaker 1: it and go. This was Miles Sanders at his best. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: a really exciting game from him. Boston's got a big contributor.
Speaker 1: When we talk about this offense coming into this game
Speaker 1: with Frand and I were discussing, was just the difference
Speaker 1: in the receiving corps, and it's a lot of young guys.
Speaker 1: We have Greg Ward in there, we have JJ Rzega
Speaker 1: Whiteside in there, We've got um Robert Davis from the
Speaker 1: practice squad promoted this week. Only receiver to catch a
Speaker 1: pass today was Greg Ward. He had he caught, he caught,
Speaker 1: let's see, well, he caught seven seven. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's correct. Seven passes seven. It was somewhere around seven
Speaker 1: seven about seven for sixty one. And that little touchdown
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. Yeah, little too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was important. That was a big one. Um. What
Speaker 1: so the offense relying heavily on zach Ertz, Dallas guy
Speaker 1: at Miles Sanders and a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: the other players not at the wide receiver position. What
Speaker 1: kind of evolution did you see? Here's my question, what
Speaker 1: kind of evolution did you see from this offense with
Speaker 1: being able to work with what they had today? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of that's where we're at right now, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the way that they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: play is that they've got three receivers active today. They
Speaker 1: targeted JJ I think a Whiteside a couple of times,
Speaker 1: unable to come away with the catch. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: Robert Davis in his first really in his first game
Speaker 1: as an Eagle, was not targeted. So essentially, I mean
Speaker 1: that left Greg Warren. So that really was the Eagles
Speaker 1: passing game. You had to rely on the run game,
Speaker 1: So a ton of screen passes, it felt like on
Speaker 1: every second and long they were running some kind of
Speaker 1: a screen, whether it was to Miles Sanders, Boston Scott
Speaker 1: or Dallas Scott or I would I can't wait to
Speaker 1: go back and watch the screen game tomorrow. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the evolution of where they're at right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think evolution evolving is the right word
Speaker 1: to use when you talk about this passing game as
Speaker 1: it pertains to Carson and these young wide receiver Carson
Speaker 1: Steel trying to work to find trust in chemistry with
Speaker 1: these young guys. The one thing that I noticed with
Speaker 1: this offense today, there isn't a lot of trust on
Speaker 1: the outside. To play outside receiver in this league, you
Speaker 1: need separation or you need to have a big body
Speaker 1: so that you're catch radius is a lot wider for
Speaker 1: a quarterback to trust throwing the ball out there. The
Speaker 1: best corners are typically on the outside, and so for
Speaker 1: in order for Carson to have trust throwing the ball
Speaker 1: out there, he's going to need to see some clear,
Speaker 1: open windows or he's going back to where he's familiar,
Speaker 1: and that's down the hashes with his two tight ends
Speaker 1: and even Greg Ward working in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: that's where he's most comfortable at right now. In this
Speaker 1: passing game, it's still a work in progress. It is
Speaker 1: hard to play receiver on the outside, and a quarterback
Speaker 1: in this league is not going to trust throwing the
Speaker 1: ball out there. It's the furthest throws to make. It's
Speaker 1: the throws that the cornerbacks have more time to react to,
Speaker 1: and if you're not on the same page, that's a
Speaker 1: pick six back there. So I'm not surprised that Carson
Speaker 1: didn't try to go outside as much today. He's more
Speaker 1: comfortable with these guys in the inside, and Greg Ward's
Speaker 1: beneficial of that because he's the slot receiver. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's a good point because that was kind of
Speaker 1: my takeaway from watching as well, that he tried to
Speaker 1: go outside a couple of times. There was a couple
Speaker 1: of drops, there was a little bit of inaccuracy, whether
Speaker 1: that was on Carson the receiver. But what really started
Speaker 1: to get them going was those quick passes, those short passes,
Speaker 1: the screen game kind of working in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, dink and duncan, those little plays that just
Speaker 1: you know, death buy a thousand paper cuts. Is that
Speaker 1: kind of way. I mean, if you're looking at just
Speaker 1: the stats. He went thirty or forty three, which is
Speaker 1: a lot like sixty nine. And I think when you
Speaker 1: look ultimately, it was a lot of the quick stuff.
Speaker 1: They ran a lot of screens. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: you saw a good amount of the quick game throws, hitches, slants,
Speaker 1: you saw a lot of that shallow crosses, just things
Speaker 1: to get the ball out quickly. They did run a
Speaker 1: decent amount of shot plays. That's one thing I insed
Speaker 1: to see on film tomorrow. It did seem like off
Speaker 1: play action, they wanted some things to develop down field.
Speaker 1: Quentin Done are the redskins number one corner in this game.
Speaker 1: He was out, so it seemed like they wanted to
Speaker 1: try and see if they could create some things. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz was on the receiving end on a couple of those.
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard had that big one on the game winning
Speaker 1: touchdown drive to Greg Wartz. So we'll see how those
Speaker 1: developed a little bit. I'm excited to go back to
Speaker 1: the film and watch that. But now the bread and
Speaker 1: butter was quick game, screen game, run game. That's that's
Speaker 1: really what the Eagles offense was in this game, all right.
Speaker 1: Before we move on to talk about the defense, because
Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot to talk about there. Let's get
Speaker 1: a little closer to one of the best passes I've
Speaker 1: ever seen from Carson Wentz to Miles Sanders, escaping the pressure,
Speaker 1: making the play last and getting hitting Miles Standers in
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone. An incredible throw, incredible catch,
Speaker 1: fifteen yard touchdown in the third quarter. The only points
Speaker 1: we saw in the third quarter Miles falling down, and
Speaker 1: then it's the beautiful celebration at the end there. What
Speaker 1: did you see on that one rope? I mean, he
Speaker 1: put that thing on a line tight, tight window in
Speaker 1: the back corner of the end zone. Carson Wentz just
Speaker 1: always seems like he's at his best when he's on
Speaker 1: the run, whether that's by or whether it's on a scramball.
Speaker 1: And you can see on that play that was more
Speaker 1: of a scramble situation where you know that was not
Speaker 1: designed for him to get outside the pocket. The initial
Speaker 1: contract of the play breaks down, he's able to get
Speaker 1: his eyes up and he was able to make a play.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders also has to make a great catch and
Speaker 1: make himself available. You coul see him in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone, kind of putting his hand up
Speaker 1: saying like hey, big fall, I'm back here, and making
Speaker 1: sure that he was in the passing lest Yeah, he
Speaker 1: put that ball through his chest. I mean, you're talking
Speaker 1: about a ball where you want to having to have
Speaker 1: the chance to catch it with Miles, you had to
Speaker 1: basically defend yourself against that throw because that throw was
Speaker 1: a laser right between the numbers. And that's where he's
Speaker 1: showing his athleticism. And this is where I think, Carson,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned it for him, he's at his best.
Speaker 1: I've always said, and this is not a knock against him,
Speaker 1: this is just who I believe he is. He's an
Speaker 1: athlete playing in a quarterback position. He can throw the
Speaker 1: ball from all different armslot angles, and when he rolls
Speaker 1: out to his right, that's where that old baseball, his
Speaker 1: old baseball playing days sort of come in. And that
Speaker 1: throw at the Ale Sanders, I mean two redskin defenders
Speaker 1: right there in the corner that end zone, Mause Sanders
Speaker 1: in the Backe again zone in order to put that
Speaker 1: ball in a position where males could catch it and
Speaker 1: really not have to lay out for it. Just really
Speaker 1: a pure athletic throw and great job for male Sanders
Speaker 1: being able to catch it. Yeah, really exciting stuff there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's shift to the defense a little bit.
Speaker 1: It felt like, look, the offense would get a score,
Speaker 1: the defense would not be able to come up with
Speaker 1: the stop. The defense would get a stop, and then
Speaker 1: the offense would turn the ball over. And it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like they were on the same page in that department.
Speaker 1: Today they give twenty seven points to a Washington team
Speaker 1: that averaged fourteen points per game coming into this. This
Speaker 1: was the NFL's thirty second passing offense, averaging one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty one point three yards per game before this
Speaker 1: obviously not what Washington ended up with today, making rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback dayne Haskins look like a pro today. Where did
Speaker 1: the defense really struggle? I thought they liked intensity today. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: just just watching them play, you know, going up against
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback that hasn't even played sixteen full games
Speaker 1: yet still trying to feel his way through this league.
Speaker 1: This is one of the worst offenses in the league
Speaker 1: when it comes to moving the ball, especially in chunk plays,
Speaker 1: and I was real surprised that we weren't able to
Speaker 1: get after Dwayne Haskins back there in the pocket make
Speaker 1: him a little more comfortable. Now, the Redskins don't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over a time because they try to get
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands quickly. But the idea
Speaker 1: that they were able to run the ball at times,
Speaker 1: which set up some of their throwing ability. I just
Speaker 1: thought our defense didn't really play with the intensity that
Speaker 1: I watched them play with against New England, when I
Speaker 1: watched them play with against Seattle the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: it's been Yeah, it's been missing a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the last couple of the second half of that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would agree that. And maybe it's you know, when
Speaker 1: you're going up against an offense, it doesn't necessarily pose
Speaker 1: a big threat to you. They don't have a bunch
Speaker 1: of big names over there that make you stay up
Speaker 1: at night. You can sometimes have a false sense of security, right,
Speaker 1: and you kind of think the game was gonna come
Speaker 1: easy to you. But you noticed in that first quarter,
Speaker 1: even after Washington's first and second drive, they had confidence
Speaker 1: and they realized that they can move the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit. Net rookie wide receiver Terry McLaren, I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, I'm glad we don't play them anymore this
Speaker 1: year because he's killed US for two games, Yes, two games,
Speaker 1: he's had a good game against US. I thought the
Speaker 1: tackling today wasn't great. That was one of the my
Speaker 1: takeaways just watching the game live, was that you know,
Speaker 1: they consistently were not able to get whether it's Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson or any of the receivers. We saw the mistackle
Speaker 1: on Terry McLaren's long catch and run for the touchdown
Speaker 1: on the second drive. To me, the big thing was
Speaker 1: that Washington was able to consistently stay on schedule. They
Speaker 1: were only four of ten on third down, but they
Speaker 1: only had ten third down conversions, so that means that
Speaker 1: they were having success on first and second down. And
Speaker 1: so when I look at this Eagles defense, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was not the performance I think we expected. I do
Speaker 1: want to give a little bit of credit, I think
Speaker 1: to Washington good game play. They got the ball out
Speaker 1: quickly more often than not. We saw the option run
Speaker 1: game with them, which we hadn't really seen on film.
Speaker 1: So we saw a handful option runs that went for
Speaker 1: some big games, or that Haskins had that big one
Speaker 1: for twenty plus yards. So I think when you look
Speaker 1: at that. Okay, tip of the cap. They're playing with
Speaker 1: three rookie receivers too. We heard plenty of that on
Speaker 1: the broadcast. Everybody was watching at home heard that. But
Speaker 1: I think when you look at the way that they
Speaker 1: wanted to play, that played into this Eagle's defense and
Speaker 1: some of the strengths and weaknesses that they've got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought they called a good game for Dwayne Haskins,
Speaker 1: put him in a situation to succeed. You could see
Speaker 1: his confidence growing. Using Adrian Peterson there as well to
Speaker 1: kind of get things more balanced there. Man, steal can run.
Speaker 1: You can go out there and no, no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to tackle anybody want to tackle Frando in here,
Speaker 1: and you basically did, basically did. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into your takeaways. What's your first takeaway of this. Let's
Speaker 1: now start on the offensive side of the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: coming into this game it was going to be wins
Speaker 1: in the kids and how would they be able to do.
Speaker 1: Excluding Zach Ers, who we know is a veteran Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl All Pro type, Tidy and the rest of the
Speaker 1: young guys on offense are basically first and second year players.
Speaker 1: Throw in Dallas Goddard along with the young wide receivers
Speaker 1: and a rookie at the quarterback position, and really a
Speaker 1: guy who's in basically his rookie year, really his second
Speaker 1: year in Boston Scott. I thought they did a nice
Speaker 1: job today. We talked earlier about the outside guys Arthega
Speaker 1: Whiteside and Robert Davis not been a big part of
Speaker 1: the game, but they were a part of the running game.
Speaker 1: Right to be a receiver in this offense, you have
Speaker 1: to be able to block. They did a nice job
Speaker 1: for Mile Sanders and Boston Scott being able to run
Speaker 1: the football. I thought that was a huge part of
Speaker 1: the offensive success this year because you couldn't rely on
Speaker 1: throwing the ball as much. And then Greg Ward with
Speaker 1: the big touchdown catch late in the game, tracking that
Speaker 1: ball in the corner of the end zone. Nice throw
Speaker 1: from Carson too, putting that ball up and dropping it
Speaker 1: in the bucket for Greg Wards. Same touchdown or same throw.
Speaker 1: Same play call that they ran against Miami a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago where Nelson agilore on the two point
Speaker 1: conversion late in the game. Obviously they did not win
Speaker 1: the game, but the same play, same furrow from Carson
Speaker 1: was a great throw that time to Nelson as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was cool to Seecret Gored have that moment as well.
Speaker 1: And you talk about Boston Scott and Miles Sanders involved
Speaker 1: in the running game and the passing game, the two
Speaker 1: leading rushers of this team. Of course, obviously Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: with one hundred and twenty two yards and then Boston
Speaker 1: Scott six carries for twenty six yards, but he was
Speaker 1: really more involved in the passing game. Seven targets, seven catches,
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards for his longest one of twelve yards,
Speaker 1: they're averaging five point six yards of catch, so showing
Speaker 1: some versatility there as well. And listen, we got a
Speaker 1: few games left in this season, hopefully a few more
Speaker 1: in January. But the formula for success for this offense
Speaker 1: is gonna be right down the hashes, right, It's going
Speaker 1: to be that offensive line blocking in the run game
Speaker 1: for these two running backs. Hopefully we get Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: back here soon, and it's going to be your two
Speaker 1: tight ends. These are your best offensive skilled position players.
Speaker 1: And sure you're gonna do a courtesy and try to
Speaker 1: get the ball outside of times or maybe throw a
Speaker 1: deep ball down the middle, but your bread and Butter
Speaker 1: over the next few weeks. Is gonna be ERTs, Goddard,
Speaker 1: Sanders and Ballston. Scott would have sprinkled in a little
Speaker 1: bit of gray Award there. That's how you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to win, and it's gonna start with those guys up
Speaker 1: front running, I mean, being able to establish the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage in the run game and the passing game.
Speaker 1: That's what will be. If they can get Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: back this week, he'll be a part of that, a
Speaker 1: big part of that group. Yeah. I thought this was
Speaker 1: maybe Dallas Goddard's best game of the season. It's nice
Speaker 1: catches five yards and that one on the game winning drive,
Speaker 1: the one hand to let I mean that was We've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of a lot of guys not catch
Speaker 1: that ball on this team and for him to lay
Speaker 1: out like that with the one hand, I thought one
Speaker 1: of the better games we've seen from him. That's what
Speaker 1: we've been asking for all season, is you know, the receivers,
Speaker 1: the guys, whether it's tight end, running back, wide receiver,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, makes makes the quarterback because he can't
Speaker 1: do it all hi stuff. They are gonna be plays
Speaker 1: that Carson Wentz is gonna be off target. You want
Speaker 1: guys to be able to come up with those catches,
Speaker 1: and Dallas on that play came up with a big one. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a part of the game of football. Fan.
Speaker 1: You watch plenty of tape and you know every throw
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be perfect, and sometimes your playmakers gotta go
Speaker 1: out there and help your quarterback. And that was a
Speaker 1: play there, not that the throw was off. You really
Speaker 1: had two guys running to each other. Had they not
Speaker 1: running to each other, got it would have been up
Speaker 1: on his feet and caught that ball right and stride.
Speaker 1: But a nice job by Dallas being able to go
Speaker 1: down make that catch. Great concentration, And I thought greg
Speaker 1: Ward made some tough catches in traffic, and that's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna need. This is gonna be a collective effort.
Speaker 1: And sure there's enough on the quarterback shoulders that he's
Speaker 1: gonna need to make plays, but he's gonna need his
Speaker 1: buddies to sit to step up and help him out
Speaker 1: every once in a while. Ye, Carson and the kids
Speaker 1: like think I've ever seen you. It's Amy. We went
Speaker 1: through about a month there where we sat here and
Speaker 1: broke down loss after loss after loss, and you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get some joy again out of this
Speaker 1: football season. Back to back wins. You got a big
Speaker 1: game coming up next week. As a fan, this is
Speaker 1: what you want. You want to be playing meaningful football
Speaker 1: this time of the year with a chance to go
Speaker 1: into playoffs. As tough as this season has been on
Speaker 1: the Eagles, Uh, we still find ourselves right in the
Speaker 1: thick of the playoff race. I will say watching games
Speaker 1: with ike wins hurt more for me. I'm in physical pain. Physically.
Speaker 1: I need to go to the ice tub, like down
Speaker 1: in the hall. Right. Let's takeaway, Well, we've been talking
Speaker 1: enough about him, can't talk enough about him. Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: rookie running back. Great to see him have really his
Speaker 1: best game as a pro through the air and on
Speaker 1: the ground. This is why you draft a running back
Speaker 1: this high in the second round. Second running back taking
Speaker 1: overall behind the Raiders Josh Jacobs, and we're starting to
Speaker 1: see why in the second half of the season. A
Speaker 1: little bit also a little bit of a slow start
Speaker 1: in the first half of the season, playing behind Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard sorted in a situational uh sort of game plan
Speaker 1: where he gets a lot of the passing plays at
Speaker 1: the outside. Well, since Jordan Howard has gone down, they've
Speaker 1: relied on malesand there's a lot more. And it's great
Speaker 1: to see him come out and answer the bell this
Speaker 1: week through the air and on the ground. I know
Speaker 1: we marvel at what he did on the ground today,
Speaker 1: especially with that big run on third down. But man,
Speaker 1: I can't think enough about that catch in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone. As a running back, this is
Speaker 1: guy coming out of college wasn't necessarily known for his hands,
Speaker 1: and so to see him catch that ball in the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone, it's pretty good. Happy for
Speaker 1: Let's watch it again. Let's watch Jack and watch that
Speaker 1: one hundred times. Well, Amy, you and I. We talked
Speaker 1: with James Franklin, the head coach of the defense date
Speaker 1: right after the Eagles drafted him. He said one of
Speaker 1: the big pieces of feedback he'd gotten all spring from
Speaker 1: NFL teams, not just the Eagles, but all spring, was, man,
Speaker 1: we really can't wait to get this guy on the
Speaker 1: field in the passing game. And he said they were
Speaker 1: kicking themselves for not using him more in the passing game.
Speaker 1: And we've seen that come to fruition this season. What
Speaker 1: he's being able to do. I think when you look
Speaker 1: at this this game, thirteen targets for the running backs,
Speaker 1: Boston Scott and Miles Sanders, thirteen catches, So I think
Speaker 1: that that comes from scramble drill. We saw that on
Speaker 1: that touchdown. You get that from the screen game, and
Speaker 1: you get that from misdirections. All those different jet sweeps
Speaker 1: and little play actions where he kind of dumps it off.
Speaker 1: Checkdowns were a big part of it as well. So
Speaker 1: you got to give a lot of credits to the
Speaker 1: coaches and Carson Wentz as well. Thirteen targets, thirteen catches
Speaker 1: for the backs, absolutely, and just for those guys to
Speaker 1: show that they are reliable in that way. That just
Speaker 1: builds the trust and the confidence. The more you prove
Speaker 1: that you're ready for that opportunity, the more you're going
Speaker 1: to get that opportunity. I mentioned those milestones for Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to keep doing that, but it's should
Speaker 1: keep doing it. I should keep doing it. This is
Speaker 1: we need a counter like those are big names, Deshan Jackson,
Speaker 1: LaShaun McCoy, big names around here. Can you guys put
Speaker 1: that into perspective a little bit more of how big
Speaker 1: of a deal is it for a rookie two in
Speaker 1: one game pass both of those guys on those different
Speaker 1: especially those two guys, and I can remember their rookie
Speaker 1: years where you know, they were Shady came and obviously
Speaker 1: had Brian Westbrook steel here, so he was more of
Speaker 1: a compliment until late in that year. But I remember
Speaker 1: the Sean coming in and he was like our best
Speaker 1: receiver as a rookie. You finished that year with over
Speaker 1: nine hundred yards almost a thousand yards receiving first two games,
Speaker 1: I believe he had over one hundred yards receiving as
Speaker 1: a rookie. So you're talking about two of the franchise
Speaker 1: best players ever. And when I remember their rookie years,
Speaker 1: they were electrifying and Miles this year didn't necessarily start
Speaker 1: off that way. But I love the fact that he's
Speaker 1: stuck with it and he's gotten better as the year
Speaker 1: has gone on, and he's becoming a even more important
Speaker 1: part of this offense. And if they're gonna get into playoffs,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need him to continue to do that. So people,
Speaker 1: you know, they're a little reluctant to take a running
Speaker 1: back high in the draft, and when you get one
Speaker 1: in the second round, you almost want him to be
Speaker 1: what is quote unquote called a three down back. You know,
Speaker 1: Miles may eventually evolve into that, but right now, I
Speaker 1: think he's everything that this team needs. And it was
Speaker 1: good to same have a good game to day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're getting closer to hearing from coach Peter Sindham. Sure
Speaker 1: he'll be talking about Miles Standers as well. Well about
Speaker 1: about forty five seconds before we're gonna have death. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I remember from Lashawn McCoy's rookie year
Speaker 1: was all the complaining from the fans or the media
Speaker 1: of oh, he tries to bust everything else. Vision. What
Speaker 1: do we hear about Miles Sanders early on in his
Speaker 1: career a lot of the same things. I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, like it's just a young player and
Speaker 1: look for me. It says a lot about Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: that he continues to overcome that adversity and find a
Speaker 1: role for himself. All right, let's hear from coach fall
Speaker 1: behind again. You got to come back. You gotta flip
Speaker 1: a switch lead after the emphasis you put on, you know,
Speaker 1: of trying to avoid a letdown, disappointed that he didn't
Speaker 1: quite have the juice in at first half that you
Speaker 1: would have liked. Um. I think sometimes you you don't
Speaker 1: realize how important and how much these guys put into
Speaker 1: the week of practice in preparation. We played It's all
Speaker 1: about eleven thirty pm Monday night. Over ninety plays on offense.
Speaker 1: Defense was close to sixty plays fifty something plays on division.
Speaker 1: It's it's a tough tough thing physically, that's a tough thing.
Speaker 1: That was my concern coming into this game. That's why
Speaker 1: I went a little up tempo early offensively to try
Speaker 1: to jump start and try to counteract that. But I'm
Speaker 1: just so proud of the guys. This is this is
Speaker 1: a great team win. We hung in there, We battled
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes. I mean, it took sixty minutes to
Speaker 1: win this game. And and uh my hat's off to
Speaker 1: our guys in locker room in the second half, and
Speaker 1: you've got rank A Ward Boston Scott Miles say, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys making plays with the final drive.
Speaker 1: Is this one of the more rewarding wins as a
Speaker 1: coach with with all these guys, some guys with a
Speaker 1: practice squardage. Yeah. I mean, I'm just so happy for
Speaker 1: for those three guys you mentioned obviously, Miles Sanders, I
Speaker 1: believe you set up rookie record today for scrimmage yards. Um,
Speaker 1: I believe or total yards as a rookie. And I
Speaker 1: mean to see to see these guys and and the
Speaker 1: energy and um, the excitement, the enthusiasm. Um, it's great
Speaker 1: to see them, you know, perform and play and play well,
Speaker 1: and and they're disappointed when they when they don't make plays,
Speaker 1: and they're excited when they do. And the guys it
Speaker 1: just seems to kind of energize the entire entire team. Um.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we have a lot of improvement,
Speaker 1: you know, to do a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: things to work on and correct. But they they all
Speaker 1: three of those guys had impacts in this game. Obviously.
Speaker 1: What does it say about your team that you guys
Speaker 1: were able to Carson specifically two weeks in a row
Speaker 1: now have game winning guys. Um. Well, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm proud of proud of Carson and obviously
Speaker 1: leading this team and um giving you know, giving us
Speaker 1: an opportunity down down and getting us back into the game.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the game where um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just I think it's just signs of you know, as
Speaker 1: as we as we mature as a group, uh you know, um,
Speaker 1: as we understand this game and this game is a
Speaker 1: it's a great game, and and um it's just hopefully
Speaker 1: it's you know, we don't want to make it this
Speaker 1: hard all the time. Um. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's it's good to see him lead this football team
Speaker 1: like he has the last couple of weeks in terms
Speaker 1: of how he now just like hitting hitting his holes.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of not hesitating you saw maybe earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. I just think it's experienced just seeing
Speaker 1: it over and over again, getting the reps during the week, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, being the guy so to speak, you know,
Speaker 1: and and um you know, he's he's gotten and working
Speaker 1: with Deuce and um constantly you know, in the classroom
Speaker 1: and taking it to the practice field, and it's just
Speaker 1: spending time with him, and um, you know, through even
Speaker 1: though he's a he's a he's technically a rookie. Um
Speaker 1: you know, through experience, Uh, you get better each week.
Speaker 1: And he's time you touch the ball, how difficult of
Speaker 1: throwing catch was that touchdown Carson had two miles in
Speaker 1: the corner there. Yeah, I mean, you know, we we
Speaker 1: had a feeling that they might they might bring bring
Speaker 1: some pressure and and we scored actually into zach Ertz
Speaker 1: on the same play earlier and I think in the
Speaker 1: third quarter or maybe the fourth quarter there, Yeah, same
Speaker 1: end zone. So um, gosh, it wasn't It wasn't just
Speaker 1: a great two you know, individuals making a play at
Speaker 1: the same time, and um, difficult from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: a quarterback having to put the ball with your right
Speaker 1: amount of air on it, and then difficult from Greg
Speaker 1: standpoint with a guy hanging right on him to to
Speaker 1: go up and elevate and and come down with the
Speaker 1: with the ball. He Greg made some big, big plays,
Speaker 1: whether it be on third down or obviously that that
Speaker 1: touched out at the end in this game and at
Speaker 1: exciting to see Greg Ward obviously had I think poor
Speaker 1: catches on that final drug was a lot of that plan.
Speaker 1: Is that just Carson going through his progression and sort
Speaker 1: of what made you believe Greg could step up in
Speaker 1: that type of money? You know? For yes, my wife,
Speaker 1: uh favorite player. No, Um, you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: the game just evolves. Uh, you get a feel in
Speaker 1: a sense of not only players but the game itself.
Speaker 1: And even as a play caller, you have to get
Speaker 1: into the game and the rhythm and the flow and um,
Speaker 1: you know, and then just talking with you know, with
Speaker 1: Mike grow and and getting ideas and suggestions from him
Speaker 1: and putting all that together. It just sometimes it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the hot hand. Uh, it's definitely Carson,
Speaker 1: you know, feeling more comfortable with Greg obviously, and and
Speaker 1: trusting and um just you know, making making nice accurate throws.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's not really it's more about just
Speaker 1: being in the flow of the game at that time
Speaker 1: than it is dialing up I think specific plays for
Speaker 1: specific guys. Carson take a couple of steps forward the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks that there's every indication early in
Speaker 1: the season that he had trouble with these situations. Then
Speaker 1: last week with a bunch of guys that he probably
Speaker 1: wasn't very familiar with, he wins. And then this week,
Speaker 1: after fumbling the ball away and giving them life, he
Speaker 1: comes back and kind of does something else, does something different.
Speaker 1: Have you seen a step forward? I mean I think so.
Speaker 1: I think he I think he continues to improve every week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know from that that standpoint, and listen, there's not
Speaker 1: a lot that really just bothers him or the team
Speaker 1: or the offense. I mean, we know, we know that,
Speaker 1: you know, bad things, negative plays are going to happen,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you saw it again today. We overcome
Speaker 1: and we hang together, we hang tough, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we find a way to win the game.
Speaker 1: And I think I think in Carson's case, that's exactly
Speaker 1: who he is. That's that's what we know he is
Speaker 1: as our quarterback and our leader. And it's really really
Speaker 1: great to see from from his standpoint that stuff doesn't
Speaker 1: bother him. You know, he gets mad, he goes the
Speaker 1: other way as far as you know, put it back
Speaker 1: into my hands. I want to win the game. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's the confidence that we have in him. On the
Speaker 1: long run by Miles, it was a third and eleven.
Speaker 1: You're in your own zone. It's a draw. So a
Speaker 1: lot of times those are kind of you just like
Speaker 1: give up type plays. I'm not accusing you of that,
Speaker 1: but what was your thinking on that play call at
Speaker 1: that time? Get the first down? Really? Really that that's
Speaker 1: that I mean, you know, you guys again don't understand
Speaker 1: game planning and understand scheme and how the how the
Speaker 1: Redskins or our opponents try to defend in certain situations.
Speaker 1: And we had an option to kill it to a
Speaker 1: pass if we wanted to. We had an alert there.
Speaker 1: So got the look we wanted and worked out, Doug,
Speaker 1: Doug new knock on these new knock on these last
Speaker 1: three weeks of lead up games for one of a
Speaker 1: better term. But are you glad that Dallas is now
Speaker 1: in front of you in that this week you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about motivation, you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about letdowns. You have to worry about the mental aspect
Speaker 1: of it. Is that going to be kind of good
Speaker 1: to just coach leading up to a game that everyone
Speaker 1: understands what it is, you know? I think I think
Speaker 1: where we were just a couple of weeks ago, you know,
Speaker 1: we understood as a team, you know, we kind of
Speaker 1: dug ourselves, you know, into a hole, and we knew
Speaker 1: what was in front of us every week was was
Speaker 1: a playoff type game. I mean, it was a must
Speaker 1: win game, and it just it didn't. It's just the
Speaker 1: way our schedule is right now. Obviously we're finishing with
Speaker 1: you know, the last two and now the two in
Speaker 1: Front Division games. But um, it's it's something that we're
Speaker 1: it's what we dealt We dealt ourselves this this uh,
Speaker 1: this situation. So UM, I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: take much motivation. You know, this week, our guys are
Speaker 1: excited to to get through this game and this win.
Speaker 1: It's it's difficult to win in this league and especially
Speaker 1: in our division, and um, you know, uh, we just
Speaker 1: gotta we got to come to work this week again
Speaker 1: and in preparation for another another hard fought battle at
Speaker 1: the Links. There weren't the big take away there, well,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously we got to continue to talk and
Speaker 1: and you know, um show him through tape, study, watch,
Speaker 1: watch the film, see if there's a place to go
Speaker 1: with the ball, uh, and just just learn from it,
Speaker 1: continue to learn, continue to grow. I mean, listen, it's
Speaker 1: you know, as many times as we ask our quarterback
Speaker 1: to that we put the ball in his hands. I mean,
Speaker 1: plays like that are going to happen. Obviously we try
Speaker 1: to try to minimize them. But we're just going to
Speaker 1: continue to talk with him and just work with him
Speaker 1: and he understands, he knows, and um that we can't
Speaker 1: put ourselves in that situation. You have a large number
Speaker 1: of you are fans here today, which wasn't the first
Speaker 1: time for that in the stadium. For you, when you
Speaker 1: see that now, is it less surprising to you to
Speaker 1: see you, Um, our fans traveled well any no matter
Speaker 1: where we are or whether we're you know, on the
Speaker 1: West coast or here on the East coast. I mean,
Speaker 1: our fans are are tremendous and and they support our
Speaker 1: guys and our team. And then it was exciting to
Speaker 1: see today and they really really energized you know, our
Speaker 1: guys obviously to be here and I was exciting to
Speaker 1: see and um, again my hats off to them to
Speaker 1: get the fans that traveled and and uh it came
Speaker 1: down here or flew into this game. UM, hats off
Speaker 1: to them because they were a big part of this
Speaker 1: win as well. The defense you're you gave up big
Speaker 1: plays again again it seemed like your defensive secondary struggled
Speaker 1: at times. I mean, is that just kind of who
Speaker 1: you are and you have to live with it. But
Speaker 1: what can you what can you do going forward? Like
Speaker 1: that's you know, a team that's pretty familiar with you,
Speaker 1: and it's had success against your second well, and that's
Speaker 1: that's the only thing is I mean, yeah, we're fifteen,
Speaker 1: and I mean we're playing our division and we're playing
Speaker 1: him for the second time, so you know, uh, you
Speaker 1: gotta give credit to our opponent. Obviously they study the
Speaker 1: tape as well. And uh, I thought, I thought Haskins
Speaker 1: really stepped in did did a nice job really today
Speaker 1: and led his team. I mean it was um something
Speaker 1: that you know, you know that he's capable of doing
Speaker 1: that obviously, and he's in this league for a reason.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, we've got to do better. We've
Speaker 1: got to look at the tape, make the corrections, and
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta Titan s Mary's up. Okay, thanks guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: Coach Doug Peterson adding the perspective there. We are also
Speaker 1: waiting to hear from Carson Wentz and Miles Sanders will
Speaker 1: be taking the podium as well. And uh, we're about
Speaker 1: to here from Greg Ward, who had the game winning
Speaker 1: touchdown catch in this Eagles win. He is one on
Speaker 1: one with Eagles insider Dave Spiderow after the game. Geward,
Speaker 1: how are you feel right now, is this is this
Speaker 1: everything you've worked for? Yes, sir, everything I worked for me.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed. That's all I can said right now that
Speaker 1: don't blessed. Tell me about the last play going up
Speaker 1: and getting a touchdown catch. We actually called that play
Speaker 1: before and we scored on it, and I was naked
Speaker 1: and m fought it again. I was able to make
Speaker 1: the play. Greg, you were the goat, you guy going
Speaker 1: down the stretch here. I mean, you gotta feel great
Speaker 1: about how much progress you're made, how much trust you
Speaker 1: and Carson have built up with each other. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: we always work, man, We always talk, were always working,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to the lab. Man, it's all
Speaker 1: business and it's spanning offer right now. You feel like
Speaker 1: this offense had a really good rhythm in the second half,
Speaker 1: every time he's going down the field putting points on
Speaker 1: the board. Definitely, Man, it was just small mistakes that
Speaker 1: I was pushing us back. Man. But God is good, man.
Speaker 1: We came out with the win tonight. How big is
Speaker 1: this waining for the Philadelphiagles football team. It's really big.
Speaker 1: We got here fighting five lives right now, so we
Speaker 1: just gotta keep fighting, man, and making heaven. Thanks Greg.
Speaker 1: Congratulations all right, a very exciting team win, but a
Speaker 1: very exciting day for Greg Ward as while a guy
Speaker 1: who has continued to grind it out and find a
Speaker 1: way to make some place for this team. Let's get
Speaker 1: to your third takeaway. Yeah, great analogy here with the
Speaker 1: grind it out, find a way, because that's where I
Speaker 1: go my third takeaway, what the resiliency of this team.
Speaker 1: They found a way. It wasn't pretty. It was back
Speaker 1: and forth. Certainly, we would like to have a comfortable
Speaker 1: win where you don't have to stress it out all
Speaker 1: the way to the end of the game. But like
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, this team will not afford us that luxury.
Speaker 1: But still it's always you know, we're definitely taking but
Speaker 1: you got to give them credit for continuing to fight.
Speaker 1: You know. A couple of weeks ago, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of noise on the outside about this team as
Speaker 1: to whether or not the coach still had the era
Speaker 1: of the team, whether or not they were still playing
Speaker 1: hard for them, for him, for each other, whether or
Speaker 1: not they still believed in one another, and whether or
Speaker 1: not they could do something late in this season or
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. I think they've answered that
Speaker 1: call in both of these games. You know, early in
Speaker 1: the season, they may have lost these games, you know,
Speaker 1: being down on themselves, not feeling or feeling sorry for themselves,
Speaker 1: but they continue to fight in both of these games,
Speaker 1: getting down seventeen to three on Monday night, taking it
Speaker 1: to overtime and winning, and this game going back and forth,
Speaker 1: a critical fumble from Carson later in this game that
Speaker 1: allowed Washington to go up twenty seven twenty four, and
Speaker 1: you're saying to yourself, oh my god, here we go. Well,
Speaker 1: let's get ready for next week. This team didn't do that.
Speaker 1: They decided to go out there and they found a
Speaker 1: way to get the goyhead touchdown and then come up
Speaker 1: with the defensive touchdown to really seal the victory. So
Speaker 1: just really a resilient run from this team. Wasn't pretty.
Speaker 1: It wasn't pretty. There's enough to learn from, but there's
Speaker 1: also enough there to feel good about and build on
Speaker 1: going forward. Yeah, let me say this, when that fumble happens,
Speaker 1: the defense turns around in one play, two, play three
Speaker 1: play field goal if they let them drive the football there,
Speaker 1: if the defense allows them to go even if it's
Speaker 1: a longer drive, six seven play drive up more time.
Speaker 1: The Eagles mayn't have time. It's late late in the game.
Speaker 1: So the defense did their job. We can say everything
Speaker 1: about the defense and what they did in this game.
Speaker 1: It was not their best outing, but ultimately they were
Speaker 1: able to come up big at the end of the
Speaker 1: game and hold them to three. Well, a tough, tough
Speaker 1: spots did enough to get the job done. And of
Speaker 1: course you mentioned that defensive touchdown to seal the win
Speaker 1: from Nigel Brandham there with the scoop and score to
Speaker 1: ice this one. We're out there happy about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna hear from Nigel right now
Speaker 1: because he's one on one with Eagles insider Dave Spederow. Nigel,
Speaker 1: you finish off the game the right way. Hey, feeling
Speaker 1: right now? Great? We're still going, man, He's just gonna
Speaker 1: keep going, keep fighting there a week. These games been
Speaker 1: a lot closer than what we wanted too. But hey,
Speaker 1: the man, thank you coming out with a win. Hey,
Speaker 1: you had to get an end zone there, right like you.
Speaker 1: You were not going to be denied. Couldn't be denied
Speaker 1: for what this team been through all you man, We
Speaker 1: can't be denied. We just gotta keep fighting, to keep
Speaker 1: going all the way through. Not bigger is to win,
Speaker 1: Nigel biggest one. Yeah, okay, that is the best. That
Speaker 1: is sideline reporting at its finest. Stick a mic in
Speaker 1: an athletes' face literally as he just ran what like
Speaker 1: forty yards in the house and he's like he's huffing
Speaker 1: and puffing, and he's like this win. That is the
Speaker 1: sights and sounds of the game from the Eagles insider
Speaker 1: right there. I love it. Brackers not used to long
Speaker 1: wait for a backer to have to run. He got
Speaker 1: what he was a huge, huge player. Yeah, And like
Speaker 1: I said, at the end of it, he said, every
Speaker 1: game are This game was the biggest, Every game from
Speaker 1: now on is going to be the biggest. Next week
Speaker 1: is a bigger game than one. We just played. Perfect
Speaker 1: transition to what I was about to talk about. Coach
Speaker 1: Peterson on the Dallas matchup, he was asked, Hey, are
Speaker 1: you glad now that it's finally Dallas week and you
Speaker 1: can really focus on you know what everyone's been asking
Speaker 1: you about. He said, Look, we understood, we dug ourselves
Speaker 1: into a hole. Every week has been a must win,
Speaker 1: a must win for us. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to take much motivation, but huge win for the
Speaker 1: Eagles today and of course a Dallas game against the
Speaker 1: Rams that we're going to be watching that score this afternoon. Um,
Speaker 1: just take us through the stakes of this one. So
Speaker 1: if the Rams beat Dallas this afternoon, you could be
Speaker 1: watching that right now. If they if they as our
Speaker 1: second screen, Uh no, they keep our volume up and
Speaker 1: have that game. I think when you look at that,
Speaker 1: if the Rams are able to win this game and
Speaker 1: it's tied up zero zeros, you can see right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: then next week we can clinch the division with a win. Now,
Speaker 1: if the if the Cowboys do beat the Rams, then
Speaker 1: next week, yes, it would be for the division lead,
Speaker 1: but it would not clinch the division. So you would
Speaker 1: still have to play everything to play for a week seventeen.
Speaker 1: But if the Cowboys lose today and the Eagles win
Speaker 1: next week, week seventeen doesn't mean anything in terms of
Speaker 1: playoff seed. The Eagles are in. Yeah, a lot on
Speaker 1: the line. I'm like, why I'm looking at that box
Speaker 1: score trying to figure out the story of this game.
Speaker 1: Elasonly rushed one time, but they've held the ball for
Speaker 1: five minutes of a lot of game, a lot of games.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, don't get like riled up about about that.
Speaker 1: We're trying to bring. We're trying to bring. We got
Speaker 1: a whole second half, Thank Cowboys, Ramps. All right, So
Speaker 1: you know we know Eagles Insider is all over the
Speaker 1: field postgame getting interviews. We also have him one on
Speaker 1: one with Avonte Maddox after this one. Let's take a watch. Avante,
Speaker 1: tell me about that last call you came with the
Speaker 1: blitzer got home? Oh yeah, I just had to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Does the main thing on mamas get
Speaker 1: to him? You know? I got to him? How trying
Speaker 1: to throw him now? And like you threw it us something?
Speaker 1: But I mean does a good play maybe need it?
Speaker 1: That very emotional effort by this team today. Agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely. I mean all sides of the ball, off
Speaker 1: his defense, special teams. It was great July to win
Speaker 1: again late in the game. What does this mean kind
Speaker 1: of going into these final two games? I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a lot man. We gotta keep this energy going and
Speaker 1: keep this keep the winds going, and let's keep going
Speaker 1: on on all every week and all these Eagles fans
Speaker 1: in Washington awesome, right, I love it and everywhere everywhere
Speaker 1: I love. Its a lot to celebrate after this when
Speaker 1: we are waiting for Miles Sanders to take the podium again.
Speaker 1: A career day for this, for this Eagles rookie breaking
Speaker 1: multiple records, surpassing to Sean Jackson for most yards in
Speaker 1: scrimmage by an Eagles rookie that was in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight when Deshawn's record of one thousand and eight yards.
Speaker 1: He also passes Lashawn McCoy in two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: with the most rushing yards for an Eagles rookie with
Speaker 1: six hundred thirty seven, his first one hundred yard rushing
Speaker 1: game of his career. He has two touchdowns including one
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful catches I have ever seen, and
Speaker 1: major landmarks there from the Eagles rookie, and a lot
Speaker 1: to look forward to from this guy as well. Guys,
Speaker 1: you want to chime in at all while we wait
Speaker 1: for wait to hear from him. Yeah, and great game
Speaker 1: to have leading up to this next big stage right
Speaker 1: when you're going up against the Cowboys. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: on a bigger stage next week obviously with more steak
Speaker 1: and if you don't have Jordan Howard going next week.
Speaker 1: It's going to be great to have Miles Sanders coming
Speaker 1: off of this game with his confidence riding high, because
Speaker 1: we know what the Dallas team poses as a threat
Speaker 1: for this Eagles offense. Yeah, a lot of opportunity there.
Speaker 1: And look, he's continued to be a weapon in both
Speaker 1: the run game and the passing games. Carved out this
Speaker 1: role for himself. We saw just since he continues to
Speaker 1: be more and more productive for this Eagles team, which
Speaker 1: I love to see from a rookie if they don't
Speaker 1: come out swinging, you know, to go through that adversity
Speaker 1: and say, look, I'm still going to work. I'm still
Speaker 1: going to continue to carve out a role for myself
Speaker 1: and continue to be a part of this offense, a
Speaker 1: guy that these coaches clearly trust, the Carson Wentz clearly
Speaker 1: trust because they are going to him again and again.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from Miles. Miles, can you talk about your
Speaker 1: progression so far from week one to now and Week
Speaker 1: fifteen had a great game to day. Can you tell
Speaker 1: us how your rookie season has gone for you so far?
Speaker 1: It's been It's been good and good, you know, just
Speaker 1: like everybody's rookie season. It's been up and down, ups
Speaker 1: and downs. Uh. All I've been trying to focus is
Speaker 1: coming in every every day to work and just trying
Speaker 1: to get better each week. That touch that that you
Speaker 1: had again went up see there. I mean that just
Speaker 1: kind of worked open for the back of the end zone. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Um it was had a regular flat route. Uh.
Speaker 1: Carson started scrambling, so I try to get in the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. Then started to stay in
Speaker 1: the corner because the linebacker that was only he thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna go across the end zone. So I'm
Speaker 1: happy Carson seeming just trying to make a good catch.
Speaker 1: You know, what were you thinking when they they called
Speaker 1: the draw or Carson checked to the draw on third
Speaker 1: and ten. Um, Well, they had a front where they
Speaker 1: had about four guys on the right side. It was
Speaker 1: like a big overload look, so uh, I knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna go to the left regardless, and then the
Speaker 1: end on the left side like added in. So I
Speaker 1: just try to use my speed and get out and
Speaker 1: give what I can, he said. Two Eagles rookie records
Speaker 1: to that you passed to Seawan Jackson for yards from
Speaker 1: scrimmage and with Shawn McCoy for a rushing record. What
Speaker 1: does that mean you? It's a blessing. Man. Um uh
Speaker 1: this this stuff don't feel real. But uh, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to make this about me. Um All.
Speaker 1: I was it's great to be mentioned by those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, being the same conversation as those guys. But
Speaker 1: I was folks on getting this w man. We know
Speaker 1: we got a stake with us. Uh, you know what's
Speaker 1: in front of us, and I was just trying to
Speaker 1: get to WU the second straight to come back win
Speaker 1: for the offense. What does that do for their confidence
Speaker 1: of the offense overall? There's a lot of confidence. You know.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of our old guys, uh banged up,
Speaker 1: so a lot of young guys stepping up, including myself.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm still a young guy. Um. I just
Speaker 1: love how Carson he just trusts us. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's been not trusting confidence in us, and we're just
Speaker 1: going out there making place for him. Yeah. Like I said,
Speaker 1: they had a night like big overload. Look they had
Speaker 1: about full Yeah, yeah that was a job. Yeah. They
Speaker 1: had about four guys on the right side, So I
Speaker 1: already knew it's gonna go to the left or hit
Speaker 1: right in the middle. Um, the end just slanted in
Speaker 1: and I just took it right out. So obviously with
Speaker 1: it with Jordan Howard Alt, just Sean Alshan Nelly missing
Speaker 1: so many weapons, do you kind of go into the game,
Speaker 1: kind of take you more on yourself? I mean, or
Speaker 1: do you just I'm gonna go do do my thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they needed you to be big today.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I'm gonna go go out there and
Speaker 1: do my job regardless. But when you got guys banged
Speaker 1: up like that, and uh type of season that I'm having, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I always got to lock in and say this,
Speaker 1: just put the game on my shoulders and let's go
Speaker 1: ball out. But I can't do it without the withoutout
Speaker 1: the old line doing it. What they do? You know,
Speaker 1: we got an all star old line and uh, they
Speaker 1: play hell of a game. And there I'm sorry as
Speaker 1: a ball to that. Jog said, he's seen that for
Speaker 1: me these past few weeks. No, you're the guy has
Speaker 1: has that kind of clicked. Obviously with the battle, I
Speaker 1: guess not having Jordan out there knowing that it's on you. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And with Boston Um battling out last week, so I
Speaker 1: got a nice rotation going on. So uh, but I
Speaker 1: know what the role that I got right now, and
Speaker 1: I'm just doing my job each week, trying to get
Speaker 1: a w that's down by people going everything. What was
Speaker 1: Carson like in the huddle over you guys, like, did
Speaker 1: you kind of feel like you needed a joining? He's
Speaker 1: the same man, Um, He's steady, Eddie. I love eleven man.
Speaker 1: I'm out there blocking trying to give him, give him
Speaker 1: time to make plays, and he's trying. And all the
Speaker 1: young guys that's that's stepping up right now and putting
Speaker 1: our confidence in them, and we're going out making plays
Speaker 1: for him. Sorry, I think it's the most character you've
Speaker 1: ever had in the game. Opusly the first time you
Speaker 1: watched for a higher yards and if you beat, you
Speaker 1: know the things you get to work. Course. Uh, I'm working.
Speaker 1: I'm working my way to be that. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: still a rookie, still learning to get better each week.
Speaker 1: But uh uh, this this game was special and uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, it still feel like a dream to me.
Speaker 1: But it's I can't do it without the old line,
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody on that offense. Yes, it felt
Speaker 1: like a home game, and I expect the same thing
Speaker 1: next week. You know what next week is. And I
Speaker 1: don't even gotta say too much, and I expect the
Speaker 1: fans to be loud, super loud. You said, Um, it
Speaker 1: seems like a dream. It doesn't seem real. What were
Speaker 1: your expectations coming into the season and have you exceeded them? Um?
Speaker 1: My expectations was to just just do whatever I can
Speaker 1: to help win games. You know. That's what I said
Speaker 1: when I first got drafted, was to try and get
Speaker 1: this team at championship and that that obviously trying to
Speaker 1: get wins each week. So that's my job. That's really
Speaker 1: my job. But like I said, it's definitely a blessing
Speaker 1: of breaking these records and being recognized, but trying to
Speaker 1: get the wake. A couple more question, what's it been
Speaker 1: like saying? Uh, the impact Greg Ward has made the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, especially ketting the winning Touchdow great impact.
Speaker 1: We talked about this since training camp, you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, with him being on a practice squad for
Speaker 1: a little bit then being uh jumped up that being active,
Speaker 1: and he's been taking advantage of his opportunities that's all
Speaker 1: I tell him. He tells me that we've been talking
Speaker 1: about this since, uh since training camp, and he's just
Speaker 1: taking advantage of his opportunities so much more assertive on
Speaker 1: their runs. Now there's tos like no hesitation in the hole.
Speaker 1: What would you credit to? Really? I know there a
Speaker 1: few times there ola some of these runs would you
Speaker 1: would have like to have had back? What are you
Speaker 1: credit to changing that? This year? Um just duced being
Speaker 1: hard on me. Man, he expects a lot out of me.
Speaker 1: He knows what I when I'm capable of. He knows
Speaker 1: the type of talent that I have. And I'm just
Speaker 1: listening to him. He's been through this. This, he's been
Speaker 1: through this, so uh, it's no, it's not really not
Speaker 1: gonna harm me if I don't listen to him, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's been a great teacher. Uh. I just trying to
Speaker 1: get better each week. Said one more from Zach and
Speaker 1: the more he following another one one third, Um, when
Speaker 1: you get the ball that that's not a high percentage player?
Speaker 1: Are you just thinking trying to get the first down? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I mean especially if it's third down and ten and
Speaker 1: I mean and they trust me to put the ball
Speaker 1: in my hands. Yeah, I'm definitely trying to get the
Speaker 1: first down, but it opened up so so so wide.
Speaker 1: I just try to get what I can actually tried
Speaker 1: to score, but my boy, mind take a right. Thanks guys,
Speaker 1: thank you gratulations. Okay, the Eagle's running back on his
Speaker 1: career day. Very exciting stuff there from Miles Sanders and uh,
Speaker 1: just to me, a guy who just says all the
Speaker 1: right things, you know, crediting his old line saying I'm
Speaker 1: just happy to contribute to this team, and um on
Speaker 1: building the confidence with Carson Wentz. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff to hear from Miles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well everything that you would want to hear, right from
Speaker 1: a guy coming off huge day. It was cool. Kind
Speaker 1: of gonna get a sense of his real natural reaction
Speaker 1: to finding out about the rookie records that he broke
Speaker 1: with the Sean McCoy and DeShawn Jackson. We got to
Speaker 1: see that at the very beginning of the press conference.
Speaker 1: But a guy that's got a bright future here in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah, and look it's a Pennsylvania kid, albeit
Speaker 1: grew up a Steelers fan, but he understands how big
Speaker 1: those names are. Around here and so to be in
Speaker 1: that conversation pretty cool. I also loved to that he
Speaker 1: said about Carson in the huddle that he's the same
Speaker 1: no matter what point in the game, what's on the line,
Speaker 1: that he's steady Eddie is what he called him. And look,
Speaker 1: this is the second game in a row we've seen
Speaker 1: a game winning drive from Carson Wentz. How big do
Speaker 1: you think that is for this entire team's confidence. I
Speaker 1: think it's big, and I think, honestly, the guys that
Speaker 1: are on the receiving end of those plays, the confidence
Speaker 1: is even bigger in those guys. I think everybody had
Speaker 1: confidence in the building in Carson Wentz. I think now
Speaker 1: seeing Greg Ward come up with a big game winning touchdown,
Speaker 1: seeing Boston Scott make plays, seeing JJ Arthega Whiteside make
Speaker 1: the big catch last week down the right sideline against
Speaker 1: the Giant, seeing these other guys come up with big plays,
Speaker 1: I think that is the confidence now that this team
Speaker 1: needs and gets from seeing those young guys make those
Speaker 1: big plays. Yeah, we all love Carson. It's been good
Speaker 1: to see two game winning drives. Who he's doing it
Speaker 1: with I think is the bigger takeaway. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from Carson any minute now, but yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to hear yourly agree with friend. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is the trust and the chemistry that's developing between
Speaker 1: Carson and these young guys. And as a veteran player,
Speaker 1: you know, I was here when A. J. Finley had
Speaker 1: to go in there and play for Donovan back in
Speaker 1: OH one. Yeah, we all say the right things throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the week and support them, but until
Speaker 1: they actually go out there and do it, you never
Speaker 1: really know. So I think these young players having the
Speaker 1: success they've had the last two games, I think they
Speaker 1: are building confidence in their teammates that they can get
Speaker 1: the job done. So these veterans have a little less
Speaker 1: to worry about when it comes to the young guys,
Speaker 1: and I think Carson and those guys are working through it.
Speaker 1: I love hearing males talk about Carson's demeanor in the
Speaker 1: huddle because it's so important for those young guys to
Speaker 1: see how he's reacting to what's going on in the moment,
Speaker 1: how he reacts to that strip fumble, right, and they
Speaker 1: read that body language and if he's going to have
Speaker 1: sort of a positive outlook and he's going to continue
Speaker 1: to be encouraging and exude confidence, they're going to feel
Speaker 1: that way as well. And I think that's exactly what
Speaker 1: happened once he was able to go gather himself after
Speaker 1: that fumble and realized that the defense only held him
Speaker 1: to a field goal. First thing he's saying to those
Speaker 1: guys on the sideline, this, let's go win this football game.
Speaker 1: We can do it. Let's go win it. And because
Speaker 1: they just did it last week, they have they have
Speaker 1: the full confidence in one another. This might be kind
Speaker 1: of a weird analogy, but do you ever like cut
Speaker 1: yourself and it doesn't hurt until you look down and
Speaker 1: you see the eating you know? So maybe it's that
Speaker 1: it's that same kind of thing to me, where you know,
Speaker 1: until you see Carson looking nervous or not confident, then
Speaker 1: the young guys have no reason to think that there's
Speaker 1: any thing to worry about. It's the same kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So when he portrays that confidence, it doesn't even occur
Speaker 1: to anybody that they shouldn't be confident. Well, how much
Speaker 1: does that translate to the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: For you as a defensive guy, when you see that
Speaker 1: from your quarterback in your offense. What does that do
Speaker 1: for that side of the ball. Well, I think it
Speaker 1: works the same, right, because there's gonna be days that
Speaker 1: the defense is going to need the offense to build
Speaker 1: them out right. And there's gonna be times like when
Speaker 1: the defense realizes that they just came up with arguably
Speaker 1: their biggest stop in the game. Would are able to
Speaker 1: hold the Redskins offense to three points. They give the
Speaker 1: offense the ball back, and you reward them by going
Speaker 1: down to scoring the go ahead touchdown. It's huge. I
Speaker 1: mean the defense coming off the game they played against
Speaker 1: the Giants where they shut them out in the second half,
Speaker 1: allowing the offense to get back in the game. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much what that defense is saying to themselves on
Speaker 1: the sideline is let's give them one more shot and
Speaker 1: they'll be able to go down there and get the
Speaker 1: job done. And that's what a quarterback can do. And
Speaker 1: I remembering Donovan as a young player when he didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of help on the offense the side
Speaker 1: of the ball, we as a defense always felt like,
Speaker 1: get the offense the ball back and five will make
Speaker 1: a play for us. Just keep the game close. He'll
Speaker 1: make a play to win the game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So that's how huge of an impact that position has
Speaker 1: on the entire team. Yeah, we have a Dallas box
Speaker 1: scrre update. But um, I think Ike and I saw
Speaker 1: it in the corner of our French shoulder. Jason Witten
Speaker 1: pushed down. Yeah, we got the game on in here
Speaker 1: in the back corner here. And yes, Jason Witten, we're
Speaker 1: talking about ageless wonders today. Jason Witten putting seven on
Speaker 1: the board for Dallas. There a little happier this week
Speaker 1: so far after last week. Oh yeah, he was upset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little happier. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, So Dallas having twice
Speaker 1: having the ball twice as long as a lather as Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of time. Well, that's what we'll keep saying.
Speaker 1: We're gon We're gonna keep watching that as well as
Speaker 1: we as we wait for Carson Wentz. All right, I
Speaker 1: believe he's coming up in about thirty seconds. So what
Speaker 1: do I do when I'm waiting for Carson? I read
Speaker 1: this at forty three passing attempts we talked about that
Speaker 1: completed thirty of those for sixty nine point eight percent.
Speaker 1: Really good, solid completion percentage. They're two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: six yards at six point two yards per attempt, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: the longest pass of twenty seven yards, zero interceptions there
Speaker 1: and of course another another week, a consecutive game winning
Speaker 1: drive for Carson. Let's hear about how that has affected
Speaker 1: his confidence. Carson has been an up and down season
Speaker 1: a year. You still got a shot at the playoffs, Loo,
Speaker 1: can you say about this group of guys you got? Yeah, resilient, resilient.
Speaker 1: You know, that's back to back weeks, you know, down
Speaker 1: kind of backs against the wall late in the game
Speaker 1: like that, and guys just stepped up, made place, you know,
Speaker 1: and um, yeah, guys are resilient. Would you see on
Speaker 1: that counstop pass two miles in the part of the
Speaker 1: end zone, I just saw him sitting in the back
Speaker 1: and I knew it was a tight window and I
Speaker 1: had to head letter Rip. Got a little nervous when
Speaker 1: I let it go, But yeah, I was pretty excited
Speaker 1: after that. I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I got a little nervous, but once I saw I
Speaker 1: hit him in the chest, was pretty stoked. Philosophy was
Speaker 1: on the run probably, Yeah, on that last drive, of course,
Speaker 1: and uh what were they doing defensively to kind of
Speaker 1: open you're talking, Miles, is that what you yeah? You
Speaker 1: said Greg? Yeah, Um gosh, I can't say enough good
Speaker 1: things about Greg. You know, for him to um just
Speaker 1: keep coming up big late in the game like that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they went man covered handful of times and
Speaker 1: he beat his guy. You know, he beat his guy,
Speaker 1: and he was you know, a part of the progression.
Speaker 1: And um just kept making plays, making plays. And then
Speaker 1: for him to go up and get that ball and
Speaker 1: play that big in the red zone like that, Um
Speaker 1: to seal the deal. That was sweet. You don't want
Speaker 1: to keep making it part of yourself or you or
Speaker 1: you just the dramatic. But what's it say to be
Speaker 1: able to do this back to back leads about the
Speaker 1: heart of the team. Yeah, Um, kind of just goes
Speaker 1: back to what I said earlier. Just teams resilient and
Speaker 1: teams resilient. Um, we realize, you know, our backs are
Speaker 1: against the wall, just like last week, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's it's do or die right now, and uh, make
Speaker 1: or break. And guy stepped up and kept making plays
Speaker 1: and guys, you know, to the good the bad ugly
Speaker 1: guys just kept believing. You know, guys just kept believing.
Speaker 1: You know, I had the fumble, and um, everybody was,
Speaker 1: you know, cheering me up and getting me going, and
Speaker 1: defense had the big stop, and we just kept believing,
Speaker 1: kept believing, kept looking at each other saying, we got this,
Speaker 1: and we got it done. Car miles farther along than
Speaker 1: you've anticipated, fourteen games into his career. Probably, Um, just
Speaker 1: you know, the the things, um, the things that we
Speaker 1: ask of him, um, really all season, but especially once
Speaker 1: Jordan went down. Um, it's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 1: There's a lot on his plate, especially as a rookie.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's picking up BLUs protection, he's running
Speaker 1: the ball, he's catching screens, and he's routing people up
Speaker 1: and out of the backfield, you know, and um, and
Speaker 1: he does it all so well. And you see, I
Speaker 1: mean game in and game out. He's he's a big
Speaker 1: play machine for us, and um, he keeps getting it done.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of the kid. What happened. What happened
Speaker 1: on that late game fumble. They made a good play
Speaker 1: and I gotta protect the ball. Yeah, that's I was
Speaker 1: trying to make a play and improvised and I got
Speaker 1: to protect the ball better. What did you say, guys
Speaker 1: were cheering you up? I I assume you were brief
Speaker 1: art on yourself there in that time in between. What
Speaker 1: were you thinking and that you just want a chance? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was definitely frustrating myself. You know, I
Speaker 1: got to protect the ball, especially given the situation we
Speaker 1: were in. Put the defense in a tough spot. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, guys just kept believing. I
Speaker 1: didn't lose faith or confidence at all, um, and just
Speaker 1: wanted one more chance, you know, wanted another chance to
Speaker 1: go down. And um, the defense gave that to us
Speaker 1: and we got it done. Or anybody you would tend
Speaker 1: to the touchdown pass in the center of then zone
Speaker 1: in the back where Zach and j J kind of
Speaker 1: ended up in the same area. Was that a miscommunication
Speaker 1: there on that? I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: It was they made a good play. Yeah, they made
Speaker 1: a good play, and um, yeah, we just we didn't
Speaker 1: hit that one in that situation. Is there anyone in
Speaker 1: particular who kind of you really appreciate there? You know? Uh,
Speaker 1: it was it was really everybody. You know. I kept
Speaker 1: going to the guys and say, hey, that's on me.
Speaker 1: We'll be better. And guys said, hey, we believe in you.
Speaker 1: We got this, you know. And and guys just kept
Speaker 1: staying up, beating positive on the sideline from from players
Speaker 1: to coaches the defense. When when I talked to those guys, so, um,
Speaker 1: that's just the camaraderie and the bond that we have
Speaker 1: as a team and for us to come together and
Speaker 1: keep believing in each other, that's what's all about. Describe
Speaker 1: the atmosphere out there, because after the game celebration, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have known you were on the road. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: that's not starting to not surprise me to feel like
Speaker 1: it's a home game for for us when we're on
Speaker 1: the road, just because the way the Eagles fans travel. Um,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. It's pretty special. Something we definitely don't
Speaker 1: take for granted. Um. Yeah, he was, you know, part
Speaker 1: of the progression. There was, Um actually a similar play
Speaker 1: that we scored earlier to Zach and so he was
Speaker 1: the first read and um, they have that side covered,
Speaker 1: so it was just reset and find Greg. I'm running
Speaker 1: across the field there and UM, I just put it up.
Speaker 1: I just put it up. I knew he had a
Speaker 1: step on Josh and put it up and gave him
Speaker 1: a chance, and um, it was so sweet to see
Speaker 1: him go up and get that ball. A kind of
Speaker 1: chemistry developed. It's only been three or four weeks with Greg.
Speaker 1: Get to have that success in that biggest spot. How
Speaker 1: does that make you feel moving forward that you can trust? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it means a lot, you know, for him
Speaker 1: to not just step up and make plays, but given
Speaker 1: the situation we were in, you know, the late game
Speaker 1: drive like that, for him to keep making plays. Um,
Speaker 1: But you know, shoot, he's been here for a couple
Speaker 1: of years now. Obviously, he's been on the practice squad
Speaker 1: and kind of been all over um, and we've seen
Speaker 1: what he can do. You know. Shoot, he was down
Speaker 1: there this summer when we were having summer workouts together.
Speaker 1: So I've been around Greg plenty, you know, and I
Speaker 1: know what he can do and what he's capable of.
Speaker 1: And for him to do it today it was big
Speaker 1: for us on the final drive there. Um, it just
Speaker 1: kind of the way the plays developed, you know, the
Speaker 1: ways the play developed, the way the play developed each time. Um,
Speaker 1: he was a part of the progression and you know,
Speaker 1: they played a handful of man coverage on on that drive,
Speaker 1: and he kept making plays, He kept beating his guy
Speaker 1: getting open and making plays, and UM, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool and pretty proud of him. The
Speaker 1: last six quarters that you guys have played offensively, the
Speaker 1: way you've won these last two games. Is this offense
Speaker 1: in your mind about as confident or playing as bad
Speaker 1: as well as it has all seasons? Um? You could
Speaker 1: make that argument. Um, I think just the way coaches
Speaker 1: calling it and guys are just really believing in each
Speaker 1: each other, um, and rallying around each other from you know,
Speaker 1: the run game, the passing game, and really everything. Um.
Speaker 1: There's obviously plays that we want back every week, you know,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, last week in the second half and
Speaker 1: today a handful of them. But um, you could say
Speaker 1: our confidence is very high right now? Are you personal?
Speaker 1: And you were? You hadn't done it before last week
Speaker 1: all season and now back to back we didn't come
Speaker 1: back wins and must win games. What's it mean to you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it means a lot to me and really, um, really everybody. Um,
Speaker 1: I think just to to come from behind, like I said,
Speaker 1: like I talked about last week and talk about again
Speaker 1: backs against the wall. You know, backs against the wall.
Speaker 1: There's a lot at stake, and um, to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity late game like that, to to finish it off,
Speaker 1: to get it done. Like I said, it means a
Speaker 1: lot to me and to this team. You have a
Speaker 1: couple of muff win games coming down to stretch to
Speaker 1: feel that your week routine is more intensified. They're in
Speaker 1: practice and walkthroughs. Were trying to not change anything, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's one of the biggest things, is
Speaker 1: trying to be the same win loves for all given
Speaker 1: whatever the circumstances are. Um, we prepare the same, you know,
Speaker 1: and for us that that's going to stay the same
Speaker 1: this week. We realize what week it is, we realize
Speaker 1: what's at stake. Um, but we're gonna keep our normal
Speaker 1: routine and go get it done. Talking to America said,
Speaker 1: momentum is a real thing. Is that something you believe too?
Speaker 1: And are you doing that? Yeah? For sure? Um, I
Speaker 1: think you know, shoot, going back to the second half
Speaker 1: of last week, you know, I think that momentum of
Speaker 1: for us offensively, you know, to kind of find a groove.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been an interesting season for us offensively
Speaker 1: and to start finding a rhythm and finding a groove. UM.
Speaker 1: I think that carried over today as well. Did you
Speaker 1: in particular? Black confidence? I didn't point this season. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. No. UM, I've been extremely confident in
Speaker 1: myself and the guys around me. UM. You know, like
Speaker 1: I said, it's been an interesting UM offensive season for us,
Speaker 1: ups and downs, and UM just struggled finding a rhythm
Speaker 1: and being consistent for a while. But you know, like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, I think our confidence is in a
Speaker 1: really good place considering all the challenges and the off
Speaker 1: seaing Dallas. Now you're sitting here with a chance to
Speaker 1: play Dallas the Vision title. We thought about that, what
Speaker 1: that means for you? Yeah, yeah, it's exciting, it's exciting.
Speaker 1: You know. Shoot, the last couple of weeks it's backs
Speaker 1: against the wall and that doesn't change. You know, that
Speaker 1: doesn't change. And UM, we got Dallas coming in and
Speaker 1: we know what that means to this city. UM each week,
Speaker 1: regardless of the circumstances. But we also know the circumstances
Speaker 1: and what's riding on it as well, So we'll be
Speaker 1: ready and we'll be excited. Fifty six yard run. Doug said,
Speaker 1: you had the option to kill it into a pass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I assumed the look made you want to stay with
Speaker 1: the run. But are you thinking they're like, let's try
Speaker 1: to get the first with the pass or what's going
Speaker 1: through your mind? Yeah? I was just trusting the call,
Speaker 1: you know, trusting the call. You know. I thought we
Speaker 1: had a good look for the for the run, and um,
Speaker 1: it ended up being a little harry. But Miles, Miles
Speaker 1: made a play. Um, and you saw that on the
Speaker 1: other draw m earlier in the game, and so um,
Speaker 1: that's what it came down to, is guy's just making
Speaker 1: plays in those big moments like that, and UM, for me,
Speaker 1: it was just trusting in the play call and letting
Speaker 1: it ride. Thank you, guys, thank you. I love that
Speaker 1: letting it ride from Carson Wentz. Great to hear the
Speaker 1: thoughts of the Eagles quarterback after an expat win on
Speaker 1: the road. All right, enough of all this, It's time
Speaker 1: for my favorite part of the show, Merrill Cam, a
Speaker 1: compilation of the voice of the Eagles, Merrill Reese and
Speaker 1: Mike Quick calling this Eagles win over Washington thirty seven,
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Let's take it away this time again. It's
Speaker 1: a quick pitch to Sanders, and he is in full
Speaker 1: a touchdown at the Eagles three game. The lead that
Speaker 1: goes Wentz. He's looking, he's looking now he starts the role.
Speaker 1: He's gonna run. He is running and he's firing, and
Speaker 1: it is incomplete. It is it is it. They are
Speaker 1: pulling it a touchdown to Miles Sanders. Mile Sanders quarter
Speaker 1: of the forest side of the field. Wentz looked like,
Speaker 1: who's going to run through it on the forest side
Speaker 1: of the field, and Sanders just stayed in. Wentz gives
Speaker 1: off to Sanders. Sanders running with the football. He's got
Speaker 1: a first time of more. He's at the fifty, he's
Speaker 1: at the forty, he's at the thirty. He said, side
Speaker 1: the twenty. He's down to the sixteen. Miles Sanders. He's
Speaker 1: doing it by himself today. He's a beast. Wentz back,
Speaker 1: he floats it. It's called touchdown, touchdown. Who else, zach Ertz, Yeah, Pashka,
Speaker 1: that's back. He's looking. He stamps up, he's hit. He
Speaker 1: tries to label the ball. Let's picked off. Running with
Speaker 1: the football down the sideline and Prodom goes all the
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Speaker 1: a quick score update. The Rams are on the board.
Speaker 1: It is all tied up in Dallas seven seven after
Speaker 1: a Todd Gurly touchdown. We will be keeping an eye
Speaker 1: on that one. I know all Eagles fans are. And
Speaker 1: now for today's RICO review, it's Miles Sanders who made
Speaker 1: some big plays today, breaking some records, cementing his name
Speaker 1: in the history books in Eagles Moore in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: Take it away, France. All right, let's fast forward now
Speaker 1: to the Eagles next drive and they're down by score
Speaker 1: seven to three. They just allowed a big catch and
Speaker 1: run for Terry McLarin. So Miles Sanders has a couple
Speaker 1: of big runs on this drive to get the Eagles
Speaker 1: into the low red zone. And that's where we go here.
Speaker 1: It's second and goal down on the goal line. I
Speaker 1: want to just see how the Eagles line up here
Speaker 1: because there's multiple tight ends on the field. You've got
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard, You've got Zach Ertz and Josh Perkins. The
Speaker 1: number one thing I want you to watch for is
Speaker 1: that Carson Wentz is under center. And what do we
Speaker 1: know that the Eagles love to run when they're in
Speaker 1: short yardage situations with the quarterback under center, quarterback sneak right,
Speaker 1: and so you're gonna see Washington. They're loading this box.
Speaker 1: They are trying to do everything they can to make
Speaker 1: sure Carson Wentz is not going to run this in
Speaker 1: on us here and get into the end zone. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, that means they've bust this coverage because what
Speaker 1: you've got here again on the top of the screen
Speaker 1: is you've got two defenders for Washington against three potential
Speaker 1: Eagles receivers. All Carson Wentz is gonna do is take
Speaker 1: the snap and toss this play out to the right side.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see Miles Sanders. We're gonna let this run.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna take this little toss play. It's a quick,
Speaker 1: little sweep and now he's got a caveat of blockers
Speaker 1: out in front and he's able to jump into the
Speaker 1: end zone to put the Eagles ahead. And this all
Speaker 1: started with a lot of big runs on this drive
Speaker 1: from Miles Sanders, rookie had a really nice day here
Speaker 1: in the first half. All right, thank you Fran and everyone.
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Speaker 1: three nominees for this week's Toyota Player of the of
Speaker 1: the Week. No surprise here, Miles Sanders, of course, with
Speaker 1: all of the records broken by him tonight, Greg Warred
Speaker 1: as well, a career game for him, and Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: for putting this team on his back and getting it
Speaker 1: done with the kids. As I click to say, um,
Speaker 1: I three really good nominees, all guys, all these all
Speaker 1: three of these guys had excellent games here. But um,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's pretty obvious, at least to me,
Speaker 1: who should get the nod here I got. I gotta
Speaker 1: go with Miles Standers. Yeah, I think you're right on
Speaker 1: this one, Amy. Um, I got that term cars on
Speaker 1: Wentz and the keys from John Clark. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: well I gotta get from I'll give him credit for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think I agree with you. You gotta go
Speaker 1: with Miles Sanders. All three guys certainly are deserving, but
Speaker 1: when you have a day like Mau's head through the
Speaker 1: air and on the ground, um, yeah, gotta go with
Speaker 1: Gotta go with the rookie. Yeah, I think you have
Speaker 1: to look and Greg Ward with the touchdown, with the
Speaker 1: touchdown to steal, to steal the wind or to get
Speaker 1: to put the Eagles ahead. Um, Nigel Bradham, really I
Speaker 1: think seal the winner. But you know, and of course
Speaker 1: car at of people have Nigel made a lot of
Speaker 1: people happy and probably some people not too happy. Um. Anyways, yes,
Speaker 1: let's talk about what we all have been talking about
Speaker 1: all season and kind of skirting around. But it is
Speaker 1: about to be December twenty second. That is the next game.
Speaker 1: It is the NFC East on the line. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: are coming to Philadelphia. We keep looking ahead, but not
Speaker 1: really because hey, it's a one game season. We just
Speaker 1: got to win the week. It is now time we
Speaker 1: can throw away all of that, all of those formalities
Speaker 1: and we can talk about the Cowboys the next game.
Speaker 1: And of course the Eagles now seven and seven, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are in the middle of the game right now,
Speaker 1: all tied up. Oh nope, they're up fourteen to seven
Speaker 1: in Dallas on the Rams and we're all going to
Speaker 1: be watching that one as well. Davon Austen just scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Avon Austin, How I hope he started him
Speaker 1: big game though, right Amy, We've been talking about this
Speaker 1: game for weeks saying that this will be the pivotal game.
Speaker 1: This will be the game that will decide who wins
Speaker 1: this division, and looks like it's pretty much gonna play
Speaker 1: itself out to be that way. We'll see what the
Speaker 1: final score is today and that will determine whether or
Speaker 1: not the final game or a season becomes important as well.
Speaker 1: But next week against the Dallas Boys, that's the game
Speaker 1: we want. The Cowboys I think put the worst whooping
Speaker 1: on the Eagles this year, or was that thirty seven
Speaker 1: to ten? I believe that score was in that game
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night where the Eagles come out the first
Speaker 1: two drives of the game, turn the ball over and
Speaker 1: it was pretty much down points. Gonna say that was
Speaker 1: pretty much the end of the game right there. So
Speaker 1: and we are a little under man. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have the better team on paper because they have
Speaker 1: all of their guys healthy. At this point where you
Speaker 1: know what this is where you throw all that stuff
Speaker 1: out the window and you're getting the opportunity for a
Speaker 1: scenario that you could have only dreamed of about a
Speaker 1: month ago when this team did not look very good,
Speaker 1: and that's to have an opportunity to beat the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and for a chance to be in first place. In
Speaker 1: this division on your home field. Can't wait the next week,
Speaker 1: can't wait to next week? We look. We know the
Speaker 1: stakes are high, but potentially even higher if Dallas doesn't
Speaker 1: get the win tonight, the night of Philadelphia, the opportunity
Speaker 1: to clinch next week. And of course we know how
Speaker 1: good the Eagles are at home, this game played on
Speaker 1: the home turf in South Philadelphia. And of course we
Speaker 1: will be right back here to break that Dame game
Speaker 1: down to preview it on the Kickoff Show presented by Exalted.
Speaker 1: That'll be thirty minutes before kickoff three fifty five next week,
Speaker 1: and as always, Ike will be joining me on the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico. I hope we see you
Speaker 1: as happy as you are today next week. This has
Speaker 1: been one of our most fun shows because we're just
Speaker 1: a lot of giggling going on in here. He's just kiddy.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you get a good win like this.
Speaker 1: All right, we will see y'all next week. We know
Speaker 1: it is the big one. We will be talking about
Speaker 1: Dallas all week long. We'll see you in a week