Speaker 1: The Eagles perfect summer has come to a close as
Speaker 1: they opened the full portion of their schedule. Some excited
Speaker 1: Eagles fans have dubbed this side of our state went
Speaker 1: in Sylvania by those plants. Is looking. He fires complete
Speaker 1: touchdown Jordan Matthew. That's on point ballas futted. The kickers
Speaker 1: blocked it, clucked and it rolls under the end zone.
Speaker 1: Wentz takes the snap. He's back, he's looking. He gets
Speaker 1: out of Harm's plays pumping. He is floating it and
Speaker 1: it is completely at the fifty for forty five, he's
Speaker 1: on his feet at the thirty. The twenty, cuts back
Speaker 1: at the ten, the five, he is in. Terrence roll,
Speaker 1: Terrence rolls, Ronthless Purger again looks he is head and
Speaker 1: footballers fumbled the Eagles haven't and his worth covered by
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham. Brandon Graham's on the football. Brandon Graham has
Speaker 1: been outstanding in the first two games of this season
Speaker 1: and once again causing a lot of problems for this
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's so sweet when you walk off the
Speaker 1: field when you gave everything you got. Great job, team
Speaker 1: win tonight, family, little three. What we cannot do it justice,
Speaker 1: but we're going to try hello everyone, and welcome the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Three sixty. Eagles insider Dave Spanaro, along with the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Brian Westbrook gets the day after the Eagles
Speaker 1: whip up on the Pittsburgh Steelers thirty four to three.
Speaker 1: And where do you begin, Brian? I mean, it's been
Speaker 1: three games of just glowing about this football team, and
Speaker 1: it's at heights we haven't seen in a long long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes you win games, and sometimes you
Speaker 1: win games that you know you win by a narrow margin.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you win games that you're not supposed to win.
Speaker 1: But then just like yesterday, sometimes you just dominate people.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you hold a team that has a good running
Speaker 1: attack to twenty nine yards rushing. That's domination. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: score twenty one points unanswered, that's domination. Yesterday, the Eagles
Speaker 1: dominated the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's what you want to see
Speaker 1: in a young football team and against and the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: teams are a good football team. They're a team that
Speaker 1: many people said will be the representative for the AFC
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. This Eagles football team dominated them
Speaker 1: yesterday on their home field. It's so sweet. And now
Speaker 1: it's the bye week. Can we take a look at
Speaker 1: the NFC East standings and what do we see the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles all alone at three and old. A week
Speaker 1: to rest, a week to calm down, to kind of
Speaker 1: bask in that victory, and then get back to work
Speaker 1: and get ready for the Detroit Lions. Brian, you've been
Speaker 1: on teams that started three and oh two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: What is the feeling in the locker room to the
Speaker 1: team believe that it's a playoff bound team. Well, I
Speaker 1: think this team does believe that. And I think when
Speaker 1: you talk about teams winning, it's about building that offendense.
Speaker 1: It's about making sure that the ball continues to roll downhill,
Speaker 1: and I think this team was doing a pretty good
Speaker 1: job of handling it the right way. Doug Peterson a
Speaker 1: young coach. He's been around the NFL, he's been around
Speaker 1: teams to have one early in the season, and he
Speaker 1: also understands they have thirteen games left to play, and
Speaker 1: so he's not going to allow these guys to get
Speaker 1: the big headed mentality. He's going to make sure that
Speaker 1: these guys continue to stay focused on their keys, the
Speaker 1: small things that got them to being three and though
Speaker 1: they have to continue to do those things, and I
Speaker 1: think Doug Peterson is the right coach tould be able
Speaker 1: to do that. Speaking of Doug Peterson, he met the
Speaker 1: media on this Monday and updated the Eagles situation as
Speaker 1: the players leave town and get some rest and relaxation
Speaker 1: during this bye week. We've got you updated here our
Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty update with Alex Smith. Hi. Everyone, I'm
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and this is your three sixty update. The
Speaker 1: Eagles are coming off of a dominating thirty four to
Speaker 1: three win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday as they
Speaker 1: head into the bye week. But before they go, we
Speaker 1: heard from head coach Doug Peterson today and he was
Speaker 1: asked about how he expects this team to handle being
Speaker 1: in more of the national spotlight after Sunday's dominating win.
Speaker 1: You know, we just have to approach it the same,
Speaker 1: one day at a time. You know, it's the way
Speaker 1: this business goes. I mean, you're you're you're on top
Speaker 1: of the world one minute and you could be at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the heap the next, and you just
Speaker 1: got to keep things even keeled and can't get too high.
Speaker 1: I can't get too low and approach approach it the same. Again,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, you can't substitute for hard work,
Speaker 1: and that pays off on Sundays. So you know, we
Speaker 1: just have to stay the course and again, long long,
Speaker 1: a lot of football left. One of the biggest surprises
Speaker 1: in Sunday's game for the Eagles was the performance a
Speaker 1: rookie fifth round pick Wendell Smallwood, who played very nicely
Speaker 1: after Ryan Matthews left the game dealing with ankle stiffness.
Speaker 1: Coach Peterson today talked about what he's seen both on
Speaker 1: the practice field and on the game field from Smallwood
Speaker 1: to this point. I just think he's another one. He's
Speaker 1: much like Parson and how he prepares during the week.
Speaker 1: And you know, uh, you know, we've been we've been
Speaker 1: fortunate with our with our young players, even Jalen Mills.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've been we've been fortunate with these guys
Speaker 1: and how they work and how they handle themselves on
Speaker 1: and off the football field. And you know, he's done
Speaker 1: a great job in practice and he's put himself in
Speaker 1: a position to help us, and and uh, it was
Speaker 1: great to see him. You know, we we saw it
Speaker 1: early in the spring. We saw it a little bit
Speaker 1: in training camp before the injury, and it's it's it's
Speaker 1: good to have that kind of depth at that position
Speaker 1: with as many touches collectively as a group they're going
Speaker 1: to get each game and the wear and tear on
Speaker 1: that position, it's it's great to get that many guys
Speaker 1: in the game. And now the Eagles have a chance
Speaker 1: to rest, recharge, and refocus as they head into their
Speaker 1: bye week before heading out to Detroit in the following week. Today,
Speaker 1: Coach Peterson shared his bye week message for his players.
Speaker 1: The messages just get away, get away from football, kind
Speaker 1: of free your mind a little bit. It's been a
Speaker 1: long hard training a number one right into the regular season.
Speaker 1: They've had three physical football games already. Get healthy, rejuvenate,
Speaker 1: rest and and come back ready to go because you know,
Speaker 1: we got thirteen straight weeks and it's one at a time.
Speaker 1: And um, but at the same time, you know they
Speaker 1: need to take time to be with their families, coaches
Speaker 1: the same way, and um, you know, make this make
Speaker 1: this push. Now you can catch all of Coach Peterson's
Speaker 1: press conference as well as any of our locker rooms
Speaker 1: sound from last night's win that you may have missed.
Speaker 1: You can check it all out right here on demand
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com and the official Eagles Mobile app.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Alex. As we move along here on
Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty, we're going to talk about some breakthrough
Speaker 1: performers that we looked at and appreciate it on Sunday
Speaker 1: and that we anticipate coming as the season goes along.
Speaker 1: But next up on Eagles three sixty, Brian and I
Speaker 1: will talk about an Eagles offense that once again did
Speaker 1: not ring the football, over played nearly error free football,
Speaker 1: and took it to the Pittsburgh Steelers. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Time to talk about the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense in the thirty four to three win against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: B West. What'd you see? Well, we saw a quarterback
Speaker 1: that again played Era three air free football. Not a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, not a rookieu just we just have to
Speaker 1: say quarterback. Now, we can't even say rookie quarterback. We
Speaker 1: have to say a quarterback. He continues to play air
Speaker 1: free football. We saw again Doug Peterson completely discombobulating the deepense.
Speaker 1: At this point, you don't know what Doug Peterson is
Speaker 1: going to come out to and what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: In that first fifteen he just does a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. It's not the no huddle, if it's not
Speaker 1: the empty backfields, I'm gonna run the football down your throat.
Speaker 1: He continues to do things that people just are not expecting,
Speaker 1: and then you're adding your quarterback seventy four percent completion percentage.
Speaker 1: You love to see that he's accurate. He continues to
Speaker 1: get the ball in the right place world receivers. I
Speaker 1: love what Carson Wentz is doing. Fryan. The Eagles have
Speaker 1: really gotten a screen game going. And we saw it
Speaker 1: when you played, and you were the best at running
Speaker 1: the screen. What makes it work? Why is this a
Speaker 1: good offense to run the screen? Well, one of the
Speaker 1: things that Doug is doing, and he's doing a great
Speaker 1: job of this, is making sure that now every time
Speaker 1: the Dennis Roses in the game, teams are yelling screen, screen, screen,
Speaker 1: they think it's going to be the screen, same type
Speaker 1: of thing where Barner are small with those types of things.
Speaker 1: But now what Doug is doing, what's his key is
Speaker 1: that he's faking the screen one way and then he's
Speaker 1: throwing the ball on this another screen on the other side.
Speaker 1: He's putting two or three guys out in front of
Speaker 1: his running back or tight ends we're seeing with that
Speaker 1: are kissing these screens. These guys have every talk about
Speaker 1: seven hundred pounds of body mask in front of them
Speaker 1: being able to run the ball down the field. That's
Speaker 1: why the screen game is so successful, you know. That's
Speaker 1: what's interesting. It's the screen game to the backs. We
Speaker 1: saw the screen for a touchdown to Trey Burton in Chicago.
Speaker 1: We've seen Josh huff ketch screen because I mean, they're
Speaker 1: really involving all of their personnel and that extends to
Speaker 1: the running game. On Sundayed, Eagles, with Ryan Matthews nursing
Speaker 1: a high ankle spring, they turned to Kenyon Barner and
Speaker 1: the rookie when Dell Smallwood. They combined for one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one rushing yards two touchdowns on the ground.
Speaker 1: They add some juice to this Eagles off and some quickness,
Speaker 1: some elusiveness, and they've really stepped up and shown that
Speaker 1: they can be contributors in the NFL. What makes a
Speaker 1: good running back is first, you have to have patience
Speaker 1: to be able to get to the hole, get to
Speaker 1: the right place at the right time. You have to
Speaker 1: have speed and quickness, and you have to have explosion
Speaker 1: and to talk about Smallwood and Varner, two of the
Speaker 1: most explosive guys on this football team. They continue to
Speaker 1: show great patients finding those holes and picking those holes,
Speaker 1: and then they're able to slide, and then they're able
Speaker 1: to make guys miss on the second level. Was that
Speaker 1: takes the running back to the next level. If you
Speaker 1: can make guys on the second and third level miss,
Speaker 1: you're taking a game of four or five yards up
Speaker 1: to a ten yard game. And these guys have done
Speaker 1: a great job that. I love the way that they're
Speaker 1: running the football. We are going to talk about this later.
Speaker 1: The offensive line though through three games outstanding play. It's
Speaker 1: going to be impacted potentially with the loss of Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that a little later in the show,
Speaker 1: as well as some breakthrough performers from Sunday and look Ahead.
Speaker 1: But next up here on Eagles three sixty, it's about
Speaker 1: the defense and the special teams, and oh boy, did
Speaker 1: the Eagles hand it to the Steelers again, a third
Speaker 1: straight dominating defensive performance by the philadel a few Eagles.
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Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty, our only show of this bye week
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles, will be back next Tuesday here
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. In this segment, we're talking
Speaker 1: about special teams and defense. Let's gives some credit to
Speaker 1: the special team's first. Benny Logan gets the big paw
Speaker 1: up in the air and blocks the field goal to
Speaker 1: stimy the Steelers on their first offensive drive, and it
Speaker 1: really kind of sets the tone. Listen, if you want
Speaker 1: to stop a team's momentum, they've driven the field a
Speaker 1: little bit. On our defense, if you want to stop
Speaker 1: their momentum, you've blocked the field goal. And that's what
Speaker 1: Benny Logan did. It's a great job of just slowing
Speaker 1: things down. That makes that offense start to wonder a
Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe field goals with not being an option,
Speaker 1: maybe we have to score touchdowns. That means J Todd
Speaker 1: Haley has to take more chances offensively. It kind of
Speaker 1: plays right into the gym sports his hands. I love
Speaker 1: to see a very active field goal block team for
Speaker 1: our defense. That's what you need to see. Those small
Speaker 1: plays make a big, big difference in games like this. Indeed,
Speaker 1: it's the first block for the Eagles of a field
Speaker 1: goal since the opener against Jacksonville two and fourteen, and
Speaker 1: it's set up the Eagles to dominate the rest of
Speaker 1: the day defensively. Brian, where's this coming from? I mean,
Speaker 1: we knew the Eagles had a good front. We had
Speaker 1: questions about the linebackers, we had questions about the cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: Rodney mcclouds comes in at safety clearly has made a
Speaker 1: huge difference back there. Well, I think it starts at
Speaker 1: the top Jim Sports, and I've said before it I
Speaker 1: think he's the MVP of this team. And you can
Speaker 1: argued Carson Wentz, you can argue Doug Peterson, but I
Speaker 1: think Jim Sports is right up there with the rest
Speaker 1: of him. He's brought a mindset, He's brought a thought process,
Speaker 1: a nasty, aggressive, punishing mindset to this defense. They continue
Speaker 1: to put guys out of the game, But that's what
Speaker 1: you want to see. You expect that from guys like
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox. Did you expect it from Brandon Graham. He's
Speaker 1: having the best season of his career. He continues to
Speaker 1: go out there and do things that I just didn't
Speaker 1: see before I said this, and I really believe it.
Speaker 1: The Eagles defensive line is so good that Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: is the second best player on the d line because
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham. He's playing time. I was on the field
Speaker 1: watching that play of the first play of the game,
Speaker 1: and he got chipped by D'Angelo Williams and got his
Speaker 1: clock clean and just came back for more, played more
Speaker 1: physical football, was quick off the ball, got into the backfield,
Speaker 1: played the run grade. Brandy Graham's playing at a pro
Speaker 1: Bowl level through three games, and we see what a
Speaker 1: difference off the edge makes for the guys in the middle.
Speaker 1: Because Fletcher and Benny are also playing really well well.
Speaker 1: Benny Logan continues to get that pushed right into the
Speaker 1: quarterback space. You have to double team Fletcher Cots at
Speaker 1: all time. It's guys that are still playing very good.
Speaker 1: Like Benny Carey. He doesn't give me get his name called,
Speaker 1: but he continues to push the pocket. Colonel Barring haven't
Speaker 1: heard his name very much. He could tinues to make
Speaker 1: plays as well. That's how good this defensive line is playing.
Speaker 1: But a true mark of how good a defensive line
Speaker 1: is playing is does your defensive coordinator needs to blitz?
Speaker 1: Does he need to add guys to it? And Jim
Speaker 1: Sworth just doesn't they be Ben Roethlisberger yesterday was under siege.
Speaker 1: He couldn't get his feet set. He was a little
Speaker 1: jittery in the pocket, and that doesn't happen to Big
Speaker 1: Ben very often. But that's due to the fact that
Speaker 1: this defensive line continues to get pressure. I love the
Speaker 1: way that they're playing. And on the back end, the
Speaker 1: Eagles all over the football on Sunday, big interception in
Speaker 1: the end zone from Rodney McCloud. I think Becom Jenkins
Speaker 1: had three or four pass breakups, great tackles. We've seen
Speaker 1: the rookie Jalen Mills really step up his game. And
Speaker 1: although Antonio Brown had his big game, ye all kind
Speaker 1: of nonsense fantasy football name. Antonio Brown is the best
Speaker 1: receiver in the game. And there were some throws that
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger through to him that no quarterback in the
Speaker 1: in the in the NFL has confidence enough to throw
Speaker 1: to the receiver I'm talking about. He's throwing ball to him.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown isn't even looking. No one's thinking that he's
Speaker 1: going to catch the football. No one's thinking that Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: he's even gonna throw that ball. These are some amazing throws.
Speaker 1: It goes to one of the best receivers in the game.
Speaker 1: And so I think Jalen Mills had a pretty good
Speaker 1: game considering who he was facing. So the Eagles inside
Speaker 1: the thirty, when they're on defense inside their own thirty
Speaker 1: yard line, they are holding quarterbacks to a passer rating
Speaker 1: of eight point two with one interception, two sacks, four
Speaker 1: or thirteen completion sixteen yards. That is a formula for
Speaker 1: winning games, Dave. This Steelers team, I don't think people understand.
Speaker 1: This Steeler team was scoring thirty one points a game.
Speaker 1: They were literally going thirty one points a game, fourth
Speaker 1: best in the NFL. They were held to three point
Speaker 1: three points. That's how good this defense is. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they get a break. Now they get Leodis Mcalvin back
Speaker 1: healthy for the Detroit Lions. Another piece for Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: to use. They come back fresh. Great great, great, great
Speaker 1: start for an Eagles defense. And speaking of performances, when
Speaker 1: we return to Eagles three sixty, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: some of the breakthrough performances from the first three games
Speaker 1: of this season, and then we'll take a look ahead
Speaker 1: and make some predictions on who comes up Big four
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Speaker 1: three sixty Dave Spidero, Brian Westbrook and the Eagles have
Speaker 1: shocked the NFL world with a three and old record
Speaker 1: in September. Who has stood out in terms of a
Speaker 1: breakthrough performance in this undefeated start? Brian, I'll let you
Speaker 1: go first. Well, we've talked about the defensive line and
Speaker 1: the guy that kind of has outshine Fletcher Cock, which
Speaker 1: is very hard to do because Fletchercox is a dominant
Speaker 1: force inside is Brandon Graham. He's averaging one sack of game,
Speaker 1: but the way that he's doing is pretty pretty pretty unique.
Speaker 1: He's running through offensive tackles, he's running around offensive tackles,
Speaker 1: he's making plays in the run game. He's dominating this
Speaker 1: football front in a way that I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: play brought his entire career. We talked about the three
Speaker 1: four it does he fit it? Does he not fit.
Speaker 1: He definitely fits the four three defensive end position. He's
Speaker 1: doing a great job for this football team. On the
Speaker 1: other side of the football, how about the Eagles offensive playmakers.
Speaker 1: In the summer, we all wondered where would the Eagles
Speaker 1: get their big plays from. Would they have enough playmakers
Speaker 1: to score points? How about those wide receivers. Now, they
Speaker 1: haven't been all pro level, but certainly Jordan Matthews has
Speaker 1: been extremely productive. Nelson Aglore has stepped up and has
Speaker 1: looked as explosive as the Eagles hoped he would be
Speaker 1: coming out of UCLA. And then Dorio Greenbeckham has come
Speaker 1: in and fit a role. Had a chance to make
Speaker 1: a touchdown catch on Sunday, couldn't hold it as he
Speaker 1: went into the end zone. But you're seeing the Eagles
Speaker 1: wide receiving corps give Carson Wentz some windows through which
Speaker 1: to throw, and I think that's really important, creating a
Speaker 1: bit of separation, playing very productive football at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position, and even Josh Huff catching the short passes,
Speaker 1: the shallow crosses, catch and run opportunities. Coaching staff really
Speaker 1: using these players. Well, what I love about our receiving corps.
Speaker 1: You talk about Dgping. You're also talking with Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: Agulare too. They're big bodies, these guys, even if they
Speaker 1: don't get as much separation as you would like, because
Speaker 1: they're big bodies, they can shield the defender all and
Speaker 1: make room for Carson Wents to throw the football. You
Speaker 1: love to see that from a receiving corps. You make
Speaker 1: it a lot easier for your young quarterback. Alright, So
Speaker 1: breakthrough performances on the weeks ahead. I'm going to begin
Speaker 1: here and I'm gonna talk about a tight end who
Speaker 1: we alfo would probably catch ninety passes in twenty and sixteen.
Speaker 1: And his name is zach Ertz. And zach Ertz hasn't
Speaker 1: played the last two games because of that displaced rib.
Speaker 1: He is going to be healthy for the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: at least that's the expectation. And when you bring zach
Speaker 1: Ertz into the lineup and you can use three true
Speaker 1: tight ends, imagine the direction of this Eagles offense and
Speaker 1: the creativity with Ertz, Burton and Brent Selleck. I think
Speaker 1: zach Ertz will prove to be a really key contributor
Speaker 1: to the Eagles in these final thirteen games. Of the season,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles have done really, really well without one
Speaker 1: of their primary pass catchers. They've done a great job
Speaker 1: with Doll zach Ertz. What's his heart to say? Because
Speaker 1: you never really knew who was going to make up
Speaker 1: that that that lack of catches that zach Ertz, that
Speaker 1: you miss without zach Ertz. But the one thing that
Speaker 1: you have is creativity. You said it from Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: going down. They've done a great job of being creative
Speaker 1: with the offense. When you add another weapon in there
Speaker 1: like zach Ertz, I think the creativity level continues to rise.
Speaker 1: I think that the young quarterback will love to the
Speaker 1: addition of zach Ertz to this offense. And who's as
Speaker 1: you look ahead here, Brian, who steps up? When I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about a pair of running backs, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Windlle Smallwood and ken yarn Barner. They did a great
Speaker 1: job in this last game twenty five carries for over
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards, two touchdowns. They continue to
Speaker 1: bring a presence in speed and explosiveness to this offense
Speaker 1: that you need. And when you're talking about pairing it
Speaker 1: with the offensive line that done that has done a
Speaker 1: great job of blocking creating holes. These guys are slippery enough,
Speaker 1: similar to myself. They're able to hide behind this big
Speaker 1: offensive line and find the holes and find increases in
Speaker 1: the defense, and then if they're in the open, they
Speaker 1: have the speed enough to make you pay for allowing
Speaker 1: them to give them that opening. So I love what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I'm expecting some big things from these guys
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season and the Eagles,
Speaker 1: if you used to all of the running backs in
Speaker 1: each game, I mean, they've really gone deep into the
Speaker 1: roster and really made everybody feel like they're part of
Speaker 1: this three and old start, that they've got ownership and
Speaker 1: that they've got a role. And I think that's important
Speaker 1: for team chemistry. Well, if you're talking about getting involved
Speaker 1: in the game, there's been games where if TiO didn't
Speaker 1: cast the ball earlier, he's not blocking me. He has
Speaker 1: an attitude the same thing with the show. But Doug
Speaker 1: has done a great job of spreading the ball around.
Speaker 1: Everyone's invested, everyone's involved in the offense and making sure
Speaker 1: that they make this thing work. That's how you get
Speaker 1: that chemistry to pull back together. You get a pass,
Speaker 1: you get a pass, you get a catch, you get
Speaker 1: a catch, I'm going to run the ball with all
Speaker 1: these running backs. Everyone is invested. That's a good thing
Speaker 1: for this offense. Right, So the Eagles off too well,
Speaker 1: an undefeated start here in two thousand and sixteen, we've
Speaker 1: got one more segment to go. We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: little look ahead and talk about the offensive line. We
Speaker 1: know that it is potentially out there. Lane Johnson hoping
Speaker 1: to get his appeal heard next week. Will he be
Speaker 1: there for the Lions game in two sundays. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it next on Eagles three sixty. This portion of
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Speaker 1: appreciate the bye week is here. So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at our amrossos on the menu
Speaker 1: peak for you. We've got Doug Peterson in studio head coach.
Speaker 1: We've also got defensive line coach Chris Wilson in studio,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much it. As the players have taken
Speaker 1: off and so are we. So this is the only
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Speaker 1: Amrosso's the reason Philly sandwiches are so famous. All right, right,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about this offensive line. They've
Speaker 1: done a great job for three games. Lane Johnson's potential
Speaker 1: suspension is out there. If he is suspended, how does
Speaker 1: that shake things up? This would be a real test
Speaker 1: for depth and coaching. Yeah, one of the things that
Speaker 1: you want with your offensive line is continuity. You're talking
Speaker 1: about these guys playing together for an extended period of time,
Speaker 1: and I think we've seen over the first three weeks
Speaker 1: of the season that these guys started a little slow
Speaker 1: and they continue to get better as the season goes on.
Speaker 1: That's because of continuity. So when you lose a big piece,
Speaker 1: probably you're all your best offensive lineman. And Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: if he is, in fact it's suspended, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit of a test for
Speaker 1: these guys. But this is a good thing. You have
Speaker 1: all of the bye week to try to figure this out.
Speaker 1: You have all of that time to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're prepared the mindset as well as physically to go
Speaker 1: out there and play. And so I think Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: his coaching staff, who's done a great job so far
Speaker 1: this season and making sure guys are prepared game in
Speaker 1: and game out. I think they'll do a great job
Speaker 1: of making sure this offensive line is prepared for any
Speaker 1: any lass. If it comes down to Lane Johnson being
Speaker 1: suspended and Alan Barber in theory would go to right tackle,
Speaker 1: Stephanos Newski would play left guard, and then some of
Speaker 1: the younger linemen would really have to get their learning
Speaker 1: curve learned and get ready for actions should they be
Speaker 1: called upon. But so far, the offensive line has been
Speaker 1: terrific and really has keyed this offensive resurgence with rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback Carson Wentz. You know you're ready to take a
Speaker 1: deep breath. Let's relax man. Listen, this is important thing
Speaker 1: after the buye It's not about the other team now,
Speaker 1: it's about ken the Philadelphia Eagles. It's about us. Can
Speaker 1: we make sure that we're taking care of our business.
Speaker 1: If they can do that, then this team has a
Speaker 1: good shot to win. How much did you relax one
Speaker 1: by weeks? Well, it's tough, especially early by. We like
Speaker 1: this you're talking about you have thirteen games left after
Speaker 1: the bye week and so you don't really get as
Speaker 1: much time to relax only because you're still conditioning yourself.
Speaker 1: You're still making sure that you're in tip top game shape.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the problem with having the game
Speaker 1: the bye week so early. You're just getting into game shape,
Speaker 1: and so you have to continue that conditioning. Your mindset
Speaker 1: has to be that I have so much more of
Speaker 1: this season left. I have to make sure that I'm
Speaker 1: prepared mentally as well as physically for no island getaways
Speaker 1: for you now, now it's too early. If now we're
Speaker 1: talking about week eight, I just need to get away
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Yeah, I'll go to the islands
Speaker 1: for a little bit and just can see the beach
Speaker 1: and get a little sand between my toes. But at
Speaker 1: this point in the week four of the season, just
Speaker 1: a little bit too early for that. Well, we've got
Speaker 1: a week off we're gonna enjoy. The Eagles are in
Speaker 1: first place, Greade three and O start with thirteen regular
Speaker 1: season games to go in a season that has gone
Speaker 1: in a probably the most unpredictable direction that any one
Speaker 1: of us could have imagined. We're happy about it, or
Speaker 1: we're very happy. You know, good stuff. You're Brian Westbrook,
Speaker 1: Dave Spendero, thanks for joining us here on Eagles three sixty.
Speaker 1: We're back next Tuesday. In the meantime, have a great
Speaker 1: Eagles bye week everybody, the Land and the Facon with
Speaker 1: the lad