Speaker 1: This is the day you've been waiting for. Of course,
Speaker 1: welcome Eagles Free sixty insider Dave's Finnaro along with Glenn
Speaker 1: mc now Today we get to his bold predictions. The
Speaker 1: voice of the Philadelphia Eagles, Merril Reese, is in studio.
Speaker 1: We're trying to wade our way through all this off
Speaker 1: field drama to see a good game on Sunday, the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Buffalo Bills. Are you caught up in
Speaker 1: running back Central? It's been a hell of a week.
Speaker 1: What's going on in Buffalo with Lashawn McCoy. Chip addressed
Speaker 1: that today and it just his news conference saying, I
Speaker 1: made a mistake. I mishandled that. That's something I did
Speaker 1: not expect to hear, and he said it at length,
Speaker 1: he really did. And of course now you have what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen this weekend with who's gonna play running back
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Yeah, you got Matthews back, so there's
Speaker 1: four choices. Well, we hope that that Ryan Matthews is back,
Speaker 1: and you wonder how many carries he can get. You
Speaker 1: wonder if the Eagles will keep four running backs active
Speaker 1: on this game day roster. But let's first just shake hands.
Speaker 1: That seems to be the whole message of the week, right,
Speaker 1: I'll always shake your Come on, people, now shake hands
Speaker 1: with your brother. Everybody, get together one another and beat
Speaker 1: the bill. Remember who did that song The Mama's in
Speaker 1: the Papas. No, maybe it's before my time there Buffalo anyway,
Speaker 1: But you know, of all of the nonsense that's going
Speaker 1: on here, Lashawn McCoy not wanting to shake hands is
Speaker 1: the silliest, most ridiculous, immature part of all of this. Well,
Speaker 1: you can be mad, you can be hurt, you have
Speaker 1: reason to be heard. You know, a year passes. Shake hands.
Speaker 1: Well from my standpoint, look, Lashaw McCoy the all time
Speaker 1: leading running back in Philadelphia Eagles history. I celebrate him
Speaker 1: for all he did as a Philadelphia Eagle. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: working with him. He'll always be a Philadelphia Eagle to me.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, however, he's a Buffalo Bill and it's time
Speaker 1: to beat the Bills. It's time for the Eagles to
Speaker 1: get a little thing going with some momentum in the
Speaker 1: final quarter of this regular season. So we've got a
Speaker 1: lot going on today for you. A lot has already happened.
Speaker 1: Let's get you caught up on everything going on if
Speaker 1: an overcare complex. It's our Eagles three sixty update. Hi everyone,
Speaker 1: I'm Alex Smith and this is your three sixty update.
Speaker 1: Today was Chip Kelly's final day of availability this week
Speaker 1: as the Eagles get set for Sunday afternoons matchup with
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and the big topic at coach Kelly's
Speaker 1: press conference was the return of running back Lashawn McCoy,
Speaker 1: and today Kelly touched upon how the McCoy trade went
Speaker 1: down back in the off season and how he was
Speaker 1: traded wasn't handled right, And I've said that before. I
Speaker 1: did not get an opportunity to talk to him, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a lesson that we should never do.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, is that we were told
Speaker 1: that the trade wasn't initiated and wouldn't be initiated until
Speaker 1: the next morning, so there were no phone calls to
Speaker 1: be made, and then all of a sudden, I'm driving
Speaker 1: to an event and he's been traded, and I felt
Speaker 1: bad that I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 1: I called him, he didn't answer my phone call. I
Speaker 1: know he was pissed and he should be pissed by
Speaker 1: rightly so, and every player that's ever left this team.
Speaker 1: I've talked to him personally. Myself, everyone that's in town,
Speaker 1: we talked to him individually. Here in our office, I
Speaker 1: talked to him. The coordinator talks to him, The position
Speaker 1: coach talk to him. We have a way that we
Speaker 1: do it that I think is the right way to
Speaker 1: do it, and it wasn't exercised in that case. Switching
Speaker 1: from a former Eagles running back to a current one.
Speaker 1: Inside the locker room, we heard from DeMarco Murray, who
Speaker 1: discussed his speaking with CEO and chairman Jeffrey Lury and
Speaker 1: how he wants to be back with the Eagles next season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy here. You know, these are my teammates
Speaker 1: and my guys know, a lot of respect for everyone
Speaker 1: who's locker room, the coach, of staff, the ownership, and
Speaker 1: I love it here. I think everybody. Everyone's frustratingly losing
Speaker 1: the two or three games the way we lost, and
Speaker 1: obviously the ranker isn't where it needs to be in
Speaker 1: you know, we're not playing in the way you want
Speaker 1: to be and play. You know, I think everyone's a
Speaker 1: little frustrated, including myself. And just got to continue. Like
Speaker 1: I said, oh you're long. You gotta come and work
Speaker 1: every day in battle and fight through it. And we're
Speaker 1: just trying to get better. And finally we caught up
Speaker 1: with a couple of members of the Eagles defense as
Speaker 1: we heard from Cedric Thornton and Connor Barwin on what
Speaker 1: the Bill's offense brings to the table. You know, attack
Speaker 1: him a different way. Obviously against Brady, you were just
Speaker 1: trying to get him to move and get out of
Speaker 1: the pocket. With Tyroder, we'll try to do our best
Speaker 1: to kind of keep him containing and keep him in
Speaker 1: the pocket. Oh yeah, definitely. H Brady is kind of
Speaker 1: thirty eight on the verge of you know, his career
Speaker 1: almost being over, and Taylor got more speed. You know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like we just had to contain him
Speaker 1: on outside and he got Shady back there too, so
Speaker 1: we just had to contain both of them and let
Speaker 1: our dbs do what they gotta do on Watkins and uh,
Speaker 1: just play as a group and have high energy and
Speaker 1: just know what's at the task and know what's at
Speaker 1: stake and just come out with the victors. Finally, an
Speaker 1: injury update here as we wrap things up on this
Speaker 1: three sixty update, every single player on the Eagles roster
Speaker 1: was a full participant on Thursday. That is very good
Speaker 1: news heading into Sunday's matchup. Could be sure to stay
Speaker 1: tuned to Philadelphia Eagles dot com throughout the week for
Speaker 1: all of the latest Eagles news. Thanks so much, Alex,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to get you today. Glenn, how
Speaker 1: those bold predictions coming along? You feel good about him?
Speaker 1: I feel great about him. I think we're five for
Speaker 1: five this week. Yeah, and you have been on a roll.
Speaker 1: I mean I think he got one or two right
Speaker 1: last week two and a half. That qualifies as that's
Speaker 1: a role, that's you know, that's why they're bold. Coming
Speaker 1: up on Eagles three sixty, we've got the voice of
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, Merril Reese in studio. He's been through
Speaker 1: this drama before, he's been through the former Eagle coming
Speaker 1: back to South Philadelphia thing. Will get his take on
Speaker 1: it because he's the one who communicates to you on
Speaker 1: game days. And we'll also have Glenn's bold predictions. But
Speaker 1: when we return to Eagles three sixty, Chris McPherson goes
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Speaker 1: the NF. Time for us to step aside. Let Chris
Speaker 1: McPherson in with a look at the Buffalo Bills. The
Speaker 1: Bills are six and six thinking playoffs. It's time now
Speaker 1: to go behind enemy lines. Hello everyone, I'm Chris McPherson
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Speaker 1: and the Eagles, they don't typically have a lot of history,
Speaker 1: but this is a very special week with the return
Speaker 1: Alos Sean McCoy and helped preview the matchup. I'm bringing
Speaker 1: in the lead journalist from Buffalo Bills dot com, none
Speaker 1: other than Chris Brown. Chris from the Buffalo Perspective. What
Speaker 1: is Lashawn Shady McCoy brought to the offense is three
Speaker 1: one hundred yard rushing games this season and was he
Speaker 1: looking to do against the Eagles this Sunday. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been the engine for the Buffalo offense. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any question about it. In the first half
Speaker 1: of the year, it was kind of tough for him.
Speaker 1: He wasn't one hundred percent healthy, not fully recovered from
Speaker 1: the hamstring injury, so you really didn't see his full
Speaker 1: display of talent on the field through that first half
Speaker 1: of the season, but ever since about Week seven or eight,
Speaker 1: he's been fully healthy and he's been off and running
Speaker 1: no pun intended. I mean, he's had over one hundred
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage in the last six games, factoring in
Speaker 1: in the passing. Not quite as much as obviously on
Speaker 1: the ground, but this offensive line has done a heck
Speaker 1: of a job in front of him, and I think
Speaker 1: after they ran for about one hundred and fifty eight
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty yards against the number one ranked
Speaker 1: run defense in the Jets, the confidence level went through
Speaker 1: the roof and they've been going ever since. So obviously
Speaker 1: McCoy is an engine to the offense there Chris, but
Speaker 1: quarterback Tirah Taylor a dual threat. You can run, you
Speaker 1: can beat it with his arm. How has he helped
Speaker 1: open up the offense for McCoy, Well, I think they've
Speaker 1: used the run more to set up the pass, but
Speaker 1: they don't ask Tyrod to throw the ball a whole lot.
Speaker 1: He only averages twenty seven passes a game, which is
Speaker 1: the lowest among starters in the NFL, so they keep
Speaker 1: his pass attempts to a minimum. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: when he's thrown thirty or more passes. They haven't won
Speaker 1: a game this year, so they try to keep him
Speaker 1: down between eighteen to twenty seven passes a game, and
Speaker 1: when they've done that, they've been successful. And you know,
Speaker 1: you look at some of his better games, his completion
Speaker 1: percentage isn't great, but he's highly efficient with the completions
Speaker 1: he's made. Last week's game against the Texans is a
Speaker 1: perfect example. He throws seven passes in the first half,
Speaker 1: completes four of them, but two of them go for
Speaker 1: touchdowns on third and goal situations. So he's a guy
Speaker 1: that's making the most of the very few opportunities he has.
Speaker 1: There's not much of an intermediate passing game there with him.
Speaker 1: It's either shortened to the flanks or deep down the field,
Speaker 1: and he's been remarkably accurate on those deep balls. Now,
Speaker 1: of Chris, you mentioned the deep passing game. Obviously, Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins is a go to weapon from the passing standpoint.
Speaker 1: Second year receiver. The Bills gave up a lot to
Speaker 1: get him. What is he brought to the Bills offense? Well, again,
Speaker 1: here's another guy on offense who was slowed by injury.
Speaker 1: In the first half of the year, and then when
Speaker 1: he since he has been back in the lineup and
Speaker 1: they've been together now Taylor and Watkins for five games
Speaker 1: in a row, you see that on field rapport really
Speaker 1: starting to develop between those two guys. And I mean
Speaker 1: he hits him for two fifty three yard shots last
Speaker 1: week against Houston. And when you have the safety cheating
Speaker 1: up in the run front to try to help slow
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy in that running game, it affords Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: the kind of matchup you want to test a defense with,
Speaker 1: and more often than not, he's come up with some
Speaker 1: big plays to put them down there in the red
Speaker 1: zone and finish scoring drives. So, Chris, we've gotten this
Speaker 1: long in the interview, and we even't talked about Rex
Speaker 1: Ryan and the present that he's brought, especially to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. That defensive line, Chris, very strong,
Speaker 1: three former first round picks starting. What type of pressure
Speaker 1: do you expect the Bills to bring on Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: and the Eagles this Sunday. Yeah, it's ironic because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people felt the defensive line was
Speaker 1: going to be the lynchpin on which this defense hung itself,
Speaker 1: and you know basically that defensive line has not performed
Speaker 1: up to the same capabilities that they have each of
Speaker 1: the last two seasons. I mean, this was a team
Speaker 1: that led the league in sacks over the last two
Speaker 1: years with one hundred and eleven total, and right now
Speaker 1: they're twenty ninth in sacks and they only have sixteen
Speaker 1: on the year. I think the Rex Ryan defense was
Speaker 1: a culture change for those guys up front from they
Speaker 1: remembered from the previous season with Jim Schwartz, and so
Speaker 1: the results have not been there for them. The most
Speaker 1: consistent performers on the defense this year have been the
Speaker 1: two starting cornerbacks, Stefan Gilmore and Ronald Darby. The rookie
Speaker 1: Gilmore doesn't look like he's gonna play this week. They're
Speaker 1: gonna plug McKelvin in instead. But those guys have been
Speaker 1: the two mainstays for this defense. They're trying to gain
Speaker 1: some more traction upfront. Jerry Hughes has probably performed the
Speaker 1: most consistent of that front four. Kyle Williams is out
Speaker 1: for the year and has been for the past few
Speaker 1: weeks with a bad knee injury, so he's not even
Speaker 1: a part of the equation. And Mario Williams just came
Speaker 1: back from a foot injury himself, so it's been kind
Speaker 1: of a mixed bag for them up front due to
Speaker 1: injury lately as well. Chris Brown, the lead journalist for
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com, thank you very much for taking
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Speaker 1: on the ledge and make some bold prediction. Guy Why
Speaker 1: do I fear you're giving me a little nudge off
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be Yeah, they're gonna be tremendous. Here
Speaker 1: you go. Here's bold prediction number one. Tyrod Taylor, the
Speaker 1: Bills young quarterback who I like, by the way, is
Speaker 1: going to have a very difficult time passing against the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. Believe it or not. He's had a couple
Speaker 1: of rough games, but he's got his feet and his
Speaker 1: feet are good, and he's gonna run for fifty yards
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. That's a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 1: I actually think it's a good thing because I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a tough time passing, so he's gonna
Speaker 1: be in some trouble. Fifty yards will kill you. But
Speaker 1: he is dangerous that way, all right. So amazing, I
Speaker 1: really do well. When you look at what Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: has done, his numbers are, they're amazing. I mean, Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor is somebody that I don't think the rest of
Speaker 1: the league thought was a starting caliber quarterback. The job
Speaker 1: that Rex Ryan has done certainly outshines the job his
Speaker 1: father ever did with an offensive player with plan Actually
Speaker 1: there's strategic quarterback. Yes, he certainly helps Sammy Watkins and
Speaker 1: Charles Clay and Robert Woods and let's Shawn McCoy around you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's done well. He's done well. Right here you go.
Speaker 1: Number two. The surprising thing is you can pass on
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. So their defense was touted to be
Speaker 1: so good this year. Their defensive line was really regarded
Speaker 1: as one of the best in the league. It has
Speaker 1: not been. Here you go, Their defensive line collectively has
Speaker 1: fewer sacks, quarterback hits and hurries than J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: by himself. And why is that? With Murray Williams and
Speaker 1: Marcel Darius and Jerry Hughes. It just doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: It doesn't add up. And I can't you know, I
Speaker 1: don't watch the Bills every week, so I can't tell
Speaker 1: you what's not working. But it's not working. I think
Speaker 1: their defensive line has eleven sacks this year, and so
Speaker 1: therefore I will predict a clean line by the Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense, clean game by the Eagles offensive line.
Speaker 1: I will say the Bills will have one sack, one
Speaker 1: quarterback Zach. That mean I, how about the running game?
Speaker 1: You see the Eagles running the football. I don't see
Speaker 1: that in the Bolt prediction. Sorry, right, number three, the
Speaker 1: number three. Here you go. All of that, this plays
Speaker 1: off of the other one means that Sam Bradford's going
Speaker 1: to have a good game. He has not had a
Speaker 1: three hundred yard game since the Saints game October eleventh.
Speaker 1: He will throw for three hundred yards this week. Quarterback
Speaker 1: passer rating of over ninety nine his last three times out,
Speaker 1: hasn't turned the football over since the Carolina game. Good
Speaker 1: trends for Sam Bradford getting better and better and better.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk to Merrill Reese about that and just
Speaker 1: a moment here, Merril Reese, next up, Glenn, Thanks for
Speaker 1: your bold prediction. Always a pledge, a wonderful job. We've
Speaker 1: got Merrill Reese coming into studio next. So much to
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, the Great Meryl Reese. Ready for the
Speaker 1: first of three home games on Sunday, and Merrill, it
Speaker 1: is a great attraction, Rex Ryan, the Buffalo Bills, They've
Speaker 1: got Starpower, We've got drama. Oh what a week it is.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the playoff rings. Thank you, Yeah, and it's fun.
Speaker 1: You know. It's a year ago. I did a commentary
Speaker 1: on WYP and I said, I really believe that the
Speaker 1: best teams should go to the playoffs, and I felt
Speaker 1: this way that it was an injustice that the ten
Speaker 1: win Eagles set home. I've changed my mom. I wonder
Speaker 1: why I I like the divisional races, and you know,
Speaker 1: I figured out that there are twenty two of the
Speaker 1: thirty two teams that have high hopes. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles are one of them. In Buffalo is also one
Speaker 1: of them. Really good team that Rex Ryan has put together.
Speaker 1: When you look at Buffalo, Merrow, what stands out, what
Speaker 1: jumps out at you? Well, the tenacious defense that stands out.
Speaker 1: Rex is his father's son. There's no doubt about that
Speaker 1: that he wants to punish a quarterback and also standing out,
Speaker 1: and I'm surprised we didn't even lead with it. Is
Speaker 1: number twenty five in your program, no longer number one
Speaker 1: in your heart, and that is Lashawn Shady McCoy, who
Speaker 1: will be occupying the spotlight on Sunday, I think to
Speaker 1: an even greater degree than he has occupied it all week.
Speaker 1: That's the reason I don't want to lead with it.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the football game, not about
Speaker 1: the size. Well we're talking about ridiculous, okay, But there
Speaker 1: is a football game involving Shady McCoy and he's a
Speaker 1: running is a great running back. That's the story. Now,
Speaker 1: this story is not because we've been through this how
Speaker 1: many times Merrill with Tara Lowens and with the Shawan
Speaker 1: Jackson donne to have it, Andy Reid and Brian Dawkins.
Speaker 1: And when the game starts, it's just about the football game.
Speaker 1: It is about the football game, but it will be
Speaker 1: greater emotions. It's emotion when it Deshan Jackson comes back,
Speaker 1: just an emotional situation. And Chip always says, Chip's words
Speaker 1: are play with emotion. Don't let emotion play with you.
Speaker 1: So I feel Number one key to the game is
Speaker 1: find a way to tackle Shady McCoy because he's their
Speaker 1: biggest weapon. They can talk about Tyrod Taylor, they can
Speaker 1: talk about Sammy Watkins. That's the greatest player on the field.
Speaker 1: And what they have to do is not worry about
Speaker 1: making highlight films. No highlight hits, sound fundamental tackling. Stop
Speaker 1: him and stop him for short games. And it's the
Speaker 1: discipline on defense. It really needs to be there. Yes,
Speaker 1: when you are on the opposite side of the field
Speaker 1: and the Shawn McCoy is running over there, don't give
Speaker 1: up your space. Don't don't give in to the temptation
Speaker 1: of running to the football. Stay disciplined, stay at home
Speaker 1: McCoy to cut back and on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball. The Eagles offense has been very inconsistent this season.
Speaker 1: Talking to a bunch of players this week about it
Speaker 1: final quarter of the season, here do you see the
Speaker 1: Eagles getting better to where we thought they would be? Offensively?
Speaker 1: Where did you think they would be? Thought they would
Speaker 1: be dynamic offensively. I thought they would be able to
Speaker 1: score points in a variety of fashions, running the football,
Speaker 1: throwing the football better in the red zone. I thought
Speaker 1: they'd be able to stretch the defenses, which they haven't done. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will settle for consistently effective, and I think sometimes
Speaker 1: statistics do not tell the whole story. I thought that
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford played an exceptionally good game against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: even though the line shows that he only gained one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards through the air, but he made
Speaker 1: money passes, He hung in there, he made great decisions.
Speaker 1: I think I think that hope of the past three games,
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford has been ascending and he is looking more
Speaker 1: and more like the quarterback that this team needs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, very encourage. Yeah, it really isn't courage.
Speaker 1: I mean, merrill. If in the quarterback picture is loose
Speaker 1: out there, that story is the big one, right, Who
Speaker 1: where's the franchise quarterback? Is it possible that it's Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford's franchise guy? Absolutely as possible. You have to see
Speaker 1: what this next month brings. But if he continues to
Speaker 1: play as he is playing, he can be that guy.
Speaker 1: The guys told me, A lot of players told me
Speaker 1: that before the game began, back in the locker room,
Speaker 1: he was the guy in charge of breaking down this game,
Speaker 1: and he gave them some fire and brimstone that he
Speaker 1: was every inch the animated leader, dynamic, and then they
Speaker 1: went on the field. So we tend to look at
Speaker 1: a quarterback's body language on the field and think we
Speaker 1: know him. You don't hear anything from where we are
Speaker 1: every now al Dannuel who yelled the signals to the parabolics.
Speaker 1: But but you don't really hear the players and their
Speaker 1: quarterbacks rallying together. But they said he was a tremendous
Speaker 1: leader before they came Merl. The last time we kind
Speaker 1: of faced this situation, the Eagles had beaten Dallas in overtime,
Speaker 1: come home for two home games, then the game in Detroit.
Speaker 1: You figure, well, the Eagles with my ammy in Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay and Detroit in good situation here. Now the Eagles
Speaker 1: have three home games. Lay it out for me, what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Well, I'll lay out one game. I'll lay
Speaker 1: out Buffalo. And I hope they lay out Buffalo because
Speaker 1: I think they can beat the Bills. And I think
Speaker 1: that if they couple the Bills win with that tremendous
Speaker 1: achievement in Foxborough, now you're getting someplace. But if they
Speaker 1: fall flat, against the Bills and lose, well, then all
Speaker 1: the wonderful things that we thought after the New England game,
Speaker 1: all the excitement of that game goes away. It dissipates
Speaker 1: because it means nothing. What you have to do is
Speaker 1: seize the opportunity and build from that performance. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. If they do beat Buffalo and then
Speaker 1: they have a Saturday night here against Arizona, it's going
Speaker 1: to be something. I think this team has a great shot.
Speaker 1: I think I think this team of the three tight
Speaker 1: at the top of the NFC East has the best
Speaker 1: chance to go to the playoffs to win the division
Speaker 1: mer final one. You talk about the emotion of the game,
Speaker 1: the former players that we've all loved through the years
Speaker 1: and coaches who've come back to Philadelphia. What is it
Speaker 1: like for you as the liaison to the fans on
Speaker 1: game day? What's it like for you now they're call
Speaker 1: number twenty five Lashawn McCoy running for the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: In the past with little you know, DeShawn, and with
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb and Brian Dawkins, et cetera, how do you
Speaker 1: handle the whole thing? Well? I handle it very easily.
Speaker 1: When they introduced them, Mike and I will stand in
Speaker 1: the booth and employed and when I see Shady McCoy
Speaker 1: on the field, I know he will come over and
Speaker 1: give me a hug, because We've had a great relationship
Speaker 1: over the years and I wish him the best. But
Speaker 1: once the game begins, I hope they throw him nine
Speaker 1: times for a loss. I hope that at the end
Speaker 1: of the day he carried the ball twenty five times
Speaker 1: for forty six yards or something like that. That's that's
Speaker 1: when I but as I call a game, Dave, I
Speaker 1: really have a motion that goes along with the play
Speaker 1: and the situation. But I'm not thinking anything about Shady
Speaker 1: McCoy the person. I'm hoping that the Eagles win, But
Speaker 1: I'm calling the play as I see it and hopefully
Speaker 1: accompany my description with the proper amount of emotion that
Speaker 1: each play deserves. Well done, merle Reas once again greatness
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Speaker 1: We're back Eagles insider David Spidero along with Glenn mcnow
Speaker 1: and we've got our final segment here off Eagles three
Speaker 1: sixty and that means it's time to have a little
Speaker 1: scouting report on a player has had one heck of
Speaker 1: a week. Malcolm Jenkins in ninety nine yard touchdown return
Speaker 1: off an interception, NFC Defensive Player of the Week. He's
Speaker 1: the subject of the study from Game Plan host Mike
Speaker 1: Quick and I crease. All right, Mike, the progress report
Speaker 1: brings us to who I believe to be the code
Speaker 1: defensive player of the year for the Eagles to this point,
Speaker 1: along with Fletcher Cox, is Malcolm Jenkins. Progress. This guy's
Speaker 1: been doing it all year. Yeah, I'm with you on that,
Speaker 1: but he's getting better and better as the year goes along.
Speaker 1: Here watching here, you gotta play earlier. And to me,
Speaker 1: this is pre snap recognition. Now he's in the slot,
Speaker 1: but once he recognizes this tight end motioning across the formation,
Speaker 1: he understands it's more than likely a chance that this
Speaker 1: ball is a rocket screen to the outside. I like
Speaker 1: the way he doesn't allow himself to get blocked and
Speaker 1: he jumps to the outside. Such a smart player, and
Speaker 1: this is one of the guys that does a lot
Speaker 1: of game film study. Knows recognizes as you said, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna get blocked. And he's a sure tackler.
Speaker 1: He gets to the ball carrying and he takes him
Speaker 1: down right away. Now you would think the Patriots say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta matchup advantage here. We gotta speedy slot receiver here,
Speaker 1: and then we got him matched up on Malcolm Jenkins.
Speaker 1: They're gonna run this through route and Malcolm does a
Speaker 1: great job of covering it. It's a post wheel combination.
Speaker 1: You'll see where his skills as a cornerback comes into
Speaker 1: play here. They're trying to get the wheel route deep
Speaker 1: ball down the sideline against him, and he is stride
Speaker 1: for stride and makes it very difficult for Tom Brady
Speaker 1: to fit that ball in. Yeah, with that type of coverage,
Speaker 1: they're gonna basically need a perfect throw to get that completed. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the big play of the game. Yes, Patriots
Speaker 1: driving down looking to go up seven. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins again here in the slot on a three
Speaker 1: by one set against Danny Amndola. Now he realizes he
Speaker 1: has inside help from Walter Thurman. He's basically gonna shield
Speaker 1: Amndola to the inside to his help to Walter Thartman.
Speaker 1: They understand that Tom Brady wants you to go to
Speaker 1: a Mendola. He's got in and out coverage on Amndola.
Speaker 1: He tries to steal fitted in to Amndola and this
Speaker 1: is just great coverage. They squeeze it, they get the
Speaker 1: tip ball, and it's often running and Tom Brady's gonna
Speaker 1: make this play now it's not gonna happen. And the
Speaker 1: great thing I love about this play is that Malcolm
Speaker 1: has been so close all year long with having one
Speaker 1: of these pick sixes, and I'm glad it finally came
Speaker 1: to fruition for him. Ninety nine yard touchdown interception retire.
Speaker 1: Great played by Malcolm. Jenkins did a lot of talking
Speaker 1: last week, challenged his teammates, challenge this team to stuff
Speaker 1: up and perform. He led the way. That's what leaders do.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, guys. Time now for our emiros. So
Speaker 1: it's on the menu segment What's in store for you
Speaker 1: on Eagles three sixty on Friday, We've got zach Ertz
Speaker 1: in studio, time for his crunch time. We've got the
Speaker 1: key numbers of this game, or Stat's Only Teacher with
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, and then Chris McPherson joins me and we
Speaker 1: go over to key matchups. As all the injury information
Speaker 1: settles down and we actually talk football, Eagles and the Bills.
Speaker 1: That's coming up for you on Friday, five o'clock on
Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty. Glenn, I gotta get your final thoughts.
Speaker 1: I gotta get where you are thinking on this Thursday
Speaker 1: evening Eagles Buffalo, who you're leaning toward. I think this
Speaker 1: is a tough one. I think the Eagles are gonna
Speaker 1: win the division, but I don't know that. I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to win this game. Tell me,
Speaker 1: I think this one is going to be a very
Speaker 1: close game. I think it's going to be decided by
Speaker 1: three points one way or the other. This is the
Speaker 1: real toss up game. I don't like the Eagles against
Speaker 1: Arizona next week, but looking ahead, I think they win
Speaker 1: those last two games in the division this year, and
Speaker 1: they take the division at seven and nine, at maybe
Speaker 1: eight and eight, Okay, So I think this game is
Speaker 1: a swing. This is the toss up game. I don't
Speaker 1: like Arizona. I like the last two. Okay, Well, disregard
Speaker 1: what Glenn McNew says about this. Ask me my honest opinion.
Speaker 1: You know, no, I think it's gonna be I think
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills are a really good team and I
Speaker 1: think it's a tough matchup. And the bold prediction you
Speaker 1: made that the Bills will have trouble throwing the football
Speaker 1: was really surprising to me. Yeah, with Watkins and Woods
Speaker 1: against Maxwell and Derrick Row, who was terrific last week.
Speaker 1: But the more tape you have on players, the more
Speaker 1: you can identify their weaknesses. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: even bigger challenge this week for Row than it was
Speaker 1: last week. They've had a tough time getting it to
Speaker 1: Watkins this year. He's Tyrod Teller is having a good year.
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins numbers are not that impressive. Yeah, well let's
Speaker 1: hope it stays that way until Buffalo plays the rest
Speaker 1: of the NFC's Glenn McNew, thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 1: For Glenn McNew, Dave Spidero, we thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us in Eagles three sixty. Have yourselves a great Eagles
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