Speaker 1: M thirty two to twenty seven is your final score
Speaker 1: of the Eagles takedown Washington, Ike Greece. Amy Campbell welcoming
Speaker 1: you into our postgame show presented by Rico. I have
Speaker 1: the pleasure being joined by our alumni captain of the game.
Speaker 1: Eagles Fans. Your thoughts on this win in game number
Speaker 1: one for the Eagles want to oh to start the season.
Speaker 1: We'll started off at a little nerve racking, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I think some of the russ from the preseason showed up,
Speaker 1: but I love the way the guys made the adjustments
Speaker 1: and got it going in the second half. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you're one to OH. And that's
Speaker 1: what everybody wants to stepped on that field today, is
Speaker 1: that they got to w Obviously some things to work
Speaker 1: on that's going to benefit the coaches because that they're
Speaker 1: a win. You want to have things that you can
Speaker 1: keep these guys locked in for the following week. There's
Speaker 1: enough that needs to be worked on so this team
Speaker 1: can be even better and get off to a faster
Speaker 1: start next week. But I love the fact they came
Speaker 1: out in the second half and they really started to
Speaker 1: show what this team can be. You know, the reason
Speaker 1: why so many people are excited about this ball club,
Speaker 1: the way they put this roster together. It really showed
Speaker 1: itself today in the second half, absolutely, and come from
Speaker 1: a seventeen point deficit. That you talk about the fast
Speaker 1: starts being the emphasis, and that was not what we
Speaker 1: saw today, but really turned it on. Do you think
Speaker 1: that that is possibly a result of just the new
Speaker 1: evolving preseason and the fact that we didn't see a
Speaker 1: lot of the starters getting majority of the reps in
Speaker 1: those preseason games, that there was a little bit of
Speaker 1: that rust to knock office things got going. I do
Speaker 1: think it was a factor in it. And it's not
Speaker 1: to make an excuse. I think it's what you're going
Speaker 1: to see around the league. And it doesn't always lend
Speaker 1: itself to poor offense. It can sometimes lend itself to
Speaker 1: poor defense because these guys haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: be out there communicating with each other, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: take much to have a big play go against you
Speaker 1: if you have miscommunication on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: particularly in the secondary, and you leave someone open in
Speaker 1: a deep portion of the field. And I thought Washington
Speaker 1: in that first half was able to take advantage of
Speaker 1: our secondary. We just didn't look like we were in
Speaker 1: sync from a communication standpoint, and they were able to
Speaker 1: sort of correct some of those things. You think about
Speaker 1: it Amy after that big touchdown to put Washington up
Speaker 1: seventeen to three, the Eagles basically held under three points
Speaker 1: from for the majority of two plus quarters until that
Speaker 1: final touchdown of the game. So I like the adjustments
Speaker 1: the defense made. I knew the offense would get it
Speaker 1: going eventually. They're just too talented to be held down
Speaker 1: for an entire game. But the defense I thought was
Speaker 1: also a little bit off in the first half that
Speaker 1: allowed Washington to get some confidence put some points on
Speaker 1: the board. The defense made adjustments. They looked much better
Speaker 1: in the second half until a little bit of the
Speaker 1: prevent defense late in the game. Well, of course, you
Speaker 1: always look at how does the team come out of
Speaker 1: the second half, and the great ones really do make
Speaker 1: those adjustments. Let's talk about one of the best parts
Speaker 1: of the game. I know Eagles fans were super excited
Speaker 1: to see Deshan Jackson back like he never left. And
Speaker 1: we have a little news for you, Mike Quick. You
Speaker 1: are now bumped out of that number eight slot for
Speaker 1: most receptions in Eagles history. DeShawn Jackson ties that number
Speaker 1: eight spot with three hundred and sixty three with most
Speaker 1: receptions in Eagles history. Pretty exciting stuff there for him.
Speaker 1: Look at that. That chemistry that he developed a Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz that we heard about really showed up today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think this is why everyone is excited to get
Speaker 1: the Sean back in Midnight Green. He's excited to be
Speaker 1: back in Midnight Green. You're talking about arguably the best
Speaker 1: deep ball receiver in the history of the National Football League,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, not just the Philadelphia Eagles. We know
Speaker 1: he's the best in the franchise's history. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the best in the history of this great game that's
Speaker 1: a hundred years old. Amy, You're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: that scares every defensive coordinator when you have to line
Speaker 1: up against him and know where he's at. Not only
Speaker 1: what he can do to you from a production standpoint,
Speaker 1: but what he allows the other offensive weapons to be
Speaker 1: able to do. He creates space for those guys to
Speaker 1: be able to operate. No surprise that Carson once he
Speaker 1: got in sync that they were going to be explosive.
Speaker 1: It's just the beginning. Obviously, Carson hasn't had a receiver
Speaker 1: that can get deep like the Sean has in his
Speaker 1: young career, and other than Michael Vick, I don't know
Speaker 1: if Deshawn's had somebody that's going to be able to
Speaker 1: place the ball where Carson is going to be able
Speaker 1: to place it. Just game number one, we still have
Speaker 1: fifteen moreties to go with these two guys well, and
Speaker 1: a lot of times it takes quarterbacks and receivers time
Speaker 1: to develop that rhythm. And this was something we heard
Speaker 1: about it all preseason, all through training camp, that this
Speaker 1: connection was a quick one for Carson Wentz and DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson there and we saw that today, especially with those
Speaker 1: deep passes, both touchdowns over fifty yards and that's more
Speaker 1: NFL history for DeShawn Jackson second all time in fifty
Speaker 1: plus yard touchdowns with thirty. Now he's only six behind
Speaker 1: the leader of Jerry Rice. Yeah, he's six behind the
Speaker 1: goat and Jerry Rice. DeShawn obviously has I think the
Speaker 1: most sixty yard touchdowns in the history of the game already,
Speaker 1: he's number one in that department. I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll get six more this year,
Speaker 1: but he should have a few more this year because
Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult to hold this offense down.
Speaker 1: When you start paying attention to de Sean, then al
Speaker 1: Sean starts to hurt you. And you saw it. You
Speaker 1: saw that come to fruition in the second half, Deshan
Speaker 1: hits him with a deep ball. Now they have to
Speaker 1: spend extra time worried about where he's at. That's going
Speaker 1: to allow the guys underneath to get loose. And the
Speaker 1: great thing about this offense is that we have a
Speaker 1: collection of guys that are selfless, right, and when you
Speaker 1: have this many weapons, that's what you're gonna need. You're
Speaker 1: gonna need guys that are gonna be able to cheer
Speaker 1: their teammates on. Your number may not get called this week,
Speaker 1: but you gotta hang in there, support the guys whose
Speaker 1: numbers are called, because eventually your number will get called.
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs are able to do it, the
Speaker 1: greatest show on turf, the Rams, they were able to
Speaker 1: do it. I've seen a lot of good offenses spread
Speaker 1: the ball around. We're gonna be able to do that
Speaker 1: this year. Well, that's a great point with DeShawn Jackson
Speaker 1: because as he started to really take the top off,
Speaker 1: you saw Urts get more involved. You saw all Sean
Speaker 1: Jeffrey get more involved as well. Let's get to Spadaro
Speaker 1: more involved. Our Eagles inside are standing by from link
Speaker 1: in Financial Field, Dave. Your thoughts from a very exciting,
Speaker 1: very up and down game for the Eagles there in
Speaker 1: game one against Washington, Well, you've touched on so much
Speaker 1: of it, but how about this one? I wondered, and
Speaker 1: I wonder how many Eagles fans felt the same way
Speaker 1: early in the game. Why are you giving Darren Sprowls
Speaker 1: so many touches? What is the strategy there? I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear what Doug Peterson has to say. But
Speaker 1: I really thought coming out a halftime, getting the running
Speaker 1: game going on that first drive, the third quarter, getting
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders involved a little bit. Darren Sprowls, I mean amazing.
Speaker 1: I think it was thirteen touches he had in this game.
Speaker 1: I mean that is far beyond what we like We
Speaker 1: talked about it before the game. Where would he kind
Speaker 1: of line up in terms of number of touches? I
Speaker 1: thought three to five touches a game? But he really
Speaker 1: did a terrific job and the defense turned it up
Speaker 1: a little bit on third Dock got off the field
Speaker 1: and he just could feel the momentum changing. Certainly not
Speaker 1: a happy crowd at the half, but after the Eagles
Speaker 1: came out and got that touchdown on the board to
Speaker 1: start the second half, they really poured it on, and
Speaker 1: we just get an indication of just how devastating and
Speaker 1: how versatile this offense can be. Yeah, Dave, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you a little bit about the deepness in that secondary,
Speaker 1: in particular possibly long coverageous little miscommunication out there. You
Speaker 1: think that's a result of not having these guys play
Speaker 1: as much together it could be. But I also think
Speaker 1: Liszt I don't think they particularly played a good game.
Speaker 1: I mean, flat out, it just didn't play a very
Speaker 1: good game. Sydney Jones needs did step up. Russell Douglas
Speaker 1: needs to step up. Ronald Darby when you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity for an interception, yeah, I gotta make it so
Speaker 1: certainly you come out of this game going all right.
Speaker 1: Things have to get better. The pass rush has to
Speaker 1: get better. I thought they did a great job against
Speaker 1: the run, but when the Washington Redskins are picking up
Speaker 1: touchdown plays of forty plus yards on you, and you've
Speaker 1: got the Atlanta Falcons who are smarting coming off a
Speaker 1: loss today, waiting next Sunday night in Atlanta. You know
Speaker 1: that defense has to be a lot better in Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz will get it there. You escape today with a victory.
Speaker 1: Hopefully everybody comes out of this thing without any major injuries.
Speaker 1: We're we're going to keep our eyes on Malik Jackson
Speaker 1: and that injury toward the end of the game is
Speaker 1: foot injury. But yeah, I mean, the defense has to
Speaker 1: be better, there's no question about it. And the back
Speaker 1: end just did not play an A plus kind of game. Well,
Speaker 1: the Eagles come away with a win. Like you said, Dave,
Speaker 1: escaped is a word that you used, and of course,
Speaker 1: plenty of things to talk about and improve on as
Speaker 1: practice unfolds throughout the week. I'm sure we'll be following
Speaker 1: that very closely as well. We'll catch up with you
Speaker 1: a little bit later, David. All right, thanks guys. All right, Ike,
Speaker 1: let's get to your three takeaways from this game. The
Speaker 1: classics segment that IKES takeaways, Well, I'll tell you we've
Speaker 1: already touched on it a little bit. Amy. I think
Speaker 1: the first thing everyone noticed was how sluggish and how
Speaker 1: rusty this team looked. And listen, it's an even you know,
Speaker 1: it's a It's a great tradeoff. In my opinion, people
Speaker 1: want to know why, you know these guys aren't planning
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Where do you want to get as
Speaker 1: many of your starters to the first game as healthy
Speaker 1: as possible. And the tradeoff maybe a little bit of rust.
Speaker 1: We saw that in the first half, but again, you
Speaker 1: have all your main players healthy. I'll accept that tradeoff
Speaker 1: anytime any year, especially when you come out with the W.
Speaker 1: And then I'll look at what de Sean Jackson brought
Speaker 1: to the table. Right Deshan Jackson, he is still explosive
Speaker 1: at thirty two years old. You're talking about the ability
Speaker 1: to unlock your offense, scared deepens, take the top off
Speaker 1: the defense. That's what we saw today, two bombs from
Speaker 1: from Carson Wentz to de Sean. Hopefully we'll see a
Speaker 1: lot more of that as the season goes along. And
Speaker 1: then my third takeaway is the coaching adjustments. The first
Speaker 1: half was ugly, it was sluggish. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of sloppy play out there on both sides of the football.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they went in there at halftime. Doug wasn't happy,
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz wasn't happy. They made the adjustments, and I
Speaker 1: loved the way the guys came out in the second half.
Speaker 1: After Washington got that big touchdown to go up seventeen
Speaker 1: to nothing, the Eagles basically outscored them twenty seven to
Speaker 1: three for almost two plus quarters until they gave up
Speaker 1: that chief touchdown late in the game, where you're really
Speaker 1: just playing a little bit of prevent defense. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We talked about this leading up to this game,
Speaker 1: that RUSS would be a concern. It came to fruition,
Speaker 1: But luckily this team was able to make the adjustments
Speaker 1: sown enough and they got out. They got the clicking
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, the run game in the second half,
Speaker 1: the deep balls in the second half, all things that
Speaker 1: you can carry over to the next week. Well, here's
Speaker 1: the thing for me, I'd rather see a coach and
Speaker 1: a team have those halftime adjustments come out and really
Speaker 1: show something different that they were able to adjust from
Speaker 1: what they were given the first half. What was working,
Speaker 1: what wasn't working. I'll take that any day over. You
Speaker 1: know somebody who just please you can't make adjustments, and
Speaker 1: there are so many teams that that's the case as well.
Speaker 1: If they don't start strong, that they're going to be
Speaker 1: in that hole, they're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: do it. So to me, a lot of good stuff
Speaker 1: here from this team being able to come from behind,
Speaker 1: especially with Washington scoring that field goal right before the half.
Speaker 1: That always kind of takes the wind out of the
Speaker 1: sales a little bit when there's a score right before
Speaker 1: the half as well. Let's take a look at my
Speaker 1: favorite part of the day, Merrill cam. Let's check out
Speaker 1: my quick and merrill reason. Let's see how they enjoyed
Speaker 1: the Eagles first game. Let's send to the crowd for
Speaker 1: the Sean Jackson kind. He comes galloping out and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz what's back? Went's looking? He's looking, He is going
Speaker 1: deep and it is cut touchdown the Shawn Jackson. Give
Speaker 1: the people what they came to see. The Shawn Jackson
Speaker 1: on a deep ball perfectly thrown by Carson Wentz, put
Speaker 1: a touchdown that'll light up the stadium fifty one yards.
Speaker 1: He leaves defenders in his week. Where have you been?
Speaker 1: Number ten? Him takes the deep snap. He's looking for
Speaker 1: Thompson and he sacked at a field goal range, coming
Speaker 1: up with a Tim Jernigan right up the middle. Terrible Tim,
Speaker 1: an outstanding job. Give goes to Sanders up the middle
Speaker 1: fifteen ten and five down to the two Moons standers
Speaker 1: his first impressive carrying. I love of that first wow.
Speaker 1: Jackson's on the near side. Went to the gun's back,
Speaker 1: he's looking, he is rolling, he fires and it is
Speaker 1: complete touchdown back of the end zone. As he fired
Speaker 1: it and won a great, great play as the Eagles
Speaker 1: come back in this ball game. Al Sean Jeffrey eight
Speaker 1: yards deep, four receivers, double wing Keenum slips an inside
Speaker 1: the geis and he loses more yards as he meets
Speaker 1: Fletcher cuts went back. Whence steps up, here comes the rush.
Speaker 1: He is going deep and it is cut and in
Speaker 1: for a touchdown to Shaun jack sevenmon. Give the people
Speaker 1: what they want, give him some more Djack wins under
Speaker 1: center motion. Al Sean Jeffrey Wentz on first down, springs
Speaker 1: it to Jeffrey and Jeffrey spins in for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Wentz under center, Sprowls behind him. Wentz pitches out the
Speaker 1: Sprowls tries to get inside cuts back spins. He's in
Speaker 1: for two. He's in for two. He fell down, he
Speaker 1: got up, he veered inside, he kept his incredible balance,
Speaker 1: and he put two on the board. And now the
Speaker 1: Eagles lad twenty nine to twenty. Hey, welcome back to
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Speaker 1: about to get smarter. It's the nerd stuff coming up
Speaker 1: right now. What are the three things you're most excited
Speaker 1: to dive into when you watch the film and you
Speaker 1: break it all down tomorrow? What can Eagles fans look
Speaker 1: forward to hearing more about from you? Well, like you
Speaker 1: and I, you know, were preparing for Eagles game plan
Speaker 1: this week. We talked a lot about the Eagles in
Speaker 1: their twelve personnel sets, so one back, two tight ends.
Speaker 1: How are they going to use zach Ertz and Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard to create matchups. And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people when they hear that, they say, oh, well, how
Speaker 1: are they creating matchups for those two guys? Right, how
Speaker 1: are they gonna get Earth's open? How are they gonna
Speaker 1: get got it open? Well, a couple of times today
Speaker 1: I felt that they use those two players to help
Speaker 1: create matchups for others. And that was a play that
Speaker 1: we had great co sell breakdown in the show was
Speaker 1: how it opened up Nelson Agilore for a big play
Speaker 1: last year against Washington on a couple of those plays,
Speaker 1: and I think in the next block here, when we
Speaker 1: do our Rica review, I'm going to show you exactly
Speaker 1: how they did that. I'm excited to go back and
Speaker 1: watch even more of that tomorrow morning. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the difficult part. When you're a defense of trying to
Speaker 1: defend against twelve personnel and when you have tight ends
Speaker 1: that are really slash wide receivers, meaning they can get
Speaker 1: open light wide receivers, then the defense has to adjust.
Speaker 1: They have to bring personnel on more of in the
Speaker 1: lightbox to try to cover these guys, and like you said, Fran,
Speaker 1: that's going to create the mismatch on a guy like
Speaker 1: Nelson Agilo. You can't put the third or fourth best
Speaker 1: corner on a guy like Nelson Agilo, who is a
Speaker 1: starting caliber receiver. So I look forward to seeing a
Speaker 1: lot more of these personnel groupings because in this league,
Speaker 1: it's about finding the mismatch right, the one on one
Speaker 1: advantage that you have and exploit it. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can go back even to that opening drive of
Speaker 1: the third quarter and the Eagles start to drive twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: two tight ends, and they just ran it right down
Speaker 1: their throat, And that's really when you can start to
Speaker 1: establish and set the tone as an offense with the
Speaker 1: run game, two tight ends and then spread you out.
Speaker 1: Now as a defense, you're you're spinning circles. You have
Speaker 1: no idea which way you're gonna go. The next thing
Speaker 1: I'm most excited is just how the Eagles were able
Speaker 1: to attack watching in the secondary, because I thought they
Speaker 1: did a really good job over the course of the
Speaker 1: day to really kind of catching them when they were
Speaker 1: trying to get a little bit cute on the back end,
Speaker 1: disguising some things. You know how it is. You know,
Speaker 1: pre snap, you're trying to show the offense one thing
Speaker 1: and then give them something else. The Eagles caught them
Speaker 1: a couple of times. To them, I'm excited to kind
Speaker 1: of diagram exactly how it seemed to me like on
Speaker 1: the both of dish On Jackson's touchdowns that there wasn't
Speaker 1: really anybody near rope. Yeah, if that first one day,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give away too much. I'm just gonna say it,
Speaker 1: like he caught the ball like fifty yards downfield, there's
Speaker 1: a linebacker around. I'm I'm gonna show exactly how that happened.
Speaker 1: I Mean, that's what you want, though, is when you're
Speaker 1: trying to create those kind of matchups number one, with
Speaker 1: what we just talked about, and then catch them in
Speaker 1: the disguise, that's a perfect storm for an offense. And defensively,
Speaker 1: it was just tough to match up. Yeah, And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you, when you get matchups like that, you need
Speaker 1: your offensive line to hold up right in order for
Speaker 1: you to exploit those. And I thought the offensive line,
Speaker 1: at least from a pass protection standpoint, run blocking wasn't
Speaker 1: is good in the first half, but in the second
Speaker 1: half they got it going. But from a pass protection standpoint,
Speaker 1: I didn't think Wentz was under much pressure. Ye had
Speaker 1: a couple of times he had guys in front of him,
Speaker 1: he was able to escape it. But off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, I can't think of any big hits
Speaker 1: he took the day. Yeah, they kept him clean, and
Speaker 1: in order to get those balls to the Sean Jackson
Speaker 1: down the field, you need time. And I thought the
Speaker 1: offensive line did a great job of holding up today.
Speaker 1: And you know what I loved too, like was it
Speaker 1: wasn't like necessarily where he was pressured and he had
Speaker 1: to break the pocket, but where the coverage was really
Speaker 1: good in the back end and he has to hold
Speaker 1: the ball and create time and break the pocket. A
Speaker 1: couple of those third down conversions in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: where he's spinning out of the pocket and rolling to
Speaker 1: his left finding Alshan Jeffrey, that seemed like twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Carson wentz to me, That's why those are the vibes
Speaker 1: I got watching that today. And I need to check
Speaker 1: the third down numbers on the stats here in a minute.
Speaker 1: But both of those touchdowns to Deshan Jackson were on
Speaker 1: third and ten as well. So just I think a
Speaker 1: lot for Eagles fans to be optimistic about on those
Speaker 1: third down conversions, which was an area of emphasis heading
Speaker 1: into this season, something they didn't do so well last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no question. I thought you guys touched on it just
Speaker 1: before I came on, just about the adjustments that the
Speaker 1: coaching staff made. To me, that was one of the
Speaker 1: best things to come out of this is. You know,
Speaker 1: the team comes out a little bit flat on both sides.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the thing. They score that first touchdown,
Speaker 1: Washington off the mistackle and you say, all right, that's
Speaker 1: that's on us, that's not even on them. And then
Speaker 1: you get the deep ball for a touchdown. He said,
Speaker 1: right tip of the cap. You got us on a
Speaker 1: deep ball. Let's see if you can sustain drives. The
Speaker 1: Eagles did a really good job of not panicking. They
Speaker 1: didn't force the shoe. They took what the defense gave
Speaker 1: them on offense, and they just buckled down on defense.
Speaker 1: I love the adjustments they made on both sides and
Speaker 1: the way to come out with the victor. I thought
Speaker 1: it was just an awesome team effort. I had the
Speaker 1: third down stat here eleven of seventeen, so let's trading
Speaker 1: sixty five percent. That's pretty good if you're noticing the
Speaker 1: chemistry happening in this room right now, between the three
Speaker 1: of us, but especially these two. Oh and you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna send this over to the link because head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson is ready for his press conference. I
Speaker 1: don't think much of anything. We just kind of settled
Speaker 1: into the game, made a few adjustments at halftime. But
Speaker 1: you know, there were some plays to be made in
Speaker 1: the first half. We just we just didn't make them offensively. Defense.
Speaker 1: You know, we didn't get off the field on third
Speaker 1: down in the first half, but we got off the
Speaker 1: field on third down and the second half, and then
Speaker 1: we conversely, we stayed on the field. We made some
Speaker 1: plays on third down. So just a matter of staying patient,
Speaker 1: stay and trust in the game plan. And you know,
Speaker 1: guys execute well. In saying that I got that first
Speaker 1: in the first drive in the second half, you had
Speaker 1: a quick fourth down conversion. I think it was from
Speaker 1: your own any hesitation to go none but about a
Speaker 1: half a yard, so there was no hesitation. I was
Speaker 1: going forward right there on that drive around the ball
Speaker 1: nine at twelve times. I think how much did that
Speaker 1: let you established control of the line of scrimmage in
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, you know, even a couple of times
Speaker 1: in the first half. I thought kind of controlled the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. We had some nice runs second half.
Speaker 1: UM kind of challenged the guys at halftime and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, offensive line control the line of scrimmage, and
Speaker 1: they did. Um, but those two long drives there in
Speaker 1: a second half and really, um, you know, dominated by
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and then hats off to those guys,
Speaker 1: UM helped us really get ourselves back into this football
Speaker 1: game and help us win. Think of the way Carson played, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he played. I thought he played within himself.
Speaker 1: I thought he really saw the field extremely well. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, distributed the ball well, you know, made the
Speaker 1: checks that we needed him to make. He played he
Speaker 1: played well. Um. Obviously look at the tape tomorrow and
Speaker 1: and see. But I think just my blink just says
Speaker 1: that he played played good. He was very one third
Speaker 1: down all three touchdown passes and the third down back passes.
Speaker 1: Okayni first down. So what was the key to that successful?
Speaker 1: Some of it was a little tempo offense. We lined
Speaker 1: up quickly to the line of scrimmage. UM, I thought
Speaker 1: that there might have been a little confusion on defense,
Speaker 1: so we were able to kind of take advantage of
Speaker 1: which helped us there, M Deshaun. We caught him in
Speaker 1: the right coverage on one touchdown, Deshaun, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of suplit the the two deep safety there or at
Speaker 1: least one high safety at the what I thought. And
Speaker 1: for the one touchdown, protection was really good. So just
Speaker 1: a combination of our execution and then just playing fast.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like seeing Deshaun Amy added his first game
Speaker 1: back in Philadelphia. I'm excited for him. I'm excited for
Speaker 1: the team, you know. Um, it's a great win, great
Speaker 1: way to start our season. Excited for Deshaun, you know,
Speaker 1: first game back. I wish you wouldn't have got the
Speaker 1: penalty in the first quarter there, but you know, emotions
Speaker 1: run high early and he settled into had a nice game.
Speaker 1: That is going to have on the whole offense and
Speaker 1: his billy You're gonna create space. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's obviously something that uh, you know, UM, we're blessed
Speaker 1: to have. He's blessed he's blessed to have as well. UM,
Speaker 1: take advantage of that, you know, and and and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, not all the time if you watch the game,
Speaker 1: and not all the time do you have to throw
Speaker 1: the ball deep with his speed and it might get
Speaker 1: a little off coverage from time to time, so take
Speaker 1: advantage of that too. But uh, yeah, he's uh he
Speaker 1: fits in well with what we're doing. Obviously freed up
Speaker 1: you know Hal Sean and some of the things Nellie did,
Speaker 1: and you know even Zach and Dallas. So um, it's
Speaker 1: good to have first came out through the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: for Big T. Was that part of the plan for Acount?
Speaker 1: And they also defensively it sort it seemed like the
Speaker 1: outside corners were kind of cycling in and out. Was
Speaker 1: that part a part of all part of the plan
Speaker 1: you know early in the season like that with especially
Speaker 1: with Darby, you know, put him on a little bit
Speaker 1: of a not a pitch account, but a rotating basis.
Speaker 1: All those guys are gonna play, you know when you
Speaker 1: got four corners out there, um and the three that
Speaker 1: played corn position obviously, Um, but yeah, all part of
Speaker 1: the plan. The seventeen done. How much did that touchdown pass?
Speaker 1: The offensive guy going? I think the seventeen nothing kind
Speaker 1: of woke us up, um, and we kind of we
Speaker 1: did we knew what we had to do. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we had to just kind of stay within, you know,
Speaker 1: within our game plan. Uh, I had to keep calling
Speaker 1: you know runs. The run game was eventually going to
Speaker 1: take over, and um, we were able to make some
Speaker 1: more plays there in the second half that that got
Speaker 1: us back in the game and the eventually uh uh
Speaker 1: you know, win the game. So yeah, you don't ever
Speaker 1: want to see that, you know, seventeen nothing at home. Um,
Speaker 1: But hats off to the guys resilient group, staying true
Speaker 1: and uh crawling him, you know, crawling themselves back into it.
Speaker 1: So we're talking. I ask you so much about Miles
Speaker 1: and Jordan throughout the preseason. Why so much? Darn well?
Speaker 1: Some of it was by design, some of the some
Speaker 1: of the plays that were were affected if um, as
Speaker 1: you know, when we construct game plans, we have multiple
Speaker 1: run schemes and they're designed for different guys. Um, the
Speaker 1: ones that we're kind of clicking today where the Darren
Speaker 1: ones um and and so just kept calling his number there. Um,
Speaker 1: those other two guys I thought ran Well, is also
Speaker 1: unfortunate we got the late holding call deep in you know,
Speaker 1: late in the game there on that one. But Miles
Speaker 1: as explosive as you know, um, Jordan ran extremely hard.
Speaker 1: Um so excited for all three of those guys. When
Speaker 1: just Sean uh hits that deep ball for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: With his energy and emotion that he shows, is he
Speaker 1: coming back to you on the sidelines, let's let's get
Speaker 1: another one going here? Is he? Yeah? I mean he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's excited, um talking. He comes up to
Speaker 1: you and kind of high fires you a little bit
Speaker 1: and and you know said, you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: just whispers in your ear like hey, keep let's keep
Speaker 1: it going, you know type thing. And and that's him. Um,
Speaker 1: he obviously leads by example. Um, he's great to have
Speaker 1: in the locker room. And uh, you know, we're just
Speaker 1: we're just fortunate that today was with his day drive
Speaker 1: first driving a third quarter randival and I've got to
Speaker 1: twelve plates. I had a lot of success on the
Speaker 1: ground help where it wasn't to establish that kind of
Speaker 1: balance and keep them a little bit of all balance. Yeah. It,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's anytime you can establish your run game, uh,
Speaker 1: during the game, it helps you opens up a lot
Speaker 1: of things. And you know, a couple of times we
Speaker 1: caught them in in subdefense to our twelve personnel which
Speaker 1: was good for us to run the football in and uh,
Speaker 1: you take take advantage of that, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: anytime you can you can do that. It definitely opens
Speaker 1: up more things, you know in the second half for
Speaker 1: us that it did, especially down the field throws. What
Speaker 1: kind of defensive adjustments did you make in the second
Speaker 1: half where you kept the receivers in check from the
Speaker 1: big plans For the most part, I think it really
Speaker 1: just starts with the front um getting a little more
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback, you know, disrupting some of his throws.
Speaker 1: And then and then just just um, you know, being
Speaker 1: being where your feet are, just understanding from a defensive
Speaker 1: standpoint where you need to be and being there and
Speaker 1: executing the defense. But I do think we got a
Speaker 1: little bit more pressure on the quarterback there in the
Speaker 1: second Yeah, yeah, thanks. Okay, that's a head coach after
Speaker 1: his team's first victory. Um, as I was saying, with
Speaker 1: that strange transition to coach there, of course we got
Speaker 1: to go when coaches here. Um, if you've noticed all
Speaker 1: the chemistry in this room, it's because these two work together,
Speaker 1: not just on Sundays, not just today. Can probably tell
Speaker 1: us not their first time together but Eagles game plan.
Speaker 1: Frand produces this show. Ike is on this show breaking
Speaker 1: down just all of the Why don't you tell us
Speaker 1: a bit more about it? Fran, Well, we're writing down
Speaker 1: the excess and nose every single week, and a little
Speaker 1: bit of a change in format this year, because you know,
Speaker 1: typically what we try to do is kind of preview
Speaker 1: what to expect in the upcoming game, and really we
Speaker 1: wanted to just kind of get back to roots and say,
Speaker 1: all right, what is the game plan for the Eagles
Speaker 1: to win this game this week? And so a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different format, different outlook on the show.
Speaker 1: So some exciting things and I'm excited to get into lab.
Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier before Coach talked, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to get in and just kind of watch this film
Speaker 1: both of this team and then also the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: who had a tough loss this week, and just kind
Speaker 1: of break down exactly what we're gonna talk about, Like
Speaker 1: I would guess we're gonna talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson's a big plays, I would imagine, and we
Speaker 1: talked about the chemistry Amy Frand not going into our
Speaker 1: eighth year of doing Eagles game plans. So along with
Speaker 1: Mike Quick John Clark, looking forward to getting into this
Speaker 1: tape and looking at what the Eagles were able to
Speaker 1: do to be successful obviously the two big players to
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson. Can't wait till we break that film down.
Speaker 1: And the thing I love about breaking it down is
Speaker 1: we obviously see the Shawn catching a ball from wins,
Speaker 1: but I love getting into the past protection seeing what
Speaker 1: Carson saw pre snap and deciding he wants to go
Speaker 1: to DeShawn Jackson there. So I can't wait to get
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Are you looking at Atlanta? They've got some different things
Speaker 1: going on. It's a little early for us to get
Speaker 1: into it now, but this week, you know, they've got
Speaker 1: some different things going on both sides of the new coordinators, so,
Speaker 1: you know, just some different things for us to talk about.
Speaker 1: A parent. We can't start talking about Atlanta for like
Speaker 1: thirty seven more minutes. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna stick
Speaker 1: with this in and you alluded to it, but let's
Speaker 1: break down a couple of those plays right now. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do our plays at the game. I get to
Speaker 1: start and I'm going with DeShawn Jackson's first touchdown as
Speaker 1: back as an Eagle again just really broke the game open,
Speaker 1: fifty one yards on a third and ten. And this
Speaker 1: was really like the first moment we saw in this
Speaker 1: offense start firing. And I think what stood out to
Speaker 1: me the most was that Lincoln Financial Field from a
Speaker 1: distance from me listening on the broadcast, kind of went
Speaker 1: you could probably speak to this more because you were there,
Speaker 1: went from like pretty silent, pretty like upset, to like, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, like Deshawn's back, Carson's back, this is
Speaker 1: what this is what we came to see. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were waiting. I mean I was over there in the
Speaker 1: stadium and the fans of sitting there, they were pumped
Speaker 1: up before the game. All the electricity was in the building.
Speaker 1: And then they have the riskins to jump out the
Speaker 1: way they did. It was a little deflating, right, and
Speaker 1: then you have them go up seventeen to nothing, and
Speaker 1: then we're scratching out here, like, man, what was going on?
Speaker 1: So I feel confident in saying I believe we all
Speaker 1: assume they would get it going eventually. Once you're down
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing, you're saying, Okay, I hope it won't be
Speaker 1: too late when they do get it going. And when
Speaker 1: that that second touchdown to de Sean, you could almost
Speaker 1: feel everyone when the ball's in the air and they
Speaker 1: almost know that he's open, it's going to drop in there,
Speaker 1: he catches it, And I'll tell you, since the moment
Speaker 1: they resigned to Sean Jackson, this fan base has been
Speaker 1: waiting to cheer this guy on in this stadium, and
Speaker 1: I mean, what better way to get it going. I
Speaker 1: think I can't imagine right what this guy was feeling
Speaker 1: like waiting for that first not just the first reception,
Speaker 1: but his first touchdown back at midnight Green. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure one he'll remember for a while the show. How
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a little bit new to the to
Speaker 1: the Eagles fan base here, as it's my second season
Speaker 1: with the team, but I knew since DeShawn Jackson has
Speaker 1: been here, and so to me, he's new and I
Speaker 1: know the story and I know how beloved he is
Speaker 1: here and how much of a perfect videos. But I
Speaker 1: was so excited to see him today and that fit
Speaker 1: all of that hype that we've talked about all preseason
Speaker 1: long into training camp to see it in action today
Speaker 1: was really special. Yeah, and to me, that's why I
Speaker 1: agree with you Amy. It was my favorite play from
Speaker 1: the days and they know the play of the game well,
Speaker 1: was the DeShawn Jackson opening touchdown. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: break that play down in the next block in the
Speaker 1: reco review. So I don't want to give away too
Speaker 1: much of the detail, but I'll just say this, it
Speaker 1: was a great combination of one, a great play call
Speaker 1: from Doug Peterson and number two, a great read by
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. Because I'll just say this, pre snap, the
Speaker 1: ball probably shouldn't have gone to DeShawn Jackson, but reading
Speaker 1: what the defense did, he reacted to that and put
Speaker 1: the ball exactly where he needed to go. So from
Speaker 1: an ex's no standpoint, a really fun breakdown and a
Speaker 1: lot of really cool things to take away from that play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard to overthrow
Speaker 1: that guy. Do you have a play of the game
Speaker 1: that's different than ours? I do. I do. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with a play that works several times today. But
Speaker 1: I love the fact when they rented in the third
Speaker 1: quarter of opening drive or the third quarter, you need
Speaker 1: to get points coming out of the locker room. There
Speaker 1: forced with a fourth and one there, Doug, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? You're gonna pump the ball? Give it
Speaker 1: back to the red Skins now, not our coach. He's
Speaker 1: going forward on fourth down and the quarterback sneak worked
Speaker 1: to perfection. I think they were three for three on
Speaker 1: the day. As a defense, what do you have to
Speaker 1: do to stop that play? Because Carson's so big and
Speaker 1: then line so good inside? What do you do as
Speaker 1: a defense? That's really an unstoppable play? It really is,
Speaker 1: and you're at the mercy of the offense. Jason Kelsey Carson.
Speaker 1: They can get up to the line of scrimmage, hip
Speaker 1: the ball as soon as they want to, and when
Speaker 1: you only need a half a yard. Carson's the big guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all he has to do is fall forward. The only
Speaker 1: thing you're worried about on that is fumbling the snap.
Speaker 1: If he if he secures that snap, it's pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna be a first down, much like that team up
Speaker 1: in New England does. Has Tom Brady ever been stopped
Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks League? So I love the fact that
Speaker 1: our quarterback is real good at doing it. He gets
Speaker 1: behind Jason Kelsey, and that was a big play there
Speaker 1: because it Doug punts the ball there. Who knows. Washington
Speaker 1: had momentum going into the locker room with that field goal,
Speaker 1: and so I love the fact that Doug went forward.
Speaker 1: He trust his old line, he trust his team. They
Speaker 1: needed to get points on that first drive. We wound
Speaker 1: up getting a touchdown there later to Deshan Jackson. Awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome decision from the coach to trust his players a
Speaker 1: goal for it. There a couple of touchdowns for Shaun Jackson.
Speaker 1: Not the only receiver to do it all. Shan Jeffrey
Speaker 1: also had a rushing touchdown. It was awesome. He was
Speaker 1: Insider Dave Spidero when one on one with Jeffrey after
Speaker 1: the game. Take a look down to the field. Insider
Speaker 1: Dave Spiderow with wide receiver al Sean Jeffrey two touchdown
Speaker 1: catches today. Domination in the second half. What did you
Speaker 1: see happening in that second half? We fed off the
Speaker 1: crowd energy, the way to hang in there and stay
Speaker 1: with us and Coach Peterson game was a hell of
Speaker 1: a speech in the locker room and we all stuck together.
Speaker 1: Seem like he was saying I'm here, come find me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was. We're always in communication early in
Speaker 1: this game, trying to figure out what they were doing
Speaker 1: coverage wise, and um, you know that specific play. You know,
Speaker 1: we were talking, hey, be alert if they do a
Speaker 1: certain coverage, be alert on this on this deep ball,
Speaker 1: and uh, we hit the home run and that one
Speaker 1: was fun. I didn't feel the air it after him.
Speaker 1: It felt great. It felt great to you know, to
Speaker 1: have him out here obviously creating the dynamic element that
Speaker 1: he does for our offense. And then I know this
Speaker 1: city's pretty fired up to have him back here and
Speaker 1: so um to do that at home, I know for
Speaker 1: him means a lot, and for this team to get
Speaker 1: us going the way he did. It was huge horse
Speaker 1: way at the connection and you know, kind of just
Speaker 1: seeing let's start right out of the shoot. There's a
Speaker 1: long one. Yeah. I mean I think that's just him
Speaker 1: and I, you know, going through the entire offseason together,
Speaker 1: you know, just working on our chemistry, working on you know,
Speaker 1: how we see coverages, how we see things, and um,
Speaker 1: you know we just we we made those plays in
Speaker 1: those cases, and it was good to see seniors toyere
Speaker 1: right with the song in the middle. Obviously having those
Speaker 1: three guys over there increase a lot of pressure uncause
Speaker 1: once you see bring game about about that particular information. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was just something that you know, coaches
Speaker 1: did a good job scheming up and you know, we
Speaker 1: were able to get him and some mismatches and you know,
Speaker 1: there did some some coverage things that you know kind
Speaker 1: of surprised us a little bit, but we were able
Speaker 1: to have those answers and uh, you know we hit
Speaker 1: those two home runs, which was which was pretty sweetson
Speaker 1: on the second touchdown, it looked like he was so
Speaker 1: wide open. What did you plan to go to him
Speaker 1: initially or did you just see he was open when
Speaker 1: he was that wide open. Yeah, we were on the
Speaker 1: ball and we made the We made the call base
Speaker 1: off of the look the defense has given us. So
Speaker 1: we really had either Nellie or to Shaun on that
Speaker 1: one and take your pick, and we made we made
Speaker 1: him pay. How did it feel for you and generally
Speaker 1: getting back out there first time this December? How do
Speaker 1: you feel like you played? First of all, felt great,
Speaker 1: you know, it felt great to finally get out there,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was a long offseason, a lot
Speaker 1: of things going on, and so um to finally be
Speaker 1: out here in front of our fans running out of
Speaker 1: the tunnel, Uh, it just felt. It felt awesome. And
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it was a little slower start than
Speaker 1: we'd liked as a team, but um, I think that
Speaker 1: was just good to see our resilience and just stay
Speaker 1: together and you know, do what we do and then
Speaker 1: finish the ball game the way we did on that
Speaker 1: I think nineteen play drive, um to finish it off.
Speaker 1: It was it was a good day for us. What
Speaker 1: do you think the reason was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a slow start. Yeah, it was just you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of things. You know, it's just one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's hard hard to say. We kind of hurt ourselves
Speaker 1: early a little bit, and um, then we put that
Speaker 1: drive together. Then we came up short on fourth down
Speaker 1: down there, and UM, you know, those are just things
Speaker 1: we got to keep cleaning up and working on. But
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't feel offensively that we were really
Speaker 1: that bad. We just hurt ourselves with it with a
Speaker 1: penalty year and some things here and there, so things
Speaker 1: we can definitely work on. How much we got that
Speaker 1: first question has kind of got the off gave the
Speaker 1: offense competa. Yeah, I mean anytime. You know, first of all,
Speaker 1: you know, our our strategies just trying to you know,
Speaker 1: take completion, stake what they give us and UM. In
Speaker 1: that case, they gave us that that shot, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was a foot race between the Sean and
Speaker 1: their corner and uh, you know, Sean made him, made
Speaker 1: him pay and obviously it gave this offense, it gave
Speaker 1: the stay them, gave the defense a spark and to
Speaker 1: be able to do that, and you know it was
Speaker 1: a third down play. To be able to do that
Speaker 1: on third down, it was huge for us. What is
Speaker 1: it about third down in particularly even third and long
Speaker 1: and thin you have so much confidence over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's it's something you know, we
Speaker 1: work a lot on it. You know, it's third down
Speaker 1: and reds on something we always talk about. We always
Speaker 1: work on UM and you know a lot of teams
Speaker 1: always just you know, on third and long, just give up,
Speaker 1: take a screen and we're gonna do that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say give up, but we're gonna do our
Speaker 1: our screens and take take what's there sometimes, but you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna try and push the ball down the field
Speaker 1: when we can, and uh, make plays when we can.
Speaker 1: So it was good to see that that we were
Speaker 1: able to do that today a couple of times, a
Speaker 1: couple of times in the second half left to go
Speaker 1: third down and meet accurate throws. Was it easier to
Speaker 1: do that today than it maybe it had been last year?
Speaker 1: Close to I don't think so. I don't think so. No.
Speaker 1: I think that was pretty pretty natural for me really
Speaker 1: my whole career. So it was good to see, you know,
Speaker 1: those couple of plays that we were able to extend
Speaker 1: the play and pick up some key key third down.
Speaker 1: We're joking that this is twenty seventeen, Carson. Uh what
Speaker 1: ninth did you feel? Is this as good as you
Speaker 1: fell out there and in a couple of years, I
Speaker 1: mean business buscomptables you felt? Yeah? I mean I felt great,
Speaker 1: you know, physically and mentally. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, a lot of hard work really
Speaker 1: these last few weeks on game planning. So mentally I
Speaker 1: just felt really good with our plan. Coaches did a
Speaker 1: good job putting it together, and physically just feeling free,
Speaker 1: you know, chev being able to get rid of the
Speaker 1: excuse me being able to get rid of the knee
Speaker 1: brace um and just and go play ball. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been a blessing and I'm thankful for the way
Speaker 1: recovery went. Follow that one question about to do scrambling
Speaker 1: word in the pocket and giving outside. Was it easier
Speaker 1: to do without the brace? It's hard to say, hard
Speaker 1: to say, I did you have anything particular you want
Speaker 1: to get accomplished on that first drive? And know one
Speaker 1: you've been bothered. Yeah, I mean we always come in
Speaker 1: a halftime and okay, what are they doing to us?
Speaker 1: What formations can we key in on? What can we
Speaker 1: what can we go out and attack? And we always
Speaker 1: want to start fast the second half. Obviously we were
Speaker 1: in a hole where we didn't want to be, and
Speaker 1: uh we were able to come out there and put
Speaker 1: a good one together. And so we always we always
Speaker 1: as a as with coaches and play trying to put
Speaker 1: it put together first opening drive for the second half,
Speaker 1: and I think coaches did a great job there. Uh
Speaker 1: that that row to him was ruled to run. Alshan
Speaker 1: was surprised. Otherwise you before touching down throws? What was
Speaker 1: your view on that? Do you think that was a passer?
Speaker 1: That's news to me. I had no idea, so but
Speaker 1: it is what it is. So I guess Alshan's got
Speaker 1: a Russian touchdown when the offense when the offense started waking,
Speaker 1: did you make any key adjustments or did it? Was
Speaker 1: it just a matter of just plugging away with the
Speaker 1: same game plan? Um, you know, a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: You know, we obviously had a game plan and we
Speaker 1: kind of threw it all out there early to see
Speaker 1: what they were doing and then kind of focus in
Speaker 1: on Okay, this is this is where our mismatches are,
Speaker 1: here's our advantage. And so we did a lot more
Speaker 1: of that later in the game, and coaches did a
Speaker 1: great job of dialing it up. Said ten Bowls a
Speaker 1: big part of that in the second half in terms
Speaker 1: of getting still mind, what were you doing there? T Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's a couple times a day
Speaker 1: we just want to get on the ball and see
Speaker 1: what they were doing coverage wise, so that we could
Speaker 1: call it at the line of scrimmage, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: that's nice that we were able to communicate as effectively
Speaker 1: as we did and get us in the right calls
Speaker 1: and pick up some key third downs and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of simplifies the game for us and for them, um,
Speaker 1: and just lets us go make place always clearly hyped
Speaker 1: four game and they early going and de penally. What
Speaker 1: would would you make of his uh obvious emotion early
Speaker 1: on and how did you guys kind of get up
Speaker 1: the focus? Yeah, I mean, first of all, I love
Speaker 1: his emotion. I love his attitude. Obviously that the penalty
Speaker 1: is something that we all would say, you know, you
Speaker 1: can't do that, but um, you know, just his attitude
Speaker 1: and what he brings to the table mentally, he's he's
Speaker 1: a fighter, um, and he wanted to show show it today.
Speaker 1: And uh, it was good to see and have that
Speaker 1: passion that that he brings in really this entire offense brings.
Speaker 1: It was good to see the slow start. Was that
Speaker 1: more a product of what the defense was doing or
Speaker 1: was it an execution issue? I'll just go back and
Speaker 1: watch tape. You know, it's hard to hard to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: with that penalty really hurt us early in the game,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we had a couple of things
Speaker 1: here and there that we just didn't execute. And UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not I'm not overly concerned. I think
Speaker 1: we'll get it right, you know on the role of course,
Speaker 1: a touchdown to all shot, you know, you roll, you
Speaker 1: kind of put it up there. It was kind of
Speaker 1: like a fifty fifty ball, you know, it was kind
Speaker 1: of covered. Is that the type of thing you guys
Speaker 1: talk about where you say, hey, I'm gonna toward you
Speaker 1: got to take care of me. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: something especially down there, Alshin that's such a great job
Speaker 1: of body control and boxing out guys and being strong
Speaker 1: to the catch and you know, rolling out and saw
Speaker 1: a linebacker on him. So I'm gonna give him that
Speaker 1: shot every time, you know, and I'm gonna believe he's
Speaker 1: gonna come down with it, you know, ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of the time. And that's the type of player he is,
Speaker 1: especially when we get down to the red zone. Um
Speaker 1: to ghost snash that ball out of the air, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's good to see there. What I think
Speaker 1: of him, It is great and great time out there.
Speaker 1: You know. I love that guy and how hard he
Speaker 1: works and what he does for us situationally from third downs,
Speaker 1: punt returns to different things. Uh. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: leader on this football team and it was. It was
Speaker 1: great to have him back out there thanks to more questions.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot about the Shawn's presence in the
Speaker 1: off season. Yeah, that you've seen it. Not even the
Speaker 1: touch shown, its just its presence on the field. You
Speaker 1: feel the difference in those intermediate routes because they got
Speaker 1: to keep the safety over there. Yeah. I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's the theory, and that's the plan and the hope.
Speaker 1: You know that. Uh, you know, with him being out
Speaker 1: there and then these other weapons that we have us,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to keep teams on their toes,
Speaker 1: you know, and we're gonna we're gonna study this tape
Speaker 1: and see what we could have done better. But um,
Speaker 1: having the element of Deshaun to go with with Nelson
Speaker 1: and with al Sean, and then our tight ends and
Speaker 1: our running game, I mean, it's it. We got we
Speaker 1: got some talent and we got some weapons to to
Speaker 1: take advantage of. Talked this offseason about you operating faster.
Speaker 1: How was that kind of realized in game? You know,
Speaker 1: with your greater comfort in the in the system. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it, you know. I again, I'll go back
Speaker 1: and watch the tape, but I felt like mentally, I was,
Speaker 1: I was playing fast going through reads. Uh, the old
Speaker 1: line did a tremendous job. You know, I think them
Speaker 1: being able to get the running running game going a
Speaker 1: little bit later in the game and um, them just
Speaker 1: keeping me upright was really helped us, you know, execute
Speaker 1: some drives and owe a lot of it to those guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Hey like that Samon suit there for
Speaker 1: QB one. That is a winning quarterback, look right there,
Speaker 1: love it little style. I liked that right obviously. Carson
Speaker 1: feeling quite comfortable after today's performance, being back on the field,
Speaker 1: being healthy. Impressive stat line there seventy one point eight
Speaker 1: percent completion three and thirteen yards, three touchdowns, zero interceptions.
Speaker 1: Basic takeaways on Carson Wentz's performance here today, Well, I
Speaker 1: thought he looked look magnificent. He took what the defense
Speaker 1: was giving him in the first half, didn't try to
Speaker 1: force anything, didn't get frustrated and try to force anything.
Speaker 1: That's what you saw early last year when he first
Speaker 1: came back off of that injury, is that you could
Speaker 1: tell he was searching for the big play. He was
Speaker 1: looking forward as opposed to allowing it to happen organically.
Speaker 1: And today I thought he allowed the plays to come
Speaker 1: to him. Numbers didn't look very good for about a
Speaker 1: quarter and a half until he hit Deshaun with that
Speaker 1: big throw. And that's the maturity of him in this offense, right.
Speaker 1: You know, Doug talked and Mike Girl talked all offseason
Speaker 1: about Carson allowing the offense to work for him, you know,
Speaker 1: not searching for big plays, just allowing the offense to
Speaker 1: work for him. Well, it's it's not easy for a
Speaker 1: player of his caliber to sit back and just let
Speaker 1: things come to him in the first half when the
Speaker 1: offense is struggling, you tend to have a tendency to
Speaker 1: want to make something happen, to try to provide your
Speaker 1: team a spark. And I thought he did a great
Speaker 1: job of not getting frustrated, keeping his guys calm, and
Speaker 1: then eventually the big players started happening. And I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize he had over seventy percent completion percentage today.
Speaker 1: That's remarkable considering how many times he threw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field, you know. So I thought he looked
Speaker 1: great in the offense, spread the ball around. Obviously had
Speaker 1: chemistry early with the Sean, but then he was able
Speaker 1: to get guys like al Shan involved. He was able
Speaker 1: to get zach Ertz involved. And then I love the
Speaker 1: fact that we had thirty rushers today. He had thirty
Speaker 1: Russian attempts, which is what I thought this team needed
Speaker 1: coming into this game. Twenty five plus Russian attempts. I
Speaker 1: thought Carson did a great job with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen the guy played since they left the
Speaker 1: field in Dallas last year, and man, how can you
Speaker 1: not be excited to see him back out there healthy
Speaker 1: for the first time. This guy hasn't been healthy since
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Yeah, and here's here's what really stood out
Speaker 1: to me about Carson's performance. And you touched on it
Speaker 1: a little bit. But in the past, as you said,
Speaker 1: when things maybe weren't going so well, we would see
Speaker 1: him get a little bit tight, kind of try and
Speaker 1: go into hero mode a little bit, maybe do too
Speaker 1: much rely on that athleticism that had gotten him this far.
Speaker 1: But it got to a point where your game needs
Speaker 1: to evolve where you can't always rely on your legs,
Speaker 1: You can't always try to take everything upon yourself and
Speaker 1: make things happen. Trust your playmakers. And he commented on
Speaker 1: that as well. How he trusted to Seawan Jackson. And
Speaker 1: speaking of that, here comes to Sean Jackson for a
Speaker 1: press conference right now. The game, the game you had
Speaker 1: to pay as much. Game back a man, very exciting.
Speaker 1: A lot of motion went into it. Uh, the past
Speaker 1: forty eight hours alwously been racing for me, just trying
Speaker 1: to keep my my calm, my jitters, you know, just
Speaker 1: anxiety is it's been, you know, a roller coaster the
Speaker 1: past forty eight hours. Just happy it's Ober. You know,
Speaker 1: the first game coming back to Philly, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just all the emotions I had going into the game
Speaker 1: couldn't have predicted to being the other way. Um, you
Speaker 1: know we came out, you know, started off slow, struggle,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, not one moment in that game
Speaker 1: I didn't think, you know, we're gonna win that game.
Speaker 1: And I just kept stressing too the boys when we
Speaker 1: came into the locker room. You know, I've been over
Speaker 1: there before in that locker room, and I just know
Speaker 1: how they are. And you know, I just stressed to
Speaker 1: my teammates that, you know I felt that halftime they
Speaker 1: probably thought they had the game, you know, sealed in one,
Speaker 1: and um, I just said, man, we're gonna just go
Speaker 1: out there. It's gonna take one one place and one
Speaker 1: play mentality. And you know, we came out and you know,
Speaker 1: as you saw, we scored and just had a lot
Speaker 1: of momentum the rest of the game. You know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be that active in the game. I mean, honestly
Speaker 1: going into the game. You know, we had a great
Speaker 1: game plan all week. I think Doug and a coach
Speaker 1: grow did a great job throughout the week. Man, we
Speaker 1: had good you know, ten to twelve days just preparing
Speaker 1: for this reskying team. And you know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of great things in the in the playbook, you know,
Speaker 1: for for me this week. So you know, you never
Speaker 1: really know how that kind of plans out once the
Speaker 1: game comes. So you know, I just stayed calm and collective,
Speaker 1: you know, anytime my number was called, just made the
Speaker 1: most out of the opportunities, just started the game coming
Speaker 1: back here obviously, actually the start of the game, it
Speaker 1: was it kind of went down like I literally last
Speaker 1: night going to sleep all yesterday and meetings. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just just racing. I just couldn't stay calm. It
Speaker 1: was just like you know, I was just over excited
Speaker 1: like a kid before Christmas. So you know, I just know,
Speaker 1: you know, just the reunion of me coming back and
Speaker 1: just what I mean to the city, and you know
Speaker 1: what the city means to me, being in the green
Speaker 1: colors and just being a part of this this organization
Speaker 1: and this family is just some special for me. So
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't think of it being any other way.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I actually before the game, I
Speaker 1: was actually kind of calm and collection. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, and then I had the penalty first off,
Speaker 1: because I had to get that out the way, and
Speaker 1: I was good a team vers just like man, chill
Speaker 1: out man, I said, I know, I just had to
Speaker 1: get that out. But it was good just knowing once
Speaker 1: I got that penalty out, you know, because um, but
Speaker 1: within the game, you know, so many things happened, uh
Speaker 1: you know, very competitive nature of the game. And I
Speaker 1: don't think people really know what goes on on that field,
Speaker 1: just to ends and out of just you know, going
Speaker 1: against other professional athletes, other guys that are pay high too.
Speaker 1: It's just so much that goes on to that end
Speaker 1: between the white lines. And you know, I caught a
Speaker 1: play on you know, a dumb bar, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: like a young brother to me. You know, I've seen
Speaker 1: him come up in the system over there, and you know,
Speaker 1: he actually came into playing while receiving. Now I was
Speaker 1: playing dB, so I just knew that matchup was big
Speaker 1: for him, and you know, I just kind of talked
Speaker 1: some mess after I caught the first pass and he
Speaker 1: next play he came back and kind of hit me,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of lost a little bit, but
Speaker 1: you know what happens, it's part of the game. A
Speaker 1: couple of your teammates mentioned them you're halftime constucate you
Speaker 1: to them, What message did you deliver and what wasn't
Speaker 1: about Washington? You said you had kind of an idea
Speaker 1: of what their mentality. I mean, the message honestly just
Speaker 1: was it's gonna take one play being down seventeen nothing.
Speaker 1: It's obviously, you know, it's one of the things where
Speaker 1: you got to kind of get going. You know, if
Speaker 1: one more score puts you down twenty four, then I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say it's impossible, but it's almost impossible. So
Speaker 1: we just knew that coming into the to the locker room.
Speaker 1: It's the mentality. It's all the mentality thing here, and
Speaker 1: I felt, you know, my past five years, since years
Speaker 1: being gone. It's just that's what already missed being a
Speaker 1: part of a team in the organization. It's just know
Speaker 1: it's known for winning, and just the mentality that regards
Speaker 1: to the score, regards to how many points you're down,
Speaker 1: and it's always a chance you can win the game.
Speaker 1: And you know, just saying I've been in that locker room,
Speaker 1: I just know you know how they are. And that's
Speaker 1: not saying anything bad about might, just know how they are.
Speaker 1: I'm sure anybody going into the half and half and
Speaker 1: to halftime up seventeen points, they gonna feel like they
Speaker 1: got the game one. But just to mentality, just knowing
Speaker 1: that you gotta go out there and still keep fighting playing.
Speaker 1: What was going through your head on the first touchdown
Speaker 1: when he crossed the plane? Yeah, I actually, uh, I
Speaker 1: wasn't the the intended receiver on that play. It's actually
Speaker 1: like a clear route, but Carson was like man, stay
Speaker 1: alert and the play was actually intended for Aushan on
Speaker 1: the on the deep cross route. But the way they
Speaker 1: played that cover ship was like in and out and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Josh normal was outside. I was inside the
Speaker 1: slot and he was supposed to be guarding Sean, but
Speaker 1: when I went, he took me safety, kind of cut
Speaker 1: down on the route and it was just he threw
Speaker 1: the ball and shoot, I just ran caught it and
Speaker 1: just one great feeling. You think of the day Carson had,
Speaker 1: not having had a preseason snap, your first game together.
Speaker 1: What what did you think? He? I felt he had
Speaker 1: a great game. Man. Uh, you know, once again, you
Speaker 1: know this is this is his show. You know, he's
Speaker 1: driving the car, and uh, you know, it's good to
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that has a confidence that you know,
Speaker 1: at any given time, the playmakers we have on this offense,
Speaker 1: he come to the line of scrimmage and basically, you know,
Speaker 1: call whatever he wants. Because play style we have and
Speaker 1: the players we have in our on our hudor in
Speaker 1: our locker room, we're just very confident that we can
Speaker 1: all get it done, regardless of who it is. Like
Speaker 1: I was just telling Nelson, you know, he was a
Speaker 1: little down, but I'm like, you know, next week might
Speaker 1: be a game. It's impossible to you know, have big
Speaker 1: games all the time. So it's gonna be games they
Speaker 1: take you out. Just you gotta be ready for when
Speaker 1: it's your time and your number car just make the
Speaker 1: most out of it, like you so necessarily. Man, they
Speaker 1: play a probably like a zone defense, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's different because I was in the slot. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like I was outside receiver. So when I was in
Speaker 1: the slot, you have a nickel corner on me, and
Speaker 1: then you have a safety that usually tries to cut
Speaker 1: you know, different you know, crossing routes and it just
Speaker 1: eyes in the backfield. So we knew all week once
Speaker 1: they get into this coverage and we see them give
Speaker 1: it a signal. You know, Carson had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: check me a couple of times on a certain you
Speaker 1: know route, and uh, you know, we we just got it. Man.
Speaker 1: They gave us the courage we needed. First games you've
Speaker 1: been so until Why is that? And also gainst a team.
Speaker 1: You know, It's just how I'm built, man. I just
Speaker 1: I'm here for the long haul, man. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, a lot of people sleep
Speaker 1: on me, regardless of what the case may be. They
Speaker 1: don't even respect I deserve. So you know, just keep
Speaker 1: that on my shoulder. Every time I got opportunity to
Speaker 1: go out on the field and play, and I always
Speaker 1: pay at a high level. Um. As far as playing
Speaker 1: against old teams that I used to play for, I
Speaker 1: feel like, shoot, they had an opportunity to keep me,
Speaker 1: they didn't keep me. So anytime I play them, I'm
Speaker 1: making play team. After a half time and you got
Speaker 1: to start to score, did you see your teammates start
Speaker 1: to come around and realize that you guys had come back?
Speaker 1: Any you gotta think, man, anytime you're able to, you know,
Speaker 1: score fifty yard touchdowns, a big plays, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a draws a different type of energy to your team.
Speaker 1: So when we came out, we got that that touchdown
Speaker 1: and that that that flew throughout the whole team, and
Speaker 1: that's the fuel that you feed off of. You know,
Speaker 1: playing this game, you know it's a team game collectively,
Speaker 1: and you know one guy makes a play, the other
Speaker 1: guys come along with you. So think at that that moment,
Speaker 1: know us when you know the snapp at the finger,
Speaker 1: you know, clicked the end and everybody's like shore we
Speaker 1: were in the game now and now said thirteen playing game.
Speaker 1: We're seven and twenty now. So just the mentality we
Speaker 1: have here, we're just striving to you know, be be
Speaker 1: great and uh, you know, we know it's something gonna
Speaker 1: be a long season. Just one game in his own
Speaker 1: Deshan Jackson back like he never left. I loved hearing
Speaker 1: what he said about all the energy that he had,
Speaker 1: especially over the last two days, that he was so
Speaker 1: ampted and just like so excited like a kid on Christmas,
Speaker 1: and then once the game started he really eased into
Speaker 1: it a little bit. Can you relate? Oh, have you
Speaker 1: always felt like that though, because he was like he
Speaker 1: had he had a little bit of that chippiness going,
Speaker 1: had to get that energy out. Yeah, I hate bringing
Speaker 1: up there the one time I did played my former
Speaker 1: team because people don't like talking about that. But since
Speaker 1: we're playing Atlanta next week, I'm sure I'll be asked
Speaker 1: about mark my time I played against the Eagles. But
Speaker 1: that was the time. I do remember. That was Opening Days, right,
Speaker 1: It was Monday night football and leading up to that week,
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't sleep all week, you know, part
Speaker 1: of his excitement to see your old friends. And obviously
Speaker 1: it's been a few years since the Sean was in Washington.
Speaker 1: Mine was just the following season when I was here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia being down there in Atlanta, and you do
Speaker 1: you want to beat the team you just left. That's
Speaker 1: it's just something that's natural because obviously you want to
Speaker 1: stay and he would have liked to have stayed here,
Speaker 1: and I would have liked to have stayed here, and
Speaker 1: so you when you're playing your old team, you want
Speaker 1: to have success against him. But I've never had the
Speaker 1: type of success to shot his head against his old teams.
Speaker 1: I mean anytime he played against the Eagles, yea, and
Speaker 1: now when he plays against the Rads kids. I mean, this, dude,
Speaker 1: he knows how I forget. Yeah, he knows how to
Speaker 1: exact revenge. Yes, he certainly uses everything for motivation, as
Speaker 1: the great ones do. Earlier today, speaking of a great one,
Speaker 1: how you like that for a transition, Mike Quick caught
Speaker 1: up with Eagles head coach Doug Peterson one on one.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at that, coach. Let's start here.
Speaker 1: It was a slow start, But how important was it
Speaker 1: for you to stick to your game plan? You came
Speaker 1: in with the game plan, but even with the slow start,
Speaker 1: tell me about the game plan and how important it
Speaker 1: was to stick to that. Yeah, you know, we always
Speaker 1: talk about starting fast and then and then try to
Speaker 1: finish faster. Well today, it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a slow start, but we did finish fast, and um,
Speaker 1: that was good to see. You know, we made made
Speaker 1: a couple of adjustments a halftime. Um, you know we
Speaker 1: were able to you know, really kind of control the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage in the second half. I thought, on
Speaker 1: both sides, our offensive line and our d line really
Speaker 1: controlled the line of scrimmage, which really helped us kind
Speaker 1: of get ourselves back in this game. How important was
Speaker 1: it was? The spark from number ten, the Sean Jackson
Speaker 1: back home again? Well down seventeen nothing. I mean, we
Speaker 1: needed a spark, we needed from anybody, um, and it
Speaker 1: just happened it was his number. And then we caught
Speaker 1: him in the right defense and and of course with
Speaker 1: his speed being able to you know, stretch of field,
Speaker 1: Carson saw it, um and and made a great throw,
Speaker 1: great catch get us in the end zone. It was
Speaker 1: definitely the spark we needed to get on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the fourth down call, and you're thinking
Speaker 1: in the second half going for it on fourth down, Well,
Speaker 1: I had a really good view from the sideline. It
Speaker 1: was just inside a yard, almost a half yard, and
Speaker 1: it was really for me, it was a no brainer.
Speaker 1: I knew I was going to go for it. We
Speaker 1: had success on the QB snakes earlier in the game.
Speaker 1: I was coming right back to it. We had great surge,
Speaker 1: good push and and uh when it went down and
Speaker 1: eventually scored on that drive. Defensively, early they were able
Speaker 1: to move the ball against him. What change in that
Speaker 1: second half where you defensive played so well. I think
Speaker 1: the defensive line really really got after you know case today,
Speaker 1: It got off of the offensive line, put a little
Speaker 1: more pressure on him and and then we were able
Speaker 1: to kind of shut the run down. We talked about
Speaker 1: that all week that we felt like the the their
Speaker 1: strength coming in was going to be the run game
Speaker 1: and really feature that, and so we focused on shutting
Speaker 1: that down and and when you can make a team
Speaker 1: sort of one dimensional, it helps you, and our our
Speaker 1: defense was able to really do that and uh kind
Speaker 1: of get after him the second half. Coach, congratulations, I'm
Speaker 1: getting your first win and look forward to the similar
Speaker 1: thing down in Atlanta next week. I appreciate it. Thanks, Quat,
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Speaker 1: best plays from the Eagles victory over Washington. Take a look. Well,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at the play that Eagles everywhere
Speaker 1: have been waiting for for months, and that's DeShawn Jackson's
Speaker 1: first touchdown back in Eagles Green. And this was a
Speaker 1: result of two different things. Number one, a great play
Speaker 1: call from Doug Peterson and number two, a great read
Speaker 1: from quarterback Carson Went So we're gonna just take a
Speaker 1: look at what Carson is seeing pre snap, because this
Speaker 1: is what it's called a two high shell. What is
Speaker 1: a two high shell. You've got two safeties in the
Speaker 1: deep middle of the field. Those guys are splitting the
Speaker 1: field into half. That's what he's showing. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of two coverages, Cover two or Cover four.
Speaker 1: So ultimately, what that means is that the middle of
Speaker 1: the field is going to be open. And that's really
Speaker 1: what Carson Wentz is trying to decipher here pre snap.
Speaker 1: Is the middle field gonna be open or closed? What
Speaker 1: they're running here from a play pass standpoint is going
Speaker 1: to be dagger, and dagger is a deep vertical route
Speaker 1: from DeShawn Jackson from the slot receiver and then a
Speaker 1: deep dig route from the outside receiver. In that case,
Speaker 1: that is gonna be Alshon Jeffrey. Now, if this is
Speaker 1: actually going to be a two high coverage, it's just
Speaker 1: what they're showing pre snap, that dig route from Alshon
Speaker 1: Jeffrey should be wide open right in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. That would be the hope pre snap for
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. But what's gonna happen here right before the
Speaker 1: snap is you're gonna see the linebacker Seawan Dion Hamilton,
Speaker 1: a second year guy from Alabama. He's going to actually
Speaker 1: drop into the deep third. This is gonna be a
Speaker 1: form of Cover three. So we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: disguise here from the Washington defense. They're trying to get
Speaker 1: a little bit cute, trying to disguise something. So these
Speaker 1: safeties are actually gonna step up in zone coverage. You've
Speaker 1: got the linebacker dropping deep. So we're let this play
Speaker 1: develop a little bit, and I want you to see
Speaker 1: what Carson realizes and how he pulls the trigger. Here again,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the linebacker drop. He's again gonna get
Speaker 1: to that deep third. The corners are both gonna drop,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get DeShawn Jackson running down the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. And this is gonna be a really
Speaker 1: great read from Carson Wentz. Here. As we let these
Speaker 1: routes develop a little bit, you're gonna see exactly how
Speaker 1: he sees this because he sees both of those safeties
Speaker 1: step up. Once Carson see that, look this the ball
Speaker 1: is already about to be out. He knows he's got
Speaker 1: them deep middle of the field. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: Deshaun Jackson matched up with a corner who's playing inside
Speaker 1: to his help. That's why the corner is letting him
Speaker 1: go inside because he thinks he's got safety help from
Speaker 1: this linebacker Sean Don Hamilton, who started the play right
Speaker 1: about here. He's got to travel a long distance. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz pulls the trigger and delivers this throw over the
Speaker 1: top two DeShawn Jackson in stride right up the shoot
Speaker 1: exactly where it needs to be. Deshaun comes away with
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Just an outstanding throw and catch, great play call,
Speaker 1: great read from Carson Wentz because again pre snap, that
Speaker 1: ball should have gone to Alshon Jeffrey, but he did
Speaker 1: a great job of reading the defense, understanding where the
Speaker 1: ball needs to go in that situation, getting the Eagles
Speaker 1: on the board, making it seventeen seven. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at Alshon Jeffrey's first touchdown of the game.
Speaker 1: It's the opening drive of the third quarter. And this
Speaker 1: was really fun because this comes as a result of
Speaker 1: the Eagles twelve personnel package, one back, two tight ends,
Speaker 1: and how it can create favorable matchups not just for
Speaker 1: zach Ertz and Dallas Goddard, but also these wide receivers.
Speaker 1: The real see really how the distribution of all these
Speaker 1: past targets really dictates how the Eagles want Washington to
Speaker 1: play in coverage. At the top of the screen, you've
Speaker 1: got zach Ertz isolated as an ex ISO receiver and
Speaker 1: he is matched up on a corner. That's the corner
Speaker 1: of the rookie corner. Jimmy Morland. So you've got zach
Speaker 1: Ertz removed from the play. He now takes a cornerback
Speaker 1: out of the picture. At the bottom of the screen,
Speaker 1: you've got a bunch set from the Eagles, and number
Speaker 1: one at the top, you've got Alshon Jeffery, he's gonna
Speaker 1: catch the touchdown. You've Dallas Goddard on his right, and
Speaker 1: you've got DeShawn Jackson on his left. Now, the Redskins
Speaker 1: here are in their nickel package, so they've got five
Speaker 1: defensive backs on the field. They feel like they should
Speaker 1: be able to match up with this set from a
Speaker 1: pass game perspective. But what they weren't expecting was that
Speaker 1: the Eagles, We're gonna kind of switch assignments here. And
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen. Before the snap. You've got a
Speaker 1: corner matched up on Alshon Jeffrey, and you've got a
Speaker 1: linebacker matched up on Dallas Goddard with two corners two
Speaker 1: dbs here matched up with DeShawn Jackson. But what happens
Speaker 1: at the snap is that al Shan Jeffrey is gonna
Speaker 1: run inside and Dallas Goddard is gonna run outside. They're
Speaker 1: gonna switch releases and that causes the defenders for Washington
Speaker 1: to change responsibilities. So we're gonna let this play and
Speaker 1: you're gonna see exactly what I mean here Al Shan
Speaker 1: releases upfield. Now he's being taken by a linebacker. And
Speaker 1: as if you're the Eagles, you love the idea of
Speaker 1: a linebacker matched up one on one with Alshon Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: And again, why does that happen? Because they've got to
Speaker 1: respect zach Ertz. The top of the screen, even here
Speaker 1: you see the safety who's he looking at? He's looking
Speaker 1: at zach Ertz in the red zone. That creates this
Speaker 1: one on one matchup for Alshon Jeffrey. Carson Wentz is
Speaker 1: going to start to his right, he sees that zach
Speaker 1: Ertz is removed from the picture. He breaks the pocket,
Speaker 1: great throw, threatening the needle to Alshon Jeffrey in the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. Eagles get on the board
Speaker 1: and pull within a score. And it all started with
Speaker 1: those two tight ends. And of course you can catch
Speaker 1: more of friends breakdowns the X is the Nose inside
Speaker 1: the Film on the Journey to the Draft podcast and
Speaker 1: the Eagle Eye in the Sky podcast. Lots of great
Speaker 1: stuff as always from our friend Duffy. Coming up, we
Speaker 1: will talk about the nominees for the Toyota Player of
Speaker 1: the Game after this short break, stay with us. Are
Speaker 1: you on the road and I hate the road Byne
Speaker 1: was Rocky. I ain't nothing gonna break my stride. Nobody
Speaker 1: gonna I got to keep Sometimes we prosper most when
Speaker 1: we help others. We respect that because it's Santon deir
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Speaker 1: for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: new Toyota Welcome back inside the studio at the Novocare
Speaker 1: Complex the postgame show presented by Rico. Three worthy nominees
Speaker 1: for the Toyota Player of the Week. Of course, DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson back like he never left, Carson Wentz back and
Speaker 1: better than ever. Alshon Jeffrey a rushing touchdown and a
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown. Three worthy nominees for for Eagles fans to
Speaker 1: vote on. Yeah, I don't think you can go wrong
Speaker 1: with either guy. To be interesting to see who the
Speaker 1: fans select as the player of the week. Something tells
Speaker 1: me maybe have something to do with that guy to
Speaker 1: wearing number two. Yeah, I don't know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: you know, it takes I feel like it takes a
Speaker 1: lot to have it not be Carson obviously, but man,
Speaker 1: just kind of a storybook a storybook day. Welcome back
Speaker 1: for Deshan Jackson, of course, you know, just hearing how
Speaker 1: happy he is to be back, the energy that went
Speaker 1: into this and the place that broke the game open
Speaker 1: in you know, we're record setting as well, tying Mike
Speaker 1: Quick for receptions in Eagles history at number eight. I
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty good. And you're right about Carson. I
Speaker 1: mean it should be welcome back to Carson as well.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've seen Carson and Lincoln financial field
Speaker 1: since they beat the Redskins on a Sunday night. I
Speaker 1: believe it was a Monday night. So and we startingly
Speaker 1: haven't seen him healthy since two thou and seventeen when
Speaker 1: you're talking about completely healthy. So welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Wentz wagon like he never left before. Should have had
Speaker 1: four touchdown passes today, but I guess that one is
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown for al Sean. Three pass three passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no turnovers, I don't remember a sack. I don't think
Speaker 1: the risk has got a sack today. Over seventy percent
Speaker 1: completion percentage. Yeah, I think the big fella is back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And of course we heard all offseason just how he's
Speaker 1: changed his diet, he's changed his mindset. He has taken
Speaker 1: this transformation so seriously, and we really started to see
Speaker 1: it on the field as well. And yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and he played the game from the pocket to day.
Speaker 1: This is something that he's been and consciously doing and
Speaker 1: I got to give him credit. Man, it got a
Speaker 1: little anti back there a couple of times, but I
Speaker 1: thought when he decided to leave the pocket, you know,
Speaker 1: Fran mentioned this earlier, it had more to do with
Speaker 1: the Redskins having great coverage back there and less to
Speaker 1: do with a break down in the offensive line. And
Speaker 1: even when Carson sort of scrambled around a little bit,
Speaker 1: it was really more to buy time to get the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. Didn't put himself in harm's way.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had a rushing attempt today. So
Speaker 1: those are the things you wanted to see from him
Speaker 1: in his first game. Is how comfortable would he look
Speaker 1: trying to play the quarterback position? From the pocket. I
Speaker 1: know that's something that he the coaching staff have worked
Speaker 1: on this offseason. We watched him do it at practice
Speaker 1: out here in the preseason. It was great to see
Speaker 1: him get in the game and really be able to
Speaker 1: rely on sort of his new instincts, you know, his
Speaker 1: old instincts. Maybe he does something different, but it was
Speaker 1: great to see him out there today look comfortable in
Speaker 1: the pocket. That was the one thing I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: of is how comfortable would he look in the pocket?
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, outside of that first quarter,
Speaker 1: I thought he looked great in the pocket, playing the
Speaker 1: position from the pocket. Yeah, especially first game of the season.
Speaker 1: Like you said, there's always gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: of rest, a little bit of nurse. Let's finally look
Speaker 1: ahead to next week's Sunday night football on the road
Speaker 1: at the Atlanta Falcons, the team the Eagles took down
Speaker 1: to start the regular season last year here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They had a rough day today in Minnesota twenty eight
Speaker 1: to twelve, but that last touchdown in garbage time with
Speaker 1: a minute left to Julio Jones. So what do you
Speaker 1: see early on before you're digging into the Falcons? What
Speaker 1: are kind of your initial thoughts about this matchup for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Well, we know the Falcons go as that
Speaker 1: offense goals Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Calvin Rialley, mohammas Nu,
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman. We've seen them. It seems like we played
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons every year, whether it's the regular season or
Speaker 1: the postseason. It's tough slanting going up to Minnesota. That's
Speaker 1: a good defensive team. It's hard to winning that building,
Speaker 1: and they basically had Atlanta shut out for like three quarters.
Speaker 1: They get a couple of touchdowns in there to put
Speaker 1: some points on the board. It'll be their first game
Speaker 1: at a home Sunday night. That crowd will be in
Speaker 1: a frenzy. I tell you what I mean. We won't
Speaker 1: get away with playing the way we've played today in
Speaker 1: the first half. Hopefully we've knocked off that russ. When
Speaker 1: you go on the road, and particularly in a dome
Speaker 1: where your offense is gonna have a difficult time to hear.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of hand signals out there.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to communicate silence to snap counts.
Speaker 1: I think when you go to Atlanta, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to overcome. Sort of the early punch that the Falcons
Speaker 1: will try to deliver. Like I said, it would be
Speaker 1: their opening games Sunday night. Everyone will be watching. But
Speaker 1: we have this team's number, we know their tendencies, and
Speaker 1: it'll be a great test for this Eagles team on
Speaker 1: the road, hostile environment against a team that has their
Speaker 1: back against the wall. They certainly don't want to go
Speaker 1: oh in two early in the season. I have the
Speaker 1: Falcons picked to win the NFC South, so I think
Speaker 1: they're a good football team. This will be a great
Speaker 1: test for the Eagles early in the season. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think well said, don't be fooled by today's result for
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. This is a team that is desperate
Speaker 1: coming off of today's win. Like you said, they don't
Speaker 1: want to start oh and two. It's the home opener,
Speaker 1: and dan Quinn made some changes to his Jaffie has
Speaker 1: a new defensive coordinator and a new offensive coordinator. That
Speaker 1: doesn't happen very much, so they are really trying to
Speaker 1: get things going there in Atlanta. Plenty of talent there
Speaker 1: as well. Can they put it all together? And of
Speaker 1: course we will be taking you through it all week long,
Speaker 1: bringing it right back here Sunday night football. Doesn't get
Speaker 1: more exciting than that, I think not. Of course, we
Speaker 1: have the Kickoff Show presented by exalta thirty minutes before
Speaker 1: kickoff of that one. That'll be at seven fifty pm
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com, on the Eagles app on
Speaker 1: all of the social channels as well, so we'll see it.
Speaker 1: Then right back here from our new studio at the
Speaker 1: Novacare Complex. We'll see you next time.