Speaker 1: Whoa good evening everyone, Welcome to the postgame show, presented
Speaker 1: by Rico Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Race. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had a seventeen point lead and we've seen
Speaker 1: this happened a couple of times this season where they
Speaker 1: allowed the opposition to come back, but that would not
Speaker 1: be the case. I'm gonna get my jail and Mills
Speaker 1: finger swag out tonight here as the Eagles are able
Speaker 1: to hold on comes down to the final play, jariedoff
Speaker 1: going to the end zone. End. Thank goodness to have
Speaker 1: a Vonte Maddox back in the line, had an interception,
Speaker 1: was covering Josh Rounds on that final play, and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles does the job on offense. The offense looking Chris
Speaker 1: looks smooth, you know, able to move the ball methodically
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game, came up with key
Speaker 1: third down conversion when needed. And this defense, I tell you,
Speaker 1: this is where we need to begin. Because this Rams
Speaker 1: offense had not scored fewer than twenty nine points at
Speaker 1: home this season, averaging close to thirty three, third highest
Speaker 1: in the league. Coming into this contest. They needed to
Speaker 1: get to win after losing last week to Chicago. This
Speaker 1: Eagles defense played ninety nights naps, guys like Malcolm Jacobs,
Speaker 1: Nigel Bram Corgan ninety nights snaps on the field. Yet
Speaker 1: they played with more energy. They took it to the
Speaker 1: Rams offense and up until those last few minutes of
Speaker 1: the fourth court, they floud dominated and allowed the Eagles,
Speaker 1: with Nick Foles coming at quarterback, to get the victory
Speaker 1: here to Nights. Yeah, just an impressive win by his
Speaker 1: team to night, Chris, I mean the defense, you gotta
Speaker 1: start on that side of the football, you know. Definitely
Speaker 1: a tough task coming into this game, coming off the
Speaker 1: game the hard Fall game, leaving everything on the field
Speaker 1: last week versus the Cowboys to be able to come
Speaker 1: out and play against this Rams offense. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: type of explosiveness they've displayed on their home field throughout
Speaker 1: the season. For the Eagles to come in here and
Speaker 1: basically hold them to twenty three points and really kept
Speaker 1: them under wraps all game long. I thought they had
Speaker 1: this offense, the Rams offense really on their heels all game.
Speaker 1: Great job, great game plan from Jim Schwartz with his
Speaker 1: game planned tonight to really force Jared golf in this
Speaker 1: offense to throw everything underneath. The Rams live off, the
Speaker 1: play action pass, big play over the top. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: even have known Brandon Cooks played in this game tonight.
Speaker 1: They weren't able to get him the ball over the top.
Speaker 1: Eagles defense forcing Jared Golf in this offense to throw
Speaker 1: everything underneath. I know Todd Gurley got a couple touchdowns,
Speaker 1: were pretty much they held Todd Gurley and check all game.
Speaker 1: This game. I just thought the defense did a nice shot.
Speaker 1: You looked there, eighty two yards rushing for this Rams
Speaker 1: offense going up against arguably the best running back in
Speaker 1: all of football. And Todd Gurley really did a number
Speaker 1: on the Eagles last year in this football game. Great
Speaker 1: job by them this year really being able to contain
Speaker 1: and control him and really put everything on Jared Golf
Speaker 1: and his arm. And I know he got over three
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing, but a lot of that came and
Speaker 1: catch up time, where the Eagles were more than willing
Speaker 1: to give the Rams completions underneath as long as you
Speaker 1: kept the clock running and you kept the big playoff
Speaker 1: of them. They were more than willing to allow Jared
Speaker 1: Golf and his Rams offense to have whatever they wanted underneath,
Speaker 1: and that really kept the score down. I thought that
Speaker 1: kept the Eagles offense in the game. They came up
Speaker 1: with some big turnovers to set the Eagles offense up
Speaker 1: in great scoring position. When you look at this game,
Speaker 1: it's a great all around effort from all three phases.
Speaker 1: Special teams coming up late with a big fumble calls
Speaker 1: to really give the Eagles some more time to run
Speaker 1: off the clock and force the Rams to really use
Speaker 1: the rest of their time out right before the last
Speaker 1: drive of the game. And then the offense you mentioned
Speaker 1: it just a balanced attack tonight. I thought they played
Speaker 1: at ease. Nick Foles coming in really providing a calming
Speaker 1: presence over this offense. I think he allows for Doug
Speaker 1: to simplify the offense, and it allows everyone else to
Speaker 1: just do their jobs and he's just gonna do his job.
Speaker 1: When you have a talent such as Carson Wentz who's
Speaker 1: able to do so much, sometimes it puts you in
Speaker 1: a quandary as a coach because you want to do
Speaker 1: so much because you know he has that ability. With
Speaker 1: some of the limited things that Nick Foles can do
Speaker 1: within the offense, I think it simplifies it for everybody
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. Nick's gonna get the
Speaker 1: ball out of his hands on time, He's gonna spread
Speaker 1: the ball around. We saw al Sean tonight, al Shan's
Speaker 1: best game, arguably of the season. I thought, tonight, well
Speaker 1: you look at the connection. Go back to the Super Bowl. Okay,
Speaker 1: with a big playability, Nick Foles is willing to let
Speaker 1: the ball out there, receiver, trust him to make a play.
Speaker 1: I mean, Alshon Jeffrey's not gonna be a guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna get a ton of separation, but at six four
Speaker 1: two and ten pounds, he's gonna be able to win
Speaker 1: those fifty fifty balls. And tonight we saw both he
Speaker 1: that one play worth He and Nelson Agilore beat the
Speaker 1: three Rams defenders deep and they're pretty much saying who's
Speaker 1: gonna end up with the football? Here? Here's al Shan's
Speaker 1: numbers here, eight targets, eight reception. That right away shows
Speaker 1: you and I what I loved here. Obviously had the
Speaker 1: big playability, had a fifty yard reception, a thirty six
Speaker 1: yard reception which I really think turned the game for
Speaker 1: the Eagles in the second quarter. But I love the
Speaker 1: way he would utilize in the screen game. He has
Speaker 1: a big physical frame. He's not so when he gets
Speaker 1: a tough separation, but he is good with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands. He's tough to bring down. I like
Speaker 1: the way they utilize him in that regard. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't just a long game here for Alshon Jeffrey. He
Speaker 1: was able to get into the short game as well.
Speaker 1: I think you bring up something very important that when
Speaker 1: you talk about the quick game going to al Sean Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: When the Eagles offense, they recognized you have poor tackling
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position like you have in Marcus Peters.
Speaker 1: You get that ball out there to al Sean. He's
Speaker 1: the big body. More than likely one guy's not gonna
Speaker 1: bring him down. You don't necessarily think of al Sean
Speaker 1: as a quick twitch type of receiver that you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the ball to him in those sort of tight spaces.
Speaker 1: But if you have corners out there that aren't willing
Speaker 1: to come up and put a helmet on his big body,
Speaker 1: then the right thing to do is to get him
Speaker 1: the ball as quick as possible and make those guys miss.
Speaker 1: I thought the Eagles did a good job, but that
Speaker 1: tonight they won the game in the trenches. Really, both
Speaker 1: sides of the line screams. The defensive line made life
Speaker 1: miserable for Jared Goff. You saw that throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game, even if the pressure wasn't quite getting there.
Speaker 1: You were seeing rushing his throws, throwing off his backfoot,
Speaker 1: not looking comfortable in the pocket. Very much similar to
Speaker 1: what the Chicago Bears were able to do to him
Speaker 1: last week. But you have to have the horses up
Speaker 1: front to do it. I thought Fletcher Cox played a
Speaker 1: man's game tonight. All week long. He's in the locker room.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Aaron Donald? Aaron Donald? This
Speaker 1: Aaron diald that Fletcher Coss got sick and tirement and said, look,
Speaker 1: I have been probably the second most disruptive defensive tackle
Speaker 1: outside you know, in the game this season. Outside of
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, I'm probably the preeminent guy. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear this. We need to get this win.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna carry this defense and help lead the way. Here.
Speaker 1: He was getting double team throughout the course of the night,
Speaker 1: poortized where he was using one hand to shove blockers
Speaker 1: out of the way. Here, all right, three tackles. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of plays he was drawing, holding penalties,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that's not necessarily gonna show up
Speaker 1: in the stat sheet, but still had a sec was
Speaker 1: consistently disruptive. Jim Schwartz were lying heavily on the four
Speaker 1: man rush all right, to be able to get to
Speaker 1: Jared Goff because you're without Sidney Jones, so you're down
Speaker 1: to Rasul Douglas and Craveon LeBlanc DeVante Bosby rolling in there.
Speaker 1: Avonte Max come up huge with some quality snaps for
Speaker 1: you tonight. You know you're underman in the secondary. Only
Speaker 1: had five DB's active tonight. That's all you have, okay,
Speaker 1: And the Rams like to play eleven personnel three receivers
Speaker 1: pretty much all of the time, so they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to make you as thin as possible there on the outside.
Speaker 1: That front four had to get home and Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: brought the heat. Chris Long was disruptive in the backfield,
Speaker 1: and I thought Hellodi Nada probably had his best game
Speaker 1: as an Eagle. He was shown up there for the
Speaker 1: Eagles in a second half. But you have to be
Speaker 1: so proud of the way that they respond again after
Speaker 1: last week, the ninety nine snaps on defense. The d
Speaker 1: lineman aren't playing all of them, but still they're playing
Speaker 1: way more than they're used to. And at this point
Speaker 1: in the season, they could have been like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're going out on the West Coast. We're facing a
Speaker 1: team that as a much better record than us. It
Speaker 1: may not be our time, just may not be the case.
Speaker 1: We may not have the horses to get it done.
Speaker 1: As much as we want to will ourselves to win.
Speaker 1: They went out there and they brought the energy right
Speaker 1: from the start, getting the three and out to open
Speaker 1: the ball game. Oh listen, I can't even hide it, Chris.
Speaker 1: I talked about this all week on my show. I
Speaker 1: talked this game up as a loss. I really did.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be a difficult task for this
Speaker 1: team to overcome after the tough game last week in Dallas.
Speaker 1: That's why my hats off to Doug Peterson this coaching
Speaker 1: staff for getting these players ready to go this week.
Speaker 1: I mean the fact they coming off a game against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys where you just mentioned you had players
Speaker 1: out there to play close to a hundred snaps on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, out there for forty
Speaker 1: five minutes last week. I didn't know if they had
Speaker 1: much left in the tank to go up against a
Speaker 1: Rams team that were really coming off an embarrassing loss
Speaker 1: last week on national TV to the Bears. So for
Speaker 1: the Eagles to come out tonight and play the way
Speaker 1: that they did, man Man, I easily the best win
Speaker 1: of the season. Obviously the opponent you where you beat
Speaker 1: them in on the road, but I thought the circumstances
Speaker 1: as well, backs against the wall. Not many people giving
Speaker 1: them a chance to win this game. Double digit underdogs.
Speaker 1: I think the line was thirteen. They were underdogs by
Speaker 1: going in this game and really dominated this game. This
Speaker 1: wasn't a flukey win where you say the Eagles snuck
Speaker 1: out of here with a win. No, they dominated this
Speaker 1: game against the ram Just just really the best, the
Speaker 1: best game of the season. This is the urgency we've
Speaker 1: waited for. Yeah, week after week, you keep saying, all right,
Speaker 1: the seasons on the line line, it's a must win game.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see the team step up and play
Speaker 1: that championship caliber of football that they're able to And
Speaker 1: you just really hadn't seen it. You've seen slow starts
Speaker 1: week after week after week, It was none more disappointed
Speaker 1: than last week. When the divisions on the line. You're
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys house and for three and a half
Speaker 1: quarters the defense is keeping in it. The offense can't
Speaker 1: get things going. Well, the offense here gets the first
Speaker 1: lead of the game up three. Nothing. Look simple stat
Speaker 1: it's only happened four times this year, but every time
Speaker 1: the Eagles have scored first, they've won. Okay, that's how
Speaker 1: much they've struggled to score early in ballgames. Well, once
Speaker 1: again they're able to get on the board first, allow
Speaker 1: the defense to get a little bit of rest. It
Speaker 1: was what I thought it was very good was you
Speaker 1: didn't see too many three and outs from the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense tonight. Even if they didn't score, they were able
Speaker 1: to sustain drives long enough, knowing that that Rams offense
Speaker 1: was gonna move the ball up and down the field,
Speaker 1: that the Eagles defense at least had time to get
Speaker 1: some rest because because you're using that front four so heavily,
Speaker 1: you need to be able to keep them rested as
Speaker 1: much as possible down the stretch. Now, the stars we
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, Nick Foles and Alshon Jeffrey and
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox having big games. Who would you say is
Speaker 1: your unsung hero of the night here? I I would
Speaker 1: have to go Windale Smallwood. You know, it's been running
Speaker 1: back by committee for this team all year long. And
Speaker 1: Darrence Bros. Josh Adams both had nice nights contributed on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. But I thought Windale
Speaker 1: Smallwood running in between the tackles two touchdowns to night
Speaker 1: didn't get a ton of care But I thought he
Speaker 1: got the tough yards tonight when needed, had some big runs,
Speaker 1: picked up some key first downs. I thought Windelle small
Speaker 1: was really that running back as a group. I'm just
Speaker 1: going with Windelle because he got the two touchdowns, But
Speaker 1: the running back as a group, I thought it did
Speaker 1: a nice job to night. Well, here's the thing. You've
Speaker 1: lost Corey Clement for the season with the knee injury. Okay,
Speaker 1: Josh Adams was in now the lineup tonight. Deal with
Speaker 1: a back injury was questionable at one point, but fought
Speaker 1: through it. We all small would provide some juice, Okay.
Speaker 1: He's been well arrested. He's had a tough go of
Speaker 1: things because he was involved in the offense early in
Speaker 1: the season when when Sprowls and Clement were hurt. You know,
Speaker 1: he had the nice screenplay for a touchdown against Jacksonville
Speaker 1: and then Josh Adams emerged and when all smallwood on
Speaker 1: the backside exactly was not called upon, so out of nowhere, Okay, tonight,
Speaker 1: look they need number twenty eight, all right. They need
Speaker 1: him to come up big. And you see the ten
Speaker 1: attempts there, two touchdowns, you know, helped move the chains,
Speaker 1: provide some juice coming out of the backfield. There huge
Speaker 1: props to him for coming through because this was the
Speaker 1: game you need. You needed an entire team performance. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the special teams play with DJ Alexander recovering the
Speaker 1: punt fumble the punt there late in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: defense obviously stepping up an offense doing enough there score
Speaker 1: thirty points. Again, this is an offense that struggle to
Speaker 1: score points this season, so to get thirty it was
Speaker 1: a complete team effort. So I'm gonna stick with the
Speaker 1: offense for my unsung hero as well, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Stephen whist Newski. Okay put into the starting
Speaker 1: lamp at left guard because Isaac Sayamala was at with
Speaker 1: a peck injury. And who do you draw none other
Speaker 1: than Aaron Donald, the man who we talked about the best,
Speaker 1: most preeminent defensive lineman. Forget that, the best defensive player
Speaker 1: in the entire NFL came into this game leading the
Speaker 1: league with sixteen and a half sacks from an interior
Speaker 1: alignment position, the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: and quite honestly, you really didn't hear his name called
Speaker 1: much at all tonight other than the broadcasters Alan Michaels
Speaker 1: and Chris Collinsworth to say, what's happened to Aaron Donald?
Speaker 1: What are the Eagles doing? A hit him out of
Speaker 1: the game, And certainly Jason Kelsey was helping with double teams.
Speaker 1: Stephan Wisnouski is not winning all those battles one on one,
Speaker 1: but he made life comfortable in the pocket for Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: so though he could step up and make those throws
Speaker 1: and credit the Folds, because there was a couple of
Speaker 1: times or he had to stare down the barrel of
Speaker 1: the gun, whether it was Nan Dom Consue or Donald
Speaker 1: coming after him, and he stepped into some big time
Speaker 1: throws knowing he was gonna take a hit, and he
Speaker 1: was able to deliver some big time plays. But Stephan Wisnuski.
Speaker 1: He is my unsung hero for tonight's game for the
Speaker 1: way that he handled himself as a crafty veteran has
Speaker 1: started many games in this league, so no surprise there whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But still Stephan Wisnouski my unsung hero from tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Probably a close second if I could almost do a
Speaker 1: one in a one egg Alvante Max coming back to
Speaker 1: the line. Okay, he was playing corner, he was playing safety,
Speaker 1: comes up with the interception early in the ball game,
Speaker 1: was covering Josh Reynolds at the end of the ball game.
Speaker 1: There has missed three games with the knee and ankle
Speaker 1: injury suffered in New Orleans, and when the injury first
Speaker 1: took place, when he saw the replays, you were really
Speaker 1: nervous that it was going to be something that could
Speaker 1: be season ending. And he's been such a promising prospect
Speaker 1: here mid round selection out of pit here taking over
Speaker 1: that safety position, but as brought sparked to that defensive secondary.
Speaker 1: But certainly you saw Malcolm Jenkins go up to him
Speaker 1: at the end of the game after that last pass
Speaker 1: by golf went incomplete. He has to be increably proud
Speaker 1: of how Max has handled himself again. You're going from
Speaker 1: not playing in three really not playing safety at all
Speaker 1: in your career. Okay, come into this season, you're batting
Speaker 1: for the nickel corner job. Ronny McCleod gets hurt, you're
Speaker 1: thrust into the safety position. Okay, you started quitting yourself
Speaker 1: nicely there, getting comfortable there. You get to injury, you
Speaker 1: miss close to a month, and then you got to
Speaker 1: go back on the field in primetime against again, the
Speaker 1: third highest scoring offense coming into this ball game, one
Speaker 1: that had thrived at home. The last time the Rams
Speaker 1: were home was that memorable Monday night showdown where they
Speaker 1: scored fifty four against the Kansas City Chiefs. Mind you,
Speaker 1: he ended to go in to play corner. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he went in there and play corner at night, which
Speaker 1: is not easy going up against this Rams offense when
Speaker 1: you got the likes of Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: over there, you got Reynolds in there, who's done a
Speaker 1: nice job filling there for Cooper Cup, and they really
Speaker 1: had the one on one matchup they wanted with Reynolds
Speaker 1: versus a Vonte Maddox. On that last play, Jared Golf
Speaker 1: just couldn't make a good throw there, But I Vonte
Speaker 1: Maddox tested all night, came up with some big plays,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you're right. I think he's been a nice
Speaker 1: welcome addition to this secondary from this rookie class. They
Speaker 1: know what we were going to get from him this year,
Speaker 1: and I know the coaches had to be pleasantly surprised
Speaker 1: if they've been able to sort of put him in
Speaker 1: different roles and he's been able to handle those roles
Speaker 1: For a rookie, that's not easy to do. And in
Speaker 1: this league when you have to play the last line
Speaker 1: of defense, or you have to go out there and
Speaker 1: be matched up against the likes of Robert Woods or
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks as a rookie on national TV, it can
Speaker 1: be a little scary. But I thought he came in
Speaker 1: there and handled it past it with flying colors, got
Speaker 1: the big interception, set up a score for us early
Speaker 1: in the game. They tried to target him late in
Speaker 1: the game, he was over there, did a nice job
Speaker 1: defending over there. So it was great to see the
Speaker 1: rookie back in the lineup, and we talked about how
Speaker 1: shorthanded they were on that side of the side of
Speaker 1: the ball, particularly in the secondary. Vonte Maddox was a
Speaker 1: welcome sight to this defense tonight. Yes, indeed, especially again
Speaker 1: the defense needing all the horses it could get, and
Speaker 1: you know, again it's been so difficult to limit this
Speaker 1: Rams offense. The last two weeks have been tough for them.
Speaker 1: Do you figure coming back home was going to be
Speaker 1: kind of the get right game for them going against
Speaker 1: an Eagles team that was looking at chops and now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, as an Eagles fan, you have
Speaker 1: to feel optimistic going into these finals. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: these last two games, we're gonna have significant meeting here.
Speaker 1: With the Cowboys losing today, the Eagles are still in
Speaker 1: the NFC East mix, okay, but the wild card is
Speaker 1: still very much in play here. You have Houston come
Speaker 1: into Philadelphia next week. Eagles are now seven and seven
Speaker 1: on the season, and then you get Washington in week seventeen,
Speaker 1: so certainly two winnable games. Houston obviously very very hot,
Speaker 1: won ten of eleven games here at Deshaun Watson, you know,
Speaker 1: is up and down performance overall, but still has that
Speaker 1: team playing at a peak level, which is what you
Speaker 1: need to be at this time of season. And Washington
Speaker 1: able to eke out a win late over Jacksonville today
Speaker 1: with their fourth string quarterback, I guess you would say,
Speaker 1: you know, with Josh Johnson. So nonetheless, though, the Eagles
Speaker 1: keep themselves in the mix, and I think you just
Speaker 1: have to say to yourself, like, where has this been
Speaker 1: all season? You know, this up until those last couple
Speaker 1: minutes when the Rams were starting to rally back, it
Speaker 1: was just the most enjoyable game just from all sides
Speaker 1: as an Eagles fan, because this is what we were
Speaker 1: accustomed to seeing from his team in twenty seventeen. You know,
Speaker 1: I remember last year that win in Los Angeles that
Speaker 1: really generated the Eagles. It pushed them to a different
Speaker 1: level because you lost Wentz in that game. Okay, you
Speaker 1: won the game in throwing fast Folds had two scoring
Speaker 1: drives in the fourth quarters, a comfort by and win.
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham had that touchdown to seal at the exclamation
Speaker 1: point at the very end. So they close the division.
Speaker 1: You pretty much keep yourself in the race for home
Speaker 1: field advantage, which they eventually got. And the Rams they
Speaker 1: had to go through the wildcard route to get, you know,
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and they got bounced in the first round.
Speaker 1: Violin it just made all the difference in the world,
Speaker 1: and you wonder could the college team provide the same
Speaker 1: type of season changing spark once again for the Eagles. Well,
Speaker 1: it's you asked the question about where has this team
Speaker 1: been all year long. I think the big thing today
Speaker 1: was it was a couple of things. Ay, they were
Speaker 1: able to score early, which is rare. You say, it's
Speaker 1: just the fourth time they've been able to do it.
Speaker 1: They won all four games when they've been able to
Speaker 1: do that. But also they didn't they didn't shoot themselves
Speaker 1: in the foot early in the game. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what they've done mostly this season in these games
Speaker 1: where they haven't been able to put four quarters of
Speaker 1: good football together, is that they haven't been able to
Speaker 1: get out of their own way early end games, whether
Speaker 1: it be penalties, whether it be turnovers early in the game.
Speaker 1: On the offensive side of the ball, their offense just
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to get going most of the season
Speaker 1: early in the game. The defense for the most partypically
Speaker 1: comes out and plays well early, they just have a
Speaker 1: hard time being able to hold on. And so I
Speaker 1: think when you look at this game, the biggest difference
Speaker 1: in this game is the obvious one is that they
Speaker 1: were able to hold on to this game and get
Speaker 1: it and walk away with a victory. With the exception
Speaker 1: of the first Giants games, the Redskins game, in the
Speaker 1: Saints game, every game has been a one score game.
Speaker 1: Every game has been a one score game, whether it
Speaker 1: be in the Eagles favor or being the opponent's favor,
Speaker 1: They've all been close games, and there's always been a
Speaker 1: couple plays that we dissect after the game and say, man,
Speaker 1: if they had just did this right or they had
Speaker 1: to do that, yeah, they would have won the game.
Speaker 1: So you know, they sit here right now at seven
Speaker 1: and seven, you certainly are be about getting to win tonight,
Speaker 1: but no doubt about it. Uh, if this season doesn't
Speaker 1: end up in postseason playing, we're gonna look back on
Speaker 1: the season and there's a lot of what ifs, what
Speaker 1: it could have showed us that you're gonna look at
Speaker 1: these games that you're gonna say, mad, if we'd have
Speaker 1: just did that or would have did that that game,
Speaker 1: they could have easily won two or three more games.
Speaker 1: What's interesting, though, is they at least have a win that,
Speaker 1: like you said all week on your show, you didn't
Speaker 1: think they were going to be able to get and
Speaker 1: they get one. So let's find out how the Eagles
Speaker 1: did by going to head coach Doug Pearson at the
Speaker 1: Coliseum in Los Angeles. The difference we played for sixty
Speaker 1: minutes quite frankly, Um, we finished the football game, um
Speaker 1: like we expect to do each week. And great, Uh,
Speaker 1: great all around in all three phases. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we we thought coming in that uh, there was gonna
Speaker 1: be some opper tunity. Um, this is this ram defense
Speaker 1: is extremely um potent. They got some some talent, they
Speaker 1: got some rushers up front and and it you know what,
Speaker 1: what what opens things up is the ability to run
Speaker 1: the football, I think. And in the first half we
Speaker 1: had some success to an ad even in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and um, it just opened up a few down the
Speaker 1: field throws that uh we were able to capitalize on
Speaker 1: and and uh made some made some nice place players responded, Um,
Speaker 1: I thought that it was positive. Um, you know, just
Speaker 1: just kind of getting back into a rhythm, you know,
Speaker 1: with him and and it's been a while since Week
Speaker 1: two of the season that they've they've played together, but
Speaker 1: they had a lot of confidence, a lot of trusting
Speaker 1: him and and uh it showed tonight out here and
Speaker 1: you employers out for you guys. That's just what I
Speaker 1: told him, uh in the locker room, just how proud
Speaker 1: I was the way they the way they continue to fight,
Speaker 1: how they block out the outside noise and just just
Speaker 1: focus on the group. And um, this is a tremendous
Speaker 1: team win tonight against a great football team. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, our backs were against the wall, and our
Speaker 1: guys came out and and uh came out aggressively, and
Speaker 1: um we're fortunate enough to be going away with a
Speaker 1: win and and um, you know, move on to the
Speaker 1: next one. Basic positions this year. Yeah, Vante's a he's
Speaker 1: a really good player for us, and uh it was
Speaker 1: good to get him back out there this week. And
Speaker 1: and um, you know he's a smart guy to play
Speaker 1: multiple positions and and uh and do the things that
Speaker 1: he's been capable of doing. I think it's just a
Speaker 1: credit to him. But uh, he trusts his coaches, he
Speaker 1: trusts the scheme on defense, and uh puts himself in
Speaker 1: a position to to make plays and and and that's
Speaker 1: what he's done. Yeah, I mean I thought I thought
Speaker 1: all the backs really did a nice job. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Windell is uh you know, UM always had a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of confidence in Windell and and he
Speaker 1: did a nice job tonight. I really felt like the
Speaker 1: offensive line did some nice things and and uh, um
Speaker 1: kind of controlling the line of scrimmage at times and
Speaker 1: opening up you know a few of those few of
Speaker 1: those gaps and those lanes, and he just hit it
Speaker 1: and hit it hard and did a nice job dust
Speaker 1: off some of the concepts that he was during that playoff. UM,
Speaker 1: you know really didn't really you know, kind of came
Speaker 1: out of last week's game really against against the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and just wanted to kind of get back to our basics,
Speaker 1: our fundamentals, regardless of who was playing. This was before um,
Speaker 1: you know, anything about Carson and and we just wanted
Speaker 1: to get back to the things that we were successful
Speaker 1: at and good at and what the guys really knew
Speaker 1: and under stood. And so we really didn't have to
Speaker 1: change or tweak much, uh during the week. And I
Speaker 1: thought that um, you know, Nick played uh played solid
Speaker 1: um you know, and and and did the things that
Speaker 1: that you know, we asked him to do. UM. And
Speaker 1: he had a good week of preparation, and it showed tonight.
Speaker 1: We're gonna enjoy this win. We're gonna get on this plane.
Speaker 1: We're gonna enjoy it. We'll take a couple of days
Speaker 1: and we'll make those decisions later in the week, not
Speaker 1: at this time, Not at this time. Yeah, I really
Speaker 1: think that the old line, I mean this is this
Speaker 1: is a good defensive line now that our old line
Speaker 1: has played. And um, they really they really rose to
Speaker 1: the to the to the challenge, you know, and and
Speaker 1: uh did did some nice things and and really really
Speaker 1: kept our quarterback, you know, kept Nick clean and and uh,
Speaker 1: I think too as a credit to Nick, just just
Speaker 1: being able to you know, get the ball out and
Speaker 1: and I dialed up a few more quick throws, and
Speaker 1: and the ability to run the ball too on some
Speaker 1: of those third downs to h the ball and have
Speaker 1: some success really also helped in the uh in the
Speaker 1: past protection games. Yeah, I mean it's very satisfying. Um.
Speaker 1: And like I said, our backs have been against the
Speaker 1: wall now for the last a few weeks, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully this is now a little momentum for
Speaker 1: the rest of our season. And uh, you know, our
Speaker 1: goals are still in front of us. We're still making
Speaker 1: a making a push here at the end and and
Speaker 1: two games to go, and you know we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But very satisfying play watching four seconds last they got
Speaker 1: shot where yeah, oh there you are. Very four seconds
Speaker 1: last shot. Yeah. Um, you know Jim had dialed up
Speaker 1: a blitz at the time just to kind of you know,
Speaker 1: force uh forced Jerry to possibly you know, release the
Speaker 1: balls five man protection and just release the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit sooner and and uh, you know we were
Speaker 1: playing playing right at the right at the goal line.
Speaker 1: It was you know, a last shot into the into
Speaker 1: the end zone. And you know Avante was in good position.
Speaker 1: Why should well, I think I think that Um, you know,
Speaker 1: what you saw tonight was was a was a total
Speaker 1: a team effort from all three phases um, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and then of course our our special teams came up
Speaker 1: huge at the end with the with the fumble recovery
Speaker 1: on the punt and so you know, it's not about
Speaker 1: one guy and and it never has been. It's about
Speaker 1: the team. And that's what that that locker room in
Speaker 1: there focus is on. They just focus on you know,
Speaker 1: they don't focus on the result. They focus on the
Speaker 1: process and trusting everybody, and it really doesn't matter. And
Speaker 1: and um, and that's what you saw tonight was it
Speaker 1: was a really a really good team effort. Mentioned ability
Speaker 1: to block out the voice. How hard was that? That? Super?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a tough thing, you know when uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you have to you have to change qbs
Speaker 1: and and and go a different way. And but I
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a credit to you know, each
Speaker 1: each guy. You know, really just again focus on the
Speaker 1: things that we can control. Um, you know, focus on
Speaker 1: our process that we talked about quite a bit, lean
Speaker 1: on one another. Um. And and and you saw it tonight,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You saw you saw those
Speaker 1: guys played together as a team, as units, and it
Speaker 1: was it was a fun game to be part of.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks guys. All right, there's coach Pearson addressing
Speaker 1: the media at the Coliseum in Los Angeles following the
Speaker 1: Eels thirty to twenty three. Went over the Rams. The question,
Speaker 1: ike is does this go down as a road win
Speaker 1: or home win for the Eagles With the way the
Speaker 1: crowd was cheered through the course of the game, with
Speaker 1: the fights all chance after the Eagles touchdowns, there you know,
Speaker 1: the RAM the Rams are having to like pipe down
Speaker 1: the crowd because it's you know, the fans. It was
Speaker 1: Eels then exactly. So shout out to our fans that
Speaker 1: do what they do when they go on the road,
Speaker 1: which is take over opposing team stadiums. If you don't
Speaker 1: have the fam you're very able to dust off the
Speaker 1: fall champ there. Yeah you do. You don't have a
Speaker 1: packed house stadium full of your fans when you play
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Our fans are gonna come in and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be heard. And a city like Los Angeles where
Speaker 1: they don't really have a true home fan base. Uh,
Speaker 1: just like last year, our fans went out there and
Speaker 1: took over. They went out there and did it again
Speaker 1: this year and it was it was greatly needed and
Speaker 1: appreciate it because you could definitely hear the difference when
Speaker 1: the Rams offense was on the field. You can hear
Speaker 1: the crowd getting loud. Yeah, you can hear it getting loud. So, uh,
Speaker 1: kudos to all the fans that made the trip out
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. Often you have players at a road
Speaker 1: stadium trying to get the crowd into it. That never happens, No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. Only Eagles fan. The Eagles. Of course,
Speaker 1: one interesting thing may interesting things from Doug. We'll on
Speaker 1: them throughout the course of the show here, But throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the week, the big storyline was Carson
Speaker 1: went to Nick Foles who was going to play, and
Speaker 1: the players were asked ad nausea about how is Nick looked?
Speaker 1: What's going on with Carson? Has this been bothering him
Speaker 1: for a while? And the players got to the point
Speaker 1: where they're like, look, Nick won a Super Bowl last year, right,
Speaker 1: he was the MVP. We know what he can do.
Speaker 1: He's played games this season. We're focusing on trying to
Speaker 1: beat the Rams, like we understand on to the outside
Speaker 1: that this season's over. Okay, there six and seven. Probably
Speaker 1: I can win a division wildcard. It could be a
Speaker 1: long shot, but the playoff, like, we're focused on a
Speaker 1: huge game, a task at hand, and they were able
Speaker 1: to see it out to completion. That I thought was
Speaker 1: quite remarkable because it's one thing for the guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room to be saying it, but to go
Speaker 1: out there and show it and show that you believe
Speaker 1: you know what the coach is preaching to you. I
Speaker 1: think it's a totally different thing, and it just shows
Speaker 1: the maturity that this team has to be able to
Speaker 1: overcome the adversity that it has this year and still
Speaker 1: put that type of effort and to be able to
Speaker 1: get that type of win on the road. Well, I
Speaker 1: tell you, Chris, I'm old enough to remember Nick Foles
Speaker 1: leading his team to a super Bowl victory in February.
Speaker 1: They didn't happen that long ago. So a lot of
Speaker 1: these players were on this team last year when Nick
Speaker 1: Foles was able to come in for Carson Wentz right
Speaker 1: around this same time of the year and lead this
Speaker 1: team to his first ever Super Bowl victory. So I
Speaker 1: can understand the players from their standpoint looking at it, like, listen,
Speaker 1: we know what Nick Foles can do. He just did
Speaker 1: it last year. This is not a big deal to us.
Speaker 1: We played with Nick Foles early in the season, they
Speaker 1: were able to go one and one with him. They
Speaker 1: pretty much practiced with him all offseason as Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: was rehabbing, So I don't think to the players this
Speaker 1: was any big deal. You know, they look at Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: I believe, as they starting in caliber quarterback, which a
Speaker 1: lot of us look at Nick Foles as as you
Speaker 1: look at the amount of starts under this belt. You
Speaker 1: see the big games that he's played in and that
Speaker 1: he's won. He still arguably the best backup quarterback in
Speaker 1: all of football without a problem. So when Folds has
Speaker 1: to go in there for Carson Wentz, this offense typically
Speaker 1: doesn't miss a beat. Now do they run different plays shortage?
Speaker 1: Because there's things that Nick likes to run that Carson
Speaker 1: doesn't particularly run, and so from an offensive personnel standpoint,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't look at it as if they
Speaker 1: need to make some sort of big changes, right other
Speaker 1: than maybe the offensive line, because Carson can sort of
Speaker 1: move around a little bit back there in the pocket.
Speaker 1: For an offensive line, they kind of know Nick is
Speaker 1: gonna be where he's supposed to be at. But for
Speaker 1: the receivers, the tight ends, the running backs, no big
Speaker 1: changes need to be made other than the fact that
Speaker 1: a guy like Alshon Jefferies can say, well, I know
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw them in the ball whether I'm covered
Speaker 1: or not, because he's gonna give me a chance to
Speaker 1: go up and make a play. And so I know
Speaker 1: al Shan had to be happy to see Nick back
Speaker 1: in there, because they built some chemistry late last year.
Speaker 1: Al Shan wasn't healthy early in the season when Nick
Speaker 1: played in the first two games, and we hadn't seen
Speaker 1: a whole lot of al shot over the last month
Speaker 1: or so. So it was good to see Alshon still
Speaker 1: making big plays. And I know Nick feels comfortable putting
Speaker 1: that ball up there to that big body because Alshan
Speaker 1: is a type of receiver. He's not going to let
Speaker 1: his quarterback down. He's gonna go up there and at
Speaker 1: least fight for the ball. If he's not gonna catch it,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna catch you. You mentioned the offensive line
Speaker 1: and the protection that Nick Foles had tonight. One of
Speaker 1: the people key to that was Lane Johnson. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from him as well as the quarterback in just
Speaker 1: a little bit here. But you know, it's very interesting
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of you mentioned Alston, Jeffrey and the
Speaker 1: offensive players getting involved. It seemed like it was a
Speaker 1: more diversified offense because it was very for most of
Speaker 1: the season, very zach Ert centric, and he was the
Speaker 1: guy making the plays for you. Okay, that's the big thing,
Speaker 1: But tonight you're getting guys like Wendell Smallwood stepping up
Speaker 1: and making plays you're getting Dallas got, you know, continue
Speaker 1: to be more involved in the offense, gold and tape,
Speaker 1: you know, having a couple you know, key catches there
Speaker 1: for the offense. It's the biggest thing is this offense
Speaker 1: has been at its best and we've seen it this
Speaker 1: year with Carson and we see it here with Nick
Speaker 1: where you spread the ball around. That's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, and who's ever playing quarterback is gonna
Speaker 1: have to learn how right? We have a special special
Speaker 1: press conference Malcolm Jenkins now addressing the media at the Colseum.
Speaker 1: Phases of the game contributed all the way up until
Speaker 1: the end. It was you know, we needed every single
Speaker 1: play that we made to win on the road against
Speaker 1: a really good team. UM, and we had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun doing it. I think the energy um either
Speaker 1: last week, even though we didn't get the result we wanted,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of fun and competed um and
Speaker 1: did what we needed to do to give ourselves a chance.
Speaker 1: And this way, you know, and this time we got
Speaker 1: the result we wanted. A lot of well, I think
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, it starts
Speaker 1: with the leadership on the team. You know, just kind
Speaker 1: of you know, putting our foot in the ground, um,
Speaker 1: and just saying we're gonna make a stand at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You know, if we want to
Speaker 1: continue to play and we want our dreams to continue,
Speaker 1: we got to go take it. And so that's why
Speaker 1: you see the ski masks, that's why you see the
Speaker 1: renewed enthusiasm, because we got the mentality that we got
Speaker 1: to go steal whatever it is that we want if
Speaker 1: we want to continue, and it's not gonna be easy,
Speaker 1: and then nobody asked it to be. We're fine, we're
Speaker 1: doing something special, um in extraordinary, but that's just gonna
Speaker 1: take it, you know, one week at a time, keep
Speaker 1: competing and keep having fun. Struggle this season is that
Speaker 1: a lot of the injuries and you can come in
Speaker 1: here when a lot of people find this, not a
Speaker 1: lot of people everybody, we'll go ahead, okay, but for
Speaker 1: you guys to do it where the Rams had the boss,
Speaker 1: how priority all this team to fight you with all
Speaker 1: the injuries, especially in the second I mean very proud
Speaker 1: we've been We've been hit it with adversity all year,
Speaker 1: even to start out the season, all the way through now, um,
Speaker 1: and we just found a way to continue to fight,
Speaker 1: plug guys in the trust in each other to to adjust, um,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's that's been our mantra, you know,
Speaker 1: all all year, even last year, and so that that
Speaker 1: doesn't change regardless of who we have on the field. Um.
Speaker 1: And so we'll continue to grow. I think we've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of those young players who've been you know,
Speaker 1: playing more significant roles because the injuries grow today. And
Speaker 1: so we'll continue to you know, our process. We'll get back,
Speaker 1: we'll watch the tape, try to improve on the things
Speaker 1: that we didn't do well. I'm gonna get ready to
Speaker 1: go compete against another good team. What's the significance of that?
Speaker 1: And what do you got to do with it? Like
Speaker 1: I said, man, you know where we are right now.
Speaker 1: If we want to continue to play, we got to
Speaker 1: go take it. And so for us, it's kind of
Speaker 1: that season where we're gonna go steal every everything we got,
Speaker 1: whether it's the ball, where it's the game, you know,
Speaker 1: our our chance to go play in the postseason. We
Speaker 1: gotta go take it. And so that's kind of what
Speaker 1: that sche mask is doing. And you know, for us,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's bringing back that that energy, having fun.
Speaker 1: Guys are enthusiastic about you know, contributing, and it's so
Speaker 1: many different people, um, you know making plays. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: right on time. I believe it was Jalen Nils. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not your side of the ball. But having Nick
Speaker 1: in there, do you guys seem to rally around him?
Speaker 1: What's that the case? No, he's a Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 1: We don't have to rally around Nick. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we we trust fully that Nick can go on there
Speaker 1: and compete um and command of offense, and you know,
Speaker 1: a hell of a game today. Put the ball up
Speaker 1: to to our playmakers, guys who were making big plays
Speaker 1: for him, um, you know, and it's exciting to watch
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you know, those things on
Speaker 1: our offense gets rolling. Um and and as a team
Speaker 1: we played better. And so you know, Nick Nick's performance
Speaker 1: today was obviously a huge part. And while we got
Speaker 1: a wariness to seeing back in the coliseum back under center,
Speaker 1: it is ironic, but we got a lot less wins
Speaker 1: this time around coming into the game, but we knew
Speaker 1: it was gonna be one of those games where we
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be a blowout. This is a great team,
Speaker 1: a lot of great players that they're on a role
Speaker 1: this year. We knew we'd had to fight you know,
Speaker 1: the entire game um and even the momentum that we
Speaker 1: got early in the game. We needed every every bit
Speaker 1: of that obviously coming down to the end um. But
Speaker 1: you know, it definitely feels good to to put it
Speaker 1: all together and come to a place on the road
Speaker 1: against a quality team and come out with a wint
Speaker 1: that the final drive there and in particularly the last
Speaker 1: play when you sent of Glitz, I think that the
Speaker 1: biggest thing was there were like two or three huge
Speaker 1: tackles that kept them in bounds. And so we talk
Speaker 1: about situational football. Those the things we talk about all
Speaker 1: the time, um, and sometimes you worry about with with
Speaker 1: younger players especially. You know that we're having the secondary.
Speaker 1: But guys made up and made some really good tackles
Speaker 1: on either sideline to keep that clock running, to give
Speaker 1: us that opportunity to then rush the passer um and
Speaker 1: you know, play the end zone basically on one last
Speaker 1: shot to the to the to the end zone. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just I know the situation that he's in and
Speaker 1: I know it's not easy, and we're putting a lot
Speaker 1: on the shoulders as a young guy, as a rookie,
Speaker 1: come in you're drafted as a corner and then move
Speaker 1: the safety. Um, and you're learning all of it. And
Speaker 1: we're not just spoon feed and we're giving them the
Speaker 1: whole defense, making them make calls. He gets, somebody gets hurt,
Speaker 1: he gets to go into the nickel with no preparation
Speaker 1: throughout the week. This week, didn't even know if he's
Speaker 1: gonna play. Then he's at corner. He hadn't played corner
Speaker 1: all year. Um, and he's making plays. That's making differences
Speaker 1: in our season. And so you know, I take a
Speaker 1: lot of pride in making sure that you know he's
Speaker 1: prepared to just you know, encouraging him. But he's a
Speaker 1: player that I think it's going to come into his own.
Speaker 1: These explosives made a ton of plays this year. Um,
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. Quite frankly, you set the tone
Speaker 1: in that locker room last year after the game to
Speaker 1: know what was the environment like and what was the message.
Speaker 1: I think it's very similar. I think guys, you know,
Speaker 1: as you you get wins like this, it creates energy,
Speaker 1: It creates um, that belief, not that it wasn't there,
Speaker 1: but you you prove it to yourself, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you have examples of when you put
Speaker 1: it together, this is what it looks like. And so
Speaker 1: now the challenge to the leaders on this team is
Speaker 1: how do you keep that energy going through practice? How
Speaker 1: do you you know, you pay attention to every detail
Speaker 1: so that when we show up again next week we
Speaker 1: have that same energy, We have that same resolve, um,
Speaker 1: and that same drive to to come out with a win.
Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing was, like, this is
Speaker 1: what it looks like when we put it together as
Speaker 1: a team. UM. And the biggest thing that most things,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm proud of at least, is that
Speaker 1: we had fun doing it. And this is what you know,
Speaker 1: we've been trying to get to all year. UM. It's
Speaker 1: obviously hard to have fun when you're not winning, but
Speaker 1: for us, we're not a front running bunch, and so
Speaker 1: we want to be able to have fun and and
Speaker 1: fly around have energy regardless of what the scoreboard looks like. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's what we've you know, been doing, I think
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. UM. And we let
Speaker 1: the cars far where they may, but we're gonna come
Speaker 1: out and have some fun. That's that's what we enjoy doing.
Speaker 1: We get this. This is a game at the end
Speaker 1: of the day that we enjoy playing with each other.
Speaker 1: Um and so yeah, we want to keep that going
Speaker 1: in searching team, there's a question there's going to be
Speaker 1: in searching up and teams. What do you say, stock,
Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, you look
Speaker 1: at what you see on tape. Nick came in and
Speaker 1: had a great game. It helped our team win. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't get into a comparison game of who's doing what,
Speaker 1: but right now, Nicks the quarterback, and he had a
Speaker 1: hell of a game that helped us win a game.
Speaker 1: And we know that we have that in Nick. And
Speaker 1: so for us, it's always about you know, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: go through the week. Who were going into the game with.
Speaker 1: That's who we're gonna try to win with. We and
Speaker 1: we have wholehearted you know, belief and everybody that puts
Speaker 1: those pads on. You've seen the young guys a year,
Speaker 1: a little experience one hundred eleven. Yeah, what what do
Speaker 1: you kind of learn about? They're growing? You know, to
Speaker 1: be honest, a lot of these guys been put in
Speaker 1: some crazy situations been forced into the fire. Um have
Speaker 1: struggled at times, but you know, have have persevered, have
Speaker 1: continued to improve and and now are making the plays
Speaker 1: that are helping us win games. And so you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's something I take great pride in. I enjoy
Speaker 1: watching these young dudes, that energy and the juice that
Speaker 1: you know, we've been really searching for all year and
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully that that they continue to grow. When
Speaker 1: we watched the mature in front our eyes, cool number.
Speaker 1: There's Malcolm Jenkins. Absolutely love what he brings on and
Speaker 1: off the football field. Perfect answer when asked about Nick
Speaker 1: Foles and the you know juice that he brought to
Speaker 1: the offense. It's like, look, this is a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: MVP who went out there and played a heck of
Speaker 1: a game. Okay, this isn't a comparison between he and
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, and I know that's the game that everyone
Speaker 1: on the outside is going to be playing this week.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have fun with down Sports Radio ninety four
Speaker 1: Wip the Marks and re show. But nonetheless, tonight Foles
Speaker 1: was outstanding. Helped the Heels get this, you know, season
Speaker 1: saving victory, and that's what it needs to be right now,
Speaker 1: we don't know if Carson Wentz is gonna be available. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was questionableed and doubtful than out. You know, certainly
Speaker 1: number eleven wants to be back out in the field,
Speaker 1: especially with the home game with the season on the line,
Speaker 1: Houston Texans coming to town next weekend, but we don't
Speaker 1: know if that's going to be the case. It's a
Speaker 1: good sign that he traveled with the team, you know,
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, even with the stress injury. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: though Carson you know, wants to come back, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be in his best interest to come back
Speaker 1: or in terms of protecting himself, not just again the
Speaker 1: short term, but the long term, because Doug Pearson said
Speaker 1: on Friday, most likely we're looking at three months before
Speaker 1: a full recovery. So it's gonna be worth putting them
Speaker 1: back out there on the field. We'll sta have to
Speaker 1: figure out. But for this night here, this Sunday night
Speaker 1: against the La Rams, nick Foles started and delivered big
Speaker 1: time performance once again. Yeah, and I think Malcolm has
Speaker 1: the right mindset when you're talking about you know, Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz like, the players can't worry about that. You know,
Speaker 1: these guys that are teammates, they have a job that
Speaker 1: they have to do. Just make sure that you do
Speaker 1: your job. Who's ever gonna line up behind center is
Speaker 1: gonna wind up playing well when he gets the opportunity too,
Speaker 1: But they're also going to need the help of their teammates.
Speaker 1: All right, speing Nick Foles, let's send it to the
Speaker 1: call seem where he's standing by right now. Environment against
Speaker 1: team that had now lost, I'm extremely proud of our team. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a complete team game, was a
Speaker 1: complete team winning. That's one of the best teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, Um, and they showed it as
Speaker 1: I mean playing against them. Every single play they were
Speaker 1: bringing it. But I'm really proudly the guys for facing adversity.
Speaker 1: That's what we preceed this week was you know, in
Speaker 1: any game, there's gonna be adversity, there's gonna be things
Speaker 1: that happened, just you know, leaning on one one another,
Speaker 1: sticking to one another, sticking with one another. And that's
Speaker 1: what we did today. There was a couple of adverse things,
Speaker 1: but we were able to create turnovers. I had the
Speaker 1: one you know to leave made a great play on
Speaker 1: that interception. But we bounced back and we kept playing.
Speaker 1: And you know that's really what Eagle football is about,
Speaker 1: you guys fight. Yeah, I mean I think the big
Speaker 1: thing is also we focus on the moment, so you know,
Speaker 1: we don't need to worry about that. All we gotta
Speaker 1: worry about now is you know, getting back to Philly,
Speaker 1: getting our bodies right, prepping and going back at it,
Speaker 1: and we'll just see what happens. You know. There's a
Speaker 1: couple of times where you know, just reading the defense
Speaker 1: letting him go get a chance. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: great player. Um, he's shown that he can make those plays,
Speaker 1: and he made him tonight for me and helped me
Speaker 1: out a lot the first time he played with him
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, if I remember he didn't play those
Speaker 1: first two games. How were you able to kind of
Speaker 1: get that chemistry back so quickly with him? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I watched all the practices, um, you know
Speaker 1: than doing the scout team, and I know the guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, you go out there. I'm a thrower. I
Speaker 1: just read their body language and throw the ball. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they made a lot of great plays Outron
Speaker 1: went up and made some you know, great catches as well.
Speaker 1: We were able to spread the ball around. That was important,
Speaker 1: and we were also the line did a great job
Speaker 1: of you know, we're able to run the ball really
Speaker 1: well too, so I thought, you know, with Doug's play calling,
Speaker 1: keeping him off balance, giving him different looks. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we were able to execute at a high level. Spent
Speaker 1: the past twelve thirteen leads in the background. What was
Speaker 1: this past weekly for you? It's really emotional. I mean,
Speaker 1: anytime you know, you you hate for your teammate to
Speaker 1: get hurt. I said before, you know, I feel really
Speaker 1: bad for Carson. I mean, we're tied in that QB room.
Speaker 1: But then when you you know, you sort of you
Speaker 1: don't really know what's gonna happen. You start taking reps.
Speaker 1: It's been a while, you go through the human emotions.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you've done in the past or
Speaker 1: what I've done in the past. It doesn't matter. When
Speaker 1: you step on that field, it's a new day. So um,
Speaker 1: it was really just dealing with the emotions, prep, you know,
Speaker 1: prepping as far as I could, and then realizing I'm
Speaker 1: not alone. I have great teammates out there. All I
Speaker 1: have to do is spread the ball around, lean on them, Uh,
Speaker 1: stay in the moment, and we're able to do that tonight. Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's a it's a huge win for us. Really,
Speaker 1: each game is different. You know. Sometimes you get a
Speaker 1: bunch of little hits. Sometimes you don't get hit much,
Speaker 1: and there are a couple of big ones. Today it
Speaker 1: was the you know, they got a couple of good
Speaker 1: licks on me. But you know, I'm perfectly fine as
Speaker 1: far as learning how to stay engaged. Like Zach said,
Speaker 1: you hadn't played in twelve weeks, kind of going out
Speaker 1: there and still getting better even if you're not playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean my role has been different the last twelve weeks, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, with the scout team and then just helping
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: UM watching practice, UM watching you know, obviously you're in
Speaker 1: all the installs, you know, the offense, just in case
Speaker 1: something happens. Um. And then you know, when I'm called
Speaker 1: upon just going out there and you gotta trust my
Speaker 1: you know, read and react. I have to trust my instincts, Um,
Speaker 1: And like I said, I'll lean on my teammates and
Speaker 1: realize I'm not out there alone. So it's all those things.
Speaker 1: It's there's a lot going on in the head. But
Speaker 1: I was able to simplify it. And that's the key
Speaker 1: is you know, when things are going on your head
Speaker 1: and there's a lot, you know you detending not to play,
Speaker 1: to play that well, Um, the thing was simplified, what's
Speaker 1: going on in my head and just play fast, different
Speaker 1: the same field that needs to be in the last season,
Speaker 1: and you know, I know, I know that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the story. Um, but no, it's a new year, it's
Speaker 1: a new team, different situation. Um. You know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I always talk about staying in
Speaker 1: the moment, Tomorrow, take care of itself. And uh, you
Speaker 1: know we're gonna enjoy this. This was a great team win.
Speaker 1: Just seeing the excitement in the locker room. It's been
Speaker 1: a it's been a crazy year. Um, and you know
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep fighting, We're gonna keep working, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep growing. Lost year I lost, my senior year, Uh,
Speaker 1: we came, we came back from we were down by
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Um. Unfortunately we lost. But my sophomore
Speaker 1: year we were able to upset usc here. So that
Speaker 1: was a good memory. I don't I don't really thrive
Speaker 1: on it. Um, it's just sort of the way things
Speaker 1: have fallen. Um. Once again, it's not about me. Um.
Speaker 1: I have great teammates, great organization, great coaches, and we
Speaker 1: were able to rally together. Um. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: I love about being an Eagle is is you know,
Speaker 1: we lean on each other. Adversity does hit. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? You see teams when adversity hits start
Speaker 1: turning on each other. Where's a couple of There's a
Speaker 1: couple of moments in this game. They were pretty big
Speaker 1: and there was never any turning on each other say
Speaker 1: hey we got you. Hey, offense, go hey we got you.
Speaker 1: D Like, that's what it's about. So Um, I don't thrive.
Speaker 1: I just you know, enjoy being a part of this team.
Speaker 1: This is our first two guys. I'm pretty sure I
Speaker 1: was seeing a Dominican sue and then just hoping that
Speaker 1: al Sean was where I where he was gonna be.
Speaker 1: So Um, I had a you know, a quick reaction.
Speaker 1: I was able to see the safety sort of void
Speaker 1: and just let it rip. Um. You know, it was
Speaker 1: hard to see much. I just let al Sean go
Speaker 1: make a play. That was the key with conversation, especially
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do that we're going to be started.
Speaker 1: You know. I think the big thing is we've been
Speaker 1: together the last you know, a couple of years, um,
Speaker 1: just being there for one another, UM, going through the game,
Speaker 1: playing together. Obviously, this is unfortunate for him, but I
Speaker 1: also know that you know he's gonna bounce back and
Speaker 1: whenever that may be, and you know he's gonna be
Speaker 1: better for it. That's just how he handles his business
Speaker 1: and that's something I respect about him. Within the emotion
Speaker 1: of the best week, would you consider the big picture
Speaker 1: part of this and what this would mean for the
Speaker 1: future at all? You know that part does creep in.
Speaker 1: I do say there is a human side, but no,
Speaker 1: I'm very self aware of those distractions don't do any good.
Speaker 1: And I think a big part of that was a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, you know, gonna step away from
Speaker 1: the game. I really thrive and staying in the moment
Speaker 1: and just enjoying it. And you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But I really just want to enjoy the moment and
Speaker 1: just being present and all I do. That's why I
Speaker 1: try to focus on daily talk about simplify things in
Speaker 1: your head. What do you mean exactly. I mean when
Speaker 1: you step on a field, I mean it's emotional. There's
Speaker 1: a lot going on. It's Sunday night football, you're in LA,
Speaker 1: you know. I think honing in on being in the huddle,
Speaker 1: not worrying about the score, not worrying about the clock,
Speaker 1: because that can affect your tendencies of reading different plays,
Speaker 1: forcing different things, and just playing. There's different things I do.
Speaker 1: I'm like I said, you gotta be self aware. You
Speaker 1: gotta know your tendencies. I know where I fall short,
Speaker 1: but it's just going in that huddle just that's my sanctuary.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm be I just want to be with
Speaker 1: those guys no matter what happens during the game, not
Speaker 1: worrying about the score, not worrying about the clock, just playing. So,
Speaker 1: as you've discussed with us a few times, you have
Speaker 1: your own unique leadership style. How did you kind of
Speaker 1: put your staff on the on the team this week?
Speaker 1: What did you do to get them the rally around you?
Speaker 1: You know, not much, It just just being there for
Speaker 1: the guys, just going in the huddle, taking a hold
Speaker 1: of it. But really just me communications, big me, showing
Speaker 1: love to the guys is big The way you win
Speaker 1: games in the fourth quarter, in my opinion, is you
Speaker 1: got you love one another, you work, you care for
Speaker 1: one another. It's hard to win it. It's hard to
Speaker 1: win in the NFL, I always say, especially against a
Speaker 1: team like this. So what you see there and that's
Speaker 1: why we don't turn on each other as those relationships.
Speaker 1: So I just step in the huddle on me. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to be I'm not a big
Speaker 1: raw rock guy. I just want to be who I
Speaker 1: am and just makes it easy reaching that. Stay with
Speaker 1: the experience in the last couple of years and maybe
Speaker 1: about three four five years ago, I think in every
Speaker 1: life experience you learned something, and you know, through the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, absolutely I've learned that. You know,
Speaker 1: being president, being the moment um, you know, it's important
Speaker 1: because I think today, like we there's so many distractions,
Speaker 1: I mean, phones, all the Instagram, Twitter, everything, you get distracted,
Speaker 1: you get the lights, everything, even this, but just being
Speaker 1: in the moment and being president, there's something that's really
Speaker 1: special about that. If you can do it. And then
Speaker 1: you know, being a husband and a father, being president
Speaker 1: at home, I mean that makes my days, you know,
Speaker 1: even better as when I can go home and just
Speaker 1: be president, just block out football when I get there,
Speaker 1: and you know, then I can be I'm actually a
Speaker 1: better football player because of that. Right, So that's the
Speaker 1: first time we've had been able to hear from Nick
Speaker 1: Foles all week. We didn't get to hear from either
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz or Nick Foles leading up to the game
Speaker 1: because you didn't know who was going to be the starter.
Speaker 1: So you know, obviously a lot of questions is about
Speaker 1: the whole week, the preparation, and then of course his
Speaker 1: outstanding performance tonight, and we're gonna send it back to
Speaker 1: the colle s team for the man who caught most
Speaker 1: of the passes there tonight. Alshon Jeffrey game, like I
Speaker 1: felt it like just the atmosphere, all the fans, and
Speaker 1: the print, hardwork and the preparation from we had during
Speaker 1: the week, just playing the game, just football, I mean,
Speaker 1: just Nick just playing football, just just playing within the offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, it didn't matter if it was this week,
Speaker 1: next week, just being patient, I mean football things like
Speaker 1: it happened this this week. It just happened. It was
Speaker 1: me making a place like everything that's happened to season,
Speaker 1: all the injuries and some time. I don't think we
Speaker 1: stole a win. I mean everyone in the locker room
Speaker 1: we believe in each other. So I don't think we
Speaker 1: stole the win. We just went out there and play
Speaker 1: Eagles football. I mean, you think we stole a win
Speaker 1: because you didn't you countered this out well, like like
Speaker 1: now was talking about the dirtalities that come in and
Speaker 1: then starts the old Winnson something about it. I think
Speaker 1: that's just some the defenses probably just uh something that
Speaker 1: they got going on in the locker room. I don't
Speaker 1: think they believe in that we're still in wins because
Speaker 1: each and everyone of us we believe that we're gonna
Speaker 1: win every game. Catching quarter and Nelson, but just Nick
Speaker 1: just did a hell of a job just telling us
Speaker 1: just be alive on the post and me, me and
Speaker 1: Nelson was just probably fighting over the ball at the
Speaker 1: same time, just one of us is gonna make the play.
Speaker 1: I mean I could see that it was only me
Speaker 1: and Nelson there, so one of us is gonna catch
Speaker 1: the ball. I just broke it up. It's been a while,
Speaker 1: so shout out to all my teammates. I mean, these
Speaker 1: this there is the reason I'm up had the old
Speaker 1: line did the health of a job? Defensive the health
Speaker 1: of a job. Special teams did the health of a job.
Speaker 1: So shout out to my teammates, how you got your ways?
Speaker 1: You played together? Yeah this year, how are you able
Speaker 1: to kind of recreate that chemistry? Just practice is just
Speaker 1: working hard every day in practice, coach, I always preached
Speaker 1: the next man up, and don't matter who's out there.
Speaker 1: Nick Nicka's our quarterback right now. So we're just rolling
Speaker 1: within it against Leave the last year when he was
Speaker 1: a Rockets this game, did you feel like that wasn't
Speaker 1: actually making win? I don't really look up in the matchups.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Nick just did the hell of a
Speaker 1: job just finding me, just throwing the bottom the heck
Speaker 1: of a job, just making plays. From the outside this
Speaker 1: it seems like having a better chemistry in Carson. That's
Speaker 1: just as an outsider on the what's up with that is,
Speaker 1: let's just think just who's ever out there just making
Speaker 1: plays like it don't matter who's if it's Carson, Nick
Speaker 1: Urts me, Nelly, We're just trying to make plays and
Speaker 1: win the game. They don't matter who's catching ball, who's
Speaker 1: throwing it. The number one the receiver. Obviously, you haven't
Speaker 1: been over one hundred yards since playing four. What did
Speaker 1: this do for me? None of that really matters. As
Speaker 1: long as you win the games. That's all I care about.
Speaker 1: Just winning games. Set your starting quarterbacks, your message to
Speaker 1: the guys, to kind of keeping coach. I always appreciates
Speaker 1: a man up and we believe, like last year around
Speaker 1: this time, it started from Nickel last year. So it's
Speaker 1: the same thing. We came to La. We got the
Speaker 1: job done. We just got to keep building from this.
Speaker 1: Get the ball. Good things come to those who wait. Wait,
Speaker 1: I'm just patient, man. Just if I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: I'm just, like I said, control what I control. If
Speaker 1: I'm open, I mean, whoever get the balls, making the
Speaker 1: player don't matter. As long as you win the game,
Speaker 1: that's all I care about. It. You're you're a big
Speaker 1: basketball man. To those opportunity to kind of go up
Speaker 1: and get those rebounds with those bass I tell Nick
Speaker 1: can Carson all the time, just started up. Give me
Speaker 1: a chance, I'm gonna catch no one else gonna catch.
Speaker 1: Appreciate Alsh didn't know he was gonna be the postgame
Speaker 1: press conference. Obviously, obviously he did. Yeah, he must stay
Speaker 1: handed straight for the bus he had on that outfeel
Speaker 1: like they hand you that box lunch. Yeah, bust number
Speaker 1: three jump on there. But he was he was so
Speaker 1: happy he took the game ball. He got the NBC
Speaker 1: stud like game Ball. Well, we'll find out if he's
Speaker 1: one of the Toyota Player the Week nominees a little
Speaker 1: bit later here on the postgame show presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: But he talked about the hell of a job that
Speaker 1: the offensive line did, allowing him to thrive get eight
Speaker 1: catches on eight targets over one hundred yards here tonight,
Speaker 1: one of those linemen, Lane Johnson, we call up with
Speaker 1: him one on one after the game. Let's go to
Speaker 1: that interview right now. Well, Lane, what a great effort.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the offense and the energy and just
Speaker 1: the confidence as you guys had your name, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: knew coming in. You know, they probably have one of
Speaker 1: the more dynamic pass rushers you know, in the league.
Speaker 1: Um So in order to do well, we had to
Speaker 1: stay bounced. We're able to run the ball effectively, and
Speaker 1: that was that was the key tonight. Did you feel
Speaker 1: like the offense built a lot of confidence as the
Speaker 1: game went along, Yeah, I started early, I'll started rolling.
Speaker 1: You know, Nick's getting the ball out, so everything he
Speaker 1: had a good rhythm to it. Um, we're really proud
Speaker 1: of our guys. How did it feel with Nick out there?
Speaker 1: Kind kind of felt like last year a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: you know when your numbers called, no hesitation, just stepping
Speaker 1: up and leaving the group of goss if you like,
Speaker 1: you're back in the game here in the playoff race.
Speaker 1: We gotta get win tonight. I mean tonight was much needed. Um,
Speaker 1: next week, guess use is gonna be big games, a
Speaker 1: lot at home, so we needed How much fun was
Speaker 1: this atmosphere with all these Eagles fans out here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles? Every game I played here, it's been it's
Speaker 1: been a live, live atmosphere. Tonight was so different. Thank
Speaker 1: you Grice up there from the Insider dais spiderra Remember
Speaker 1: he's gonna have is on the inside column as well
Speaker 1: as the Eagles Live podcast, the Instant Reaction addition coming
Speaker 1: up in the early morning hours. If at least if
Speaker 1: you subscribe now, you'll have it there waiting for you
Speaker 1: wherever you consume podcasts for your morning commute. So it
Speaker 1: was Lane Johnson who helped bring the dog mask with
Speaker 1: Chris Long last year, we got the scheme mask this year.
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills and Malcolm Jenkins talking about there in his
Speaker 1: press conference. You think that's what it takes. We we
Speaker 1: just need the accessory DuJour of the year to kind
Speaker 1: of spark the team. Just make sure we only wear
Speaker 1: those ski masks on the field. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's right there, that's all I'm saying. Yes, yeah, using
Speaker 1: those as accessories everywhere isn't necessarily a good idea. But
Speaker 1: but the field tonight, And how about the Corey We
Speaker 1: talk about the Corey Graham where Jared Goff just didn't
Speaker 1: know what was he doing. He it was a third
Speaker 1: and one, Okay, he tripped over the lineman and I
Speaker 1: guess in a desperation attempt to make a play, just
Speaker 1: flip the ball up and Corey Graham was the lucky
Speaker 1: recipient who was right there and you almost thought it
Speaker 1: was be escorted right into the end zone there, And
Speaker 1: that was a huge play. You talked about it being
Speaker 1: third and one, I mean at the rounds pick up
Speaker 1: that first down there, who knows that they're able to
Speaker 1: extend that drive and then go put points on the board.
Speaker 1: But the fact that that not only did the Eagles
Speaker 1: stop them there, they got the turnover, and not only
Speaker 1: did they get the turnover there, they put themselves in
Speaker 1: scoring position. So that was a great job right there.
Speaker 1: A boy, the defense, Corey Graham, just a bone head play,
Speaker 1: Jared Golf here, you can't make this play. You know,
Speaker 1: you made a bad play worse way while doing that.
Speaker 1: And then it's fortunate, fortunate for the Eagles, like I said,
Speaker 1: set the Eagles up in scoring position. Just another one
Speaker 1: of those big plays by this defense tonight, a timely
Speaker 1: big play. So Wendell Smallwood took advantage scored a second
Speaker 1: touchdown of the night in the eight yard score there
Speaker 1: after that interception, we called we went all small Wood
Speaker 1: after the game. Let's check out that interview right now.
Speaker 1: All right, Wendell, it had been a while here since
Speaker 1: you really got involved in the offensive, getting into the
Speaker 1: rhythm and must They wouldn't take you long at all
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, it was. I was pretty much
Speaker 1: comfortable out there. I knew what their defense was gonna do.
Speaker 1: We knew they had a tough defense. We knew we
Speaker 1: had to run the ball against these guys, a lot
Speaker 1: of people have been running the ball good. So we
Speaker 1: just came out and took advantage. How about for you
Speaker 1: near the goal line and that that thirst that you
Speaker 1: had get into the end zone. I was just determined
Speaker 1: to get in. I've seen a whole and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let nothing to stop me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get us in this end zone. We've we've embraced the
Speaker 1: red zone challenge. We know we got to score to
Speaker 1: win these type games, and that's what we did tonight.
Speaker 1: Nick Foles and quarterbacks seemed like a lot of energy
Speaker 1: out in the field. Yeah. Always he brings that energy.
Speaker 1: We're confident in him. We don't look down when he
Speaker 1: comes in the game. He just picks he just picks
Speaker 1: him up and he balls out every time. So he
Speaker 1: didn't surprise us to the How big is this win window.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge It's huge. Just a confidence booster and
Speaker 1: the team. Now we beat this ain't ald lottery team.
Speaker 1: We give them credit. They played hard. They've been beating
Speaker 1: beating people up all year and we came out and
Speaker 1: we were the underdogs, and we came out and sold
Speaker 1: people we could beat anybody. Und your dogs again, I
Speaker 1: like that, sir, Hey you, that's gotta be such a
Speaker 1: challenge for a young player, even though he's in his
Speaker 1: third season, still still a young guy with that too
Speaker 1: too much experience for someone who for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you you're involved in the offense. You know, you're heavily
Speaker 1: involved in the game plan, so you're mentally focused and
Speaker 1: you know that you're gonna get some touches each and
Speaker 1: every week. Then all of a sudden, you have a
Speaker 1: few weeks where you're kind of left off to the side.
Speaker 1: You're seeing Josh Ams step up, Corey Clement was getting healthy,
Speaker 1: and you know you're you're biding your time. Maybe you'll
Speaker 1: get a snap here too on special teams, but by
Speaker 1: and large, you're not as involved. You're not you're not
Speaker 1: a focal part of the game plan anymore. What is
Speaker 1: that like? Then, all of a sudden, to come here
Speaker 1: tonight in a must win game, to deliver two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and you know, with Josh Ams being a little nicked
Speaker 1: up here to be the go to guy for the
Speaker 1: rushing game tonight, what's huge? And it shows you why
Speaker 1: when Delle Smallwood has value on this team, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned he's been in the league, what three this is
Speaker 1: his third year, third year in the league, and the
Speaker 1: way that you survive in this league when you're not
Speaker 1: necessarily the quote unquote starter at your particular position, it's
Speaker 1: being ready when your number is called. You know, I
Speaker 1: played nine years in this league as a backup linebacker.
Speaker 1: I had to play all three linebacker positions, and it
Speaker 1: didn't matter whether or not I got the reps that
Speaker 1: we can practice. I needed to be ready from a
Speaker 1: mental standpoint whenever my number was going to be called
Speaker 1: in case one of those starts went down and when
Speaker 1: theoll Smallwood has shown throughout this season, more so than
Speaker 1: the previous two in his career, that whenever his number
Speaker 1: is called, he's ready to go. And I really have
Speaker 1: been proud of him this year because I know he's
Speaker 1: fighting to get that opportunity to show what he can
Speaker 1: do in this league. And it's not always the opportunities
Speaker 1: that he hopes he's gonna get, but when those opportunities
Speaker 1: do present himself, I think he's answered the call every
Speaker 1: time this year, and most of those opportunities have come
Speaker 1: in the middle of a game where he may not
Speaker 1: have expected to be the focal point of the running
Speaker 1: game at that time, and much like tonight, I guarantee
Speaker 1: he didn't expect to get the amount of carries he
Speaker 1: got tonight. But you mentioned Josh Adams getting banged up,
Speaker 1: so he has to go in. They rely on him
Speaker 1: for the tough yards in between the tackles. He's able
Speaker 1: to get two touchdowns. He's gonna play a long time
Speaker 1: in this league. Being prepared, being a professional, being ready
Speaker 1: when your number is called a great point and taking
Speaker 1: advantage of it. Listen, we all would like to be
Speaker 1: the guy, but we all want to have a career
Speaker 1: in this league, and the way you establish a career
Speaker 1: in this league is being ready when your number is called.
Speaker 1: And I think when Dell has been that way for
Speaker 1: this team all year long this year. Really a forgotten
Speaker 1: man last year with the amount of running backs that
Speaker 1: we had, and really didn't know what his role was
Speaker 1: going to be this year. But like I said, whenever
Speaker 1: he's been called upon to show to the load, he's
Speaker 1: done a nice job. He was on the bubble all
Speaker 1: throughout training camp in preseason, he was right there on
Speaker 1: that roster bubble, and you were kind of debating whether
Speaker 1: or not they would even keep him on a final
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, and he earned a spot. And
Speaker 1: thankfully he did get that spot because that the deals
Speaker 1: have been able to rely upon throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the year. And it's got to be so mainly tough.
Speaker 1: You know, like you talked about, one week you're the guy.
Speaker 1: Next week, you don't know if you're going to be
Speaker 1: involved or not. And at a moment's notice, really he
Speaker 1: came into the game of late against Dallas, yeah okay,
Speaker 1: and had some key d the one key carried down
Speaker 1: by the goal line. I know. Doug Pearson was like,
Speaker 1: why was Smallwood getting touches there? Oh, Corey Clement was out.
Speaker 1: He's the guy in that situation. He's the backup, so
Speaker 1: he had to be ready, and you know, with a
Speaker 1: week of practice, knowing that was going to be primarily
Speaker 1: a three man rotation with Clement being placed on injury reserve,
Speaker 1: he stepped up and answered the bell tonight. So he
Speaker 1: scores two touchdowns and I could only imagine what those
Speaker 1: touchdowns must have sounded like coming from the broadcast booth.
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety four w I P. Merrill Reese and
Speaker 1: Mike Quick Let's listen to the sounds of the game
Speaker 1: through our Merrill Camp feature, including the game winning call,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff's incomplete pass where Avonte Max had the coverage
Speaker 1: on wide receiver Josh Reynolds. Fifty one yard attempt Johnston
Speaker 1: the holder. The kick goes away. It's got plenty of
Speaker 1: distance and it is god of the Eagles take the lead.
Speaker 1: Frams leading seven to three. Eagles tried to tighten it
Speaker 1: to a point. This is roughly the length of an
Speaker 1: extra point, maybe one yard more. It'll be spotted at
Speaker 1: the It's twenty four thirty four yard attempt for Elliott, spotted,
Speaker 1: kicked up, and it is good. We have a one
Speaker 1: point game. Ramsley Golf lines them up. Three receivers left
Speaker 1: tight ends down to the fourth side of the field.
Speaker 1: Back again, goes Golf. He steps up. He is head.
Speaker 1: They've sick twenty five. Give this one. The Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: he apparently is alive and very well. Yeah. They needed
Speaker 1: him to come back into the game, and he comes
Speaker 1: back in and he makes his mark, an opportunity for
Speaker 1: them to keep moving closer. Freedger Cocks knocks them back
Speaker 1: folds us back folds, looking stepping up. He is going
Speaker 1: deep and in his cart dead across the thirty five
Speaker 1: running with it is Jeffrey tell the twenty five what
Speaker 1: a great catch, a great cash by a Sean Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: And there was a two minute morning at the score.
Speaker 1: The Rams ten the Eagles six. Adams in falls in
Speaker 1: the gun on first down, they give us to Adams,
Speaker 1: push us forward. He's in the end zone. Eagles take
Speaker 1: the leader just as straight inside zone run and excellent
Speaker 1: blocking off of that left side and Josh Adams and
Speaker 1: rookie just powers in right behind that left side of
Speaker 1: the offensive line. What a nice job. Zach Ertz gets
Speaker 1: a really good block hered as well. You know, Mike,
Speaker 1: listening to the crowd, I think there were a lot
Speaker 1: of Eagles fans here. You didn't know, well, you could
Speaker 1: hear it. You didn't know that already. I knew there
Speaker 1: were last year. On first down, that goes inside small
Speaker 1: one up the middle. He's in small one, spining tone
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. What a great job of blocking up front.
Speaker 1: They just knocked the Rams off of the football, create
Speaker 1: that space. And look how quickly when Dell Smallwood gets
Speaker 1: to the second level. This is a forty yard attempt.
Speaker 1: Ball of spotted the kick is away and the kick
Speaker 1: is good, three for three under Sunner. Golf girling behind him.
Speaker 1: Does he go to girl on a power play. Golf
Speaker 1: takes the snap, he trips, he goes down, he gives it.
Speaker 1: It's fumbled into the arms of the Eagles, and running
Speaker 1: with the football is Graham and grams down to the
Speaker 1: thirteen small one to the left of Folds. Folds gives
Speaker 1: it the small one up the middle of Goes. He's
Speaker 1: in touchdown. He's sucking the light again. The offensive line
Speaker 1: blowing that rams defense off of the football. So now
Speaker 1: it's going to be up to number one the special
Speaker 1: teams and number two the defense backing up his Nutson.
Speaker 1: He's back at his thirty. Right now, Cameron Johnson can
Speaker 1: kick out a mile. He needs one of those right now.
Speaker 1: He rubs his palms together, he accepts the snap, he
Speaker 1: steps forward. He hits it very high. Wobbler coming up
Speaker 1: his Nutson. He's gonna try to take it back and
Speaker 1: he doesn't get any place. He fumbles the football. Let's see,
Speaker 1: he fumbled the football. Beavils have the Eagles haven. The
Speaker 1: Eagles haven. It has Tray Sullivan who made the head
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty three. Eagles lead thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 1: Can this team that has had so much adversity this
Speaker 1: season rejoice with a win? Empty backfield for golf, Eagles
Speaker 1: lined up across the goal line, golf. Here comes the
Speaker 1: rush that come again. He is firing, incomplete, incomplete. The
Speaker 1: game is over. The Eagles win. Intended for Reynolds. The
Speaker 1: Eagles win. The Eagles win. They have upset the Rams.
Speaker 1: A tremendous win for the Eagles as they shook the
Speaker 1: NFL underdogs once again. Fight them way out of it,
Speaker 1: They fight their way out of it, and they live
Speaker 1: to play a meaningful game against Houston. They suddenly at
Speaker 1: the lake. The Eagles have even the record at seven
Speaker 1: and seven, and they have beaten the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty three. Oh, that's absolutely tremendous, Absolutely tremendous.
Speaker 1: You knew that it was gonna be a special one.
Speaker 1: There from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Marorice delivering the
Speaker 1: calls as always. It's actually interesting for us because the
Speaker 1: last five minutes of so of the game, I'll come
Speaker 1: into studio. Ike has his superstitue or he has to
Speaker 1: be in the cafeteria here the Novocare Complex watched until
Speaker 1: the last possible moment, rushing in here to get miked
Speaker 1: up and writing for the show. But we hear Merrill's
Speaker 1: call through the speaker before we see it on the screen,
Speaker 1: so it's almost it's like ten fifteen second delay, so
Speaker 1: we're waiting for the play to start. That last one
Speaker 1: to Josh Reyls that Avonte Max was covering on but
Speaker 1: we already here that it's been incomplete, So it's like
Speaker 1: you're like, you're excited, but you used to see the
Speaker 1: actual thing take place, so you actually could watch how
Speaker 1: it came to fruition, though very very special edition Merrill
Speaker 1: came and if you want to watch it, relive it
Speaker 1: all day tomorrow we will have an available on philadelphias
Speaker 1: dot com and the Eagles Apps. So more interviews to
Speaker 1: get to here. We're gonna hear from head coach Doug Pearson,
Speaker 1: the one on one with Mike Quick in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But first defensive lineman Hellodi Nada, big part of the
Speaker 1: rotation tonight, stepped up in a huge way. He caught
Speaker 1: up with our Eels entire day spare after the game,
Speaker 1: Hello Da talk about the defense and what you guys
Speaker 1: did to stop Todd Gurley. I mean that's all we
Speaker 1: focus on all week, stop and talk early he's we
Speaker 1: know he's a dual threat, and stopping him on the run.
Speaker 1: It was definitely a huge trust got a little closer
Speaker 1: at the end. What was your like out there with
Speaker 1: the defense on the field of the end of the game,
Speaker 1: it just felt like we finally got something going our way.
Speaker 1: We haven't did it all year, I mean, haven't got
Speaker 1: anything to go our way this year, and um, it's
Speaker 1: just great to feel like we uh finally got something
Speaker 1: going our way. How big is this way? In Helodi? Choose?
Speaker 1: You choose? It's a must win for us. Two more
Speaker 1: to go, So two more, two in a row and
Speaker 1: we go in a man of many words, there the
Speaker 1: Hellodi Nada? It was coming off last week's game. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've harped on the ninety nine tolls snaps and obviously
Speaker 1: again the defensive lineman are playing that. But when you
Speaker 1: look at the players on a DA line, Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: Chris Long, not Michael Bennett. You know guys who are
Speaker 1: up there in age, they have a lot more experience.
Speaker 1: So asking those guys coming off the heavy workload the
Speaker 1: week before, and really there were no Tim Jurnakin for
Speaker 1: all but one game, you know, no Derek Barnett. Since
Speaker 1: early in the season, these guys have had to shoulder
Speaker 1: more of the load. You're coming off that high impact game,
Speaker 1: which again was on the road in Dallas, so you're
Speaker 1: playing all those snaps in Dallas. You come home, you
Speaker 1: gotta go back on a West coast trip, No one,
Speaker 1: you're gonna playing a lot of snaps. Once again, I
Speaker 1: just have to credit Chris Wilson and Jim Schwartz and
Speaker 1: a defensive line for stepping up to the task tonite
Speaker 1: the way that they did. Yeah, I think Jim schwartzon
Speaker 1: his staff really do deserve a lot of credit, and
Speaker 1: not just for tonight. I think, you know, for the
Speaker 1: majority of the season he's been undermanned over there, and
Speaker 1: I know he catches a lot of flak on the outside,
Speaker 1: people wanting to bring extra pressure. They want him to
Speaker 1: lench Moore. But when you're down personnel, you got to
Speaker 1: be selective when you do blitz, when you do decide
Speaker 1: to put your back in in a vulnerable position, because
Speaker 1: when you send extra guys, that means guys on the
Speaker 1: back end have to cover man to man, and for
Speaker 1: a while there, I don't know if Jim Schwartz knew
Speaker 1: what he had in some of these secondary players. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're bringing in guys one week, you know this guy
Speaker 1: is here. Next week, another guy is here. It takes
Speaker 1: a while for these coaches to even understand what they have,
Speaker 1: what a guy can do, and what he can't do.
Speaker 1: At the same time, he's trying to put together a
Speaker 1: game plan to stop some of the game's most lethal
Speaker 1: offensive weapons week the week. And like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I think this defense has kept us in games just
Speaker 1: about every week. I mean, with the exception of the
Speaker 1: Saints game, I think the defense has showed up pretty
Speaker 1: much every week, and they've been under man for the
Speaker 1: most part all year long, so this week was no different.
Speaker 1: Under Man got the next man up mentality. Not many
Speaker 1: players over there for a rotation style type of the defense.
Speaker 1: They didn't have that available to them. So having a
Speaker 1: Holy nod Out there available to go tonight was huge
Speaker 1: for him because we haven't seen a lot of a
Speaker 1: loading nod Out this year, so having him able to
Speaker 1: go tonight was big time because I know, any extra
Speaker 1: bodies they could get to help along with their rotation,
Speaker 1: so these guys would be fresh in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: would certainly be appreciated. And I think another thing people
Speaker 1: don't understand when they talk about this defense latent games.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned keeping guys fresh, the rotational players. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're down men on all three levels, secondary linebackers
Speaker 1: and your defensive front, it's hard to have the rotation
Speaker 1: that you're accustomed to. And that was really the strength
Speaker 1: of his defense last year. It was in the numbers.
Speaker 1: It was because we had so many players playing on
Speaker 1: that side. We went eight deep along the defensive line,
Speaker 1: no player playing more than four hundred snaps. I mean
Speaker 1: over eight players playing four hundred snaps last year and
Speaker 1: led the league. That was the calling card of his defense,
Speaker 1: and they really haven't had that at their disposal. And
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz has really had to mix and match put
Speaker 1: this thing together with glue and patches the best that
Speaker 1: he can, and I think he's done an admirable job.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get enough credit for at least giving this
Speaker 1: team a fighting chance every week. While the offense is
Speaker 1: sputtered in the first half to get off to a
Speaker 1: good start, the defense has kept us end games. They
Speaker 1: typically have just worn down late end games, and tonight
Speaker 1: they were able to hold on. That's the thing is
Speaker 1: you compare this to last year. The turnovers the takeaways
Speaker 1: are different, not as many as last year, but they
Speaker 1: got a couple tonight certainly aided in the Eagles cause
Speaker 1: getting them to win. And you mentioned the ability to finish.
Speaker 1: They were playing with the bigger leads throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game last season, and album of course, that
Speaker 1: doesn't excuse the losses to Carolina and Tennessee when you
Speaker 1: had big leads and weren't able to finish. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have said, are we going
Speaker 1: down this road again? Tonight after they yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and look Sunday Night Football the broadcast, they were ready up.
Speaker 1: Here's the Eagle struggles this season and closing out game.
Speaker 1: So but outside of that, this defense has pretty much
Speaker 1: played at the same level as a year ago. It's
Speaker 1: the offense that has not been able to go up
Speaker 1: to fast start. This was an offense that was great
Speaker 1: in producing points in the first quarter. Got something tonight
Speaker 1: and look what happened. You're playing with the lead for
Speaker 1: most of the game. The Eagles never trailed in the
Speaker 1: second half. That's rare. Okay, The Eagles did not trail
Speaker 1: this game in a second It was thirteen to thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half time after Zeroli kicked the late field
Speaker 1: goal as time expired. But the Eagles jumped on them
Speaker 1: in the second half and opened up a big lead
Speaker 1: and they were able to hold on for the thirty
Speaker 1: to twenty three victory. Okay, it doesn't matter at the
Speaker 1: end how it comes to fruition. The bottom line is
Speaker 1: the Eagles found a way to get to seven and
Speaker 1: seven on the season, and the man responsible doing the
Speaker 1: head coaching job, Doug Pearson. After the game, he talked
Speaker 1: with Eagles Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike Quick as
Speaker 1: well as NBC Sports Phillies John Clark. Let's go to
Speaker 1: that interview right now, all right, joining us now the
Speaker 1: head coach, Doug Peterson, And I know you don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to to Vegas and what the odds are on games,
Speaker 1: but you were thirteen point underdogs, largest Super Bowl underdog
Speaker 1: the next year in twenty three years, and you came
Speaker 1: here and you really shocked the world. A lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't give you a chance. This team believed how
Speaker 1: did you get them to believe with all the injuries.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a credit to that locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, each guy really took it upon himself. This
Speaker 1: week starts in practice. I talk about practice a lot,
Speaker 1: but it really does. And we we win games like
Speaker 1: this on how we prepare and and I give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to the players and the coaches really
Speaker 1: for um really having our guys well prepared. And uh,
Speaker 1: I can, I can. I can think back when I
Speaker 1: was into Super Bowl. I guess at Denver Broncos where
Speaker 1: we were, we were we were the heavy uh favorite,
Speaker 1: and got beat by the Broncos in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So you know, I've been there, and these guys just
Speaker 1: they don't listen to that, you know. And um, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you could probably ask any of those guys,
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't even know the spread quite frankly. And
Speaker 1: and they just played together, played with a lot of
Speaker 1: passion denying. It was good to see Doug was in
Speaker 1: anything that you saw about the build up this week
Speaker 1: that would lead you to believe that they were going
Speaker 1: to come out and play the way they did against
Speaker 1: the Rams. You know, I just think it's again the
Speaker 1: way the way they attack each day in practice. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I know we had some adversity with the
Speaker 1: quarterback and making the change and and you know, a
Speaker 1: different guy in the huddle, but this guy started our
Speaker 1: season two, you know, for the first two weeks. So
Speaker 1: guys were comfortable with Nick in there. And and the defense,
Speaker 1: I mean they they practiced all week against a high octane,
Speaker 1: high powered, very fast Temple offense, and they really handled
Speaker 1: a lot of the movement parts extremely well. And it's
Speaker 1: just a credit on how they prepared it. You had
Speaker 1: great balance with the running game, stuck with it, and
Speaker 1: you won the time of possession, so you keep their
Speaker 1: offense off the field. How do you think it got
Speaker 1: of course the offensive line comfortable with the running game,
Speaker 1: but also Nick getting him settled in and then it
Speaker 1: opens up some other things downfield. Well, I think that's
Speaker 1: just something I as a play caller, I have to
Speaker 1: I have to trust the run game. I gotta trust
Speaker 1: the offensive line. And I felt like for the most part,
Speaker 1: you know, I was able to do that. But but
Speaker 1: then the guys really took it upon themselves to execute
Speaker 1: and um, you know, did a great job, and that
Speaker 1: just kind of settled your quarterback in then you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the RPO, a lot of the play
Speaker 1: action game can come off of that. And um had
Speaker 1: some opportunity down the field. Al Shan had a tremendous game,
Speaker 1: you know, catching the ball down the field and just
Speaker 1: you know, I think you just saw just a team
Speaker 1: effort and guys just just playing together and then having
Speaker 1: a lot of fun out there. Speaking to the team, ever,
Speaker 1: talk about the compliment. You got some turnovers, you got
Speaker 1: a good special team play, good defensive play. Talk about
Speaker 1: how the each phase complimented the other phase of the team,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's what we've talked about all
Speaker 1: season long. When when you can generate turnovers, your offense
Speaker 1: can capitalize and they can score and score points. And
Speaker 1: we did that tonight. You know, we had Avante Mattocks
Speaker 1: had a huge back. Of course, we had the biggest
Speaker 1: turnover all at the end of the game, and then
Speaker 1: we had you know, we had the other interception, so
Speaker 1: the ball was kind of bounced around him. Our defense
Speaker 1: got that ball too, So I mean, that's that's what
Speaker 1: happens when when when you can create those turnovers, and
Speaker 1: I thought our defensive line just got after the rams
Speaker 1: and and then listen, that's that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good team, and give them a lot of credit. They're
Speaker 1: gonna go a long way. And um again, just a
Speaker 1: great team effort. A lot of people in the off
Speaker 1: season said, hey, maybe trade Nick Foles for something. This
Speaker 1: is exactly why you kept him here and wanted him here. Right,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. You know, you get to moments like
Speaker 1: this and you have a veteran, veteran back up and
Speaker 1: and really, uh, you know, you can you can just
Speaker 1: just kind of kind of put last year but you
Speaker 1: know behind us and just focus on this this year
Speaker 1: and having a veteran player who can come in and
Speaker 1: under under adverse situations that he did, and um, just
Speaker 1: lead this football team. And it's a credit to him obviously,
Speaker 1: and and I think really too uh for the for
Speaker 1: the rest of the team to really around rally around
Speaker 1: him and support him as well. Go and enjoy this win.
Speaker 1: We will. We ask you one question though, Yeah, who's
Speaker 1: your starting quarterback next week? I'll let you know later
Speaker 1: in the week. Perfect stretch it all the way to Saturday. Right.
Speaker 1: It has been a while since we've seen Doug smile
Speaker 1: like that. It was good to have a nice little
Speaker 1: postgame interview to enjoy of that nature. All right, So
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do now is, if you are watching
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Speaker 1: first commercial break. We've gotten almost ninety minutes without a
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Speaker 1: On the other side, we're gonna go inside the film
Speaker 1: room and explain how the Eagles pulled off some of
Speaker 1: the biggest plays to get the win tonight. In our
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe you could do that when we go inside
Speaker 1: the Rico whiteboard for the Rico review. So again, the
Speaker 1: Eagles led thirteen to ten late in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: The Rams tied it just before halftime thirteen thirteen. Well,
Speaker 1: the Eagles took the lead on a Wendell Smallwood nine
Speaker 1: yard touching round, which followed an Alshon Jeffrey fifty yard reception.
Speaker 1: So let's go into the film room where fran Duffy,
Speaker 1: an NFL film senior producer Greg co Sell, breakdown Smallwood's
Speaker 1: touchdown to give the Eagles a twenty to thirteen lead
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. All right, so stop me if
Speaker 1: you've heard this before. The Eagles in twelve personnel one
Speaker 1: back to tight end or get their staple run play
Speaker 1: right inside zone, down in the low red zone. It's
Speaker 1: going to go for a touchdown. Very much the same
Speaker 1: thing what we just saw on the last play greg
Speaker 1: But tell us why it's a little bit different. When
Speaker 1: the formation's flipped. Here you have the two tight ends
Speaker 1: on the right side of the formation, not the left side,
Speaker 1: and you have the back here win Dell Smallwood, not
Speaker 1: Josh Adams. He's also on the right side of the formation.
Speaker 1: But this is a little bit different, and we can
Speaker 1: kind of draw it using Smallwood because Adams on the
Speaker 1: previous one he went straight just kind of the way
Speaker 1: you just drew that. Here, Smallwood's path starts the other way,
Speaker 1: and then he's going to work off the blocking. So
Speaker 1: the path of the back is different because the blocking
Speaker 1: scheme is different. If you'll lose that, they have what
Speaker 1: we call duo two double teams, a double team right
Speaker 1: here and a double team right here, and obviously they're
Speaker 1: then going to work up to the second level linebackers.
Speaker 1: They're going to combo as we say, So this is
Speaker 1: a little different run than the other one, even though
Speaker 1: the formation is the same, just flipped. So let's clear
Speaker 1: this and you'll see Smallwood Now as we start to
Speaker 1: run this, you'll see look at his path a little
Speaker 1: bit different, working off the combo blocks, the double teams,
Speaker 1: and he's able to then take it in another really
Speaker 1: well executed zone run. Yeah, that's the beauty of the
Speaker 1: zone run is that you're gonna you have the ability
Speaker 1: for the back to hit that in a number of roles,
Speaker 1: all depending on how the defense deploys itself. Absolutely, that's
Speaker 1: the great thing about that inside zone had another great
Speaker 1: job by Dallas Guy and Zach Hursts on the back
Speaker 1: side of that zone run play. Eagles take the lead
Speaker 1: here early in the third quarter twenty to thirteen, and
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Speaker 1: dot com and the Eagles EPP. I love the way
Speaker 1: the Eagles utilize both the eleven and twelve personnel in
Speaker 1: this ball game. It's obvious that Dallas got is not
Speaker 1: just a weapon in the past game, but very very
Speaker 1: good as a blocker, very advanced as a rookie because
Speaker 1: he didn't really show that as South Dakota State. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting coming into this ball game how they were
Speaker 1: going to utilize the offense, which you know, what game
Speaker 1: plan would they how would they approach it, and how
Speaker 1: would they get falls most comfortable in the early going? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think Dallas Dallas has gotten better at blocking,
Speaker 1: you know, since earlier in the season didn't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: asked to do a whole lot of it at South
Speaker 1: Dakota State. But in this offense, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be a tight end. It's gonna have to stick your
Speaker 1: head in there and do some of the dirty work.
Speaker 1: And with zach Ertz being the primary pass catching tight
Speaker 1: end Dallas Goddard, the way you're gonna see yourself out
Speaker 1: there on that field is you gotta be willing to
Speaker 1: do some of that dirty work and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: be rewarded with some passes here and there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just love the way he's grown throughout the season,
Speaker 1: and you want to see a little more of him
Speaker 1: because you love the athleticism his size. I think he's
Speaker 1: he surprises people with his size and his athleticism when
Speaker 1: you see him out there on the field, a little
Speaker 1: bigger than zach Ertz. Probably why he's a little more
Speaker 1: stouter in there as a block. We're a linear though,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's like Urt is more stockier, like
Speaker 1: six five two fifty, but still I would have a
Speaker 1: little a little more side there from from Goddard, so, uh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting that Chris Collinsworth, I know Eels fans don't
Speaker 1: want to hear anything that he might have to say
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. He said, God, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a star in this offense and it will be interesting
Speaker 1: to see not so much for rest of this year,
Speaker 1: but next year. How do they build the offense? Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be very twelve personnel centric to have Urt
Speaker 1: and Got on the field, or do you make it
Speaker 1: eleven personnel where God is that one tight end and
Speaker 1: Art's you know, kind of mixes in there. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the things we could talk about
Speaker 1: more for twenty nineteen and beyond. Problem, it's a great
Speaker 1: problem to have. It's it's again a night like this,
Speaker 1: Guys like Wendell Smallwood, you know, Vonte Maddox, Dallas Got
Speaker 1: or the young guys stepping up. You know it must
Speaker 1: win game. And you know, with the case of someone
Speaker 1: like Maddox, you need injuries for these guys even come
Speaker 1: to your forefront. Sure, you know it's as much as
Speaker 1: you don't want to see guys get injured. You know,
Speaker 1: Ronny McCloud's injury has had a severe domino effect on
Speaker 1: the rest of the defense, because you know, Corey un
Speaker 1: and Jim Schwartz and Tim how could count on. We
Speaker 1: had Malcolm and Rodney there at safety, we could pretty
Speaker 1: much put them out there and not have to worry
Speaker 1: about Those two are iron men, you know. I think
Speaker 1: the first two years together they missed I think one
Speaker 1: game combined. So you can rely upon them each and
Speaker 1: every week. Well, no, Rodney, all right, So Corey Grant's
Speaker 1: gonna play more snaps. That's not ideal. So you gotta
Speaker 1: now working Vonte Max there. Well, all of a sudd
Speaker 1: Now you have an injuries at the cornerback position. You're
Speaker 1: two starting corners are injured, you lose Ronald Darby Jail
Speaker 1: Mills for the year. Where's masking a play? I mean
Speaker 1: this is a guy who, again coming back off injury,
Speaker 1: had not played outside corner really since training camp. Yeah. Ok,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him do it all year. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: haven't seen him do it. Yeah, And that's why you
Speaker 1: got to give a guy like Malcolm Jenkins a lot
Speaker 1: of credit as a leader back there. And you can
Speaker 1: tell when he's up there talking about a Vonte Maddie,
Speaker 1: Roysula Douglas. Those guys. He's like a proud big brother
Speaker 1: because he's poured a lot of work into these guys
Speaker 1: because he's the only true veteran back there. So it's
Speaker 1: like Jim Schwartz telling how Corey Ellen. They lean on
Speaker 1: Malcolm to get those young guys line up, but they
Speaker 1: also lean on Malcolm to help get these guys mentally
Speaker 1: ready to go. So I know that there's extra film
Speaker 1: sessions going on. Malcolm's taking out time watching watching film
Speaker 1: with these young guys, going over certain calls, making sure
Speaker 1: they're all on the same page. Because I know that
Speaker 1: first game back a couple of weeks ago, when Malcolm
Speaker 1: was out there along with all these young guys, it
Speaker 1: was difficult for him to get guys lined up and
Speaker 1: they had to simplify some things in order for them
Speaker 1: to play. They was the Giants game, right, Yeah, with
Speaker 1: the Giants game. And so you can tell just since
Speaker 1: then until now that young secondary has sort of grown
Speaker 1: up a little bit, and it allows for Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: to be able to go a little deeper into that
Speaker 1: playbook instead of being so vanilla. When you're going up
Speaker 1: against a complicated offense like the La Rams, you want
Speaker 1: to give them some different looks to sort of slow
Speaker 1: them down. I thought that's what they were able to
Speaker 1: do tonight. And with Avante going out there and playing corner,
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Rams were ready for that
Speaker 1: because they had only really seen him play safety. We
Speaker 1: saw him playing a little bit of nickel corner, but
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen him on the outside. Well, Malcolm said
Speaker 1: during his press comments earlier in the show, he makes
Speaker 1: the young guys make the calls at practice. That's how
Speaker 1: you do it. That's how you know it. That's how
Speaker 1: you really know the defense. So they put him through
Speaker 1: the ringer. It's not they just just get to sit
Speaker 1: and watch and absorb and learn, which, you know, it
Speaker 1: might be good enough. But these guys are playing. They
Speaker 1: are helping down the stretch. If the Eagles are gonna
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, they need these guys to contribute quality minutes,
Speaker 1: quality reps, and make plays out there on the field.
Speaker 1: So what does the playoff picture look like for the
Speaker 1: Eagles after tonight's win. We're going to delve into that
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Speaker 1: All right, let's start things off here with the defense,
Speaker 1: and again Number ninety one was tired of answering questions
Speaker 1: about Aaron Donald. I mean, he fut saying that there
Speaker 1: are two different players. Okay, you know, Aaron Donald is
Speaker 1: more of a quick twitch guy who can get up
Speaker 1: the field. Cox typically wins with strength, bulldozing people. You
Speaker 1: see the way he's pushing lineman into the quarterback's lap. Okay,
Speaker 1: but still the two most disruptive interior lineman. But a
Speaker 1: lot of people this week we're going to Fletcher and
Speaker 1: say what about Aaron Donald? What about Aaron Donald? Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox newt he had to put this team on his back,
Speaker 1: and he was able to do so tonight. Again, the
Speaker 1: stats don't maybe jump off the charts, but the impact
Speaker 1: he had in being able to provide quality rush from
Speaker 1: the inside, setting the tone and being able to draw penalties.
Speaker 1: Things that aren't going to get noticed there. I thought
Speaker 1: Cox did everything he had to. Again, it's primetime Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Team's gonna be announced on Tuesday, and that man number
Speaker 1: ninety one will hear his name called on Tuesday night
Speaker 1: as well. He should. Did Aaron Donald play tonight? I
Speaker 1: didn't even know Aaron Donald played tonight ninety one though
Speaker 1: I saw him all over the field everywhere being a disruptor.
Speaker 1: And listen with his buddy on the other side, he's
Speaker 1: answering a lot of questions. They share the same agent,
Speaker 1: so I know there's a little bit of friendly competition
Speaker 1: there when you're talking about the two two of the
Speaker 1: higher paid defensive tackles and all the football. Both of
Speaker 1: them very good. Both of them be playing in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl if they're not in the Super Bowl. But Fletcher,
Speaker 1: when when you know you got a guy who plays
Speaker 1: the same position as you, gonna be on the field
Speaker 1: tonight as you are, and you know that other guys
Speaker 1: regarded as the best at that position, you certainly want
Speaker 1: to make sure you're heard from throughout the night. And
Speaker 1: I thought Fletcher Cox did a great job. But that
Speaker 1: tonight then to Stemy, a high scoring offense, one that
Speaker 1: had dominated at home. Okay, say what you will the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks in Detroit Chicago. Certainly struggling last
Speaker 1: week against Chicago, but entering tonight, the fewest points that
Speaker 1: they had scored at home at the Coliseum was twenty
Speaker 1: nine against Greenback. So it's a season low point total
Speaker 1: and again handing the ram another loss, knocking them back
Speaker 1: in the NFC standings. All right, our second nominee. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go offense here and al Shan Jeffrey doing
Speaker 1: a great job again those fifty fifty balls, providing some
Speaker 1: deep plays, probably the under ray play for me, maybe
Speaker 1: the turning point for me came in the second quarter
Speaker 1: led to Josh Adams's touchdown. But second quarter, third and five,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey gets a thirty six yard completion, moves a change,
Speaker 1: keeps the Eagles offense on the field, and again they
Speaker 1: ended up getting a touchdown after that drive. But you
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, one hundred and sixty yards. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen that very often from al Sean. You know,
Speaker 1: was dominant very early in the season. First couple of games,
Speaker 1: got off to a red hot start, coming back from
Speaker 1: the offseason older surgery, the rotator cuff injury that he
Speaker 1: played with through all of twenty seventeen, but he and
Speaker 1: Nick rekindled that magic's first time that they were out
Speaker 1: there together this season. And yo, you go back to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl with some of those improbable catches, saw
Speaker 1: some of those again tonight. Yeah, and you know, kudos
Speaker 1: to this Eagles coaching staff recognize it that this ram secondary,
Speaker 1: particularly at the cornerback position. They'll give up some plays,
Speaker 1: you know, keep to league, particularly Marcus Peters, a big
Speaker 1: gambler over there, not a real physical corner. So they
Speaker 1: the Eagles knew that they would have some shots available
Speaker 1: to them. They just needed to take them and feel
Speaker 1: confident that that players and be able to go up
Speaker 1: and make the plays. Great job of Nick putting the
Speaker 1: ball out there, letting al Shan go up and make plays.
Speaker 1: And then great job from Alshan putting them all in
Speaker 1: all eight of his targets. He pulled them in a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards. Can't do much better than that last,
Speaker 1: but not least the man who delivered the ball to
Speaker 1: al Sean and the rest of the offense, the triggerman,
Speaker 1: Nick Falls. Coming in first start since Week two against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and you know, picked up really right where
Speaker 1: he left off here. Second win as a starter this season,
Speaker 1: must win game for the Eagles, you know, huge, huge performance.
Speaker 1: You heard it from Malcolm jen Gets earlier when he
Speaker 1: was asked about you know, what does it say about
Speaker 1: this team that it seems that everyone takes her game
Speaker 1: to another level when Nick Foles comes in. Malcolm just
Speaker 1: said Nick had now stand in the game tonight. Let's
Speaker 1: leave it at that. And that's what it was here.
Speaker 1: Seventy seven percent completion personage two hundred and seventy yards,
Speaker 1: the one interception in the red zone, a drive that
Speaker 1: maybe could have put the game away a little sooner.
Speaker 1: That was really his only one hiccup. I just loved
Speaker 1: the poise he had in the pocket because you mentioned
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. Aaron Donald had a couple of hits on him,
Speaker 1: and dominkans Wu had a couple of hits on as
Speaker 1: he was delivering the ball, and he stood in there,
Speaker 1: took those shots and still was willing to throw the
Speaker 1: ball deep and allow his receivers to make plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how anyone can be surprised
Speaker 1: by how well Nick Foles plays when he's called upon
Speaker 1: to play, particularly the first game that he's out there,
Speaker 1: he just seems to catch people off guard. You know,
Speaker 1: you watch him on the film and you kind of
Speaker 1: feel like, hey, there's nothing really special about him. And
Speaker 1: then and then you get out there against him on
Speaker 1: the field and he's dropping dimes on you everywhere out there.
Speaker 1: So Nick Foles doing with Nick Foles typically does. Former
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP came in the night in a big
Speaker 1: moment primetime. I think he's won his last seven games
Speaker 1: in primetime television with the Eagles, so he certainly knows
Speaker 1: these moments, knows how to rise to the occasion. Did
Speaker 1: it again the night You mentioned the one bad pick
Speaker 1: that was really his only bad of the whole game
Speaker 1: other than that, made big throws at the big throws
Speaker 1: all night. And it was nice to see the deep
Speaker 1: ball be a part of the offense again. Had been
Speaker 1: a while since we've seen the deep ball down the field,
Speaker 1: especially to al Sean, So it was good to see
Speaker 1: the deep ball a part of the offense. Contrasted to
Speaker 1: Jared Goff tonight, Okay, very good with the dinkin dunk
Speaker 1: the underneath stuff, but struggled with the deep ball and
Speaker 1: it got to the point where the Eagles were like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna beat it, you got beats with your
Speaker 1: arm deep, you gotta make it happen. And he struggled
Speaker 1: to do that. Tonight got some you know, picked up
Speaker 1: some yards at the end of the game, but before that, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't happening at for them. So Eagles get to
Speaker 1: seven and seven, two games left. Okay, They're taking on
Speaker 1: to Houston, Texans at home next week and then they're
Speaker 1: at Washington to end the season. So here are the
Speaker 1: standings as of right now. The Saints and the Panthers.
Speaker 1: They've played later on tonight Monday and Night Football. So
Speaker 1: the Saints are in the driver's seat in the NFC.
Speaker 1: The Rams they lose, but they still clinch their division.
Speaker 1: The Bears now have a shot possibly getting a first
Speaker 1: round by there, they're in a mix. They clinched the
Speaker 1: nc North today. The Cowboys getting shut out against the
Speaker 1: Colts day dropped back to the pack a little bit,
Speaker 1: but still the Eagles will have to win their final
Speaker 1: two games. The Cowboys will have to drop theirs in
Speaker 1: order to win the NFC East and then the wild card.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what you're focusing on for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Seahawks losing to the Niners in overtime, they're eight and six,
Speaker 1: just one game ahead of the Eagles. The Vikings remained
Speaker 1: a half game ahead of the Eagles. What's nice there
Speaker 1: is you don't have to worry about the tiebreakers with
Speaker 1: that tie there, They're not gonna be finishing with the
Speaker 1: same record because the Eagles did lose to them. Panthers
Speaker 1: in the mix there again. They played tonight against the
Speaker 1: Saints Washington staying alive somehow with their fourth string quarterback
Speaker 1: beating Jacksonville. Yeah, I look at this. You know, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: they still got a couple of tough games left. You know,
Speaker 1: they got to go to Detroit, or they got Detroit
Speaker 1: coming to them. That's a divisional opponent, and they got
Speaker 1: to finish with Chicago at home. So you could see.
Speaker 1: I could see two losses there. I could see two
Speaker 1: wins there. At Seattle, they just need to win one
Speaker 1: in order to get in. But they play the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and then they have to play I believe it's the
Speaker 1: Cardinals they finished up with in that final game of
Speaker 1: the season. So we know what the Cowboys have left
Speaker 1: or in their schedule They got Tampa Bay at home
Speaker 1: next week, and then they play in New York. The
Speaker 1: final game of the season should be interested. I think
Speaker 1: the toughest game the Eagles had to win was tonight
Speaker 1: one out in LA. So the final two you take
Speaker 1: care of business at home against the Texas next week,
Speaker 1: and then go down to Washington and take care of
Speaker 1: business and you finish help in nine and seven. And
Speaker 1: then we still need a little help. We need a
Speaker 1: little help from from some of these other teams. But
Speaker 1: nothing that's outlandish, right, nothing that isn't feasible. So the
Speaker 1: Eagles got to take care of their business first. Like
Speaker 1: I said, they got the toughest leg taking care of
Speaker 1: tonight by knocking off the Rams out there in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Come home next week, take on to Shaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: well Jason, but what's his situation coming He injured his
Speaker 1: ankle at the very end of the game. He did,
Speaker 1: so we'll have to wait and see what that is.
Speaker 1: He had to be helped off the field by his
Speaker 1: teammates after catching the game where yes, so still that
Speaker 1: would be nice if he's not able to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one only hope, one only hope. But certainly that's a
Speaker 1: team that's won ten of eleven and to take control
Speaker 1: of the South. So but at least you know the fans.
Speaker 1: The fans were fired up in LA, so you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna bring it the link because this is this
Speaker 1: is the last stamp. Yeah, it's the last home game.
Speaker 1: Couldn't be the last home game of the season. You're
Speaker 1: probably if you're a fifth or sixteed, you're probably not
Speaker 1: going to host a playoff game, even if you can
Speaker 1: get to the MC Championship. So for the fans, one
Speaker 1: last hurrah at home in twenty eighteen. Let's go out
Speaker 1: with the bank. Why yeah, why not? So we gotta
Speaker 1: play it so you may as well win, exactly, and
Speaker 1: something's on the line. That's the most important things, big
Speaker 1: things on the line here. So that's next Sunday one
Speaker 1: pm for you, two pm, Marks and Rishow, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna be talking about? Well, I would love to
Speaker 1: say we're gonna be talking about this big wind from
Speaker 1: the day. I know it'll be part of the conversation,
Speaker 1: but it won't take long before these fans are ready
Speaker 1: to talk about who's starting their quarterback next week. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be a lot of people that feel
Speaker 1: like Nick Foles needs to be in there as a starter.
Speaker 1: Can't necessarily argue against that. But I also understand if
Speaker 1: number eleven is healthy and he's able to go. He's
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback of his team, he's the franchise quarterback,
Speaker 1: he's the future of his team. So I certainly would
Speaker 1: understand why people will want Carson Wentz out there. If
Speaker 1: nothing else, there'll be no shortage of topics this week
Speaker 1: leading up to that big game. Hot takes will be
Speaker 1: in full effect all week long. So that is going
Speaker 1: to do it for us here on this marathon edition
Speaker 1: of the Postgame Show presented by Rico. We've been waiting
Speaker 1: for a game like this all season long. Eagles going
Speaker 1: on the road, getting a big win over the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams by a score of thirty to twenty three.
Speaker 1: He's like, Geese, I'm Chris McPherson, Thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: have a great night. Doug Pearson will be live at noon.
Speaker 1: We will have that press conference for you, So get
Speaker 1: a couple of hours rest and we will see you
Speaker 1: later on today