Speaker 1: Here's how it all went down in Mile High Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts finds Devonte Smith in the first quarter for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: The rookie, he just kept going. It was his birthday.
Speaker 1: He had to celebrate, you know, touchdown number two incoming there.
Speaker 1: It is. Nice job by Devonte Smith. And here's the
Speaker 1: big defensive play of the game. Darius Lay picks it up.
Speaker 1: He starts running. I'm not gonna tell you. Ike was
Speaker 1: losing it. Okay in the office. There he goes. We're
Speaker 1: saying get down, get down. He said, Now I'm taking
Speaker 1: this all the way. There he goes, finds the end zone.
Speaker 1: Eagles coming out big in Denver. Guys, complete game, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams. What do we think? Well, I've been waiting
Speaker 1: all year for when like today where you get all
Speaker 1: three phases of your team contributing offensively. They set the
Speaker 1: tone in the first half. Thought the defense did a
Speaker 1: great job of getting out the Teddy Bridgewater not being
Speaker 1: impatient but being very selective, went to attack that Broncos offense.
Speaker 1: Also Norman when to sit back and playing a little
Speaker 1: bit of his own. And then also special teams Jake
Speaker 1: Elliott phil goals made today also crucial. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we've been waiting all year to have a complete effort
Speaker 1: from this team. I think it's the best overall victory
Speaker 1: of the season. I think it's easily the best game
Speaker 1: of the season for this Eagles team, and in all
Speaker 1: phases you mentioned. Look, it's offensive, defensive, special teams, but
Speaker 1: it's not just that. It's the quarterback playing. I think
Speaker 1: his best game of the season. Being efficient, being consistent,
Speaker 1: completing nearly seventy percent of his passes, making good choices,
Speaker 1: getting it going. The accuracy on the deep balls was
Speaker 1: so exciting, and then oh my gosh, that Darius Slay,
Speaker 1: that Darius Slay touchdown. I was going nuts. And you
Speaker 1: just don't see that kind of thing happen at the
Speaker 1: NFL level. Like you said, Ella, We're all sitting here going,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, get down, get down. He picks it up,
Speaker 1: he drops it again, and you're like, this is about
Speaker 1: to be a disaster. He's making bad choices and then
Speaker 1: he somehow finds the end zone. You don't see that
Speaker 1: stuff in the NFL. It was so exciting, and not
Speaker 1: to mention, I think this is the best game that
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni has called from the opening drive. The scripting
Speaker 1: on the opening drive was really aggressive, really got it
Speaker 1: going with the run game, and then continue to make
Speaker 1: adjustments and get the offense going put his players in
Speaker 1: a situation to succeed. I think there are so many
Speaker 1: good things to take away from this game. Absolutely the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Four of their first five drives resulted in points, whether
Speaker 1: it be two field goals or two touchdowns. They were
Speaker 1: capitalizing on every opportunity, which has been a theme, especially
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the season. Capitalizing on every opportunity.
Speaker 1: Like Amy touched on, I think Jalen Hurtz was very,
Speaker 1: very consistent. That has been another word used a lot
Speaker 1: to describe this team moving throughout the season. But he
Speaker 1: also seemed to really trust his offensive line. He stood
Speaker 1: in the pocket today and he was comfortable. I think
Speaker 1: the most comfortable, if not one of the most comfortable
Speaker 1: times we've seen him all year. Yeah, he really was.
Speaker 1: And I want to just piggyback off what Amy mentioned.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta get Nick Sirianni and his coach
Speaker 1: and staff a lot of credit for the game plan
Speaker 1: they put together offensively and defensive leaves. You just start
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of your ball, the very fact
Speaker 1: that they're the road and again committed to the running
Speaker 1: game even when it didn't work at times, although it
Speaker 1: was very few times that it did not work today,
Speaker 1: they were able to stick with it and that's what
Speaker 1: allowed Jalen Hurts to play comfortable from the pocket. I
Speaker 1: mean the ability to throw with confidence, the play action
Speaker 1: passed being a part of the offense that is all
Speaker 1: set up with the threat of the running game. The
Speaker 1: Broncos came into this game based off what the Eagles
Speaker 1: had done over the previous three weeks of saying, you
Speaker 1: know what the running game is, what's driving this offense.
Speaker 1: We had to figure out a way to stop this.
Speaker 1: First and foremost Eagles, great job of mixing in play
Speaker 1: action and then Jalen you know that first touchdown pass
Speaker 1: to DeVonta Smith, just a great job of Jalen given
Speaker 1: his receiver an opportunity to go up and make a
Speaker 1: catch and DeVante. Pardon me if I make a mistake here,
Speaker 1: but I believe it's the first time I can remember
Speaker 1: him going up and making a contested catch. Fifty fifty
Speaker 1: balls is what we talk about. We know he's shorthanded,
Speaker 1: we know he can get open but to play there
Speaker 1: with Patrick sartagn had great coverage. I'm surprisedly didn't get
Speaker 1: a hand on the ball there. Devonte with great concentration
Speaker 1: and the ability to not only catch it but make
Speaker 1: sure he lands in bounds. But a touchdown. This guy
Speaker 1: won the heist the trophy right as the best receiver
Speaker 1: in college football. Thing. We're starting to see why over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. I mean, I think that play
Speaker 1: was one of his best so far in the rookie season,
Speaker 1: and it was a lot of It was fun on
Speaker 1: Twitter to see people saying, oh, Alabama to Alabama over Alabama.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, how about that, right, Nick Saban. It
Speaker 1: is just, you know, really enjoying this moment. But I thought,
Speaker 1: like you said, the fact that it was a contested
Speaker 1: catch against a really good cornerback who played well and
Speaker 1: played the ball well and was in the right position
Speaker 1: and did contest it, I think, really impressive catch there.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that you mentioned that I really
Speaker 1: want to emphasize is the run game. That we talked
Speaker 1: about this in the pregame show that the Eagles had
Speaker 1: been getting the run game going, and the it's been
Speaker 1: working for a few weeks with you know, with the
Speaker 1: running back by committee approach, but it's been against defenses
Speaker 1: that have stistically struggle to stop the run. This Broncos
Speaker 1: defense coming into today was the number six rushing defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They were allowing less than a hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing per game. The Eagles rushed for two hundred
Speaker 1: and fourteen yards and that allowed them to control the
Speaker 1: clock as well. Not only does it keep defenses honest
Speaker 1: in the passing game, but they dominated in the time
Speaker 1: of possession thirty four minutes to the Broncos twenty five.
Speaker 1: It was even more than that coming into the second
Speaker 1: half and especially down the stretch to ice the game
Speaker 1: when they're still able to run it and control the clock.
Speaker 1: I think that's really an ideal scenario for a team.
Speaker 1: When we talked so much in the Kickoff Show about
Speaker 1: this Broncos defense, when you're coached by a guy like
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio, you really never know what he is cooked up.
Speaker 1: And we talked a lot about how not defenses are
Speaker 1: preparing for this Eagles very successful run game. So how
Speaker 1: were they going to respond? Knowing that the Eagles are
Speaker 1: now successful on the ground and this defense, I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been allowing just an average of seventeen points per game.
Speaker 1: The Eagles just hung thirty. So I think it was
Speaker 1: a great effort from the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: but they didn't stop the run. So the Eagles, they'd
Speaker 1: committed to the run, and then when it opened up,
Speaker 1: they threw that ball down the fields. Whether that be
Speaker 1: Quez Walkins, whether that be DeVante Smith, whether that be
Speaker 1: Jalen Rager. They got it done, and I think that
Speaker 1: was super impressive, especially Dallas Goddard. He was out, so
Speaker 1: when he was removed from the situation, I thought, oh, no,
Speaker 1: how does this affect the game plan? But you saw
Speaker 1: Jack Stole the rookie he was in there. He caught
Speaker 1: a pass too. Yeah, this is one of those games
Speaker 1: where you know, the Eagles decided that we're just going
Speaker 1: to out physical you, and that's what they did with
Speaker 1: the running games, Jordan Howard getting behind those pads running downhill,
Speaker 1: even Boston Scott. You know, I think teams get a
Speaker 1: little surprised when they see Boston's stature and they see
Speaker 1: he's short, you know, a little stock, and they don't
Speaker 1: think he's as powerful a runner as he is. But
Speaker 1: that's one of his best assets. Is those thick legs
Speaker 1: that he has, and he runs with power behind his
Speaker 1: shoulder pads. I love the fact that the offensive line
Speaker 1: was able to charge off the ball and knock that
Speaker 1: Bronchos defensive line off the line of scrimmage. You don't
Speaker 1: see the Broncos get out physical in Mile High. That's
Speaker 1: what they tend to do to opposing teams. And Ellie,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned only seventeen points a game they typically
Speaker 1: give up. I thought the Eagles controlled this game from
Speaker 1: the opening kickoff, that first drive where it could have
Speaker 1: very easily scored seven year they got three, but they
Speaker 1: set the tone in the tempo for what it was
Speaker 1: gonna be like all day. And I love the fact
Speaker 1: that we have established an identity and we're sticking to
Speaker 1: it the last three to four weeks. You clearly see
Speaker 1: this team's identity is to put a hat on a
Speaker 1: hat on the offensive side of the ball and run
Speaker 1: right at you. We're gonna play action, pass you when
Speaker 1: we need to. Jalen needs to be accurate when the
Speaker 1: opportunities present itself, and I thought this week, for the
Speaker 1: first time in a bottle three or four weeks, he
Speaker 1: was PenPoint accurate when all of his throws today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is maybe the most week, the best accuracy,
Speaker 1: especially on the deep balls. To me, that was what
Speaker 1: was really impressive. And then there was a minute there
Speaker 1: coming out of the first half and the third quarter
Speaker 1: were I kind of got a little nervous and I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, you know, they built up a decent lead,
Speaker 1: and we've seen this before. You know, they've come out strong,
Speaker 1: They've scripted a nice, you know, few drives to get
Speaker 1: things going, and then things have gotten a little tight
Speaker 1: there and what's going to happen. And to be able
Speaker 1: to come out of the second half after a rough
Speaker 1: third quarter and then be able to pull away at
Speaker 1: the end there, to me, that's really impressive too, because
Speaker 1: when you can see a team, you know, start to struggle,
Speaker 1: have a couple bad plays, have a couple of um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, let the other team get back in it.
Speaker 1: To be able to have the resolve to not let
Speaker 1: that mentally let you unravel, and to be able to
Speaker 1: have the resolve to stay in it, I think it's
Speaker 1: really impressive and probably something they can really build on.
Speaker 1: They're going to have that kind of in their in
Speaker 1: their tank of experience that they they're going to know
Speaker 1: they can do that. Moving forward, we're gonna actually head
Speaker 1: over and hear from Vante Smith at the podium. Anybody
Speaker 1: get you anything? Would you say, did anybody get you
Speaker 1: anything for your birthday? Oh? Nah, win, that's all I wanted.
Speaker 1: You just try would have on the first such time
Speaker 1: to jump all you want, um quarterback, just trust me,
Speaker 1: just give me a chance to make a play. I
Speaker 1: mean that's what we always talk about, having trusted each other,
Speaker 1: and he trusted me. You were going against your former
Speaker 1: college teammates. I mean that Nigga ain't sweeter for it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean we we always talked about it being able
Speaker 1: to compete against each other, just going out there, both
Speaker 1: of us just competing against each other, making each other
Speaker 1: better once again. But I mean that's that's what happens.
Speaker 1: Get to the NFL and come from Bam. You're gonna
Speaker 1: play people like that. You guys exchange an your special
Speaker 1: words after the game and so you guys to meet up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just just to keep grinding, keep working much love.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like my brother um pretty much all
Speaker 1: it was on the on the bad evallve um where
Speaker 1: that was Pattage you know you said you could lock
Speaker 1: up with you went against slave and you have to
Speaker 1: show that there on that. Yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: something of dB scares right there. How about three ye
Speaker 1: a second touchdown and the celebration afterwards. Uh, that was
Speaker 1: just kind of that's kind of our motto. Um, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna say it, but that's what our motto is.
Speaker 1: So that's what it was. You know, it was at
Speaker 1: a place or even first read don't have to play
Speaker 1: and because that's did they want to get you back
Speaker 1: against slot there as? That basically was Um, first read, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I was first really.
Speaker 1: I mean you had that quarterback then. I don't necessarily no,
Speaker 1: But I mean it was just just taking what they
Speaker 1: give us new On we got to look that we wanted.
Speaker 1: I mean it was great. I mean him being the
Speaker 1: leader of the y is. I mean that's what we
Speaker 1: practice for his preparation and everything like that alway up
Speaker 1: to game time. I mean we just in the locker
Speaker 1: room before the game and he's still on his call
Speaker 1: sheet going over things, highlighting what he likes and things
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, the guy's prayer will play up
Speaker 1: interception at what pointing in the round to go from
Speaker 1: being a wide receiver to defensive just on the balls there,
Speaker 1: um yeah, kind of just like when you see him sinking,
Speaker 1: you see he has a chance to make a playoff.
Speaker 1: You just have to go up there and just do
Speaker 1: what you can. It's your first multiple touchdown game. Big
Speaker 1: career comes up here. Twenty third birthday? Was that you know,
Speaker 1: it's a significance of the um. I mean, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say the birthday played a big part, and I mean
Speaker 1: just going out to just execute and doing the things
Speaker 1: that we do in practice. How's your armed if out
Speaker 1: there we saw you were wearing something. I'm good, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm good. That's just for safety, DeVante. When Slave went
Speaker 1: out for a player you got off the match to
Speaker 1: you know, come see him at the sideline. What type
Speaker 1: of leader is slave? Not just for the defense, for
Speaker 1: the team, I mean slaves, slaves a great leader. I
Speaker 1: mean even when it was us, Um, he's talking to
Speaker 1: us about our releases and things like they're helping us out,
Speaker 1: we're helping him out. I mean he's a great leader.
Speaker 1: Did his wheels on that whole recovery that what did
Speaker 1: you see his wheels on that. Yeah, I always take
Speaker 1: me around like a little bad kid when he when
Speaker 1: you get the ball in his hands and no no
Speaker 1: ball secured and nothing, just out there running. We've got forty.
Speaker 1: I give it this. He can probably give me in
Speaker 1: the forty on the on the motto luck is that
Speaker 1: the whole team's motto? Just the offensive? No, that's the
Speaker 1: whole team. I mean that's what it is. Just go
Speaker 1: out there, just play loose, definitely case. Um a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Now, what's the biggest difference for you from
Speaker 1: tip of week sad versus just start your rookie season? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean taking care of your body. I mean you
Speaker 1: start to feel a little aches and things like that,
Speaker 1: you just have to go in and in a little
Speaker 1: thing that you feel you gotta you gotta let them
Speaker 1: know so I can take care of it. My trust
Speaker 1: out trainings to help anybody that's that's aching or anything.
Speaker 1: So that's what it is. When you get this deep
Speaker 1: in the season, you have to take care of your
Speaker 1: body to do whatever you can. Any little neck, a bruise,
Speaker 1: you can't just look over. You gotta go in and
Speaker 1: take care of it. Your comfort level. The way that
Speaker 1: you're seeing banks now that you're deeper into season. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get more uncomfortable every week. I mean, but it
Speaker 1: all comes down to preparation. I mean I go to practice,
Speaker 1: I practice hard, and the way I practice and the
Speaker 1: way this team practice that's why we're so successful in games.
Speaker 1: I Mean, when you practice the way that we practice,
Speaker 1: you get the outcome that you won't lay loose. That's
Speaker 1: a the rookie side, but you know what, it kind
Speaker 1: of looked like that's exactly what they were doing today.
Speaker 1: It was very simple. It didn't seem like they were
Speaker 1: playing outside of the game plan, and I feel like
Speaker 1: it was the first time that they were just playing
Speaker 1: ball and having some fun, starting to be playing with
Speaker 1: a ton of confidence. You know. It's something about this
Speaker 1: team when they go on the road. The ability to
Speaker 1: pull together and have sort of that mentality of us
Speaker 1: against the world is something that athletes have the ability
Speaker 1: to do. And they've shown on the road thus far
Speaker 1: this year that they seemingly played better. I mean, they
Speaker 1: seem to be a lot more focused on the road. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to take care of your
Speaker 1: home field as well, but getting a win on the
Speaker 1: road is never easy in the NFL and going out
Speaker 1: there to play at Malahou Stadium, I think that's still
Speaker 1: the name of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell me about
Speaker 1: the air out there, like, what is it like there
Speaker 1: is a real thing? Yeah, the idea that you know
Speaker 1: you have shortness of breath and the air is then
Speaker 1: I have to cut you off with Davion Taylor at
Speaker 1: the podium. Did you realize out I didn't even feel it,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I didn't know until after the play
Speaker 1: when I just looked up through the screen and uh,
Speaker 1: and I saw the ball on the ground and Slay
Speaker 1: take me back for a touchdown. And it was just
Speaker 1: good to make a big time play in the state
Speaker 1: that I haven't played in and in the stadium I
Speaker 1: have played in before. So other main things just making
Speaker 1: sure I came in back and just did a great job,
Speaker 1: and that's what that's what I did. Maybe it looked
Speaker 1: like you had an injury early on and you kind
Speaker 1: of shook off and it would come back from that accurately.
Speaker 1: You Yeah, like my knee had bucketed a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I was able to come back out play through
Speaker 1: it and play at a high percentage. So I was
Speaker 1: just I just wanted to make sure. I just pushed
Speaker 1: through it. And as the game went on, I had
Speaker 1: started warm warm up more and uh, it didn't affect
Speaker 1: me as as it did at first. You said that
Speaker 1: you were going to take a second before the game
Speaker 1: to like sort of wall from the stadium and just
Speaker 1: take it all in. Remember the memories you had tooked
Speaker 1: in your college crew. Did you get to do that?
Speaker 1: And what was that like? Yeah, as soon as I
Speaker 1: stepped on a stepped out the bus, I put my
Speaker 1: bags down in the locker room and walked around the
Speaker 1: field probably twice, and like I was just imagine and
Speaker 1: then uh, just my my past games here and I
Speaker 1: was imagining the stadium full of fans and everything when
Speaker 1: I played here at SeeU and UM, and I just
Speaker 1: embraced it all. I was like, yeah, like now my
Speaker 1: dream is coming true. I get to play now, Uh
Speaker 1: in a stadium. I told myself I was gonna play
Speaker 1: in the NFL game, And like I really saw my
Speaker 1: dreams come true today. Uh, And it was really a blessing.
Speaker 1: Let's see Slaves return for the touchdown and it was great.
Speaker 1: He always gonna make some moves and he always gonna
Speaker 1: make sure he gets some yards when you get the ball.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean when I saw the ball wrong
Speaker 1: on the ground, I saw him grab it. I try
Speaker 1: to make a block, but he was making so many
Speaker 1: moves I ain't know who the block to be honest,
Speaker 1: So uh and then I just saw him breaking. I
Speaker 1: was just looking. I was just like, yep, he's gonne.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody gonna catchim? Because I know the speed he
Speaker 1: has and he really showed it tonight. And uh, it
Speaker 1: was just good to see him get that touchdown off
Speaker 1: the I forced that fumble. This was a more aggressive
Speaker 1: bis be outside the beginning. This was the more aggressive
Speaker 1: to the game playing that you guys kind of grattiest weeks.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that was when you guys see
Speaker 1: him the film to meet you guys want to attack
Speaker 1: a week. Um, well, we knew that I was gonna
Speaker 1: try to the ball a little bit. We knew they
Speaker 1: were gonna added the out too. We thought they were
Speaker 1: gon try to run the battle bit more so we
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure we're gonna be aggressive and make
Speaker 1: sure we're gonna be physical. And now, um we came out.
Speaker 1: We made well, stopped running a little bit and then uh,
Speaker 1: were trying to we wanted to make sure we stopped explosives.
Speaker 1: They had a few were supposed to passes the day.
Speaker 1: But U overall, I feel like the defense did a
Speaker 1: great job was making sure we focused on how details
Speaker 1: compared it the last week and um, just making sure
Speaker 1: that we was doing our assignments and uh, and it
Speaker 1: really paid off an end. I had to took a
Speaker 1: couple of tough fourth downs, fourth and one that you
Speaker 1: guys gave up last last week in the loss the
Speaker 1: final drive. What was there a message speak about how
Speaker 1: you guys were handled and obviously you guys came on
Speaker 1: the biggest time one fourth. Really our mindset really was
Speaker 1: every down and just played physical, play fast, and play hard.
Speaker 1: And when that fourth down came up and we knew
Speaker 1: I was gonna try to go for it, our mindset
Speaker 1: was like to make sure that we stopped him and
Speaker 1: um and like we had called called call to play
Speaker 1: to make sure we stopped because we knew what I
Speaker 1: was gonna try to do. Um, when it was fourth
Speaker 1: to one, fourth and one, if they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: go for it, and they did, and uh, we just
Speaker 1: made sure we stopped that play and the play coming downhill,
Speaker 1: and that's what we was able to do. And uh
Speaker 1: and as you can see, they didn't go for it
Speaker 1: again after that that played that I heard Dabian, did
Speaker 1: you were you going to the ball intentionally? It was
Speaker 1: not intentional, to be honest, Like I was just trying
Speaker 1: to make sure I stopped from getting that first down.
Speaker 1: And then like when I grabbed him, I saw on
Speaker 1: the ground. I just hear like the crowd screaming. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what's going on at first, and that's when
Speaker 1: I looked up and I started set slave with the ball.
Speaker 1: And that's when I told you, I said, I couldn't
Speaker 1: even know who the block he just took off. I
Speaker 1: know we've talked a lot about, you know how raw
Speaker 1: you were coming into the league and out much film
Speaker 1: study and put in each day each week. I just
Speaker 1: kind of feel like a validation that everything you're doing
Speaker 1: is just paying off. Yes, I sure hope so that.
Speaker 1: I feel like every every week you can see me improving.
Speaker 1: If it's nothing, but like I'm not really false stepping
Speaker 1: like I used to. If there's nothing, but I'm reading
Speaker 1: reading plays faster. If I'm uh, make sure I'm taking
Speaker 1: the right angles on the tackle or something like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like you can see it on film that
Speaker 1: you can see that I'm improving drastically each week, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm not making the same mistakes over again and just
Speaker 1: making sure that I, uh just continue to improve the
Speaker 1: broncos here is different to play Colorado's State. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: look like that play get your strip. And then the
Speaker 1: slaves TV took the start shout of them a little
Speaker 1: bit here and the little it was a pretty chippy game.
Speaker 1: Slay Judie were talking a little bit. I sleep if
Speaker 1: I tell you it's a few old friends say more
Speaker 1: physical point. I did that change their act? I feel
Speaker 1: like that play really uh kind of seal the game
Speaker 1: for us a little bit. But they still gonna come
Speaker 1: out and play. They still trying to make sure. They
Speaker 1: were trying to they were trying to get big plays
Speaker 1: and everything with our mindset coming out after that, after
Speaker 1: that big play, we're still like, all right, we got
Speaker 1: to stop them. Still like because you never know that
Speaker 1: the game game can turn around, and it's a game
Speaker 1: of enties. You never know what might happen. So after
Speaker 1: that play, we made sure we trying to get some
Speaker 1: rest on the sidelines. We came out with the same
Speaker 1: mentality like let's let's do it again, let's get a turnover.
Speaker 1: And even though we didn't get it after that, but
Speaker 1: we was just our mindset the whole time was like,
Speaker 1: continue to do the same thing over again, so we can,
Speaker 1: uh just continue to be be a projective team defensive.
Speaker 1: Why do you think you guys have been so strong
Speaker 1: rod this year? Um, I guess probably just the mentality
Speaker 1: we bring on the road, like we we don't want
Speaker 1: to be defeated on the road. I mean, we haven't
Speaker 1: been a strong as home as yet, but uh, I
Speaker 1: feel like on the road, we come with the mentality
Speaker 1: that we're gonna come. We're gonna come uh stump stump
Speaker 1: on their heads heads and in our in our head,
Speaker 1: uh coming into the to another team, and the whole
Speaker 1: time we just make sure we was just being extra
Speaker 1: physical and making sure we try to make him quit.
Speaker 1: That's our mindset. So we're gonna make sure we go
Speaker 1: hard as hard as we can, as fast as we
Speaker 1: can until the end of the game, and hopefully we
Speaker 1: come out with a win. Every time. That was Davion Taylor.
Speaker 1: We's talked a lot about him in the kickoff show
Speaker 1: the duo of him and t J. Edwards and the
Speaker 1: progress of the third making together. But to see Davion
Speaker 1: Taylor be a part of Darius Slay's scoop and score.
Speaker 1: He knocked the ball out. That was serious. He's one
Speaker 1: of your guys, Like, yeah, he really is. And he's
Speaker 1: right when he's talking about talking about getting better a
Speaker 1: little bit each week. And sometimes it doesn't show up, uh,
Speaker 1: to the to the naked eye, but I think coaches
Speaker 1: see little things that he's getting better at each week,
Speaker 1: Like technique. He talked about making proper reads and not
Speaker 1: making false steps which sort of gets you out of
Speaker 1: position as a linebacker to allow offensive lineman to sort
Speaker 1: of get the angle of the block on you, and
Speaker 1: then that's how you give up big runs. These are
Speaker 1: small things that he's focusing in on every week to
Speaker 1: try to make himself a better linebacker, and that's all
Speaker 1: you can ask for. He's a young guy. We know
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a lot of football in his background
Speaker 1: religious reasons. Through high school, he didn't play a lot
Speaker 1: of football, didn't play a lot of Colorado. But when
Speaker 1: you look at the measurables that he possesses, It's really
Speaker 1: what you want in today's linebackers. He's fast, he's athletic,
Speaker 1: he has good size. He plays with a physical brand
Speaker 1: of football that you want your linebackers to play with.
Speaker 1: He just has to learn how to play a little
Speaker 1: more under control and when he figures out what the
Speaker 1: offense is trying to do, so he has that pre
Speaker 1: snap sort of preparation and he can anticipate what's about
Speaker 1: to happen. He's gonna play that much faster and I
Speaker 1: think he's going to take off as a linebacker once
Speaker 1: he adds that to his game. There, snap recognition, understanding
Speaker 1: where the weaknesses are in the defense, and that way
Speaker 1: he's not playing in such a robotic form where he's
Speaker 1: thinking before he does everything. It becomes more instinctual to him.
Speaker 1: But I've recognized since he's been in there in the
Speaker 1: starting lineup, he's getting a little better each week. And
Speaker 1: now you're talking about making plays on the Nick Sirianni
Speaker 1: at the podium, Boy, Joe played really well from the
Speaker 1: pocket in the first half to take really and very accurate.
Speaker 1: What would you tribute his provement in those areas to? Yeah, him,
Speaker 1: he just he just gets better every day. He truly
Speaker 1: exemplifies the getting better at one percent better every day,
Speaker 1: getting a little bit better every day, and he just
Speaker 1: continues to get better. So you know, I just he
Speaker 1: just did some really good things in that game. And
Speaker 1: you know, right before the double move we made to Davante,
Speaker 1: he made a couple of really good checks um and
Speaker 1: the third down and I don't know, is it twelve thirteen?
Speaker 1: That's big time play and we needed that at that time.
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking on the sideline like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're up three nothing defense, just gotta stop. Let's get
Speaker 1: up ten on somebody, right And I don't know that's
Speaker 1: always the goal, right, but and he really got us
Speaker 1: out of the hole. You know, you know, you want
Speaker 1: to call back to Ragor. They played a different, uh
Speaker 1: little defense than what we thought. And he got us
Speaker 1: out of the hole. And that's what good quarterbacks do,
Speaker 1: and he did a really good job. Today. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot about formula identity with the offense. Do you
Speaker 1: think you're bodly there? Do you think you have idea?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're ever finally there, right, you know,
Speaker 1: So you know, again you always have to adjust to
Speaker 1: what people are doing and taking away, Um, But to
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball for what do we
Speaker 1: have two hundred two hundred something right to be able
Speaker 1: to do that against a defense of that caliber, because
Speaker 1: that's a good defense, right and they've they've shown that
Speaker 1: they're a good defense. But to be able to do that, like,
Speaker 1: that's that's about those guys in the locker room, and
Speaker 1: it starts with those guys up front led by Jason Kelsey,
Speaker 1: Um Lane Lane Johnson, Like you know, I want to
Speaker 1: mention all of them, but they all did a great
Speaker 1: job anytime, and so you know, like anytime you rush
Speaker 1: for over two hundred yards the offense, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to ask me who got a game ball? The
Speaker 1: offensive line will get a game ball, um, because they
Speaker 1: they did a great job. And we'll have to see
Speaker 1: probably Jam will get a game ball too. And it
Speaker 1: was a good birthday there for Davante to have two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Usually when a quarterback, you know, she kind of puts
Speaker 1: the ball up for seating player. Ever seen lay sixty
Speaker 1: three six four? You know, DK metcap kind of guy.
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it about Davonte? The last play?
Speaker 1: But he's just a good He's just I mean you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just say about a guy, he's just a
Speaker 1: good football player. That's like one of the like growing
Speaker 1: up in a in a coach's house like like that
Speaker 1: was like the ultimate compliment, right, like, man, what's what's
Speaker 1: going on? And I'm gonna say a name, Ron Schneider.
Speaker 1: He was a he was a quarterback for Southwestern High School. Man,
Speaker 1: he's just a good football player. He's just a good
Speaker 1: football player. Right, And you know, so the you know,
Speaker 1: he's longer than you think too, right, I mean I
Speaker 1: know what his height is, but he's got long arms
Speaker 1: and so and he's just a good football player. He's
Speaker 1: just went up and got it. And you know he's
Speaker 1: had a lot of reps against Patrick certain Patrick Taine's
Speaker 1: a really good football player. Um I he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good play layer in this league for a long time.
Speaker 1: But he just went up and I Jalen gave him
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make a play, put it on the
Speaker 1: right spot, and he just went up and made to play.
Speaker 1: And he ran some really good routes today too, Uh,
Speaker 1: just on some under routes and and some things like that.
Speaker 1: So you know, he showed it both ways today. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Jalen was able to give him the ball. It
Speaker 1: was it was. It was a good game by Davante
Speaker 1: and uh he played, he played his tail off the
Speaker 1: checks to checks. The challenge made um, well, there was
Speaker 1: just they were they had a couple pressures coming and
Speaker 1: that was not going to be good against the protection
Speaker 1: that we had called. And he got it. He got
Speaker 1: us out of it. And so again it was built
Speaker 1: into the play. Um, we know what the problems are
Speaker 1: with the protection, and and he he saw it. It
Speaker 1: was a good disguise by by the Broncos, but he
Speaker 1: saw it. He may have heard it, um, you know,
Speaker 1: And and he just got us to the right play
Speaker 1: and we ended up getting six and then we and
Speaker 1: it gave us when you when you do that, I think,
Speaker 1: uh Jordan Howard got six on the first one, then
Speaker 1: we got the first down on the second one. And
Speaker 1: when you do that, you're like, well, shoot, just call
Speaker 1: it again, like Jaleen's gonna get us out of the
Speaker 1: Like gives you confidence, right because you're like, Jale's gonna
Speaker 1: get us out if it's a it's a funky look.
Speaker 1: And he did. But this time they didn't give us
Speaker 1: a funky look, and he was able to run the
Speaker 1: play and make a really good throw. So really good
Speaker 1: job on the passive touchdown. Sure did I see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still out of breath from running down the sideline
Speaker 1: because that altitude was that that was real for me.
Speaker 1: I think our players handled it really well because of
Speaker 1: our strength staff and our our doctors and our training
Speaker 1: staff had him already, but I felt it when I
Speaker 1: ran down the sideline. It was that was fun. That
Speaker 1: was that was my My vantage point of that is like, hey,
Speaker 1: we talked about getting the ball out. Um, Davion did
Speaker 1: a really good job of getting that thing out. Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon's a really good back. It's tough to get it
Speaker 1: from him. Um, but they got it out, and Sleigh
Speaker 1: was man Slay did some good things with that ball
Speaker 1: in his hand. I think there was a couple of
Speaker 1: people on the headset like just go down. They're like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, No, no,
Speaker 1: don't go down, and uh uh. He did a really
Speaker 1: good job of just making a play. The defense did.
Speaker 1: What I really appreciate is like the defense had some
Speaker 1: some penalties that we're gonna have to address, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: with some some pre snap penalties, but they did a
Speaker 1: phenomenal job of being legal blocks like you see sometimes
Speaker 1: on those long returns like that, some illegal blocks, but
Speaker 1: they did a good job of keeping things legal and
Speaker 1: letting Slay go do some work. Off to think about
Speaker 1: getting slay on some offense here getting touchdown? You don't
Speaker 1: want to let me finish that comment? Go ahead. After
Speaker 1: his second touchdown, Davante had that that celebration, he said,
Speaker 1: it was about your guys motto lately. Can you enlighten
Speaker 1: us as to what that motto is? Well, yeah, well
Speaker 1: Fab five has a motto. I was a big Fab
Speaker 1: five fan growing up. I'm still a Michigan basketball fan
Speaker 1: and I like Villanova and I like Temple too. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know they had a saying there. I'll let
Speaker 1: you guys look it up, and I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: it here, but it's just basically all we talked. You know,
Speaker 1: we've given a talk about that. It wasn't this week.
Speaker 1: We gave a talk about it a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But um, we do mention it a little bit, but
Speaker 1: it basically what we say. And again I won't say it. Um.
Speaker 1: I know my brother and I say it to each
Speaker 1: other all the time. He's gonna want me to say it,
Speaker 1: jay um, But what what it is is just about
Speaker 1: leaving everything on the field and letting it everything, letting
Speaker 1: letting everything you got, giving everything, every bit of energy
Speaker 1: you got, leaving it all on the field, and and
Speaker 1: uh and just giving everything you got to the to
Speaker 1: the team defensive leaving you guys have had previous weeks.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that worked out so well? Especially
Speaker 1: from the coverage. Yeah, I think it all starts up front.
Speaker 1: I think that defensive line played really good, was able
Speaker 1: to get some pressures. The cover. Junits Um did a
Speaker 1: good job of um, you know, making the quarterback hold
Speaker 1: it a little bit to allow the defense to get
Speaker 1: to him or the defensive line to get to him.
Speaker 1: So I'm always gonna say it starts up front, but
Speaker 1: I don't want, ever want to take away anything from
Speaker 1: that that uh, that that secondary group. And then I
Speaker 1: just thought that the physical What was I supposed would
Speaker 1: Gardner say the physicality? Last night? I said, hey, we
Speaker 1: need to out physical this team, or said something like that,
Speaker 1: and Gardner Minshew was very quick to tell me how
Speaker 1: to say, we have to have more physicality than them.
Speaker 1: So I want to make sure I say this right.
Speaker 1: And but the physicality of that group of the linebackers.
Speaker 1: I just felt like, man, TJ is just sticking people.
Speaker 1: And and I just felt, you know, how physical we
Speaker 1: were out there, and with TJ and with Davion and
Speaker 1: with Alex like we were playing physical. They were playing
Speaker 1: really physical balls. Great to see Patrick Johnson get a
Speaker 1: big time play and then we were just sticking them
Speaker 1: and and it's all I mean at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. I was taught this a long time ago
Speaker 1: about this like the tougher team, the more physical team
Speaker 1: wins in football. And so it was good to it
Speaker 1: was good to be on that side of it, um
Speaker 1: and and to see our our physicality takeover is coming back,
Speaker 1: see back probably. Man, I can't say enough for how
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard and Boston Scott and Kenny Gainwell have stepped
Speaker 1: in in the absence of of Miles Sanders. We know
Speaker 1: how good of a player Miles Sanders has. Look really
Speaker 1: look forward to getting him back. But man, they've been playing,
Speaker 1: They've been running hard, They're hard to tackle, they're hard
Speaker 1: to get down. It was great to see Boston Uh
Speaker 1: get to hum again, get to a screen and throw
Speaker 1: them the ball out there on a screen that almost
Speaker 1: went for a touchdown against their blit zero. Um and so, gosh,
Speaker 1: they've just done a really nice job of filling in,
Speaker 1: and we are going to have some tough decisions. And
Speaker 1: that's a I almost it is. It's a good problem
Speaker 1: to have, um and Um. We'll do whatever we think
Speaker 1: is necessary to win the next game. But they've done
Speaker 1: a great job filling in an absence of Miles we are.
Speaker 1: There different rules though for a player like Slay when
Speaker 1: until a loose ball, like to say he did some
Speaker 1: big player there because he hadn't jumps on it and
Speaker 1: Slays allowed for return. Well, well that's a good question, zac. Um.
Speaker 1: So we kind of have a city umble in a
Speaker 1: country fumble role I can I can let you in
Speaker 1: on that. Uh city fumble is if there's a lot
Speaker 1: of bodies around, get on it. If it's a country
Speaker 1: fumble and there's not a lot of bodies around, if
Speaker 1: you're in uh help me out here, Westchester, right then
Speaker 1: you can then you can scoop and score. If you're
Speaker 1: in downtown Philly, you gotta get on the ball, tim,
Speaker 1: So I kind of fun where you haven't in a
Speaker 1: lot of room. Um. You know again, anytime you win
Speaker 1: a football game in this league on the road, it's tough.
Speaker 1: And and we and just had a good time. And uh,
Speaker 1: I guess my main message was I'll see Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: they'll be off tomorrow. All thank yeah. So why didn't
Speaker 1: you jump on it there? Why did you run? Huh
Speaker 1: when the ball was loosen there? Why didn't you keep
Speaker 1: going with it as opposed to just getting down? All right?
Speaker 1: Hell no, no, I'm trying to score. Every time I
Speaker 1: touched the rock, I better get the touches. So when
Speaker 1: I get to touch, I'm trying to score. Quick I
Speaker 1: get done. They just talked about the city fumble versus
Speaker 1: country fumbel? Was that a city fumbel you turned into
Speaker 1: the country pub? That could have been both could have
Speaker 1: been both, you know, but uh, all I know is
Speaker 1: city funnels country funnels. They both turned into touchdowns. Shoot
Speaker 1: mean when well, actually, when I saw the ball, I
Speaker 1: saw the lining from the grab it Um they office
Speaker 1: line from the grab I just snashed out of his
Speaker 1: hand quick like, no, give me that, minds up? How
Speaker 1: big was that place? When you think about how the
Speaker 1: game was gone there, it was a one score game.
Speaker 1: And if you first, that was a big play man. Um. Shoot,
Speaker 1: Davia made a good punch out man. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just trying to change the game, and um, that's a
Speaker 1: big time and game changed to play for him. And
Speaker 1: you know, I uh, you know, of course I finished
Speaker 1: it off. But that was a good time and a
Speaker 1: good moment for us. Man. You know, put put the
Speaker 1: pressure back on their offense and take the pressure off
Speaker 1: of our offense. And you know, the day we played
Speaker 1: in all three phases as well. Today man, um, we
Speaker 1: just did better than the red zone holding the three
Speaker 1: points that they touchdowns about two or three times. Uh,
Speaker 1: offense going down there are getting points. Uh shoot, I
Speaker 1: think what our offense probably had one three and out
Speaker 1: and you know, so that was that was a blessing down.
Speaker 1: They control the clock, you know, especially in this altitude.
Speaker 1: I was tired, oh man, I felt like it took
Speaker 1: me like at least thirty minutes. I was really tired.
Speaker 1: And then the monkey gown on my back back got tight.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I know what was going because the
Speaker 1: fact that I knew it was like thirteen personnel, so
Speaker 1: it had enough. But fact, guys out there, so I'm
Speaker 1: like I caught the ball. I said, oh man, it's
Speaker 1: on about thirteen, so none but these big guys they
Speaker 1: ain't catching me. I'm going I'm like, I'm gonna returning
Speaker 1: every time. You see, Teddy had a sort of a
Speaker 1: chance to go about you. And I was hoping Teddy
Speaker 1: didn't try to because I'll partly gave him a good stiffy.
Speaker 1: But that's my dog though, you know, that's Teddy, My dude. Man,
Speaker 1: been playing against him for a long time. I went
Speaker 1: to him at the game. I say, but you try
Speaker 1: talking me, He says, you know, I can't talk on you.
Speaker 1: You know it was because I was out there, you know, rolling,
Speaker 1: But what's my dude? This was a much more aggressive
Speaker 1: coverage game, playing the main seating previous. What you see,
Speaker 1: Why do you think that was so important against this
Speaker 1: Stetri Roughs offensive? Just because we got guys to match up. Man,
Speaker 1: we we were believing ourself, definitely in the secondary, that
Speaker 1: we can line up against anybody and play you know, press, work, awkward,
Speaker 1: whatever we need to do to get the job done.
Speaker 1: And you know, if we truly believe that, definitely in
Speaker 1: the secondary. So, you know, coach believing to us, he uh,
Speaker 1: you know, making us a lot more aggressive going than
Speaker 1: challenge these guys and make him earn every down to
Speaker 1: look up he's awards with shooting before that, play a
Speaker 1: little bit some of the series before that and get
Speaker 1: that change. Jackie ran that thing back. I know I
Speaker 1: ain't got no words and nobody don't. One thing I
Speaker 1: don't do is argue with folks man. Uh, definitely, I
Speaker 1: believe you know. I'll play corner, so I'll do a
Speaker 1: lot of running. I need to save all my energy,
Speaker 1: So my last day will be doing is arguing with
Speaker 1: somebody when I know I gotta probably guard you for
Speaker 1: like forty more plays and you might just be getting
Speaker 1: me tired for no reasons. Breaked up on the side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told him that. You know I'm telling that, and
Speaker 1: you know I'm trying to teach him right now how
Speaker 1: to do the return skills. But you know he don't
Speaker 1: want to believe me. But now I believe me. On
Speaker 1: the weekend, lock you down, I'll be tweing one. I
Speaker 1: want two. He won one? You know easy? He baby
Speaker 1: looking we have a quarterback because I was just it
Speaker 1: had been three oh, but you know we had a
Speaker 1: quarterback just where some releases. You know he went one time.
Speaker 1: Did you see the airs come out in Denver with
Speaker 1: that play? After that in the air come, certainly air
Speaker 1: came out of the crowd. Yeah, I mean I take
Speaker 1: an air out of anybody. You know, shoot turnover, you're
Speaker 1: just going on fourth down, you know, clutch possession, shoot it,
Speaker 1: take it are out of anybody that was our gold
Speaker 1: man and try to um out physical Uh you know, shoot,
Speaker 1: that's that's a nailing the cough from right then. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm probably gonna give it to a security guy. Man,
Speaker 1: you know dom you know, shoot, my boy don say
Speaker 1: he needs something this room for me, So I said,
Speaker 1: you can have that ball. You think of the celebration
Speaker 1: after a second touchdown? What did he do? I saw
Speaker 1: it jiggling. I loved it because he you know, he
Speaker 1: got a big chip on his shoulder. Man. You know
Speaker 1: people think he you know, people sleeping on it. That
Speaker 1: boy like that? You like that? Like that? Like how
Speaker 1: you liking this? All kinds of identity. Past past three
Speaker 1: weeks have been good. Um rush for over two hundred
Speaker 1: so that was good. Yeah, we got some big boys
Speaker 1: on the line. Now. You know, you look at the
Speaker 1: left side and Landing and Jordan, those guys getting healthy
Speaker 1: and man, just some big humans moving some people. Kelsey,
Speaker 1: I mean all the guys, so yeah, I mean all
Speaker 1: goes back to uh CoA stellin. When you guys are
Speaker 1: moving forward like that, dude, feel it kind of takes
Speaker 1: something out of the defense. Yeah, what you know, you
Speaker 1: control the time of possession and then you can just
Speaker 1: slowly grind them down and it makes the pass rush
Speaker 1: a lot easier. It makes really a lot of the
Speaker 1: game a lot easier when you can do that. So
Speaker 1: what we've done well in the past few weeks, and
Speaker 1: I just gotta keep it up. Obviously it starts up front.
Speaker 1: But what have you seen from Jordan? I know you
Speaker 1: called him last week and uh and Boston Kenny, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: tell Jordan Howard ye yeah, man, he's he's a beast.
Speaker 1: I mean we've seen this before, We've seen it in
Speaker 1: training camp. A guy it's really uh you know, I
Speaker 1: think had a great offseason and every time you see
Speaker 1: him have the ball in his hands, he's always falling forward.
Speaker 1: He's always got momentum. And Kennyan Boston, I mean those
Speaker 1: guys are really miles Wait till Miles gets back. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got anybody can touch it and do good things with.
Speaker 1: What do you think about challenging how he's performance last
Speaker 1: three weeks as well? I said, Man, I think he's
Speaker 1: he's very composed. He's always composed. He's ever never see
Speaker 1: him get too cheerful about stuff or down. So yeah,
Speaker 1: really every day he's like that, So just be consistent.
Speaker 1: He works hard and uh leads our team practice every
Speaker 1: day the last three weeks. Can you notice, like the
Speaker 1: defensive line like pose guys getting frustrated to get tired
Speaker 1: and goes for you guys? Yeah, you notice, So you
Speaker 1: look around a whole lot of people are tired. The
Speaker 1: offense is just really when you run the whole the
Speaker 1: whole game is about at about a battle. Will you
Speaker 1: know you got sixty seven? He tries to how to
Speaker 1: make them right. But yeah, I mean the past three
Speaker 1: weeks has been you know something I've never really I
Speaker 1: guess we've done around here. So a testaments coach stout
Speaker 1: and no line to have one of the best in
Speaker 1: the NFL coming in. It's just it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a confidence booster for you guys, knowing that you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just if you can see the way coach stout
Speaker 1: coaches and the way everything is very intense. Some very
Speaker 1: funny stuff behind the scenes, but he's very very intense
Speaker 1: coach to everybody. That's uh. I think it's why he's
Speaker 1: been able to coach guys and do the stuff they've
Speaker 1: been being able to do. Guys coming in injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: whoever's in the lineup has um you know, usually done well.
Speaker 1: So Tyree and Jack Dallas leak the man. Really the
Speaker 1: second half, we're all second win. We're just trying to
Speaker 1: take one play at the time. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I know they were. You know, the more reps the
Speaker 1: young guys get, the better football players are going to become.
Speaker 1: It's a lot how usually when I was young rookie year,
Speaker 1: you know, you take your losses, learn from him and
Speaker 1: move on. But yet, I mean, Tyree's a beast. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see guys really you know built, you know, like
Speaker 1: a Jimmy Graham type. And Jack coming in is that
Speaker 1: a great job in the blocking game really all year.
Speaker 1: So I saw him pick it out and I saw
Speaker 1: him fumbling, and I saw him pick up again, and
Speaker 1: then I just turned away and then I saw I
Speaker 1: saw him make a move and I turned away again.
Speaker 1: I just saw the crowd going nuts, and I saw
Speaker 1: a coach rock and I hugged him, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a that turned to the Momentum told him
Speaker 1: in the game. That physical mindset you're talking about, you
Speaker 1: guys have on the front of the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: How do you think that's how Jack and laying uh landing. Uh,
Speaker 1: the younger guys as far as just moving straight ahead,
Speaker 1: I think it's easier for him running the football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think you gotta look at what you have.
Speaker 1: Have ut lize what you have. You know, usually the
Speaker 1: first thing you'll see when we're practices us on those bags,
Speaker 1: you know, two on one every day. So that's something
Speaker 1: we do everything every day. And you've got guys that
Speaker 1: are you know that big landing really and I feel like,
Speaker 1: I mean Kelsey the smallest guys online Jack, but those
Speaker 1: guys on the left, yea, some big, some big boys.
Speaker 1: As a manage points to go what did you see?
Speaker 1: Did you see Gladay spents first to touch Stata Pisto
Speaker 1: Purtaseason or I did? Uh yeah, that was a freak
Speaker 1: show play. So what can you say? Uh? Didn't see
Speaker 1: the dance usually, so im I don't feel going anymore,
Speaker 1: so use I'm going straight to Simine. I didn't even
Speaker 1: see the dance. So selfish, selfish for me. And you've
Speaker 1: still learning the week about him, his routine and now
Speaker 1: it's kind of infectious what he does to Monte comes
Speaker 1: in early and studies him. He noticed anything like that,
Speaker 1: you know, picked up anything. He's serious. I think he's
Speaker 1: talked to Hall of Fame guys that you know, I
Speaker 1: guess gave him a kind of a routine or you
Speaker 1: know what they focus on, how they approach the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's really he's a he's an intense sky
Speaker 1: and you can tell he cares about it. So that's
Speaker 1: what's what you gotta have. I mean, he's a Yeah,
Speaker 1: that played today was something special, you know from aligning,
Speaker 1: you know, I love those. That's a it's like a
Speaker 1: freebee for me. So I teams and a prospe a
Speaker 1: few years ago took the week working me back every
Speaker 1: day after the Raiders team. Have you sess change here
Speaker 1: in in these past three years the offense, I feel
Speaker 1: like our identity is you know, it's been good for
Speaker 1: the past three weeks round heavy and we're moving the
Speaker 1: controlling the time of possession, controlling the game. It makes
Speaker 1: a lot easier. But you know, moving forward, the teams
Speaker 1: you play are gonna find ways to try to stop
Speaker 1: it and manipulate you and their schemes and and so
Speaker 1: as the season progresses, it only you know, amplifies. So
Speaker 1: how we're going. Thank you on the first touchdown, half says,
Speaker 1: such a great coverage by Japan on that. You see
Speaker 1: the coverage that he had on that, throw it up anyway,
Speaker 1: pish your trust. Well, we end up running kind of
Speaker 1: running the same play um repeatedly until we got the
Speaker 1: Luca wanted and Um, we took advantage of the look
Speaker 1: DeVante went up there that made us spectacular catch on
Speaker 1: the ball, got got down, maintained position on the ball,
Speaker 1: we got a touchdown. So it was a big, a
Speaker 1: big start and a big spark for us. UM. I
Speaker 1: obviously want to come out the first drive and finish
Speaker 1: after a great drive, opening drive like that, finishing in
Speaker 1: the ri zone. But um, that's it's a great playbus
Speaker 1: meeting Jail and your entire first half. Do you think
Speaker 1: that's the sharpest you've been this year? My life is
Speaker 1: that what they're saying. That's something U I said coming out, Um,
Speaker 1: scoring on the first job is very important to me.
Speaker 1: That something we didn't do. UM. I think um, they
Speaker 1: they presented some different looks to us. UM since send
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure and in moments of the game,
Speaker 1: and I think I think there were definitely highs in it.
Speaker 1: I think they were loads in it. And um, the good,
Speaker 1: bad and ugly, we're gonna learn from it. So I
Speaker 1: can see to learn from it and grow from it.
Speaker 1: It's always the next man up mentality when it was
Speaker 1: a player. But when Dallas Scottard goes out and how
Speaker 1: does that kind of all the things? Yeah, we all
Speaker 1: know Dallas is a big time player, a big time
Speaker 1: tight end for us. UM play he made I'm on
Speaker 1: the naked and then the cross coming on third time
Speaker 1: big time plays and UM, it indeed was the next
Speaker 1: man up mentality. Use those guys, Jack and Tyree, they
Speaker 1: worked their chell off um throughout the week. Um, they
Speaker 1: see Dallas in the way he does things and they
Speaker 1: learn from him. But UM, I'm they're ready to play
Speaker 1: please by everybody. How they step then, UM, we need it.
Speaker 1: In this game. You ran a lot of good throwers
Speaker 1: in the pocket. You just feel more comfortable with the age,
Speaker 1: getting getting good sets of opportunities. No, No, it's not
Speaker 1: throwing from the pocket to day like it's something that
Speaker 1: I can't do. I means something, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I do very well. It's just I guess just taking
Speaker 1: advantage of it. Um, third down and you know the
Speaker 1: high Russian trying to get me to escape out of there.
Speaker 1: They're giving me more time to stay in the pocket. So,
Speaker 1: UM took advantage of it. Today's praising you for a
Speaker 1: few of the checks that you made. Does that kind
Speaker 1: of speak to your comfort level in this offense ten weeks?
Speaker 1: And I think I think that that comes from a
Speaker 1: whole lot of different things. Um. I think it comes
Speaker 1: from you know, comfort coaches. Um, they're comforting me also, UM,
Speaker 1: knowing that it's time to get it done. Um. And
Speaker 1: there's no there's no doubt, there's no hesitation on anything
Speaker 1: that I'm doing out there. I'm just trying to go
Speaker 1: out there and react to what I see. So if
Speaker 1: we talked about it in meetings, if if the coach
Speaker 1: those what I'm doing or not, UM, going with my
Speaker 1: good I'm going out there and trying to make make
Speaker 1: it right. Like the best throws might have made. Um,
Speaker 1: was the one before half time? Was that after was
Speaker 1: not a touchdown? Was worth on that throw? And and
Speaker 1: what you said it was it? I like to throw
Speaker 1: it through the Jajalen reagu and it got hit me
Speaker 1: in my chin. You know throws like that, you know,
Speaker 1: just giving you got some insight. There's some throws or
Speaker 1: you throw the ball that you don't know if they
Speaker 1: got caught it or not because you're taking a leak. Um.
Speaker 1: But we have a lot of a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of belief and all the guys we have shootout
Speaker 1: I missed to throw last week on third down. I
Speaker 1: still got a bad taste in my mouth from that one.
Speaker 1: You know, quez you know you dropped one before half
Speaker 1: a touchdown and they happen. So they have complete trust
Speaker 1: in me and I have complete trust in them, and
Speaker 1: we just keep bouncing back. And Um, the biggest, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I'll tell you about this game and anything
Speaker 1: we go through, right, We've been learning, We've been growing steady. Um,
Speaker 1: We've been attacking everything. And I think the biggest, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I've realized for us is we have to
Speaker 1: understand the only direction is to rise. Um. Just continue
Speaker 1: to rise, you see, to grow, continue to put in
Speaker 1: the effort, um, and everything a play out the way
Speaker 1: it's supposed to. The direction I'm still running the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. How I always the physical aspector, but also
Speaker 1: you know you as a passer. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think we just have a talited crew. Um. And you
Speaker 1: know I've said it. I said it early on. Um.
Speaker 1: You know it takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. UM,
Speaker 1: And it seems like we're finding that groove. We're making
Speaker 1: that progress that we want to make as a football
Speaker 1: team and as an offense. So we just want to
Speaker 1: go out there and be consistent and whatever it is
Speaker 1: we decided to attack the defense, but to be throwing
Speaker 1: it forty times, um, running it forty times, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Want to be efficient. Um. And when you're efficient as
Speaker 1: a football team, as an offense, and how you attack,
Speaker 1: good things happen Jamaica. But the celebration after a second touchdown,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you go listen to let them hang. Gotta
Speaker 1: let them hang. But I get oh boys, or listen
Speaker 1: to that. How did you see if my team that
Speaker 1: you felt you could exploit with you some recessing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they you know, they did some things. I give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to Cooper out there. You played the
Speaker 1: play the end well, played the zone reads well. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they did some things to trying to take
Speaker 1: that away. But you know, you know, Scott, Ja, Jay Howe, Um, Kenny,
Speaker 1: all those guys have our opportunities to run the ball
Speaker 1: and hit it, hit the down field. It's good for
Speaker 1: us and we take advantage of that. What happened on
Speaker 1: the interception, Um, when they able to finish my throw
Speaker 1: in the jamming, my fingers up a little bit. Um, Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess it was kind of flukeish because
Speaker 1: you know we got a fumble cover for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So everything happens for a reason. Two years ago to
Speaker 1: set the one your action years to rise, but there
Speaker 1: are teams that go the other one. Why aren't you
Speaker 1: guys different? Why are you having that progress instead of progress?
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a mentality and it's a
Speaker 1: belief we have here, um, and it's the work we
Speaker 1: put in. You know, it's the work we put in.
Speaker 1: We want to be one to know every week. That's
Speaker 1: always been our goal. You know I told those guys,
Speaker 1: I say, cherish every moment, Cherish every moment together, Cherish
Speaker 1: every moment with your teammates. Um. And and choose to rise,
Speaker 1: choose greatness. Um. And it's just a mentality, you know,
Speaker 1: and you you you kind of feed that into your mind.
Speaker 1: You start to believe it, um. And I think the
Speaker 1: belief we have moving forward, just you know, just just
Speaker 1: to continue to rise, continue to learn, continue to build Countie,
Speaker 1: to play together against jail to worth lord marry. Um no, no,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you. I'll tell you this. UM. I know,
Speaker 1: UM know, it's a big deal about the black pants
Speaker 1: we wore today, and I take full credit for it.
Speaker 1: I worked really hard to to get mister Leary to
Speaker 1: trying to you know, shoot it up a little bit. So, UM,
Speaker 1: I appreciate one of us wearing the black black pants.
Speaker 1: Hope the fans liked it, you know, they like to win.
Speaker 1: So why did you like that? I just, you know,
Speaker 1: I felt it was time. I felt it was time
Speaker 1: to put the black pants on. Um. We'll see what's next.
Speaker 1: We'll see what's next. What's your point of oh, slaves
Speaker 1: touched it? And what was your role with that? Um,
Speaker 1: I just remember it was a big palm. Heard the
Speaker 1: crowd kind of go silad for a little bit, then
Speaker 1: kind of uproar, got up, turned around seeing Slat doing
Speaker 1: his little running circle thing that he does when he
Speaker 1: gets the ball. Um. But then I seen him turn
Speaker 1: on the jets, pick the sideline and start getting downhill,
Speaker 1: and I was just thinking, we got a chance. So
Speaker 1: from there it was just you know, pick out the
Speaker 1: person who I think has a chance, the best chance
Speaker 1: of tackling him. Um, trying to get a block. Go
Speaker 1: out there, throw a block, get up, see the trail
Speaker 1: of his feeding. It's kind of it if you were
Speaker 1: in on the tackle. But um, I just remember it
Speaker 1: was a big palm. DT got a good did a
Speaker 1: good job of getting some push UM, and I just
Speaker 1: tried to get on get on his back end and
Speaker 1: recreate the line of scrimmage. And from that point it
Speaker 1: just kind of got lost and everything that was going on.
Speaker 1: This looks like a much more aggressive defensive game plan
Speaker 1: a bit in previous weeks. Why did you guys think
Speaker 1: this was a good bad shot too kind to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive many coverage? UM, I think
Speaker 1: we we we just execute a little bit better today
Speaker 1: too as well. Um, some stuff we did today we've
Speaker 1: done in the past. I mean we didn't play a
Speaker 1: perfect game, still had some mistakes out there, but um,
Speaker 1: I think everybody just continue to try to, you know,
Speaker 1: fight hard, and today we were able to you know, um,
Speaker 1: be in the right situation and execute a little bit
Speaker 1: better to come out with a win. Like you guys
Speaker 1: rotated a lot of the safety between the three view,
Speaker 1: What was the thinking behind that? I mean, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we got a lot of talented players,
Speaker 1: which is trying to get everybody on the field, um,
Speaker 1: and get everybody opportunity to make some plays. So from
Speaker 1: that point, it's just about you know, being dialed in
Speaker 1: in the game, still staying in tune, um, being locked
Speaker 1: in with the different packages that we might have and
Speaker 1: who might be in the game, and then just being
Speaker 1: great teammates with one another, so where everybody's when everybody's
Speaker 1: out there, it's just about supporting one another and trying
Speaker 1: to get a job done. You guys, we really were
Speaker 1: on the road. How hungry is this team in this
Speaker 1: locker room for home with? Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: you know that's the goal each week us to come out,
Speaker 1: try to be aggressive, Um, try to you know, don
Speaker 1: nate the opponent and come out with a win. So
Speaker 1: we've been able to shrink some wins alone together on
Speaker 1: the road. But um, you know, we look forward to
Speaker 1: getting back home and getting things going. There. Is there
Speaker 1: something about the latest personality and he tries to school
Speaker 1: and run. I mean, I don't know. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: it was a little bit of the talk this week.
Speaker 1: He's talking about playing a little receiver and stuff like that. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's kind of his thing this year. He's gotten the
Speaker 1: ball in his hand a few times. Um, and when
Speaker 1: he's gotten it, we've kind of gave him a hard
Speaker 1: time about, you know, not taking it to the end
Speaker 1: zone as often as we think he could. But um,
Speaker 1: he did a great job of the day of you know,
Speaker 1: being around the ball, um quickly getting on it and
Speaker 1: getting that possession, but then also finishing it with a
Speaker 1: touchdown and a big play that was able to swing
Speaker 1: the game for us. What was the conversation and around
Speaker 1: your room this week and coming off of because you
Speaker 1: saw the stats out there, you guys are giving up
Speaker 1: eighty percent completion percentage. You know, some heat on the
Speaker 1: DC what was kind of the mentality and the conversation
Speaker 1: like among the defensive players this week, just being better. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, as players, we want to take accountability for
Speaker 1: you know, the lack of the lack of success, but
Speaker 1: also you know, when we do well, we want to
Speaker 1: you know, get that credit as well. So it's really
Speaker 1: just about you know, being great teammates, being professionals, um,
Speaker 1: you know, sticking together, working through it together, um, and
Speaker 1: as players and coaches included, and finding a way to
Speaker 1: get it done. So um, from defensive standpoint and back
Speaker 1: end standpoint, we take pride and on that we can
Speaker 1: go out there and cover guys. So we just wanted
Speaker 1: to focus on executing in the band right spot. That's
Speaker 1: a route from players and head coach Nick Sirianni, coach
Speaker 1: said see you Wednesday, So they're gonna enjoy this one
Speaker 1: a little bit before they look towards the New Orleans Saints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a player, three words you want to hear Wednesday. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what we call a victory Monday. So as after
Speaker 1: this long flight, big tough win out there in Denver,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there was a loud roar from the players.
Speaker 1: Coach say it see you win. I mean there is
Speaker 1: no understanding the energy on a flight home, the difference
Speaker 1: between a win and a loss. How sad a long
Speaker 1: flight home after a losses on the plane, and how
Speaker 1: happy a flight home after a witness And when I
Speaker 1: was traveling with the team, I mean, we're in a
Speaker 1: completely different section than the players and the coaches, but
Speaker 1: you can feel the energy is just the noise. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's dancing. I'm sure there's screaming. I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: cherry and I'm sure it's going to be a fun
Speaker 1: ride home for those guys. Well, now is your chance
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Speaker 1: three nominees. We're kicking things off with the quarterback Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts Areas. He was sixteen for twenty three hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards two touchdowns. Look at that rating of
Speaker 1: one hundred and three. All right, moving on to his
Speaker 1: receiver DeVante Smith, He's nominee number two. After that second touchdown,
Speaker 1: his stat line was two catches, two touchdowns. It's not
Speaker 1: bad to day for Devonte Smiths. And lastly, here is
Speaker 1: big Play Sligh. He's our third nominee today, a scoop
Speaker 1: and score, and he brought it to the house. Guys,
Speaker 1: what do we think Hurts Smith Slay? Well, you know
Speaker 1: where my heart wants to go. Look at big Play,
Speaker 1: big plays running down the field. I want to go
Speaker 1: with him, but I can't go with Darius Lay. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: big Play. I would have loved to have chosen him.
Speaker 1: I gotta go with the quarterback. Warterback has been under
Speaker 1: some unjust heat around here. I thought he came out
Speaker 1: and played phenomenally today. He gave DeVonta Smith opportunity to
Speaker 1: make that catch. Devontae came through. I think Devonte got
Speaker 1: player the game last week. So I think I'll go
Speaker 1: with Jalen this. We're spreading the wealth. There you go. Well,
Speaker 1: I am gonna go with Darius Lay today. And look,
Speaker 1: it's hard, it's hard to not go with Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: in a game like today, But I think that play
Speaker 1: Darius Lay. First of all, it's like the craziest thing
Speaker 1: I've seen in the NFL today, for sure. But from
Speaker 1: this team in a long time. This is the kind
Speaker 1: of play, Like I said, this happened at the college level,
Speaker 1: that a guy is able to make that many guys missing,
Speaker 1: get all the way to the end zone on a
Speaker 1: scoop and score eighty two yards. It's absolutely insane. Just
Speaker 1: at the point it was in this game, Denver was
Speaker 1: getting ready to score, possibly going to tie it up.
Speaker 1: That's a that's potentially a fourteen point swing for this
Speaker 1: Eagles team, huge momentum, not to mention a really exciting
Speaker 1: play for the defense. So that's why he's my pick.
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Speaker 1: head into our Jamison nightcap. The New Orleans Saints are
Speaker 1: coming to town on Sunday. They're looking at a five
Speaker 1: and four record. They won or I'm sorry, they lost
Speaker 1: a tight one today against Tennessee. The Titans are rolling
Speaker 1: this year. The quarterback looking a little different than it
Speaker 1: did last year. Trevor Simeon taking snaps on her center.
Speaker 1: The Eagles still winless at home, so they're looking to
Speaker 1: pick up their first one of the season at Lincoln
Speaker 1: Financial Field on Sunday. Hi howe feeling? Oh? Feel good
Speaker 1: at there? After today's FIG three. You know, I got
Speaker 1: a chance to catch some of that New Orleans Tennessee game.
Speaker 1: You know, Trevor Simeon, you give me time. He can
Speaker 1: beat you with his arm. I mean, he's got enough
Speaker 1: starts under his belt. He's not going to be rattled
Speaker 1: by coming in. They went toe to toe with Tennessee today,
Speaker 1: and Tennessee is arguably the best team in the NFC,
Speaker 1: I mean the AFC this year. So I say that
Speaker 1: to say we can't take this team lightly. Next week,
Speaker 1: it's time to get our first victory at home. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts got his first win of his career against this
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints team. I'm sure they haven't forgotten it.
Speaker 1: But here's what I'll say. Uh could be blackout that
Speaker 1: We'll have to ask the quarterback out if you can
Speaker 1: put the black pants like the bats. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's an interesting matchup because this isn't the
Speaker 1: Saints team that we've known for many years, obviously in
Speaker 1: the post Drew Brees era, but with Sean Payton, you know,
Speaker 1: in that creative offense, there's always you know, they're always
Speaker 1: going to be doing something interesting, especially with the Taylorm case.
Speaker 1: Some hell combo. But Alvin Kamara did not play today.
Speaker 1: He was injured this week. So that's going to be
Speaker 1: some thing to watch for the Eagles this week. Well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big one. I know Eagles fans
Speaker 1: are gonna be ready to welcome the Eagles back home
Speaker 1: on Sunday for a one o'clock kickoff. Of course, we'll
Speaker 1: be here for the kickoff Show presented by Exalt at
Speaker 1: twelve ten, and then we'll be right back here on
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico for myself, Amy Campbell
Speaker 1: and I Grief. We'll see you next time.