Speaker 1: All right, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the postgame show,
Speaker 1: presented by Rico Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Greece,
Speaker 1: and certainly not the performance we all had hoped for
Speaker 1: in this dress rehearsal for the regular season, the Eagles
Speaker 1: losing to the Browns by a score of five to nothing.
Speaker 1: Now before everyone panics, because I'm sure that's what everyone
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia is wanting to do right now, knowing that
Speaker 1: we're not going to see the starters for two weeks
Speaker 1: until the regular season opener on September six. For me,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is the offense, especially because
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the focal point of everyone's discussion tonight.
Speaker 1: Is when you get back in practice over the next
Speaker 1: two weeks, you're gonna get Jason Piers back and left
Speaker 1: tackle hopefully, you're getting Alshon Jeffrey back on the field,
Speaker 1: Darren's roles be working in there. You're gonna have the
Speaker 1: entire unit together, and Nick Foles had his struggles tonight,
Speaker 1: no questions whatsoever. But this actually makes me think back
Speaker 1: to the end of the regular season just a year ago,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are coming off that victory over the
Speaker 1: Raiders on Christmas Night, which wasn't so pretty, and then
Speaker 1: the regular season finale against Dallas and they're getting ready
Speaker 1: for the postseason and a lot of people were debating
Speaker 1: should Nick Foles even be the starting quarterback going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Well, remember the players rallied and said, we
Speaker 1: need to rash it up the intensity of practice. We
Speaker 1: need to get our focus back together, we need to
Speaker 1: start hitting the players wanted to hit in practice, And
Speaker 1: I think that's what you're gonna see Doug Peterson. We
Speaker 1: will hear it from him in just a little bit
Speaker 1: in his press conference. And I'm intrigued by the comments
Speaker 1: that Aaron Andrews, a silent reporter, made coming out a
Speaker 1: halftime as to Doug being angry. I'm sure he was,
Speaker 1: he was upset, but it'll be interesting because of what
Speaker 1: she said in terms of we don't need to see
Speaker 1: any more of Nick Foles. What was really meant by that?
Speaker 1: And Doug's gonna have to address that during his press
Speaker 1: conference because everyone was reporting about it and talking about
Speaker 1: it on Twitter. But to me, Foles is a veteran
Speaker 1: We all know what he can do in this league,
Speaker 1: and certainly again, sloppy performance tonight, and you're hoping that
Speaker 1: he would get his feet wet last week against New England.
Speaker 1: He bounced back from the injury. All right, he goes
Speaker 1: out there, gets a week under his belt, is able
Speaker 1: to go out there and start with the offense and
Speaker 1: get a full half of action and put it in
Speaker 1: a bear performance. And we didn't see it. After the
Speaker 1: turnover on downs there was the safety and then you
Speaker 1: have the four consecutive turnovers to end the first half.
Speaker 1: So you look at the numbers there, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven yards. Two interceptions, you know, one where he's
Speaker 1: not able to look off the safety, the other an
Speaker 1: egregious throat in the red zone. Not a great performance
Speaker 1: whatsoever by Nick Foles. But he's a veteran quarterback. If
Speaker 1: he has to go in there. That's the other thing
Speaker 1: that's the cafe here is he may not be the
Speaker 1: guy who goes out there September six. You may Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz cleared for full contact by this point. We don't know.
Speaker 1: He's not at this point yet. But still, to me,
Speaker 1: I'm not alarmed because I know this offense can rally
Speaker 1: around and get things tight because it is a veteran
Speaker 1: lean team once that regular season opener comes around two
Speaker 1: weeks from tonight. I yeah, when you look at this
Speaker 1: offense really the whole preseason, you gotta kind of break
Speaker 1: it down in different parts. Right. Obviously, they're missing a
Speaker 1: lot of key players at the skilled position. No al
Speaker 1: Sean Jeffrey, no Corey Clement to Night, no Nelson Aghalore,
Speaker 1: no Darren Sprows. We know that when those guys are
Speaker 1: in there, this offense is going to operate with much
Speaker 1: more efficiency. But I mean, whether the report that Aaron
Speaker 1: Andrews put out there to halftime about Doug being upset
Speaker 1: about the first half performance of Nick Foles is accurate
Speaker 1: or not. I'll tell you my assessment of that. In
Speaker 1: the first half, I was irritated by it. And here's why,
Speaker 1: because Nick Foles is a veteran quarterback, and the interceptions
Speaker 1: that were thrown were really bad decisions being made. To
Speaker 1: throw the ball. You know, you gotta safety over the top.
Speaker 1: You can't lob the ball up there. Mike Wallace didn't
Speaker 1: have a clear path to the football. That was a
Speaker 1: sitting duck. And then the one down in the red
Speaker 1: zone when the offense started to get some things rolling.
Speaker 1: You just can't make that throw there. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a smart player, and Nick knows that. I'm not concerned
Speaker 1: about Nick and what he's capable of doing. We all
Speaker 1: know what he's capable of doing. But you'll like to
Speaker 1: see him make the right decisions with the football. We
Speaker 1: understand he's not playing with the A team out there
Speaker 1: at the scale position, so things can be a little harder,
Speaker 1: and that's where the onus falls on him as a
Speaker 1: a team type player. You know, super Bowl MVP. You
Speaker 1: got to make good decisions with the football, and I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that's what I have Doug upset about the
Speaker 1: performance in the first half. It's not so much about
Speaker 1: how many points the team put on the board. It's
Speaker 1: just that when they got things going, they turned the
Speaker 1: ball over. They shot themselves in the foot. That's not
Speaker 1: what you want from an all fan saying it's not
Speaker 1: all on Nick. There other guys out there. You can't
Speaker 1: bumble the football out there. You know, Vitey struggled early
Speaker 1: against the former number one overall picking Miles Garrett. A
Speaker 1: lot of pressure coming off that edge, collapse in the pocket,
Speaker 1: not giving a quarterback time to step up in there,
Speaker 1: and make throws. Doug is a former quarterback. He prides
Speaker 1: itself and how his offense operates, and through the preseason
Speaker 1: with the first units that's out there, they haven't put
Speaker 1: many points on the board. So I know as a coach,
Speaker 1: they always want things to come back and look at
Speaker 1: the video and have to teach these guys when they
Speaker 1: hit the practice field next week. So he's the perfectionist,
Speaker 1: but match that point. But just like you, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna overreact and start panicking about his team. He has
Speaker 1: two weeks to get this team ready for the season
Speaker 1: opener against the Atlanta Falcons. They need to find tune,
Speaker 1: some things, sharpen up, get some cohesion going. You gotta
Speaker 1: get guys back on the practice field. I mean that's
Speaker 1: just or when Thursday night comes here against the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the same sort of disjointed offense because
Speaker 1: these guys haven't been out there. But there are a
Speaker 1: lot of other positive things to take out of this game.
Speaker 1: Young guys stepped up. I thought played well to night.
Speaker 1: I thought Windell small small Wood ran the ball well tonight.
Speaker 1: I thought josh Ad ran the ball well when he
Speaker 1: got his opportunities DeAndre Carter continues to shine, made the
Speaker 1: most of his opportunities and storyline. Yeah, there with these
Speaker 1: young guys, young players who you're looking for, deaf guys
Speaker 1: that are going to fill out the bottom of your roster.
Speaker 1: They showed some good things to night. And then if
Speaker 1: you go on the other side of the football, to defense,
Speaker 1: the defense did what they were supposed to do tonight,
Speaker 1: which is shut down. Really an end up Cleveland Brown offense.
Speaker 1: Not really many weapons on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: What the defense was able to do this, especially the
Speaker 1: veterans along the defensive line. Okay, you're seeing Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: who you know during the sideline report at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, Jim schwartzaging looks faster than ever before.
Speaker 1: And Fletcher Cox has been flat out dominant this preseason.
Speaker 1: You can argue he's been the best player on the
Speaker 1: field for the Philadelphia Eagles. You know, Brandon Brooks, Lane
Speaker 1: Johns have had good preseason, but Fletcher Cox standing out
Speaker 1: easily amongst all the defensive players. But Chris Law, you know,
Speaker 1: you're seeing the tackles for a loss. You've seen the
Speaker 1: pressures in the backfield tonight. Heloi Noda stepping up in
Speaker 1: a big way. Michael Bennett has made some plays there
Speaker 1: in the backfield. So you feel real good about the
Speaker 1: defensive line, which certainly the depth of that defensive line
Speaker 1: is would carry this team last year. And you've brought
Speaker 1: in some new players, and you've brought in some older
Speaker 1: aging veterans, not in Bennett, and you want to know
Speaker 1: what do they still have in the tech And you understand,
Speaker 1: again it's preseason and you don't need to see a
Speaker 1: ton of them from them at this point because you
Speaker 1: know their resumes showcase the experience that they have in
Speaker 1: this league and the success they've had individually. But they
Speaker 1: want to come back and be a part of a
Speaker 1: championship team and certainly they did that tonight. Seeing them
Speaker 1: out there on the field being able to pressure and
Speaker 1: as Doug Pearson said in the week leading up to
Speaker 1: the game, he wanted to see his team in some
Speaker 1: situational football predicaments. Tonight we saw them at the one
Speaker 1: yard line, the goal line situation. They forced a couple
Speaker 1: incomplete passes as the Browns were trying to get some
Speaker 1: rub routes go and didn't work whatsoever. Jim Schwartz Corey online,
Speaker 1: they work on that, and they hammered that into the
Speaker 1: defensive backs pretty much each and every day in practice.
Speaker 1: They have certain drills where they focus on that. So
Speaker 1: it's not surprised that Eagles were successful there. But then
Speaker 1: on fourth down they forced Tyrod Taylor to come out
Speaker 1: who has left. He throws an Aaron pass at Jordan
Speaker 1: Hicks almost air steps and you see the Eagles get
Speaker 1: the goal line stand there. So defensively, you feel very
Speaker 1: very good. And then the death along the defensive line,
Speaker 1: some of the young guys, you know, Joe Osman stepping
Speaker 1: up in a big way. Destiny Vile get in the backfield.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be the key for this defensive line
Speaker 1: is you know that you have some of those older
Speaker 1: guys along the defensive line. Can you infuse some youth there.
Speaker 1: Josh Sweat had a nice pop on a tackle for
Speaker 1: loss tonight. You know, those are the types of guys
Speaker 1: who are going to stand up. Stephen Means is always
Speaker 1: around the football and is relentless. Can those guys help
Speaker 1: ease the burden so that Fletcher Cox and all those
Speaker 1: guys can be at their freshest at the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season to make that run into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And not only that, Chris, you gotta think about it.
Speaker 1: You know, when the offense has yet to find their
Speaker 1: rhythm because you don't have guys on the practice field,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need your defense to really carry the load
Speaker 1: for your early You know, you gotta take a little
Speaker 1: pressure off the offense to not have them have to
Speaker 1: put up, you know, twenty eight thirty points a game.
Speaker 1: This defense pride itself, especially playing at home, holding teams
Speaker 1: the field goals as opposed to touchdowns. So that's certainly
Speaker 1: a good sign coming out of this game, is that
Speaker 1: the defense, at least that first year and it really
Speaker 1: the whole team tonight, I really get into a lockdown mode.
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz has his guys flying around the football. Vante Dave,
Speaker 1: I mean Avonte Maddox tonight with his first interception, nice
Speaker 1: played by him. That's what you want to see. You
Speaker 1: want to see at least one side of your team
Speaker 1: starting a round into regular season. For one, thing that
Speaker 1: bothered me about the telecast as well, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how you felt about this if you got to
Speaker 1: hear this, but Troy Akman in the broadcast booth was
Speaker 1: talking about how Doug Pierson and Nick Foles went on
Speaker 1: their book tours and enjoyed the fruits of winning the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. To me, has nothing to do with what
Speaker 1: we're seeing on the field right now. You know, Doug
Speaker 1: Pierson is focused and we'll have this team ready for
Speaker 1: September six. You know that Nick Foles, with everything that
Speaker 1: he's been through in his career, he's not gonna slide
Speaker 1: whatsoever at this moment. Okay, we've had a couple ugly
Speaker 1: not some great preseason performance here, but again, this has
Speaker 1: happened to Nick in the past where he's bounced back
Speaker 1: in a big way. Again, we just go back to
Speaker 1: last year and those performances at the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season against the Raiders against the Cowboys, and look,
Speaker 1: they weren't great performances. They got the win over the
Speaker 1: Raiders on Christmas Night. You only saw a little bit
Speaker 1: of Folds in the Cowboys game because it was the
Speaker 1: regular season finale and didn't mean anything in terms of
Speaker 1: the playoffs seating. But he was good to go once
Speaker 1: the playoffs were underway and had a playoff run for
Speaker 1: the Asian helping the Eagles win the Super Bowl. But
Speaker 1: to me, he's turned to pass. This entire team has
Speaker 1: turned a page on what happened in that Super Bowl run.
Speaker 1: They're ready to get things going on September six, and
Speaker 1: we see the defense playing at a high level. The
Speaker 1: offense might just take a little bit longer because again,
Speaker 1: you don't have, like you said, like all of the
Speaker 1: pieces there together for pretty much all of the preseason
Speaker 1: at one time. Yeah, we saw what this offense can
Speaker 1: do when you have all your components together and clicking
Speaker 1: at the same time. This offense led the league in
Speaker 1: scorn while they the prezom MVP was still healthy and
Speaker 1: ready to go. So I'm not concerned about that. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes we as fans, we think that this team
Speaker 1: or teams can automatically pick up where they left off
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. It was a short
Speaker 1: offseason for these guys. I'm not making any excuses for them,
Speaker 1: but they're in a position they've never been in before
Speaker 1: as defending champions, and whether it's the preseason or the
Speaker 1: regular season, they had better get used to their opponents
Speaker 1: giving them their best. They are the standard barrier. Now
Speaker 1: you are defending champions, You're the team to circle on
Speaker 1: everyone's calendar when you come to town. They want to
Speaker 1: see how they stack up against you. Even in the
Speaker 1: preseason game you saw last week against the Patriots, how
Speaker 1: they gain planned for that game last week. The Browns
Speaker 1: tonight wanted to come out and have a good show.
Speaker 1: And it's a nationally televised game, Yeah, you know the show.
Speaker 1: They wanted to see how they look going up against
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champions, even if it's not the full
Speaker 1: complimentary squad that that's going to be there September six. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, Nick foleson been in this league long enough.
Speaker 1: He was actually thirteen to seventeen tonight, so his accuracy
Speaker 1: was there. It was just the two decisions he decided
Speaker 1: to make by putting the ball in harm's way. And
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he doesn't need to be reminded of it,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure Doug that's something Doug and Mike Row
Speaker 1: will talk with him about about, you know, going to
Speaker 1: protect the football, especially when you're down in that red
Speaker 1: zone and you basically had three points guarantee for you
Speaker 1: on the board. You don't put the ball in harms way.
Speaker 1: Nick knows this, and I'm pretty sure a couple throws
Speaker 1: he wishes he could have back you probably a great
Speaker 1: point earlier in that the young guys on offense because
Speaker 1: of all these injuries, got a chance to step up
Speaker 1: and shine and try to earn their way onto this
Speaker 1: Eagle's roster. And we talked about Wendell Smallwood in that
Speaker 1: bout for the fourth running back spot. Wendell Smallwood has
Speaker 1: been healthy this entire preseason. He's been the one guy
Speaker 1: the offense can rely upon. Injuries have hurt him and
Speaker 1: hampered him in the past, but you saw him catch
Speaker 1: the ball well in the backfield. Because it's not just
Speaker 1: can you run the ball in between the tackles, and
Speaker 1: we saw that last week with Matt Jones. It's a
Speaker 1: matter of can you pass protect can you help out
Speaker 1: in the passing game so that your versatile and can
Speaker 1: be available and ready to go on all three downs.
Speaker 1: I thought Wendell's Smallwood show that. I also thought he
Speaker 1: did a good job of taking the yards that were
Speaker 1: blocked for him, but creating some yard for himself, especially
Speaker 1: on that one ten yard run that was inside the
Speaker 1: red zone in the first half there and Josh Adams,
Speaker 1: I thought he'd provide a little juice there coming out
Speaker 1: of backfield, caught the ball well, so he missed last
Speaker 1: week's game with an injury. Bounced back in the big way.
Speaker 1: But DeAndre Carter one of the truly special stories on
Speaker 1: this Eagles roster. A former rookie free agent back in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, now Sacramento State that he's playing on his
Speaker 1: fifth NFL team, has not played in an NFL regular
Speaker 1: season game. Basically, he made a promise to his brother
Speaker 1: on his deathbed, his brother's deathbed, that he would continue
Speaker 1: pursuing his NFL dream and keep fighting until he made
Speaker 1: his way onto a team and got a chance of
Speaker 1: hand Pump returned to early game, you know, showed some
Speaker 1: juice when he caught the ball in space. You know,
Speaker 1: had some nice catches as well using the hands OVERAWE
Speaker 1: thought he contribute a lot to the table to at
Speaker 1: here to try and force its way onto the roster.
Speaker 1: You pretty much feel like you're pretty set right now
Speaker 1: with Alshon, Jeffrey Nelson, Aglore, Mike Wallace, Matt con to
Speaker 1: Shelton Gibson, who's continuing his strong preseason from number five,
Speaker 1: Can you keep a sixth one? I don't know, it
Speaker 1: might be difficult, but you know, certainly Deander Carter is
Speaker 1: making a strong case where if you can do so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know, a big part of preseason is trying
Speaker 1: to evaluate young players and seeing not only if they
Speaker 1: can help you as far as depth at the bottom
Speaker 1: of your roster, but are they worth keeping around to develop, right,
Speaker 1: whether they become practice squad guys or not. And I
Speaker 1: think Carter has certainly put himself in a position, if
Speaker 1: nothing else, to remain with this team, at least from
Speaker 1: a developmental standpoint. And that's what you like to see.
Speaker 1: You'd like to see young guys get the opportunity and
Speaker 1: then take advantage of it. He's done that really throughout
Speaker 1: the preseason when they've thrown into football. Don't call many
Speaker 1: drops from him, if any at all. Typically catches the
Speaker 1: ball like his buildings, looked like a strong runner once
Speaker 1: he gets the ball in his hands, not afraid to
Speaker 1: go up and make plays uh in one on one situations. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just you know, the wide receiver group is so deep,
Speaker 1: it's just going to be difficult to crack uh that
Speaker 1: fifty three man spot. But listen, you never know. Injuries happen,
Speaker 1: things that nature. He can't control. That only thing he
Speaker 1: can control is when his opportunities arise, he needs to
Speaker 1: take advantage of them, and he's been able to do
Speaker 1: that throughout the preseason. All Right, we are gonna set
Speaker 1: it down to first artist him to hear from the
Speaker 1: head coach, Doug Pearson, take it away, shoot ahead, let's
Speaker 1: go do it. Not not Nick. Offensively, we had six possessions,
Speaker 1: we had two interceptions, two fumbles, we had a sack safety,
Speaker 1: and we had a turnover run down. So that's an
Speaker 1: offensive performer. So I was displeased with way our first
Speaker 1: offense executed ahead that. Yeah, you know, that's the things.
Speaker 1: We were able to move the ball and got into
Speaker 1: some rhythm and uh, uh did something did some really
Speaker 1: nice things. We just didn't capitalize and finish the drive
Speaker 1: and and and that's the part we got to look
Speaker 1: at and and uh, you know, I've got to do
Speaker 1: obviously my part to to put us in situations from
Speaker 1: a play caller standpoint, so I it leans, you know,
Speaker 1: solely on me, and uh and obviously the players have
Speaker 1: to execute you know what we what we call being
Speaker 1: an address rehearsal. Disappointing the offense disappointing. It was just
Speaker 1: a preseason and things to turn around. Um, First of all,
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed in the offense. I don't want to single
Speaker 1: out one one player, so don't put this all on Nick.
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed in the offense. UM. And that's not what
Speaker 1: you want obviously in the third preseason week. UM, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things where we're still keeping
Speaker 1: things very very vanilla. We still want to evaluate and
Speaker 1: make sure you know we're doing Uh. We got the
Speaker 1: right guys in the right spots. But you know, now
Speaker 1: now we turn our attention obviously we've got one more
Speaker 1: preseason game and then and then turn our attention to
Speaker 1: to Atlanta on a week one homers by the defense,
Speaker 1: especially adding that the first goal at the one and
Speaker 1: they shut it down. It's tremendous defense played out standing.
Speaker 1: You know, they were they were they were fine around,
Speaker 1: they were making plays that the goal line stand was
Speaker 1: was was pretty impressive, and you know that's what you
Speaker 1: want from the defense and kept you know, kept the
Speaker 1: offense obviously in the game the entire the entire game. Uh,
Speaker 1: and the offense has just got to do their part,
Speaker 1: you know, and then capitalize on on opportunities. It seems
Speaker 1: you're missing five other starters, three other contributors there how
Speaker 1: much different inspectives offense, And I think it'll be different,
Speaker 1: you know, just as you mentioned, Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: and we just got to make sure that these guys
Speaker 1: are all ready to go obviously, you know, in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and and I will take a look
Speaker 1: at this film obviously evaluate the guys that played, and uh,
Speaker 1: and you get them healthy and ready for fur lament
Speaker 1: things you need. Um, It's it could be a lot
Speaker 1: of factors. You know, it's hard to pinpoint one. But
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, I think, uh, sometimes maybe
Speaker 1: you just you just you put a little bit too
Speaker 1: much pressure on yourself or you pressed to make a
Speaker 1: play or whatever it might be. Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and I don't know, it's it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 1: I haven't been in those situations before. Um. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: you you feel like you need to make a play
Speaker 1: yourself when when you're struggling offensively and and and it
Speaker 1: doesn't come. So you know, we just we can't do that.
Speaker 1: We got to stick within our uh, stick within our plans,
Speaker 1: stick within our means, and continue to execute as a player.
Speaker 1: As a player, Yeah, you're very seldom worth a guy
Speaker 1: and he's kind of a little guy here you think
Speaker 1: of that, please don't how you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean he you know, he finished the end of
Speaker 1: the season pretty well last year, and and uh you know,
Speaker 1: we know we know who he is and and and
Speaker 1: what we need to do to get him ready to go.
Speaker 1: And and again we're you know, we're still pretty vanilla
Speaker 1: offensively and we haven't done any of our urpo game
Speaker 1: and you know, those are all things that that are
Speaker 1: that are part of his strengths too. And uh so,
Speaker 1: so we got to make sure that we're when we
Speaker 1: put game plans together going forward, that that that we're
Speaker 1: uti lives and his strength to its safe to assume
Speaker 1: you're not going to give any consideration to play in
Speaker 1: them in the fourth preseason game, correct, No, was there
Speaker 1: consideration that other coaches have done it? So yeah at
Speaker 1: this point though, was there consideration funding in the second game?
Speaker 1: Um no, they you know, Uh no, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know I thought about it, and just a touch,
Speaker 1: but I thought this would be a great opportunity for
Speaker 1: Nate to get back out there and and and get
Speaker 1: another another good opportunity to see him and see said
Speaker 1: those twos out there. He's fine, Yeah, he's good. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'll get to get a report here in a minute
Speaker 1: and let y'all know in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: But he came off and you know, he finished, and
Speaker 1: he was fine. When you've been through something like Nick
Speaker 1: has and the way lest year end of like you
Speaker 1: reference is there, it's part of him trying to be
Speaker 1: you know, great before we can just kind of go
Speaker 1: run the offense, just trying to be super well VP
Speaker 1: Nick instead of just yeah, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I would say that you might
Speaker 1: want to ask him, you know that question. Um. But
Speaker 1: but again, you know, we just got to make sure
Speaker 1: that that as coaches and and myself included as play callers,
Speaker 1: that that we put our guys in in in positions
Speaker 1: to be successful. And uh, you know, the past is
Speaker 1: the past, and we can't we can't rely on that.
Speaker 1: It's a new season, new team, and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we just got to continue to work and get better.
Speaker 1: Sometimes are kiss off are you vocalizing? And he disappointment
Speaker 1: in your error trying to kind of well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, when you don't score and and you play
Speaker 1: the way you play on offense, it's uh and up
Speaker 1: being an offensive guy. Uh, you know, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not very jovial jovial in there, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not pattent guys on the back, you know. Praise
Speaker 1: the defense. I think the defense played played lights out,
Speaker 1: played like they should, you know, And and offense just
Speaker 1: didn't do enough, obviously, and and uh, you know they
Speaker 1: understand it. And I wanted to make sure they they
Speaker 1: heard it from me. And and we just move on,
Speaker 1: you know, we fix it and move on. And uh,
Speaker 1: season begins in a couple of weeks. Most of the
Speaker 1: starters obviously not going to play that season. Interesting like
Speaker 1: this doesn't linger into the regular season. Well, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the way the schedule is set up now for us,
Speaker 1: practice wise, we get a chance to, um, still work
Speaker 1: the starters a lot, you know, this next couple of
Speaker 1: days and and uh, you know, get them mentally and
Speaker 1: physically prepared for that for that week one opener. And
Speaker 1: you know, still still got to work, you know, still
Speaker 1: got to put in the hard work in preparation. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know they understand that, they know that it's a
Speaker 1: veteran group, and and uh, they'll they'll they'll bounce back though,
Speaker 1: they'll respond They've always done that and and this is
Speaker 1: no difference. What did you see from by tie and
Speaker 1: what's he was working through to try to get back
Speaker 1: to that level he was playing at last year. I
Speaker 1: mean he's you know, he's another one's battling every single
Speaker 1: snap and you know, fighting and and uh trying to
Speaker 1: do trying to work his technique and his fundamentals and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, had had a couple of plays
Speaker 1: tonight that I'm sure he'd want back. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's another one that we just got to continue to
Speaker 1: you know, build confidence in and we know what type
Speaker 1: of player he is, and um, you know got to
Speaker 1: continue to uh you know, get him the reps and
Speaker 1: the work he needs in practice to be to be
Speaker 1: ready to go. As Asa played four possitions tonight. What
Speaker 1: you think the play? Um, well, I thought I thought
Speaker 1: he played played well. Actually, will you know, value the tape,
Speaker 1: evaluate the tape obviously, you know, going home and get
Speaker 1: a chance to look at it. But you know, he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that very versus you know, can
Speaker 1: play all all five positions and and smart athletic. I
Speaker 1: thought overall, did it didn't? Nice job? Okay, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: We gotta go. All right, there's head coach Doug Pearson
Speaker 1: addressing the media at First Energy Steam in Cleveland. Don't
Speaker 1: put this all on Nick. That's the main thing here
Speaker 1: is it's not just one person. It was the entire
Speaker 1: offense that broke down here this evening and why the
Speaker 1: Eagles were shut out, are not able to score any
Speaker 1: points in the five nothing lost to the Browns. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought Doug explained it exactly like we thought he would.
Speaker 1: I mean, Doug is a guy, he's looking at the
Speaker 1: entire offense. It's never just one guy. Whether a quarterback
Speaker 1: is being ineffective or the offensive line is not blocking
Speaker 1: well in the running game, it's a it's an entire offense,
Speaker 1: offense is working, saying they work in unison and sometimes
Speaker 1: you can have breakdowns at different levels of the offense.
Speaker 1: But but just focusing on that side of the football,
Speaker 1: I thought Doug was able to really explain exactly how
Speaker 1: a lot of us felt that. You know, they moved
Speaker 1: the ball at times, and when you get in scoring position,
Speaker 1: you got to take advantage of those opportunities. That's really
Speaker 1: what a coach wants to see, and Doug being a
Speaker 1: particular offensive side of the football coach, they want to
Speaker 1: see you finish drives, you get down there in that
Speaker 1: scoring area. Whether it's they'd love to have to touchdowns,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they would prefer. But you got at
Speaker 1: least come out of there with three points, and the
Speaker 1: offense moved the ball at times. They actually outgained the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns the night. They just couldn't get anything inside
Speaker 1: the end zone. Wish that touchdown passed to Rashaan Davis.
Speaker 1: He could have got his tony toe tap on there
Speaker 1: and kept his feeding bounds. That would have been a
Speaker 1: touchdown for the guys tonight. But I've been in games
Speaker 1: like this where listen, the coach doesn't have to say
Speaker 1: a whole lot. You know, when you see a zero
Speaker 1: on the board, the players know, the players know, and
Speaker 1: particularly on the offensive side of the ball. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they realized they could have done some things a lot
Speaker 1: better to night, and they've been better than the was
Speaker 1: two games for whatever reason. To night, they just did
Speaker 1: get the job done. Here's where I want your Inside
Speaker 1: Night poll pool of body by tie Okay. Third season
Speaker 1: in the league as a rookie, came on. We had
Speaker 1: that difficult matchup against Ryan Karagin, gave up i think
Speaker 1: the three sacks, especially to start the game, and you know,
Speaker 1: rough outing stars career, but settled down after that. Last season,
Speaker 1: came off the bench and was a key contributor for
Speaker 1: the Eagles win the Super Bowl, starting a left tackle
Speaker 1: taken over after Jason Pierce went down, and Peters was
Speaker 1: having an all pro type season in my estimation at
Speaker 1: the time of the injury against Washington this preseason. You know,
Speaker 1: last week, you get talking up to a bad outing
Speaker 1: struggles against the Patriots, gives up a couple of sacks,
Speaker 1: including the one by Adrian Claiborne which knocked Nick Foles
Speaker 1: out of the game. So you figure, okay, he gets
Speaker 1: his mind sight right, he's focused, he's harnessing in on
Speaker 1: this game, and all of a sudden, Miles Garrett, you know,
Speaker 1: wins the battles majority of the upfront against him tonight.
Speaker 1: So back to back struggling performances for Viti. What can
Speaker 1: someone who he was had success in the league too,
Speaker 1: to get himself to bounce back and you know, get
Speaker 1: things on track. Knowing that he's gonna be the swing
Speaker 1: tackle for this team. He could be relied upon at
Speaker 1: some point in the season, whether it's for a couple
Speaker 1: of players, a couple of series, or a few games.
Speaker 1: He's got to keep working his craft and his technique.
Speaker 1: You gotta get with coach Stalin if you need extra
Speaker 1: work out to practice. Coach Stalin is an outstanding coach.
Speaker 1: You know he'll be there to continue to coach him hard.
Speaker 1: You know you're going up against the former number one
Speaker 1: overall pick. You know, and after he watched on film
Speaker 1: what happened with Adrian Claiborne last week, you had to
Speaker 1: know Males Garrett was due stuff for this game at night.
Speaker 1: He was ready to go, and early in the game
Speaker 1: they didn't give Votype much help over there. He had
Speaker 1: to block him one on one, and Males Garrett won
Speaker 1: that matchup, and quite frankly, Males Garrett should win that
Speaker 1: matchup if it's one on one. You're talking about the
Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the draft going up against
Speaker 1: what the fifth round draft pick Voty was. So while
Speaker 1: Votey suddenly did a nice job filling in for Jason
Speaker 1: Peters when he finally got his feet under him, part
Speaker 1: of that was team blocking as well. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna send it back to Cleveland or a quarterback. Nick
Speaker 1: Foles is set to address the media. I'm just making
Speaker 1: you know, there's times where I feel good and I'm
Speaker 1: making some mistakes. Um. It's as simple as that. You know,
Speaker 1: I just gotta keep being critical myself, keep watching the film,
Speaker 1: understand what's going on. Um. And you know, just I
Speaker 1: has to keep playing, keep going through it. Um. Obviously
Speaker 1: I haven't been myself UM, and I expect a lot
Speaker 1: of myself. But you know, I gotta keep looking at
Speaker 1: keep learning. I've played this game a long time, so
Speaker 1: I know how to you know, address this and just
Speaker 1: keep moving forward, um and keeping that positive outlook. Do
Speaker 1: you know I'm just making mistakes. I don't. I have
Speaker 1: to go look at the film. UM. You know, for me,
Speaker 1: it's just getting back into rhythm, UM playing ball. We
Speaker 1: had a opportunity to win the day. That's on me. UM.
Speaker 1: I made too man mistakes at critical times that hurt
Speaker 1: us as a team. So if I, you know, I
Speaker 1: clean that up, we win this game. But I thought
Speaker 1: the Browns, you know, they played really hard. Um that
Speaker 1: you know they're improving that team. You can tell how
Speaker 1: they're around and what they're doing. Um, you know they
Speaker 1: played real well obviously, Um, but yeah, I gotta you know,
Speaker 1: continue to keep working. Don't look to clean pocket, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's football. I have to do a
Speaker 1: better job of stepping into the pocket, moving around, protecting
Speaker 1: the ball in the pocket. Um, that's all me helping
Speaker 1: those guys out. They fight for me every single down.
Speaker 1: So um, that's where you know, the field of the game,
Speaker 1: the rhythm of the game. Just continue to work the pocket.
Speaker 1: I mean, the pocket is not always You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to work here a little bit, and I need to
Speaker 1: do a better job of that. What happens in the
Speaker 1: next two weeks to make everything to come together, you
Speaker 1: know what, sort of take a breath. I go see
Speaker 1: my daughter, I see my wife. I do it. I
Speaker 1: always do, because this game sometimes can sort of you
Speaker 1: sort of get it and trapped in it. And that's
Speaker 1: that's part of it. Um. But for me right now,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the most important thing I'll do. And
Speaker 1: then I'll go back to the film. I'll go back
Speaker 1: to work. I'll be critical, and I'll keep working day
Speaker 1: in and day out with these guys, the guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room to to improve and fix what's going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the challenge of sports is facing adversity,
Speaker 1: and you know we're facing the adversity in the preseason
Speaker 1: right now. We're trying to you know, figure out our
Speaker 1: DNA on offense and doing that. But you know, I
Speaker 1: have all the confidence in the world and everyone. I
Speaker 1: have confidence in myself to continue to improve and you
Speaker 1: know that. That's the great thing about this team is
Speaker 1: you know we're going to continue to work together, lean
Speaker 1: on each other in this time, and we're going to
Speaker 1: be better for it. You do, do you feel like
Speaker 1: you guys can just stab your fingers in the offense
Speaker 1: just get ball here after kind of? I don't think
Speaker 1: you can just snap your fingers. No. Um, that's where
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get back to work. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do. Um. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be easy. But that's why we're here. That's why you
Speaker 1: know we're part of this team. That's why we're in
Speaker 1: the NFL is we know that we know that we
Speaker 1: have to be critical of ourselves and we have to
Speaker 1: get back to work, get back to the basics and
Speaker 1: just sort of you know, play our kind of ball,
Speaker 1: and you know that's you know, moving the ball around,
Speaker 1: running the ball, throwing deep, throwing short screens, you know,
Speaker 1: just execution. We were we weren't clean on execution to night.
Speaker 1: We haven't been as clean as we want to be
Speaker 1: on execution throughout the preseason and we know that, and
Speaker 1: so all the guys in the locker room, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get back to work like we always do and just
Speaker 1: continue this bond that we have. But was a message
Speaker 1: to the offensive that time. I mean, we just gotta
Speaker 1: pick it up. We know that. Um, he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: to say that, but you know, just that we have
Speaker 1: to pick it up. We have to clean it up,
Speaker 1: and we gotta put points on the board. We have
Speaker 1: to help our defense out. They played lights out tonight
Speaker 1: and uh, you know they kept us in the game,
Speaker 1: so we have to do a better job of helping
Speaker 1: them out and putting points on the board. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I know that this game is a process and that
Speaker 1: I've played this game my whole life, and I haven't
Speaker 1: always played great games. Um, there's times where, uh, these
Speaker 1: are the toughest ones where you just have to keep
Speaker 1: battling Um. It really shows you what you're made up
Speaker 1: deep inside. UM. And I was gonna keep firing it
Speaker 1: no matter what I mean. I didn't want to throw
Speaker 1: any more picks, but I've been throwing them. I was
Speaker 1: gonna keep firing the ball. Um. You can't. You can't
Speaker 1: play with fear. Um. I didn't play as clean as
Speaker 1: I wanted to. But I know that, knowing me, knowing
Speaker 1: this team, that we're gonna learn from and move forward. Um.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of great stuff to learn from from
Speaker 1: this game. It's an emotional game. It's not fun playing
Speaker 1: the way I did. I really hurt us tonight, but
Speaker 1: I know that I can improve, and I will improve.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of your best games to followed to me
Speaker 1: lose some of your worst games. I think that the
Speaker 1: games be first game after that Dallas game, and you're like,
Speaker 1: it's been a kind of a recurring to any idea
Speaker 1: why and how to kind of work through those those times.
Speaker 1: That's just you know, you play this game, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be analyzed. Everyone's gonna analyze your every move. Everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: look for perfection. And we're not perfect people. I'm not
Speaker 1: a perfect player. I have not had a perfect game. Um,
Speaker 1: and I never will, but you know that's just sort
Speaker 1: of how it's gone. But I've learned a lot through
Speaker 1: those games. That's where I can lean on all those experiences,
Speaker 1: like I said, and you know, do what I did
Speaker 1: then and just continue to improve and you know, not
Speaker 1: be too hard on myself while being hard on myself,
Speaker 1: because you're too hard on yourself all the time, you're
Speaker 1: gonna crumble. So, UM, I'm excited about getting back to work,
Speaker 1: working with the guys in its locker room. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: optimistic about it. I mean there's a lot of learning tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean I was learning in this preseason game playing
Speaker 1: like that. I mean I build a database of information
Speaker 1: that I can pull from now. Um. And it only
Speaker 1: happened in and a half, so how much you know
Speaker 1: what we had opportunities tonight to score and you know
Speaker 1: we we made mistakes. Um, we hurt ourselves. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: want those guys to be healthy and be out there.
Speaker 1: But there's no reason we couldn't put points on the
Speaker 1: board tonight. You know, I made a you know, we
Speaker 1: had a turnover in the red zone. I threw a
Speaker 1: pick in the red zone. Um, you know, and then
Speaker 1: the other terms. That hurts us. Um, so we can't
Speaker 1: have that. We I mean, we can't expect to win
Speaker 1: with that many turnovers. We have to play a lot cleaner. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought there's a lot of good stuff tonight. I
Speaker 1: mean we're gonna you know, obviously it was a tough game,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of great stuff. I thought a
Speaker 1: lot of guys played well. Um, you know, we were
Speaker 1: able to move the ball on a couple of series
Speaker 1: and sort of get things going. And you know, we
Speaker 1: sort of show ourselves in the foot a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But I think that's where we're gonna look back and
Speaker 1: just improve and um be critical of ourselves in those moments.
Speaker 1: As you know, you said you want to get back.
Speaker 1: What's your mind? I mean we get ready. I mean
Speaker 1: we get ready as a team. I do what I've
Speaker 1: always done. You prepare to play. Um. Obviously, you know
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on with this game in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But UM, you go, I go back,
Speaker 1: I study film, I do my prep week like I've done.
Speaker 1: I get the body right. Um, continue to bomb with
Speaker 1: the guys in the locker room and get ready to
Speaker 1: roll very soon to night. Yeah, I think DeAndre has
Speaker 1: played really well. He's one of the guys that I
Speaker 1: thought played really well to night. Um, he's played well
Speaker 1: throughout the preseason. Um for a guy who's newer to
Speaker 1: the team, I think he does a lot of great things.
Speaker 1: He's got a wide range where he can catch from Um,
Speaker 1: he uses his hands well, one runs really good route.
Speaker 1: So I've been really impressed with how he's played. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my foot sport of got caught and I was trying
Speaker 1: to get up, so that was unfortunate. Dog was saying
Speaker 1: that the offense is pretty vanilla right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you go into these games, are just trying to
Speaker 1: work on your bass plays, your foundation plays are how
Speaker 1: do you kind of approached game playing line? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean preseason. Um, I mean we're still you know, we
Speaker 1: still plays right roll. Um, it's our job. It's my
Speaker 1: job to make sure that they're executed right. And um,
Speaker 1: you know I didn't do my job the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks to make sure that, you know, we executed
Speaker 1: the plays at our highest level. Um, that's something that
Speaker 1: is next week's I got to get rider rolls all right,
Speaker 1: thank you? All right, there's quarterback Nick Foles addressing the
Speaker 1: media at First Energy Statement in Cleveland. No excuses on
Speaker 1: his part, as the Eagles, of course, are not game
Speaker 1: playing for this time of year. Coach Peterson said a
Speaker 1: short time ago that you know, you're not seeing any
Speaker 1: of the RPOs from our offense at this point, and
Speaker 1: that's something that was very successful for Foals and the
Speaker 1: Eagles in the playoffs last season. And of course this
Speaker 1: may be the last time we see falls in game
Speaker 1: action because two weeks from now, Carson Wentz could be
Speaker 1: under center for the Eagles if he's clear for full contact.
Speaker 1: And certainly I'm sure everyone's hoping that's the case, and
Speaker 1: Wentz is very optimistic that that will happen. But still,
Speaker 1: Foles has the right mindset where he'll go back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board, he'll learn a lot from tonight's game,
Speaker 1: and he'll do what he needs to do. He'll be
Speaker 1: critical of himself and make sure that mentally physically he's
Speaker 1: ready if he's going to be the guy on September six. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'll go to battle with Nikki six any Sunday. I mean,
Speaker 1: that guy stands up there. He holds himself accountable. That's
Speaker 1: what a leader does. That's what a good quarterback does.
Speaker 1: He understands that he didn't play up to his expectations.
Speaker 1: He understands it starts with him. Doesn't make any excuses.
Speaker 1: Love the way he addressed the media right there. Listen,
Speaker 1: he's sort of hard on himself, a little too hard
Speaker 1: on himself, But that's just the expectations that he has
Speaker 1: of himself. And if there's one thing we've learned about
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, you can never count this dude out. Man.
Speaker 1: He knows how to bounce back and get himself right.
Speaker 1: And like he said, he's been in this league long enough,
Speaker 1: he's played in big games, he's had big performances. He'll
Speaker 1: be right if if he's the guy that has to
Speaker 1: go Opening night against the Atlanta Falcons, I have no concern.
Speaker 1: He has two weeks to get himself together. Indeed, so
Speaker 1: we've heard from coach Peterson, we've heard from quarterback Nick
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Speaker 1: Now we're gonna take a look at the Eagles roster.
Speaker 1: As again, you're not gonna see the starters in that
Speaker 1: fourth preseason game against the Jets. They're gonna be maybe
Speaker 1: a spot starter or two who has to line up
Speaker 1: just because of numbers. But overall, with the ninety man roster,
Speaker 1: you can rest most of the key guys for the
Speaker 1: evening and pretty much look at the deaf guys and
Speaker 1: sort out those final roster spots that you have to
Speaker 1: figure out. But let's start with the quarterback position here, Ike,
Speaker 1: and through the preseason we've seen Nate Sudfeld made great
Speaker 1: strides here in his first preseason as an Eagle. Obviously
Speaker 1: Nick Folson struggled, and we haven't seen Carson Wentz. But
Speaker 1: if Carson Wentz is good to go for Week one
Speaker 1: against the Falcons, you feel like that he's going to
Speaker 1: pick up right where you left off last season, where
Speaker 1: his final throw was the record setting thirty third touchdown,
Speaker 1: passed the most by an Eagle and franchise history. Well,
Speaker 1: to expect that, I think that would be put in
Speaker 1: unrealistic expectations on Carson. He hadn't played football in a
Speaker 1: live setting, what nine months, ten months almost, and so
Speaker 1: for him to step back on the field and live
Speaker 1: action for the first time, I think it would be
Speaker 1: unrealistic to expect that level will play right out the gate.
Speaker 1: But we know it's in there. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of how long would it take for him to get
Speaker 1: back to that. It's not as if he's gonna fall
Speaker 1: off the faces of earth. If he has to go
Speaker 1: out there and play, he certainly is good enough to
Speaker 1: be effective if he has to start that game, But
Speaker 1: I just will rather set the bar a little lower
Speaker 1: as far as what I would expect from him. This
Speaker 1: team is good enough that they don't necessarily have to
Speaker 1: put the offense on Carson's shoulders early if he does return.
Speaker 1: He got a good running game. Once you get Jason
Speaker 1: back in there and left tackle, they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run the ball, They're gonna be able to protect him,
Speaker 1: lots of weapons around him. You got an easy back
Speaker 1: into this thing. But I tell you whether though, with
Speaker 1: the way he's attacked as rehab this offseason, I guess
Speaker 1: none of us should be shocked if he does have
Speaker 1: that type of performance once he steps on the couple
Speaker 1: times we saw him in team drills early in training
Speaker 1: camp and he had some bodies around him, and I
Speaker 1: know people got nervous because you're like, we don't want
Speaker 1: to see this right away. But you saw what you
Speaker 1: needed to from Carson, and that he was nimble who
Speaker 1: was able to maneuver the pocket, and it wasn't like
Speaker 1: he was hesitating or favoring the leg or anything along
Speaker 1: those lines. So from that standpoint, he's been good. That
Speaker 1: you talked about how he's attacked this rehab. You hear
Speaker 1: the stories from the other guys in the locker room
Speaker 1: about how just motivated he's been by wanting to help
Speaker 1: the Eagles get back to the super Bowl after missing
Speaker 1: out and playing in the Big Game last season. So
Speaker 1: certainly Carson is up to the task and hopefully he
Speaker 1: will get the full go that he'll be will start
Speaker 1: in week one running back. Okay, you mentioned the weapons
Speaker 1: that Carson will have around him. Look, third preseason game
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal for the regular season, you don't have your
Speaker 1: number one back in Jgi, you don't have your top
Speaker 1: backup in Corey Clement, and you don't have Darren Sprowls
Speaker 1: out there on the field. So right there alone, you
Speaker 1: feel good about having those three guys. And again went
Speaker 1: else small with Josh Adams doing a good job stepping
Speaker 1: up in that battle for that number four spot. But
Speaker 1: you know, one through three to top things off there,
Speaker 1: you feel good about the balance and versatility that they'll
Speaker 1: ring to the offense. Yeah, and how they compliment each other.
Speaker 1: You know, Jedgi, I'm pretty sure he's chopping at the
Speaker 1: bid to getting the opportunity to be sort of the
Speaker 1: number one guy again. Like he was in Miami. We
Speaker 1: know he's in a contract year, so he's gonna run
Speaker 1: with Honger this year and a lot of fierce verocity
Speaker 1: when he's out there on the field. You're gonna love that.
Speaker 1: And then Corey Clement, you gotta know, great rookie year
Speaker 1: from him coming back this year. He wants to make
Speaker 1: sure he proves to everyone last year wasn't a fluke
Speaker 1: and you don't have that sort of sophomore slump. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he'll come back home re enjoyed. What he
Speaker 1: did in the passing game last year surprised a lot
Speaker 1: of people, and quite frankly, in the running back room,
Speaker 1: who's chopping at the bid to get back on the
Speaker 1: field more than Darren Sprows. Love Sprosy gonna get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to finish his career out on a high note,
Speaker 1: hopefully staying healthy all season long. I think we sort
Speaker 1: of missed that explosiveness from the running back position that
Speaker 1: we became accustomed to watching him do since he's become
Speaker 1: a Philadelphia Eagle. I love the depth that we have there.
Speaker 1: And then you're going to get a fourth guy possibly
Speaker 1: that adds a little more depth to that running back room,
Speaker 1: so I think we're deep at that position as well.
Speaker 1: A bunch of guys with a lot of stuff to prove,
Speaker 1: playing with a little bit of a chip on their shoulder.
Speaker 1: That's always a good thing. Sproles. When he runs out
Speaker 1: in the practice field, you don't see a brace, it
Speaker 1: doesn't wear a brace, it doesn't look like he was
Speaker 1: injured last season whatsoever. It's just truly remarkable going to
Speaker 1: wide receiver, similar situation to running back, where we haven't
Speaker 1: seen the top guys. Aliston Jeffrey has been sidelined all
Speaker 1: of camp after undergoing surgery to repair the rotarrior cuff
Speaker 1: that he injured in twenty seventeen and played pretty much
Speaker 1: the entire season played did play the entire season with it.
Speaker 1: Nelson Aghalore was thriving early in camp. I thought it
Speaker 1: was easily the team's most dominant receiver. Then he suffered
Speaker 1: an injury and has been sidelined for the preseason. You
Speaker 1: know Mac Hollins again, he also had an injury, so
Speaker 1: he hasn't been out there as much. Mike Walls haven't
Speaker 1: seen too much of in the preseason games, but he
Speaker 1: has shined in practice and I think we'll bring that
Speaker 1: big play explosiveness to his offense. And then Shelton Gibson
Speaker 1: stepping up in a huge way, not just in the
Speaker 1: receiving game, but in the return game as well to
Speaker 1: solidify his spot on the team. And again we saw
Speaker 1: DeAndre Carter and Nick Foles talked about Carter's presence tonight
Speaker 1: to possibly contend for a sixth spot at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. If I'm looking at any position on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, Chris that I have somewhat of,
Speaker 1: I guess a question mark about. It's not the depth,
Speaker 1: it's not the talent at the wide receiver position, but
Speaker 1: it's how will they sort of play together? Right? We
Speaker 1: had guys that fitting nice in their roles last year
Speaker 1: with al Sean Tory and Nelson. We got Mike Wallace
Speaker 1: in there this year playing the roll of Tory Smith.
Speaker 1: We got some young guys that are trying to step
Speaker 1: up and contribute as well. The thing with receivers, as
Speaker 1: it pretenders to the passing game, chemistry is very important.
Speaker 1: So with a lot of those guys being banged up
Speaker 1: and not in there during the preseason, you gotta make
Speaker 1: sure that they're able to get on the same page
Speaker 1: as quick as possible, because that can disrupt your passing
Speaker 1: game if you're talking about having Carson out there that
Speaker 1: first look, even if it's Nick, neither one of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have had a lot of work with the supposing
Speaker 1: receiving group that's gonna be there, no doubt in my mind,
Speaker 1: this group is going to look much different week five,
Speaker 1: six seven into the season, once they've had a few
Speaker 1: weeks to work together and be healthy than what they
Speaker 1: look like earlier in the season. There's no question about
Speaker 1: the talents that's there. They just have to make sure
Speaker 1: the defined roles are defined and then they can get
Speaker 1: on the same page with the quarterbacks. You go to
Speaker 1: tight end, and I am as static about what Dallas
Speaker 1: Gottard has brought to the table thus far. Seems to
Speaker 1: catch pretty much everything in his direction. Such a natural
Speaker 1: pass catcher as well, and he's done enough in the
Speaker 1: blocking game to earn respect from defenses in that regarded.
Speaker 1: So you don't have to win every ballot, but you
Speaker 1: have to be willing and certainly has been that. And
Speaker 1: zach Ertz looks like you know, talk about guys picking
Speaker 1: up for where they left off last season. It seems
Speaker 1: like that's the case with zach Ertz. I just feel
Speaker 1: like that this twelve personal package can be so much
Speaker 1: more dynamic and the potential it's much greyer than it
Speaker 1: was even a year ago, when the biggest question, I
Speaker 1: think coming out of the early offseason was how are
Speaker 1: you going to replace Prince Zelk, How are you gonna
Speaker 1: replace Trey Burton. I feel like the Eagles have certainly
Speaker 1: done that bringing Dallas Goddard on board. They basically cloned
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. I mean, that's basically what they did. It's
Speaker 1: like two zach ertz is out there on the field
Speaker 1: and that's a good thing. So Dallas Goddard is gonna
Speaker 1: benefit from all the attention that Zach sort of commands
Speaker 1: being a Pro Bowl tight end. And this young guy
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be the stage doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: too big for him. No, you know, we gotta do
Speaker 1: We gotta get rid of the stigma about small schools.
Speaker 1: Got you got a top five quarterback easily from North
Speaker 1: Dakota State, and this kid from South Dakota State has
Speaker 1: looked awesome in the preseason. Great still from Howard Roseman
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas in the draft to move up and get
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard in the second round. Can't wait to see
Speaker 1: him in the regular season. Once you get down in
Speaker 1: that D zone. Trey Burton was big for this team
Speaker 1: last year down in that rid zone, and I think
Speaker 1: Dallas Godard is gonna do a nice job filling in
Speaker 1: that role. Trey Burton five touchdowns last year. That's that's
Speaker 1: big from your second tight end. I think Dallas is
Speaker 1: going to fit right in their sins seage certainly, and
Speaker 1: rookie tight ends don't typically assimilate to the league that quickly.
Speaker 1: It seems like that Dallas Godard is going to be
Speaker 1: the exception rather than the rule, at least from what
Speaker 1: we've seen in the preseason. Offensive line to me, I
Speaker 1: love the right side of the line Lane Johnson arguably
Speaker 1: the best tackle in the game right now. Brandon Brooks
Speaker 1: has been outstanding this preseason. Jason Kelsey got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a scare early on in the game. He
Speaker 1: had to come out in the first drive, but he returned.
Speaker 1: Wiznowski has settled in at that left guard spot, where
Speaker 1: in his previous seasons here in Philadelphia he wasn't a
Speaker 1: starter going into the year, and now he's the guy.
Speaker 1: And then you get Jason Piers back, and James Pierce
Speaker 1: has been looking good in practice. You just don't need
Speaker 1: to see him right now in the preseason. So left
Speaker 1: or right, this offensive line can certainly contend to be
Speaker 1: the best in the league. It won. This offensive line
Speaker 1: won the NFL's Offensive Line of the Year offensive Line
Speaker 1: of the League award last season. It can shortly contend.
Speaker 1: Right again, Ralph the jump and they should have happened
Speaker 1: to me. They were then unsung hero coming down the
Speaker 1: stretch last year, including into the playoffs. Nick Foles had
Speaker 1: a clean pocket all throughout the postseason, the running lanes
Speaker 1: that were opened up for the running backs last year.
Speaker 1: But when you get the bodyguard back, it's a totally
Speaker 1: different demeanor out there for those guys. And Jason Peters
Speaker 1: brings a sense of nastiness with him. He's certainly going
Speaker 1: to bring accountability with him, and those guys that play
Speaker 1: with him just seemed to step up the level of play.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a future Hall of Famer and Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: and at thirty six years old, from what I've seen
Speaker 1: out here in training camps of times that I've been
Speaker 1: out here. You can't tell that Jason Peters it's thirty
Speaker 1: six years old, and you certainly can't tell that he's
Speaker 1: coming off a major injury from last year. He's coming
Speaker 1: back highly motivated to continue to show he's one of
Speaker 1: the best tackles in all of football, even at the
Speaker 1: age of thirty six. It seems like each and every
Speaker 1: year year Jason Peters is trying to quiet the critics,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And Jeff Stalton, the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: has said that Peters is a man on a mission,
Speaker 1: and if Peters is a man on a mission, everyone
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Speaker 1: We're gonna start to wrap things up, but we want
Speaker 1: to get through the defensive side of the ball and
Speaker 1: the special teams going into the regular season. As again,
Speaker 1: we will not see the starters most likely in this
Speaker 1: fourth preseason game, at least the vast majority of stars.
Speaker 1: I should say. You might you occasionally get one or
Speaker 1: two out there who's a surprise, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: those guys are getting the night off. So defensive line, Okay,
Speaker 1: live questions come into this offseason because you lost guys
Speaker 1: like Vinny Curry and Bo Allen, But to me, they've
Speaker 1: replenished by bringing in Michael Bennett and Helodi Nada, and
Speaker 1: you're getting Josh Wet from the draft class added to
Speaker 1: the mix here. It seems like that, as Harry Roseman
Speaker 1: said at the combine back in February, he wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that the deaf was still there along the
Speaker 1: defensive line so he could rotate the guys to keep
Speaker 1: him fresh. And I feel like that that is going
Speaker 1: to be the case as we saw out there tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that'll be the key for this defensive front.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what the strength of the defense was
Speaker 1: last year, if not the strength of the team when
Speaker 1: you look at the position and how deep it was,
Speaker 1: and when you talk about bringing in guys like Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: Heloi Nada, Michael Bennett last year I believe played close
Speaker 1: to six hundred snaps, six hundred, seven hundred snaps at
Speaker 1: thirty four years old. He's gonna come here still be
Speaker 1: the same effective player without having to play as much.
Speaker 1: You know. So last year, I think we had seven
Speaker 1: guys that played four hundred snaps, the most in the
Speaker 1: NFL when you think about the quantity of players with
Speaker 1: those many snaps. That's the way Chris Wilson likes to
Speaker 1: rotate those guys up front. I think there's a nice
Speaker 1: mixture of veterans as well as some youth to infuse
Speaker 1: in there. You got to get Brandon Graham back on
Speaker 1: the field healthy. Obviously, look for Derek Bardnett to take
Speaker 1: the next step in his career. You make the biggest
Speaker 1: in your career from your first year to your second year.
Speaker 1: So I can imagine Derek Barnette is chopping at the
Speaker 1: bit to get out there and things won't see him
Speaker 1: as new to him because this upcoming year. And then
Speaker 1: in the inside the thing of fire, if I look
Speaker 1: at anything on the D line is the depth at
Speaker 1: the D tackle position. You know, I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: Helloi Nodder. We know what he can do. But because
Speaker 1: of his dage. You're gonna need those young guys to
Speaker 1: be able to step up as well as the destiny
Speaker 1: theyous Elijah Quall's guys like that, they're gonna need to
Speaker 1: step up. And then my man, who put the target
Speaker 1: on his back when he said he wants to be
Speaker 1: the defensive player of the year, He's come out. He's
Speaker 1: come out playing like he wants to be the defensive
Speaker 1: player of the year through the preseason, not all talk.
Speaker 1: He's set in the tone and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: watch Fletcher play. I've compared Fletcher to Jerome Brown so
Speaker 1: many times. I think this year is the year that
Speaker 1: he actually I mean, he's done a great job thus far,
Speaker 1: but I think this is the year that he really
Speaker 1: steps up there. Fletcher is one of the best defensive
Speaker 1: tackles in all the football. Again, it seems like he's
Speaker 1: adding to his pass rush repertoire out there. Jim Towards
Speaker 1: saying that he looks faster than he's ever been. He
Speaker 1: is highly motivated. He won a Super Bowl. It was
Speaker 1: a huge cog in that, but that's not enough. Like
Speaker 1: you said, he wants the individual honors. He's probably tired
Speaker 1: of hearing Aaron Donald being named as the best defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: He wants his name in that conversation and if he
Speaker 1: continues it isn't a conversation. But to me, if he
Speaker 1: could have the type of regular season that he's had
Speaker 1: in the preseason, usually don't see the veterans shining the
Speaker 1: way that he has. I mean, he is wrecked shop
Speaker 1: so far in this preseason. Let's go to linebacker, and
Speaker 1: this was probably the one position group on defense had
Speaker 1: the most question marks going into the offseason, going into
Speaker 1: training camp. Here you have Jordan Hicks coming back from
Speaker 1: the achilles injury, and he's played all of training camp,
Speaker 1: he's played all the preseason. He's flying around the ball
Speaker 1: at the nice pass breakup in the end zone. Tonight.
Speaker 1: You have Nigel Bradham, who's gonna be suspended for the
Speaker 1: first game, but he's hungry and vicious coming up off
Speaker 1: that contract extension he received this offseason. The week's side
Speaker 1: job still seems like it maybe upper ground with Nathan
Speaker 1: gary Com rouge Hill. But talking to the linebackers this week,
Speaker 1: they will each say to a man that from top
Speaker 1: to bottom, the depth is there. If one guy has
Speaker 1: to go out for someone else, they're done huge drop off.
Speaker 1: So you may not have your superstar per se, but
Speaker 1: you have a lot of guys who can fill multiple
Speaker 1: roles on this defense at the linebacker position. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they play a lot more two linebacker defense then, and
Speaker 1: that's just really what the league is starting to go to.
Speaker 1: So if I just look at that number fifty eight
Speaker 1: being back in the middle of if you get this
Speaker 1: guy planning for sixteen games, he is a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: level linebacker that he really is. He just needs to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and be out there for sixteen games. There's
Speaker 1: no question about his ability as a player. He's a playmaker.
Speaker 1: He's a three down linebacker, helps shooting a run game
Speaker 1: and the passing game, can cover tight ends. It's great
Speaker 1: to have Jordan Hicks back in the huddle once you
Speaker 1: get past that first week. Getting Nigel Bradon back in
Speaker 1: the swing of things. Really could have been right behind
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox as the defense of MVP last year, especially
Speaker 1: the role he had to feel when Jordan Hicks went out,
Speaker 1: Nigel had to come in and play middle linebacker. I
Speaker 1: thought he showed us a different part of his game
Speaker 1: that I didn't know he had in his game, and
Speaker 1: it was great to see that they resigned him. To
Speaker 1: talk about the week's side linebacker position, whether it's Nathan
Speaker 1: Jerry who seems to have stepped up there who I
Speaker 1: like should have been a Pro Bowl special teamer last year,
Speaker 1: Corey Nelson coming in. You know, that's why next week's
Speaker 1: game is going to be big for those guys. They
Speaker 1: If anybody's going to get some reps next week from
Speaker 1: a starting position, it could be those guys trying to
Speaker 1: go out there and get some more reps in at
Speaker 1: the week linebacker positions. So whoever Jim Schwartz decides to
Speaker 1: go with with that third linebacker, I think all those
Speaker 1: guys are capable of filling that position, but those other
Speaker 1: two are the most important because they're going to play
Speaker 1: the majority of the snaps as we use more two
Speaker 1: linebacker defense than we do three. Going to cornerback, I
Speaker 1: absolutely love what Ron Darby has done this entire training
Speaker 1: camp and preseason. Yes, you want to see him get
Speaker 1: the interceptions when the ball is in his hands, but
Speaker 1: the coverage ability has been top notch. His read and
Speaker 1: recognition ability has been vastly improved. He is so much
Speaker 1: more comfortable in this defense, and I remember the buzz,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of in the off season that you
Speaker 1: know there's such a surplus of cornerbacks that the Eagles have.
Speaker 1: You know, Ronald Darby's going to the contract year. He
Speaker 1: could be the guy to go unless you are blown away,
Speaker 1: unless you're floored by an offer. I want to see
Speaker 1: what Ronald Darby is going to do in this defense.
Speaker 1: Of course, lining up across from Jalen Mills. To me,
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby has been a tempo setter for the defensive
Speaker 1: backfield here in the preseason. You know, another strong game tonight. Uh,
Speaker 1: just overall, we can talk about Jail and Mills, we
Speaker 1: can talk about the Nickel cornback spot, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to rave about what Ronald Darby has done this offseason.
Speaker 1: You talked about Jagi Evan the contract year. Ronald Darby
Speaker 1: has really set himself up nicely to thrive in this
Speaker 1: Eagles defense this season. Yeah, you talked about his level
Speaker 1: of comfortability. Damn, He's shown posted last year when he
Speaker 1: was really in and out. I mean he got injured
Speaker 1: three weeks out there and got here last year and
Speaker 1: missed half of the season and really had to play
Speaker 1: catch up. You're watching through these first couple of preseason games,
Speaker 1: and he looks like a totally different person. Looks like
Speaker 1: he's very comfortable in the defense, knows exactly what they
Speaker 1: expect from him, what they want from him, and I
Speaker 1: expect the big year out of Ron Darby. You know,
Speaker 1: forget about those pass breakups, they're good, but get those interceptions,
Speaker 1: and I know that's exactly what he wants as well.
Speaker 1: For the first time in a while, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of good young depth at the cornerback position. You
Speaker 1: talked about Jalen Mills. He had some good plays out
Speaker 1: there to night guarding Jarvis Landry. Whomever they decide to
Speaker 1: go with with that third cornerback position, whether it's Sidney Jones,
Speaker 1: who we all are anxious to see out there more
Speaker 1: and more, or Vontae Maddox who had the big interception
Speaker 1: to night. I think Jim Schwartz is going to be
Speaker 1: comfortable with any one of those guys being out there
Speaker 1: to play. And let's not forget about Russell Douglas. Right
Speaker 1: he's out there. He gives you depth as well. Love
Speaker 1: what they're doing at the cornerback position. They created a
Speaker 1: room full of competition, and the cream typically rises to
Speaker 1: the top, and I think because there's so much talent
Speaker 1: in that room, it forces these guys to be at
Speaker 1: their best at all times and that's the benefit to
Speaker 1: the whole team. We're talking about guys like DeVante Bosby
Speaker 1: and DJ Killings, you know down there on the depth chart.
Speaker 1: Maybe a year ago, before the Derby Trader was made,
Speaker 1: these guys could have been competing to be starters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember C. J. Smith a year ago
Speaker 1: was talked about as a potential starter on the outside
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Just look how far that position has
Speaker 1: come in a year's time. Safety position here, Look Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: Ronnie McCleod, you can rely on them. They're set. Jenkins
Speaker 1: so versatile in this defense. We talk about that corner
Speaker 1: position that Nickel cornspot. Malcolm Jenkins can line up there
Speaker 1: in a pinch if he needs to. So I wonder
Speaker 1: if Jim Schwartz is going to kind of keep that
Speaker 1: in his back pocket. That's sort of the you know,
Speaker 1: maybe options see exactly that you know that options see
Speaker 1: that Jim Schwartz could have where you were talking about,
Speaker 1: is gonna be Sidney Jones to Max maybe sees Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins if knee became line up in that spot. But
Speaker 1: for me, it's great to have Corey Graham back and
Speaker 1: he solidifies allows you to play that big nickel, the
Speaker 1: third safety package. They need to find a young guy
Speaker 1: to develop. That's the big thing here. Chris Marikos has
Speaker 1: still worked his way back from the knee injury that
Speaker 1: cost him the second half of last season. But they
Speaker 1: really need a young guy to develop. Whether they're gonna
Speaker 1: go with Trey Sullivan, whether it's Stephen Roberts, whether it's
Speaker 1: Jeremy Reeves, whoever it is, they really need to find
Speaker 1: a young guy for the future to mold and cultivate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say he's already on a roster, but that's just
Speaker 1: me there. Okay, you go with solving No, I ros
Speaker 1: Will Douglas. You're still thinking that he's the guy, He's
Speaker 1: the future safety. I'm just doing big bodies six two,
Speaker 1: two hundred plus pounds. I know they see him as
Speaker 1: a corner. The coaches have ever played it down. They've
Speaker 1: been like, no, I know, we haven't. We haven't thought
Speaker 1: about it, so I know it. Well, do you think
Speaker 1: that's the guy? That's just me. That's as possible it
Speaker 1: could be. Could be a guy that you want to
Speaker 1: shift down the line here, so very much a possibility. Last,
Speaker 1: but not least, special teams from a returner standpoint, Look,
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowles is gonna be your punt returner kickoffs. I
Speaker 1: think Shelton Gibson has been the best one in the
Speaker 1: preseason kicking wise. Jake Elliott look missed the extra point
Speaker 1: last week, miss basically what was an extra point, but
Speaker 1: a field goal this week, you figure holes shake it off.
Speaker 1: I mean you expect him to bounce back and you know,
Speaker 1: provide the the silient kicks that he did for this
Speaker 1: team a year ago, those clutch kicks. It almost seems
Speaker 1: like if it's not a dramatic kick, he's gonna make
Speaker 1: it harder on himself. Is for him. Rick Lavio has
Speaker 1: been solid as a long snapper, and Cameron Johnson I
Speaker 1: think has has stepped up. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about his his inconsistency early in training camp, but
Speaker 1: I think overall he's had a good preseason and unless
Speaker 1: there's someone that's, you know, wowing you on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire come cut day, I feel like Cameron Johnson is
Speaker 1: going to be the guy that had another sixty yard
Speaker 1: at a night he did, Yeah, another sixty yard point.
Speaker 1: So what young punners is always the thing they need
Speaker 1: to learn is controlling that leg. Right, you got that
Speaker 1: powerful leg. You got to know when you want a
Speaker 1: short kick to be punted down inside the twenty or
Speaker 1: ten or when you need to boom one down the field.
Speaker 1: I think he has looked a lot better in the
Speaker 1: games than what we saw early in training camp before
Speaker 1: the preseason game started. So I think you're absolutely right
Speaker 1: unless there's somebody out there that they've had their their
Speaker 1: eye on and it's going to get cut. I think
Speaker 1: Cameron is going to be our punterer indeed, and also
Speaker 1: he's been helping with the kicking game as the holder
Speaker 1: as well. So that's an operation you don't want to
Speaker 1: mess up going into the regular season. All right, Next week,
Speaker 1: next Thursday, it's the annual preseason finale against the Jets.
Speaker 1: It's going to be here at the link kickof set
Speaker 1: for seven pm. As we look at those final roster
Speaker 1: spots thereself for grabs, which battles are you looking forward to?
Speaker 1: The most? Running back is still that fourth or fifth
Speaker 1: running back is still a highly contested competition, right Josh
Speaker 1: Adams has some ice runs tonight, I think Whindale Smallwood
Speaker 1: because of his special teams contributions, I think he put
Speaker 1: nudge a little bit ahead of Josh. You know, Josh,
Speaker 1: I think in order to make this team is gonna
Speaker 1: have to show that he can do some things on
Speaker 1: special teams as well. So that fourth game is always important.
Speaker 1: From that standpoint. We talked about Carter tonight. He needs
Speaker 1: to continue to do what he's been doing throughout the preseason.
Speaker 1: Nate Sudfeld, you know, I thought his first two games
Speaker 1: in the preseason were outstanding. You know, tonight not as
Speaker 1: good as the first two words. So he certainly needs
Speaker 1: to come back, have a good game next week. And listen,
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see Christian Hackenburg, second round draft pick
Speaker 1: out of Penn State. I think he's gonna get some
Speaker 1: game action next week. Yeah, let's see. Let's see what
Speaker 1: he can do against his former team. And then guys
Speaker 1: like Josh Sweat, you're gonna get a chance to see
Speaker 1: him out there. See for that in that fourth game,
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna find out it is difficult to
Speaker 1: have to go out there and play on offense and
Speaker 1: defense and do special teams in the same game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're those stars. They're gonna be watching from the sidelines.
Speaker 1: You have the baseball castle, some fire see. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have the jersey. We no padge underneath and nothing.
Speaker 1: They are not gonna be breaking a sweat whatsoever except
Speaker 1: to get out of the building when the night is over.
Speaker 1: But you know, for those young guys, is their chance,
Speaker 1: their final chance to showcase their skills and work their
Speaker 1: way onto a team, whether it's the Eagles or one
Speaker 1: of the other ones in the NFL. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big night for them, and will have complete
Speaker 1: coverag of that next week. But ike tomorrow afternoons Johnny
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Speaker 1: you think the temperature of the fan base is gonna be? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I tell you. Winning the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: has really sort of for a large part of this
Speaker 1: fan base has them calm there. You know, last week
Speaker 1: I thought after that game the fans would would be
Speaker 1: in the up world. They weren't. They tried to add
Speaker 1: to calm me and Johnny Marks Now last week and
Speaker 1: tomorrow's approach, I would imagine it'll be pretty much the
Speaker 1: same it's difficult to judge the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball when you know your skill position guys aren't out there.
Speaker 1: I think the fans will be excited about what the
Speaker 1: defense was able to do tonight. The fans are excited
Speaker 1: for this season to get started. Uh, it's very little
Speaker 1: negativity out there about this team. This city loves this
Speaker 1: team and what they did last year. They have bought
Speaker 1: themselves some time justifiably. So UH, now lose the first game,
Speaker 1: but it's the regular season. Things will be different. Things
Speaker 1: will be different, all right. So that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for us. Here on the postgame show presented by Rico
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Speaker 1: Eagles conclude the preseason against the Jets. Have a great
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