Speaker 1: Spotted kicked up. It is. It's good the Eagles win.
Speaker 1: What an outstanding football game. Now, that's a fun game.
Speaker 1: That's outstanding. The Eagles on eleven plays, mister rees, they
Speaker 1: go seventy two yards. Jake Elliott tapped it off with
Speaker 1: the thirty five yard bomb right through the uprights. Last
Speaker 1: week's It's good Indeed, the Eagles comfort behind final drive
Speaker 1: to stun the Houston Techans by a score of thirty
Speaker 1: two to thirty. Who Welcome to the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico Chris mcfiers. Always like former Eagles linebacker ike Reas,
Speaker 1: that game had it all. The Eagles had a double
Speaker 1: digit lead in the third. In the fourth quarter, once
Speaker 1: again it slid away and you thought, maybe this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the story of the season that once again
Speaker 1: the Eagles are unable to finish there, trailing thirty to
Speaker 1: twenty nine. They get the ball one last time. Nick
Speaker 1: Foles takes a shot in the end zone. He's hurt,
Speaker 1: has to come out for one play comes back in
Speaker 1: gutsie drive. There was a pass over the middle of
Speaker 1: zach Ertz, who capped off a record breaking day where
Speaker 1: he said the all time single season record for most
Speaker 1: catches by a tight end and then a few more
Speaker 1: receptions to get the Eagles within field goal range. And
Speaker 1: Jake Elliot okay, known for the dramatic last season, with
Speaker 1: that win over the Giants, missed an extra point earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, makes up for it with the thirty
Speaker 1: five yard field goal and you just heard the call
Speaker 1: there courtesy of Merrill Camp of Merrillies, giving us the
Speaker 1: game winner. The Eagles save their season, improved at eight
Speaker 1: and seven, another win over a division leading team ike,
Speaker 1: and whoo, they have put themselves in position. Now some
Speaker 1: bad news happening around the rest of the league. Dallas winning,
Speaker 1: they clinched the NFC East Minnesota one, so they still
Speaker 1: are in control for that last wild card spot. But nonetheless, though,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had to save their season. And what a
Speaker 1: gutsie drive as Nick foles four hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: passing yards sets the all time single game passing record
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, just an outstanding game, Chris.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: and boy did they come to play today. Now today,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, this might have been the best the
Speaker 1: offensive look, especially from the passing aspect of the game,
Speaker 1: but really just a gutsy performance came out dominated. I
Speaker 1: thought the defense, you know, they relaxed a little bit
Speaker 1: there in the second half. Give Houston a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: They didn't give up obviously, with a lot to play
Speaker 1: for on the line for them, they're trying to get
Speaker 1: a bye week. They climb back into this game. They
Speaker 1: take the lead, but the Eagles showing resilience and Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: like you said, that big shot he took in the
Speaker 1: end zone to add fifteen yards to the big throw
Speaker 1: he was able to complete to al Sean Jeffrey and
Speaker 1: then the throw to Zach Ertz. They really put them
Speaker 1: in field goal range. I think just a clutch performance
Speaker 1: by Nick coming down the stretch. With this offense, you
Speaker 1: put the ball in his hands. You needed a field
Speaker 1: goal to go in and win the game in the end,
Speaker 1: and Nick Foles was able to do it. Really not
Speaker 1: able to I haven't seen the Eagles do this, not
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Not since the Coats game.
Speaker 1: Had they come back, I mean this late in the game,
Speaker 1: had a game winning drive like they did in this
Speaker 1: game here. So you know, we haven't seen very many
Speaker 1: of these type of victories. This year, we've often been
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of these type of games. But
Speaker 1: it's great to see this team coming off of that
Speaker 1: game last week against the Rams. I was so concerned
Speaker 1: about an emotional letdown coming off of that big win
Speaker 1: last week, but they came home and what could be
Speaker 1: the final home game of the season, and they really
Speaker 1: put on an offensive performance for this home crowd, and
Speaker 1: what a thrilling victory and what could be the possibly
Speaker 1: the last game. Well we'll be the last game. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys won the East. Yet Cowboys won the East, so
Speaker 1: it will be the last game. And what a game
Speaker 1: to go out on. Man, what a game to go
Speaker 1: out on. We've had some dramatic finishes this year, and
Speaker 1: you got we got to come to the set Ra afterwards,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to kind of compartmentalize everything right off.
Speaker 1: I had to be able to get ready to do
Speaker 1: the broadcast once. It's great doing this in such thrilling fashion. Again,
Speaker 1: it has been a playoff like atmosphere for the Eagles
Speaker 1: going to LA last weekend, the big win, underdogs, you know, huge,
Speaker 1: you know spread that they were against able to get
Speaker 1: the win on the road, but that game also allowed
Speaker 1: the Rams to climb back into the game late. Well here,
Speaker 1: once again, not only did they allow the Texans to
Speaker 1: get back in the ball game, the Texans got the
Speaker 1: lead and everyone's starting to think this can't happen. This
Speaker 1: is no way that this season is going to end
Speaker 1: like this. And it all goes on the shoulders of
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, who once again franchise record most passing yards
Speaker 1: in a game, four seventy one and really with no
Speaker 1: rushing game today, everything was on him. You look at
Speaker 1: the time of possession differential almost thirty four minutes. The
Speaker 1: Eagles had to football four hundred and sixty two total
Speaker 1: net passing yards when all is said and done, because
Speaker 1: only fifty seven yards on the ground. This was on
Speaker 1: Nick Foles's shoulders today and he delivered in a big way.
Speaker 1: And you know, give the rest of the offense credit
Speaker 1: for coming with the big play. As you mentioned on
Speaker 1: the final drive. Alshon Jeffrey had a fifty yard catch
Speaker 1: earlier in the game third down and ten hauls the
Speaker 1: ball in the middle of the field and he had
Speaker 1: to come out for a brief time with some sort
Speaker 1: of injury. Zach Ertz I forget i don't know what
Speaker 1: he finished with on the day. Okay, double digit receptions,
Speaker 1: double digit receptions once again for him, but getting the
Speaker 1: big catch as you mentioned, to get the deals into
Speaker 1: field goal range. Nelson Aghalore and Derres Sprawls also with
Speaker 1: big catches on that drive. So top to bottom there,
Speaker 1: this is one we're gonna be talking about and remembering
Speaker 1: for a long time. The key is you just hope
Speaker 1: that it's going to be all for a playoffs about
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. So this reminds me
Speaker 1: we're getting we're coming out to the ten year anniversary
Speaker 1: of forty four to six. Okay, when the Eagles need
Speaker 1: all those crazy things that happen on the last day
Speaker 1: of the regular season to get into the playoffs. It
Speaker 1: sort of feels like it's that type of field going
Speaker 1: into week seventeen here, So let's get a sense of
Speaker 1: what it's like over at Lincoln Financial Field. We're gonna
Speaker 1: bring an Eagles insider day Spadera and Amy Campbell and
Speaker 1: Dave just take us through your perspective, your advantage point
Speaker 1: watching Nick Foles gut it out after taking the big
Speaker 1: hit and leading the Eagles to that game winning drive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: calm cool and collected poise. Everything that we've seen from
Speaker 1: Nick Foles throughout his time as a Philadelphia Eagles, spreading
Speaker 1: the football around, some really really big throws and obviously
Speaker 1: critical times third downs, getting the ball out quickly, spreading
Speaker 1: it around, and really just tormenting a Texans defense that
Speaker 1: came in. I felt the Eagles were gonna go after
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks. They lost some players in the defensive secondary,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles, as you need to do, took advantage
Speaker 1: of great matchups. Yeah, instant classic for Nick Foles. A
Speaker 1: game we'll be talking about forever. Of course, you guys
Speaker 1: mentioned the records that he set personally in franchise wise,
Speaker 1: and just amazing throws and amazing poise coming back in
Speaker 1: from that injury, that vicious hit. I mean, if that
Speaker 1: doesn't get your blood pumping, I don't know what does.
Speaker 1: It was an awesome performance from Nichols, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: amy great job on that offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I know we'll be talking about them all show long,
Speaker 1: but I thought the defense came up with some big plays.
Speaker 1: Chris Long and Avonte Maddox stood out to me on
Speaker 1: that side of the ball today. Avonte Maddox with a
Speaker 1: tough job of trying to guard DeAndre Hopkins, and then
Speaker 1: Chris Long coming in with some big sacks forced the
Speaker 1: fumble that I thought was a big moment in the
Speaker 1: game with Fletcher Cox recovered at talk about the old
Speaker 1: guy and Chris Long and the young guy and Avonte
Speaker 1: Maddox now they played today, Yeah, I think that's that's
Speaker 1: well said. You have the old guy and the young
Speaker 1: guy making amazing plays and big stops here. I think
Speaker 1: one of the big stats I looked at for the
Speaker 1: Texans today was that they were three of ten on
Speaker 1: third down, So the Eagles really able to just hunker
Speaker 1: down and stop them when to get the momentum going
Speaker 1: as well. And one of the things about this Texans
Speaker 1: team is when you look at the stat sheet after
Speaker 1: their games, they don't look like they win, but they're winning.
Speaker 1: And you have that fourth quarter Deshaun Watson that always
Speaker 1: comes into play. And so the fact that they were
Speaker 1: the Eagles were able to overcome that from the Texans
Speaker 1: today I think was huge for and I you know, frankly,
Speaker 1: I was disappointed with the way the Eagles closed out defensively,
Speaker 1: I thought with a twenty nine to sixteen lead, a
Speaker 1: thirteen point lead, you have a chance to really finish
Speaker 1: them off, and they didn't after the Josh Adams fumble
Speaker 1: and then late in the game another drive down the field.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, there were some big plays. Just
Speaker 1: I want to see sixty minutes of complete defense. Did
Speaker 1: not see it today, really did not see it last
Speaker 1: week against the Rams either, when the Eagles hung on
Speaker 1: for victory and Los Angeles, well, we have reason to
Speaker 1: feel nervous when we see something like that happened because
Speaker 1: we have seen them fall apart. Layton games allow a
Speaker 1: lot of points, especially here at home. It's happened a
Speaker 1: few times this season. So the Eagles got that thirteen
Speaker 1: point lead, and I am still very nervous at that
Speaker 1: point until they close it out. Every game here we
Speaker 1: are a one point game with three seconds to go,
Speaker 1: and I'm nervous at the end of the game again.
Speaker 1: So yeah, sixty minutes on both sides would be a
Speaker 1: nice thing to see. Yeah, David, it's gonna take us
Speaker 1: a while, I think to calm down. But what did
Speaker 1: you think of Doug Pearson and his aggressive play calling today?
Speaker 1: Insistently early on going for our fourth down and then
Speaker 1: on the other side, you know, Bill O'Brien being much
Speaker 1: more conservative in chances. Are you figured with Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: as legs could have been able to get some of
Speaker 1: those fourt down conversions. Yeah, I mean the Eagles were
Speaker 1: three of three on fourth downs in the first half.
Speaker 1: That's remarkable even for somebody as aggressive as Peterson, and
Speaker 1: I think you have to have that. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Eagles are in a situation where they've got to score
Speaker 1: a lot of points, got to take some chances here.
Speaker 1: I love the way they got darren Sproles incorporated into
Speaker 1: the past game. They felt like they could move the
Speaker 1: chains whenever they wanted against this Texans defense, as long
Speaker 1: as Nick got rid of the football and as long
Speaker 1: as Vieti left tackle Hulla hulavuty Viety gave him just
Speaker 1: enough time working against Jadaveon Clowney. That was a really
Speaker 1: tough matchup early in this game for the Eagles. When
Speaker 1: Jason Peters went out, Clowney feasted on Viti for the
Speaker 1: first half. Vitie came back with a big stech half. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's a great person to highlight. Like
Speaker 1: you said, he had a couple of rough moments in
Speaker 1: the first half, a couple of penalties that were actually
Speaker 1: pretty costly for this offense, stalling momentum, installing drives, but
Speaker 1: being able to bounce back against the guy like Jadavion
Speaker 1: Clowney who still continued to make an impact. But to me,
Speaker 1: it's about the timing of when those things happened, when
Speaker 1: he makes an impact. So he made his presence spelt,
Speaker 1: But was it at costly times as much? No, it wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and guys talk about somebody band timely and making a
Speaker 1: great impact. How about zach Ertz and what he was
Speaker 1: able to do today setting a record the all time
Speaker 1: record for tight ends most catches in the season, sixteen
Speaker 1: targets a day, twelve catches, two touchdowns, one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten yards. What else can you say about zach Ertz
Speaker 1: that we haven't said throughout and delivering the delivering in
Speaker 1: the red zone once again, this is the mark of
Speaker 1: a great tight end. He's scoring the football. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what's interesting about the Eagles offense. We've seen
Speaker 1: zach as the center point of the offense throughout the season.
Speaker 1: At the expensive plays down the field. Today, Nick was
Speaker 1: able to still throw the ball down the field, big
Speaker 1: played agghil Er, big plays to Alshan Jeffrey, throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: taking chances, getting Dallas Goddard involved. Look, I think zach
Speaker 1: Ertz has come such a long way, and I'll pointing
Speaker 1: to that game against the Cincinnati Bengals a few years ago,
Speaker 1: vontez perfect. Everybody criticized Zack for not blocking perfect, and
Speaker 1: in that time from then till now, he has become
Speaker 1: more aggressive, better with the football in his hands, tougher
Speaker 1: and more physical. Yeah, certainly it's a huge accomplishment for
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. And you know, just as soon as that
Speaker 1: milestone was accomplished, I'm imagining all the media going into
Speaker 1: the locker room and asking him about that, and he's
Speaker 1: not going to care if the team doesn't win this game.
Speaker 1: He's not going to care about that milestone. And every
Speaker 1: week he's always the first person to say I'm the
Speaker 1: one that needs to look in the mirror, even though
Speaker 1: for many of these games he was the most productive
Speaker 1: pass catcher on this team. And so just a great
Speaker 1: accomplishment for an even better person who you just feel
Speaker 1: good about a guy like him accomplishing something like this.
Speaker 1: David and Amy thank you so much. Happy holidays. So
Speaker 1: both of you can't wait to listen to the Eagle
Speaker 1: Hide podcast and read on the inside, com was he
Speaker 1: going to delve into foles historic performance? Thanks again, guys, So, like,
Speaker 1: why don't we get into your takeaways from this victory?
Speaker 1: And you know we're talking about the offense. We gotta
Speaker 1: start right there. And I think you know, Dave rob
Speaker 1: a great point there at the end that Foles not
Speaker 1: only was able to move the chains getting rid of
Speaker 1: the ball quickly, but still has some big explosive plays. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's obviously. The first thing you take away
Speaker 1: from this football game is how well this offense looked. Now,
Speaker 1: we thought last week the offense looked the best that
Speaker 1: it looked all year. I thought that was a little hyperbole,
Speaker 1: But this week, there's no denying this is the most
Speaker 1: explosive this offense has looked all year, even with the
Speaker 1: running game struggling at times to day. I thought Doug
Speaker 1: did a great job of sticking with it just to
Speaker 1: keep that Texans defense honest. But we knew the big
Speaker 1: players were gonna be through the air, you know, those
Speaker 1: cornerbacks over there for the Texans. A little long in
Speaker 1: the tooth got banged up the day as well, so
Speaker 1: to be able to put the ball up the way
Speaker 1: they did and really have the success. They had two
Speaker 1: receivers well, two guys over one hundred yards and zach
Speaker 1: Ertz and Nelson Agilore. Good to see Nellie back in
Speaker 1: the offense. Alshane almost had a hundred yards himself, But
Speaker 1: it was really all about Nick Foles and the way
Speaker 1: Nick was throwing the ball. Now, I look at early
Speaker 1: in the game when he was able to hit Darren
Speaker 1: Spros on those key third and short fourth and one
Speaker 1: place where he's hitting Darren Spros on that wheel route.
Speaker 1: Those are nice soft touch passes that Folds was able
Speaker 1: to deliver point right the Spros and allow him to run.
Speaker 1: So when you look at this game, Nick Foles is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that stands out to me. He was
Speaker 1: outstanding today, his best game in my opinion, by far,
Speaker 1: by far, the best offensive game this team has shown
Speaker 1: this season. With over five yards offense. He does not
Speaker 1: shy away from the spotlight whatsoever. Michaels your second takeaway.
Speaker 1: We've talked about zach Ertz and his historic performance another
Speaker 1: twelve catches, but It's not like he's just patting his stats. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's getting the catches in the red zoners Dave mentioned
Speaker 1: a short time ago, and also on the final drive
Speaker 1: to get them in field goal range. So when they
Speaker 1: need clutch plays, zach Ertz is willing to deliver it.
Speaker 1: So obviously he can get you the numbers, but he
Speaker 1: also can step up in prime time. Let me let
Speaker 1: me say this real clear. You're talking about the best
Speaker 1: weapon that we have on offense and zach Ertz on
Speaker 1: another nonsense talk. Forget about that. Zach Ertz is the
Speaker 1: best offensive weapon that we have at the skill position.
Speaker 1: Does a great job of getting open every week. Even
Speaker 1: when the team knows that he's a big part of
Speaker 1: your game plan, they try to double team him. I
Speaker 1: saw where he was double teamed in the red zone.
Speaker 1: They put the honey Badger Tyron Matthew on him. They
Speaker 1: still found ways to get in the ball. I thought
Speaker 1: last week, I enjoy going down the field to al
Speaker 1: Sean and let him do what he was doing. But
Speaker 1: I didn't think zach was a big part of the
Speaker 1: offense last week. And a lot of this is about
Speaker 1: the game plan. So the game plan this week was
Speaker 1: to get ERTs involved and it was big time for
Speaker 1: us today, key third down conversions, big in the red zone,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns for him today, I mean man record setting
Speaker 1: day for him. Congratulations of zach Ertz becoming the record
Speaker 1: holder for receptions by a tight end in the seasons,
Speaker 1: passing and surpassing a cowboy and Jason went in the process.
Speaker 1: It's idle, nonetheless, exactly so special right there. So your
Speaker 1: third one, you know, we'll get into some of the
Speaker 1: bad from the game, and that's taking care of the football,
Speaker 1: something that the Eagles, you know, didn't do too well today.
Speaker 1: They were able to force a couple turnovers. They had
Speaker 1: the one fumble there, you know that the strips ecked
Speaker 1: by Chris Long, and then also a turnover and down
Speaker 1: that doesn't go in the books a turnover, but still
Speaker 1: really is treated the same. But nonetheless, the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: not taking care of the ball as well as they
Speaker 1: needed to, and it did almost cost them today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you got to do a better job of that.
Speaker 1: When I look at the other key factor in this game,
Speaker 1: takeaway from this game is being able to take care
Speaker 1: of the football. It's really the only reason the Texans
Speaker 1: were in this game late. Obviously, you give him seven
Speaker 1: points by the fumble there when Nick gets sacked down there,
Speaker 1: put the ball on a five yard line, easy walk
Speaker 1: in for Deshaun Watson and then Josh Adams. I know
Speaker 1: he's a young guy, rookie. He even had both hands
Speaker 1: on the ball, but you gotta do a better job
Speaker 1: of squeezing that thing. You know, the Texans are trying
Speaker 1: to get the ball back. That's the only way they
Speaker 1: can get back in his game is if you give
Speaker 1: them a short field to work with. And then the
Speaker 1: interception by Nick, I know that's a throw he would
Speaker 1: love to have back, trying to make a play there
Speaker 1: at his zac that's a throw that he wants to
Speaker 1: have back. But you know, that's the one thing they
Speaker 1: did last week against the Rams was take care of
Speaker 1: the football and in order to close this season out
Speaker 1: on a high note and really give themselves a chance
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs next week by going down there
Speaker 1: to take care of Washington, we gotta take care of football.
Speaker 1: You know, you usually don't win games in the NFL
Speaker 1: when you lose the turnover battle. Eagles lost that today,
Speaker 1: and especially when you turn the ball over three times
Speaker 1: in the game. It's difficult to win games like that,
Speaker 1: but that that just shows you how explosive this offense
Speaker 1: was the day that they were able to overcome some
Speaker 1: of those turnovers. Indeed, and there's another great offensive outing
Speaker 1: from the Eagles back to back weeks with Nick Foles
Speaker 1: and as the starting quarterback. There's something that you knew
Speaker 1: that you had the talent on this team. It was
Speaker 1: just a matter of bringing it to fruition and credit
Speaker 1: the coaches with their game playing the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks with a play calling the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and getting guys like like darren Sproles, you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, is he soon? Who's done? You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people as Crigs were all saying that that
Speaker 1: Sprowles had nothing left. And I remember when Sprowls was,
Speaker 1: you know, activated and brought back into the lineup. Guys
Speaker 1: like Brandon Graham on defense were like, we need all
Speaker 1: the playmakers that we can get. He is going to
Speaker 1: help us at some point down the stretch. And this
Speaker 1: is a few weeks back when he was just getting
Speaker 1: you back on the field. And sure enough, Darren's Browles
Speaker 1: answered the bell today, not just as a Rusher as
Speaker 1: a receiver, you know, the fourth down conversion getting the touchdown. There.
Speaker 1: In fact, an interesting note on his thirty seven yard
Speaker 1: touchdown reception. It was on the fourth down play. It
Speaker 1: was the longest receiving touchdown by an Eagle on a
Speaker 1: fourth down since go back to your day's BEDOC against
Speaker 1: Houston in two thousand and two, the fake punt fifty
Speaker 1: seven yard or so, that's the last time that there
Speaker 1: was a long touchdown receptown on the fourth down by
Speaker 1: an Eagle. So the longest since that Dawkins player right there.
Speaker 1: So you know, we go about talk about adversity and
Speaker 1: now this team has dealt with it all season long.
Speaker 1: And we touched on in the Talkback seven with David
Speaker 1: Amy a few minutes ago. But the Eagles losing Jason
Speaker 1: Peters on the opening drive of the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're watching the game and we're sitting there like, wait,
Speaker 1: did Jason Peters play? We saw him on the first
Speaker 1: the first play of the game, and then vietyp goes in.
Speaker 1: So apparently Peters must have reaggravated that quad injury, That's
Speaker 1: what the broadcast said. So Vietyight goes in in a
Speaker 1: difficult matchup against the David clown the former number one
Speaker 1: overall pick who typically is moved around the front, used
Speaker 1: as a joker. But when they knew they had that matchup,
Speaker 1: they were squaring in on that right there. So tough
Speaker 1: slodding and not all of those on vy tide. There
Speaker 1: were times when it was the block. It was a
Speaker 1: tight end who was blocking in the situation, and that's
Speaker 1: who was match up against Clowney and unfortunate that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a mismatch right there. But still for for the offenses,
Speaker 1: still have the production that it did. It's reminiscent of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl almost where Uf folds in that quarterback
Speaker 1: vietize your left tackle. It's all almost trying to bring
Speaker 1: it back full circle as we're trying to rekindle some
Speaker 1: of the magic from that run as the Eagles looked
Speaker 1: to try to get into the postseason once again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're trying to. Man, it's been a it's been a
Speaker 1: tough season for the defending champs and we're realizing how
Speaker 1: difficult it is to repeat as champions. But they're starting
Speaker 1: to play some of their best football right now. Let's
Speaker 1: we're sending it to the lake. The Victoria's head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson addressing the media, the third and ten throw
Speaker 1: to the nixt throw after you came back in the game,
Speaker 1: to Zach, can you kind of walk us through the
Speaker 1: call the last drive? Yeah, twenty yard passed. Oh oh
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah yeah, okay, um yeah, so you know, um,
Speaker 1: just a call that's been in our offense. Um again,
Speaker 1: thinking thinking of our playmakers obviously, you know al Shaan
Speaker 1: making a tremendous catch and then and then Earth's uh,
Speaker 1: the two defenders for Houston actually collided, um, and which
Speaker 1: allowed Zach to really really pop free. And Nick did
Speaker 1: a great job there of just being able to be
Speaker 1: patient in the pocket, find him and put up a
Speaker 1: good throw and then have the awareness of getting out
Speaker 1: of bounce on the seine. There's been a few top
Speaker 1: Bard orders here. What were you thinking? We got time
Speaker 1: and time outs again, and uh, have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in the offense. You know, it's something that um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we work on a lot. There's a
Speaker 1: two minute drive and tempo offense and um, you know, um,
Speaker 1: this league has always been about about players making plays
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, a lot of credit to
Speaker 1: the offense today for for putting us in that position
Speaker 1: to to win this game. Nicole was plays with calmness,
Speaker 1: with poise. But how impressive was it today, especially after
Speaker 1: he took that hit, had to come out then to
Speaker 1: come back and direct the offense. You know, that's just
Speaker 1: that's just Nick. Um. You know, he's always been calm,
Speaker 1: you know, in in in and around the you know,
Speaker 1: his preparation during the week and then of course leading
Speaker 1: up to the game. And you know, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that just wants to wants to continue to just help
Speaker 1: the team win and and and dish the ball and
Speaker 1: put it put it in our playmaker's hands. And you know,
Speaker 1: um really not not get much credit. Just just let
Speaker 1: the other guys do it, you know. And and uh,
Speaker 1: even after taking that hit and then going back in,
Speaker 1: I thought it took a lot of a lot of courage,
Speaker 1: excuse me, a lot of courage and guts at that
Speaker 1: point to want to finish the game and come back in.
Speaker 1: And it's just credit to credit to Nick. What did
Speaker 1: he say when he came off the field for that
Speaker 1: one play? Um, I was getting Nate ready, so I
Speaker 1: didn't talk to him. You guys think you're playing your
Speaker 1: best football this season right now heading in the next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think I think he you know, um,
Speaker 1: these last you know, three four or five games, I
Speaker 1: think things have um kind of picked up for us. Uh.
Speaker 1: I do feel like at this time of the year, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want any kind of momentum, um,
Speaker 1: you know, if you get a chance to go to
Speaker 1: the postseason, you need to be playing your best football now.
Speaker 1: And and UM I think that's uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that's what we're doing at this time. You got
Speaker 1: to lead for most of the game. But the past
Speaker 1: froun ratio is pretty lopsided favor of past because they
Speaker 1: were kind of depleted at a corner. Did you see
Speaker 1: their rush defense today? Thirty five yards rushing in football?
Speaker 1: It was hard criticis oh okay, okay, maybe maybe we
Speaker 1: need to run the ball more or something. But um
Speaker 1: as a tremendous defense. Now, it's a great group that
Speaker 1: front seven eight guys with their safeties. I mean, they
Speaker 1: do it. They do a really good job. They're um
Speaker 1: uh they create um different angles for our offensive linement
Speaker 1: and so some of the things that we've been able
Speaker 1: to do on the last couple of weeks, UM they
Speaker 1: just kind of took us out of it. And and
Speaker 1: so you know, I knew we're gonna have to We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to run the ball late in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, even when we went up the you know,
Speaker 1: by the third thirteen there, twenty nine sixteen, I felt
Speaker 1: like we could you know, get a little momentum, run
Speaker 1: the ball, make them use timehouse. You know, maybe we
Speaker 1: could finish the game at that point. But um, we
Speaker 1: didn't do it. It's just a great defense. One conversion
Speaker 1: the first have two questions. What made you go for
Speaker 1: that one? It was there an explanation as the one. Um, well,
Speaker 1: the I wanted to go up six at that point,
Speaker 1: so that's really the the option there. Um And then um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's something we'll just have to take a
Speaker 1: look at. You know, we'll send we'll send it in
Speaker 1: tomorrow and see what too we get back. But uh, um,
Speaker 1: nothing for you eighty three yard dad audible, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean like Lane Johnson on j J today, did
Speaker 1: a tremendous job. JJ's name didn't get called verty much.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Lane, Lane I had a great week
Speaker 1: of preparation, got it got into in his mindset, he's
Speaker 1: he's awesome. I mean, he's awesome. He's he's a tremendous
Speaker 1: right tackle, and you know, he's had to block some
Speaker 1: really really really good defensive ends, uh this season. Um,
Speaker 1: this was probably one of the uh, probably the best
Speaker 1: one he's he's seen all season and and did a
Speaker 1: nice job, did a really nice job. And it's a
Speaker 1: credit to him and um well deserved the check out
Speaker 1: of on that audible. It was just a coverage check.
Speaker 1: He saw something Houston had been running earlier in the game,
Speaker 1: and he saw it, got to another got to another
Speaker 1: one of them that got to a play that would
Speaker 1: attack that coverage, and uh, great protection and allowed him
Speaker 1: to get the ball down the field play It was
Speaker 1: a pass play to begin with. Yes, yeah, exact broke
Speaker 1: Wittin's record tonight today. What does he meant to your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks to have a guy, particularly on third down and
Speaker 1: in the red zone that they know can get open
Speaker 1: and they can count on. Yeah, First of all, it's
Speaker 1: it's a great honor for Zach and and UM you know,
Speaker 1: can congratulations go to him. You know, but he's another
Speaker 1: one of those guys that very unselfish. UM quarterbacks do
Speaker 1: have a comfort level with him. You know, he seems
Speaker 1: to kind of be that guy that that uh you
Speaker 1: know exactly where he's gonna be. And um, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's obviously great after the after the catch, Uh,
Speaker 1: runs great routes. So you know, for the quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: have that type of guy, Um, again, it just gives
Speaker 1: you that little for you know, do you especially in
Speaker 1: in crucial moments like you know, the the corner route
Speaker 1: that he ran late in the game. Um, It's just
Speaker 1: it's a monitor credit to him for how hard he works.
Speaker 1: And then and then his uh relationship with our quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I was just proud of him, told him how proud
Speaker 1: of proud I was. And you know, um, we had
Speaker 1: to we had to come through a lot of adversity today.
Speaker 1: Uh and and and they hung in there, they hung
Speaker 1: together as the game wore on. Our our team got
Speaker 1: tighter and tighter and tighter and played played well down
Speaker 1: the stretch. And you know, it wasn't pretty obviously. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, there were a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: mistakes and a lot of things that went around. But
Speaker 1: but the bottom line was they they found a way
Speaker 1: to win. Wasn't pass a certain feeling your team. Are
Speaker 1: you seeing something now and he's passed five mtums that
Speaker 1: keeps you encouragement imbout your prospects here. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know it's the part of the message in the
Speaker 1: locker room too, was just you know, I'm proud of
Speaker 1: the way they come to work every day and prepare
Speaker 1: that day it's Wednesday or Thursday or Friday, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: they prepare that way and it pays off, you know
Speaker 1: in these games. And um, you know, our guys don't
Speaker 1: make plays that they made today if we don't practice
Speaker 1: those situations or at least put them in situations to
Speaker 1: make those plays in practice. And you know, you're just
Speaker 1: seeing how a lot of our young guys are really
Speaker 1: maturing now and they're growing up and they are they
Speaker 1: are contributing and making some plays and you know it's
Speaker 1: not again, it's not perfect. There's still some mistakes being made,
Speaker 1: but you know, the veteran guys are rallying. The veteran
Speaker 1: guys are making plays. They're um doing the things that
Speaker 1: we ask them to do. And that's for me. Um,
Speaker 1: that's all I can ask for. The effort is there, obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the excitement is there, The passion for the game,
Speaker 1: that desire to win, and you know, it's a resilient group.
Speaker 1: It seems like a few times this year and that resiliency,
Speaker 1: this group has been at least playoff wise, declare dead
Speaker 1: for the year, even part of today. What does it say?
Speaker 1: And how proud of you? Then you're going into week
Speaker 1: seventeen putting something to play for us to do. It's
Speaker 1: it's everything. I mean, these guys are so excited to
Speaker 1: be to be still you know, in the hunt and
Speaker 1: and to really um, you know, we talk about controlling
Speaker 1: things that we can control. Well, we get to control
Speaker 1: where you know, our destiny a little bit. We get
Speaker 1: to make our own and create our own and and
Speaker 1: and so that's that's that's why I'm you know, these
Speaker 1: guys never quit, you know, they they don't quit. And um,
Speaker 1: it would have been easy, you know today just to
Speaker 1: you know, kind of let your guard down at the
Speaker 1: end and and not finish the game. But um, again
Speaker 1: kind of goes back to your question. Just as a
Speaker 1: veteran group, resilient group, they hang together and they find
Speaker 1: a way to win, and and uh, you know, as
Speaker 1: a head coach, that's what you can all you can
Speaker 1: ask for Really, you gotta give Doug a live credit
Speaker 1: for first and foremost. I cannot wait for the locker
Speaker 1: room celebration video that we will have on our social
Speaker 1: media channels or digital channels if Ladelphiels dot com. I
Speaker 1: almost want to argue we got posted I think tonight
Speaker 1: because you know it. Scotty Rockins in there too, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: get that out there. But credit Doug for again, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, this team could have put it
Speaker 1: in the tank. You go back to the Giants game
Speaker 1: down nineteen to three in the first half, nineteen to three,
Speaker 1: rally back, Okay, Jake Ellig gets the game winner and
Speaker 1: that was So that was probably the last one that
Speaker 1: involved a game win situation arrested me earlier about and
Speaker 1: then to get themselves in position where look, oh it's
Speaker 1: not a winning they're end it's still a win and
Speaker 1: they need some help at this point. But nonetheless that
Speaker 1: the fact that the Eels are still in position speaks
Speaker 1: volumes to the job that Doug is done keeping this
Speaker 1: football team together. Yeah. I mean, listen a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about Doug out there, I think unjustifiably so guy's
Speaker 1: a good coaches. Super Bowl winning head coach. Guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll coach the greatest coach of all time on the
Speaker 1: biggest stage. So we know Doug knows how to coach
Speaker 1: a football team, and I think more importantly, his players
Speaker 1: respond to him. His players typically go out there and
Speaker 1: they play hard for him. He knows how to relate
Speaker 1: to these guys. He knows how to get the most
Speaker 1: out of them. You know, I think back to the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks and just the practice schedule throughout
Speaker 1: the week and the fact that Doug is either giving
Speaker 1: them a day off when people didn't think they would
Speaker 1: get a day off. Last week after that Rams victory,
Speaker 1: he pushed practice back to give them more rest and
Speaker 1: that has allowed them to come out and be fresher
Speaker 1: when they stap out on the field. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: the last two weeks the job he's done as a
Speaker 1: coach to have his team ready after that difficult loss
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. Game against the Cowboys where they were exhausted,
Speaker 1: lost in overtime, to fly out to Los Angeles where
Speaker 1: no one's giving them a chance there too touchdown underdog,
Speaker 1: and the way they went out there and dominated the Rams.
Speaker 1: You gotta tip your cap to Doug Peterson. So some
Speaker 1: thought that they may have caught lightning in a bottle
Speaker 1: because Nick Foles was in there in the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't necessarily bring the same energy this week
Speaker 1: versus the Texas. Well, you were wrong. They came out
Speaker 1: today with the same type of energy, and I thought
Speaker 1: the offense was cooking moving up and down the field.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Doug's aggressiveness going forward on fourth down. Just
Speaker 1: look at the two coaches to day and the way
Speaker 1: they handled this game. I thought Bill Bill O'Brien coached
Speaker 1: not to lose to day, almost as if he was
Speaker 1: coaching from one of the old coaching manuals where you
Speaker 1: punt the ball when you're at this spot in the field. Well,
Speaker 1: Dougs the type of coach that goes off of his gut,
Speaker 1: feeling sure he has analytic numbers to support the decisions
Speaker 1: that he makes, but at the same time, as a coach,
Speaker 1: he understands when his offense has it rolling or the
Speaker 1: defense is on their heels and he has the perfect
Speaker 1: play dialed up ready to go fourth or four on
Speaker 1: fourth down. He set the new trend in the NFL
Speaker 1: from last year of being aggressive and going forward on
Speaker 1: fourth down. Guy doesn't get enough credit. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: people forget what he just did a year ago. Guy
Speaker 1: is a very good football coach. It's not easy getting
Speaker 1: the team motivated to play after they won a championship,
Speaker 1: the fact that they won't finish under five hundred, the
Speaker 1: fact that he's had to deal with injuries all year.
Speaker 1: I felt I needed to take a little extra time
Speaker 1: to give him his credit as a head coach, because
Speaker 1: we'll pass kudos around all the players, and rightfully so.
Speaker 1: But there's a guy who's ultimately gonna take the blame
Speaker 1: when things don't go well, and that's the head coach.
Speaker 1: So when they win a game like this, when they
Speaker 1: play as well as they are, he deserves the credit. Job.
Speaker 1: Great job. Every show, I guess every show it brings
Speaker 1: a one point or another. We get earlier in the
Speaker 1: shows that everyone out there gets to see it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Nick Foles and Zach Ertz in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. But first, the hero at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, kicker Jake Elliott our Eagles entire days.
Speaker 1: Spaderre caught up with him on the field after the
Speaker 1: game winning thirty five yard field goal. All right once again,
Speaker 1: Jake Elliott delivers the game winning field goal. How was
Speaker 1: it out there? Man? I needed that one. He's not
Speaker 1: on the line there, so you know we're down by
Speaker 1: one and you know we missed that one earlier, so
Speaker 1: luckily had that and glad we got it. I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think that you like can win games come down
Speaker 1: to the final moment. I mean, that's what she lived
Speaker 1: for as a kicker. You gotta love these moments. So
Speaker 1: h Yeah, the offensive a hick of a job once
Speaker 1: again getting us down the field. Rick and Cam did
Speaker 1: a hick of job getting it down. Awesome protection and
Speaker 1: we put it through they tell me about. The kick
Speaker 1: was a pure and sweet Yeah. Felt good. Jake Elliott
Speaker 1: and mister Klutch once again. The game winning field goal today.
Speaker 1: Great bounce back for him after missing the extra point
Speaker 1: earlier in the game, to have the chance to win,
Speaker 1: to kind of rectify himself and certainly stepped up to
Speaker 1: the tasks. It seems like whenever there's been a big
Speaker 1: field goal at the end of a game, Elliot's always
Speaker 1: delivered in big times. Yeah, you need those type of kickers,
Speaker 1: like you said, you know, way to bounce back. Missed
Speaker 1: the extra point earlier in the game, but to come
Speaker 1: down ice water in his veins kick that in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nice job there, Jakie. You mentioned earlier that the Deals
Speaker 1: were four for four on fourth down in this game.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget they were nine of sixteen on third down,
Speaker 1: including two for two on the game winning drive. The
Speaker 1: one was the past Alison Jeffrey over the mill, then
Speaker 1: adding the rough and the passer call on Jadevan Clowney,
Speaker 1: and then the twenty yard completion to zach Ertz both
Speaker 1: plays third and ten. So the Eel struggling to get
Speaker 1: the yards and early down to try to get themselves
Speaker 1: in mandible situations didn't marry for Nikki six today whatsoever? There,
Speaker 1: cool calm and collective. Great job on that route too.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a nice little concept there where
Speaker 1: the Texans are in man deepense. They got Tyron Matthew
Speaker 1: lined up on zach Ertz there, but because of a
Speaker 1: little bunch set there, zach ert Is nice was able
Speaker 1: to run a nice little rough route, causing the linebacker
Speaker 1: and Tyron Matthew to run into each other. Tyron Matthew
Speaker 1: falls down, zach Ertz wide open bilbo range. There you go.
Speaker 1: That's ball game exactly. So let's get to our unsung
Speaker 1: heroes of the game and Ike, I'll let you start
Speaker 1: things off here. Well, I'm gonna go with the old man,
Speaker 1: Chris Long. Man, Chris Long, we got we became so
Speaker 1: accustomed to him making these plays last year where he
Speaker 1: would get the big strip sack late in the game,
Speaker 1: force a fumble game over. Did something very similar to
Speaker 1: that today when he got that sack on the Seants
Speaker 1: in his second one and he's able to get that
Speaker 1: ball out of there. Fletcher Cox gets that from a recovery.
Speaker 1: I thought Chris Long was huge day. They've needed some
Speaker 1: extra pass rushers. Michael benn has been doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 1: We know what Fletcher Cox brings. Brandon Graham robbed double
Speaker 1: sack today on a bogus rough in the quarterback penalty there,
Speaker 1: but Chris Long. They needed that extra speed rusher coming
Speaker 1: off the edge, and against this Houston Texans offensive line
Speaker 1: that have given up the most sacks in the league
Speaker 1: this year. I thought, great job from the wily veteran
Speaker 1: think about the Texans, great job of taking care of
Speaker 1: the football we're talking about. The Eagles have struggled with
Speaker 1: that the Texans had not had a turnover in four
Speaker 1: consecutive games coming into this contest, so the force that
Speaker 1: fumble right there was huge and led to Zach Urch's
Speaker 1: second touchdown of the game, which made the score twy
Speaker 1: nine the sixteen And at the time, I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating, thinking, yeah, they've got this. Okay, But as
Speaker 1: things have gone this season, the Eagles are taught us
Speaker 1: we should know better right now. Okay, what was it
Speaker 1: you first time? You know? Shame it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those third four times, whatever it's been. You know, we
Speaker 1: should know better by this point in the year. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go offensive line here and I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: number sixty five Lane Johnson. Okay, he was ticked off.
Speaker 1: He was math that he was not named to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. And I can understand because injuries have kind
Speaker 1: of limited his play, but he felt that he had
Speaker 1: played well enough while he was out there, and the
Speaker 1: fact that he was an All Pro last season, that
Speaker 1: he should have deserved enough respect from around his front,
Speaker 1: around the league, from his teammates around the league, his peers,
Speaker 1: that he should have been named to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Once again. Well, that wasn't the case, so he decided
Speaker 1: to take it out on JJ Wat, the three time
Speaker 1: NFL Defensive Player of the Year. You barely heard his
Speaker 1: name mentioned at all during the telecast. And because of
Speaker 1: the injury to Jason Peters, Big v Hollapolavadi Vita need
Speaker 1: all the help that he could get taking care of
Speaker 1: j Devi and Clowney on the other side, so Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson was left alone with one on one many times.
Speaker 1: Got the course of the game, Lane came to play.
Speaker 1: Lane took air of the deal and made sure to
Speaker 1: erase JJ Watt to keep him, keep Foles as clean
Speaker 1: as possible and keep Watt off the sack tally sheet
Speaker 1: because what I think had fourteen and a half sacks
Speaker 1: come into this game. So certainly big kudos to Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson for keeping foals clean and taking out a player
Speaker 1: who has disrupted many a game during his time in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So those are unsung heroes. And it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what the offensive line going to next
Speaker 1: week's game. Is this thing with Jason Peter something that's
Speaker 1: gonna linger. Will he be able to bow back or
Speaker 1: do you at least get ye tire ready to say
Speaker 1: all week. This is your show because right now you
Speaker 1: look at that left side of the line. Stephan Wisnoski,
Speaker 1: he opened the season as a starter, you know, was
Speaker 1: bench for Isaac say Amalo Saimal got hurt, missed the
Speaker 1: game once again, so Wiz has been back in there
Speaker 1: as a starter. And at left tackle, Peter's going down,
Speaker 1: so viyetie step But in guess what this was your
Speaker 1: offensive line during the Super Bowl last year from left
Speaker 1: or right here. So it's all coming together. It seems
Speaker 1: like at the right time. The question is, well, enough
Speaker 1: thing's happened to get the Eagles into the playoffs or
Speaker 1: they at least have a chance in the tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I'm big v you need to be ready to go.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jason Peters obviously wants to play. He's gonna
Speaker 1: do whatever he can to get out there on the field.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's not just about when you're talking about
Speaker 1: Jason Peters, it's just not getting him to the game
Speaker 1: and started the game. He's gonna have to finish the game.
Speaker 1: And listen, thirty six years old, longer than two. If
Speaker 1: I saw stat today where Jason Peters they did it.
Speaker 1: They put up a chart where it said it had
Speaker 1: position players from two thousand, from two thousand and four
Speaker 1: that's still in the league. It has only one offensive
Speaker 1: tackle from two thousand and four that's still in the league,
Speaker 1: and he plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, and it's Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: So guy's been around a long time. We know five
Speaker 1: years after he's done playing, he's more than likely headed
Speaker 1: to can't know, Ohio, But Big V, it's that time
Speaker 1: of the year that you need to be ready. You
Speaker 1: need to prepare this week as if you're going to
Speaker 1: be the starter. Jason Peters is gonna do everything he
Speaker 1: can to get himself ready to play next week. You
Speaker 1: know the game is big. He wants to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. But Big V, you know, as a
Speaker 1: backup buddy, you gotta be ready to go as if
Speaker 1: you're the starter. That is right. So, speaking of Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: Davis Spanera caught up with him on the field after
Speaker 1: the Eagles went over the Texans. Let's go to that
Speaker 1: interview right now here now with right tackle Lane Johnson. Lane,
Speaker 1: what was it like in the huddle there that last drive?
Speaker 1: I surprisingly calm among all the chaos. All we want
Speaker 1: to do we try to get a field goal range.
Speaker 1: We felt like we were pretty pretty consistent Dickon and
Speaker 1: Duncan and and got it done. Great battle with J J. Watt.
Speaker 1: What was it like for you today out there? It
Speaker 1: was a battle exactly that the whole game. We're starting
Speaker 1: to finish. So great player. Um, you know, I love
Speaker 1: going against great talent and uh you know, hats all
Speaker 1: to Lane. Final game here Lincoln Financial Field this season.
Speaker 1: What can you say to these great fans for the
Speaker 1: support they've shown once again this year. We're not finished yet.
Speaker 1: You gotta keep you gotta keep watching. Anything can happened.
Speaker 1: We always battled to the very amen Lane Johnson Eagles
Speaker 1: right tackle. It's like I'm watching stone cold Steve Auson there,
Speaker 1: you know, even with with the drama, the way he speaks,
Speaker 1: it's like he's speaking to the crowd at like a
Speaker 1: wrestling match. Right, That's exactly him right there to a tea.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the defensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Great job stopping the run. Neither team could get the
Speaker 1: run game going. Obviously Deshaun Watson was able to make
Speaker 1: magic with his feet, but in terms of the running backs,
Speaker 1: nothing going. Tough sledding for both teams today. But what
Speaker 1: did you think of the Eagles their inability to keep
Speaker 1: Watson continue. I thought they did overall better job of
Speaker 1: it in the second half, But then you saw the
Speaker 1: one play I think I forget what the end result was.
Speaker 1: I think it was a pass of Hopkins down the
Speaker 1: left side, and then yes, he spun around three times. Okay,
Speaker 1: you seem like everyone had a chance at him, but
Speaker 1: he's able to break free to be able to get
Speaker 1: the pass away. Yeah, exactly, So you thought that was
Speaker 1: gonna be the ball game, but your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: defense not be able to keep content on him, you know,
Speaker 1: very much plays like like it was like watching Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and the struggles the Eels have had with Wilson
Speaker 1: over the years. Very much of it seemed like in
Speaker 1: the same vein watching watching out there today. Yeah, slightly
Speaker 1: less dangerous version of Russell Wilson, because you know how
Speaker 1: Russell will take off if he needs to. But DeShawn
Speaker 1: it's no different, man, I mean, Deshaun Watson. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's what keeps defensive coordinators up late at night, you know,
Speaker 1: when they're trying to game plan for this guy, because
Speaker 1: you know these defensive linemen. You know, they want to
Speaker 1: pin their ears back and just get after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you gotta put in a game plan where you
Speaker 1: gotta sometimes tell your d lineman to don't get up,
Speaker 1: don't don't rush up the field, rush to the level
Speaker 1: of a quarterback and wait and see where he's at,
Speaker 1: keeping boxed in, because you know, if you rush past him,
Speaker 1: you're gonna create running lanes for him and he's gonna
Speaker 1: take off. And the dangerous thing with him is sometimes
Speaker 1: he's just uh buying time to throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. All right, listen to the leg zach Er
Speaker 1: speaking about his record taking day. Now, well you're eleven.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's going on in the huddle at that point? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think um that that fourth quarter kind
Speaker 1: of those circumstances has kind of been the pitome of
Speaker 1: our season, and we did not blink. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guys in the huddle were so confident. Folds was so confident,
Speaker 1: everyone was so calm that. I mean, we've been in
Speaker 1: that situation so many times together and no one flinched.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I think that's the mark of a
Speaker 1: good team. Obviously, the season isn't exactly where we thought
Speaker 1: we would be. But I mean a lot of guys
Speaker 1: would have kind of mailed it in. I mean, to
Speaker 1: be up twenty nine to sixteen with four minutes left
Speaker 1: and to be down and the blink of an eye
Speaker 1: is tough, but guys didn't blink. Guys stay together, and
Speaker 1: I mean that's the Markets team. We're always going to
Speaker 1: stick together. We truly care and love one another. Um.
Speaker 1: I think you guys can see that each time you
Speaker 1: interact with the guys in the locker room. It's not
Speaker 1: an individual game for us by any means. Guys just
Speaker 1: want to play to the best of their abilities. So
Speaker 1: that for each other, and I think that the mark
Speaker 1: of a great team. Nick came back in the huddle
Speaker 1: after getting knocked down. Yeah, I mean obviously the place
Speaker 1: went crazy, but we just wanted to make sure he
Speaker 1: was good. And I think the way he jogged off
Speaker 1: the field, everyone thought he was gonna be good. Um,
Speaker 1: sat out of play and came back and let us
Speaker 1: down the field like it's he seems to do. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played out of his mind to set
Speaker 1: the franchise record for passing yards. Incredible. Um, He's just
Speaker 1: an unbelievable player, unbelievable person. He's so calm, his demeanor
Speaker 1: is so calm, and he's really good player. Um. It
Speaker 1: was just kind of the scissors corner route that we
Speaker 1: always have post by number one. I had a corner
Speaker 1: Darren was to the flat. Um. I'd been taking a
Speaker 1: lot of inside releases against him. UM, so I kind
Speaker 1: of sold the inside release, kind of threw him inside,
Speaker 1: and I think he kind of ran into the linebacker. UM.
Speaker 1: I think he tried to something happen where my feet
Speaker 1: got tangled up, and so I was kind off balance
Speaker 1: and Nick just kind of laid the ball out there
Speaker 1: allowed me to run under it, and I was able
Speaker 1: to stay in bound and make the play. And I
Speaker 1: tried to get out of bound in that situation. UM.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've truly I don't think I've truly
Speaker 1: come to grips with it yet. I Mean, one thing
Speaker 1: I do know, I'm thankful to my Lord and Savior
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ UM for allowing me to be here. I'm
Speaker 1: thankful for everyone that's helped me along the way. The
Speaker 1: one thing I do know is I didn't get here
Speaker 1: by myself. I mean, Jason Witten has been as has
Speaker 1: been a huge part of this. UM, So technically I
Speaker 1: think a part of him still has the record. UM.
Speaker 1: Brent Sellick has been huge for me. UM. There's just
Speaker 1: been so many people along the way that have helped
Speaker 1: me that I'm just eternally grateful for. UM. But like
Speaker 1: I said, what I do know is that I didn't
Speaker 1: do this by myself. I think it truly takes a
Speaker 1: village to become a professional athlete. My family, my wife. UM,
Speaker 1: So thankful for everyone that's helped me along the way. UM.
Speaker 1: And it is special though. I mean having that record
Speaker 1: is something that hopefully it will last a while, but
Speaker 1: if not, I'll be happy for the next guy to
Speaker 1: do it. UM, but it is special. I haven't really
Speaker 1: checked my phone yet, UM, so I don't know. We're
Speaker 1: involved throughout the game specially. Was that part of the
Speaker 1: game plan. Was that something you saw that you could
Speaker 1: take advantages to himself? UM. You know they're a big
Speaker 1: zone team. They're big zone defense and finding zones. It's
Speaker 1: kind of something that I take a lot of pride in. UM.
Speaker 1: But I mean they're a really good defense that front
Speaker 1: for those front seven guys, really really talented. Clowney Watt
Speaker 1: McKinnon really talented players. We weren't able to run the
Speaker 1: ball probably guys efficiently as we wanted to. Um, we
Speaker 1: didn't run the ball great. UM. So most of that
Speaker 1: was due to their talent in their front seven. So
Speaker 1: we kind of had to pass the ball more. UM.
Speaker 1: And I'm just glad we won the game. That is
Speaker 1: the bottom line. To have that that many targets and
Speaker 1: catches it and to win the game feels really really good. UM.
Speaker 1: And that is what I love. The second touchdown, Zach,
Speaker 1: you got White open? How MU sure that was the
Speaker 1: motion going the other way that kind of threw them off.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the motion was a part of it.
Speaker 1: I think al Sean, being as big and physical as
Speaker 1: he is, the guy kind of ran into him. Um.
Speaker 1: He didn't mean to pick him by any means, he
Speaker 1: just kind of ran into al Sean. Um. The jet
Speaker 1: motion I think threw him off a little bit. But
Speaker 1: Nick just kind of losted it out there. I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna get hit when I saw no one
Speaker 1: was around me. I try to make a play. And
Speaker 1: when you're that, I think when you're that, I think
Speaker 1: when you see the goal line like that. UM, I'm
Speaker 1: just always trying to make a play for the team.
Speaker 1: M guys blocked their butt off downfield. Um, I was
Speaker 1: just happy we scoring. Yeah, you guys have won four year,
Speaker 1: last five now with rolling a little bit and be still,
Speaker 1: you know it's not just you. You guys have to
Speaker 1: most of other things happen out tough. Is that too,
Speaker 1: to be playing this well finally as a team and
Speaker 1: have to rely on other people? Yeah, like you said,
Speaker 1: I mean it is tough. It's tough not to really
Speaker 1: control your own destiny. But at the same time, if
Speaker 1: you focus on everything else that's going on, and then
Speaker 1: we have a slip up because we're not focused on
Speaker 1: our job and it's really not gonna matter. So we've
Speaker 1: said for a while now every game is a must
Speaker 1: win game that that's the way we've approached these past
Speaker 1: five games. I mean, we were four and six at
Speaker 1: one point after the Saints when we just got smacked
Speaker 1: down there and no one quit. Everyone was focused on
Speaker 1: just doing their job better, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: mark of a good team. Obviously, we need some help,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we do get some help, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, we're focused on beating the Redskins, putting together
Speaker 1: a really good week of practice, because I mean we
Speaker 1: practice really hard. That's I think that's the that is
Speaker 1: the I think. I think that's the hallmark of this team,
Speaker 1: the way we've practice each and every week and hopefully,
Speaker 1: I mean, we just need to go there and win.
Speaker 1: We can't look at it if the Bears win, and
Speaker 1: or if the Vikings win, or if the Seahawks lose twice.
Speaker 1: We just got to focus on being the best team
Speaker 1: we can next week against the Redskins, against another really
Speaker 1: talent up front. Um and some I mean that defense
Speaker 1: is extremely talented. About Nick, that makes the team rally
Speaker 1: around him. Um, he's extremely calm. Um he's always exuding positivity.
Speaker 1: UM not. I mean it's hard to talk well about
Speaker 1: one guy and then um if it seems the comments
Speaker 1: are going to come off as demeaning another. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that by any means. I just
Speaker 1: want to solely focus on Nick. Um. He's he's playing
Speaker 1: at an extremely high level. Um. We love playing for
Speaker 1: him because he's always exuding that positivity and guys love
Speaker 1: playing for him. I mean, he's always going to give
Speaker 1: us a chance on those jump balls, those fifty fifty balls, Um,
Speaker 1: and I think you just ultimately trust us to make plays.
Speaker 1: And he's done that for years here. Um, he's a
Speaker 1: really talented quarterback. What have you noticed out of him
Speaker 1: during a week on the sidelines that kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he is the first guy helping out Nick
Speaker 1: Um what he sees Um in the game plan. He's
Speaker 1: there early, trying to help those guys out, trying to
Speaker 1: help I think, just with the game plan. So he's
Speaker 1: still in that same role where he's getting there extremely early,
Speaker 1: staying late, helping those guys out anyway he can. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the mark of a of a leader.
Speaker 1: No matter what's going on individually, he's always focused on
Speaker 1: the team, and I think that's why guys respect him
Speaker 1: so much. I Mean, he's been through a ton of adversity,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, everyone knows he's a leader
Speaker 1: of this team. He's a franchise and when and if
Speaker 1: he gets back this year, I can't wait to play
Speaker 1: with him. At the same time, Nick is playing extremely
Speaker 1: well and we're pumped to have both of them. All Right,
Speaker 1: what a day for zach Ert setting the We were
Speaker 1: wondering what it was gonna come Okay, he came into
Speaker 1: this game with one hundred and one receptions on the season,
Speaker 1: needed nine to tie Jason Witten's record for most catches
Speaker 1: by a Titan in a single season in NFL history. Well,
Speaker 1: early third quarter, first play of the second half, in fact,
Speaker 1: he sets the record and then adds to it twelve
Speaker 1: catches on the day, another double digit receiving day for him,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people thought that, well, Nick Foles
Speaker 1: is coming in a quarterback, and said Carson Wentz, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the end of Arch's run. He go back
Speaker 1: to the beginning of the season, the games against the
Speaker 1: Falcons and the Bucks, Erz was heavily involved in the offense,
Speaker 1: and certainly he took a backseat last week in the
Speaker 1: win over the Rams to get the guys in the
Speaker 1: outside more involved. But today against a defense that was
Speaker 1: fifth in the league in scoring defense and points allowed.
Speaker 1: Coming into his contest, you knew that you had to
Speaker 1: move the change because if you got to the red zone,
Speaker 1: Texans were tied for twenty six in red zone defense. Okay,
Speaker 1: so once you can get the ball inside the twenty,
Speaker 1: you would be able to score on them, and Zachers
Speaker 1: did just that. And also added a couple of big plays.
Speaker 1: He scored once in the red zone ad a twenty
Speaker 1: yard reception on the final drive. So top the bomb.
Speaker 1: Just a great day and just a great player. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking about someone who's probably gonna be in the
Speaker 1: Eagles Hall of Fame. He's gonna shatter all the receiving
Speaker 1: records for the team when all is said and done.
Speaker 1: It again, he's setting now the benchmark for most catches
Speaker 1: by the tight end and we're in the golden era
Speaker 1: of tight ends in the NFL, going from Tony Gonzalez
Speaker 1: and you look at the names on that list of
Speaker 1: the guys he surpassed this season. So the fact that
Speaker 1: he has climbed over those players you mentioned earlier, he
Speaker 1: beat his idol, the guy he looked up to as
Speaker 1: a role mile in Jason Witten, for the record. So
Speaker 1: kudos to him for someone who is not just a
Speaker 1: championship player on the field, but you look at what
Speaker 1: he's done in the community. He and Julie Earth setting
Speaker 1: up the Earth's Family Foundation to help communities and need
Speaker 1: throughout the country and the world with the work they're
Speaker 1: doing in Haiti as well. So just a top notch
Speaker 1: character individual, a great locker room guy. This is the
Speaker 1: guy that you want to have as one of the
Speaker 1: foundational pieces of your franchise. Yeah. Best tight end in football, Nah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't need to say arguably anymore. Now best tight
Speaker 1: end in football are the numbers will bear itself out.
Speaker 1: I expect him to be first team All Pro this
Speaker 1: year for the first time in his career as the
Speaker 1: number one tight end in football, and he's deserving of it.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to play that position in this league
Speaker 1: when you are the focal point of the offense. It's
Speaker 1: one thing if you have weapons on the outside, which
Speaker 1: allows you as a tight end to operate in zone
Speaker 1: defenses without any without any defenses focusing in on you.
Speaker 1: But zach Ertz is the number one weapon on the
Speaker 1: Eagles offensive side of the ball, and teams going to
Speaker 1: every game trying to take away Number eighty six and
Speaker 1: most weeks they just can't do it. And so you
Speaker 1: don't think that. This week, the Houston Texas decided, well,
Speaker 1: we're not going to cover number eighty six, which is
Speaker 1: let everybody else. Well, we'll stop everybody else and let
Speaker 1: eighty six get his note. They had double coverage on
Speaker 1: him at times. They put one of their better athletes
Speaker 1: on him and Tyron Matthew at times, and it did
Speaker 1: not matter. Zach Ertz. If that ball is in his
Speaker 1: catch radius, he is typically coming down with the ball.
Speaker 1: And we continue to see bit by bit he's adding
Speaker 1: the run after the catch. The second touchdown that he
Speaker 1: got when he caught the ball about fifteen when he
Speaker 1: yards short of the end zone and was able to
Speaker 1: make some moves and get in the end zone on
Speaker 1: that play. By the way, great jobs blocking down the field.
Speaker 1: Just you know, kudos to Zach you said, great guy,
Speaker 1: great on and off the field. Um. I know the
Speaker 1: Eagles organization know exactly what they have in Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: and they certainly appreciate it. We as fans and better
Speaker 1: recognize what we have and this guy, he's he's a
Speaker 1: great a player on the field, even better quality of
Speaker 1: a teammate and a person off the field. We're lucky
Speaker 1: he's wearing Midnight green. Yes. Indeed, speaking of Tyranne Matthew,
Speaker 1: he was a guy in courage on Nelson Agilor's huge touchdown.
Speaker 1: We really haven't touched on this mistake. You know, the
Speaker 1: explosive plays. Coming back to the offense once again, Alshan
Speaker 1: Jeffrey with a fifty plus yard reception or catching run.
Speaker 1: But when the Eagles need to break the tie in
Speaker 1: the second half, how about Nelson Agilor. We're finally seeing
Speaker 1: that vertical speed, that ability to stretch the field. That's
Speaker 1: that's something that has been lacking from this offense for
Speaker 1: most of the year. You give Foals credit for turning
Speaker 1: the ball loose, willing to take those chances. Well, Nelson
Speaker 1: al it was a dime of a throw to Aglore. Okay,
Speaker 1: he haulted in. You know, Tyron Matthew fell down afterwards.
Speaker 1: So Nelson Aglo just basically stood at the goal line,
Speaker 1: turned around all of the Cardinals game I think it
Speaker 1: was last year, and just fell in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone to cap off the touchdown. Had a
Speaker 1: couple of other clutch catches for the team, so again
Speaker 1: going over one hundred yards, two receivers going over one
Speaker 1: hundred yards. But Nelson Aglore just one of the the
Speaker 1: X factors for the Eels today. You know, you have
Speaker 1: your stars and Ertz and Jeffrey, but you need those
Speaker 1: other guys to make big plays, and Aglore was one
Speaker 1: of those guys today. Well, I know that Texas must
Speaker 1: have been scratching their heads, like who do we cover?
Speaker 1: You know, you got number eighty six, You gotta worry
Speaker 1: about it, zach Ertz. You got Golden Tate out there,
Speaker 1: you got Alice Sean Jeffrey out there, and then you
Speaker 1: got Nelson Aglore who can certainly go down the field.
Speaker 1: And they found a matchup where they were able to
Speaker 1: get Nelson matched up one on one with Tyron Matthew. Now,
Speaker 1: if you do that in a yard box, you know,
Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew may be able to stay with Nelson Aglow,
Speaker 1: but she started getting down the field. Yeah, Tyron Matthews
Speaker 1: a safety, not a cornerback. There's no way he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to keep up with Nelson Agholor. Good
Speaker 1: job by Nick Foles recognizing the single high coverage could
Speaker 1: have gone to Zach Ersch who was crossing the middle
Speaker 1: of the field there also and one on one coverage,
Speaker 1: but decided to give Nelson the opportunity to make a play.
Speaker 1: And like you said, Nick basically playing fearless taking that shot,
Speaker 1: recognizing that coverage back there and saying I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: my guy go up and make a play. Nelson, great
Speaker 1: job making the play there, and then I love the
Speaker 1: little nest plunge he does when he falls into the
Speaker 1: end zone. This indeed, so going back and looking at
Speaker 1: the defensive effort here, it's interesting because you know how
Speaker 1: shorthanded the Eagles are in the secondary. Okay, and Avante Maddox,
Speaker 1: you know, started last week at corner, you know, fared
Speaker 1: well against the likes of Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 1: This week a much bigger, more difficult task than I say,
Speaker 1: bigger in terms of just size alone, because you know,
Speaker 1: Max has given up hike to the guys like you know,
Speaker 1: Damarius Thomas and of course DeAndre Hopkins arguably the best
Speaker 1: receiver in football, and some of the catches he made today,
Speaker 1: we're just simply outstanding, you know. And you needed the
Speaker 1: defensive line to get the pressure on Deshaun Watson. The
Speaker 1: problem was every time they got the pressure on, he
Speaker 1: was able to flush his way out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and use his legs to turn to churn out some
Speaker 1: big gains there. But overall though, it was also interesting
Speaker 1: because it's adding pressure onto the offensive Nick Foles knowing
Speaker 1: that they have to sustain those drives. The Eagles dominating
Speaker 1: the time of possession battle once again, and they almost
Speaker 1: needed to it. Even though thirty two thirty doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a huge shootout, it's not the fifty one to
Speaker 1: forty five we saw from the Chiefs and Ramps. But
Speaker 1: it felt like the Eagles knew that every time they
Speaker 1: had the ball they had to sustain drives at least
Speaker 1: get a couple of first downs or put points on
Speaker 1: the board. Because of the fact that the Eagles, being
Speaker 1: shorthanded on defense, you know, can only do so much
Speaker 1: to limit the explosiveness that the Texans did present. So again,
Speaker 1: I thought they did a better job the second half,
Speaker 1: but then in the fourth quarter we saw some leakage there,
Speaker 1: especially in the secondary. Some of it was all watching
Speaker 1: in the amazing places. We talked about that time where
Speaker 1: he spun around three times and you know, was able
Speaker 1: to convert a third and long into a twenty two
Speaker 1: yard game. But still, you know, when you're looking down
Speaker 1: the stretch at a possible playoff run, it'll be interest
Speaker 1: interesting to see what kind of gas this defense will
Speaker 1: have left for going against some of these potential high
Speaker 1: powered offenses. Listen, I don't want to get into next year,
Speaker 1: because we're a long away from that. But I do
Speaker 1: know one thing, and number twenty nine out there, he's
Speaker 1: a starter. He's a starting cornerback. He is a starting
Speaker 1: When you say starting cornerback, are you saying outside corner,
Speaker 1: outside corner? When I was singing him matched up on
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins out there, and he went up and played
Speaker 1: bump and run coverage on him, and then when Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson tried to throw an out route to him, he
Speaker 1: basically had to overthrow him because it would have been
Speaker 1: an interception. That's the that's the tight knit coverage Maddox
Speaker 1: had on DeAndre Hopkins out there. And listen, you said
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopky is arguably the best wide receiver in football.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna sit here and tell you Avontae
Speaker 1: Maddox shut down DeAndre Hopkins. He certainly got his catches
Speaker 1: and his yards, but I'll tell you what, first look,
Speaker 1: those catches and yards didn't come in. Twenty nine was
Speaker 1: covering him. Twenty nine was over there like a blanket
Speaker 1: on him. Had one play in zone coverage where he
Speaker 1: came off of DeAndre Hopkins and Sean Watson was trying
Speaker 1: to hit the number two receiver on the out route,
Speaker 1: and Avonte Maddox almost had the interception there. Hit didn't
Speaker 1: write in his hands. That's why he play his corner
Speaker 1: and not wide out. But man, you just look at
Speaker 1: his his his ability to change direction, his ability to
Speaker 1: get down in that stance and break on the football
Speaker 1: when he sees that has thrown. You know, most cornerbacks
Speaker 1: you line up across from DeAndre Hopkins, you're a little nervous,
Speaker 1: especially as a rookie, and you want to sort of
Speaker 1: play off so that you can react to everything. I
Speaker 1: saw him mix the coverages up on DeAndre Hopkins out there.
Speaker 1: He played off sometimes, he played up on the line,
Speaker 1: wasn't afraid the challenging at the line of scrimmage so
Speaker 1: much to the point that Houston recognized this and they
Speaker 1: started moving Hopkins to the other side of the offensive formation. So,
Speaker 1: Man twenty nine, that's two weeks in a row. You've
Speaker 1: seen him play on the outside against some of the
Speaker 1: best receivers. Last week, Robert Woods, Brandon Cooks. They tried
Speaker 1: him multiple times with Reynolds last week. They couldn't convert
Speaker 1: on him. This week, not very many throws down the field.
Speaker 1: Anything they call on the vantae. Maddox this week was
Speaker 1: pretty much underneath and you'll sort of give that up. So, man,
Speaker 1: I'm loving the way Maddox is planning. We had watched
Speaker 1: him play safety and we were impressed with him having
Speaker 1: the ability to adjust and play safety for the first
Speaker 1: time ever. But man, watching him play corner, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize he had that type of foot speed and that
Speaker 1: type of reaction in instincts at the cornerback position. Watching
Speaker 1: him out there the last couple of weeks, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see some more of him out there because, man,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen that type of technique and at that position,
Speaker 1: you know, on a consistent basis, We just had no
Speaker 1: I think what's interesting is he played outside a pit.
Speaker 1: He didn't play nickel, he didn't play safety. He was
Speaker 1: an outside corner. Okay, he was good at taking the
Speaker 1: ball away. The thing is, when you look at his size,
Speaker 1: a lot of people automatically said, is he's your nickel corner,
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the Eagles paid for him
Speaker 1: to be at some point down the line. But he
Speaker 1: has proven himself to be comfortable on the outside. Like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, with the physicality he brings to the position,
Speaker 1: the technique, the awareness of the position that and there
Speaker 1: are corners that size league. One of my former teammates,
Speaker 1: I played with him when he first came into the league,
Speaker 1: undrafted player, right out of this area, Shippingsburg, Brent Grimes.
Speaker 1: Brent Grimes can't be taller than five five. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what exact height is, but I know
Speaker 1: he's short. But he's a great athlete. He's a great athlete.
Speaker 1: And I remember watching him in training camp and Emmett
Speaker 1: Thomas was our coach down there in Atlanta, and Emmett
Speaker 1: loved him. He loved him. I'm like, man, he's a
Speaker 1: short guy, but Emmett loved his technique. He the fact
Speaker 1: that he wasn't afraid to get up in challenge receivers.
Speaker 1: And what over a decade or something later, he's been
Speaker 1: the multiple Pro Bowls, he's been all players in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still in the league to this day, Brent Grime. So
Speaker 1: size doesn't necessarily matter. If you're a smart football player
Speaker 1: and you play fearless and you're not afraid to get
Speaker 1: up and challenge guys, man, you don't worry about your
Speaker 1: height because the one thing of Vonte Maddox knows he's
Speaker 1: been short all his life, so he's adjusted to his height.
Speaker 1: It's like Darren Schros, He's been that size his whole life,
Speaker 1: so doesn't bother him. Bryan Westbrook is another guy that
Speaker 1: it sort of reminds me of guys like that. They
Speaker 1: don't allow those limitations to be placed on them to
Speaker 1: tell them they can't do something. What they do is
Speaker 1: they accept the challenge and they go out to prove coaches, players, scouts,
Speaker 1: whomever wrong that they can play in a Vonte Maddox man.
Speaker 1: I know it's early. I don't want to overreact to him,
Speaker 1: but just two weeks of watching him play on the outside,
Speaker 1: you really get to see some of his coverage skills
Speaker 1: because playing safety you really don't know. But playing out
Speaker 1: there on that corner against some of the guys quick
Speaker 1: man and against some of the guys he's had to
Speaker 1: go up against, he's gotten tested the last two weeks
Speaker 1: and he's passed it. With flying colors. Also getting back
Speaker 1: to the defense here, some more reinforcements coming, Tim Jernigan
Speaker 1: back in the lineup, helping with that run defense, and
Speaker 1: you're hoping that you know he can stay healthy and
Speaker 1: bring it for the last game of the regular season
Speaker 1: next week in Washington, and Jordan Hicks having a tip
Speaker 1: pass and a nice open field tackle. You still felt
Speaker 1: Nigel Bram still definitely had more snaps. He was the
Speaker 1: dime linebacker out there for the defense. But still, you know,
Speaker 1: you need that the leadership, that playmaking ability that Hicks has.
Speaker 1: It's great to see both of those guys. You're trying
Speaker 1: to get stronger up the middle here down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Great to see Jordan can help with that run defense
Speaker 1: and Hicks with that coverage ability being able to give
Speaker 1: you some some quality snaps today. Yeah, you just gotta
Speaker 1: hope that it is not too late. You want you
Speaker 1: want to be playing obviously your best football this time
Speaker 1: and a year, and the Eagles seem to be getting healthy,
Speaker 1: starting to get guys back out there, especially on that
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, which is really hampered them
Speaker 1: all year long. You know, guys, shuffling guys in and
Speaker 1: out of the lineup makes it very difficult for the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and Jim Schwarts to come up with a
Speaker 1: game plan. Use his four arsenal in his playbook, because
Speaker 1: when you're trying to learn the personnel that's being brought
Speaker 1: in week the week, like it was in the secondary.
Speaker 1: It's difficult for a coach when he doesn't really know
Speaker 1: what you're good at doing versus what you're not good
Speaker 1: at doing, so it kind of handcuffs him as to
Speaker 1: what he can call out there. And that's why I've
Speaker 1: been tipping my cap to Jim Schwartz the job he's
Speaker 1: been doing this year. You know, people complain about not
Speaker 1: bringing extra guys for pressure or what have you, but
Speaker 1: the fact that he's losing guys or he's lost guys
Speaker 1: week out the week out the week, and he's really
Speaker 1: his unit has kept you in the game every week.
Speaker 1: Sure you'll like them to finish some games a little
Speaker 1: bit better, but again I remind you he's playing shorthanded,
Speaker 1: especially in the secondary, and to be able to come
Speaker 1: up with coverages and to be able to put guys
Speaker 1: in position so that they can excel and make plays,
Speaker 1: it's not easy to do. I mean, it's guys out
Speaker 1: there right now, Chris, it's seventy four. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know who seventy four was today, I'm like, who is
Speaker 1: seventy four on this team? He had a big sack
Speaker 1: today on Deshaun Watson. So Sean Hall coming to the
Speaker 1: former third round pick. I just think, I just think
Speaker 1: what the defensive coordinator has been able to do this
Speaker 1: year with these guys and these guys responding to him
Speaker 1: out there, I think it's been nothing short. They're commendable
Speaker 1: because listen, I when you get injuries that can decimate
Speaker 1: a defense real quick and to slow down quarterback like
Speaker 1: Deshann Watson, stop this running game today. I mean really,
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks of defense starting to get
Speaker 1: turnovers too, was that like seven turnovers they had three
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, I believe also, So to get turnovers
Speaker 1: the way they had the last three weeks, that's what
Speaker 1: you need. That's what they were doing last year that
Speaker 1: they hadn't been doing all year. And you can see
Speaker 1: it starting to come around. Now. All right, we're waiting
Speaker 1: here from quarterback Nick Foles, so we'll talk about the
Speaker 1: playoff picture here for a moment here. So the Eagles,
Speaker 1: because of Dallas, Dallas winning clinches the Cowboys the mcast,
Speaker 1: so they've won the division. So the Eagles at best
Speaker 1: can get a wildcard spot Minnesota. They were able to
Speaker 1: hold on to beat Detroit, so they are eight six
Speaker 1: and one, So the Eagles would still need to win
Speaker 1: next week and hopefully Minnesota loses, that would give the
Speaker 1: Eagles the edge over Minnesota. The Eagles can still get
Speaker 1: the edge over the Seahawks, who played the Chiefs tonight
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football, if the Seahawks lose their final
Speaker 1: two games, and of course if the Eagles win next week.
Speaker 1: So the Eagles have to win next week first and foremost,
Speaker 1: they are not getting in the postseason without being Washington
Speaker 1: next week. The Eagles, while they can't win the division,
Speaker 1: can still finish with the fifth seed. Okay, if they're
Speaker 1: able if the Viking is lose and the Seahawks drop
Speaker 1: their final two games, and of course if the Eagles
Speaker 1: win their game against Washington next week. So if the
Speaker 1: Seahawks win tonight, are they in? Are they locked in?
Speaker 1: And nine to six on that one, because I think
Speaker 1: they have the tiebreaker over the Eagles because a conference record,
Speaker 1: so I think they may have. They may have their heads.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they actually can if they be
Speaker 1: in Kansas City tonight, but we still know there's one
Speaker 1: spot that will definitely be open. So next week the
Speaker 1: Eagles will do a little bit of score board watching.
Speaker 1: We got to take care of business. And because of
Speaker 1: what happened earlier this season, you know, blowing the leads
Speaker 1: against Carolina and Tennessee, that's put them in this positions
Speaker 1: where certainly you could say if they had won one
Speaker 1: of those games, they would be on their way, but
Speaker 1: the journey wouldn't be what it is without those difficult
Speaker 1: losses along the way to get them to this point. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, the Eagles are playing their best football
Speaker 1: at this time of year. The offense is clicking, the
Speaker 1: defense is generating takeaways. I felt all year, for the
Speaker 1: most part, the defense was playing the same level as
Speaker 1: it was a year ago. Okay, even though it was undermanned,
Speaker 1: especially along the defensive line. You don't have the waves,
Speaker 1: you don't have the different lines of defensive lineman coming
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. This year, it's been pretty much Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett, Chris Long. Those have been your guys on
Speaker 1: the edges. And you would have Josh we as a
Speaker 1: rotational guy. You would have we talk about Dashawn Hall
Speaker 1: now coming in as a rotational guy, but those have
Speaker 1: been your three main core guys and those are some
Speaker 1: older crafty veterans here in the league playing a live
Speaker 1: snaps and then inside. You haven't had Tim Jurn again
Speaker 1: for all but two games this year, so it's really
Speaker 1: been the Fletcher Cock show, you know, first and foremost
Speaker 1: in the middle there, and you have other guys like
Speaker 1: like Nada and we're seeing Treyvon Hester had a sack today,
Speaker 1: Bruce Hector, some other guys have been helping as complimentary pieces.
Speaker 1: Obviously Graham and Bennet can move inside if need beyond
Speaker 1: pass rushdowns. But for the most part, it's been the
Speaker 1: star Wars along the defensive line, holding it down, holding
Speaker 1: it all together there. Yeah, I mean, it's just been
Speaker 1: that type of year where we saw last year the
Speaker 1: Eagles had the deepest defensive front in the game, the
Speaker 1: best defensive line in the game. They went eight deep
Speaker 1: last year. And injuries will do that to you. They
Speaker 1: will deplete your roster, they will deplete any position. And
Speaker 1: to have a couple of injuries at that position, Derek Barnett,
Speaker 1: Hallodi Nada has been banged up. You mentioned Tim Joern
Speaker 1: again being banged up. That certainly has depleted the depth
Speaker 1: on the roster. But you gotta get those old guys
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. Man. They aren't making any excuses.
Speaker 1: They're being asked to play more plays than thought coming
Speaker 1: into the season, and for the most part, I think
Speaker 1: they've held up. You know, the thing I always say
Speaker 1: about defense, the defensive front and the back seven, they
Speaker 1: work hand in hand, right, So when you want your
Speaker 1: defensive front to be dominating, sometimes that back seven has
Speaker 1: to force the quarterback to hold the ball a little
Speaker 1: bit longer. The quarterback is able to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball quick. That sort of neutralizes what your defensive
Speaker 1: line can do, and vice versa. You got a defensive
Speaker 1: line just dominating up front, that's gonna help your secondary
Speaker 1: out and not force them to cover as long. So
Speaker 1: it works hand in hand. And sometimes we don't know
Speaker 1: which is first, the chicken or the egg, Right, which
Speaker 1: came first? We don't know. I guess we'll put it
Speaker 1: on the defensive line to put them up front, because
Speaker 1: that's where it typically starts, that up front. But when
Speaker 1: you look at Cox, when you look at Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: when you look at Michael Bennett and Chris Um, had
Speaker 1: you lost either one of those guys for any extended
Speaker 1: period of time, this year. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Eagles would be where they are right now, not whatsoever.
Speaker 1: It's amazing we've gone this long in the show. As
Speaker 1: thrilling as this comfort behind victory was that we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about the referees. Okay, we don't, that's why it is,
Speaker 1: of course, we don't need to spend a ton of time.
Speaker 1: But but some very difficult calls, especially in the first
Speaker 1: half where it happened on you know, back to back
Speaker 1: drives where Nick Foles, you know, Nick Foles was going
Speaker 1: on the two point conversion and to David Clowney basically
Speaker 1: ripped off his helmet, jerking his neck back wasn't called whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And they showed the referees right there staring at the play.
Speaker 1: It was clear as day for them to see not
Speaker 1: making the call there. And then on the next drive
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham coming in and coming call for the helmet
Speaker 1: to helmet hit. You know, some tough breaks for the
Speaker 1: Eagles that made the game much closer than it had
Speaker 1: to be. So, speaking of Nick Foles, let's send it
Speaker 1: over to the length the hero himself number nine. Addressing
Speaker 1: the media at Lincoln Financial Field, Doug said that he
Speaker 1: checked from one half play to another. What did you
Speaker 1: see in the coverage? Yeah, I just saw a unique
Speaker 1: coverage that they play. Um, and you know, we had
Speaker 1: a play in our arsenal that you know wasn't the
Speaker 1: one that was called. And I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: I had time on the clock to check it and
Speaker 1: really take a shot with you know, some speed, you know,
Speaker 1: with Nelly, and you know we were able to execute
Speaker 1: it and Nell he made an amazing play and finished
Speaker 1: it off with a touchdown. And you know it was
Speaker 1: really just all of us being on the same page,
Speaker 1: recognizing the coverage, understanding how to run the route, and
Speaker 1: you know, the line gave me time to you know
Speaker 1: throw it. So it was awesome. I took quite a
Speaker 1: shot in the in the sternum there. Um, how severe
Speaker 1: hit was that? And how were you able to get
Speaker 1: up from that? Oh? It was a great hit. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got a good one on me. Um. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: trainers got out there. I was able to get my
Speaker 1: breath back back, my you know, ribs a little sore,
Speaker 1: but on all I feel great. Um, I was able
Speaker 1: to you know, I have to go out for a
Speaker 1: play and they went in and you know, great experience
Speaker 1: for him to go into a game. Um, but then
Speaker 1: I was ready to roll. I felt, I feel great.
Speaker 1: The crowd's reaction kind of willing you back in into
Speaker 1: that thing. I'll have to like see a different copy.
Speaker 1: I was more focused on just the people in front
Speaker 1: of me and knowing if we caught the ball or not.
Speaker 1: I had no clue if Alstron had caught it in anything,
Speaker 1: so I was trying to figure out what the scenario was.
Speaker 1: But the crowd was amazing a day. Um, it's always
Speaker 1: a you know, it's always a joy to come out
Speaker 1: here and play in the link and where this jersey
Speaker 1: and you know they were they were amazing, Um, and
Speaker 1: you know we're grateful for that. How did the X
Speaker 1: ray start? I'm great. Great. On that last drive after
Speaker 1: he came back in, I felt really good. You know,
Speaker 1: once I was able to move around a little bit,
Speaker 1: I felt really good. I was excited to get back
Speaker 1: out there with the guys. A lot of players talk
Speaker 1: about how calm you are on the field, But how
Speaker 1: tough was it for you to to keep your calm
Speaker 1: after that two point conversion? Try? And how much of
Speaker 1: that part? Yeah, I mean, that's not what i'd normally do.
Speaker 1: But I also know that, you know, John and I
Speaker 1: had to talk later. You know, it's hard for them
Speaker 1: to see every angle. And I understand that I was
Speaker 1: just a little upset and I shouldn't do that, but
Speaker 1: you know I was. I was fired up a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a game. You know, we're going out
Speaker 1: there to win, UM against you know, one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the NFL right now. So we were
Speaker 1: able to you know, calm back down, get the crowd
Speaker 1: going UM and ultimately get a w they found down
Speaker 1: to go from having them come back on you and
Speaker 1: then you guys come back and get that win in
Speaker 1: the last seconds. What's what's that like? You guys go
Speaker 1: through that. Yeah. I mean, I think the thing I
Speaker 1: talked about a lot is adversity UM and just sticking
Speaker 1: together as a team communication, And I think we saw
Speaker 1: a lot of that tonight. We saw a team that's
Speaker 1: stuck together through all the ups and downs of the game. UM.
Speaker 1: We saw you know, Jake Elliott, who's one of the
Speaker 1: best kickers in the league, you know, miss the extra
Speaker 1: point and then all of a sudden, our our team,
Speaker 1: UM give him ability at the end of the game
Speaker 1: and he has to kick the game winner. That's what
Speaker 1: this team's about, is just sticking together, um, loving one another,
Speaker 1: doing that every single play, not worrying about anything else
Speaker 1: but the play called, and you know it was on
Speaker 1: full display today. You want to I got certain thrill
Speaker 1: on the last drive to as zach Nick surprised he
Speaker 1: was that wide open. Um. Well, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of stumbling going on, so like as I was releasing
Speaker 1: I tried to put a little bit more air on
Speaker 1: it because I was hoping he would keep his feet. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, the defender, Zach ranner a great route.
Speaker 1: The defender stumble, Zach was able to keep his feet
Speaker 1: and make a play and that that was a huge
Speaker 1: part of the game. But uh, you know, anytime he's
Speaker 1: running a route, I expecting to win. I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk without the ref after the two play conversion. What
Speaker 1: what did you say to him about that play? I
Speaker 1: just asked him if he saw what I felt, and
Speaker 1: he didn't at the time, but we had a great
Speaker 1: conversation later. You know, it's a hard job to see everything.
Speaker 1: So they did the best they could. Sing more of
Speaker 1: that or they hit at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: which hurt more of that or I feel great, body
Speaker 1: feels great, so nothing's hurting. So I'm good. You got that.
Speaker 1: When he went on the field at the end, everybody
Speaker 1: was real calm, confident about matching blog down. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: big thing I talked to the guys about is just
Speaker 1: being in the moment when we're in the huddle. That's
Speaker 1: all you worry about. Just worry about that play. You
Speaker 1: can't you know, you can't do it all at once.
Speaker 1: Just focus on that play. Trust each other. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was calm in the huddle. I mean there's chaos
Speaker 1: going all around, but we're able to keep it calm
Speaker 1: in the huddle and that that's important in a game
Speaker 1: like that, especially when you're going down in a two
Speaker 1: minute drill to win a game where it's been you know,
Speaker 1: back and forth and it's been a battle. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone did a great job executing that last drive. Someday then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what that's all up to coach. I'll let
Speaker 1: him talk on everything. Physically physically, I feel great. I
Speaker 1: feel great. I feel great, Yes, in this starting role
Speaker 1: now and possibly next week breaking the all time singing
Speaker 1: a passing record and a chance to take us a
Speaker 1: team in the playoffs. Again, the house special is this
Speaker 1: because we don't know what your future is after this year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. You know, I've said it many times.
Speaker 1: Just staying in the Momentum, I'm fortunate to work with
Speaker 1: great people, for fortunate to have great teammates, everyone with
Speaker 1: an overcare facility. Um. It's really been a joy throughout
Speaker 1: my career to you know, be in that facility, be there,
Speaker 1: um and work with everyone. Um. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I'm just really just staying in this moment. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy you know, Christmas with my family. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: my daughter or my wife. Those are the things that
Speaker 1: are so important to me. I'm getting it. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen them yet. Um, so I'm excited to go you know,
Speaker 1: my mom, dad, little sister here, or my knee. So
Speaker 1: that's the things that are that are really special, especially
Speaker 1: this time of year. Just going to embrace them and
Speaker 1: spend time with them. So it's the stuff I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to talking about other players talking about you inspired them.
Speaker 1: Christmas shrine trine to you week, What did you think
Speaker 1: of the shrine? And two do you get the feeling?
Speaker 1: You get that feeling from any other players in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Chris is a character. We have a long
Speaker 1: history together. Um, love them. Um. I think the big
Speaker 1: thing is, I just want to be me. Um. I
Speaker 1: want the guys to know that when I go in
Speaker 1: there there, that's who I am. Um. You know when
Speaker 1: I step in the huddle, I'm not going to change
Speaker 1: when I'm you know, we're at restaurant or out in public, like,
Speaker 1: I want to be who I am. I want to
Speaker 1: be genuine and I think that you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: a powerful thing. Um. There's a lot of times where
Speaker 1: we try to be politically correct, and you know, we
Speaker 1: don't get to show our personalities. UM. I know Doug says,
Speaker 1: I know, Andy Reid says it. Um, but they always
Speaker 1: taught me, you know, let your personalities show. You know,
Speaker 1: we all come together as a team. Um. We have
Speaker 1: excess and knows. But the way teams win is there's personalities.
Speaker 1: Let them show, let them play stick with one another.
Speaker 1: And you're seeing a lot of that throughout the game.
Speaker 1: You're seeing a lot of that in practice and meetings
Speaker 1: and and that's really important. That's what a family is.
Speaker 1: Everyone's different, but everyone can come together in a common goal. So, Um,
Speaker 1: tonight was a fun night for all of us to
Speaker 1: do that question season. Yeah, it did, it did um.
Speaker 1: So it's emotional. Um. Like I said, I love playing
Speaker 1: in Philly. Um, I knew this was you know, there's
Speaker 1: a chance it could be it, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think about the future, but I am aware of
Speaker 1: that because this city means a lot to me, This
Speaker 1: team means a lot to me. Wearing that jersey means
Speaker 1: a lot to me. A couple of weeks ago, when
Speaker 1: I ran out of the tunnel, I didn't expect to play.
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know I was. I'm there to support
Speaker 1: the team and do what I can. And I got
Speaker 1: emotional thing because I knew that there's a chance that's
Speaker 1: coming to an end. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I am very grateful for every opportunity to play here,
Speaker 1: to play in front of our fans, to wear that jersey.
Speaker 1: No matter what, no one can ever take that away
Speaker 1: from me. And this was a special one tonight. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the future holes. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: worry about it. I'm just going to focus on now.
Speaker 1: Enjoy just being in Philadelphia, Enjoy the people, Enjoy wearing
Speaker 1: this Jersey because it's some of the most special moments
Speaker 1: in my life. You go out and setting the franchise
Speaker 1: record for passing yards in the game. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: I think the big thing is you just you know,
Speaker 1: I always look at records as who's involved. It's not
Speaker 1: just me. There's a lot of guys that made an
Speaker 1: amazing amount of plays. The line gave me protection. You know,
Speaker 1: each game is a different entity. Some games you gotta
Speaker 1: rush for three touchdowns, you don't throw any Some games,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't get any passing yards, but somehow
Speaker 1: you win. And in some gays some days or some
Speaker 1: games you just have to light it up. And this
Speaker 1: was one of those games. Um. You know, I always
Speaker 1: think back to my teammates that people are there, the
Speaker 1: coaches that put us in the position talking on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: So that's what it means to me, is the people
Speaker 1: that are involved, and obviously you know it's a team. Things.
Speaker 1: You've been around about Zack for a lot of years.
Speaker 1: He obviously wrote the record for tight ends, but what's
Speaker 1: your impression of what he accomplishes is amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, and especially to break the record that was
Speaker 1: held by someone that he looked up to as a kid,
Speaker 1: and now Zach gets to be a person that kids
Speaker 1: look up Tom. There's a lot of kids out there
Speaker 1: probably put you know, middle school, elementary school, high school football.
Speaker 1: They're looking at Zach Ertz and like what he does.
Speaker 1: And he's impacting a lot of people by not only
Speaker 1: how he plays, but what he says after he breaks records.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that's the most amazing to me.
Speaker 1: But I'm super proud of him. He's had an amazing career,
Speaker 1: he's had an amazing year, and you know, we still
Speaker 1: have work to do. You get through your interception, It
Speaker 1: seemed like you run around to the team and had
Speaker 1: a word with them on the sideline. Is that accurate?
Speaker 1: And if so, what was your message? Yeah? I was
Speaker 1: just like, hey, let's just keep going. I think the
Speaker 1: most important thing sometimes when quarterbacks throw interceptions or something happens,
Speaker 1: everyone's like, is he all right? Because I mean it's
Speaker 1: a it's a big play in the game. Um, I
Speaker 1: just you know, bad throw, bad decision, And I think
Speaker 1: the big thing is just reasert and hey, we're good.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep going, Let's keep playing, Let's forget about it.
Speaker 1: Have a short memory and h Like I said, when
Speaker 1: we're in that huddle, that's the eye of the storm.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it calm, Let's just focus on the play.
Speaker 1: We're in this together. That's the adversity we talk about,
Speaker 1: and that's all it is. And the team that can
Speaker 1: overcome adversely, the best is usually the one that wins.
Speaker 1: Take a little moreout it talk about one more shot,
Speaker 1: had a playoff game. That's week. You guys know what's
Speaker 1: up front of yet just what's up mean for you guys?
Speaker 1: That means everything. Just to play another game as an
Speaker 1: Eagle means everything to us. But a lot of the
Speaker 1: different things, you know, we can't control a lot of
Speaker 1: the scenarios. All we can control about is our preparation,
Speaker 1: what we do on a day in and day out
Speaker 1: basis at the Novercare facility, getting ready for the next game.
Speaker 1: So this week, more than anything, to stand in the moment,
Speaker 1: controlling what we can control, you know, enjoying the moment
Speaker 1: with one another. That's what it's about. Thank you all,
Speaker 1: Very Christmas. All right. Nick Falls addressing the media after
Speaker 1: his record setting four hundred and seventy one yard performance
Speaker 1: that ended with the game winning drive as the final
Speaker 1: seconds ticked off the clock. Just a brilliant, brilliant performance.
Speaker 1: And Ike, we're actually gonna hear from head coach Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson is one on one interview with Mike wukin just
Speaker 1: a few moments. But first, the way that Nick sounded
Speaker 1: that press conference, talking about the memories and you know,
Speaker 1: appreciating the opportunity to put the jersey on. You have
Speaker 1: to wonder if Carson Wentz Okay, we haven't talked about
Speaker 1: him to this point. If Carson Wentz is healthy, in
Speaker 1: my estimation, he's the quarterback next week, no question about it.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on that situation, because certainly a
Speaker 1: lot of fans are probably thinking at this point Foles
Speaker 1: has to be the guy. Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: when when Carson is healthy, Justice Doug has said repeatedly
Speaker 1: I believe he will be the starting quarterback as he
Speaker 1: should be. But man, I'm sitting there and listening to
Speaker 1: the Nick. I'm sitting there watching him at that podium,
Speaker 1: and man, I love me some Nicky six. Man. I
Speaker 1: love Nick Foles, love watching him play, I love his
Speaker 1: approach to the game. I love, how he loves his teammates,
Speaker 1: how he loves playing here, and because of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: winning earlier to day, Yeah, this will more than likely
Speaker 1: be Nick Foles's last time he plays as an Eagle
Speaker 1: in Lincoln Financial Field. Now, we don't know what the
Speaker 1: future holds, whether or not he'll be back. All that
Speaker 1: stuff will work itself out in the off season. But
Speaker 1: there is that possibility that he could have suited up
Speaker 1: for the last time as an Eagle in Lincoln Financial Field.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that that was somewhat in the back
Speaker 1: of his mind. I talked about talked about this on
Speaker 1: radio show earlier this week, not just for Nick, but
Speaker 1: for several guys. Right, they have pending free agencies coming up,
Speaker 1: and they aren't gonna let it consume their thinking throughout
Speaker 1: the week. But I remember my last year, the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl year here, Yeah, it's in the back of your
Speaker 1: mind that this is the last time that I could
Speaker 1: be walking out on the field to play in front
Speaker 1: of these these awesome fans. And so for Nick to
Speaker 1: put on the performance that he did today, man, uh,
Speaker 1: he put he did what what Nick Foles typically does. Man,
Speaker 1: when there's a big moment there and he needs to
Speaker 1: rise to the occasion. He has no problem rising to
Speaker 1: the occasion. Franchise record for yards today, four touchdown passes today,
Speaker 1: I mean big play at the big play. If and
Speaker 1: I say if with air quotes, if it is his
Speaker 1: last time playing UH in Lincoln Financial Field as an Eagle,
Speaker 1: what a way to go out well? And what an
Speaker 1: awesome way UH to go out? And I don't know
Speaker 1: what the futureize the immediate future meaning next week. I
Speaker 1: know Carson has to be chopping at the bid, but
Speaker 1: the organization is going to do what they think is
Speaker 1: in his best interests and the organization's best interest moving forward,
Speaker 1: because there is a bigger picture here, which is Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz's health moving forward. I tell you what, It is
Speaker 1: a great problem to have right when you know you
Speaker 1: have two guys that, no matter who lines up under
Speaker 1: the center, you feel comfortable, confident that they can lead
Speaker 1: you to victory. I tell you I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: be Doug right now, because well, I tell you what,
Speaker 1: how can you be wrong? You can't go wrong with
Speaker 1: whoever you go with. Carson's a guy, That's the thing.
Speaker 1: If Carson is health. This goes back to how Doug
Speaker 1: has qualified it. If there's no chance for him to
Speaker 1: further injure himself. Okay, that's the biggest thing, because you're
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right about the big picture that Wentz
Speaker 1: is a franchise. If there's no further risk, you're part.
Speaker 1: He's the guy week seventeen. He's the one helped them
Speaker 1: get in position here, okay, bouncing back from the ac
Speaker 1: on LCL injuries. He's my guy in week seventeen in
Speaker 1: a win and possibly get in situation for this football team.
Speaker 1: If he's not good, it's a easy decision. You go
Speaker 1: back to Nick for another week. I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: cut and dry, and that's standpoint. The thing I love
Speaker 1: about it is there is no controversy. Suter is during
Speaker 1: the job that I do throughout the week, we can
Speaker 1: create some of that stuff. This is sports radio goal
Speaker 1: for yes, but for this team and where it matters
Speaker 1: the most that these players, there is no controversy. This
Speaker 1: coaching staff, there is no controversy. And the best part
Speaker 1: is that this team supports regardless whomever is behind center,
Speaker 1: and they feel they can win with whomever lines up
Speaker 1: under center. We know what Nick has done on the
Speaker 1: biggest of stages, and we know the talent that Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz possesses as the starting quarterback moving forward here. So
Speaker 1: we're in a great position. Whomever is the under center
Speaker 1: next week against the red Skins, I think we're in
Speaker 1: a good position to win that football game. We're gonna
Speaker 1: need some things to sort of fall our way with
Speaker 1: some other teams, but I feel good about next week
Speaker 1: from the eagle standpoint, taking on the Red Skin ends,
Speaker 1: I think we're in a good position. Team is playing well,
Speaker 1: not just the last two games, Chris, think about it.
Speaker 1: They've won four out of the last five games, so
Speaker 1: they're going through their best stretch of the season right now.
Speaker 1: We just had It's not too late against If you
Speaker 1: were to say a couple of weeks ago that you're
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Rams and the Texans, both league in
Speaker 1: the division, both in the number two seeds in the
Speaker 1: conference at the respective time, with so much to play
Speaker 1: for one game in Los Angeles, the other one here
Speaker 1: at the link now, most people said no chance the
Speaker 1: Things would pull it off, and they've done it in
Speaker 1: a throwing fashion in back to back weeks. So Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: when you talked about him for most of the show
Speaker 1: here with the brilliant play calling, the aggressive nature of
Speaker 1: his play calling today, especially when you contrasted and compare
Speaker 1: it to what Bill O'Brien did for the Texans. Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson spoke with Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike Quick
Speaker 1: it's our weekly one on one interview post game. Let's
Speaker 1: send you all to that right now. Coach. First of all, congratulations,
Speaker 1: we need so much druma in this game. You really don't.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we make this thing too hard um on ourselves
Speaker 1: quite frankly, with especially with the two score lead like
Speaker 1: we had. But you know, it's a um it's a
Speaker 1: resilient group, as we know, we've talked about that all season,
Speaker 1: and they find a way to win. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of individual efforts today, but but quite frankly,
Speaker 1: this was a great team win. How important was it
Speaker 1: for you to get Darren Sprows out and well first
Speaker 1: involved in the offense and in space the way you
Speaker 1: got him today. Yeah, I think it's important. Each week,
Speaker 1: you know, we're still um giving him more and more
Speaker 1: kind of each week kind of we've been kind of
Speaker 1: easing him back and with the injury, just don't want
Speaker 1: to push him, But after these last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: he can definitely take a little more on on us plate.
Speaker 1: And you know, he can be he can be a
Speaker 1: matchup nightmare sometimes for for defenders and especially linebackers, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's sometimes it's a you know,
Speaker 1: a safety blanket for the quarterback to knowing where your
Speaker 1: running backs are going to be as far as the
Speaker 1: passing game goes. And then to make that long run
Speaker 1: he did at the end to to put us really
Speaker 1: into field goal range is something that is a credit
Speaker 1: to him and just a great job. You knew that
Speaker 1: defense at front seven Clowney, those guys could erect the
Speaker 1: defense or wreck your offense. He got some early what
Speaker 1: made the difference late in the game though, where he
Speaker 1: wasn't nearly as effective. You know, I think I think,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get no situations that first of all,
Speaker 1: Clowney and J. J. Watty, these are tremendous players. These
Speaker 1: guys are tremendous and and uh, you know JJ kind
Speaker 1: of kind of had his way a little bit earlier
Speaker 1: in this football game, and you know, really the whole game,
Speaker 1: I guess I should say, but you know, I think
Speaker 1: I think it comes to time where um, you know,
Speaker 1: they started moving him around too late in the game.
Speaker 1: So once you start moving him around, you know, he
Speaker 1: pushed them through the middle of the pocket. I understand
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do is put a little pressure
Speaker 1: up the middle. And he's a long guy. He could
Speaker 1: probably bat some balls down. But um, a great job
Speaker 1: by our offensive line just handling him late in the
Speaker 1: game and allowing Nick to complete the balls. You talked
Speaker 1: about the individual performances and Nick himself during for four
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one yards on the day. How big
Speaker 1: was this performance and then coming back in and after
Speaker 1: that big hit, Yeah, you know, I mean Nick had
Speaker 1: a tremendous game. I think he said a record today
Speaker 1: for for Eagles as far as the passing goes and
Speaker 1: yardage and all that. And then happy for him. And
Speaker 1: you know, he'll be the first to tell you that
Speaker 1: he credits everybody else's it's you know, that's just that's
Speaker 1: just it, Nick, And he credits his receivers, is lying
Speaker 1: his backs everybody else. And you know that's the thing
Speaker 1: about it is. You know, he's that point guard that
Speaker 1: just wants to distribute the ball. He wants to get
Speaker 1: the ball in his playmaker's hands and and let them
Speaker 1: let them do the work. And you know, it's just
Speaker 1: a it's a credit to him. He gets the ball
Speaker 1: out of his hand, and um, you know it's probably
Speaker 1: more again about about the team kind of hanging together
Speaker 1: and being resilient and and really making plays for Nick.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you put a pass up and
Speaker 1: al Sean just elevates again late in the game, makes
Speaker 1: it comes down with a huge, huge catch. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are those are just things that are our playmakers
Speaker 1: are starting to do. They're often centered around Watson and
Speaker 1: of course Hopkins, but you're able to limit them somewhat.
Speaker 1: What was the plan with their quarterback? Well, Number one,
Speaker 1: things we try you try to keep him in the pocket, yes,
Speaker 1: and if you can't, then you have to try to
Speaker 1: get him down in space. And there were times today
Speaker 1: where we didn't do a very good job of either one. Um, Now,
Speaker 1: credit credit him. He's a tremendous athlete. He broke out
Speaker 1: of some tackles today that you're just kind of wild moments,
Speaker 1: you know, And and he's gonna continue to grow and
Speaker 1: get better. But you know, if you can kind of
Speaker 1: isolate him and control him, keep him in the pocket. Um,
Speaker 1: you can get him on the ground and force him
Speaker 1: to make some erratic throws. But he's a special player. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, Hopkins is another one of those receivers
Speaker 1: that can be very explosive. Um. You know, late in
Speaker 1: the game, they went after him a little bit and
Speaker 1: targeted him a little bit more. And you know, UM,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. You put the ball in your
Speaker 1: playmaker's hands. I have to ask you about not necessarily
Speaker 1: the play calls anyone in particular, but when you have
Speaker 1: to go through the adversity that you have to go through,
Speaker 1: when you're getting those calls that go against you, what
Speaker 1: do you tell your guys? How do you keep your
Speaker 1: guys up in those situations. I just keep telling them
Speaker 1: that we just gotta continue to fight through it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's all you can do. Um. You know, sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: the call is gonna go against you. Sometimes it's gonna
Speaker 1: go in your favor. We just gotta kind of block
Speaker 1: it out, block out the noise, and just just move
Speaker 1: on to the next play. It's like making a bad play.
Speaker 1: If you make a bad play, don't focus on it.
Speaker 1: Move forward. Let's get better the next time. Thanks coach.
Speaker 1: Thank Quick. The most candid that you will see Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson each and every week is that one on one
Speaker 1: interview with Mike Quick. So we got some things on
Speaker 1: the playoff front situate, uh, you know, squared away during
Speaker 1: the breaks there, so Sell you would ask before about
Speaker 1: sett win tonight over the chief Sunday Night football, the
Speaker 1: orient that they all have their spot locked up, and
Speaker 1: then at that point it would be Eels must win,
Speaker 1: Vikings must lose. That that would be it right there.
Speaker 1: The Vikings play the Bears. The Bears still have the
Speaker 1: possible first round buy to play for. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the key that you're looking for from that standpoint here.
Speaker 1: And then the Seahawks again they play tonight against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Next week it's against the Cardinals, and then the Vikings
Speaker 1: right there eight six and one. They got the win
Speaker 1: over Detroit today, Thanks Detroit for nothing. But they play
Speaker 1: the Bears next week there, so it's it's pretty pretty
Speaker 1: cut and dry. Certainly, you hope that maybe the Chiefs
Speaker 1: that maybe Andy Reid could do do us a solid
Speaker 1: dif Doug solid you know, and you know, take care
Speaker 1: of Seahawks and now take care of the Seahawks and
Speaker 1: make things a little bit easier to give the Eagles
Speaker 1: another another avenue to be able to get into the postseason.
Speaker 1: And the Eagles can still finish as high as the
Speaker 1: fifth seas and the division's out at this point. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dallas is one of the NFC East, So be it.
Speaker 1: You know, it would be great. This, this would be
Speaker 1: this would be the dream comes true if the Eagles
Speaker 1: could somehow get the fifth seed, which again it would
Speaker 1: be Seahawks have to lose their final two Vennesota loses
Speaker 1: next week, Eagles, Eagles win. Okay, that would give the
Speaker 1: Eagles the fifth seed. Cowboys pretty much locked in that
Speaker 1: fourth seat, four place five in the wild card round.
Speaker 1: Would you love to go to Jerry World there in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, Yeah, that third crack at the Cowboys. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you know that. We would love to have another crack
Speaker 1: at those guys. Just get in though honestly we obviously
Speaker 1: just just want to get in. But I'm with you
Speaker 1: there the matchup, it's the holiday season. I'm dreaming, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. You know, gift the gift, you know,
Speaker 1: you could say this reminds me one of my favorite
Speaker 1: games to cover for my years here, and plus that's
Speaker 1: better than going to Chicago. Yeah that's on a Saturday
Speaker 1: night in wintertime. No thanks whatsoever. But you know, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite games covering was the Jeff Garcia Christmas
Speaker 1: game that clinched the mcast for the Eagles that two
Speaker 1: thousand and six season. Okay, that came on the Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: two days away from from the Christmas holiday. Nick Foles
Speaker 1: delivering a nice little gift here so to speak, here
Speaker 1: again give the Eagles a chance to keep hope alive
Speaker 1: going into the final week of the regular season, which
Speaker 1: for me, like you know, about a month ago, probably
Speaker 1: it was really after that Saints loss. Okay, at that point,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, just make these games meaningful, give give the
Speaker 1: fans something to cheer for, give them something to believe in.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to be playing out the
Speaker 1: string in weeks sixteen and seventeen and just totally changing
Speaker 1: the mood and the atmosphere of for everyone in the city.
Speaker 1: Because obviously it was so great going through the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl run a year ago and the memories that will
Speaker 1: always have from that, But you want, you want a
Speaker 1: little more. Okay, we've had, We've had the taste. We
Speaker 1: want to keep getting to the postseason. Play you get
Speaker 1: in and then you see what happens at the get in.
Speaker 1: I just look back the last year, as great as
Speaker 1: or as good as Kansas City was in a regular season,
Speaker 1: Tennessee goes to Kansas City and wins in the first round.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I love the playoffs because it's
Speaker 1: single game elimination, doesn't matter what you did all season long.
Speaker 1: Typically the teams that are playing the best football late
Speaker 1: in the year are the most dangerous teams, especially in
Speaker 1: that first round. That's why you saw Atlanta knock off
Speaker 1: the Rams last year in the first round. I just
Speaker 1: mentioned Tennessee knocking off the Chiefs. Stuff like that happens
Speaker 1: in that wild card round. And with the Eagles, if
Speaker 1: they were to win next week, they would have won
Speaker 1: five out of their last six games heading into the
Speaker 1: postseason if they were able to qualify. So that's sort
Speaker 1: of what you want to be doing. Just get in
Speaker 1: and let the chips fall where they may. And I
Speaker 1: guarantee you no one wants to wants to play the
Speaker 1: defending champs if they get into the playoffs. No, not
Speaker 1: at all, whatsoever. So we can the Eagles have to
Speaker 1: win next week? Going going into today, no matter what
Speaker 1: happened today, there was there was believe or not a
Speaker 1: scenario where the Eagles lost today, there would still be
Speaker 1: a chance. No, the Eagles over. That's over. Eagles one
Speaker 1: took care of business, but they still have to win
Speaker 1: next week in Washington and it will be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how they respond after such a deflating loss yesterday
Speaker 1: to Tennessee. Yeah. I've been in that position before, Chris
Speaker 1: down in Atlanta, and I would imagine there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of packing this week down in DC. They'll
Speaker 1: be getting ready for the off season, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson, he'll be happy. He hadn't played football in years.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just happy to be back on a roster.
Speaker 1: So he may be a one man crew out there
Speaker 1: next week. But everyone else, guys, when they know that
Speaker 1: they have nothing to play for and their season is
Speaker 1: over with, the last thing they want to do is
Speaker 1: get injured and to be stuck in the city that
Speaker 1: they play in for the whole off season rehabbing. So
Speaker 1: I would I would imagine Washington will start the game
Speaker 1: off giving the old good college try. But if the
Speaker 1: Eagles were to get up on them early. They're packing
Speaker 1: it in there. They're packing it in. They have no
Speaker 1: reason to fight. They know that they're pretty much eliminated
Speaker 1: from playoff contention. I expect the Eagles to go down
Speaker 1: there and really play a dominant game. It's really gonna
Speaker 1: boil down to whether or not Chicago helps us out
Speaker 1: and takes care of the Minnesota Vikings. So I really
Speaker 1: do expect the Eagles to go down there and win
Speaker 1: next year. So right now, the game is together for
Speaker 1: one o'clock. The NFL Ken Flex games one week in
Speaker 1: advance for Week seventeen. The one game of note is Tennessee, Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: That's probably the one that's gonna get flex to the
Speaker 1: primetime spot. Usually that's announced just before tonight's primetime game
Speaker 1: before the Chiefs and the Seahawks, so we'll wait to
Speaker 1: hear that. But there's a chance Heels could get flex
Speaker 1: to the late afternoon slot next week, so that all
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. So we started off the show
Speaker 1: with merlor Reese's call of Jake Elliot's game winning thirty
Speaker 1: five yard field goal. Let's go through the rest of
Speaker 1: the best of Merrillcam thanks to Sports Radio ninety four
Speaker 1: w IP providing the footage from the booth here with
Speaker 1: Melor Reiese and Mike Quick. This is fourth down and
Speaker 1: about two fools takes it. He's back, he fires out.
Speaker 1: He's got Sproke turning twenty five, twenty fifteen. Ten cocks
Speaker 1: back at the five. He's tuk him. How sweet is that?
Speaker 1: Totally seven yards? How sweet is that? Darren Spros catch it.
Speaker 1: There's an opportunity for the linebacker to make a play.
Speaker 1: Spros is able to get by him, get down the sideline,
Speaker 1: and once he gets down the sideline out in space,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get him on the ground. He
Speaker 1: gets it into the end zone for the touchdown. Holes
Speaker 1: takes the snap, he's back, he looks, he fires complete touchdown.
Speaker 1: Zack hurts a lot of work, but they got it done.
Speaker 1: They did at the hard one. They did at the
Speaker 1: hard one. You know. They line up a bunch on
Speaker 1: the left side and zach Ertz runs a little Texas route.
Speaker 1: He angles to the outside, comes back in very similar
Speaker 1: to the route that they tried to get into. Darren
Speaker 1: sprows and he gets a touchdown with five to fifty
Speaker 1: seven remaining here in the third quarter, and this will
Speaker 1: be a forty six yard attempt, make it forty seven
Speaker 1: as the holder Cameron Johnston backs up one more yard
Speaker 1: forty seven yard attempt to make it sixteen apiece. Battle
Speaker 1: spotted kick is away and the kick is god. We're
Speaker 1: tired at sixteen total. A half minutes to go in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, sixteen sixteen first and ten. Eagles ball
Speaker 1: at their own seventeen. Sprowls positions on the left of
Speaker 1: falls full straight back. He looks, steps up, starts to run.
Speaker 1: He is going deep. He is firing, and it is cut.
Speaker 1: It is Agalog at the twenty fifteen ten five touchdown.
Speaker 1: Now Footagalog. That's what he's been asking for all afternoons.
Speaker 1: I saw him talking to Mike Grove. Because Nelson knows
Speaker 1: that he can outrun this defense. He blows the pop
Speaker 1: off with his defense. Nick Foles chops in a dime
Speaker 1: to Nelson, Agalog, Watson back again. Here comes the rush.
Speaker 1: He's head. Football is loose. It's a free ball. The
Speaker 1: Eagles have it and it is picked up by Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: who runs out of and the Eagles get their turnover.
Speaker 1: Hurts back. He is floating it and it's complete. The
Speaker 1: Arts ERTs at the ten, Hurts at the fall, Hurts
Speaker 1: to the end zone. I've got anna touchdown. PRIs tack Hurts.
Speaker 1: This is that's the best piece of running I've ever
Speaker 1: seen by Zach Hurts. He catches a little flat route,
Speaker 1: he gets up Phil he avoided the linebacker and then
Speaker 1: he avotched the safety wall. That's what he wan Watson
Speaker 1: and the garden Blna was left. Watson drops. Watson looks
Speaker 1: he's grabbed. They've gone am back at the forty two
Speaker 1: and it's train Foster. Watson's back. Watson steps up, he's
Speaker 1: starting to run. He's tackled and he's down at the
Speaker 1: forty four yard line by Chris Long. Chris Long did
Speaker 1: it again. You know he had the strip sack earlier
Speaker 1: in the game. Hold your breath spotted up. It is.
Speaker 1: It's good. The Eagles win. What an outstanding football game. Now,
Speaker 1: that's a fun game that that's outstanding. The Eagles on
Speaker 1: eleven plays, mister rees, they go seventy two yards. Jake
Speaker 1: Elliott tapped it off with the thirty five yard bomb
Speaker 1: right through the uprights. Last week's game on say Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: This one was strictly out of Hollywood, thanks again to
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety four WP and how many more people
Speaker 1: can we fit in the booth there? That was a party.
Speaker 1: That was a party by the end of that Merrilcam
Speaker 1: segment right there. So if you miss Amy, we will
Speaker 1: have it for you later on on Philadelphias dot com
Speaker 1: and the app. So as the twenty eighteen calendar year
Speaker 1: starts to come to a close, you know you can
Speaker 1: follow this under things that we didn't think we would see.
Speaker 1: How about the New England Patriots thanking Foles and you
Speaker 1: go back to obviously Foles and his MVP performance in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, you would be like, that's never gonna
Speaker 1: take place. But by virtue of Foles's performance and the
Speaker 1: Eagles winning today, the Patriots they clinch the AFC East
Speaker 1: and they are now in the number two spot in
Speaker 1: the AFC, bumping back the Texans there because they beat
Speaker 1: the Texans earlier year, so they own the time breaker.
Speaker 1: So in fact, the picture that went with the tweet
Speaker 1: with none other than Tom Brady hugging Nick Foles, which
Speaker 1: that you know didn't happen at the Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the preseason game exact, Yes, yes, we'll just
Speaker 1: leave it right there. So what we're gonna do now
Speaker 1: is we're gonna take a quick commercial break. We have
Speaker 1: some film breakdown segments courtesy of Fran Duffy and Greg Cosell.
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. All right, so welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: We've showed you some of the highlights. We've heard from
Speaker 1: all the players and coaches who are key in bringing
Speaker 1: the Eagles the thirty two the thirty victory. So why
Speaker 1: don't we do like a little film breakdown. We're gonna
Speaker 1: send it over to the RICO whiteboard for the Rico Review,
Speaker 1: where fran Duffy and NFL Film Senior producer Great Ks
Speaker 1: are standing by to give us the film breakdown of
Speaker 1: Nelson Agilore's eighty three yard touchdown reception. So the Eagles
Speaker 1: get the ball back now tied at sixteen, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see this big play. It's actually the biggest pass
Speaker 1: play greg since twenty ten for this team. Eighty fil
Speaker 1: yards from Nick Foles. Nelson Agilore. Breakdown what we see
Speaker 1: here and what makes this play happen for Nelson. It's
Speaker 1: really interesting because what the Eagles are doing here, they
Speaker 1: line up with alshon Jeffrey as the x the x
Speaker 1: ISO the single receiver to the boundary, which is his
Speaker 1: predominant position. But what's interesting about this is how the
Speaker 1: Texans react to that on this given play is they're
Speaker 1: going to go with a dedicated double on Jeffrey with
Speaker 1: the corner, obviously, but this safety here is doubling Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: a hard dedicated double. So now what does that do?
Speaker 1: They have trips to the field, They've got Earth's inside
Speaker 1: and they've got Nelson Agel. All right here, those are
Speaker 1: the key people. So but if you see now, because
Speaker 1: of this safety dedicating the double onto Jeffrey, you get
Speaker 1: basically man to man zero man. There's no help over
Speaker 1: the top of any of these players, so that whole
Speaker 1: area is wide open. So now what we'll do is
Speaker 1: we can clear this, Fran and we can run the
Speaker 1: play and keep your eye on all this and if
Speaker 1: we freeze it as we see right about here. So
Speaker 1: what happens there's the double clear, here's arts with Justin
Speaker 1: Reid the safety running with him. So what does that
Speaker 1: do with Aglar He's now one on one running the
Speaker 1: deep post against Turan Matthew and there's no help. So
Speaker 1: that's where Nick Foles is looking, and he has to
Speaker 1: move and navigate the pocket. He does it beautifully, but
Speaker 1: he's waiting for that to all happen because he knows
Speaker 1: he has the one on one with the deep post
Speaker 1: to Agilar versus Matthew. So let's now run this. This
Speaker 1: is a great throw, by the way, because this is
Speaker 1: a long distance throw and he drops it right in
Speaker 1: the bucket. Beautifully throw the ball, but very interesting how
Speaker 1: the Texans would play that. Yeah, anytime you were running
Speaker 1: a deep post route down the middle of the fields
Speaker 1: from an inside receiver, you want that to go right
Speaker 1: between the pipes, and went right between the house, no question.
Speaker 1: And if that post safety is removed as he was
Speaker 1: with the double, then there's no one there. Yeah, big
Speaker 1: play there from Nick Foles and Nelson agil sends the
Speaker 1: Eagles ahead now twenty three to sixteen. All right, you
Speaker 1: can check out the entire all twenty two review tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning right here on philadelphias dot com and the Eels
Speaker 1: App and Ike were talking about that play earlier in
Speaker 1: the show before seeing that film breakdown. You said, correctly,
Speaker 1: he had zach and on the play so on the
Speaker 1: corner route would have be able to hit him on that.
Speaker 1: But the factor, Marris, if you're gonna go big, go bigger,
Speaker 1: go home, And you know Nelson Aglore stepping up in
Speaker 1: the biggest because it's not just the touch that Nick
Speaker 1: put on the ball, but but it was a phenomenal
Speaker 1: job by Agilore catching the ball over his shoulders there
Speaker 1: and then be able to finish off Tyron Matthew Obviously
Speaker 1: the one on one coverage at that point, he was
Speaker 1: in the dust so Agilare was just taking some time
Speaker 1: off the clock. Yeah, man, it was great to see that.
Speaker 1: Remind me of a play he made last year, right
Speaker 1: was it. I can't remember what San Francisco or Denver
Speaker 1: might have been that Nelson made the big play, or
Speaker 1: even Arizona when he fell into game zone. But the
Speaker 1: fact that Carson, the fact that Nick was willing to
Speaker 1: give him an opportunity to make a play on the ball.
Speaker 1: Like you said, it's one thing to put the ball
Speaker 1: up there, putting nice touch on it. It's not as
Speaker 1: easy it may look for a wide receiver to track
Speaker 1: that deep ball. Seeing plea the wide receivers in this
Speaker 1: league that can't track a deep ball. The best in
Speaker 1: the game, in my opinion, has been to Sean Jackson
Speaker 1: over the last decade of tracking deep balls, and that
Speaker 1: play right there reminded me a lot of what to
Speaker 1: Shane looked like running down the field catching those deep passes.
Speaker 1: So it was great to see that back in the game,
Speaker 1: back into the offensive repertoire. It really forces these defenses
Speaker 1: to respect you going deep. The formation. It was a
Speaker 1: great formation there. Like I said, you had zach Ertz
Speaker 1: on going across. If Nick wanted to go there. He
Speaker 1: certainly could have gone there, probably would have completed the ball.
Speaker 1: But the thing that we all love about Nick, he's
Speaker 1: more than willing to take chances down the field and
Speaker 1: give his players an opportunity to make plays. That's what
Speaker 1: he did there, gave Nelson an opportunity to make a play.
Speaker 1: I just love the fact that the play call from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of you spread out the Texans defense. Okay,
Speaker 1: very under were talking about the Eagle secondary being underman.
Speaker 1: The Texans had a ton of injuries coming in this
Speaker 1: game in the secondary and lost corners and secondary members
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the contest today. So you spread
Speaker 1: out that Texans defense and you say, all right, they're
Speaker 1: gonna double Al Shan fired, he's out of the equation.
Speaker 1: You've got three one on one matchups across the board.
Speaker 1: Take a shot, take a shot, and go with it
Speaker 1: from there. So kudos to Nick and Al Shot for
Speaker 1: delivering the big play that gave the Eagles the lead
Speaker 1: in the second half, and of course they went on
Speaker 1: to win thirty two to thirty. Now the question is
Speaker 1: Nick Voles, Nelson agilor are they in the running for
Speaker 1: the Toyota Player of the Week nomination. We're going to
Speaker 1: tell you right after this final break here on the
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Speaker 1: a brand new Toyota. So where do we begin? You
Speaker 1: gotta start with number nine, Nikki six himself. Look at
Speaker 1: the numbers, franchise single game record four hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: one passing four touchdowns over seventy percent completion percentage, A
Speaker 1: gutsy effort on the final drive, Eagles down thirty to
Speaker 1: twenty nine, taking the shot in the end zone had
Speaker 1: to come out for one play, Nate suf How about
Speaker 1: Nates off of throwing the ball in is one rep
Speaker 1: out there in the field. But nonetheless, though Foles coming
Speaker 1: back in getting key third down conversions to Alston Jeffrey
Speaker 1: on that drive to zach Ertz and setting Jake Elliott
Speaker 1: up to get the game winning thirty five yard field goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we we've talked a lot about Nick today
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, wow last two weeks, Nick Foles man
Speaker 1: just another outstanding performance to set the franchise record for
Speaker 1: passing yards in the game to go along with four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And not only that, just the key clutch throws late
Speaker 1: in the game that Nick Foles was able to make
Speaker 1: big throw after big throw time at the time, just
Speaker 1: another outstanding job from Nick. Look, there's no run game today,
Speaker 1: Texas run defense outstanding. This was on Nick Foles's shoulders
Speaker 1: and he delivered in a big way. So the recipient
Speaker 1: of a lot of those passes as our second nominee
Speaker 1: tight end, zach Ertz. And you know, just from setting
Speaker 1: the record for most receptions by a tight end in
Speaker 1: NFL history, that alone would have warranted consideration for it.
Speaker 1: But twelve catches on sixteen targets over one hundred yards,
Speaker 1: receiving two touchdowns, including a big catch and run. And
Speaker 1: he also had a huge twenty yard reception on a
Speaker 1: third down on the final drive which really set them
Speaker 1: up in field goal range. Yeah, another great job from
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. You know, if you want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you appreciate with zach Ertz is doing this year
Speaker 1: and week the week. Sometimes you see his numbers and
Speaker 1: we can sort of take it for granted because he
Speaker 1: seems to put up these type of big numbers every week.
Speaker 1: But just having a historical season, really an all pro season,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, best tight end in football, best tight
Speaker 1: end in football. You talked about the big catch right
Speaker 1: there to set up the field goal. Another outstanding game,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. So last, but not least, the man who
Speaker 1: put the ball through the uprights to win the game.
Speaker 1: Jake Elliott bouncing back from missing an extra point earlier
Speaker 1: in the contest, but hit two long field goals. You know,
Speaker 1: the last one, I should say it was a long
Speaker 1: one thirty five yards. But with this season on the line,
Speaker 1: this was you make it. We've got hope for this
Speaker 1: week and we're all celebrating, enjoying a positive week here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia with the holiday season. He misses that one. Lord,
Speaker 1: we don't need to go there. Nonetheless, he made it.
Speaker 1: He is a Toyota Player of the Week nominee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's through his two years of being here. He
Speaker 1: certainly has had some mishaps time to time. From time
Speaker 1: to time, but I can't think of a moment where
Speaker 1: the game was on the line, or he needed to
Speaker 1: come up with a big field goal to tie a
Speaker 1: game or what have you that he didn't come through.
Speaker 1: This kid has been able to come through for us
Speaker 1: ice water in his veins. We talk about the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl heroes Nick Foles, Brandon Graham, the Strip Sack of course,
Speaker 1: but man zach Ertz, But we don't talk about Jake
Speaker 1: Elliott and that big field goal he hit at the
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham for stet up fumble on Tom Brady to
Speaker 1: put us up by eight points. Jake Elliott once again
Speaker 1: showing when you're needing the most, he comes through force.
Speaker 1: All right, So those are your three nominees for the
Speaker 1: Toyota Player of the Week award. Again, you enter, you
Speaker 1: have a chance of with a brand new car. So
Speaker 1: you know, if you're slacking on getting those gifts, gifts,
Speaker 1: you know, like myself right here, I was thinking maybe
Speaker 1: I'll be able to get out to the malls tonight.
Speaker 1: But where everything has taken place, it may not happen.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll if they'll come through in the
Speaker 1: clutch one way or another. So but nonetheless, tomorrow two
Speaker 1: pm you are on the air Christmas Eve. Ye okay,
Speaker 1: Marks and Reese can only imagine we'll start to show
Speaker 1: off with our customary victory chant as we do when
Speaker 1: the Eagles win. And got another exciting week, meaningful Eagles
Speaker 1: football to talk about. And I'm sure the fans will
Speaker 1: be pumped up this week getting ready for that risk
Speaker 1: in his game next week. I mean, we haven't been
Speaker 1: in this position of scoreboard watch in some time, and
Speaker 1: so the funny thing is they'll probably be less talk
Speaker 1: about the Eagles chances of beating the Ridskins next week
Speaker 1: and more talk about Chicago taking care of the vikings
Speaker 1: for us next week. So uh, looking forward to a
Speaker 1: fun week man, another week of to talk about our
Speaker 1: beloved birds. You know it's funny you look at the
Speaker 1: Andy Reid tree Okay, so Andy Reid, we could use
Speaker 1: some help tonight against the Seahawks. Okay, chief Seahawks again,
Speaker 1: Prime time Saturday Football, NBC Mattege. Okay, it was Chicago,
Speaker 1: you know, coach with Doug in Kansas City. Help him,
Speaker 1: help him, Help help you brother out out, help us
Speaker 1: get into the tournament. Okay, not asking for much, Okay,
Speaker 1: just get us in there. And you know, hey, Doug,
Speaker 1: Doug was a great job as oc in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: comes to Philadelphia, paves away from Mattenegge to get the
Speaker 1: ocean job in Kansas City. He has a job in Chicago.
Speaker 1: So you know, you gotta take care of those who
Speaker 1: helped you along the way. There you go, simple as that.
Speaker 1: So I Marry Christmas. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Speaker 1: It's been it's been a great ride. So and it
Speaker 1: continues for another week here and we thank each and
Speaker 1: every one of you out there again. Happy Holidays to
Speaker 1: everyone out there. This will be a very fun Eagles week. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson addresses the media at noon on Monday, we
Speaker 1: will carry it for you live. So until then, for
Speaker 1: Ike Reece and all of us here at the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson, you've been watching the post game show
Speaker 1: presented by Rico. Happy holidays, We will see you tomorrow.