WEBVTT - Post-Game Show: Eagles Win 32-30 On Last-Second Kick 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:10.200 Spotted kicked up. It is. It's good the Eagles win. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.240 What an outstanding football game. Now, that's a fun game. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.360 That's outstanding. The Eagles on eleven plays, mister rees, they 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.639 go seventy two yards. Jake Elliott tapped it off with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:29.000 the thirty five yard bomb right through the uprights. Last 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:36.040 week's It's good Indeed, the Eagles comfort behind final drive 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.880 to stun the Houston Techans by a score of thirty 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.479 two to thirty. Who Welcome to the postgame show presented 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.920 by Rico Chris mcfiers. Always like former Eagles linebacker ike Reas, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.360 that game had it all. The Eagles had a double 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.960 digit lead in the third. In the fourth quarter, once 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.920 again it slid away and you thought, maybe this is 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.800 gonna be the story of the season that once again 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.880 the Eagles are unable to finish there, trailing thirty to 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.000 twenty nine. They get the ball one last time. Nick 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.760 Foles takes a shot in the end zone. He's hurt, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.440 has to come out for one play comes back in 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.000 gutsie drive. There was a pass over the middle of 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.080 zach Ertz, who capped off a record breaking day where 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.839 he said the all time single season record for most 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.039 catches by a tight end and then a few more 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.160 receptions to get the Eagles within field goal range. And 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.160 Jake Elliot okay, known for the dramatic last season, with 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.880 that win over the Giants, missed an extra point earlier 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.039 in the game, makes up for it with the thirty 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.920 five yard field goal and you just heard the call 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.920 there courtesy of Merrill Camp of Merrillies, giving us the 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.960 game winner. The Eagles save their season, improved at eight 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.040 and seven, another win over a division leading team ike, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.760 and whoo, they have put themselves in position. Now some 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.480 bad news happening around the rest of the league. Dallas winning, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.840 they clinched the NFC East Minnesota one, so they still 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.800 are in control for that last wild card spot. But nonetheless, though, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.280 the Eagles had to save their season. And what a 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.320 gutsie drive as Nick foles four hundred and seventy one 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.360 passing yards sets the all time single game passing record 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.680 for the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, just an outstanding game, Chris. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.520 I mean, you look at the offensive side of the ball, 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.200 and boy did they come to play today. Now today, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.840 in my opinion, this might have been the best the 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.960 offensive look, especially from the passing aspect of the game, 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.760 but really just a gutsy performance came out dominated. I 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.520 thought the defense, you know, they relaxed a little bit 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.600 there in the second half. Give Houston a lot of credit. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.600 They didn't give up obviously, with a lot to play 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.760 for on the line for them, they're trying to get 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.519 a bye week. They climb back into this game. They 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:40.160 take the lead, but the Eagles showing resilience and Nick Foles, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.200 like you said, that big shot he took in the 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.440 end zone to add fifteen yards to the big throw 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.280 he was able to complete to al Sean Jeffrey and 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.720 then the throw to Zach Ertz. They really put them 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.720 in field goal range. I think just a clutch performance 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.600 by Nick coming down the stretch. With this offense, you 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.359 put the ball in his hands. You needed a field 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.480 goal to go in and win the game in the end, 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.160 and Nick Foles was able to do it. Really not 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.880 able to I haven't seen the Eagles do this, not 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.160 correct me if I'm wrong. Not since the Coats game. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.720 Had they come back, I mean this late in the game, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.200 had a game winning drive like they did in this 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.359 game here. So you know, we haven't seen very many 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.560 of these type of victories. This year, we've often been 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.440 on the wrong side of these type of games. But 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.920 it's great to see this team coming off of that 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.560 game last week against the Rams. I was so concerned 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.480 about an emotional letdown coming off of that big win 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.920 last week, but they came home and what could be 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.120 the final home game of the season, and they really 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.680 put on an offensive performance for this home crowd, and 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.680 what a thrilling victory and what could be the possibly 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.920 the last game. Well we'll be the last game. The 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.080 Cowboys won the East. Yet Cowboys won the East, so 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.200 it will be the last game. And what a game 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.320 to go out on. Man, what a game to go 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.080 out on. We've had some dramatic finishes this year, and 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.120 you got we got to come to the set Ra afterwards, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.760 and it's hard to kind of compartmentalize everything right off. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.800 I had to be able to get ready to do 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.840 the broadcast once. It's great doing this in such thrilling fashion. Again, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.360 it has been a playoff like atmosphere for the Eagles 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.800 going to LA last weekend, the big win, underdogs, you know, huge, 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.200 you know spread that they were against able to get 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.000 the win on the road, but that game also allowed 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.440 the Rams to climb back into the game late. Well here, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.839 once again, not only did they allow the Texans to 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.960 get back in the ball game, the Texans got the 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.920 lead and everyone's starting to think this can't happen. This 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.000 is no way that this season is going to end 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.200 like this. And it all goes on the shoulders of 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.200 Nick Foles, who once again franchise record most passing yards 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.320 in a game, four seventy one and really with no 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.840 rushing game today, everything was on him. You look at 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.760 the time of possession differential almost thirty four minutes. The 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.640 Eagles had to football four hundred and sixty two total 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.039 net passing yards when all is said and done, because 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.600 only fifty seven yards on the ground. This was on 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.920 Nick Foles's shoulders today and he delivered in a big way. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.119 And you know, give the rest of the offense credit 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.560 for coming with the big play. As you mentioned on 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.320 the final drive. Alshon Jeffrey had a fifty yard catch 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.960 earlier in the game third down and ten hauls the 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.840 ball in the middle of the field and he had 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.840 to come out for a brief time with some sort 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.680 of injury. Zach Ertz I forget i don't know what 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.200 he finished with on the day. Okay, double digit receptions, 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.359 double digit receptions once again for him, but getting the 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.040 big catch as you mentioned, to get the deals into 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.039 field goal range. Nelson Aghalore and Derres Sprawls also with 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.120 big catches on that drive. So top to bottom there, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.680 this is one we're gonna be talking about and remembering 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.320 for a long time. The key is you just hope 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.600 that it's going to be all for a playoffs about 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.919 at the end of the day. So this reminds me 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.920 we're getting we're coming out to the ten year anniversary 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.360 of forty four to six. Okay, when the Eagles need 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.120 all those crazy things that happen on the last day 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.839 of the regular season to get into the playoffs. It 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.240 sort of feels like it's that type of field going 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.919 into week seventeen here, So let's get a sense of 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.280 what it's like over at Lincoln Financial Field. We're gonna 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.480 bring an Eagles insider day Spadera and Amy Campbell and 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.680 Dave just take us through your perspective, your advantage point 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.760 watching Nick Foles gut it out after taking the big 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.600 hit and leading the Eagles to that game winning drive. Yeah, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.560 calm cool and collected poise. Everything that we've seen from 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.799 Nick Foles throughout his time as a Philadelphia Eagles, spreading 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.440 the football around, some really really big throws and obviously 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.200 critical times third downs, getting the ball out quickly, spreading 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.479 it around, and really just tormenting a Texans defense that 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.760 came in. I felt the Eagles were gonna go after 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.360 the cornerbacks. They lost some players in the defensive secondary, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.560 and the Eagles, as you need to do, took advantage 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.520 of great matchups. Yeah, instant classic for Nick Foles. A 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.799 game we'll be talking about forever. Of course, you guys 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.880 mentioned the records that he set personally in franchise wise, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.200 and just amazing throws and amazing poise coming back in 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.880 from that injury, that vicious hit. I mean, if that 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.760 doesn't get your blood pumping, I don't know what does. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.839 It was an awesome performance from Nichols, I'll tell you 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.960 amy great job on that offensive side of the ball. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.000 I know we'll be talking about them all show long, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.719 but I thought the defense came up with some big plays. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.480 Chris Long and Avonte Maddox stood out to me on 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.000 that side of the ball today. Avonte Maddox with a 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.880 tough job of trying to guard DeAndre Hopkins, and then 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.560 Chris Long coming in with some big sacks forced the 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.640 fumble that I thought was a big moment in the 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.480 game with Fletcher Cox recovered at talk about the old 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.120 guy and Chris Long and the young guy and Avonte 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.160 Maddox now they played today, Yeah, I think that's that's 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.040 well said. You have the old guy and the young 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.080 guy making amazing plays and big stops here. I think 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.080 one of the big stats I looked at for the 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.400 Texans today was that they were three of ten on 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.400 third down, So the Eagles really able to just hunker 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.680 down and stop them when to get the momentum going 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.760 as well. And one of the things about this Texans 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.840 team is when you look at the stat sheet after 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.920 their games, they don't look like they win, but they're winning. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.480 And you have that fourth quarter Deshaun Watson that always 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.560 comes into play. And so the fact that they were 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.400 the Eagles were able to overcome that from the Texans 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.040 today I think was huge for and I you know, frankly, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.320 I was disappointed with the way the Eagles closed out defensively, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.840 I thought with a twenty nine to sixteen lead, a 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.680 thirteen point lead, you have a chance to really finish 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.920 them off, and they didn't after the Josh Adams fumble 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.239 and then late in the game another drive down the field. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.520 But yeah, you're right, there were some big plays. Just 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.040 I want to see sixty minutes of complete defense. Did 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.720 not see it today, really did not see it last 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.120 week against the Rams either, when the Eagles hung on 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.680 for victory and Los Angeles, well, we have reason to 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.119 feel nervous when we see something like that happened because 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.960 we have seen them fall apart. Layton games allow a 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.240 lot of points, especially here at home. It's happened a 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.840 few times this season. So the Eagles got that thirteen 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.520 point lead, and I am still very nervous at that 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.880 point until they close it out. Every game here we 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.040 are a one point game with three seconds to go, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.079 and I'm nervous at the end of the game again. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.840 So yeah, sixty minutes on both sides would be a 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.240 nice thing to see. Yeah, David, it's gonna take us 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.160 a while, I think to calm down. But what did 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.559 you think of Doug Pearson and his aggressive play calling today? 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.199 Insistently early on going for our fourth down and then 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.040 on the other side, you know, Bill O'Brien being much 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.240 more conservative in chances. Are you figured with Deshaun Watson 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.000 as legs could have been able to get some of 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.000 those fourt down conversions. Yeah, I mean the Eagles were 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.480 three of three on fourth downs in the first half. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.760 That's remarkable even for somebody as aggressive as Peterson, and 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.120 I think you have to have that. I mean, the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.840 Eagles are in a situation where they've got to score 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.439 a lot of points, got to take some chances here. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.880 I love the way they got darren Sproles incorporated into 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.360 the past game. They felt like they could move the 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.680 chains whenever they wanted against this Texans defense, as long 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.080 as Nick got rid of the football and as long 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.080 as Vieti left tackle Hulla hulavuty Viety gave him just 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.199 enough time working against Jadaveon Clowney. That was a really 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.600 tough matchup early in this game for the Eagles. When 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.240 Jason Peters went out, Clowney feasted on Viti for the 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.520 first half. Vitie came back with a big stech half. Yeah. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.600 I think that's that's a great person to highlight. Like 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.280 you said, he had a couple of rough moments in 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.400 the first half, a couple of penalties that were actually 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.800 pretty costly for this offense, stalling momentum, installing drives, but 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.320 being able to bounce back against the guy like Jadavion 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.040 Clowney who still continued to make an impact. But to me, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.120 it's about the timing of when those things happened, when 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.520 he makes an impact. So he made his presence spelt, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.880 But was it at costly times as much? No, it wasn't. Yeah, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.520 and guys talk about somebody band timely and making a 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.560 great impact. How about zach Ertz and what he was 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.800 able to do today setting a record the all time 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.760 record for tight ends most catches in the season, sixteen 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.480 targets a day, twelve catches, two touchdowns, one hundred and 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.160 ten yards. What else can you say about zach Ertz 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.960 that we haven't said throughout and delivering the delivering in 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.920 the red zone once again, this is the mark of 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.160 a great tight end. He's scoring the football. And I'll 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.240 tell you what's interesting about the Eagles offense. We've seen 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.040 zach as the center point of the offense throughout the season. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.520 At the expensive plays down the field. Today, Nick was 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.319 able to still throw the ball down the field, big 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.040 played agghil Er, big plays to Alshan Jeffrey, throwing the ball, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:52.360 taking chances, getting Dallas Goddard involved. Look, I think zach 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.480 Ertz has come such a long way, and I'll pointing 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.840 to that game against the Cincinnati Bengals a few years ago, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.680 vontez perfect. Everybody criticized Zack for not blocking perfect, and 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.520 in that time from then till now, he has become 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.840 more aggressive, better with the football in his hands, tougher 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.800 and more physical. Yeah, certainly it's a huge accomplishment for 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.080 zach Ertz. And you know, just as soon as that 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.959 milestone was accomplished, I'm imagining all the media going into 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.120 the locker room and asking him about that, and he's 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.240 not going to care if the team doesn't win this game. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.400 He's not going to care about that milestone. And every 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.360 week he's always the first person to say I'm the 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.080 one that needs to look in the mirror, even though 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.240 for many of these games he was the most productive 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.440 pass catcher on this team. And so just a great 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.400 accomplishment for an even better person who you just feel 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.559 good about a guy like him accomplishing something like this. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.280 David and Amy thank you so much. Happy holidays. So 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.160 both of you can't wait to listen to the Eagle 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.760 Hide podcast and read on the inside, com was he 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.240 going to delve into foles historic performance? Thanks again, guys, So, like, 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.160 why don't we get into your takeaways from this victory? 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.560 And you know we're talking about the offense. We gotta 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.320 start right there. And I think you know, Dave rob 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.920 a great point there at the end that Foles not 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.839 only was able to move the chains getting rid of 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.840 the ball quickly, but still has some big explosive plays. Well, yeah, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.880 I think that's obviously. The first thing you take away 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.839 from this football game is how well this offense looked. Now, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.440 we thought last week the offense looked the best that 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.640 it looked all year. I thought that was a little hyperbole, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.640 But this week, there's no denying this is the most 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.120 explosive this offense has looked all year, even with the 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.880 running game struggling at times to day. I thought Doug 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.080 did a great job of sticking with it just to 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.120 keep that Texans defense honest. But we knew the big 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.440 players were gonna be through the air, you know, those 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.160 cornerbacks over there for the Texans. A little long in 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.840 the tooth got banged up the day as well, so 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.880 to be able to put the ball up the way 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.680 they did and really have the success. They had two 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.600 receivers well, two guys over one hundred yards and zach 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.760 Ertz and Nelson Agilore. Good to see Nellie back in 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.120 the offense. Alshane almost had a hundred yards himself, But 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.240 it was really all about Nick Foles and the way 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.520 Nick was throwing the ball. Now, I look at early 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.160 in the game when he was able to hit Darren 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.160 Spros on those key third and short fourth and one 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.880 place where he's hitting Darren Spros on that wheel route. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.760 Those are nice soft touch passes that Folds was able 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.440 to deliver point right the Spros and allow him to run. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.920 So when you look at this game, Nick Foles is 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.079 the biggest thing that stands out to me. He was 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.200 outstanding today, his best game in my opinion, by far, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.400 by far, the best offensive game this team has shown 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.160 this season. With over five yards offense. He does not 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.320 shy away from the spotlight whatsoever. Michaels your second takeaway. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.280 We've talked about zach Ertz and his historic performance another 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.480 twelve catches, but It's not like he's just patting his stats. Okay, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.080 he's getting the catches in the red zoners Dave mentioned 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.240 a short time ago, and also on the final drive 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.280 to get them in field goal range. So when they 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.960 need clutch plays, zach Ertz is willing to deliver it. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.800 So obviously he can get you the numbers, but he 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.560 also can step up in prime time. Let me let 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.960 me say this real clear. You're talking about the best 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.320 weapon that we have on offense and zach Ertz on 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.240 another nonsense talk. Forget about that. Zach Ertz is the 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.960 best offensive weapon that we have at the skill position. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.400 Does a great job of getting open every week. Even 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.559 when the team knows that he's a big part of 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.760 your game plan, they try to double team him. I 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.600 saw where he was double teamed in the red zone. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.959 They put the honey Badger Tyron Matthew on him. They 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.720 still found ways to get in the ball. I thought 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.000 last week, I enjoy going down the field to al 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.719 Sean and let him do what he was doing. But 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.320 I didn't think zach was a big part of the 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.199 offense last week. And a lot of this is about 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.520 the game plan. So the game plan this week was 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.160 to get ERTs involved and it was big time for 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.600 us today, key third down conversions, big in the red zone, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.280 two touchdowns for him today, I mean man record setting 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.880 day for him. Congratulations of zach Ertz becoming the record 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.120 holder for receptions by a tight end in the seasons, 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.160 passing and surpassing a cowboy and Jason went in the process. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.320 It's idle, nonetheless, exactly so special right there. So your 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.240 third one, you know, we'll get into some of the 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.080 bad from the game, and that's taking care of the football, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.000 something that the Eagles, you know, didn't do too well today. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.560 They were able to force a couple turnovers. They had 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.040 the one fumble there, you know that the strips ecked 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.840 by Chris Long, and then also a turnover and down 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.040 that doesn't go in the books a turnover, but still 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.960 really is treated the same. But nonetheless, the Eagles offense 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.000 not taking care of the ball as well as they 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.360 needed to, and it did almost cost them today. Yeah, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.640 and you got to do a better job of that. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.440 When I look at the other key factor in this game, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.880 takeaway from this game is being able to take care 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.160 of the football. It's really the only reason the Texans 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.040 were in this game late. Obviously, you give him seven 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.360 points by the fumble there when Nick gets sacked down there, 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.360 put the ball on a five yard line, easy walk 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.200 in for Deshaun Watson and then Josh Adams. I know 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.400 he's a young guy, rookie. He even had both hands 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:31.760 on the ball, but you gotta do a better job 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.160 of squeezing that thing. You know, the Texans are trying 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.160 to get the ball back. That's the only way they 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.720 can get back in his game is if you give 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.560 them a short field to work with. And then the 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.880 interception by Nick, I know that's a throw he would 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.640 love to have back, trying to make a play there 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.680 at his zac that's a throw that he wants to 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.480 have back. But you know, that's the one thing they 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.440 did last week against the Rams was take care of 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.560 the football and in order to close this season out 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.040 on a high note and really give themselves a chance 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.960 to make the playoffs next week by going down there 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.520 to take care of Washington, we gotta take care of football. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.880 You know, you usually don't win games in the NFL 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.280 when you lose the turnover battle. Eagles lost that today, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.800 and especially when you turn the ball over three times 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.320 in the game. It's difficult to win games like that, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.400 but that that just shows you how explosive this offense 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.400 was the day that they were able to overcome some 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.200 of those turnovers. Indeed, and there's another great offensive outing 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.920 from the Eagles back to back weeks with Nick Foles 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.800 and as the starting quarterback. There's something that you knew 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.240 that you had the talent on this team. It was 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.640 just a matter of bringing it to fruition and credit 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.040 the coaches with their game playing the last couple of 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.360 weeks with a play calling the last couple of weeks 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.960 and getting guys like like darren Sproles, you talk about, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.800 you know, is he soon? Who's done? You know, a 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.080 lot of people as Crigs were all saying that that 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.120 Sprowles had nothing left. And I remember when Sprowls was, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.800 you know, activated and brought back into the lineup. Guys 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.760 like Brandon Graham on defense were like, we need all 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.040 the playmakers that we can get. He is going to 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.200 help us at some point down the stretch. And this 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.000 is a few weeks back when he was just getting 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.000 you back on the field. And sure enough, Darren's Browles 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.880 answered the bell today, not just as a Rusher as 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.200 a receiver, you know, the fourth down conversion getting the touchdown. There. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.200 In fact, an interesting note on his thirty seven yard 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.560 touchdown reception. It was on the fourth down play. It 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.320 was the longest receiving touchdown by an Eagle on a 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:20.360 fourth down since go back to your day's BEDOC against 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.600 Houston in two thousand and two, the fake punt fifty 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.480 seven yard or so, that's the last time that there 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.080 was a long touchdown receptown on the fourth down by 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.240 an Eagle. So the longest since that Dawkins player right there. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.879 So you know, we go about talk about adversity and 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.000 now this team has dealt with it all season long. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.720 And we touched on in the Talkback seven with David 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.240 Amy a few minutes ago. But the Eagles losing Jason 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.360 Peters on the opening drive of the game. I mean, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.760 we're watching the game and we're sitting there like, wait, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.600 did Jason Peters play? We saw him on the first 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.760 the first play of the game, and then vietyp goes in. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.920 So apparently Peters must have reaggravated that quad injury, That's 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.000 what the broadcast said. So Vietyight goes in in a 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.959 difficult matchup against the David clown the former number one 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.920 overall pick who typically is moved around the front, used 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.040 as a joker. But when they knew they had that matchup, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.000 they were squaring in on that right there. So tough 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.720 slodding and not all of those on vy tide. There 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.119 were times when it was the block. It was a 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.520 tight end who was blocking in the situation, and that's 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.960 who was match up against Clowney and unfortunate that's gonna 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.119 be a mismatch right there. But still for for the offenses, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.360 still have the production that it did. It's reminiscent of 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.440 the Super Bowl almost where Uf folds in that quarterback 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.640 vietize your left tackle. It's all almost trying to bring 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.359 it back full circle as we're trying to rekindle some 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.400 of the magic from that run as the Eagles looked 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.440 to try to get into the postseason once again. Yeah, 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.480 we're trying to. Man, it's been a it's been a 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.960 tough season for the defending champs and we're realizing how 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.600 difficult it is to repeat as champions. But they're starting 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.640 to play some of their best football right now. Let's 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.640 we're sending it to the lake. The Victoria's head coach 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:57.600 Doug Pearson addressing the media, the third and ten throw 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.560 to the nixt throw after you came back in the game, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.760 to Zach, can you kind of walk us through the 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:15.040 call the last drive? Yeah, twenty yard passed. Oh oh 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:23.040 oh yeah, yeah yeah, okay, um yeah, so you know, um, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.520 just a call that's been in our offense. Um again, 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.360 thinking thinking of our playmakers obviously, you know al Shaan 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.560 making a tremendous catch and then and then Earth's uh, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.800 the two defenders for Houston actually collided, um, and which 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.560 allowed Zach to really really pop free. And Nick did 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.359 a great job there of just being able to be 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.560 patient in the pocket, find him and put up a 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.040 good throw and then have the awareness of getting out 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:51.040 of bounce on the seine. There's been a few top 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.440 Bard orders here. What were you thinking? We got time 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.840 and time outs again, and uh, have a lot of 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.880 confidence in the offense. You know, it's something that um, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:03.920 you know, we we work on a lot. There's a 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:10.000 two minute drive and tempo offense and um, you know, um, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.000 this league has always been about about players making plays 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:14.960 and and uh, you know, a lot of credit to 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.919 the offense today for for putting us in that position 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.720 to to win this game. Nicole was plays with calmness, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.840 with poise. But how impressive was it today, especially after 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.840 he took that hit, had to come out then to 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.639 come back and direct the offense. You know, that's just 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.160 that's just Nick. Um. You know, he's always been calm, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.919 you know, in in in and around the you know, 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.000 his preparation during the week and then of course leading 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.120 up to the game. And you know, he's a guy 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.800 that just wants to wants to continue to just help 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.040 the team win and and and dish the ball and 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.479 put it put it in our playmaker's hands. And you know, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.640 um really not not get much credit. Just just let 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.719 the other guys do it, you know. And and uh, 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:58.760 even after taking that hit and then going back in, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.520 I thought it took a lot of a lot of courage, 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.240 excuse me, a lot of courage and guts at that 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.919 point to want to finish the game and come back in. 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.600 And it's just credit to credit to Nick. What did 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.119 he say when he came off the field for that 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.560 one play? Um, I was getting Nate ready, so I 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.479 didn't talk to him. You guys think you're playing your 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.280 best football this season right now heading in the next week. Yeah, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.560 I think so. I think I think he you know, um, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.480 these last you know, three four or five games, I 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.879 think things have um kind of picked up for us. Uh. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.200 I do feel like at this time of the year, Uh, 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.960 you know, if you want any kind of momentum, um, 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.080 you know, if you get a chance to go to 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.760 the postseason, you need to be playing your best football now. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.159 And and UM I think that's uh, you know, I 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.000 think that's what we're doing at this time. You got 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.920 to lead for most of the game. But the past 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.040 froun ratio is pretty lopsided favor of past because they 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:56.000 were kind of depleted at a corner. Did you see 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.440 their rush defense today? Thirty five yards rushing in football? 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.679 It was hard criticis oh okay, okay, maybe maybe we 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.600 need to run the ball more or something. But um 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.639 as a tremendous defense. Now, it's a great group that 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.320 front seven eight guys with their safeties. I mean, they 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.439 do it. They do a really good job. They're um 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:20.320 uh they create um different angles for our offensive linement 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.720 and so some of the things that we've been able 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.200 to do on the last couple of weeks, UM they 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:27.720 just kind of took us out of it. And and 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:29.760 so you know, I knew we're gonna have to We're 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:31.200 gonna have to run the ball late in the game. 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:32.840 You know, even when we went up the you know, 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.240 by the third thirteen there, twenty nine sixteen, I felt 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.120 like we could you know, get a little momentum, run 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.800 the ball, make them use timehouse. You know, maybe we 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.639 could finish the game at that point. But um, we 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.880 didn't do it. It's just a great defense. One conversion 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:49.919 the first have two questions. What made you go for 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:56.720 that one? It was there an explanation as the one. Um, well, 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:58.800 the I wanted to go up six at that point, 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:04.439 so that's really the the option there. Um And then um, yeah, 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:05.720 you know it's something we'll just have to take a 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.080 look at. You know, we'll send we'll send it in 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.480 tomorrow and see what too we get back. But uh, um, 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:19.440 nothing for you eighty three yard dad audible, Yes, yes, 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:24.680 I mean like Lane Johnson on j J today, did 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:27.040 a tremendous job. JJ's name didn't get called verty much. 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:29.520 I'll tell you, Lane, Lane I had a great week 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:33.280 of preparation, got it got into in his mindset, he's 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.520 he's awesome. I mean, he's awesome. He's he's a tremendous 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:39.879 right tackle, and you know, he's had to block some 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:44.200 really really really good defensive ends, uh this season. Um, 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.280 this was probably one of the uh, probably the best 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:49.800 one he's he's seen all season and and did a 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.399 nice job, did a really nice job. And it's a 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:56.920 credit to him and um well deserved the check out 0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:59.800 of on that audible. It was just a coverage check. 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.880 He saw something Houston had been running earlier in the game, 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.000 and he saw it, got to another got to another 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:08.160 one of them that got to a play that would 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.880 attack that coverage, and uh, great protection and allowed him 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.639 to get the ball down the field play It was 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:18.520 a pass play to begin with. Yes, yeah, exact broke 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:22.239 Wittin's record tonight today. What does he meant to your 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.199 quarterbacks to have a guy, particularly on third down and 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:28.119 in the red zone that they know can get open 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:30.320 and they can count on. Yeah, First of all, it's 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.560 it's a great honor for Zach and and UM you know, 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:37.080 can congratulations go to him. You know, but he's another 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.480 one of those guys that very unselfish. UM quarterbacks do 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:42.919 have a comfort level with him. You know, he seems 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.000 to kind of be that guy that that uh you 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:49.159 know exactly where he's gonna be. And um, you know, uh, 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:53.000 he's he's obviously great after the after the catch, Uh, 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:56.600 runs great routes. So you know, for the quarterbacks to 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.480 have that type of guy, Um, again, it just gives 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:01.320 you that little for you know, do you especially in 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:05.320 in crucial moments like you know, the the corner route 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.760 that he ran late in the game. Um, It's just 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:11.639 it's a monitor credit to him for how hard he works. 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:15.240 And then and then his uh relationship with our quarterbacks. 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:18.800 I was just proud of him, told him how proud 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:21.959 of proud I was. And you know, um, we had 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:24.200 to we had to come through a lot of adversity today. 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:26.600 Uh and and and they hung in there, they hung 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:28.880 together as the game wore on. Our our team got 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:31.840 tighter and tighter and tighter and played played well down 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:36.359 the stretch. And you know, it wasn't pretty obviously. Um, 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:37.560 you know, there were a lot of a lot of 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:39.360 mistakes and a lot of things that went around. But 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:41.159 but the bottom line was they they found a way 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:46.480 to win. Wasn't pass a certain feeling your team. Are 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:49.520 you seeing something now and he's passed five mtums that 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:54.200 keeps you encouragement imbout your prospects here. Yeah, I mean, 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.399 you know it's the part of the message in the 0:25:57.400 --> 0:25:59.480 locker room too, was just you know, I'm proud of 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.800 the way they come to work every day and prepare 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:05.600 that day it's Wednesday or Thursday or Friday, whatever it is, 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.479 they prepare that way and it pays off, you know 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:12.440 in these games. And um, you know, our guys don't 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:15.480 make plays that they made today if we don't practice 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:17.919 those situations or at least put them in situations to 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.280 make those plays in practice. And you know, you're just 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:23.680 seeing how a lot of our young guys are really 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.840 maturing now and they're growing up and they are they 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:29.280 are contributing and making some plays and you know it's 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:32.200 not again, it's not perfect. There's still some mistakes being made, 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:34.879 but you know, the veteran guys are rallying. The veteran 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:38.600 guys are making plays. They're um doing the things that 0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:41.920 we ask them to do. And that's for me. Um, 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:45.000 that's all I can ask for. The effort is there, obviously, Um, 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.480 you know, the excitement is there, The passion for the game, 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:50.600 that desire to win, and you know, it's a resilient group. 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:53.760 It seems like a few times this year and that resiliency, 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.400 this group has been at least playoff wise, declare dead 0:26:56.480 --> 0:26:58.720 for the year, even part of today. What does it say? 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:01.000 And how proud of you? Then you're going into week 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:03.400 seventeen putting something to play for us to do. It's 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:06.159 it's everything. I mean, these guys are so excited to 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:08.320 be to be still you know, in the hunt and 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:13.720 and to really um, you know, we talk about controlling 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:16.040 things that we can control. Well, we get to control 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:19.000 where you know, our destiny a little bit. We get 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:21.480 to make our own and create our own and and 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:24.320 and so that's that's that's why I'm you know, these 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:28.240 guys never quit, you know, they they don't quit. And um, 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.320 it would have been easy, you know today just to 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:32.800 you know, kind of let your guard down at the 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:36.159 end and and not finish the game. But um, again 0:27:36.359 --> 0:27:37.920 kind of goes back to your question. Just as a 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:41.480 veteran group, resilient group, they hang together and they find 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:43.679 a way to win, and and uh, you know, as 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:45.080 a head coach, that's what you can all you can 0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:53.200 ask for Really, you gotta give Doug a live credit 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.040 for first and foremost. I cannot wait for the locker 0:27:56.119 --> 0:27:58.560 room celebration video that we will have on our social 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:01.159 media channels or digital channels if Ladelphiels dot com. I 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:03.280 almost want to argue we got posted I think tonight 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:05.560 because you know it. Scotty Rockins in there too, man, Yeah, 0:28:05.760 --> 0:28:08.800 get that out there. But credit Doug for again, a 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:10.840 couple of weeks ago, this team could have put it 0:28:10.880 --> 0:28:12.840 in the tank. You go back to the Giants game 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:16.520 down nineteen to three in the first half, nineteen to three, 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:19.359 rally back, Okay, Jake Ellig gets the game winner and 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:20.760 that was So that was probably the last one that 0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:23.720 involved a game win situation arrested me earlier about and 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:26.680 then to get themselves in position where look, oh it's 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:28.760 not a winning they're end it's still a win and 0:28:28.760 --> 0:28:30.840 they need some help at this point. But nonetheless that 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:33.680 the fact that the Eels are still in position speaks 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:36.320 volumes to the job that Doug is done keeping this 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:39.080 football team together. Yeah. I mean, listen a lot of 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:43.120 questions about Doug out there, I think unjustifiably so guy's 0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:45.840 a good coaches. Super Bowl winning head coach. Guy. Yeah, 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.240 I'll coach the greatest coach of all time on the 0:28:48.280 --> 0:28:51.600 biggest stage. So we know Doug knows how to coach 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:54.760 a football team, and I think more importantly, his players 0:28:54.880 --> 0:28:57.520 respond to him. His players typically go out there and 0:28:57.560 --> 0:28:59.800 they play hard for him. He knows how to relate 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:02.000 to these guys. He knows how to get the most 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:05.000 out of them. You know, I think back to the 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:08.280 last couple of weeks and just the practice schedule throughout 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:11.040 the week and the fact that Doug is either giving 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:12.760 them a day off when people didn't think they would 0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:15.479 get a day off. Last week after that Rams victory, 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:18.680 he pushed practice back to give them more rest and 0:29:18.720 --> 0:29:20.760 that has allowed them to come out and be fresher 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.800 when they stap out on the field. I'm telling you 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:25.120 the last two weeks the job he's done as a 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:27.920 coach to have his team ready after that difficult loss 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:31.680 against the Cowboys. Game against the Cowboys where they were exhausted, 0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:34.800 lost in overtime, to fly out to Los Angeles where 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:38.760 no one's giving them a chance there too touchdown underdog, 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:41.400 and the way they went out there and dominated the Rams. 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:44.320 You gotta tip your cap to Doug Peterson. So some 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:46.600 thought that they may have caught lightning in a bottle 0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:48.960 because Nick Foles was in there in the starting lineup, 0:29:49.080 --> 0:29:52.320 and they wouldn't necessarily bring the same energy this week 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:55.080 versus the Texas. Well, you were wrong. They came out 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:57.480 today with the same type of energy, and I thought 0:29:57.480 --> 0:29:59.880 the offense was cooking moving up and down the field. 0:30:00.120 --> 0:30:04.200 We mentioned Doug's aggressiveness going forward on fourth down. Just 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:05.960 look at the two coaches to day and the way 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:09.040 they handled this game. I thought Bill Bill O'Brien coached 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:11.360 not to lose to day, almost as if he was 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:14.880 coaching from one of the old coaching manuals where you 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:17.760 punt the ball when you're at this spot in the field. Well, 0:30:17.840 --> 0:30:20.640 Dougs the type of coach that goes off of his gut, 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:24.120 feeling sure he has analytic numbers to support the decisions 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.200 that he makes, but at the same time, as a coach, 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:29.160 he understands when his offense has it rolling or the 0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:32.080 defense is on their heels and he has the perfect 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.560 play dialed up ready to go fourth or four on 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:37.440 fourth down. He set the new trend in the NFL 0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:40.640 from last year of being aggressive and going forward on 0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:43.920 fourth down. Guy doesn't get enough credit. You know, sometimes 0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:46.480 people forget what he just did a year ago. Guy 0:30:46.600 --> 0:30:50.200 is a very good football coach. It's not easy getting 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:53.040 the team motivated to play after they won a championship, 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:55.600 the fact that they won't finish under five hundred, the 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:57.640 fact that he's had to deal with injuries all year. 0:30:57.840 --> 0:30:59.840 I felt I needed to take a little extra time 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:02.120 to give him his credit as a head coach, because 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:05.160 we'll pass kudos around all the players, and rightfully so. 0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:08.320 But there's a guy who's ultimately gonna take the blame 0:31:08.360 --> 0:31:10.920 when things don't go well, and that's the head coach. 0:31:10.960 --> 0:31:12.880 So when they win a game like this, when they 0:31:12.920 --> 0:31:16.080 play as well as they are, he deserves the credit. Job. 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:19.720 Great job. Every show, I guess every show it brings 0:31:19.720 --> 0:31:21.480 a one point or another. We get earlier in the 0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:23.360 shows that everyone out there gets to see it. We're 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:25.680 gonna hear from Nick Foles and Zach Ertz in just 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:28.040 a little bit. But first, the hero at the end 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:31.000 of the game, kicker Jake Elliott our Eagles entire days. 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:33.000 Spaderre caught up with him on the field after the 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:37.160 game winning thirty five yard field goal. All right once again, 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:43.480 Jake Elliott delivers the game winning field goal. How was 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:46.920 it out there? Man? I needed that one. He's not 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:50.000 on the line there, so you know we're down by 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:52.200 one and you know we missed that one earlier, so 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:55.320 luckily had that and glad we got it. I'm starting 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:57.640 to think that you like can win games come down 0:31:57.680 --> 0:32:00.560 to the final moment. I mean, that's what she lived 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:02.360 for as a kicker. You gotta love these moments. So 0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:05.200 h Yeah, the offensive a hick of a job once 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:07.120 again getting us down the field. Rick and Cam did 0:32:07.120 --> 0:32:09.560 a hick of job getting it down. Awesome protection and 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:11.320 we put it through they tell me about. The kick 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:15.680 was a pure and sweet Yeah. Felt good. Jake Elliott 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:18.520 and mister Klutch once again. The game winning field goal today. 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:22.320 Great bounce back for him after missing the extra point 0:32:22.360 --> 0:32:24.240 earlier in the game, to have the chance to win, 0:32:24.360 --> 0:32:27.120 to kind of rectify himself and certainly stepped up to 0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:28.800 the tasks. It seems like whenever there's been a big 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:31.560 field goal at the end of a game, Elliot's always 0:32:31.600 --> 0:32:34.640 delivered in big times. Yeah, you need those type of kickers, 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:37.200 like you said, you know, way to bounce back. Missed 0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:39.480 the extra point earlier in the game, but to come 0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:42.840 down ice water in his veins kick that in. Yeah, 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:45.680 nice job there, Jakie. You mentioned earlier that the Deals 0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:47.720 were four for four on fourth down in this game. 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.880 Let's not forget they were nine of sixteen on third down, 0:32:51.240 --> 0:32:53.840 including two for two on the game winning drive. The 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:56.680 one was the past Alison Jeffrey over the mill, then 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.480 adding the rough and the passer call on Jadevan Clowney, 0:32:59.560 --> 0:33:02.520 and then the twenty yard completion to zach Ertz both 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:05.040 plays third and ten. So the Eel struggling to get 0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:07.320 the yards and early down to try to get themselves 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:11.440 in mandible situations didn't marry for Nikki six today whatsoever? There, 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:14.360 cool calm and collective. Great job on that route too. 0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:17.080 I thought it was a nice little concept there where 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:20.560 the Texans are in man deepense. They got Tyron Matthew 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:23.040 lined up on zach Ertz there, but because of a 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:26.160 little bunch set there, zach ert Is nice was able 0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:29.400 to run a nice little rough route, causing the linebacker 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.800 and Tyron Matthew to run into each other. Tyron Matthew 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:36.640 falls down, zach Ertz wide open bilbo range. There you go. 0:33:36.720 --> 0:33:39.880 That's ball game exactly. So let's get to our unsung 0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:43.080 heroes of the game and Ike, I'll let you start 0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:44.920 things off here. Well, I'm gonna go with the old man, 0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:48.040 Chris Long. Man, Chris Long, we got we became so 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:51.520 accustomed to him making these plays last year where he 0:33:51.520 --> 0:33:53.800 would get the big strip sack late in the game, 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:58.040 force a fumble game over. Did something very similar to 0:33:58.040 --> 0:34:00.240 that today when he got that sack on the Seants 0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:02.120 in his second one and he's able to get that 0:34:02.160 --> 0:34:05.000 ball out of there. Fletcher Cox gets that from a recovery. 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:07.959 I thought Chris Long was huge day. They've needed some 0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:12.399 extra pass rushers. Michael benn has been doing a fantastic job. 0:34:12.440 --> 0:34:15.480 We know what Fletcher Cox brings. Brandon Graham robbed double 0:34:15.560 --> 0:34:19.359 sack today on a bogus rough in the quarterback penalty there, 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:23.279 but Chris Long. They needed that extra speed rusher coming 0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:27.120 off the edge, and against this Houston Texans offensive line 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:29.680 that have given up the most sacks in the league 0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:33.080 this year. I thought, great job from the wily veteran 0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:35.440 think about the Texans, great job of taking care of 0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:37.440 the football we're talking about. The Eagles have struggled with 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:40.839 that the Texans had not had a turnover in four 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:43.480 consecutive games coming into this contest, so the force that 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:46.360 fumble right there was huge and led to Zach Urch's 0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:48.799 second touchdown of the game, which made the score twy 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:51.560 nine the sixteen And at the time, I'll be honest, 0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:55.080 I'm celebrating, thinking, yeah, they've got this. Okay, But as 0:34:55.120 --> 0:34:57.080 things have gone this season, the Eagles are taught us 0:34:57.360 --> 0:35:00.880 we should know better right now. Okay, what was it 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:04.840 you first time? You know? Shame it's it's one of 0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:07.560 those third four times, whatever it's been. You know, we 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:09.759 should know better by this point in the year. I'm 0:35:09.760 --> 0:35:12.839 gonna go offensive line here and I'm gonna go with 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:16.400 number sixty five Lane Johnson. Okay, he was ticked off. 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:18.360 He was math that he was not named to the 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:21.080 Pro Bowl. And I can understand because injuries have kind 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:23.120 of limited his play, but he felt that he had 0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:25.200 played well enough while he was out there, and the 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:27.080 fact that he was an All Pro last season, that 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:30.000 he should have deserved enough respect from around his front, 0:35:30.120 --> 0:35:32.480 around the league, from his teammates around the league, his peers, 0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:34.399 that he should have been named to the Pro Bowl. 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:37.240 Once again. Well, that wasn't the case, so he decided 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:39.719 to take it out on JJ Wat, the three time 0:35:39.920 --> 0:35:42.920 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. You barely heard his 0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:46.120 name mentioned at all during the telecast. And because of 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:50.080 the injury to Jason Peters, Big v Hollapolavadi Vita need 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:52.120 all the help that he could get taking care of 0:35:52.160 --> 0:35:54.520 j Devi and Clowney on the other side, so Lane 0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:57.120 Johnson was left alone with one on one many times. 0:35:57.160 --> 0:35:59.840 Got the course of the game, Lane came to play. 0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:02.640 Lane took air of the deal and made sure to 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:05.919 erase JJ Watt to keep him, keep Foles as clean 0:36:05.960 --> 0:36:09.359 as possible and keep Watt off the sack tally sheet 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.840 because what I think had fourteen and a half sacks 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:15.279 come into this game. So certainly big kudos to Lane 0:36:15.360 --> 0:36:18.640 Johnson for keeping foals clean and taking out a player 0:36:18.640 --> 0:36:21.680 who has disrupted many a game during his time in 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:25.640 the NFL. So those are unsung heroes. And it'll be 0:36:25.719 --> 0:36:28.000 interesting to see what the offensive line going to next 0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:30.640 week's game. Is this thing with Jason Peter something that's 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:33.040 gonna linger. Will he be able to bow back or 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:35.200 do you at least get ye tire ready to say 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:37.799 all week. This is your show because right now you 0:36:37.840 --> 0:36:40.279 look at that left side of the line. Stephan Wisnoski, 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:42.920 he opened the season as a starter, you know, was 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:46.200 bench for Isaac say Amalo Saimal got hurt, missed the 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:48.000 game once again, so Wiz has been back in there 0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:50.759 as a starter. And at left tackle, Peter's going down, 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:53.560 so viyetie step But in guess what this was your 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:57.120 offensive line during the Super Bowl last year from left 0:36:57.200 --> 0:37:00.440 or right here. So it's all coming together. It seems 0:37:00.440 --> 0:37:03.319 like at the right time. The question is, well, enough 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:05.400 thing's happened to get the Eagles into the playoffs or 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:08.120 they at least have a chance in the tournament. Yeah, 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:10.080 if I'm big v you need to be ready to go. 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:12.799 I mean, Jason Peters obviously wants to play. He's gonna 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:15.240 do whatever he can to get out there on the field. 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:18.520 But sometimes it's not just about when you're talking about 0:37:18.600 --> 0:37:21.080 Jason Peters, it's just not getting him to the game 0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:23.279 and started the game. He's gonna have to finish the game. 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:26.239 And listen, thirty six years old, longer than two. If 0:37:26.280 --> 0:37:30.320 I saw stat today where Jason Peters they did it. 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:33.160 They put up a chart where it said it had 0:37:33.320 --> 0:37:37.080 position players from two thousand, from two thousand and four 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.200 that's still in the league. It has only one offensive 0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:41.960 tackle from two thousand and four that's still in the league, 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:44.800 and he plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, and it's Jason Peters. 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:47.560 So guy's been around a long time. We know five 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:49.800 years after he's done playing, he's more than likely headed 0:37:49.800 --> 0:37:53.000 to can't know, Ohio, But Big V, it's that time 0:37:53.040 --> 0:37:54.719 of the year that you need to be ready. You 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.200 need to prepare this week as if you're going to 0:37:57.320 --> 0:37:59.759 be the starter. Jason Peters is gonna do everything he 0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:02.200 can to get himself ready to play next week. You 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:03.719 know the game is big. He wants to be a 0:38:03.760 --> 0:38:05.960 part of it. But Big V, you know, as a 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:07.839 backup buddy, you gotta be ready to go as if 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:10.600 you're the starter. That is right. So, speaking of Lane Johnson, 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:12.880 Davis Spanera caught up with him on the field after 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:14.960 the Eagles went over the Texans. Let's go to that 0:38:15.040 --> 0:38:19.759 interview right now here now with right tackle Lane Johnson. Lane, 0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:22.040 what was it like in the huddle there that last drive? 0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:26.879 I surprisingly calm among all the chaos. All we want 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:28.239 to do we try to get a field goal range. 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:31.040 We felt like we were pretty pretty consistent Dickon and 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:35.040 Duncan and and got it done. Great battle with J J. Watt. 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:37.440 What was it like for you today out there? It 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.960 was a battle exactly that the whole game. We're starting 0:38:39.960 --> 0:38:42.680 to finish. So great player. Um, you know, I love 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:44.880 going against great talent and uh you know, hats all 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:48.640 to Lane. Final game here Lincoln Financial Field this season. 0:38:48.880 --> 0:38:50.600 What can you say to these great fans for the 0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:55.080 support they've shown once again this year. We're not finished yet. 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:59.720 You gotta keep you gotta keep watching. Anything can happened. 0:39:00.440 --> 0:39:03.840 We always battled to the very amen Lane Johnson Eagles 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:08.480 right tackle. It's like I'm watching stone cold Steve Auson there, 0:39:08.680 --> 0:39:10.880 you know, even with with the drama, the way he speaks, 0:39:11.000 --> 0:39:12.640 it's like he's speaking to the crowd at like a 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:16.759 wrestling match. Right, That's exactly him right there to a tea. 0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:19.840 So let's talk about the defensive side of the football. 0:39:20.239 --> 0:39:22.440 Great job stopping the run. Neither team could get the 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.080 run game going. Obviously Deshaun Watson was able to make 0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:27.520 magic with his feet, but in terms of the running backs, 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:30.799 nothing going. Tough sledding for both teams today. But what 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:34.200 did you think of the Eagles their inability to keep 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:36.560 Watson continue. I thought they did overall better job of 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:38.600 it in the second half, But then you saw the 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:41.239 one play I think I forget what the end result was. 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:42.680 I think it was a pass of Hopkins down the 0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:49.440 left side, and then yes, he spun around three times. Okay, 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.360 you seem like everyone had a chance at him, but 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:53.080 he's able to break free to be able to get 0:39:53.120 --> 0:39:56.960 the pass away. Yeah, exactly, So you thought that was 0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.000 gonna be the ball game, but your thoughts on the 0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:01.480 defense not be able to keep content on him, you know, 0:40:01.680 --> 0:40:04.280 very much plays like like it was like watching Russell 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:06.640 Wilson and the struggles the Eels have had with Wilson 0:40:06.719 --> 0:40:08.319 over the years. Very much of it seemed like in 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:12.200 the same vein watching watching out there today. Yeah, slightly 0:40:12.440 --> 0:40:15.880 less dangerous version of Russell Wilson, because you know how 0:40:15.960 --> 0:40:18.240 Russell will take off if he needs to. But DeShawn 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:21.799 it's no different, man, I mean, Deshaun Watson. It's it's 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:25.440 it's what keeps defensive coordinators up late at night, you know, 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:27.440 when they're trying to game plan for this guy, because 0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:30.040 you know these defensive linemen. You know, they want to 0:40:30.040 --> 0:40:32.280 pin their ears back and just get after the quarterback. 0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:34.840 But you gotta put in a game plan where you 0:40:34.920 --> 0:40:38.080 gotta sometimes tell your d lineman to don't get up, 0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:40.720 don't don't rush up the field, rush to the level 0:40:40.719 --> 0:40:42.919 of a quarterback and wait and see where he's at, 0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:45.799 keeping boxed in, because you know, if you rush past him, 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:48.879 you're gonna create running lanes for him and he's gonna 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:51.360 take off. And the dangerous thing with him is sometimes 0:40:51.400 --> 0:40:55.040 he's just uh buying time to throw the ball down 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:56.840 the field. All right, listen to the leg zach Er 0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:00.400 speaking about his record taking day. Now, well you're eleven. 0:41:00.520 --> 0:41:03.239 I mean, what's going on in the huddle at that point? Yeah, 0:41:03.239 --> 0:41:07.200 I mean I think um that that fourth quarter kind 0:41:07.200 --> 0:41:11.040 of those circumstances has kind of been the pitome of 0:41:11.040 --> 0:41:14.000 our season, and we did not blink. I mean, the 0:41:14.040 --> 0:41:18.520 guys in the huddle were so confident. Folds was so confident, 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:20.360 everyone was so calm that. I mean, we've been in 0:41:20.360 --> 0:41:24.120 that situation so many times together and no one flinched. 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:25.600 And I mean, I think that's the mark of a 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:28.759 good team. Obviously, the season isn't exactly where we thought 0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:31.600 we would be. But I mean a lot of guys 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.319 would have kind of mailed it in. I mean, to 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:37.120 be up twenty nine to sixteen with four minutes left 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:38.920 and to be down and the blink of an eye 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:43.000 is tough, but guys didn't blink. Guys stay together, and 0:41:43.040 --> 0:41:45.320 I mean that's the Markets team. We're always going to 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:47.799 stick together. We truly care and love one another. Um. 0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:49.440 I think you guys can see that each time you 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.560 interact with the guys in the locker room. It's not 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:55.600 an individual game for us by any means. Guys just 0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:58.160 want to play to the best of their abilities. So 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:00.359 that for each other, and I think that the mark 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:03.439 of a great team. Nick came back in the huddle 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:06.479 after getting knocked down. Yeah, I mean obviously the place 0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:09.520 went crazy, but we just wanted to make sure he 0:42:09.560 --> 0:42:12.279 was good. And I think the way he jogged off 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:15.000 the field, everyone thought he was gonna be good. Um, 0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:17.839 sat out of play and came back and let us 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:20.960 down the field like it's he seems to do. Um. 0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:22.799 I mean, he played out of his mind to set 0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:26.239 the franchise record for passing yards. Incredible. Um, He's just 0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:29.480 an unbelievable player, unbelievable person. He's so calm, his demeanor 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:34.000 is so calm, and he's really good player. Um. It 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:36.080 was just kind of the scissors corner route that we 0:42:36.120 --> 0:42:38.160 always have post by number one. I had a corner 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:41.000 Darren was to the flat. Um. I'd been taking a 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:43.719 lot of inside releases against him. UM, so I kind 0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:45.840 of sold the inside release, kind of threw him inside, 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:48.760 and I think he kind of ran into the linebacker. UM. 0:42:48.800 --> 0:42:51.080 I think he tried to something happen where my feet 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:52.960 got tangled up, and so I was kind off balance 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:54.520 and Nick just kind of laid the ball out there 0:42:54.520 --> 0:42:57.400 allowed me to run under it, and I was able 0:42:57.440 --> 0:42:59.080 to stay in bound and make the play. And I 0:42:59.120 --> 0:43:06.000 tried to get out of bound in that situation. UM. 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:09.280 I don't think I've truly I don't think I've truly 0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:11.880 come to grips with it yet. I Mean, one thing 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:15.200 I do know, I'm thankful to my Lord and Savior 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:19.440 Jesus Christ UM for allowing me to be here. I'm 0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:21.759 thankful for everyone that's helped me along the way. The 0:43:21.760 --> 0:43:23.480 one thing I do know is I didn't get here 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:26.600 by myself. I mean, Jason Witten has been as has 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:29.319 been a huge part of this. UM, So technically I 0:43:29.320 --> 0:43:31.600 think a part of him still has the record. UM. 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:35.040 Brent Sellick has been huge for me. UM. There's just 0:43:35.080 --> 0:43:36.879 been so many people along the way that have helped 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:40.680 me that I'm just eternally grateful for. UM. But like 0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:42.880 I said, what I do know is that I didn't 0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:45.400 do this by myself. I think it truly takes a 0:43:45.480 --> 0:43:50.000 village to become a professional athlete. My family, my wife. UM, 0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:52.719 So thankful for everyone that's helped me along the way. UM. 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:55.800 And it is special though. I mean having that record 0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:59.440 is something that hopefully it will last a while, but 0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:01.279 if not, I'll be happy for the next guy to 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:05.680 do it. UM, but it is special. I haven't really 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:10.480 checked my phone yet, UM, so I don't know. We're 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:14.560 involved throughout the game specially. Was that part of the 0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:16.440 game plan. Was that something you saw that you could 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:19.000 take advantages to himself? UM. You know they're a big 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:22.759 zone team. They're big zone defense and finding zones. It's 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:26.960 kind of something that I take a lot of pride in. UM. 0:44:27.120 --> 0:44:29.240 But I mean they're a really good defense that front 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:33.280 for those front seven guys, really really talented. Clowney Watt 0:44:33.640 --> 0:44:36.080 McKinnon really talented players. We weren't able to run the 0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:38.719 ball probably guys efficiently as we wanted to. Um, we 0:44:38.719 --> 0:44:43.160 didn't run the ball great. UM. So most of that 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:45.799 was due to their talent in their front seven. So 0:44:45.840 --> 0:44:48.120 we kind of had to pass the ball more. UM. 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:50.759 And I'm just glad we won the game. That is 0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:54.480 the bottom line. To have that that many targets and 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:57.640 catches it and to win the game feels really really good. UM. 0:44:57.760 --> 0:45:01.719 And that is what I love. The second touchdown, Zach, 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:05.080 you got White open? How MU sure that was the 0:45:05.080 --> 0:45:08.320 motion going the other way that kind of threw them off. 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:10.239 I mean, I think the motion was a part of it. 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:13.200 I think al Sean, being as big and physical as 0:45:13.200 --> 0:45:15.920 he is, the guy kind of ran into him. Um. 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:18.080 He didn't mean to pick him by any means, he 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:20.839 just kind of ran into al Sean. Um. The jet 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:23.520 motion I think threw him off a little bit. But 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:25.439 Nick just kind of losted it out there. I thought 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:27.440 I was gonna get hit when I saw no one 0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:29.880 was around me. I try to make a play. And 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:32.799 when you're that, I think when you're that, I think 0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:35.359 when you see the goal line like that. UM, I'm 0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:37.759 just always trying to make a play for the team. 0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:40.320 M guys blocked their butt off downfield. Um, I was 0:45:40.360 --> 0:45:42.640 just happy we scoring. Yeah, you guys have won four year, 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:45.400 last five now with rolling a little bit and be still, 0:45:45.920 --> 0:45:47.840 you know it's not just you. You guys have to 0:45:47.880 --> 0:45:49.880 most of other things happen out tough. Is that too, 0:45:50.239 --> 0:45:52.319 to be playing this well finally as a team and 0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:54.480 have to rely on other people? Yeah, like you said, 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:56.560 I mean it is tough. It's tough not to really 0:45:56.600 --> 0:45:59.839 control your own destiny. But at the same time, if 0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:03.279 you focus on everything else that's going on, and then 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:05.200 we have a slip up because we're not focused on 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:08.600 our job and it's really not gonna matter. So we've 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:11.040 said for a while now every game is a must 0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:14.560 win game that that's the way we've approached these past 0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:16.319 five games. I mean, we were four and six at 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:18.360 one point after the Saints when we just got smacked 0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:22.600 down there and no one quit. Everyone was focused on 0:46:22.800 --> 0:46:25.319 just doing their job better, and I think that's the 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:28.239 mark of a good team. Obviously, we need some help, 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:30.279 and hopefully we do get some help, but at the 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:33.040 same time, we're focused on beating the Redskins, putting together 0:46:33.120 --> 0:46:36.080 a really good week of practice, because I mean we 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:38.680 practice really hard. That's I think that's the that is 0:46:38.719 --> 0:46:42.479 the I think. I think that's the hallmark of this team, 0:46:42.800 --> 0:46:47.440 the way we've practice each and every week and hopefully, 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:48.799 I mean, we just need to go there and win. 0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:51.719 We can't look at it if the Bears win, and 0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:55.120 or if the Vikings win, or if the Seahawks lose twice. 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:57.359 We just got to focus on being the best team 0:46:57.400 --> 0:46:59.680 we can next week against the Redskins, against another really 0:46:59.680 --> 0:47:02.920 talent up front. Um and some I mean that defense 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:07.040 is extremely talented. About Nick, that makes the team rally 0:47:07.080 --> 0:47:15.120 around him. Um, he's extremely calm. Um he's always exuding positivity. 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:19.080 UM not. I mean it's hard to talk well about 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:22.720 one guy and then um if it seems the comments 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:24.600 are going to come off as demeaning another. So I 0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:26.040 don't want to do that by any means. I just 0:47:26.120 --> 0:47:28.919 want to solely focus on Nick. Um. He's he's playing 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:31.759 at an extremely high level. Um. We love playing for 0:47:31.840 --> 0:47:35.759 him because he's always exuding that positivity and guys love 0:47:35.800 --> 0:47:37.160 playing for him. I mean, he's always going to give 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:40.719 us a chance on those jump balls, those fifty fifty balls, Um, 0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:43.480 and I think you just ultimately trust us to make plays. 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:46.360 And he's done that for years here. Um, he's a 0:47:46.360 --> 0:47:51.000 really talented quarterback. What have you noticed out of him 0:47:51.080 --> 0:47:53.799 during a week on the sidelines that kind of thing. Yeah, 0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.239 I mean, he is the first guy helping out Nick 0:47:56.560 --> 0:47:59.160 Um what he sees Um in the game plan. He's 0:47:59.160 --> 0:48:01.600 there early, trying to help those guys out, trying to 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:04.480 help I think, just with the game plan. So he's 0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:08.880 still in that same role where he's getting there extremely early, 0:48:09.000 --> 0:48:13.120 staying late, helping those guys out anyway he can. I mean, 0:48:13.640 --> 0:48:17.040 and I think that's the mark of a of a leader. 0:48:18.239 --> 0:48:20.600 No matter what's going on individually, he's always focused on 0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:23.719 the team, and I think that's why guys respect him 0:48:23.760 --> 0:48:25.879 so much. I Mean, he's been through a ton of adversity, 0:48:26.719 --> 0:48:28.560 but at the same time, everyone knows he's a leader 0:48:28.560 --> 0:48:32.239 of this team. He's a franchise and when and if 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:34.319 he gets back this year, I can't wait to play 0:48:34.360 --> 0:48:37.280 with him. At the same time, Nick is playing extremely 0:48:37.320 --> 0:48:43.600 well and we're pumped to have both of them. All Right, 0:48:43.680 --> 0:48:46.839 what a day for zach Ert setting the We were 0:48:46.920 --> 0:48:49.040 wondering what it was gonna come Okay, he came into 0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:51.560 this game with one hundred and one receptions on the season, 0:48:51.880 --> 0:48:54.840 needed nine to tie Jason Witten's record for most catches 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:58.360 by a Titan in a single season in NFL history. Well, 0:48:58.680 --> 0:49:01.720 early third quarter, first play of the second half, in fact, 0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:05.080 he sets the record and then adds to it twelve 0:49:05.120 --> 0:49:08.239 catches on the day, another double digit receiving day for him, 0:49:08.239 --> 0:49:10.240 and a lot of people thought that, well, Nick Foles 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:12.480 is coming in a quarterback, and said Carson Wentz, that's 0:49:12.520 --> 0:49:14.719 gonna be the end of Arch's run. He go back 0:49:14.760 --> 0:49:16.480 to the beginning of the season, the games against the 0:49:16.520 --> 0:49:19.360 Falcons and the Bucks, Erz was heavily involved in the offense, 0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:21.920 and certainly he took a backseat last week in the 0:49:22.000 --> 0:49:23.680 win over the Rams to get the guys in the 0:49:23.719 --> 0:49:27.200 outside more involved. But today against a defense that was 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:29.920 fifth in the league in scoring defense and points allowed. 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:32.000 Coming into his contest, you knew that you had to 0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:34.160 move the change because if you got to the red zone, 0:49:34.480 --> 0:49:37.800 Texans were tied for twenty six in red zone defense. Okay, 0:49:37.840 --> 0:49:40.320 so once you can get the ball inside the twenty, 0:49:40.480 --> 0:49:42.680 you would be able to score on them, and Zachers 0:49:42.840 --> 0:49:45.520 did just that. And also added a couple of big plays. 0:49:45.520 --> 0:49:47.680 He scored once in the red zone ad a twenty 0:49:47.760 --> 0:49:50.440 yard reception on the final drive. So top the bomb. 0:49:50.600 --> 0:49:53.200 Just a great day and just a great player. I mean, 0:49:53.320 --> 0:49:55.719 we're talking about someone who's probably gonna be in the 0:49:55.719 --> 0:49:58.440 Eagles Hall of Fame. He's gonna shatter all the receiving 0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:00.239 records for the team when all is said and done. 0:50:00.239 --> 0:50:02.920 It again, he's setting now the benchmark for most catches 0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:05.000 by the tight end and we're in the golden era 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:08.560 of tight ends in the NFL, going from Tony Gonzalez 0:50:08.600 --> 0:50:10.680 and you look at the names on that list of 0:50:10.840 --> 0:50:13.600 the guys he surpassed this season. So the fact that 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:16.640 he has climbed over those players you mentioned earlier, he 0:50:16.719 --> 0:50:18.759 beat his idol, the guy he looked up to as 0:50:18.760 --> 0:50:21.200 a role mile in Jason Witten, for the record. So 0:50:21.480 --> 0:50:23.640 kudos to him for someone who is not just a 0:50:23.760 --> 0:50:25.799 championship player on the field, but you look at what 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:28.480 he's done in the community. He and Julie Earth setting 0:50:28.520 --> 0:50:31.279 up the Earth's Family Foundation to help communities and need 0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:33.200 throughout the country and the world with the work they're 0:50:33.239 --> 0:50:35.840 doing in Haiti as well. So just a top notch 0:50:36.000 --> 0:50:38.880 character individual, a great locker room guy. This is the 0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:41.040 guy that you want to have as one of the 0:50:41.080 --> 0:50:46.200 foundational pieces of your franchise. Yeah. Best tight end in football, Nah, yeah, 0:50:46.440 --> 0:50:49.080 we don't need to say arguably anymore. Now best tight 0:50:49.120 --> 0:50:51.759 end in football are the numbers will bear itself out. 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:54.200 I expect him to be first team All Pro this 0:50:54.360 --> 0:50:56.840 year for the first time in his career as the 0:50:56.920 --> 0:51:00.200 number one tight end in football, and he's deserving of it. 0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:03.040 It's not easy to play that position in this league 0:51:03.360 --> 0:51:06.080 when you are the focal point of the offense. It's 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:08.640 one thing if you have weapons on the outside, which 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:12.080 allows you as a tight end to operate in zone 0:51:12.160 --> 0:51:15.799 defenses without any without any defenses focusing in on you. 0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:20.120 But zach Ertz is the number one weapon on the 0:51:20.120 --> 0:51:22.520 Eagles offensive side of the ball, and teams going to 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:26.160 every game trying to take away Number eighty six and 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:29.480 most weeks they just can't do it. And so you 0:51:29.560 --> 0:51:32.120 don't think that. This week, the Houston Texas decided, well, 0:51:32.160 --> 0:51:34.319 we're not going to cover number eighty six, which is 0:51:34.400 --> 0:51:37.879 let everybody else. Well, we'll stop everybody else and let 0:51:37.880 --> 0:51:40.120 eighty six get his note. They had double coverage on 0:51:40.239 --> 0:51:42.719 him at times. They put one of their better athletes 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:45.839 on him and Tyron Matthew at times, and it did 0:51:45.880 --> 0:51:48.680 not matter. Zach Ertz. If that ball is in his 0:51:48.760 --> 0:51:51.520 catch radius, he is typically coming down with the ball. 0:51:51.719 --> 0:51:55.120 And we continue to see bit by bit he's adding 0:51:55.440 --> 0:51:57.719 the run after the catch. The second touchdown that he 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:00.239 got when he caught the ball about fifteen when he 0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:02.000 yards short of the end zone and was able to 0:52:02.080 --> 0:52:05.239 make some moves and get in the end zone on 0:52:05.320 --> 0:52:08.760 that play. By the way, great jobs blocking down the field. 0:52:09.480 --> 0:52:13.000 Just you know, kudos to Zach you said, great guy, 0:52:13.160 --> 0:52:15.920 great on and off the field. Um. I know the 0:52:15.920 --> 0:52:19.040 Eagles organization know exactly what they have in Zach Ertz 0:52:19.120 --> 0:52:21.879 and they certainly appreciate it. We as fans and better 0:52:21.920 --> 0:52:25.359 recognize what we have and this guy, he's he's a 0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:29.200 great a player on the field, even better quality of 0:52:29.239 --> 0:52:32.839 a teammate and a person off the field. We're lucky 0:52:32.880 --> 0:52:35.800 he's wearing Midnight green. Yes. Indeed, speaking of Tyranne Matthew, 0:52:35.880 --> 0:52:38.640 he was a guy in courage on Nelson Agilor's huge touchdown. 0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:41.279 We really haven't touched on this mistake. You know, the 0:52:41.320 --> 0:52:45.000 explosive plays. Coming back to the offense once again, Alshan 0:52:45.080 --> 0:52:47.919 Jeffrey with a fifty plus yard reception or catching run. 0:52:48.200 --> 0:52:50.640 But when the Eagles need to break the tie in 0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:53.600 the second half, how about Nelson Agilor. We're finally seeing 0:52:53.640 --> 0:52:56.960 that vertical speed, that ability to stretch the field. That's 0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:59.239 that's something that has been lacking from this offense for 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.960 most of the year. You give Foals credit for turning 0:53:02.000 --> 0:53:05.280 the ball loose, willing to take those chances. Well, Nelson 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:08.760 al it was a dime of a throw to Aglore. Okay, 0:53:08.840 --> 0:53:11.799 he haulted in. You know, Tyron Matthew fell down afterwards. 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:14.200 So Nelson Aglo just basically stood at the goal line, 0:53:14.239 --> 0:53:16.200 turned around all of the Cardinals game I think it 0:53:16.239 --> 0:53:17.600 was last year, and just fell in the back of 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:19.759 the end zone to cap off the touchdown. Had a 0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:22.080 couple of other clutch catches for the team, so again 0:53:22.480 --> 0:53:24.719 going over one hundred yards, two receivers going over one 0:53:24.800 --> 0:53:28.320 hundred yards. But Nelson Aglore just one of the the 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:30.960 X factors for the Eels today. You know, you have 0:53:31.040 --> 0:53:33.359 your stars and Ertz and Jeffrey, but you need those 0:53:33.360 --> 0:53:36.040 other guys to make big plays, and Aglore was one 0:53:36.080 --> 0:53:38.600 of those guys today. Well, I know that Texas must 0:53:38.640 --> 0:53:41.240 have been scratching their heads, like who do we cover? 0:53:41.440 --> 0:53:43.279 You know, you got number eighty six, You gotta worry 0:53:43.280 --> 0:53:45.759 about it, zach Ertz. You got Golden Tate out there, 0:53:45.760 --> 0:53:48.000 you got Alice Sean Jeffrey out there, and then you 0:53:48.080 --> 0:53:51.080 got Nelson Aglore who can certainly go down the field. 0:53:51.360 --> 0:53:54.880 And they found a matchup where they were able to 0:53:54.920 --> 0:53:58.200 get Nelson matched up one on one with Tyron Matthew. Now, 0:53:58.239 --> 0:54:01.680 if you do that in a yard box, you know, 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:04.320 Tyron Matthew may be able to stay with Nelson Aglow, 0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:07.200 but she started getting down the field. Yeah, Tyron Matthews 0:54:07.200 --> 0:54:09.920 a safety, not a cornerback. There's no way he's going 0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:12.480 to be able to keep up with Nelson Agholor. Good 0:54:12.560 --> 0:54:16.120 job by Nick Foles recognizing the single high coverage could 0:54:16.120 --> 0:54:18.000 have gone to Zach Ersch who was crossing the middle 0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:20.520 of the field there also and one on one coverage, 0:54:20.560 --> 0:54:23.759 but decided to give Nelson the opportunity to make a play. 0:54:23.920 --> 0:54:27.960 And like you said, Nick basically playing fearless taking that shot, 0:54:28.000 --> 0:54:30.840 recognizing that coverage back there and saying I'm gonna let 0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:33.640 my guy go up and make a play. Nelson, great 0:54:33.719 --> 0:54:35.640 job making the play there, and then I love the 0:54:35.680 --> 0:54:38.480 little nest plunge he does when he falls into the 0:54:38.560 --> 0:54:41.239 end zone. This indeed, so going back and looking at 0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:44.719 the defensive effort here, it's interesting because you know how 0:54:44.880 --> 0:54:48.840 shorthanded the Eagles are in the secondary. Okay, and Avante Maddox, 0:54:49.040 --> 0:54:51.600 you know, started last week at corner, you know, fared 0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:54.719 well against the likes of Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks. 0:54:54.719 --> 0:54:57.680 This week a much bigger, more difficult task than I say, 0:54:57.719 --> 0:55:00.279 bigger in terms of just size alone, because you know, 0:55:00.360 --> 0:55:02.960 Max has given up hike to the guys like you know, 0:55:03.120 --> 0:55:06.200 Damarius Thomas and of course DeAndre Hopkins arguably the best 0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:09.040 receiver in football, and some of the catches he made today, 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:12.319 we're just simply outstanding, you know. And you needed the 0:55:12.320 --> 0:55:15.239 defensive line to get the pressure on Deshaun Watson. The 0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:17.560 problem was every time they got the pressure on, he 0:55:17.560 --> 0:55:19.120 was able to flush his way out of the pocket 0:55:19.280 --> 0:55:22.160 and use his legs to turn to churn out some 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:26.000 big gains there. But overall though, it was also interesting 0:55:26.040 --> 0:55:28.799 because it's adding pressure onto the offensive Nick Foles knowing 0:55:28.880 --> 0:55:31.400 that they have to sustain those drives. The Eagles dominating 0:55:31.560 --> 0:55:34.320 the time of possession battle once again, and they almost 0:55:34.360 --> 0:55:37.240 needed to it. Even though thirty two thirty doesn't sound 0:55:37.280 --> 0:55:39.640 like a huge shootout, it's not the fifty one to 0:55:39.719 --> 0:55:41.719 forty five we saw from the Chiefs and Ramps. But 0:55:41.719 --> 0:55:43.759 it felt like the Eagles knew that every time they 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:46.480 had the ball they had to sustain drives at least 0:55:46.480 --> 0:55:49.080 get a couple of first downs or put points on 0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:51.799 the board. Because of the fact that the Eagles, being 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:54.799 shorthanded on defense, you know, can only do so much 0:55:54.800 --> 0:55:58.720 to limit the explosiveness that the Texans did present. So again, 0:55:58.719 --> 0:56:00.560 I thought they did a better job the second half, 0:56:00.560 --> 0:56:03.440 but then in the fourth quarter we saw some leakage there, 0:56:03.480 --> 0:56:05.640 especially in the secondary. Some of it was all watching 0:56:05.719 --> 0:56:07.520 in the amazing places. We talked about that time where 0:56:07.520 --> 0:56:09.960 he spun around three times and you know, was able 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:12.319 to convert a third and long into a twenty two 0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:14.960 yard game. But still, you know, when you're looking down 0:56:14.960 --> 0:56:17.280 the stretch at a possible playoff run, it'll be interest 0:56:17.360 --> 0:56:19.719 interesting to see what kind of gas this defense will 0:56:19.760 --> 0:56:21.960 have left for going against some of these potential high 0:56:21.960 --> 0:56:25.080 powered offenses. Listen, I don't want to get into next year, 0:56:25.080 --> 0:56:27.319 because we're a long away from that. But I do 0:56:27.440 --> 0:56:29.879 know one thing, and number twenty nine out there, he's 0:56:29.920 --> 0:56:33.439 a starter. He's a starting cornerback. He is a starting 0:56:33.920 --> 0:56:36.600 When you say starting cornerback, are you saying outside corner, 0:56:37.600 --> 0:56:40.560 outside corner? When I was singing him matched up on 0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:43.840 DeAndre Hopkins out there, and he went up and played 0:56:43.920 --> 0:56:46.520 bump and run coverage on him, and then when Deshaun 0:56:46.600 --> 0:56:48.799 Watson tried to throw an out route to him, he 0:56:48.960 --> 0:56:51.680 basically had to overthrow him because it would have been 0:56:51.680 --> 0:56:55.880 an interception. That's the that's the tight knit coverage Maddox 0:56:55.960 --> 0:56:59.160 had on DeAndre Hopkins out there. And listen, you said 0:56:59.320 --> 0:57:02.520 DeAndre Hopky is arguably the best wide receiver in football. 0:57:02.520 --> 0:57:04.560 So I'm not gonna sit here and tell you Avontae 0:57:04.680 --> 0:57:08.120 Maddox shut down DeAndre Hopkins. He certainly got his catches 0:57:08.360 --> 0:57:11.319 and his yards, but I'll tell you what, first look, 0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:14.400 those catches and yards didn't come in. Twenty nine was 0:57:14.440 --> 0:57:17.600 covering him. Twenty nine was over there like a blanket 0:57:17.640 --> 0:57:20.520 on him. Had one play in zone coverage where he 0:57:20.560 --> 0:57:24.000 came off of DeAndre Hopkins and Sean Watson was trying 0:57:24.000 --> 0:57:26.040 to hit the number two receiver on the out route, 0:57:26.360 --> 0:57:29.800 and Avonte Maddox almost had the interception there. Hit didn't 0:57:29.800 --> 0:57:31.479 write in his hands. That's why he play his corner 0:57:31.480 --> 0:57:33.920 and not wide out. But man, you just look at 0:57:34.000 --> 0:57:39.000 his his his ability to change direction, his ability to 0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:41.920 get down in that stance and break on the football 0:57:42.160 --> 0:57:45.120 when he sees that has thrown. You know, most cornerbacks 0:57:45.120 --> 0:57:48.480 you line up across from DeAndre Hopkins, you're a little nervous, 0:57:48.560 --> 0:57:50.600 especially as a rookie, and you want to sort of 0:57:50.640 --> 0:57:53.480 play off so that you can react to everything. I 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:56.440 saw him mix the coverages up on DeAndre Hopkins out there. 0:57:56.440 --> 0:57:59.240 He played off sometimes, he played up on the line, 0:57:59.360 --> 0:58:02.400 wasn't afraid the challenging at the line of scrimmage so 0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:05.439 much to the point that Houston recognized this and they 0:58:05.440 --> 0:58:10.040 started moving Hopkins to the other side of the offensive formation. So, 0:58:10.400 --> 0:58:13.480 Man twenty nine, that's two weeks in a row. You've 0:58:13.520 --> 0:58:15.720 seen him play on the outside against some of the 0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:19.479 best receivers. Last week, Robert Woods, Brandon Cooks. They tried 0:58:19.560 --> 0:58:23.960 him multiple times with Reynolds last week. They couldn't convert 0:58:24.040 --> 0:58:27.440 on him. This week, not very many throws down the field. 0:58:27.480 --> 0:58:29.640 Anything they call on the vantae. Maddox this week was 0:58:29.640 --> 0:58:33.080 pretty much underneath and you'll sort of give that up. So, man, 0:58:33.120 --> 0:58:35.600 I'm loving the way Maddox is planning. We had watched 0:58:35.680 --> 0:58:38.800 him play safety and we were impressed with him having 0:58:38.800 --> 0:58:41.120 the ability to adjust and play safety for the first 0:58:41.120 --> 0:58:44.400 time ever. But man, watching him play corner, I didn't 0:58:44.440 --> 0:58:47.440 realize he had that type of foot speed and that 0:58:47.520 --> 0:58:52.200 type of reaction in instincts at the cornerback position. Watching 0:58:52.280 --> 0:58:54.560 him out there the last couple of weeks, I'm excited 0:58:54.600 --> 0:58:56.840 to see some more of him out there because, man, 0:58:56.920 --> 0:59:01.880 we haven't seen that type of technique and at that position, 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:05.280 you know, on a consistent basis, We just had no 0:59:05.480 --> 0:59:07.960 I think what's interesting is he played outside a pit. 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:10.120 He didn't play nickel, he didn't play safety. He was 0:59:10.160 --> 0:59:12.680 an outside corner. Okay, he was good at taking the 0:59:12.720 --> 0:59:15.040 ball away. The thing is, when you look at his size, 0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:17.880 a lot of people automatically said, is he's your nickel corner, 0:59:17.920 --> 0:59:19.520 And I think that's what the Eagles paid for him 0:59:19.560 --> 0:59:22.360 to be at some point down the line. But he 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:24.800 has proven himself to be comfortable on the outside. Like 0:59:24.840 --> 0:59:27.560 you mentioned, with the physicality he brings to the position, 0:59:27.640 --> 0:59:30.400 the technique, the awareness of the position that and there 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:34.160 are corners that size league. One of my former teammates, 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:36.240 I played with him when he first came into the league, 0:59:36.320 --> 0:59:40.280 undrafted player, right out of this area, Shippingsburg, Brent Grimes. 0:59:41.120 --> 0:59:43.480 Brent Grimes can't be taller than five five. I mean, 0:59:43.520 --> 0:59:45.800 I don't know what exact height is, but I know 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:49.320 he's short. But he's a great athlete. He's a great athlete. 0:59:49.560 --> 0:59:52.520 And I remember watching him in training camp and Emmett 0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:55.280 Thomas was our coach down there in Atlanta, and Emmett 0:59:55.280 --> 0:59:57.400 loved him. He loved him. I'm like, man, he's a 0:59:57.440 --> 1:00:00.360 short guy, but Emmett loved his technique. He the fact 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:02.720 that he wasn't afraid to get up in challenge receivers. 1:00:02.960 --> 1:00:05.600 And what over a decade or something later, he's been 1:00:05.640 --> 1:00:09.040 the multiple Pro Bowls, he's been all players in the league. Yeah, 1:00:09.080 --> 1:00:10.920 still in the league to this day, Brent Grime. So 1:00:10.960 --> 1:00:14.520 size doesn't necessarily matter. If you're a smart football player 1:00:14.800 --> 1:00:16.720 and you play fearless and you're not afraid to get 1:00:16.800 --> 1:00:19.320 up and challenge guys, man, you don't worry about your 1:00:19.360 --> 1:00:21.840 height because the one thing of Vonte Maddox knows he's 1:00:21.840 --> 1:00:25.320 been short all his life, so he's adjusted to his height. 1:00:25.400 --> 1:00:28.280 It's like Darren Schros, He's been that size his whole life, 1:00:28.280 --> 1:00:31.160 so doesn't bother him. Bryan Westbrook is another guy that 1:00:31.440 --> 1:00:34.120 it sort of reminds me of guys like that. They 1:00:34.120 --> 1:00:37.120 don't allow those limitations to be placed on them to 1:00:37.160 --> 1:00:39.320 tell them they can't do something. What they do is 1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:43.680 they accept the challenge and they go out to prove coaches, players, scouts, 1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:47.200 whomever wrong that they can play in a Vonte Maddox man. 1:00:47.240 --> 1:00:49.600 I know it's early. I don't want to overreact to him, 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:52.360 but just two weeks of watching him play on the outside, 1:00:52.640 --> 1:00:55.120 you really get to see some of his coverage skills 1:00:55.280 --> 1:00:57.960 because playing safety you really don't know. But playing out 1:00:57.960 --> 1:01:00.280 there on that corner against some of the guys quick 1:01:00.480 --> 1:01:01.960 man and against some of the guys he's had to 1:01:02.000 --> 1:01:05.120 go up against, he's gotten tested the last two weeks 1:01:05.280 --> 1:01:08.160 and he's passed it. With flying colors. Also getting back 1:01:08.160 --> 1:01:11.320 to the defense here, some more reinforcements coming, Tim Jernigan 1:01:11.640 --> 1:01:13.960 back in the lineup, helping with that run defense, and 1:01:13.960 --> 1:01:16.000 you're hoping that you know he can stay healthy and 1:01:16.120 --> 1:01:17.920 bring it for the last game of the regular season 1:01:17.920 --> 1:01:20.760 next week in Washington, and Jordan Hicks having a tip 1:01:20.760 --> 1:01:23.600 pass and a nice open field tackle. You still felt 1:01:23.680 --> 1:01:26.280 Nigel Bram still definitely had more snaps. He was the 1:01:26.320 --> 1:01:29.400 dime linebacker out there for the defense. But still, you know, 1:01:29.840 --> 1:01:33.400 you need that the leadership, that playmaking ability that Hicks has. 1:01:33.640 --> 1:01:35.720 It's great to see both of those guys. You're trying 1:01:35.760 --> 1:01:37.840 to get stronger up the middle here down the stretch. 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:40.240 Great to see Jordan can help with that run defense 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:43.040 and Hicks with that coverage ability being able to give 1:01:43.080 --> 1:01:45.880 you some some quality snaps today. Yeah, you just gotta 1:01:45.920 --> 1:01:47.240 hope that it is not too late. You want you 1:01:47.320 --> 1:01:49.480 want to be playing obviously your best football this time 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:51.400 and a year, and the Eagles seem to be getting healthy, 1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:53.920 starting to get guys back out there, especially on that 1:01:54.000 --> 1:01:57.880 defensive side of the ball, which is really hampered them 1:01:57.880 --> 1:02:00.280 all year long. You know, guys, shuffling guys in and 1:02:00.280 --> 1:02:02.880 out of the lineup makes it very difficult for the 1:02:02.920 --> 1:02:05.320 defensive coordinator and Jim Schwarts to come up with a 1:02:05.400 --> 1:02:09.479 game plan. Use his four arsenal in his playbook, because 1:02:09.520 --> 1:02:12.400 when you're trying to learn the personnel that's being brought 1:02:12.440 --> 1:02:14.720 in week the week, like it was in the secondary. 1:02:14.880 --> 1:02:17.160 It's difficult for a coach when he doesn't really know 1:02:17.240 --> 1:02:20.280 what you're good at doing versus what you're not good 1:02:20.280 --> 1:02:22.480 at doing, so it kind of handcuffs him as to 1:02:22.560 --> 1:02:25.439 what he can call out there. And that's why I've 1:02:25.480 --> 1:02:28.040 been tipping my cap to Jim Schwartz the job he's 1:02:28.080 --> 1:02:30.600 been doing this year. You know, people complain about not 1:02:30.640 --> 1:02:33.200 bringing extra guys for pressure or what have you, but 1:02:33.280 --> 1:02:36.360 the fact that he's losing guys or he's lost guys 1:02:36.440 --> 1:02:38.840 week out the week out the week, and he's really 1:02:39.200 --> 1:02:41.959 his unit has kept you in the game every week. 1:02:42.280 --> 1:02:44.200 Sure you'll like them to finish some games a little 1:02:44.200 --> 1:02:48.400 bit better, but again I remind you he's playing shorthanded, 1:02:48.680 --> 1:02:51.760 especially in the secondary, and to be able to come 1:02:51.840 --> 1:02:54.200 up with coverages and to be able to put guys 1:02:54.240 --> 1:02:57.400 in position so that they can excel and make plays, 1:02:57.600 --> 1:02:59.840 it's not easy to do. I mean, it's guys out 1:02:59.840 --> 1:03:02.439 there right now, Chris, it's seventy four. I didn't even 1:03:02.440 --> 1:03:04.720 know who seventy four was today, I'm like, who is 1:03:04.800 --> 1:03:07.000 seventy four on this team? He had a big sack 1:03:07.080 --> 1:03:10.520 today on Deshaun Watson. So Sean Hall coming to the 1:03:10.520 --> 1:03:13.040 former third round pick. I just think, I just think 1:03:13.080 --> 1:03:15.000 what the defensive coordinator has been able to do this 1:03:15.080 --> 1:03:18.080 year with these guys and these guys responding to him 1:03:18.080 --> 1:03:22.680 out there, I think it's been nothing short. They're commendable 1:03:22.720 --> 1:03:25.920 because listen, I when you get injuries that can decimate 1:03:25.960 --> 1:03:30.360 a defense real quick and to slow down quarterback like 1:03:30.400 --> 1:03:33.520 Deshann Watson, stop this running game today. I mean really, 1:03:33.560 --> 1:03:35.320 the last couple of weeks of defense starting to get 1:03:35.320 --> 1:03:38.280 turnovers too, was that like seven turnovers they had three 1:03:38.320 --> 1:03:41.680 against the Cowboys, I believe also, So to get turnovers 1:03:41.720 --> 1:03:43.920 the way they had the last three weeks, that's what 1:03:44.000 --> 1:03:46.360 you need. That's what they were doing last year that 1:03:46.480 --> 1:03:48.880 they hadn't been doing all year. And you can see 1:03:48.880 --> 1:03:50.680 it starting to come around. Now. All right, we're waiting 1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:52.720 here from quarterback Nick Foles, so we'll talk about the 1:03:52.720 --> 1:03:55.400 playoff picture here for a moment here. So the Eagles, 1:03:55.520 --> 1:03:59.160 because of Dallas, Dallas winning clinches the Cowboys the mcast, 1:03:59.360 --> 1:04:02.040 so they've won the division. So the Eagles at best 1:04:02.080 --> 1:04:05.000 can get a wildcard spot Minnesota. They were able to 1:04:05.000 --> 1:04:07.840 hold on to beat Detroit, so they are eight six 1:04:07.880 --> 1:04:10.560 and one, So the Eagles would still need to win 1:04:10.640 --> 1:04:13.680 next week and hopefully Minnesota loses, that would give the 1:04:13.760 --> 1:04:16.680 Eagles the edge over Minnesota. The Eagles can still get 1:04:16.720 --> 1:04:19.040 the edge over the Seahawks, who played the Chiefs tonight 1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:21.800 on Sunday Night Football, if the Seahawks lose their final 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:24.640 two games, and of course if the Eagles win next week. 1:04:24.680 --> 1:04:27.240 So the Eagles have to win next week first and foremost, 1:04:27.240 --> 1:04:29.800 they are not getting in the postseason without being Washington 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:32.520 next week. The Eagles, while they can't win the division, 1:04:32.840 --> 1:04:36.080 can still finish with the fifth seed. Okay, if they're 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:38.600 able if the Viking is lose and the Seahawks drop 1:04:38.640 --> 1:04:40.600 their final two games, and of course if the Eagles 1:04:40.960 --> 1:04:43.080 win their game against Washington next week. So if the 1:04:43.120 --> 1:04:46.240 Seahawks win tonight, are they in? Are they locked in? 1:04:46.520 --> 1:04:52.360 And nine to six on that one, because I think 1:04:52.400 --> 1:04:55.600 they have the tiebreaker over the Eagles because a conference record, 1:04:56.080 --> 1:04:58.520 so I think they may have. They may have their heads. 1:04:58.520 --> 1:05:00.520 I'm not sure if they actually can if they be 1:05:00.560 --> 1:05:03.200 in Kansas City tonight, but we still know there's one 1:05:03.240 --> 1:05:05.800 spot that will definitely be open. So next week the 1:05:05.840 --> 1:05:07.760 Eagles will do a little bit of score board watching. 1:05:07.840 --> 1:05:10.680 We got to take care of business. And because of 1:05:10.720 --> 1:05:13.120 what happened earlier this season, you know, blowing the leads 1:05:13.120 --> 1:05:16.520 against Carolina and Tennessee, that's put them in this positions 1:05:16.600 --> 1:05:18.680 where certainly you could say if they had won one 1:05:18.680 --> 1:05:20.760 of those games, they would be on their way, but 1:05:21.280 --> 1:05:24.160 the journey wouldn't be what it is without those difficult 1:05:24.200 --> 1:05:27.040 losses along the way to get them to this point. So, 1:05:27.200 --> 1:05:29.400 like you said, the Eagles are playing their best football 1:05:29.440 --> 1:05:31.600 at this time of year. The offense is clicking, the 1:05:31.720 --> 1:05:35.480 defense is generating takeaways. I felt all year, for the 1:05:35.480 --> 1:05:38.240 most part, the defense was playing the same level as 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:41.520 it was a year ago. Okay, even though it was undermanned, 1:05:41.840 --> 1:05:44.440 especially along the defensive line. You don't have the waves, 1:05:44.560 --> 1:05:47.200 you don't have the different lines of defensive lineman coming 1:05:47.240 --> 1:05:50.960 after the quarterback. This year, it's been pretty much Brandon Graham, 1:05:50.960 --> 1:05:53.320 Michael Bennett, Chris Long. Those have been your guys on 1:05:53.360 --> 1:05:55.640 the edges. And you would have Josh we as a 1:05:55.720 --> 1:05:59.000 rotational guy. You would have we talk about Dashawn Hall 1:05:59.080 --> 1:06:01.280 now coming in as a rotational guy, but those have 1:06:01.320 --> 1:06:03.840 been your three main core guys and those are some 1:06:03.920 --> 1:06:06.919 older crafty veterans here in the league playing a live 1:06:07.040 --> 1:06:09.880 snaps and then inside. You haven't had Tim Jurn again 1:06:09.960 --> 1:06:11.919 for all but two games this year, so it's really 1:06:11.960 --> 1:06:14.760 been the Fletcher Cock show, you know, first and foremost 1:06:14.800 --> 1:06:17.280 in the middle there, and you have other guys like 1:06:17.280 --> 1:06:20.160 like Nada and we're seeing Treyvon Hester had a sack today, 1:06:20.200 --> 1:06:23.600 Bruce Hector, some other guys have been helping as complimentary pieces. 1:06:23.600 --> 1:06:26.439 Obviously Graham and Bennet can move inside if need beyond 1:06:26.440 --> 1:06:28.920 pass rushdowns. But for the most part, it's been the 1:06:28.960 --> 1:06:32.080 star Wars along the defensive line, holding it down, holding 1:06:32.080 --> 1:06:34.520 it all together there. Yeah, I mean, it's just been 1:06:34.600 --> 1:06:37.240 that type of year where we saw last year the 1:06:37.280 --> 1:06:41.000 Eagles had the deepest defensive front in the game, the 1:06:41.040 --> 1:06:43.800 best defensive line in the game. They went eight deep 1:06:44.280 --> 1:06:47.200 last year. And injuries will do that to you. They 1:06:47.240 --> 1:06:50.120 will deplete your roster, they will deplete any position. And 1:06:50.160 --> 1:06:53.480 to have a couple of injuries at that position, Derek Barnett, 1:06:53.640 --> 1:06:56.240 Hallodi Nada has been banged up. You mentioned Tim Joern 1:06:56.280 --> 1:06:59.959 again being banged up. That certainly has depleted the depth 1:07:00.080 --> 1:07:02.720 on the roster. But you gotta get those old guys 1:07:02.720 --> 1:07:04.920 a lot of credit. Man. They aren't making any excuses. 1:07:05.240 --> 1:07:10.200 They're being asked to play more plays than thought coming 1:07:10.240 --> 1:07:13.000 into the season, and for the most part, I think 1:07:13.000 --> 1:07:15.000 they've held up. You know, the thing I always say 1:07:15.040 --> 1:07:18.840 about defense, the defensive front and the back seven, they 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:21.120 work hand in hand, right, So when you want your 1:07:21.200 --> 1:07:24.880 defensive front to be dominating, sometimes that back seven has 1:07:24.880 --> 1:07:26.600 to force the quarterback to hold the ball a little 1:07:26.600 --> 1:07:28.920 bit longer. The quarterback is able to get rid of 1:07:28.960 --> 1:07:32.320 the ball quick. That sort of neutralizes what your defensive 1:07:32.360 --> 1:07:35.240 line can do, and vice versa. You got a defensive 1:07:35.280 --> 1:07:38.280 line just dominating up front, that's gonna help your secondary 1:07:38.320 --> 1:07:41.160 out and not force them to cover as long. So 1:07:41.240 --> 1:07:44.240 it works hand in hand. And sometimes we don't know 1:07:44.600 --> 1:07:47.120 which is first, the chicken or the egg, Right, which 1:07:47.120 --> 1:07:49.160 came first? We don't know. I guess we'll put it 1:07:49.200 --> 1:07:52.040 on the defensive line to put them up front, because 1:07:52.040 --> 1:07:55.080 that's where it typically starts, that up front. But when 1:07:55.120 --> 1:07:57.320 you look at Cox, when you look at Brandon Graham, 1:07:57.360 --> 1:08:01.840 when you look at Michael Bennett and Chris Um, had 1:08:01.880 --> 1:08:04.520 you lost either one of those guys for any extended 1:08:04.560 --> 1:08:06.480 period of time, this year. I don't know if the 1:08:06.480 --> 1:08:09.040 Eagles would be where they are right now, not whatsoever. 1:08:09.080 --> 1:08:10.960 It's amazing we've gone this long in the show. As 1:08:11.000 --> 1:08:13.800 thrilling as this comfort behind victory was that we haven't 1:08:13.800 --> 1:08:18.240 talked about the referees. Okay, we don't, that's why it is, 1:08:18.320 --> 1:08:20.160 of course, we don't need to spend a ton of time. 1:08:20.200 --> 1:08:22.880 But but some very difficult calls, especially in the first 1:08:22.920 --> 1:08:25.080 half where it happened on you know, back to back 1:08:25.160 --> 1:08:28.720 drives where Nick Foles, you know, Nick Foles was going 1:08:28.760 --> 1:08:31.679 on the two point conversion and to David Clowney basically 1:08:31.760 --> 1:08:35.640 ripped off his helmet, jerking his neck back wasn't called whatsoever. 1:08:35.720 --> 1:08:39.000 And they showed the referees right there staring at the play. 1:08:39.120 --> 1:08:41.040 It was clear as day for them to see not 1:08:41.120 --> 1:08:43.639 making the call there. And then on the next drive 1:08:44.000 --> 1:08:47.160 Brandon Graham coming in and coming call for the helmet 1:08:47.160 --> 1:08:49.559 to helmet hit. You know, some tough breaks for the 1:08:49.600 --> 1:08:52.439 Eagles that made the game much closer than it had 1:08:52.479 --> 1:08:54.760 to be. So, speaking of Nick Foles, let's send it 1:08:54.800 --> 1:08:57.800 over to the length the hero himself number nine. Addressing 1:08:57.800 --> 1:09:00.640 the media at Lincoln Financial Field, Doug said that he 1:09:00.760 --> 1:09:03.320 checked from one half play to another. What did you 1:09:03.439 --> 1:09:07.439 see in the coverage? Yeah, I just saw a unique 1:09:07.439 --> 1:09:09.960 coverage that they play. Um, and you know, we had 1:09:10.360 --> 1:09:12.920 a play in our arsenal that you know wasn't the 1:09:12.920 --> 1:09:14.880 one that was called. And I felt like, you know, 1:09:15.080 --> 1:09:16.880 I had time on the clock to check it and 1:09:17.520 --> 1:09:19.880 really take a shot with you know, some speed, you know, 1:09:19.920 --> 1:09:22.639 with Nelly, and you know we were able to execute 1:09:22.640 --> 1:09:24.439 it and Nell he made an amazing play and finished 1:09:24.439 --> 1:09:26.160 it off with a touchdown. And you know it was 1:09:26.439 --> 1:09:28.120 really just all of us being on the same page, 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:30.680 recognizing the coverage, understanding how to run the route, and 1:09:30.720 --> 1:09:32.800 you know, the line gave me time to you know 1:09:32.880 --> 1:09:35.280 throw it. So it was awesome. I took quite a 1:09:35.280 --> 1:09:39.400 shot in the in the sternum there. Um, how severe 1:09:39.640 --> 1:09:41.000 hit was that? And how were you able to get 1:09:41.080 --> 1:09:43.160 up from that? Oh? It was a great hit. Um, Yeah, 1:09:43.160 --> 1:09:46.120 he got a good one on me. Um. Yeah, you know, 1:09:46.640 --> 1:09:48.600 trainers got out there. I was able to get my 1:09:48.600 --> 1:09:51.160 breath back back, my you know, ribs a little sore, 1:09:51.320 --> 1:09:53.920 but on all I feel great. Um, I was able 1:09:53.960 --> 1:09:55.080 to you know, I have to go out for a 1:09:55.080 --> 1:09:57.759 play and they went in and you know, great experience 1:09:57.760 --> 1:09:59.920 for him to go into a game. Um, but then 1:10:00.000 --> 1:10:01.479 I was ready to roll. I felt, I feel great. 1:10:01.840 --> 1:10:04.520 The crowd's reaction kind of willing you back in into 1:10:04.560 --> 1:10:08.240 that thing. I'll have to like see a different copy. 1:10:08.280 --> 1:10:09.960 I was more focused on just the people in front 1:10:10.000 --> 1:10:11.439 of me and knowing if we caught the ball or not. 1:10:11.560 --> 1:10:13.839 I had no clue if Alstron had caught it in anything, 1:10:13.880 --> 1:10:16.040 so I was trying to figure out what the scenario was. 1:10:16.080 --> 1:10:19.240 But the crowd was amazing a day. Um, it's always 1:10:19.280 --> 1:10:21.679 a you know, it's always a joy to come out 1:10:21.680 --> 1:10:23.719 here and play in the link and where this jersey 1:10:23.760 --> 1:10:25.960 and you know they were they were amazing, Um, and 1:10:26.040 --> 1:10:27.760 you know we're grateful for that. How did the X 1:10:27.880 --> 1:10:32.400 ray start? I'm great. Great. On that last drive after 1:10:32.479 --> 1:10:34.880 he came back in, I felt really good. You know, 1:10:35.000 --> 1:10:36.640 once I was able to move around a little bit, 1:10:36.640 --> 1:10:38.200 I felt really good. I was excited to get back 1:10:38.200 --> 1:10:40.439 out there with the guys. A lot of players talk 1:10:40.439 --> 1:10:42.519 about how calm you are on the field, But how 1:10:42.560 --> 1:10:45.000 tough was it for you to to keep your calm 1:10:45.040 --> 1:10:47.720 after that two point conversion? Try? And how much of 1:10:47.800 --> 1:10:50.680 that part? Yeah, I mean, that's not what i'd normally do. 1:10:50.720 --> 1:10:53.040 But I also know that, you know, John and I 1:10:53.080 --> 1:10:54.920 had to talk later. You know, it's hard for them 1:10:54.920 --> 1:10:58.040 to see every angle. And I understand that I was 1:10:58.080 --> 1:11:00.479 just a little upset and I shouldn't do that, but 1:11:00.720 --> 1:11:02.360 you know I was. I was fired up a little bit. 1:11:02.400 --> 1:11:04.120 You know, it's a game. You know, we're going out 1:11:04.160 --> 1:11:06.479 there to win, UM against you know, one of the 1:11:06.560 --> 1:11:08.360 best teams in the NFL right now. So we were 1:11:08.400 --> 1:11:11.200 able to you know, calm back down, get the crowd 1:11:11.240 --> 1:11:17.639 going UM and ultimately get a w they found down 1:11:18.800 --> 1:11:21.800 to go from having them come back on you and 1:11:21.840 --> 1:11:24.479 then you guys come back and get that win in 1:11:24.479 --> 1:11:26.720 the last seconds. What's what's that like? You guys go 1:11:26.800 --> 1:11:28.640 through that. Yeah. I mean, I think the thing I 1:11:28.640 --> 1:11:31.960 talked about a lot is adversity UM and just sticking 1:11:32.000 --> 1:11:35.160 together as a team communication, And I think we saw 1:11:35.160 --> 1:11:37.120 a lot of that tonight. We saw a team that's 1:11:37.120 --> 1:11:40.160 stuck together through all the ups and downs of the game. UM. 1:11:40.160 --> 1:11:42.120 We saw you know, Jake Elliott, who's one of the 1:11:42.120 --> 1:11:44.000 best kickers in the league, you know, miss the extra 1:11:44.040 --> 1:11:46.320 point and then all of a sudden, our our team, 1:11:46.640 --> 1:11:49.080 UM give him ability at the end of the game 1:11:49.120 --> 1:11:50.600 and he has to kick the game winner. That's what 1:11:50.680 --> 1:11:54.639 this team's about, is just sticking together, um, loving one another, 1:11:55.160 --> 1:11:58.320 doing that every single play, not worrying about anything else 1:11:58.360 --> 1:12:00.960 but the play called, and you know it was on 1:12:01.040 --> 1:12:06.080 full display today. You want to I got certain thrill 1:12:06.160 --> 1:12:09.320 on the last drive to as zach Nick surprised he 1:12:09.360 --> 1:12:12.920 was that wide open. Um. Well, there was a lot 1:12:12.960 --> 1:12:15.599 of stumbling going on, so like as I was releasing 1:12:15.640 --> 1:12:17.120 I tried to put a little bit more air on 1:12:17.120 --> 1:12:19.799 it because I was hoping he would keep his feet. Um. 1:12:19.840 --> 1:12:22.479 But you know, the defender, Zach ranner a great route. 1:12:22.479 --> 1:12:24.519 The defender stumble, Zach was able to keep his feet 1:12:24.560 --> 1:12:26.200 and make a play and that that was a huge 1:12:26.200 --> 1:12:28.479 part of the game. But uh, you know, anytime he's 1:12:28.520 --> 1:12:30.439 running a route, I expecting to win. I'm going to 1:12:30.479 --> 1:12:32.600 talk without the ref after the two play conversion. What 1:12:32.800 --> 1:12:34.840 what did you say to him about that play? I 1:12:34.920 --> 1:12:38.719 just asked him if he saw what I felt, and 1:12:39.600 --> 1:12:41.120 he didn't at the time, but we had a great 1:12:41.160 --> 1:12:44.120 conversation later. You know, it's a hard job to see everything. 1:12:44.200 --> 1:12:46.840 So they did the best they could. Sing more of 1:12:46.920 --> 1:12:48.639 that or they hit at the end of the game, 1:12:48.640 --> 1:12:51.000 which hurt more of that or I feel great, body 1:12:51.040 --> 1:12:54.120 feels great, so nothing's hurting. So I'm good. You got that. 1:12:54.120 --> 1:12:56.639 When he went on the field at the end, everybody 1:12:56.760 --> 1:13:00.400 was real calm, confident about matching blog down. Yeah. The 1:13:00.439 --> 1:13:01.840 big thing I talked to the guys about is just 1:13:01.840 --> 1:13:04.120 being in the moment when we're in the huddle. That's 1:13:04.160 --> 1:13:06.400 all you worry about. Just worry about that play. You 1:13:06.439 --> 1:13:08.360 can't you know, you can't do it all at once. 1:13:08.479 --> 1:13:11.559 Just focus on that play. Trust each other. And yeah, 1:13:11.560 --> 1:13:13.360 it was calm in the huddle. I mean there's chaos 1:13:13.400 --> 1:13:15.200 going all around, but we're able to keep it calm 1:13:15.200 --> 1:13:16.840 in the huddle and that that's important in a game 1:13:16.880 --> 1:13:19.200 like that, especially when you're going down in a two 1:13:19.200 --> 1:13:21.120 minute drill to win a game where it's been you know, 1:13:21.160 --> 1:13:23.600 back and forth and it's been a battle. Um, you know, 1:13:23.640 --> 1:13:28.439 everyone did a great job executing that last drive. Someday then, uh, 1:13:29.120 --> 1:13:31.000 you know what that's all up to coach. I'll let 1:13:31.080 --> 1:13:34.200 him talk on everything. Physically physically, I feel great. I 1:13:34.200 --> 1:13:39.240 feel great. I feel great, Yes, in this starting role 1:13:39.320 --> 1:13:42.280 now and possibly next week breaking the all time singing 1:13:42.439 --> 1:13:45.280 a passing record and a chance to take us a 1:13:45.280 --> 1:13:47.320 team in the playoffs. Again, the house special is this 1:13:47.320 --> 1:13:50.439 because we don't know what your future is after this year? Yeah, 1:13:50.439 --> 1:13:52.200 I think that. You know, I've said it many times. 1:13:52.200 --> 1:13:54.280 Just staying in the Momentum, I'm fortunate to work with 1:13:54.360 --> 1:13:57.200 great people, for fortunate to have great teammates, everyone with 1:13:57.280 --> 1:14:00.639 an overcare facility. Um. It's really been a joy throughout 1:14:00.680 --> 1:14:03.400 my career to you know, be in that facility, be there, 1:14:04.040 --> 1:14:07.360 um and work with everyone. Um. So yeah, I mean 1:14:07.760 --> 1:14:10.360 I'm just really just staying in this moment. I'm gonna 1:14:10.400 --> 1:14:13.400 enjoy you know, Christmas with my family. Um, you know, 1:14:13.840 --> 1:14:15.640 my daughter or my wife. Those are the things that 1:14:15.640 --> 1:14:17.800 are so important to me. I'm getting it. I haven't 1:14:17.800 --> 1:14:20.120 seen them yet. Um, so I'm excited to go you know, 1:14:20.280 --> 1:14:22.639 my mom, dad, little sister here, or my knee. So 1:14:23.040 --> 1:14:25.479 that's the things that are that are really special, especially 1:14:25.479 --> 1:14:27.160 this time of year. Just going to embrace them and 1:14:27.200 --> 1:14:29.200 spend time with them. So it's the stuff I'm looking 1:14:29.200 --> 1:14:33.120 forward to talking about other players talking about you inspired them. 1:14:34.520 --> 1:14:39.120 Christmas shrine trine to you week, What did you think 1:14:39.120 --> 1:14:40.799 of the shrine? And two do you get the feeling? 1:14:41.680 --> 1:14:43.280 You get that feeling from any other players in the 1:14:43.280 --> 1:14:46.320 locker room. Chris is a character. We have a long 1:14:46.400 --> 1:14:49.800 history together. Um, love them. Um. I think the big 1:14:49.840 --> 1:14:51.559 thing is, I just want to be me. Um. I 1:14:51.600 --> 1:14:53.640 want the guys to know that when I go in 1:14:53.680 --> 1:14:57.000 there there, that's who I am. Um. You know when 1:14:57.000 --> 1:14:58.760 I step in the huddle, I'm not going to change 1:14:58.760 --> 1:15:01.840 when I'm you know, we're at restaurant or out in public, like, 1:15:02.120 --> 1:15:03.479 I want to be who I am. I want to 1:15:03.479 --> 1:15:06.080 be genuine and I think that you know, that's that's 1:15:06.080 --> 1:15:08.160 a powerful thing. Um. There's a lot of times where 1:15:08.160 --> 1:15:10.680 we try to be politically correct, and you know, we 1:15:10.720 --> 1:15:13.200 don't get to show our personalities. UM. I know Doug says, 1:15:13.240 --> 1:15:16.000 I know, Andy Reid says it. Um, but they always 1:15:16.240 --> 1:15:18.400 taught me, you know, let your personalities show. You know, 1:15:18.439 --> 1:15:21.000 we all come together as a team. Um. We have 1:15:21.040 --> 1:15:24.840 excess and knows. But the way teams win is there's personalities. 1:15:25.000 --> 1:15:27.320 Let them show, let them play stick with one another. 1:15:27.680 --> 1:15:29.479 And you're seeing a lot of that throughout the game. 1:15:29.520 --> 1:15:31.599 You're seeing a lot of that in practice and meetings 1:15:31.880 --> 1:15:33.600 and and that's really important. That's what a family is. 1:15:33.600 --> 1:15:37.800 Everyone's different, but everyone can come together in a common goal. So, Um, 1:15:37.840 --> 1:15:39.920 tonight was a fun night for all of us to 1:15:39.920 --> 1:15:50.640 do that question season. Yeah, it did, it did um. 1:15:50.800 --> 1:15:55.280 So it's emotional. Um. Like I said, I love playing 1:15:55.280 --> 1:15:58.639 in Philly. Um, I knew this was you know, there's 1:15:58.640 --> 1:16:00.559 a chance it could be it, and you know, I 1:16:00.600 --> 1:16:02.720 don't think about the future, but I am aware of 1:16:02.760 --> 1:16:04.559 that because this city means a lot to me, This 1:16:04.600 --> 1:16:06.479 team means a lot to me. Wearing that jersey means 1:16:06.520 --> 1:16:08.360 a lot to me. A couple of weeks ago, when 1:16:08.360 --> 1:16:10.479 I ran out of the tunnel, I didn't expect to play. 1:16:10.520 --> 1:16:11.920 I didn't, you know I was. I'm there to support 1:16:11.960 --> 1:16:13.320 the team and do what I can. And I got 1:16:13.400 --> 1:16:15.800 emotional thing because I knew that there's a chance that's 1:16:15.800 --> 1:16:17.360 coming to an end. But at the end of the day, 1:16:17.400 --> 1:16:20.160 I am very grateful for every opportunity to play here, 1:16:20.439 --> 1:16:22.679 to play in front of our fans, to wear that jersey. 1:16:22.720 --> 1:16:24.880 No matter what, no one can ever take that away 1:16:24.880 --> 1:16:27.760 from me. And this was a special one tonight. I 1:16:27.760 --> 1:16:29.200 don't know what the future holes. I'm not going to 1:16:29.240 --> 1:16:31.000 worry about it. I'm just going to focus on now. 1:16:31.680 --> 1:16:35.519 Enjoy just being in Philadelphia, Enjoy the people, Enjoy wearing 1:16:35.520 --> 1:16:38.040 this Jersey because it's some of the most special moments 1:16:38.040 --> 1:16:44.320 in my life. You go out and setting the franchise 1:16:44.360 --> 1:16:46.120 record for passing yards in the game. What does that mean? 1:16:46.760 --> 1:16:48.200 I think the big thing is you just you know, 1:16:48.240 --> 1:16:50.360 I always look at records as who's involved. It's not 1:16:50.439 --> 1:16:52.080 just me. There's a lot of guys that made an 1:16:52.080 --> 1:16:55.840 amazing amount of plays. The line gave me protection. You know, 1:16:56.439 --> 1:16:58.840 each game is a different entity. Some games you gotta 1:16:58.920 --> 1:17:01.639 rush for three touchdowns, you don't throw any Some games, 1:17:01.760 --> 1:17:04.200 you know, you don't get any passing yards, but somehow 1:17:04.200 --> 1:17:06.760 you win. And in some gays some days or some 1:17:06.840 --> 1:17:08.920 games you just have to light it up. And this 1:17:08.960 --> 1:17:12.360 was one of those games. Um. You know, I always 1:17:12.360 --> 1:17:14.120 think back to my teammates that people are there, the 1:17:14.160 --> 1:17:16.559 coaches that put us in the position talking on the sidelines. 1:17:16.640 --> 1:17:18.559 So that's what it means to me, is the people 1:17:18.560 --> 1:17:21.040 that are involved, and obviously you know it's a team. Things. 1:17:22.720 --> 1:17:24.760 You've been around about Zack for a lot of years. 1:17:25.560 --> 1:17:28.800 He obviously wrote the record for tight ends, but what's 1:17:28.800 --> 1:17:31.760 your impression of what he accomplishes is amazing. I mean, 1:17:32.040 --> 1:17:34.360 you know, and especially to break the record that was 1:17:34.400 --> 1:17:36.519 held by someone that he looked up to as a kid, 1:17:36.960 --> 1:17:38.840 and now Zach gets to be a person that kids 1:17:38.880 --> 1:17:41.080 look up Tom. There's a lot of kids out there 1:17:41.080 --> 1:17:44.080 probably put you know, middle school, elementary school, high school football. 1:17:44.080 --> 1:17:46.040 They're looking at Zach Ertz and like what he does. 1:17:46.479 --> 1:17:48.559 And he's impacting a lot of people by not only 1:17:48.880 --> 1:17:51.479 how he plays, but what he says after he breaks records. 1:17:51.680 --> 1:17:53.760 And that's the thing that's the most amazing to me. 1:17:54.720 --> 1:17:58.719 But I'm super proud of him. He's had an amazing career, 1:17:58.760 --> 1:18:01.360 he's had an amazing year, and you know, we still 1:18:01.360 --> 1:18:04.160 have work to do. You get through your interception, It 1:18:04.280 --> 1:18:06.800 seemed like you run around to the team and had 1:18:06.800 --> 1:18:09.439 a word with them on the sideline. Is that accurate? 1:18:09.479 --> 1:18:11.680 And if so, what was your message? Yeah? I was 1:18:11.680 --> 1:18:13.120 just like, hey, let's just keep going. I think the 1:18:13.120 --> 1:18:16.280 most important thing sometimes when quarterbacks throw interceptions or something happens, 1:18:16.320 --> 1:18:18.840 everyone's like, is he all right? Because I mean it's 1:18:18.880 --> 1:18:21.000 a it's a big play in the game. Um, I 1:18:21.080 --> 1:18:24.599 just you know, bad throw, bad decision, And I think 1:18:24.600 --> 1:18:26.160 the big thing is just reasert and hey, we're good. 1:18:26.240 --> 1:18:28.320 Let's just keep going, Let's keep playing, Let's forget about it. 1:18:28.320 --> 1:18:30.880 Have a short memory and h Like I said, when 1:18:30.880 --> 1:18:32.280 we're in that huddle, that's the eye of the storm. 1:18:32.400 --> 1:18:34.360 Let's keep it calm, Let's just focus on the play. 1:18:34.400 --> 1:18:36.639 We're in this together. That's the adversity we talk about, 1:18:37.000 --> 1:18:39.080 and that's all it is. And the team that can 1:18:39.160 --> 1:18:41.320 overcome adversely, the best is usually the one that wins. 1:18:41.520 --> 1:18:45.240 Take a little moreout it talk about one more shot, 1:18:45.439 --> 1:18:47.360 had a playoff game. That's week. You guys know what's 1:18:47.400 --> 1:18:49.760 up front of yet just what's up mean for you guys? 1:18:50.560 --> 1:18:52.680 That means everything. Just to play another game as an 1:18:52.680 --> 1:18:56.160 Eagle means everything to us. But a lot of the 1:18:56.200 --> 1:18:58.120 different things, you know, we can't control a lot of 1:18:58.120 --> 1:19:00.679 the scenarios. All we can control about is our preparation, 1:19:00.800 --> 1:19:02.559 what we do on a day in and day out 1:19:02.560 --> 1:19:05.200 basis at the Novercare facility, getting ready for the next game. 1:19:05.280 --> 1:19:08.439 So this week, more than anything, to stand in the moment, 1:19:08.560 --> 1:19:11.599 controlling what we can control, you know, enjoying the moment 1:19:11.600 --> 1:19:14.680 with one another. That's what it's about. Thank you all, 1:19:15.040 --> 1:19:20.320 Very Christmas. All right. Nick Falls addressing the media after 1:19:20.400 --> 1:19:24.000 his record setting four hundred and seventy one yard performance 1:19:24.080 --> 1:19:26.760 that ended with the game winning drive as the final 1:19:26.880 --> 1:19:30.920 seconds ticked off the clock. Just a brilliant, brilliant performance. 1:19:30.960 --> 1:19:33.639 And Ike, we're actually gonna hear from head coach Doug 1:19:33.720 --> 1:19:35.680 Pearson is one on one interview with Mike wukin just 1:19:35.720 --> 1:19:39.839 a few moments. But first, the way that Nick sounded 1:19:39.920 --> 1:19:43.040 that press conference, talking about the memories and you know, 1:19:43.160 --> 1:19:46.200 appreciating the opportunity to put the jersey on. You have 1:19:46.280 --> 1:19:48.960 to wonder if Carson Wentz Okay, we haven't talked about 1:19:49.040 --> 1:19:51.519 him to this point. If Carson Wentz is healthy, in 1:19:51.600 --> 1:19:55.280 my estimation, he's the quarterback next week, no question about it. 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:57.720 What are your thoughts on that situation, because certainly a 1:19:57.760 --> 1:20:00.880 lot of fans are probably thinking at this point Foles 1:20:00.920 --> 1:20:03.720 has to be the guy. Well, I'll tell you what. 1:20:04.600 --> 1:20:06.599 I'm with you on that. As a matter of fact, 1:20:06.640 --> 1:20:10.080 when when Carson is healthy, Justice Doug has said repeatedly 1:20:10.439 --> 1:20:13.640 I believe he will be the starting quarterback as he 1:20:13.680 --> 1:20:15.920 should be. But man, I'm sitting there and listening to 1:20:15.960 --> 1:20:18.800 the Nick. I'm sitting there watching him at that podium, 1:20:18.840 --> 1:20:21.600 and man, I love me some Nicky six. Man. I 1:20:21.760 --> 1:20:25.080 love Nick Foles, love watching him play, I love his 1:20:25.160 --> 1:20:29.800 approach to the game. I love, how he loves his teammates, 1:20:29.800 --> 1:20:33.400 how he loves playing here, and because of the Cowboys 1:20:33.439 --> 1:20:37.559 winning earlier to day, Yeah, this will more than likely 1:20:37.600 --> 1:20:40.880 be Nick Foles's last time he plays as an Eagle 1:20:41.640 --> 1:20:43.680 in Lincoln Financial Field. Now, we don't know what the 1:20:43.720 --> 1:20:45.720 future holds, whether or not he'll be back. All that 1:20:45.760 --> 1:20:48.280 stuff will work itself out in the off season. But 1:20:48.320 --> 1:20:51.360 there is that possibility that he could have suited up 1:20:51.400 --> 1:20:54.880 for the last time as an Eagle in Lincoln Financial Field. 1:20:55.080 --> 1:20:57.679 And I'm glad that that was somewhat in the back 1:20:57.720 --> 1:20:59.840 of his mind. I talked about talked about this on 1:21:00.200 --> 1:21:03.320 radio show earlier this week, not just for Nick, but 1:21:03.520 --> 1:21:06.840 for several guys. Right, they have pending free agencies coming up, 1:21:07.160 --> 1:21:11.000 and they aren't gonna let it consume their thinking throughout 1:21:11.040 --> 1:21:13.479 the week. But I remember my last year, the Super 1:21:13.520 --> 1:21:16.479 Bowl year here, Yeah, it's in the back of your 1:21:16.479 --> 1:21:18.240 mind that this is the last time that I could 1:21:18.240 --> 1:21:21.240 be walking out on the field to play in front 1:21:21.240 --> 1:21:24.680 of these these awesome fans. And so for Nick to 1:21:24.720 --> 1:21:27.519 put on the performance that he did today, man, uh, 1:21:27.640 --> 1:21:30.840 he put he did what what Nick Foles typically does. Man, 1:21:30.880 --> 1:21:33.040 when there's a big moment there and he needs to 1:21:33.160 --> 1:21:36.640 rise to the occasion. He has no problem rising to 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:42.000 the occasion. Franchise record for yards today, four touchdown passes today, 1:21:42.120 --> 1:21:45.200 I mean big play at the big play. If and 1:21:45.240 --> 1:21:48.200 I say if with air quotes, if it is his 1:21:48.320 --> 1:21:51.719 last time playing UH in Lincoln Financial Field as an Eagle, 1:21:51.840 --> 1:21:53.920 what a way to go out well? And what an 1:21:53.960 --> 1:21:57.880 awesome way UH to go out? And I don't know 1:21:57.960 --> 1:22:02.040 what the futureize the immediate future meaning next week. I 1:22:02.080 --> 1:22:04.640 know Carson has to be chopping at the bid, but 1:22:04.680 --> 1:22:06.800 the organization is going to do what they think is 1:22:06.840 --> 1:22:10.840 in his best interests and the organization's best interest moving forward, 1:22:10.880 --> 1:22:13.519 because there is a bigger picture here, which is Carson 1:22:13.560 --> 1:22:17.000 Wentz's health moving forward. I tell you what, It is 1:22:17.000 --> 1:22:19.479 a great problem to have right when you know you 1:22:19.560 --> 1:22:22.080 have two guys that, no matter who lines up under 1:22:22.080 --> 1:22:25.519 the center, you feel comfortable, confident that they can lead 1:22:25.560 --> 1:22:27.680 you to victory. I tell you I wouldn't want to 1:22:27.680 --> 1:22:30.600 be Doug right now, because well, I tell you what, 1:22:31.560 --> 1:22:33.320 how can you be wrong? You can't go wrong with 1:22:33.760 --> 1:22:36.240 whoever you go with. Carson's a guy, That's the thing. 1:22:36.439 --> 1:22:38.960 If Carson is health. This goes back to how Doug 1:22:38.960 --> 1:22:41.880 has qualified it. If there's no chance for him to 1:22:42.000 --> 1:22:44.559 further injure himself. Okay, that's the biggest thing, because you're 1:22:44.560 --> 1:22:47.320 one hundred percent right about the big picture that Wentz 1:22:47.439 --> 1:22:50.880 is a franchise. If there's no further risk, you're part. 1:22:51.120 --> 1:22:53.479 He's the guy week seventeen. He's the one helped them 1:22:53.520 --> 1:22:56.400 get in position here, okay, bouncing back from the ac 1:22:56.560 --> 1:22:59.720 on LCL injuries. He's my guy in week seventeen in 1:22:59.800 --> 1:23:03.280 a win and possibly get in situation for this football team. 1:23:03.320 --> 1:23:05.880 If he's not good, it's a easy decision. You go 1:23:05.920 --> 1:23:07.960 back to Nick for another week. I think it's pretty 1:23:07.960 --> 1:23:10.360 cut and dry, and that's standpoint. The thing I love 1:23:10.400 --> 1:23:14.160 about it is there is no controversy. Suter is during 1:23:14.200 --> 1:23:16.320 the job that I do throughout the week, we can 1:23:16.439 --> 1:23:18.599 create some of that stuff. This is sports radio goal 1:23:18.680 --> 1:23:21.360 for yes, but for this team and where it matters 1:23:21.360 --> 1:23:24.600 the most that these players, there is no controversy. This 1:23:24.680 --> 1:23:27.559 coaching staff, there is no controversy. And the best part 1:23:27.880 --> 1:23:31.400 is that this team supports regardless whomever is behind center, 1:23:31.600 --> 1:23:34.200 and they feel they can win with whomever lines up 1:23:34.240 --> 1:23:36.479 under center. We know what Nick has done on the 1:23:36.479 --> 1:23:39.679 biggest of stages, and we know the talent that Carson 1:23:39.720 --> 1:23:43.960 Wentz possesses as the starting quarterback moving forward here. So 1:23:44.200 --> 1:23:46.960 we're in a great position. Whomever is the under center 1:23:47.040 --> 1:23:49.960 next week against the red Skins, I think we're in 1:23:50.000 --> 1:23:52.559 a good position to win that football game. We're gonna 1:23:52.560 --> 1:23:54.640 need some things to sort of fall our way with 1:23:54.800 --> 1:23:57.479 some other teams, but I feel good about next week 1:23:57.560 --> 1:24:00.559 from the eagle standpoint, taking on the Red Skin ends, 1:24:00.600 --> 1:24:04.240 I think we're in a good position. Team is playing well, 1:24:04.560 --> 1:24:06.559 not just the last two games, Chris, think about it. 1:24:06.560 --> 1:24:09.599 They've won four out of the last five games, so 1:24:09.720 --> 1:24:13.040 they're going through their best stretch of the season right now. 1:24:13.040 --> 1:24:15.599 We just had It's not too late against If you 1:24:15.680 --> 1:24:17.840 were to say a couple of weeks ago that you're 1:24:17.880 --> 1:24:20.960 gonna beat the Rams and the Texans, both league in 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:23.640 the division, both in the number two seeds in the 1:24:23.680 --> 1:24:25.840 conference at the respective time, with so much to play 1:24:25.920 --> 1:24:28.680 for one game in Los Angeles, the other one here 1:24:28.680 --> 1:24:32.000 at the link now, most people said no chance the 1:24:32.000 --> 1:24:33.800 Things would pull it off, and they've done it in 1:24:33.800 --> 1:24:37.639 a throwing fashion in back to back weeks. So Doug Peterson, 1:24:37.880 --> 1:24:39.920 when you talked about him for most of the show 1:24:40.000 --> 1:24:43.479 here with the brilliant play calling, the aggressive nature of 1:24:43.479 --> 1:24:46.559 his play calling today, especially when you contrasted and compare 1:24:46.600 --> 1:24:49.400 it to what Bill O'Brien did for the Texans. Doug 1:24:49.439 --> 1:24:52.080 Peterson spoke with Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike Quick 1:24:52.200 --> 1:24:54.920 it's our weekly one on one interview post game. Let's 1:24:54.960 --> 1:24:59.600 send you all to that right now. Coach. First of all, congratulations, 1:25:00.000 --> 1:25:02.960 we need so much druma in this game. You really don't. 1:25:03.040 --> 1:25:05.799 Sometimes we make this thing too hard um on ourselves 1:25:05.880 --> 1:25:08.080 quite frankly, with especially with the two score lead like 1:25:08.120 --> 1:25:11.479 we had. But you know, it's a um it's a 1:25:11.520 --> 1:25:13.719 resilient group, as we know, we've talked about that all season, 1:25:13.760 --> 1:25:15.400 and they find a way to win. I mean, it's 1:25:15.400 --> 1:25:18.320 a lot of individual efforts today, but but quite frankly, 1:25:18.320 --> 1:25:20.200 this was a great team win. How important was it 1:25:20.240 --> 1:25:22.920 for you to get Darren Sprows out and well first 1:25:23.040 --> 1:25:25.080 involved in the offense and in space the way you 1:25:25.080 --> 1:25:27.400 got him today. Yeah, I think it's important. Each week, 1:25:27.439 --> 1:25:30.840 you know, we're still um giving him more and more 1:25:30.960 --> 1:25:32.519 kind of each week kind of we've been kind of 1:25:32.520 --> 1:25:34.280 easing him back and with the injury, just don't want 1:25:34.280 --> 1:25:36.599 to push him, But after these last couple of weeks, 1:25:36.600 --> 1:25:38.800 he can definitely take a little more on on us plate. 1:25:38.880 --> 1:25:40.600 And you know, he can be he can be a 1:25:40.600 --> 1:25:44.000 matchup nightmare sometimes for for defenders and especially linebackers, and 1:25:45.760 --> 1:25:48.400 you know, it's it's it's sometimes it's a you know, 1:25:48.479 --> 1:25:50.800 a safety blanket for the quarterback to knowing where your 1:25:50.880 --> 1:25:52.320 running backs are going to be as far as the 1:25:52.320 --> 1:25:54.639 passing game goes. And then to make that long run 1:25:54.680 --> 1:25:56.840 he did at the end to to put us really 1:25:56.880 --> 1:26:00.000 into field goal range is something that is a credit 1:26:00.080 --> 1:26:02.400 to him and just a great job. You knew that 1:26:02.479 --> 1:26:05.680 defense at front seven Clowney, those guys could erect the 1:26:05.760 --> 1:26:09.439 defense or wreck your offense. He got some early what 1:26:10.160 --> 1:26:12.040 made the difference late in the game though, where he 1:26:12.120 --> 1:26:14.719 wasn't nearly as effective. You know, I think I think, 1:26:14.920 --> 1:26:17.599 you know, when you get no situations that first of all, 1:26:17.640 --> 1:26:20.519 Clowney and J. J. Watty, these are tremendous players. These 1:26:20.520 --> 1:26:24.000 guys are tremendous and and uh, you know JJ kind 1:26:24.000 --> 1:26:25.519 of kind of had his way a little bit earlier 1:26:25.520 --> 1:26:28.559 in this football game, and you know, really the whole game, 1:26:28.640 --> 1:26:30.479 I guess I should say, but you know, I think 1:26:30.479 --> 1:26:32.920 I think it comes to time where um, you know, 1:26:33.000 --> 1:26:34.800 they started moving him around too late in the game. 1:26:34.840 --> 1:26:37.080 So once you start moving him around, you know, he 1:26:37.160 --> 1:26:39.479 pushed them through the middle of the pocket. I understand 1:26:39.479 --> 1:26:40.960 what they're trying to do is put a little pressure 1:26:41.000 --> 1:26:42.599 up the middle. And he's a long guy. He could 1:26:42.600 --> 1:26:45.559 probably bat some balls down. But um, a great job 1:26:45.560 --> 1:26:48.000 by our offensive line just handling him late in the 1:26:48.040 --> 1:26:50.719 game and allowing Nick to complete the balls. You talked 1:26:50.760 --> 1:26:54.400 about the individual performances and Nick himself during for four 1:26:54.479 --> 1:26:56.960 hundred and seventy one yards on the day. How big 1:26:57.080 --> 1:27:00.479 was this performance and then coming back in and after 1:27:00.520 --> 1:27:02.720 that big hit, Yeah, you know, I mean Nick had 1:27:02.720 --> 1:27:05.080 a tremendous game. I think he said a record today 1:27:05.120 --> 1:27:07.160 for for Eagles as far as the passing goes and 1:27:07.240 --> 1:27:09.200 yardage and all that. And then happy for him. And 1:27:09.600 --> 1:27:10.760 you know, he'll be the first to tell you that 1:27:10.760 --> 1:27:13.080 he credits everybody else's it's you know, that's just that's 1:27:13.120 --> 1:27:15.320 just it, Nick, And he credits his receivers, is lying 1:27:15.400 --> 1:27:18.160 his backs everybody else. And you know that's the thing 1:27:18.160 --> 1:27:20.559 about it is. You know, he's that point guard that 1:27:20.600 --> 1:27:22.360 just wants to distribute the ball. He wants to get 1:27:22.400 --> 1:27:24.840 the ball in his playmaker's hands and and let them 1:27:24.920 --> 1:27:26.800 let them do the work. And you know, it's just 1:27:26.840 --> 1:27:28.320 a it's a credit to him. He gets the ball 1:27:28.360 --> 1:27:30.719 out of his hand, and um, you know it's probably 1:27:30.760 --> 1:27:33.200 more again about about the team kind of hanging together 1:27:33.640 --> 1:27:37.040 and being resilient and and really making plays for Nick. 1:27:37.080 --> 1:27:39.360 I mean, you know, you put a pass up and 1:27:39.400 --> 1:27:41.880 al Sean just elevates again late in the game, makes 1:27:41.880 --> 1:27:44.240 it comes down with a huge, huge catch. I mean, 1:27:44.280 --> 1:27:46.880 those are those are just things that are our playmakers 1:27:46.880 --> 1:27:49.800 are starting to do. They're often centered around Watson and 1:27:49.880 --> 1:27:53.639 of course Hopkins, but you're able to limit them somewhat. 1:27:53.960 --> 1:27:58.880 What was the plan with their quarterback? Well, Number one, 1:27:58.920 --> 1:28:02.240 things we try you try to keep him in the pocket, yes, 1:28:02.920 --> 1:28:06.000 and if you can't, then you have to try to 1:28:06.000 --> 1:28:09.280 get him down in space. And there were times today 1:28:09.320 --> 1:28:11.920 where we didn't do a very good job of either one. Um, Now, 1:28:11.960 --> 1:28:14.400 credit credit him. He's a tremendous athlete. He broke out 1:28:14.400 --> 1:28:16.599 of some tackles today that you're just kind of wild moments, 1:28:16.600 --> 1:28:19.640 you know, And and he's gonna continue to grow and 1:28:19.680 --> 1:28:22.040 get better. But you know, if you can kind of 1:28:22.040 --> 1:28:25.160 isolate him and control him, keep him in the pocket. Um, 1:28:25.520 --> 1:28:27.519 you can get him on the ground and force him 1:28:27.560 --> 1:28:30.920 to make some erratic throws. But he's a special player. Uh. 1:28:31.040 --> 1:28:34.240 And you know, Hopkins is another one of those receivers 1:28:34.240 --> 1:28:37.000 that can be very explosive. Um. You know, late in 1:28:37.040 --> 1:28:38.800 the game, they went after him a little bit and 1:28:38.800 --> 1:28:41.759 targeted him a little bit more. And you know, UM, 1:28:41.920 --> 1:28:43.640 that's what you do. You put the ball in your 1:28:43.640 --> 1:28:46.920 playmaker's hands. I have to ask you about not necessarily 1:28:47.000 --> 1:28:49.960 the play calls anyone in particular, but when you have 1:28:50.040 --> 1:28:52.680 to go through the adversity that you have to go through, 1:28:52.720 --> 1:28:55.640 when you're getting those calls that go against you, what 1:28:55.720 --> 1:28:57.559 do you tell your guys? How do you keep your 1:28:57.560 --> 1:28:59.800 guys up in those situations. I just keep telling them 1:28:59.800 --> 1:29:01.960 that we just gotta continue to fight through it. I mean, 1:29:02.000 --> 1:29:05.000 that's all you can do. Um. You know, sometimes sometimes 1:29:05.000 --> 1:29:06.800 the call is gonna go against you. Sometimes it's gonna 1:29:06.800 --> 1:29:08.280 go in your favor. We just gotta kind of block 1:29:08.320 --> 1:29:10.120 it out, block out the noise, and just just move 1:29:10.160 --> 1:29:12.519 on to the next play. It's like making a bad play. 1:29:12.560 --> 1:29:14.640 If you make a bad play, don't focus on it. 1:29:14.720 --> 1:29:17.320 Move forward. Let's get better the next time. Thanks coach. 1:29:17.600 --> 1:29:22.000 Thank Quick. The most candid that you will see Doug 1:29:22.040 --> 1:29:24.040 Pearson each and every week is that one on one 1:29:24.120 --> 1:29:27.479 interview with Mike Quick. So we got some things on 1:29:27.520 --> 1:29:30.800 the playoff front situate, uh, you know, squared away during 1:29:30.840 --> 1:29:33.240 the breaks there, so Sell you would ask before about 1:29:33.240 --> 1:29:36.000 sett win tonight over the chief Sunday Night football, the 1:29:36.080 --> 1:29:38.040 orient that they all have their spot locked up, and 1:29:38.080 --> 1:29:40.639 then at that point it would be Eels must win, 1:29:41.080 --> 1:29:43.639 Vikings must lose. That that would be it right there. 1:29:43.880 --> 1:29:46.640 The Vikings play the Bears. The Bears still have the 1:29:46.960 --> 1:29:49.639 possible first round buy to play for. So that's that's 1:29:49.640 --> 1:29:52.639 the key that you're looking for from that standpoint here. 1:29:53.400 --> 1:29:56.000 And then the Seahawks again they play tonight against the Chiefs. 1:29:56.040 --> 1:29:59.200 Next week it's against the Cardinals, and then the Vikings 1:29:59.280 --> 1:30:01.400 right there eight six and one. They got the win 1:30:01.479 --> 1:30:05.000 over Detroit today, Thanks Detroit for nothing. But they play 1:30:05.040 --> 1:30:08.200 the Bears next week there, so it's it's pretty pretty 1:30:08.240 --> 1:30:11.479 cut and dry. Certainly, you hope that maybe the Chiefs 1:30:11.479 --> 1:30:13.960 that maybe Andy Reid could do do us a solid 1:30:14.040 --> 1:30:17.200 dif Doug solid you know, and you know, take care 1:30:17.240 --> 1:30:19.479 of Seahawks and now take care of the Seahawks and 1:30:19.520 --> 1:30:21.599 make things a little bit easier to give the Eagles 1:30:21.600 --> 1:30:24.720 another another avenue to be able to get into the postseason. 1:30:24.720 --> 1:30:26.920 And the Eagles can still finish as high as the 1:30:26.960 --> 1:30:29.040 fifth seas and the division's out at this point. Okay, 1:30:29.120 --> 1:30:31.479 Dallas is one of the NFC East, So be it. 1:30:31.840 --> 1:30:33.599 You know, it would be great. This, this would be 1:30:33.680 --> 1:30:36.360 this would be the dream comes true if the Eagles 1:30:36.400 --> 1:30:39.479 could somehow get the fifth seed, which again it would 1:30:39.479 --> 1:30:42.679 be Seahawks have to lose their final two Vennesota loses 1:30:42.760 --> 1:30:45.640 next week, Eagles, Eagles win. Okay, that would give the 1:30:45.640 --> 1:30:49.519 Eagles the fifth seed. Cowboys pretty much locked in that 1:30:49.560 --> 1:30:51.800 fourth seat, four place five in the wild card round. 1:30:51.880 --> 1:30:53.920 Would you love to go to Jerry World there in 1:30:53.960 --> 1:30:59.519 a couple of weeks, Yeah, that third crack at the Cowboys. Yes, yes, 1:30:59.800 --> 1:31:02.040 you know that. We would love to have another crack 1:31:02.040 --> 1:31:05.080 at those guys. Just get in though honestly we obviously 1:31:05.160 --> 1:31:07.360 just just want to get in. But I'm with you 1:31:07.400 --> 1:31:10.360 there the matchup, it's the holiday season. I'm dreaming, Okay, 1:31:10.760 --> 1:31:13.040 I'm with you. You know, gift the gift, you know, 1:31:13.160 --> 1:31:16.639 you could say this reminds me one of my favorite 1:31:16.640 --> 1:31:19.000 games to cover for my years here, and plus that's 1:31:19.000 --> 1:31:23.839 better than going to Chicago. Yeah that's on a Saturday 1:31:23.920 --> 1:31:28.720 night in wintertime. No thanks whatsoever. But you know, one 1:31:28.760 --> 1:31:31.759 of my favorite games covering was the Jeff Garcia Christmas 1:31:31.840 --> 1:31:34.240 game that clinched the mcast for the Eagles that two 1:31:34.280 --> 1:31:37.280 thousand and six season. Okay, that came on the Christmas Day, 1:31:37.479 --> 1:31:41.040 two days away from from the Christmas holiday. Nick Foles 1:31:41.040 --> 1:31:43.680 delivering a nice little gift here so to speak, here 1:31:43.840 --> 1:31:46.840 again give the Eagles a chance to keep hope alive 1:31:46.960 --> 1:31:50.439 going into the final week of the regular season, which 1:31:50.680 --> 1:31:53.000 for me, like you know, about a month ago, probably 1:31:53.040 --> 1:31:56.040 it was really after that Saints loss. Okay, at that point, 1:31:56.080 --> 1:31:59.640 I'm thinking, just make these games meaningful, give give the 1:32:00.040 --> 1:32:02.920 fans something to cheer for, give them something to believe in. 1:32:03.280 --> 1:32:05.280 You know, you don't want to be playing out the 1:32:05.320 --> 1:32:08.960 string in weeks sixteen and seventeen and just totally changing 1:32:09.200 --> 1:32:12.000 the mood and the atmosphere of for everyone in the city. 1:32:12.000 --> 1:32:14.760 Because obviously it was so great going through the Super 1:32:14.760 --> 1:32:16.800 Bowl run a year ago and the memories that will 1:32:16.840 --> 1:32:19.680 always have from that, But you want, you want a 1:32:19.680 --> 1:32:22.439 little more. Okay, we've had, We've had the taste. We 1:32:23.160 --> 1:32:27.920 want to keep getting to the postseason. Play you get 1:32:27.960 --> 1:32:30.560 in and then you see what happens at the get in. 1:32:30.880 --> 1:32:33.320 I just look back the last year, as great as 1:32:33.479 --> 1:32:35.719 or as good as Kansas City was in a regular season, 1:32:36.040 --> 1:32:39.280 Tennessee goes to Kansas City and wins in the first round. 1:32:39.640 --> 1:32:42.720 And so that's why I love the playoffs because it's 1:32:42.840 --> 1:32:46.639 single game elimination, doesn't matter what you did all season long. 1:32:46.960 --> 1:32:50.320 Typically the teams that are playing the best football late 1:32:50.360 --> 1:32:53.800 in the year are the most dangerous teams, especially in 1:32:53.840 --> 1:32:57.040 that first round. That's why you saw Atlanta knock off 1:32:57.080 --> 1:32:59.000 the Rams last year in the first round. I just 1:32:59.040 --> 1:33:02.679 mentioned Tennessee knocking off the Chiefs. Stuff like that happens 1:33:02.760 --> 1:33:05.800 in that wild card round. And with the Eagles, if 1:33:05.840 --> 1:33:07.760 they were to win next week, they would have won 1:33:07.880 --> 1:33:11.080 five out of their last six games heading into the 1:33:11.120 --> 1:33:15.200 postseason if they were able to qualify. So that's sort 1:33:15.200 --> 1:33:17.760 of what you want to be doing. Just get in 1:33:18.000 --> 1:33:20.120 and let the chips fall where they may. And I 1:33:20.240 --> 1:33:23.439 guarantee you no one wants to wants to play the 1:33:23.520 --> 1:33:26.840 defending champs if they get into the playoffs. No, not 1:33:26.880 --> 1:33:29.760 at all, whatsoever. So we can the Eagles have to 1:33:29.760 --> 1:33:32.240 win next week? Going going into today, no matter what 1:33:32.360 --> 1:33:34.840 happened today, there was there was believe or not a 1:33:34.840 --> 1:33:37.000 scenario where the Eagles lost today, there would still be 1:33:37.000 --> 1:33:40.160 a chance. No, the Eagles over. That's over. Eagles one 1:33:40.240 --> 1:33:42.200 took care of business, but they still have to win 1:33:42.520 --> 1:33:44.760 next week in Washington and it will be interesting to 1:33:44.800 --> 1:33:49.360 see how they respond after such a deflating loss yesterday 1:33:49.560 --> 1:33:53.920 to Tennessee. Yeah. I've been in that position before, Chris 1:33:54.479 --> 1:33:57.640 down in Atlanta, and I would imagine there's gonna be 1:33:57.680 --> 1:34:00.400 a lot of packing this week down in DC. They'll 1:34:00.439 --> 1:34:02.559 be getting ready for the off season, right, I mean, 1:34:02.640 --> 1:34:05.639 Josh Johnson, he'll be happy. He hadn't played football in years. 1:34:05.640 --> 1:34:07.200 I mean, he's just happy to be back on a roster. 1:34:07.479 --> 1:34:09.280 So he may be a one man crew out there 1:34:09.320 --> 1:34:13.120 next week. But everyone else, guys, when they know that 1:34:13.160 --> 1:34:15.320 they have nothing to play for and their season is 1:34:15.360 --> 1:34:17.400 over with, the last thing they want to do is 1:34:17.400 --> 1:34:20.680 get injured and to be stuck in the city that 1:34:20.760 --> 1:34:23.800 they play in for the whole off season rehabbing. So 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:28.080 I would I would imagine Washington will start the game 1:34:28.120 --> 1:34:30.960 off giving the old good college try. But if the 1:34:31.000 --> 1:34:34.920 Eagles were to get up on them early. They're packing 1:34:34.960 --> 1:34:37.160 it in there. They're packing it in. They have no 1:34:37.200 --> 1:34:40.160 reason to fight. They know that they're pretty much eliminated 1:34:40.200 --> 1:34:42.920 from playoff contention. I expect the Eagles to go down 1:34:42.960 --> 1:34:46.080 there and really play a dominant game. It's really gonna 1:34:46.080 --> 1:34:49.920 boil down to whether or not Chicago helps us out 1:34:50.200 --> 1:34:52.840 and takes care of the Minnesota Vikings. So I really 1:34:52.840 --> 1:34:54.400 do expect the Eagles to go down there and win 1:34:54.479 --> 1:34:56.640 next year. So right now, the game is together for 1:34:56.680 --> 1:35:00.200 one o'clock. The NFL Ken Flex games one week in 1:35:00.240 --> 1:35:04.880 advance for Week seventeen. The one game of note is Tennessee, Indianapolis. 1:35:04.880 --> 1:35:06.559 That's probably the one that's gonna get flex to the 1:35:06.560 --> 1:35:10.080 primetime spot. Usually that's announced just before tonight's primetime game 1:35:10.120 --> 1:35:13.640 before the Chiefs and the Seahawks, so we'll wait to 1:35:13.680 --> 1:35:15.519 hear that. But there's a chance Heels could get flex 1:35:15.560 --> 1:35:18.120 to the late afternoon slot next week, so that all 1:35:18.160 --> 1:35:20.920 remains to be seen. So we started off the show 1:35:21.240 --> 1:35:24.400 with merlor Reese's call of Jake Elliot's game winning thirty 1:35:24.400 --> 1:35:27.080 five yard field goal. Let's go through the rest of 1:35:27.120 --> 1:35:30.360 the best of Merrillcam thanks to Sports Radio ninety four 1:35:30.600 --> 1:35:33.639 w IP providing the footage from the booth here with 1:35:33.720 --> 1:35:37.560 Melor Reiese and Mike Quick. This is fourth down and 1:35:37.640 --> 1:35:41.840 about two fools takes it. He's back, he fires out. 1:35:41.920 --> 1:35:46.320 He's got Sproke turning twenty five, twenty fifteen. Ten cocks 1:35:46.360 --> 1:35:52.360 back at the five. He's tuk him. How sweet is that? 1:35:53.720 --> 1:35:59.720 Totally seven yards? How sweet is that? Darren Spros catch it. 1:36:00.000 --> 1:36:03.240 There's an opportunity for the linebacker to make a play. 1:36:03.479 --> 1:36:06.320 Spros is able to get by him, get down the sideline, 1:36:06.520 --> 1:36:09.120 and once he gets down the sideline out in space, 1:36:09.400 --> 1:36:11.080 you're not going to get him on the ground. He 1:36:11.120 --> 1:36:14.559 gets it into the end zone for the touchdown. Holes 1:36:14.920 --> 1:36:18.920 takes the snap, he's back, he looks, he fires complete touchdown. 1:36:19.080 --> 1:36:23.920 Zack hurts a lot of work, but they got it done. 1:36:23.960 --> 1:36:27.200 They did at the hard one. They did at the 1:36:27.240 --> 1:36:29.000 hard one. You know. They line up a bunch on 1:36:29.040 --> 1:36:31.880 the left side and zach Ertz runs a little Texas route. 1:36:31.920 --> 1:36:35.280 He angles to the outside, comes back in very similar 1:36:35.320 --> 1:36:37.920 to the route that they tried to get into. Darren 1:36:38.000 --> 1:36:41.679 sprows and he gets a touchdown with five to fifty 1:36:41.720 --> 1:36:45.040 seven remaining here in the third quarter, and this will 1:36:45.080 --> 1:36:49.040 be a forty six yard attempt, make it forty seven 1:36:49.280 --> 1:36:52.320 as the holder Cameron Johnston backs up one more yard 1:36:53.400 --> 1:37:03.120 forty seven yard attempt to make it sixteen apiece. Battle 1:37:03.240 --> 1:37:08.120 spotted kick is away and the kick is god. We're 1:37:08.200 --> 1:37:12.280 tired at sixteen total. A half minutes to go in 1:37:12.280 --> 1:37:16.439 the third quarter, sixteen sixteen first and ten. Eagles ball 1:37:16.479 --> 1:37:20.439 at their own seventeen. Sprowls positions on the left of 1:37:20.520 --> 1:37:23.639 falls full straight back. He looks, steps up, starts to run. 1:37:23.920 --> 1:37:27.200 He is going deep. He is firing, and it is cut. 1:37:27.600 --> 1:37:32.640 It is Agalog at the twenty fifteen ten five touchdown. 1:37:33.000 --> 1:37:37.160 Now Footagalog. That's what he's been asking for all afternoons. 1:37:37.320 --> 1:37:40.599 I saw him talking to Mike Grove. Because Nelson knows 1:37:40.640 --> 1:37:43.559 that he can outrun this defense. He blows the pop 1:37:43.600 --> 1:37:46.880 off with his defense. Nick Foles chops in a dime 1:37:47.080 --> 1:37:51.840 to Nelson, Agalog, Watson back again. Here comes the rush. 1:37:52.080 --> 1:37:55.320 He's head. Football is loose. It's a free ball. The 1:37:55.400 --> 1:37:58.679 Eagles have it and it is picked up by Fletcher Cox, 1:37:59.000 --> 1:38:02.360 who runs out of and the Eagles get their turnover. 1:38:03.640 --> 1:38:06.479 Hurts back. He is floating it and it's complete. The 1:38:06.600 --> 1:38:10.439 Arts ERTs at the ten, Hurts at the fall, Hurts 1:38:10.680 --> 1:38:14.439 to the end zone. I've got anna touchdown. PRIs tack Hurts. 1:38:15.720 --> 1:38:18.720 This is that's the best piece of running I've ever 1:38:18.760 --> 1:38:21.439 seen by Zach Hurts. He catches a little flat route, 1:38:21.439 --> 1:38:24.360 he gets up Phil he avoided the linebacker and then 1:38:24.400 --> 1:38:30.880 he avotched the safety wall. That's what he wan Watson 1:38:31.920 --> 1:38:36.559 and the garden Blna was left. Watson drops. Watson looks 1:38:36.680 --> 1:38:39.800 he's grabbed. They've gone am back at the forty two 1:38:40.439 --> 1:38:46.639 and it's train Foster. Watson's back. Watson steps up, he's 1:38:46.640 --> 1:38:49.600 starting to run. He's tackled and he's down at the 1:38:49.640 --> 1:38:53.000 forty four yard line by Chris Long. Chris Long did 1:38:53.040 --> 1:38:55.439 it again. You know he had the strip sack earlier 1:38:55.479 --> 1:39:01.320 in the game. Hold your breath spotted up. It is. 1:39:05.560 --> 1:39:12.920 It's good. The Eagles win. What an outstanding football game. Now, 1:39:12.960 --> 1:39:16.640 that's a fun game that that's outstanding. The Eagles on 1:39:16.800 --> 1:39:20.840 eleven plays, mister rees, they go seventy two yards. Jake 1:39:20.880 --> 1:39:25.280 Elliott tapped it off with the thirty five yard bomb 1:39:25.880 --> 1:39:30.800 right through the uprights. Last week's game on say Los Angeles. 1:39:30.880 --> 1:39:36.320 This one was strictly out of Hollywood, thanks again to 1:39:36.439 --> 1:39:39.040 Sports Radio ninety four WP and how many more people 1:39:39.040 --> 1:39:41.440 can we fit in the booth there? That was a party. 1:39:41.479 --> 1:39:43.360 That was a party by the end of that Merrilcam 1:39:43.520 --> 1:39:46.240 segment right there. So if you miss Amy, we will 1:39:46.280 --> 1:39:48.879 have it for you later on on Philadelphias dot com 1:39:48.920 --> 1:39:52.559 and the app. So as the twenty eighteen calendar year 1:39:52.640 --> 1:39:54.680 starts to come to a close, you know you can 1:39:54.720 --> 1:39:57.200 follow this under things that we didn't think we would see. 1:39:57.760 --> 1:40:01.280 How about the New England Patriots thanking Foles and you 1:40:01.360 --> 1:40:04.160 go back to obviously Foles and his MVP performance in 1:40:04.200 --> 1:40:06.240 the Super Bowl, you would be like, that's never gonna 1:40:06.280 --> 1:40:09.479 take place. But by virtue of Foles's performance and the 1:40:09.520 --> 1:40:13.160 Eagles winning today, the Patriots they clinch the AFC East 1:40:13.160 --> 1:40:16.000 and they are now in the number two spot in 1:40:16.040 --> 1:40:19.320 the AFC, bumping back the Texans there because they beat 1:40:19.360 --> 1:40:22.240 the Texans earlier year, so they own the time breaker. 1:40:22.360 --> 1:40:25.280 So in fact, the picture that went with the tweet 1:40:25.560 --> 1:40:28.280 with none other than Tom Brady hugging Nick Foles, which 1:40:28.439 --> 1:40:32.080 that you know didn't happen at the Super Bowl. Yeah, 1:40:32.120 --> 1:40:36.559 that was the preseason game exact, Yes, yes, we'll just 1:40:36.680 --> 1:40:39.200 leave it right there. So what we're gonna do now 1:40:39.280 --> 1:40:41.000 is we're gonna take a quick commercial break. We have 1:40:41.160 --> 1:40:44.679 some film breakdown segments courtesy of Fran Duffy and Greg Cosell. 1:40:44.880 --> 1:40:47.200 And we also have the nominees for the Toyota Player 1:40:47.320 --> 1:40:50.479 of the Game Awards, and I allowed debating for that 1:40:50.520 --> 1:40:53.360 one there. So if you're following us on Facebook or Twitter, 1:40:53.479 --> 1:40:55.479 you need to come on over to Philadelphia Eels dot 1:40:55.520 --> 1:40:57.880 com or the app to watch the rest of the show. 1:40:58.000 --> 1:40:59.880 We'll give you a few minutes to get situated as 1:41:00.040 --> 1:41:22.200 we take our first break. The life of a Philly 1:41:22.240 --> 1:41:25.480 sports fan is a wild ride. Some years we triumph, 1:41:25.680 --> 1:41:28.639 some years we trust would never change. This year after 1:41:28.720 --> 1:41:31.000 year is how we get to the game, shoulder to 1:41:31.080 --> 1:41:34.040 shoulder with our fellow fans on scepter. 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We've heard from 1:43:19.080 --> 1:43:21.439 all the players and coaches who are key in bringing 1:43:21.479 --> 1:43:23.720 the Eagles the thirty two the thirty victory. So why 1:43:23.720 --> 1:43:26.519 don't we do like a little film breakdown. We're gonna 1:43:26.520 --> 1:43:29.479 send it over to the RICO whiteboard for the Rico Review, 1:43:29.720 --> 1:43:32.479 where fran Duffy and NFL Film Senior producer Great Ks 1:43:32.680 --> 1:43:35.519 are standing by to give us the film breakdown of 1:43:35.680 --> 1:43:43.719 Nelson Agilore's eighty three yard touchdown reception. So the Eagles 1:43:43.760 --> 1:43:45.760 get the ball back now tied at sixteen, and we're 1:43:45.760 --> 1:43:47.880 gonna see this big play. It's actually the biggest pass 1:43:47.920 --> 1:43:50.240 play greg since twenty ten for this team. Eighty fil 1:43:50.400 --> 1:43:53.760 yards from Nick Foles. Nelson Agilore. Breakdown what we see 1:43:53.800 --> 1:43:56.439 here and what makes this play happen for Nelson. It's 1:43:56.439 --> 1:43:59.400 really interesting because what the Eagles are doing here, they 1:43:59.479 --> 1:44:02.400 line up with alshon Jeffrey as the x the x 1:44:02.439 --> 1:44:05.040 ISO the single receiver to the boundary, which is his 1:44:05.240 --> 1:44:09.040 predominant position. But what's interesting about this is how the 1:44:09.120 --> 1:44:11.960 Texans react to that on this given play is they're 1:44:11.960 --> 1:44:15.760 going to go with a dedicated double on Jeffrey with 1:44:15.840 --> 1:44:20.400 the corner, obviously, but this safety here is doubling Jeffrey, 1:44:20.560 --> 1:44:23.920 a hard dedicated double. So now what does that do? 1:44:24.120 --> 1:44:27.480 They have trips to the field, They've got Earth's inside 1:44:28.240 --> 1:44:30.400 and they've got Nelson Agel. All right here, those are 1:44:30.400 --> 1:44:33.040 the key people. So but if you see now, because 1:44:33.080 --> 1:44:38.080 of this safety dedicating the double onto Jeffrey, you get 1:44:38.120 --> 1:44:42.360 basically man to man zero man. There's no help over 1:44:42.439 --> 1:44:45.000 the top of any of these players, so that whole 1:44:45.040 --> 1:44:48.400 area is wide open. So now what we'll do is 1:44:48.400 --> 1:44:50.640 we can clear this, Fran and we can run the 1:44:50.680 --> 1:44:53.360 play and keep your eye on all this and if 1:44:53.400 --> 1:44:56.559 we freeze it as we see right about here. So 1:44:56.600 --> 1:45:01.439 what happens there's the double clear, here's arts with Justin 1:45:01.560 --> 1:45:04.479 Reid the safety running with him. So what does that 1:45:04.520 --> 1:45:07.240 do with Aglar He's now one on one running the 1:45:07.360 --> 1:45:12.479 deep post against Turan Matthew and there's no help. So 1:45:12.600 --> 1:45:15.559 that's where Nick Foles is looking, and he has to 1:45:15.600 --> 1:45:18.160 move and navigate the pocket. He does it beautifully, but 1:45:18.240 --> 1:45:21.599 he's waiting for that to all happen because he knows 1:45:21.720 --> 1:45:24.120 he has the one on one with the deep post 1:45:24.280 --> 1:45:27.479 to Agilar versus Matthew. So let's now run this. This 1:45:27.560 --> 1:45:29.720 is a great throw, by the way, because this is 1:45:29.760 --> 1:45:32.479 a long distance throw and he drops it right in 1:45:32.520 --> 1:45:35.720 the bucket. Beautifully throw the ball, but very interesting how 1:45:35.760 --> 1:45:38.040 the Texans would play that. Yeah, anytime you were running 1:45:38.040 --> 1:45:39.920 a deep post route down the middle of the fields 1:45:39.920 --> 1:45:42.000 from an inside receiver, you want that to go right 1:45:42.040 --> 1:45:44.559 between the pipes, and went right between the house, no question. 1:45:44.720 --> 1:45:47.720 And if that post safety is removed as he was 1:45:47.760 --> 1:45:50.040 with the double, then there's no one there. Yeah, big 1:45:50.040 --> 1:45:52.880 play there from Nick Foles and Nelson agil sends the 1:45:52.920 --> 1:45:58.880 Eagles ahead now twenty three to sixteen. All right, you 1:45:58.920 --> 1:46:02.000 can check out the entire all twenty two review tomorrow 1:46:02.000 --> 1:46:04.960 morning right here on philadelphias dot com and the Eels 1:46:05.000 --> 1:46:07.320 App and Ike were talking about that play earlier in 1:46:07.360 --> 1:46:09.879 the show before seeing that film breakdown. You said, correctly, 1:46:10.160 --> 1:46:12.680 he had zach and on the play so on the 1:46:12.680 --> 1:46:14.360 corner route would have be able to hit him on that. 1:46:14.760 --> 1:46:17.479 But the factor, Marris, if you're gonna go big, go bigger, 1:46:17.560 --> 1:46:20.000 go home, And you know Nelson Aglore stepping up in 1:46:20.000 --> 1:46:22.680 the biggest because it's not just the touch that Nick 1:46:22.720 --> 1:46:25.320 put on the ball, but but it was a phenomenal 1:46:25.400 --> 1:46:28.400 job by Agilore catching the ball over his shoulders there 1:46:28.560 --> 1:46:30.679 and then be able to finish off Tyron Matthew Obviously 1:46:30.720 --> 1:46:32.640 the one on one coverage at that point, he was 1:46:32.680 --> 1:46:35.360 in the dust so Agilare was just taking some time 1:46:35.400 --> 1:46:37.760 off the clock. Yeah, man, it was great to see that. 1:46:37.880 --> 1:46:39.960 Remind me of a play he made last year, right 1:46:40.120 --> 1:46:42.880 was it. I can't remember what San Francisco or Denver 1:46:43.080 --> 1:46:45.479 might have been that Nelson made the big play, or 1:46:45.520 --> 1:46:48.360 even Arizona when he fell into game zone. But the 1:46:48.400 --> 1:46:51.960 fact that Carson, the fact that Nick was willing to 1:46:51.960 --> 1:46:54.840 give him an opportunity to make a play on the ball. 1:46:54.880 --> 1:46:57.040 Like you said, it's one thing to put the ball 1:46:57.160 --> 1:46:59.599 up there, putting nice touch on it. It's not as 1:46:59.640 --> 1:47:02.080 easy it may look for a wide receiver to track 1:47:02.200 --> 1:47:04.720 that deep ball. Seeing plea the wide receivers in this 1:47:04.800 --> 1:47:07.200 league that can't track a deep ball. The best in 1:47:07.200 --> 1:47:09.679 the game, in my opinion, has been to Sean Jackson 1:47:09.720 --> 1:47:12.200 over the last decade of tracking deep balls, and that 1:47:12.320 --> 1:47:14.240 play right there reminded me a lot of what to 1:47:14.280 --> 1:47:18.120 Shane looked like running down the field catching those deep passes. 1:47:18.160 --> 1:47:21.040 So it was great to see that back in the game, 1:47:21.160 --> 1:47:26.120 back into the offensive repertoire. It really forces these defenses 1:47:26.160 --> 1:47:29.599 to respect you going deep. The formation. It was a 1:47:29.600 --> 1:47:32.120 great formation there. Like I said, you had zach Ertz 1:47:32.120 --> 1:47:35.600 on going across. If Nick wanted to go there. He 1:47:35.720 --> 1:47:38.759 certainly could have gone there, probably would have completed the ball. 1:47:39.000 --> 1:47:41.200 But the thing that we all love about Nick, he's 1:47:41.280 --> 1:47:43.840 more than willing to take chances down the field and 1:47:43.920 --> 1:47:46.360 give his players an opportunity to make plays. That's what 1:47:46.439 --> 1:47:48.720 he did there, gave Nelson an opportunity to make a play. 1:47:49.000 --> 1:47:51.519 I just love the fact that the play call from 1:47:51.520 --> 1:47:54.639 the standpoint of you spread out the Texans defense. Okay, 1:47:54.800 --> 1:47:57.360 very under were talking about the Eagle secondary being underman. 1:47:57.479 --> 1:48:00.200 The Texans had a ton of injuries coming in this 1:48:00.240 --> 1:48:03.360 game in the secondary and lost corners and secondary members 1:48:03.360 --> 1:48:06.519 throughout the course of the contest today. So you spread 1:48:06.520 --> 1:48:09.120 out that Texans defense and you say, all right, they're 1:48:09.120 --> 1:48:11.879 gonna double Al Shan fired, he's out of the equation. 1:48:12.200 --> 1:48:14.400 You've got three one on one matchups across the board. 1:48:14.920 --> 1:48:17.080 Take a shot, take a shot, and go with it 1:48:17.120 --> 1:48:20.240 from there. So kudos to Nick and Al Shot for 1:48:20.360 --> 1:48:22.200 delivering the big play that gave the Eagles the lead 1:48:22.280 --> 1:48:23.800 in the second half, and of course they went on 1:48:23.840 --> 1:48:27.439 to win thirty two to thirty. Now the question is 1:48:27.800 --> 1:48:30.760 Nick Voles, Nelson agilor are they in the running for 1:48:30.800 --> 1:48:33.920 the Toyota Player of the Week nomination. 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Visit Philadelphia Eagles dot 1:50:28.040 --> 1:50:31.120 com slash Showdown to check out the weekly results and 1:50:31.280 --> 1:50:33.840 videos and to find out which coach will be selected 1:50:33.880 --> 1:50:38.040 as the Coach of the Year. Now is your chance 1:50:38.120 --> 1:50:40.559 to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go 1:50:40.640 --> 1:50:44.479 to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player of the 1:50:44.560 --> 1:50:47.360 Week to cash your vote and get a chance at 1:50:47.400 --> 1:50:51.920 a brand new Toyota. So where do we begin? You 1:50:51.960 --> 1:50:55.240 gotta start with number nine, Nikki six himself. Look at 1:50:55.240 --> 1:50:59.320 the numbers, franchise single game record four hundred and seventy 1:50:59.320 --> 1:51:04.320 one passing four touchdowns over seventy percent completion percentage, A 1:51:04.439 --> 1:51:07.360 gutsy effort on the final drive, Eagles down thirty to 1:51:07.439 --> 1:51:10.040 twenty nine, taking the shot in the end zone had 1:51:10.080 --> 1:51:12.400 to come out for one play, Nate suf How about 1:51:12.479 --> 1:51:14.639 Nates off of throwing the ball in is one rep 1:51:14.680 --> 1:51:17.439 out there in the field. But nonetheless, though Foles coming 1:51:17.479 --> 1:51:20.920 back in getting key third down conversions to Alston Jeffrey 1:51:20.920 --> 1:51:23.799 on that drive to zach Ertz and setting Jake Elliott 1:51:23.880 --> 1:51:26.920 up to get the game winning thirty five yard field goal. Yeah, 1:51:26.960 --> 1:51:29.439 I mean, we we've talked a lot about Nick today 1:51:29.439 --> 1:51:34.320 and rightfully so, wow last two weeks, Nick Foles man 1:51:35.680 --> 1:51:39.640 just another outstanding performance to set the franchise record for 1:51:39.760 --> 1:51:43.040 passing yards in the game to go along with four touchdowns. 1:51:43.360 --> 1:51:47.120 And not only that, just the key clutch throws late 1:51:47.120 --> 1:51:49.000 in the game that Nick Foles was able to make 1:51:49.680 --> 1:51:53.439 big throw after big throw time at the time, just 1:51:53.479 --> 1:51:56.840 another outstanding job from Nick. Look, there's no run game today, 1:51:56.960 --> 1:52:00.640 Texas run defense outstanding. This was on Nick Foles's shoulders 1:52:00.680 --> 1:52:04.320 and he delivered in a big way. So the recipient 1:52:04.320 --> 1:52:06.760 of a lot of those passes as our second nominee 1:52:07.000 --> 1:52:10.200 tight end, zach Ertz. And you know, just from setting 1:52:10.200 --> 1:52:13.240 the record for most receptions by a tight end in 1:52:13.360 --> 1:52:16.880 NFL history, that alone would have warranted consideration for it. 1:52:16.920 --> 1:52:20.280 But twelve catches on sixteen targets over one hundred yards, 1:52:20.320 --> 1:52:23.800 receiving two touchdowns, including a big catch and run. And 1:52:23.880 --> 1:52:26.120 he also had a huge twenty yard reception on a 1:52:26.240 --> 1:52:29.479 third down on the final drive which really set them 1:52:29.560 --> 1:52:32.360 up in field goal range. Yeah, another great job from 1:52:32.479 --> 1:52:34.479 zach Ertz. You know, if you want to make sure 1:52:34.880 --> 1:52:37.360 that you appreciate with zach Ertz is doing this year 1:52:37.360 --> 1:52:39.760 and week the week. Sometimes you see his numbers and 1:52:39.800 --> 1:52:42.320 we can sort of take it for granted because he 1:52:42.400 --> 1:52:45.240 seems to put up these type of big numbers every week. 1:52:45.280 --> 1:52:50.400 But just having a historical season, really an all pro season, 1:52:50.400 --> 1:52:53.519 in my opinion, best tight end in football, best tight 1:52:53.600 --> 1:52:56.280 end in football. You talked about the big catch right 1:52:56.320 --> 1:52:59.160 there to set up the field goal. Another outstanding game, 1:52:59.439 --> 1:53:02.479 zach Ertz. So last, but not least, the man who 1:53:02.520 --> 1:53:04.639 put the ball through the uprights to win the game. 1:53:04.760 --> 1:53:07.799 Jake Elliott bouncing back from missing an extra point earlier 1:53:07.800 --> 1:53:10.280 in the contest, but hit two long field goals. You know, 1:53:10.360 --> 1:53:11.760 the last one, I should say it was a long 1:53:11.800 --> 1:53:14.120 one thirty five yards. But with this season on the line, 1:53:14.160 --> 1:53:16.559 this was you make it. We've got hope for this 1:53:16.600 --> 1:53:20.439 week and we're all celebrating, enjoying a positive week here 1:53:20.439 --> 1:53:24.080 in Philadelphia with the holiday season. He misses that one. Lord, 1:53:24.840 --> 1:53:27.800 we don't need to go there. Nonetheless, he made it. 1:53:27.840 --> 1:53:30.880 He is a Toyota Player of the Week nominee. Yeah, 1:53:30.920 --> 1:53:34.040 and it's through his two years of being here. He 1:53:34.160 --> 1:53:37.840 certainly has had some mishaps time to time. From time 1:53:37.880 --> 1:53:41.320 to time, but I can't think of a moment where 1:53:41.360 --> 1:53:43.000 the game was on the line, or he needed to 1:53:43.040 --> 1:53:44.640 come up with a big field goal to tie a 1:53:44.720 --> 1:53:47.080 game or what have you that he didn't come through. 1:53:47.840 --> 1:53:50.760 This kid has been able to come through for us 1:53:50.840 --> 1:53:53.000 ice water in his veins. We talk about the Super 1:53:53.000 --> 1:53:57.599 Bowl heroes Nick Foles, Brandon Graham, the Strip Sack of course, 1:53:57.840 --> 1:54:00.880 but man zach Ertz, But we don't talk about Jake 1:54:00.960 --> 1:54:03.600 Elliott and that big field goal he hit at the 1:54:03.640 --> 1:54:06.200 Brandon Graham for stet up fumble on Tom Brady to 1:54:06.240 --> 1:54:09.519 put us up by eight points. Jake Elliott once again 1:54:09.640 --> 1:54:13.200 showing when you're needing the most, he comes through force. 1:54:13.320 --> 1:54:15.040 All right, So those are your three nominees for the 1:54:15.040 --> 1:54:18.120 Toyota Player of the Week award. Again, you enter, you 1:54:18.120 --> 1:54:20.200 have a chance of with a brand new car. So 1:54:20.680 --> 1:54:24.120 you know, if you're slacking on getting those gifts, gifts, 1:54:24.280 --> 1:54:26.760 you know, like myself right here, I was thinking maybe 1:54:26.920 --> 1:54:28.360 I'll be able to get out to the malls tonight. 1:54:28.360 --> 1:54:30.840 But where everything has taken place, it may not happen. 1:54:30.960 --> 1:54:32.720 So you know, we'll if they'll come through in the 1:54:32.760 --> 1:54:36.640 clutch one way or another. So but nonetheless, tomorrow two 1:54:36.640 --> 1:54:38.960 pm you are on the air Christmas Eve. Ye okay, 1:54:39.080 --> 1:54:42.640 Marks and Reese can only imagine we'll start to show 1:54:42.640 --> 1:54:45.360 off with our customary victory chant as we do when 1:54:45.400 --> 1:54:49.760 the Eagles win. And got another exciting week, meaningful Eagles 1:54:49.800 --> 1:54:51.960 football to talk about. And I'm sure the fans will 1:54:52.000 --> 1:54:55.760 be pumped up this week getting ready for that risk 1:54:55.760 --> 1:54:58.160 in his game next week. I mean, we haven't been 1:54:58.160 --> 1:55:01.760 in this position of scoreboard watch in some time, and 1:55:01.840 --> 1:55:06.520 so the funny thing is they'll probably be less talk 1:55:06.600 --> 1:55:09.560 about the Eagles chances of beating the Ridskins next week 1:55:09.960 --> 1:55:14.400 and more talk about Chicago taking care of the vikings 1:55:14.960 --> 1:55:17.520 for us next week. So uh, looking forward to a 1:55:17.520 --> 1:55:20.360 fun week man, another week of to talk about our 1:55:20.360 --> 1:55:23.000 beloved birds. You know it's funny you look at the 1:55:23.040 --> 1:55:26.040 Andy Reid tree Okay, so Andy Reid, we could use 1:55:26.040 --> 1:55:29.320 some help tonight against the Seahawks. Okay, chief Seahawks again, 1:55:29.640 --> 1:55:35.360 Prime time Saturday Football, NBC Mattege. Okay, it was Chicago, 1:55:35.600 --> 1:55:38.640 you know, coach with Doug in Kansas City. Help him, 1:55:38.680 --> 1:55:41.200 help him, Help help you brother out out, help us 1:55:41.200 --> 1:55:43.920 get into the tournament. Okay, not asking for much, Okay, 1:55:44.400 --> 1:55:46.560 just get us in there. And you know, hey, Doug, 1:55:47.000 --> 1:55:49.120 Doug was a great job as oc in Kansas City, 1:55:49.280 --> 1:55:52.280 comes to Philadelphia, paves away from Mattenegge to get the 1:55:52.280 --> 1:55:55.160 ocean job in Kansas City. He has a job in Chicago. 1:55:55.240 --> 1:55:57.280 So you know, you gotta take care of those who 1:55:57.280 --> 1:55:59.560 helped you along the way. There you go, simple as that. 1:55:59.680 --> 1:56:03.360 So I Marry Christmas. Happy Holidays to you and your family. 1:56:03.400 --> 1:56:05.560 It's been it's been a great ride. So and it 1:56:05.640 --> 1:56:08.160 continues for another week here and we thank each and 1:56:08.240 --> 1:56:10.320 every one of you out there again. Happy Holidays to 1:56:10.480 --> 1:56:14.400 everyone out there. This will be a very fun Eagles week. Indeed, 1:56:14.720 --> 1:56:17.320 Doug Pearson addresses the media at noon on Monday, we 1:56:17.360 --> 1:56:19.560 will carry it for you live. So until then, for 1:56:19.640 --> 1:56:22.560 Ike Reece and all of us here at the Philadelphia Eagles, 1:56:22.680 --> 1:56:25.200 I'm Chris McPherson, you've been watching the post game show 1:56:25.280 --> 1:56:28.280 presented by Rico. Happy holidays, We will see you tomorrow.