Speaker 1: Logan is NFC Championship. Maybe we catch away head coach
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: It's all about a matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles, all
Speaker 2: that war on the game plan.
Speaker 3: Welcoming in head coach Dan Quinn to the building coast.
Speaker 3: Congratulations all the success so far NFC Championship.
Speaker 1: We know what that means to this fan base.
Speaker 3: You know what that means to the city. What does
Speaker 3: it mean to you and these players being in this
Speaker 3: NFC Championship game?
Speaker 1: It's awesome, man.
Speaker 4: And to get a chance to go battle you know,
Speaker 4: division team just right up the road. Man, it's as
Speaker 4: fun as you can imagine in championship games. And we've
Speaker 4: tried to keep that process and mindset all the way through.
Speaker 4: So they've been in a lot of tough games and
Speaker 4: so our process to get ready again will be rock solid.
Speaker 5: And you know, you've done such a great job week
Speaker 5: in and week out of making sure like this is
Speaker 5: the one. Yep, it seems like it's extra challenging this
Speaker 5: week because it's this one and then the big one,
Speaker 5: Like does anything change? Do you have to message it differently?
Speaker 5: Or the guys are just that locked in?
Speaker 4: No, in fact, just that locked in to go what
Speaker 4: should it feel like? And they said, it feels like normal,
Speaker 4: you know, And that's what I want them to feel
Speaker 4: like the process of winning.
Speaker 1: What do you do on Monday?
Speaker 4: And we tell the truth when you're doing on Wednesday
Speaker 4: and tomorrow and third you know, all the way through.
Speaker 4: So just stay in that preparation, in that pocket of
Speaker 4: getting ready. And our team has like a joyful and
Speaker 4: intensity about us. You know, they will go after you
Speaker 4: as hard as you can and kick your ass and
Speaker 4: then get up smiling and want.
Speaker 1: To enjoy that part too.
Speaker 4: So there's this good blend that has both of those
Speaker 4: things together. They work really hard, but they also enjoy
Speaker 4: that time together and that's what makes like this group
Speaker 4: so much fun.
Speaker 3: And coach, we have the Philadelphia Eagles tonight, not once,
Speaker 3: not twice, but three times we have to play them
Speaker 3: this season. What it's hard about playing a team for
Speaker 3: the third time? What challenges does that pose?
Speaker 4: We wanted to have fresh eyes to look at them again.
Speaker 4: I think we've improved a lot in the five weeks
Speaker 4: since we've played them, and so we wanted to make
Speaker 4: sure we're turning over every stone to look at what
Speaker 4: we liked, what we didn't like what we need to
Speaker 4: keep doing, what we need to stop doing into that game.
Speaker 4: So the challenge is that you've played, you know the matchups,
Speaker 4: you know where it is. But also the good part
Speaker 4: is we've improved a lot in these last five weeks,
Speaker 4: and not just on the field, but we've gotten stronger
Speaker 4: in our mindset, in our winning time, in our connection
Speaker 4: and all of those things add to the performance on
Speaker 4: the field. But we've gotten better over the last month.
Speaker 5: You talked about connection, and that's going to be so
Speaker 5: important in this game, Like how you know, maybe some
Speaker 5: tangible ways for the fans where you've seen those areas
Speaker 5: improve because it is kind of a subjective metric betwe
Speaker 5: with the guys every day, you know.
Speaker 4: So the best example I think I can probably give
Speaker 4: is maybe even from the last game, because on the
Speaker 4: road you do have to bring your own energy into it.
Speaker 4: And so long touchdown pass by Terry on a screen
Speaker 4: and the next play a tackle on a kickoff inside
Speaker 4: the twenty five yard line, and then two plays later
Speaker 4: an interception that gets returned. So that's an example of
Speaker 4: how you bring the energy for one another, how one
Speaker 4: side feeds the other side, and if you just stay
Speaker 4: into that logan, revide your own energy, worry about how
Speaker 4: you're doing things. That's to me the mindset that you
Speaker 4: want to go after it because we'll create our own energy.
Speaker 4: We won't have anything to new with the other team,
Speaker 4: but the energy that the crowd provides, like, we'll use that.
Speaker 4: It's good and culturation.
Speaker 3: Every week we talk about the progression of this defense
Speaker 3: and how they continue to get better. Five takeaways against
Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions. How has it been seeing them not
Speaker 3: only continue to improve but do it on the biggest
Speaker 3: days they've seen this far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the two things that you want to really dig
Speaker 4: into on both sides of the ball is taking care
Speaker 4: of the ball and going after it, and then tackling
Speaker 4: and breaking tackles. And so you want to be in
Speaker 4: the plus in both of those and so over the
Speaker 4: two postseason games, plus six with the ball and or
Speaker 4: plus five and the tackling margin. So those two things,
Speaker 4: that's the fundamentals, and that's why we work so hard
Speaker 4: at those things to say, man, like, this has to
Speaker 4: be the way that we get down.
Speaker 5: You're talking about tackling. I mean it's late in the year.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of teams don't really like it's
Speaker 5: like more walk through tempo. There's a couple of live days,
Speaker 5: like how do you make sure that skill stays sharp
Speaker 5: because it is such an essential part.
Speaker 4: Right, and you don't want you know, you've seen it
Speaker 4: through your whole career, some team skills are going up
Speaker 4: and others are deteriorating. And that part we were going
Speaker 4: to not ever back off from the tackling and leverage
Speaker 4: and the tracking and the technique for it. So although
Speaker 4: we may not hit to the ground, that doesn't mean
Speaker 4: the angles and the techniques to get into that space
Speaker 4: are you know, so significant, and they're running back is fantastic,
Speaker 4: you know, the tracking, the spinning and all the things
Speaker 4: that he brings.
Speaker 1: So our tackling has to be on point.
Speaker 3: And it's not every day you see a defense find
Speaker 3: such success so early.
Speaker 1: This fort share, this group being together.
Speaker 3: But it's also rare to see the young guys play
Speaker 3: the way they've been playing. Santach So two interceptions qualmart
Speaker 3: and his first career pick six. How cool is it
Speaker 3: for you to see these young guys buy in so
Speaker 3: quickly and find success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has absolutely come from the work. They have
Speaker 4: absolutely put it in, Brian. They do not back off
Speaker 4: of that. The success they've had, it came from working
Speaker 4: for it, man, and so like there's a good feeling
Speaker 4: that comes with that, knowing that you can trust your training,
Speaker 4: you put the work in, and so although you go
Speaker 4: through the ups and downs, but when you get on
Speaker 4: the other side of that, there's some good football to
Speaker 4: be played. And that's why I like where you know,
Speaker 4: the attitude in the mindset of the team is like,
Speaker 4: you know, we found our identity, but we have not hit.
Speaker 1: Our ceiling, and so like we're going to go after
Speaker 1: it as hard as we can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again you talk about the Kwan and you
Speaker 5: know Mike having all these plays, but then it was
Speaker 5: also great to see Dorrance come in make a really
Speaker 5: tremendous rush and kind of capitalize in a big moment
Speaker 5: and you know they're going into score thatmentums kind of
Speaker 5: shifting and talk about his impact maybe on the team
Speaker 5: and like just what it means to have that guy
Speaker 5: make that play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes somebody has set it off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was that one in that game to create
Speaker 4: the fumble to you know, knock him out of that
Speaker 4: and so to have a chance to you know, flip
Speaker 4: the game, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Of those impactful plays. He was right in the middle
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: And Coach, you mentioned sa kuon Barkley a little earlier,
Speaker 3: so let's go back to him. Credible season he's having
Speaker 3: so far. How do you game plan it gets a
Speaker 3: running back that's just hot like that, especially a guy
Speaker 3: you're seeing.
Speaker 1: For the third hunt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I feel like I've seen him for the
Speaker 4: thirty third time, like you know, from the time in
Speaker 4: New York and yeah, you know, from Landau to Dallas
Speaker 4: to here.
Speaker 1: And he's a fantastic competitor, he really is.
Speaker 4: He's got size, he's got the speed that he can
Speaker 4: break leverage of people. So you want to make sure
Speaker 4: you can do the things right over and over again.
Speaker 4: Don't get bored of just being in the right spot
Speaker 4: doing the right things. So many times you see somebody
Speaker 4: try to make a play or get out of a
Speaker 4: gap and man, Foomi'll hit it and expose youre So, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's the real deal.
Speaker 5: Can you like maybe double click on like you said
Speaker 5: something there, like getting out of a gap and like,
Speaker 5: to me, when you're playing a good runner, like when
Speaker 5: you watch the film, it's like it's the ultimate team Yep,
Speaker 5: thing you got to just trust that everyone's in the
Speaker 5: right spot. And I feel like you're your team's uniquely
Speaker 5: qualified because they are so for each other in this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the discipline that it will take. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's no doubt about it. If defensive ends, the tackles
Speaker 4: the linebackers, however it goes, it's so funny you jump
Speaker 4: out of one and that's the one that he can
Speaker 4: find and hit. And so just having that kind of
Speaker 4: discipline and being physical the tackling, but the gap control,
Speaker 4: that's a really big deal. And he's going to make plays.
Speaker 4: That's you know who he is and what he's done.
Speaker 4: But we've got to make sure that the tackling and
Speaker 4: the gap control is on point.
Speaker 3: And coach, looking at our offense, Jaydon Daniels seems to
Speaker 3: just ross the occasion no matter what stage he's on.
Speaker 3: He's on a huge stage, last week, balls out. Now
Speaker 3: he's on the NFC Championship stage. What do you expect
Speaker 3: to see from him?
Speaker 4: It's a nice game, lots of poise and when it's
Speaker 4: mental chaos going on all around him, like he lives
Speaker 4: in that space and he is very comfortable in that zone,
Speaker 4: which is completely uncomfortable and so for him into that spot,
Speaker 4: he stays locked in, he stays focused. But again, much
Speaker 4: like we're talking about with Mikey or with the other guys,
Speaker 4: like it is.
Speaker 1: The work that's where this success has come from. From
Speaker 1: that he puts it in.
Speaker 4: So there's a good feeling when you take the field
Speaker 4: knowing that like you are completely ready, you've put the
Speaker 4: work in and you don't have to make anything up
Speaker 4: because like you're ready for that spot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again, like he's been spectacular, but really he's
Speaker 5: gotten a lot of support from you know, like you said, Marcus, Mariota,
Speaker 5: Cliff Kingsbury does a great job and just like the
Speaker 5: ecosystem around you talked about what those guys have done
Speaker 5: and maybe how they help him in these big moments.
Speaker 4: And that came right from Adam. You know from the beginning,
Speaker 4: why we would select Marcus to be here, the selection
Speaker 4: of the player, you know, the coaching staff down the
Speaker 4: line of who's in there to support, you know, from
Speaker 4: David Blau who was a player first year in a
Speaker 4: transition to coaching, Tavita Brian and just making sure man,
Speaker 4: this was going to be a very unique scenario that
Speaker 4: we were going to throw support at him. We also
Speaker 4: needed a tight end. You also needed a strong interior
Speaker 4: the offensive line. So that's the ottage. That was Sam,
Speaker 4: that was you know, Nick and so Adam was very
Speaker 4: specific and systematic about the support that he would need,
Speaker 4: and we were not going to set up this player
Speaker 4: with anything but success to make sure the interior of
Speaker 4: the pocket he had a tight end. There was a
Speaker 4: running game, like all the things the coaching that we
Speaker 4: just there was no other option. Sure like, this is
Speaker 4: going to work, and we're going to support the hell
Speaker 4: out of him.
Speaker 1: And then he's exceeded all.
Speaker 4: Of our expectations which were already really high, just based
Speaker 4: on the work ethic, the commitment that he has, the
Speaker 4: humility that he plays with and lives his life with.
Speaker 4: And so it's been an excellent, excellent process to go.
Speaker 3: Through and coach. We're going to be missing Sam Cosmy.
Speaker 3: We hope him for speed recovery. Prayers to him and
Speaker 3: his family. How do you feel those shoes? Somebody like
Speaker 3: Sam Cosman it's not just the heartshold of this line,
Speaker 3: but is a big leader on this team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sam's made a huge impact on that right side,
Speaker 4: and so it won't be just one player likely we'll
Speaker 4: have a mix of combination of how we do things.
Speaker 4: But yeah, well he's made a huge impact for us
Speaker 4: and we'll get him back. The bummers that it won't
Speaker 4: be you know, for this season, but we'll get him back.
Speaker 4: It's hard today because not having him there that hurt,
Speaker 4: just like it was with Noah and other guys that
Speaker 4: we've lost. But that is also, you know, why we
Speaker 4: train everybody that these moments do come up, and I
Speaker 4: think we would have derailed long ago if we weren't
Speaker 4: ready when injuries took place. And those are the things
Speaker 4: that it's a hard part of our game, but they
Speaker 4: do happen, and you have to be training other players
Speaker 4: to step into those spaces.
Speaker 3: And Coach, You've been to the link a lot of times,
Speaker 3: but this time you're walking in with that burgundy and
Speaker 3: gold on How much is it going to mean to
Speaker 3: you to look around that stadium and see all those
Speaker 3: burgundy and gold fans there here to support this team
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 1: Yet again, it would be absolutely awesome. If I see
Speaker 1: one burgundy and gold sweatshirt, I will absolutely point them out.
Speaker 4: But honestly, like the love that community that has supported
Speaker 4: for us as the team that's a big deal. And uh,
Speaker 4: we know it has such a long history from grandparents
Speaker 4: to kids to grandkids and all the way down, and
Speaker 4: so to see that kind of support.
Speaker 1: For the team, they feel it.
Speaker 4: And especially on the road, you know when you see
Speaker 4: somebody that's.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're with me. So that's a good feeling. The
Speaker 1: best fans in the NFL coast.
Speaker 3: Coach, you appreciate you, Tom and now we'll see you
Speaker 3: and Logan getting that film room. All right, Thanks guys,
Speaker 3: Commanded family, We know you are enjoying the game plan. However,
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Speaker 3: our tickets will win these must watch matchups. You only
Speaker 3: got thirty seconds, so let's get right into it.
Speaker 5: Just short every week Joe went j and Saquon barklay again,
Speaker 5: this is a dynamic playmaker and the same way your
Speaker 5: receiver is right or a quarterback. You need all eleven
Speaker 5: guys to stop the run and need great defensive scheme.
Speaker 5: That's why it's him for sa Kwan. Can't wait to
Speaker 5: watch that matchup. Next one up dude, Cliff Kingsbury versus
Speaker 5: Vic fangerw This defense is crazy complicated hide coverage as well.
Speaker 5: Can he find some type of telformation personnel that gives
Speaker 5: Jaydon Daniels the edge? If he can, the matter's gonna
Speaker 5: win this football.
Speaker 1: This one's for us. This next one one the people
Speaker 1: for the people.
Speaker 5: Man Marshaw Latimore A J. Brown again. If Marshawn can
Speaker 5: take him out of the game the way, we are
Speaker 5: very competitive matchup in the first one, total game changer
Speaker 5: for the Washington managers. Can't wait to watch.
Speaker 2: These are your must watch matchups for tonight's game against
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles NFC Championship Baby for he coos dan Quinn, Logan, Paulson.
Speaker 3: I'm Brian Covirginia.
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