Speaker 1: Coach. First of all, congratulations. We need so much druma
Speaker 1: in this game. You really don't. Sometimes we make this
Speaker 1: thing too hard on ourselves, quite frankly, with especially with
Speaker 1: a two score lead like we had. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a resilient group, as we know, we've
Speaker 1: talked about that all season, and they find a way
Speaker 1: to win. I mean it's a lot of individual efforts today,
Speaker 1: but but quite frankly, this was a great team win.
Speaker 1: How important was it for you to get Darren sprows
Speaker 1: out and will first involved in the offense and in
Speaker 1: space the way you got him today? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's important. Each week, you know, we're still um giving
Speaker 1: him more and more kind of each week kind of
Speaker 1: we've been kind of easing him back and with the injury,
Speaker 1: just don't want to push him. But after these last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks he can definitely take a little more
Speaker 1: on on us plate. And you know he can be
Speaker 1: and he can be a matchup nightmare sometimes for for
Speaker 1: defenders and especially linebackers, and um, you know it's it's
Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's a you know, a safety blanket for
Speaker 1: the quarterback to knowing where your running backs are going.
Speaker 1: To be as far as the passing game goes, and
Speaker 1: then to make that long run he did at the
Speaker 1: end to put us really into field goal range is
Speaker 1: something that is a credit to him and just a
Speaker 1: great job. You knew that defense at front seven Clowney,
Speaker 1: those guys could direct the defense or wreck your offense.
Speaker 1: He got some early what made the difference late in
Speaker 1: the game though, where he wasn't nearly as effective. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I think, you know when you get no
Speaker 1: situations that first of all, Clowney and J. J. Watty,
Speaker 1: these are tremendous players. These guys are tremendous and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, JJ kind of kind of had his way
Speaker 1: a little bit early in this football game, and you know,
Speaker 1: really the whole game, I guess I should say, but
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think it comes to time
Speaker 1: where um, you know, they started moving him around too
Speaker 1: late in the game. So once you start moving him around,
Speaker 1: you know, he pushed them through the middle of the pocket.
Speaker 1: I understand what they're trying to do is put a
Speaker 1: little pressure up the middle, and he's a long guy.
Speaker 1: He could probably bat some balls down. But um, a
Speaker 1: great job by our offensive line just handling him late
Speaker 1: in the game and allowing Nick to complete the balls.
Speaker 1: You talked about the individual performances and Nick himself drawing
Speaker 1: for a four hundred and seventy one yards on the day.
Speaker 1: How big was this performance and then coming back in
Speaker 1: after that big hit. Yeah, you know, I mean Nick
Speaker 1: had a tremendous game. I think he set a record
Speaker 1: today for for Eagles as far as the passing goes
Speaker 1: and yardage and all that. And then happy for him.
Speaker 1: And you know, he'll be the first to tell you
Speaker 1: that he credits everybody else's you know, that's just that's
Speaker 1: just it, Nick, And he credits his receivers, is lying
Speaker 1: his backs everybody else. And you know that's the thing
Speaker 1: about it is, you know, he's that point guard that
Speaker 1: just wants to distribute the ball. He wants to get
Speaker 1: the ball in his playmaker's hands and and let them,
Speaker 1: let them do the work. And you know it's just
Speaker 1: a it's a credit to him he gets the ball
Speaker 1: out of his hand. And um, you know, it's probably
Speaker 1: more again about about the team kind of hanging together
Speaker 1: and being resilient and and really making plays for Nick.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you put a pass up and
Speaker 1: Alshan just elevates again played in the game, makes it
Speaker 1: comes down with a huge, huge catch. I mean, those
Speaker 1: are those are just things that are our playmakers are
Speaker 1: starting to do. They're often centered around Watson and of
Speaker 1: course Hopkins, but you're able to limit them somewhat. What
Speaker 1: was the plan with their quarterback? Well, Number one, things
Speaker 1: we try You try to keep him in the pocket, yes, um,
Speaker 1: and if you can't, then you have to try to
Speaker 1: get him down in space. And there were times today
Speaker 1: where we didn't do a very good job of either one. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: credit credit him. He's a tremendous athlete. He broke out
Speaker 1: us some tackles today that you're just kind of wild moments,
Speaker 1: you know. And and he's gonna continue to grow and
Speaker 1: get better. But you know, if you can kind of
Speaker 1: isolate him and control him, keep him in the pocket, um,
Speaker 1: you can get him on the ground and force him
Speaker 1: to make some erratic throws. But he's a special player. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, Hopkins is another one of those receivers
Speaker 1: that can be very explosive. Um. You know, late in
Speaker 1: the game they went after him a little bit and
Speaker 1: targeted him and a little bit more and you know, um,
Speaker 1: that's what you do you put the ball in your
Speaker 1: playmaker's hands. I have to ask you about not necessarily
Speaker 1: the play calls anyone in particular, but when you have
Speaker 1: to go through the adversity that you have to go through,
Speaker 1: when you're getting those calls that go against you, what
Speaker 1: do you tell your guys? How do you keep your
Speaker 1: guys up in those situations. I just keep telling them
Speaker 1: that we just got to continue to fight through it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all you can do. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes the call is gonna go against you. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's gonna go in your favor. We just got to
Speaker 1: kind of block it out, block out the noise, and
Speaker 1: just just move on to the next play. It's like
Speaker 1: making a bad play. If you make a bad play,
Speaker 1: don't focus on it. Move forward. Let's get better the
Speaker 1: next time. Thanks coach, Thank quick