Speaker 1: Good even give the one. Beryl Leaves and Mike Quick
Speaker 1: here at eight and T Stadium, Marley to Texas where
Speaker 1: the roof is open. He gives the ball off to Matthews,
Speaker 1: turns the corner. He's at the forty five forty thirty
Speaker 1: five and fight down the bounds of the Cowboys. Forty.
Speaker 1: The kid goes to the Marco Berry and he plunges
Speaker 1: forward and cuts down. He's in my ghost castle. He
Speaker 1: steps up. He's hit. Ain't got him at the forty
Speaker 1: year and his fightful catrick of the sun my firt fact.
Speaker 1: He's looking. He is firing it. Handed his card along
Speaker 1: the far sideline, racing down the sideline as the Marco
Speaker 1: Berry all the way down across the Cowboys forty Bredford
Speaker 1: hands the football off, trying to sleep and running into
Speaker 1: the cuts down is Ryan Matthews. Ryan Matthews rules to
Speaker 1: the left and rugs into the end zone. He's back.
Speaker 1: He steps up, he fired, he didn't step it. Tax
Speaker 1: cable for slone thirty twenty ten five touches down. Jordan hecks,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a motion of Texas. Run for tax
Speaker 1: the step he takes the buried tack and stepped up
Speaker 1: the fires. It's complete across the twenty the candle five
Speaker 1: touches down Georgan Mathews. The Eagles win the Gables over
Speaker 1: Georgan Mathews taxes the past for Presford has takes it
Speaker 1: home and the Eagles win it over time. Wow wow
Speaker 1: wow wow. Sunday night a classic in the Eagles Cowboys rivalry,
Speaker 1: the Eagles winning in overtime. Of course, Hello everyone, welcome
Speaker 1: to Eagles three sixty. Eagles insider Dave Spidero with the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and Brian Westbrook. Now you've played in
Speaker 1: your Cowboys Eagles games. That one last night was remarkable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we agree, bring back into memories. You know what, It
Speaker 1: doesn't bring back any immediate memories. But when I see
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews catch that ball in his hands and run
Speaker 1: down the sideline and be able to score the testdown,
Speaker 1: I'm just so happy for this football team. But it's exciting.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of the kneel that I
Speaker 1: had kneeled down that I had back in the day.
Speaker 1: That kind of reminds me of Donovan McNabb running around
Speaker 1: for fifteen seconds throwing the ball to Freddie Mitchell. I
Speaker 1: love when this team wins. They did a good job yesterday.
Speaker 1: When you kneel down by the way I did. A
Speaker 1: lot of fantasy football people get on their case. They
Speaker 1: still they still, dude, get in my case every time
Speaker 1: I'm talking about fantasy football. They're always talking about, why
Speaker 1: did you do that? You either won me my championship
Speaker 1: or you're long. Well, the Eagles didn't win a championship
Speaker 1: on Sunday, but they get to the halfway point in
Speaker 1: this twenty and fifteen regular season after all the ups
Speaker 1: and downs, now at four and four, really in control
Speaker 1: of their own fates, an opportunity with two games of
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field to make some hey against Miami on
Speaker 1: Sunday and then against Tampa Bay the following week, but
Speaker 1: Sunday nights to focus here. It was an incredible game.
Speaker 1: After a very slow start, the Eagles come marching back,
Speaker 1: and then the offense in the second half absolutely up
Speaker 1: and down the field, doing exactly what it wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And it all started Brian in the second quarter. After
Speaker 1: a slow first fifteen ins, Eagles get the football at
Speaker 1: the twenty yard line. They march eighty yards, sixty three
Speaker 1: of those yards on the ground. It was just so
Speaker 1: good to see the run game get cranked up finally
Speaker 1: in Chip Kelly stand From the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: this run game was going to help this team at
Speaker 1: win games. If we don't have this run game, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna win very many games. And yesterday was a
Speaker 1: great example of how to use DeMarco Murray, Darns brows
Speaker 1: as well as Ryan Matthews and allowed this offensive line
Speaker 1: to settith pads, get on the edge, run up the middle,
Speaker 1: and do a good job blocking. They did a great job.
Speaker 1: So it was the offense. Jordan Hicks leading the defensive
Speaker 1: charge with an interception return for a touchdown. Caleb Sturgis
Speaker 1: with two field goals, including a fifty three yard or
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter, a thriller in Big d
Speaker 1: Well actually Arlington, Texas. And so the Eagles celebrating on
Speaker 1: Sunday night into the wee hours of Monday morning, and
Speaker 1: now turning their attention to the Miami Dolphins. Let's get
Speaker 1: you caught up with everything happening here at the Novacare
Speaker 1: Complex on this Monday. It's our Eagles three sixty update.
Speaker 1: We throw it out to Alex Smith. Hi everyone, I'm
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and This is your three sixty update. The
Speaker 1: big news today here at the no Ovcare Complex is
Speaker 1: unfortunate news, as rookie inside linebacker Jordan Hicks has been
Speaker 1: placed on season ending injured reserve due to a torn
Speaker 1: pectoral muscle suffered last night in the win against the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. For all the latest on Hicks's injury situation,
Speaker 1: be sure to stay tuned right here on Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: dot com now. Earlier in the afternoon, we heard from
Speaker 1: Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, who s book about the
Speaker 1: progress that he's seen from quarterback Sam Bradford. I think
Speaker 1: everything in Sam's game has gotten better. And as I've
Speaker 1: said before, I've seen Sam improve on a weekly basis here.
Speaker 1: So we're in game eight. You know, he's better in
Speaker 1: Game eight than he was in Game one. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's more comfortable in terms of what we're doing,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of where we are as an offense.
Speaker 1: With a lot of these guys. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: there is a movie being shown and he showed up
Speaker 1: halfway through it, and then he's supposed to figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on and what did I miss in the
Speaker 1: first half of the movie. Because he hadn't been with
Speaker 1: us for you know, the amount of time that Brent's
Speaker 1: been here and some of the other guys, Kelsey and
Speaker 1: all his other guys. So it's just it's something you
Speaker 1: have to get through reps. It's not something that can
Speaker 1: be forced. He works extremely hard at he's in this
Speaker 1: building all the time, he's watching filmy study and he's
Speaker 1: working at it. But you know, we've seen constant improvement
Speaker 1: out of Sam and you know, and I hope he continues,
Speaker 1: you know, if he can continue to play, continue to
Speaker 1: play even better as we move forward. Kelly also spoke
Speaker 1: today about how hard this Eagles team practice this week,
Speaker 1: highlighting the performance of wide receiver Jordan Matthews. Well, I
Speaker 1: think all of them, I think, and this has been
Speaker 1: our best week of training since I've been here. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I think the whole group practice well,
Speaker 1: but I think Jordan in particular, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing is that if you're in a slump,
Speaker 1: it takes someone with a great work ethic to get
Speaker 1: out of the slump. And that's what Jordan has and
Speaker 1: he worked. He worked extremely hard, did a lot of work.
Speaker 1: Actually after our reps on offense. We're done mimicking Dez
Speaker 1: Bryant for our defense, you know, and did a really
Speaker 1: good job at that too. So it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: the kids tireless in terms of his ability to work
Speaker 1: and what he can do. And it's, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a show and that's what we talk about. You sink
Speaker 1: to a level of training, and he trained it a
Speaker 1: really high level last week and played a really high
Speaker 1: level last night. And that will wrap things up here
Speaker 1: from the Novacare Complex. Be sure to stay tuned to
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com all week long as we get
Speaker 1: you said for the Eagles and Dolphins. Sunday at one o'clock,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Chip Kelly, Sam Bradford, DeMarco Murray and
Speaker 1: everyone else from inside the locker room, So be sure
Speaker 1: to stay tuned right here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Alex. We will talk about the defense
Speaker 1: and it's okay, so so performance on Sunday night the
Speaker 1: special teams as well when we return to Eagles three
Speaker 1: sixty though, we're talking about an offense that was balanced,
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Speaker 1: talk about the offense. Another slow start, So let's address
Speaker 1: that part of it first. Is there any way that
Speaker 1: you come out and think mentally that it's the second
Speaker 1: half at the beginning of the game, Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: that it would be able to they would be able
Speaker 1: to start a little bit fast at this game, But
Speaker 1: it's starting to feel like it takes a little bit
Speaker 1: for Chip Kelly as well as this offense, just to
Speaker 1: get their bearings, to understand what a defense is doing
Speaker 1: and then they start attacking it. They figured it out
Speaker 1: after the first quarter. After the second quarter, coming out
Speaker 1: a half time, this offensive team exploded. I think that's
Speaker 1: what's going on here. They have to find a way
Speaker 1: to start a little bit faster, especially against a better
Speaker 1: team with an offensive line missing Jason Peters. Dennis Kelly
Speaker 1: starting at right tackle for the first time since twenty
Speaker 1: and twelve, Lane Johnson, his first NFL started left tackle.
Speaker 1: The Eagles running the football down the Dallas Cowboys throats,
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews, DeMarco Murray, Darren Sproles, all used liberally, all
Speaker 1: used effectively, and Brian westbro that key's the offense. Play
Speaker 1: action passing really getting some chunkyards for the offense. The
Speaker 1: run game, I want to see it every week. Well,
Speaker 1: if you want to be successful in the run game,
Speaker 1: it starts in the trenches and so it starts upfront
Speaker 1: with the offensive line. And you can't give enough credit
Speaker 1: to Lane Johnson switching from right tackle to left tackle.
Speaker 1: That's a big ordeal. Not a lot of guys can
Speaker 1: do it, and it takes an athletic guy. Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: did a great job against one of the better pass
Speaker 1: rushers in the league. And Greg Hardy Dennis Kelly deserves
Speaker 1: from credit too. You're talking about a guy that wasn't
Speaker 1: the second string guy. He was a third string guy
Speaker 1: that didn't get a lot of playing time. This is
Speaker 1: the first time starting at right tackle against a defensive
Speaker 1: line that dominated this football team in Week two. They
Speaker 1: didn't do a very good job blocking. They had so
Speaker 1: much penetration in Week two, but yesterday they were able
Speaker 1: to establish the run game. I was proud of this
Speaker 1: offensive unit. So the zone have a lot of success.
Speaker 1: We also saw the sweep game with DeMarco Murray as well.
Speaker 1: We all talk at DeMarco Murray gotta run north south,
Speaker 1: and he did a lot of that on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: But he also got to the edge and got up
Speaker 1: the field. And that's a good combination of the blocking,
Speaker 1: the timing, and DeMarco Murray. I thought running with really
Speaker 1: great power. He had a purpose to him. He broke
Speaker 1: a lot of tackles. Doesn't make a lot of people
Speaker 1: miss Brian, but he really is tough to bring down.
Speaker 1: It knows how to move to football. Once DeMarco Murray
Speaker 1: gets going, you're talking about two three steps into the play.
Speaker 1: He is one of the better running backs in the league.
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys that will break some tackles.
Speaker 1: He'll give you a stiff arm here and there. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna make you miss those types of things. But
Speaker 1: he's a powerful runner once he gets downhill. If he
Speaker 1: gets those shows to squares to a lot of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be very hard to stop. Yesterday you saw
Speaker 1: that and we see the numbers there. Six catches in
Speaker 1: the past game, a huge plus four the Eagles, including
Speaker 1: just a You can't see anything better than Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: throwing that wheel route to Murray early in the second half,
Speaker 1: big game. Murray's got some hands, he's got some soft ones,
Speaker 1: and he's really kind of a difficult guy to match
Speaker 1: up against. Well, I think when you look at this game,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a confidence busy. You're talking about a
Speaker 1: building block. And what we saw was now Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: could be more confident in his past catchers. Now he
Speaker 1: could be more confident in his running back out of
Speaker 1: the back of catching the football. But also now he
Speaker 1: could be a little bit more comfortable with knowing that
Speaker 1: he has a running game that can support him. That
Speaker 1: takes a lot of pressure off of Sam Bradford. I
Speaker 1: think this offense can show you they can move the
Speaker 1: ball as long as they're confident and assertive. Yesterday went
Speaker 1: a long way toward that. One of the revelations of
Speaker 1: this first half of the season. Ryan Matthews, for those
Speaker 1: who may not have been familiar with him during his
Speaker 1: days in San Diego, a former first round draft pick,
Speaker 1: has been extremely productive averaging six point one yards per
Speaker 1: carry for this football team. Tell me a little bit
Speaker 1: about Ryan Matthews, how he fits into the offense. Brian,
Speaker 1: what you see from him from a talent standpoint, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's awfully talented, first round pick for San Diego. But
Speaker 1: what you see from him is he's see an explosive guy.
Speaker 1: He hits the holes, he makes people miss, and he
Speaker 1: makes you pay if you try to tackle him, especially
Speaker 1: those guys in the secondary. And so you like that
Speaker 1: type of guy coming off the bench. He's a kind
Speaker 1: of the guy there's gonna be that spark plug for
Speaker 1: those for the offense when he comes off the bench.
Speaker 1: And when he's in there, he could catch the ball too.
Speaker 1: I think he still needs to continue to work on that,
Speaker 1: but he definitely can cats the ball. He could relift
Speaker 1: this offense. They need him when he comes in the game.
Speaker 1: One of the major themes of this first half of
Speaker 1: the season, at least through seven games, why all the
Speaker 1: drops with these wide receivers, players who historically have not
Speaker 1: had problems catching the football and really leading the way there.
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews, who was so up and down through seven games,
Speaker 1: was absolutely magnificent on Sunday night. Yeah, he had the
Speaker 1: forty one yard catching run to end the game, and
Speaker 1: that was spectacular. But Matthews throughout the night making tough catches,
Speaker 1: running hard after the catch, really playing with a sense
Speaker 1: of purpose. Brian and I was so pleased to see
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews who works really hard, he takes the game seriously,
Speaker 1: who approaches it like a pro Bowl player. I think
Speaker 1: the one thing that you and joy when I hear
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews talk, I'm hearing a young man saying I
Speaker 1: stayed the course, I worked on the jug machine, I
Speaker 1: did all the things that got me to this level,
Speaker 1: and those are the things that helped me get through
Speaker 1: the tough times. I appreciated that from Jordan Matthews. Listen,
Speaker 1: he was struggling. The main job of receiver is to
Speaker 1: cast the football. He wasn't doing that consistently enough early
Speaker 1: on in the season. And now we see why he's
Speaker 1: out on the jugg machine because now that he's not
Speaker 1: thinking about catching, now that he's not thinking about the
Speaker 1: pressure desks on him, now he can play naturally and
Speaker 1: he's able to catch the ball. We know the kid
Speaker 1: can cats. He just needed to do that more consistently.
Speaker 1: He did that last night and finally offensively, we talked
Speaker 1: about Sam Bradford, Eagles quarterback when a ball game tough,
Speaker 1: took some hits, threw the ball down the field, really
Speaker 1: got it going in the second half twelve of nineteen
Speaker 1: through the touchdown pass, engineered a great drive in overtime.
Speaker 1: Has Sam Bradford arrived? He's gotten better and better. He
Speaker 1: spoke with a lot of confidence last week, as we
Speaker 1: noted throughout the course of that week, and against a
Speaker 1: good Dallas defense, playing behind a makeshift offensive line, sam
Speaker 1: Bradford stood up and delivered for this Eagles team. So
Speaker 1: as we head into the second half of the season, here, Brian,
Speaker 1: your level of confidence in number seven, I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: get that confidence, that same type of confidence that Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford starting to building himself. I think when you look
Speaker 1: at the Panthers game, he even though they lost, he
Speaker 1: in certain situations he stepped up and threw the ball. Well.
Speaker 1: I think that confidence over the bye, and then you
Speaker 1: combine that to what he did this past week. I
Speaker 1: think that's a great job. It's a building block with
Speaker 1: this team. It's a building block with Sam Bradford, especially
Speaker 1: when you have receivers catching the football. But I think
Speaker 1: what you're starting to see is a quarterback. Just like
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly said, he can be accurate, he can throw
Speaker 1: the ball strong, he can just mobile enough around in
Speaker 1: the pocket that he can move around, get on the
Speaker 1: edge and threatened defenses on the edge. And that's important
Speaker 1: for a quarterback to be able to do. I think
Speaker 1: those are all the things that Chip Kelly was looking for.
Speaker 1: So two thumbs up for the Eagles offense in the
Speaker 1: win over Dallas. When we return to Eagles three sixty,
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Speaker 1: It's Eagles three sixty. Dave spitnerow along with all of
Speaker 1: fame at Brian Westbrook we're talking about the Eagles and
Speaker 1: the win over Dallas on Sunday night. Now we transition
Speaker 1: from the offense to the defense. It was not the
Speaker 1: best performance you have these kind of games. Eagles still
Speaker 1: did enough to win, and some good adjustments along the lines.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley killing, Malcolm Jenkins, Eagles go to EJ. Biggers,
Speaker 1: Eagles getting a pass rush, Brian some of the good
Speaker 1: things that I saw. Four sacks against Maccastle, Brandon Grant
Speaker 1: finally got the sacks that he's been talking about all
Speaker 1: season long. But I think, just like you mentioned, the
Speaker 1: biggest adjustment was Billy Days are saying, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take Milchcoel Jenkins, who's done a great job in the
Speaker 1: slot all season long, but he got beat a couple
Speaker 1: of times against Cole Beasley. We're gonna give them credit
Speaker 1: for doing that, but we're gonna counter with EJ. Biggers.
Speaker 1: And he'd got beat one time, but then he came
Speaker 1: up with a good pass breakup a bigger play on
Speaker 1: special teams. And so when I look at this defense,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Okay, you know what, Now our coach understands
Speaker 1: our personnel. Now he says, okay, we can adjust a
Speaker 1: little bit. You're not doing your job right now, We're
Speaker 1: gonna put somebody else out there and allow him to
Speaker 1: do that work. I think that's a sign of a
Speaker 1: coach that's able to understand this unit as well as
Speaker 1: just on the on the run. When the Eagles played
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I always think of Dez Bryant and Jason Witten.
Speaker 1: Now Cole Beasley McFadden had one hundred plus yards rushing
Speaker 1: Brian As the Eagles go into the second half here,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about the defense? It really was
Speaker 1: positive early in the season. Last couple of games, there's
Speaker 1: been some leaks in the boat. Yeah. I love this
Speaker 1: front seven. I love the physicalness of Thornton and Cox
Speaker 1: and Logan. I love the way those guys get out
Speaker 1: through the quarterback and play the run pretty well. I
Speaker 1: think this team definitely is missing Demiko Ryans in the
Speaker 1: middle of that defense. When you were talking about a
Speaker 1: guy that's able to make sure everyone's lined up and
Speaker 1: he's a short tackler, you're always going to miss that guy.
Speaker 1: And over the last couple of games, two hundred and
Speaker 1: four yards to the Panthers over one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: yards last night. I think they're missing Demco Ryans an
Speaker 1: awful lot. Yeah, and upfront, still some work to be done,
Speaker 1: although Fletcher Cox has played well and Benny Logan. Some
Speaker 1: creases in the run game and early on that big
Speaker 1: play Dez Bryant on the receiving end. The catch and
Speaker 1: run from Matt Castle really set the Eagles back on
Speaker 1: their heels. The defense didn't take advantage of some great
Speaker 1: field position early in the game. Not enough three and outs,
Speaker 1: but hey, late in the game, enough plays. The Jordan
Speaker 1: Hicks touchdown return for an interception interceptorn for touchdown was huge.
Speaker 1: The defense a bit of the old Jim Johnson days, bending,
Speaker 1: not breaking, but you'll want to see them get better
Speaker 1: here as the team returns home against Miami. The one
Speaker 1: thing that we saw from this defense when they got
Speaker 1: in a little bit of trouble, I saw Billy Davis
Speaker 1: blitz a little bit more. Michael Kendricks gets home. The
Speaker 1: one thing I worry about is the Cowboys. They were
Speaker 1: three for three in the red zone with their efficiency,
Speaker 1: so that every time they got into the red zone
Speaker 1: they scored touchdown. As a defense, you can't allow that.
Speaker 1: They were fifty percent on third nouns. They were eight
Speaker 1: of sixteen. So you have to get off the field
Speaker 1: a little bit more efficiently on third down as a
Speaker 1: defense too, So those are things to build one but
Speaker 1: of course, the thing that I love the most about
Speaker 1: this defense they continue to create turnovers. Jordan Hicks with
Speaker 1: a great interception. What did you think of the late game,
Speaker 1: last drive of regulation for Dallas? Three penalties on the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Nobody would question the Malcolm Jenkins holding penalty, but two
Speaker 1: on Byron Maxwell that I mean I thought were really questionable,
Speaker 1: if not even non existent. I don't think those calls
Speaker 1: were existent at all. I think that one play Dez
Speaker 1: wasn't even looking for the ball. The other play Byron
Speaker 1: Maxwell did a great job of defending, and this is
Speaker 1: a big change for him because he struggled early on
Speaker 1: in the year to defending bigger receivers, guys that were
Speaker 1: going to be physical with him. But he did a
Speaker 1: good job last night. Those calls were just fansom calls,
Speaker 1: and then in the back of the end zone the
Speaker 1: touchdown catch from Dez Bryan. You gotta play the football better,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles largely have certainly a great improvement over
Speaker 1: twenty and fourteen, But they've been doing a good job
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone. And sometimes when
Speaker 1: you have a good player like Deaz, he makes big plays.
Speaker 1: That's what he gets paid for. And sometimes those types
Speaker 1: of things happen. Is one of those things that's just
Speaker 1: part of the game. And I just wonder Brian as
Speaker 1: the second half of the season begins on Sunday against Maami,
Speaker 1: where is Erra grow Will he make any kind of
Speaker 1: contribution in the second half of the season, a bigger,
Speaker 1: younger athletic body. Is there not a place for him
Speaker 1: somewhere in the second area. It doesn't seem that Billy
Speaker 1: Davis has any confidence in him. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: in this defensive scheme that he's going to play a lot.
Speaker 1: I know he plays someone special teams, but if he
Speaker 1: was going to play some then he would have already played.
Speaker 1: I see Mary goes back there a lot. I know
Speaker 1: they have a lot of confidence in him. He's not
Speaker 1: going to make a lot of mistakes, and so that's
Speaker 1: what you get from a veteran. Right now, they don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in Eric Row And for
Speaker 1: special teams, kudos to Caleb Sturge's two field goals, including
Speaker 1: that fifty three yarder. Donnie Jones another outstanding game for him.
Speaker 1: Is there a Pro Bowl in Donnie Jones future? He
Speaker 1: is having just a tremendous season. We'll see how the
Speaker 1: weather holds out for him. They kickoff coverage team gave
Speaker 1: up a big one to Lucky Whitehead, so that's a
Speaker 1: thumbs down. And then in the punt return game, team
Speaker 1: is just not giving Darren Sproles any opportunities to make
Speaker 1: big plays. Somewhere along the line in the second half
Speaker 1: of this season, offensively, the Eagles must get Sproles back
Speaker 1: into the passing game. Teams really doing good job taking
Speaker 1: him out of the equation with teams. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I'm a defense or special teams, I'm gonna say, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to allow darrens Rose to touch the
Speaker 1: ball in the kick return game because he's just too dynamic.
Speaker 1: We've seen how explosive he can be. We've seen that
Speaker 1: all throughout his career, but also in this season. And
Speaker 1: then in the passing game when darrens Rose comes in,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Chip Kelly is trying to get him the ball.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna double team up every time, and that's
Speaker 1: what's happening to darrens Rose. They're a little bit predictable
Speaker 1: and some of the things they're doing offensively with them,
Speaker 1: but teams are saying, I'm not going to allow Darren
Speaker 1: Spros to hurt me, and he may be the only
Speaker 1: receiver on the field at times that can hurt them,
Speaker 1: and so they just have to be a little bit better.
Speaker 1: They have to find more guys to get involved offensively.
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Speaker 1: your way every Monday through Friday at five pm right
Speaker 1: here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. A couple of unsung
Speaker 1: heroes dimension from Sunday Nights game. I want to kind
Speaker 1: of go back to the offensive line and talk about
Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly because it is a remarkable job, having not
Speaker 1: started at right tackles. It's twenty twelve to go out
Speaker 1: there against a really good defensive front and play the
Speaker 1: way that Dennis Kelly did. Six feet seven inches tall,
Speaker 1: big wide range guy who had one week of practice
Speaker 1: or training at right tackle. He went out and did
Speaker 1: the job. Lane Johnson and left tackle Jason Peters we
Speaker 1: hope get back. But the Eagles, who didn't address the
Speaker 1: offensive line in free agency or in the draft, Brian,
Speaker 1: they banked on the philosophy that players like Dennis Kelly
Speaker 1: would step up, and they did. Yeah, Dennis Kelly did
Speaker 1: a great job, and you have to give those guys credit.
Speaker 1: If you want to have a running game, you have
Speaker 1: to have guys in the trenches that can get it done.
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson did a great job as well. But I
Speaker 1: think Jason Kelsey, who got beat up in that first game,
Speaker 1: got feet across his face, got pushed in the backfield.
Speaker 1: He did a great job last night. These guys came
Speaker 1: to play last night, and anytime you want to get
Speaker 1: this offense going, you needed this offensive line to get going.
Speaker 1: They did a great job for this team. And then
Speaker 1: as the Eagles Fryan get into the second half of
Speaker 1: the season here and we are searching for what is
Speaker 1: this team all about? So many massive changes in the
Speaker 1: offseason in terms of the foster makeover. What is the
Speaker 1: identity of this football team? Could they have founded on
Speaker 1: Sunday night in Dallas in Jerry World with that stirring
Speaker 1: overtime victory. Do you know, Brian, what the identity of
Speaker 1: this football team is? Well, it seems at this point then,
Speaker 1: and you've seen this Eagles team over the last three
Speaker 1: games have over one hundred and fifty yards rushing. I
Speaker 1: think they're a team that's gonna say we're gonna run
Speaker 1: the football and you have to stop the run. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna use play action to Jordan Matthews, We're gonna
Speaker 1: use our screen game to different guys outside. And then
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, we're gonna say
Speaker 1: we're gonna take the ball away from you. Now, they
Speaker 1: need to get a little bit more tough against a run,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna still make an interception. Our linebackers are
Speaker 1: gonna blitz and get out of your quarterback. And that's
Speaker 1: what you need. You need to be able to run
Speaker 1: the football and be able to take the ball away
Speaker 1: on defense. It's interesting because usually when you talk about
Speaker 1: a running team in the NFL, you think of a
Speaker 1: really physical, smash mouth identity. But the Eagles aren't big
Speaker 1: and brawling upfront. Their athletic they rely on technique. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's what this is. A run first offense, but
Speaker 1: it's not a fit offense. It is one that is
Speaker 1: ruling the lineup in smash Mouth, and they've got to
Speaker 1: run it and set everything up off the run game.
Speaker 1: And I agree though, it's DeMarco Murray and Ryan Matthews
Speaker 1: and to a degree Darren Sproules who will take this
Speaker 1: team to the playoffs. And the one thing that they
Speaker 1: did very well last night was they established a run.
Speaker 1: But with the run they were able to get to
Speaker 1: the tempo they were looking for. When you saw many
Speaker 1: times in that game, whether the defensive linemen for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they were sucking win. And that's what Chip Kelly wants.
Speaker 1: He wants to these guys to be up tempo, fast,
Speaker 1: make a defense pay for keeping those same guys in there.
Speaker 1: And then when these guys are tired, these premier pass
Speaker 1: rushers and these good run stoppers, now we have the
Speaker 1: ability to run on them. Now they have to try
Speaker 1: to get to the edge and catch Ryan Matthews and
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray, and they weren't able to do it. And
Speaker 1: They also ran well effectively in the red zone, where
Speaker 1: you have to put a hat on a hat and
Speaker 1: knock somebody down, Yeah, if you want to. And the
Speaker 1: reds on, everything shrinks. Everything gets a little bit tighter.
Speaker 1: Defenders don't have to cover as much of the field,
Speaker 1: and that means your safeties are a little bit closer.
Speaker 1: That means your cornerbacks and linebackers are closer to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmas. And that's when this offensive actually turned
Speaker 1: it on. That's when the Darren McFadden excuse me to
Speaker 1: DeMarco mry and Ryan Matthews a little bit more effective.
Speaker 1: I liked what they did, especially in the region. Oh
Speaker 1: how sweet it is to come back from Dallas at
Speaker 1: five thirty in the morning on Monday with a victory,
Speaker 1: and one that potentially knocks the Cowboys out of the
Speaker 1: running in the Nfcas when we returned to Eagles three sixty,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the division that's got a little bit
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Speaker 1: back to Eagles three sixty Dave Spider with a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Brian Westbrook a brief talk about the NFC East.
Speaker 1: There is some clarity here now. The Giants lead the way,
Speaker 1: the Eagles a half game behind. What is your take
Speaker 1: on the division? Who's got the upper hand going into
Speaker 1: the second half the season. I think at this point
Speaker 1: the Giants still have the upper hand. They've been playing
Speaker 1: the most consistent as of late. But the Eagles are
Speaker 1: right there on their hills. And you're talking about consistency,
Speaker 1: You're talking about building that snowball and allowing it to
Speaker 1: roll downhill. We're talking about confidence for this football team.
Speaker 1: And it only takes a game like this. It takes
Speaker 1: a big play winning an overtime, just like it did
Speaker 1: for us and oh three, a big near overtime near
Speaker 1: the end of the game. And now that propels you
Speaker 1: to win a few games in a row. That propels
Speaker 1: you to win I think at that point six games
Speaker 1: in a row, and that's what this team needs. So
Speaker 1: hopefully this game against that Cowboys is that confidence booster,
Speaker 1: that building block that this team needed to propel them
Speaker 1: towards the playoffs. The Giants home with New England this weekend,
Speaker 1: the Redskins playing at home against New Orleans, and Dallas
Speaker 1: on the road against Tampa Bay is Dallas Brian at
Speaker 1: two and six, are they done? You know? I wish
Speaker 1: I could say that they were all the way done,
Speaker 1: but they're as close to being done as they could be.
Speaker 1: I think Matt Castle actually played a decent game, So
Speaker 1: maybe they find a way to go out there and
Speaker 1: win a couple of games in a row before Tony
Speaker 1: Romo gets back. But for them, they had their margin
Speaker 1: for error is so small. It's a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: for us, a little bit bigger for the Giants, but
Speaker 1: their margins for air At this point it is very
Speaker 1: small and we'll worry about those other teams later. We
Speaker 1: really care about how the Eagles do and the next
Speaker 1: challenge is Sunday against in Miami Dolphins. Let's get you
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Eagles win in Dallas, and then
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