Speaker 1: It was home sweet home for the Birds, a twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven victory. Jalen Hurts airs it out fifty
Speaker 1: three yards to Quez, walkings to the halfs now Hurts,
Speaker 1: he keeps it himself. He starts running. This is when
Speaker 1: he does best. Gets that first down. He keeps going.
Speaker 1: You think he's stepping out and that he's gonna fight
Speaker 1: for it. He goes all the way for a second
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown of the night. How about the defense, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: He's looking, he's looking. He finds uh Darius Slight. That's
Speaker 1: his first interception of two on the night, and again
Speaker 1: he throws it a vantage. Naddox comes up with the
Speaker 1: eye n T. Welcome Eagles fans for the postgame show,
Speaker 1: presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella d Givanni, joined by friend
Speaker 1: Duffy and I Greece. Eagles fans, Hold your ears. Ike.
Speaker 1: I can't coffee at ten thirty, So this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a long night. This is gonna be a fun show.
Speaker 1: I am about defense, right, I had two cups. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts had one of the best games of his career.
Speaker 1: I think that was one of best victories of his career. Well,
Speaker 1: the has been that type of night. I mean, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: the Eagles outstanding big game. I thought it would be
Speaker 1: a great not necessarily a measuring stake, but I thought
Speaker 1: it would be a great opponent to see exactly where
Speaker 1: we were as a football team, seeing if we could
Speaker 1: come back and match what we did last week on
Speaker 1: the road versus Detroit and the opener and the Eagles.
Speaker 1: While the total score wasn't as high as it was
Speaker 1: last week, this was a more dominating performance from both
Speaker 1: sides of the football. Started off with the opening drive.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts flawless put the Eagles up seven to nothing,
Speaker 1: and I think the Minnesota Vikings were or their heels
Speaker 1: from that point moving forward. I mean, Jalen Hurts goes
Speaker 1: ten for ten to start this game right, and then
Speaker 1: you look at the defense. I mean four out of
Speaker 1: the first five drives go three and out on defense.
Speaker 1: Then you come out in the second half three of
Speaker 1: the first four drives and the interceptions. You could not
Speaker 1: ask for a better defensive performance against Justin Jefferson, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling the rest of that Vikings offense. This defense
Speaker 1: came to play. This game was gonna be fun. When
Speaker 1: to break down in the Kickoff show, we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about and this was the talk around the Novacare
Speaker 1: Complex all week was how were the Eagles going to
Speaker 1: distribute the football after aj Brown went off last week? Well?
Speaker 1: How about this one? Two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 1: Eight different players caught at least one pass from Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts DeVante Smith seven receptions for eighty yards on the day.
Speaker 1: That's what you want to see from this offense. He
Speaker 1: has the weapons, that's no secret. But then he was
Speaker 1: spreading it out in the air on the ground. They
Speaker 1: did it all like they really did. I mean he
Speaker 1: and Shane Nike was like handing glove tonight. Great game
Speaker 1: plan coming out, gave Jalen Hurts a lot of options
Speaker 1: to be able to attack this Minnesota defense where Green
Speaker 1: Bay left a lot of points and plays on the
Speaker 1: board last week. Versus this Viking defense, the Eagles were
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that. And I love what
Speaker 1: Jalen was doing the night. I mean he spreading the
Speaker 1: ball all around this deep pass to Queens Watkins and
Speaker 1: then watch this. You watch Jalen get to the outside.
Speaker 1: There's a chance to throw the ball and nobody decides
Speaker 1: to keep it and listen, We're gonna live with Jalen
Speaker 1: being able to do this because he's a tough competitor.
Speaker 1: I know he knows how to judge when to go
Speaker 1: out of bounds versus staying in bounds. And that's an
Speaker 1: opportunity right there where he saw he could get the
Speaker 1: football in the end zone. Laures's head gets in there.
Speaker 1: Just another great play from Jalen Hurson Knight. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you, fran and Ella, what I love most about Jalen.
Speaker 1: He was able to run the ball when the opportunity
Speaker 1: presented itself. But I didn't think, especially in the passing game,
Speaker 1: he didn't look to run the ball tonight. He really
Speaker 1: stayed back there in the pocket. Minnesota played a little
Speaker 1: more zone to night. I thought they would really forces
Speaker 1: him to sit back there and read the coverage, and
Speaker 1: he did that to perfection. I mean you could see
Speaker 1: him back there in the pockets, scanning the field, sometimes
Speaker 1: getting to his third progression even as dump off in
Speaker 1: the flats to the running backs. Just a great game
Speaker 1: by Jalen. Over three hundred total yards in the first half.
Speaker 1: Reminded me what Mike Vick did on a Monday night
Speaker 1: down in Washington back in two thousand and ten. I
Speaker 1: believe it was yeah, where you just could everything he
Speaker 1: did work that night. I thought that's the type of
Speaker 1: game Jalen had, particularly in the first half. According to
Speaker 1: John Conode from Eagles PR, Jalen Hurts the first quarterback
Speaker 1: to have over three hundred yards in a first half
Speaker 1: since Michael Vick in that game. I create good java
Speaker 1: on your part. To me, what's amazing about this game?
Speaker 1: Guys four hundred and eighty six total yards on offense,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles did not have a player go from
Speaker 1: more than eighty two yards rushing or receiving. Eighty two
Speaker 1: yards for Dallas Goddard, he's the leading yardage getter in
Speaker 1: on this offense. Eighty yards from Miles Sanders, eighty yards
Speaker 1: for DeVante Smith, sixty nine yards for Dallas Goddard, sixty
Speaker 1: nine yards for Quez Watkins. You just spread the ball
Speaker 1: around across the board. I think when you look at
Speaker 1: the way they were able to diversify, couldn't get that
Speaker 1: word out of so excited. Diversify this pass game, diversify
Speaker 1: this rushing attack. Just outstanding stuff from this Eagles offense.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to break this film down just because
Speaker 1: they did it in so many different ways, play action, screen, game,
Speaker 1: empty sets. You saw how many slots or reps with
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith in the slot working against linebackers and safeties,
Speaker 1: so you get all the different formations. Just so much
Speaker 1: fun here from Shane Steike and outstanding game plan, outstanding
Speaker 1: execution seven of nine to start the game on third down.
Speaker 1: This is a team that came out, they were prepared,
Speaker 1: and they came through with this game plan. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: Jalen's gonna play like this from the pocket throwing the football,
Speaker 1: gods the limit as far as what this football team
Speaker 1: can do. And we've yet to get into the outstanding
Speaker 1: performance that the defense had starting really the entire game
Speaker 1: to hold this Vikings offense to seven points. Frand mentioned
Speaker 1: it justin Jefferson has he has the argument as the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver and all the football, and he was
Speaker 1: pretty much quiet tonight. Dalwin Cook easily one of the
Speaker 1: top Bob running backs and all the football. You almost
Speaker 1: didn't know he was out there on the field tonight.
Speaker 1: And Kirk Cousins is better than a serviceable quarterback. And
Speaker 1: fans that were worried about the performance from the defense
Speaker 1: last week. I think that was sheer knocking a little
Speaker 1: rust off, not playing as much in the preseason. But
Speaker 1: once you get one game under your belt, you see
Speaker 1: how much of a difference it is. The second week
Speaker 1: for this defense much better tackling out there. Tonight. They
Speaker 1: got out the Kirk Cousins eventually, and more importantly, the
Speaker 1: deepenesse in the passing game showed up tonight. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has the ability to put up a three
Speaker 1: hundred yard passing game on you. We know he's had
Speaker 1: success against us in the past. I thought tonight, Darius Slay,
Speaker 1: My goodness. I mean, this is why you pay that
Speaker 1: guy the big bucks that you pay him. Here's what
Speaker 1: I love about Darius Slay Slay, Big place Slay. I'm sorry, Dan,
Speaker 1: this is what I love about Big Place Slay. He
Speaker 1: wanted number eighteen to night. He wanted to match up
Speaker 1: on number eighteen to night. I didn't see a lot.
Speaker 1: I didn't see as much bracket help and double covers
Speaker 1: as I thought I was going to see in this game.
Speaker 1: Slave did an outstanding job on Justin Jefferson. A night
Speaker 1: was fans if you can't tell. Ike's pretty excited. So
Speaker 1: we have a new feature for you on the show.
Speaker 1: It's called Ask I go to the Facebook comments, ask
Speaker 1: him the questions. He's caffeinated, so I'll be ready to
Speaker 1: go throw him his way. All right, God help us,
Speaker 1: exactly right. All right, We're gonna go over to the
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field where Eagles insider Dave Spidero joins us
Speaker 1: live from that electric atmosphere here tonight. Dave, we started
Speaker 1: talking about Jalen Hurts in the game he put on
Speaker 1: the field tonight. What are your initial thoughts after his performance?
Speaker 1: It's just, I mean brilliance. And I want to point
Speaker 1: to a sequence that I thought was really significant. End
Speaker 1: of the first half, Eagles pinned down at their five
Speaker 1: yard line and Nick Sirianni gives Jalen Hurts the opportunity
Speaker 1: to drive the field. He starts to drive with a
Speaker 1: nine yard run another Kenny Gainwell gets the first down,
Speaker 1: and then he goes to the air and it's sixteen
Speaker 1: yards to Davante Smith, and then it's a couple of
Speaker 1: completions to Dallas Goddard, and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: Eagles are sitting there at the end of the first
Speaker 1: half and Jake Elliot nils a thirty eight yard field
Speaker 1: goal to end at Eagles go up twenty four seven.
Speaker 1: I thought it was so critical because the Eagles were
Speaker 1: pinned back there, and I'm thinking to myself, Okay, look
Speaker 1: if the Eagles are gonna kneel on the ball here
Speaker 1: and Minnesota gets a quick three and out, they've got timeouts,
Speaker 1: they get the ball back at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half, they have good field position, then they get
Speaker 1: the ball at the beginning of the second half. You
Speaker 1: never know how that twenty one seven lead is going
Speaker 1: to go. But look, Jalen Hurts, the way he ran
Speaker 1: the football, the power that he showed on both of
Speaker 1: his touchdown runs, dragging three defensive players into the end
Speaker 1: zone as ike and as you know he talked about
Speaker 1: like throwing from the pocket, just beautiful fran the way
Speaker 1: they Eagles, you know, change the formations and showed such
Speaker 1: creativity and spread the football around. I mean, four hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty six yards against the defense the last week
Speaker 1: flummixed Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. It was
Speaker 1: a great performance and I was just about to write
Speaker 1: that for the second straight week, No no interceptions, no giveaways,
Speaker 1: and then Kenny Gainwell had the ball bounce off his hands.
Speaker 1: But that really wasn't on Jalen at all. It's just
Speaker 1: a magnificent performance from a quarterback who is clearly, clearly
Speaker 1: advanced from where he was last year. It was Gutsie aggressive.
Speaker 1: They cut it loose, Daves. Let's go to the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. Darius Slay, Avonte mad Maddox, TJ
Speaker 1: Edwards with ten total tackles. Would you think of their
Speaker 1: performance today? You know, from the very first player I was,
Speaker 1: I was in the press box with Ike and I
Speaker 1: think the first completion to Jefferson, everybody just swarm to
Speaker 1: the football. And that's what you have to do against
Speaker 1: an offense like this. You you all have to rally
Speaker 1: to the ball. And it sounds like, why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: rally to the football? That's what every defense does, but
Speaker 1: that it really isn't what every defense is. And I
Speaker 1: thought that really was the mindset of this defense tonight.
Speaker 1: They rallied to the football. They did a great job
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota run game. Dalvin Cook contained Adam Feeling
Speaker 1: contained and Darius Slay showed tonight why he is a
Speaker 1: premier cornerback because he not only had two picks and
Speaker 1: four passes defense, he probably had a chance to get
Speaker 1: another one or two interceptions with the football on his hands.
Speaker 1: It was a great performance from the defense, and by
Speaker 1: the way, they were stung all week. I mean they
Speaker 1: they were aware of the criticism from the media, from
Speaker 1: the fans of the performance in Detroit at the podium,
Speaker 1: screwty questions. I can ask a question, but you see
Speaker 1: the private as you delayed everybody but football and all that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thank what up? What up? I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: started here. It's like all the presses coming in now.
Speaker 1: Do you have more incentive because it was justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: on the other side tonight. I mean, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: say it like that, but because I'm always eager to go,
Speaker 1: I'm always ready to go at all time, I won't
Speaker 1: take no matchup lightly. But he is one of the
Speaker 1: best in the world, and I'm one of the best
Speaker 1: in the world too, So I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: the matchup. Story of giving James heart in the ball again. Well, honestly,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know he was then the game until
Speaker 1: they put him on a gum or trying and you know,
Speaker 1: he one of my favorite players. And you know, but shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm like why not. You know what I'm saying, I
Speaker 1: get a chance to meet James Harding with a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame basketball player. If I make a play to night,
Speaker 1: definitely a pig. I gotta give me the ball, man,
Speaker 1: because he really respecting the league, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Like I said, um so, I was like, hey, it's
Speaker 1: a good opportunity that can get you more respect nationally.
Speaker 1: I mean I got a lot of respect, but you
Speaker 1: know how how I'd always go. Man, the older you get,
Speaker 1: they think you can falling out buying one of them. Guys. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm still at a league level. I deserve a lot
Speaker 1: of respecting lea. I think the league respect me enough.
Speaker 1: It just be the media helping you guys friends from
Speaker 1: wrestling and helps you guys. Oh yeah, man, you know
Speaker 1: they always be aggressive. You know coach One thing about
Speaker 1: coach Man, he he's trying to put up points. Man,
Speaker 1: I think we do always. The thing is about us
Speaker 1: if we just trying to stop them from scoring, so
Speaker 1: we know our offense is what they're capable of doing.
Speaker 1: So with them putting their foot down like that, and going,
Speaker 1: you know, putting twenty four points up, we expect to win.
Speaker 1: You're very act on social media. Are you aware of
Speaker 1: how much like and your defense some types of guests
Speaker 1: when when your performances are trying to up in the
Speaker 1: points totals. Yeah, I mean understand it. But you know,
Speaker 1: like we was talking about as in the group, man,
Speaker 1: we know, h our first game that was us you
Speaker 1: know as a unit. You know, we didn't tackle well,
Speaker 1: we didn't execute well, and I got a lot to
Speaker 1: do with just you know, preseason. But it's still no excuse.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not getting that's out there playing a
Speaker 1: gatting just giving us the call. So we just got
Speaker 1: to execute it. And we was in he was in
Speaker 1: a lot of great situation that we just didn't make
Speaker 1: the play. But tonight, you know it was on other foot.
Speaker 1: We know we had out in our mind set to
Speaker 1: go out here and dominate and play this game with
Speaker 1: a lot of effort, a lot of talent, and guys
Speaker 1: was out there just executing their job. Man, and um
Speaker 1: that's what we do, and man, coach put us in
Speaker 1: a great position to win. I would do with it.
Speaker 1: You guys just shut down that receiver for they're pretty good,
Speaker 1: you're feeling, yeah, and Jefferson, it's a very talented group. Man,
Speaker 1: They're very talent. You know. You see what he was,
Speaker 1: what they capable of doing. But uh, you know we
Speaker 1: got talented guys too, you know, jb uh Tay. You
Speaker 1: know we got great rush. You know myself got helps,
Speaker 1: you know we got you know, we got everybody it
Speaker 1: know they we got a good group. Man. We could
Speaker 1: really be a great group, man, because team to keep working.
Speaker 1: You know, CD is just man, he is. You see
Speaker 1: him flying around out there to day he's going crazy
Speaker 1: and uh like yeah, but we waited for any challenge, man,
Speaker 1: and that's why that's why we all here for it
Speaker 1: to be the best. Like what do you think of
Speaker 1: I really believe he could don't now usually think he
Speaker 1: couldn't dunt, But that vert showed me he might con dunt.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is through a can't he palm
Speaker 1: the ball? I don't know about that. He might have
Speaker 1: to catch Ali or something under the teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC right now, I think as good as anybody. Teams
Speaker 1: be feeling you guys right now, No, it's early, you know,
Speaker 1: but we got to keep going, man. We were still
Speaker 1: left a lot out there, so we gotta forget go
Speaker 1: clean up some tape. You know, it's a cute a
Speaker 1: lot better and continue to keep moving forward on your
Speaker 1: second tech in hand. Zon Zack's coming in to replace
Speaker 1: you because of euro real old yeah or whatever? Did
Speaker 1: you wave him off their yeah? Wav a mouth. I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a tough dude, you know. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to put him in that position right now.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a clutch situation. No office just turned
Speaker 1: the ball over on it. But a great player's rise
Speaker 1: at that time of the moment, and that's what in
Speaker 1: my eyes, I just like, all right, so you can't
Speaker 1: do that, you know, uh, go out here execute, you know.
Speaker 1: And um it was in the red zone thankfully, huh
Speaker 1: not just felt awkward. I'll be all right, you know,
Speaker 1: tough dude, he's I may just said, must respect man.
Speaker 1: He was shot that I gave it to him too,
Speaker 1: But I told him, man, like you one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: expect your game. Uh shoot, I'm just looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing him doing the same thing, you know, going crazy
Speaker 1: to get three interceptions and deep in your own territory,
Speaker 1: have a big of an impact. Of a matter. Do
Speaker 1: you do you guys feel when that happens, great, man,
Speaker 1: we believe it. Or we had a great zo plan
Speaker 1: and executed, you know, turn over the ball. So what
Speaker 1: I start is just not a let him score. So
Speaker 1: every time we're out there, they don't get nothing, but
Speaker 1: if it is something to gona be three. And they
Speaker 1: kept putting the ball in the air in the red
Speaker 1: zone and we got great ball home. So we just
Speaker 1: attacked the ball. Check. In addition to the text, you
Speaker 1: guys were aggressive, people used that ain't told points ball
Speaker 1: the ball. That's always But you know this this office
Speaker 1: is a little bit more different than last week or
Speaker 1: last week, like a offense that was coundence a lot.
Speaker 1: So this game right here, we could have oppressed a
Speaker 1: lot more, could have get a little good active. So
Speaker 1: that's why we made a lot of plays. I d
Speaker 1: Line was making great rushes, you know, making him a
Speaker 1: little nervous back there. You know, we're really good at
Speaker 1: big and chucking and ducking. I should have had three.
Speaker 1: You talked to Jefferson, He talked to you. Uh, I
Speaker 1: mean we tried it up doing a game. I just
Speaker 1: told him respect, like I really honestly believe he's the
Speaker 1: second best receive in this league. He could honestly take
Speaker 1: over the first one even know if he continue to
Speaker 1: keep doing what he's doing. But uh, Tay Adams pretty good.
Speaker 1: That good too, so it'll be harder to to take
Speaker 1: that spot. But he's a really talented guy man like
Speaker 1: UH gave him his much respect because I respect every player. Man.
Speaker 1: What he done in the past three years is unmatched
Speaker 1: and he's very time to do. Man, all he did
Speaker 1: it does make me a better player today. Maybe want
Speaker 1: to player and uh and um think tap uh you know,
Speaker 1: saluted his hat off of him, but uh, yeah it
Speaker 1: was good though good bat started with the ball for
Speaker 1: the second or second Ill kept that one. I'll probably
Speaker 1: will get it to my son because he jacked his
Speaker 1: favorite receiver, so I gotta give it to him. After
Speaker 1: the first pass break the first pass break up, it
Speaker 1: kind of came over and then celebrated with you guys.
Speaker 1: What did he say? And who? Uh Sirianni seemed like
Speaker 1: he came over and celebrated with you guys on the
Speaker 1: sideline the first what the first pass break up? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I mean sho you just ob keep doing what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: Go ball out coach coach Hey, Mike, Hey, listen brother
Speaker 1: captal media here. Now, I think what stood out to
Speaker 1: you and that about Jails performance? Yeah, big time performance
Speaker 1: by him. Um. You know obviously in the run game
Speaker 1: and in the past. In the past game he great
Speaker 1: run he had hit the both of his touchdown runs
Speaker 1: were outstanding runs. Really the one I know it was
Speaker 1: only four yards out, but it reminded me of that
Speaker 1: New Orleans one he made last year. So big time
Speaker 1: performance in a big time stage. Yeah. Same. I mean
Speaker 1: how many yards they have three hund three thirty three
Speaker 1: with eighty three percent you know the stats. So that
Speaker 1: field goal, that's the that he answered the wild questions,
Speaker 1: melting the stades of the pocket. He gets hit by
Speaker 1: a big guy, was it? You know inside three guys
Speaker 1: had a part of the field. He is a no
Speaker 1: throwing two. What can you say about I guess that
Speaker 1: play and what he did. Yeah, that that was a
Speaker 1: huge play with you know, we had a time out
Speaker 1: and with fifteen seconds left. Um, that was that was
Speaker 1: the one that obviously got us in the field goal
Speaker 1: to get those three points at the at the end
Speaker 1: of the half. So he was in complete control that
Speaker 1: whole drive. Um, and you know, I thought that play
Speaker 1: was outstanding. Right if if a guy, when a guy
Speaker 1: makes a play with a little bit of presence in
Speaker 1: his face and makes that type of throw, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a huge play. Read The coverage perfectly went
Speaker 1: with the with the plays. You know, we ran that
Speaker 1: play earlier in the drive and DeVante, Uh, it was
Speaker 1: slightly different, but the ball went to Davante. Then you
Speaker 1: get a different coverage and it goes to Dallas. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's just being a complete control and it's
Speaker 1: taking what the defense gives you. And it was a
Speaker 1: big time play by him that got his points. You
Speaker 1: put in the last year, did you say that the
Speaker 1: game at this point has caused slowing down for him
Speaker 1: when all but compared to last year, he's put in
Speaker 1: so much work, and of course you know it has
Speaker 1: it's it's slow, it's slowing down, but it should right
Speaker 1: for him at this point because you know, he's a
Speaker 1: year out, he's a year ahead of you know, he's
Speaker 1: a year further into his process and we're talking about
Speaker 1: getting better every day and he lives that. He's one
Speaker 1: of our captains, he's one of our leaders and he
Speaker 1: lives the the the theory of getting better every day
Speaker 1: and and that's why you're seeing major improvements because of
Speaker 1: the type of person and the type of the player
Speaker 1: he is. How does this advantage of the play calling
Speaker 1: that the change wasn't made mid season? I'm sorry? How
Speaker 1: much did it benefit the offensive play calling? That shame
Speaker 1: was that you guys are don't come in and not
Speaker 1: have to change things like you did in the middle.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't a huge ship last year, but
Speaker 1: it was still a shifting Yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was all that all that quite that different.
Speaker 1: Just let me be in more control as far as
Speaker 1: the situations of the game. UM like he saw us
Speaker 1: kind of go down the field and and we're able
Speaker 1: to utilize our time the UM in the in the
Speaker 1: two minute drill, you bock area. It's a huge play. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, we obviously talked to our offense a lot
Speaker 1: about you know, we talked to our offense an awful
Speaker 1: lot about if there's a turnover, we gotta go and
Speaker 1: make that tackle, just like our offense did. And you
Speaker 1: know that we have a ton of team meetings about
Speaker 1: situational football, and that's a situation within the game that
Speaker 1: you got to be able to react and go and
Speaker 1: and it's somehow got into Aaron's head too right to
Speaker 1: be like, I gotta get this guy down and let
Speaker 1: the defense play defense here. So, um, you know, that's
Speaker 1: just all the situational work we've done. Obviously, that's great
Speaker 1: speed by by Aaron to track him down, in great
Speaker 1: effort by Aaron to track him down, and then our
Speaker 1: defense got to turn over with Avanta right after that.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, that's just guys, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: given of themselves to their teammates too, like to track
Speaker 1: him down like that as a heck of a tackle.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure I knew that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't see we don't his his his jets
Speaker 1: are not on display very often, and so I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I knew that it was. That was impressive rugby guys.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm sure there's some tape somewhere. We'll
Speaker 1: find it. We'll find the tape of what yours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was. You know, you can't just go in with
Speaker 1: with one plan defensive. First of all, the defensive staff
Speaker 1: did an unbelievable job of, um you know, with the plan. Um,
Speaker 1: and what the guys did an unbelievable job of executing it. Um.
Speaker 1: And you don't just go in with one, you know,
Speaker 1: put all your eggs in one basket, right, And so
Speaker 1: there was different there was different disguises, there were different coverages.
Speaker 1: But making no mistake about it, it it was it was
Speaker 1: too It was a lot of it was to stop
Speaker 1: number eighteen. He's a heck of a football player, um,
Speaker 1: and so but when Slay had to cover him one
Speaker 1: on one, he didn't obviously did an unbelievable job. When
Speaker 1: you when you bring all the guys that on Slay's
Speaker 1: second interception, really on the one before that too, right, Um,
Speaker 1: that that could have been an interception. Um, you can't help.
Speaker 1: And there's there's no help when you bring all those guys, right,
Speaker 1: you're in cover zero and and Slay got sticky in
Speaker 1: the coverage and made an interception. And so and that's
Speaker 1: what we see Slay, do you know, over and over again.
Speaker 1: He One of the reasons I I always think that
Speaker 1: our receivers are taking steps in the right direction and
Speaker 1: getting better is because of the work they have to
Speaker 1: do to go against Slay and James and practice and
Speaker 1: Avante and Zach McPherson and all those guys. So, um, yeah, Slay,
Speaker 1: that's why he's one of our captains. The way he plays,
Speaker 1: the way he studies, the way he leads for the defense,
Speaker 1: and bounce back after the way last weekend. Yeah yeah, obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: it wasn't up to our standard last week. You know,
Speaker 1: all the defensive players be the first ones to tell
Speaker 1: you that, and our our job as coaches to put
Speaker 1: him in the best position we possibly can. Um. And
Speaker 1: so that was an important bounce back game for us defensively,
Speaker 1: and I think that you know, again, it was a
Speaker 1: it was a full team defensive game. And we talked
Speaker 1: about Slay, you know, the job he did on Jefferson, Um,
Speaker 1: but the coach is putting the guys in the right
Speaker 1: position and the assault of the pocket that that our
Speaker 1: our front uh, you know, our front guys in our
Speaker 1: front seven really got with some of the pressures. And
Speaker 1: then when it was four main rush on the opening
Speaker 1: script was focus point. Um. Yeah you know what we
Speaker 1: what we did there Obviously you saw we went no huddle, um,
Speaker 1: and we wanted to go get a fast start. That
Speaker 1: that that right there, Um, you know there was there
Speaker 1: were some things that happened in that drive. It wasn't
Speaker 1: exclusively to go no huddle, but the way the drive
Speaker 1: was going, UM, we adjusted and we just said, all right,
Speaker 1: let's keep going with us. And and Shane did a
Speaker 1: great job of calling it. Our guys did a great
Speaker 1: job by executing it. UM. And we felt like we
Speaker 1: had them on their heels UM in that scenario, and
Speaker 1: we felt like they were tired. Now we were tired too,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt, right, UM. You know a twelve play
Speaker 1: drive I think it was to start to start the game. UM,
Speaker 1: And we were tired too. But our guys did a
Speaker 1: really nice job of you know, being able to finish
Speaker 1: that drive off. And there were penalties and we got
Speaker 1: to address the penalties that there was too many of those, UM,
Speaker 1: but we were able to you know, we were able
Speaker 1: to dig ourselves out of that hole. Uh. Jalen made
Speaker 1: a great play to a j um and so it
Speaker 1: was executing on third down and then going a little
Speaker 1: bit of tempo. UH. Last week that phrase complete control
Speaker 1: with jaling Um. He's still a young quarterback. You've been
Speaker 1: around with a lot of better on quarterbacks. That's that
Speaker 1: quartad surprise you at all how much control he who
Speaker 1: you know, I think that it doesn't surprise me in
Speaker 1: the sense of that's how practice has looked, right, that
Speaker 1: he's went to the right place with the football, you know,
Speaker 1: versus different looks. And so a great indicator how we're
Speaker 1: going to play in games is how we practice. And
Speaker 1: and not just this week, right, not just last week,
Speaker 1: but also throughout training, camping and OTAs. And so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say I'm surprised. I've seen the growth of them.
Speaker 1: And again that we talk about this so much with Jalen,
Speaker 1: like why is Jalen going to continue to reach a ceiling?
Speaker 1: Because he's tough, he's got high football character, um, and
Speaker 1: he loves football, and so, uh, he's going to reach
Speaker 1: a ceiling. And it's it's fun watching him grow. Second quarter,
Speaker 1: he made a couple through they're kind of dropping back
Speaker 1: in that Zil you know throwing. How big is that? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was huge. Again. Um, it was just again taking
Speaker 1: what the defense gave him and and finding you know,
Speaker 1: obviously that play has more than you know, just DeVante.
Speaker 1: It goes to the next one and he gets to
Speaker 1: you know, maybe DeVante was the first read. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was the second read, but he was getting to the
Speaker 1: where he needed to go, and again he just took
Speaker 1: what the what was there for him, right And some
Speaker 1: of the some of the coverage they were playing, they
Speaker 1: were clouding on the outside. So when you when you
Speaker 1: when you play cover two on the outside, it takes
Speaker 1: away some of the outside throws at times, and so
Speaker 1: he has to react and take what the defense obviously
Speaker 1: gives him, and he did that a good job of
Speaker 1: that tonight. I'm sorry, shoot, I mean eighty three percent passing,
Speaker 1: you know, with that many attempts when it was the
Speaker 1: twenty six thirty three. Yeah, that's pretty daring impressive. Every hey,
Speaker 1: y'all doing after a week no catches? There? What was
Speaker 1: it like being part the offense early offen the target
Speaker 1: of the first playoff game from the Eagles and being
Speaker 1: in front the rust of the games. Uh? Like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, when the ball comes to you gotta make
Speaker 1: the most of the opportunities. So I mean just going
Speaker 1: out there us as an offense, it's cute, and I
Speaker 1: mean everybody got their opportunities and everybody made the most
Speaker 1: of them. I mean a call week that play, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go to you on the first play. I mean
Speaker 1: you always script out your your openers of your place.
Speaker 1: I mean every we all knew where the play was
Speaker 1: stopping the opener. Yeah, thanks for Brandy. Um, you gotta
Speaker 1: watch the film. I feel like right now I did,
Speaker 1: But I mean you gotta watch the film and see
Speaker 1: how I look. Oh, I mean him just stacking on
Speaker 1: what he did last week. I mean him continue to
Speaker 1: come in day in and just doing his job. I
Speaker 1: mean going out there making everybody better, holding everybody accountable,
Speaker 1: running the offense. Seem to get a lot of separations
Speaker 1: about not just use the offense as the hole. Was
Speaker 1: there something about Minnesota's defense that you guys kind of
Speaker 1: knew coming in that you could have exported? Oh, I said,
Speaker 1: that's all about our preparation. I mean the way we
Speaker 1: prepared this week. Everybody came in DoD they're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: locked in on small details, put in the second quarter
Speaker 1: mile of the think as you guys were driving down,
Speaker 1: can you kind of just talking about, Um, that was
Speaker 1: us being on the same page. I mean we went
Speaker 1: out there, they called to play, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: he made a check and we were on the same page.
Speaker 1: So that comes down to the communication part of it,
Speaker 1: and him just trusting to me, me trusting him that
Speaker 1: we were going to be on the same page and
Speaker 1: making it happen as far as just from the first
Speaker 1: um Like like I said last week, I mean, you
Speaker 1: never know whose game is going to be. Today, it
Speaker 1: just happened to be everybody. Everybody did what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and I mean next week you never know.
Speaker 1: So just being ready when your number is called and
Speaker 1: making the most of the opportunities everybody awash. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's it's tough for defenses. I mean you can't
Speaker 1: key in on one guy. You never know who the
Speaker 1: ball is going to. You never know what to expect
Speaker 1: a lie. I mean, you always want to go out
Speaker 1: there and set the tone. And I mean that's the
Speaker 1: main thing, whether it's the offense going out there first,
Speaker 1: the defense going out there first, you gotta be the
Speaker 1: tone setter. So I mean we were out there first
Speaker 1: and that's what we did. Call. What kind of message
Speaker 1: does Shane have for you this week? The leading up
Speaker 1: in the game in turns, I mean, nothing was different.
Speaker 1: Just making the most of your opportunity. I mean when
Speaker 1: the ball comes, so you can catch it and do
Speaker 1: what you do we need to come to UM. I
Speaker 1: mean we knew what it was. As an offense, we
Speaker 1: knew we're gonna do, knew what the game plan was.
Speaker 1: I mean we just went out to execute it. Oh.
Speaker 1: I watched the defense a lot. I mean they did
Speaker 1: what they had to do. I mean, defense held it down.
Speaker 1: I mean that was the message this week. UM, just
Speaker 1: going out there, you know, keep stacking. Last week. UM,
Speaker 1: as offense and defense, we both felt like we could
Speaker 1: have did better. I mean tonight we went out there
Speaker 1: and we did that. He was supposed to have three picks. Man.
Speaker 1: I told him he gotta get on drugs with me.
Speaker 1: We gotta get got kissed him. Especially when they're giving
Speaker 1: them to you. You guys want an offensive. UM. I
Speaker 1: mean it confuses the defense because you can't just sit
Speaker 1: up there and get the calls that they want to.
Speaker 1: So just pushing the tempo, always keeping them on their toes.
Speaker 1: I mean it helps us a lot of games with
Speaker 1: ling Across grows call and the pros. What's different about
Speaker 1: him now than the guy you played with initially in
Speaker 1: Aliba hall Um. I wouldn't say nothing is really different.
Speaker 1: It's just a mental approach that he has to the game.
Speaker 1: I mean he's mentally sharp and everything that he does,
Speaker 1: and I mean that's what separates him. Good. Thanks, thank y'all.
Speaker 1: We heard from Slagh Sirianni DeVante Smith. How about that outfit?
Speaker 1: Like the guys were pulling up tonight from Monday and
Speaker 1: Night football in some drip. I think we have some
Speaker 1: images of them walking into Lincoln Financial Field tonight. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look the one thing maybe not there he
Speaker 1: goes there he is, that's what he was wearing with
Speaker 1: request nationally televised game. I mean, look at this, this
Speaker 1: this is uh. First of all, I'm old. I'm too
Speaker 1: old to be wearing any of these types of outfits.
Speaker 1: They started making suits with shorts, and that's when I
Speaker 1: knew I was too old. Dante considers himself a little
Speaker 1: bit of a fashionista, and this way this is probably
Speaker 1: a good look for him, probably a good look for him.
Speaker 1: I like the color. It's in seasoned little salmon there right,
Speaker 1: that's what he's talking with. Who we got here, CJJ? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so I got both receivers rolling in here. Listen. I
Speaker 1: like the double breast to look right there. From CJ,
Speaker 1: I mean from quiz walkings. That's a nice look there,
Speaker 1: and devote pretty good. But I couldn't pull that off.
Speaker 1: But he's much younger than I am, so he can
Speaker 1: pull it off. He's got the nice thin legs. They
Speaker 1: look good in a little short suit sets. That's the
Speaker 1: point I'm kind of worried about on the legs. A
Speaker 1: little bit too much there, a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm just staying out of that conversation. I've
Speaker 1: got nothing to at all that one. Let I handle
Speaker 1: the fashion analysis. You take care of that. I stay
Speaker 1: my lane here. Then I'll get pointed out as being old,
Speaker 1: right because because the fashion today is so man, it's
Speaker 1: so out there that that you almost have to be
Speaker 1: a little different um as far as what you're putting
Speaker 1: on coming to the games. And so you know when
Speaker 1: I back when I was playing, it's a suit and tide.
Speaker 1: That's how you can't the game. Nowadays, man, it's it's
Speaker 1: you don't know if they're going through the game or
Speaker 1: they're going to a club. Get off my lawns. A
Speaker 1: good look for the young fellows. You can see the
Speaker 1: other looks like the Eagles were sporting on all of
Speaker 1: our social platforms, well, we have certain news segment called
Speaker 1: ask Ike. So fans have been in the Facebook comments
Speaker 1: asking like a bunch of questions. We have our first one.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we got. I what surprises you most
Speaker 1: about the team in these first two games? That's from
Speaker 1: Andre Cruz. What surprises me the most? Um, I gotta
Speaker 1: say how well Jalen hurts and how much he has
Speaker 1: developed at the quarterback position. You know, you hear about
Speaker 1: it during the off season that he's getting better. Coach
Speaker 1: Sirianni talked about this a few months ago when they
Speaker 1: first saw him in the OTA's they saw a difference
Speaker 1: in his throwing motion, in his mechanics. But as a
Speaker 1: as an observer that's not around the team as much.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't know until you actually get a chance
Speaker 1: to watch him playing the games. And through the first
Speaker 1: two games, my goodness, he is operating the quarterback position
Speaker 1: with total efficiency, whether he's running the ball or he's
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. I'm loving what I'm seeing. And last
Speaker 1: week Detroit thought they could speed up his process of
Speaker 1: thinking by sending extra blitzes add him, and he was
Speaker 1: able to burn them with his legs. Last week. So
Speaker 1: I thought Minnesota would come in and try something a
Speaker 1: little different, play a little more zone. They did. He
Speaker 1: set back there in the pocket, scanned the field, made
Speaker 1: it to a second and third progressions that time, and
Speaker 1: really through the ball with precision. He was decisive and
Speaker 1: where he wanted to go with the football, and when
Speaker 1: he had to extend plays, he was doing it keeping
Speaker 1: his eyes down the field. He has really operated the
Speaker 1: first two weeks man like one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in football and he is still only twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: And what I love about it too, it goes back
Speaker 1: to what we talked about the offensive secret seeing from
Speaker 1: a play design standpoint, all the different things offensively that
Speaker 1: this team did calling play tonight, screen game play action, RPOs,
Speaker 1: empty sets, moving guys around. There is nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: making it easy for the quarterback. When you go back
Speaker 1: and look at some of the best seasons with Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers, and you go right down the
Speaker 1: list of all the best quarterbacks, Josh Allen, all those
Speaker 1: teams were high up, and all of those things I
Speaker 1: just brought up. Some of those things really make things
Speaker 1: easier for the quarterback, keep things more well defined. And
Speaker 1: I thought we saw a lot of that tonight from
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense. Well, real quick, Eagles fans, you can
Speaker 1: get to those Facebook comments, ask some questions. We'll keep
Speaker 1: answering them as the show goes on. We're still talking
Speaker 1: about Jalen Hurts a little bit. I think it's important
Speaker 1: to point out too that he wasn't the leading rusher
Speaker 1: on this Eagles offense today. Last season, he was the
Speaker 1: leading rusher for much of the season, especially while Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders was out. I think that's important to note because
Speaker 1: it shows both the development in his passing game but
Speaker 1: also shows that they're spreading it out on the ground
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, and that's what you need to do.
Speaker 1: We don't mind Jalen using his legs because it's an
Speaker 1: asset that he has that a lot of quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this league don't have. But he has the ability to
Speaker 1: extend plays, pick up first downs with his legs. But
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he was back there throwing
Speaker 1: the ball tonight, and it gave them when they got
Speaker 1: to lead, an opportunity to give Miles Sanders an opportunity
Speaker 1: to run the football. Kenny Gainwell being involved in the
Speaker 1: running game. Boston Scott has some explosive plays there in
Speaker 1: the first half. I mean, this Eagles offense is going
Speaker 1: to be difficult to contain when they're operating in a
Speaker 1: way that they had the first two weeks. Hurst starts
Speaker 1: ten for ten for one hundred and fifty three yards,
Speaker 1: two total touchdowns. That first in completion was actually a
Speaker 1: beautiful throw layering over the defender the right of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Good or Tans. It falls incomplete when the defender
Speaker 1: makes a nice job, does a nice job poking it out.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at Janalen again, the decisiveness,
Speaker 1: the ability to spread the ball around to a variety
Speaker 1: of different targets, that was what was most impressive from
Speaker 1: him for me in this game. I'm excited to go
Speaker 1: back and watch the film. I believe we have another
Speaker 1: question from Mike, Is that correct? Another asking? Here we go, Hey,
Speaker 1: how does this team match up with the four team
Speaker 1: in the archives? Like I got a long way back
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen team, the O four team. You're coming up
Speaker 1: with the twenty year anniversary. Now, oh yeah, will I
Speaker 1: will say I will say this, uh that that team
Speaker 1: obviously was a special team. You're talking about ten Pro
Speaker 1: Bowlers on that team. This team isn't that far from
Speaker 1: that team. There are a lot of similarities. A J.
Speaker 1: Brown t o uh, you got Donovan with Jalen over there,
Speaker 1: the multiple weapons you know. Obviously Westbrook I thought that
Speaker 1: was his first year, is really being a special player
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And while we don't necessarily have a
Speaker 1: Brian Westbrook on our team, the fact that we have
Speaker 1: a collection of running backs that can give us that
Speaker 1: production that works just as well. Defensively, I think they're
Speaker 1: just as good. I mean, they can be very opportunistic.
Speaker 1: I mean we had guys like Jeremiah Trotter and our
Speaker 1: secondary was great that year. Obviously, Brian Dawkins was in
Speaker 1: that secondary. There isn't another Brian Dawkins. But I think
Speaker 1: when you look at the overall unit, I like what
Speaker 1: I saw tonight and I expect them to continue to
Speaker 1: get better as the season goes along. The one thing
Speaker 1: we had at that time was the experience and the
Speaker 1: seasoning from the prior years of being a playoff team
Speaker 1: every year. So when you added TiO and Javon Curse
Speaker 1: to that team, it just took us to a whole
Speaker 1: other level confidence wise as well. I think this team
Speaker 1: is starting to realize how good they can be. They
Speaker 1: didn't come in to the season like we did that year,
Speaker 1: feeling like we were the bullies in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: They came in saying we got something to prove and
Speaker 1: they've shown that the first two weeks. So I would
Speaker 1: say by the time this season is over with, they
Speaker 1: could be just as good as that OH four team.
Speaker 1: We have. The quarterback himself, Jalen Hurts at the podium, M, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you think that's I think? Thank you? I think
Speaker 1: for us, UM, I think we just came out and
Speaker 1: we played very efficient. You know, I talked about last week, UM.
Speaker 1: Last week I talked about the inconsistencies and the urgency,
Speaker 1: the communication and the operation, and that starts with me
Speaker 1: and UM. Obviously we operated at a high level UM
Speaker 1: early on in the game, UM, and I think that's
Speaker 1: something that we have to be able to sustain throughout
Speaker 1: the whole entire game, regardless of the situation. UM. And
Speaker 1: that and that's that that starts with everybody. UM. But
Speaker 1: I think as a whole, as a team coming out here,
Speaker 1: UM playing on Monday night football. I remember what happened
Speaker 1: the last time we played on Monday night football. UM,
Speaker 1: han't forgot about that. And to be able to come
Speaker 1: out here perform at a high level as a team, UM,
Speaker 1: that's big for us to perform at a high level
Speaker 1: and still leave so much money on the table. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure y'all saw the little video in the locker
Speaker 1: room last week. It's exactly exactly the same message this week, UM,
Speaker 1: in terms of the standard not being met, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think, UM, like I said, we have a
Speaker 1: standard for ourselves and it only rises. UM a hell
Speaker 1: of a game tonight, but there's a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot to learn from. I mean as a football team, UM,
Speaker 1: as a collective group, we got to learn from it.
Speaker 1: At playmakers like you spread the ball around kind of
Speaker 1: the way the offenses whatever, whatever whatever's getting as wins. UM.
Speaker 1: That that's how it rolls. You know, I've said all
Speaker 1: week that I just want to win. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't care how it looks. I don't care if that's
Speaker 1: me rushing a lot, that's Miles rushing a lot, that
Speaker 1: whatever it looks like, whatever it takes, UM, whatever it
Speaker 1: takes you guys, Tampa, I just have to help you
Speaker 1: and the offense as a whole. UM. I just think
Speaker 1: It's something that you have to be able to do sometimes. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, we it allows us to play fast, UM,
Speaker 1: and and react to what the defense is given us.
Speaker 1: You were firing early in that game, when a while
Speaker 1: out and they complete past at one point, did you
Speaker 1: kind of feel like you run around the UM? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I guess when you watch the game, you
Speaker 1: kind of get a sense of how it's going. I
Speaker 1: guess when you're in the midst of the game, I'm
Speaker 1: so locked in on just trying to do my job. UM,
Speaker 1: execute my assignments, get the ball to where it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be, execute the the technique of the play, UM,
Speaker 1: And it was. It was very efficient at night, you know.
Speaker 1: And I that's the type of footbody we wanted to play.
Speaker 1: We want to play consistently. We want to want to
Speaker 1: be that way consistently. UM. Like I said, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: still thinking about how we finished the game, UM, and
Speaker 1: how we finish the game, it's not a reflection of
Speaker 1: how we start the game. And that's something that we
Speaker 1: have to learn from and build off of and UM
Speaker 1: be better at moving forward. You spoke about anything slowing
Speaker 1: down a little bit for you the second year and ya,
Speaker 1: that's you're unifinding that in the games. Is I think
Speaker 1: one of the biggest improvements or things you're seeing here. Um.
Speaker 1: I think. I think everything comes with time, you know,
Speaker 1: and I've I mean it's the same things that I've
Speaker 1: always said. It all comes with time. UM. And as
Speaker 1: time goes you you you find more comfort in what
Speaker 1: you're doing, you find more of a niche of what
Speaker 1: that looks like for you. UM. And I think as
Speaker 1: an offense, UM, as a collective group coach Sirianni Stike, UM,
Speaker 1: Brian myself, we put so much, so much work in
Speaker 1: UM to trying to make things efficient. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be efficient. UM. You know I said it earlier. No, man,
Speaker 1: there's an island. You must draw your strength from others. UM.
Speaker 1: I can't perform without the other ten on the field, UM,
Speaker 1: and the same on the other side. They need me
Speaker 1: to do my job for them to eat. So UM,
Speaker 1: it's a collective group. UM. It was a big team win,
Speaker 1: a big time team win. UM. There's something that will
Speaker 1: definitely enjoy. But we have a short week and we're
Speaker 1: headed to DC. UM, so we'll enjoy it for a
Speaker 1: little bit and get ready for the next opponent. Rocket
Speaker 1: Row teams harder than the whole year after the game. Now,
Speaker 1: that's nice, that's nice. That that's that's Philly. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, that's Philly. I know the support I
Speaker 1: have for the Sixers, UM, talking to Bryce, UM, meeting
Speaker 1: up the process, you know what I'm saying, supporting them, UM,
Speaker 1: having that type of environment in the city. UM, that's
Speaker 1: a winning culture, you know. And UM, it's great to
Speaker 1: see those guys out there and night. UM. That's what
Speaker 1: that's what Philly is. That's what Philly is all about. UM.
Speaker 1: You mentioned before about being in the second year in
Speaker 1: the offense. How much does it benefit you having himaged
Speaker 1: your play caller now for the for the second straight
Speaker 1: teas Um, Like I said, it's it's it's the first
Speaker 1: time it's ever been this way since I was in
Speaker 1: high school. UM, And in high school, I saw the
Speaker 1: benefits of it. UM, So I guess you can say
Speaker 1: you can see the benefits of it now, not just
Speaker 1: for me, but as a group. You know, everything in
Speaker 1: this game we do. If you want to have success,
Speaker 1: you have to number one, be on the same page.
Speaker 1: That's the first step. That's the first thing you have
Speaker 1: to do, UM, and I think that's something that we've
Speaker 1: definitely done a better job of. And if we're not
Speaker 1: in the same page, we get there, UM, and we
Speaker 1: do it in a productive, productive way. So UM, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a collective team effort, UM, coaches and players,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a collective effort of us
Speaker 1: trying to find the best way to get wins for
Speaker 1: this football team and just take a day by day
Speaker 1: with it. The last drive for the first half, you
Speaker 1: guys got out of that well, I think I think
Speaker 1: I think for us UM, for coach to have the
Speaker 1: trust in us, you know, you'd probably see some teams okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta lead, let's just bleed it out, you know.
Speaker 1: But coach had trust in us UM to go out
Speaker 1: there execute, get the ball down the field and ultimately
Speaker 1: have one of the best kickers in the game, Jake
Speaker 1: go out there and duty does best. And that's great
Speaker 1: execution right there. UM. I want to point out how
Speaker 1: well the defense played. Um. They have a big time
Speaker 1: receiver over there, a great quarterback and UM they played
Speaker 1: well all night, played well all night. UM. So it
Speaker 1: was it's a great it's a great team win. Um,
Speaker 1: you should showed up. I tell you what left me
Speaker 1: most unpleased was how we finished the game, my offense,
Speaker 1: how we finish the game kind of you know, how
Speaker 1: to keep our foot on the gas. What do you
Speaker 1: when you start the way your game you started personally
Speaker 1: until running touch downs? Get verybody to have that kind
Speaker 1: of UM, I don't. I don't think it matters how
Speaker 1: we score as long as we're putting points on the board.
Speaker 1: And I think that word execution, Um, are we executing execution?
Speaker 1: Fuse emotion? You know what I mean? When you do
Speaker 1: your job, when you're doing it at a high level,
Speaker 1: everybody feeds off of that. Everybody turns up off of that.
Speaker 1: It fuse emotion. UM. And we were able to go
Speaker 1: out there and play the type of ball we play
Speaker 1: early on UM. Every everybody that there's a different type
Speaker 1: of belief. UM. So it's it's something to definitely build
Speaker 1: off of. I'm I'm pointing out the good in the
Speaker 1: path from this game, but it's definitely something to build
Speaker 1: off of. UM. Like last week, I feel like, UM,
Speaker 1: I feel like from last week, this week we took
Speaker 1: we took steps as a football team. UM, A little
Speaker 1: more crisp Um, not as many dead plays, and we
Speaker 1: just played better as a group. Um, we played together
Speaker 1: in both weeks, I think. Um, but now we just
Speaker 1: have to take that next step and um that's the
Speaker 1: challenge going into this week. Thank Jean. Thanks. I was
Speaker 1: quarterback Jalen Hurd saying they're gonna enjoy this win, but
Speaker 1: it's a short week and onto Washington they go. As
Speaker 1: for his leading receiver, Dallas Goddard, we have him from
Speaker 1: the locker room. What was working for you right out
Speaker 1: of the gates today. Yeah, you know, Uh, credit to
Speaker 1: coach bet a good game plan coming in. Uh, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to the line, go tempo, try to wear
Speaker 1: them out, you know, get them tired, and then go
Speaker 1: from there. But you know, we executed. We communicated really well,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know Jane was doing this thing out there.
Speaker 1: It was funn to be well doing shoot. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: besides stowing me the ball probably his second touchdown run
Speaker 1: where uh I was lead bogging he followed. You know
Speaker 1: that gets me going. Uh. You know, you gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of test on this year. If it was fun.
Speaker 1: But no, that long twenty six ye out of tess
Speaker 1: on run is pretty sets you ahead of him. Ah. Nah,
Speaker 1: It's just more like I played with Jalen enough that
Speaker 1: I always I feel like I know what he's thinking,
Speaker 1: he knows what I'm thinking, and uh, you know, he
Speaker 1: makes plays and it's just fun to be out there
Speaker 1: with him. So many questions about Jalen's arm, Jayalen's arm,
Speaker 1: Jalen's aren't coming into the season. What do you think
Speaker 1: he proved tonight? And how happy we're free for him
Speaker 1: to be able to see that? Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: who was worried about that, but I know nobody in
Speaker 1: the building was worried about his arm. You know, we
Speaker 1: got full confidence in the man, and you know he
Speaker 1: comes and shows it every week. There was some concerns
Speaker 1: last week. You got to win, but you guys were
Speaker 1: a little uneasy about everything. Do you think you fixed that? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, we definitely weren't perfect today. We left a
Speaker 1: lot out on the table. Um, But you know that's
Speaker 1: a part of the football. It's still early in the season.
Speaker 1: We'll be back to work on Wednesday trying to all
Speaker 1: and get better. I'm twenty six yard room. Are you
Speaker 1: surprised that Jalen got to the to the goal in No,
Speaker 1: he never surprises me. You know, like I say all
Speaker 1: the time, he's an explosive player. You know it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter when he starts scrambling people are in trouble. We
Speaker 1: started off the show with Jalen hurts is fifty three
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass to Quez Watkins. Earlier tonight, Fran broke
Speaker 1: it all down in this week's Freak Overview. All right,
Speaker 1: So for this week's RICO review, I want to take
Speaker 1: a look back to the first half touchdown pass from
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts to Quez Watkins. Quez wide open on this play.
Speaker 1: This is the longest touchdown for Jalen Hurts's career in
Speaker 1: terms of total air yards down the field. Great deep
Speaker 1: ball touchdown. How did Quz get wide open? Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the film and see exactly what they
Speaker 1: showed us on the broadcast. What do you see here
Speaker 1: from the Eagles? A twelve personnel set. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: two tight ends on the field and two ride receivers.
Speaker 1: You've got Quez Watkins here at the bottom of the screen,
Speaker 1: and you've got Davonte Smith at the top. Now, one
Speaker 1: thing I love, You've got a and densed set from
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Everybody crunched in in between the numbers here,
Speaker 1: So this is a run look. If you're the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: you could see they've got a little bit of a
Speaker 1: crowded box and a soft shell. You've got soft off
Speaker 1: coverage on the outside. And what you have here a
Speaker 1: split safety look from the Minnesota Vikings. You've got two
Speaker 1: safeties playing deep off the ball, and what they're doing
Speaker 1: is they're splitting the field up in half. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have a cover two look on this side where Harrison Smith,
Speaker 1: he's responsible for that half of the field. The side
Speaker 1: of the field where DeVante Smith is playing on that side,
Speaker 1: they want to make sure they give some extra safety
Speaker 1: help to Devanta Smith on that side. Here, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the defensive backs split the field into quarters. And
Speaker 1: what that does is Number One, it gives them extra
Speaker 1: run support here because you're gonna have that safety can
Speaker 1: buy him. He's gonna be a little bit nosy down
Speaker 1: here against the run. Obviously, you've got your two tight
Speaker 1: end looks, so you might think, if they're gonna run
Speaker 1: the football, we want to be able to be more
Speaker 1: prepared to defend the run on that side of the formation,
Speaker 1: So that's what you have pre snap. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look now at the route concept because I love this
Speaker 1: from the Eagles. It's your classic three level stretch concept.
Speaker 1: Quaz Watkins, he's attacking downfield on a deep post. You've
Speaker 1: got Dallas Goddard working the sail route. This is the
Speaker 1: same play that he caught a touchdown pass on earlier
Speaker 1: this summer in the preseason opener against the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: He's running the sail route and then you've got Jack
Speaker 1: still working underneath. Now this is a basic read for
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts when he drops back. Really, the big thing
Speaker 1: he's looking for this safety. If this safety rushes down
Speaker 1: on the tight ends route on number two's route from
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard, well, now it's gonna be wide open and
Speaker 1: all you're gonna see here the corner. He thinks he's
Speaker 1: got safety help, so he's gonna pass Quez Watkins off
Speaker 1: to that safety and he's gonna try and pick up
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard. Well, Dallas Goddard, he is obviously gonna break
Speaker 1: inside the corner, passes the safety off, and the safety
Speaker 1: drives on this ball. So that's why Quez Watkins is
Speaker 1: wide open on this deep ball. Nobody is there with them,
Speaker 1: and if you just let this run a second, you're
Speaker 1: to see Dallas Goddard knows it. He did his job.
Speaker 1: He's got both arms up. He's signaling touchdown before Quez
Speaker 1: Watkins reaches the fifteen yard line. He was able to
Speaker 1: draw two defenders on this play, Dallas Goddard. That allows
Speaker 1: Quez Watkins to be wide open for a deep ball
Speaker 1: touchdown over fifty yards in the air. Jalen hurts to
Speaker 1: Quez Watkins down the field. Eagles take a commanding lead
Speaker 1: in the first half. Just an outstanding offensive performance from
Speaker 1: the Eagles to open this game. A lot of different
Speaker 1: things on the table for this scheme, run game, pass game.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a fun game to break down.
Speaker 1: Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player
Speaker 1: of the Week. Go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash
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Speaker 1: get a chance at a brand new Toyota. All Right, fellas,
Speaker 1: here we go your three nominees. Starting it off, of course,
Speaker 1: with Dallas Goddard five receptions, eighty two yards. He had
Speaker 1: a heck of a game, all right. Next up, the
Speaker 1: quarterback himself. Jalen Hurts three hundred and thirty three passing yards,
Speaker 1: a passing touchdown, eleven carries for two rushing touchdowns. Big
Speaker 1: night for QB one and last but not least, big
Speaker 1: play Slay two interceptions. He said he should have had three.
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith said he should have had three, but two
Speaker 1: on the night for Darius life. What do we think?
Speaker 1: I well, I feel bad for a big play slate.
Speaker 1: I mean he's first of all, his wife tweeted he
Speaker 1: should have four to night. I feel bad for a
Speaker 1: big play slate because any other game he would be yes,
Speaker 1: your player of the game. But Jalen Hurts is a
Speaker 1: no brainer tonight just almost a flawless game. Uh just
Speaker 1: spectacler man. Just he did it on the ground, he
Speaker 1: did it through the air, three hundred yards passing um.
Speaker 1: Just just an awesome game from Jalen Hurts. And that
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's not the player of the game.
Speaker 1: What's there's nothing left for us to say. I'll be
Speaker 1: talking about him all night. Kulb be one's gotta be
Speaker 1: the Toyota Player of the week. But we'll find out.
Speaker 1: We'll defense aside all right. Time for the Jamison nightcap.
Speaker 1: Short week, quick turnaround, and off to Washington. The Eagles.
Speaker 1: They're facing former quarterback Carson Wentz down in DC Commanders.
Speaker 1: They had a tough week this week. That score thirty
Speaker 1: six to twenty seven loss against the Lions doesn't really
Speaker 1: paint the picture of just how rough that game was
Speaker 1: for Washington. They finished twenty twenty one seven and ten,
Speaker 1: third in the NFC East. They now stand one and one.
Speaker 1: The Eagles got to put another win on the board
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, I mean, obviously it's another divisional opponent.
Speaker 1: You go on the road. We know all the popping
Speaker 1: circumstances that will be surrounding that game. All with that circus,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles can't get caught up in there. They
Speaker 1: have to focus on trying to get this divisional win
Speaker 1: on the road. So it won't be easy, but I
Speaker 1: think our offense should be able to move the ball.
Speaker 1: Washington's defense has been pretty terrible, and then if our
Speaker 1: defense is gonna play like they played tonight, it'll be
Speaker 1: a long day Number eleven down there in Washington. I
Speaker 1: spent the majority of the day watching Washington film on
Speaker 1: both sides of the football, so getting ready for this matchup.
Speaker 1: The defense, yeah, the Washington says, not played particularly well
Speaker 1: up front or on the back end. They're giving up
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of yardage on the ground,
Speaker 1: giving up too many big plays through the air. They
Speaker 1: still like to bring a lot of pressure, so that'll
Speaker 1: be something to watch here in this game. And then offensively,
Speaker 1: this is this team. I think it's a little bit underrated. Guys.
Speaker 1: The run game kind of non existent to start, but
Speaker 1: that the offensive coordinator down there, Scott Turner, they're drawing
Speaker 1: up some really interesting plays. Curtis Samuel a guy will
Speaker 1: be talking about all weeks, so some matchups certainly we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about, like I think on Eagles game Plan
Speaker 1: this week. Stay tuned to all the content all over Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Eagles dot com and the social platforms will have you
Speaker 1: covered for that one o'clock kick on Sunday. We'll also
Speaker 1: have you covered on the kickoff show at twelve ten PM.
Speaker 1: Myself and friend Duffy will get you started, and then
Speaker 1: we will have you covered on the postgame show, the
Speaker 1: three of us to break it all down from Washington.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in and as always, go Birds.