Speaker 1: From the twelve Jones, Keeps gets a block, takes off,
Speaker 1: and he is gone. Trying to stay Uprightny trips absolutely
Speaker 1: all alone, any trips, WAPs, throws, passes, Caughts, touchdown Boston,
Speaker 1: Scott Jones and trouble balls knocked out by Graham and
Speaker 1: recovered by Philadelphia second to win the ball game. Another
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham force bubble to end a big game. This
Speaker 1: is the biggest one he's ever had. The Eagles pull
Speaker 1: out in NFC East Special on Thursday Night Football One.
Speaker 1: I am here with the new guests of the show,
Speaker 1: Stephen Ruiz, for the win USA today. He's got a podcast.
Speaker 1: We can get into all that later, but first, wow,
Speaker 1: what a perfect night to have you on, Stephen. In
Speaker 1: this beautiful mess of a game. It was twenty one
Speaker 1: to ten Eagles, I mean Giants rather with under five
Speaker 1: minutes to go, and the Giants I don't normally feel
Speaker 1: bad for their fans, but wow, they they have come
Speaker 1: up with some crazy ways to lose games in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, and this this felt like it
Speaker 1: topped them off. Stephen, Yeah, it was. It was pretty
Speaker 1: amazing how they lost this game. It's like they they
Speaker 1: had they had. They wanted no part of winning this game.
Speaker 1: And it's a little concerning because that's why you bring it,
Speaker 1: Joe Judge is you brought him into like bring the
Speaker 1: discipline and you know, play discipline football and smart football
Speaker 1: and good situational football. And it just didn't happen at all. No, Uh,
Speaker 1: the moment I think a lot of people remember other
Speaker 1: than Daniel Jones tripping. Uh, And we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: But the sequence to end the game that Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: has a pass right on his fingertips. I like the
Speaker 1: play call. It's sixteen, just a little over two minutes
Speaker 1: to go. Danny Dimes puts a dime on him, and
Speaker 1: if if Ingram just catches that pass, they're in field
Speaker 1: goal range. The game is over. And everyone is talking
Speaker 1: after this game, not just how um pathetic the Eagles
Speaker 1: were in the red zone for most of it and
Speaker 1: how they blew it, but how oh this was kind
Speaker 1: of like a statement game here for Danny Dimes. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: he tripped in everything, and you know he did have
Speaker 1: that interception early, but he makes like a ninety seven
Speaker 1: yard drive with you know when it matters to go
Speaker 1: up and then he drops it in for Ingram, but Ingram,
Speaker 1: as he is wanted to do, drops the ball and
Speaker 1: then the Eagles just go right down the field. And
Speaker 1: you heard the play call from Joe Buck that that
Speaker 1: throw to Boston Scott for the touchdown. You at least
Speaker 1: have to give Carson Wentz uh credit for a beautiful
Speaker 1: throw on that play after they had been backed up.
Speaker 1: But the Wentz experience and the national TV audience is
Speaker 1: getting it. It is wild to watch Carson Wentz each
Speaker 1: week because from play to play you just kind of
Speaker 1: have no idea what's going to happen. Yeah, he's either
Speaker 1: like the best quarterback in the league or the worst
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league, and there's like no in between.
Speaker 1: And it was really like a stereotypical game for both
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks. We got they played all the hits.
Speaker 1: It was like the greatest Hits album from both of
Speaker 1: these guys, right because Wentz has like you know, there
Speaker 1: was a grounding call on him that was huge. Um,
Speaker 1: there were there were a couple of nice throws early,
Speaker 1: but he also missed a couple uh total gimmes and
Speaker 1: he had that interception in the red zone that helped
Speaker 1: them start one for five. In the red zone, and
Speaker 1: if they had lost this game, that's what people would
Speaker 1: have been talking about. They had ten points and I
Speaker 1: don't know, do you think do you think I guess
Speaker 1: just looking forward a little bit. This game was so
Speaker 1: crazy and every Eagles game is like this now, But
Speaker 1: do you think of this this a NFC East, that
Speaker 1: the Eagles can at least have the best recipe of
Speaker 1: all these teams to maybe get it done. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a question now really, after after the Dock injury,
Speaker 1: I don't like who who's challenging them. Um, well, the
Speaker 1: Giants should have won this game. I had this we
Speaker 1: we were we were dming before the game, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I have this vision of Joe Judge getting
Speaker 1: gatorade poured on himself as they win their sixth game.
Speaker 1: You said it would happen like they would lose and
Speaker 1: back into the PLAYFFS. That's possible to They do have
Speaker 1: like a defensive line, um and it harassed Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: somewhat today, but they weren't exactly dominant. I like to
Speaker 1: have a hard time knowing what to take out of
Speaker 1: it because I was so ready to kill the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I really was it was pathetic, But how can you
Speaker 1: when the Giants have now lost fifteen straight to the
Speaker 1: Eagles and Cowboys combined, It's like it's an amazing stat
Speaker 1: I would say this was like not a great result
Speaker 1: for the Eagles based on how the first seventy five
Speaker 1: of this game was doing. Like I think Eagles fans
Speaker 1: were just ready. They were like, just let's just end
Speaker 1: this season. Let's just blow this up and like start
Speaker 1: over next year. But now there's some It's not hope
Speaker 1: because I don't think people in Philadelphia are hopeful about
Speaker 1: this team, but like reluctantly they have to like pay
Speaker 1: attention to the season still and they have to you know,
Speaker 1: look at playoffs scenarios and standings and point differential and
Speaker 1: all that. I don't know, I would just be tired
Speaker 1: if I was an Eagles fan at this point. Well,
Speaker 1: they're they're in first place. So I think all these
Speaker 1: teams actually how how it will probably play out is
Speaker 1: all of them are gonna have to keep watching it.
Speaker 1: It's what makes the Washington Dallas game on Sunday and
Speaker 1: all these NFC East games, um, you know, meaningful in
Speaker 1: some way or at least you're gonna have to pay attention.
Speaker 1: I have to admit I kind of enjoyed this game
Speaker 1: like I was. I was entertained. I feel like everyone
Speaker 1: came into this like, oh, the NFC East on TV again,
Speaker 1: this gave us what I want. I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: like you had a moment like the Daniel Jones tripping
Speaker 1: and falling. Um, you heard the call and I'm sure
Speaker 1: everyone listening knows to play. But he had an eight
Speaker 1: yard run in which he ran faster then Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: has run on any play Danny Dimes over the last
Speaker 1: two years, not even sneaky, but he's not a he's
Speaker 1: not an instinctual runner, even though he's fast and you saw, uh,
Speaker 1: he just trips. He trips. And now it's like we
Speaker 1: can't even have fun with that after the game, or
Speaker 1: at least the the beat. Guys can't because like he's
Speaker 1: not going to be in the mood to be laughing
Speaker 1: about that right now. No, you asked him the question, anyway,
Speaker 1: that's your job. You're a professional. Like, if I'm an
Speaker 1: editor and you don't ask that question, I'm firing you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you have to ask that question. He's going
Speaker 1: to be so annoyed he was. He was laughing about
Speaker 1: it afterwards. Um, and he had these moments like you
Speaker 1: know that nineties seven year drive. They they are a
Speaker 1: different offense now with Sterling Shepherd back. Even Wayne Gallman
Speaker 1: was getting in some running plays like for a minute,
Speaker 1: and their defense to me, plays like good situational football,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, like that's what Joe Judge should be.
Speaker 1: But but um, the Eagles make that comeback. Part of it,
Speaker 1: though we should mention was what looked like a pretty
Speaker 1: bad Shaun Jackson injury. So that is a another takeaway
Speaker 1: that's like the Eagles just cannot get out of a
Speaker 1: game without suffering a big injury. And you don't want
Speaker 1: to guess, but it it looked serious in Jackson getting
Speaker 1: up there in years and you do wonder about his future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you saw that first drive Jackson was really involved
Speaker 1: and you were thinking, oh, maybe he was the missing
Speaker 1: piece and maybe the Eagle's offense, which had shown some
Speaker 1: signs the last two games of taking off. But then
Speaker 1: after that first drive, it just went back to the
Speaker 1: laboring Eagles offense that we've watched for I guess a
Speaker 1: year and a half now or maybe back into well
Speaker 1: they you know, they had two hundred twenty two yards.
Speaker 1: I think at halftime they had twenty seven first downs
Speaker 1: for the game. And it's funny you can tell who's
Speaker 1: watched the game or not, because everyone's giving them a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for, you know, only losing by two
Speaker 1: to the to the Ravens, And I don't know, when
Speaker 1: you watch these either of those teams, this is it.
Speaker 1: This is kind of what you see and you sort
Speaker 1: of don't know how they get there, uh in the
Speaker 1: end that I guess the word I would say would
Speaker 1: be sloppy, like even when they had two yards in
Speaker 1: the first half, they only had ten points. And it
Speaker 1: just seems like there's a lot of discombobulation. And there
Speaker 1: has been a ton of injuries and maybe that's maybe
Speaker 1: that's part of it, but once throwing up like hopeball
Speaker 1: at least three or four times a game doesn't really
Speaker 1: have to do with injuries. And everything is so hard
Speaker 1: for Wentz, even tonight when he was completing like corner
Speaker 1: route after corner route. Those are difficult throws and he
Speaker 1: just nothing's easy. And when you remember the season, a
Speaker 1: lot of things were so much, so much easier for him,
Speaker 1: and that first drive kind of looked like that, like
Speaker 1: you're having the open guys over the middle, they were motioning,
Speaker 1: they were going up tempo. And then after that, like
Speaker 1: you said, it's just hard and sloppy and they're just
Speaker 1: like grinding every playout. He um. He did make you know,
Speaker 1: four or five of the best throws in this game.
Speaker 1: It's not like Daniel Jones had a ton of beautiful throws.
Speaker 1: You know that the Giants, you know, in terms of
Speaker 1: working hard, they're they're the team. Like it does feel
Speaker 1: whenever they score a touchdown or whenever even they get
Speaker 1: into field go range, it just feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: they like a lot had to go right for them.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that way last year. I kind of think,
Speaker 1: here's here's a hot take for you. Feel free to
Speaker 1: use this, you know, and for for the win hot take. Uh.
Speaker 1: Good year for Pat Shermer, Like I appreciate him more
Speaker 1: in uh in the en offense uh this year. And
Speaker 1: you know what, like after watching the Broncos last week
Speaker 1: with an actual quarterback, like maybe Pat Shermer gets it
Speaker 1: done in Denver two. So I never thought that Giants
Speaker 1: fans would miss Pat Shermer. But at this point they
Speaker 1: have to miss every I don't know. They have to
Speaker 1: miss everyone, they have to want to fire Dave Gettleman,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's just so bad. I'm missing Jim Fossil
Speaker 1: right now. That's a deep cut. I think I went
Speaker 1: back like years on that one. Well, who is your team?
Speaker 1: I'm a Panthers fan. I should know that. That's fine.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got a high ranking editor here. The
Speaker 1: Panthers fans, they're cool. They Yeah, I assume you weren't
Speaker 1: like a Danny Dimes guy coming into the draft. I
Speaker 1: feel like not many people were, or even after last year,
Speaker 1: or what's your stance there? I was as much of
Speaker 1: a Danny Dimes guy as you could possibly. I wasn't
Speaker 1: drafted him in the top ten high on him, but
Speaker 1: I was. He's at least a late first round pick,
Speaker 1: maybe mid first round pick. I didn't hate the Giants pick.
Speaker 1: I understood why they drafted him. Didn't understand why they
Speaker 1: draft him that highly. But yeah, I saw some stuff
Speaker 1: at Dupe like I saw the things that we see now.
Speaker 1: He's tough in the pocket, He'll go through his reads
Speaker 1: almost to a fault. He'll put the ball in dangerous spots,
Speaker 1: and I thought maybe he'd learned from that, but hasn't
Speaker 1: hasn't he played though to that level. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I don't watch college tape at all. Um, really a
Speaker 1: little bit before the draft, but I never even pretend to,
Speaker 1: you know, have a hot take. But I thought he
Speaker 1: played like a first round type pick, maybe a late
Speaker 1: first second, early second round pick. But he showed a
Speaker 1: lot last year. Um, I'm I've been getting increasingly worried
Speaker 1: watching him this year. It partly because because Jason Garrett's
Speaker 1: gonna ruin him. He makes some good place tonight, but
Speaker 1: the pocket presence, like on that last play and they
Speaker 1: probably weren't gonna go and you know, drive for a
Speaker 1: game winning field goal. But that's something where it he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be aware of, like the people around him,
Speaker 1: which you like that like courage, but like that only
Speaker 1: works if you're Cam Newton and like people are bouncing
Speaker 1: off here. It doesn't work if you're Daniel Jones. Right,
Speaker 1: there's a fine line and he's on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of that line, and he's like he doesn't have object permans,
Speaker 1: Like when a guy goes by him and the ed rusher,
Speaker 1: he doesn't realize the guy can come back and hit him.
Speaker 1: M So, how are you feeling? So how is your Jones?
Speaker 1: Like where are you at in the in the Jones
Speaker 1: belief scale here? Well, I'm someone that like will give
Speaker 1: up on a quarterback immediately, especially with these these quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coming into the draft this year. Like if I'm a
Speaker 1: Giants fan, I'm already thinking about Trumper Lawrence. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: done hoping that Daniel Jones turns it around. But like
Speaker 1: you said, this is just like a terrible matchup. Are
Speaker 1: terrible fit for him in Jason Garrett's offense because something
Speaker 1: that Daniel Jones does well is quick game, Like he
Speaker 1: gets the ball, if he gets the three steps, gets
Speaker 1: rid of the ball. But that's not the Jason Garrett offense.
Speaker 1: It's five to seven step drops and he has to
Speaker 1: hold onto the ball and that's when he gets into Trump.
Speaker 1: This this it's so ugly because I still I'm not
Speaker 1: giving up. I don't know the Giants at least seems
Speaker 1: like they have some fight to them or so. It's
Speaker 1: such a lame thing to say, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like they're gonna be in this thing. They're gonna win
Speaker 1: some of these division games somehow. Like the Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna keep throwing to Hikim Butler in his first ever
Speaker 1: snap in the NFL. Kim Butler all time Draft Twitter
Speaker 1: bust um on his third team. Now, I'm gonna pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back. I was an anti. Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. And they throw to him on the goal
Speaker 1: line on fourth and goal, and that's when Danny Jimes
Speaker 1: makes the big drive. You think that was gonna be it,
Speaker 1: it's not it. They lose, and um, it turns out
Speaker 1: actually Andrew Thomas, they're they're tackle. I think is going
Speaker 1: to go down as like the bigger draft mistake compared
Speaker 1: to compared to Daniel Jones. And that's the thing with
Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman, even if you don't agree with his philosophy
Speaker 1: of how to build a roster, it's not even like
Speaker 1: he's good at building it. The way he wants to
Speaker 1: build an offensive line is still horrible. The defensive line
Speaker 1: is good at stopping the run, but they can't get
Speaker 1: after the passer. Really, it's just not good. He's not
Speaker 1: even building the team in like how he envisions it.
Speaker 1: While the the Egos build it up front, their defensive
Speaker 1: line still healthy. Maybe they get some some people back
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Lane Johnson was in and out
Speaker 1: this this game. This result did make me think, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe they can scratch out these NFC East winds. Maybe
Speaker 1: they can get to seven or eight wins and and
Speaker 1: uh keep us from carrying about the Washington football team
Speaker 1: in the New York Times the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: You know we care about you, Stephen. We're glad uh
Speaker 1: you joined us tonight. I appreciate you doing it. You
Speaker 1: you're at four of the win a USA Today joint.
Speaker 1: What's the name of your podcast, The Counter? The Counter?
Speaker 1: I knew that, Um, everyone check out The Counter downloaded.
Speaker 1: Stephen is an awesome follow on Twitter. You should follow
Speaker 1: him there and the stuff he does at for the Win.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best best young guys in the game.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how young you look here young. Um,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, Stephen for Erica tam Posey, who's
Speaker 1: behind the mic. We will be back here on Sunday
Speaker 1: for our recap show. Congratulations Egos fans, You're gonna win this.
Speaker 1: We'll see