Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, how about this finish the Eagles in
Speaker 1: overtime being a forty one yard touchdown from Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: to walk out of Arlington, Texas with the much needed
Speaker 1: thirty three to twenty seven victory over the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: to get to four and four on the season, the
Speaker 1: Eagles overcoming two penalties in overtime, but nonetheless Sam Braff
Speaker 1: to Jordan Matthews after Ryan Matthews convert a fourth and
Speaker 1: one to get the game winning points. Just add this
Speaker 1: to another great chapter of the Eagles Cowboys history. I'm
Speaker 1: Chris McPherson joined alongside by Ike reas here on the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico. Wow. What a game there.
Speaker 1: As the Eagles persevered in overtime, they allowed the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to tie the game off a field goal that joined
Speaker 1: off the upright and went through just barely. But they
Speaker 1: got the ball first and overtime, Ike, and they took
Speaker 1: care of business, marching down the field eighty yards and
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews, to his credit, after all the criticism about
Speaker 1: the drops in the first half of the season, nothing
Speaker 1: fell on the ground that came his way tonight and
Speaker 1: he comes up with a big play, the one that
Speaker 1: this team needs to spark them in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. I don't even know what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what just happening. That was such
Speaker 1: a great game on the role Muslin situation, back and
Speaker 1: forth games, lug fest for both teams. You could tell
Speaker 1: the desperation and both of these teams eyes as their
Speaker 1: seasons hand hung in the in the balance on this
Speaker 1: game tonight. And the Eagles go on the road and
Speaker 1: get a much need to win and they had the lead,
Speaker 1: they lost the lead, they went the overtime, disappointment. Big
Speaker 1: plays on fourth down, Ryan Matthews converting the fourth, fourth
Speaker 1: and short and then Sam Bradford with the with the
Speaker 1: with the great throw over the middle to Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: and Jordan Matthews, that's what I'm talking about. That's yeah
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. Great job Jordan Matthews getting in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Let's go home and get them back
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. So we're gonna go to Arlington, Texas. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from head coach Chip Kelly, We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from quarterback Sam Bradford, and how about jamarco Murray. You
Speaker 1: talk about a man running with a purpose that Week
Speaker 1: two game, just two yards rushing. Well, it was a
Speaker 1: much different ball game today, and he had some key
Speaker 1: plays in overtime to get them in field position. Right
Speaker 1: here you see him going down the sideline on the
Speaker 1: wheel route. That was during the game in the regulation,
Speaker 1: but when the Eagles had a false star penalty, it's
Speaker 1: first and long. Who they give the ball to. It
Speaker 1: was DeMarco Murray who was able to get the yards
Speaker 1: back and help the team move the chain, so that
Speaker 1: touchdown in overtime would not have been possible without the
Speaker 1: effort that Murray made go in against its former team
Speaker 1: and certainly wanted to make his statement known as he
Speaker 1: finished with eighty three yards on eighteen carries four point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry, and he had a touchdown as
Speaker 1: well in the game, no doubt about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: this game really was about DeMarco Murray and I talked
Speaker 1: about this coming and took this game. If you wanted
Speaker 1: to ride someone in this game, twenty nine would be
Speaker 1: the guy. He's the most highly motivated person on the
Speaker 1: team to go back to Texas play against his former team.
Speaker 1: Certainly didn't like his performance in that first game. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he held himself accountable for that, even though it
Speaker 1: wasn't all his fault. But the fact is he was
Speaker 1: the guy coming into this game tonight that really was
Speaker 1: playing with a chip on his shoulder, and he showed
Speaker 1: it every time he touched the ball, not just running
Speaker 1: the football, catching the football as well. He ran with
Speaker 1: determination each time he had to pigskin in his hand.
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Speaker 1: quarterback Sam Bradford, running back to Markamore, and a whole
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Speaker 1: presented by Rico. The Eagles winning in overtime thirty three
Speaker 1: to twenty seven. They are now back to five hundred
Speaker 1: on the season. And Ike, this game was so important
Speaker 1: because obviously you knocked the Cowboys back. They now lost
Speaker 1: six straight games. They're two and six on the season.
Speaker 1: Their last win came back in Week two against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: It was important for the Eagles to get this game
Speaker 1: because they had to keep pace with the Giants who
Speaker 1: won and they still lead the NFC East with a
Speaker 1: five and four mark. Now, you're absolutely right, Chris, This
Speaker 1: this game had so many ramifications coming from the results
Speaker 1: of the Eagles are basically stuck a nail in the
Speaker 1: coffin of the Dallas Cowboys with this win to night
Speaker 1: over them down their third straight win in Texas Stadium.
Speaker 1: I believe four out of the last five trips down
Speaker 1: there the Texas Stadium, they beat the Cowboys. They beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and so this was a win that was
Speaker 1: going to allow the Eagles to stay right behind the
Speaker 1: New York Giants, who won the day put them back
Speaker 1: at five hundred and in my opinion, this month, this
Speaker 1: was the game that they had to get. This was
Speaker 1: the toughest game to me. It's on the road in
Speaker 1: Dallas against the team that handled them pretty world early.
Speaker 1: Now the Eagles take care of business, come back and
Speaker 1: you got you gotta win at home and for your
Speaker 1: next couple of games over Miami and Tampa. How crucial
Speaker 1: was it like to see the running game get going
Speaker 1: the way too, because we all wanted to see coming
Speaker 1: out of the bye week exactly how the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: would look. And I thought Chip Kelly and did a
Speaker 1: great job of implementing the three headed monster. Obviously Murray
Speaker 1: was a focal point of the offense tonight, but you
Speaker 1: saw Ryan Matthews has a great change of pace back,
Speaker 1: did a great job getting to the edge, and then
Speaker 1: Darren Sprows, a very understated role in this football game
Speaker 1: was running the ball quickly in between the tackles, converted
Speaker 1: some first downs and gave the other guys a break,
Speaker 1: but also converts some much needed yard. So all three
Speaker 1: running backs played a huge role in this game today,
Speaker 1: and that's the way it should be to me, that's
Speaker 1: the formula right now until the passing game can sort
Speaker 1: of get itself together. And it looked like Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: certainly spent his time during the bye week working some
Speaker 1: things out in Sam Bradford again threw the ball very
Speaker 1: well coming off that game against Carolina a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago where I threw He threw the ball much
Speaker 1: better than his numbers sort of indicated. So until this
Speaker 1: passing game sort of catches up the speed with each other,
Speaker 1: the chemistry, you got to rely on those three Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl running backs. You got Ryan Matthews to Marco Murray
Speaker 1: and Darren Sprows, three capable guys that can carry you
Speaker 1: to victory. And I thought they set the tone tonight.
Speaker 1: It was very clear to me early in this game
Speaker 1: the running the football was a priority. They ran an
Speaker 1: in between the tack was they ranted on the outside.
Speaker 1: You gotta give a lot of credit to this offensive line.
Speaker 1: This is a makeshift offensive line. No Jason Peters to Night,
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson had to play on the left side, Dennis
Speaker 1: Kelly had to start at right tackle, and to run
Speaker 1: the ball. The best game of the season, I believe,
Speaker 1: so far for the Eagles without having their starters in there.
Speaker 1: Man hats all to the offensive line to Night. I
Speaker 1: thought they kept Sam clean for the most part. But
Speaker 1: it was the running game, in my opinion, that set
Speaker 1: the tone for this game. The physical nature of running
Speaker 1: the football, I definitely agree with that. To Sam Bradford's credit,
Speaker 1: you go to that final touchdown there, he did a
Speaker 1: great job of ball placement. You know, it's not just
Speaker 1: getting the ball to his man to Jordan Matthews, it's
Speaker 1: put into a place where you can catch the ball
Speaker 1: and continue in stride. Because this offense is all about
Speaker 1: generating the yards after the catch. So it's incumbent upon
Speaker 1: Bradford to be accurate with the football. And that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that we heard a lot about Bradford
Speaker 1: coming into this season. It was his pinpoint accuracy. Well
Speaker 1: it was on display on that touchdown and that's the
Speaker 1: type of play where maybe ill spar something and get
Speaker 1: him going for the second half of the season. And
Speaker 1: I would also say he did a great job of
Speaker 1: throwing with the bodies around him. You knew the offensive
Speaker 1: line was gonna have a tansfall with the Dallas defensive line,
Speaker 1: so Bradford was gonna have to work from the pocket,
Speaker 1: but at times a muddy pocket, and they thought he
Speaker 1: did a great job on that standpoint as well. So
Speaker 1: I think Bradford has looked so much more comfortable in
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, but it was good to
Speaker 1: see him carry over the momentum from pre buy into
Speaker 1: what he did here tonight. What's been the consistent theme
Speaker 1: at this offense the last three or four weeks, It's
Speaker 1: been the running game. The running game is what sets
Speaker 1: up the play action pass in this solfense. The misdirection
Speaker 1: allows Bradford to get on the edges at times, and
Speaker 1: when you run the ball as well as the Eagles did,
Speaker 1: guests who's gonna be wide open over the middle, Jordan Matthews.
Speaker 1: And that's what you saw there right off the play
Speaker 1: action fake. Sam Bradford was able to step into that
Speaker 1: throw deliver a good pass to Jordan Matthews where he
Speaker 1: can run after the catch. And that's what the running
Speaker 1: game does in this so offense. Chip is this offense
Speaker 1: is designed and predicated on running the football extremely well.
Speaker 1: It's going to set up the passing game. When you
Speaker 1: look at the offense the last two years, the running
Speaker 1: game has been there. The quarterbacks have fed off of that.
Speaker 1: So it's no surprise to me that Sam Bradford the
Speaker 1: last two games it looked very good throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: Even though the Carolina game his numbers didn't say so,
Speaker 1: the throws were there. He made the throws with pinpoint accuracy.
Speaker 1: And I think it starts when that defense has to
Speaker 1: honor the run game. It's going to set up the
Speaker 1: play action pass. Now. I also want to give court
Speaker 1: the Zach Ertz. You go to that drive at the
Speaker 1: end of the game where they had to get the
Speaker 1: field goal, they took the lead briefly. Ertz made a
Speaker 1: great grap along the sidelines. And Urt came into this
Speaker 1: game saying during the week that he's one percent healthy
Speaker 1: from that pre preseason core muscle surgery. That kind of
Speaker 1: sidlined him, and you know it was a little hard
Speaker 1: for him to get going well tonight. Five catches for
Speaker 1: forty four yards, the long the one I was talking
Speaker 1: about a moment ago. Twenty seven yards. He was a
Speaker 1: go to guy for Bradford Tony. I was able to
Speaker 1: bail them out some key situations, but every time the
Speaker 1: ball was around him, he seemed to come down with it.
Speaker 1: So he's a guy who is basically saying, I want
Speaker 1: the ball, Sam, you can trust me. They're developing a
Speaker 1: report and I think he and Matthews are gonna be
Speaker 1: integral to work in that middle of the field down
Speaker 1: here in the second half of the season to get
Speaker 1: the pass game going. As you said, the run game,
Speaker 1: it's already on track. They've got that figured out. The
Speaker 1: Eagles have done a great job scheming the guys open
Speaker 1: and figuring out what works best in getting a good
Speaker 1: rotation going. Now it's a matter of getting the it's
Speaker 1: getting the pass game going. And speak of the pass game,
Speaker 1: let's hear what Chip Kelly thinks about the overtime win.
Speaker 1: Let's send it to AT and T Stadium in Arlington.
Speaker 1: He's in the first half we had we had the
Speaker 1: second time we were on the play. The other time
Speaker 1: Jordan caught it and ran. The ball kind of bounced
Speaker 1: down to like the five, and then we scored the
Speaker 1: next player on a sweep after that, So it was.
Speaker 1: It was just the same same play call. We had
Speaker 1: called it once and we're successful on it, and I
Speaker 1: felt like if we got over midfield that I was
Speaker 1: gonna call it again. Arguing for Jordan Matthews, he's had
Speaker 1: so many jobs this year. He's been really hard on
Speaker 1: him from himself, especially after that Carol M. I'm extremely
Speaker 1: happy for I'm like I'm happy for everybody though. I
Speaker 1: think it was a team victory and um, I got
Speaker 1: full confidence in Jordan. So you know, the great part
Speaker 1: about Jordan is he don't pay attention to it either,
Speaker 1: just like we talk about and he's been great. You know.
Speaker 1: I think if you have a work ethic like he has,
Speaker 1: your work ethic will help you get out of a slump.
Speaker 1: And he did a great job. What do you think
Speaker 1: of offense and fine? Uh, you know, I thought they
Speaker 1: did a good job. Obviously, when you're down, Jason and
Speaker 1: we had a shuffle some guys over. Lane's first time
Speaker 1: playing on the left side, um, you know, Dennis Kelly
Speaker 1: and the first time to start for us since we've
Speaker 1: been here, Um out at tackle. You know, he had
Speaker 1: started for US at guard last year. But I thought
Speaker 1: those guys did a really nice job against a four
Speaker 1: horrible front. We knew that going in that was gonna
Speaker 1: be a heck of the matchup for US. Seem like
Speaker 1: a real up and down game, a lot of inconsistencies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good football team. UM, we knew going in it was
Speaker 1: gonna be a battle. You know. It was one of
Speaker 1: those deals where I don't think you could compare for
Speaker 1: prepare for everything. Um playing at Dome, we had a wind.
Speaker 1: It rained on us. Uh, some things that you didn't
Speaker 1: think would happen when you play in the Dome. But
Speaker 1: you know, Caleb that it was a little bit more
Speaker 1: difficult kicking that way. So that that kick he kicked
Speaker 1: for us, the fifty two or fifty three yard or
Speaker 1: into a little bit of a breeze, there was a
Speaker 1: win down there a little bit so um. You know,
Speaker 1: then you see it at the end of the end
Speaker 1: of the game. Um, they go out for a field goal,
Speaker 1: it hits the upright. Usually when it hits the upright,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go in. You know, it hit the upright,
Speaker 1: came down in. Um. So it was just kind of
Speaker 1: one of those games. But UM, our guys battled. They
Speaker 1: battled right to the to the last and uh, proud
Speaker 1: of them. I think they had a great week. We
Speaker 1: talked about it. They had a really good week this week,
Speaker 1: as good as we've had around here. Uh. And it
Speaker 1: showed in our play tonight that obviously last wee a
Speaker 1: little bit better than a week before. What do you see.
Speaker 1: I think Sam is continuing to improve. Um. I thought
Speaker 1: he was really accurate in his throws today. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: put the ball on guys in the right spot. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at the play with Jordan, it was a
Speaker 1: heck of a throw. He threw it before the guy
Speaker 1: fell down and then but it gave Jordan an opportunity
Speaker 1: to catch and run. You know, sometimes those throws, if
Speaker 1: they're not accurate, it's a tough route to kind of
Speaker 1: time up. You know, you may catch it and you know,
Speaker 1: kind of turn around and you get a you got
Speaker 1: a good game, but you don't have a chance to
Speaker 1: have a great game. And what you know, So he
Speaker 1: gave Jordan an opportunity to run and get it in.
Speaker 1: So it's like you relied on Sam Moore. The longer
Speaker 1: the game, you gain more and more confidence. I've always
Speaker 1: had confidence in Sam. I just like it's how the
Speaker 1: game played out. I thought we were pretty balanced in
Speaker 1: terms of being able to run the ball um and
Speaker 1: then once we kind of got moving, we had a
Speaker 1: lot of long dribes. There were a lot of long
Speaker 1: fields for us. We didn't start. I don't think we
Speaker 1: had any, you know, obviously, because they're so good in
Speaker 1: the return. I mean in the kick game, we didn't
Speaker 1: have any kick returns. We didn't have any punt return
Speaker 1: so there's there wasn't a real flip in the field.
Speaker 1: And then the one turnover we had that we created,
Speaker 1: thank god, Jordan Hicks actually brought it all the way
Speaker 1: back for our square. So it wasn't like we got
Speaker 1: a turnover and had a short field or we had, um,
Speaker 1: you know, a return that gave us a short field.
Speaker 1: We had long fields to go um, So on all
Speaker 1: of our drives, we we had to kind of pound
Speaker 1: it out, and I think we were pretty balanced in
Speaker 1: terms of doing that. So the first time again, I
Speaker 1: think we just executed and blocked up front. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought, I'll give our guys up front did a
Speaker 1: heck of a job and um, you know, that was
Speaker 1: the challenge for him going in. I thought they handled
Speaker 1: their their defensive front for the most part. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a very formidable front. They actually had some new
Speaker 1: guys that we didn't face the last time I face
Speaker 1: you know, Hardy for the first time, greg Uh Gregory
Speaker 1: for the first time. UM. But it was you know,
Speaker 1: I really proud about how those guys played, especially with
Speaker 1: you know, Lane bumping over and Dennis getting his first
Speaker 1: started right tackle. So we're on the fourth down there,
Speaker 1: Did you think about not doing that a report all
Speaker 1: the way? No, I mean I thought we were gonna
Speaker 1: get it, so we were gonna go for it on
Speaker 1: the final Cowboys drive? What did you think of that
Speaker 1: pass interference call? They made it? That's what I thought, Well,
Speaker 1: what was he was kind of right on his edge
Speaker 1: that way because there was a wind coming um that way.
Speaker 1: He probably had a little bit more going the other way,
Speaker 1: but he was really right on the edge of what
Speaker 1: we could kick. But we're stuck with him after early struggles.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about now he's the only kicker we have,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like I was gonna bring another kicker in.
Speaker 1: So for a team that has struggled before, the yether
Speaker 1: win like this after the bye going down the stretch here,
Speaker 1: what canna win? Like this do for this team. It's
Speaker 1: it's the same thing I told him, the same thing
Speaker 1: I told him after Carolina game. One down, one to go,
Speaker 1: and the same thing. That's the same message in there.
Speaker 1: One down, one to go. We're gonna get back. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get back late. They have tomorrow off when we
Speaker 1: come back Tuesday, and we got to really start a
Speaker 1: good week of preparation for Miami. We actually, um, someone
Speaker 1: told me, I I don't know if it's true. We're gonna
Speaker 1: actually check where we actually where we may be able.
Speaker 1: We may have a game at one o'clock on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: So um, our guys are kind of excited about that.
Speaker 1: But you carry over into it, it means absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: because you lose next week and it didn't carry over.
Speaker 1: So we don't talk about that, like, hey, we had
Speaker 1: a good game last week, let's just ride the way
Speaker 1: if we gotta come back. Got to work on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So there's something about Sam you can only learn and
Speaker 1: in those those late game situations, over time situations. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I I know Sam, and I got total
Speaker 1: confidence to Sam. I've always had total confidence in Sam.
Speaker 1: So I didn't learn anything new today about Sam. Was
Speaker 1: always something about Murray in the passing game that he
Speaker 1: felt that take advantage of. We just some of the
Speaker 1: matchups for the linebackers, and after Sean Lee went out,
Speaker 1: you know, we thought we could exploit that and that's
Speaker 1: what we did. Did you see this as kind of game, man,
Speaker 1: I don't really concern. We're just trying to get wins
Speaker 1: each week and then we'll figure out. We'll pick our
Speaker 1: heads up and after that last game against the Giants
Speaker 1: to see if we're going enough games. But I've never
Speaker 1: had a conversation with our guys about East the NFC
Speaker 1: out of division. I mean, if that's the case, then
Speaker 1: we shouldn't even show up this week because it's an
Speaker 1: AFC opponent. So we don't care, right, I Mean, that's
Speaker 1: not our mentality. Our mentality is every single week we
Speaker 1: got to go out and play and at the end,
Speaker 1: do we have enough wins that are good enough to
Speaker 1: get us into the playoffs, And if it is, it's okay.
Speaker 1: But we never talk about who the opponent is and
Speaker 1: how this game is more importantan that game. Every single
Speaker 1: game is important when it comes down to it. So, first, Alfle,
Speaker 1: what was the thinking in terms of the Cloud management.
Speaker 1: They're trying to get out of their end. I know
Speaker 1: they had a couple of time out, so if we
Speaker 1: didn't get a first down there early, you know, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we're gonna turn the ball over and
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity to go down to score. And
Speaker 1: then they're getting the ball at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: second half too, so you've got you're in that two
Speaker 1: score situation. I want to make sure we could at
Speaker 1: least get it out of our end and not be
Speaker 1: able to give it back over to him, because they
Speaker 1: do have a kicker that's you know, got ranged close
Speaker 1: to sixty so, um, you know anything in terms of
Speaker 1: turning the ball over, they just didn't want to make
Speaker 1: a mistake. We're content to go in a halftime at
Speaker 1: seven seven. Balance drive is okay, I have no idea
Speaker 1: less want balanced, you guys, there's most balanced we work tonight.
Speaker 1: So that's all right. We're waiting to see if we're
Speaker 1: gonna get quarterbacks Sam Bradford or someone else. We're off
Speaker 1: the back here. We're gonna hear from Bradford to Marco
Speaker 1: Murray and wide receiver Jordan Matthews, who had the game
Speaker 1: winning forty one yard touchdown reception in overtime. But first
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to the phone lines. Let's welcome in
Speaker 1: Tim from Maryland. Tim, Welcome to the postgame Show, presented
Speaker 1: my Rico. Yeah, awesome. I thought definitely the offensive line
Speaker 1: play really were fan played well. But I thought the
Speaker 1: real fat of the game was the fact that the
Speaker 1: Eagles didn't tend the ball over at all, and that
Speaker 1: was a little concerned infective with that offensive line game
Speaker 1: as new as it was playing together. So yeah, my
Speaker 1: thought was that, you know, running back to the great
Speaker 1: job and Tim just put the ball exactly where it
Speaker 1: needed to be most of the time. I thought he
Speaker 1: played lights out. No, Tim, thank you very much for
Speaker 1: the phone call. No question, offensive line, all eyes were
Speaker 1: on them because Lane Johnson talked to him earlier in
Speaker 1: the season and he said, look, the offensive line, they
Speaker 1: were responsible for the criticism. They it was their fault
Speaker 1: that you know, you saw Demarka early in the season.
Speaker 1: He was getting tackle as soon as he got the
Speaker 1: ball in the backfield. They had to show up their protection.
Speaker 1: They had to do better communication when it came to
Speaker 1: the double blocks, and they have improved in that. But
Speaker 1: the issue tonight was you have your all pro, you're
Speaker 1: a man, You're rock there and Jason Peters out well,
Speaker 1: Lynn Johnson and Dess Kelly looked like they stepped up
Speaker 1: to his task, especially in an offense that doesn't give
Speaker 1: them a lot of help when it comes to protection. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and not surprised at all that the job Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: was able to do. The Diaman The guy was the
Speaker 1: number four overall picking the draft, even though he plays
Speaker 1: right tackle. You get drafted that early in the draft,
Speaker 1: eventually you're going to be playing left tackles. Just a
Speaker 1: matter of time before Jason Peters calls it quits and
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson moves over there. So but hats off to
Speaker 1: Dennis Kelly and the rest of the guys. They buckled down.
Speaker 1: I mean, they knew all lives would be on them
Speaker 1: this week, people with low expectations for them, and all
Speaker 1: we heard about was how are you going to block
Speaker 1: Greg Hardy and this defensive line of the Dallas Cowboys. Well,
Speaker 1: I like the fact that this offensive line accepted the
Speaker 1: challenge and they went out there and I thought they
Speaker 1: held their own. I mean, listen, they got they got
Speaker 1: to Sam Bradford a time or two with pressure they
Speaker 1: got a penalty here or there, but for the most part, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I thought they handled themselves very well out there night.
Speaker 1: The offensive line, Sam Bradford looked clean for the most
Speaker 1: part tonight. Throwing the football, he seemed to have clean
Speaker 1: pockets throwing the bar, and then all three running backs
Speaker 1: able to be put on display to night. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't do what the Eagles did the night amassing
Speaker 1: almost five hundred yards of offense over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: of offense tonight without having good line play. So it
Speaker 1: was important to also recognized as the fact that you
Speaker 1: don't see the running backs getting tackle in the backfield.
Speaker 1: You see them be able to get to the line scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and probably most importantly, you look at some of the
Speaker 1: short yard situations. Go to the fourth down where DeMarco
Speaker 1: Murray punched the ball, and go to the fourth and
Speaker 1: one there and overtime and Ryan Matthews gets a conversion.
Speaker 1: These guys were making the short yards conversions, things that
Speaker 1: we did not see from this team earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: So you know this is going to be a run
Speaker 1: based offensive attack, Well, it's got to be able to
Speaker 1: convert in those short yard situations and they're finally able
Speaker 1: to do so. And look, this is a good Cowboys
Speaker 1: defensive line. This is not some pushover. They had a
Speaker 1: live talent up front. And especially you look at the
Speaker 1: first meeting, there's no greg Hardy, Randy Gregory. Now Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: He did exit the game with a concussion, So certainly
Speaker 1: that's something I think the Eagles were able to take
Speaker 1: advantage of because Lee was a monster back in that
Speaker 1: week to matchup. But still the Eagles were able to execute.
Speaker 1: I know it's that e ward that we're probably all
Speaker 1: tired of hearing the coaches say over and over again.
Speaker 1: But they realized the talent was there. It was just
Speaker 1: a matter of bringing it all together. So now here's
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews, the man of the hour who had the
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown. Let's end it back to Texas. How
Speaker 1: much is a game like this and doing what you
Speaker 1: did give you confidence that you know what always forgotten? Well?
Speaker 1: You know, I think anytime when things don't look like
Speaker 1: they're going well, it's so easy to sit back and think, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta change something, or you know, let me try
Speaker 1: and speech ever do this or do that. But you know,
Speaker 1: even if I'm hard on myself mentally, I'm staying in
Speaker 1: the same place. I know if I go back and
Speaker 1: continue to work on things I need to work on
Speaker 1: that things are going to eventually get better. So even
Speaker 1: when things aren't going that well, I saw that same mindset.
Speaker 1: I gotta go to work, I gotta continue to be consistent,
Speaker 1: and I gotta continue to get better. So then when
Speaker 1: games like this happened, it's not like, oh, it's the
Speaker 1: greatest thing in the world. It's okay, I did my job.
Speaker 1: It's not like some a reckless thing happened. I did
Speaker 1: what I was supposed to do today. I went out,
Speaker 1: I played hard. I may play for my team. That's
Speaker 1: what Daved needed for me this whole season. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I'm not gonna go switch up anything.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to change anything. I'm not gonna start
Speaker 1: sleeping in or something. We're going to continue do the
Speaker 1: same thing over and over again. It's trying to get
Speaker 1: better the day. Feel gratifying to have that success after
Speaker 1: sticking with the plan. Like I said, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie and say it doesn't feel good. At
Speaker 1: the same time, it feels better to get to win.
Speaker 1: You know, if you go out there and play well,
Speaker 1: but then your team doesn't come out victorious. Then was
Speaker 1: it mean? It means nothing but to be able to
Speaker 1: go out there and get a win and be an
Speaker 1: intricate part of it. I mean, we played great across
Speaker 1: the board, Ryan DeMarco, Sam, I mean Zach making plays
Speaker 1: down the sideline, and then to think we're able to
Speaker 1: do that without, you know, our anchor and Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: that's a testament to the offensive line too. Defense played
Speaker 1: extremely well. I thought Matt Castle came out and had
Speaker 1: his best game of the season, you know, and our
Speaker 1: defense was able to hold them to a field goal
Speaker 1: and that laid drive and give us a chance in overtime.
Speaker 1: So I think it was a complete team effort. Um.
Speaker 1: Another big play I think was uh, you know EJ
Speaker 1: Biggers too, uh stopping that touchdown, you know, just getting
Speaker 1: some more time all the clock, keeping them on the
Speaker 1: field instead of him just running in the kick return. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, from special teams, offense, defense, it was
Speaker 1: a full team effort. So I can't sit and just
Speaker 1: thing was all me experience or anything like that. Walk
Speaker 1: off Um Yeah, yeah, something a couple of times in
Speaker 1: high school and a Vanderbilt uh, a couple of games
Speaker 1: where you know, I had like a winning catch. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's kind of like my job. So
Speaker 1: I don't really like like it's a huge deal. I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to do it. The happiest is this the happiest
Speaker 1: I've been in terms of what you've done in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a game winning touchdown, Like it's really
Speaker 1: not gonna it's really not gonna sink in. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I was even when I was in college, people would
Speaker 1: always be like, hey, you broke like this big record,
Speaker 1: like it didn't sink in uti I left, so hopefully
Speaker 1: twenty years down the road, I look back like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was a good catch, but right now I got
Speaker 1: to flipped the page and go back to work. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, after I kind of was able to throw
Speaker 1: Byron through. I mean, he played a great game against me.
Speaker 1: We were battling the entire time. He's a real aggressive
Speaker 1: guy and really athletic m so I knew, you know,
Speaker 1: late in the game, if I was gonna get open
Speaker 1: against him, it was gonna be more. I had to
Speaker 1: use my strength and a little bit of deception, so
Speaker 1: you know, teams have been covered me on those overs
Speaker 1: all like all year, and he did a great job
Speaker 1: with some of those overs too, So I just kind
Speaker 1: of gave him a move to the over and was
Speaker 1: able to throw him through and get outside. And then
Speaker 1: right when I caught it, I saw a daylight. I
Speaker 1: saw Huff actually look at me and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me block my guy. And then once he not
Speaker 1: once he pulled the corner out, I said, I knew
Speaker 1: we were Scott free, so I know that chance to
Speaker 1: score after you crossed the goal line, you threw the
Speaker 1: football into the stands. Your emotions at that point, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, I don't know. Right after I did it,
Speaker 1: I was wondering. I was like, I hope they don't
Speaker 1: find me. So that was a first thing. I'm an
Speaker 1: economics and major, so it happens, so I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, but um, other than that, you know, when
Speaker 1: I got in, I heard saying throw it, throw it,
Speaker 1: like just do it, just do it. So if I
Speaker 1: do get fine, I'm coming in for part of it
Speaker 1: for sure. Um, you know, I think it means a lot.
Speaker 1: But Sam's even killed got two years great pois. He
Speaker 1: never gets two up, never gets two down. And you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't really think it's as much of me just
Speaker 1: defending him. I feel like I was just telling the truth.
Speaker 1: I feel like Sam's been playing well for us all season,
Speaker 1: and we're able to come out here today and actually
Speaker 1: go out there and make the place for him we're
Speaker 1: supposed to make. I mean, you look at some of
Speaker 1: those catching runs by the Marco, you look at the
Speaker 1: pass down the sideline where Urgins goes up, like that's
Speaker 1: the things that we have to do as an offense
Speaker 1: because Sam's going to give us opportunities. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks when things aren't going well, they kind
Speaker 1: of clam up. They just start hitting shut downs, throwing
Speaker 1: things short. But Sam's still letting a rod And that's
Speaker 1: a testament to a quarterback who has great pois and
Speaker 1: great confidence and all the guys around him. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we can ask for better guy back there behind center.
Speaker 1: How important did you see this game? You know, considering
Speaker 1: NFC East and everything and just you know, where you
Speaker 1: guys were in the standings and all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was very important. I think, you know, basically this
Speaker 1: point in the season. I mean, I don't even think
Speaker 1: it's cliches say, every single game is important, you know,
Speaker 1: to to kind of set ourselves up to make a
Speaker 1: playoff run late. We got to do things every single
Speaker 1: day necessary to make that happen. Um. You know, last
Speaker 1: year was a little bit of a different story. We
Speaker 1: got hot early, but then we kind of fizzled out late.
Speaker 1: So now we can try and reverse that and finish strong.
Speaker 1: We gotta continue to get guys healthy. We just gotta
Speaker 1: continue to go out down to practice field and get better.
Speaker 1: I think Coach Kelly said it best when we got in.
Speaker 1: He said, the reason why we were able to come
Speaker 1: out there and win that game was because of how
Speaker 1: we practice Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So if we would
Speaker 1: have the same feeling next Sunday, we have to go
Speaker 1: back press the reset button do the same thing next week. Jordan,
Speaker 1: how confident were you on the left drive of the
Speaker 1: game that you guys are going to be able to
Speaker 1: support there? Um, you know, extremely confident. I felt like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, once we I knew, like I said, well,
Speaker 1: when we get this, when went this coin toss, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go in and score I mean our tempo. I
Speaker 1: felt like, like I've always said, once he get that
Speaker 1: first first down, you know it's over with. We already
Speaker 1: get our drives going and we're able to get moving
Speaker 1: and then, um, it kind of felt weird. It felt
Speaker 1: like I was back in the West Coast huddle system
Speaker 1: because then when they reviewed the call, we had a
Speaker 1: chance to get in the huddle before we called that
Speaker 1: last play. So you know, Sam was like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: got this. I'm coming to you like so you know,
Speaker 1: you got to make this play for me. So it
Speaker 1: kind of felt like, you know, oh, man, I've done
Speaker 1: this before, this this college Hoddle, and I've been going
Speaker 1: to make a play. He trusted me, He gave me
Speaker 1: a chance to catch a run, and then you know
Speaker 1: that was game over. Sam actually predicted that, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he knew. I felt like he was like, hey, get open,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to you. So there's wide receiver Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: addressing the media following the thirty three or twenty seven
Speaker 1: to win. Matthews with a game winning forty one yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: We still are going to hear from quarterback Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: and running back to Marca Murray. Great to see that
Speaker 1: for Matthews. You know, I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: said this going into the byeweek like that. It just
Speaker 1: came at the perfect time because the players need to
Speaker 1: just get away, get their minds away, physically, rest up.
Speaker 1: And it really showed there in Matthew's performance tonight. Nine
Speaker 1: catches over one hundred yards, most importantly obviously of the touchdown,
Speaker 1: but no drops either. Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can easily tell that this offense needed time to
Speaker 1: collect themselves get back, and they were pressing before the
Speaker 1: bye week. They wanted it so bad. They wanted it
Speaker 1: so bad that they were pressing before the bye week.
Speaker 1: The receivers and the quarterback. And what I noticed out
Speaker 1: that the night was that the quarterback was relaxed and
Speaker 1: the receivers were certainly relaxed night starting with number eighty one.
Speaker 1: Never worried about eighty one. God works entirely too hard,
Speaker 1: all right? The game winning quarterback Sam Bradford now talking
Speaker 1: at AT and T Stadium, You guys to see your
Speaker 1: receiver do that, man, you know it's huge. You can't
Speaker 1: say enough about Jordan. You know, the way he worked
Speaker 1: this week in practice. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: seen anyone work as hard as he did, and it
Speaker 1: paid off tonight. He played great. I mean that last
Speaker 1: play man, I mean, you just can't say enough about
Speaker 1: the route and then the finish afterwards. I mean I
Speaker 1: couldn't be happier for him. Did you really tell him
Speaker 1: in the huddle after that when they were doing the
Speaker 1: play of year where to go was way? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: told him. You know, I got the call from Trip
Speaker 1: and I came to the huddle and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to you win right here. And sure enough
Speaker 1: he ran a great route and then obviously the run
Speaker 1: after the catch was huge. Every now and then, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see when he looked down and field that you
Speaker 1: threw it before, Jones felt down right. Uh. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought Jordan did a great job. You know, it's
Speaker 1: obviously a route where he's trying to sell like an
Speaker 1: over and then come back out of it. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Jordan was patient sold it. You know, I thought he
Speaker 1: had Jones turned a little bit and then did a
Speaker 1: great job coming out of it. You feel like you're
Speaker 1: back in college out there throwing it up to de Marcos.
Speaker 1: Uh sometimes yeah, um, yeah, I think I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit over that now. But you know, when we first
Speaker 1: got to Philly, you know training camp uh OTA's. You know,
Speaker 1: it did feel you know, a little bit like college.
Speaker 1: I think your first half a notion just in that
Speaker 1: when the drive in the third quarter, we'll clicked for
Speaker 1: you for the offense. Um, so we hit the that
Speaker 1: was the big play to de Marco and then which
Speaker 1: one that was the past outside? Yeah, um yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was just you know, guys went in, you know,
Speaker 1: finally got an opportunity to push the ball down the field. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, created some explosive plays and you know, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, for the first time, you know, in a
Speaker 1: few weeks, we really utilized our tempo the way we
Speaker 1: wanted to tonight. Um, you know, we did it in
Speaker 1: the first half and then in that drive. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt like our guys did a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: we played fast, we played you know, the way we
Speaker 1: want to play, and I think it made a difference tonight.
Speaker 1: What did you tell you guys, you a can cross
Speaker 1: get the ball you know tow Yeah, thank you guys
Speaker 1: start sels that. Yeah, I mean I said, let's go
Speaker 1: in it right here, and I think everyone said the
Speaker 1: same thing. And you know, we knew that that's what
Speaker 1: we wanted to do. We had the opportunity to do it,
Speaker 1: and you know, fortunately we were able to overtime touchdown past.
Speaker 1: Um no, I think that. I think that would be
Speaker 1: the first one. Yeah, quarterback, Is there anything different about
Speaker 1: those lay games, Sun compared to First of all, we're
Speaker 1: saying you, um, not really. I mean, you still try
Speaker 1: to keep everything the same. Um. You know, we put
Speaker 1: a lot of emphasis, you know, on our clutch situations,
Speaker 1: you know, whether they be at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think because we work on it
Speaker 1: so often, you know, it feels normal when we're out
Speaker 1: there doing it. And I think that's the way you
Speaker 1: want it at about to sort of unsettled nature out.
Speaker 1: You guys end backs out. I mean, cool, don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get, but you got a pretty good job. Man,
Speaker 1: those guys. You can't say enough about those guys. The
Speaker 1: way they played tonight, Um, you know, the way they
Speaker 1: protected me, the way they blocked in the run game. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, in every facet of the game, they played
Speaker 1: well tonight. And you know, I know there were a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about that group coming into tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Obviously Dallas has a good defense, they have a good
Speaker 1: front seven, you know, and I think those guys won
Speaker 1: the battle tonight, you know, and it all goes to them.
Speaker 1: You know, without them, we wouldn't been able to do
Speaker 1: what we did tonight. You had a question not you know,
Speaker 1: I told you guys earlier in the week, I thought
Speaker 1: we had a great week of practice. I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: it was one of our better weeks of preparation, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was nice to finally see it translate onto
Speaker 1: the field tonight. Do you guys have an extra push
Speaker 1: with DeMarco coming back to Dallas? Um? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure he had a little bit more you know, uh
Speaker 1: fire in his belly tonight. But you know, we knew
Speaker 1: this was a big game for us, coming off the
Speaker 1: bye week, obviously a divisional game on the road. You know,
Speaker 1: we needed this one and hopefully this, you know, gives
Speaker 1: us some momentum go and into the second half of
Speaker 1: the year. Are you pretty happy to be on the
Speaker 1: field for that fourth down instead of you guys hunting? Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, especially you know, I think that just shows
Speaker 1: the confidence that coach had and the guys up front.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the confidence that they were going
Speaker 1: to win those matchups and get the push, you know,
Speaker 1: and then a great job by Ryan, you know obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, finding a hole, pushing it up in there
Speaker 1: and getting the yard we needed the Carolina getting the
Speaker 1: cup on yourself? What is this team for? Um? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a great win for our team, you know,
Speaker 1: most importantly. But you know, I'll look at the film.
Speaker 1: You know, it's obviously nice to come out and play
Speaker 1: the way I did tonight. But you know, in this league,
Speaker 1: you can't get too high, you can't get too low.
Speaker 1: You know, we got a big one next week, so
Speaker 1: you know, I'll watch the tape, see what I need to,
Speaker 1: you know, correct what I did well tonight and just
Speaker 1: get ready for the next one. Knowing that you can't
Speaker 1: wrest on it. I mean, do you feel like sense
Speaker 1: release relief that clicked in and that thing started hunting? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it was nice. You know, hopefully this is
Speaker 1: something that we can build off of. Hopefully it's something
Speaker 1: that you know, we can carry into next week. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's like coach talks about it,
Speaker 1: to get the twenty four hour roll, whether you win
Speaker 1: or lose, you know, you got twenty four hours to
Speaker 1: be really happy. You got twenty four hours to be
Speaker 1: really really down, and then after that you got to
Speaker 1: move on to the next one. Jordan, you said, no
Speaker 1: one wants four hard work. What does that any working? Like?
Speaker 1: Did he do this week? Build? Oh Man? So I
Speaker 1: think it was. I think it was Thursday. Um. In practice,
Speaker 1: you know, he had a drop in the red zone,
Speaker 1: and then after that drop, I think he took every
Speaker 1: rep on the offensive side of the ball, and then
Speaker 1: he took every rep on scout team going against the defense.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I've ever seen the starting
Speaker 1: wide receiver do that. And it was just you could
Speaker 1: see it in his eyes, his hunger to get out
Speaker 1: there and to fix it and to improve. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think everyone on our team saw the way that
Speaker 1: he worked, and like I said, I couldn't be happier
Speaker 1: for that guy the way he bowed tonight. Thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, there's quarterback Sam Bradford, the celebratory one. After
Speaker 1: the eagles thirty three or twenty seven victory in overtime,
Speaker 1: you're watching the postgame show presented by Rico here in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Chris McPherson alongside Ike Creas We're
Speaker 1: gonna go back to the phone lunch and welcome in
Speaker 1: Ernie from Philadelphia. Ernie, welcome to the postgame show. Oh Man. Finally, guys, Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you outstanding? If someone over like a two
Speaker 1: part statement. Um. At first, first, I want to say
Speaker 1: that I think after that first dollar, that first dollars game,
Speaker 1: when we lost, man, I think it really it really,
Speaker 1: it really, it really hurt us as a fan base.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Eagles fan base, and uh, I
Speaker 1: think we really needed this, not only for the team,
Speaker 1: but for us fans because we we've been sort of
Speaker 1: stressed out every game. We've been on the edge of
Speaker 1: I see, hoping that we didn't make the mistakes that
Speaker 1: making the beginning of the season. But um, when it
Speaker 1: comes to the game, I feel like we established our
Speaker 1: run and I think when we do that, it sort
Speaker 1: of balances out, uh, the offense, and it gets Sam
Speaker 1: comfortable when we gotta get in the rhythm. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, once we once we stay consistent with that
Speaker 1: and our defense played up to the standards that we
Speaker 1: have been that we have established the beginning of the season. Um, well,
Speaker 1: for the entirety of the season, I think, uh, I
Speaker 1: think we are in a good rule. So go Eagles man, Ernie,
Speaker 1: great call, Thank you very much, and enjoy this one.
Speaker 1: You know, should I start signing excuse notes for everyone
Speaker 1: who's got to call and blake to work tomorrow or
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Speaker 1: tire teachers. I will apologize in advance. But I thought
Speaker 1: Ernie made a great point that since that week too game,
Speaker 1: you know, the fans have just been kind of in
Speaker 1: a malaise, just sort of thinking that what we saw
Speaker 1: tonight from this team, it was what we expected back then,
Speaker 1: and so sometime for things to come together, but it
Speaker 1: finally did. But just going back to the home opener,
Speaker 1: you were expecting them to be up on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Everyone was exciting, energized for the home opener, so disappointing
Speaker 1: for it to endnet fashion. So it's great to get
Speaker 1: the revenge the way they did tonight. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the fans have been in the malaise since that game.
Speaker 1: The team had been in a malaise as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's just face it, and the fans feed off the team,
Speaker 1: and when the team plays well, you know these fans
Speaker 1: will be here, and tonight was one of those games
Speaker 1: where it was exciting, was big plays up and down
Speaker 1: the field. Wasn't a bunch of three and out it's
Speaker 1: a bunch of punts where you basically feel like you're
Speaker 1: pulling your teeth out watching the game. This was an
Speaker 1: exciting game. This is the type of football we got
Speaker 1: a custom to watching on the Chip Kelly over the
Speaker 1: last two and a half years, and it was good
Speaker 1: to see the team get back that. Now what they
Speaker 1: need to do is build off of that, because when
Speaker 1: it dust settles tonight, we're four and four and we're
Speaker 1: in second place. Still a lot of work to be done,
Speaker 1: a lot more football to be played, but we're on
Speaker 1: the right path. Goodwin night not Let's build on it
Speaker 1: exactly there in position that's the most important thing. So
Speaker 1: we focus on the offense. We're gonna get into the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football after this break. Here on
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Speaker 1: Chris from LA to the show. Chris, how are you
Speaker 1: feeling after the Eagles overtime win? And we have Chris there?
Speaker 1: All right, so don't have Chris there. But now before
Speaker 1: the break, I said, we really haven't touched on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. You know, so many great
Speaker 1: things about the offensive way they were able to persevere.
Speaker 1: Not the best night for the defense. There were some
Speaker 1: things that were good. You saw the past rush able
Speaker 1: to get to Maccastle a couple of times. You saw
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham with a multiple sack and multiple force fumble performance.
Speaker 1: You saw Kiko Alonso comeback into action. But overall, this
Speaker 1: has been the unit that really been carrying the Eagles
Speaker 1: in the first half of the season. Not so much
Speaker 1: tonight certainly wasn't wasn't one of their better performances tonight, Chris, Listen,
Speaker 1: they gave up over four hundred yards total all fans.
Speaker 1: I believe it's one hundred thirty four yards rushing on
Speaker 1: the ground to make Fadden. I don't even think Christian
Speaker 1: Michael even got positive yards tonight, So most of those
Speaker 1: yards came Darren McFadden. But here's the thing. Throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the season, you may have a game or
Speaker 1: two like this, but this defense is solid. It's built
Speaker 1: on a solid foundation, good young players. I thought they
Speaker 1: had some calls go against them late in the game
Speaker 1: that really took away from their aggressiveness. Money Byron mcpwell
Speaker 1: got called for two tikie tag calls against Davis Bryan
Speaker 1: out there, and you just can't have that. But Jordan Hicks,
Speaker 1: you watched number fifty eight right here. You know, I
Speaker 1: get excited when I see Jordan Hicks makes plays. This
Speaker 1: kid seems like he comes up with a big play
Speaker 1: every week. And Brandon Graham, I mean, Brandon Ram got
Speaker 1: a sack over arguably the best left tackle outside of Philadelphia, Yes,
Speaker 1: against Tyrone Smith tonight, So that certainty was a big deal.
Speaker 1: So I like what the defense was able to do it.
Speaker 1: But this was a game tonight that the offense needed
Speaker 1: to win. This was the type of game that the
Speaker 1: offense had to carry the mail for you, and I
Speaker 1: was glad the offense was able to step up and
Speaker 1: do that tonight. All Right, we're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: the phone lines. Take two. Chris from l A. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the postgame show for zan by Rico. Yo. I's
Speaker 1: going yo yo yo PC y'all, I mean load the show.
Speaker 1: Always pretty beautiful to win to night right, Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was huge, no question about it, Yeah, no doubt,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was thinking last week, like, come on,
Speaker 1: de Marco, he needs to be able to turn the corner.
Speaker 1: And I figured if he can, somebody can training the
Speaker 1: way that he runs straight to you know, use his
Speaker 1: feet the way that he runs straight to use those
Speaker 1: same steps as turning a corner. Bo's good. But you know,
Speaker 1: we got to win the night. He turned the corner
Speaker 1: the way he was supposed to, and he got it in.
Speaker 1: And the defense mainly is what I would pumping for, like,
Speaker 1: come on, defense, get it in, get it in, and
Speaker 1: we did get it in. You know, I started, you know,
Speaker 1: loving Eagles from two thousand and six when I got
Speaker 1: back in the Madden and started watching football again and
Speaker 1: with you know McNabb and you know, he was on
Speaker 1: the front of the cover. So that's where I became
Speaker 1: an Eagles fan. I'm a full law and all in
Speaker 1: good time to be all that's the case. So so, Chris,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the phone call. No question
Speaker 1: about now talking about players wearing number fifty eight, like
Speaker 1: did that in your day? Yeah, yeah, it was so
Speaker 1: long ago. That's Trent Cole's number. Now, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, you know pretty good players that have warned
Speaker 1: him at fifty eight. But Jordan Hicks, I mean, he
Speaker 1: just is anything. This kid can do. Well. I'm happy
Speaker 1: because hey, he's a linebacker and he's making plays, and
Speaker 1: then he's from Cincinnati, so there's so many, so many
Speaker 1: ties that I may have with the kid. So I'm
Speaker 1: just happy that he's playing good football. And listen, we've
Speaker 1: had just about every other inside linebacker go down and
Speaker 1: this young buck has been able to stay in there
Speaker 1: all year long. Take the signals, be sort of a
Speaker 1: leader out there when the older statesman can't make it
Speaker 1: to the game, like Damiko Ryan's tonight. He couldn't play tonight.
Speaker 1: So Jordan Hicks being out there on the field, I
Speaker 1: think you're looking at a very heady player, a smart
Speaker 1: football player, a guy who has a nose for the football,
Speaker 1: and I mean each week, I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: He just seems to find his way around football every week,
Speaker 1: leading tackler on the team. I mean, what can't he
Speaker 1: do well? The big player of the night from Jordan Hicks,
Speaker 1: the pick six in the fourth quarter which gave the
Speaker 1: Eagles the lead. To break down the all twenty and
Speaker 1: two of how it happened, let's welcome in NFL Film
Speaker 1: senior producer Greg ocell to showcase hicks is pick six,
Speaker 1: the Eagles six yard touchdown run by Ryan Matthews that
Speaker 1: ended the ninety five yard touchdown drive in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Team out of what we call an unbalanced line, and
Speaker 1: by that, take a look, there's three offensive linemen to
Speaker 1: the left. Right on the end, there is Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: he's the right tackle. He's actually aligned in a tight
Speaker 1: end position. And on the other side you have a
Speaker 1: tight end right here. That's right, You're right, all right.
Speaker 1: So we'll maybe we'll check out the all twenty two
Speaker 1: of the Hicks touchdown a little bit later here on
Speaker 1: Philadelphias dot Com. One thing certainly we yet to mention
Speaker 1: Caleb Sturgis tonight huge fifty three yard field goal to
Speaker 1: tie that game up. I mean it's tied up, right,
Speaker 1: I'll put us ahead. That's the game it was made.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven, twenty four. Okay, yeah, so huge field goal
Speaker 1: made by Caleb Sturgis, fifty plus yard er. I mean
Speaker 1: that was big time, huge question about the biggest field
Speaker 1: goal made around here in a while. I'll remember you
Speaker 1: go back to earlier in the season when in his
Speaker 1: day Abut he struggled and everyone said, just cut the kid. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just not worth it. You know, he couldn't hit
Speaker 1: a couple of extra points there. Chip said, look, hold on,
Speaker 1: let's preach all the patients here. We're gonna just stick
Speaker 1: with him. And it is paid off for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and it came up in a big way here tonight.
Speaker 1: This was a game that again every little bit was
Speaker 1: going to count, every little bit would make a difference.
Speaker 1: You need every point possible. Caleb Surgis with that fifty
Speaker 1: three yard field goal came through in a huge way
Speaker 1: and good momentum for him because he gets to face
Speaker 1: his former team next Sunday in the Golphins, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, this is one of those games, Chris,
Speaker 1: where they needed everyone to contribute, whether they were short
Speaker 1: handed due to injuries or just a simple fact you're
Speaker 1: on the road in a divisional opponage stadium with their
Speaker 1: backs against the wall, I mean the Cowboys backs. Their
Speaker 1: season was on the line and night, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: need needed a collective effort from everybody, and they got
Speaker 1: it from the defense when they needed. Jordan Hicks big
Speaker 1: touchdown early in the game on the picks six one
Speaker 1: down to the offense putting up thirty three points. And
Speaker 1: then Caleb Starge's key field goals made and he was
Speaker 1: pretty good with his kickoffs tonight. So this is one
Speaker 1: of those games where you needed the whole roster, all right,
Speaker 1: got it? N They certainly. Day Let's go back to
Speaker 1: the phone lines, so let's welcome in Scott from Florida
Speaker 1: to the postgame show for Day by Rico. Welcome Scott, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on, guys? Thanks for having me. First of all,
Speaker 1: the great team win. Very impressed by the the overall
Speaker 1: players the team. One thing I wanted to point out,
Speaker 1: or a couple of things, actually I wanted to point
Speaker 1: out was um. Something that I've noticed that the Chip's
Speaker 1: done in a couple of games this year on the
Speaker 1: offensive side that I've been impressed with is um. The
Speaker 1: success that they've had running the ball with Sam under
Speaker 1: the center. UM. I know it necessarily doesn't fit the
Speaker 1: system that Chip runs, UM, but what's what's the running
Speaker 1: back like DeMarco Murray that has that style And even
Speaker 1: with Ryan Matthews who can who can be a very
Speaker 1: powerful back at times. I think you need prays like
Speaker 1: that because obviously that can set you up for success
Speaker 1: in the passing game as well as the play action game,
Speaker 1: because play action with the quarterback under center, I think
Speaker 1: is a very effective way to get the ball downfield. So,
Speaker 1: you know, kudos to Chip to incorporate some of those
Speaker 1: plays into the game plan tonight. And uh, defensively, I
Speaker 1: think Jordan Hicks had an amazing game and stepping in
Speaker 1: and uh getting that pick six and getting the you know,
Speaker 1: getting the getting the a sideline excited and everything, and
Speaker 1: then making plays there in the you know, on the
Speaker 1: defensive huddle and just stepping up and and to think
Speaker 1: that he's a rookie making moves like that and making
Speaker 1: plays like that for the defense, that's incredible. Tonight was
Speaker 1: a great, a great team win, and hopefully they hopefully
Speaker 1: they put it into put the success that they had
Speaker 1: tonight into the game against Miami next week. Sounds good, Scott. Scott,
Speaker 1: you're not in Miami, are you. Oh no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: no, no no no, I'm about four hours away from Miami.
Speaker 1: Gotch Okay. I didn't know if you're able to talk
Speaker 1: trash for the Eagles all week long, So all right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll talk trashing no matter what. Well, Scott,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the phone call. Weather exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the truth. Definitely, So from the leadership standpoint that
Speaker 1: Scott was alluding to, how difficult is it for a
Speaker 1: rookie to come in and make all the calls, because look,
Speaker 1: it's one thing to be around the football and to
Speaker 1: make plays. But the fact that he is making the
Speaker 1: calls getting the guys lined up, that seems to be impressive.
Speaker 1: That he's able to do that and make plays on
Speaker 1: top of it. Yeah, I mean, it certainly is. I mean,
Speaker 1: the very fact that he's been as productive as he
Speaker 1: has from day one, from the first game that he
Speaker 1: was out there he was forced to play for Keiko Alonso.
Speaker 1: When when he went out in that Cowboys, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he got a sack against Tony Romo broke his collarbone.
Speaker 1: That really turned this whole NFC East Division upside down.
Speaker 1: So it certainly is impressive for him to go out
Speaker 1: and have a productivity that we've seen this early in
Speaker 1: his rookie season. But let me just say this, and
Speaker 1: he'll be the first to admit this, there are some
Speaker 1: great veteran leaders on this defensive side of the football
Speaker 1: that allows Jordan Hicks to be the player that he is.
Speaker 1: They actually relieve some of the pressure off his back
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have to be the leader on defense.
Speaker 1: He has to be the signal caller, he has to
Speaker 1: relay the plays to the rest of the guys. But
Speaker 1: you got Malcolm Jenkins out there, you got conn of
Speaker 1: Barr went out there, So you got leaders out there
Speaker 1: on the field that's going to rally the troops. So
Speaker 1: that takes some of the pressure off a young guy
Speaker 1: like Jordan Hicks because he already has enough responsibility just
Speaker 1: getting the plays in there and then being the playmaker
Speaker 1: out there that he is. All right, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: start to wrap things up. Any final thoughts from you
Speaker 1: on the Eagles the game that they had to have.
Speaker 1: You could debate whether it was a must win or not.
Speaker 1: Coming on well s something well, mathematically, you know you
Speaker 1: could say, but I think for the psyche of everyone
Speaker 1: and think about how you wouldn't felt tomorrow if they
Speaker 1: didn't win this game exactly the way that this one down. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: that's all right. It's much better being in second place
Speaker 1: with that four and four record. Then even we don't
Speaker 1: even have to go there, don't have to worry about this. Plus,
Speaker 1: Plus you put the down so much further in the basement,
Speaker 1: and it was huge because to me, this was your
Speaker 1: toughest role block for the month of November. Now the
Speaker 1: Eagles can start to gain a little momentum, build some confidence,
Speaker 1: start to get that swagger back that we've seen a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. One thing I've noticed about this
Speaker 1: team through the first eight weeks of the season, nine
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, at least offensively, we're unsure of ourselves.
Speaker 1: We don't know what our true identity is on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. But you're starting to see it.
Speaker 1: You're starting to see what the identity on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball is. And we got a few
Speaker 1: games coming up here that we need to continue to
Speaker 1: build off of young teams, inexperience, inferior opponents, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Tampa even the Detroit Lions. The Eagles will
Speaker 1: be the better team in all three of those games. Now,
Speaker 1: we just need to go out there and take care
Speaker 1: of business because December is right around the corner, and
Speaker 1: that's when you want to be playing your best football.
Speaker 1: Christ Year, Yes, yes, that's when you want to be
Speaker 1: playing your best football. And I like what the Eagles
Speaker 1: are starting to gain it. It's starting the show and
Speaker 1: you just hope the second half of the season brings
Speaker 1: us what we all want, which is postseason. So you
Speaker 1: think about the last year when the Eagles were in
Speaker 1: Dallas on Thanksgiving, that was when they peaked. Ya, that
Speaker 1: was on top of the season. It was all downhill
Speaker 1: from there. Maybe different this time around where they just
Speaker 1: get Oh that's the swag of the talking about see
Speaker 1: a sprinkle some of that chest. So that's gonna do things.
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Speaker 1: by Rico, We're gonna be updating the site in the
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Speaker 1: running back to Marco Murray. We're gonna have great co
Speaker 1: sales all twenty and two. Breakdown of the big plays
Speaker 1: of this game, so make sure you're stay tuned all
Speaker 1: throughout the night. In the early morning hours, head coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly will address the media at one pm in
Speaker 1: his day after and then Dave Spadero and Brian Westbrook
Speaker 1: will bring you Eagles three sixty at five pm tomorrow
Speaker 1: to recap all the day's news and notes, and just
Speaker 1: to get the reaction from this amazing win the Eagles
Speaker 1: behind Jordan Matthews forty one, your touchdown reception in overtime,
Speaker 1: the feat the Dallas Cowboys thirty three, twenty seven. How
Speaker 1: about those Cowboys? That's gonna do it for us? Here
Speaker 1: on the postgame show, He's like Chris, I'm Chris McPherson.
Speaker 1: Eagles fans, have a great night.