Speaker 1: We can all breathe just a little bit easier. In
Speaker 1: a must win game. The Eagles were down nineteen to
Speaker 1: three in the second quarter, Well they rallied back by
Speaker 1: scoring outscoring the Giants twenty two to three over the
Speaker 1: final twenty minutes of the football game to eke out
Speaker 1: a twenty five to twenty two victory over in New
Speaker 1: York to improve to five and six on the season.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone to welcome to the postgame show presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese, and Yes,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had to have this game, and they found
Speaker 1: a way despite an undermanned defense, despite not scoring in
Speaker 1: the first quarter once again, to beat a Giants team
Speaker 1: that was full of confidence and believing they were gonna
Speaker 1: come into the link and end the Eagles season. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, Chris, right off the bat. You know,
Speaker 1: Doug has been here for a little over two and
Speaker 1: a half years, and I know they're coming off winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, But I can't think of four or
Speaker 1: five more wins that he's had during his time here
Speaker 1: that's been more impressive than today's victory. You talked about
Speaker 1: it being a must win game. We obviously you know
Speaker 1: that getting down nineteen to three to this Giants team
Speaker 1: and then finding a way to battle back in this game.
Speaker 1: Really impressed with the perseverance of this team, the fact
Speaker 1: that they didn't give up the will to fight and
Speaker 1: not let this season go down just yet. So just
Speaker 1: an impressive win. Obviously, we'll dive through the numbers, we'll
Speaker 1: dive through the play. There's obviously things to improve upon,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about a gutty, gutty, gritty win from
Speaker 1: a football team that really hasn't had a lot of
Speaker 1: bright moments this season. They find a way to get
Speaker 1: to five and six in a game that they had
Speaker 1: to have at home. Again, I can't overstate this. Down
Speaker 1: nineteen to three, you know, I didn't know when they
Speaker 1: were down nineteen to three. I was hoping, but I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure they had it in them to come back
Speaker 1: and win this game. And just an impressive win, a
Speaker 1: little something to build off of, get some momentum going
Speaker 1: into next week's big game against Washington. Just a just
Speaker 1: a gritty, tough win. I think one of the best
Speaker 1: wins under Dougs. It is like, because you haven't seen
Speaker 1: too many wins like this during Doug's error. Okay, last season,
Speaker 1: when the Eagles were steamrolling opponents on the way to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, they didn't have a lot of close
Speaker 1: contests like this. So we look at the boss score
Speaker 1: here again the Eagles coming out with the twenty five
Speaker 1: to twenty two victory. The time of possession really took
Speaker 1: place in the second half of the ball game as
Speaker 1: the Eagles relied on the ground game and the Eagles
Speaker 1: believe are not out gaining the Giants in ground yards
Speaker 1: by a margin of one twenty seven to one twenty six,
Speaker 1: which if you watched the first half and saw Saquon
Speaker 1: Barkley in the way he was running the football, especially
Speaker 1: after he scored the fifty one yard touchdown, you didn't
Speaker 1: think that that was going to happen. But a lot
Speaker 1: of eerie similarities between the Week three Eagles Giants game
Speaker 1: at the Link a year ago to this one here,
Speaker 1: and the biggest one for me is Jake Ellie coming
Speaker 1: out at the end with the franchise record sixty one
Speaker 1: yard field goal to get the Eagles over the hump,
Speaker 1: and they really took off from that point on. Today.
Speaker 1: Once again, Jake Ellie coming through in the clutch of
Speaker 1: forty three yard field goal with only twenty two seconds left,
Speaker 1: season on the line once again and the Eagles. We
Speaker 1: don't know what this will mean down the road, but
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is the Eagles are in five and six.
Speaker 1: They have Washington next Monday night in prime time, and
Speaker 1: they are right where they need to be, not where
Speaker 1: they want to be, but where they need to be.
Speaker 1: At this point with the NFC East still within the reach,
Speaker 1: they are just one game out of first place. Washington
Speaker 1: tie with Dallas for first place with the six and
Speaker 1: five record, the Eagles are right in the hunt and
Speaker 1: they have Washington and Dallas over the next two weeks. But,
Speaker 1: like you said, like a lot of things for this
Speaker 1: team to build upon, But the biggest thing tonight is
Speaker 1: that they survive. That was the biggest thing, especially after
Speaker 1: being down nineteen to three. Yeah, keeping your season season alive,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it's all about. You know. They
Speaker 1: found themselves in this position where basically over the last
Speaker 1: month or so of a season they're gonna be in
Speaker 1: playoff form. I mean, because they need just about every
Speaker 1: win they can get to sort of find themselves in
Speaker 1: that final weekend with an opportunity to play in the
Speaker 1: postseason this season. So the great thing is their next
Speaker 1: game is at home as well, against another divisional opponent
Speaker 1: that they'll probably probably be favored against, a game they
Speaker 1: should get national TV primetime Monday night football. Certainly something
Speaker 1: to build off of. And that's really how they have
Speaker 1: to look at this thing. They have to look at
Speaker 1: the rest of their schedule, as it's a week to
Speaker 1: week season. Find a way to keep your season alive.
Speaker 1: Things around you're going to fall into place. You know.
Speaker 1: The one fortunate thing we have going for us this
Speaker 1: year is that no one is running away in this division,
Speaker 1: which is going to keep a lot of the teams
Speaker 1: in the hunt. And so the Eagles, although they aren't
Speaker 1: playing at a level, they certainly have enough time to
Speaker 1: sort of get themselves to that level as long as
Speaker 1: they keep fixing the little things. I look at that
Speaker 1: graphic there, Chris, and the first thing that stood out
Speaker 1: to me was zero turnovers. Zero turnovers. They came into
Speaker 1: this game plus nine and the turnover differential. That's no
Speaker 1: way you can survive in this league. If they're fortunate
Speaker 1: to be at four and six with that type of
Speaker 1: turnover differential, whereas they were fourth in the league at
Speaker 1: a plus eleven. I believe last year taking care of football.
Speaker 1: Although they got the one big interception from Malcolm right
Speaker 1: before the half, the big key there to me was
Speaker 1: they took care of the ball on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, didn't give the Giants any short fields,
Speaker 1: any easy points, and that allowed them to claw their
Speaker 1: way back into this game. Wasn't pretty, but when they
Speaker 1: finally got their rhythm going there and they were able
Speaker 1: to find their way with a w in the second half.
Speaker 1: You make a great point about style when it comes
Speaker 1: to winning games in the league. Like last week, the
Speaker 1: Eagles were throttled by the Saints, it doesn't matter. It's
Speaker 1: one loss in the grand scheme of things, and they
Speaker 1: knew after that game they were going to still be
Speaker 1: in the mix. The key was not to allow that
Speaker 1: loss to hang over their heads. And maybe you could
Speaker 1: say it did a little bit there in the first
Speaker 1: half or so, but the Eagles were able to get
Speaker 1: a spark there late in the second quarter, and like
Speaker 1: you said, it was just getting back to fundamentals, making
Speaker 1: sure you have sound tackling, getting off the field on
Speaker 1: third down on defense, and then going to the ground
Speaker 1: game and sustaining drives on offense. A lot of key
Speaker 1: third down conversion in this foot ball game. A lot
Speaker 1: of the elements that made the twenty seventeen offense special
Speaker 1: we saw once again here today. So again style points
Speaker 1: don't matter when it comes to the victory. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing is the Eagles get the victory by score twenty
Speaker 1: five to twenty two. And then next week they'll play
Speaker 1: Washington in a Monday night thriller with pretty much everything
Speaker 1: online for both teams because Washington lost its starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: They were defeated by the Cowboys on Thanksgiving nights, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really ending a chance to bounce back.
Speaker 1: So two teams, and what better way than to handle
Speaker 1: your division business by having in a primetime showcase like
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a Monday Night. But a lot more
Speaker 1: to unpack here on the postgame show presented by Rico,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from head coach Doug Pearson and quarterback
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz Or also have a film breakdown Cursey of
Speaker 1: Fran Duffy and Great Cosell. But first we're going to
Speaker 1: send it over to Lincoln Financial Field and welcome in
Speaker 1: Eagles Inspire Dave Spider and Amy Campbell. Now, Dave, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've had a chance to catch your breath, But
Speaker 1: one of the takeaways for me from today is looking
Speaker 1: at the offensive side of the ball, Carson Wentz and
Speaker 1: the off it's getting the job done in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Went throughout the course of the season, the team has
Speaker 1: been criticized for not coming up big in clutch situations. Well,
Speaker 1: it's because they haven't come up big in clutch situations.
Speaker 1: So the criticism was just and I thought you mentioned
Speaker 1: it correctly just a little bit ago, Chris. The running game,
Speaker 1: the Eagles really leaned on it, and Josh Adams Corey
Speaker 1: Clement made it happen. Good screen game efficiency offensively really
Speaker 1: the key for the Eagles red zone efficiency as well.
Speaker 1: And I mean, what a difference between half one and
Speaker 1: half two. Everything changed in this football game on the
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins red zone interception Eagles. I'm sorry before that,
Speaker 1: Eagles go down and score the touchdown and then Jenkins
Speaker 1: has the interception, and then the Eagles take momentum into
Speaker 1: the half, into the second half, and I thought the
Speaker 1: offense had a terrific job controlling the clock, controlling the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and moving the football. Amy. You know,
Speaker 1: Dave talked about the offense and they certainly finally got
Speaker 1: it together in that second half. I thought that the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense played outstanding in the second half as well
Speaker 1: as well as keeping them in the game in the first.
Speaker 1: Just your thoughts on Jim Schwartz and the scheme and
Speaker 1: things he were able to come up with considering he
Speaker 1: was shorthanded when you look at this secondary, Yeah, Ike,
Speaker 1: you and I are already very much on the same
Speaker 1: page there. That was kind of my big note there,
Speaker 1: a tale of two halves. But the last few games
Speaker 1: we've seen kind of the opposite effect with the Eagles
Speaker 1: defense really keeping it tight in the first three quarters
Speaker 1: and then just not able to hang on until the end,
Speaker 1: allowing a lot of points. Kind of as games unwinded,
Speaker 1: you saw again that injury bug continues to hit the secondary,
Speaker 1: but it was that front seven that was really able
Speaker 1: to get pressure, stop the run. Take Eli Manning down.
Speaker 1: That to me was huge that the defense continued to
Speaker 1: give the offense a chance while the offense was kind
Speaker 1: of working out the Kinkston able to get the ground
Speaker 1: game going Dave Amy touch on some of the decisions
Speaker 1: there from Coach Peterson and the staff there. But late
Speaker 1: in the game, Doug Peerson decides to go for it
Speaker 1: on the fourth down and Carson Wentz comes up big
Speaker 1: with the throw to Nelson Agil over the middle. What
Speaker 1: did it mean for coach Peerson to go for in
Speaker 1: that situation when he was a little more conservative leading
Speaker 1: up to that point in the content? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you're standing there, you're kind of watching, You're going. Well,
Speaker 1: if you punt it and you punt it into the
Speaker 1: end zone, you have a net of twenty two yards
Speaker 1: and the Giants still have a couple of minutes left.
Speaker 1: I think it was a decision you had to make,
Speaker 1: very difficult decision. Short passing game, safe route by Nelson
Speaker 1: Aguil or middle of the field. Really, the Eagles had
Speaker 1: some success there from most of the day. Offensive line
Speaker 1: gave Carson some time he delivered to Nelson. I think
Speaker 1: it's just call you had to make. I really didn't
Speaker 1: think about not going for it there, I mean right
Speaker 1: right well, in that situation especially, and we talked about
Speaker 1: this before the game that I wanted to see Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson being aggressive again and of course, we can't compare
Speaker 1: last year to this year because it's not the same personnel,
Speaker 1: it's not the same team. But one of the things
Speaker 1: that gave this team that juice, gave this atmosphere that
Speaker 1: juice was that aggressive mentality. The fans love it, the
Speaker 1: players love it. And so to see that going for
Speaker 1: the two point conversions, going for it on fourth and one.
Speaker 1: Of course it helps when it works, but just to
Speaker 1: see that, I think was a big part of just
Speaker 1: the juice and the momentum, that swagger that you want
Speaker 1: to see from a team like this. Hey, Amy, looking
Speaker 1: at that offensive side of the ball, you know, everyone's
Speaker 1: screaming about running the football, committing to the running game.
Speaker 1: I thought Doug did an ask me job, but at
Speaker 1: today talk about Josh Adams performance today as well as
Speaker 1: Corey Clement sort of being involved in the offense also,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a huge spark for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw. You know, we've kind of been waiting to
Speaker 1: see what's going to happen with Josh Adams all season.
Speaker 1: A guy who makes the team, who shows a lot
Speaker 1: of potential and continues to show that the coaches can
Speaker 1: trust him every situation that he's been given opportunities taken
Speaker 1: advantage of it, and he continued to do that today,
Speaker 1: just got hotter and hotter. Twenty two carries. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess that's the most that he's had in his career.
Speaker 1: I can't confirm that thing. Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 1: Twenty two carries, a career high for him here with
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and his second touchdown of his career, and
Speaker 1: Corey Clement too, kind of giving them a couple of
Speaker 1: those big plays. Clement had a couple of the big runs,
Speaker 1: so giving them the balance there, and you know, just
Speaker 1: Adams continuing to slowly help move the change. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Adams I think the ability to get outside to bounce
Speaker 1: it out. I'd really he is a big play running back.
Speaker 1: Was a big play running back, and Notre Dame has
Speaker 1: continued to be one here. And what we saw today
Speaker 1: that we hadn't really seen was the workhorse. Twenty two carries,
Speaker 1: good ball, security, late game, tough yards between the tackles,
Speaker 1: setting up Jake Elliott. Yeah for he said it was
Speaker 1: just a routine into the wind, kind of reminiscent of
Speaker 1: last year's kick, the sixty one yarder, but clearly Josh
Speaker 1: Adams delivering in the clutch, and Corey Clement, who has
Speaker 1: struggled this year to get his game going, found it
Speaker 1: today and Amy, thank you so much. We can't wait
Speaker 1: to read the on the insight common listen to the
Speaker 1: Eels Life podcast after the game later on this evening.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, guys and Dave Brown. Was a great point
Speaker 1: there with Josh Adams that you trusted him in the clutch,
Speaker 1: you know, in those pivotal moments when you're trying to
Speaker 1: accept your field position, you're line up the kick for
Speaker 1: Jake Elliott. They trusted Adams to carry the ball and
Speaker 1: not to worry about losing it with the season on
Speaker 1: the line. And I think the key word there is trust.
Speaker 1: It's not easy when you're looking at a guy who's
Speaker 1: undrafted and you don't know how much to give him.
Speaker 1: You want to give him enough so that you certainly
Speaker 1: are getting positive production out of him, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, in the back of every coach's mind is
Speaker 1: that he's still a rookie and you kind of you
Speaker 1: kind of are a little reluctant to feed him a
Speaker 1: whole lot early in the season. But I think Josh
Speaker 1: Adams has earned the extra touches that Doug has given him,
Speaker 1: and the fact that you bring up the word trust,
Speaker 1: they are trusting him now to give him a little
Speaker 1: bit more and to keep the plan. Running back in
Speaker 1: this league isn't just about running the football. It's also
Speaker 1: how do you contribute in the passing game? How do
Speaker 1: you contribute in the passing protection game? Blitz pick up
Speaker 1: things of that nature. So it's good to see that
Speaker 1: Josh Adams has been rewarded for his hard work and
Speaker 1: his positive play over the past few weeks. And I
Speaker 1: guarantee you he'll continue to get touches as long as
Speaker 1: he's continuing to be to give you positive results, they'll
Speaker 1: give him the football. Don't forget he had a fifty
Speaker 1: one yeard touchdown calling back there in the first quarter. So, Mike,
Speaker 1: what are your three big takeaways from this the Eagles
Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty two win over the Giants. Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta start, you know, my biggest concern coming into
Speaker 1: this game was the defense and how would they perform
Speaker 1: considering what they were rialed with injuries with in the
Speaker 1: back seven of this defense, I thought, Jim Schwartz, they
Speaker 1: held down the fort in the first half, Eli and
Speaker 1: that offense, they set an NFL record. I don't have
Speaker 1: the exact number in front of me, but it was
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty some yards I believe in the
Speaker 1: first half of total offense. That's almost unheard of. But
Speaker 1: look the team finished. The Giants offense finished with just
Speaker 1: over four hundred yards. So you look at what this
Speaker 1: defense did in the second half, only giving up three points,
Speaker 1: really clamped down on that Giants offense and kept the
Speaker 1: big playoff of them. And so you want to you
Speaker 1: want to give the defense a lot of credit for
Speaker 1: what they were able to do. And then I look
Speaker 1: at what the offense was able to do in the
Speaker 1: second half from a running standpoint, really committed to the
Speaker 1: running game in the second half. And then Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. So much senseless talk about whether
Speaker 1: or not he's a clutch performer, whether or not he
Speaker 1: can win big games. This guy is the franchise quarterback
Speaker 1: for this team and he will continue to be that
Speaker 1: for well over a decade. He didn't need to prove
Speaker 1: anything to me, but I hope he answered a lot
Speaker 1: of questions that people had about him the day with
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter performance leading them down to another game
Speaker 1: winning win with the field goal kicked by Jake Kelliot. Well,
Speaker 1: you bring up Carson Wentz in his first half numbers
Speaker 1: here he was ten of twelve in the first half,
Speaker 1: eighty three point three percent completion percentage for one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty seven yards with a touchdown, one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight point five passer rating, and he finishally see
Speaker 1: his final numbers on a day two thirty six yards
Speaker 1: over seventy one percent completion percentage. You know, it was
Speaker 1: just very efficient in the first half. The thing was
Speaker 1: early on the defense struggled mightel Okay four drives, four
Speaker 1: scoring drives for the Giants to start off the game,
Speaker 1: the touchdown, two field goals and another touchdown. It wasn't
Speaker 1: until the fifth drive when Malcolm Jenkins got the interception
Speaker 1: where the defense was able to get off the field.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, though, Carson Wentz he almost
Speaker 1: felt like had pressure on his shoulders to carry the offense,
Speaker 1: knowing how short handed the defense was, that the Eagles
Speaker 1: were almost got to go and score in every single possession,
Speaker 1: and after the slow start, you thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be insurmountable, But Carson Wentz just kept plugging away,
Speaker 1: plugging away. Doug Pearson micro give him craf for making
Speaker 1: sure they stuck with the run game even though they
Speaker 1: were down at one point, by sixteen and by eight
Speaker 1: in the second half. But the big thing there is
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz a very efficient performance and helping not only
Speaker 1: get the Egels back in scoring position to have a
Speaker 1: chance to win the game, but coming through and getting
Speaker 1: the victory. And I think the most impressive thing he
Speaker 1: did today was not press And you talked about the
Speaker 1: pressure coming into this game, and I'm sure he felt
Speaker 1: it from the outside or even from the inside when
Speaker 1: your defense is riddled with injuries the way they have been,
Speaker 1: and after giving up forty eight points to the Saints,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably thinking what we're all thinking, is
Speaker 1: that the offense is going to have to put some
Speaker 1: points on the board and able for them to in
Speaker 1: order for them to win today. So as a player
Speaker 1: of his magnitude, you have to fight against that temptation
Speaker 1: to want to go out there and make a big
Speaker 1: play every time you get the football. And I thought
Speaker 1: in the first half he didn't have some things go
Speaker 1: his way, moved the ball at times, but they seen
Speaker 1: the stall on third downs time from time to time.
Speaker 1: But the key thing for me is that he didn't
Speaker 1: force any throwst he didn't have any turnovers in the game,
Speaker 1: and eventually he was able to get some things going
Speaker 1: with his receivers in the second half. So you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's not easy when you're the quarterback
Speaker 1: and everyone's looking for you for all the answers and
Speaker 1: to carry the load. You almost feel pressure to go
Speaker 1: out there and score every time you get the ball.
Speaker 1: I thought he got help on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball today which relieved some of that pressure, and
Speaker 1: the most of the help came from his offensive line.
Speaker 1: I thought he had pass protection back there. There were
Speaker 1: times he held onto the ball. Maybe it's because no
Speaker 1: one was open, but it wasn't a whole lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on him, even though he was sacked late in
Speaker 1: the game a couple of times. I thought through the
Speaker 1: first few quarters he had any of time back there.
Speaker 1: And then we're watching Corey Clement here we talked about
Speaker 1: Josh Adams. That was huge for Carson today. He was
Speaker 1: able to turn around, give the ball to those running
Speaker 1: backs and let them alleviate some of their pressure that
Speaker 1: I'm sure he felt coming into the game. It is
Speaker 1: great seeing that burst from Corey Clement and has just
Speaker 1: not been there all season. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was the quad injury he suffered at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. It just lingered too long. Clement kept
Speaker 1: saying it was one hundred percent by but by the
Speaker 1: reps he was getting on the field, you could tell
Speaker 1: something wasn't right. And it was great with and we
Speaker 1: see Corey Clement here the second year back, and it's
Speaker 1: great that last year was a rookie Fraser running back
Speaker 1: who helped the Eagles on the way to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It's Adams this year. Where you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: there from Clement there forty five rushing yards, thirty one receiving.
Speaker 1: That's what he did so well is he helped you
Speaker 1: on third down and in the past game and without
Speaker 1: a Jhiudine, more of a sustaining back, and Josh Adams
Speaker 1: proved that he could be that guy getting twenty two
Speaker 1: carriages today. The big thing is a week ago. Look,
Speaker 1: Adams was very productive when he got his carriage. Problem
Speaker 1: is when you're down the way they were to the Saints,
Speaker 1: you and I run on the ball. At that point
Speaker 1: But to that being said, with the Eagles down this
Speaker 1: week nineteen at three. Okay, last week, the mo against
Speaker 1: the Saints was he got past, past past again position.
Speaker 1: The Eagles just don't have the explosive playmakers to make
Speaker 1: up points in a hurry, so they have to sustain drives.
Speaker 1: They have to move the chains on an intermediate level.
Speaker 1: And I thought you saw a lot more production. Obviously,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz got his and he always plays well against
Speaker 1: the Giants, but you saw Alshon Jeffrey getting more involved
Speaker 1: because he had been quite the last few weeks. We
Speaker 1: saw a couple of plays from Dallas Goddard today, who
Speaker 1: had only one target in the three games leading into this,
Speaker 1: and that was or one catch, I should say, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a touchdown against Jacksonville. Other than that, he's
Speaker 1: been targeted very minimally ever since they acquired Golden take
Speaker 1: because they're trying to work him into the offense. I
Speaker 1: thought Micro and Doug Pearson did a better job of
Speaker 1: getting those guys and fighting touches for Golden Tate, getting
Speaker 1: those guys more involved today, because when you look at
Speaker 1: the Giants offense, obviously you're talking about say Quon and
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, but you know, Tenant Rhet Ellison was making
Speaker 1: big but they were getting contributions from other guys. Wayne
Speaker 1: Goldman was making some key rushes for them in the
Speaker 1: second half. For the Eagles, you need other guys outside
Speaker 1: of just zach Ertz to step up for you today,
Speaker 1: and I thought some of the other role players did
Speaker 1: in a big way. Yeah, and I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there want to see Golden take get
Speaker 1: the ball a lot more, but you have to realize
Speaker 1: this offense is predicated on spreading the football around. I
Speaker 1: mean that's when they're their most dangerous. You know, other
Speaker 1: than zach Ertz, the receivers aren't going to get those
Speaker 1: type of targets. So I like seeing the fact that
Speaker 1: Golden Tate was able to get some touches. I love
Speaker 1: the fact that he's back there returning punts. And when
Speaker 1: you spread the ball around in this offense, it makes
Speaker 1: you that much more difficult to defend. And when you
Speaker 1: add the running game aspect to it as well, you
Speaker 1: can become an efficient offense. I thought they got to
Speaker 1: that a little bit more in the first I mean
Speaker 1: in the second half as opposed to the first half,
Speaker 1: and Hopefully it's something they can build upon because next
Speaker 1: week's defense is a lot better. You know that Redskin's
Speaker 1: defense is a lot better than the Giant. So we're
Speaker 1: starting to see some positive things. Just they need to
Speaker 1: continue to build upon it, all right. So Josh Adams
Speaker 1: a touchdown his first career touchdown last week against the Saints,
Speaker 1: gets another touchdown today and as a two point conversion
Speaker 1: for good measure. Dave Sparre caught up with him on
Speaker 1: the field after the win. Field Now with running back
Speaker 1: Josh Adams, Well, your first touchdown at Lincoln Financial Field
Speaker 1: growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, how did it?
Speaker 1: Field felt great? Man, it feels good to be home.
Speaker 1: Definitely a blessing, a dream come true. All Right, tell
Speaker 1: me about the running attack and what changed in the
Speaker 1: second half for this offense. We just tried to stay aggressive,
Speaker 1: We tried to dictate the tempo to them, and we
Speaker 1: just trusted what we were doing. The big guys upfront
Speaker 1: to the incredible job, and we leaned on them the
Speaker 1: second half. How big was this win? Josh? It was great.
Speaker 1: It's definitely big. We're planning on using it for the
Speaker 1: weeks to come, all right, Josh Adams, Eagles rookie running
Speaker 1: back from Council Rock South High School. I love the
Speaker 1: two on five that he flashes in the end zone
Speaker 1: after he scores. And what's interesting for young guys like
Speaker 1: Josh Adams is you come to a team that's coming
Speaker 1: off a Super Bowl win, Okay, so you kind of
Speaker 1: almost think that that aura is gonna linger and permeate
Speaker 1: throughout the locker room. But it's really the guys who
Speaker 1: are on the field now who have to continue that
Speaker 1: culture to make sure that that standard is maintained. And
Speaker 1: that can be difficult for someone who not just coming
Speaker 1: as a rookie, but a rookie for agent who was
Speaker 1: just battling to make the team. Adams wasn't on the
Speaker 1: team at the start of the regular season. It was
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. So for now, for him to
Speaker 1: come in and contribute a big way shows his maturity
Speaker 1: and shows that Douce Daley has done a great job
Speaker 1: of cultivating another fund here Again. Last year, Corey Clement
Speaker 1: as a rookie for agent running back. This year it's Adams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the most important thing is that the
Speaker 1: Office of Line did a great job of blocking today
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, these running backs are going to
Speaker 1: have success if the guys up front are putting the
Speaker 1: hat on the hat and moving bodies and giving them
Speaker 1: some running lanes to sort of run the ball through.
Speaker 1: You know, I like our young running backs that we half,
Speaker 1: but I also know that there are limitations that comes
Speaker 1: along with them, and so these aren't the type of
Speaker 1: backs that can make something out of nothing, like a
Speaker 1: Sayquon Barkley when there are no holes there. You give
Speaker 1: these guys a little bit of daylight, they'll get you
Speaker 1: some positive yards. And I thought the offensive line they
Speaker 1: got stronger as the game went on. I even saw
Speaker 1: Brandon Brooks at one point sort of motioning to the
Speaker 1: sideline to Dug saying, keep running it, keep running it.
Speaker 1: When they got the touchdown to go ahead finally twenty
Speaker 1: two to nineteen. I believe it was when they finally
Speaker 1: went ahead twenty to nineteen. So the offensive line, you
Speaker 1: could tell they were starting to pick up the energy
Speaker 1: from the running game. And when those big bodies start
Speaker 1: layding on you, man, it wears a deepense down twenty
Speaker 1: seven rushing attempts from the running backs. It's been a
Speaker 1: long time since the Eagles have had that many rushing
Speaker 1: attempts from two backs and twenty two of them coming
Speaker 1: from Josh Shadams. I know what the Giants were thinking
Speaker 1: on that side of the football. They weren't prepared to
Speaker 1: face that type of a run game to day because
Speaker 1: the Eagles just hadn't really shown that they had the
Speaker 1: ability to run the ball the way they did today.
Speaker 1: But I was happy to see that even when he
Speaker 1: got down nineteen to three, it wasn't like it was
Speaker 1: last week where you say we gotta play catch up
Speaker 1: football and try to score as quickly as possible. Doug
Speaker 1: show confidence that that defense could do enough to give
Speaker 1: him time to get back in the game to good point,
Speaker 1: and I think he also realized that part of the
Speaker 1: offense's job today was to help their defense out. The
Speaker 1: defense is under Mann. You know, you got guys playing
Speaker 1: in the secondary other than Malcolm Jenkins that I really
Speaker 1: never heard of a month or so ago, So we
Speaker 1: were gonna need to start to win the time of possession.
Speaker 1: Giants kind of won that in the first half, and
Speaker 1: in the second half it was clearly came out and
Speaker 1: dominated the football. I don't know what happened to see
Speaker 1: kuon Barker in the second half, sidelined early in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Way Gallman was the one who was hailing
Speaker 1: the rock there in those early drives. So I saw
Speaker 1: at one point in the fourth quarter, late in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, he had two rushes in the second half.
Speaker 1: You don't need carrying the ball twice. You wonder if
Speaker 1: they were trying to save him for a late game
Speaker 1: push or something along those lines. But I'm sure Pat
Speaker 1: Chremer's gonna have to address that. Like, what was your
Speaker 1: turning point in this game? As the Eagles came back
Speaker 1: from a nineteen to three deficit to get this twenty
Speaker 1: five to twenty two win. Oh man, it seems small,
Speaker 1: but it was huge. All right. Actually, we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna sit it back over to the lake. The
Speaker 1: victorious head coach Doug Pearson standing by. I think they
Speaker 1: called the time out there. Did you change your initial
Speaker 1: play call? What did you see? And wasn't run pect? No?
Speaker 1: We uh gosh, I mean at that point, I was
Speaker 1: just I was gonna win the game. And and uh,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of confidence in the play call,
Speaker 1: confidence in our guys. It was a man zone. They
Speaker 1: played zone on the play and and uh, Nelly popped
Speaker 1: right over the ball. So it was well executed by us,
Speaker 1: and uh kept kept with the same call even even
Speaker 1: through the timeout on that final drive, were able to
Speaker 1: bleed off like five minutes o'clock. Set the idea when
Speaker 1: the drive started or in that situation, you just want
Speaker 1: to score and then if the drive kind of happens
Speaker 1: that way, there's in that situation we'd love to finish
Speaker 1: with points. And you know, obviously no time on the clock.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the thought process there. I thought, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, on the sideline, great communication, players, offensively execute,
Speaker 1: offensive line, great job today, um, and and just making
Speaker 1: making plays in that drive to get us to get
Speaker 1: us down to that kick back to that fourth down
Speaker 1: completion to Nellie looked like that the mesh play you
Speaker 1: guys have made so much success with. What do you
Speaker 1: like about that concept in such a big spot? Then? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we love it when when teams
Speaker 1: play man. Uh, I believe the Giants ran it today
Speaker 1: and hit hit it for a third down conversion. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a good play. It's a man's own play. It's
Speaker 1: something that's been in our offense for you know since
Speaker 1: I've been here, Um, and guys know exactly what to do.
Speaker 1: It's well executed and uh, great job by Carson hanging
Speaker 1: in there in the pocket and delivering apple. Look at
Speaker 1: what do you think it's those with the team's confidence.
Speaker 1: You guys are kind of really a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I think that's a big win in the division. How
Speaker 1: does that boost it boost the Colum guys are excited.
Speaker 1: I mean they're uh, you know, it's been been a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks since we've we've felt this, this type
Speaker 1: of this type of emotion, So they're there there, Jazz.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, it's a great win against a
Speaker 1: obviously a hot, really good opponent that uh that is
Speaker 1: real dangerous on offense. And so for our defense to
Speaker 1: hang in there in the second half and do the
Speaker 1: things they did, get them off the field, and then offensively,
Speaker 1: you know, um get ourselves in a position to win
Speaker 1: a game. It's just a great boost for the entire team.
Speaker 1: Your playmakers to make plays. Malcolm Jenkins made a big
Speaker 1: play and it seemed to start something at that point.
Speaker 1: What did you see on that play? How big a
Speaker 1: play is that for your team from that guy? And
Speaker 1: what did you see defensively going forward. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Malcolm's a great leader and and uh, you know one
Speaker 1: of the things that you know, I've talked to our
Speaker 1: sort of our our leaders on the football team and
Speaker 1: and just just challenge them, you know, just you just
Speaker 1: we just got to find a way to make plays,
Speaker 1: you know, and and in big situations. And I think
Speaker 1: you saw it from time to time today and that
Speaker 1: was one album that really sparked I think the defense
Speaker 1: going into the second half and then then obviously the offense. Um.
Speaker 1: But but you know, he made that big play. Alshan
Speaker 1: made a big play at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: you know, to extend to drive. And you know, Josh Adams,
Speaker 1: even though he's a young player, he did some nice things.
Speaker 1: But our veteran players really stepped up today and and
Speaker 1: the d line was able to put pressure on uh
Speaker 1: you know Eli, I get some sacks there. Our offensive line,
Speaker 1: a veteran group, really did a nice job. So playmakers
Speaker 1: did a nice job today. I just think that sometimes, um,
Speaker 1: you know, you get into the game that the offensive
Speaker 1: line is really um they've been they've really they've played well.
Speaker 1: I mean really the entire season. That's been one of
Speaker 1: the consistent bright spots on offense. And I just knew
Speaker 1: going into this game that uh that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we were gonna have to kind of control the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh. I just wanted to help out
Speaker 1: some of those young guys on deep quite frankly, um
Speaker 1: and and our guys really rose to the occasion. They
Speaker 1: they wanted the ball in the second half, they were
Speaker 1: they were coming to me and to keep running, you know,
Speaker 1: keep running, keep running. They wanted it, you know, on
Speaker 1: their backs and and uh so they did a really
Speaker 1: nice job. And um it was able to uh and
Speaker 1: then helps your quarterback to you know, being able to
Speaker 1: you know, throw the ball down the field when when
Speaker 1: we could on the field the field, Lane Johnson came
Speaker 1: off the field. You guys helped the moment there, like
Speaker 1: Lane said, he that's the way it was supposed to do.
Speaker 1: This kind of one of those looks and what did
Speaker 1: you say it over them? I just told him that,
Speaker 1: you know, I was first of all, I was proud
Speaker 1: of the guys, proud of him, um for what he's
Speaker 1: kind of battled through. And and just just said, hey,
Speaker 1: how good does that feel? You know? And and uh,
Speaker 1: uh he was excited. He played played a great game
Speaker 1: today and and um, you know, I think uh the
Speaker 1: sideline was was uh was jazz, you know obviously after
Speaker 1: that kick and and uh, you know, maybe that's the
Speaker 1: spark we need. As far as as young guys on
Speaker 1: defense you were talking about really improved in the second
Speaker 1: half after giving up a ton of yards in the
Speaker 1: first half. What do you think the difference was just
Speaker 1: that momentum ship from Mountain. I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: I think our defensive line really rose to the occasion
Speaker 1: and the second half got pressure on the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: forced a couple of quick throws quicker throws U and
Speaker 1: you know, just a lot of credit. I mean, they
Speaker 1: hung tough, they they battled, and you know, nothing's nothing's easy,
Speaker 1: nothing's pretty. Um, you just have to fight and scratch
Speaker 1: and then get the job done. And they they did
Speaker 1: that today And proud of those guys. Think gets to win.
Speaker 1: Carson gets to win after his worst outing as professional
Speaker 1: and a fourth quarter comeback. Where does what does that
Speaker 1: do for him in the big picture as far as
Speaker 1: his development, his confidence and how he stands with his team.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it in his you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't change the way the guy's view to him, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's still one of the leaders of this football
Speaker 1: team and and uh, you know, leads the offense obviously,
Speaker 1: But I think for him to now to have have
Speaker 1: been through this to to to you know, to be
Speaker 1: down I think nineteen to we were down nineteen three,
Speaker 1: you know, and to come back the entire game and
Speaker 1: just stay patient and really allow things to to unfold
Speaker 1: for him, I think I think it's a tremendous step
Speaker 1: forward and and proud of him and the way he
Speaker 1: handled a lot of the situations today and how he
Speaker 1: managed the run game and made some big throws for us.
Speaker 1: Um again took it, took a couple of hits, but
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's that's playing quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and and that's a that's a great step forward for him.
Speaker 1: And really proud of him and his performance and and uh,
Speaker 1: he'll just get get better and better each each time out.
Speaker 1: It just showed a toughness that uh, you know that
Speaker 1: that they weren't gonna they were gonna fight for sixty
Speaker 1: minutes and and that was the message at halftime. You know,
Speaker 1: he had thirty minutes left to go, and um you know,
Speaker 1: just that they were just gonna hang tough. I mean, guys,
Speaker 1: great communication in the secondary. Um, you know, the D
Speaker 1: line I think really really did a nice job with
Speaker 1: the run game in the second half and and forcing
Speaker 1: them to put the ball in the air some and
Speaker 1: and uh, it's just a great overall, great team team
Speaker 1: effort on defense. Say, couple of weeks you had you know,
Speaker 1: leaders questioning kind of accountability and effort going into this game.
Speaker 1: Did you have a sense of how the team was
Speaker 1: gonna respond or were you're kind of waiting to see
Speaker 1: how it would play out. Um, we had a great
Speaker 1: meeting last night at the hotel. Um, guys were, guys
Speaker 1: were energized there and it really spilled over to the
Speaker 1: to the dressing room you know this morning when players
Speaker 1: got here and you could kind of feel the excitement.
Speaker 1: They were excited about playing this game and and getting
Speaker 1: out on the field and and so there was really
Speaker 1: you know, guys were saying and doing the right things
Speaker 1: and and uh, and then to come away with the
Speaker 1: victory is just uh makes it makes it better. Last night,
Speaker 1: what message you say and in the block room today,
Speaker 1: what you're saying, That's fine, it's private. Come on, come
Speaker 1: on now, I mean, just listen. We you know, we
Speaker 1: get together and and spend about five minutes or so,
Speaker 1: you know, at the hotel after meetings, and I basically
Speaker 1: just wanted them to understand that, you know, they got
Speaker 1: to continue to trust the process, they got to continue
Speaker 1: to believe and and quite frankly, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: wait for something to happen and then believe it. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to believe it first and then then it happens.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the message last night. And I
Speaker 1: didn't talk about I didn't talk about you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a must win, this is
Speaker 1: a you know, the start of our playoffs. I didn't
Speaker 1: get any of that kind of stuff. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure that they understood that we just continue
Speaker 1: to trust the process, one play at a time, play together,
Speaker 1: great communication. You know, we can get this thing, we
Speaker 1: can get this thing flipped. And they did that, just
Speaker 1: reiterated the same the same point quite frankly. Um, a
Speaker 1: lot of excited faces in there, guys, are you know
Speaker 1: just how how resilient they are, how they stuck together,
Speaker 1: proud of all three phases, because everybody, everybody had a
Speaker 1: hand in this in this win today point Golden. Obviously
Speaker 1: he made a great fifty fifty catch in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, but he also had a drop in
Speaker 1: that little pump returned hiccup. Do you think he's pressing
Speaker 1: a little bit at all to try to get involved? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, all right. There's head coach Doug Parrison addressing
Speaker 1: the media after the win, and it was very interesting
Speaker 1: as he talked about the Sunday night, Saturday night team
Speaker 1: meeting where he didn't go into the plat two. So
Speaker 1: this is a must win, that's the start of the
Speaker 1: playoff season. You know. He just wanted the team to
Speaker 1: basically show that the work that they're doing during the
Speaker 1: week would carry over into Sunday. And that's really important,
Speaker 1: especially come off this week because it was an emotional
Speaker 1: one in the locker room as you have leaders like
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins, you know, questioning the effort of the players
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and when the season starts to
Speaker 1: go south, and like you've experienced this in your career,
Speaker 1: things go one of two ways. Guys can rally and
Speaker 1: rise to the occasion and say all right, that's not
Speaker 1: who we are. What you've seen on tape in the
Speaker 1: past is not what the Philadelphia Eagles are going to
Speaker 1: be in Tusan eighteen. That's not how we're going to
Speaker 1: be remembered. Or it could have a snowball effect and
Speaker 1: everything could really just fall out from the bottom. And
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the game we thought that might
Speaker 1: have been the case when they were down nineteen to three,
Speaker 1: but this team fought and rally its way to get
Speaker 1: the victory and showing that there's a lot pride in
Speaker 1: that locker room and they're not going to allow whether
Speaker 1: it's injuries or defeast they've had to this point kind
Speaker 1: of put them in a tone or the wrong mindset
Speaker 1: and make them have the right attitude and approach coming
Speaker 1: to this game on Sunday. Well, listen, we're not privy
Speaker 1: to and know what's meaning said in the locker room
Speaker 1: at halftime, but I can only imagine being around this
Speaker 1: sport ban in competition, having to go out and do
Speaker 1: with these guys did today somebody said something in that
Speaker 1: locker room at halftime. This was a completely different team
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football when they came out
Speaker 1: in the second half. And I talked earlier about the
Speaker 1: amount of yardage the Eagles allowed the Giants to get
Speaker 1: in the first half, setting an NFL record for a half,
Speaker 1: and then the offense not being able to do a
Speaker 1: whole lot. They just looked completely different coming out of
Speaker 1: the locker room. Looked like they believed they had a
Speaker 1: chance to win this football game. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they really believed that at the beginning of the football game,
Speaker 1: and maybe something settled them down, but they came out
Speaker 1: of the locker room a completely different team. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was the interception that Malcolm had right before the half
Speaker 1: to sort of gave the defense a spark, because I
Speaker 1: thought coming out of the locker room at the half,
Speaker 1: even though the Eagles were able to move the ball
Speaker 1: to midfield, the drive stalled and we had to punt.
Speaker 1: And then it was that series where the defense got
Speaker 1: a sack, they gotta tackle for loss and they were
Speaker 1: they were able to get the ball right back to
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense. Is where I thought the momentum started
Speaker 1: to change a little bit for this team. So a
Speaker 1: kudos to whomever was able to rally the troops and
Speaker 1: say whatever needed to be said, because they came out
Speaker 1: in the second half looking like a different team led
Speaker 1: by that defense. You know, Malcolm talked about how well
Speaker 1: that defensive line played and led the charge. Well, we
Speaker 1: knew if this secondary particularly, we're gonna have any chance
Speaker 1: of slowing down this Giant's offense, it was gonna have
Speaker 1: to start up front. And that's what you saw in
Speaker 1: the second half. Michael Bennett, Chris Sloan. You know, guy's
Speaker 1: flying everywhere around Eli Manning. And we've seen Eli enough
Speaker 1: throughout his career to know that you hit him a
Speaker 1: few times and he's gonna start dropping like a sack
Speaker 1: of potatoes anytime he gets the opposite color around him.
Speaker 1: And I thought that's what you saw in the second half.
Speaker 1: You saw a different Eli Manning because he had pressure
Speaker 1: on him. He started getting hit in the second half,
Speaker 1: and it started with those guys up front. So in
Speaker 1: your mind, what was the turning point in this game?
Speaker 1: I think that the ability to stop the Giants from
Speaker 1: scoring right before the half, Malcolm Jenkins getting that interception.
Speaker 1: I thought it was huge. The Eagles had just gained
Speaker 1: a little momentum, pulled within one score's nineteen to eleven,
Speaker 1: a little bit too much time left on the clock.
Speaker 1: Giants able to get down the field relatively easy and
Speaker 1: get in position to put points on the board. You
Speaker 1: almost assumed to give them three as opposed to giving
Speaker 1: them a touchdown there. I mean, I know, that's what
Speaker 1: I was saying at that point. And then Eli throws
Speaker 1: the ball up. Malcolm makes a great play there. I
Speaker 1: think stopping it from getting points right there gave the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense a little bit of confidence. It certainly kept
Speaker 1: points off the board because if it's twenty two today,
Speaker 1: eleven going in at hadtime, who knows what the demeanor
Speaker 1: is in the locker room at the scoring a touchdown
Speaker 1: and then having the Giants go back down the field
Speaker 1: in less than a minute and get points on the board.
Speaker 1: It was so eerily similar to what the Cowboys did
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago on Sunday Night, where they were
Speaker 1: in They were able to score right before the half
Speaker 1: when they should not have it. I thought the Cowboys
Speaker 1: carried all the momentum in to the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 1: Eagles get that interception. I thought that was huge. It's
Speaker 1: funny because the Giants have does such a good job
Speaker 1: of protecting Eli man from himself himself. In the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, the two game win streak. Eli had
Speaker 1: five touchdowns to no interceptions, and you know, the offensive
Speaker 1: line did a great job of protecting him, just they
Speaker 1: were obviously focusing more on the run game. He saw
Speaker 1: more heavy personnel twelve personnel packages in there to kind
Speaker 1: of protect Manning there. Well, it was such an ill
Speaker 1: advised throat from a veteran. This isn't you know, a
Speaker 1: rookie or first second yar quarterback. This is you know,
Speaker 1: Eli man who's won a couple of Super Bowls. So
Speaker 1: the force that passed in that situation when you know
Speaker 1: you're pretty much guarantee three, especially with the way ross
Speaker 1: their kicker was nail and field goals throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the day, you figured you'd be set right there.
Speaker 1: So to be a quarterbacks, let's talk about the victorious one.
Speaker 1: Let's send it back to the link where Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: is standing by. This is a loss might event now
Speaker 1: little bits. Yeah, this is a big game for us
Speaker 1: obviously in terms of divisional standings all that fun stuff,
Speaker 1: but really mentally, you know, to show the resilience that
Speaker 1: what we did to get down early the way we
Speaker 1: did and then battle back and um just kind of
Speaker 1: builds a lot of confidence m for for really all
Speaker 1: three phases of this game, and uh, to come from
Speaker 1: behind and get it done today, UM, I think that'll
Speaker 1: speak volumes about our confidence going forward. You guys weren't
Speaker 1: able to get done linked games earlier this year. You
Speaker 1: got to win now with less than four minutes to go.
Speaker 1: What was the difference? We just executed, you know, I
Speaker 1: think in all those other past games, M it just
Speaker 1: came down to a player two here and there, and
Speaker 1: we didn't executing. Today we got it done. You know,
Speaker 1: it didn't take anything, um, you know, extra from us.
Speaker 1: We just had to just dial it in and executing.
Speaker 1: We got it done. And also what was that play was?
Speaker 1: I was at the scheme to go, um, it was
Speaker 1: just a progression read um, and he was the next
Speaker 1: thing the progression and they went zone coverage and it
Speaker 1: kind of just parted there in the middle and he
Speaker 1: came up with arguably the biggest catch of the days.
Speaker 1: Step for this off bet, it's just getting that first
Speaker 1: quarter of those first few series figger to absolutely you know,
Speaker 1: I thought we came out and we actually were moving
Speaker 1: the ball okay, and then we had the penalty the
Speaker 1: first drive UM and then the second drive we had
Speaker 1: the penalty two and both those, Um, just execution. We
Speaker 1: gotta be better. You know. We kind of made made
Speaker 1: some made some mistakes early in that in that area,
Speaker 1: and um, we knew what we were capable of. We
Speaker 1: knew we could move the ball, but yeah, we started slow.
Speaker 1: We gotta be better with that. Those last two drives
Speaker 1: that you guys were still balanced random ball really well.
Speaker 1: I think that's huge for us. I mean, we always
Speaker 1: come into every game wanting to be balanced. Um. And
Speaker 1: I think the old line plays best when we are,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it gives those guys confidence and
Speaker 1: they are coming off the ball firing. And then in
Speaker 1: the passing game it kind of lightens the past rush
Speaker 1: a little bit too, and the line loves and we
Speaker 1: mix it up like that movement snake is all those things. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought we did a really good job of that today.
Speaker 1: What about the way John Adams random bomby at twenty
Speaker 1: two carries you got a lot of key you know,
Speaker 1: the yards for you guys, Yeah, it was big. It
Speaker 1: was big for us. I mean, Josh did a great job.
Speaker 1: He's done a great job every and everything we've asked
Speaker 1: him to do. This year. Um, today he got little
Speaker 1: extra workload and um he did a great job and
Speaker 1: took it and ran with it. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: at the same time, they'll line the line did a
Speaker 1: great job. We could lean on them, um, and they
Speaker 1: made some nice holes and Josh finnishon runs really well
Speaker 1: and we got it done wear down too. I don't
Speaker 1: talking about it, mesh concept in such a big spot.
Speaker 1: What do you like about that in that spot? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's good against kind of all coverages. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a we call it an all coverage beater and
Speaker 1: just a pure progression play. And um, it's also one
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of reps at you know, we've
Speaker 1: repped it all off season and something like that. So
Speaker 1: you just kind of keep it simple in those situations
Speaker 1: and we executed it well. Other players that keeping things
Speaker 1: simple and doing the things that you do well was
Speaker 1: important this week. Was that fair to saying as that
Speaker 1: play an example of it. Yeah, I think that's that's fair.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, sometimes when you're in a slump um,
Speaker 1: especially offensively, you want to try and scheme up things
Speaker 1: too much and trying to be too perfect, and sometimes um,
Speaker 1: it gets guys to play slower in this and that.
Speaker 1: And I thought we did a good job this week
Speaker 1: of of just trying to keep it simple and just
Speaker 1: letting us play ball, UM and doing things that we've
Speaker 1: done really all off season. And UM, yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: that helped us a ton to day. I was just
Speaker 1: a game help you as a quarterback when you're running
Speaker 1: the ball, that effect. I mean they always say the
Speaker 1: running running games the best friend of the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: that was one hundred percent true today. You know, we
Speaker 1: could lean on him that big drive UM to put
Speaker 1: us up late in the fourth UM the first time.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was did I haven't throw the ball?
Speaker 1: I think we just had a screen. Other than that,
Speaker 1: it was all handoffs. And you know that was huge,
Speaker 1: UM to just lean on those guys, and they did
Speaker 1: a great job. He Ellison hadn't caught a ball since
Speaker 1: the Dallas game until that fourth down, hadn't been targeted.
Speaker 1: Uh was just say about him that, you know when
Speaker 1: his number was DUP, he was ready. Yeah, he's ready
Speaker 1: to go. He's always ready to go, you know. And Uh,
Speaker 1: we love Nelly and we love what he brings to
Speaker 1: the table. And UM, you know I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: he hadn't specifically gotten a target till late in today
Speaker 1: and it's just the way it's been playing out. But um,
Speaker 1: there he was, and he made it. You know, Like
Speaker 1: I said, Argue the biggest player of the day. He
Speaker 1: spoke Wednesday about the kneed for urgency. What was it
Speaker 1: like this week leading up to the game, in the
Speaker 1: locker room afterwards? What was the leg? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: locker room afterwards was great. You know, it felt like
Speaker 1: it had been a while since we had that feeling again.
Speaker 1: And Um, guys, like I said at the beginning of this,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's huge our confidence. It's huge
Speaker 1: our confidence to not just win, but to win to
Speaker 1: winning the way we did. Um rallying back and you know,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, hats off to our defense. They
Speaker 1: settled in, you know, tremendously and played an amazing second half. Um,
Speaker 1: gave us a chance to win the way we did,
Speaker 1: and I think that just will build our confidence going
Speaker 1: forward to play the sack glow or your leg He
Speaker 1: came up wimping, Yeah, what happened? And here good, We're good.
Speaker 1: I mean the guy ran into my leg and um
Speaker 1: kind of spooked me a little bit, but uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're good team. Like you're down nineteen to three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't see anyone, you know, kind of pointing fingers
Speaker 1: or questioning or anything like that. You know, I thought
Speaker 1: everyone just kind of believed. Um. And you know, offense
Speaker 1: went right back out there and put a good drive together. Um.
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was huge for us going
Speaker 1: into the second half. And you know, guys just stayed together.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the biggest thing. We always talk about
Speaker 1: family around here, and um, guys just hung together and
Speaker 1: believed in each other. We got it done. Is there
Speaker 1: anything were satisfying? You talked about the win then then
Speaker 1: winning that a game winning drive, a fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: come back. Um, right now, I'm just thrilled. We gotta win.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously doing it from behind, you never want
Speaker 1: to be down, but um, coming back the way we
Speaker 1: did again, it's just it's huge for our confidence offensively,
Speaker 1: defensively the way they kind of you know, stiffened up
Speaker 1: at the end, and uh, yeah, it was it was
Speaker 1: big for us. It was. Doug was taking had a
Speaker 1: good feeling about where everyone ted was at Saturday night
Speaker 1: at the meeting that that would tell what one was
Speaker 1: his message job at night befoinning g. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: his messages, you know, I think more than anything, was
Speaker 1: just to keep it simple, you know, keep it simple
Speaker 1: and just do what we do best and play our game.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, again we started off sluggish and
Speaker 1: that's something we gotta fix. But you know, after that,
Speaker 1: I thought everyone and it just kept it simple, you know,
Speaker 1: dialed in on their assignments um and executed well. And
Speaker 1: that's I think what led to the victory. Were you
Speaker 1: guys the answered with a touchdown after see one Martin's
Speaker 1: fifty one. Yeah, I mean, just the way we answered
Speaker 1: in the first half offensively, I thought was big for us,
Speaker 1: um to just come in and uh um, I think
Speaker 1: was that in the first half. Yeah, um, so just
Speaker 1: the way we answered the first half, just to to
Speaker 1: go into the locker room with a little momentum and
Speaker 1: then Malcolm had the interception which which kept them um
Speaker 1: off the off the board there. Um to just kind
Speaker 1: of use that momentum going in the second half. That
Speaker 1: was huge for us. He said, nothing change for you
Speaker 1: this week? Was it important for you though to rebound
Speaker 1: from last week performance? And absolutely, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's important for for everybody to just come out and
Speaker 1: rebound and just put last week behind us. And I
Speaker 1: think we did that today, Um, and that was good
Speaker 1: to see. You know, the quarterbacks a lot of times
Speaker 1: have judged wins or losses and also by late game drives.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just an important one for you personally. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, anytime we can we can get
Speaker 1: a victory and they come from behind, you know fashion Uh,
Speaker 1: it speaks volumes about the team and the resiliency of
Speaker 1: the guys um on both sides of the ball. And
Speaker 1: I know, personally it was big to get it done
Speaker 1: today for me, and you know everyone feels the same.
Speaker 1: Last year as the Giants said you could Jake Elli,
Speaker 1: your paycheck could be at the field goal. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like that paycheck. Today it looked like Dallas kind of
Speaker 1: messed up on a blitz that led to a sack
Speaker 1: Tea on you, and then you came back and connected
Speaker 1: with them down the field and that one handed catch.
Speaker 1: How big is it that some of these rookies are
Speaker 1: kind of taking the next play and forgetting them one
Speaker 1: before that and just excelling it. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: something that we talked about all the time is making mistake,
Speaker 1: just pressed forward And first of all, the protection that
Speaker 1: was tough. You know, that was really tough. The way
Speaker 1: they ran that game. Um and I'm not sure anyone
Speaker 1: could could pass that off. They had the great perfect
Speaker 1: play call on UM against that, but um, just Dallas
Speaker 1: and really on defense, a lot of the guys, whether
Speaker 1: they're rookies, young guys in experience and Sky's just stepping
Speaker 1: up and and just building confidence throughout this season, throughout
Speaker 1: this game even and you know that's big for us
Speaker 1: going forward, especially with all the injury shake up and
Speaker 1: all the things that are super unfortunate that we're dealing with.
Speaker 1: That's big for us. Did you check to a run
Speaker 1: on the Adams TV that was brought back? He thought
Speaker 1: that you did, coach coach call down? Thanks all right?
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz gets that comfort behind win in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and we all know how good a quarterback Carson Wentz is.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone was worried about whether or not Wentz.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yes, yes, but some people got short memories around. Certainly,
Speaker 1: you know when you're leading the team to twelve and
Speaker 1: two before getting injured last season, But nonetheless, Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: gets the big win, Eagles get to five and six,
Speaker 1: and I like when he was asked about what the
Speaker 1: message was from Doug to the team on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: and it was keep it simple. And it makes me
Speaker 1: think of both of the wind over the Giants this
Speaker 1: season because you go back to Week six when the
Speaker 1: Eagles had their best offensive output of the season thirty
Speaker 1: four to thirteen back then, and it was come off
Speaker 1: a short turnaround. It was a short week, it was
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game. So when coaches putting the game
Speaker 1: plan for those types of performances, you have to shorten
Speaker 1: things down low. You only have so much time. It's
Speaker 1: more mental preparation than physical because you're still trying to
Speaker 1: get your body right from the week before. So to
Speaker 1: keep it simple makes me think that you almost go
Speaker 1: back to that and say, let's do what works best
Speaker 1: for us. Okay, let's get back to the basics. And
Speaker 1: you saw a lot of that with the run game,
Speaker 1: and you saw just again a lot of the same
Speaker 1: concepts that the Eagles were successful with a year ago,
Speaker 1: and also incorporating a number of Keki role players. Obviously,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz had another big game, but again getting al
Speaker 1: Sean and Dallas got involved in ways, you know, Golden
Speaker 1: te as well help open things up for the offense,
Speaker 1: So defensives can't just key in on eighty six or
Speaker 1: number seventeen al Sean, Yeah, I would say the key
Speaker 1: for the players is man, just trust what the coaches
Speaker 1: are coaching you to do, especially on that offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. On defenses, it's a little different because
Speaker 1: you have so many players injured, you have so many
Speaker 1: new faces over there. Makes it difficult for Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: to really put together a game plan that has any
Speaker 1: type of I guess variation to it because the guys
Speaker 1: just don't know the system well enough to go deep
Speaker 1: into his playbook. So Jim Swartz is kind of handcuffed
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, though you pretty
Speaker 1: much have everybody there that's been there, particularly your key components,
Speaker 1: and so just get back to doing the small things
Speaker 1: that you've done that have allowed you to be successful.
Speaker 1: Don't feel the pressure, not just Carson, but the rest
Speaker 1: of these guys. Don't feel the pressure to have to
Speaker 1: be the one that makes the play. Just understand that
Speaker 1: when your opportunity is called, just do your job and
Speaker 1: trust more importantly, trusted those other ten guys are gonna
Speaker 1: do their job. Don't worry about you having to feel
Speaker 1: or cover for someone else or make a play because
Speaker 1: you're shorthanded here. Just do what you're being coached up
Speaker 1: to do and allow the system to work for you.
Speaker 1: Because I think that's what's happened with the players, especially
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. They know the
Speaker 1: success they had last year, and they're all pressing. It's
Speaker 1: not just a quarterback. Everyone feels the need to have
Speaker 1: to be the one to sort of get the spark
Speaker 1: or light the spark that gets the offense rolling the
Speaker 1: way it was last year. But it's gonna take time.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take time, and you can do it if
Speaker 1: you build off of it step by step. But it
Speaker 1: starts with number eleven. It starts with him. He's gonna
Speaker 1: set the tone for everyone else. They'll follow his lead
Speaker 1: if he doesn't feel like he needs to make every
Speaker 1: play every time there's a passing play called, then the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys eventually they'll follow his lead. And
Speaker 1: I thought he played that way to day. I didn't
Speaker 1: see many force throws. I didn't see him trying to
Speaker 1: do anything that was out of the ram of his
Speaker 1: post his capability, and I thought the offense eventually started
Speaker 1: to click. Number eleven said the offense. I thought Number
Speaker 1: twenty seven Monthol Jenkins said it on the defense side
Speaker 1: of the ball, and again from a culture standpoint, having
Speaker 1: so many young defensive backs, they're playing on the field
Speaker 1: where Suel Douglas bowing through injuries was very limited. So
Speaker 1: it's pretty much Channon Sullivan, who himself was injured in
Speaker 1: the second half, Cravon LeBlanc, and DeVante Bosby. So when
Speaker 1: those guys are coming to his sideline, you know Avante Max,
Speaker 1: although he's a rookie, has more playing experience. Jail Mills,
Speaker 1: those guys are trying to coach up the young guys
Speaker 1: because they know the situation that those guys are under
Speaker 1: your seasons on the line and you're relying on guys
Speaker 1: who were on the practice squad and are not on
Speaker 1: the roster a couple of weeks ago, and say we're
Speaker 1: going up against Eli Mann and Odell Beckham and all
Speaker 1: the weapons at the Giants have. It's a tough test.
Speaker 1: Don't make it any tougher, but adding the pressure onto them,
Speaker 1: try to help them out. In the process and to
Speaker 1: find out more about what the process was like to
Speaker 1: get ready for the game. Today, let's go to our
Speaker 1: one on one interview Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike
Speaker 1: Quick chatting with head coach Doug Pearson shortly after his
Speaker 1: press conference a few moments ago. First of all, coach, congratulations,
Speaker 1: you know the genets were able to school in their
Speaker 1: first three possessions, and then the defense don't remind me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really came alive after that. What was the difference?
Speaker 1: I think that that the big difference was our defensive
Speaker 1: line began to put a little pressure on Eli in
Speaker 1: the passing game. They were able to stop, you know,
Speaker 1: a tremendous running back and say Quan and and and
Speaker 1: Galladay and and really I think our young dbs in
Speaker 1: the back end just settled into the game and really
Speaker 1: relaxed and played played well, and um, you know, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: just just just found found the rhythm that they needed.
Speaker 1: How much are you handicap when you have such a young,
Speaker 1: inexperienced secondary, Well, the issue comes if somebody goes down,
Speaker 1: you don't have backups anymore. You're you're you're limited there,
Speaker 1: so you're playing with young players that really don't have
Speaker 1: any backup players to go on the field, So that
Speaker 1: that's the limitation. But you know, the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: just I think just the nerves early in football games. UM, communication,
Speaker 1: making sure they're just trust their fundamentals, trust their technique, Um,
Speaker 1: they're coaching, and uh, you know, just try to try
Speaker 1: to emanate as many distractions as possible. Carson Wentz admitted
Speaker 1: last week that he didn't have a good game. Talk
Speaker 1: about his performance today. I thought he did some really
Speaker 1: nice things today. Um, really managed our run game is
Speaker 1: one of the things we went into this game. We
Speaker 1: had some some things in our run game that he
Speaker 1: had to handle, and he did a nice job there.
Speaker 1: Made some really really nice throws down the field. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, some some big had had a We weren't
Speaker 1: great on third down, but some of the third downs
Speaker 1: that he converted, they were they were there and um
Speaker 1: and then the fourth down, I think the fourth down
Speaker 1: at the end of the game to find Nelly over
Speaker 1: the ball, uh, is one of the biggest throws he's made.
Speaker 1: How confident do you have to be when you make
Speaker 1: that call on fourth and one, Well, you have to be.
Speaker 1: You have to be a you know, one hundred perence
Speaker 1: sure that that's the call you want. As a play caller.
Speaker 1: Number two, you just you just trust your players. And
Speaker 1: it's a player we've wrapped a thousand times here and
Speaker 1: they know exactly where to be. A quarterback knows exactly
Speaker 1: you know, the coverage and and and what is designed
Speaker 1: for and um, well executed Brandon Brooks the latter part
Speaker 1: of the game, when you guys are driving, he's turning.
Speaker 1: He's turning to you after the play and trying to
Speaker 1: motion for you to continue to run the ball. How
Speaker 1: much input do you take when your guys on the
Speaker 1: field do that. Yeah, I listened to those guys. I
Speaker 1: mean they were they were rolling, and uh, it's exciting
Speaker 1: when you know it's at the two minute warning at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. They're in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and Brandon just nonchalantly just walks over to me and says, coach,
Speaker 1: keep keep running the football. And I said, don't worry,
Speaker 1: big fellow, We're gonna run the ball here. So it
Speaker 1: just gives them a lot of confidence. And they played
Speaker 1: really well today and as a group, and UM, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch this tape and just see how well
Speaker 1: they played. It's one of those games where you ran
Speaker 1: the ball actually more than you threw the ball. It
Speaker 1: was twenty nine runs twenty eight passes. How important was
Speaker 1: that for today's win? Listen, I think, I think and
Speaker 1: anybody would tell you that's that's probably a good formula. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna win a lot of football game,
Speaker 1: especially if you're running it successfully, and and and and
Speaker 1: so it just takes so much pressure off your quarterback.
Speaker 1: It just allows him to play free and see the
Speaker 1: field and and you know it just and it sparks
Speaker 1: your offense too, and you know these guys are churning
Speaker 1: you know, five, six, ten, fifteen twenty yard runs. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's an exciting thing for everybody on your team.
Speaker 1: Thanks coach, enjoy the winning. Thanks Quick, We are all
Speaker 1: enjoying the win. Certainly, that's the case. Great interviewers always
Speaker 1: from Mike Quick there with head coach Doug Pearson, and
Speaker 1: he talked about the winning at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: with with the offensive line. He also touched a lot
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. But I don't think we've given
Speaker 1: them enough credit for the performance today, especially a guy
Speaker 1: like Tim Journey again Okay, who hadn't played all season
Speaker 1: long and was not just active for today's game after
Speaker 1: missing the first ten games after undergoing offseason surgery. He
Speaker 1: started and was very active and it was very much
Speaker 1: involved throughout the course of the game. Michael Bennett, also
Speaker 1: battling back from a foot injury in the first half,
Speaker 1: having a sack, he had a tackle for or helps
Speaker 1: up a tackle for Laws, helps up a Chris Long sack.
Speaker 1: In the second half, those guys up front really took
Speaker 1: the game over, making sure there was dominance on both
Speaker 1: sides of the line of scrimmage. There they really did,
Speaker 1: and that really was the difference in the football game
Speaker 1: when you look at the second half. The run game
Speaker 1: in the second half picked up tremendously for the Eagles
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, and then when
Speaker 1: you look at what the defense was able to do,
Speaker 1: I thought that was the biggest difference in the second half.
Speaker 1: Eli Manning wasn't comfortable only fifty six yards for this
Speaker 1: Giants offense total in the second half, and it started
Speaker 1: with those guys up front, whether it was getting at
Speaker 1: the Eli Manning in the passing game or trying to
Speaker 1: slow down that running game of say Quon Barkley or
Speaker 1: Wayne Gallum. So I thought the defensive line and the
Speaker 1: offensive line set the tone for the team in the
Speaker 1: second half. The offense certainly generated more production in the
Speaker 1: second half with the line playing better. And I thought
Speaker 1: the defense, after giving up three hundred and forty yards
Speaker 1: of total offense in that first half, to hold the
Speaker 1: Giant Stoney fifty six total yards in the second half,
Speaker 1: that's big time. And it started up front, the offensive
Speaker 1: defense getting the team in position. And of course, Jake
Speaker 1: Elliott once again being the Giants lay. He talked with
Speaker 1: our Eels entire day Spadero after the win on the
Speaker 1: field with place kicker Jake Elliott. For two straight seasons,
Speaker 1: Jake Elliott has beaten the Giants with a kick at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. Jake, did it run through
Speaker 1: your mind at all last year? Not a whole lot.
Speaker 1: I just realized we were going the exact same way
Speaker 1: as we were last year when we played him. So um,
Speaker 1: I was a little de javo. But other than that,
Speaker 1: you know, the offensive a heck of a job getting
Speaker 1: down there and giving me, give me a good shot.
Speaker 1: How are the weather conditions? Tell me about the kick? Um?
Speaker 1: That was definitely the toper way to kick today. Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's tough to kick here in Philly, but
Speaker 1: you know, luckily we got the job done. Jake Elliott
Speaker 1: nerves of steel, big kick once again to beat the
Speaker 1: New York Giant kick. That's the thing where you think
Speaker 1: about it last year, you know, making his introduction to
Speaker 1: Eagles fans with a sixty one yard or the franchise record.
Speaker 1: Then you go to the kicks in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you know, the longest buy a rookie in postseason history,
Speaker 1: super Bowl history, to get the Eagles the cushing, the
Speaker 1: eight point cushion so they could go after tom break
Speaker 1: on the final drive, and here the Eagles season on
Speaker 1: the line. Elliott coming through once again. So great stuff
Speaker 1: from on the field and also in the booth, the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame duo of Merrillies and Mike Quick at
Speaker 1: their absolute best thing. They've been waiting for a game
Speaker 1: like this. Okay, obviously they've been waiting for a win,
Speaker 1: but just a tight ball game here, so they let
Speaker 1: it all out there. Let's re experience of the key
Speaker 1: moments from today's wind through the sounds of merrill Camp. Well,
Speaker 1: the field goal unit comes on. They need some points,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe their previous plays where the outside
Speaker 1: crashed down on the dive with that, this time they
Speaker 1: were in contain in no way he was going to
Speaker 1: get to the outside. Forty two yard attempts bought a spotted.
Speaker 1: The kick is away and the kick is good and
Speaker 1: the Eagles are on the board. Adams stays in slot
Speaker 1: to the far side of the field, Jeffrey of the
Speaker 1: nearest side, motion of the nearest side and take lets
Speaker 1: goes back. He's looking, he is firing. It is complete.
Speaker 1: Breaking a tackle, there's ERT's and he's in for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: Art's cornered at the three. Broke a tackle on one
Speaker 1: ends of the end zone. Did you say Ertz broke
Speaker 1: a tackle. Yep, great job. And Carson Wentz strows his
Speaker 1: ball to where it's pulling ERTs into the end zone.
Speaker 1: He does break that tackle and forces his way between
Speaker 1: two defenders in for a touchdown. Wentz with Clement to
Speaker 1: his right. Here it is, Wentz takes it, pitches out
Speaker 1: the Clement. He's in a little option. I like that.
Speaker 1: So Carson takes the ball. He goes down the line
Speaker 1: of streams out down the right side, but he's got
Speaker 1: trailing him Corey Clement. A little option play. He just
Speaker 1: flicks the toss of Corey Clement as he gets to
Speaker 1: the outside, he gets a great block on the edge
Speaker 1: by Zach Ertz and he's in for the two points.
Speaker 1: So it's a one possession game. It's a one possession game.
Speaker 1: It's a football game. Now, Manning once again on the gun.
Speaker 1: What park layer was left slot to either side, batting,
Speaker 1: calling for the football. He's back. He steps up, firing
Speaker 1: for the end zone. Here'scepting intercepted. Jenkins intercepted. He's across
Speaker 1: the twenty. He's across the twenty five intercepted. Finally, this
Speaker 1: is a really good job defensively. They play a too
Speaker 1: deep zone this time, and Malcolm Jenkins ends up going
Speaker 1: down the hole. When he recognizes it's Odell Beckham that's
Speaker 1: going that he's trying to go to. He high tails,
Speaker 1: gets to the football and takes it back the other
Speaker 1: way to shut down this Giant's offense. Later, as a gentleman,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have an interception at a second out and
Speaker 1: eight batting fakes. He's back, he's looking, he is heck,
Speaker 1: they've sacked them back at the tomb there it is
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett. Listen, that's the play you've been asking for.
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett back in the lineup, comes back out to
Speaker 1: second half. He's healthy to play. They break down the
Speaker 1: wall in front of Eli men and he holds onto
Speaker 1: it and they're able to get a sack on the twist.
Speaker 1: So at his field goal attempt time from the eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard attempts, Blotto spotted. The kick is up
Speaker 1: and the kick is good. I love how Mike can't
Speaker 1: sit still throughout the course of game. He's pretty much
Speaker 1: like every fan that's in the stands. Merrill is able
Speaker 1: to do his job professionally to sit there call the action.
Speaker 1: Mike is up and down all over the place. So
Speaker 1: of course you're probably wondering, what about the game winning kick,
Speaker 1: all the action from the fourth quarter. We're gonna save
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Speaker 1: just a second here. Okay, we're gonna have our film breakdown.
Speaker 1: We go review in a few moments. But are you concerned?
Speaker 1: I guess the question isn't are you concerned? But the
Speaker 1: slow starts per me once again, especially with the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. Okay, trailing twelve to nothing at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter today, Mike Quick brought
Speaker 1: up in the interview with Doug Pearson, the Giant scored
Speaker 1: on the first four possessions. The Eagles have always scored
Speaker 1: in the first quarter of two games this season, and
Speaker 1: one of them was against the New York Giants back
Speaker 1: in Week six. They had fourteen points in that first quarter.
Speaker 1: My foll prediction, which was flatly wrong before the game,
Speaker 1: was going to be that the Eagles would score in
Speaker 1: the double ditches in the first quarter. So as we
Speaker 1: start to look ahead to the Washington matchup on primetime,
Speaker 1: money a football is that concern that once again the
Speaker 1: Eagles have are continue to dig themselves in these big holes,
Speaker 1: whereas today they were able to get out of it.
Speaker 1: It certainly is, Chris. I mean, listen, you you think
Speaker 1: coming out a game like they did last week and
Speaker 1: going up against a New York Giants defense that it's
Speaker 1: very generous when it comes to giving up points in yardage.
Speaker 1: You thought the offense would have a good opportunity to
Speaker 1: go out there and really sort of right right themselves
Speaker 1: against this Giants defense. And like I said, the first
Speaker 1: drive they had, they got it up there like midfield,
Speaker 1: and then they couldn't convert on third down. You have
Speaker 1: something that sort of goals not in your favor and
Speaker 1: the next thing, you know, you have to punt the ball.
Speaker 1: And I thought they just couldn't really get anything going
Speaker 1: in that first quarter. I gotta tell you, Chris, I
Speaker 1: was I was actually breathing a sigh of relief that
Speaker 1: it was only twelve nothing after the first quarter because
Speaker 1: the way the Giants went up and down the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they convert some of those drives in
Speaker 1: the touchdowns, you may be looking at the twenty one
Speaker 1: nothing score early in that game. They did, they went
Speaker 1: for two and couldn't get it. Unexplicably going for two
Speaker 1: early in the game. But yeah, these are things that
Speaker 1: you're saying to yourself as you watch the game. Why
Speaker 1: why can't we seem to get this fixed early in
Speaker 1: the game. We seem to be able to go in
Speaker 1: the halftime make adjustments and then come out and get
Speaker 1: some things going. But for whatever reason, and this isn't
Speaker 1: something that just started happening, It's been happening all season long.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles have scored the fewest amount of points.
Speaker 1: I believe it's only twenty one through eleven games. I
Speaker 1: mean that's basically that's less than two points a game.
Speaker 1: It's a little less two points a game. So that's
Speaker 1: that's for an offense with this type of firepower, with
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Carson Wentz with some of the weapons
Speaker 1: that he has at his disposal, even with some of
Speaker 1: the injuries, you would think they should be more successful
Speaker 1: than they have been early in these games. And I
Speaker 1: can't put my finger on it. I really can't, because
Speaker 1: it isn't the same thing every week. It's something different.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it is a concern. I think
Speaker 1: anybody on that offensive side of the ball, from the
Speaker 1: coaches down to the key players on that side of
Speaker 1: the football, they should because I'm sure they are. And
Speaker 1: it's not as if they aren't trying to fix it.
Speaker 1: They certainly, they certainly are trying to. But for whatever reason, man,
Speaker 1: for a team that was so good at scoring early
Speaker 1: and jumping on teams last year, we just can't do
Speaker 1: it this year. Here the number, so it was nine nothing,
Speaker 1: by the way, at the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 1: as twelve they scored. The Giant scored a field goal
Speaker 1: early in the second quarter. They raced out to a
Speaker 1: twelve nothing leader led nineteen to three at one point.
Speaker 1: But last season, the Eagles outscored their opponents one eight
Speaker 1: to forty eight one hundred and eight to forty eight
Speaker 1: in the first quarter of games. Last season, Eagles most
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter last year. They're being outscored
Speaker 1: fifty one, so they've already allowed more than all last
Speaker 1: season and they've only scored twenty one. So fifty one
Speaker 1: to twenty one, thirty point margin, you're pretty much, you know,
Speaker 1: looking at a couple of point deficit each and every week,
Speaker 1: so you're playing from behind. I mean, it's like playing
Speaker 1: uphill every week. And they were fortunate to day because
Speaker 1: typically that's a recipe for a loss, getting down early
Speaker 1: against an offense that has the firepower that's the Giants
Speaker 1: half with an underman defense to try to slow him down. Man,
Speaker 1: we are very fortunate that we were able to sort
Speaker 1: of fight our way back into this game, and a
Speaker 1: lot of they had to do with the defense being
Speaker 1: able to finally stop the bleeding on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball and give the offense, you know, enough time
Speaker 1: to sort of get back into it. Well. Living in
Speaker 1: the explosive players first four drives, seven explosive players places
Speaker 1: of twenty yards or more, we're eleven those first four drives.
Speaker 1: They were able to curtail that and able to keep
Speaker 1: the Eagles in it long enough for the offense to
Speaker 1: get on track. And eventually pull out the twenty five
Speaker 1: to twenty two win. So the first touchdown of the
Speaker 1: day came Curtsey of Zach Hurtz, who was delivered throughout
Speaker 1: the course of this season. Four hundred career receptions for
Speaker 1: him already set the franchise record for most catches by
Speaker 1: a tight end in Eagle's history, surpassing Keith Jackson on
Speaker 1: his way to setting the new franchise single season receiving
Speaker 1: mark was held by for anyone but who's But it's
Speaker 1: not held by a receiver. It's held by Brian Westbrook
Speaker 1: ninety catches in two thousand and seven. So Urt's well
Speaker 1: on pace to surpassed that. But here we're gonna break
Speaker 1: down his fifteen yard touchdown in the first half. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go into the RICO whiteboard for the Rico Review
Speaker 1: where Fran Duffy and NFL Film Senior producer Gret Cosell
Speaker 1: are standing by. All right, so let's take a look
Speaker 1: now at this second quarter touchdown from Carson Wentz to Kurtz.
Speaker 1: And there's a really interesting wrinkle to this play, Greg
Speaker 1: where you always tip your cap to the giants, where
Speaker 1: they show one thing, actually give the Eagles another, and
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz has to respond, No, you're exactly right, because
Speaker 1: what happens here where do we have Golden Tate here?
Speaker 1: He's in the slot to the top. Now, now what
Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to do is this is an
Speaker 1: indicator motion. He's going to work across the formation, and
Speaker 1: you normally do this, particularly in the red zone, where
Speaker 1: in the high red zone you do this as an
Speaker 1: indicator for man or zone. But what happens here is
Speaker 1: the corner that's over him is going to run across
Speaker 1: with him, which normally normally says man coverage. So let's
Speaker 1: see that. Now what's going to happen is you see
Speaker 1: Tate go across, you see the corner go with him.
Speaker 1: This looks like man all the way. So now as
Speaker 1: we start the play, and that's exactly what Carson Wentz sees.
Speaker 1: So right here he thinks he has a man route.
Speaker 1: But g Norris Jenkins, what happens He was on alshon Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: he drops back, So that tells Carson Wentz right away
Speaker 1: it's not man, it's zone. So the man beater concept,
Speaker 1: which is smashed with the underneath rout and kind of
Speaker 1: the little corner rout behind it, which is meant to
Speaker 1: attack man that is now gone because it's zone. So
Speaker 1: what does Wentz have to do? He has to come
Speaker 1: back to the other side, and what does this end
Speaker 1: up becoming cover two Tampa two with a middle hole defender.
Speaker 1: So now what he Carson works back to the other side,
Speaker 1: the zone side, and he's going to get Wentz. He's
Speaker 1: going to get Arts who's going to sit down right
Speaker 1: in a void in the zone between the outside corner
Speaker 1: and the underneath defender. Here, alec Ogletree. This is really
Speaker 1: well done and we can play it out now and
Speaker 1: see how it goes. Yeah, they're just a great job
Speaker 1: by Carson Wentz reacting to what the defense showed pre snap.
Speaker 1: He went to his initial key, saw it was taken
Speaker 1: away and got to the other side of the field.
Speaker 1: Really well done, really well done. Right, an example of
Speaker 1: what we got to see from the Eagles offense in
Speaker 1: the red zone a year ago. Just haven't seen it
Speaker 1: consistently here in twenty eight, but a good example there
Speaker 1: of them getting on the board. They make it within
Speaker 1: one score after this two point conversion. Thank you Frann
Speaker 1: and Greg, and you're gonna check out the complete All
Speaker 1: twenty two review tomorrow morning here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com.
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Speaker 1: So we were talking about number eighty six before the break,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense that we reveal that he is
Speaker 1: the first nominee and ica seems like week in a
Speaker 1: week out that he is one of the nominees for
Speaker 1: the Player of the Week. Another efficient performance eight targets,
Speaker 1: seven catches for ninety one yards and a touchdown. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz just the I would say the most prolific tight
Speaker 1: end from a production chapel in the league this season. Now,
Speaker 1: go ahead and say, Chris, he's the best tight end
Speaker 1: in football. He's the best tight end in football. He's
Speaker 1: well on his way to be named a first team
Speaker 1: All Pro at that position. You show me another tight
Speaker 1: end is putting up this type of production weekend week out.
Speaker 1: We know the other guys around the league, they have
Speaker 1: a lot more help around them. Zach Ertz. I think
Speaker 1: he's the guy you know you can rely on every week.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why Carson Wentz seems to find him
Speaker 1: every week because he's open and he catches everything you
Speaker 1: throw to him. So, man, I mean, it's uh, you
Speaker 1: want to you don't want to ever take a guy
Speaker 1: like this for granted, because it's almost it's almost laughable
Speaker 1: the numbers that he puts up every week at this position.
Speaker 1: And I think we need to take time out to
Speaker 1: appreciate it, man, because you're looking at the best tight
Speaker 1: end in football. Here's the thing. We are watching a
Speaker 1: season for the ages, yes, and it's one thing to
Speaker 1: say that after Week four, at the midway point, folks,
Speaker 1: we're getting ready for the last five games of the
Speaker 1: regular season, and he is surpassing again. We talked about
Speaker 1: it He's already put up the best numbers by a
Speaker 1: tight end in Eagles history. In terms of receptions, He's
Speaker 1: gonna be surpassing every wide receiver, any player who's ever
Speaker 1: caught a pass in a season in Eagles history. Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz is going to find himself a top of that list.
Speaker 1: I mean, and when you think about the players the
Speaker 1: Eagles have had, and you think about some of the
Speaker 1: production that players have had over the years, that zach
Speaker 1: Ertz is gonna be at the top of the list
Speaker 1: just shows you how special of a player he is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what the what the tight
Speaker 1: end record for receptions are just yet. Off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, I think Tony Gonzalez may hold that record,
Speaker 1: way does Okay, whatever that number is, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: it would be threatened by the time this season is
Speaker 1: over with zach ERTs is having that type of year
Speaker 1: that he could set a record for the history of
Speaker 1: this league for most catch is in the season by
Speaker 1: tight end, especially with the way the position has evolved,
Speaker 1: with the guys like Gonzalez, like Gates, like Witton, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Ertz woke and find himself on top
Speaker 1: of that list, so zach Ertz our first nominee. There
Speaker 1: number two. We've talked a lot about him in the
Speaker 1: show already. Safety Malcolm Jenkins, you know, had the game
Speaker 1: changing interception late in the first half. You saw when
Speaker 1: you were looking for a spark. You saw he was
Speaker 1: bringing the energy and flying to the football in that
Speaker 1: first half when you know the Eagles were starting a
Speaker 1: little bit sluggish. But he really walked the walk this week.
Speaker 1: He talked to talk in the locker room saying that
Speaker 1: guys need to be accountball guys you know didn't like
Speaker 1: what he was seeing on the field at the end
Speaker 1: of the scenes game. Well, if you're gonna say that,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna call out your teammates in that public form,
Speaker 1: you better back it up. And he did it in
Speaker 1: a big way today, like no doubt about it. He
Speaker 1: knows when he makes those comments. He's been around this
Speaker 1: league a long time. He's not new to the leadership role.
Speaker 1: He knows when he makes those comments. He wants to
Speaker 1: challenge his teammates, but he's also challenged and himself to
Speaker 1: continue to play the way he expects everyone else to play.
Speaker 1: Because they're watching you now. Now they're watching you to
Speaker 1: see if you're running to the ball all the time,
Speaker 1: how hard are you playing? And that's never been a
Speaker 1: question when it comes to Malcolm's effort out there on
Speaker 1: the field. But he put the bulls eye on himself,
Speaker 1: challenged his teammates. But I, like you said, Chris, I
Speaker 1: love the fact that he went out there and led
Speaker 1: by example, and that's what you have to do when
Speaker 1: you're a leader, especially in a week like this where
Speaker 1: again he's playing with at safety, you know, Corey Graham
Speaker 1: and Tray Sullivan at cornerback. You know he's trying to
Speaker 1: get Chandon Sullivan, DeVante Bosby and Cravon LeBlanc lined up correctly. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was adding he's already a coach on the field
Speaker 1: to an extent, but at least he had veterans like
Speaker 1: you know, Rodney McLeod who you know they were in
Speaker 1: spatico when they were playing, Jail Mills, who's been in
Speaker 1: the system for a couple of years. Now. It's all
Speaker 1: guys who are brand new to the system or a
Speaker 1: very little NFL experience, and it must win game. He's
Speaker 1: the one helping direct traffic on the field. Just again,
Speaker 1: another another impressive mark there. For Malcolm Jenkins, and I
Speaker 1: guarantee you, Chris in that first half what contributed to
Speaker 1: the amount of yards to giants were able to get
Speaker 1: the seven explosive players you brought up in nineteen points
Speaker 1: to four consecutive scoring drives. I guarantee you with mix
Speaker 1: ups out there, I guarantee you there was communication issues
Speaker 1: that has to be when you have guys running that
Speaker 1: wide open. You got that many new players playing out there,
Speaker 1: and not just in the secondary. Look at the young
Speaker 1: linebackers that had to play out there. Nate Gary, he
Speaker 1: had to Nate Jerry, he had to play out there today.
Speaker 1: And I saw a play where you know, Nigel Bradham
Speaker 1: is trying to tell him, like that's your guy, go
Speaker 1: cover him. So playing with inexperienced guys out there, it
Speaker 1: makes it more difficult for the veterans to really play
Speaker 1: fast because they have the added responsibility of getting these
Speaker 1: young guys lined up. And that's impressive because sometimes that
Speaker 1: can hurt your game because you have to spend more
Speaker 1: time worried about getting those guys lined up, you can't
Speaker 1: do your job. Excellent job today by Malcolm being able
Speaker 1: to help his young teammates while leading by example, last
Speaker 1: but not least, rookie running back Josh Adams the bell
Speaker 1: cow today twenty two carries easily a career high after
Speaker 1: just getting seven a week ago against the Saints. Obviously,
Speaker 1: circumstances much different this time around, and some ways they weren't. Though.
Speaker 1: The Eagles were getting blown out last week in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and the Eagle speaker, we got a pass. They're
Speaker 1: down nineteen to three lay in the first half. They
Speaker 1: had to maintain the ground game, knowing that was the
Speaker 1: only way to kind of chip away at it and
Speaker 1: to take pressure off the defense, and some huge runs
Speaker 1: there by. Josh Adams scoring the touchdown late in the game,
Speaker 1: got the two point conversion on top of it to
Speaker 1: give the Eagles their first lead of the day, and
Speaker 1: then when they needed to get in position to set
Speaker 1: up Jake Elliott's game winner with twenty two seconds left.
Speaker 1: He was a one gain in the rock down there
Speaker 1: in Giants territory, so and don't forget he had a
Speaker 1: fifty two yard touchdown run wiped out early in this contest,
Speaker 1: but also bounced back from an injury, went to the
Speaker 1: medical team for a shoulder injury, came back in the
Speaker 1: game and fought through. I just I like what we're
Speaker 1: seeing from this kid. I like the attitude and effort
Speaker 1: they brings. Uh, it's a great story. Hometown kids, Central
Speaker 1: Buck South High School, Warrington, PA. Native out here helping
Speaker 1: the Eagles make a push for the playoffs. Yeah, can
Speaker 1: I Probalynna point out something you said there, Chris. I
Speaker 1: thought it was very critical. You talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Adams and this week been in Doug sticking with
Speaker 1: the running giving him opportunities compared to last week when
Speaker 1: the game scene they got out of whack. But you
Speaker 1: mentioned something very key there. This game was out of
Speaker 1: whack two for a quarter and a half and Doug
Speaker 1: stuck with the running game. And I bring that up
Speaker 1: to say, you know, Doug is still in his third
Speaker 1: year as a head coach, and coaches they never stopped learning,
Speaker 1: they never stopped getting better. So I love the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, Doug and his coaching staff isn't coaching
Speaker 1: from a one track mine, meaning that it's going to
Speaker 1: be done my way and that's the only way it's
Speaker 1: going to be done. They are learning as well at
Speaker 1: coaching on the job, and you still all last week
Speaker 1: they may have gotten away from the run game because
Speaker 1: they thought the game was getting away from them. You
Speaker 1: had a very similar scenario playout the day and it
Speaker 1: was a change of course of action, and I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything wrong with that. You should evolve as
Speaker 1: a coach and as players in this league, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing that's going to be the same week to week
Speaker 1: or year to year. There is no one blueprint to success.
Speaker 1: You try something one week, it doesn't work. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you keep banging your head trying the same thing.
Speaker 1: When you're in that same situation, sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: evolve and try something different. And I love the fact
Speaker 1: that coming right after the week where you had a
Speaker 1: very similar score midway through the second quarter and it
Speaker 1: was all passed last week, this week they stuck with
Speaker 1: the running game when I know there was temptation to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. Because when you're a coach and
Speaker 1: you're on the sideline, especially the offensive side, you're saying
Speaker 1: to yourself, the game is getting away from me. We
Speaker 1: need to score points and bunches. It takes a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence and trust your players and your coaches to
Speaker 1: really stick with what the game plan was coming in
Speaker 1: and the game plan coming in was we're gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more this week. We're gonna
Speaker 1: stick with it when it's even when it's not working
Speaker 1: or having success, or if the score gets out of
Speaker 1: whack a little bit, We're still gonna stick with it,
Speaker 1: at least in the first half. At least in the
Speaker 1: first half. So this is a I think sometimes when
Speaker 1: you know this team won the Super Bowl last year,
Speaker 1: they forget Doug was in his second year as a
Speaker 1: head coach, right, and so you know, I think coming
Speaker 1: into this year, we think everything the coach calls it's
Speaker 1: supposed to work like he's never supposed to have a
Speaker 1: learning curveent did last year is so special and it's
Speaker 1: rare that that happens, and that's why they ended up
Speaker 1: his championship, and so you got different challenges this year,
Speaker 1: and so he's still evolving as a coach, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure I pointed that out because
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's a it's a plus on
Speaker 1: his side that he didn't he didn't reverse back to
Speaker 1: doing the same thing he did last week, and so
Speaker 1: it worked out for him, and it reminds me of
Speaker 1: what he did last year after the Kansas City game
Speaker 1: where we threw the ball as much as we did.
Speaker 1: He came back and ran the ball against the Giants,
Speaker 1: he ran the ball against the Chargers. So you know,
Speaker 1: I just sometimes the coach and the quarterback takes a
Speaker 1: lot of heat in this city when things don't turn
Speaker 1: out the way we all hope they do or expect
Speaker 1: them to. And sometimes you can you can sort of
Speaker 1: have an urge to want to cater to all the
Speaker 1: negativity out there, right, And it takes a lot from
Speaker 1: from the head coach and the quarterback to be able
Speaker 1: to have trust and the things that they put together
Speaker 1: as a game plan every week and believe in it.
Speaker 1: And so I just wanted to give to a credit
Speaker 1: for what I thought it took a lot of gustom
Speaker 1: at least stick with what the game plan was for
Speaker 1: today against his team, and it turned out well for
Speaker 1: him in the second against thing is sticking with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you we can say it's easy when you're locked up
Speaker 1: in the coach's offices upstairs on the second floor here
Speaker 1: at the Overcare Complex to be like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: in this situation, we're gonna run. Well, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, you have sixty eight sixty nine thousand fans
Speaker 1: booing you at this point because nineteen three season on
Speaker 1: the line, there's that temptation. Like you said, it's probably
Speaker 1: like we need to start passing the ball to come
Speaker 1: back in this. It's getting a way quick. But I
Speaker 1: think it's also taking an honest assessment of your team
Speaker 1: and realizing that if you have explosive playmakers like an
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham junior, like a Saquon Barkley, maybe that's more feasible.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's more possible that you could pop off a
Speaker 1: seventy five yard touchdown like that and also be back
Speaker 1: in it with the weapons Eels have. Zach Ertz is
Speaker 1: an Eagle's top weapon, and he's a guy who's gonna
Speaker 1: win moving the chains and in the intermediate game. You're
Speaker 1: not going to rely upon him for a fifty yard pass. Okay,
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffrey. He can win the fifty fifty balls. He
Speaker 1: can win those tough He'll get those tough catches on
Speaker 1: the sideline. He's not gonna get you. You know, that's
Speaker 1: seventy five yard touchdown. So it's also realizing the talent
Speaker 1: that you have and saying that if we're gonna stay
Speaker 1: in this thing. We've got to utilize our strength, and
Speaker 1: the strength is the running game. It's the offensive line
Speaker 1: and maximizing those intermediate weapons the way they should and
Speaker 1: not rely upon them to deliver chunk plays in a
Speaker 1: hurry to try to get you back in the ball game.
Speaker 1: So the Eagles winning twenty five to twenty two. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the NFC East schedule here and look,
Speaker 1: one game out they bunched up man, I like it.
Speaker 1: One game out Dallas the top six and five. They
Speaker 1: beat Washington on Thanksgiving Night. Washington comes to the link
Speaker 1: next Monday prime time on December third, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: will be tied with Washington if they get the win,
Speaker 1: and of course they will surpass them with the head
Speaker 1: to head tiebreakers. So the Eagles taking on Washington twice
Speaker 1: in the final five games. Dallas comes after Washington, and
Speaker 1: again the Eagles could be tied for first place. Because
Speaker 1: remember Thursday Night football is going to be Cowboys against
Speaker 1: the Saints. Gonna be really really tough test for Dallas
Speaker 1: to see how far they've truly come along. And we
Speaker 1: look at the stretch run here, Washington, the Cowboys, the Rams,
Speaker 1: the Texans and a rematch with Washington. So obviously, because
Speaker 1: those two out of division games are gonna be very difficult,
Speaker 1: you need to get the wins within the division, and
Speaker 1: that's where your focus is at this point. Anyway, there's
Speaker 1: no discussion about the wild card or things of that nature.
Speaker 1: Your path to the postseason is winning the NFC East
Speaker 1: and it's a challenge because no team has repeated in
Speaker 1: the MC East since the Eagles dominated in the Andy
Speaker 1: Read day, since you were with the team, since since
Speaker 1: you left the team. Yeah, Rank Reese, let the Eagles
Speaker 1: follow the two as a four season no team as
Speaker 1: repeats NFC East champ. So it's it's it's been a while. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's due. It's time there to break that. Indeed, so
Speaker 1: Marks the Reese tomorrow two pm. Sports Radio ninety four.
Speaker 1: W IP should be happy. Yes, yes, no excuses because
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is, and Ike and I were talking
Speaker 1: about this during a commercial break. We want to get
Speaker 1: into a situation with the Eagles where you come off
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl season and the following your last five games.
Speaker 1: We're not in December yet, and the final five games
Speaker 1: really would have no impact in terms of the Eagles
Speaker 1: getting back to the playoffs. You want the Eagles to
Speaker 1: have a chance so we can enjoy this ride together
Speaker 1: during the holidays. But again it's it's a series of
Speaker 1: one game playoffs. The Eagles have to come back against
Speaker 1: Washington and they need to dominate the division. Okay, so
Speaker 1: they got to get back after it. They'll have some
Speaker 1: time off here and they'll be back on the practice
Speaker 1: field early on this week. So our upcoming schedule here
Speaker 1: is again plenty of content throughout the rest of the day.
Speaker 1: Will of the Eagles Life podcast on the insightcon from
Speaker 1: Dave Spadero. Tomorrow morning, we're gonna have the full version
Speaker 1: of Meryl cam the All twenty to review, and then
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Pearson will address the media at noon.
Speaker 1: So until then, for ike reason, all of us here
Speaker 1: at the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico. Eagles beat the Giants
Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty two. By the way, Giant season
Speaker 1: they're done at this point too. There we go, everyone,
Speaker 1: have a great Eagles night. M