WEBVTT - Postgame Show: Eagles Win 34-10 Against the New York Giants 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.520 It was a tale of two halves in South Philadelphia today, 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:05.600 but the second half is where the party got started. 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.879 Ronnie McLeod picks off Jake from for the I n T. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.959 Next up, the Giant Killer himself, Boston Scott punches in 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.200 a three yard touchdown and Devonte Smith with a little 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.960 toe drag swag in the end zone for the touchdown, 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.200 and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Lane Johnson catches 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.120 a touchdown pass for the score. Welcome into the postgame 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.920 show presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella d Givanni here with 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.239 Fran Duffy and I grief. Guys. The first half it 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.440 was looking a little rough. I would love to know, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.239 Nick Sirianni said at halftime, because then the players came 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.680 out in the second half really turned it on. Jalen 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.080 Hurts played great, the defense played well all four quarters. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.840 A much needed win here today and they got it done. Yeah, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.320 I'm warning of Coach Sirianni gave them the fire and 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.239 Brimstone speech at halftime to sort of wake them up 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.280 right because it seemed like they were sleepwalking through the 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.600 first half. Short week, played a game on Tuesday night. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.680 He's not going to use that as an excuse. Neither 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.200 will I. I'll just look at it this way. They 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.440 got all to a slow start, but they were able 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.680 to hang in there, and in the second half you 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.440 saw we're getting turnovers and getting into short field was 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.000 able to help them prevail in this game. The biggest 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.280 thing in that first half was the Giants never had 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.680 to get out of their comfort zone because the Eagles 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.640 didn't force him out of their comfort zone. Once the 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.119 Eagles did that, you saw the scoreboard start to run 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:23.880 up in the eagles favor. And all of that is 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.800 all well and good, all that's great, but guys, we 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.959 gotta thick six today. A Lane Johnson tych Can we 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.840 run that back? The Lane Johnson touchdown? I mean, it's 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.959 so rare that we get to see an offensive lineman 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.199 reached the end zone. The first touchdown by an Eagles 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.640 offensive lineman since Todd Herriman's back in twenty ten. Just 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.440 awesome to see big Lane get into for paid dirt. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.759 One of my highlights from the twenty twenty one season, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.560 if we're gonna be honest, absolutely, it caps off a 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.480 little link and leap too. I like the high step 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.960 in the end zone. That was great. Let's talk about 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.360 the first half first. Okay, bad news first, and then 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.680 we'll get to all the good stuff. Okay. We talked 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.760 a lot in the Kickoff show about Dallas Goddard and 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.560 the great two games he had shrunk together against the 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.040 jetson Washington. The Giants have his number a little bit, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.440 kept him quiet in the first half, didn't haul in 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.800 a pass until the second half. I thought that was 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.239 very interesting. I think the Giants game plan pretty well 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.760 for Dallas Goddard, but of course it did give other 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.840 guys opportunities to Yeah, and this league is about matchups, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.440 you know. One of the things that fran and I 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.040 talked about this week on Eagles game Plan is what 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.119 the Giants like to do on defense with their sub packages. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:24.880 So you get these athletes out there, they could be 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.919 a linebacker or a safety or dB. Right, so you 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.480 got a guy's big enough and fast enough to run 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.760 with Dallas, and he's always going to get extra help 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.440 paid towards him, extra attention paid towards him. But the 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.440 Giants seemingly have done a nice job one tight ends 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.800 all year long. Dallas in the first game, I believe 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.280 he only had one catch versus the Giants, or maybe 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.120 one target versus the Giants in that first game, So 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.520 I'm not totally surprised there A lot of it is, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.959 you know, that Giants defense saying we're not going to 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.000 allow eighty eight to beat us today. You're gonna have 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.800 to go somewhere else with the bar and look, all's fair, right. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.919 A couple of those players are on Dallas as well. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.360 A couple of tough drips for him in this game, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.400 one on that opening drive. He had a little one 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.920 a little bit later as well. So it's just unable 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.600 to connect with him to the level that we've seen 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.400 over the last couple of weeks. But the Eagles were 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.880 able to find some playmakers in the second half. Yeah. Well, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.000 sticking with the first half and their playmakers, Davantae spent 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.000 three receptions for seventy five yards at halftime. Of course, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.480 none of those converted to a score unfortunately in the 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.840 first half. But the rookie came to play today. We 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.440 talked a lot about him in the Kickoff show because 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.400 he has been a little quiet the past few weeks, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.360 but not today. Yeah, and I like some of the 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.240 play designs from the office to sort of get DeVante open. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.800 You know, he is such a great route runner, and 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.400 when he's running those crossing routes, he gets those dbs 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.680 to get on their horse, and they started to chase him. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.720 I saw some plays where we moved Jalen out to 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.800 one side of the pocket. We would run a little 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.720 bit of a banana route with DeVante and Jalen has 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.480 enough arm shaft to get the ball back to the 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.480 other side. So just doing some different things to try 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.520 to free DeVante up. Because when you're when you're the 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.320 number one wide receiver, you draw all the most attention 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.839 you're gonna draw James Bradberry and some safety help over 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.080 the top. So then it becomes how do we get 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:05.839 him freed up? And I thought they did a nice 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.880 job at least in that first half getting in some 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.720 open looks. Yeah, and I talked about creating that separation 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.560 and how he was able to get open. I loved 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.600 him at the catch point today. To me, when you 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.240 saw some of the catches, obviously the touchdown was big 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.440 time getting you talked about the two toed drag swag 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.960 down there along the sideline. We see that play here 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.680 coming up, coming in for six points an outstanding catch. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.640 But how about that forty eight yarder from the first 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.760 half where he went up and attacked the football, took 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.440 it away from the corner in James Bradberry. I love 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.640 what DeVante Smith has done at the catch point lately, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.480 capitalizing on those opportunities. Ela. That's what we talked about 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.160 earlier on the Kickoff Show, was that ability to come 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.159 up big when your number is called. We saw that 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.200 from DeVante here in this game. That forty eight yarder 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.800 was a career high, and we also saw a big 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.440 plays from Quaiswakins and Jalen Rager as well. That's why 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.919 Jalen Hurst is at the top of the league in 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.960 big plays right now because he can throw it down 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.920 the field when he needs to, and he has receivers 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.760 you can haul it in. But we're gonna actually check 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.320 in with Eagles insider Dave Spider, who's over at Lincoln 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.400 Financial Field. Dave, they got the win. We were just 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.440 talking about the first half. It was kind of the 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.880 tale of mistakes and misqs, but Nick Sirianni. Sirianni obviously 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.200 had a good message at halftime. What do you think 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.240 was the huge turnaround in the second half? Well, you know, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.160 l I just talked to Rodney McLeod as he came 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.160 off the field. He's the one who got things going 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.800 with the interception. Great pass rush from Genard Avery there, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.880 but it was just the Eagles knew they had to 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.960 get something to seize the momentum of the football game, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.360 and the defense was on the field first play number 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.400 two of that second half and McLeod came up with 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.760 the big interception. So I don't think it was anything 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.720 particularly that Nick said, but certainly everybody as they were 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.839 walking off the field. It was a pretty tough first 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.839 half and the players were not pleased when they came 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.520 off the field, so everyone understood what they had to do. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.360 They had to take control of the football game, and 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.880 they went on a blitz creek in that third quarter. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.760 Thirty one unanswered points turned the game around. So credit 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.000 to the Eagles. After a really real, the sluggish first half, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.719 they poured it on in half number two. Dave, you 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.840 talked about the Davante Smith. We talked about him a 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.640 little bit earlier. I'm interested to get your thoughts on 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.600 the rookies performance then also that touchdown. I mean, you've 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.240 been around this team for a long time. You've been 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.080 watching the NFL for a long time. Have you ever 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.240 seen a review process like that on where the call 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.720 is announced and then reversed after extended review. Yeah? So, well, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.400 now I'm not quite sure if I understand what exactly 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.919 happened it It was ruled a touchdown, then upon review, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.680 as they review every scoring play, it was overturned, and 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.760 then did the Eagles challenge? I think the Eagles may 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.120 have challenged that review, and so then it was reversed 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.600 back to the original call. Remarkable catch. Look last week, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.480 that was one of the great catches I've ever seen 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.520 Davante on the sidelines today, that catch falling out of bounds. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.000 His ability to get the left foot in and then 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.360 the right toe in and control the football while being 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.360 pushed out of bounds going backwards. His body control is incredible. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.599 Frame you talked about him at the catch point, the 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.000 way he went up up, up in the first half 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.000 for that great catch. Just the way this young man 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:11.400 is able to keep his body under control catch everything. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.680 You never see a babble going out of balance and 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.600 could get his feet down like that. This is the 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:22.240 stuff of truly special talents and Devontae Smith has that. Yeah, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:26.040 I think sometimes Dave, we almost have to pinch ourselves 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.040 to realize that, you know, a guy that's making plays 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.600 on the sideline like that. We just don't accustomed to 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.960 seeing that. And Devanta's gonna be making plays like that 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.400 for a lot more years. In Midnight Green, I want 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.040 to talk to you a little bit about Jalen Hurts 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.680 though at the quarterback position. Ella brought up the first 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.680 half and how we sputtered. What'd you think of Jalen's 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.600 play in the first half of this game? Well, I 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.000 think that it was too similar to what happened last 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.800 on Tuesday night against Washington, and you know, you have 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.680 to polish this stuff up. I respect and certainly sorry. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:04.120 We have Devanta Smith at the okay, doing good? I'm good. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.120 Did you know you were in even though there are 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.320 so many reviews? Uh? Yeah, I mean like when I 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.480 get on the sideline, I gotta got a second sense. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.800 So you know, it's kind of my thing. Have you 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:23.440 ever seen a referees review or review before what was going? No, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.880 I ain't never seen that one. What are you saying 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.720 it's kind of your thing? How long has that been 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.880 the case? Um? I mean I would say past few years. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.800 I mean just kind of as you play the game, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.199 you just kind of get used to it. Kind of 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.160 your awareness kind of goes up. You kind of just 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.480 know where you are. Kind of sideline catch last week 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.600 and then you had that touchdown catch? Which one was better? 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.679 Do you think? I would say the one the day 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.120 was built? Uh, just because I was going backwards. So 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:50.760 it was just kind of like I had to drag 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.240 my foot lit bit. It kind of felt like Michael 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:57.080 Jackson out of his body control as opposed to just awareness, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.760 UM a lot of it. I mean, you gotta just 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.920 with your momentum. You just gotta know how like how 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.000 to have your feet and things like that, just what 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.439 you can do over again. Um, honestly, I wouldn't even 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.560 say it's rips. It just kind of just happens. The 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.000 slick start for the offense. Um, I mean just finding 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.400 out groove, I mean, come out just things just wasn't 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.040 going our way. So I mean we just had to 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.840 find out groove, UM, make some adjustments, and I mean 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:29.240 that's all it was. To see La Johnson score that 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.120 touch down. Oh, I mean it was big. I mean 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.640 the drive before that, he was calling himself so, and 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.520 then when they did call it, it was just like, no, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.559 it was gonna be touchdown. I mean it's big. We've 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.760 been ripping it for a while. Last week, Jayalen had 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.080 a shot to you down the middle. You were miked 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.680 up saying you lost the ball. This week you're very similar, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.360 you know, are you? And you were able to mold 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.800 the process there. Um just didn't just didn't take my 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.400 eyes off of it. Last we got took my eyes 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.200 off of it for a second. I lost it. This 0:09:55.280 --> 0:10:00.000 we got just didn't take my eyes off of him. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.920 I think the Giants wanted to draft you and the 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.520 Eagles came up and made that trade. Just playing well 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.480 against them today the rest of your career, does that 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.960 mean a little something extra. I mean, I'm here for 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.840 a reason. I'm glad to be here. So I mean 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.880 that's gonna be every game, not just that game. I 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.920 mean every game, gonna go out there and give them all. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.319 I think the first pass was to you. Was there 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.040 a concerted effort after what happened last Giants game where 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.520 you just really see the ball a lot to get 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.320 you in the ball right away? Um? I mean that's 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:26.960 that's just the play calls I mean we have we 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.160 have play plays that we know we're gonna run the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.240 first possession. I mean they coaches called what they had. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.600 It's a call on the on the touchdown you did 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.000 that little motion thing? Was that? Just explain to us 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.440 what the point of that is for against the defense? Um? 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.120 I mean just to just to kind of get the 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.160 defense loss. I mean, you're you know you're on the 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.400 gold line. You're probably gonna play man, so just to 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.520 kind of whoever guard and you just to get him going. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.640 You're nice, Uh pass breakups this year too? To have 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.160 any corner in your background, Oh, yes, a lot of 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.320 it's a lot of the background. I mean before the 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.760 receiver thing, I was the corner. So what do you 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.719 think about the state of the team here with two 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.280 to play? About? Say again, the state of the team 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.160 with two to play? What do you think? Um? I 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.560 mean just every week, I mean, just keep chipping away 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.200 every week. I'm just going out there taking it day 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.560 by day and just chipping away. Just every little one 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:23.840 percent were the next message in the locker room? UM, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.240 I mean, how things weren't going out way? Defense played 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.200 great today. Offensively things weren't going out way. But we adjusted. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.280 So just being out there noing day and games, you're 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:36.800 gonna have to adjust. Um, just just make our adjustments. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.960 We know we gotta do. Go out there, correct our 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:57.520 mistakes and move on. Alex. It's actually getting this one. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.719 Oh yeah, I'm sure I haven't looked yet, but yeah, Hill, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.280 I might not even get it. I might just shift 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.800 it straight home, just ready for the batted ball right away. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.920 What did you see on that play and let the interceptions? Yeah, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.560 obviously they were running a lot of that empty so 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.200 we kind of knew, you know, disguising coverages. Obviously I'm 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.559 moving around a lot in those and so we kind 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.520 of knew, you know, once I moved in, they were 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.079 gonna go back to that side, So you know, obviously, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.480 you know, I thought Rod they were gonna throw it 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.160 on the out and Rod was gonna get the pick. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.959 But obviously he cut back in and Rod broke it 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.400 up and just right place, right time, really, Alice, even 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.520 when they switched quarterbacks, the Sea defense maintained it. And 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.800 it's intensive. What do you have noticed from from and 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.040 then as opposed to Glenned you know, be the key 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.280 with that. Yeah, I mean, obviously we watched a lot 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.520 of you know, Glennon during the week like he was. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.800 He's been their quarterback for the last month, and so 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.400 we just knew they were gonna kind of run similar 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.880 things with from and they kind of changed it up 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.520 a little bit. Obviously, they ran the ball a lot more, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.559 and then so when they went back to Glennon, we 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.400 knew what they were going to try to go to. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.240 He was obviously more you know, they were throwing more 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.640 shots with him, you know, a lot of the bikes 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.079 and stuff outside, and so we knew once they switched that, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.520 we knew we were gonna get. They were only avered 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.400 two yards of play through three quarters. Did you ever 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.880 feel like they could seriously meet the ball? You guys, No, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.720 you know, we we knew, you know, we know what 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.120 we had to do to win this game. We know 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.240 what happened, you know against them last time. We knew, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.920 you know, we needed to create plays on defense and 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.480 we needed to stop them, and you know kind of 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.600 you know they're saying, you know, you know, step on 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.839 their throat, you know, the whole game, and just you know, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.240 and that's what we're able to do and just give 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.600 our offense, you know, as many opportunities until they got going, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.120 and once they did, it was just kind of we 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.400 can continue to play the way we did the like, 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.640 you know, kind of creating turnovers and making places to 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.760 help the offense out. Yeah, you know, we've been saying 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.439 it for a few weeks. You know, we we know 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.280 as a defense, we've been playing well, you know for 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.400 the like the last month, just you know, not enough 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.800 turnovers and that was kind of the emphasis. Obviously, It's 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.440 always been our emphasis, we talked about all the time. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.240 And so to be able to you know, get those 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.880 and you know, give the offense more opportunities, you know, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.319 that's it's what we want to do, and we're able 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.880 to do it today. For you personally, I mean, your 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.679 whole career has kind of been up and down. This 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.600 year's kind of been up and down. What does a 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.400 moment like this mean to you? To make the play 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.360 that ice is the game and you know sort of 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.920 does what your defense asks. Yeah, it's nice, obviously, you know, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.120 it's exciting to you know, be able to do that. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.920 You know high you know, obviously scoring now two years 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.800 in a row in the NFL. You know, I scored 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.960 once in college my sophomore year, and you kind of 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.760 don't you know, get those opportunities and obviously even you know, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.560 for me to just play in the NFL, you know, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.200 as a privilege every week. So to have those opportunities 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.720 and be able to do this for this team and 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.760 the way we're trending and you know, the guys in 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.680 that locker room, it's exciting to be able to do that, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.200 and you know, just continue to you know, press on 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.600 because you know, we know it's in front of us, 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.680 and you know we obviously it's Washington, and then you know, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.480 hopefully we just continue to roll. The fact that Nick's 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.280 dialed things back on practice as early as way back 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.520 in November helped you guys on a short week like this. Yeah, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.800 I think, you know, with how our schedules have been, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.800 Like you said, you know, obviously Wednesday's being double walk 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.640 theirs this week wasn't really a shock to us. It 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.720 was kind of the same routine we just didn't have, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.400 you know, I guess a Monday Tuesday. We just kind 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.960 of went into it into a Wednesday day day you know, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.400 on Thursday and Friday, so it wasn't as big of 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:05.720 a shock to us. You know, we came out of 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.640 the last game, you know, healthy, and we were ready 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.440 to go. You know, you guys, I mean you guys 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.840 know you asked us all week, you know, if we 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.320 were gonna take what happened last time of MetLife into 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:14.920 this game, and I think you know, we showed that. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.120 Obviously we did what was this week like sort of physically, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.200 just with the tight turnaround and also you know, not 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.760 having Nick in the building. Ah yeah, obviously the tight 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.520 turn around. Me personally, I love when we play on 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:25.920 a short week. You know, I said all the time 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.120 I would take a basketball schedule, so you know, I 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.000 love I'd rather play every day, so I enjoy it. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.440 I think you know, we handled it well. Obviously with 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.360 Christmas as well, it can be a tough week. You 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.440 were going to have a shorter practice days whether or 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.040 not we played on Sunday or Tuesday. So as a team, 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.600 obviously we handled it very well. We everyone put in 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.160 the work they needed to. And you know, same thing 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.240 with having you know, coach obviously out it was different, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.160 but I think you know, we stuck to the game plan. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.680 Whether or not you know a coach is there, you 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.360 know we're going to continue to work and you know, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.080 with Zoom and everything. Nowadays, you're pretty much in the 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.560 room whether you know, he's not a player, so you 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.320 can face time in and be pretty much there the 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.000 entire time. Stop would happen in bed life and applied 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.960 it in what way? Yeah, I mean, we know, you know, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.160 we lost a game we should have won, and so 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.920 to you know, come off of that and as a defense, No, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.920 we didn't create any turnovers that week, and we needed to. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.480 You know, if we would have had two or three 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.320 like we did today, it would have made it would 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.120 have you know, been a different game. And so to 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.240 be able to remember that and come out and play 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.160 the way we did, you know, it's huge for us 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:37.320 as moving forward. Touchdown that was sick interception like to 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.120 start things off for the second half of the town 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.800 back was that, I mean not really prett you guys 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.480 defensive I seem to get the offensecreting two. Yeah, it's huge, 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.200 I think you know obviously you guys know, I mean 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.240 this stadium gets rock in every stadium, you know, but 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.840 when you come in after halftime, stadiums are always people 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.480 are still in line, you know, but it's not as 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.040 it's not as you know, hyped up. So it's nice 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:56.960 you know, especially as a defensive player when the offense 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.880 goes first, because you know they can drive down by 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.760 the time they score and everyone's back in, and so 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.000 when you start on defense, you know it's a little empty. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.040 You don't always have that, you know, crowd momentum in 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.919 a game like this, so you know to obviously, you know, 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.719 two to three plays in. To have a pick like 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.960 that and give the offense a short field is huge 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:19.080 in that situation. Thanks guys. That was linebacker Alex Singleton, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.680 of course, recording his second pick six, the first coming 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.000 last year. Big day for the linebackers, obviously, the defense 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.639 as a whole. Friend and I talked a lot about 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.439 the kickoff show. We're actually going back to the podium, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:38.080 Nick Sirianni. Sure, yeah. The name of the play called 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.800 a lane East Texas. East Texas some of those gadgety 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.280 ones you don't you don't, uh, you don't try to 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.199 name everything because it's hard to name it all. So 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.760 you kind of come up with a specialized name in 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.040 lane from East Texas, and that's what we called it 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.800 that he had been talking about during the game. Lane. Uh, 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.320 did you hear that? And did you go with that? 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.359 I'm sorry say that one more time, said that Lane 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.000 had been talking about being open or running that play 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.960 throughout the game. Is that true? Well, Lane wasn't eligible 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.400 until that very play, So Lane couldn't have been open. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.560 I don't know. I don't know what DeVante is thinking 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.880 right there. Um So, but um, we had a lot 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.440 of confidence in the play because of the way we 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.760 practiced this week, and you know, just confidence in Lane that. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.520 I mean, Lane's a phenomenal football player. Um. You know, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.520 I don't agree that he's not in the Pro Bowl. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.159 I think that I think you got a chance to 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.800 have a guy who's gonna be a first or second 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.240 team All Pro and not in the Pro Bowl. And 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:35.680 so it was great to be able to get him 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.679 a touchdown. Uh. You know, he just deserves so much credit. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.760 It's so much more credit than he's getting. This This 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.880 guy is just I've never been in around an offensive 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.280 tackle that it has as talented as this guy is. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.080 Like he could play tight end if you want. You 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.040 should see him throw the football. This guy is so 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.600 immensely talented. Um, I just got so much respect for him, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.359 and it was nice. It's it's always great when you 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.879 can reward guys that don't get in the end zone 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.719 with a touchdown like that, and so and I think 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.480 it was his first touchdown since, uh, since high school. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.000 I'm sure he scored a lot of him in high 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.679 school because the guy's just a stud and and just 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.640 so happy that he's anchoring O. You know, he's anchoring 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.960 our offensive line. And look forward to the accolades that 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.520 he's gonna get because he deserves them. How long you've 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.520 been for a while, Uh, that's not a play that 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.879 can be in each week. We've had it in the 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.919 plan before, um when it when it fits again, it 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.479 doesn't fit against every team in every system. So uh, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.720 it's been in the plan before, so we've had reps 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.680 of it, but you know it hasn't been in in 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.359 a couple of weeks. So again, just a great job 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.840 by our coaches and our players. You know, the detail 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.960 of how the coaches installed the play and then obviously 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.560 the detail of the way the players executed the play. Um, 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.679 you know, being able to accomplish that in a in 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.960 a short week like the short turnaround in your absence 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.879 this week affected I don't I don't we I you 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.400 know what our defense played an outstanding game. We all 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.200 know that. How how they came out, and they were 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.600 they were hitting right from the beginning. Obviously, you never 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.000 want to start a game on special teams by by 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.160 putting the ball on the ground right to right to start. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.159 JJ was there to get the fumble recovery, but you 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.879 don't want to do that. Um. You know, we definitely 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.680 weren't executing the way we need to execute. But I 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.680 got so much respect for that defensive coordinator and those 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.120 that defense that we just played today. I think that's 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.480 a really really outstanding defense. That's a great defensive line. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.280 That's a coach Graham I think is just a really 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.720 good coordinator that I've had a lot of respect for 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.720 for a lot of years now. Um. So again, you 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.000 got to say, anytime you start off that way and 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:36.720 you only score three points in the first half, it's 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.000 always gonna be you know, we didn't coach well enough 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.480 for sure, Um, we didn't play well enough. But hats 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.040 off to them because that's a good defense. So it's 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.880 a combination all three. But I don't I don't put 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.520 anything into the short week. This team's handled adversity all year, 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.640 you know, um, through different things, and that's just that's 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.000 just what you have to do in the NFL. You 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.840 have to handle adversity and because it rarely is going 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:02.000 to go the way you think it's gonna go, just 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.160 perfectly smooth the whole time. And our our team's handle adversity. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.119 And I think that's has a lot to do with 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.119 who are who our leaders are on this team and 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.199 our captain's uh you know with Jason Kelsey and and 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:17.560 Flatcher Cox and Ronnie McLeod, Jalen Hurts, Alex Singleton, Brandon Graham. Uh, 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.960 those guys lead the way. And uh, you know, so 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.480 just a lot of credit to our leaders on this team. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.200 Scored twenty four straight points coming out a half time. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.920 What was said to the offense and the team when 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.239 you guys back into getting Walker, Uh, you know, just 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.480 the Hey, good teams win games. However they need to 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.879 win games. Uh, you know, if we have to grind 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.440 this out and be grimy and let the defense carry 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.080 the way the whole time, we'll do it that way. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:47.320 But hey, just have that next play mentality of forget 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.040 the first half um and and have that next play 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:51.960 mentality and come out and ready to go. And uh, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.280 they definitely did a good job of uh you know, 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.320 of coming out and just and forgetting that. They just 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.480 they did exactly that they forgot the first half and 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.600 they and they execute it in the second half. Why 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:04.280 was Janeling so much better in the second half than 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.399 he was in the first day? Again, it was just 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.800 I think that's a combination of just how our entire 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.320 offense played. He definitely missed some throws in the first 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.760 half that he's gonna want back, and uh um, I 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:16.520 thought he went to the right place with the ball. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.240 I know there's a question about you know, Bob Prett 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.360 me for a question about a red zone play um 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:24.760 that we threw to Quiz over the middle. Guys, you 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:27.640 just when there's guys breaking this way and breaking that way, 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.280 you have to alert a certain player, which I'll just 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.440 try to explain to you as much as I possibly 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:36.120 can without giving anything away. You alert a certain player 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.639 and then your read starts somewhere else. So our alert 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.080 was to Dallas that versus a certain coverage. It wasn't 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.399 that coverage. So now you know, we read shallow to 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.760 to angle and and that's what he read. So his 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.760 eyes aren't there. So I'm not one bit concerned. Like 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.560 when you give a quarterback and you say to him, 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:55.399 you know when you you know there reads as a 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:57.800 as a as a coach, you don't ever get on 0:22:57.880 --> 0:22:59.720 him when he misses something like that because it's not 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:02.560 a his eyes went here to hear and Dallas is 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.119 only a pre snap read. There's no we don't know. 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:07.560 Jalen doesn't know that they're gonna they busted the coverage. 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:09.480 Jalen doesn't know at the beginning of that play that 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.760 they're gonna bust that coverage. Like they made a mistake. 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:14.600 They were out of position on that particular play. Um, 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:16.840 and that was the read and so and so I 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.520 want to make sure that everybody understands that. And so again, 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:21.520 he didn't play his great this best first half. And 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.440 when we play good, when he plays good, the offense, 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:26.680 offense roles and he and he did his just great 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.040 job bouncing back that second half. And again it's just 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.080 not having Jalen. We didn't play good as in the 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.359 skill positions. We didn't play as good as we played 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:34.959 on the offense line, We didn't coach as good as 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:37.680 we needed to coach um in that first half. So 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:41.600 but again, just a credit to Jalen to rebound and 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:43.520 play a good second half, because that's what good teams do. 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:48.720 They find ways to win bunch today. You guys would 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:51.000 in the playoffs. Obviously it doesn't you guys games, But 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:53.280 what does that say about how far you guys have coming, 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:57.280 especially after the start, and it's pretty yeah, I think, 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:58.920 you know, I think again, it just speaks to the 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.240 leaders that we had having this team and and the 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.880 fact that we knew adversity is going to come. That's 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.840 just the way this league is. Adversity hits, whether it's 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.439 a two and five start, whether it's a postponement of 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:12.320 a game and having to play two games, you know, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:14.959 play a game off a thirteen day rest wherever it was, 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:16.840 and then play a game on five. I mean, that's 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:18.800 what happens in this league. So you try to prepare 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.760 yourself for adversity and be able to handle it. And 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.200 that's the whole message that we've talked about from from 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:28.600 the beginning of uh just dog mentality. Next play, next play, 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.200 next play. Jason Kelsey gave a message to the team 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:34.520 last night, which was awesome, and his message was press on, um, 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:38.400 you know, and you know, bad things happened, Press press press. 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.000 He was awesome talking to the team last night. Uh, 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:43.160 you know, he's just he's just such a great leader. 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.320 And so it all comes back to the types of 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:47.600 guys that we have in that locker room. A ton 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:49.440 of credit obviously to how he and his staff of 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:51.879 how they've assembled this team. I said to how he 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:53.760 in there, you know how he said, you know, great 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.200 job coming back from a two and five start, I said, 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:59.280 how a great job? Like what other first year head 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:01.440 coaches are in the position I'm in. We have a 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.280 great offense and defensive line usually when there's a new 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:07.000 new head coaches, because the offense and defensive line aren't 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.160 any good. And and so it's just been a great 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:11.720 team effort, a great organization that we're part of. And 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:13.920 then it always comes down to these players and the 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:16.639 type of leaders that we have. A couple more, please, Kelsey. 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:18.920 Thing actually is that? Is that abnormal? Or do you 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:21.320 have somebody addressed the team every week? Well, I I 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:25.280 it's been twelve weeks one through twelve week. I addressed them. 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:28.440 They were probably tired of hearing my voice, so changed 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:30.400 it up. And that's something I've done in the PAB 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:32.399 and on teams that have done that past. Frank's done that. 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.359 Uh you know, let your let your captains here, uh, 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:36.920 you know talk at the at the end of the 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:39.639 year and get the guys ready to go on Saturday night. 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.000 I've always had a good experience with that. How big 0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:45.960 was the interception by Roding McCloud. You guys had that 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:48.200 pick set up a score. You had to pick six 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:51.120 later in the game. Ice the game. I mean, all 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:53.600 all praised to Jailing and the receivers in the second 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:56.960 half of your defense. They played incredible. There's no doubt 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:00.960 the defense kept the game a game when it when 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:04.840 it wasn't going well, right and uh, huge huge play 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:09.920 uh by Ronnie unbelievable rush by Jenard Avery just to 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:12.240 get pressure on the quarterback in the game that they 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.000 played up front um and so you get that pressure, 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:17.120 he sails the ball high and Ronnie gets a big play. 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:19.320 And it was three to three at that time, I believe, right, 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:21.000 And that was their first drive of the second half. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.119 I mean, that's that was everything, right. I Mean, you 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:25.560 end up going up seven, the defense feels like they 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:27.720 can't that they're not going to get any more points, 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:29.920 and we're like we're up seven. We ain't freaking losing 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:32.040 this game because the way their defense is, but the 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:34.240 way our defense is playing, and our defense knew that 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:37.520 and so obviously they played unbelievable. It was. It was 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:40.480 just again, it was the whole game of the pressure 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:42.960 that how good they are were in the run game, 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:46.400 how good we were, you know, covering and taking away 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:48.720 some of the dank and dunks um because that wind 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:50.400 was blowing a little bit more than I think people 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:53.120 realize out there today. Um you didn't. It didn't look 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:55.879 bad like in certain spots, but you see the flags 0:26:55.960 --> 0:26:58.040 up at the top, they were they were they were humming. 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:01.000 And so just again, just great job by our defense. 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:03.960 And then the pick six obviously that was huge. It 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:05.399 put us that put the game out of reach. We 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:08.199 were able to take some guys out after that, and uh, 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:11.119 again just it always starts up front and just a 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:13.400 great job by our defensive line. And then trickled down 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:16.480 to everybody down. What was your advantage point on the 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:20.680 Bonte touchdown? And it seemed like a strange review, seem 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:24.399 really clear, what's happening? Yeah, I think they were there 0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:26.520 might have been, I don't know exactly, but I thought 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:28.879 it was a touchdown that they were viewing and and 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:31.840 and basically something happened. It might have went to a 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:34.679 TV commercial. I don't know exactly what happened, but uh, 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:37.000 they came back and the time when I thought they 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:40.680 were reviewing it, whatever, whatever was happening was happening, and 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:43.200 then they decided to review it, and hey, I'm just 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:45.520 glad it counted. I don't know, it felt like a 0:27:45.600 --> 0:27:47.600 long time we had to wait for it. But uh, 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:49.720 the rest, I thought the rest did a good job. 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:51.920 And then they were they were communicating with us the 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:55.200 entire game. Uh. Again, their job's never easy and I 0:27:55.960 --> 0:28:00.359 value what they do out there. Oh yeah, yeah. Just 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:03.560 Devanta has been really good on the back line and 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:05.960 on the on the sideline all year, you know, And 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:08.720 that's that's something you got to learn, right because you don't. 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:10.560 You only have to have one in in college, right 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:14.040 and so, um, he's just been really good and clean 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:16.800 with his footwork on the sideline for his first year. 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:19.320 I mean, he's just he's a technician, um, and it's 0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:21.680 just not and the guy loves football and wants to 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:23.480 be better at football. And we know that, you know, 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:25.480 a guy can go from here to here because of 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.159 the technique he plays with, and so DeVante works endless 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:31.639 hours to do that and he's just again he'd had 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:33.440 the catch like that last week where he dragged the 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:36.040 foot from behind. So a great job to Aaron moorehead 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:38.600 of drilling that as well. I know he drills that 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:41.400 every single day. Uh. And then DeVante obviously playing with 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:48.720 great technique. Thanks guys, find this same body. Head coach 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.200 Nick Sirianni crediting the defense, and rightfully so. The past 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:55.160 four games they've allowed an average of fourteen and a 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:58.760 half points. Very impressive by Jonathan Gannon and that entire defense. 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:00.760 We're here from Alex Singleton or who had a great 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:03.520 game as well, but we got to talk about Ronnie 0:29:03.600 --> 0:29:07.280 McCleod and the defensive line. A huge part of Ronnie 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:11.080 McLoud coming up with that opening interception was the pressure 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:13.400 Jake Frown was feeling up front. Yeah, I thought it 0:29:13.480 --> 0:29:15.880 was a big time. You know, I'm watching that game. 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:18.040 You know, you kind of get a feel for what 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:21.320 the crowd is sensing at halftime, and there was some nervousness. 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:24.120 You know, I'm on this game and I have to 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:34.000 cut Boston Scott of the podium. Boston Scott Well, you're 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:36.959 known as the giant killer, but Lane Johnson's the guy 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:38.640 that kind of put it away today. Help. How good 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:41.400 do you feel for him having been around him as 0:29:41.480 --> 0:29:43.000 long as you have and known when he went through 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:46.840 this year. I mean, just him battling through you know, 0:29:47.000 --> 0:29:49.160 things off the field too. I have a tremendous amount 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:51.360 of respect for that dude and just being able to 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:53.960 see him, you know, the smile on his face after 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:55.680 all the work that he's put in. I mean, he's 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:58.120 been an elite, one of the best to do it 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:01.880 ever and it's always fun to see big guys gett 0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:04.640 into the end zone and get an opportunity. It's cool 0:30:06.600 --> 0:30:10.400 the past six days, Um just I mean I've always 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.880 known it a tenacious group. You know, um fight through 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:17.280 anything and stay close knit. You know, we don't let 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:20.760 what's going on on the outside or anything like that 0:30:20.960 --> 0:30:23.560 nfere with you know, the camaraderie and the brotherhood we 0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:26.640 have going on inside of that locker room. Um. I 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:29.000 love those guys, man. I go to war from every 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:33.959 week guy who's that? What's that? Read? The league guy? 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:39.320 Anytime anytime came over the left side, it looked like 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:42.280 a pretty Big Hole era Big Hole. I didn't do anything. 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.880 It was all the offensive line. I just ran into 0:30:44.880 --> 0:30:48.200 the end zone. That was it. That's all that really 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:55.960 salt like, Um, yeah, I mean it was Um who's herb? Herb? 0:30:57.080 --> 0:31:00.560 It's the one that sprung me, I believe pretty sure. 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:04.800 But yeah, I mean it's good stuff, good stuff, awesome. 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:07.920 What was said to you back the mutuals on fraction 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:09.800 that kind of just wipe out that big run that 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:13.000 you had. Did the Rippery say anything? No, I hadn't 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:14.600 heard any. Well, I'm sure we'll talk about it whenever 0:31:14.680 --> 0:31:18.840 we get back into the facility. Guys kind of keep 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:21.440 everything together. As bad as you guys were playing in 0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:23.240 the first half of offense and you didn't seem like 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:28.720 you guys were struggle, Well, um no, I think we 0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:33.560 just I don't know, man. We just stay calm, you know, 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:35.400 because the last thing you want to do is panic. 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.320 You don't want to you don't want to get emotional, 0:31:38.480 --> 0:31:40.440 you don't want to feel like you have to do 0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:42.600 anything over the top. We just have to take it 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:45.960 play by play, stay present, you know. Um. So that's 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:48.480 that's what we try and do. We all hold each 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.720 other accountable and uh, we all motivate each other, so 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:54.080 we keep it, we keep it calm, we keep it focused. 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:57.120 That big factor on the team two years ago to 0:31:57.200 --> 0:31:59.600 be a late run to get into the playoffs. Do 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:02.080 you see any similarities connections between when you guys did 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:06.280 in tween nineteen what's happening now it's twenty twenty one. 0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:08.240 So we we we're just focusing on it one game 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:10.840 at a time. When you say, Boston that you always 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:13.400 knew that this team was able to overcome adversity, How 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:17.000 did you know at two and five? Um? Just just 0:32:17.160 --> 0:32:20.520 through how we continue to battle that practice. Um, We've 0:32:20.600 --> 0:32:25.120 had obviously like undisciplined losses. UM, you know, and it 0:32:25.200 --> 0:32:27.640 can be kind of hard to after that week after 0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:31.000 just to kind of go. But everybody's remain focused, everybody 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:34.480 remained locked in, still had energy, still had juice, and 0:32:34.960 --> 0:32:38.000 m guys are continuing to to love on each other, 0:32:38.200 --> 0:32:41.200 push each other. Um. So there was never any panic, 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:44.560 never any panic, just always let's work. Let's work more 0:32:45.240 --> 0:32:47.880 eight touchdowns now for you in six games against New York, 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:49.640 how do you how do you make sense of that 0:32:49.920 --> 0:32:52.479 or anything like personal with this team or what does 0:32:52.520 --> 0:32:55.800 it mean? It's NFL team. I mean it's it's uh, 0:32:57.040 --> 0:32:59.080 I don't know. I'm just I'm just out there doing 0:32:59.160 --> 0:33:02.320 my job. You have a fumbling the last game against 0:33:02.320 --> 0:33:05.320 the giantson and you're able to sporting touchdown today. You 0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:07.680 do take anything? Do you have any special feeling because 0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:12.560 of that? Hardy, are you feeling things specials? Uh? Not necessarily. 0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:16.560 I mean, uh, that that was a mistake. Like I said, 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:19.120 I was committed to correcting. Uh, I just wanted to 0:33:19.280 --> 0:33:21.920 make sure that, uh, being in the game, if I 0:33:22.000 --> 0:33:25.400 got my opportunity, just to focus in on the fundamentals 0:33:25.440 --> 0:33:28.960 and just do my job. Thanks bust, Thank you Auston. 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:34.160 Of course that was running back Boston Scott. The running 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:36.960 game looking a little different today, obviously, Miles Sanders ruled 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:39.920 out at halftime. I mean, it's not bad that they 0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:42.800 had more passing yards than rushing yards. Just look different. 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:45.240 Not what we've seen from the Eagles in the past 0:33:45.280 --> 0:33:47.440 several weeks. Yeah, I think that the Giants made a 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:50.480 conservative effort to at least try to slow down the 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:52.880 Eagles running game. You know, we talked about the last 0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:55.360 game that they lost to the Giants. We're only scored 0:33:55.400 --> 0:33:57.640 seven points. They still rushed for two hundred plus yards 0:33:57.680 --> 0:33:59.680 in that game. We were close to two hundred yards. 0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:02.400 So if you're a Giant, you're sandy yourselves. This is 0:34:02.440 --> 0:34:04.360 what they like to do. We have to get them 0:34:04.400 --> 0:34:06.160 out of their comfort zone. I thought they did that 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:09.560 in the first half. But then again the defense special 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:12.520 teams in the second half came alive and gave the 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:16.120 Eagles the ball in field position where I mean they 0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:19.000 score points, but it weren't They weren't long jobs. So 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:21.279 that's where some of the yardage comes off of what 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:23.839 the Eagles were doing, and especially early on in this game, 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:26.080 and that first half where things obviously got a little 0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:29.080 bit dicey offensively, they just could not get things going 0:34:29.600 --> 0:34:31.359 in the past game or in the run game. Too 0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:33.600 often they were in third and long and now you're 0:34:33.640 --> 0:34:37.520 taking them, you're forcing yourself to be throwing the ball first, right, 0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:39.480 And so that happened too often in that first half. 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:41.480 They just could not get things going on the ground. 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:43.680 In the cook Off Show and we spoke with Dave Spidero, 0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:46.320 he mentioned maturity of a team, and I think we 0:34:46.480 --> 0:34:49.200 saw that today. You know, when you have when you're 0:34:49.200 --> 0:34:51.560 assembling a new team and a new staff, you don't 0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:54.000 know how they're going to grow throughout a season, and 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:56.680 so I think we definitely saw maturation today because the 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:59.720 first half wasn't pretty. I mean, everybody knows that luckily 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:02.080 there there's a defense in place that can keep the 0:35:02.160 --> 0:35:04.480 game within reach. They were never out of it by 0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:06.560 any meetings. They went to half time tied at three. 0:35:07.440 --> 0:35:11.080 But we definitely saw character building today and certainly maturation. 0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:14.800 From really an offensive standpoint, yeah, this was gonna be 0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:18.080 a defensive led game early we saw it. The Eagles 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:20.000 came out that first drive. I mean there are two 0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:23.719 plays there when you include the kickoff return that the 0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:25.799 Eagles could have turned the ball over early in the game. 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:27.920 So you kind of got a sense that this may 0:35:27.960 --> 0:35:30.000 be a little bit of a slow start, and that 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:32.560 can happen at times with offenses when you need to 0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:37.000 be in rhythm and half synchronation when you're calling plays. 0:35:37.040 --> 0:35:40.759 But from a defensive standpoint, if you're not facing a 0:35:40.960 --> 0:35:44.319 quarterback that can threaten you down the field, then you're 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:46.239 going to be able to sit on your heels and 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:49.719 just wait until he makes a mistake. Darius Slay had 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:51.640 a play on the interception in the first half. I 0:35:51.719 --> 0:35:53.600 think the sun kind of gotten his way there a 0:35:53.640 --> 0:35:55.600 little bit, so he dropped it. That led to three 0:35:55.640 --> 0:35:57.880 points for the Giants. I think other than that, I 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:01.960 thought the defense held this Giants offense and check for 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:05.040 the entire game. It was only where we may have 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:07.680 shortened to feel for them that their offense did anything 0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:10.239 for the most part for three quarters. And when your 0:36:10.320 --> 0:36:12.600 defense playing against the likes of a Jake from or 0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:15.000 even a Mike Glennon, and no disrespect to those guys 0:36:15.040 --> 0:36:18.440 as NFL quarterbacks, but they know they don't want to 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:21.040 win the game off of their arm. And the key 0:36:21.120 --> 0:36:23.839 for the defense is less put the ball in their hands. 0:36:23.880 --> 0:36:25.839 We're not gonna let you run the ball. You're gonna 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:28.399 have to throw it. And there were some opportunities there early, 0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:31.200 they just didn't capitalize on them. In the second half, 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:34.800 the quarterbacks made those same mistakes and we took advantage 0:36:34.800 --> 0:36:37.279 of them. That interception by Rodney McCloud on that first 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:40.520 drive was huge. I mean, it really was huge for 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:42.560 the Eagles team. Yeah, and when you look at you 0:36:42.880 --> 0:36:44.839 highlighted some of those mistakes and it happened at all 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:47.640 three phases, right. You had missed opportunities on offense, dropped 0:36:47.640 --> 0:36:51.840 interceptions on d fumbled footballs on special teams. What happens 0:36:51.880 --> 0:36:53.600 then as the team starts to bounce back. You get 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:55.960 a long punt return on special teams Jalen reagor you 0:36:56.000 --> 0:36:59.439 get those interceptions big players on offense, full team today, 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:07.400 the next one Jordan Mylotta at the podium or what 0:37:07.520 --> 0:37:11.320 was the offensive line celebration Like when Lane Johnson scored 0:37:11.360 --> 0:37:14.319 that touchdown? We should have spent more time figuring out 0:37:14.360 --> 0:37:18.120 a celebration that was. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:20.040 It was like half bor room dancing, kind of like 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:24.080 half making it up on the spot, half lincoln Field leap. 0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:29.480 It was. It was a mess, see though, Yeah it was. Yeah, 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:33.040 I'm not gonna swear, yeah it was. It was awesome. 0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:35.719 It was awesome. Man. I'm so happy that he got 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.120 a touchdown. And you know, if Lane, guy of his 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:43.040 uh you know caliber, he deserves it. So why because 0:37:43.080 --> 0:37:45.480 it's an offensive lineman or because it's Lane, or it's 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:47.799 because what Lean went through this year? You know why 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:50.399 what's all three of those? He's a you know, it's Lane, 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:54.080 he's an offensive lineman. I mean, big man. Touchdowns. Everybody 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:56.120 loves to see that. But when you actually know the 0:37:56.200 --> 0:37:57.719 guy and you play with a guy and you know 0:37:57.800 --> 0:38:00.359 how much he gives himself to the team, you love 0:38:00.440 --> 0:38:02.960 that for him. You know how much is he meant 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:04.880 in your I know, Jason Peters kind of took you 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:06.840 under his wing, but you're on the right side, I 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:09.160 believe it, or for a while. How much has Lane 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:12.600 it influenced you since you since you got your chance 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.160 here in Philadelphia, just as much as JP. Lane and 0:38:15.280 --> 0:38:17.640 JP were like my older brothers here when I first 0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:22.359 got here, and the amount of detail that they emphasized 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:26.880 every day and made sure that I was correcting self correcting. 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:30.600 Instead of you know, relying on the coaches to tell 0:38:30.640 --> 0:38:32.239 me what to do, they would teach me how to 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:35.520 coach myself and holding me to a highest standard. And 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:38.600 that was JP and Lane's just thing. They always did it. 0:38:39.040 --> 0:38:41.719 They would never shy to offer help. And that's one 0:38:41.760 --> 0:38:46.520 thing that I'll never forget started lobbying for a touchdown 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:52.600 of your own Nadia thing. That's a great question. It's 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:55.000 a great question. Thing is a debate right now. It's 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:58.000 a big Twitter thing now. Yeah, I mean, I'm not 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:00.239 going to say and if the people want to see it. 0:39:00.320 --> 0:39:01.880 The people want to see it, but I'm just going 0:39:01.920 --> 0:39:03.960 to do my job as a left tackle. I still 0:39:04.000 --> 0:39:06.000 got a lot to work on. So did Jordan, do 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:13.160 you feel better about why you played today? Um? Yes, yes, 0:39:13.480 --> 0:39:17.000 I mean I know the effort I gave today. Um, 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:20.160 but you know the film don't lie. So I'll let 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:21.759 you know again later on the week when I watched 0:39:21.800 --> 0:39:25.400 the film, how the angle feeling? It's great? I told you, 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:28.080 I told you it was a stupid question, she did. 0:39:29.880 --> 0:39:31.640 What was the difference between the first half and the 0:39:31.680 --> 0:39:35.920 second half from an offensive point of view? Um, I 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:39.759 think that's I think with the short turnaround, I think 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:42.360 you could really feel the effects of that short turnaround 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:47.400 in the first half. Sorry excuse me. And you know, 0:39:47.480 --> 0:39:49.960 I think it was just the rhythm. Rhythm was off. 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:52.640 So once we came back out in the in the 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:55.400 second half and we found that rhythm again, you know, 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:58.160 we just kept it going and it was great. It 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:02.480 was good fun. Jason Kelsey's speech last night, what can 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:07.560 you tell us about that? Press on? Yeah, effort to 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:10.800 the whistle, effort to the end of the play, Just 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:13.800 press on, keep pressing on. Why is Jason such a 0:40:13.840 --> 0:40:18.759 good messenger for that because he believes in it. And 0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:21.000 when you have somebody who believes in somebody so much 0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:23.800 and you listen to him, you believe it yourself. He 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:28.359 ins biased people. You know, you know, statistically right now 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:30.960 in the playoffs, I mean, does that mean anything to you? 0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:33.640 At this point? The only thing that means the most 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:37.560 is the next game. You know, we're gonna look at 0:40:37.600 --> 0:40:39.440 this film, We're gonna make the corrections, and then we're 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:40.880 gonna move on to the next game, because that's the 0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:45.239 most important. Lane the kind of guy kind of like 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:47.719 logging for a while to I can get a chance 0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:50.560 to the sport time shown. No, he's not that kind 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:53.000 of guy. Lane just puts his head down and works. 0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:56.279 It's one of the hardest workers in the room. Gifted athletically, 0:40:57.200 --> 0:41:00.080 he's insane. So he just puts his head down, he 0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:04.640 works hard. We watch him. He inspires us, and then 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:07.960 you know, we figure out these strict plays and I'm like, 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.960 oh yeah, what about me? Like okay, I'll just play 0:41:11.040 --> 0:41:15.040 left tackle, So you know, it's all good. How big 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:19.000 a deal was the tournament with tat you think about 0:41:19.000 --> 0:41:21.480 all this happen about this team more than the past 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:25.440 six seven days. What have you learn about this perseverance 0:41:25.800 --> 0:41:29.279 and even just Kelsey's message to press on, to keep 0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:33.879 pressing on next play mentality, Um, you know the grit 0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:39.840 of this team, you can feel it, how guess, passion 0:41:39.920 --> 0:41:42.560 for that for each other, you know, building that brotherhood. 0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:44.880 That's that's the one thing that you know. Coach Sirianni 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:47.759 emphasizes us on building that that brotherhood and you can 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:50.560 feel it in the critical parts of the game when 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:53.000 when you need to lean on each other special teams 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:55.719 making plays, defense making plays. You know, you just play 0:41:55.800 --> 0:41:58.080 for each other. I think the last couple of weeks 0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:02.160 we were starting to notice that and we're gonna keep 0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:05.760 building on it. Was that How big was that turnover 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:08.880 at the beginning of the third quarter? Nick said, it 0:42:08.960 --> 0:42:11.719 really uh, maybe spice the offense a little bit too. 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:16.560 Rodney Mcloud's pick, Oh, roddy, I was like which one? Sorry? 0:42:16.840 --> 0:42:20.279 I was like, which one? Uh, he's kind of foggy. Um, Yeah, 0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.160 it was important. It was very important that we got 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:25.440 that very crucial moment of the game, and we had 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:27.200 to make sure that we capitalize on it. You know, 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:30.319 we get gifted a pick like that, kind of let 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:34.560 it go to waste. So the momentum definitely shifted from 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:55.080 then on and then we just pressed on. Thanks guys, Yeah, 0:42:55.080 --> 0:43:00.520 I'm a clown Roundney McLoud start a second after that 0:43:00.680 --> 0:43:03.359 was huge. Uh, you know, coming out in the second half, 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:07.200 to be able to put our team in the position 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:10.000 that I was able to, I think it created a 0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:12.359 lot of momentum. And that's what we talked about a half, 0:43:12.920 --> 0:43:18.040 just coming out man and really showing who wanted it more. Um, 0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:21.440 And so now I think we responded the right way. 0:43:21.920 --> 0:43:24.960 My interception helped and then we just kept rolling from there. 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:29.120 How about on Alex's interception, the one you fucked? What 0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:32.759 was that play? Yeah? So they ran a lot of 0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:35.320 empty sets today and a few times most of the 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:39.120 time they were doing option routes with Tony backside, so 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:42.760 Sing and I, you know, talked about I think something 0:43:42.840 --> 0:43:45.480 happened before that they didn't run and they lined in 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:48.640 that formation, and uh, we said, hey, you know, if 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:52.279 he goes out, you know, I'm jumping it myself. If 0:43:52.320 --> 0:43:55.120 he comes in, then you know, he'll be in the spot. 0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:57.680 And happened to make a great play. I she was 0:43:57.760 --> 0:43:59.399 looking for the ball on the ground because I knew 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:03.160 I broke it up. I didn't know it got in 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:05.960 um that he picked it. I just see him running, man, 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:08.919 and it was another huge play for us. Ronnie. After 0:44:09.360 --> 0:44:11.600 that Las Vegas game, you spoke to the team the 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:14.320 center you committed to making ron I know it's not 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:16.600 over again. You guys are heard. We're sitting here, eat seven. 0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:22.239 What change just our continue belief in one another, us 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:26.520 figuring out ways to get better as individuals to help 0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:29.560 this team out. And you know, it took a lot 0:44:29.640 --> 0:44:32.200 of hard work to put us back in this position 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:35.279 that we're in today. But like you just said, man, 0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:38.080 it's it's far from over and all we can do 0:44:38.239 --> 0:44:39.680 is just take it one step at the time. That's 0:44:39.719 --> 0:44:43.560 been our mindset as we've been in this playoff mode, 0:44:43.880 --> 0:44:46.399 right and just take it one game at a time. 0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:49.880 And we do that, man, we'll end up what we 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:53.160 need to be. The Giants are having to like ten 0:44:53.239 --> 0:44:55.880 points a game over the last five Do you ever 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:57.600 think they can move the ball on you guys like 0:44:57.840 --> 0:44:59.960 where they ever? Did everythink they were a real threat? 0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:04.480 I mean, honestly, they have a lot of great players 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.360 over there, you know, who've proven themselves in this league, 0:45:07.400 --> 0:45:11.440 So you never can take that for granted, and understanding 0:45:11.480 --> 0:45:16.480 that you gotta put records, you know beside um, you know, 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:19.960 records aside. They're gonna show up and they're going to 0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:24.279 play hard, right because one it's an NFL game. Two 0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:28.080 were very profit individuals, and it's a division opponent, So 0:45:29.480 --> 0:45:32.360 I didn't know what to expect. I think we just 0:45:32.480 --> 0:45:35.600 came out man and dominated from start to finish. A 0:45:36.160 --> 0:45:39.400 memorable reactions to Lane Johnson's touchdown on the sideline that 0:45:40.120 --> 0:45:44.960 man pressive hands. I'm like jennerally, you gotta take some 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:48.840 zip off the ball man, It's it's alignment. But he 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:51.120 put his hands up there, he caught it. I was 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:55.280 a hype for man, very excited to see him scores 0:45:55.320 --> 0:45:57.960 first touchdown. I thought he was gonna give us, show 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:00.239 us some of his dance moves, but I think he 0:46:00.320 --> 0:46:02.520 just jumped in the crowd. But that was pretty cool 0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:06.359 to see. After Malcolm left before last season and then 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:11.040 losing Brandon, you know early this season, did you feel 0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:12.920 like you needed to take on a greater leadership role 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:14.120 that you feel like you just kind of needed to 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.400 continue to be the guy you've always been. How did 0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:19.640 their kind of absences affect when you thought your role 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:23.080 in defense rooms. And those are two great players, you know, 0:46:23.160 --> 0:46:26.320 who've made a lot of plays for the Seagul's defense 0:46:26.400 --> 0:46:28.960 over the years since I've been here. But I feel 0:46:29.000 --> 0:46:31.640 as though I just needed to continue to just be myself, 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:35.839 allowed my voice to be heard when needed, and uh, 0:46:36.040 --> 0:46:39.040 you know, the teams responded well. It always hurts when 0:46:39.040 --> 0:46:42.799 you lose a guy like Brandon, guy that caliber, who's 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.759 played in a lot of games and contributed at a 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:50.120 very high level. So we just always say next man up, though, 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:53.480 and that's what you've seen. Younger guys on that D 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:57.319 line stepped up and filled the shoes and and we've 0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.319 now relied on guys like Sweating and Derek our Net 0:47:00.480 --> 0:47:03.400 to play a lot more than maybe they were asked initially. 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:07.960 So it's been good. And obviously we're starting to hit 0:47:08.040 --> 0:47:11.759 our shod when we needed the most at these for 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:17.160 these meaningful games playing Robbie, I think we're playing, I 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:19.560 mean very well right now. Uh, you know, the biggest 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:23.440 thing is reset. Um, you know it's gonna be another 0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:27.840 challenge next week versus good Washington offense. They'll have you know, 0:47:27.920 --> 0:47:31.680 their quarterback back and we have to show up nobody 0:47:31.760 --> 0:47:34.040 cares what we did this week or last week. It's 0:47:34.040 --> 0:47:37.239 all about what you do that that next Sunday. First 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:38.759 time speaking to you in a few weeks. You were 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:40.800 one of the guys who was not happy with the 0:47:40.880 --> 0:47:43.040 game being pushed back, of course, and then and then 0:47:43.080 --> 0:47:45.000 obviously Nick was out this week. How didn't think you 0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:49.080 guys handled as six days? I think we handled it 0:47:49.120 --> 0:47:52.319 the best way that we could. And then the day, 0:47:53.239 --> 0:47:55.640 I don't think any of us were happy about it, 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:59.600 but the stage was set. Those are the cars that 0:47:59.680 --> 0:48:02.480 we were held, and we're pros man and at the 0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:04.880 end of the day, you know, we could line up 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:07.920 on Wednesday, we can line up on Saturday. It's all 0:48:07.920 --> 0:48:10.080 about how we show up, how we prepare, and how 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:14.120 we execute come game day. We heard Jason Kelsey give 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:16.480 a lot of speeches over the years, had it last night. 0:48:16.520 --> 0:48:21.040 Compare very emotional, and that's what you expect from guy 0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:25.000 like Kelsey. You know, he he's very passionate about this game. 0:48:25.480 --> 0:48:28.320 We have a lot of respect for him, and his 0:48:28.480 --> 0:48:30.879 words were felt and it was heard loud and clear, 0:48:31.360 --> 0:48:33.640 and so you know, we went out and today was 0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:38.360 exactly what he talked about. Perseverance, pushing through. Uh didn't 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:40.600 start off the way that we all envisioned it was. 0:48:40.920 --> 0:48:44.000 It was hard. I mean you heard the booze going on. Uh, 0:48:44.280 --> 0:48:47.680 it was tough. But we stuck with it, hung in 0:48:47.760 --> 0:48:52.839 there and found a way. I mean, I've been here 0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:55.200 for a while, I know how it goes here. Uh, 0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:59.760 Philly man, this passionate city. But they love us dearly 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:04.280 and you gotta love it. The effects of the quick turnaround? 0:49:04.640 --> 0:49:06.680 Huh did you did you or do you feel like 0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:08.839 your defense felt the effects of the quick turnaround? Jordan 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:10.400 might a loot of said or it might have been 0:49:10.480 --> 0:49:12.919 Jordan been somebody else. So yeah, you know you could 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:17.719 tell them first half that there was a quick turnaround. Man, defensively, 0:49:18.000 --> 0:49:20.440 I felt like and we didn't. We didn't blink. We 0:49:20.560 --> 0:49:23.239 just we understood what this simon was, what the mission was, 0:49:23.400 --> 0:49:27.040 and uh we made that choice and decision that we 0:49:27.160 --> 0:49:30.359 weren't leaving out leaving out of here with nothing short 0:49:30.400 --> 0:49:33.080 than to win. So M proud of the defense, the 0:49:33.160 --> 0:49:36.920 way we played, proud of the entire team because, like 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:39.680 I said, no matter who they have out there, um, 0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:42.359 it's hard to do, you know, to play the way 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:45.040 that we did and dominate a team on the way 0:49:45.080 --> 0:49:47.880 that we did today. So uh, you know, twenty four 0:49:47.920 --> 0:49:50.840 hour rule, We'll enjoy it. But also on the Washington 0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:57.520 good big veteran presence from Ronnie McLeod the past few weeks, 0:49:57.600 --> 0:49:59.880 especially since he returned from injury. We had to remember 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:02.719 the season started without Rodney McLoud, so to see the 0:50:02.840 --> 0:50:06.400 way that he has really stepped up and grown with 0:50:06.600 --> 0:50:09.360 this defense. Along with this defense, especially when you're missing 0:50:09.440 --> 0:50:12.000 the big voices like the Brandon Grahams in a season 0:50:12.080 --> 0:50:14.320 like this, yeah, it's great to see Rodney has found 0:50:14.360 --> 0:50:18.520 his voice. You know, quiet leaders are also effective leaders 0:50:18.719 --> 0:50:20.680 when you have other guys that can be the guys 0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:22.080 that get up in front of the team and do 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:24.400 the majority of speaking just because they're comfortable with it. 0:50:24.719 --> 0:50:27.120 It allows the quiet leaders to lead by example, and 0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:29.759 I think that's what Rodney has done during his time 0:50:29.800 --> 0:50:31.480 as an Eagle. It doesn't mean he hasn't been one 0:50:31.480 --> 0:50:33.360 of the better leaders on the team. It's just you 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:36.120 got guys like Fletcher, you got Malcolm, you got Brandon Graham, 0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:38.440 and Jordan Hicks was here like he's been here for 0:50:38.480 --> 0:50:40.759 a while. We forget how long Rodney McLoud has been 0:50:40.840 --> 0:50:43.440 here and it's great to see that he has a 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:45.320 voice in a locker room. You know, he reminds me 0:50:45.440 --> 0:50:49.560 of It reminds me of Quentin Michael, who was a 0:50:49.719 --> 0:50:52.040 very good leader on this team. Came here as an 0:50:52.160 --> 0:50:55.480 undrafted player, but also came into a locker room and 0:50:55.560 --> 0:50:58.400 in the defense that had enough vocal leaders that he 0:50:58.480 --> 0:51:01.200 didn't have to necessarily be the guy. But he was 0:51:01.280 --> 0:51:04.279 a sponge soaked it all up, understood what it meant 0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:06.919 to be a leader of this team. And when those 0:51:07.000 --> 0:51:09.640 guys left, when the Brian Dawkins left, when the Jeremiah 0:51:09.680 --> 0:51:13.920 Trotters left, Quentin Michael's voice became bigger, particularly on that 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:16.879 side of the football. And it doesn't mean he wasn't 0:51:16.920 --> 0:51:19.600 a good leader earlier. It just means other people were 0:51:19.680 --> 0:51:21.800 doing it. And that's I kind of feel where Rodney. 0:51:22.000 --> 0:51:24.960 He's always had this ability. He sees that this team 0:51:25.120 --> 0:51:27.520 this year needs him to be one of the guys 0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:30.239 to step up. It can't be Fletcher all the time. 0:51:30.520 --> 0:51:33.680 You gotta have another voice there. And Rodney has the resume. 0:51:33.880 --> 0:51:36.560 He's won a championship, He's played in big games, he 0:51:36.680 --> 0:51:38.839 has the respect of the young players on his team, 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:41.080 and Jordan Milotta was on Eagles Game Plan this week 0:51:41.120 --> 0:51:43.200 talking about Jason Kelsey and said, he's a guy that 0:51:43.360 --> 0:51:47.120 makes everybody right around him, not just offensive lineman, but receivers, 0:51:47.160 --> 0:51:49.720 tight ends, a quarterback, everybody. And I feel like Rodney 0:51:49.800 --> 0:51:52.360 has that effect on defense. And I don't think that 0:51:52.520 --> 0:51:56.200 it's a coincidence that the defensive turnaround started happening when 0:51:56.239 --> 0:51:58.360 he got inserted back in the lineup. He does a 0:51:58.400 --> 0:52:00.160 lot of hidden things that I don't think we were 0:52:00.160 --> 0:52:02.319 gonna notice on the outside, but he's one of those 0:52:02.360 --> 0:52:04.319 fixers on the back end of this defense. And when 0:52:04.320 --> 0:52:06.640 you look at what's ahead for the Eagles, Rodney McLoud 0:52:06.680 --> 0:52:08.799 was asked about it being touched on it. There's two 0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:11.879 games to go. They're both nfc S opponents, ones at home, 0:52:11.960 --> 0:52:14.439 ones on the road, and they're in the driver's seat. 0:52:14.680 --> 0:52:17.799 The Eagles are in full control of what happens next, 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:20.520 and it's gonna be up to the Rodney Mclouds and 0:52:20.520 --> 0:52:24.120 the Jason Kelsey's to get this team through this push 0:52:24.200 --> 0:52:27.120 in this final stretch, because, like you said, they've been here, 0:52:27.200 --> 0:52:29.680 done that, and we mentioned this earlier on the Kickoff Show. 0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:32.320 This coaching staff has done a great job and riding 0:52:32.360 --> 0:52:34.400 with these young players, letting them go through the ups 0:52:34.440 --> 0:52:37.000 and downs of a season. But now it's up to 0:52:37.400 --> 0:52:39.560 these veteran guys to pull them through. Yeah, and I 0:52:39.600 --> 0:52:41.640 think the coaching staff has done a great job leaning 0:52:41.840 --> 0:52:45.160 on their veterans, right. There's a lot of coaches that 0:52:45.239 --> 0:52:48.600 are here that are in new positions, right, and they 0:52:48.880 --> 0:52:51.600 for a team that was supposed to be growing as 0:52:51.640 --> 0:52:56.000 a young team and with sort of moderate to lower expectations, 0:52:56.360 --> 0:52:59.480 they have exceeded those expectations and now they find themselves 0:52:59.520 --> 0:53:01.880 and off run. Well. This is new for a lot 0:53:01.960 --> 0:53:04.000 of them, except for the guys that have won a 0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:06.399 championship here. So now it's time to lean on those 0:53:06.480 --> 0:53:09.520 guys as well to make sure that their message is 0:53:09.600 --> 0:53:11.799 getting through to the rest of the players on the team. 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:14.799 It's not a position we like being in every year, 0:53:14.920 --> 0:53:16.919 except for the fact that we have something to play 0:53:17.000 --> 0:53:19.920 for and this team has the grit. I think they 0:53:20.040 --> 0:53:22.520 have the character when you look at the veterans on 0:53:22.600 --> 0:53:25.360 this team that they know that there's something special that 0:53:25.480 --> 0:53:28.160 they can accomplish. But you can't put the cart before 0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:31.160 the horse. They understand that they took care of business 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:35.319 this week, not ideal circumstances. They didn't let it become 0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:38.160 a distraction. Now you get back to a full week 0:53:38.280 --> 0:53:42.360 of preparation getting ready for this Washington football team, and 0:53:42.560 --> 0:53:44.640 believe me, they know what's ahead of them, they know 0:53:44.719 --> 0:53:47.560 what's at stake. They just don't need to necessarily talk 0:53:47.600 --> 0:53:50.120 about it and put it out there for everyone else. 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:52.680 We'll do that for them. And it's not just the 0:53:53.200 --> 0:53:56.000 pregame speeches or the night of the night before in 0:53:56.040 --> 0:53:58.040 the locker or in the in the hotel where Jason 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:00.680 Kelsey speaks to the whole team where parts off on 0:54:00.719 --> 0:54:03.479 the young guys. It's the every day it's the grunt 0:54:03.520 --> 0:54:06.759 work stuff that nobody else sees but your teammates see. 0:54:06.840 --> 0:54:10.000 So Jason Kelsey setting that example for younger offensive lineman, 0:54:10.400 --> 0:54:12.640 and you go right down the list all of those veterans. 0:54:12.840 --> 0:54:14.719 This is when you're leaning on them most. But it's 0:54:14.760 --> 0:54:17.439 the everyday stuff. It's not just the stuff under the lights. 0:54:17.640 --> 0:54:19.759 I think it was interesting too, how these players have 0:54:19.840 --> 0:54:21.800 all said that they've been through a lot this season, 0:54:21.840 --> 0:54:24.080 and you kind of forget because of the success that 0:54:24.160 --> 0:54:27.200 they've had recently. You have to remember they started it 0:54:27.280 --> 0:54:29.680 off two and five. I mean there was a lot 0:54:29.760 --> 0:54:32.840 of criticism surrounding this team. Obviously, injuries are part of 0:54:32.880 --> 0:54:34.279 the game, and you never want to see players who 0:54:34.280 --> 0:54:36.640 go down, but it happens, right. You don't want to 0:54:36.680 --> 0:54:38.560 lose Brandon Graham in the beginning of the season, but 0:54:38.719 --> 0:54:41.440 you did, and then you're dealing with injuries along the 0:54:41.520 --> 0:54:43.520 offensive line that you don't want to deal with. But 0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:46.200 to see that they can now end the season with 0:54:46.320 --> 0:54:50.879 nine or ten wins, the turnaround has been quite impressive. Yeah, 0:54:50.880 --> 0:54:53.920 and that's why I will lean more towards the coaches, 0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:56.800 because that's really where their impact has come in. And 0:54:56.920 --> 0:54:59.200 when you're in that first year, it's very easy to 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:02.759 start a second guessing yourself, switching everything up and sort 0:55:02.800 --> 0:55:05.959 of getting out of character. They seem to have stuck 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:08.600 to the game plan. I don't see any finger pointing 0:55:08.680 --> 0:55:12.040 going on. There is no in fighting going on. Everybody 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:15.360 is in this thing together. They believe in the coaches, 0:55:15.760 --> 0:55:18.279 and that's big when you're going through tough times. It's 0:55:18.320 --> 0:55:20.200 the only way you're going to fight out of those 0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:22.960 tough times. It is by doing it together, not by 0:55:23.080 --> 0:55:25.399 pointing fingers. That's one of the things that I've liked 0:55:25.400 --> 0:55:27.880 about this team that I'm impressed with, with a young 0:55:28.000 --> 0:55:31.080 coaching staff that's getting this first opportunity. Is that in 0:55:31.239 --> 0:55:34.720 this city, when adversity hits, it can spiral out of control, 0:55:34.760 --> 0:55:37.719 it can snowball. Doesn't seem like that has happened with 0:55:37.920 --> 0:55:40.880 this team, with this coaching staff, and the credit should 0:55:40.920 --> 0:55:43.959 go to Nick Sirianni and his staff, because when things 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:47.239 aren't going well, it's up to those guys to really 0:55:47.360 --> 0:55:49.920 set a tone and be an example for other players. 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:52.560 When the coaches don't point fingers, when the coaches don't 0:55:52.560 --> 0:55:55.400 get out of character, the players know that they need 0:55:55.480 --> 0:55:57.520 to stay focused and stay in character. And it seems 0:55:57.520 --> 0:55:59.920 like that's what's happened with this football team, and that's 0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:02.799 why they find themselves in this position. And it's something 0:56:02.840 --> 0:56:04.440 you know, I feel like when people talk about it 0:56:04.480 --> 0:56:06.880 on the outside and media, it's always about, Oh, he 0:56:07.000 --> 0:56:08.920 lost the locker room and the coach lost the locker room. 0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:11.440 Everything you just said gets umbrella in that one little 0:56:12.120 --> 0:56:14.319 four phrase sentence. And I think when you look at 0:56:14.560 --> 0:56:17.120 Nick Sirianni and this coaching staff and what they've done, 0:56:17.320 --> 0:56:19.360 they've pushed all the right buttons with this team and 0:56:19.440 --> 0:56:23.120 the veterans have kind of repaid that with how they 0:56:23.200 --> 0:56:25.359 have played, with how they have acted, and you see 0:56:25.400 --> 0:56:28.120 the young players off following suit. We can continue to 0:56:28.160 --> 0:56:30.760 see players get better throughout the course of the season, 0:56:30.840 --> 0:56:33.560 young players and even the young veterans as well, continuing 0:56:33.640 --> 0:56:36.560 to improve on both offense and defense in this new scheme. 0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:39.120 I'm interested to know what both of you think about 0:56:39.160 --> 0:56:42.040 what we learned from this team today, because, like we 0:56:42.200 --> 0:56:44.279 kind of touched on, things did look different than what 0:56:44.400 --> 0:56:46.960 we've been used to the past few weeks. Good special 0:56:47.000 --> 0:56:50.719 team's performance for the most part, good passing game, the 0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:54.239 defense really holding down two running backs again who have 0:56:54.320 --> 0:56:56.640 had success in the National Football League. So I'm just 0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:58.880 curious to know what you think we learned from the 0:56:58.920 --> 0:57:04.319 Philadelphia Eagles. For me, I think we learned that there 0:57:04.320 --> 0:57:06.640 are some fight and some grit to this team. You know, 0:57:06.719 --> 0:57:09.680 we talk about this team trying to, you know, carve 0:57:09.760 --> 0:57:11.920 out its identity and figure out who they are. Well, 0:57:12.080 --> 0:57:14.959 some of that applies to schemes out there on the field, 0:57:15.000 --> 0:57:16.840 production out there on the field, but also some of 0:57:16.920 --> 0:57:20.920 that applies to the intangibles, and you know, you may 0:57:21.000 --> 0:57:23.040 be a certain way as a makeup of a team 0:57:23.120 --> 0:57:25.520 early in the season because there's a lot of unknown there. 0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:28.439 But as the season goes, you start out to form 0:57:28.480 --> 0:57:30.960 an identity as well as whether or not you're a 0:57:31.040 --> 0:57:34.480 tough team, a team that will throw in the towel 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:36.520 when things aren't going well, whether or not you're a 0:57:36.560 --> 0:57:39.800 team that will fight back, play for sixty minutes, all 0:57:39.840 --> 0:57:42.800 those things that coaches like the US to identify what 0:57:43.080 --> 0:57:46.200 their characteristics that their players are. Well. I think with 0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:50.040 this team, I've I've been pleasantly surprised at the amount 0:57:50.080 --> 0:57:52.520 of grit and fight that I'm seeing from the young players. 0:57:52.760 --> 0:57:55.320 I already know what's there with Jason Kelsey, Lane Johnson, 0:57:55.800 --> 0:57:58.760 Fletcher Cox, all these guys, but it's the younger guys 0:57:59.040 --> 0:58:01.200 that you just don't know how they're going to respond 0:58:01.280 --> 0:58:03.600 and react to things until they're placed in that position. 0:58:04.000 --> 0:58:06.880 And the quarterback is one of those guys that he's 0:58:06.920 --> 0:58:09.680 been under the microscope all year long, and when things 0:58:09.760 --> 0:58:13.400 aren't going well, he isn't pointing fingers, he isn't making excuses, 0:58:13.760 --> 0:58:16.640 He's working hard, he puts his head down, and I 0:58:16.800 --> 0:58:19.800 think that rubs off on the rest of the players, 0:58:19.880 --> 0:58:22.720 particularly on that young offensive side of the football. To me, 0:58:22.840 --> 0:58:24.840 I learned that this team found another way to be 0:58:24.840 --> 0:58:26.400 able to win a football game, And I think good 0:58:26.440 --> 0:58:29.640 football teams find ways to win games outside of what 0:58:29.920 --> 0:58:31.960 that blueprint has been, and what has the blueprint been 0:58:32.120 --> 0:58:34.000 over the last couple of months. They're gonna run the 0:58:34.040 --> 0:58:35.919 heck out of the football, they're gonna control the clock, 0:58:36.000 --> 0:58:38.080 and they're gonna play a fishing defense. Well, the Eagles 0:58:38.160 --> 0:58:40.720 lost the time of possesion battle today. They didn't run 0:58:40.760 --> 0:58:42.360 for one hundred fifty yards. They didn't hit that one 0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:44.439 hundred and seventy five yard mark that they had done 0:58:44.440 --> 0:58:46.720 for the previous seven games. So I think looking at 0:58:46.760 --> 0:58:49.800 the way this team won defense, special teams were making 0:58:49.840 --> 0:58:52.640 some big players when it mattered, and the offense being opportunistic. 0:58:52.840 --> 0:58:54.120 That's a good way to be able to come out 0:58:54.160 --> 0:58:55.840 and win a football game when things don't go well 0:58:56.400 --> 0:58:58.040 with that. We're actually going to hear from the quarterback 0:58:58.120 --> 0:59:07.360 Jalen Hurts is at the podium two halves. Yeah, I think, Um, 0:59:07.560 --> 0:59:09.400 it's another week where we we've kind of come out 0:59:09.440 --> 0:59:13.240 and obviously not executed like we wanted to. Um. But um, 0:59:13.320 --> 0:59:16.080 I've always admired from day one the fight of this team, 0:59:16.160 --> 0:59:19.400 the residency of this team, to grit and pressive perseverance 0:59:19.760 --> 0:59:23.880 of of this team. And UM, you know, you look 0:59:23.880 --> 0:59:25.560 at this football team right now and I just think 0:59:25.560 --> 0:59:29.160 we have so much character, UM, so much character and 0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:31.280 how we do things, how we operate on what we 0:59:31.400 --> 0:59:33.880 strive for, how we work every day, UM, and how 0:59:33.920 --> 0:59:37.640 we're able to overcome so UM. I was very happy 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:41.680 about that today. For while they offense started so slowly 0:59:41.720 --> 0:59:43.880 in the first half. UM, it starts with me. It 0:59:43.920 --> 0:59:46.520 starts with me. UM has some different things we just 0:59:46.600 --> 0:59:50.560 didn't execute, but we put it together, made some big plays, UM, 0:59:50.720 --> 0:59:57.240 and UM put up put up some points challenge. I'm sorry, 0:59:58.480 --> 1:00:03.200 oh man, UM, I mean one of the greatest and 1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:06.760 obviously I can't hear UM. And I always talk about 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:10.440 how how much it means to me to be able 1:00:10.480 --> 1:00:13.360 to play for it, for this organization and UM knowing 1:00:13.800 --> 1:00:16.080 you know, the great great due with three quarterbacks I've 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:20.880 had come before me, UM, Mike vic Me, Nabbed five 1:00:21.120 --> 1:00:25.120 and and randall count of him. And I just want to, 1:00:25.240 --> 1:00:27.360 you know, play at a high level and make them 1:00:27.400 --> 1:00:32.160 proud because they come before me, don't you see on 1:00:32.280 --> 1:00:33.920 the plane and how I have the one of you 1:00:34.000 --> 1:00:38.040 guys to see him. Well, well, I'll just say this, 1:00:38.200 --> 1:00:43.520 I know Lane Age, UM he's been I mean, y'all, 1:00:43.760 --> 1:00:47.320 whoever votes, they vote, they motivated him. He's very motivated 1:00:47.360 --> 1:00:50.080 all week UM by not not making the Pro Bowl. 1:00:50.160 --> 1:00:55.400 And UM, I mean I'm happy he got him one. UM. 1:00:55.920 --> 1:00:58.600 I know, I know he just so we stayed jerseys 1:00:58.640 --> 1:01:01.840 after the game. Actually, UM, because I've never thrown a 1:01:01.920 --> 1:01:06.360 touchdown to an offensive tackle. UM, but he's a freak athlete, UM, 1:01:06.440 --> 1:01:09.280 but never thrown a touchdown to offensive tackle. And I 1:01:09.360 --> 1:01:12.720 gave my jersey, UM signed that, gave it to him, 1:01:12.760 --> 1:01:14.760 and he gives me his jersey and leaves it in 1:01:14.880 --> 1:01:18.960 my locker. UM, and he wrote on there, he said, UM, 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:21.920 when I caught that ball, I didn't know what. I 1:01:22.120 --> 1:01:23.840 didn't know what to think. All I could think was 1:01:23.920 --> 1:01:27.480 what CHALL know about them Texas Boys, And UM, it's 1:01:27.520 --> 1:01:29.520 just it's just so so so much fun to see 1:01:29.640 --> 1:01:33.560 him UM out there making plays like that and obviously 1:01:34.160 --> 1:01:36.480 UM playing at such a high level like he has 1:01:36.560 --> 1:01:39.280 all year at tackle, and UM, I know, you know, 1:01:39.360 --> 1:01:40.880 he may not be in the Pro Bowl, but I 1:01:41.000 --> 1:01:43.400 know he better be first team All Pro. UM the 1:01:43.520 --> 1:01:49.200 player he is now. I worked out with laying a 1:01:49.240 --> 1:01:52.480 lot in the offseason. So, um, he was, he was, 1:01:52.640 --> 1:01:58.720 he was equipped and well prepared practice. Yeah, played a 1:01:58.760 --> 1:02:01.720 quarterback in high school. You're telling that that moment meant 1:02:01.800 --> 1:02:05.640 more to the team because of what Lean kind of 1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:08.240 battle back from and went through this season. Well, I 1:02:08.320 --> 1:02:12.640 think I think it's a testimony of of of of 1:02:12.800 --> 1:02:17.200 presseverance and um, obviously being strong, you know what I mean. 1:02:17.320 --> 1:02:19.720 And and Lane knows that his teammates has his back. 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:23.600 You knows I have I have his back, and going 1:02:23.680 --> 1:02:25.320 through the things that he went through earlier in the season, 1:02:25.400 --> 1:02:27.280 obviously being able to come back and be with us 1:02:27.320 --> 1:02:30.440 and um, you know, be a big part of our 1:02:30.480 --> 1:02:34.760 football team in our offense. Um, I'm happy for him, 1:02:34.800 --> 1:02:37.000 but I'm happy that he's good. I'm happy he got 1:02:37.080 --> 1:02:39.760 an Z on the day other touchdown past. What do 1:02:39.800 --> 1:02:43.440 you notice about Devonte DeVante's for work and it's awareness? 1:02:43.800 --> 1:02:47.040 So well, that's a big time playing. That's a big 1:02:47.120 --> 1:02:49.760 time playing the big time moment in the game. And um, 1:02:49.840 --> 1:02:51.720 that's two weeks in a row he's made big, big 1:02:51.800 --> 1:02:55.120 time toe tapping plays. Um, dragging that foot And it's 1:02:55.120 --> 1:02:59.080 something we practice all the time. We preach all the time. So, um, DeVante, 1:02:59.520 --> 1:03:01.400 you know he may be in his first year, but 1:03:02.120 --> 1:03:04.800 you know he he's a he's a true pro im 1:03:04.920 --> 1:03:07.480 how prepares and on the different things that may come 1:03:07.560 --> 1:03:12.240 up in the game. So, um, big time play back 1:03:12.240 --> 1:03:15.520 to where you find the game when you had two 1:03:15.640 --> 1:03:19.320 carries as a starter. Um, I guess what's the reason 1:03:19.440 --> 1:03:23.080 for that? And it's that something that that's gonna change 1:03:23.120 --> 1:03:26.000 going forward. I'm sorry to have only two carries for 1:03:26.080 --> 1:03:28.800 you as a starter. That's that's just kind of how 1:03:29.000 --> 1:03:30.600 the game went. It's how to kind of how the 1:03:30.640 --> 1:03:34.080 game went. He's that because of the ankle. Was that 1:03:34.280 --> 1:03:36.040 the game is just kind of how the game win. 1:03:36.920 --> 1:03:39.640 Did the referees explain why they need to further review 1:03:40.240 --> 1:03:42.520 the touchdown throw to Davante at all? What was going 1:03:42.560 --> 1:03:44.280 on in the field where you guys were waiting And 1:03:44.400 --> 1:03:46.880 I was a little I was a little confused on that. 1:03:47.200 --> 1:03:50.240 But um, I mean I thought it was a catch. Um, 1:03:50.640 --> 1:03:52.320 it was a catch whom we got it. We got 1:03:52.400 --> 1:03:56.760 it in a nice job as the quest you know, 1:03:56.840 --> 1:03:58.880 what does it mean to have got the receivers were 1:03:58.920 --> 1:04:01.880 able to make plays on balls up in the air. Um, 1:04:02.040 --> 1:04:04.120 it's it's a it's a big thing. UM. It's it's 1:04:04.120 --> 1:04:06.320 a big thing for for those guys to be able 1:04:06.320 --> 1:04:07.840 to go up there and make those plays. And I 1:04:07.960 --> 1:04:11.840 tell them that I might trust them, um, regardless, UM, 1:04:12.080 --> 1:04:14.520 regardless of what's going on, regardless of who's saying this, 1:04:15.280 --> 1:04:17.280 I trust them to go out there and make plays. UM, 1:04:17.600 --> 1:04:20.080 and they and they do. UM. You know you're gonna 1:04:20.080 --> 1:04:22.680 have You're gonna have your mis misques, You're gonna have 1:04:22.800 --> 1:04:25.760 some jobs here and there. But that doesn't phase me 1:04:25.880 --> 1:04:28.479 and my belief in the receivers, everybody on the field, 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:32.000 your expectations for yourself heading in of the season, for 1:04:32.080 --> 1:04:35.720 the team, and how close have you and a team 1:04:35.800 --> 1:04:39.800 come to meeting those? So well around the question. But 1:04:40.000 --> 1:04:44.480 I'll tell you honestly, UM, I stand a moment everything. Um. 1:04:45.000 --> 1:04:48.160 Everybody has goals, Everybody has dreams and things that they 1:04:48.240 --> 1:04:51.520 want to accomplish. UM. You know, we put so much's 1:04:51.520 --> 1:04:55.360 work into this so UM there are big dreams and 1:04:55.440 --> 1:04:57.720 big goals that we want to achieve. But right now 1:04:57.800 --> 1:05:02.080 in this moment, UM, just happy, UM kind of bounce back, 1:05:02.440 --> 1:05:04.800 UM and found a way to win this game and 1:05:05.080 --> 1:05:08.240 winning a good fashion and UM, we'll enjoy for twenty 1:05:08.240 --> 1:05:10.720 five hours and move on to it to play Washington 1:05:11.400 --> 1:05:14.240 at Washington talking about you know, when you have a 1:05:14.320 --> 1:05:15.960 good game, you talk about whether you want or not. 1:05:16.120 --> 1:05:18.040 When you have a bad game, we talk about whether 1:05:18.040 --> 1:05:19.960 you want to The winning seems to be the only 1:05:20.000 --> 1:05:22.120 thing that really matters to you. You guys are a 1:05:22.160 --> 1:05:24.640 winning team now for the first time, and uh, I 1:05:24.760 --> 1:05:26.720 think you're qualified for the playoffs that have it. If 1:05:26.720 --> 1:05:29.720 it ended today, off, I'm gonna cut you off. I'm 1:05:29.720 --> 1:05:31.880 gonna cut you off. I'm not I'm not in the 1:05:31.960 --> 1:05:36.479 business of talking about anything but being in the moment 1:05:37.120 --> 1:05:39.880 um and everything that we do. UM, it's it's focus 1:05:39.920 --> 1:05:41.560 on getting better every day and being one to know 1:05:41.680 --> 1:05:43.480 every day. And we know as a football team, if 1:05:43.480 --> 1:05:46.880 we control the things that we can control, UM should 1:05:46.920 --> 1:05:52.200 be all right. So UM, any external factors, any rat 1:05:52.240 --> 1:05:56.200 poison out there, you know, everybody, I don't, I don't. 1:05:56.240 --> 1:05:57.920 I don't really care for it. I'm not trying to 1:05:58.000 --> 1:06:01.320 hear it. Um. We we know as a football team, 1:06:01.360 --> 1:06:02.840 and I know in my heart that we've yet to 1:06:02.840 --> 1:06:06.120 play our best game. We've yet to put it all together, UM, 1:06:07.320 --> 1:06:09.880 and we're striving for that, and I know it'll come 1:06:09.920 --> 1:06:12.240 at the right time. But we're striving for that. So 1:06:12.880 --> 1:06:16.760 he already June on the passing which Dallas got to 1:06:16.760 --> 1:06:18.560 open on the bus to cover. And how did you 1:06:18.680 --> 1:06:25.240 how did you see it? Well, put the play in, um, 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:29.840 and we're respecting. We're respecting seven bracket, So basically twenty nine. 1:06:29.960 --> 1:06:33.600 The safety McKinney from Alabama, he's bracketting rager and they're 1:06:33.640 --> 1:06:37.400 playing kind of ending out right, but they're in quarters 1:06:37.840 --> 1:06:41.400 cover seven, so you got to find a single maybe, 1:06:41.920 --> 1:06:43.920 But in the play what I was coached to do, 1:06:44.360 --> 1:06:46.640 just go through it as a pre progression or at 1:06:46.680 --> 1:06:49.720 the shallow to the running back coming only throw that 1:06:49.960 --> 1:06:54.160 versus a certain look, UM, and shallow popped UM and 1:06:54.600 --> 1:06:57.000 Kenney fell off and drove on the shallow after I 1:06:57.120 --> 1:06:59.120 threw the ball. So McKinney made a really good play 1:06:59.720 --> 1:07:02.000 and he busted the coverage backside, so he was wide 1:07:02.040 --> 1:07:04.760 open over there. So my prestable look did not give me, 1:07:05.120 --> 1:07:07.160 um what I wanted to throw the corner to Dallas, 1:07:07.280 --> 1:07:11.160 but definitely looking after the fact, Um, it's easy to 1:07:11.160 --> 1:07:14.160 say throw them the ball, but um, hey, you're gonna 1:07:14.200 --> 1:07:16.800 miss something like that, you know. And and as a quarterback, 1:07:16.800 --> 1:07:18.360 you want to play on schedule and get the ball 1:07:18.440 --> 1:07:20.720 on on time and try your best to do that. Um, 1:07:20.800 --> 1:07:23.680 and just trust your preparation and your reason your progressions. UM. 1:07:23.760 --> 1:07:25.880 And you're gonna have guys that pop, but UM, you 1:07:25.960 --> 1:07:27.919 got to try and stay on schedule and do those things, 1:07:27.960 --> 1:07:37.000 and UM, you know those happened. Dylan Hurts likes to 1:07:37.040 --> 1:07:38.760 stay in the present, but we're gonna look a little 1:07:38.800 --> 1:07:40.240 bit in the past while we have a few more 1:07:40.280 --> 1:07:42.920 minutes left of the show. Earlier today, friend broke down 1:07:43.000 --> 1:07:44.880 one of the big defensive plays earlier on in the 1:07:44.960 --> 1:07:49.720 game and this week's freak O Review. All right, so 1:07:49.800 --> 1:07:51.320 this week here on the Rico Review, I want to 1:07:51.400 --> 1:07:53.440 go back to the very first third down of the 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:56.040 game for the Seagles defense again holding the New York 1:07:56.080 --> 1:07:58.760 Giants just three points in the first half, and a 1:07:58.840 --> 1:08:01.440 big part of that was their excess on third down. 1:08:01.480 --> 1:08:03.680 And I thought they really mixed up some looks against 1:08:03.720 --> 1:08:06.760 a young quarterback in Jake From first third down of 1:08:06.800 --> 1:08:08.600 the game, it's third and long, and you could see 1:08:08.600 --> 1:08:11.880 the Eagles they're showing pressure here. There's the potential threat 1:08:12.120 --> 1:08:14.960 for a number of different blitzers from the second level. 1:08:15.040 --> 1:08:17.640 So there's a lot now that quarterback Jake from and 1:08:17.760 --> 1:08:21.080 this Giants offensive line has to handle. Now at the 1:08:21.160 --> 1:08:23.120 snap of the ball, what I think is happening is 1:08:23.200 --> 1:08:25.840 the Giants have double chips called in here just to 1:08:25.920 --> 1:08:28.519 help out these offensive tackles. You're gonna see at the 1:08:28.560 --> 1:08:30.479 top that the tight end he's gonna help out with 1:08:30.479 --> 1:08:32.679 a little bit of a chip here on Derek Barnett, 1:08:32.760 --> 1:08:34.639 and you're gonna get the running back. He's also gonna 1:08:34.640 --> 1:08:37.720 have eyes on Josh Sweat as well, just to kind 1:08:37.760 --> 1:08:40.840 of help out that offensive tackle if necessary. Now, what 1:08:41.040 --> 1:08:43.559 happens with offensive tackles and think that they've got chip 1:08:43.680 --> 1:08:46.559 help on their outside, they might make sure that they 1:08:46.680 --> 1:08:50.160 protect that inside shoulder, thinking hey, I've got a running 1:08:50.160 --> 1:08:52.640 back helping my outside. So we're gonna get back to 1:08:52.720 --> 1:08:54.800 that here in a little bit. Let's get into what 1:08:54.880 --> 1:08:59.639 the Eagles are doing defensively, because again you've got Rodney McLeod, TJ. Edwards, 1:08:59.720 --> 1:09:02.400 and Jenard Avery all walked up close to the line 1:09:02.400 --> 1:09:05.840 of scrimmage with the threat of all of these guys coming. Now, 1:09:05.920 --> 1:09:08.200 obviously not all of them are going to blitz, So 1:09:08.240 --> 1:09:10.400 you're gonna see t. J. Edwards he's gonna get out 1:09:10.400 --> 1:09:12.880 of there. Rodney McLeod, he's gonna drop out as well. 1:09:13.080 --> 1:09:16.200 The Eagles have a nice t T stunt tackle tackle stunt, 1:09:16.280 --> 1:09:19.280 so you have Fletcher Cox and Hargrave both working inside, 1:09:19.439 --> 1:09:22.519 and then you also have Jenard Avery looping back around 1:09:22.840 --> 1:09:25.040 as well, and he's gonna loop into that B gap. 1:09:25.040 --> 1:09:27.080 We're gonna let this run for a second and let's 1:09:27.120 --> 1:09:29.680 just see how all of this plays out again. You've 1:09:29.720 --> 1:09:31.320 got that chip from the tight end at the top 1:09:31.360 --> 1:09:34.360 of the screen. The offensive tackle at the bottom. He's 1:09:34.400 --> 1:09:36.559 also expecting some chip help, and you can see he's 1:09:36.640 --> 1:09:39.759 kind of undersetting. He's letting Josh Sweat take that outside 1:09:39.840 --> 1:09:42.679 angle because he thinks that he's got that running back helping. 1:09:42.760 --> 1:09:45.599 But look at those running backs eyes. Where is he going. 1:09:45.960 --> 1:09:48.160 He's got to handle the blitzer because Jenard Avery, who 1:09:48.240 --> 1:09:52.040 started here, he's looping inside right into that B gap. 1:09:52.120 --> 1:09:54.880 So the running back he can't help with the chip 1:09:55.200 --> 1:09:58.160 on Josh Sweat. He has to pick up the blitzer, 1:09:58.240 --> 1:10:00.560 so that leaves Josh Sweat while all one with the 1:10:00.640 --> 1:10:03.040 offensive tackle and he's able to run the hoop here 1:10:03.200 --> 1:10:06.439 and get home to Jake from impacts. This throw forces 1:10:06.479 --> 1:10:08.759 an incomplete pass and the Eagles get off the field 1:10:08.920 --> 1:10:11.720 on third down. One of many examples of how not 1:10:11.880 --> 1:10:14.439 all pass rush is about sacks. You love to get 1:10:14.479 --> 1:10:16.680 pressures and find ways to be able to get off 1:10:16.720 --> 1:10:19.479 the field. Here Josh wet get to hit on the quarterback, 1:10:19.720 --> 1:10:22.479 forces the incomplete pass and the Eagles force a punt. 1:10:26.600 --> 1:10:28.880 Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player 1:10:28.960 --> 1:10:31.160 of the Week. To go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com 1:10:31.280 --> 1:10:33.960 slash Toyota Player the Week to cast your vote and 1:10:34.120 --> 1:10:37.040 get a chance at a brand new Toyota. All right, guys, 1:10:37.080 --> 1:10:39.920 here we go. Three nominees talked about him all night. 1:10:40.040 --> 1:10:42.559 Ronnie McCloud coming up with that big interception to light 1:10:42.640 --> 1:10:45.160 the fire to start the second half. Next up we 1:10:45.280 --> 1:10:48.120 got the rook DeVante Smith. Five receptions for eighty yards 1:10:48.160 --> 1:10:51.880 and of course that touchdown. And lastly, Josh Sweat making 1:10:51.920 --> 1:10:55.200 an appearance this week. Four total tackles and a sack. 1:10:56.120 --> 1:10:59.000 What do we think, Well, you know, I'm going to 1:10:59.080 --> 1:11:01.479 deepens a side of the ball. I thought. Rodney McCloud 1:11:01.640 --> 1:11:05.280 really changed this game with that interception early in the 1:11:05.400 --> 1:11:08.280 second half, and it gave the Eagles the opportunity to 1:11:08.560 --> 1:11:10.880 get their first touchdown of the game, and I thought 1:11:10.920 --> 1:11:13.200 from that point they didn't look back. I thought you 1:11:13.280 --> 1:11:15.479 were gonna go Davante Smith for sure. I thought you 1:11:15.520 --> 1:11:17.479 were going Slim Ray for there. I am going to 1:11:17.600 --> 1:11:20.320 go with Rodney McLoud. I'll will with the fixer there. 1:11:20.439 --> 1:11:23.080 I think that big play was really the catalyst moving forward. 1:11:23.200 --> 1:11:25.200 I will get your votes in Eagles fans. And here's 1:11:25.240 --> 1:11:27.400 a reminder, there's a new way for you to get 1:11:27.439 --> 1:11:29.519 a recap of each game. Check out our voice app 1:11:29.560 --> 1:11:32.720 on Alexa and Google devices. For more information, visit Philadelphia 1:11:32.760 --> 1:11:37.040 Eagles dot com Slash Voice. Now it's time to look ahead, Okay, 1:11:37.280 --> 1:11:40.040 tonight's Jamison nightcap. We're gonna look at Sunday's opponent, and 1:11:40.520 --> 1:11:42.760 it looks a little familiar, the Washington football team. This 1:11:42.800 --> 1:11:44.400 would be the third game the Eagles have played in 1:11:44.479 --> 1:11:46.880 thirteen days when they hit the road to take on 1:11:47.000 --> 1:11:50.120 the Washington's football team on Sunday, January second, at one o'clock. 1:11:50.240 --> 1:11:53.439 Of course, they are six and eight they played tonight. 1:11:53.520 --> 1:11:55.000 If you want to know who the Eagles are seeing 1:11:55.040 --> 1:11:57.200 the final two weeks in the season June in Tonight 1:11:57.280 --> 1:12:00.519 Sunday Night football again, another huge oppert n for the 1:12:00.560 --> 1:12:04.000 Birds on the road. Yeah, and I love Jalen's demeanor, 1:12:04.479 --> 1:12:08.120 you know, when being I guess prompted to answer questions 1:12:08.160 --> 1:12:11.080 about the playoffs or what have you. He understands about 1:12:11.120 --> 1:12:13.760 the rat poison. But the bottom line is on the 1:12:14.200 --> 1:12:16.640 tht they know what the task is and they know 1:12:16.840 --> 1:12:19.519 what lies ahead for them. They just faced this team 1:12:20.000 --> 1:12:22.280 less than a week ago. They're gonna see him Sunday. 1:12:22.360 --> 1:12:25.599 They're ready for it. It's it's it's when it's when 1:12:25.640 --> 1:12:27.680 you can see the finish line there at the end, 1:12:28.000 --> 1:12:29.960 but you know you got business to take care before 1:12:30.000 --> 1:12:32.040 you get to the finish line. I think the Eagles 1:12:32.040 --> 1:12:34.519 in the right frame of mind, it won't be easy, 1:12:34.960 --> 1:12:38.000 but it won't be because they overlooked this football team. 1:12:38.080 --> 1:12:40.080 I mean, if they don't win next week, it'll be 1:12:40.160 --> 1:12:42.519 because Washington came out and earn it. It feels like 1:12:42.600 --> 1:12:45.080 just this week we were talking about Washington, right. Really, 1:12:45.120 --> 1:12:47.640 I think it's such a unique situation with such a 1:12:47.680 --> 1:12:50.240 short turnaround. But you'll take a Washington down the road. 1:12:50.240 --> 1:12:52.800 Their last road game here of the regular season here 1:12:52.840 --> 1:12:54.680 in twenty twenty one. Yeah, and they've been pretty good 1:12:54.680 --> 1:12:56.719 on the road this year, so hopefully they'll get another 1:12:56.760 --> 1:12:59.320 one to close out their road schedule. That'll do it 1:12:59.439 --> 1:13:01.360 for us here on the postgame show. Be sure to 1:13:01.439 --> 1:13:03.800 join us on the Cakeoff Show next Sunday before the 1:13:03.880 --> 1:13:07.080 Eagles play the Washington football team. But for now, for myself, 1:13:07.160 --> 1:13:10.400 friend Duffy and I Greece, Happy holidays and go Birds.