Speaker 1: It was a tale of two halves in South Philadelphia today,
Speaker 1: but the second half is where the party got started.
Speaker 1: Ronnie McLeod picks off Jake from for the I n T.
Speaker 1: Next up, the Giant Killer himself, Boston Scott punches in
Speaker 1: a three yard touchdown and Devonte Smith with a little
Speaker 1: toe drag swag in the end zone for the touchdown,
Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Lane Johnson catches
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass for the score. Welcome into the postgame
Speaker 1: show presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella d Givanni here with
Speaker 1: Fran Duffy and I grief. Guys. The first half it
Speaker 1: was looking a little rough. I would love to know,
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni said at halftime, because then the players came
Speaker 1: out in the second half really turned it on. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts played great, the defense played well all four quarters.
Speaker 1: A much needed win here today and they got it done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm warning of Coach Sirianni gave them the fire and
Speaker 1: Brimstone speech at halftime to sort of wake them up
Speaker 1: right because it seemed like they were sleepwalking through the
Speaker 1: first half. Short week, played a game on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: He's not going to use that as an excuse. Neither
Speaker 1: will I. I'll just look at it this way. They
Speaker 1: got all to a slow start, but they were able
Speaker 1: to hang in there, and in the second half you
Speaker 1: saw we're getting turnovers and getting into short field was
Speaker 1: able to help them prevail in this game. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing in that first half was the Giants never had
Speaker 1: to get out of their comfort zone because the Eagles
Speaker 1: didn't force him out of their comfort zone. Once the
Speaker 1: Eagles did that, you saw the scoreboard start to run
Speaker 1: up in the eagles favor. And all of that is
Speaker 1: all well and good, all that's great, but guys, we
Speaker 1: gotta thick six today. A Lane Johnson tych Can we
Speaker 1: run that back? The Lane Johnson touchdown? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: so rare that we get to see an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: reached the end zone. The first touchdown by an Eagles
Speaker 1: offensive lineman since Todd Herriman's back in twenty ten. Just
Speaker 1: awesome to see big Lane get into for paid dirt.
Speaker 1: One of my highlights from the twenty twenty one season,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna be honest, absolutely, it caps off a
Speaker 1: little link and leap too. I like the high step
Speaker 1: in the end zone. That was great. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the first half first. Okay, bad news first, and then
Speaker 1: we'll get to all the good stuff. Okay. We talked
Speaker 1: a lot in the Kickoff show about Dallas Goddard and
Speaker 1: the great two games he had shrunk together against the
Speaker 1: jetson Washington. The Giants have his number a little bit,
Speaker 1: kept him quiet in the first half, didn't haul in
Speaker 1: a pass until the second half. I thought that was
Speaker 1: very interesting. I think the Giants game plan pretty well
Speaker 1: for Dallas Goddard, but of course it did give other
Speaker 1: guys opportunities to Yeah, and this league is about matchups,
Speaker 1: you know. One of the things that fran and I
Speaker 1: talked about this week on Eagles game Plan is what
Speaker 1: the Giants like to do on defense with their sub packages.
Speaker 1: So you get these athletes out there, they could be
Speaker 1: a linebacker or a safety or dB. Right, so you
Speaker 1: got a guy's big enough and fast enough to run
Speaker 1: with Dallas, and he's always going to get extra help
Speaker 1: paid towards him, extra attention paid towards him. But the
Speaker 1: Giants seemingly have done a nice job one tight ends
Speaker 1: all year long. Dallas in the first game, I believe
Speaker 1: he only had one catch versus the Giants, or maybe
Speaker 1: one target versus the Giants in that first game, So
Speaker 1: I'm not totally surprised there A lot of it is,
Speaker 1: you know, that Giants defense saying we're not going to
Speaker 1: allow eighty eight to beat us today. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go somewhere else with the bar and look, all's fair, right.
Speaker 1: A couple of those players are on Dallas as well.
Speaker 1: A couple of tough drips for him in this game,
Speaker 1: one on that opening drive. He had a little one
Speaker 1: a little bit later as well. So it's just unable
Speaker 1: to connect with him to the level that we've seen
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks. But the Eagles were
Speaker 1: able to find some playmakers in the second half. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: sticking with the first half and their playmakers, Davantae spent
Speaker 1: three receptions for seventy five yards at halftime. Of course,
Speaker 1: none of those converted to a score unfortunately in the
Speaker 1: first half. But the rookie came to play today. We
Speaker 1: talked a lot about him in the Kickoff show because
Speaker 1: he has been a little quiet the past few weeks,
Speaker 1: but not today. Yeah, and I like some of the
Speaker 1: play designs from the office to sort of get DeVante open.
Speaker 1: You know, he is such a great route runner, and
Speaker 1: when he's running those crossing routes, he gets those dbs
Speaker 1: to get on their horse, and they started to chase him.
Speaker 1: I saw some plays where we moved Jalen out to
Speaker 1: one side of the pocket. We would run a little
Speaker 1: bit of a banana route with DeVante and Jalen has
Speaker 1: enough arm shaft to get the ball back to the
Speaker 1: other side. So just doing some different things to try
Speaker 1: to free DeVante up. Because when you're when you're the
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver, you draw all the most attention
Speaker 1: you're gonna draw James Bradberry and some safety help over
Speaker 1: the top. So then it becomes how do we get
Speaker 1: him freed up? And I thought they did a nice
Speaker 1: job at least in that first half getting in some
Speaker 1: open looks. Yeah, and I talked about creating that separation
Speaker 1: and how he was able to get open. I loved
Speaker 1: him at the catch point today. To me, when you
Speaker 1: saw some of the catches, obviously the touchdown was big
Speaker 1: time getting you talked about the two toed drag swag
Speaker 1: down there along the sideline. We see that play here
Speaker 1: coming up, coming in for six points an outstanding catch.
Speaker 1: But how about that forty eight yarder from the first
Speaker 1: half where he went up and attacked the football, took
Speaker 1: it away from the corner in James Bradberry. I love
Speaker 1: what DeVante Smith has done at the catch point lately,
Speaker 1: capitalizing on those opportunities. Ela. That's what we talked about
Speaker 1: earlier on the Kickoff Show, was that ability to come
Speaker 1: up big when your number is called. We saw that
Speaker 1: from DeVante here in this game. That forty eight yarder
Speaker 1: was a career high, and we also saw a big
Speaker 1: plays from Quaiswakins and Jalen Rager as well. That's why
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurst is at the top of the league in
Speaker 1: big plays right now because he can throw it down
Speaker 1: the field when he needs to, and he has receivers
Speaker 1: you can haul it in. But we're gonna actually check
Speaker 1: in with Eagles insider Dave Spider, who's over at Lincoln
Speaker 1: Financial Field. Dave, they got the win. We were just
Speaker 1: talking about the first half. It was kind of the
Speaker 1: tale of mistakes and misqs, but Nick Sirianni. Sirianni obviously
Speaker 1: had a good message at halftime. What do you think
Speaker 1: was the huge turnaround in the second half? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: l I just talked to Rodney McLeod as he came
Speaker 1: off the field. He's the one who got things going
Speaker 1: with the interception. Great pass rush from Genard Avery there,
Speaker 1: but it was just the Eagles knew they had to
Speaker 1: get something to seize the momentum of the football game,
Speaker 1: and the defense was on the field first play number
Speaker 1: two of that second half and McLeod came up with
Speaker 1: the big interception. So I don't think it was anything
Speaker 1: particularly that Nick said, but certainly everybody as they were
Speaker 1: walking off the field. It was a pretty tough first
Speaker 1: half and the players were not pleased when they came
Speaker 1: off the field, so everyone understood what they had to do.
Speaker 1: They had to take control of the football game, and
Speaker 1: they went on a blitz creek in that third quarter.
Speaker 1: Thirty one unanswered points turned the game around. So credit
Speaker 1: to the Eagles. After a really real, the sluggish first half,
Speaker 1: they poured it on in half number two. Dave, you
Speaker 1: talked about the Davante Smith. We talked about him a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. I'm interested to get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: the rookies performance then also that touchdown. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: been around this team for a long time. You've been
Speaker 1: watching the NFL for a long time. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen a review process like that on where the call
Speaker 1: is announced and then reversed after extended review. Yeah? So, well,
Speaker 1: now I'm not quite sure if I understand what exactly
Speaker 1: happened it It was ruled a touchdown, then upon review,
Speaker 1: as they review every scoring play, it was overturned, and
Speaker 1: then did the Eagles challenge? I think the Eagles may
Speaker 1: have challenged that review, and so then it was reversed
Speaker 1: back to the original call. Remarkable catch. Look last week,
Speaker 1: that was one of the great catches I've ever seen
Speaker 1: Davante on the sidelines today, that catch falling out of bounds.
Speaker 1: His ability to get the left foot in and then
Speaker 1: the right toe in and control the football while being
Speaker 1: pushed out of bounds going backwards. His body control is incredible.
Speaker 1: Frame you talked about him at the catch point, the
Speaker 1: way he went up up, up in the first half
Speaker 1: for that great catch. Just the way this young man
Speaker 1: is able to keep his body under control catch everything.
Speaker 1: You never see a babble going out of balance and
Speaker 1: could get his feet down like that. This is the
Speaker 1: stuff of truly special talents and Devontae Smith has that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes Dave, we almost have to pinch ourselves
Speaker 1: to realize that, you know, a guy that's making plays
Speaker 1: on the sideline like that. We just don't accustomed to
Speaker 1: seeing that. And Devanta's gonna be making plays like that
Speaker 1: for a lot more years. In Midnight Green, I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you a little bit about Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: though at the quarterback position. Ella brought up the first
Speaker 1: half and how we sputtered. What'd you think of Jalen's
Speaker 1: play in the first half of this game? Well, I
Speaker 1: think that it was too similar to what happened last
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night against Washington, and you know, you have
Speaker 1: to polish this stuff up. I respect and certainly sorry.
Speaker 1: We have Devanta Smith at the okay, doing good? I'm good.
Speaker 1: Did you know you were in even though there are
Speaker 1: so many reviews? Uh? Yeah, I mean like when I
Speaker 1: get on the sideline, I gotta got a second sense.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's kind of my thing. Have you
Speaker 1: ever seen a referees review or review before what was going? No,
Speaker 1: I ain't never seen that one. What are you saying
Speaker 1: it's kind of your thing? How long has that been
Speaker 1: the case? Um? I mean I would say past few years.
Speaker 1: I mean just kind of as you play the game,
Speaker 1: you just kind of get used to it. Kind of
Speaker 1: your awareness kind of goes up. You kind of just
Speaker 1: know where you are. Kind of sideline catch last week
Speaker 1: and then you had that touchdown catch? Which one was better?
Speaker 1: Do you think? I would say the one the day
Speaker 1: was built? Uh, just because I was going backwards. So
Speaker 1: it was just kind of like I had to drag
Speaker 1: my foot lit bit. It kind of felt like Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson out of his body control as opposed to just awareness,
Speaker 1: UM a lot of it. I mean, you gotta just
Speaker 1: with your momentum. You just gotta know how like how
Speaker 1: to have your feet and things like that, just what
Speaker 1: you can do over again. Um, honestly, I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: say it's rips. It just kind of just happens. The
Speaker 1: slick start for the offense. Um, I mean just finding
Speaker 1: out groove, I mean, come out just things just wasn't
Speaker 1: going our way. So I mean we just had to
Speaker 1: find out groove, UM, make some adjustments, and I mean
Speaker 1: that's all it was. To see La Johnson score that
Speaker 1: touch down. Oh, I mean it was big. I mean
Speaker 1: the drive before that, he was calling himself so, and
Speaker 1: then when they did call it, it was just like, no,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be touchdown. I mean it's big. We've
Speaker 1: been ripping it for a while. Last week, Jayalen had
Speaker 1: a shot to you down the middle. You were miked
Speaker 1: up saying you lost the ball. This week you're very similar,
Speaker 1: you know, are you? And you were able to mold
Speaker 1: the process there. Um just didn't just didn't take my
Speaker 1: eyes off of it. Last we got took my eyes
Speaker 1: off of it for a second. I lost it. This
Speaker 1: we got just didn't take my eyes off of him.
Speaker 1: I think the Giants wanted to draft you and the
Speaker 1: Eagles came up and made that trade. Just playing well
Speaker 1: against them today the rest of your career, does that
Speaker 1: mean a little something extra. I mean, I'm here for
Speaker 1: a reason. I'm glad to be here. So I mean
Speaker 1: that's gonna be every game, not just that game. I
Speaker 1: mean every game, gonna go out there and give them all.
Speaker 1: I think the first pass was to you. Was there
Speaker 1: a concerted effort after what happened last Giants game where
Speaker 1: you just really see the ball a lot to get
Speaker 1: you in the ball right away? Um? I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's just the play calls I mean we have we
Speaker 1: have play plays that we know we're gonna run the
Speaker 1: first possession. I mean they coaches called what they had.
Speaker 1: It's a call on the on the touchdown you did
Speaker 1: that little motion thing? Was that? Just explain to us
Speaker 1: what the point of that is for against the defense? Um?
Speaker 1: I mean just to just to kind of get the
Speaker 1: defense loss. I mean, you're you know you're on the
Speaker 1: gold line. You're probably gonna play man, so just to
Speaker 1: kind of whoever guard and you just to get him going.
Speaker 1: You're nice, Uh pass breakups this year too? To have
Speaker 1: any corner in your background, Oh, yes, a lot of
Speaker 1: it's a lot of the background. I mean before the
Speaker 1: receiver thing, I was the corner. So what do you
Speaker 1: think about the state of the team here with two
Speaker 1: to play? About? Say again, the state of the team
Speaker 1: with two to play? What do you think? Um? I
Speaker 1: mean just every week, I mean, just keep chipping away
Speaker 1: every week. I'm just going out there taking it day
Speaker 1: by day and just chipping away. Just every little one
Speaker 1: percent were the next message in the locker room? UM,
Speaker 1: I mean, how things weren't going out way? Defense played
Speaker 1: great today. Offensively things weren't going out way. But we adjusted.
Speaker 1: So just being out there noing day and games, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to adjust. Um, just just make our adjustments.
Speaker 1: We know we gotta do. Go out there, correct our
Speaker 1: mistakes and move on. Alex. It's actually getting this one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure I haven't looked yet, but yeah, Hill,
Speaker 1: I might not even get it. I might just shift
Speaker 1: it straight home, just ready for the batted ball right away.
Speaker 1: What did you see on that play and let the interceptions? Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously they were running a lot of that empty so
Speaker 1: we kind of knew, you know, disguising coverages. Obviously I'm
Speaker 1: moving around a lot in those and so we kind
Speaker 1: of knew, you know, once I moved in, they were
Speaker 1: gonna go back to that side, So you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought Rod they were gonna throw it
Speaker 1: on the out and Rod was gonna get the pick.
Speaker 1: But obviously he cut back in and Rod broke it
Speaker 1: up and just right place, right time, really, Alice, even
Speaker 1: when they switched quarterbacks, the Sea defense maintained it. And
Speaker 1: it's intensive. What do you have noticed from from and
Speaker 1: then as opposed to Glenned you know, be the key
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I mean, obviously we watched a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, Glennon during the week like he was.
Speaker 1: He's been their quarterback for the last month, and so
Speaker 1: we just knew they were gonna kind of run similar
Speaker 1: things with from and they kind of changed it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Obviously, they ran the ball a lot more,
Speaker 1: and then so when they went back to Glennon, we
Speaker 1: knew what they were going to try to go to.
Speaker 1: He was obviously more you know, they were throwing more
Speaker 1: shots with him, you know, a lot of the bikes
Speaker 1: and stuff outside, and so we knew once they switched that,
Speaker 1: we knew we were gonna get. They were only avered
Speaker 1: two yards of play through three quarters. Did you ever
Speaker 1: feel like they could seriously meet the ball? You guys, No,
Speaker 1: you know, we we knew, you know, we know what
Speaker 1: we had to do to win this game. We know
Speaker 1: what happened, you know against them last time. We knew,
Speaker 1: you know, we needed to create plays on defense and
Speaker 1: we needed to stop them, and you know kind of
Speaker 1: you know they're saying, you know, you know, step on
Speaker 1: their throat, you know, the whole game, and just you know,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're able to do and just give
Speaker 1: our offense, you know, as many opportunities until they got going,
Speaker 1: and once they did, it was just kind of we
Speaker 1: can continue to play the way we did the like,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of creating turnovers and making places to
Speaker 1: help the offense out. Yeah, you know, we've been saying
Speaker 1: it for a few weeks. You know, we we know
Speaker 1: as a defense, we've been playing well, you know for
Speaker 1: the like the last month, just you know, not enough
Speaker 1: turnovers and that was kind of the emphasis. Obviously, It's
Speaker 1: always been our emphasis, we talked about all the time.
Speaker 1: And so to be able to you know, get those
Speaker 1: and you know, give the offense more opportunities, you know,
Speaker 1: that's it's what we want to do, and we're able
Speaker 1: to do it today. For you personally, I mean, your
Speaker 1: whole career has kind of been up and down. This
Speaker 1: year's kind of been up and down. What does a
Speaker 1: moment like this mean to you? To make the play
Speaker 1: that ice is the game and you know sort of
Speaker 1: does what your defense asks. Yeah, it's nice, obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: it's exciting to you know, be able to do that.
Speaker 1: You know high you know, obviously scoring now two years
Speaker 1: in a row in the NFL. You know, I scored
Speaker 1: once in college my sophomore year, and you kind of
Speaker 1: don't you know, get those opportunities and obviously even you know,
Speaker 1: for me to just play in the NFL, you know,
Speaker 1: as a privilege every week. So to have those opportunities
Speaker 1: and be able to do this for this team and
Speaker 1: the way we're trending and you know, the guys in
Speaker 1: that locker room, it's exciting to be able to do that,
Speaker 1: and you know, just continue to you know, press on
Speaker 1: because you know, we know it's in front of us,
Speaker 1: and you know we obviously it's Washington, and then you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully we just continue to roll. The fact that Nick's
Speaker 1: dialed things back on practice as early as way back
Speaker 1: in November helped you guys on a short week like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, with how our schedules have been,
Speaker 1: Like you said, you know, obviously Wednesday's being double walk
Speaker 1: theirs this week wasn't really a shock to us. It
Speaker 1: was kind of the same routine we just didn't have,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess a Monday Tuesday. We just kind
Speaker 1: of went into it into a Wednesday day day you know,
Speaker 1: on Thursday and Friday, so it wasn't as big of
Speaker 1: a shock to us. You know, we came out of
Speaker 1: the last game, you know, healthy, and we were ready
Speaker 1: to go. You know, you guys, I mean you guys
Speaker 1: know you asked us all week, you know, if we
Speaker 1: were gonna take what happened last time of MetLife into
Speaker 1: this game, and I think you know, we showed that.
Speaker 1: Obviously we did what was this week like sort of physically,
Speaker 1: just with the tight turnaround and also you know, not
Speaker 1: having Nick in the building. Ah yeah, obviously the tight
Speaker 1: turn around. Me personally, I love when we play on
Speaker 1: a short week. You know, I said all the time
Speaker 1: I would take a basketball schedule, so you know, I
Speaker 1: love I'd rather play every day, so I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I think you know, we handled it well. Obviously with
Speaker 1: Christmas as well, it can be a tough week. You
Speaker 1: were going to have a shorter practice days whether or
Speaker 1: not we played on Sunday or Tuesday. So as a team,
Speaker 1: obviously we handled it very well. We everyone put in
Speaker 1: the work they needed to. And you know, same thing
Speaker 1: with having you know, coach obviously out it was different,
Speaker 1: but I think you know, we stuck to the game plan.
Speaker 1: Whether or not you know a coach is there, you
Speaker 1: know we're going to continue to work and you know,
Speaker 1: with Zoom and everything. Nowadays, you're pretty much in the
Speaker 1: room whether you know, he's not a player, so you
Speaker 1: can face time in and be pretty much there the
Speaker 1: entire time. Stop would happen in bed life and applied
Speaker 1: it in what way? Yeah, I mean, we know, you know,
Speaker 1: we lost a game we should have won, and so
Speaker 1: to you know, come off of that and as a defense, No,
Speaker 1: we didn't create any turnovers that week, and we needed to.
Speaker 1: You know, if we would have had two or three
Speaker 1: like we did today, it would have made it would
Speaker 1: have you know, been a different game. And so to
Speaker 1: be able to remember that and come out and play
Speaker 1: the way we did, you know, it's huge for us
Speaker 1: as moving forward. Touchdown that was sick interception like to
Speaker 1: start things off for the second half of the town
Speaker 1: back was that, I mean not really prett you guys
Speaker 1: defensive I seem to get the offensecreting two. Yeah, it's huge,
Speaker 1: I think you know obviously you guys know, I mean
Speaker 1: this stadium gets rock in every stadium, you know, but
Speaker 1: when you come in after halftime, stadiums are always people
Speaker 1: are still in line, you know, but it's not as
Speaker 1: it's not as you know, hyped up. So it's nice
Speaker 1: you know, especially as a defensive player when the offense
Speaker 1: goes first, because you know they can drive down by
Speaker 1: the time they score and everyone's back in, and so
Speaker 1: when you start on defense, you know it's a little empty.
Speaker 1: You don't always have that, you know, crowd momentum in
Speaker 1: a game like this, so you know to obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: two to three plays in. To have a pick like
Speaker 1: that and give the offense a short field is huge
Speaker 1: in that situation. Thanks guys. That was linebacker Alex Singleton,
Speaker 1: of course, recording his second pick six, the first coming
Speaker 1: last year. Big day for the linebackers, obviously, the defense
Speaker 1: as a whole. Friend and I talked a lot about
Speaker 1: the kickoff show. We're actually going back to the podium,
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni. Sure, yeah. The name of the play called
Speaker 1: a lane East Texas. East Texas some of those gadgety
Speaker 1: ones you don't you don't, uh, you don't try to
Speaker 1: name everything because it's hard to name it all. So
Speaker 1: you kind of come up with a specialized name in
Speaker 1: lane from East Texas, and that's what we called it
Speaker 1: that he had been talking about during the game. Lane. Uh,
Speaker 1: did you hear that? And did you go with that?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry say that one more time, said that Lane
Speaker 1: had been talking about being open or running that play
Speaker 1: throughout the game. Is that true? Well, Lane wasn't eligible
Speaker 1: until that very play, So Lane couldn't have been open.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what DeVante is thinking
Speaker 1: right there. Um So, but um, we had a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence in the play because of the way we
Speaker 1: practiced this week, and you know, just confidence in Lane that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Lane's a phenomenal football player. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't agree that he's not in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think that I think you got a chance to
Speaker 1: have a guy who's gonna be a first or second
Speaker 1: team All Pro and not in the Pro Bowl. And
Speaker 1: so it was great to be able to get him
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Uh. You know, he just deserves so much credit.
Speaker 1: It's so much more credit than he's getting. This This
Speaker 1: guy is just I've never been in around an offensive
Speaker 1: tackle that it has as talented as this guy is.
Speaker 1: Like he could play tight end if you want. You
Speaker 1: should see him throw the football. This guy is so
Speaker 1: immensely talented. Um, I just got so much respect for him,
Speaker 1: and it was nice. It's it's always great when you
Speaker 1: can reward guys that don't get in the end zone
Speaker 1: with a touchdown like that, and so and I think
Speaker 1: it was his first touchdown since, uh, since high school.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he scored a lot of him in high
Speaker 1: school because the guy's just a stud and and just
Speaker 1: so happy that he's anchoring O. You know, he's anchoring
Speaker 1: our offensive line. And look forward to the accolades that
Speaker 1: he's gonna get because he deserves them. How long you've
Speaker 1: been for a while, Uh, that's not a play that
Speaker 1: can be in each week. We've had it in the
Speaker 1: plan before, um when it when it fits again, it
Speaker 1: doesn't fit against every team in every system. So uh,
Speaker 1: it's been in the plan before, so we've had reps
Speaker 1: of it, but you know it hasn't been in in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So again, just a great job
Speaker 1: by our coaches and our players. You know, the detail
Speaker 1: of how the coaches installed the play and then obviously
Speaker 1: the detail of the way the players executed the play. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to accomplish that in a in
Speaker 1: a short week like the short turnaround in your absence
Speaker 1: this week affected I don't I don't we I you
Speaker 1: know what our defense played an outstanding game. We all
Speaker 1: know that. How how they came out, and they were
Speaker 1: they were hitting right from the beginning. Obviously, you never
Speaker 1: want to start a game on special teams by by
Speaker 1: putting the ball on the ground right to right to start.
Speaker 1: JJ was there to get the fumble recovery, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. Um. You know, we definitely
Speaker 1: weren't executing the way we need to execute. But I
Speaker 1: got so much respect for that defensive coordinator and those
Speaker 1: that defense that we just played today. I think that's
Speaker 1: a really really outstanding defense. That's a great defensive line.
Speaker 1: That's a coach Graham I think is just a really
Speaker 1: good coordinator that I've had a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: for a lot of years now. Um. So again, you
Speaker 1: got to say, anytime you start off that way and
Speaker 1: you only score three points in the first half, it's
Speaker 1: always gonna be you know, we didn't coach well enough
Speaker 1: for sure, Um, we didn't play well enough. But hats
Speaker 1: off to them because that's a good defense. So it's
Speaker 1: a combination all three. But I don't I don't put
Speaker 1: anything into the short week. This team's handled adversity all year,
Speaker 1: you know, um, through different things, and that's just that's
Speaker 1: just what you have to do in the NFL. You
Speaker 1: have to handle adversity and because it rarely is going
Speaker 1: to go the way you think it's gonna go, just
Speaker 1: perfectly smooth the whole time. And our our team's handle adversity.
Speaker 1: And I think that's has a lot to do with
Speaker 1: who are who our leaders are on this team and
Speaker 1: our captain's uh you know with Jason Kelsey and and
Speaker 1: Flatcher Cox and Ronnie McLeod, Jalen Hurts, Alex Singleton, Brandon Graham. Uh,
Speaker 1: those guys lead the way. And uh, you know, so
Speaker 1: just a lot of credit to our leaders on this team.
Speaker 1: Scored twenty four straight points coming out a half time.
Speaker 1: What was said to the offense and the team when
Speaker 1: you guys back into getting Walker, Uh, you know, just
Speaker 1: the Hey, good teams win games. However they need to
Speaker 1: win games. Uh, you know, if we have to grind
Speaker 1: this out and be grimy and let the defense carry
Speaker 1: the way the whole time, we'll do it that way.
Speaker 1: But hey, just have that next play mentality of forget
Speaker 1: the first half um and and have that next play
Speaker 1: mentality and come out and ready to go. And uh,
Speaker 1: they definitely did a good job of uh you know,
Speaker 1: of coming out and just and forgetting that. They just
Speaker 1: they did exactly that they forgot the first half and
Speaker 1: they and they execute it in the second half. Why
Speaker 1: was Janeling so much better in the second half than
Speaker 1: he was in the first day? Again, it was just
Speaker 1: I think that's a combination of just how our entire
Speaker 1: offense played. He definitely missed some throws in the first
Speaker 1: half that he's gonna want back, and uh um, I
Speaker 1: thought he went to the right place with the ball.
Speaker 1: I know there's a question about you know, Bob Prett
Speaker 1: me for a question about a red zone play um
Speaker 1: that we threw to Quiz over the middle. Guys, you
Speaker 1: just when there's guys breaking this way and breaking that way,
Speaker 1: you have to alert a certain player, which I'll just
Speaker 1: try to explain to you as much as I possibly
Speaker 1: can without giving anything away. You alert a certain player
Speaker 1: and then your read starts somewhere else. So our alert
Speaker 1: was to Dallas that versus a certain coverage. It wasn't
Speaker 1: that coverage. So now you know, we read shallow to
Speaker 1: to angle and and that's what he read. So his
Speaker 1: eyes aren't there. So I'm not one bit concerned. Like
Speaker 1: when you give a quarterback and you say to him,
Speaker 1: you know when you you know there reads as a
Speaker 1: as a as a coach, you don't ever get on
Speaker 1: him when he misses something like that because it's not
Speaker 1: a his eyes went here to hear and Dallas is
Speaker 1: only a pre snap read. There's no we don't know.
Speaker 1: Jalen doesn't know that they're gonna they busted the coverage.
Speaker 1: Jalen doesn't know at the beginning of that play that
Speaker 1: they're gonna bust that coverage. Like they made a mistake.
Speaker 1: They were out of position on that particular play. Um,
Speaker 1: and that was the read and so and so I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that everybody understands that. And so again,
Speaker 1: he didn't play his great this best first half. And
Speaker 1: when we play good, when he plays good, the offense,
Speaker 1: offense roles and he and he did his just great
Speaker 1: job bouncing back that second half. And again it's just
Speaker 1: not having Jalen. We didn't play good as in the
Speaker 1: skill positions. We didn't play as good as we played
Speaker 1: on the offense line, We didn't coach as good as
Speaker 1: we needed to coach um in that first half. So
Speaker 1: but again, just a credit to Jalen to rebound and
Speaker 1: play a good second half, because that's what good teams do.
Speaker 1: They find ways to win bunch today. You guys would
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Obviously it doesn't you guys games, But
Speaker 1: what does that say about how far you guys have coming,
Speaker 1: especially after the start, and it's pretty yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think again, it just speaks to the
Speaker 1: leaders that we had having this team and and the
Speaker 1: fact that we knew adversity is going to come. That's
Speaker 1: just the way this league is. Adversity hits, whether it's
Speaker 1: a two and five start, whether it's a postponement of
Speaker 1: a game and having to play two games, you know,
Speaker 1: play a game off a thirteen day rest wherever it was,
Speaker 1: and then play a game on five. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what happens in this league. So you try to prepare
Speaker 1: yourself for adversity and be able to handle it. And
Speaker 1: that's the whole message that we've talked about from from
Speaker 1: the beginning of uh just dog mentality. Next play, next play,
Speaker 1: next play. Jason Kelsey gave a message to the team
Speaker 1: last night, which was awesome, and his message was press on, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, bad things happened, Press press press.
Speaker 1: He was awesome talking to the team last night. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's just he's just such a great leader.
Speaker 1: And so it all comes back to the types of
Speaker 1: guys that we have in that locker room. A ton
Speaker 1: of credit obviously to how he and his staff of
Speaker 1: how they've assembled this team. I said to how he
Speaker 1: in there, you know how he said, you know, great
Speaker 1: job coming back from a two and five start, I said,
Speaker 1: how a great job? Like what other first year head
Speaker 1: coaches are in the position I'm in. We have a
Speaker 1: great offense and defensive line usually when there's a new
Speaker 1: new head coaches, because the offense and defensive line aren't
Speaker 1: any good. And and so it's just been a great
Speaker 1: team effort, a great organization that we're part of. And
Speaker 1: then it always comes down to these players and the
Speaker 1: type of leaders that we have. A couple more, please, Kelsey.
Speaker 1: Thing actually is that? Is that abnormal? Or do you
Speaker 1: have somebody addressed the team every week? Well, I I
Speaker 1: it's been twelve weeks one through twelve week. I addressed them.
Speaker 1: They were probably tired of hearing my voice, so changed
Speaker 1: it up. And that's something I've done in the PAB
Speaker 1: and on teams that have done that past. Frank's done that.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, let your let your captains here, uh,
Speaker 1: you know talk at the at the end of the
Speaker 1: year and get the guys ready to go on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I've always had a good experience with that. How big
Speaker 1: was the interception by Roding McCloud. You guys had that
Speaker 1: pick set up a score. You had to pick six
Speaker 1: later in the game. Ice the game. I mean, all
Speaker 1: all praised to Jailing and the receivers in the second
Speaker 1: half of your defense. They played incredible. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: the defense kept the game a game when it when
Speaker 1: it wasn't going well, right and uh, huge huge play
Speaker 1: uh by Ronnie unbelievable rush by Jenard Avery just to
Speaker 1: get pressure on the quarterback in the game that they
Speaker 1: played up front um and so you get that pressure,
Speaker 1: he sails the ball high and Ronnie gets a big play.
Speaker 1: And it was three to three at that time, I believe, right,
Speaker 1: And that was their first drive of the second half.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that was everything, right. I Mean, you
Speaker 1: end up going up seven, the defense feels like they
Speaker 1: can't that they're not going to get any more points,
Speaker 1: and we're like we're up seven. We ain't freaking losing
Speaker 1: this game because the way their defense is, but the
Speaker 1: way our defense is playing, and our defense knew that
Speaker 1: and so obviously they played unbelievable. It was. It was
Speaker 1: just again, it was the whole game of the pressure
Speaker 1: that how good they are were in the run game,
Speaker 1: how good we were, you know, covering and taking away
Speaker 1: some of the dank and dunks um because that wind
Speaker 1: was blowing a little bit more than I think people
Speaker 1: realize out there today. Um you didn't. It didn't look
Speaker 1: bad like in certain spots, but you see the flags
Speaker 1: up at the top, they were they were they were humming.
Speaker 1: And so just again, just great job by our defense.
Speaker 1: And then the pick six obviously that was huge. It
Speaker 1: put us that put the game out of reach. We
Speaker 1: were able to take some guys out after that, and uh,
Speaker 1: again just it always starts up front and just a
Speaker 1: great job by our defensive line. And then trickled down
Speaker 1: to everybody down. What was your advantage point on the
Speaker 1: Bonte touchdown? And it seemed like a strange review, seem
Speaker 1: really clear, what's happening? Yeah, I think they were there
Speaker 1: might have been, I don't know exactly, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was a touchdown that they were viewing and and
Speaker 1: and basically something happened. It might have went to a
Speaker 1: TV commercial. I don't know exactly what happened, but uh,
Speaker 1: they came back and the time when I thought they
Speaker 1: were reviewing it, whatever, whatever was happening was happening, and
Speaker 1: then they decided to review it, and hey, I'm just
Speaker 1: glad it counted. I don't know, it felt like a
Speaker 1: long time we had to wait for it. But uh,
Speaker 1: the rest, I thought the rest did a good job.
Speaker 1: And then they were they were communicating with us the
Speaker 1: entire game. Uh. Again, their job's never easy and I
Speaker 1: value what they do out there. Oh yeah, yeah. Just
Speaker 1: Devanta has been really good on the back line and
Speaker 1: on the on the sideline all year, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's that's something you got to learn, right because you don't.
Speaker 1: You only have to have one in in college, right
Speaker 1: and so, um, he's just been really good and clean
Speaker 1: with his footwork on the sideline for his first year.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's a technician, um, and it's
Speaker 1: just not and the guy loves football and wants to
Speaker 1: be better at football. And we know that, you know,
Speaker 1: a guy can go from here to here because of
Speaker 1: the technique he plays with, and so DeVante works endless
Speaker 1: hours to do that and he's just again he'd had
Speaker 1: the catch like that last week where he dragged the
Speaker 1: foot from behind. So a great job to Aaron moorehead
Speaker 1: of drilling that as well. I know he drills that
Speaker 1: every single day. Uh. And then DeVante obviously playing with
Speaker 1: great technique. Thanks guys, find this same body. Head coach
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni crediting the defense, and rightfully so. The past
Speaker 1: four games they've allowed an average of fourteen and a
Speaker 1: half points. Very impressive by Jonathan Gannon and that entire defense.
Speaker 1: We're here from Alex Singleton or who had a great
Speaker 1: game as well, but we got to talk about Ronnie
Speaker 1: McCleod and the defensive line. A huge part of Ronnie
Speaker 1: McLoud coming up with that opening interception was the pressure
Speaker 1: Jake Frown was feeling up front. Yeah, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a big time. You know, I'm watching that game.
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of get a feel for what
Speaker 1: the crowd is sensing at halftime, and there was some nervousness.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm on this game and I have to
Speaker 1: cut Boston Scott of the podium. Boston Scott Well, you're
Speaker 1: known as the giant killer, but Lane Johnson's the guy
Speaker 1: that kind of put it away today. Help. How good
Speaker 1: do you feel for him having been around him as
Speaker 1: long as you have and known when he went through
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, just him battling through you know,
Speaker 1: things off the field too. I have a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of respect for that dude and just being able to
Speaker 1: see him, you know, the smile on his face after
Speaker 1: all the work that he's put in. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been an elite, one of the best to do it
Speaker 1: ever and it's always fun to see big guys gett
Speaker 1: into the end zone and get an opportunity. It's cool
Speaker 1: the past six days, Um just I mean I've always
Speaker 1: known it a tenacious group. You know, um fight through
Speaker 1: anything and stay close knit. You know, we don't let
Speaker 1: what's going on on the outside or anything like that
Speaker 1: nfere with you know, the camaraderie and the brotherhood we
Speaker 1: have going on inside of that locker room. Um. I
Speaker 1: love those guys, man. I go to war from every
Speaker 1: week guy who's that? What's that? Read? The league guy?
Speaker 1: Anytime anytime came over the left side, it looked like
Speaker 1: a pretty Big Hole era Big Hole. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: It was all the offensive line. I just ran into
Speaker 1: the end zone. That was it. That's all that really
Speaker 1: salt like, Um, yeah, I mean it was Um who's herb? Herb?
Speaker 1: It's the one that sprung me, I believe pretty sure.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's good stuff, good stuff, awesome.
Speaker 1: What was said to you back the mutuals on fraction
Speaker 1: that kind of just wipe out that big run that
Speaker 1: you had. Did the Rippery say anything? No, I hadn't
Speaker 1: heard any. Well, I'm sure we'll talk about it whenever
Speaker 1: we get back into the facility. Guys kind of keep
Speaker 1: everything together. As bad as you guys were playing in
Speaker 1: the first half of offense and you didn't seem like
Speaker 1: you guys were struggle, Well, um no, I think we
Speaker 1: just I don't know, man. We just stay calm, you know,
Speaker 1: because the last thing you want to do is panic.
Speaker 1: You don't want to you don't want to get emotional,
Speaker 1: you don't want to feel like you have to do
Speaker 1: anything over the top. We just have to take it
Speaker 1: play by play, stay present, you know. Um. So that's
Speaker 1: that's what we try and do. We all hold each
Speaker 1: other accountable and uh, we all motivate each other, so
Speaker 1: we keep it, we keep it calm, we keep it focused.
Speaker 1: That big factor on the team two years ago to
Speaker 1: be a late run to get into the playoffs. Do
Speaker 1: you see any similarities connections between when you guys did
Speaker 1: in tween nineteen what's happening now it's twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: So we we we're just focusing on it one game
Speaker 1: at a time. When you say, Boston that you always
Speaker 1: knew that this team was able to overcome adversity, How
Speaker 1: did you know at two and five? Um? Just just
Speaker 1: through how we continue to battle that practice. Um, We've
Speaker 1: had obviously like undisciplined losses. UM, you know, and it
Speaker 1: can be kind of hard to after that week after
Speaker 1: just to kind of go. But everybody's remain focused, everybody
Speaker 1: remained locked in, still had energy, still had juice, and
Speaker 1: m guys are continuing to to love on each other,
Speaker 1: push each other. Um. So there was never any panic,
Speaker 1: never any panic, just always let's work. Let's work more
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns now for you in six games against New York,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you make sense of that
Speaker 1: or anything like personal with this team or what does
Speaker 1: it mean? It's NFL team. I mean it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just I'm just out there doing
Speaker 1: my job. You have a fumbling the last game against
Speaker 1: the giantson and you're able to sporting touchdown today. You
Speaker 1: do take anything? Do you have any special feeling because
Speaker 1: of that? Hardy, are you feeling things specials? Uh? Not necessarily.
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, that that was a mistake. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I was committed to correcting. Uh, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that, uh, being in the game, if I
Speaker 1: got my opportunity, just to focus in on the fundamentals
Speaker 1: and just do my job. Thanks bust, Thank you Auston.
Speaker 1: Of course that was running back Boston Scott. The running
Speaker 1: game looking a little different today, obviously, Miles Sanders ruled
Speaker 1: out at halftime. I mean, it's not bad that they
Speaker 1: had more passing yards than rushing yards. Just look different.
Speaker 1: Not what we've seen from the Eagles in the past
Speaker 1: several weeks. Yeah, I think that the Giants made a
Speaker 1: conservative effort to at least try to slow down the
Speaker 1: Eagles running game. You know, we talked about the last
Speaker 1: game that they lost to the Giants. We're only scored
Speaker 1: seven points. They still rushed for two hundred plus yards
Speaker 1: in that game. We were close to two hundred yards.
Speaker 1: So if you're a Giant, you're sandy yourselves. This is
Speaker 1: what they like to do. We have to get them
Speaker 1: out of their comfort zone. I thought they did that
Speaker 1: in the first half. But then again the defense special
Speaker 1: teams in the second half came alive and gave the
Speaker 1: Eagles the ball in field position where I mean they
Speaker 1: score points, but it weren't They weren't long jobs. So
Speaker 1: that's where some of the yardage comes off of what
Speaker 1: the Eagles were doing, and especially early on in this game,
Speaker 1: and that first half where things obviously got a little
Speaker 1: bit dicey offensively, they just could not get things going
Speaker 1: in the past game or in the run game. Too
Speaker 1: often they were in third and long and now you're
Speaker 1: taking them, you're forcing yourself to be throwing the ball first, right,
Speaker 1: And so that happened too often in that first half.
Speaker 1: They just could not get things going on the ground.
Speaker 1: In the cook Off Show and we spoke with Dave Spidero,
Speaker 1: he mentioned maturity of a team, and I think we
Speaker 1: saw that today. You know, when you have when you're
Speaker 1: assembling a new team and a new staff, you don't
Speaker 1: know how they're going to grow throughout a season, and
Speaker 1: so I think we definitely saw maturation today because the
Speaker 1: first half wasn't pretty. I mean, everybody knows that luckily
Speaker 1: there there's a defense in place that can keep the
Speaker 1: game within reach. They were never out of it by
Speaker 1: any meetings. They went to half time tied at three.
Speaker 1: But we definitely saw character building today and certainly maturation.
Speaker 1: From really an offensive standpoint, yeah, this was gonna be
Speaker 1: a defensive led game early we saw it. The Eagles
Speaker 1: came out that first drive. I mean there are two
Speaker 1: plays there when you include the kickoff return that the
Speaker 1: Eagles could have turned the ball over early in the game.
Speaker 1: So you kind of got a sense that this may
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a slow start, and that
Speaker 1: can happen at times with offenses when you need to
Speaker 1: be in rhythm and half synchronation when you're calling plays.
Speaker 1: But from a defensive standpoint, if you're not facing a
Speaker 1: quarterback that can threaten you down the field, then you're
Speaker 1: going to be able to sit on your heels and
Speaker 1: just wait until he makes a mistake. Darius Slay had
Speaker 1: a play on the interception in the first half. I
Speaker 1: think the sun kind of gotten his way there a
Speaker 1: little bit, so he dropped it. That led to three
Speaker 1: points for the Giants. I think other than that, I
Speaker 1: thought the defense held this Giants offense and check for
Speaker 1: the entire game. It was only where we may have
Speaker 1: shortened to feel for them that their offense did anything
Speaker 1: for the most part for three quarters. And when your
Speaker 1: defense playing against the likes of a Jake from or
Speaker 1: even a Mike Glennon, and no disrespect to those guys
Speaker 1: as NFL quarterbacks, but they know they don't want to
Speaker 1: win the game off of their arm. And the key
Speaker 1: for the defense is less put the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna let you run the ball. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to throw it. And there were some opportunities there early,
Speaker 1: they just didn't capitalize on them. In the second half,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks made those same mistakes and we took advantage
Speaker 1: of them. That interception by Rodney McCloud on that first
Speaker 1: drive was huge. I mean, it really was huge for
Speaker 1: the Eagles team. Yeah, and when you look at you
Speaker 1: highlighted some of those mistakes and it happened at all
Speaker 1: three phases, right. You had missed opportunities on offense, dropped
Speaker 1: interceptions on d fumbled footballs on special teams. What happens
Speaker 1: then as the team starts to bounce back. You get
Speaker 1: a long punt return on special teams Jalen reagor you
Speaker 1: get those interceptions big players on offense, full team today,
Speaker 1: the next one Jordan Mylotta at the podium or what
Speaker 1: was the offensive line celebration Like when Lane Johnson scored
Speaker 1: that touchdown? We should have spent more time figuring out
Speaker 1: a celebration that was. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was like half bor room dancing, kind of like
Speaker 1: half making it up on the spot, half lincoln Field leap.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a mess, see though, Yeah it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna swear, yeah it was. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Man. I'm so happy that he got
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And you know, if Lane, guy of his
Speaker 1: uh you know caliber, he deserves it. So why because
Speaker 1: it's an offensive lineman or because it's Lane, or it's
Speaker 1: because what Lean went through this year? You know why
Speaker 1: what's all three of those? He's a you know, it's Lane,
Speaker 1: he's an offensive lineman. I mean, big man. Touchdowns. Everybody
Speaker 1: loves to see that. But when you actually know the
Speaker 1: guy and you play with a guy and you know
Speaker 1: how much he gives himself to the team, you love
Speaker 1: that for him. You know how much is he meant
Speaker 1: in your I know, Jason Peters kind of took you
Speaker 1: under his wing, but you're on the right side, I
Speaker 1: believe it, or for a while. How much has Lane
Speaker 1: it influenced you since you since you got your chance
Speaker 1: here in Philadelphia, just as much as JP. Lane and
Speaker 1: JP were like my older brothers here when I first
Speaker 1: got here, and the amount of detail that they emphasized
Speaker 1: every day and made sure that I was correcting self correcting.
Speaker 1: Instead of you know, relying on the coaches to tell
Speaker 1: me what to do, they would teach me how to
Speaker 1: coach myself and holding me to a highest standard. And
Speaker 1: that was JP and Lane's just thing. They always did it.
Speaker 1: They would never shy to offer help. And that's one
Speaker 1: thing that I'll never forget started lobbying for a touchdown
Speaker 1: of your own Nadia thing. That's a great question. It's
Speaker 1: a great question. Thing is a debate right now. It's
Speaker 1: a big Twitter thing now. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say and if the people want to see it.
Speaker 1: The people want to see it, but I'm just going
Speaker 1: to do my job as a left tackle. I still
Speaker 1: got a lot to work on. So did Jordan, do
Speaker 1: you feel better about why you played today? Um? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean I know the effort I gave today. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know the film don't lie. So I'll let
Speaker 1: you know again later on the week when I watched
Speaker 1: the film, how the angle feeling? It's great? I told you,
Speaker 1: I told you it was a stupid question, she did.
Speaker 1: What was the difference between the first half and the
Speaker 1: second half from an offensive point of view? Um, I
Speaker 1: think that's I think with the short turnaround, I think
Speaker 1: you could really feel the effects of that short turnaround
Speaker 1: in the first half. Sorry excuse me. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was just the rhythm. Rhythm was off.
Speaker 1: So once we came back out in the in the
Speaker 1: second half and we found that rhythm again, you know,
Speaker 1: we just kept it going and it was great. It
Speaker 1: was good fun. Jason Kelsey's speech last night, what can
Speaker 1: you tell us about that? Press on? Yeah, effort to
Speaker 1: the whistle, effort to the end of the play, Just
Speaker 1: press on, keep pressing on. Why is Jason such a
Speaker 1: good messenger for that because he believes in it. And
Speaker 1: when you have somebody who believes in somebody so much
Speaker 1: and you listen to him, you believe it yourself. He
Speaker 1: ins biased people. You know, you know, statistically right now
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, I mean, does that mean anything to you?
Speaker 1: At this point? The only thing that means the most
Speaker 1: is the next game. You know, we're gonna look at
Speaker 1: this film, We're gonna make the corrections, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna move on to the next game, because that's the
Speaker 1: most important. Lane the kind of guy kind of like
Speaker 1: logging for a while to I can get a chance
Speaker 1: to the sport time shown. No, he's not that kind
Speaker 1: of guy. Lane just puts his head down and works.
Speaker 1: It's one of the hardest workers in the room. Gifted athletically,
Speaker 1: he's insane. So he just puts his head down, he
Speaker 1: works hard. We watch him. He inspires us, and then
Speaker 1: you know, we figure out these strict plays and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, what about me? Like okay, I'll just play
Speaker 1: left tackle, So you know, it's all good. How big
Speaker 1: a deal was the tournament with tat you think about
Speaker 1: all this happen about this team more than the past
Speaker 1: six seven days. What have you learn about this perseverance
Speaker 1: and even just Kelsey's message to press on, to keep
Speaker 1: pressing on next play mentality, Um, you know the grit
Speaker 1: of this team, you can feel it, how guess, passion
Speaker 1: for that for each other, you know, building that brotherhood.
Speaker 1: That's that's the one thing that you know. Coach Sirianni
Speaker 1: emphasizes us on building that that brotherhood and you can
Speaker 1: feel it in the critical parts of the game when
Speaker 1: when you need to lean on each other special teams
Speaker 1: making plays, defense making plays. You know, you just play
Speaker 1: for each other. I think the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: we were starting to notice that and we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: building on it. Was that How big was that turnover
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the third quarter? Nick said, it
Speaker 1: really uh, maybe spice the offense a little bit too.
Speaker 1: Rodney Mcloud's pick, Oh, roddy, I was like which one? Sorry?
Speaker 1: I was like, which one? Uh, he's kind of foggy. Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was important. It was very important that we got
Speaker 1: that very crucial moment of the game, and we had
Speaker 1: to make sure that we capitalize on it. You know,
Speaker 1: we get gifted a pick like that, kind of let
Speaker 1: it go to waste. So the momentum definitely shifted from
Speaker 1: then on and then we just pressed on. Thanks guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a clown Roundney McLoud start a second after that
Speaker 1: was huge. Uh, you know, coming out in the second half,
Speaker 1: to be able to put our team in the position
Speaker 1: that I was able to, I think it created a
Speaker 1: lot of momentum. And that's what we talked about a half,
Speaker 1: just coming out man and really showing who wanted it more. Um,
Speaker 1: And so now I think we responded the right way.
Speaker 1: My interception helped and then we just kept rolling from there.
Speaker 1: How about on Alex's interception, the one you fucked? What
Speaker 1: was that play? Yeah? So they ran a lot of
Speaker 1: empty sets today and a few times most of the
Speaker 1: time they were doing option routes with Tony backside, so
Speaker 1: Sing and I, you know, talked about I think something
Speaker 1: happened before that they didn't run and they lined in
Speaker 1: that formation, and uh, we said, hey, you know, if
Speaker 1: he goes out, you know, I'm jumping it myself. If
Speaker 1: he comes in, then you know, he'll be in the spot.
Speaker 1: And happened to make a great play. I she was
Speaker 1: looking for the ball on the ground because I knew
Speaker 1: I broke it up. I didn't know it got in
Speaker 1: um that he picked it. I just see him running, man,
Speaker 1: and it was another huge play for us. Ronnie. After
Speaker 1: that Las Vegas game, you spoke to the team the
Speaker 1: center you committed to making ron I know it's not
Speaker 1: over again. You guys are heard. We're sitting here, eat seven.
Speaker 1: What change just our continue belief in one another, us
Speaker 1: figuring out ways to get better as individuals to help
Speaker 1: this team out. And you know, it took a lot
Speaker 1: of hard work to put us back in this position
Speaker 1: that we're in today. But like you just said, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's far from over and all we can do
Speaker 1: is just take it one step at the time. That's
Speaker 1: been our mindset as we've been in this playoff mode,
Speaker 1: right and just take it one game at a time.
Speaker 1: And we do that, man, we'll end up what we
Speaker 1: need to be. The Giants are having to like ten
Speaker 1: points a game over the last five Do you ever
Speaker 1: think they can move the ball on you guys like
Speaker 1: where they ever? Did everythink they were a real threat?
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, they have a lot of great players
Speaker 1: over there, you know, who've proven themselves in this league,
Speaker 1: So you never can take that for granted, and understanding
Speaker 1: that you gotta put records, you know beside um, you know,
Speaker 1: records aside. They're gonna show up and they're going to
Speaker 1: play hard, right because one it's an NFL game. Two
Speaker 1: were very profit individuals, and it's a division opponent, So
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect. I think we just
Speaker 1: came out man and dominated from start to finish. A
Speaker 1: memorable reactions to Lane Johnson's touchdown on the sideline that
Speaker 1: man pressive hands. I'm like jennerally, you gotta take some
Speaker 1: zip off the ball man, It's it's alignment. But he
Speaker 1: put his hands up there, he caught it. I was
Speaker 1: a hype for man, very excited to see him scores
Speaker 1: first touchdown. I thought he was gonna give us, show
Speaker 1: us some of his dance moves, but I think he
Speaker 1: just jumped in the crowd. But that was pretty cool
Speaker 1: to see. After Malcolm left before last season and then
Speaker 1: losing Brandon, you know early this season, did you feel
Speaker 1: like you needed to take on a greater leadership role
Speaker 1: that you feel like you just kind of needed to
Speaker 1: continue to be the guy you've always been. How did
Speaker 1: their kind of absences affect when you thought your role
Speaker 1: in defense rooms. And those are two great players, you know,
Speaker 1: who've made a lot of plays for the Seagul's defense
Speaker 1: over the years since I've been here. But I feel
Speaker 1: as though I just needed to continue to just be myself,
Speaker 1: allowed my voice to be heard when needed, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the teams responded well. It always hurts when
Speaker 1: you lose a guy like Brandon, guy that caliber, who's
Speaker 1: played in a lot of games and contributed at a
Speaker 1: very high level. So we just always say next man up, though,
Speaker 1: and that's what you've seen. Younger guys on that D
Speaker 1: line stepped up and filled the shoes and and we've
Speaker 1: now relied on guys like Sweating and Derek our Net
Speaker 1: to play a lot more than maybe they were asked initially.
Speaker 1: So it's been good. And obviously we're starting to hit
Speaker 1: our shod when we needed the most at these for
Speaker 1: these meaningful games playing Robbie, I think we're playing, I
Speaker 1: mean very well right now. Uh, you know, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is reset. Um, you know it's gonna be another
Speaker 1: challenge next week versus good Washington offense. They'll have you know,
Speaker 1: their quarterback back and we have to show up nobody
Speaker 1: cares what we did this week or last week. It's
Speaker 1: all about what you do that that next Sunday. First
Speaker 1: time speaking to you in a few weeks. You were
Speaker 1: one of the guys who was not happy with the
Speaker 1: game being pushed back, of course, and then and then
Speaker 1: obviously Nick was out this week. How didn't think you
Speaker 1: guys handled as six days? I think we handled it
Speaker 1: the best way that we could. And then the day,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us were happy about it,
Speaker 1: but the stage was set. Those are the cars that
Speaker 1: we were held, and we're pros man and at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, we could line up
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, we can line up on Saturday. It's all
Speaker 1: about how we show up, how we prepare, and how
Speaker 1: we execute come game day. We heard Jason Kelsey give
Speaker 1: a lot of speeches over the years, had it last night.
Speaker 1: Compare very emotional, and that's what you expect from guy
Speaker 1: like Kelsey. You know, he he's very passionate about this game.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of respect for him, and his
Speaker 1: words were felt and it was heard loud and clear,
Speaker 1: and so you know, we went out and today was
Speaker 1: exactly what he talked about. Perseverance, pushing through. Uh didn't
Speaker 1: start off the way that we all envisioned it was.
Speaker 1: It was hard. I mean you heard the booze going on. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was tough. But we stuck with it, hung in
Speaker 1: there and found a way. I mean, I've been here
Speaker 1: for a while, I know how it goes here. Uh,
Speaker 1: Philly man, this passionate city. But they love us dearly
Speaker 1: and you gotta love it. The effects of the quick turnaround?
Speaker 1: Huh did you did you or do you feel like
Speaker 1: your defense felt the effects of the quick turnaround? Jordan
Speaker 1: might a loot of said or it might have been
Speaker 1: Jordan been somebody else. So yeah, you know you could
Speaker 1: tell them first half that there was a quick turnaround. Man, defensively,
Speaker 1: I felt like and we didn't. We didn't blink. We
Speaker 1: just we understood what this simon was, what the mission was,
Speaker 1: and uh we made that choice and decision that we
Speaker 1: weren't leaving out leaving out of here with nothing short
Speaker 1: than to win. So M proud of the defense, the
Speaker 1: way we played, proud of the entire team because, like
Speaker 1: I said, no matter who they have out there, um,
Speaker 1: it's hard to do, you know, to play the way
Speaker 1: that we did and dominate a team on the way
Speaker 1: that we did today. So uh, you know, twenty four
Speaker 1: hour rule, We'll enjoy it. But also on the Washington
Speaker 1: good big veteran presence from Ronnie McLeod the past few weeks,
Speaker 1: especially since he returned from injury. We had to remember
Speaker 1: the season started without Rodney McLoud, so to see the
Speaker 1: way that he has really stepped up and grown with
Speaker 1: this defense. Along with this defense, especially when you're missing
Speaker 1: the big voices like the Brandon Grahams in a season
Speaker 1: like this, yeah, it's great to see Rodney has found
Speaker 1: his voice. You know, quiet leaders are also effective leaders
Speaker 1: when you have other guys that can be the guys
Speaker 1: that get up in front of the team and do
Speaker 1: the majority of speaking just because they're comfortable with it.
Speaker 1: It allows the quiet leaders to lead by example, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what Rodney has done during his time
Speaker 1: as an Eagle. It doesn't mean he hasn't been one
Speaker 1: of the better leaders on the team. It's just you
Speaker 1: got guys like Fletcher, you got Malcolm, you got Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: and Jordan Hicks was here like he's been here for
Speaker 1: a while. We forget how long Rodney McLoud has been
Speaker 1: here and it's great to see that he has a
Speaker 1: voice in a locker room. You know, he reminds me
Speaker 1: of It reminds me of Quentin Michael, who was a
Speaker 1: very good leader on this team. Came here as an
Speaker 1: undrafted player, but also came into a locker room and
Speaker 1: in the defense that had enough vocal leaders that he
Speaker 1: didn't have to necessarily be the guy. But he was
Speaker 1: a sponge soaked it all up, understood what it meant
Speaker 1: to be a leader of this team. And when those
Speaker 1: guys left, when the Brian Dawkins left, when the Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Trotters left, Quentin Michael's voice became bigger, particularly on that
Speaker 1: side of the football. And it doesn't mean he wasn't
Speaker 1: a good leader earlier. It just means other people were
Speaker 1: doing it. And that's I kind of feel where Rodney.
Speaker 1: He's always had this ability. He sees that this team
Speaker 1: this year needs him to be one of the guys
Speaker 1: to step up. It can't be Fletcher all the time.
Speaker 1: You gotta have another voice there. And Rodney has the resume.
Speaker 1: He's won a championship, He's played in big games, he
Speaker 1: has the respect of the young players on his team,
Speaker 1: and Jordan Milotta was on Eagles Game Plan this week
Speaker 1: talking about Jason Kelsey and said, he's a guy that
Speaker 1: makes everybody right around him, not just offensive lineman, but receivers,
Speaker 1: tight ends, a quarterback, everybody. And I feel like Rodney
Speaker 1: has that effect on defense. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: it's a coincidence that the defensive turnaround started happening when
Speaker 1: he got inserted back in the lineup. He does a
Speaker 1: lot of hidden things that I don't think we were
Speaker 1: gonna notice on the outside, but he's one of those
Speaker 1: fixers on the back end of this defense. And when
Speaker 1: you look at what's ahead for the Eagles, Rodney McLoud
Speaker 1: was asked about it being touched on it. There's two
Speaker 1: games to go. They're both nfc S opponents, ones at home,
Speaker 1: ones on the road, and they're in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are in full control of what happens next,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be up to the Rodney Mclouds and
Speaker 1: the Jason Kelsey's to get this team through this push
Speaker 1: in this final stretch, because, like you said, they've been here,
Speaker 1: done that, and we mentioned this earlier on the Kickoff Show.
Speaker 1: This coaching staff has done a great job and riding
Speaker 1: with these young players, letting them go through the ups
Speaker 1: and downs of a season. But now it's up to
Speaker 1: these veteran guys to pull them through. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think the coaching staff has done a great job leaning
Speaker 1: on their veterans, right. There's a lot of coaches that
Speaker 1: are here that are in new positions, right, and they
Speaker 1: for a team that was supposed to be growing as
Speaker 1: a young team and with sort of moderate to lower expectations,
Speaker 1: they have exceeded those expectations and now they find themselves
Speaker 1: and off run. Well. This is new for a lot
Speaker 1: of them, except for the guys that have won a
Speaker 1: championship here. So now it's time to lean on those
Speaker 1: guys as well to make sure that their message is
Speaker 1: getting through to the rest of the players on the team.
Speaker 1: It's not a position we like being in every year,
Speaker 1: except for the fact that we have something to play
Speaker 1: for and this team has the grit. I think they
Speaker 1: have the character when you look at the veterans on
Speaker 1: this team that they know that there's something special that
Speaker 1: they can accomplish. But you can't put the cart before
Speaker 1: the horse. They understand that they took care of business
Speaker 1: this week, not ideal circumstances. They didn't let it become
Speaker 1: a distraction. Now you get back to a full week
Speaker 1: of preparation getting ready for this Washington football team, and
Speaker 1: believe me, they know what's ahead of them, they know
Speaker 1: what's at stake. They just don't need to necessarily talk
Speaker 1: about it and put it out there for everyone else.
Speaker 1: We'll do that for them. And it's not just the
Speaker 1: pregame speeches or the night of the night before in
Speaker 1: the locker or in the in the hotel where Jason
Speaker 1: Kelsey speaks to the whole team where parts off on
Speaker 1: the young guys. It's the every day it's the grunt
Speaker 1: work stuff that nobody else sees but your teammates see.
Speaker 1: So Jason Kelsey setting that example for younger offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: and you go right down the list all of those veterans.
Speaker 1: This is when you're leaning on them most. But it's
Speaker 1: the everyday stuff. It's not just the stuff under the lights.
Speaker 1: I think it was interesting too, how these players have
Speaker 1: all said that they've been through a lot this season,
Speaker 1: and you kind of forget because of the success that
Speaker 1: they've had recently. You have to remember they started it
Speaker 1: off two and five. I mean there was a lot
Speaker 1: of criticism surrounding this team. Obviously, injuries are part of
Speaker 1: the game, and you never want to see players who
Speaker 1: go down, but it happens, right. You don't want to
Speaker 1: lose Brandon Graham in the beginning of the season, but
Speaker 1: you did, and then you're dealing with injuries along the
Speaker 1: offensive line that you don't want to deal with. But
Speaker 1: to see that they can now end the season with
Speaker 1: nine or ten wins, the turnaround has been quite impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's why I will lean more towards the coaches,
Speaker 1: because that's really where their impact has come in. And
Speaker 1: when you're in that first year, it's very easy to
Speaker 1: start a second guessing yourself, switching everything up and sort
Speaker 1: of getting out of character. They seem to have stuck
Speaker 1: to the game plan. I don't see any finger pointing
Speaker 1: going on. There is no in fighting going on. Everybody
Speaker 1: is in this thing together. They believe in the coaches,
Speaker 1: and that's big when you're going through tough times. It's
Speaker 1: the only way you're going to fight out of those
Speaker 1: tough times. It is by doing it together, not by
Speaker 1: pointing fingers. That's one of the things that I've liked
Speaker 1: about this team that I'm impressed with, with a young
Speaker 1: coaching staff that's getting this first opportunity. Is that in
Speaker 1: this city, when adversity hits, it can spiral out of control,
Speaker 1: it can snowball. Doesn't seem like that has happened with
Speaker 1: this team, with this coaching staff, and the credit should
Speaker 1: go to Nick Sirianni and his staff, because when things
Speaker 1: aren't going well, it's up to those guys to really
Speaker 1: set a tone and be an example for other players.
Speaker 1: When the coaches don't point fingers, when the coaches don't
Speaker 1: get out of character, the players know that they need
Speaker 1: to stay focused and stay in character. And it seems
Speaker 1: like that's what's happened with this football team, and that's
Speaker 1: why they find themselves in this position. And it's something
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like when people talk about it
Speaker 1: on the outside and media, it's always about, Oh, he
Speaker 1: lost the locker room and the coach lost the locker room.
Speaker 1: Everything you just said gets umbrella in that one little
Speaker 1: four phrase sentence. And I think when you look at
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni and this coaching staff and what they've done,
Speaker 1: they've pushed all the right buttons with this team and
Speaker 1: the veterans have kind of repaid that with how they
Speaker 1: have played, with how they have acted, and you see
Speaker 1: the young players off following suit. We can continue to
Speaker 1: see players get better throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 1: young players and even the young veterans as well, continuing
Speaker 1: to improve on both offense and defense in this new scheme.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to know what both of you think about
Speaker 1: what we learned from this team today, because, like we
Speaker 1: kind of touched on, things did look different than what
Speaker 1: we've been used to the past few weeks. Good special
Speaker 1: team's performance for the most part, good passing game, the
Speaker 1: defense really holding down two running backs again who have
Speaker 1: had success in the National Football League. So I'm just
Speaker 1: curious to know what you think we learned from the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. For me, I think we learned that there
Speaker 1: are some fight and some grit to this team. You know,
Speaker 1: we talk about this team trying to, you know, carve
Speaker 1: out its identity and figure out who they are. Well,
Speaker 1: some of that applies to schemes out there on the field,
Speaker 1: production out there on the field, but also some of
Speaker 1: that applies to the intangibles, and you know, you may
Speaker 1: be a certain way as a makeup of a team
Speaker 1: early in the season because there's a lot of unknown there.
Speaker 1: But as the season goes, you start out to form
Speaker 1: an identity as well as whether or not you're a
Speaker 1: tough team, a team that will throw in the towel
Speaker 1: when things aren't going well, whether or not you're a
Speaker 1: team that will fight back, play for sixty minutes, all
Speaker 1: those things that coaches like the US to identify what
Speaker 1: their characteristics that their players are. Well. I think with
Speaker 1: this team, I've I've been pleasantly surprised at the amount
Speaker 1: of grit and fight that I'm seeing from the young players.
Speaker 1: I already know what's there with Jason Kelsey, Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, all these guys, but it's the younger guys
Speaker 1: that you just don't know how they're going to respond
Speaker 1: and react to things until they're placed in that position.
Speaker 1: And the quarterback is one of those guys that he's
Speaker 1: been under the microscope all year long, and when things
Speaker 1: aren't going well, he isn't pointing fingers, he isn't making excuses,
Speaker 1: He's working hard, he puts his head down, and I
Speaker 1: think that rubs off on the rest of the players,
Speaker 1: particularly on that young offensive side of the football. To me,
Speaker 1: I learned that this team found another way to be
Speaker 1: able to win a football game, And I think good
Speaker 1: football teams find ways to win games outside of what
Speaker 1: that blueprint has been, and what has the blueprint been
Speaker 1: over the last couple of months. They're gonna run the
Speaker 1: heck out of the football, they're gonna control the clock,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play a fishing defense. Well, the Eagles
Speaker 1: lost the time of possesion battle today. They didn't run
Speaker 1: for one hundred fifty yards. They didn't hit that one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five yard mark that they had done
Speaker 1: for the previous seven games. So I think looking at
Speaker 1: the way this team won defense, special teams were making
Speaker 1: some big players when it mattered, and the offense being opportunistic.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to be able to come out
Speaker 1: and win a football game when things don't go well
Speaker 1: with that. We're actually going to hear from the quarterback
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is at the podium two halves. Yeah, I think, Um,
Speaker 1: it's another week where we we've kind of come out
Speaker 1: and obviously not executed like we wanted to. Um. But um,
Speaker 1: I've always admired from day one the fight of this team,
Speaker 1: the residency of this team, to grit and pressive perseverance
Speaker 1: of of this team. And UM, you know, you look
Speaker 1: at this football team right now and I just think
Speaker 1: we have so much character, UM, so much character and
Speaker 1: how we do things, how we operate on what we
Speaker 1: strive for, how we work every day, UM, and how
Speaker 1: we're able to overcome so UM. I was very happy
Speaker 1: about that today. For while they offense started so slowly
Speaker 1: in the first half. UM, it starts with me. It
Speaker 1: starts with me. UM has some different things we just
Speaker 1: didn't execute, but we put it together, made some big plays, UM,
Speaker 1: and UM put up put up some points challenge. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: oh man, UM, I mean one of the greatest and
Speaker 1: obviously I can't hear UM. And I always talk about
Speaker 1: how how much it means to me to be able
Speaker 1: to play for it, for this organization and UM knowing
Speaker 1: you know, the great great due with three quarterbacks I've
Speaker 1: had come before me, UM, Mike vic Me, Nabbed five
Speaker 1: and and randall count of him. And I just want to,
Speaker 1: you know, play at a high level and make them
Speaker 1: proud because they come before me, don't you see on
Speaker 1: the plane and how I have the one of you
Speaker 1: guys to see him. Well, well, I'll just say this,
Speaker 1: I know Lane Age, UM he's been I mean, y'all,
Speaker 1: whoever votes, they vote, they motivated him. He's very motivated
Speaker 1: all week UM by not not making the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: And UM, I mean I'm happy he got him one. UM.
Speaker 1: I know, I know he just so we stayed jerseys
Speaker 1: after the game. Actually, UM, because I've never thrown a
Speaker 1: touchdown to an offensive tackle. UM, but he's a freak athlete, UM,
Speaker 1: but never thrown a touchdown to offensive tackle. And I
Speaker 1: gave my jersey, UM signed that, gave it to him,
Speaker 1: and he gives me his jersey and leaves it in
Speaker 1: my locker. UM, and he wrote on there, he said, UM,
Speaker 1: when I caught that ball, I didn't know what. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what to think. All I could think was
Speaker 1: what CHALL know about them Texas Boys, And UM, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just so so so much fun to see
Speaker 1: him UM out there making plays like that and obviously
Speaker 1: UM playing at such a high level like he has
Speaker 1: all year at tackle, and UM, I know, you know,
Speaker 1: he may not be in the Pro Bowl, but I
Speaker 1: know he better be first team All Pro. UM the
Speaker 1: player he is now. I worked out with laying a
Speaker 1: lot in the offseason. So, um, he was, he was,
Speaker 1: he was equipped and well prepared practice. Yeah, played a
Speaker 1: quarterback in high school. You're telling that that moment meant
Speaker 1: more to the team because of what Lean kind of
Speaker 1: battle back from and went through this season. Well, I
Speaker 1: think I think it's a testimony of of of of
Speaker 1: presseverance and um, obviously being strong, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And and Lane knows that his teammates has his back.
Speaker 1: You knows I have I have his back, and going
Speaker 1: through the things that he went through earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: obviously being able to come back and be with us
Speaker 1: and um, you know, be a big part of our
Speaker 1: football team in our offense. Um, I'm happy for him,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy that he's good. I'm happy he got
Speaker 1: an Z on the day other touchdown past. What do
Speaker 1: you notice about Devonte DeVante's for work and it's awareness?
Speaker 1: So well, that's a big time playing. That's a big
Speaker 1: time playing the big time moment in the game. And um,
Speaker 1: that's two weeks in a row he's made big, big
Speaker 1: time toe tapping plays. Um, dragging that foot And it's
Speaker 1: something we practice all the time. We preach all the time. So, um, DeVante,
Speaker 1: you know he may be in his first year, but
Speaker 1: you know he he's a he's a true pro im
Speaker 1: how prepares and on the different things that may come
Speaker 1: up in the game. So, um, big time play back
Speaker 1: to where you find the game when you had two
Speaker 1: carries as a starter. Um, I guess what's the reason
Speaker 1: for that? And it's that something that that's gonna change
Speaker 1: going forward. I'm sorry to have only two carries for
Speaker 1: you as a starter. That's that's just kind of how
Speaker 1: the game went. It's how to kind of how the
Speaker 1: game went. He's that because of the ankle. Was that
Speaker 1: the game is just kind of how the game win.
Speaker 1: Did the referees explain why they need to further review
Speaker 1: the touchdown throw to Davante at all? What was going
Speaker 1: on in the field where you guys were waiting And
Speaker 1: I was a little I was a little confused on that.
Speaker 1: But um, I mean I thought it was a catch. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a catch whom we got it. We got
Speaker 1: it in a nice job as the quest you know,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to have got the receivers were
Speaker 1: able to make plays on balls up in the air. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a big thing. UM. It's it's
Speaker 1: a big thing for for those guys to be able
Speaker 1: to go up there and make those plays. And I
Speaker 1: tell them that I might trust them, um, regardless, UM,
Speaker 1: regardless of what's going on, regardless of who's saying this,
Speaker 1: I trust them to go out there and make plays. UM,
Speaker 1: and they and they do. UM. You know you're gonna
Speaker 1: have You're gonna have your mis misques, You're gonna have
Speaker 1: some jobs here and there. But that doesn't phase me
Speaker 1: and my belief in the receivers, everybody on the field,
Speaker 1: your expectations for yourself heading in of the season, for
Speaker 1: the team, and how close have you and a team
Speaker 1: come to meeting those? So well around the question. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you honestly, UM, I stand a moment everything. Um.
Speaker 1: Everybody has goals, Everybody has dreams and things that they
Speaker 1: want to accomplish. UM. You know, we put so much's
Speaker 1: work into this so UM there are big dreams and
Speaker 1: big goals that we want to achieve. But right now
Speaker 1: in this moment, UM, just happy, UM kind of bounce back,
Speaker 1: UM and found a way to win this game and
Speaker 1: winning a good fashion and UM, we'll enjoy for twenty
Speaker 1: five hours and move on to it to play Washington
Speaker 1: at Washington talking about you know, when you have a
Speaker 1: good game, you talk about whether you want or not.
Speaker 1: When you have a bad game, we talk about whether
Speaker 1: you want to The winning seems to be the only
Speaker 1: thing that really matters to you. You guys are a
Speaker 1: winning team now for the first time, and uh, I
Speaker 1: think you're qualified for the playoffs that have it. If
Speaker 1: it ended today, off, I'm gonna cut you off. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cut you off. I'm not I'm not in the
Speaker 1: business of talking about anything but being in the moment
Speaker 1: um and everything that we do. UM, it's it's focus
Speaker 1: on getting better every day and being one to know
Speaker 1: every day. And we know as a football team, if
Speaker 1: we control the things that we can control, UM should
Speaker 1: be all right. So UM, any external factors, any rat
Speaker 1: poison out there, you know, everybody, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really care for it. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: hear it. Um. We we know as a football team,
Speaker 1: and I know in my heart that we've yet to
Speaker 1: play our best game. We've yet to put it all together, UM,
Speaker 1: and we're striving for that, and I know it'll come
Speaker 1: at the right time. But we're striving for that. So
Speaker 1: he already June on the passing which Dallas got to
Speaker 1: open on the bus to cover. And how did you
Speaker 1: how did you see it? Well, put the play in, um,
Speaker 1: and we're respecting. We're respecting seven bracket, So basically twenty nine.
Speaker 1: The safety McKinney from Alabama, he's bracketting rager and they're
Speaker 1: playing kind of ending out right, but they're in quarters
Speaker 1: cover seven, so you got to find a single maybe,
Speaker 1: But in the play what I was coached to do,
Speaker 1: just go through it as a pre progression or at
Speaker 1: the shallow to the running back coming only throw that
Speaker 1: versus a certain look, UM, and shallow popped UM and
Speaker 1: Kenney fell off and drove on the shallow after I
Speaker 1: threw the ball. So McKinney made a really good play
Speaker 1: and he busted the coverage backside, so he was wide
Speaker 1: open over there. So my prestable look did not give me,
Speaker 1: um what I wanted to throw the corner to Dallas,
Speaker 1: but definitely looking after the fact, Um, it's easy to
Speaker 1: say throw them the ball, but um, hey, you're gonna
Speaker 1: miss something like that, you know. And and as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you want to play on schedule and get the ball
Speaker 1: on on time and try your best to do that. Um,
Speaker 1: and just trust your preparation and your reason your progressions. UM.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have guys that pop, but UM, you
Speaker 1: got to try and stay on schedule and do those things,
Speaker 1: and UM, you know those happened. Dylan Hurts likes to
Speaker 1: stay in the present, but we're gonna look a little
Speaker 1: bit in the past while we have a few more
Speaker 1: minutes left of the show. Earlier today, friend broke down
Speaker 1: one of the big defensive plays earlier on in the
Speaker 1: game and this week's freak O Review. All right, so
Speaker 1: this week here on the Rico Review, I want to
Speaker 1: go back to the very first third down of the
Speaker 1: game for the Seagles defense again holding the New York
Speaker 1: Giants just three points in the first half, and a
Speaker 1: big part of that was their excess on third down.
Speaker 1: And I thought they really mixed up some looks against
Speaker 1: a young quarterback in Jake From first third down of
Speaker 1: the game, it's third and long, and you could see
Speaker 1: the Eagles they're showing pressure here. There's the potential threat
Speaker 1: for a number of different blitzers from the second level.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot now that quarterback Jake from and
Speaker 1: this Giants offensive line has to handle. Now at the
Speaker 1: snap of the ball, what I think is happening is
Speaker 1: the Giants have double chips called in here just to
Speaker 1: help out these offensive tackles. You're gonna see at the
Speaker 1: top that the tight end he's gonna help out with
Speaker 1: a little bit of a chip here on Derek Barnett,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get the running back. He's also gonna
Speaker 1: have eyes on Josh Sweat as well, just to kind
Speaker 1: of help out that offensive tackle if necessary. Now, what
Speaker 1: happens with offensive tackles and think that they've got chip
Speaker 1: help on their outside, they might make sure that they
Speaker 1: protect that inside shoulder, thinking hey, I've got a running
Speaker 1: back helping my outside. So we're gonna get back to
Speaker 1: that here in a little bit. Let's get into what
Speaker 1: the Eagles are doing defensively, because again you've got Rodney McLeod, TJ. Edwards,
Speaker 1: and Jenard Avery all walked up close to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage with the threat of all of these guys coming. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously not all of them are going to blitz, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna see t. J. Edwards he's gonna get out
Speaker 1: of there. Rodney McLeod, he's gonna drop out as well.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have a nice t T stunt tackle tackle stunt,
Speaker 1: so you have Fletcher Cox and Hargrave both working inside,
Speaker 1: and then you also have Jenard Avery looping back around
Speaker 1: as well, and he's gonna loop into that B gap.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let this run for a second and let's
Speaker 1: just see how all of this plays out again. You've
Speaker 1: got that chip from the tight end at the top
Speaker 1: of the screen. The offensive tackle at the bottom. He's
Speaker 1: also expecting some chip help, and you can see he's
Speaker 1: kind of undersetting. He's letting Josh Sweat take that outside
Speaker 1: angle because he thinks that he's got that running back helping.
Speaker 1: But look at those running backs eyes. Where is he going.
Speaker 1: He's got to handle the blitzer because Jenard Avery, who
Speaker 1: started here, he's looping inside right into that B gap.
Speaker 1: So the running back he can't help with the chip
Speaker 1: on Josh Sweat. He has to pick up the blitzer,
Speaker 1: so that leaves Josh Sweat while all one with the
Speaker 1: offensive tackle and he's able to run the hoop here
Speaker 1: and get home to Jake from impacts. This throw forces
Speaker 1: an incomplete pass and the Eagles get off the field
Speaker 1: on third down. One of many examples of how not
Speaker 1: all pass rush is about sacks. You love to get
Speaker 1: pressures and find ways to be able to get off
Speaker 1: the field. Here Josh wet get to hit on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: forces the incomplete pass and the Eagles force a punt.
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Speaker 1: here we go. Three nominees talked about him all night.
Speaker 1: Ronnie McCloud coming up with that big interception to light
Speaker 1: the fire to start the second half. Next up we
Speaker 1: got the rook DeVante Smith. Five receptions for eighty yards
Speaker 1: and of course that touchdown. And lastly, Josh Sweat making
Speaker 1: an appearance this week. Four total tackles and a sack.
Speaker 1: What do we think, Well, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: deepens a side of the ball. I thought. Rodney McCloud
Speaker 1: really changed this game with that interception early in the
Speaker 1: second half, and it gave the Eagles the opportunity to
Speaker 1: get their first touchdown of the game, and I thought
Speaker 1: from that point they didn't look back. I thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna go Davante Smith for sure. I thought you
Speaker 1: were going Slim Ray for there. I am going to
Speaker 1: go with Rodney McLoud. I'll will with the fixer there.
Speaker 1: I think that big play was really the catalyst moving forward.
Speaker 1: I will get your votes in Eagles fans. And here's
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Speaker 1: Eagles dot com Slash Voice. Now it's time to look ahead, Okay,
Speaker 1: tonight's Jamison nightcap. We're gonna look at Sunday's opponent, and
Speaker 1: it looks a little familiar, the Washington football team. This
Speaker 1: would be the third game the Eagles have played in
Speaker 1: thirteen days when they hit the road to take on
Speaker 1: the Washington's football team on Sunday, January second, at one o'clock.
Speaker 1: Of course, they are six and eight they played tonight.
Speaker 1: If you want to know who the Eagles are seeing
Speaker 1: the final two weeks in the season June in Tonight
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football again, another huge oppert n for the
Speaker 1: Birds on the road. Yeah, and I love Jalen's demeanor,
Speaker 1: you know, when being I guess prompted to answer questions
Speaker 1: about the playoffs or what have you. He understands about
Speaker 1: the rat poison. But the bottom line is on the
Speaker 1: tht they know what the task is and they know
Speaker 1: what lies ahead for them. They just faced this team
Speaker 1: less than a week ago. They're gonna see him Sunday.
Speaker 1: They're ready for it. It's it's it's when it's when
Speaker 1: you can see the finish line there at the end,
Speaker 1: but you know you got business to take care before
Speaker 1: you get to the finish line. I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: in the right frame of mind, it won't be easy,
Speaker 1: but it won't be because they overlooked this football team.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they don't win next week, it'll be
Speaker 1: because Washington came out and earn it. It feels like
Speaker 1: just this week we were talking about Washington, right. Really,
Speaker 1: I think it's such a unique situation with such a
Speaker 1: short turnaround. But you'll take a Washington down the road.
Speaker 1: Their last road game here of the regular season here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Yeah, and they've been pretty good
Speaker 1: on the road this year, so hopefully they'll get another
Speaker 1: one to close out their road schedule. That'll do it
Speaker 1: for us here on the postgame show. Be sure to
Speaker 1: join us on the Cakeoff Show next Sunday before the
Speaker 1: Eagles play the Washington football team. But for now, for myself,
Speaker 1: friend Duffy and I Greece, Happy holidays and go Birds.