Speaker 1: On the road to victory. Look at that the Eagles,
Speaker 1: on a short week go down to Carolina and knock
Speaker 1: off the Panthers twenty eight to twenty three to improved
Speaker 1: to five and one on the season, four and zero
Speaker 1: in the conference. Welcome to the postgame show for Jane Barrico.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker I Greas. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a game. So much to unpack from this one.
Speaker 1: A lot of analysts didn't think the Eagles could go
Speaker 1: down to Charlotte facing a red hot Panthers team that
Speaker 1: was also four and one. Gotta raise my hand, I
Speaker 1: was one. I heard you on the radio on the
Speaker 1: radio this afternoon. Facing Cam Newton, red hot, almost seven
Speaker 1: hundred passing yard, six touchdowns the last two games seem
Speaker 1: like he was coming into that twenty fifteen MVP self
Speaker 1: once again. Well, the Eagles get the job done, three
Speaker 1: interceptions and stand up at the end forcing the turnover
Speaker 1: Undowns to come out with the victory thanks to two
Speaker 1: key turnovers in the red zone, which both led to
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz touchdowns from Carson wentz Ike. The Eagles have
Speaker 1: an eleven day layoff until they come back home Monday,
Speaker 1: the twenty third, to face to watch their risques five
Speaker 1: and one. How about that? I mean, just an incredible
Speaker 1: win to go on the road on a short week
Speaker 1: planning against the team that's been planned just as well
Speaker 1: as the Eagles have been planned so far this year.
Speaker 1: The Carolina Panthers came into this game on a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hot streak with two impressive wins on
Speaker 1: the road. I thought this would be a tough one
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Great news prior to the game, starting
Speaker 1: getting Fletcher Cox back, he set the tone early for
Speaker 1: the way this defense was gonna play. They were in
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's face all night long, forcing turnovers and that's
Speaker 1: really where this ball game was won, on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. With forcing turnovers shorten the field
Speaker 1: for your offense, giving them opportunities to go up against
Speaker 1: this stout Carolina Panthers defense. Now, the Panthers defense top
Speaker 1: five and both run and pass, and so you're gonna
Speaker 1: need short fields to work against this team. And the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense was able to get that for their offense tonight,
Speaker 1: and then their offense was able to capitalize on it
Speaker 1: with getting touchdowns instead of field goals. Tonight. Just a
Speaker 1: great performance by this team. And when you're gonna win
Speaker 1: like this, it starts with the head man. Kudos to
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson for having his guys ready to play once again.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much doubt is remaining out there
Speaker 1: about Doug as a head coach, but tonight should have
Speaker 1: raced all doubt as to whether or not this guy
Speaker 1: has the chops to coach in this league? Can he
Speaker 1: get his guys ready to play in a big game.
Speaker 1: Great job from Doug and his coaching staff on a
Speaker 1: short week having his team ready to go. They looked
Speaker 1: like the more aggressive team tonight. They looked like the
Speaker 1: fresher team tonight, and it showed in their play. Carolina
Speaker 1: was sloppy on offense, Eagles took advantage of them on defense. Wow,
Speaker 1: I thought, listen, I thought last week's win against I
Speaker 1: mean Sunday's win against the Cardinals was impressive. To go
Speaker 1: on the road against this football team, This is a
Speaker 1: big win. This is a statement. It seemed like on
Speaker 1: Sunday we were saying that was a statement win. To
Speaker 1: demolish a team like the Arizona Cardinals of veteran leaden
Speaker 1: team coming to your house. You jump on them early,
Speaker 1: you stay on them throughout the course of the game,
Speaker 1: and you don't let them back into it. Everyone said, Wow,
Speaker 1: that was a signature moment. Phenomenal performance by Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Great job by Doug Peterson. But four days later to
Speaker 1: follow it up with that type of effort, Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: you mentioned, deserves a ton of kudos. One of the
Speaker 1: moments I loved in that game was after the Eagles
Speaker 1: for the two point conversion. Okay, all the guys coming
Speaker 1: up to him on the sideline, Yo's great job, Thanks
Speaker 1: for making a call. Thanks for believing in us. He
Speaker 1: has the pulse of his players, and he has these
Speaker 1: guys playing at such a high confident level right now.
Speaker 1: They believe in him. He believes in all of them.
Speaker 1: For him to put his faith in there, he took
Speaker 1: point off the board, which proved to be a critical
Speaker 1: and as jucture, you don't do that typically in this league,
Speaker 1: and he did it penalty on Panther's one yard line.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he had a two point
Speaker 1: play in his bag ready to go. These coaches have
Speaker 1: talked about that in the past, that if you're gonna
Speaker 1: put the if you're gonna put the ball at the
Speaker 1: one yard line, They're gonna go for two. I thought
Speaker 1: that was just another reinforcement Doug to his players when
Speaker 1: he said sky's the limit last week, after that Panther
Speaker 1: I mean, after that Cardinal's victory. You can tell his
Speaker 1: players believe the sky is the limit. And now we're
Speaker 1: all starting to believe it as well. Wow. So in
Speaker 1: a little bit we're gonna hear from the Victoria's head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Pearson at Bank of America's Stadium down there
Speaker 1: in Charlotte, as well as from quarterback Carson Wentz. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring in the other two members of our
Speaker 1: broadcast here NFL Films, see your producer Greg co Sell
Speaker 1: and Fran Duffy to unpack this huge win over the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers in three two. Well, thank you see McK
Speaker 1: and ike and Greg. No one said it would be
Speaker 1: easy going into Charlotte taking on this FOURM one Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers team, and the Eagles come away with a huge
Speaker 1: victory on the road again, their third road win of
Speaker 1: this young season. Initial takeaways from the game. Let's start offensively.
Speaker 1: I hate these dull and interesting games. The blood Press.
Speaker 1: We gotta worry about that. But you know, I think offensively,
Speaker 1: you have to continue to look at the development of
Speaker 1: Carson Wins. He goes on the road. This is a
Speaker 1: really good Carolina team, a really good Carolina defense, even
Speaker 1: without Luke Keekley, and just his poisoned critical moments. That
Speaker 1: touchdown drive that made it I believe twenty eight sixteen
Speaker 1: when they had the third and was at sixteen, I
Speaker 1: believe her. And then he completes that to Hollands and
Speaker 1: then that starts him being four for four on that
Speaker 1: drive for eighty one yards ending with the touchdown. So
Speaker 1: just the poise in critical moments in a game in
Speaker 1: which he was under major arrests, starting right from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game. Yeah, no question. The last two
Speaker 1: weeks beforehand against the Arizona Cardins and the LA Chargers,
Speaker 1: I felt like Wentz was really in a group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't always that way. Tonight, No, tonight was not easy.
Speaker 1: I thought he missed some throws, relatively rout chaine throws
Speaker 1: that NFL quarterbacks need to make. But I think his
Speaker 1: composure is really it's wonderful to watch because you lose
Speaker 1: track of the fact that what was this is twenty
Speaker 1: second NFL start, and you know they've just won their
Speaker 1: third road game in six games in this season. And
Speaker 1: to go and win on the road no matter the opponent,
Speaker 1: and this was a high level opponent. To do that
Speaker 1: requires poise, composure, game management awareness, understanding situations, knowing what
Speaker 1: you can do, knowing what your teammates can do. This
Speaker 1: is really strong development by Carson Wentz and Greg. You
Speaker 1: and I talked about all week long, whether it was
Speaker 1: on Eagles Game Plan, whether it was on The Eagle
Speaker 1: and of the Sky podcast, about this Carolina Panthers offense
Speaker 1: and all the layers, all the blackfield action we saw
Speaker 1: the screen game was very effective for them today. The
Speaker 1: Eagles did a really good job of bottling up that
Speaker 1: offensive attack. Fletcher Cox's return, I thought was in game
Speaker 1: helped create the interception that really kind of swung the
Speaker 1: momentum back in the Eagles favor for Razul Douglas. Talk
Speaker 1: about what you saw from the defense watch it on TV. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it also all starts with their run defense,
Speaker 1: because Carolina at its course still wants to run the football.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, they can throw the ball down the
Speaker 1: field and be effective because Cam Newton has a big
Speaker 1: arm and can make those throws. But this is a
Speaker 1: team that wants to run the football and they couldn't
Speaker 1: run at all. I think it one stretch and it
Speaker 1: might have been his longest run of the game. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Stewart had a three yard run and that was a
Speaker 1: big game tonight. And then McCaffrey had a four yard
Speaker 1: run and everybody said, wow, that was their longest run
Speaker 1: of the night. So it starts up front. They didn't
Speaker 1: blitz a lot, so I think you have to give
Speaker 1: true mendous credit to that down four. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of depth, a great rotation. They were really strong tonight.
Speaker 1: Eagles lost Jordan Hicks halfway through this game. Nigel Bradham
Speaker 1: was outstanding, stand couple of huge styles. Joe Walker I
Speaker 1: thought stepped in and did well too, Absolutely no question
Speaker 1: about it. So the Eagles had some injuries, but we
Speaker 1: get Fletcher Cox back, it'll be very interesting as we
Speaker 1: go into this long week now. Preferring for the Washington Redskins,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot more to break down. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to Smack and Ike. Great point there by Frann
Speaker 1: and Gregor regarding the run defense, Okay, outside of some
Speaker 1: of the misdirection elements. Cam Newton using his legs, which
Speaker 1: we hadn't really seen much of this year. Wish you
Speaker 1: knew coming to the game, forced them undun the ball.
Speaker 1: It's Christian McCaffrey. Eight rushing yards. Yeah, Jonathan Stewart negative
Speaker 1: four on the game, Kurs Samuel eight rushing yards. I
Speaker 1: mean basically outside of Cam Newton seventy one rushing yards.
Speaker 1: He had the sixteen yard touchdown, the longest run of
Speaker 1: the game for them, they had nine rushing yards. I'm
Speaker 1: running back to nine rushing yards. This run defense talked
Speaker 1: about Michael Kendricks, Nigel Bradle I thought was phenomenal and
Speaker 1: had a key, key third down stop where Ed Dixon
Speaker 1: caught the pastor's one yard shore of the first down marker.
Speaker 1: Benny Curry very strong against the run. And I love
Speaker 1: the depth that you're seeing from the line because in
Speaker 1: the key moments there at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: you're seeing Chris Long, You're seeing Derek Barnett. How about
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett bounce it back from that penalty first gets
Speaker 1: the first sack tonight in a huge, huge situation there.
Speaker 1: I mean bo Allen stepping up. Fletcher Cox. I mean,
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox just he showed why he got paid all
Speaker 1: of that money tonight by setting a tone like you
Speaker 1: mentioned and just taking over the middle of the line there,
Speaker 1: winning up front there. I'll be I don't think the
Speaker 1: Eagles win this game without Fletcher Cox tonight. That's just
Speaker 1: how I mean. Listen, great job from our defensive line
Speaker 1: and the depth guys the last two weeks planned without electrics,
Speaker 1: they were able to hold it down, but you could
Speaker 1: tell just from a quarterback opposing quarterback standpoint, they were
Speaker 1: too comfortable in the pocket the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and we got shredded at times. And this is the
Speaker 1: impact that a cornerstone franchise type of defensive player has
Speaker 1: on your defense. You started early in the game where
Speaker 1: he was able to collapse the pocket, hit Cam Newton
Speaker 1: force an interception early, I mean, and it set the
Speaker 1: tone for what that defense was gonna play like early,
Speaker 1: having this big guy back. He's only getting credit for
Speaker 1: half a sack to night, but I thought he was
Speaker 1: around Cam Newton all night. And then it forced that
Speaker 1: Panther's offensive line to focus so much attention on him.
Speaker 1: It allowed the guys on the outside to be effective
Speaker 1: as well, and then our young guys on the back end,
Speaker 1: Razul Douglas, Jalen Mills. Great job of those guys being
Speaker 1: opportunistic on the back end getting interceptions. There had a
Speaker 1: couple of chances for other ones as well. Patrick Robinson,
Speaker 1: I still think he's been an unsung hero all season
Speaker 1: long with the way that he's played, played much higher
Speaker 1: than most people expecting him coming in. It's sort of
Speaker 1: a quiet free agent signing this offseason, but he's found
Speaker 1: his niche in his defense as a nickel guy and
Speaker 1: he's making plays every week being a solid defender, so
Speaker 1: truly an all around effort. You lose a guy like
Speaker 1: Jordan Hickson, you don't know how that's going to impact
Speaker 1: your defense. So guys like Joe Walker, nag Good who
Speaker 1: had to come in and fill in. We lost Nigel
Speaker 1: Bradham for a little while to night. Michael Kendricks had
Speaker 1: to play more snaps seventeen tackles for the Angry Bird tonight. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm pumped up as a linebacker because these guys were
Speaker 1: flying around everywhere to night, and that's what you want
Speaker 1: to say. And then we heard a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about the Panthers defense coming in the night, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: you know they are a good defense, and I think
Speaker 1: when that type of stuff proceeds a game, our defense
Speaker 1: takes notice and they want to come out there and show, hey,
Speaker 1: it's more than one. Good defense is going to take
Speaker 1: the field tonight. And I guarantee you Cam Newton and
Speaker 1: that offense realized they were up against it tonight when
Speaker 1: they had to see the game green running around, eleven heads,
Speaker 1: flying to the ball, that's the way you played championship defense.
Speaker 1: I'm just so impressed at the level of intensity that
Speaker 1: this team played with tonight on such a short week
Speaker 1: when quite frankly, it would have been very understandable had
Speaker 1: they left out of this game, would have lost, it
Speaker 1: would have been understandable. But they weren't having it. They
Speaker 1: went down there with one purpose that was to get
Speaker 1: a w Kudos to this team and the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: It got to the point at the end of the
Speaker 1: game where if the Panthers came back, he said, you
Speaker 1: know what, great effort by the Eagles for three and
Speaker 1: a half quarters, just couldn't quite finish it off. And
Speaker 1: you could point to the penalties an absurd amount of
Speaker 1: I mean, the referees helped out the Panthers every way
Speaker 1: possible tonight. Still not able. They can't get fined right now.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think about that now, like ye, but
Speaker 1: overcoming that, you know, basically just from top to bomb,
Speaker 1: every level of the defense stepping up the way it
Speaker 1: did tonight really a statement game for this unit. But again,
Speaker 1: this team has been become so resilient. Okay, that's the
Speaker 1: most impressive thing is it's not just the talent. The
Speaker 1: talent has been there, but the way they're able to
Speaker 1: gel and put everything together out there on the field.
Speaker 1: Because if they lost a close game to Carolina, short week,
Speaker 1: tough place to play, Cam's red hot, you could have
Speaker 1: understood it. Okay, anyways, said, you know what, guess what,
Speaker 1: You're still in first place in the division, no question
Speaker 1: about it. Miss Elaan Johnson. You missed Joran Hicks for
Speaker 1: most of the game. Guess what they're You know you
Speaker 1: would come back in eleven days, take care of Washington.
Speaker 1: You would have been feeling good. But you know, looking
Speaker 1: there at the numbers there real real quick there. The
Speaker 1: thing that stands out to me the red zone performance
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Two turnovers in the red zone by
Speaker 1: the Eagles, both capitalized and resulting in points. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about the defense, and an extension of that is
Speaker 1: the big difference in this game to night was the
Speaker 1: quarterback play. You know, Carson doesn't have eye popping numbers
Speaker 1: the night like he had this past week against the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. But the great thing is his defense. He
Speaker 1: gave him a short field to work with. He took
Speaker 1: care of football. Of course, we had the sack fumble
Speaker 1: early in the game. You know, Carolina Panthers, they overloaded
Speaker 1: the right side Hallepuli Baltic by tie knew he was
Speaker 1: going to be under siege tonight filling in for Lane Johnson.
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers wanted to take advantage of that. They brought
Speaker 1: extra guys to that side of our offensive line and
Speaker 1: it disrupted our offense for a little while. But the
Speaker 1: best part about that was our quarterback kept the ball
Speaker 1: out of harm's way. They made the car They made
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers drive the field all night long. And
Speaker 1: even when the Panthers got that fumble recovery earlier to night,
Speaker 1: I think, what did they get a field goal? Did
Speaker 1: they get anything? They got nothing, So no points off
Speaker 1: of that play, I mean off the turnover. So you
Speaker 1: look at the quarterback play. And this is why when
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback like Carson Wentz, you really have
Speaker 1: to take time to appreciate him, right, because it's games
Speaker 1: like this where the quarter of when they're under siege,
Speaker 1: like both of these guys were tonight. How are they
Speaker 1: going to handle this pressure? Are they gonna get rattled?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna try to do too much? Are the
Speaker 1: throws going to start to sell on you? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna make aaron passes? And you saw one guy do
Speaker 1: that in Cam Newton, and you didn't see that out
Speaker 1: of Carson Wentz. Listen, his complete the percentage is nowhere
Speaker 1: near where we typically see at that Carolina defense is
Speaker 1: a very good defense. They only average giving up two
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen yards passing coming into this game. But again,
Speaker 1: he didn't do anything to hurt his team tonight. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz did, and then when our defense was able to
Speaker 1: put us in good position by getting turnovers, we took
Speaker 1: advantage of them. You mentioned the red zone. Zach ERT's
Speaker 1: two touchdowns tonight only had what two catches I believe
Speaker 1: two catches, both for touchdowns. A very efficient game from
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and that's why his quarterback rating was at
Speaker 1: one ten even though he doesn't have eye popping stats. Yo.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that the Eels offense moved up
Speaker 1: ball with ease in that first quarter. Okay, and although
Speaker 1: they only had three points to show for it, you
Speaker 1: might say yourself, we need to be a little concerned here.
Speaker 1: It seemed like the Eagles had the early quick start,
Speaker 1: but we're unable to capitalize. Now the Panthers can come
Speaker 1: back and take control of the game. No, they were
Speaker 1: able to get themselves settled down. Now, how much do
Speaker 1: you think the loss of Luke Keikley affected the Panthers defense? Okay,
Speaker 1: we saw him on that goal line drive. Brandon Brooks
Speaker 1: came on the block, you know. Unfortunately, Keickle suffered the concussion.
Speaker 1: He's had history of that in the past, so you
Speaker 1: hope obviously he'll recover. He's one of the best middle
Speaker 1: linebackers at all football. But he goes out of the
Speaker 1: game as a guy who's so hard to replace, not
Speaker 1: just from his physical towns, but the mental acumen and
Speaker 1: being able to recognize what the opposing offense does. Yeah, this,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. That hurt the Panthers defense
Speaker 1: not having Luke Keickley out there. Although Mayo had a
Speaker 1: pretty decent game. You know, Mayo was around the football everywhere.
Speaker 1: But Luke Keikley is a guy that every offense has
Speaker 1: to account for all every snap. He's a great pass rusher,
Speaker 1: does a great job out in coverage, whether it's zone
Speaker 1: or whether it's a man to man, he does a
Speaker 1: great job doing that. Not having him in there certainly
Speaker 1: hurt their defense. But guess what, we didn't have our
Speaker 1: quarterback on defense either. We lost Jordan Hicks, So you know,
Speaker 1: it's sort of even itself out there. Our guys were
Speaker 1: able to rally and make some plays, and for the
Speaker 1: most part, the Panthers defense didn't play bad tonight. I mean,
Speaker 1: they didn't play bad to night. Our defense just played better. No,
Speaker 1: I mean the two of the touchdowns came off the
Speaker 1: short fields, off the turnovers. The third one to Agaloor
Speaker 1: touchdown was a nice drive by about Nelly? How about
Speaker 1: Nelson Agalore? Man? Just excited for this kid struggled his
Speaker 1: first couple of years, A lot of expectations, great job
Speaker 1: of bringing weapons in here to sort of relieve some
Speaker 1: of that pressure on Nelson Agalore and so I love
Speaker 1: what Nelson is doing. He catches that short pass in
Speaker 1: the slot and then he's able to raise city end zone.
Speaker 1: That's where you're able to see his speed come into play.
Speaker 1: All right, let's send it down to Charlotte to hear
Speaker 1: from the victorious head coach Doug Peterson. Come all in, shoot,
Speaker 1: go somebody. UM had two point version. He had a
Speaker 1: lot of time to think about that after after you
Speaker 1: made the extra point. Espessially, you have Ryan and what when?
Speaker 1: What when? Is here the point b award and then
Speaker 1: go over? Well, I, first of all, there was a
Speaker 1: little miscommunication on the field because I was going for
Speaker 1: two after the UM extra point was was made defense
Speaker 1: a penalty at the one yard line. It's like a
Speaker 1: sixty forty success rate, UM, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: get Pete's attention at the time, and uh, I was
Speaker 1: able to get it to know I wanted to. I
Speaker 1: wanted to go for two. So um UM elected to
Speaker 1: go for to in that situation and did a great
Speaker 1: job executing it. Is that Brian, Uh we we go over, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we go over? These situations during the week, Um, not
Speaker 1: only based on the percentages of success rate, but also
Speaker 1: the defense and how they play in those situations. Also
Speaker 1: about this team for you guys, I'm sure we start
Speaker 1: of fine, so tremendous, uh, you know, testament to the
Speaker 1: players in that locker room. Um, I told them tonight
Speaker 1: after the game that I haven't been a part of
Speaker 1: a team that has battled through so much injury and
Speaker 1: adversity in the first you know, month of the season,
Speaker 1: month and a half of the season to stay together.
Speaker 1: The resiliency of the football team started to show last
Speaker 1: year at the end of the year. Um, they're learning
Speaker 1: from from last year. They're learning how to finish games,
Speaker 1: and just the overall consistency from the leaders leading this
Speaker 1: football team. You know, they're sacrificing each other themselves for
Speaker 1: the team and it's a it's a fun fun thing
Speaker 1: to watch. To winning. It just took everybody. It took
Speaker 1: all forty seven guys. Um. You know, um, tonight it
Speaker 1: too all three phases had had a hand in it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we just had to We had to battle.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't pretty at times, and and uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, credit them for it's a fine football team.
Speaker 1: And you know, Ron and I talked after the game,
Speaker 1: and you know we'll probably see that football team again,
Speaker 1: you know, we hope. So. Um, it's just battling. You know,
Speaker 1: the guys just hung in there, did an outstanding job
Speaker 1: tonight and uh just found a way what is it
Speaker 1: safe about the way he got around there and still
Speaker 1: just that's the That's the one thing about this kid
Speaker 1: is uh, he's so tough and mentally and physically and
Speaker 1: and the way he stays in there in battles and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, still his eyes are down the field.
Speaker 1: He doesn't he doesn't let that stuff get to him.
Speaker 1: You know, I was able to extend some plays with
Speaker 1: his legs tonight. Um. You know, he's a great leader
Speaker 1: of this football team, even in his second year. And uh,
Speaker 1: guys really respect the way he plays. And um, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's exciting to see from your quarterbacks
Speaker 1: a year and a half. You know, you saw glimpses
Speaker 1: of it, you know when he was in college obviously
Speaker 1: with the with the championships and the success that he had.
Speaker 1: You just look at his whole this whole uh sports life.
Speaker 1: You know, when the success he's had and you just
Speaker 1: never know though, you know, until you get him into
Speaker 1: your building and you start coaching him to see exactly
Speaker 1: what you got. And it goes with any player. But
Speaker 1: the quarterback position is so important in this league and
Speaker 1: and that's one position that uh, you gotta get right.
Speaker 1: And um uh he's he's the right guy for the
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphias. There's a lot of flas against ten
Speaker 1: to one. Wow. Um yeah, I mean, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: it's part of the game. We got to do a
Speaker 1: better job. We clean it up and Cannon can't have
Speaker 1: ten penalties. So you talked about the play of your
Speaker 1: linebackers obviously the loss Jordan Nigel went out then and
Speaker 1: I mean Kendricks nine tackles together. I thought our linebackers
Speaker 1: played extremely well tonight, those two guys particularly. I think
Speaker 1: Nigel had his best football game, uh, you know, to
Speaker 1: date so far this year. And um, those guys, do
Speaker 1: you know. It's unfortunate with Jordan, you know, we'll find
Speaker 1: out the next couple of days with him, and but
Speaker 1: but for those other guys to step in there with
Speaker 1: limited reps even during this week, you know, and to
Speaker 1: battle and to uh you know, be in position to
Speaker 1: make plays. Just again, it's just uh, um a great
Speaker 1: testament to those two players and really all that whole
Speaker 1: group uh to hang in there and and do their
Speaker 1: jobs defense without fifty nine when he went out, which
Speaker 1: change for them? Come out for them? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he was very disruptive obviously early in this football game
Speaker 1: with some of the blitzes and some of the protection
Speaker 1: things that we were doing. And he's a smart he's
Speaker 1: a great player, and and you give him a lot
Speaker 1: of respect and and uh uh it changes a complexity
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, um, just getting guys lined
Speaker 1: up and some of the things that they were doing.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, it is unfortunate. Obviously. I hope
Speaker 1: he's hope he's okay, and I'll be able to play
Speaker 1: again next week. But um, it can change. It can
Speaker 1: change a little bit for us a little bit offensively too.
Speaker 1: That five and one set up in the well. One
Speaker 1: we've got to you know, we gotta learn from last year.
Speaker 1: We were three and oz with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break and I was a full buy. This is
Speaker 1: just a you know, we got ten days or eleven days,
Speaker 1: I guess before we play again. So we gotta learned
Speaker 1: from that. We gotta learned to uh to to to
Speaker 1: get rest, to heal up. Um, we have put ourselves
Speaker 1: in a really good position obviously the first six games
Speaker 1: of the year. Um. But but the season is not over.
Speaker 1: I mean it's still long. You know, you got ten
Speaker 1: games left and uh, I told the guys tonight that
Speaker 1: we got we got three coming up at home and
Speaker 1: uh in front of our fans at our stadium, and
Speaker 1: we've we got to learn from last year obviously, and
Speaker 1: I'll be ready to go next week. Uh. Wrong, diffinitely
Speaker 1: when we went to the buye after Los a week
Speaker 1: before rust year, and what we changed is years. I mean,
Speaker 1: well it's not a buy but you know, we get
Speaker 1: some time and we don't play them Monday night. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, just just listen. It's just the first year,
Speaker 1: I think, and guys learning how to how to handle
Speaker 1: their time off and and uh, I'm gonna give them
Speaker 1: some time over the weekend and then we we'll get
Speaker 1: back together next week. But um, so they're not going
Speaker 1: to have a full compliment of days. But you know,
Speaker 1: we just uh, you know, I just trust the players.
Speaker 1: I trust them with the time off and they need it.
Speaker 1: You know, we're we're we're beat up, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a great opportunity to get healthy
Speaker 1: and and make a nice push for the next three
Speaker 1: weeks and then then get a full full by then.
Speaker 1: The first two touchdowns and the fields and value, yeah, great,
Speaker 1: great turnovers. Uh, you know, defensively got hands on the ball.
Speaker 1: We've talked about takeaways all the time. Um presented a
Speaker 1: short field for us there early in the game and
Speaker 1: obviously cashed in and um, you know, offense did their part.
Speaker 1: So it helps when you can we can do. That's
Speaker 1: a great defense over there. Um. It's hard to go
Speaker 1: the length of the field, you know, on that team. UM,
Speaker 1: and it was just fortunate we had the short field
Speaker 1: at those those particular times last year. The difference this year,
Speaker 1: well you know, he yeah he uh. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll look at the film, you know, on the way
Speaker 1: back tonight, but but uh, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think a little bit of it. He You know, there's
Speaker 1: nerves going and and uh you know, um, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of emotion early in the game, and
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of just trusting your technique and
Speaker 1: listen after after you got that out of the way.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just settled in and did a
Speaker 1: nice job for us. But um, we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at it and we'll correct it. Um. He's a good
Speaker 1: player for us obviously, and um, you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: where Landing was next week. But but if we have
Speaker 1: to go with v then then we're totally fine, fine
Speaker 1: doing that. You guys are able to how much he's
Speaker 1: so dominant, uh in there, pushing the pocket, you know,
Speaker 1: run and pass. And it was great to have him
Speaker 1: out there tonight. And uh, you know, he's another one
Speaker 1: of those leaders on the team that you lean on,
Speaker 1: you know, and he battled through his injury and and
Speaker 1: uh I put that aside for the team tonight and
Speaker 1: announced any job, how Clay or not playing. How close
Speaker 1: was he? Yeah, I mean how how close was that
Speaker 1: he was playing? Yeah, he was playing. He there was
Speaker 1: no way I could sit him tonight. Him is this
Speaker 1: was too important to him? I know you're coming. Are
Speaker 1: you surprised considering those injuries he had. I mean it
Speaker 1: is a little a little surprising, you know, Um, the
Speaker 1: amount of the amount of injuries, particularly at one position,
Speaker 1: you know, on the defensive back and then uh, defensive
Speaker 1: line kind of kind of got hit, and you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's just all on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Offense has had to pull their weight,
Speaker 1: and they've done a nice job, you know with some
Speaker 1: of the some of the injuries on defense, and you know,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, I guess I'm not surprised because
Speaker 1: of what I seen this football team work through and
Speaker 1: battle through. Um, and it's always been the next man
Speaker 1: up mentality, and these guys have proven it time and
Speaker 1: time again. And um, um put him put themselves and
Speaker 1: you know, my hat's off to those guys in locker room.
Speaker 1: They put themselves in a really good position. Their difference
Speaker 1: to how Carson responds to hits and pressure the last
Speaker 1: year not really, not really. He's still the same guy
Speaker 1: and and uh still wants the ball in his hands, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and still wants to still wants to go
Speaker 1: down the field and score points. So um, nothing's changed.
Speaker 1: He He's a tough kid mentally and physically, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, do what we can to keep keep the
Speaker 1: ball in his hand and then let him make plays.
Speaker 1: How beneficial is it that? I mean, it's obviously like
Speaker 1: when you have injuries, but some guys that normally when
Speaker 1: we playing are playing. When you get you guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be huge,
Speaker 1: you know, to have these guys that are playing right
Speaker 1: now early in the season, you know, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: need him again at some point in the season. Like
Speaker 1: he said, there's ten games and you know we we're
Speaker 1: gonna need him again, and it's valuable reps for them,
Speaker 1: and uh, it just adds that depth that we talked
Speaker 1: about all the time. All Right, there's head coach Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson talking to reporters after getting the twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty three win in Carolina over the Panthers. So many
Speaker 1: unsung heroes from this ballgame. One comes to mind Jake Elliot,
Speaker 1: and not only the fact that he was two for
Speaker 1: two with two long field goals once again, but he
Speaker 1: has not missed And we were talking about this during
Speaker 1: a press conference since Jason Peters told him on the
Speaker 1: sideline it was during the Giants game, bare not miss
Speaker 1: another one? Yeah yeah, he basically yeah, scared him and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, word it's worked. Ten straight field
Speaker 1: goals for Elliott. But go to the end of the
Speaker 1: first half where the Panthers have an opportunity to take
Speaker 1: a long Graham good no field goal attempt, get three points,
Speaker 1: take the lead, you go into halftime, you'll get the
Speaker 1: ball first start the second half. Well, they opt not
Speaker 1: to go for the field goal. If you were to
Speaker 1: make it, those three points would have made a world
Speaker 1: of difference at the end of the game instead of
Speaker 1: driving for the touchdown, you only need the field goal exactly,
Speaker 1: and the same situation with the fact that they had
Speaker 1: the penalty which led to the two point conversion for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, that gives you that much of an extra
Speaker 1: edge there. So it makes the coaching situations and decisions
Speaker 1: much more difficult for the Panthers and put them in
Speaker 1: tougher situations later in the game where maybe they might
Speaker 1: have gone for two off after the last touchdown to McCaffrey. Well,
Speaker 1: not able to and probably not the smart decision to
Speaker 1: go for it there. Yeah, you know, listen, when you
Speaker 1: look at this game tonight, the coach has certainly had
Speaker 1: their imprint on the game tonight, right. You know, I
Speaker 1: go back to when they scored the second touchdown to
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz. You're going for two, You're going for two
Speaker 1: at the big penalty the air. A lot of people say,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't take points off the BA, but again,
Speaker 1: they had a two point play in their back pocket
Speaker 1: that they felt comfortable with from the one yard line.
Speaker 1: And Doug. Doug has been Doug since he got hired here.
Speaker 1: He when he sees an opportunity to be aggressive, he's
Speaker 1: going to take that opportunity. And so the thing that
Speaker 1: I love is that, you know, Doug talks about having
Speaker 1: done research and you have numbers, and we talk about
Speaker 1: the analytics part. That's a part of this organization and
Speaker 1: it goes into some of their decision making or you
Speaker 1: know what, when you do all that research and when
Speaker 1: you bring those people in here, you bring them in
Speaker 1: here to trust them. And so he felt good about
Speaker 1: going for it there. And I love the fact that
Speaker 1: he sticks with his gut because he's he's assertive, he's
Speaker 1: certainly confident in the place, and I think his players
Speaker 1: feed off of it. His players feed off of it.
Speaker 1: There's sort of a no fear type of mentality with
Speaker 1: his head coach, and it's not reckless to the point
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily respect the possession of the football or
Speaker 1: field position or your opponent. It's just more or less,
Speaker 1: this is what we believe in doing here. This is
Speaker 1: the type of team we're gonna be. Stop us and listen.
Speaker 1: It works a lot of the times and sometimes it isn't.
Speaker 1: But I love the fact that he doesn't allow the
Speaker 1: possibility that it may not work to deter him. And
Speaker 1: so you know, when you have a coach like that,
Speaker 1: that's gonna carry you a long way. Man. We'll think
Speaker 1: about from a minimum standpoint. Okay, it was ten ten
Speaker 1: going into the half. After the Panthers decide not to
Speaker 1: try that Graham Goundo field goal attempt, Panthers get the ball,
Speaker 1: it's intercepted after it was dropped. Patrick Robinson phenomenal job
Speaker 1: dive in to get the interception. Zacher scores on the
Speaker 1: beautiful throwdown the team there from Carson wentz Okay. Then
Speaker 1: the penalty happens on the extra point attempt. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't like Doug was unsure or you know, second guess
Speaker 1: whether he should take the points off the board. He
Speaker 1: was running out to thee because the referees it said
Speaker 1: penalty declined, and like it as me, he didn't give
Speaker 1: me a chance to decide it I mean, Doug was,
Speaker 1: he was com he knew right away he wanted to
Speaker 1: go for two. Yeah, and then not just to go
Speaker 1: for two, but the way he went for two. Shotgun
Speaker 1: snap to Wentz hand a ball off to your two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound bulldozer whose nickname in the locker
Speaker 1: room is big Cat Cat Big Cat. Very fitting that
Speaker 1: you're in Carolina facing the Panthers and Big Cat trucks
Speaker 1: his way into the end zone for the two point conversion.
Speaker 1: So you just stole the ball from the Panthers, You've
Speaker 1: forced it down their throats for the two point conversion.
Speaker 1: That to me was a soul sucking moment in that game.
Speaker 1: That's a possession of play where the Eagles asserted themselves
Speaker 1: and really took control of the game and just it
Speaker 1: really have shown that this is such a not just
Speaker 1: mentally tough football team. We talked about the resilience and
Speaker 1: how they bounced back from a short week and coming
Speaker 1: off the high of being Arizona the way they did,
Speaker 1: but physically the way they're able to man handled teams
Speaker 1: this season, it's not something that you've seen from Eagles
Speaker 1: teams in recent years. This is such a well rounded
Speaker 1: well balanced attack that this team has right now that
Speaker 1: it's not just a soft of fake five and one record.
Speaker 1: They have earned the record the hard way, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people, the critics coming to this game said, well,
Speaker 1: they're five to one, but the Giants are winless. The
Speaker 1: Chargers just got their first win over the Giants. You know,
Speaker 1: Washington was probably the best team they played. They lost
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs. It's like, what do you say now,
Speaker 1: this team again was four and one. They went to
Speaker 1: New England beat them in their house. They went to
Speaker 1: Detroit and beat Matthew Stafford a company in their house.
Speaker 1: They were as red hot as any team in the
Speaker 1: league coming as this game, everyone started to think Cam
Speaker 1: Newton's back throwing the football the way he did Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey guys first touchdown last week. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's the playmaker everyone expected when he was picked number
Speaker 1: eight overall. The Eagles went to Carolina and handled business
Speaker 1: in a way that this team would not have done
Speaker 1: so last year, and they would have not done it
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years prior to that. Now,
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, and I think the big thing
Speaker 1: is looking at this team and how they came into
Speaker 1: this game. You know, Doug did a great job of
Speaker 1: his scheduling this week with the players, making sure that
Speaker 1: you have the proper amount of rest. Kudos to the
Speaker 1: assistant coaches for putting together an outstanding game plan. You
Speaker 1: know in Jim Schwartz, you know, on a short week
Speaker 1: against an offense to use as so many different personnel packages,
Speaker 1: so many different formations. The run game isn't conventional because
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is a part of the run game. You
Speaker 1: typically need four or five days to come up with
Speaker 1: a game plan to try to slow this offense down.
Speaker 1: To get a game plan put together in such a
Speaker 1: short amount of time, and to be an aggressive defense. See,
Speaker 1: it's so easy as a defensive coordinator to say to yourself,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna play zone this week. We're gonna
Speaker 1: keep everything in front of us, gonna keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of us. Let's play a little vanilla and let's
Speaker 1: just make sure we keep them out of the end zone. No,
Speaker 1: the Eagles sort of set the tone tonight by getting
Speaker 1: out to Cam Newton and forcing him to be a thrower.
Speaker 1: They made the Carolina Panthers a one dimensional team. There
Speaker 1: was no running game other than Cam Newton pulling the
Speaker 1: ball under on a read option or something like that.
Speaker 1: But the running backs were non existent for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the team who looked like
Speaker 1: the more aggressive team, the harder hitting team, it was
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles tonight and a game like this on
Speaker 1: national TV. We haven't necessarily played an opponent yet that
Speaker 1: everyone got a chance to watch us play tonight. Everyone
Speaker 1: else around the league, they know what they're in store for.
Speaker 1: If the Eagles are on their schedule, you had better
Speaker 1: bring your hard hat, your lunch pail, because this team
Speaker 1: is coming to play, whether it's at home or on
Speaker 1: the road. Chris, we haven't even talked nearly enough about
Speaker 1: Through six games, four of them have been on the road,
Speaker 1: four road games, and they've been able to win three
Speaker 1: of those four games, tonight being the toughest road game
Speaker 1: of them all. And they win an there tonight and
Speaker 1: put the SmackDown on the Carolina Pathers. Here's a thing,
Speaker 1: they've won three on the road. They won one all
Speaker 1: of last season. Yeah, okay, it's that close games, the
Speaker 1: one score games. We're not able to take care of
Speaker 1: those last season either. Once again, here twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty three, one possession game coming down to the end, offense,
Speaker 1: you know, good enough job, efficient job taking advantage of
Speaker 1: those turnovers turning them into points. Because, as we pointed out,
Speaker 1: the Panthers got the fumble on the first drive of
Speaker 1: the game, didn't do anything with it, right, Okay, basically
Speaker 1: there was a no harm, no foul type situation. Eagles
Speaker 1: were able to come out unscathed. Okay, but you get
Speaker 1: to the end of the game, the defense, the games
Speaker 1: on the line, and the Eagles defense coming up huge.
Speaker 1: You gotta be just so happy about seeing that that, knowing,
Speaker 1: all right, defense, we're giving you the league the games
Speaker 1: in your hands, go finish it off, and they did it.
Speaker 1: Once again, think about these games that they that they won.
Speaker 1: I go back a couple of weeks. We obviously they
Speaker 1: blew the airs on the card and as that game
Speaker 1: wasn't closed, but I go back to that San Diego
Speaker 1: Chargers at Los Angeles Charger game and how the defense
Speaker 1: was Soldo on his heels in that fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers in that offense had a little momentum going
Speaker 1: and we as observers are staying to ourselves after the
Speaker 1: Chargers scored that their final touchdown. We don't want the
Speaker 1: Charges to get the ball back. And what do the
Speaker 1: Eagles do. They use the last six minutes and forty
Speaker 1: four seconds up by taking the air out of the
Speaker 1: ball and running the clock out. Well, tonight, we weren't
Speaker 1: able to do that offensively. Give Carolina credit. They were
Speaker 1: able to use their time out stop the Eagles on
Speaker 1: defense when we were trying to run the ball out.
Speaker 1: And now our deepense has to go out there and
Speaker 1: win the football game. Carolina's in there two minutes drill.
Speaker 1: They feel like they got a little momentum going at home.
Speaker 1: Guess what our defense rises to the occasion, and that's
Speaker 1: when you know you have a complete team. You don't
Speaker 1: just rely on one side of the football to carry
Speaker 1: the other two phases of the game to victory. Tonight,
Speaker 1: you saw the Eagles defense have the back of their
Speaker 1: offense late in the game when you needed to. The
Speaker 1: defense needed to come up with a big stop on
Speaker 1: that final drive against the Carolina Panthers, and they were
Speaker 1: able to stop the Panthers, not even allowing them to
Speaker 1: even get in scoring range. They crossed the fifty yard line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they must have been like the forty nine yard line.
Speaker 1: They won't very very far across that fifty yard line.
Speaker 1: But that's what winning teams do. That's what winning teams do.
Speaker 1: And eventually your special teams, well special teams won one
Speaker 1: point you when Jake Elliot hit the sixty one yard
Speaker 1: field goal for you against the Giants. This is a
Speaker 1: complete team that each week you don't know which one
Speaker 1: of these sides of the football are gonna be the
Speaker 1: determining factor. But the thing you do know is that
Speaker 1: you're team. If you're facing the Eagles, had better played
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes, because these Eagles, they certainly played for
Speaker 1: the full sixty minutes seriously with the Eagles defense, and
Speaker 1: I go back to what most people won't remember. Play
Speaker 1: from the very end of last week's win over Arizona.
Speaker 1: Arizona is about to get a cheap touchdown at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, but you have Ronny McLeod and
Speaker 1: Cammu Gruge Hill in the game at that point. Running
Speaker 1: down the field at the one yard line, McCleod knocks
Speaker 1: the ball out of bounds through the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone force of the fumble, and the Eagles get
Speaker 1: the ball and it keeps it as a thirty four
Speaker 1: to seven game, and that easily could have been moment
Speaker 1: where the Eagles would be like, we've already won the game.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna be multiple possession victory. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: over easily double digits. We can let him have the score,
Speaker 1: but they refuse to let him have even those garbage
Speaker 1: time points. It's one of those players that it carries
Speaker 1: over to the next week and you see them finish
Speaker 1: the game strong once again. So it's so great that
Speaker 1: after the fourth quarter struggles they've had early in the season,
Speaker 1: especially against Kansas City where the game was closed in
Speaker 1: the the Chiefs were able to pull away late, that
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense is starting to get to get the
Speaker 1: latent games. You know, the Giants game, they gave up
Speaker 1: all the points in the fourth quarter and escaped with
Speaker 1: that Jake Elliott sixty one yard field goal. Here tonight's okay,
Speaker 1: once again the Eagles defense coming up big on the
Speaker 1: again national primetime stage. We saw the graphic, you know,
Speaker 1: double digit amount of come from behind game winning drives
Speaker 1: there for Cam Newton in his career as not able
Speaker 1: to deliver this time because the defensive line, which pressured
Speaker 1: him and harassed him all game long, was able to
Speaker 1: get to him once again and forced him to throw
Speaker 1: the ball when he didn't want to have to do
Speaker 1: so in uncomfortable situations. And on the last play, Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: he knew the ball had hit the ground, and you know,
Speaker 1: even though he could have probably tried to pick it
Speaker 1: up and tried to run with it, he knew he
Speaker 1: knew the game was over at that point. So the
Speaker 1: Eagles got to came to that really was what they
Speaker 1: had to do tonight. Okay, obviously, I had to eliminate
Speaker 1: the run, and this run defense has been exceptional through
Speaker 1: the first six games of the season. To make it
Speaker 1: about Cam Newton and to still beat him even when
Speaker 1: he's able to make some place with his legs and
Speaker 1: he's able to do the whole Superman thing and kind
Speaker 1: of get the crowd into it when he thought maybe mentally, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe he's feeling himself tonight and we'll get on a roll. No,
Speaker 1: they were able to bring him back to Earth and
Speaker 1: get the job done late in the game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, really his play was really the difference in
Speaker 1: this thing tonight. And I'm talking about his poor play tonight.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton came into this game as one of the
Speaker 1: hottest quarterbacks outside of Carson Wentz in the National Football
Speaker 1: League over the last couple of weeks that you know
Speaker 1: he's talking about over with seventy seven percent completion percentage
Speaker 1: the last two games against the carol I mean, against
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and the Detroit Lions. Seven hundred
Speaker 1: yards that he was able to do and going up
Speaker 1: against a Eagle secondary this ranked twenty nine thirtieth in
Speaker 1: the league coming into this game, giving up almost three
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing. Look at what this secondary and this
Speaker 1: front was able to do to Cam Newton. He comes
Speaker 1: in as a hot quarter back and look at the
Speaker 1: numbers that he puts up tonight. Pedestrian numbers, fifty three
Speaker 1: percent completion percentage, two hundred and thirty nine yards, one
Speaker 1: TV passed, three interceptions. I mean, just an outstanding and
Speaker 1: making him revert back to being the old Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: He's run more tonight than I've seen him run really
Speaker 1: all year long. Obviously a shoulder at the early part
Speaker 1: of the sea them was bothering him, but because he
Speaker 1: was playing so well from the pocket and not having
Speaker 1: the run. They didn't call many running plays for him
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, but the Eagles made sure
Speaker 1: you're not gonna beat us throwing the ball tonight, and
Speaker 1: they were outstanding on the back end of his defense,
Speaker 1: getting pressure on him with the front four, forcing Mike Schuler,
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for the Panthers, to call designed running
Speaker 1: place for Cam Newton because they really couldn't move the
Speaker 1: ball any other way. I mean, Christian McCaffrey called ten
Speaker 1: passes for fifty six yards. That's five yards of reception.
Speaker 1: I mean a defense to give you that all day long,
Speaker 1: you know, a little dumps up in front of you.
Speaker 1: Sure he got the one touchdown. I think that was
Speaker 1: a pick plane scored on as well that the refs
Speaker 1: didn't call. But they the Eagles defense made sure they
Speaker 1: kept everything in front of them. I think maybe they
Speaker 1: got one ball behind them to Devin Functions or maybe
Speaker 1: Calvin benjam But for the most part, this secondary along
Speaker 1: with that pass rush upfront, made Cam Newton uncomfortable all night.
Speaker 1: And eventually, and as he tends to do throughout the
Speaker 1: course of his career, he will just throw one up
Speaker 1: there that you just kind of scratch your head and
Speaker 1: say what was that all about? That was the last
Speaker 1: interception to Jail and Mills where he kind of gave
Speaker 1: up on the play, just threw it up in the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: prayer ball, and all of a sudden, Jail Mill is
Speaker 1: able to camp out under it. And great for Jail
Speaker 1: and because you know Bow with the two pass interference penalties,
Speaker 1: you know, the one negate an interception by Rodney McCleod
Speaker 1: and the panther be able to bounce back get a
Speaker 1: touchdown out of it. So for Mills have come back
Speaker 1: like that, and that's again it goes back to that
Speaker 1: mental toughness, that mental resilience that you see throughout this
Speaker 1: entire team that even though you might have a pen here,
Speaker 1: a bad play here, you're still gonna need to bow
Speaker 1: because you never know when you're gonna have to step
Speaker 1: up and make cute a huge play later on in
Speaker 1: the game. The best trade this kid has. He has
Speaker 1: a short memory, you know he has. If he has
Speaker 1: a bad player two or what have you, it doesn't rattle,
Speaker 1: it doesn't rattle his confidence. He's still competing. He holds
Speaker 1: himself to such a high standard. He expects himself to
Speaker 1: make every place, so when something happens negative against him,
Speaker 1: he's coming back looking for the opportunity to make a
Speaker 1: play and going up against these power forward type receivers
Speaker 1: a night here and Roussel Douglas. Happy for these young guys.
Speaker 1: Both of them come up with interceptions. Could have had
Speaker 1: another interception as well on Russell Douglas part. These young guys,
Speaker 1: they just compete, and as as a defensive guy, as
Speaker 1: a coordinator, that's really all you want from your guys.
Speaker 1: You want them to go out there and compete. When
Speaker 1: you play cornerback in this league, you're gonna lose your
Speaker 1: fair share of plays. You know, they get paid on
Speaker 1: the other side of the football assuring them too. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So you know you have to be able to maintain
Speaker 1: your high level of confidence and then have a short
Speaker 1: time memory. That's probably Jalen mills Number one attribute is
Speaker 1: that he doesn't get rattled and his confidence is always high,
Speaker 1: and so I knew once he had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make a play, he was going to take advantage of
Speaker 1: it and make a play. That's one of those tough
Speaker 1: ones because it's just floating in the air. You're saying
Speaker 1: those ones aren't the tough ones to make. Indeed, so
Speaker 1: as we wait to hear from cornerback Carson went to
Speaker 1: a Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, we
Speaker 1: needed to talk about his physical toughness. I feel like
Speaker 1: last week It's Arizona, it was all about his mental
Speaker 1: acumen at the Lion scrimmage, being able to diagnose the
Speaker 1: plays before the ball was snapped, realizing that the blitz
Speaker 1: was coming, standing in the teeth of the blitz and
Speaker 1: still being able to deliver the football, and also making
Speaker 1: great plays with his legs. But I think back to
Speaker 1: the goal to go run where second down he's trying
Speaker 1: to bully his way into the end zone. He he
Speaker 1: lowers the shoulder. Part to me, of course you don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. Yeah, you don't want to do
Speaker 1: that because this is the franchise guy. Yes, okay, we
Speaker 1: want him playing for ten years. We don't need him
Speaker 1: having offseason shoulder surgery. We saw was son to Cam
Speaker 1: Newton wasn't able to play at all in the off season,
Speaker 1: can barely practice during the week. You look at Andrew
Speaker 1: luck who's not being able to get back on the field,
Speaker 1: hasn't played yet, this season. So you want him to
Speaker 1: protect himself. You want to limit those, you want to
Speaker 1: limit those. But at the same time, what does that
Speaker 1: do for his teammates saying that's that's a franchise, that's
Speaker 1: number eleven, that's the guy we need to go to
Speaker 1: battle with. And if he's putting himself out in the line,
Speaker 1: there's no excuse for me why I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Once you have a collective sire
Speaker 1: relief on the sideline, because I guarantee whenever whenever your
Speaker 1: quarterback gets hit, you hold your breath. Yes, And so
Speaker 1: once Carson gets up and you realize he's okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: then you get energized by his toughness. That's something that's
Speaker 1: that's natural, That something that is natural in HI. All right,
Speaker 1: speak of the quarterback. Now he's making his way to
Speaker 1: the podium. Let's send it to Carson Wentz. Carson, what
Speaker 1: does it say about the character so short, short handed
Speaker 1: in a sense. Yeah, it feels good. Honestly, it feels good.
Speaker 1: I think it says a lot about um, the guys
Speaker 1: in this locker room. Um, we stayed together the whole game.
Speaker 1: You know, they did some good things offensively. Um, some
Speaker 1: different pressure looks that we hadn't seen. You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's tough on a short week. But we found a
Speaker 1: way to win win a close ball game. And that's
Speaker 1: ultimately what we struggled with last year was winning on
Speaker 1: the road and winning close ball games. And we've done that,
Speaker 1: done that successfully. Uh, these first first six games, it
Speaker 1: really hates you good to come those times. How are
Speaker 1: you kind of feel great? We're five and one, baby,
Speaker 1: all of those first two shotsdowns and played with the
Speaker 1: short field. What was the benefit of then? That's always huge,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously after a turnover from the defense and
Speaker 1: there's some momentum going on. Um, that first one shoot
Speaker 1: we were kind of just we're just finding trying to
Speaker 1: find a way. We had the fourth down conversion, um,
Speaker 1: and then the touchdown to Irks there, Um that was
Speaker 1: a big play, and then the other one. You know,
Speaker 1: just again take advantage of short field. And that's something
Speaker 1: we've really focused on, is red zone and finding ways
Speaker 1: to convert touchdowns and outfield goals. And I thought we
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job of that. Carson, you lost Spools,
Speaker 1: you lost a fletcher for why he lost half the
Speaker 1: secondary for a couple of games go on and on
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks tonight, Yeah, what does it show about the
Speaker 1: steel you've been able to overcome that? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: I think it just shows a lot about our depth
Speaker 1: and just the belief we haven't one another. You know,
Speaker 1: we always just believe the next guy up. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the next guy up mentality. And UM, obviously we
Speaker 1: missed those guys that are hurt, but UM, we just
Speaker 1: stayed together and we don't let it phase us and
Speaker 1: just keep plugging along. Corson, you guys had a third
Speaker 1: and sixteen, put together a ton of four plays any
Speaker 1: one yards down the field steak us through that drive?
Speaker 1: But what was all? That was huge? That was a
Speaker 1: huge drive. Um. You know, you never want to be
Speaker 1: in third and third and sixteen, and um, Carolina and
Speaker 1: I did some some different things on third down, brought
Speaker 1: some different pressures, so they made it tough on us. UM,
Speaker 1: but you know we've we found a way to convert
Speaker 1: that one and then had the big play UM shortly thereafter,
Speaker 1: and and UM just kept the foot on the gas
Speaker 1: and found a way to get an Ellien thens on there.
Speaker 1: What about after the turnover? Russell Bug was this interception.
Speaker 1: You guys get built twelve and you need seven plays
Speaker 1: to get it in And how what did that show
Speaker 1: with the heart tea? Yeah, I mean that was I
Speaker 1: was frustrated took us that many plays first of all.
Speaker 1: But we found a way, you know, we found a
Speaker 1: way to punch it in there. Um. That that short
Speaker 1: field you know, we always got to take advantage of
Speaker 1: that when we can, and um, defense it great tonight.
Speaker 1: You know they give us the short field a couple
Speaker 1: of times that the couple turnovers there um. Ultimately, I
Speaker 1: think that was the difference in the ball game. Did
Speaker 1: you think you were ready to get in when when
Speaker 1: I think if you plays before you score the best
Speaker 1: and just scrambling got down one. Yeah, I wish I
Speaker 1: would have got in. But started off great last year
Speaker 1: getting off to another boot start this year. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like this team knows how to handle it better
Speaker 1: and knows how to prepare and play better down the
Speaker 1: stretch without a doubt, without a doubt, you know, having
Speaker 1: a year um together with this team under under coach myself,
Speaker 1: you know everything. Um, we're just built differently. We're built differently,
Speaker 1: we have a different character makeup in that locker room,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we just have a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys that believe that the matter of the situation, we
Speaker 1: can find a way to win a ball game. How
Speaker 1: do you keep point going back? Help there? I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you do? You don't you
Speaker 1: don't think about it, honestly, you don't think about it.
Speaker 1: You just you go. Honestly, I just go look at
Speaker 1: the surface, figure out why I got hit? What what
Speaker 1: was the protection issue? Um? And let's go go fix
Speaker 1: it and just keep keep playing ball. You know, it's football.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get hit. That's it's gonna happen. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, just keep plugging along. Especially in the first half.
Speaker 1: Was it more than than you expected? And how did
Speaker 1: you guys adjust that? Yeah? Honestly, Yeah, that's like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, they did some different things that we hadn't seen,
Speaker 1: um seen yet. Um on a short week. Like I said,
Speaker 1: that's tough, you know, so hats off for them. They
Speaker 1: did some good things. Um to kind of they kept
Speaker 1: our back end having to put our back on linebackers
Speaker 1: and did some different things. So, um, I think we
Speaker 1: did a better job in second half, kind of got
Speaker 1: those things cleaned up. But you know, hats off for
Speaker 1: them that that's a good defense the surface. Um on
Speaker 1: the on the under last drive before Carolina got their
Speaker 1: last chance on the third and seven or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: he threw that hearts like Nelson was completely uncovered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see that. Yeah, I'm pretty pretty mad about that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty I was pretty ticked off when I came out,
Speaker 1: and that's that's the last play I was in other
Speaker 1: than the kneel down. So still still kind of ticked off,
Speaker 1: but thankfully that the defense got the job done. What
Speaker 1: happened on that play where you went to hear, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just a two play um two play call there,
Speaker 1: and I changed the play at the last second. Clock
Speaker 1: was running down. So um, I didn't quite get a
Speaker 1: chance to serve the field like I like it would
Speaker 1: have wished. Shund up twice in the end zone four
Speaker 1: times this season. Whispen the difference play for you guys
Speaker 1: in friend zone? Um, you know, I think we just
Speaker 1: have a relationship. You know that we've just built that chemistry. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm knowing kind of what he's what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: I can read his body language pretty well. Um, and
Speaker 1: that's just honestly been the difference and then that and um,
Speaker 1: we just we just have we have him. We have
Speaker 1: other guys that to spread spread the ball around, you know.
Speaker 1: The first one al Sean kind of took a double
Speaker 1: coverage over there, the two guys over there over there, so, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, hats off. You know, a guy like al
Speaker 1: Sean taking that, um creates some other some other openings.
Speaker 1: And that's what we did. A game like this where
Speaker 1: nothing comes easy. Uh, he's kind of in a way
Speaker 1: more rewarding, more satisfying than you. I mean, it feels great, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's that was a hard fought win on the road
Speaker 1: on a shore week on primetime TV. UM, so to
Speaker 1: come out of it five to one, and to know
Speaker 1: that we're at home the next couple of weeks, now
Speaker 1: that's big for us. I can talk about how you
Speaker 1: and sorry you guys a close groups, I've changed aniality.
Speaker 1: Do you notice a big difference in him on games? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's come a long way. You know, I think, um,
Speaker 1: he was never a selfish player by any means, but
Speaker 1: I think just his mentality and his team, team first attitude.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's come a long way in him
Speaker 1: and eye off the fielder um so similar you know,
Speaker 1: in our in our spiritual beliefs and everything. You know,
Speaker 1: we're so close. So um, it's just really cool to
Speaker 1: see see how far we've all come together. It didn't
Speaker 1: really seem like there's second day and gave you too
Speaker 1: much for the challenge for Yeah, I mean they do
Speaker 1: some good things. Honestly, they mix up the coverage as well. Um,
Speaker 1: I thought the biggest thing they did, it's just their
Speaker 1: pressure looks. You know, they mix that up and kind
Speaker 1: of kept us guests and kept us on our toes
Speaker 1: on their DVSA made some made some good plays, but
Speaker 1: I think we made more of them. Thanks, thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: Sorry all right, So quarterback Carson Wentz meeting the media
Speaker 1: after leading the Eagles to a twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 1: three victory over that Carolina Panthers. So much more to
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Speaker 1: should start dancing like Malcolm Jenkins in the locker room.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's a lot of dance dance going
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Speaker 1: So as we're watching the Carson Wentz press commonference, we
Speaker 1: have two televisions in the background here and the other
Speaker 1: one had the NFL network feed and he had Panthers
Speaker 1: quarterback Cam Newton's press conference going on at the same time.
Speaker 1: So you're like comparing contrasts into two styles and everything
Speaker 1: from a fashion standpoint, but I just love what Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz brings to the table, not just the physical standpoint,
Speaker 1: but just the mental acumen that he has as well
Speaker 1: the confidence he brings, the work ethic. It's all the intangibles,
Speaker 1: the leadership qualities all coming together. I remember from Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins speaking Malcolm being miked up last week where he
Speaker 1: just lavished praise on the second year quarterback. Just the
Speaker 1: way he's been able to take things over. It's amazing
Speaker 1: how these guys have just kind of flocked to him,
Speaker 1: so to speak, that he's been able to take control
Speaker 1: of the locker room in such a short amount of time.
Speaker 1: Why because these veterans realize he has all the ingredients
Speaker 1: for sustained success from a quarterback. He has all these ingredients,
Speaker 1: the character traits that you want in a franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: We know he has the armed talent, we know he
Speaker 1: has the leg talent, but it's the intangibles that you
Speaker 1: need to have sustained success. And this kid is going
Speaker 1: to give you a chance to be in the hunt
Speaker 1: for winning a title, not just winning football games, for
Speaker 1: winning a title multiple years. You'll be in the hunt
Speaker 1: as long as Carson Wentz remains healthy and upright, and
Speaker 1: as long as you continue to put the right pieces
Speaker 1: around him. Di Fel come into his game that short week,
Speaker 1: tough going on the road. Caroline's red hot. But at
Speaker 1: the very least, when you have number eleven, when you
Speaker 1: have a guy like Carson Wentz, you feel like each
Speaker 1: and every week you're gonna have a chance. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: he comes to play, you're gonna have a chance to win.
Speaker 1: So back to back touchdown performances of more than two,
Speaker 1: had three D three this week, at four a week ago,
Speaker 1: the last one today to Nelson Agilore to help put
Speaker 1: the game away. We're now going to send it over
Speaker 1: to the RICO whiteboard for the RICO Review with Fran
Speaker 1: Duffy and Greg Hosell analyzing Nelson Agilore's touchdown from tonight's victory.
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, so it's fourth quarter now, and this
Speaker 1: is the Eagles game winning touchdown. A touchdown pass from
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz to Nelson Agilore, and it came off of
Speaker 1: eleven personnel, three receivers on the field. And there's something
Speaker 1: really interesting. You wanted to point out. Three wide receivers
Speaker 1: on the field for the Eagles. Okay, that's eleven personnel.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that Carolina has been doing
Speaker 1: in the three weeks prior to this game with great regularities,
Speaker 1: they would keep three linebackers on the field versus eleven personnel.
Speaker 1: They would not bring in their nickel slot corner. So
Speaker 1: what you have at number one, as you pointed out
Speaker 1: over Nelson Agilar, is a linebacker Shack Thompson. In fact,
Speaker 1: prior to this, the last three games, forty eight snaps
Speaker 1: against eleven person and l the Carolina Panthers played with
Speaker 1: their base four to three personnel. And this is what
Speaker 1: you get. You get a match Chack Thompson. Hey, very
Speaker 1: talented guy. He was a safety at times in college.
Speaker 1: But still you have a linebacker now over a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So now the Eagles run a concept on the play
Speaker 1: side that is very similar to what we just saw
Speaker 1: on the previous touchdown. Correct, But it's great against the
Speaker 1: blitz and the Carolina Panthers were very aggressive all night long.
Speaker 1: You see, here comes the pressure and then watch You've
Speaker 1: got zach Ertz running a vertical route. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: not going to run right down the seam like he
Speaker 1: did earlier. He's going to run a little bit of
Speaker 1: a corner route as he takes off, and he's going
Speaker 1: to carry that. But the most important thing is with
Speaker 1: all the blitzers going off field, you're gonna have this
Speaker 1: inbreaking route. The middle of the field is wide open,
Speaker 1: and what do you get. Agil are easily beating Thompson
Speaker 1: with great route running right here, runs into the wide
Speaker 1: open middle of the field. It's beautiful. We can run
Speaker 1: this now you see the field is wide open. You
Speaker 1: get a wide receiver on a linebacker. Beautiful call, really
Speaker 1: well designed play, played off a concept that we've seen
Speaker 1: the Eagles do. We saw them do it tonight. As
Speaker 1: you said, it was not an easy game. No one
Speaker 1: said is going into Charlotte and the Eagles come away
Speaker 1: with a huge victory, physical, tough game, the kind of
Speaker 1: game it was really fun to watch. Hey, we like
Speaker 1: to see the Eagles wins, so we were sweating a
Speaker 1: little at the end. But as a football fan watching
Speaker 1: this game, this was a real physical, fun, intense game
Speaker 1: to watch, no question. So we've got a long week
Speaker 1: ahead of us. The Eagles will face off against the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football in what eleven days now?
Speaker 1: Ten days now? Yea here at Lincoln Financial Field. But
Speaker 1: we've got a whole lot of analysis until then. We'll
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Speaker 1: feel like I had a playoff atmosphere to an extent tonight.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind seeing a rematch and hopefully it'll be
Speaker 1: up here. Well, that's the thing, and that's that's one
Speaker 1: of the underrated things by winning tonight, is you remain
Speaker 1: perfect in the conference and you're just chipping away at
Speaker 1: those tiebreakers. You know when a team team by team
Speaker 1: by team knockoff. Caroline, you get that one in the book. Arizona,
Speaker 1: you have that one in the book. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: I get the division One's just locked those up. But
Speaker 1: it's huge for the Eagles to be four and oh
Speaker 1: in the conference right now, five and one overall. They've
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Speaker 1: the first nominee, I make the case for cornerback Patrick Robinson. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at p rob Man and he's just been
Speaker 1: a real unsung hero for his defense all season long.
Speaker 1: You know, he started on the outside. They felt you
Speaker 1: did better for his defense in the slot position, and
Speaker 1: he's just been making plays week out the week out
Speaker 1: the week, whether it's an interception, whether it's a big
Speaker 1: tackle where this is a big pass breakup Patrick Robinson.
Speaker 1: When I look at this defense, there are guys that
Speaker 1: are doing what we expect them to do, and then
Speaker 1: there are guys that are playing above expectation. And when
Speaker 1: I think of guys that are playing above expectations, it's
Speaker 1: Patrick Robinson. So big interception for him tonight always seems
Speaker 1: to be in the right spot. How about this, this
Speaker 1: will go unnoticed? This won't go into statbook the fumble
Speaker 1: recovery he had on the king Yon Warner pump return.
Speaker 1: I mean that play could have put Caroline in scoring
Speaker 1: position and it was not just a recovery where he
Speaker 1: was there he had to die. It was an aggressive
Speaker 1: player on his part. Number two, the quarterback, Carson Wentz. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we really need to make a
Speaker 1: real case for Carson Wentz. You know, prior to Sunday's game,
Speaker 1: he hadn't had a three touchdown game in his career.
Speaker 1: Back to back three touchdown games four on his past Sunday.
Speaker 1: Great job of Carson Wentz doing what the team needed
Speaker 1: him to do. Last, but not least, the man coming
Speaker 1: back from injury, Fletcher Cox. I just think his presence
Speaker 1: was just huge tonight. You know, his stats as as
Speaker 1: it does so often, they won't tell the story for
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox and the impact he had on this game. Ay,
Speaker 1: he comes back early, b he was determined to play
Speaker 1: in this game, so he made sure he got himself
Speaker 1: ready to go, and then seeing most importantly, he had
Speaker 1: an impact on the game immediately his teammates fed off
Speaker 1: of his presence being there. If I had a vote
Speaker 1: that would be where my vote would go to Fletcher.
Speaker 1: I was kind of saving the best for last of
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Speaker 1: haven't won a game yet okay, and Overlooks, and then
Speaker 1: you get an AFC power. That's a bit you're going
Speaker 1: away from. This is going from Carolina the four one
Speaker 1: four one battle to Denver, which is already knocked the
Speaker 1: block off Dallas this year. Denver coming across the country.
Speaker 1: That is gonna be here. That could be that could
Speaker 1: be a flex gate right there. The thing I love
Speaker 1: about that schedule, that part of the schedule right there
Speaker 1: is that this team has been on the road so
Speaker 1: much through the first six weeks of the season. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get three straight games at home against opponents that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be up for. You know, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: up for the Redskins on Monday nights, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. And then this team has
Speaker 1: been able to take care of business when they need to.
Speaker 1: They'll take care of the forty nine ers to get
Speaker 1: ready for the Denver Broncos. I like the mindset of
Speaker 1: this football team. They've been able to play weekend and
Speaker 1: week out with blinders on. They're not listening to all
Speaker 1: to whoplow on the outside. Everybody wants to pat them
Speaker 1: on the back. They're staying focused. I love the veteran
Speaker 1: presence on this team. Malcolm Chris Long, Carson Wins, Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: These guys are making sure the other players on this
Speaker 1: team know how to handle success. It's a fleeting thing.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it for the moment, and then get back to business.
Speaker 1: So they have the three straight home games the bye
Speaker 1: week and then Sunday night in Dallas against the Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott less Dallas Cowboys. That's right now, right now, as
Speaker 1: of right now, So with a six games suspension being upheld.
Speaker 1: So last point I want to make here. You kind
Speaker 1: of touched on it with Patrick Robinson. Guys playing above
Speaker 1: the expectation level that we had set for them coming
Speaker 1: into the season. You can almost tell if a team
Speaker 1: is going to be successful by the way the guys
Speaker 1: are performing on an individual basis and across the board offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams. There are very few players who you would say,
Speaker 1: he's not quite performing at the level that I thought.
Speaker 1: Most guys are overachieving and not to a level that
Speaker 1: can't be sustained, but still above what we might have
Speaker 1: expected coming into the year. Yeah, I completely agree with you.
Speaker 1: And the biggest point I think you made there is
Speaker 1: that when you look at the three phases that is team,
Speaker 1: the players that are there that we expected a lot
Speaker 1: from this year. I don't know if I can find
Speaker 1: anyone that's underachieving. You know, some may look at the
Speaker 1: wide receivers and say, oh, I isn't alshon Jeffrey getting
Speaker 1: one hundred yards and a touchdown every week. Guess what?
Speaker 1: This is an equal opportunity type of ball offense. Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz isn't gonna just lock in on one guy he's
Speaker 1: gonna spread the ball around and it really makes the
Speaker 1: offense that much more dangerous because you don't know who
Speaker 1: to stop. And on defense, we've lost guys, guys have
Speaker 1: had to step up. And the thing that I love
Speaker 1: is that the coaches hasn't necessarily tried to, you know,
Speaker 1: spoon feed these guys. They have a game plan that
Speaker 1: they won't executed. The players believe in it, and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I know we do a lot of comparison
Speaker 1: to the teams that I played on in this and
Speaker 1: any other, but that's how it was under Jim Johnson
Speaker 1: and Andy. It don't matter who goes down, who's not
Speaker 1: available to play. If you're on this roster and your
Speaker 1: number is called, you would better be ready to play.
Speaker 1: And that starts with the everyday approach in meetings and
Speaker 1: on the practice field. When you step in that meeting
Speaker 1: room or when you step on that practice field, you
Speaker 1: would better pay attention as if you are the starter
Speaker 1: and make sure when your numbers called you're ready to go.
Speaker 1: Your teammates are counting on you. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: I love. Peer accountability makes makes the sum of the
Speaker 1: parts much stronger. Do that make sense? Perfect? Sense, it's
Speaker 1: like one o'clock in the morning. I always think, just
Speaker 1: thinking that you made one of your best points of
Speaker 1: the night, and it is at one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: So for the fans who have stayed with us through
Speaker 1: the whole program, you got the best for last right
Speaker 1: there from Ike reas car and Ree's gonna be fun
Speaker 1: Tomorrow two pm. Sports Radio ninety four w ip All
Speaker 1: twenty two review for you tomorrow morning or in a
Speaker 1: couple of hours. I should stay here in Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: dot Com. Doug Peerson speaks to the media the day
Speaker 1: after press conference comes your way at noon. Again, you
Speaker 1: can watch it live right here, So we're all of
Speaker 1: us here at the Philadelphia Eagles and Eagles former Eagles
Speaker 1: linebacker Ichories. I'm Chris McPherson. Folks, thanks for watching this
Speaker 1: victorious edition of the postgame show presented by Rico. The
Speaker 1: Eagles down the Carolina Panthers twenty eight to twenty three.
Speaker 1: Have a great Eagles and I everyone