WEBVTT - Post-Game Show: Eagles Lose 20-14 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.760 An early fourteen enough and deficit to win twenty to 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:07.560 fourteen to advance to the NFC Championship Game. So very 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.240 tough way for the twenty eighteen campaign in the Super 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.440 Bowl Championship run to come to an end. And as 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.800 Alshon Jeffrey's last effort past attempt went through his hands 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.160 into the arms of Marshawn Lattimore for the interception, a 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.079 lot of people are gonna be getting on him for 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.640 what happened. But what we have to realize is, first 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.479 and foremost, we don't have a Super Bowl in the 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.080 city if it's not for Alshon Jeffrey. So obviously he's 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.400 gonna be very disappointed, you know, But you saw the 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.440 way the head coach Doug Peterson and corback Nick Foles 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.760 and his teammates went over to him afterwards, you know, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.080 someone who gave so many big plays over the last 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.800 two seasons. Obviously a difficult way for the season to 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.720 come to a close. But again, this team doesn't get 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.240 as far as it does without al Sjohn certainly a 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.080 valiant effort. You know. Everyone looks back to that forty 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.440 eight to seven game back in week eleven and said 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.840 there's no way the Eagles can go back to the 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.840 Saints house, the huge advantage in the Superdome and make 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.280 up that kind of deficit. But you know, the Eagles 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.360 were up fourteen nothing and held this vaunted Saints offense 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.320 prolific all season along to twenty points. You know, Nick 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.160 Foles was appearing to lead them on another game winning 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.000 drive at the end. Unfortunately, Ladmore's second interception of the 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.720 game ends the dream. So the Eagles season is over 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.000 nine and seven in the regular season. They get a 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.560 win in the postseason, but fall six points short today 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.600 ike to the New Orleans Saints. Yeah. I mean, listen, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.400 a tough game. You knew it to be a hard 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.680 fault game with the Eagles playing as well as they 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.160 had played coming down to stretch, the Saints basically having 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.720 played a real game in about three weeks. So the 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.720 game sort of played out like I thought I would 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.640 from the beginning. I thought the Saints would come out 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.000 a little rusty, certainly thought the Eagles would be charged up. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.360 They were able to take advantage of that early Saints rust, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.240 but not really able to sustain it. Once the Saints 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.720 were able to collect themselves and start to get a 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.720 little bit of rhythm, seemed like the Eagles couldn't get 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.279 anything going offensively. Just a difficult way for the season 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.400 to end, but a valiant effort from this team to 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.720 put themselves in this position. Al Sean Jeffrey, who has 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.000 been so reliable all season long, big part of why 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.960 this team is where they were today. Certainly he would 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.480 like to have that pass back. No need to hang 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.880 his head. No one feels worse than al Sean Jeffrey 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.720 does right now, and all of his teammates certainly feel 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.520 for him. So just a tough loss. Gotta tip your 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.400 cap to the Saints. They are a good football team, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.680 listen to The Eagles have been playing with their backs 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.079 against the wall for about a month and a half 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.440 and it's difficult. And this is why most teams from 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.880 a six seed don't make it to the super Bowl, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.000 because when you battle to get into the playoffs, and 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.200 there's much energy and effort that you have to exert 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.680 to dig yourself out of a hole. When you're facing 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.760 a team like the Saints, there's basically been sitting back, resting, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.640 waiting for to day. They've been waiting for today for 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.639 about a month since they clinched the number one seed 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.239 and knew that they would have home field advantage. They've 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.560 been waiting for today, and so the Eagles have exerted 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.160 a lot of energy to put themselves in this position 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.040 and they basically it ran out of gas today. They 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.040 ran up against a very good Saints team. They were gamed. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.320 The Eagles were gamed today. They just basically ran out 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.240 of gas offensively. Give the Saints a lot of credits 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.400 the defense that has played well coming down the stretch. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.640 I thought the Eagles defense came into this game with 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.720 a very good game plan. But listen, Michael Thomas, one 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.200 of the best receivers in the game. We know about 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.080 Drew Brees. He's a Hall of Famer five years after 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.680 he plays his last game. Just a tough way, tough way. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.480 But they found themselves in position and to lose the 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.520 game basically off a tip ball on the final drive 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.920 of the game. Man, that's a that's a heartbreaker. That's 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.480 a heartbreaker. But how can you not be proud of 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.040 the team's over effort to sort of put themselves in 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.120 this position. Nobody gave them a chance, and then you 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:05.880 look at the course of the game, it's great. They 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.800 got fourteen and nothing. But then you look at the 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.440 defensive side of the football. Fletcher Cox in now the 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.560 line up due to injuries, Brandon Graham has to go 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.520 to the sidling at one point, Rossel Douglas in the line, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.920 Vonte Maddox has to come out of the game. You're 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.479 just wondering how many more injuries can the defense sustain, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.360 especially with Fletcher Cox your best player on that side 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.360 of the ball, and arguably that your best player on 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.720 the entire team. Okay, the heart and soul especially of 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.480 that defense. Knowing that you had to limit this explosive 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.200 Saints offense. You're gonna need to get pressure up the middle. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.279 And Cox gained his way coming back into the lineup, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.719 fighting his way. Remember the one time he came back 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.440 into the game after suffering the foot injury. Initially he 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.400 drew a holding pounce on the very first play. Okay, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.520 so he made a number of disruptive plays the defensive line, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.960 knowing that Jim Schwartz wanted to play seven defenders back, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.080 going with mostly the diamond nickel personnel throughout the course 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.360 of the game, knowing that we have to rely on 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.520 that front four and look, Mike Bennett, Chris Long, you know, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.240 Brandon Graham, you guys gotta play a lot of snaps, okay, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.839 you know, and especially when you had that long drive 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.200 in the third quarter that took it eighteen plays, wasn't 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.919 It was an eighteen play drive, okay, that goes for 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.640 ninety two yards eleven twenty nine in terms of game clock, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.440 I think it was about twenty five minutes at real time. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.960 So again, eighteen play drive. Those guys are bound at 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.680 the end, but they got the stop they need at 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.680 the very end. They forced Will Lets to attempt at 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.400 fifty two yard field goal after Michael Bennett gets a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.839 tackle for loss. Huge play okay, shoves mac Nier the 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.400 center right into the back there, forces Kamara to get 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.600 the loss there. Will Lutz pushes the ball wide right, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.520 and you said to yourself, is this going to happen again? Yeah, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.200 another special teams play, another miss field goal. Here, given 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.359 an opportunity for the Eagles to sustain their season, to 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.760 keep things alive, and it seemed like Nick Foles was 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.880 getting into the rhythm. They had the penalty, the roughing 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.600 the passer call, they kept the drive alive. Zach Ertz 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.120 had to play there to move the sticks and then 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.560 you thought, okay, wide open pass alshon Jeffrey, and you 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.280 know he's a guy who's gonna come up with that 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.120 ninety nine times out one hundred and nine times out 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.800 of town, whatever you want to say. Unfortunately, that's the 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.880 one time that he doesn't come up with it and 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.160 the ball goes into the hands of Marshall Lamber. That's 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:17.520 the problem is the ball goes up in the air 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.000 and at that point it's fate that putting it right 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.279 in the Saints hands. And Marshall Lamoor who really turned 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.359 the game earlier in the second quarter when the Eagles 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.400 were driving already up fourteen and nothing and Nick Foles 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.360 has Zacher's on the wheel route down the left sideline. Okay, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.680 that's probably a touchdown. If he puts a little farther out, Yeah, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.760 you gotta make that, gotta make the throw there. But 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.440 Marshall Lamore does great job, come up with the interception, okay, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.160 and that really turned to tide. Okay, then the Saints 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.240 are coming back. They're getting twenty unanswered points there to 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.560 finish off the win here twenty to fourteen. And then, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.599 of course, on the real key in that in that 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.679 first half, there was when the Saints have the fourth down, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.920 really it's the third down, Butcher Box draws the holding penalty. Okay, 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.400 the Eagles decided to decline. It's fourth and shorts, as 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.680 they should, and that's the biggest thing a lot. Doug Pearson, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:08.920 when we hear from him in a few minutes, it 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.560 is probably gonna be asked, did you kai waver about 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.480 the decision? I thought he made the right call because 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.840 with this defense, I'm not giving the ball back to 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.160 Drew Brees. We saw this time and time again on 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.720 third and long situations. I'm not giving Drew Brees another 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.160 opportunity with Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas Michael side fishing with 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.280 twelve catches one hundred and seventy one yards on a touchdown. Okay, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.520 so I'm not giving Drew Brees another chance. It's fourth 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.960 to George and the Eagles were well aware of what 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.200 Taysom Hill and the fake punch possibility. The starting defense 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.200 is out there on the field. You have your starting 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.040 defense personnel lined up to stop it. Taysom Hill gets 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.160 the first down to be able to move the chains, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.840 and then fourth and goal. You figure Sean Payton was 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.360 like the knew I did. I think Sean Payne, I 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.520 think realized this Eagles team came to play. This was 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.080 not the Eagles team very very first play the game. Okay, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.120 Ted Ginn, who has been out of the lineup due 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.040 to injury. Dubrees goes deep down the middle for him, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.480 trying to test the Eagles secondary. Crave On the Blanc, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.040 who had an outstanding game as when we talk about 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.239 the bright spots of this season. Crave On the Blanc 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.880 comes up with the interception to set the tone. Okay, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.880 three toll tackles. The interception also saved a touchdown on 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.200 a mark Ingram run. Later on in the game, when 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.960 it was starting to look like the Saints had control 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.640 of the game. They did have control of the game, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:25.840 it would look like they were ready to put the 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.800 game away, crave On le Blanc was not going to 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.360 allow them to get the easy touchdown there. So right there, 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.880 you say yourself, craive On the Blank gets the interception, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.360 gets the Eagles the ball, and they go down the 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.880 field and the Jordan Matthews over the top for the 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.319 touchdown with Nick Foles, and you said to yourself, this 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.800 is what the Eagles needed. Because back on November eleven 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.679 or No. Eight November eighteenth. In at Week eleven showdown, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.440 I should say the Saints got seventeen and nothing in 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.360 the second quarter, scored on their first three drives, gained 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.880 over two hundred yards on those drives. The game was over. Okay, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.320 in the second quarter. Here the Eagles are able to 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.320 get the fourteen nothing lead because they get the ball 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.920 back and then Nick Foles goes in from one yard 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.560 out and the QB sneak. They're up fourteen nothing. This 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.800 was the start that the Eagles needed. Okay. The thing 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.240 was the Saints a tested team, a veteran team. Okay, 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.880 Drew Brees and Sean Payton together at home down in 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.080 the playoffs six and oh since two thousand and six 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.600 when the two were first united together, they knew what 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.120 they were doing. It's a veteran team with plenty of 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.680 skill position talent on offense and a very very good 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.880 defense that was able to turn the tide on the 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.040 Eagles offense and really limit the Eagles of what they 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.360 could do. I thought Nick Foles missed a couple of throws. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.640 There were plays there to be had. Okay, I thought 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.920 the one knock about Nick Foles today a number of 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.240 underthrown passes. Yeah, that's probably the one thing I would say. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.560 But the offensive line, even after losing Brandon Brooks, and 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.000 that's gonna be something that's gonna be huge. Jason Peters 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:52.959 came out of the game late. Yes, I had to 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.760 go back in there. So the pass protection held up nicely. Okay, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.679 that was the one thing you were concerned about. Would 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.760 Nick Foles have time in pocket, even though it does 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.200 a great job to get rid of the ball quickly. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.640 Would he'd be comfortable in the pocket. He just wasn't 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.240 able to quit get in that rhythm. Yeah, but offensive 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.360 line a great job protective put Nick Foles after that 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.360 second touchdown drive just not able to get in that 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.679 same rhythm that he was. I created the same defense 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.240 there for playing great press coverage. Okay. You know Eli Apple, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.080 Marshawn Lattimore, those fast linebackers. They were testing the Eagles 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.920 receivers and pass catchers and limiting the yards after the catch. Yeah, 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.600 that's basically what they decided to do. They saw in 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.120 the first quarter that they weren't able to get the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.920 pressure on Nick Foles that they wanted to. You had 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.840 the cornerbacks playing off and Nick was able to basically 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.319 pick him apart. He had the best stretch of the game. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.040 In that first quarter. He was basically, I think he 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.440 was eight of eight or eight of nine one hundred 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.240 and twenty seven yards, threw a touchdown as well as 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.200 rushed in for a touchdown. But then they decided we're 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.200 gonna back off or we're gonna jam the receivers at 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.880 the line of scrimmage to try to disrupt the timing. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.280 And when you look at the big difference in this 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.160 game and this Eagles offense is they struggled on third down. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.680 Two for seven on third down is where they struggled. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.640 That to me, that was really the biggest difference in 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.240 the game. You know, the Eagles, since they've been on 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.360 this stretch, they've been able to be fifty percent plus 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:23.880 on third down, extending drives, wearing teams out, wearing teams down, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.600 and that's how they won football games. Today, they weren't 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.439 able to extend drives after that first quarter. They had 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.200 to two seventy yard play drives early and then after 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.280 that they didn't really have anything else after that, and 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.240 that's where they basically were worn down. Defense on the 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.800 field way too long. Saints offense eight to fifteen on 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.320 third down, able to extend those drives. You talked about 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.320 that ninety two yard drive or was it eighteen plays? 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.640 Eighteen plays ninety two yards twice the same to the 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.160 second and twenty yeah, second and twenty twice. Three third 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.920 down conversions on the drive, third and three, third and 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.439 one short conversion. But a third and ten. That's what 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.280 they wore you down at. I mean, that's what they 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.880 wore this defense down at basically today. And the offense 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.440 not being able to win that time of possession. That's 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.880 how you beat the Saints. You keep that offense on 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.280 the sideline, and we weren't really able to do that today. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.719 I thought our defense they held in there as long 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.760 as they could. They made the Saints chew up clock. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.760 They didn't give up a ton of big plays. Now, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.640 he gave up the third down conversions. But to hold 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.040 this Saints offense to twenty points, I mean going into 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.720 the game, that's what you want, that's what you want. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.120 You want this to be a game in the fourth quarter, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.480 a one possession game to me, from a game plan standpoint, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.280 the Eagles. The game played out exactly how they wanted to, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.640 even with them having the ball on the final drive, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.800 it's just, you know, the bounce didn't go their way. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.800 You know, that ball bounces off al Sean Jeffrey's hands 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.800 right into Marshon Lattimore's hands. And it's unfortunate, man, because 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.760 I felt like they were going down to win this game. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.520 I really did. You've seen this, Yeah, I felt like 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:05.880 they were going to win this. You know, it goes 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.160 back to last week against Chicago. You just feel a 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.280 certain sort of like Nick Foles in the pocket. You 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.520 just feel a sense of calm, knowing that when he's 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.200 in command at quarterback, they're gonna find a wet and 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:16.960 you just felt like this team was gonna find a 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.840 way once again. And they were moving the ball down 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.080 the field. You know, it was wide open past there 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.360 to Jeffrey. Good throw on the hands, just didn't come 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.000 up with it. Okay. And again, I'm sure a lot 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.480 of fans, and I'm sure on your show tomorrow Marks 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.440 of Resports Radio nine for WAP, a lot of people 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.080 are gonna be bashing out Sean. No, you think that, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.640 I don't know, I'm such gonna frustration. I don't know. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.480 I don't know, you know what I think, at least 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.760 from listening to the fans this week, right, there was 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.319 already trepidation going into this game. There was. I'm sure 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.120 it's a tough game. So at least the tone that 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.400 I got from most of the fans was they were 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.360 excited the Eagles made it this far. Um middle of 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.199 the season didn't look like it was going to get 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.840 to this point. This team really dug in deep. They 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.280 they they were able to make something out of a 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.360 season that looked like it was lost. We lost our 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.199 starting quarterback once again. And I think this fan base, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.440 at least after winning that Super Bowl last years, it's 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.640 funny to say they aren't as rabid of a fan 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.119 base as they used to be. Can they be passionate? 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.080 Can they be frustrated? Sure they can, But I think 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.560 there's a sense of appreciation about this team that this 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.920 fan base has and they don't. It hasn't been that 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.760 long since they won the Super Bowl, and so we 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.400 all knew it was going to be difficult to repeat. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.920 No one has done it since the Patriots dated back 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.600 and oh four against us. It was going to be difficult. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.880 This team overcame a lot to get to the second 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.120 round of the playoffs, and al Sean has been a 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.560 big part of that this year especially. Yeah, I'm actually, Chris, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.240 I'm actually, I'm actually proud of our fan base that 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.280 I don't believe there'll be a lot of frustration over 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.720 the way the season ended, as much as it will 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.440 be a lot of appreciation, but the way the team 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.800 didn't give up and really fall to the very end, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.040 this team, in a lot of ways, epitomized the city 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.200 of philadel Yeah. Yeah, I think I think this fan 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.240 base recognizes that, certainly because they knew that it wasn't 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.360 you know, we can get into your season takeaways and 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.120 just it wasn't quite right from about midway through the season. Okay, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.080 it wasn't that same magic that we were gonna have 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.400 in twenty seventeen. I mean, basically, the Eagles were the 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.040 Saints a year ago. Yeah, okay, in terms of the 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.560 fact that the Saints were clearing away one of the 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.440 best teams in the NFC all season along the home 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.200 field advantage. You know, you saw the dancing and the 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.920 joy that they were having throughout the course of the game. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.800 That was the Eagles a year ago. Okay, the Eagles 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.040 were blowing out opponents left and right, you know, steamrolling 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.640 through the competition, and then they were the ones who 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.240 got to enjoy home field advantage and wait for the 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.520 Atlanta Falcons to come into town for that first playoff matchup, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.920 and right from there you go into the Super Bowl. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.760 The difference, of course, is what were we going to 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.480 get from Nick Foles? Okay, because the Saints have had 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.200 the constant and Drew Brees throughout this entire time time. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.560 The Eagles, you know, get into the playoffs to get 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.840 the home field advantage with Nick Foles coming in there 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.440 late in the season, but you didn't quite know if 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.200 he was gonna be able to carry them on that 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.360 magical run that he did. And after he did that 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.840 a year ago, you said to yourself, I guess the 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.040 cards could be in place, the stars could be aligned 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.200 for it to happen again, because you got into the 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.880 way you did on the last day of the regular season. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.200 But as you said, it's why six seeds don't typically 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.520 advance that far into the playoffs. You have your you know, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.840 one offs here and there. The Green Bay Packers and 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.880 New York Giants have won the Super Bowl as a 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.160 six seed. But it's so difficult because, as you said, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.640 most likely you're battling just to get into the playoffs, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.320 and then once you're in, you're on the road NonStop 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.560 every game. Yet and you had to go to Chicago 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.360 to face the number one defense was hard. You know, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.160 amazing home field advantage there. You get the dome field 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.440 advantage today and we saw that firstand where the Eagles 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.120 were forced to take a time out early in the 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.480 second half. Okay, you know, false start by Isaac say 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.320 a model there and the you know second down that 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.400 was huge coming out of the locker room. Not really 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.399 getting any momentum coming out of the locker room was 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.760 big time. The Saints were able to continue to feed 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.119 off of that crowd. I thought, coming out of the 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.640 locker room, if the Eagles could at least have a drive, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.440 even if they don't get points out of the drive, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.080 but if they could just put together a drive where 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.280 they have the Saints defense on their heels to sort 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.720 of establish some type of confidence and momentum, we would 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.080 have a different ball game. In the second half. As 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.960 it was, Eagles come out and they sort of a 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.960 snake bidden and they sort of have these self inflicted 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.200 wounds and that crowd is able to get into the game. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.879 You get a three and out, Saints get the ball, 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.320 and you're behind the eight ball again. So it was 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.840 just it was just you know, when you're on the road, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.240 you almost have to play a perfect game. I mean 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.760 you really do. You almost have to play a perfect game. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.800 That's why teams fight so hard to get home field advantage, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.200 because even if you get off to a slow start, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.200 you have your crowd to sort of i on, to 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.679 sort of feed off of. And that's what the Saints 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.080 were able to do. They got on to a slow start, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.479 but that crowd kept them in the game, and once 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.320 they started to get a little bit of positivity going, 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.840 they were able to build some momentum and get that 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.159 crowd behind them and so us it's just difficult. The 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:24.000 Eagles really had the ideal start. It's just unfortunate. You 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.600 look at numbers. I mean when you see the numbers 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.359 there in the box score there, you look at them 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.160 and you say yourself, how was this even a six 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.480 point game? It's because the Eagles had, like you said, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.920 the start that they need to put that what you want, Yeah, 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:35.639 it was a dream scenario to come out of the 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.960 gates lead fourteen nothing at the end of the first 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.120 core driving to actually extend the lead. And as you mentioned, 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.240 you've got to be much sharper on the road. And 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.880 we saw the Eagles get away with some turnovers last 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.679 week in Chicago that they weren't able to you know, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.200 the Bears didn't make them pay for it the Saints, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.320 and you knew that with Drew Brees, that that was 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.760 the biggest thing. Where last week you're going against first 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.399 time playoff quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky. Were games on the 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.080 line of foul, drive, brisk and give creg got the 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.000 Bears in position to win the game, they missed the 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.840 kick or a Treyvon Hester BLOCKDA should say, but here, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.160 you knew that Drew Brees in that dome was gonna 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.680 be very, very difficult to stop there. So as we 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.440 started to reflect upon what the Eagle were able to 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.359 accomplish here in twenty and eighteen, why don't we get 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.280 into your takeaways? Sorry, First and foremost with how the 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.280 Eagles overcame a slow start. They got the win on 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.159 opening night against Atlanta. You know, it was an amazing crowd, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.880 vibrant energy, the banner goes up, but after that they're 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.280 humbled against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They win in Carson 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.920 Wentz his first start of the season, comes back from 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.520 the acl LCL injuries, you know, beats the Indianapolis Colts 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.120 to get them to two and one. Then that Tennessee game, 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.680 the loss in overtime kind of started things on a 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.560 downward trend where you started to wonder, like we said earlier, 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.840 whether the team would even make the playoffs. Yeah, I 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.040 mean we we had a chance to find out what 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.160 it was like to have sort of a Super Bowl hangover. Right, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.520 We've never known what it was like to be Super 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:02.000 Bowl champions in through and all season celebration of adulation, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:04.960 of being padded on the back and everything, as it 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.640 was well deserved, it's tough to sort of get out 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.320 of that malaise. It's it's tough to sort of have 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:15.560 that same hunger and determination and focus coming in the 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.119 training camp. And the Eagles found that out firsthand. Not 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.240 only that they had to they had to overcome who 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.119 was going to be at the quarterback position to start 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.560 the season off. Was it going to be Nick Foles, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.159 Was it going to be Carson Wentz who was fighting 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.159 diligently to get back on the field to join his 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:37.240 teammates and sort of help them defend this championship crown. 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.480 And you saw it early in the season where it 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.400 was just choppy, inconsistent play. They looked good one week, 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.160 then they found a way to lose games the following week, 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.399 not being able to put together consecutive wins into the 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.280 second half of the season versus the Giants and the 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.760 red Skins. They really had a tough time overcoming that 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.320 slow start, but they were able to do it all. 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.880 We're gonna say it now to the super dumb head 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.359 coach Doug Pearson about to address the media there following 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.159 the Eels twenty to fourteen lost. Let's hear from the 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:16.000 head coach, change anything just now? Not really. I think 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.679 I think it's I think it's it's a credit to 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:25.840 them obviously, but you see, I think sometimes how you know, um, 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.239 just the ebb and flow of a game. Um, and uh, 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.800 you know, they they got some breaks in there. We 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.520 know we we we were moving the ball again. I 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:37.840 mean I think you know we had the we had 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:39.879 the turnover that throwed a zacher. It's up the sideline 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.840 there that got got intercepted and just kind of momentum 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.840 change and went down and scored on that. And um, 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.000 so nothing nothing that they did obviously. Um, we just 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.600 we just didn't make the place to either stay on 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:58.359 the field or you know, continue drives, execute and score field. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:01.680 It seemed like some are holding back here to seem 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:03.159 like you were holding back hears. Can you describe like 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.919 foot hold battles. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough because it's 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.560 so final. You know, you're you're here at the end 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:10.560 of the season. There's no more, no more football, you know, 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.320 for for twenty eighteen. And UM just told the guys, 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.280 you know, just keeps your heads up and we we 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.560 set out on a journey way back in OTAs and 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:20.879 we keep talking about and having no regrets, you know, 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.160 and leave everything out on the field. And they did 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.000 that tonight. You know, they did that this afternoon, and um, 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.000 they battled right to the end. We had we had opportunities. 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.440 So UM, proud of them, proud of the season, proud 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.639 of the adversity that we faced all season long, and um, 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:38.960 you know, found our way to get into the postseason. 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.960 And uh, um, you know, just wish wish the Saints. Uh, 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:49.040 you know, good luck going forward. It's hard. I mean 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.240 it's really hard because he's so he's so down. But 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.359 you know, for me, it's about staying positive and uh, listen, 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.159 he's made many many big catches for us this season 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.840 and continue he will continue to do that. And I 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:02.520 just told him he's gotta you know, he's got to 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.160 keep his head up and and don't let one play 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:07.159 to find you. You know, it's it's not who he is. 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.160 He's he's too good of a player, and um, uh 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.960 he needs to he needs to. He'll embrace it, you know, obviously, 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:16.560 but uh, you know, and he'll be better for it. 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:18.359 But I told him just to keep his head up 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:31.000 and keep keep playing. Um yeah, but so is that 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.840 why he ran to play at that point, had plenty 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:35.359 of time to get to the line of scrimmage and 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:37.800 uh and get the playoff. I wanted to stay aggressive. 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.520 Um just ran to play like two plays before when 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:43.879 we tried to stick it there and hurts and um 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:45.840 we have to roughen the pastor play. So it was 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:48.040 a simple play got lined up and had plenty of 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:55.560 time to think about. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:57.760 it's I'm sure we'll look at the tape and and 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.920 and uh, you know, evaluate that. But there's always throws 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.439 you'd like to have back, uh in every game, you know. 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:05.600 But I thought the way he hung in there and 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.120 and battled and gave up, gave our offense a chance 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.200 to go down and you know, possibly win this football game. 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:19.560 So I thought overall, he played played pretty well. Yeah 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:21.960 you felt you felt it a little bit, um, you know, 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.080 but but we listen, we we had a lot of 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.240 confidence even at that point. We felt like we're moving 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:30.320 the ball. We stayed and stayed in rhythm and um, no, 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:32.840 I know, but but we felt even even on that drive, 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:35.760 we felt like we could have um could have scored 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:38.560 have we hit that play. But kind of changed after 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:41.119 that point. And um, you know, again credit the Saints 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:50.680 for for uh, you know, executing stretch. Yeah, I mean 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:53.880 it's and it's you know, it's just it's hard stuff. Um, 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:57.320 you know, those guys are uh, solid players or starters, 0:24:57.359 --> 0:24:59.720 and and uh, it's unfortunate we lose. We lose those 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.720 guys for you know, Brandon for the rest of the game, 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:05.600 but those guys for periods of time. It's it's disruptive 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:07.919 a little bit, but you know it's kind of been 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:10.080 our season a little bit, you know, fighting, fighting through 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:14.240 that adversity, and um, you know we did get them back, 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:24.640 but credit them too for for playing through a little injury. 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:27.000 That Yeah, I mean that's it's you know, you kind 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:30.280 of expect it in that situations fourth and one, Um, 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:32.720 you know, you just gotta be prepared for that. And um, 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:37.359 you know, again, just a great play by them in 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:45.040 the game you were ready for. We've had our defense, 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:48.800 our defense defense stay um calling so our you know, 0:25:48.840 --> 0:26:00.240 our defense was on the field sixteen. That was the 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:06.040 one over the middle. Yeah, um, yeah, we're dropping his 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:09.639 own and just um again you know, um, Drew did 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:11.240 a good job just hanging on the football and letting 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:12.560 his guys get down the field. I mean it was 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:14.520 just it was just just a window right there, you know, 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:17.280 in the middle of field, and and uh got it 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:20.040 and got the first down this season where it just 0:26:20.040 --> 0:26:31.760 seemed and then what brought me back to where relevant, Um, 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:34.239 the guys in that locker room. Um, you know, got 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:35.680 a lot of trust, a lot of faith in those guys, 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:39.280 my coaches, just um, you know, I just believing that 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:41.520 we could, we could get ourselves in this position, you know, 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:44.119 and and be in the postseason being you know it 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:45.840 is it is one of our goals obviously, has to 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:49.240 be playing in January. And um, it's as I've set 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:53.080 all season, a resilient group that you know, doesn't um 0:26:53.320 --> 0:26:56.600 waiver a whole lot you know, through adversity, um makes 0:26:56.600 --> 0:27:00.119 you tougher, makes you uh um, you know, battle that 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:03.920 much harder. So those guys in the locker room really, um, 0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:06.359 you know, fought through that and and gave us the 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:20.520 opportunity to be in this position. At that point, I 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:22.520 mean I thought that we were we were, we were 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:24.400 on our way, you know, we got that we got 0:27:24.400 --> 0:27:28.120 to you know. Um, it just felt like the momentum 0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:30.040 at that point. I mean it was it was in 0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:32.600 our in our favor, kind of in our hands, and 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:34.760 and uh it's been that way all season, you know, 0:27:34.840 --> 0:27:37.600 and it felt like that, uh, that sort of that 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:43.560 magic was going to continue special after after the game possible. 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.040 I just told him, I appreciate everything, everything he's done, 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:50.240 you know, and everything that uh uh he's done this season, 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.040 and and you know, for him to come in and 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:55.280 step in the way he has, I mean Um, you know, 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:57.960 just just told him I loved him, and and uh, 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:09.160 you know, we'll probably visit the next couple question. But well, 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:11.800 I'm gonna you know, obviously, you know, I'm gonna punt 0:28:11.880 --> 0:28:16.639 that question and talk about that later, knowing that some 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:22.040 of these guys has to be in the back of 0:28:22.080 --> 0:28:26.119 your mind decisions these guys. And it's tough. I mean 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:28.240 it's tough because these guys are gonna build relationship with 0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:31.400 these guys you spent so much time together and and um, 0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:33.600 you know, your your roster. Every year, your roster is 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:35.159 gonna change. I mean, that's just the way it is. 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:37.159 There's there's people are gonna come, people are gonna go, 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:40.760 and you know, um, obviously, well we'll talk more about it, 0:28:40.840 --> 0:28:43.360 you know, in the next next few days. But um, 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:45.520 when you build relationship like that and you know these 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:50.200 guys personally, makes it that much harder too. Well, and 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:51.959 that's the thing is, you know, we've we've we've won 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:55.400 a super Bowl with these guys and and uh, um 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:57.080 you know, we'll see, we'll see where we go at 0:28:57.080 --> 0:29:10.320 the end saying we can rest. Oh no, I'll tell 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:12.680 you a credit. The defense I mean they got after 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:16.120 Drew which we had to do. Um, you know, I think, uh, 0:29:16.440 --> 0:29:19.080 the one the one one statistical thing I think was 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:20.800 the third downs. I think they were eight of fifteen 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:22.480 on first on third down. That was kind of the 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.960 big glaring statistic that kind of uh stood out, you know. 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:28.040 And then conversely, I think we were two of seven, 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:30.520 So that that to me kind of the tail tale 0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:32.480 right there. We just couldn't get off the field enough 0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:35.600 defensively with fifteen third downs, I mean, that's a credit 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:37.640 to get to fifteen, but then we gotta get off 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:41.640 the field. Um. Conversely, seven for third downs is great, 0:29:41.920 --> 0:29:44.520 but you should at least convert four or five of those. Yeah, 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:50.920 obviously a lot of guys down in the game. Was 0:29:50.960 --> 0:29:53.240 that going to say about he made the Divisional round? 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:59.240 What was that kind of say about going forward? Um? 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:01.480 What they can be? Well? And I tell you you 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:04.440 got to have a lot of confidence, uh in in 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:06.480 in the in the guys and the coaches. I mean, 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:08.400 to get to this position, to be in the Divisional 0:30:08.480 --> 0:30:10.520 round two games away from the super Bowl again, I mean, 0:30:10.640 --> 0:30:14.600 is is uh, it's it's it's tough in this league. 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.320 It's tough to win games. And even back when when 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.240 a lot of people were you know, counting us out, 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:21.600 you know in mid season and after the Dallas game, 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:25.680 things like that. Um, it's why you played sixteen games, 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:27.640 you know, give yourself a position, you know, shot to 0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:31.160 be in this position, and um, you know it's a credit, 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:33.840 you know, looking forward. Um, you know it's a good 0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:37.120 football team, good football team, and uh, you know we're 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:44.640 gonna learn from this. We'll be better for him. No, 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:46.440 I just think they just played a little bit better. 0:30:46.440 --> 0:30:49.280 They controlled the line of scrimmage a little a little better. Um, 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:52.000 you know, our run game just kind of I won't 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:54.440 say disappeared, but it was it wasn't very good you 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:56.640 know there, and and tried to continue to run it 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.320 and um it just felt like that, uh you know, 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:02.600 Um they and we had some we had some formation 0:31:02.640 --> 0:31:05.120 issues and some things like that to kind of had 0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:08.000 to burn a couple of time outs there. But other 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:10.120 than that, I think just you know, credit them for 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:15.360 their effort and you know, making the place. Thank you. 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:21.160 Heartbroken Doug Pearson, very very emotional and you can see 0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:24.320 the love that the players and the coaches have for 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:29.200 each other. Obviously, very very difficult way to end the season, 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.440 and I think you addanced this, I can you certainly 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.680 understand this from your time in the NFL. This team 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:37.040 is not coming back next year. Okay, you may have 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:39.400 head coach Doug Pierson and a lot of the same 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:42.320 key players, but by and large, it's going to be 0:31:42.360 --> 0:31:46.160 a different locker room next year. That's why when media 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:48.440 fans will say, can you carry the momentum from one 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.200 year to the next, I mean, we're talking about nine 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:53.320 months from now before this team is going to play 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:56.800 a meaningful game, one that's going to count in the standings. Again, 0:31:57.000 --> 0:31:58.640 you're gonna have free and so, you're gonna have draft, 0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:00.600 you have injuries. There's gonna be a lot that takes 0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:04.320 place during that time. It's not gonna be the same 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:06.080 locker room. Even if you bring back a lot of 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:09.160 the same amount of guys, there's gonna be addition, subtractions. 0:32:09.280 --> 0:32:12.840 So the twenty eight team Philadelphi Eagles, that iteration of it, 0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:16.240 that's done at this point. Yeah, I mean, and that's 0:32:16.320 --> 0:32:20.240 that's the business of the NFL. Each year is his eat. 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:23.040 I mean, it's his own individual year. I mean, the 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:28.520 makeup of that team, that personality, those players, it's unto 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:32.440 itself and so when you look at what was on 0:32:32.480 --> 0:32:37.800 the field tonight, I could guess twenty players at least 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:40.400 won't be here next year. When you think about draft 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:44.600 picks and free agency things of that nature, there's roster 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:49.800 turnover every year on every ball club. And so when 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:53.040 you have a ball club like the Eagles where they 0:32:53.080 --> 0:32:56.680 basically have been in a championship mode, championship run the 0:32:56.760 --> 0:33:00.200 last couple of years, there's also gonna be veterans they 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:03.920 may not be here. So um, it's it's when you 0:33:04.000 --> 0:33:06.800 leave that field for the final time, whether it be 0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:11.120 in Minneapolis with the confetti coming down, or it's in 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:15.120 New Orleans. You know, when you when you reconvene in April, 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.719 whenever the offseason program starts, there's gonna be a lot 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:22.320 of new faces. And most certainly when you step on 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:26.240 that field next September for that opening game, it'll be 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:31.760 a completely different roster, a makeup, different personalities, a different 0:33:31.880 --> 0:33:36.200 character that this team will identify itself with. And that's 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.160 the that's the business of the NFL, and that's why 0:33:39.200 --> 0:33:41.840 you have to cherish these years. And the thing is, 0:33:42.040 --> 0:33:45.960 you know, you focus on the change from year to year, players, 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:48.280 roles are gonna be different even throughout the course of 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:50.840 the season. I think guys like Craivon LeBlanc. I mean, 0:33:50.840 --> 0:33:53.440 you're gonna have different guys add to the mix. Avante 0:33:53.520 --> 0:33:55.720 Max was expected to be a special team's contribute. He 0:33:55.760 --> 0:33:58.920 comes up being an impactful starter on the outside for you. 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.520 Golden Tape wasn't on this team, you know, up until 0:34:01.600 --> 0:34:04.239 the trade deadline just before Halloween. So you're gonna have 0:34:04.640 --> 0:34:07.440 new faces, new personalized added to and makes all the time. 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:10.160 So to recap Doug Pierce's press conference, I think you 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:14.000 hit on it perfectly. Third down was a huge difference. 0:34:14.040 --> 0:34:16.600 Third down offense had been outstanding for the Eagles to 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:19.839 get themselves into the playoffs and into the divisional round 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:23.160 well two of seven today and then the defense giving 0:34:23.239 --> 0:34:25.560 up eight or fifteen to Drew Brees, and Doug Pierson 0:34:25.640 --> 0:34:27.799 said it best. Sure, it was great we got them 0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:31.239 into third down situations, some third and long situations, but 0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:33.720 unfortunately you're just not able to get off the field. 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:36.000 You need to make one more play, you know, just 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:38.120 to maybe keep one field goal off the board. So 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:40.400 maybe you only need a field goal on the final 0:34:40.480 --> 0:34:43.000 drive instead of a touchdown, and maybe that changes the 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:46.480 complexion of everything. But still the Eagles were in position 0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:48.799 at the end, but you just needed to make one 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:50.920 more play. And you know, if you came into this 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:53.279 game saying that the defense is only going to give 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:56.080 up twenty points to the New Orleans Saints, you're gonna 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:58.680 quiously take that every single day of the week. Okay. 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:01.240 You figured that this offense, the way it had played 0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:04.560 final six regular season games with Wentz and Nick Foles 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:08.160 at quarterback, there average twenty seven points per game, third 0:35:08.239 --> 0:35:11.040 highest rate in the league. You know, down the stretch there, 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:13.800 if you factor in last week's game of sixteen points, 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:15.879 I think it was an average still over twenty four 0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:18.640 points per game, close to twenty five. You figure we're 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:20.200 gonna have enough to be able to get to win 0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:23.239 if we're holding that team to twenty. Other knows we'll 0:35:23.239 --> 0:35:25.160 set here a red zone. Okay. Last week in the 0:35:25.200 --> 0:35:27.320 win over the Bears, Bears were over for three and 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:30.560 a red zone freeze and company two for two on 0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:33.239 the day. That's the difference right there for you. This 0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:35.640 was the number one red zone defense that the Eel's 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:38.960 head in the NFL this season. Unfortunately, just wasn't up 0:35:39.000 --> 0:35:41.279 to the task today. Against you know, the difference going 0:35:41.280 --> 0:35:43.719 against a future Hall of Famer and an outstanding play 0:35:43.760 --> 0:35:47.399 caller at coach and coach on Payton. Yeah, and when 0:35:47.400 --> 0:35:49.160 you're on the road and you're growing up against a 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:52.640 guy like Drew Brees. You know when opper zone these 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:55.200 when opportunities present itself, you got to take advantage of 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:58.000 those opportunities. And also, and that could be on the 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:00.360 offensive side of the ball or the defense side of 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:02.359 the ball. If it's third and long, you gotta get 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:04.360 off the field. You have to get off the field. 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:08.040 You can't give up big third down conversions. You can't 0:36:08.080 --> 0:36:11.200 get Drew Brees in this offense another set of downs. 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:13.399 When I look at the box score and I look 0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:16.520 at the biggest difference in this game, it's not only 0:36:16.560 --> 0:36:19.520 that third down, but the third down is what contributes 0:36:19.560 --> 0:36:22.520 to the other factor, which is time of possession. The 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:26.240 Saints had the ball for thirty seven minutes, almost fifteen 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:29.959 minutes longer than the Eagles had it. That's basically three 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:34.080 quarters to one quarter that the Saints had the ball 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:38.239 over the Eagles. It's gonna be difficult for any defense 0:36:38.760 --> 0:36:41.320 to keep this Saints offense out of the end zone. 0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:44.200 If they have the ball that much. But it's not 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:47.400 just the offense who have to extend drives. The defense 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.720 has to get off the field on third down certainly. 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:52.600 So as we go wait to hear from quarterback Nick 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:54.279 Foles in just a little bit. Might as well get 0:36:54.280 --> 0:36:56.879 into your other takeaways from the season. You got talked 0:36:56.880 --> 0:36:59.120 about how the Eagles had golfs to a slow start. 0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:01.520 You know, they're over come to the Super Bowl hangover. Okay, 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:03.759 because again that's the thing that you mentioned. They had 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:06.080 to learn about what that was gonna be like here 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:09.000 in eighteen. I know Doug Pearson, who had been through 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:12.200 it as a player, you know, said to embrace the target. 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:14.720 But it looks like it's something that you don't truly 0:37:15.120 --> 0:37:17.680 understand until you experience it for yourself. You can be 0:37:17.760 --> 0:37:20.359 told time and time again, this is what's gonna be 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:22.440 like where every team is gonna be coming after you. 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:24.560 But until you're seeing that week in and week out, 0:37:24.920 --> 0:37:27.560 you're not gonna understand the pressures and challenges that come 0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:29.719 with that. Yeah, and the team had to find out 0:37:29.760 --> 0:37:32.359 about that firsthand this year and say, it's hard to 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:35.239 explain that until you actually go through it. I mean, 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:37.640 there are a few players that could talk about it, 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:41.440 you know, Malcolm Jenkins, Chris Long, guys that have won 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:45.680 championships other places. But it's hard to really get that 0:37:45.760 --> 0:37:48.920 through the players if they've never gone through it and 0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:51.360 they had to fight their way through it. Not only that, 0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:53.719 they dealt with some injuries as well. You know, when 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:56.640 you're playing an extended season, when you're playing until February, 0:37:56.880 --> 0:37:59.480 you're playing more football than anybody else in the league. 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:01.520 And it took a whole for some of these guys 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:04.279 to get back on the field. You know, you lose 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:08.000 guys like Jayajii right that that hurts you. Not really 0:38:08.080 --> 0:38:12.880 having a clear running identity early in the season, that 0:38:13.000 --> 0:38:15.960 took a wow to sort of formulate itself. So I 0:38:16.040 --> 0:38:20.759 think the extended season couple with the shorter offseason that 0:38:20.840 --> 0:38:24.000 contributed to the whole Super Bowl hangover, and it took 0:38:24.080 --> 0:38:25.759 him a while to sort of fight their way out 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.200 of that. You mentioned the run game and losing Jagi 0:38:28.520 --> 0:38:31.319 and Corey Clement throughout the course of the season. You know, 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:33.640 Doug Pearson said there really just wasn't much of a 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:35.920 run game, and you knew that last week going against 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:38.600 Chicago and the top rank defense, and you were just 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:41.719 trying to keep the Bears honest. But believe it or not, 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:44.960 the Saints run defense just as good as the Bears, 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:47.200 the second in terms of yards per game, second in 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:49.279 the league this year in terms of yards per carry, 0:38:49.320 --> 0:38:52.640 and they actually lost arguably their best player along the 0:38:52.760 --> 0:38:55.920 interior of the line, Sheldon Rankins. Okay, they lost him too. 0:38:56.120 --> 0:38:59.200 Was reportedly an achilles injury. So you thought the Eels 0:38:59.280 --> 0:39:02.600 might have the advance. It's the frustrating and sad part, 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:04.480 and we don't know the extent of the injury. The 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:08.080 legles lose their Pro Bowl guard Brandon Brooks, just a 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:10.919 couple of plays later that same drive in fact, and 0:39:11.160 --> 0:39:13.719 that you talk about the offensive line, that's a big 0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:16.160 reason why Nick Foles had great protection down the stretch, 0:39:16.200 --> 0:39:18.200 why the offense was able to round into form down 0:39:18.200 --> 0:39:20.120 to stretch, why the Eagles were able to make it 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:23.040 to the divisional round the postseason. Well, you have a 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.600 huge domino that falls there with Brandon Brooks going out 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:28.040 with the leg injury, and fingers crossed that it's not 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:31.760 a significant injury that's gonna impact his offseason preparation, because 0:39:31.800 --> 0:39:34.120 that's the big concern now at this point, but you 0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:36.360 take him out. You know, at the right guard position, 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:38.680 Jason Peters is battling injury. He has to come out 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:41.719 of the game. And left tackle. You know, Stephan Weistnuski 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:44.640 a trusted veteran. He's played center, he's played left guard. 0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:46.799 He hasn't had to play that right guard spot for 0:39:47.000 --> 0:39:49.800 the Eagles. Okay, you know he's worked in It started 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:52.000 left guard here this season. You know, had to fill 0:39:52.080 --> 0:39:54.480 in for Kelsey in that Saints game. But right guard 0:39:54.560 --> 0:39:56.799 Brandon Brooks, you've been able to put him there and 0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.879 leave him there, and he and Lane Johnson have been outstanding, 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:02.480 especially down the stretch, especially when Lane Johnson got healthy, 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:05.160 because he dealt with injuries throughout the course of the season. 0:40:05.280 --> 0:40:07.360 So you know that goes to show right there that 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:09.399 you need this offensive line to be healthy. You gotta 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:11.560 figure out in fortified. But the Eagles do need to 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:13.359 figure out what they're gonna do with the run game 0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:16.000 next season because Jgi scheduled to become a free agent, 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:18.960 Corey Clement coming back from the injury, Darren Sproles, we 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:22.000 don't know what the future holds for him. Josh Ms 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:24.560 showed some promise, but obviously wasn't in the mix offensively 0:40:24.640 --> 0:40:28.200 late in the season. Wendell Smallwood, you know, nice turnaround here, 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:32.279 or someone who had been inactive a minor role contributor 0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:34.880 to being a big part of the offense all of 0:40:34.920 --> 0:40:37.080 a sudden down the stretch. I thought he actually made 0:40:37.080 --> 0:40:39.680 some huge strides in terms of pass pickup because that 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:41.279 was one of the weaknesses in his game and why 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:43.319 you're not being able to be on the field time 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:45.239 after time. Again, there are a couple of times when 0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:47.719 the Saints brought pressure and he's able to step up 0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:50.120 there and help him out, much like Darren Sproles, who's 0:40:50.239 --> 0:40:52.520 very very good in that regard. But you know, the 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:55.800 Eagles had the run game going early and then you know, 0:40:56.719 --> 0:40:58.799 maybe it was with the Brooks injury, maybe it was 0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:01.840 once the once the the secondary is able to clamp 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:04.560 down on the Eagls receivers and pass catchers, that they 0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:06.400 were able to just win the battles of line scripts 0:41:06.440 --> 0:41:09.359 and make sure that there was no no ground game 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:11.360 going for the Eagles and everything was gonna be in 0:41:11.440 --> 0:41:15.080 Nick Foles's hands. Yeah, and that's difficult. That's difficult to 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:18.239 sustain when you're on the road. You want to play 0:41:18.480 --> 0:41:21.640 good defense, and you want to have a sustainable running game. 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:26.120 And the Eagles today fourteen rushes forty nine yards when 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:29.080 you take out of Nick Foles two rushes right when 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:31.480 you look at the other running backs. Not really a 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:34.239 sustainable running game. And we knew last week that the 0:41:34.280 --> 0:41:37.640 Eagles sort of they got away with not being able 0:41:37.680 --> 0:41:40.560 to run the ball. Last week versus Chicago went up 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:44.960 against the Saints team a better offense, a more efficient offense. 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:48.279 You needed to have a semblance of a running game 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:51.640 and for no other reason to keep that Saints offense 0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:55.239 on the sideline to help you sustain drives. All right, 0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.319 let's get you your last takeaway here, and it's the 0:41:57.360 --> 0:42:00.359 fact that the Eagles finished strong here so that they 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:03.440 start off slow. They overcame the Super Bowl hangover. But 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:07.680 this team that remember forty eight to seven, lost week eleven, 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.560 November eighteenth, in New Orleans. The following week, a lot 0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:12.960 of people don't recall this. They were down nineteen to 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:15.520 three against the Giants. And that's where a lot of 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:17.440 people could have been like, that's the season, all right, 0:42:18.200 --> 0:42:22.239 it's not gonna happen this year. Giants were driving the score. Yes, exactly. 0:42:22.640 --> 0:42:24.719 So that's the thing. I remember. Michael Bennett suffered the 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:27.080 foot injury in that game, you know, led a valiant 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:29.120 effort in the second half to get the Eagles to win. 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:32.280 So that helped turn the tight around for the Eagles. Okay, 0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:34.320 they win two of their next three games with Carson 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:36.920 Wentz at quarterback. Wentz is out with the back injury. 0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:39.479 Nick Foles leads them into the playoffs, winning the final 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:42.200 three regular season games and then the wild card round. 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:46.520 So definitely finishing strong. There goes back to the leadership 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:49.920 of Doug Peterson and the quality of character inside the 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:52.680 Eagles locker room. With the leadership that the players have. Yeah, 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:54.440 I think you gotta start with the head coach. You 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:57.160 gotta start with Doug Peterson. You talk about how the 0:42:57.600 --> 0:43:00.760 Eagles were after that Saints game that in Barrison Laws 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:05.680 forty eight to seven, they rallied to finish six and two. 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:07.799 When you look at their last eight games, they won 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:11.440 six in their last eight games, finding themselves in the playoffs, 0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:13.760 able to go on the road and win a playoff 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:17.040 game in Chicago. Really had the ball with an opportunity 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:20.640 to go ahead late in this game against the Saints, 0:43:20.920 --> 0:43:24.960 you gotta at least appreciate the way this team finished 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:28.160 down the stretch. That's a testament to the head coach, 0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:31.000 the hole that he has over this locker room, the 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:34.399 fact that these players they continue to play hard for him. 0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:37.520 His number one trade as a head coach, not his 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:41.440 ability to call plays, not his ability to pick players, 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:44.360 but his ability to get his players to play for 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:47.840 him every week. His ability to get his players to 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:52.440 believe in themselves as well as to believe in their coaches. 0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:54.759 That's the biggest thing that I take away from the 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:57.600 way this season ended is that we have the right 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:01.520 man leading uson, Doug Peterson as the head coach, and 0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:04.239 moving forward, you have to feel good about where this 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:08.040 organization is headed because the foundation is strong, the front 0:44:08.080 --> 0:44:10.959 office is strong from an ownership standpoint, from a front 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:13.719 office personnel standpoint, and then you look at the head 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:16.000 coach as well as some of the young talent that 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:19.080 you have on this team moving forward, starting with Carson 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:22.400 Wentz was gonna have a full off season to get 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:26.960 healthy and get back in to the quarterback position and 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:30.680 lead this organization going forward. You have to be excited 0:44:30.960 --> 0:44:34.600 about the way this team finished up the season because 0:44:34.920 --> 0:44:38.359 they could have very easily thrown in the towel and 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:40.640 hung their hat on the fact that they won the 0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:44.320 Super Bowl last year. But they weren't satisfied. They weren't 0:44:44.360 --> 0:44:46.239 They weren't going to just lay down and let the 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:48.760 season go to waste. Give them a lot of credit 0:44:48.840 --> 0:44:52.719 these players. They fought, They fought to the end, and 0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:54.880 what do you know, they found themselves in the second 0:44:54.960 --> 0:44:57.920 round coming up a little short against a very good 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:01.000 New Orleans Saints team. I mean, look in the playoffs 0:45:01.040 --> 0:45:03.320 that they went on the road against the Bears, a 0:45:03.440 --> 0:45:06.239 team that not hosted a playoff game since twenty ten. 0:45:06.840 --> 0:45:09.520 And you know, Foles was able to move the ball 0:45:09.880 --> 0:45:12.440 against the number one ranked defense. They were able to 0:45:12.440 --> 0:45:15.759 withstand the Bears final drive as Trayvon Hester, you know, 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:18.160 tips the Cody Parky attempt at the double doings that 0:45:18.239 --> 0:45:20.640 gives the Eagles a win. That that was an undermanned 0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:24.120 team going against a team that was outstanding from the 0:45:24.160 --> 0:45:26.920 start of the season. Okay, they were able to niggate 0:45:27.040 --> 0:45:29.920 Khalil Mack, one of the league's best players forget offense, defense, 0:45:29.960 --> 0:45:32.719 just best players period. They were able to neutralize him 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:34.759 to get to the second round, and they knew the 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:37.759 challenges that they had at hand today going against Drew 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:41.040 Brees and Sean Payton and an offensive line that probably 0:45:41.080 --> 0:45:42.680 doesn't get enough credit. That's one of the best in 0:45:42.680 --> 0:45:46.040 the league. Again, Drew Brees was sacked, I believe twice today. 0:45:46.400 --> 0:45:49.560 He had only been sacked seventeen times in fifteen starts 0:45:49.840 --> 0:45:54.600 this season. Absolutely outstanding and the past catchers, Uh, send 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:57.120 it now to the superdown. Nick Foles addressing the media, 0:45:57.360 --> 0:45:59.480 you know what, they really did a good job of, 0:45:59.680 --> 0:46:02.799 you know, showing us different looks. But you know, at 0:46:02.800 --> 0:46:05.239 the end of the day, you know we didn't execute. Um. 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:07.120 You know, we got to be able to first few 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:09.640 drives were great, Um, but after that, we guess we 0:46:09.719 --> 0:46:12.759 have to keep it going. But I mean they're tremendous team. Um, 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:16.279 hats off to them. Um, you know, unfortunately, you know, 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:17.880 we had an opportunity at the end. And you know, 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:20.239 it's tough. I mean it's tough. You know, you love 0:46:20.320 --> 0:46:22.839 playing this game with you know, your teammates, and that's 0:46:22.840 --> 0:46:24.920 the toughest part about it is it just it stops. 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:27.320 And you know, thirty one teams feel this at the 0:46:27.400 --> 0:46:30.040 end of the season. Um, and you know. I'd say 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:32.040 the hardest part is you you develop relates. I talk 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:36.279 about relationships, You develop relationships with your teammates, and you 0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:38.839 know for it to end, it's tough, um, just being 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:41.200 with these guys. But you know we're able to spend 0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:44.120 time in the locker room after and UM, that's what 0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:47.640 this game is about, is those relationships during the playoffs. 0:46:48.600 --> 0:46:56.560 He happened one last years. UM, you know, I'm not 0:46:56.560 --> 0:46:59.120 really gonna worry about it right now. UM. I think 0:46:59.280 --> 0:47:01.680 you know, I'm just gonna do what I can to 0:47:01.800 --> 0:47:04.640 enjoy this fight back with my teammates. UM, and we'll 0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:07.040 see what happens. UM. I do know that you know, 0:47:07.239 --> 0:47:09.160 we went out there and gave it everything we had tonight. 0:47:09.600 --> 0:47:11.440 And that's where you know, everyone's got to keep their 0:47:11.719 --> 0:47:15.040 um heads held high because that's what it's about. Sometimes 0:47:15.040 --> 0:47:17.480 you win, sometimes you lose, but ultimately, if you give 0:47:17.480 --> 0:47:21.080 it everything you have. You know, that's what's about other 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:25.760 team After that last play, what do you say, Oh, dude, 0:47:25.920 --> 0:47:27.520 just you just tell them you love them. That's what 0:47:27.560 --> 0:47:31.040 it's about. I mean, this game it's tough. Not everyone 0:47:31.080 --> 0:47:32.960 can do it. Um. In those moments, you know, just 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:36.600 tell them I love you let's keep going. UM, you know, 0:47:36.680 --> 0:47:39.000 amongst other things that I'll keep to myself, but you 0:47:39.000 --> 0:47:40.959 know that's a general message and that's what this team 0:47:41.000 --> 0:47:43.240 is about. That's what you know, playing this game is about, 0:47:43.320 --> 0:47:46.600 is you know, developing those relationships to you know, the 0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:48.400 tough part about it, like I said, is you know, 0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:51.800 when it's over, it's over. UM. But you don't. I 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.000 don't regret anything, you know, I always play this game 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:56.960 to develop relationships because you know that's what makes it strong, 0:47:57.000 --> 0:48:07.560 team strong. So those catches, yeah, no, I mean you 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:09.960 know that's part of the game. You know, can't look 0:48:10.040 --> 0:48:12.640 back and you know, say what if or what? You know, 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:17.799 the confidence level in the huddle was extremely confident, like always, UM. 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:19.840 You know, we go in there, we're getting the huddle 0:48:19.840 --> 0:48:21.960 every time and expect to march right down the field. 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:25.319 You know, we were moving the ball and unfortunately it 0:48:25.320 --> 0:48:27.560 didn't go our way. UM. But that's the tough part 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:30.880 about this game. UM. You know, you you win through losses, 0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:33.480 you win through wins. UM. You know this is something 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:35.239 that you know all of us are going to learn 0:48:35.280 --> 0:48:37.680 from and we'll be better for UM. I've talked a 0:48:37.719 --> 0:48:40.000 lot about you know, my career in the NFL and 0:48:40.200 --> 0:48:43.000 the ups and downs. You're always learning, um, and you 0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:45.359 know we learned a lot tonight and it's tough, but 0:48:45.400 --> 0:48:49.640 we'll keep moving on. The first one, First one, UM, 0:48:49.680 --> 0:48:51.319 he made a good play. I was trying to take 0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:53.719 a shot down field. UM, need to get the ball 0:48:53.760 --> 0:48:55.680 up probably another foot or so. But you know, I 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:57.680 believe it was a lot of Moore made a good play. 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:01.880 I'm sure you're aware of how much the fans in 0:49:01.960 --> 0:49:07.799 Philadelphia just adore you. And nobody will see you though. UM. 0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:10.360 I think the big thing is you know what the 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:13.720 city means to me. Um. You know it's always welcome 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:17.960 me and my family. UM. It's really been a joy 0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:19.759 to live there and be a part of everything. And 0:49:19.880 --> 0:49:22.640 you know where the green and where the Jersey. So 0:49:23.040 --> 0:49:25.359 no matter what, you can't ever take that away. UM. 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:27.879 We were able to do some really special things. So 0:49:28.239 --> 0:49:30.520 you know, we'll see what happens. But I'll tell you this, 0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:34.279 I've enjoyed every single moment and it'll always have a 0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:37.520 special place in my heart. The city, the fans, the people, UM, 0:49:37.560 --> 0:49:40.080 everything about it. Um. There's nothing like playing in the 0:49:40.120 --> 0:49:43.440 link um in front of the crowd. UM. It's it's 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:46.319 some of my favorite moments. Um. My family's got to 0:49:46.360 --> 0:49:49.839 experience them. Um, My daughter's got to experience them. So 0:49:49.960 --> 0:50:02.359 we'll see what happens. But I've enjoyed everything. You just, uh, 0:50:02.520 --> 0:50:06.319 what's the play? What's the next play? Um, you know 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:09.319 that's all that matters. Um. I talked about staying in 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:11.720 the moment and the you know, playing the Super Dome, 0:50:11.800 --> 0:50:15.080 we have opportunity to go down and score at the end. Um. 0:50:15.320 --> 0:50:17.160 The only thing I'm worried about is the play and 0:50:17.200 --> 0:50:21.239 then recognizing what the defense is doing and ultimately executing 0:50:21.280 --> 0:50:23.680 the play. So just simplifying things in my head in 0:50:23.680 --> 0:50:25.279 those moments so I can go out there and you know, 0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:33.440 march down the field back out there was there? You know, 0:50:33.480 --> 0:50:36.320 it's just a miss um. You know, you know, different coverage, 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:39.239 different things part of this game. You take shots, and 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:43.440 you know I think you know, ultimately, Um, you know, 0:50:43.480 --> 0:50:44.680 I wish I had to put a little more air 0:50:44.719 --> 0:50:46.759 on it. Um, that's the tough part about the game 0:50:46.920 --> 0:50:48.719 is you know we didn't executing that. I gotta throw 0:50:48.719 --> 0:50:53.760 a better ball. Yeah, two options based up the coverage. 0:50:55.200 --> 0:51:00.320 Here's a couple of options game. Yeah, I mean, ltimately, 0:51:00.360 --> 0:51:03.319 we didn't execute. Did you overall just not feel as 0:51:03.320 --> 0:51:06.319 sharp as you have the less stress? No. I mean, 0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:08.880 you know, football is a funny sport. It means you know, 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:11.560 especially to playoff football. UM, it's a it's a it's 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:14.040 a it's tough. Um. You know, I felt like we 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:15.719 started the game off high and we were battling the 0:51:15.719 --> 0:51:17.880 rest of the game, and you know, we gave ourselves 0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:20.760 an opportunity to you know, win the game at the end, Um, 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:23.439 based on how our team was playing. Um, you wish 0:51:23.440 --> 0:51:25.200 you could get done. But at the end of the day, 0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:27.560 you know, New Orleans did a great job of you know, 0:51:27.640 --> 0:51:29.960 fighting themselves and you know, giving themselves a win and 0:51:30.040 --> 0:51:33.879 ultimately they won. So UM, you know I feel good 0:51:33.880 --> 0:51:37.640 about you know, everyone's effort. I know everyone gave everything. 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:39.480 This is tough just because you know, this is the 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:41.239 last time this team will be together. And that's the 0:51:41.239 --> 0:51:54.520 toughest part about this different this year, because no, it's 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:57.759 always difficult. Um. You know, fortunately we were able to 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:00.440 be the you know, one team that finished on top, 0:52:00.600 --> 0:52:05.120 and that's just an electrifying feeling. Um, it doesn't really matter. Um, 0:52:05.160 --> 0:52:07.640 if you're not that one team, it's tough like I said, 0:52:07.719 --> 0:52:10.719 because the locker room changes and that's it. Um. But 0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:14.040 I know, like you know, we fought our way all season. Um. 0:52:14.080 --> 0:52:16.960 The guys are resilient, our coaches are resilient, Everyone at 0:52:16.960 --> 0:52:19.920 the facilities resilient. And they showed that. So everyone should 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:22.680 be very proud of what they were able to accomplish. Ultimately, 0:52:22.680 --> 0:52:25.439 it wasn't our end goal, but it's like I said, 0:52:25.480 --> 0:52:28.120 everyone should keep their heads held high because you know 0:52:28.160 --> 0:52:30.400 we were able to you know, really pick it up 0:52:30.400 --> 0:52:32.440 the last four weeks or so, and you know, we 0:52:32.440 --> 0:52:34.839 were so close all throughout the year, and that that's 0:52:34.880 --> 0:52:37.600 a testament to the people that you know are in 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:40.520 the facility, the guys in the locker room, because most 0:52:40.520 --> 0:52:42.480 teams aren't able to do that and fight like this 0:52:42.520 --> 0:52:52.880 team has. UM. I think the thing right now is just, um, 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:55.399 your emotions. You're trying, you're trying to figure them out 0:52:55.480 --> 0:52:59.760 right now. There's a lot going on. Um, you know, ultimately, 0:52:59.840 --> 0:53:01.440 all I can really think about it is just you know, 0:53:02.160 --> 0:53:04.960 enjoying this fight with my teammates. UM. I know we 0:53:05.040 --> 0:53:07.560 wish we were continuing on, but you know that's part 0:53:07.600 --> 0:53:10.359 of this game. UM. You know, just enjoying that seeing 0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:17.960 them tomorrow. UM, that's really all I'm thinking about. Yeah, 0:53:18.000 --> 0:53:20.319 I mean, you know, I think i've you know, we'll 0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:22.759 see what happens in the future. UM. Once again, I'm 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:25.399 not gonna speculate on that, but yeah, I love leading 0:53:25.400 --> 0:53:28.839 a team. I love you know, being in the huddle. UM, 0:53:28.880 --> 0:53:32.000 being a part of a locker room. UM. Doing that, 0:53:32.000 --> 0:53:41.600 that's you know why I play the game. You know, 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:45.320 that's that's football though. Um, Injuries happen. Um. We showed 0:53:45.360 --> 0:53:47.080 that last year. We had a lot of injuries and 0:53:47.120 --> 0:53:49.480 we were able to overcome them. And you know, ultimately 0:53:49.560 --> 0:53:52.000 to I know tonight a couple of guys got banged up, 0:53:52.000 --> 0:53:54.560 but that's part of the game. UM, next guy up. 0:53:54.600 --> 0:53:56.839 And you know I've always said the guys who are 0:53:56.840 --> 0:53:59.799 injured are still there supporting our team. UM. And that's 0:53:59.800 --> 0:54:03.719 a that's really special. UM. But you know that's just 0:54:03.760 --> 0:54:10.319 part of football. How you know that's A that's a 0:54:10.320 --> 0:54:12.520 tough question. UM. You know, it's a it's a really 0:54:12.600 --> 0:54:16.400 unique situation. UM, something that honestly, I need time to 0:54:16.480 --> 0:54:20.600 just step back. I love the city. I love playing there. UM. 0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:23.399 You know, we have three guys in that quarterback room 0:54:23.440 --> 0:54:25.719 that can play in this league. Um, and that's the 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:27.680 part about it. But I'll tell you this, no matter 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:31.800 what happens, Um, it's been a joy um being playing 0:54:31.800 --> 0:54:34.399 in the city, being in that quarter room, quarterback room 0:54:34.440 --> 0:54:36.960 with Carson and Nate. I'm going to work every day, 0:54:37.000 --> 0:54:38.920 and I know we talked about it earlier, but the 0:54:38.960 --> 0:54:43.080 city means so much to me and my family. UM, 0:54:43.160 --> 0:54:47.440 you know, and I always will yours by your side 0:54:47.440 --> 0:54:50.080 throughout the runs. In the Super Bowl Championship, you spoke 0:54:50.120 --> 0:54:52.600 out again this time was his message to you after 0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:56.200 this being a loss? Yeah, I think you know, Carson 0:54:56.239 --> 0:54:58.840 and Nate, Um, we're all together. UM. I think the 0:54:58.880 --> 0:55:00.759 big thing is just you know, love and support for 0:55:00.840 --> 0:55:04.399 one another in that quarterback room. UM. You know, It's 0:55:04.440 --> 0:55:06.399 it's tough too when the season comes to end, because 0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:09.600 you do we do so much together with film, study, um, 0:55:09.640 --> 0:55:13.600 with supporting each other on the sidelines and practice. UM, 0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:15.319 So for it to come to an end, it's tough. 0:55:15.360 --> 0:55:18.279 But like I said, you you always cherish those relationships 0:55:18.320 --> 0:55:21.040 you develop. UM, going to work every day. So just 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:24.120 having Carson and Nate be supported me this last stretch 0:55:24.160 --> 0:55:26.200 and when Carson was playing or if Nate's playing like 0:55:26.400 --> 0:55:29.120 it's a special quarterback room because of the support system 0:55:29.160 --> 0:55:32.040 and UM, you know something that you know we don't 0:55:32.080 --> 0:55:40.040 take for granted. UM. I'd say the big thing is, 0:55:40.239 --> 0:55:42.359 you know, I would like to thank them, UM, thank 0:55:42.360 --> 0:55:46.920 them for their support. Uh, you know it's not ultimately 0:55:47.320 --> 0:55:48.880 you know how we wanted to end the season, but 0:55:48.920 --> 0:55:52.280 I think you know, this team, um represents what Philly 0:55:52.360 --> 0:55:55.040 is about. You know, people counted us out and we 0:55:55.040 --> 0:55:57.080 were able to continue to fight and give us an 0:55:57.080 --> 0:56:00.520 opportunity to enter the playoffs. And then when the shround 0:56:00.600 --> 0:56:02.560 and you know, we had an opportunity to win this game, 0:56:03.440 --> 0:56:05.640 and this team never stopped fighting. Much like the city 0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:07.840 of Philadelphia. That's just sort of you know, living in 0:56:07.840 --> 0:56:12.880 the city, that's just who the people are. But ultimately, 0:56:12.960 --> 0:56:15.000 I just want to say how grateful I am for 0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:19.560 everything they've done, every moment in the link, and you know, 0:56:19.640 --> 0:56:22.680 just continue to support the Eagles, and there's a bright 0:56:22.719 --> 0:56:26.480 future here with this team and everyone there. Thank y'all 0:56:29.040 --> 0:56:33.040 absolutely perfectly said right there at the end. We have 0:56:33.200 --> 0:56:36.560 been so fortunate over the last two seasons to have 0:56:36.880 --> 0:56:41.160 Carson Wentz and Nick Foles represent this football team, to 0:56:41.680 --> 0:56:45.080 play the quarterback position and to play that leadership role, 0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:48.920 and Nick Foles epitomizes right there everything you want in 0:56:48.960 --> 0:56:52.040 a quarterback. Okay, you know, obviously talked about the game 0:56:52.120 --> 0:56:54.319 and you know the fact that they didn't execute, but 0:56:54.440 --> 0:56:56.600 once you get the immacy of the loss out of 0:56:56.640 --> 0:56:59.719 the way, it's just talking about how over the last 0:56:59.800 --> 0:57:02.280 nine months he's been in the bunker with these guys, 0:57:02.400 --> 0:57:05.480 day in and day out, and this is the final 0:57:05.680 --> 0:57:07.560 plane ride they're going to take together. It's the last 0:57:07.600 --> 0:57:11.080 couple hours that they're going to have together really as 0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:13.680 a team. They will come to the facility on Monday, 0:57:13.719 --> 0:57:16.320 they'll have a final meeting and clean out their lockers, 0:57:16.360 --> 0:57:20.480 go through exit physicals, but their minds are quickly, you know, 0:57:20.520 --> 0:57:23.120 shifting gears toward the offseason and then getting out of 0:57:23.160 --> 0:57:26.400 here and getting away from football for a little bit. 0:57:26.520 --> 0:57:29.600 But to hear Nick Foles, all I can say is 0:57:29.640 --> 0:57:31.320 thank you. We don't know what, we don't know what 0:57:31.360 --> 0:57:33.080 the future holds, we don't know what's going to happen, 0:57:33.600 --> 0:57:37.560 but absolutely thank you for everything for allowing us to 0:57:37.560 --> 0:57:40.120 be a part of this magical run. For not just 0:57:40.360 --> 0:57:42.520 not just the quarterback play, but again the way that 0:57:42.600 --> 0:57:46.480 he's representing himself and this football team. He is one 0:57:46.520 --> 0:57:48.520 of the most has to be one of us admired 0:57:48.600 --> 0:57:52.120 athletes in the country for the fact that he's proficient 0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:55.160 on the field, but with the message that he carries 0:57:55.160 --> 0:57:58.880 with him about his teammates and relationships and the brotherhood 0:57:58.880 --> 0:58:01.240 and that's that's what's sports is all about. That's the 0:58:01.800 --> 0:58:05.960 best part of it all. And watching he and Nick worked, 0:58:06.200 --> 0:58:09.720 he and Carson Wentz worked together the last couple of years, it's, 0:58:09.760 --> 0:58:11.520 you know, like Foles at the end, it's it's a 0:58:11.560 --> 0:58:14.320 bright future here in Philadelphia with great things to come. 0:58:14.720 --> 0:58:17.680 So just a tip of the cap to you, Nick Foles, 0:58:18.120 --> 0:58:21.960 NICKI six. No matter what happens, just thanks for everything 0:58:22.160 --> 0:58:24.040 right there. I don't know if I could see it 0:58:24.040 --> 0:58:25.960 any better than what you just said, Chris. I mean, 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:30.520 the guy is genuine. We've been fortunate as Eagles fans 0:58:32.000 --> 0:58:34.840 to have Nick Foles here. I was excited when they 0:58:34.920 --> 0:58:39.560 brought him back two years ago under this regime. I 0:58:39.680 --> 0:58:41.480 was sad to see him go the first time when 0:58:41.520 --> 0:58:44.600 we traded him for Sam Bradford. Have always been a 0:58:44.600 --> 0:58:49.120 big fan of Nick Foles and for what Nick Foles 0:58:49.120 --> 0:58:53.720 have done for this organization, for the city of Philadelphia, 0:58:54.080 --> 0:58:57.360 no matter what his future holds for him, no matter 0:58:57.400 --> 0:59:00.560 what team he goes on to play for, and he's 0:59:00.600 --> 0:59:03.840 more than likely played his last game as an Eagle, 0:59:04.200 --> 0:59:08.080 and h he's gonna always be an Eagle. He's an 0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:12.120 Eagle great. I think one day he'll being shrined in 0:59:12.160 --> 0:59:14.360 the Eagles Hall of Fame as he most right he's 0:59:14.440 --> 0:59:17.720 he he rightfully should be. Uh, he's one of the 0:59:17.720 --> 0:59:20.880 greatest Eagles of all time. He was a big part 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:25.160 in delivering the most coveted trophy that this city has 0:59:25.440 --> 0:59:29.520 learned for throughout the history of sports in this town. Uh. 0:59:29.520 --> 0:59:33.280 He was a big part bringing that here, bringing being 0:59:33.360 --> 0:59:36.200 a Super Bowl MVP. And when this season looked like 0:59:36.240 --> 0:59:40.400 it was over, it was Nick Foles that infused life 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:43.720 into this team and into this city one more time. 0:59:44.040 --> 0:59:46.400 And it was a perfect swan song. Well I shouldn't 0:59:46.400 --> 0:59:49.480 say perfect because it didn't end in another super Bowl title, 0:59:50.080 --> 0:59:55.560 but but if the season was going to end, he's 0:59:55.600 --> 0:59:58.960 at quarterback. He was perfect for his last year to 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:01.960 end the season. It didn't end the way we wanted 1:00:01.960 --> 1:00:04.840 it to end, but with him being the quarterback for us, 1:00:05.080 --> 1:00:08.000 I'm perfectly fine for that. And just like you said, 1:00:08.560 --> 1:00:10.720 I tip my cap to you as well, Nikki six. 1:00:10.920 --> 1:00:14.520 Thank you for being a fantastic Eagle, uh and good 1:00:14.600 --> 1:00:17.880 luck to whatever your future mayn He is as exceptional 1:00:18.080 --> 1:00:21.440 off the field has he is on. Genuine that's that's genuinely. 1:00:21.480 --> 1:00:23.880 The best part is the fact that what you see 1:00:24.120 --> 1:00:26.800 is what you get. There's no filter, there's no facade 1:00:26.920 --> 1:00:29.880 anything on all those lines. He is that way each 1:00:30.000 --> 1:00:32.000 and every day. And it just seemed like when the 1:00:32.080 --> 1:00:35.919 lights are the brightest, he's the most commons he's able 1:00:35.960 --> 1:00:38.200 to deliver, you know, whether it's you know, facing the 1:00:38.240 --> 1:00:41.080 media during Super Bowl week, all those press conferences and 1:00:41.200 --> 1:00:44.480 telling his story about you know, his wife's disease, and 1:00:44.520 --> 1:00:46.640 you know how that you know fueled him and how 1:00:46.680 --> 1:00:49.040 he talked about talked about walking away from the game, 1:00:49.160 --> 1:00:52.080 and you know, he got his career re energized with 1:00:52.120 --> 1:00:54.800 Andy Reid and Kansas City and then came back here 1:00:54.840 --> 1:00:58.560 to Philadelphia. Uh and just you know, he almost went 1:00:58.560 --> 1:01:00.600 to Tampa Bay last year. And you know that that 1:01:00.680 --> 1:01:03.800 one move, that one decision, he said, largely because because 1:01:03.880 --> 1:01:06.560 he loved the city of Philadelphia. Yeah, you know, and 1:01:06.680 --> 1:01:08.120 this is a man who's never gonna have to buy 1:01:08.160 --> 1:01:11.480 another Meal in this town again. But the fact that 1:01:11.760 --> 1:01:14.840 the fans openly embraced him from the start, you know, 1:01:15.080 --> 1:01:18.040 helped him want to come back here, and in return, 1:01:18.160 --> 1:01:21.200 he delivers, like you said, the greatest trophy that this 1:01:21.240 --> 1:01:25.240 city has won, if you know, forever, forever, forever, since 1:01:25.240 --> 1:01:27.800 the Super Sense at first Super Bowl. You know, you 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:30.240 can have your Stanley Cops, you have your World Series trophies, 1:01:30.320 --> 1:01:33.440 everything else, but you have all these great parades. But 1:01:33.520 --> 1:01:36.200 everyone said that they that the Eagles have their parade 1:01:36.240 --> 1:01:38.440 after winning a Super Bowl. It is going to be epic. 1:01:38.520 --> 1:01:44.720 And it lived beyond. It was beyond expectations, absolutely absolutely breathtaking. 1:01:45.080 --> 1:01:46.800 So what we're gonna do now is we heard from 1:01:46.840 --> 1:01:48.640 head coach Doug Pearson a short time ago in his 1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:52.000 press conference. He spoke a short time ago with Hall 1:01:52.000 --> 1:01:54.320 of Fame wide receiver Mike Quick came down from the 1:01:54.320 --> 1:01:58.760 broadcast booth. Always always, always the best interview Doug does 1:01:58.800 --> 1:02:01.360 after the game because he's fully candid and open and 1:02:01.520 --> 1:02:03.640 honest with Mike Quaker. I think Mike does a great 1:02:03.720 --> 1:02:05.920 job of getting to the point with the questions that 1:02:06.000 --> 1:02:08.240 need to be asked. That listit the great responses from 1:02:08.240 --> 1:02:10.600 hey coach Doug Pearson. So here's that one on one 1:02:10.680 --> 1:02:16.880 interview right now, coach, on that final drive, looks like 1:02:16.880 --> 1:02:18.920 you're gonna have an opportunity to pull this thing up. 1:02:19.080 --> 1:02:21.440 The ball goes to al Shan's hand, they intercept it. 1:02:21.760 --> 1:02:24.240 What do you say to a player after something like 1:02:24.320 --> 1:02:26.520 that happens. You just got to remind him that he's 1:02:26.520 --> 1:02:28.200 a good player and he's made a ton of catches 1:02:28.240 --> 1:02:30.280 for us. He's made some big plays for us this season, 1:02:30.360 --> 1:02:33.000 last season helps us win a championship, and one play 1:02:33.080 --> 1:02:35.960 is not going to define al Sean. Jeffrey, There's no way. Yeah, 1:02:36.240 --> 1:02:38.600 there are a lot of guys on the sideline consulting 1:02:38.640 --> 1:02:41.320 Ali Sean. Was that message pretty much the same. It's 1:02:41.360 --> 1:02:44.600 the same, it's the same, and you know it's it's 1:02:44.600 --> 1:02:48.320 gonna stay obviously, Um, but we're gonna surround him. We're 1:02:48.320 --> 1:02:50.640 gonna rally around him, and and uh, you know he's 1:02:50.920 --> 1:02:52.560 gonna be better for it. We're gonna be better for it, 1:02:52.600 --> 1:02:55.240 and and uh we move forward. This wasn't that slow 1:02:55.280 --> 1:02:58.880 start today. You got off to an early start. What 1:02:59.120 --> 1:03:01.600 works so well early in this football game? You know, 1:03:01.600 --> 1:03:03.800 I think I think early on, um, we had a 1:03:03.800 --> 1:03:06.000 little a little offt kept them off balance a little bit, 1:03:06.040 --> 1:03:08.320 and and and mixed Mixed had a really good run 1:03:08.360 --> 1:03:11.120 of of of pass and run, and you know, just 1:03:11.400 --> 1:03:13.320 we made some plays and then as a game kind 1:03:13.320 --> 1:03:15.560 of w we had that interception, you know, Altimore had 1:03:15.600 --> 1:03:18.439 that pick on al Sean or on zach Ertz there 1:03:18.880 --> 1:03:20.880 in the second quarter, felt like we had some momentum. 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:23.600 And and then at that point, um, I think they 1:03:23.600 --> 1:03:25.920 went down and down scored and just you can kind 1:03:25.920 --> 1:03:28.360 of feel things turned just a little bit. But you know, 1:03:28.600 --> 1:03:31.080 our guys were, guys were still engaged. Uh, they were, 1:03:31.120 --> 1:03:34.000 they were they were full throttle, and and uh, you know, 1:03:34.160 --> 1:03:36.000 I had to give us a chance to win it 1:03:36.040 --> 1:03:38.240 at the end. Did your defense were down at all 1:03:38.560 --> 1:03:42.400 seas they had and your side you had forty seven 1:03:42.440 --> 1:03:45.680 offensive places? Yeah, that that's that's uh, that's that's something 1:03:45.680 --> 1:03:47.479 we can't we can't have. They had that long drive 1:03:47.520 --> 1:03:50.040 obviously in the third quarter, but basically took the entire 1:03:50.120 --> 1:03:53.280 third quarter. Um, And that's that's tough. It's tough on 1:03:53.320 --> 1:03:55.360 our guys. And and then we had the you know 1:03:55.520 --> 1:03:59.000 a number of number of injuries, guys, guys missing you know, 1:03:59.120 --> 1:04:02.800 Brandon missed the entire game. Fletcher missed substantial timers, all 1:04:02.960 --> 1:04:06.439 different guys, Brandon Graham. So it's hard. Um, yeah, yeah, 1:04:06.440 --> 1:04:08.320 but listen, you gotta you gotta find a way. You 1:04:08.320 --> 1:04:10.280 gotta find a way to get off the field, especially when, uh, 1:04:10.720 --> 1:04:14.439 you know, defensively, Um, you know, you have fifteen third 1:04:14.480 --> 1:04:16.720 downs in the game of the Saints do and and 1:04:16.840 --> 1:04:18.760 we gotta make sure we get off the field. But 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:21.120 no one expected you to come down here and win. 1:04:21.200 --> 1:04:23.959 How could you expect to come down here? What made 1:04:23.960 --> 1:04:25.400 you think that you could come down here and be 1:04:25.600 --> 1:04:27.760 I just I just believe in our guys. I believe 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:30.520 in trusting our players, and um, you know, our coaches 1:04:30.560 --> 1:04:33.080 and my coaches and you know, and that's a lot 1:04:33.080 --> 1:04:34.960 of confidence coming down here, you know. I mean, we 1:04:35.040 --> 1:04:37.400 felt like the first game was was not us, not 1:04:37.480 --> 1:04:40.600 who we were, and and uh, um we've battled all seasons, 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:43.360 so we've been we've been battle tested, and uh, I 1:04:43.360 --> 1:04:45.440 felt like this was obviously a great environment for us 1:04:45.480 --> 1:04:47.040 to come down here and win this game. Well, let 1:04:47.040 --> 1:04:49.040 me tell you, I've enjoyed the way you put this 1:04:49.120 --> 1:04:52.680 thing together through adversity and look forward to working with 1:04:52.720 --> 1:04:54.920 you more. I appreciate it. Quick, you got it. Thanks? 1:04:57.440 --> 1:05:00.480 All right, an interesting stat there, and you, Mike Quick 1:05:00.480 --> 1:05:03.160 brought it up. There, seventy one plays run by the 1:05:03.200 --> 1:05:06.960 Saints compared to forty seven for the Eagles, and that's 1:05:07.040 --> 1:05:09.760 the end of the game. Numbers. Consider the fact that 1:05:09.800 --> 1:05:11.880 the Eagles scored on their first two drives. The second 1:05:11.960 --> 1:05:14.880 drive the Eagles had went for ten plays. So really 1:05:14.920 --> 1:05:17.240 it was after those first two drives, I mean, Eagles 1:05:17.280 --> 1:05:20.680 I was scoring no points, but really never even threatened 1:05:20.920 --> 1:05:23.320 to put any other additional points on the board up 1:05:23.400 --> 1:05:26.280 until the final drive, which ended with the interception the 1:05:26.320 --> 1:05:29.720 second of the game by Marshawn Lanimore. Yeah, I mean, listen, 1:05:29.760 --> 1:05:32.720 the Eagles defense game out smoking as well as the offense. 1:05:32.840 --> 1:05:35.680 The Saints offense was went three and out their first 1:05:35.680 --> 1:05:40.200 couple of drives. But yeah, just after that first quarter, 1:05:40.600 --> 1:05:43.400 it's pretty much it boils down to not being able 1:05:43.440 --> 1:05:45.680 to get off the field on third down and then 1:05:46.200 --> 1:05:49.560 not converting third downs on offense. How ironic is it 1:05:49.640 --> 1:05:52.640 that for most of the season first quarter was the 1:05:52.680 --> 1:05:55.439 bugaboo for the Eagles, not able to get you off 1:05:55.440 --> 1:05:57.800 to fast starts, and then finally, you know, you know, 1:05:57.960 --> 1:06:00.680 pouring it on in the second half and you hope, okay, 1:06:00.720 --> 1:06:03.000 is this going to carry over to next week? Well, 1:06:03.080 --> 1:06:05.080 in the dividual round of the playoffs, the Eagles get 1:06:05.120 --> 1:06:10.520 off to a brilliant start, blazing start. Yeah, now fourteen 1:06:10.600 --> 1:06:13.920 nothing and we're driving, okay to possibly put more points 1:06:13.920 --> 1:06:17.040 on the board, and then the Marshawn Lantimore interception really 1:06:17.080 --> 1:06:19.480 started to turn to tie. There, gave the scenes some 1:06:19.560 --> 1:06:21.600 life and they whittled away to come out with the 1:06:21.680 --> 1:06:25.040 twenty to fourteen victory. So we're gonna take our first 1:06:25.040 --> 1:06:27.680 break here on the postgame show presented by Rico. On 1:06:27.720 --> 1:06:29.880 the other side, we're gonna go in the film room 1:06:29.920 --> 1:06:33.240 as the mad Scientist, Fran Duffy and Greg Cosel breakdown 1:06:33.280 --> 1:06:35.760 one of the biggest plays from tonight's game. 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All right, welcome 1:09:07.840 --> 1:09:10.600 back to the show, and as we discussed at the 1:09:10.760 --> 1:09:12.880 end of the first segment there, the Eagles couldn't have 1:09:12.880 --> 1:09:15.679 asked for a better start, jumping out to a seven 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:18.960 nothing lead after Cravon LeBlanc hauled in the air reception 1:09:19.000 --> 1:09:21.639 on the very first play from scrimmage. Nick Foles went 1:09:21.640 --> 1:09:24.080 five for five on the opening drive, connecting with Jordan 1:09:24.160 --> 1:09:27.519 Matthews for a thirty seven You're touchdown a new figured. 1:09:27.840 --> 1:09:31.200 If the Eagles are getting quality contributions from role players 1:09:31.200 --> 1:09:34.360 early on like LeBlanc and Jordan Matthews, this is going 1:09:34.400 --> 1:09:37.000 to be a good day for the Eagles. Obviously, the 1:09:37.000 --> 1:09:40.080 Eagles coming up just short, but still quite a play 1:09:40.160 --> 1:09:42.839 there to start things off, and to break down exactly 1:09:42.840 --> 1:09:46.000 how we came to fruition, let's go inside the Rico 1:09:46.360 --> 1:09:49.479 Film room for the Rico Review where NFL Film Senior 1:09:49.479 --> 1:09:57.760 producer Grey Cosell and Fran Duffy are standing by. All Right, 1:09:57.800 --> 1:09:59.920 so let's now get into this touchdown here. The opening 1:10:00.080 --> 1:10:02.479 dry for the Eagles a touchdown from Nick Falls to 1:10:02.600 --> 1:10:05.120 Jordan Matthews on a deep corner out. Greg tell us 1:10:05.120 --> 1:10:07.280 what helps lead to this play? How Jordan Matthews is 1:10:07.280 --> 1:10:09.679 wide open? Well, first of all, we see Jordan Matthews 1:10:09.720 --> 1:10:11.800 all the way on the left side of our screen here. 1:10:12.000 --> 1:10:16.000 He's very tight to the formation and with press coverage 1:10:16.000 --> 1:10:18.760 by the slot corner p j Williams. So the most 1:10:18.760 --> 1:10:20.960 important thing is in order to keep the timing of 1:10:21.000 --> 1:10:23.800 the route, he has to get his best release. He 1:10:23.840 --> 1:10:25.800 can't be held up with the line of scrimmage, so 1:10:25.880 --> 1:10:28.680 he works inside. He's essentially going to be running a 1:10:28.760 --> 1:10:31.080 deep corner or a deep sail route, but he's got 1:10:31.080 --> 1:10:33.000 to get off the line of scrimmage, so he works 1:10:33.040 --> 1:10:35.160 inside to do that. But now what the Eagles are 1:10:35.160 --> 1:10:37.200 going to do, because what they want to make sure 1:10:37.520 --> 1:10:40.719 is that the deep safety, the single high safety Marcus Williams, 1:10:40.920 --> 1:10:44.000 does not become a factor in this throw. So what's 1:10:44.040 --> 1:10:46.320 the design of the play. The design of the play 1:10:46.360 --> 1:10:49.880 will be outside zone run action to the right side 1:10:49.880 --> 1:10:52.880 of the formation with a moving pocket. It's not really 1:10:52.920 --> 1:10:56.240 boot action, but it's a moving pocket for Nick Falls. 1:10:56.439 --> 1:10:59.320 And the reason that is so critical is because of 1:10:59.360 --> 1:11:02.760 Marcus will Marcus Williams will react to the outside zone 1:11:02.840 --> 1:11:04.880 run action. Now he doesn't fly up because he's a 1:11:04.920 --> 1:11:08.000 single high safety, but he slides toward the run action. 1:11:08.320 --> 1:11:11.240 So let's start this play and you can see exactly 1:11:11.240 --> 1:11:14.240 what happens as you see the outside zonner. Look, it's 1:11:14.320 --> 1:11:17.759 right there, free it. He's taken two steps in the NFL. 1:11:18.040 --> 1:11:21.320 That's an eternity. He's done. He is no longer going 1:11:21.360 --> 1:11:23.960 to be in position to get all the way across 1:11:24.000 --> 1:11:26.479 the field, even though he has very good range and 1:11:26.560 --> 1:11:29.840 react to the deep sail route by Jordan Matthew. So 1:11:29.920 --> 1:11:32.679 let's play it out. And this is an outstanding throw 1:11:32.720 --> 1:11:35.599 by Nick Foles because there's not pressure in his face, 1:11:35.680 --> 1:11:38.800 but he's not truly comfortable and secure. That's a great, 1:11:38.880 --> 1:11:42.439 great throw and the Eagles get a touchdown first drive. Yeah, 1:11:42.520 --> 1:11:44.839 Nick Foles shows that faith once again in his receivers 1:11:44.880 --> 1:11:46.960 to find a way to win against man covered. So 1:11:47.000 --> 1:11:49.519 we saw two examples there of the Eagles beating man. 1:11:49.760 --> 1:11:52.559 A man drives me exactly right, a huge thing there 1:11:52.680 --> 1:11:55.200 going into this game. Eagles go on top seven nothing. 1:11:59.160 --> 1:12:02.160 Those two love the work they do all year around. 1:12:02.200 --> 1:12:03.719 You do a great job with him on the Eagles 1:12:03.720 --> 1:12:06.200 game Plan show the Eagle Eye in the Sky podcast 1:12:06.280 --> 1:12:10.680 that the two do together, just fantastic, fantastic work. And uh, 1:12:11.720 --> 1:12:13.720 I tell you, I'm gonna miss it, missed the All 1:12:13.760 --> 1:12:16.960 twenty two that that's the saddest part here because of 1:12:17.000 --> 1:12:20.320 the way the season's ended. The football fan in me 1:12:20.760 --> 1:12:23.880 might want to watch the rest of the way because 1:12:23.880 --> 1:12:25.439 I'm just gonna want chair aspect that we still have 1:12:25.439 --> 1:12:27.760 a couple of weeks of football. But I don't want 1:12:27.760 --> 1:12:30.360 to see the Saints team. Let's be I don't want 1:12:30.360 --> 1:12:32.080 to see the Saints team. I mean, I guess the Rams. 1:12:32.120 --> 1:12:34.920 You know, at least we beat the Rams in La. 1:12:36.040 --> 1:12:38.439 I'm on the room for Big Rid. Now you might, 1:12:38.560 --> 1:12:39.960 I mean, I guess you might as well be at 1:12:39.960 --> 1:12:45.120 this point. I mean, you know, seriously, especially if he 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:47.880 can knock off Bell check in the Patriots, then knock off. 1:12:47.920 --> 1:12:50.240 If you can knock off Sean Payton and the Saints, 1:12:49.880 --> 1:12:52.120 sure that that really will be the Coo de gras 1:12:52.200 --> 1:12:54.160 right there, say the least but one thing we were 1:12:54.160 --> 1:12:56.160 talking about during a break, you know, we go into 1:12:56.240 --> 1:12:58.960 the the just looking back at this game real quick here, 1:12:59.240 --> 1:13:02.000 going back to like time of possession. The Eagles had 1:13:02.040 --> 1:13:04.840 the ball for nine minutes and nineteen seconds in their 1:13:04.840 --> 1:13:07.479 first two drives, which resulted in touchdowns to give them 1:13:07.520 --> 1:13:09.880 the fourteen nothing lead. Okay, if we could bring up 1:13:09.880 --> 1:13:12.799 the box score once again, here the whole time possession 1:13:12.840 --> 1:13:15.439 for the game twenty two minutes and ten seconds for 1:13:15.600 --> 1:13:19.160 the Eagles. The longest drive that they had after that 1:13:20.040 --> 1:13:23.439 two minutes and fifty seconds. It was a four play 1:13:23.520 --> 1:13:26.519 drive that needed the first down. I mean, they didn't 1:13:26.520 --> 1:13:30.240 give many first downs after that first quarter. I'm just 1:13:30.240 --> 1:13:32.360 trying to do a quick count. Seven maybe the final 1:13:32.479 --> 1:13:36.080 drive seven you had four and the second half total, 1:13:36.640 --> 1:13:39.639 two of them on the final drive, but yeah, seven. 1:13:39.920 --> 1:13:42.440 So you had eight first downs on the first two drives, 1:13:42.560 --> 1:13:45.760 seven the rest of the game. And the longest drive 1:13:45.920 --> 1:13:49.639 again two minutes of fifty seconds you had one two. 1:13:49.720 --> 1:13:51.599 I won't count the one to end the first half, 1:13:51.640 --> 1:13:54.960 but one, two, three, four. Five of their drives or 1:13:55.000 --> 1:13:57.920 two minutes or less. What a final drive looked like. 1:13:58.000 --> 1:14:01.760 They're best offensive series, it was since the first quarter. Yes, yeah, 1:14:01.760 --> 1:14:03.519 that was the best series. You know, at the end 1:14:03.520 --> 1:14:06.160 of the day, we're gonna talk about how Drew Brees 1:14:06.280 --> 1:14:08.479 was amazing on third down, and you know how many 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:10.280 points that the Saints were able to put up here. 1:14:10.320 --> 1:14:15.760 But Saints defense allowed just twenty one points in two games, 1:14:15.760 --> 1:14:18.160 two games to the Eagles, one with Carson Wentz, one 1:14:18.200 --> 1:14:21.200 with Nick Foles. I think it was five combined interceptions 1:14:21.200 --> 1:14:23.800 because Carson went to three interceptions the first one two 1:14:23.880 --> 1:14:28.960 today for Foles. This Saints defense beat the Eagles both matchups, 1:14:28.960 --> 1:14:32.120 so you know, and again today the Eagles still had 1:14:32.160 --> 1:14:34.280 a chance on the last drive, not able to get 1:14:34.320 --> 1:14:36.720 it done there. But that's gonna be something when you're 1:14:36.720 --> 1:14:39.280 looking big picture off season in terms of where the 1:14:39.320 --> 1:14:41.680 Eagles can prove or we're gonna you know, take a 1:14:41.680 --> 1:14:43.559 peek at two as a nineteen after our final break 1:14:43.560 --> 1:14:45.639 come up in a few moments here. But that's gonna 1:14:45.640 --> 1:14:47.800 be something to note that twice you went down to 1:14:47.840 --> 1:14:49.680 the New Orleans and twice you were not able to 1:14:49.720 --> 1:14:53.880 gain much ground against the Saints defense. Well that's that's 1:14:53.960 --> 1:14:56.320 really been the buggaboo for the team all year long, 1:14:56.479 --> 1:15:01.240 right has been the offense hasn't looked as explosive or 1:15:01.280 --> 1:15:04.320 as consistent or crisp as it did last year. And 1:15:04.400 --> 1:15:06.160 I think a big part of it we focus a 1:15:06.200 --> 1:15:09.240 lot on the quarterbacks. Obviously we're going to do that, 1:15:09.680 --> 1:15:11.680 but I think you put a lot more pressure on 1:15:11.720 --> 1:15:14.519 the quarterbacks when you don't have a running game to 1:15:14.600 --> 1:15:17.800 rely on. So when I look at this team from 1:15:17.840 --> 1:15:21.240 this year versus what it looked like last year, the 1:15:21.320 --> 1:15:24.680 biggest differences to me is the running game. Is the 1:15:25.040 --> 1:15:29.200 consistency of the running game or the lack thereof in 1:15:29.240 --> 1:15:31.519 the running game, And that's what it hurt him today. 1:15:31.560 --> 1:15:34.000 You you go on the road against the Saints and 1:15:34.040 --> 1:15:37.439 you're only able to rush for fifty yards, that's gonna 1:15:37.479 --> 1:15:40.360 be difficult. You got away with it last week against Chicago. 1:15:40.720 --> 1:15:43.640 You even got away with it against the Houston Texans 1:15:43.880 --> 1:15:47.520 because Nick had such a great game from a passing standpoint, 1:15:47.840 --> 1:15:51.280 But not since Josh Adams had those two games where 1:15:51.360 --> 1:15:54.559 yet like eighty plus yards in those two games, and 1:15:54.600 --> 1:15:57.479 even in those two games, they were like four yards 1:15:57.560 --> 1:15:59.880 per carry, so it wasn't as if you were rushing 1:16:00.000 --> 1:16:02.679 for almost five yards and carry. I think the running 1:16:02.720 --> 1:16:06.040 game has sputtered all year long, and I think that's 1:16:06.040 --> 1:16:09.799 been a big reason why the offense has struggled. At times, 1:16:09.840 --> 1:16:11.760 They've been able to do some things to sort of 1:16:11.880 --> 1:16:16.479 mask the inefficiency with the running game by short passes 1:16:16.479 --> 1:16:20.000 and things of that nature the screen game. But when 1:16:20.040 --> 1:16:23.360 I look at the two years and what's missing is 1:16:23.800 --> 1:16:26.080 we had we had a running game last year and 1:16:26.120 --> 1:16:28.800 you had three headed monster last year when you had 1:16:28.840 --> 1:16:33.519 Blunt and Clement. This year neither of those, none of 1:16:33.520 --> 1:16:36.320 those guys. And then when Corey goes down, you really 1:16:36.360 --> 1:16:39.879 just haven't had guys healthy at the position. Give Windale, 1:16:39.920 --> 1:16:43.240 small Wood and Josh Adam's credit for trying to trying 1:16:43.240 --> 1:16:46.840 to be efficient. Darren Sprows coming back trying to give 1:16:46.880 --> 1:16:49.759 you something, but man, you missed those those big bodies 1:16:49.760 --> 1:16:52.160 in there, and that's what those three guys provided you. 1:16:52.200 --> 1:16:54.080 Well said, yeah, that's gonna be one of the biggest 1:16:54.080 --> 1:16:56.439 things that Harry Rod has been company when they're trying 1:16:56.439 --> 1:16:58.479 to figure out how to improve this offense next season 1:16:58.520 --> 1:17:02.080 because it is a lot play well, yes, especially down 1:17:02.080 --> 1:17:03.960 the stretch once it got healthy. But you look at 1:17:04.000 --> 1:17:07.400 the defense number of injuries there, Okay, yeah, and look 1:17:07.479 --> 1:17:09.640 you have great stories like a Vonte Max stepping up. 1:17:09.680 --> 1:17:11.799 I think Russeul Douglas was one of the most improved 1:17:11.800 --> 1:17:14.840 players down huge down the stretch there. I thought Nigel 1:17:14.880 --> 1:17:17.479 Bradhams shine late in the season there, so you know, 1:17:17.560 --> 1:17:19.720 there are some big takeaways from that part of it 1:17:19.800 --> 1:17:21.799 because of the injuries. But at least you could say 1:17:22.040 --> 1:17:23.839 that's side of the ball deal with injuries. The offense 1:17:24.200 --> 1:17:26.880 didn't have a ton of injuries, okay, compared to the 1:17:26.920 --> 1:17:28.800 defense side of the ball. It's the lack of a 1:17:28.880 --> 1:17:30.479 running game. 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Visit Philadelphia Eagles dot com Slash Showdown 1:19:39.040 --> 1:19:41.320 to check out all of this year's coaches and to 1:19:41.479 --> 1:19:45.600 learn more about the program. All right, welcome back to 1:19:45.640 --> 1:19:49.280 the show. So the eighteen season in the books for 1:19:49.320 --> 1:19:51.639 the Philadelphia Eagles. There will be a new Super Bowl 1:19:51.800 --> 1:19:55.639 champion this season, the final four consisting of the Chiefs 1:19:55.640 --> 1:19:58.559 and the Patriots on the AFC side, the Saints and 1:19:58.640 --> 1:20:01.400 the Rams over on the NFC. So as we look 1:20:01.439 --> 1:20:04.200 to what lies ahead for the Eagles, we gonna take 1:20:04.240 --> 1:20:07.240 a quick peek at the twenty nineteen schedule, because that's 1:20:07.280 --> 1:20:10.160 already set in stone, like, so, the Eagles are facing 1:20:10.280 --> 1:20:14.840 the AFC East and the NFC North next season, So 1:20:15.120 --> 1:20:17.760 you get Tom Brady coming here to the link be 1:20:17.800 --> 1:20:22.040 a very fascinating matchup here in twenty nineteen, Russell Wilson 1:20:22.080 --> 1:20:24.920 coming here as well. The awaye schedule, you know, first 1:20:24.960 --> 1:20:27.400 glance here and obviously you got wait to see, you know, 1:20:28.000 --> 1:20:30.880 what games you have on the road consecutively and what 1:20:31.000 --> 1:20:32.960 time of year you might be going to Buffalo. But 1:20:33.360 --> 1:20:36.759 you know, that's that's a pretty pretty solid awayte schedule 1:20:36.760 --> 1:20:39.280 for the Eagles next season. Yeah yeah, I mean, listen, 1:20:39.280 --> 1:20:41.760 they finished second in this division, so you sort of 1:20:41.800 --> 1:20:47.439 get a second place schedule from your division finish, and uh, listen, 1:20:47.479 --> 1:20:49.280 I expect the Eagles to b and that had these 1:20:49.360 --> 1:20:51.360 type of schedules every year because I expect them to 1:20:51.400 --> 1:20:53.960 be at the top of their division every you expect 1:20:53.960 --> 1:20:56.519 them to be a playoff team every year. So they're 1:20:56.520 --> 1:20:59.360 going to typically get the league's best, and next year 1:20:59.439 --> 1:21:04.479 you get you get three guys and Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, 1:21:04.960 --> 1:21:07.960 Russell Wilson, guys that have won Super Bowls. You get 1:21:08.040 --> 1:21:10.640 three guys that have won super Bowls. Right there, or 1:21:10.680 --> 1:21:14.479 your schedule, you get a playoff rematch against the Bears. Here. 1:21:14.960 --> 1:21:18.519 Who knows what the Red Skins will look like when 1:21:18.520 --> 1:21:21.439 you face them next year? The Giants as well, who 1:21:21.479 --> 1:21:24.639 knows what their situation is gonna look like moving forward. 1:21:25.160 --> 1:21:28.599 You know, Buffalo is always difficult in Atlanta bounce back. 1:21:28.640 --> 1:21:32.960 So we just need to sort of regroup and it'll 1:21:33.000 --> 1:21:37.360 be interesting to see what Howie Roseman and Joe Douglas 1:21:37.560 --> 1:21:39.760 sort of do with this roster. They got a lot 1:21:39.800 --> 1:21:42.759 of tough decisions to make. Veterans on this ball club, 1:21:43.760 --> 1:21:47.240 contract extensions. What do you do this offseason going into 1:21:47.280 --> 1:21:50.920 the draft. What positions are you focusing in on? You know, 1:21:51.000 --> 1:21:53.040 it's it's it'll be an interesting off season. We almost 1:21:53.080 --> 1:21:56.760 didn't really have an offseason last year, right we went 1:21:56.760 --> 1:22:00.599 through free agency. Nobody even cared that the draft came. 1:22:00.920 --> 1:22:03.200 Other than the fact that we took Dallas Godard away 1:22:03.200 --> 1:22:05.880 from the Dallas Cowboys, no one really care about the 1:22:06.000 --> 1:22:08.840 draft last year. This will be a huge all season 1:22:08.880 --> 1:22:12.960 because this sets the Eagles up moving forward, right, This 1:22:13.040 --> 1:22:16.559 sets them up moving forward, and we got some good 1:22:16.600 --> 1:22:19.439 young talent coming back. It'll be a shouting to see 1:22:19.520 --> 1:22:22.439 who they're gonna retain on the roster, which guys come 1:22:22.479 --> 1:22:25.719 back from injury, because we got guys like Jalen Mills 1:22:25.760 --> 1:22:28.599 coming back. Rodley McLeod could be back here next year. 1:22:28.600 --> 1:22:31.320 So you have some talent coming back as well. And 1:22:31.400 --> 1:22:34.840 then you know Howard Roseman. The all season is his 1:22:35.000 --> 1:22:38.800 time and he's rarely quiet in the all season, so 1:22:40.160 --> 1:22:42.640 I expect, how are we to do something that we 1:22:42.760 --> 1:22:46.519 don't see coming. He typically does that and puts this 1:22:46.600 --> 1:22:49.080 team in the right position moving forward. They got a 1:22:49.120 --> 1:22:52.240 lot of pieces, they got a lot of draft equity 1:22:52.560 --> 1:22:55.040 that they're gonna move around. Who knows they may move 1:22:55.120 --> 1:22:57.880 up in the draft. Who knows what they'll target, But 1:22:57.960 --> 1:23:01.599 I do know they're never quiets, never boring. Yes, yeah, 1:23:02.000 --> 1:23:03.960 it's not gonna be born here whatsoever. Last year we're 1:23:03.960 --> 1:23:06.880 celebrating this year, it's going to be all business trying 1:23:06.880 --> 1:23:08.760 to get back to the top of the mountain. And 1:23:08.840 --> 1:23:11.000 the fact that the Eagles, you know, were just six 1:23:11.040 --> 1:23:13.439 points away from getting to the Final four, shows that, 1:23:13.800 --> 1:23:17.000 you know, the new norm is here for Doug Pearson company. Because, 1:23:17.240 --> 1:23:19.160 like you said, you have the head coach and you 1:23:19.240 --> 1:23:22.120 have quarterback Carson Wentz and for him to get an 1:23:22.280 --> 1:23:26.040 entire offseason of you know, be able to focus, to rest, 1:23:26.400 --> 1:23:28.840 you know, to get fully healthy is gonna be huge 1:23:28.840 --> 1:23:31.160 because he was just battling the entire he dealt with 1:23:31.200 --> 1:23:32.720 the stress of trying to be on the field for 1:23:32.800 --> 1:23:35.760 week one, all less off season, you know. So while 1:23:35.800 --> 1:23:37.920 everyone was, you know, enjoying the fruits or the the labor 1:23:37.920 --> 1:23:39.880 of winning the Super Bowl, you know, he's here at 1:23:39.880 --> 1:23:42.559 the Novercare Complex. He's out in North Dakota working out, 1:23:42.760 --> 1:23:44.960 just trying to get himself to be on the field 1:23:44.960 --> 1:23:47.519 for week one. Okay, he made on the field for 1:23:47.560 --> 1:23:50.519 Week three, put some very very good numbers, showed a 1:23:50.560 --> 1:23:53.320 lot of promise in different areas. Then the back injury 1:23:53.360 --> 1:23:56.120 sidelines up for the season. He gets to rest, take 1:23:56.160 --> 1:23:58.679 a step back and get a different perspective on things. 1:23:58.720 --> 1:24:01.759 He saw how Nick Foles ran the offense down the stretch, 1:24:02.040 --> 1:24:05.080 you know. So you know that Carson Wentz Doug Peterson 1:24:05.200 --> 1:24:07.200 are gonna have this off season to work together, and 1:24:07.240 --> 1:24:09.479 this is a season where he could really take flight 1:24:09.560 --> 1:24:12.639 here to really maximize and get back to that level 1:24:12.840 --> 1:24:15.679 that we saw from him in the twenty seventeen season 1:24:15.720 --> 1:24:17.760 when he was and I think people forget that he 1:24:18.080 --> 1:24:21.200 was Patrick Mahomes Before Patrick Mahomes, I mean, I mean, 1:24:21.240 --> 1:24:23.400 Carson Wentz was the player taken the league by storm 1:24:23.439 --> 1:24:26.320 in twenty seventeen, and just like that, he's kind of 1:24:26.320 --> 1:24:29.200 on the back burner. Everyone's forgetting about him. He's gonna 1:24:29.200 --> 1:24:32.080 be ready to make some noise in twenty nineteen as 1:24:32.080 --> 1:24:34.640 he takes back the quarterback position here in Philadelphia. Well, 1:24:34.680 --> 1:24:36.800 I tell you, Chris, I haven't forgotten what he looked 1:24:36.800 --> 1:24:40.120 like in two seventeen, where he basically was the front 1:24:40.160 --> 1:24:42.960 runner for the MVP and should have won the NDP 1:24:43.120 --> 1:24:46.759 regardless of being injured. And now the last time Carson 1:24:46.760 --> 1:24:49.360 Wentz had a full off season where he didn't have 1:24:49.439 --> 1:24:52.519 to rehab, where he can focus on some of his 1:24:52.640 --> 1:24:58.000 deficiencies as a player, gets stronger in those areas, focus 1:24:58.080 --> 1:25:00.559 on getting better, being a part of the off season 1:25:00.680 --> 1:25:03.720 program fully in the off season, being a part of 1:25:03.760 --> 1:25:07.320 OTA's and mini camps without any distractions. The last time 1:25:07.360 --> 1:25:10.000 he had that type of off season to prepare for 1:25:10.040 --> 1:25:13.240 the season, he threw for thirty three touchdowns to just 1:25:13.360 --> 1:25:17.000 seven interceptions in thirteen games. He was eleven in two 1:25:17.240 --> 1:25:20.320 and he was the story of the NFL. That's what 1:25:20.400 --> 1:25:22.960 I expect to see from Carson Wentz next year. He's 1:25:23.000 --> 1:25:25.400 gonna have a full off season where he doesn't have 1:25:25.439 --> 1:25:29.480 to worry about rehabbing. That back is gonna heal gradually 1:25:29.760 --> 1:25:32.920 with just rest. He's gonna get a chance to get better. 1:25:32.920 --> 1:25:34.479 He's gonna get a chance to work out with his 1:25:34.520 --> 1:25:37.519 teammates this offseason. He's gonna get a chance to go 1:25:37.560 --> 1:25:41.640 to North Dakota with his teammates this offseason. And more importantly, 1:25:41.840 --> 1:25:45.599 he's going to be a part of spring football right 1:25:46.000 --> 1:25:50.920 from the beginning. Not real, not rehabbing, not being slowly 1:25:51.040 --> 1:25:53.920 integrated into the offense. He's gonna be a part of 1:25:53.920 --> 1:25:58.160 the preseason. People forget he didn't have a preseason last year. 1:25:58.439 --> 1:26:02.120 He stepped on the field week having not played since 1:26:02.240 --> 1:26:06.080 Week fourteen of the previous year. This guy when he 1:26:06.080 --> 1:26:08.719 gets a four off season, we know what he looks 1:26:08.760 --> 1:26:11.799 like and if nothing else, that should have you excited 1:26:11.800 --> 1:26:14.080 about this team moving forward. I'm just glad I'm not 1:26:14.080 --> 1:26:17.799 writing the daily what did Carson Wentz do Today? Story? 1:26:17.960 --> 1:26:21.240 You know is week one still in play for Carson Wentz. 1:26:21.280 --> 1:26:24.639 We don't have to worry this offseason. It's just gonna 1:26:24.640 --> 1:26:27.400 be what is his potential? What's his ceiling gonna be? 1:26:27.640 --> 1:26:30.960 In the twenty nineteen campaigns. So I for the last 1:26:30.960 --> 1:26:32.840 time here, I'm going to ask you what will the 1:26:32.880 --> 1:26:36.200 discussion be Tomorrow two pm? Marks and re Show you 1:26:36.240 --> 1:26:40.839 know what. I think Tomorrow will be a day of thanks. Obviously, 1:26:40.880 --> 1:26:43.520 we'll talk about the game and there's some missed opportunities, 1:26:43.560 --> 1:26:46.200 and fans will be able to live disappointed because we 1:26:46.280 --> 1:26:48.640 know we were right there. We were good enough to 1:26:48.680 --> 1:26:52.240 beat this team, and that'll sting a little bit. But 1:26:52.360 --> 1:26:56.680 I think as the day slowly moves along, I think 1:26:56.720 --> 1:27:00.639 this fan base, while there's still a passionate fan base, 1:27:00.960 --> 1:27:04.559 they still can get on you when you don't meet expectations. 1:27:04.600 --> 1:27:07.760 This is also a very knowledgeable fan base, and this 1:27:07.800 --> 1:27:09.840 team from where they were in the middle of the 1:27:09.920 --> 1:27:13.559 season has exceeded expectations, and I think this fan base 1:27:13.560 --> 1:27:17.200 will recognize that as you continue to discuss the season, 1:27:17.680 --> 1:27:21.200 how it ended and moving forward. I think this has 1:27:21.240 --> 1:27:28.920 become somewhat of a more should I say patient fan base? 1:27:29.120 --> 1:27:31.479 Can we use that? Yeah? Can we use that? And 1:27:32.760 --> 1:27:36.599 that's understanding. There you go, That's the evolution of a 1:27:36.600 --> 1:27:40.960 fan base that doesn't have the necessarily decades upon decades 1:27:41.000 --> 1:27:45.680 of frustration built up of disappointment. We did just win 1:27:45.720 --> 1:27:48.280 the Super Bowl last year, and this fan base has 1:27:48.280 --> 1:27:51.200 not forgotten that. No, not whatsoever, nor should they. But 1:27:51.280 --> 1:27:55.400 they shouldn't understand that the Eagles are not satisfied. The 1:27:55.479 --> 1:27:58.360 Eagles want to be back there again this season and 1:27:58.479 --> 1:28:01.160 things didn't quite go the way that they expected. It 1:28:01.200 --> 1:28:03.400 was a different journey. Just think about the move for 1:28:03.479 --> 1:28:08.040 Golden Tap. Yeah, that they want to win, certainly, you know. 1:28:08.120 --> 1:28:11.040 But the big thing was twenty seventeen. We were flying 1:28:11.120 --> 1:28:13.719 high right from the start of the season. Again, Carson 1:28:13.720 --> 1:28:15.360 Wentz was a talk of the league. They raced out 1:28:15.400 --> 1:28:18.040 to an eleven two record, they got home field advantage 1:28:18.080 --> 1:28:21.599 and those two the atmosphere fills two playoff games just 1:28:21.760 --> 1:28:26.280 absolutely magical. And then the MVP performance by Nick Foles 1:28:26.320 --> 1:28:30.120 in the Super Bowl, just truly majestic with Alshon Jeffrey, 1:28:30.280 --> 1:28:33.280 who again, I know he's got to be, you know, 1:28:33.400 --> 1:28:36.759 really heartbroken over the way that his season ended because 1:28:36.840 --> 1:28:39.000 he's a guy who's come up so much in the 1:28:39.080 --> 1:28:42.320 clutch time after time again. But nonetheless, this team does 1:28:42.360 --> 1:28:44.160 not win a super Bowl without him. That's the one 1:28:44.200 --> 1:28:46.640 thing that we cannot forget is, you know, while some 1:28:46.680 --> 1:28:48.840 people might be geting Alshan for the drop here that 1:28:48.920 --> 1:28:52.120 led to that you know, game ceiling interception by Marshall Ladmore, 1:28:52.520 --> 1:28:54.960 this team does not win a super Bowl. Nor is 1:28:55.000 --> 1:28:57.200 this team in the playoffs this season if it's not 1:28:57.240 --> 1:29:00.519 for al Shan Jeffrey. And then this season here where 1:29:00.840 --> 1:29:02.840 we all were thinking, okay, is the magic going to 1:29:02.880 --> 1:29:05.599 carry over from last year, it didn't. It became as 1:29:05.760 --> 1:29:07.320 as I said earlier, it's going to be a new 1:29:07.360 --> 1:29:10.759 year in twenty nineteen. But the twenty eighteen team wrote 1:29:10.800 --> 1:29:14.599 its own chapter overcame a ton of adversity, fought its 1:29:14.640 --> 1:29:17.720 way to the postseason, and provide us with quite a 1:29:17.840 --> 1:29:19.960 ride in the month of December and early on in 1:29:20.040 --> 1:29:22.719 January to make us all believe. Because when the Eagles 1:29:22.800 --> 1:29:25.360 lost forty eight to seven in New Orleans. No one 1:29:25.400 --> 1:29:27.880 thought this was going to be certainly a championship team, 1:29:28.040 --> 1:29:30.120 and most people probably thought the playoffs were not going 1:29:30.160 --> 1:29:33.000 to happen in eighteen. This is a team that got 1:29:33.080 --> 1:29:36.479 people to believe. Okay, that's how special the brotherhood was. 1:29:36.520 --> 1:29:39.120 The chemistry was in the locker room here this year. 1:29:39.479 --> 1:29:42.320 And it comes up six points short in a twenty 1:29:42.360 --> 1:29:44.720 to fourteen decision against the New Orleans Saints in the 1:29:44.800 --> 1:29:48.080 divisional round. So quite a ride, it said, that's over, 1:29:48.200 --> 1:29:50.360 But there's gonna be big things to come in twenty 1:29:50.560 --> 1:29:54.840 nineteen moving forward because the pieces for long term stability 1:29:54.880 --> 1:29:57.719 and success are in place. The Eagles have the formula 1:29:57.800 --> 1:29:59.960 to win, to get back the way to the way 1:30:00.040 --> 1:30:02.080 it was when you were here for those years where 1:30:02.080 --> 1:30:04.120 you were going to making those deep playoff runs year 1:30:04.160 --> 1:30:06.920 and in year out. The formulas here in Philadelphia, they 1:30:06.960 --> 1:30:09.439 just need to execute, and this offseason is going to 1:30:09.520 --> 1:30:13.400 be absolutely instrumental in making sure that those plans come 1:30:13.720 --> 1:30:16.000 to fruition. So that's gonna do it for us here 1:30:16.040 --> 1:30:19.760 on the postgame Show presented by rico Ike, the Best Man, 1:30:21.120 --> 1:30:23.160 you make it so easy, make it so easy, Such 1:30:23.160 --> 1:30:26.200 a pleasure weekend a week out. Absolutely will miss these Sundays, 1:30:26.240 --> 1:30:29.200 these late late nights here you know, getting it done. 1:30:29.800 --> 1:30:32.280 We will have complete coverage of locker room clean out 1:30:32.360 --> 1:30:34.840 day tomorrow. We do not have a time right now 1:30:34.920 --> 1:30:37.080 for if Doug Pearson will address the media. We will 1:30:37.120 --> 1:30:39.240 give that to you on our social media channels if 1:30:39.240 --> 1:30:41.440 we get that later on in the evening. But nonetheless 1:30:41.479 --> 1:30:44.160 for IKE Racing, all of us here at the Philadelphia Eagles, 1:30:44.240 --> 1:30:47.679 I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the postgame show presented 1:30:47.680 --> 1:30:50.479 by Rico. Everyone have a great Eagles night. Thanks for 1:30:50.520 --> 1:30:51.599 tuning in this season