Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Eagles fans. I'm Chris McPherson and welcome to
Speaker 1: the Eagles Update. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie wants nothing
Speaker 1: more than to bring a Super Bowl title to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: As we sit just three days away from the season opener,
Speaker 1: Lurie offers a preview of what he wants to see
Speaker 1: from the team and quarterback Carson Wentz in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: My expectation with Carson is he will be better in
Speaker 1: year two than year one. He'll be significantly better in
Speaker 1: year three than year two, and he'll be significantly better
Speaker 1: in year four than year three. Where that's where we're at.
Speaker 1: The difference in records of the teams with all those
Speaker 1: you can research it yourself, but it typically, I think,
Speaker 1: is how terrific do you surround him? And you know,
Speaker 1: you have young quarterbacks to join teams and take them
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. But those are teams basically that
Speaker 1: have top two, top three defenses and whatever. We hope
Speaker 1: to be there. We hope to be there. But that
Speaker 1: the rarity, and you know, I see us as a
Speaker 1: team with an excellent blueprint, great opportunity, terrific direction, but
Speaker 1: we're in year two of the plan. In just one year,
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson has changed the culture of the locker room
Speaker 1: and helped develop the quarterback who will hopefully allow the
Speaker 1: Eagles to be contended for a long time. Louri shares
Speaker 1: his thoughts on the head coach. Doug took over a
Speaker 1: team that had some locker room issues with the previous
Speaker 1: head coach, lost his starting quarterback ten days before the
Speaker 1: start of the season and was asked to use our
Speaker 1: young third string quarterback, had to put together a coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and you know, my personal evaluation of the coaching staff
Speaker 1: that he put together or inherited but was open to
Speaker 1: inherit is outstanding. I mean really outstanding. And that is
Speaker 1: a that's a huge credit because quarterback analysis, locker room chemistry,
Speaker 1: and the ability to put together a top notch coaching staff,
Speaker 1: those are three real key ingredients and I think he
Speaker 1: aced them all. Yes, there's going to be growing pains
Speaker 1: with any first year head coach. We've We've had that
Speaker 1: with Andy, We've had it with Chip, We've had it.
Speaker 1: You know, no matter who it is. I see him
Speaker 1: as someone who can keep improving and he's a listener.
Speaker 1: He's a collaborator, and I think he has terrific relationships
Speaker 1: with the players, and you know, the futures in front
Speaker 1: of him and it's there for the taking. The Eagles
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday and all fifty three players were full participants.
Speaker 1: That will be key, especially on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. As a Redskins boast a big play offense
Speaker 1: with a number of playmakers led by quarterback Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense finds out just how good it is
Speaker 1: right off the bat. Yeah, it'll be exciting, man, That's
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Man. We're excited to get out there,
Speaker 1: just really to hit somebody else and to make it count,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And none of these have
Speaker 1: really countered, and you get kind of a field during preseason,
Speaker 1: but you know, when when it's really on the line,
Speaker 1: how we're going to shape out. So it'll be excited
Speaker 1: to be fun. I think we're ready make it hard
Speaker 1: for him, not make it easy for him. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know some of those games, you know we made
Speaker 1: it a little easy for him, not putting too much
Speaker 1: pressure on him, and you know he was able to
Speaker 1: step back there, and you know, but I think we
Speaker 1: got a nice little game plan to get things done,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see a different Eagle. Eagle team, you know,
Speaker 1: starting a game one. The NFL season openers tonight, as
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs travel to take on the defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. But Garrett Blunt helped
Speaker 1: the Patriots win the trophy last year with the league
Speaker 1: best eighteen rushing touchdowns. Now he wants to do the
Speaker 1: same for the Eagles. We grind every day. Um, we
Speaker 1: feel like we want to build a really good team,
Speaker 1: and you know, we feel like things are coming together.
Speaker 1: So we're excited about it. I'm excited about it. Friday
Speaker 1: marks a final full day of practice for the Eagles
Speaker 1: ahead of Sunday's game. While of complete coverage featuring head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Pearson's live press conference at ten thirty am,
Speaker 1: make sure to also check out Eagles game Plan on
Speaker 1: the app, which has the most comprehensive x's and o's
Speaker 1: breakdown looking ahead to Sunday's game. I'm Chris McPherson and
Speaker 1: thank you all for joining us here on the Eagles Update.
Speaker 1: Have a great Eagles Day, everyone,