Speaker 1: Six and oh, here we go and back to Dallas
Speaker 1: the Cowboys go. The second quarter, it was like a
Speaker 1: scoring fest. Twenty points, A J. Brown fifteen yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: That was the second touchdown of the night. And A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown came up big again in the fourth quarter, twenty
Speaker 1: four yard catch. That's set up perfectly for Hurts to
Speaker 1: find Devontae Smith. Here we go the snap. Hurts rolls
Speaker 1: right find Zavonta Smith wide open for the touchdown. How
Speaker 1: about this defense? Though Chauncey Gardner Johnson two interceptions. This
Speaker 1: was interception number two on the night, his third in
Speaker 1: two games. Welcome to the postgame Show, presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: I'm Gabriella d Givanni, joined by friend Duffy and I Grace.
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? It'll never get old, man,
Speaker 1: It was never get old. I couldnot wait for it
Speaker 1: every single night. I was worried, they're gonna fall back
Speaker 1: in that chair. Who that's the only danger there right there,
Speaker 1: falling all the way back. So yeah, you're getting up there.
Speaker 1: But we got we got this. Let's a good start,
Speaker 1: all right, guys. Twenty six to seventeen. Got close in
Speaker 1: the second half, but let's start with the first half
Speaker 1: purely dominant performance. The Eagles came out swinging in the
Speaker 1: second quarter like they've historically done through the first five
Speaker 1: games of the season. Twenty points in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: let's start there. You could tell early that that Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense was gonna have problems moving the ball against this
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. They did a fantastic job in the first half,
Speaker 1: allowing the offense eventually to find their rhythm. And what
Speaker 1: hasn't become customary in the twenty two season is that
Speaker 1: the second quarter explosion happened again. So they were awesome
Speaker 1: in that second quarter. The fact that Jalen Hurt is
Speaker 1: able to move the ball through the air and on
Speaker 1: the ground when they needed to. I thought, when we
Speaker 1: got back to running the football, I thought we started
Speaker 1: to take this game over. I thought, when you look
Speaker 1: at the defensive just to start to this game, to
Speaker 1: go punt, puntick, turnover on downs, punt, really good start
Speaker 1: to this football game. Now, some things to clean up
Speaker 1: early in the second half, right, you got a nine
Speaker 1: play drive that ended up in points, a fifteen play
Speaker 1: drive that took off eight minutes off the clock. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys went three for three on third down on that drive.
Speaker 1: It feels like teams have one of those drives a game,
Speaker 1: and look, at the end of the day, you gotta
Speaker 1: tip your cap to the other team. Obviously they play,
Speaker 1: they get paid as well. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the Eagles defense comes up with the turnover,
Speaker 1: comes up with the big play when they need it.
Speaker 1: You get the interception from CJ. Gardner Johnson in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, come back with a turner for all downs
Speaker 1: to end the games. That's what you're looking for. Second half,
Speaker 1: a little more adversity for the Eagles. That was the
Speaker 1: big storyline last week against the Cardinals. How would they
Speaker 1: respond They're put up against the same kind of thing
Speaker 1: in the second half. It got pretty close. But the
Speaker 1: way that they responded, the way the defense came up
Speaker 1: big when it mattered most, that's what good teams have
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, two weeks in a row, when they
Speaker 1: needed a huge drive in the fourth quarter to put
Speaker 1: points on the board, they were able to do it.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts being managed for Nick Sirianni change stik in
Speaker 1: the play calling the diversity they show you in the
Speaker 1: offense getting the ball to Moles Sanders. A. J. Brown
Speaker 1: with big catches in that fourth quarter. It's obviously something
Speaker 1: the Eagles don't want to make a habit out of,
Speaker 1: you know, they certainly want to get whatever issues they
Speaker 1: may be having in the second half corrected. Thankfully. You
Speaker 1: gotta buy week coming up, so these things, when you're
Speaker 1: a six and old team, you gotta find things that
Speaker 1: you need to work on it. There's always something there.
Speaker 1: And that's probably the only thing you can nitpick at
Speaker 1: with the team right now is that we seem to
Speaker 1: get off to a little bit of a slow start
Speaker 1: in that second half and allow teams to get back
Speaker 1: in there. But again, when a drive was needed, when
Speaker 1: points were needed, they were able to get it done.
Speaker 1: And that's the mark of a great team, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And that goes on both sides, right the defense able
Speaker 1: to come up with that stop at the end of
Speaker 1: the offense, able to go thirteen plays, march the ball
Speaker 1: down the field, Miles Sanders runs for twenty plus, you
Speaker 1: get the big completion to aj the touchdown to DeVante
Speaker 1: and one thing I love Ella should We showed those
Speaker 1: in the highlights to start the show. The touchdown passes
Speaker 1: to A. J. Brown and DeVante Smith, same exact play call,
Speaker 1: same exact play design. Jalen Hurts finds a different receiver
Speaker 1: on both times. Because of how the defense played, both
Speaker 1: of those throws ended up reaching the paint for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I love the balance on this offense. One hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty seven on the ground, one fifty five through the air.
Speaker 1: I mean that is almost fifty fifty. But something so
Speaker 1: special that the Eagles have going for them. And I
Speaker 1: feel like we talk about this every week. If it's
Speaker 1: not working on the ground, they can put it through
Speaker 1: the air and vice versa. And we saw that today.
Speaker 1: There were some drives that were run heavy, some that
Speaker 1: were run heavy, but then you needed that threat through
Speaker 1: the air to score at the end. I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: when you look at the box score, you look at
Speaker 1: the yardage at the end of the game that this
Speaker 1: isn't one of those four hundred, four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yard explosions. And Dallas Cowboys are very Dallas Cowboys are
Speaker 1: very good defense, so they're gonna make you earn every
Speaker 1: blade of grass that you get out there. So that
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me. Or what the Eagles did is they
Speaker 1: stayed patient. They stayed patient. The ball was rarely, if ever,
Speaker 1: put in harm's way, and that's really the difference in
Speaker 1: this ballgame. You had two good football teams with two
Speaker 1: good defenses going against each other. Our quarterback was able
Speaker 1: to make plays, whether it was through the air or
Speaker 1: on the ground with his legs, and he certainly was
Speaker 1: a better decision maker back there. Dallas made a few
Speaker 1: plays defensively, they got some sacks and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: Not surprised by that, but I love that we stayed
Speaker 1: within the framework of what we do well and didn't
Speaker 1: get out of our comfort zone. And one thing I
Speaker 1: know you'll love. Look, I think one of the other
Speaker 1: big things this Eagle's offense will need to do over
Speaker 1: the course of the break is be a little bit
Speaker 1: more consistent when you get on the third down. Overall, Now,
Speaker 1: this is a team that likes to go obviously on
Speaker 1: fourth down, and so understanding, hey, you've got some wiggle
Speaker 1: room to be short of the sticks on third down.
Speaker 1: That certainly plays into these numbers. But when the Eagles
Speaker 1: were on third and short, third and medium, perfect tonight,
Speaker 1: when they were on third and long over so again,
Speaker 1: just trying to improve on third down, I think that'll
Speaker 1: be another point of emphasis over the course of the
Speaker 1: break as well. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: this team was able to make plays when they needed
Speaker 1: to in clutch time. Here at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep rolling here. But I want to remind
Speaker 1: fans at home to get your questions into the Facebook comments.
Speaker 1: Ask Hike and the Facebook comments will be going through
Speaker 1: them throughout the night, and I will be answering them
Speaker 1: to the best of his ability, like he likes to say.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the Eagles from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, right, they love to take the ball
Speaker 1: away as well. These are two of the top teams
Speaker 1: in the league when it comes to force and turnovers.
Speaker 1: The Eagles got what four to night three or forty
Speaker 1: to night down here to night and the Cowboys got none.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys got none, and in the end, that really
Speaker 1: was the big difference in the game. Yeah, the turnover
Speaker 1: differential has been a huge, huge staple of this Eagles team.
Speaker 1: When that's complimentary football that requires both sides to hold
Speaker 1: up their end of the bargain, the defense forcing three offense.
Speaker 1: He had that fumble in that fourth quarter A little
Speaker 1: bit scary there, but outside of that, they were able
Speaker 1: to protect it and they did not put the ball
Speaker 1: in harm's way. But I thought it was interesting was
Speaker 1: the things that the Cowboys came into this game with,
Speaker 1: things that they were good at. The Eagles completely exploited.
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush hadn't thrown an interception all season. He threw
Speaker 1: three tonight. The Cowboys defense hadn't given up a touchdown
Speaker 1: to a running back. They gave up one all season.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders was the first Eagle to score tonight on
Speaker 1: the ground. So things that the Cowboys had been able
Speaker 1: to do well, I think the Eagles took complete advantage
Speaker 1: of Yeah, and the Eagles they said to themselves, listen,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run right at you. And I thought Miles
Speaker 1: ran tough tonight. Didn't He had the one big run,
Speaker 1: I know, but he had nice tough yards in between
Speaker 1: the tackles, get behind your shoulder pads, leaning forward on
Speaker 1: most of those plays. I like the way Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: ran the ball tonight. I agree, said the sea where
Speaker 1: we were watching this felt like one of the best
Speaker 1: nights we've seen from Miles Sanders. I thought he was decisive,
Speaker 1: he got downhill, he didn't doing nice. He wasn't dancing
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I thought he picked up all
Speaker 1: the yards that were available to him and more here
Speaker 1: in this game he got to say tough Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of that credit goes to the
Speaker 1: offensive line. We need to talk about the injuries a
Speaker 1: little bit across that offensive line. Right tackle Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: was ruled out with a concussion. Jack Driscoll took his place.
Speaker 1: It was pretty clear how important Lane Johnson is to
Speaker 1: this offensive line because it got a little tough for
Speaker 1: that old line, and it got a little more pressure,
Speaker 1: a little more defenders up in. Jalen hurts his face
Speaker 1: when Lane Johnson was no longer in the fold. Like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, we're going into a bye this week, so
Speaker 1: it's a good time for these guys to rest up
Speaker 1: and get healthy. Yeah, for sure. I mean listen, when
Speaker 1: Lane went out, you could tell that the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: mindset changed. He got Jack drisk over their plan right
Speaker 1: tackle something he's uncomfortable with doing. The Cowboys They're going
Speaker 1: to load up on that side and bring extra guys
Speaker 1: and try to create confusion over there. And that's really
Speaker 1: what happened in that third quarter. I think it took
Speaker 1: us a little bit a while to get our footing
Speaker 1: and settle down a little bit, whereas Dallas started getting
Speaker 1: a little momentum and they started feeling confident on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. And when you don't have
Speaker 1: sixty five out there, you know, as a defensive player,
Speaker 1: you're saying, now is our time to get after Jalen.
Speaker 1: And thankfully we got to the fourth quarter, settled down,
Speaker 1: and they took care of business. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, when you lose a blue chip player like
Speaker 1: Thanking Johnson, your margin for error just shrinks just a
Speaker 1: little bit, right, and so that impacts both the run
Speaker 1: game and the pass game. I thought we saw that
Speaker 1: early in the second half. And then of course, Landon
Speaker 1: Dickerson he fell out later in the game, so Appetta
Speaker 1: took his place when she got some snaps on that
Speaker 1: side of the football last week as well. So just
Speaker 1: things to keep an eye on as we keep going here,
Speaker 1: because this offensive line clearly is very crucial to this
Speaker 1: Eagles offense. But when we talk about this Eagles offense,
Speaker 1: AJ Brown he just came up in big moments today.
Speaker 1: Of course having that touchdown early on, but the way
Speaker 1: that he's able to fight for those extra yards ends
Speaker 1: up paying off when you're trying to shrink together along
Speaker 1: drive bike. Yeah, it reminds me a lot of a
Speaker 1: guy who played here years ago. When I played here
Speaker 1: eighty one, I was pretty good. It's one of the
Speaker 1: best receivers to ever do it. And I think A
Speaker 1: has a lot of those same physical traits that TiO
Speaker 1: possessed as a player, because who could believe me defenders
Speaker 1: That defender literally got out of the way. He didn't
Speaker 1: want to tackle a J. Brown right there. So when
Speaker 1: you run as hard as a J. Brown does, dB,
Speaker 1: they don't really want to tackle number eleven. Look at
Speaker 1: they just those those are courtesy waves at a J.
Speaker 1: Brown and they're waiting for the rest of the crew
Speaker 1: to get there to make that tackle. A J. Brown
Speaker 1: when a big play was needed, Number one knows he's
Speaker 1: gonna find Number eleven. Well, what was the question that
Speaker 1: you asked Dave in the Kickoff show? La, You asked,
Speaker 1: what does the identity of this offense? What does the
Speaker 1: identity of this football team? And he said physicality. And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why is when you have skill
Speaker 1: players like AJ Brown, like DeVante Smith, like Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: Guys that are known for catching the football, making plays
Speaker 1: in space that bring that physical dimension to the game.
Speaker 1: That's when you can call yourself a physical offense. The
Speaker 1: Eagles are certainly that. I mean, Dallas Goddard caught two passes,
Speaker 1: but I feel like he was all over the football field.
Speaker 1: If I looked at this box score and I thought
Speaker 1: he only called two passes, I thought he was doing
Speaker 1: so much more out there because of the way that
Speaker 1: he plays so physically. But we're gonna hear from Chauncey
Speaker 1: Garner Johnson first at the podium. The lights two brass
Speaker 1: we I got the glasses on. I apologize. My grandma
Speaker 1: tasted me. What she said. Grahams, all right, tell you
Speaker 1: what she said. I'm proud of you, baby. I told
Speaker 1: you is what you wanted. Flag goes fly, yeah, Grahams,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. See you
Speaker 1: manage your third bigging in two games. How are you
Speaker 1: feeling for that last? Oh, I'm feeling better, getting better,
Speaker 1: adjusting still to the defense and just playing with Coach
Speaker 1: Telby to play really and just put your eyes in
Speaker 1: the right spot, read your keys, and go get the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't playing middle field and so long,
Speaker 1: so it feels good to like come out the middle
Speaker 1: field like a hawk and go get the ball. Feel
Speaker 1: more comfortable there now, Uh, I'm blessed to be there.
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable. I can't say too comfortable, because you get
Speaker 1: when you get comfortable, you don't get better. So I
Speaker 1: think every day as a learning progress for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I still left some plays on the field, but it's
Speaker 1: still a lot of stuff out there that I can
Speaker 1: I can fix and clean up. But just being out
Speaker 1: there and adjusting to a new positions, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: amazing going out there and competing with ten other guys
Speaker 1: you know who you know, fifty three other guys that
Speaker 1: love to win and is It's just it's just amazing
Speaker 1: to me right now. What happened to your hand? I'm good,
Speaker 1: I play football, Yes, soldier mentality. Soldier mentality didn't hurt
Speaker 1: any comfortaball? Nah, I'm or something soldier mentality. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. We called a pick. It's all that matters.
Speaker 1: It seemed like you were particularly excited by Meek's performance
Speaker 1: before the game. What what kind of food is that you? Oh?
Speaker 1: I got it. I got this tatted on my Dream Chases.
Speaker 1: I've been a Dream Chases fan since I was like
Speaker 1: middle school, you know, when he was making mixtapes, when
Speaker 1: he was on the block, you know, with Nappy Bride.
Speaker 1: So just to have him come out there, like you
Speaker 1: gotta think about it, you'll never get a chance to
Speaker 1: really see a performance like you gotta go pay for
Speaker 1: a ticket. So performing for when our games kind of
Speaker 1: giving out a little energy trust team six and out
Speaker 1: now heading into the boy, I mean, how's that feeling
Speaker 1: for the six and our natural um you know play
Speaker 1: out of winning football. But just it's just a learning curve.
Speaker 1: Like you said, you got every step you gotta get better.
Speaker 1: Like being a bye week is just not a relaxation time.
Speaker 1: It's time to actually focus in on your body, focusing
Speaker 1: on more what you can do to fix yourself. And
Speaker 1: so when you come back out of the buy, you
Speaker 1: don't letting none. You don't leave it on the field.
Speaker 1: So I think the best thing for us is just
Speaker 1: continue to get better on and off the field as
Speaker 1: a team. On off the field when we watch the film,
Speaker 1: just like finding little things to fine tune so we
Speaker 1: can make this run into the postseason. What's happen to
Speaker 1: the defense and the third four the ball drive? What
Speaker 1: you guys stop? Um? Oh dang, that's a hard question
Speaker 1: to answer. I can't say nothing. We couldn't stoppages all
Speaker 1: on us. You know, it's just it's a team effort.
Speaker 1: So we got to just collect our thoughts. We still
Speaker 1: was running pretty high for going in the twenty to three,
Speaker 1: So you gotta just focus in and just make sure
Speaker 1: that you still can play a full four quarters, not
Speaker 1: just two quarters of the ball, because you know what happens.
Speaker 1: You just happened in the Super Bowl one time. You know,
Speaker 1: he played two quarters of the ball. You know, let
Speaker 1: the team come back. Gotta keep your feeling thought. I was,
Speaker 1: like I said on the sideline, you gotta go from
Speaker 1: good to great. It's where the best is. The best
Speaker 1: go from good to great. So as always preaching, see
Speaker 1: what do you enjoy most about playing with those three corners?
Speaker 1: And then Marcus subspector it teach me a lot, I
Speaker 1: mean humble me a lot, because you know it's not
Speaker 1: about me. You know, it's about it's about a team.
Speaker 1: Everybody knew me to be this talker, this flashy, but
Speaker 1: just playing with guys that that got a chip on
Speaker 1: their shoulder and we all got the same goal in mind.
Speaker 1: You know, It's just it's a humbling the experience with
Speaker 1: me because I had to swallow my problem I first
Speaker 1: got here, and you know, coach made me. You know,
Speaker 1: you got on me about it. But it's all tough love.
Speaker 1: You know, when coaches talking to you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: take heed to it. And I think just listen to
Speaker 1: how they play ball. Like you said, all of us
Speaker 1: with this our first time playing together. So I think
Speaker 1: it's just a blessing is to be a part of
Speaker 1: a humble group that you know, all young men just
Speaker 1: like to play ball and just focus on what we
Speaker 1: can do. Who got exactly Cannon, who got on you?
Speaker 1: It's all the coaches, you know, all of them get
Speaker 1: on me when you think I was a new guy
Speaker 1: coming in, you know, coming in loud, show bolding. But
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not here to do a show going.
Speaker 1: I'm here to get better, improve and help this team wins.
Speaker 1: So I think the best thing I can do is
Speaker 1: continue to gradually just gravitate to the group. Because I
Speaker 1: said I can't be right for the season, so I
Speaker 1: really didn't have a full camp, preseason. So I think
Speaker 1: I just being around them guys and understanding where they
Speaker 1: come from, how they play balls, just a difference. I
Speaker 1: love it, you know. Came complain honestly along those lines
Speaker 1: to the text from my grandma and like to having
Speaker 1: to have a night like this in prime time with
Speaker 1: everybody watching more the I mean, you live good, you
Speaker 1: feel good, you play good, you play good, you do great.
Speaker 1: That you can have so many new faces in the
Speaker 1: secondary come together, come together so quickly. Oh like cold say, well,
Speaker 1: it's that that back end was put together, you know
Speaker 1: for a reason. I think the main part is God
Speaker 1: really just helping us come together. Really really one thing,
Speaker 1: God for just putting us all in the same room,
Speaker 1: because you don't get a room like that every day.
Speaker 1: Guys got the same aunt too. They're selfless. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll give up anything for you or you give anything
Speaker 1: for them. So I think the best part is just
Speaker 1: about being a professional and being a pro and actually
Speaker 1: being a man about your job and actually having to
Speaker 1: give up something to be great. Thanks question, Thanks see
Speaker 1: Chauncey Gardner Johnson two interceptions tonight, his third in two games.
Speaker 1: He just got here not that long ago. Guys. The
Speaker 1: way he's been able to assimilate into the secondary has
Speaker 1: been so so incredible to watch. Yeah, I've been pressed
Speaker 1: with this whole defensive unit. I mean we spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time talking about the offense, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: but they only added one new player that side of
Speaker 1: the football, and aj the defense almost had a total makeover.
Speaker 1: When you look at the guys they brought in upfront,
Speaker 1: and Hassan Reddick, the Jordan Davis who they drafted, you
Speaker 1: look at the linebackers that are here, to the guys
Speaker 1: that are in the secondary, and for these guys to
Speaker 1: play together and have the type of cohesiveness it can't
Speaker 1: be It can't be overstated that it's very impressive, man,
Speaker 1: it really is, because normally when you get new personnel
Speaker 1: back there, you get a lot of mistakes and miscommunications
Speaker 1: just because guys aren't used to playing with each other.
Speaker 1: So to see all of these guys come together as
Speaker 1: quickly as they have, I mean, James Bradberry got here
Speaker 1: right before training Canada. He wasn't here for Ota, So
Speaker 1: I mean that's the testament obviously to them and the
Speaker 1: hard work that they're doing. But also you gotta get
Speaker 1: a coaches a lot of credit because they found a
Speaker 1: way to at least put these guys in their comfort
Speaker 1: zone to make the transition easier for him. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing is that he was very honest I thought
Speaker 1: in that press conference was saying it wasn't always easy,
Speaker 1: and the adjustments that he has had to make, both
Speaker 1: as an individ Jewel and working as a group with
Speaker 1: the rest of that secondary. It's been really impressive to
Speaker 1: watch that group. Jel getting a Vanta Maddox back in
Speaker 1: the lineup I think was big. But you have all
Speaker 1: of these other guys like you mentioned, you know, adding
Speaker 1: James Bradberry, adding Kaisier White, Marcus Epp steps into a
Speaker 1: starting role for the first time in his career. So
Speaker 1: all these guys taking on new roles. You have new faces,
Speaker 1: and they're able to play and execute the way they are.
Speaker 1: It's very, very impressive start of the year. All right, Ike,
Speaker 1: we have an ask guy question from the fans in
Speaker 1: the Facebook comments. Let's see who we got. I think
Speaker 1: we have the best secondary in the league? Ike, Do
Speaker 1: you agree? I do. I may be hard to find
Speaker 1: one this better, especially when you talk about the entire secondary.
Speaker 1: Marcus Septs is probably the least known of the group
Speaker 1: back there, and he's having probably his best year of
Speaker 1: his career. And then you see CJ. He just came
Speaker 1: up with his third interception and somewhat playing out of position.
Speaker 1: I mean, he came here playing and playing more nickel
Speaker 1: than he did safety. So now he's learning a position
Speaker 1: on a new team. He's doing a great job. Dan,
Speaker 1: I already think the three corners, man, that's the best
Speaker 1: set of corners that we've had around here since I
Speaker 1: gotta go al, Troy and Bobby. Wow, you're talking two
Speaker 1: thousand and two is the last time we had all
Speaker 1: three of those guys here before our Harris went to
Speaker 1: Green Bay. So yeah, that's and that's three Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: caliber corners. And I think these guys had that type
Speaker 1: of capability. Yeah, And I think what I like most
Speaker 1: about it too, is that you have all these different
Speaker 1: body types like a match up in different ways, all right,
Speaker 1: So no matter what a receiving corps poses to you,
Speaker 1: you've got the answers for it in your toolbox. You
Speaker 1: kind of give Jonathan gann and credit the way that
Speaker 1: he's been able to scout a lot of these players
Speaker 1: that they picked up in free agency and realize that
Speaker 1: they have a role on this team within this defensive scheme.
Speaker 1: Is what's so impressive because, like you said, t J. Garner,
Speaker 1: Johnson isn't playing his natural position. But the way he's
Speaker 1: been able to come in here. JG knew he had
Speaker 1: something there and the way he's been able to work
Speaker 1: him into his scheme is really impressive. It really is.
Speaker 1: It really is. And I tell you, the one thing
Speaker 1: that has been also impressive about Jonathan gann and this
Speaker 1: year is that he's almost giving you a different philosophy
Speaker 1: or or a different defensive scheme every week. He caters
Speaker 1: that to whomever they're playing against. And the reason why
Speaker 1: that's in president because it's hard to figure out tendencies
Speaker 1: when you look at the defense, whether it's from a
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint or whatever type of blitzes or coverages he
Speaker 1: likes to run. Because he uses so many players, it's
Speaker 1: hard for an offense to find weak areas in the defense.
Speaker 1: One thing that's been really interesting to kind of follow
Speaker 1: has been, you know, we talk about all the complimentary
Speaker 1: football all the time, offense helping the defense and vice versa.
Speaker 1: You know, we see this offense, come out, throw the
Speaker 1: ball early, try and jump out on teams earlier. We
Speaker 1: see we've talked about how good this team has been
Speaker 1: on the second quarter of games. Defensively, I think that
Speaker 1: shows up as well. They're excellent on third down in
Speaker 1: the first half of games, all the different blitzes, the
Speaker 1: ways they're the way they're using linebackers and safeties in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field to you mess with opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And then you get into the second half and you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, teams are playing from behind, let's back up
Speaker 1: a little bit and really kind of say like, let's
Speaker 1: let's force the offense to come to us, and really,
Speaker 1: if they want to try and move the ball, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be over the top. They have to go
Speaker 1: fifteen plays, they have to bleed time off the clock.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let our offense put points on the on
Speaker 1: the board. And then defensively, we're gonna let them play
Speaker 1: to our pace and we're gonna say, you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna sit back and if you want to try and
Speaker 1: go over the top. CJ. Gardner, Johnson's there to pick
Speaker 1: it off if you want to try and be over
Speaker 1: uber aggressive. Otherwise, you're gonna have to just milk the
Speaker 1: clock and move the ball slowly down the field. And guys,
Speaker 1: we have to recognize another week another wide receiver completely
Speaker 1: shut down, and the first half, Sea Lamb had one
Speaker 1: catch for eight yards. He picked up some more yardage
Speaker 1: in the second half. Yeah, but the first half. To
Speaker 1: hold CD Lamb, who's been targeted fifty times in this
Speaker 1: season so far, to one catch for eight yards, that's
Speaker 1: some good football. And it's because these guys decided from
Speaker 1: the start of this game, we're gonna get up in
Speaker 1: your face. We're gonna get up at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: We're not giving you a free release. I love the
Speaker 1: fact they played a lot of bumping round coverage out
Speaker 1: there tonight, really challenging, not just see Lamb and Michael Galler,
Speaker 1: but really Cooper Rush. I dare you to throw the
Speaker 1: ball out here. That's basically what they were telling him,
Speaker 1: and they didn't believe that he could throw the ball
Speaker 1: over their heads, which he couldn't. One time he threw
Speaker 1: it deep, I think he got picked off Chauncey Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1: So I love the mentality of the corners that we
Speaker 1: have on the outside. These guys feel like I don't
Speaker 1: care who you are, well, I'll line up against you
Speaker 1: and challenge you. And that's the type of personality and
Speaker 1: temperament you need to have when you want to have
Speaker 1: a great defense. It certainly seems like that's what happened
Speaker 1: on the sleigh interception. I'm excited to go back and
Speaker 1: watch that. They didn't show a great replay of it
Speaker 1: on the broadcast. I'm gonna break down c J. Gardner
Speaker 1: Johnson's first interception later in the show. In that one
Speaker 1: that was just a great read by Bradbury. It was
Speaker 1: a quick throw. He's playing from off coveragure, he's playing
Speaker 1: from depth, but he reads it perfectly and is able
Speaker 1: to jump the route. I'm excited to go back and
Speaker 1: see what slay of it because he was he was
Speaker 1: playing underneath that route, so I do wonder if he
Speaker 1: was playing some press men on the boundary there. Well,
Speaker 1: Like we have another question for you fans. You can
Speaker 1: submit your questions in the Facebook comments for Ike and
Speaker 1: a segment see what we got. How hard is it
Speaker 1: to not let six and OO go to your head?
Speaker 1: How do you self evaluate during the buying? Do you
Speaker 1: focus on the positives or negatives during evaluation. Well, I
Speaker 1: tell you it's not easy, right because you always have
Speaker 1: to fight against what's human nature is to be complacent, right,
Speaker 1: you steel like you had success. You have to almost
Speaker 1: do a lot of self scouting. So obviously getting their
Speaker 1: bodies healthy, resting will be the number one priority, but
Speaker 1: also do a little self evaluating. Every player should have
Speaker 1: high expectations and high standards for themselves. And there's no
Speaker 1: player that can say they played the best they could
Speaker 1: possibly playing where there's no areas of improvement there. So
Speaker 1: because it is a long season, I think these guys
Speaker 1: have the right leadership here. That's what I like about
Speaker 1: this team is because the captains on this team, outside
Speaker 1: of slave, they were part of a Super Bowl championship,
Speaker 1: so they know what it's like to be a dominant
Speaker 1: team and still have to finish the job. Six and
Speaker 1: oh is great, but it ain't seventeen and oh and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of football still left to be played.
Speaker 1: And I think you got the right leadership in the
Speaker 1: house to be able to keep everybody focused. I know
Speaker 1: that's what we did, but we had we had to
Speaker 1: benefit a building up to what we were in two
Speaker 1: thousand and four. To become that dominant team. So you
Speaker 1: had a lot more season guys, veteran guys that have
Speaker 1: sort of gone through these battles together. What's so impressive
Speaker 1: about this team is that it's still a relatively new
Speaker 1: team as far as playing with each other. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if coach, all the coaches before these
Speaker 1: guys get out of here tomorrow or what have you,
Speaker 1: they haven't talked with them. Let them know, Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: great job for six weeks. We still got a lot
Speaker 1: of work to do and there and their expectations are high.
Speaker 1: So as long as that carrot is still in front
Speaker 1: of you, you'll chase it. Yeah, And I think it
Speaker 1: was a good insight, even just hearing from C. J.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson earlier. He talked about, hey, look, we know
Speaker 1: we haven't played our best ball yet, and I know
Speaker 1: I could be a little bit better. We had some
Speaker 1: growing pains early on, and so it gives you a
Speaker 1: little little bit of an insight into what's going on
Speaker 1: in these players minds going into the break. And when
Speaker 1: you think about it, six weeks in an NFL season
Speaker 1: is nothing. No things can change so quickly, and we
Speaker 1: know that and it is a tough game, and there
Speaker 1: are injuries and all those things come with it. And
Speaker 1: so these six weeks have been pretty remarkable, pretty unforgettable.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of football left to play. Then it
Speaker 1: becomes the pressure of you're the big dog in the league,
Speaker 1: and so you know, the longer they stay unbeaten, the
Speaker 1: more and more they're going to be talked about every week.
Speaker 1: And so now you become the team that everybody is
Speaker 1: trying to knock off. They want to be the first
Speaker 1: team to to knock the unbeaten, the last unbeaten team
Speaker 1: off in the league. So um being able to deal
Speaker 1: with that is also important, all right. If we have
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith at the podium, want to take you through
Speaker 1: the touchdown here at the end, Oh me. All came
Speaker 1: down to the scramming drew, having a quarterback be able
Speaker 1: to get outside the pocket. We work on a lot,
Speaker 1: so that's really what it came down to, just being
Speaker 1: available when scrambled throws a little bit behind him and
Speaker 1: it seem like you needed to have the strong hands
Speaker 1: to bring it in. Do you do anything to keep
Speaker 1: your hands where you want them to be to be
Speaker 1: able to make cat blake or there certainly exercise wool.
Speaker 1: That's just things that you do. Oh that that's a
Speaker 1: routine kitch. I mean every ball is not gonna be perfect.
Speaker 1: I mean it's the ball behind me a little bit.
Speaker 1: He expect me to make that kitch. I spect myself
Speaker 1: to make their kitch, the whole receiver room, spect anybody
Speaker 1: in the room to make that kitch. I mean that's
Speaker 1: just a routine catch. So the toughness on this dribe,
Speaker 1: you mean it just this drive and keep it on.
Speaker 1: He branded it ain't being good to keep that drive.
Speaker 1: What is that say about? It's toughness and just eating
Speaker 1: back down? Um. I mean we needed a spark, and
Speaker 1: I mean that's what he gave us. That's what it
Speaker 1: all came down to us having a spark and not
Speaker 1: killing ourselves. So I mean he gave us the spark
Speaker 1: that we needed. How do you go to our hill
Speaker 1: getting us like all like really really like going feeling
Speaker 1: hard with that? Um? I mean I don't know the
Speaker 1: really answer to it. I mean I feel like it
Speaker 1: worked out well. Um, just taking what the defense give us.
Speaker 1: When you guys, you guys are able to wat different
Speaker 1: things offensive from when you front you that jail and
Speaker 1: run it. You gonna have the back stupid when you
Speaker 1: guys need to bear down on the drive that you do.
Speaker 1: What's the bright part of what's the thing that you
Speaker 1: guys know when you can find? Um? I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's really anything that they call. I mean,
Speaker 1: the main thing is we was killing ourselves, stopping ourselves
Speaker 1: on penalties and things like that. UM, not getting the
Speaker 1: right chicks and things like that. So I feel like
Speaker 1: anything called probably would have worked on It just came
Speaker 1: down to us in the execution. Didn't feeling of the
Speaker 1: game like I was at this something like like didn't
Speaker 1: feel like a thing again the usual. Every game is
Speaker 1: a big game, all right, all right, Davonta Smith is
Speaker 1: a big touchdown today. It's it's so cool to see
Speaker 1: the way that Shane Steiken has developed this offense to
Speaker 1: be so creative and balanced. Devonte Smith, A J. Brown
Speaker 1: and Dallas Goddard. Yeah, and the slim reaper man. He
Speaker 1: just seems to catch just about everything that's thrown his way.
Speaker 1: And Fran was talking about, you know, toughness and sort
Speaker 1: of the personality and mentality has been built up on
Speaker 1: this team. That's a prime example, right, there. This guy
Speaker 1: is no bigger than my left arm here in one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty pounds, but he
Speaker 1: plays like he weighs two hundred, Like he is fearless
Speaker 1: out there in the running game. He's out there blocking
Speaker 1: on a perimeter. So I love that mentality. Reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of Alan Iverson. Yeah, so AI was not
Speaker 1: that big, but he was the toughest guy. We're making
Speaker 1: all the Philly analogies we got an I don't. I
Speaker 1: haven't even got to the Phillies yet. A good time time.
Speaker 1: Why do you think the Red Ties were here tonight?
Speaker 1: I look, at the end of the day, this is
Speaker 1: an offense that you just have to love if you're
Speaker 1: a Philly fan, right because you are able to present
Speaker 1: that toughness and win in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: but you still have the flash of the pass game,
Speaker 1: you still have that ability to go over the top
Speaker 1: and win it. And so you get a little bit
Speaker 1: of the sizzle, a little bit of the steak here
Speaker 1: with this offense, and that's what's exciting. That versatility is
Speaker 1: what really makes me love this group as a whole. Now,
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith is drip right there, is pretty undefeated. I
Speaker 1: know you're I know you're liking a Dike. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: let's go pregame warm ups, all right. The three Batmans.
Speaker 1: Look what they were wearing this Warman up tonight. They're
Speaker 1: really playing into the Batman mentality. I'm liking it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got skinny Batman, swooll Batman and fast Batman. See
Speaker 1: and and I know he's skinny Batman, but as a
Speaker 1: guy that was skinny myself lean, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: like to use the term skinny. Yes, yes, so he's
Speaker 1: the lean Batman, right or either he's uh, the slim
Speaker 1: reflin Yeah, slim Batman. You gotta remember that this came
Speaker 1: from slay. Yeah, you're using slay. It's worse, it's pretty.
Speaker 1: They go after each other and practice every day, and
Speaker 1: that's right, that's a little hey. He keeps taking down
Speaker 1: those wah wahis, like he says he is. He won't
Speaker 1: be skinny Batman for long. Man. Tell you looking sweet
Speaker 1: to night he had he had the prime time suit
Speaker 1: on the night. He wasn't losing, And that are you good?
Speaker 1: I wonder if they have like a little bit of
Speaker 1: a um competition amongst each other as far as like
Speaker 1: we used to do that. Now, I was never really
Speaker 1: in that group because I didn't have enough money like
Speaker 1: Troy and those guys. And those guys, we used to
Speaker 1: judge them when they came in the locker room. It's
Speaker 1: like a fashion show. So you wanted to come in
Speaker 1: like we came in. We checked out your suit and
Speaker 1: seeing what it looked like, we'll give you the thumbs
Speaker 1: up or the thumbs I won't tell you. I mean times.
Speaker 1: So certain guys got thumbs down because they thought his
Speaker 1: suits were pretty good. They weren't. My favorite is Jake
Speaker 1: Elliott just strolled in his Philly's T shirt and stow
Speaker 1: the kickers normally rolled in and that's how they roll there.
Speaker 1: Koy Detmer never won the fashion show. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: you have the toothbrush on the clothes on his back.
Speaker 1: That was it. That's how it goes, no core, you
Speaker 1: know that's an inside joke about it. Wardrobe nowadays you're
Speaker 1: getting the thumbs up. Look at this, look at this
Speaker 1: get up. Well, I mean, you know, it's a special day,
Speaker 1: so I had to wear a special soup. Would you
Speaker 1: like to share it with a special day? Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: share the special day. It is like's birthday everybody, so
Speaker 1: be sure to wish like a very happy birthday. We
Speaker 1: won't tell them how old you are. We won't get
Speaker 1: into it. They could probably google youtieth birthday. Yes, thank
Speaker 1: you thirty. I like that, all right. This is what
Speaker 1: happens when the Eagles win. We get off the rails,
Speaker 1: we talk about alphits. Where do we go next? This defense,
Speaker 1: defensive line, let's go there. How about that um deepest
Speaker 1: in line and night I thought. I thought Jordan Davis
Speaker 1: showed some flashes in there again tonight, you know, the
Speaker 1: deepest in line with Cooper Rush back there. I thought
Speaker 1: we did a great job of really pushing the middle
Speaker 1: part of that pocket. So I thought our tackles played great.
Speaker 1: BG had the big hit late in the game to
Speaker 1: help cause that interception. Tonight it was about that secondary.
Speaker 1: But this is one of those nights where we talk
Speaker 1: about how to defense, how to pass rush, and the
Speaker 1: coverage is sort of mirror. So I thought the pressure
Speaker 1: that they got up front on Cooper Rush and some
Speaker 1: of the Aaron throws, I honestly thought he started seeing
Speaker 1: ghosts back there. He made a couple of throws where
Speaker 1: it was like like who are you throwing that ball too?
Speaker 1: You threw away behind him, And a lot of that
Speaker 1: came from he's worried about getting hit, so he wants
Speaker 1: to get them get rid of the ball first. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's no question. It's one of those games where,
Speaker 1: you know, go back a few weeks ago and the
Speaker 1: Eagles beat Washington. You have nine sacks, and a handful
Speaker 1: of those sacks because of awesome coverage on the back end.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to go back. Hey, three interceptions, how
Speaker 1: many of them were due to the rush. We saw
Speaker 1: a number of times where defensive lineman Hassan Reddick got
Speaker 1: some good pressures, Josh Sweat, Brandon Graham, Jordan Davis, Javon Hargrave.
Speaker 1: So going through all of them, excited to see the pressure.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's hear from coach head coach Nick
Speaker 1: Sirianni at the podium. You guys in here, let's go God. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the players ain't mad mistaken they meet Dallas served last
Speaker 1: last year, but now that the actually meet Dallas for
Speaker 1: the first time. No, no, it's you know again, our
Speaker 1: greatest motivation, right, Our greatest motivation is each other, right,
Speaker 1: And so that's why you guys asked me about bulletin
Speaker 1: board material all those things, Like we got our we
Speaker 1: got each other's back, and that said last week, like
Speaker 1: teams are either teams are either coming together or they're not.
Speaker 1: I mean that's really the way it is. And and
Speaker 1: this team's coming together, and um, and they fight each week.
Speaker 1: And the motivation of not letting your teammate down coach
Speaker 1: to player, player to coach, player to player, coach to
Speaker 1: coach is like that's love, right, That's just the love
Speaker 1: that you have for your teammates. And like there's no
Speaker 1: greater motivation, right, there's no greater motivation than that. And so, uh, man,
Speaker 1: this is this is a close team, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep working on getting closer. We're gonna keep working on
Speaker 1: getting better. You're yelling at Dallas, so let's be honest.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be honest right always. However, Dallas, Hey, you
Speaker 1: know this is a great there's no doubt that this
Speaker 1: is one of the best rivalries. Like this feels like
Speaker 1: this feels like Auburn Alabama. This feels like right Michigan,
Speaker 1: Ohio State, That's what this feels like. And uh and
Speaker 1: so of course, like you want to win the games
Speaker 1: against the teams in this division, because I mean, this
Speaker 1: is what's so cool about this division. Like these are
Speaker 1: the hated rivalries, right, They're hated rivalries that you know
Speaker 1: that guys are still playing into. Right. I you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I hear Michael Irvan talking about the rivalry that
Speaker 1: he has with Philadelphia. I think that's so cool. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know I hear uh Eagles players
Speaker 1: of the past talking about how important this game is,
Speaker 1: you know, with with Westbrook and and McNabb and those
Speaker 1: guys like and vic like. So I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1: Like there's no doubt that's cool. Um, now they all
Speaker 1: count the same, right, all of them count for one win. Right,
Speaker 1: that didn't count for two wins. That was still one win.
Speaker 1: And uh and so you know, our next biggest game
Speaker 1: is the next one. But it's sweet. Yeah, it's sweet.
Speaker 1: And because this is, uh, this is a cool division
Speaker 1: to be in. What was the significance of that and
Speaker 1: why saw that situation? Well, you know, you you come
Speaker 1: out and you're and you're you're in a law. This
Speaker 1: happens in training camp. You'll hear me say this in
Speaker 1: training camp. Sometimes it's like we're in a law and
Speaker 1: this is going to happen in in the season. All
Speaker 1: it takes is somebody to make a play to get
Speaker 1: us out of this law. And that and that, and
Speaker 1: I've had these conversations with these guys in training camp before. Well, right,
Speaker 1: you lean on your best guys in that situation, and
Speaker 1: Aj made a big play on a on a route
Speaker 1: on a short route and and he broke the tackle
Speaker 1: and went for a big play that set us up
Speaker 1: for the score. And then but what but what was
Speaker 1: really sweet about is we got to lean on five guys, right,
Speaker 1: We got to lean on the offensive line in that scenario.
Speaker 1: It's kind of what happened last week, right when in Arizona,
Speaker 1: right that long drive, we leaned on that offensive line. Um,
Speaker 1: it's nice that we're able to make some plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game and in the run game and be balanced. Um,
Speaker 1: but that right there, Uh, we leaned on the guys
Speaker 1: that we knew could make a play, and they just
Speaker 1: consistently made a play, you know, up front, and Miles
Speaker 1: did a great job running it. Kenny did a great
Speaker 1: job running in that one. Um. I think Boston had
Speaker 1: a good run in that drive as well, and so
Speaker 1: you lean on what your what your strength is in
Speaker 1: that scenario to get you out of rut. Like that's
Speaker 1: I've been taught that from from the very beginning. Like
Speaker 1: you're in a rut, get it to your player makers.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know our playmakers in that scenario. Where
Speaker 1: was our offensive line? Yeah, you were yelling in the
Speaker 1: hallway he walked in. How about those Eagles? What do
Speaker 1: you think the national audience tut the team at night? Um?
Speaker 1: You know what's cool about playing Sunday night. What I
Speaker 1: learned also about playing Monday night or just playing in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia in general, that there's all old national buzz about
Speaker 1: the Eagles and that's pretty sweet, right. Um. You know
Speaker 1: you dream about you know, when you're when you're in
Speaker 1: high school, you dream about playing in front of the
Speaker 1: stadium as crowded as it could possibly be so everyone
Speaker 1: can see you and see you on display. And the
Speaker 1: same thing in college. And then what's so cool about
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is it's such a great sports town that it
Speaker 1: matters here and uh, it matters nationally here and it's
Speaker 1: great just to see, you know, be able to put
Speaker 1: that on put that on display. Um, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know our guys made big plays and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it was it was great to be able
Speaker 1: to play it. You know, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: my friends and coaching, watching a lot of my family
Speaker 1: members watching my brother and Jamestown, New York's probably still
Speaker 1: up stressed and has to go teach uh uh eleventh
Speaker 1: and twelfth grade social studies on h on tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: he's still stressed. He's probably still watching and and uh,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's pretty cool when you're able to
Speaker 1: play nationally in front of national audience in Philadelphia. That
Speaker 1: great job fans. Uh, it was rocking in there. It
Speaker 1: was rocking from play from play number one and that
Speaker 1: sets the stage, that sets the tone and so um
Speaker 1: it just it just carried over all week from game four.
Speaker 1: It was a game four from game three, Game four
Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia with the Phillies, Uh, the Flyers getting
Speaker 1: two big wins this week and into the into the game.
Speaker 1: So uh so appreciative of our fans. You can talk
Speaker 1: about those lulls, those ruts. What's it like for you
Speaker 1: on the sideline when you feel that coming do you?
Speaker 1: Is it is it something that that know you need
Speaker 1: to take it over and say, we know we got
Speaker 1: to play a complete game. Uh, we know we got
Speaker 1: to play a complete game. And what's exciting about being
Speaker 1: six and ol and not have played a complete game
Speaker 1: yet in my opinion, Um, and then players will tell
Speaker 1: you the same is that there's only room to get better,
Speaker 1: right and uh that's our goal. And so um, you know,
Speaker 1: if I felt it coming, Um, if I felt it coming,
Speaker 1: I'd do something. I'd try to do something. By a match,
Speaker 1: I think every time we get ready to go for
Speaker 1: a drive, I look at the offense, I look at Jalen,
Speaker 1: and I look at aj and look at Davante, and
Speaker 1: I look at Dallas and look at that offensive line,
Speaker 1: at Miles Sanders, and I'm like, we've got a chance
Speaker 1: to go score right here, right no matter no matter
Speaker 1: what the situation. That's a heck of a defense right there.
Speaker 1: Uh man, that's a really good defense. Parsons, Lawrence uh digs,
Speaker 1: those are those are prime time. They're they're really good players.
Speaker 1: So they made it hard for us. Uh. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know, every time I confidence going out there just
Speaker 1: because of who we got in that huddle where you
Speaker 1: kind of got Mark Michael Parsons in space. What did
Speaker 1: you like about that Logan kind of look worthing. Hey,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's like you can't block him read them. I've
Speaker 1: said that before and and our guys did a good
Speaker 1: job blocking him in the run game, There's no doubt.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know how many how many sacks you
Speaker 1: have to Yeah, so they did a good job in
Speaker 1: the in the past pro as well. I felt like
Speaker 1: now they put some pressure on us at times, which
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen with a good rushing team. Um
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, you know we're we're we're reading
Speaker 1: them at times, and um you know we knew we
Speaker 1: had had a groin that he was recovering from as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's he makes it hard. He makes it really hard.
Speaker 1: That's that's a really really outstanding player. Um So yeah,
Speaker 1: seconds left in the first half, had a couple of
Speaker 1: times pross half. Yeah, Lane came out. Lane came out.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't regret that decision. Lane came out.
Speaker 1: We ran at the first down, see what happened, and
Speaker 1: didn't anything from that, and decided to go into locker
Speaker 1: room from there, Drive, what did you think of your
Speaker 1: quarterbacks performance in that situation? He made some extra drops
Speaker 1: on the that run football wouldn't think of a lover
Speaker 1: ball leadership and how big, big time leadership. This guy's
Speaker 1: not phased by things, right. He's got a great demeanor
Speaker 1: that you see in great quarterbacks. That that there's so
Speaker 1: many big games in the NFL. Is a huge game
Speaker 1: right Sunday night football, uh division rival both at the
Speaker 1: top of the division. And he's unfazed by things, right,
Speaker 1: And so that's what I love about him is that
Speaker 1: he just he just goes and he plays the next play.
Speaker 1: And he made a big play on third and four,
Speaker 1: I think when we didn't have anybody open that and
Speaker 1: made a play with his legs. He controlled the offense.
Speaker 1: He used the clock like he was in complete I've
Speaker 1: said this before. He was in complete control, right and
Speaker 1: communicating with what our message was to the offensive line
Speaker 1: or the or the running backs in that scenario, and
Speaker 1: it was you know, it was it was quarterback one
Speaker 1: on one right there by Jammen. When when Lane left out,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you guys have to si definitely
Speaker 1: changed for protection? Of course, we're gonna you know, it's
Speaker 1: our job as coaches to make sure that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're accounted for. And there again we're playing one of
Speaker 1: the best pass rushers in the NFL, if not the
Speaker 1: best pass rusher in the NFL, you know, next to
Speaker 1: our guys, right, I take sweat and I'll take uh,
Speaker 1: and I'll take a sign and I'll take BG over anybody.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, of course we're alert for it.
Speaker 1: But Jack Driscolls gave us some really good minutes and
Speaker 1: we were confident, um in that and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: so we we talked about it a little bit, but
Speaker 1: we we had a lot of confidence right there that
Speaker 1: we were going to be able to hold up because
Speaker 1: you know Jack has has done that in the past.
Speaker 1: That's one to go that NBC zoomed in on you
Speaker 1: and like when they called time out, you weren't happy
Speaker 1: with it. Oh no, not about the time out. I
Speaker 1: was just mad about I was you know, I'm always
Speaker 1: gonna stick up for our guys, like I just get
Speaker 1: I mean, I get animated. He should have called time
Speaker 1: out right there, right to keep the game going. I
Speaker 1: had no that that'n't you know. I was mad about
Speaker 1: the extra curricular activity. And hey, I'm always gonna I
Speaker 1: told I'm always gonna stick up for our guys. You
Speaker 1: saw me, right, You may have saw me in the
Speaker 1: Jets game this preseason and they hit Jalen laid out
Speaker 1: of bounds and I reacted very similar, and so they're
Speaker 1: you know it was I'm sure we weren't angels and
Speaker 1: that and that confrontation right there, right, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: we had something to do with it a little bit
Speaker 1: as well. Um, And there was a little scuffle right there.
Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just gonna stick up for our guys.
Speaker 1: That's that's just who I am. Hum. I love these guys.
Speaker 1: These are my This is my family, right. I got
Speaker 1: a great family at home. I got great parents, I
Speaker 1: got a great wife, I got great kids, I got
Speaker 1: great brothers. Um, but this is my other family, right.
Speaker 1: And so just like when my brother's team was oh
Speaker 1: and two to start off, and somebody was making fun
Speaker 1: of my brother when I was in sixth grade and
Speaker 1: he was when he was a senior, and I stuck
Speaker 1: up for him in that scenario, I'm gonna stack up
Speaker 1: for my guys in this scenario. And I know they
Speaker 1: know I got their back. I know they got my back.
Speaker 1: And that's what a team is. I love being a
Speaker 1: part of a team. Right, it's so special. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: forty one years old and I'm still part of the team.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's unbelievable, and that's a great feeling.
Speaker 1: That my question. All right, we got a roll. You
Speaker 1: heard it from coach. But earlier before we went to
Speaker 1: head coach Nick Sirianni, we announced that it's Ike's birthday.
Speaker 1: So I hear some fans are taking in Twitter and
Speaker 1: Facebook to say, happy birthday. Oh wow, look what we got.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday some of your guys. A sports radio wip.
Speaker 1: But we also have a little surprise for you, a
Speaker 1: little cake. Wow. Our friend Chris malanis delivering the goods. Yes,
Speaker 1: here's your birthday confetti cake. Oh man, but the dealers
Speaker 1: you gotta share after the show for sure. Taking cheers after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that looks nice. We love Mike on the show. We
Speaker 1: couldn't do with that. I'm so little cake say happy birthdays.
Speaker 1: Stare at this, don't hurry out the show that we
Speaker 1: have more people saying happy birthday for other fans are
Speaker 1: chiming in to say happy birthday. I love it, appreciating it.
Speaker 1: Aloha on happy Birthday, I thank you, happy you just
Speaker 1: can't tell you are kind of oddly silent right now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what to do with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: look at them fighting people love you, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: This is weird. I don't know. Well, the birthday is
Speaker 1: always embarrassing, yes, it is. What's the attention that becomes
Speaker 1: an embarrassing you know, I don't like for people to
Speaker 1: know that I like attention. I like to be humble
Speaker 1: about it because the victory that you give up, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, modesty. Every time you screamed victory until
Speaker 1: you pass out, do you want to take the cake
Speaker 1: off the table? I'm being told to take the cake off.
Speaker 1: Thank you. We got all everybody's coming, everybody to help out.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Everyone's got to look at the
Speaker 1: behind the scene. We need that afterwards. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about that cake all day. Also, you knew about it,
Speaker 1: are you? Guys? Go on, man, I'll tell you all right. So,
Speaker 1: while we rang for Jalen Hurts to come to the podium,
Speaker 1: this was a big game for him. Hasn't beaten the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as a starter. He finally did it today, got
Speaker 1: that monkey off his back. A big day for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the game mattered to him, right, the fact that
Speaker 1: he obviously didn't play well against them last year. Um,
Speaker 1: down there in Dallas on Sunday Night football. Then you
Speaker 1: had a few of the Dallas Cowboys players chirping uh
Speaker 1: before before this game. Earlier this week, you know about
Speaker 1: giving Jalen credit for the type of player he is
Speaker 1: and what he had done so far this year, and
Speaker 1: that they hadn't played the Cowboys defense yet. So well,
Speaker 1: now we've seen him played the Cowboys defense and you
Speaker 1: can give him this credit. He's been in the MVP
Speaker 1: race this year for a reason. It's because he's the engine,
Speaker 1: uh in this thing. And every week, man, you just
Speaker 1: become more and more impressed with how the kid, no
Speaker 1: matter how the game is going, he always seems to
Speaker 1: be under control, composed, never plays outside of himself. And
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, when they needed a big drive,
Speaker 1: when Dallas had seemingly seize the momentum that drive, when
Speaker 1: the score was twenty to seventeen, they needed to get
Speaker 1: points and they got a touchdown. All right, Well here
Speaker 1: he is the man himself. Jalen hurts, how about these
Speaker 1: storg you guys had, how much of an effective it
Speaker 1: happens to the other games play today? Should you repeat
Speaker 1: the question, I'm sorry these stargy guys have and talk
Speaker 1: about how much of an effended had the last game.
Speaker 1: I think, UM, I think, um, you know, when you're
Speaker 1: able to come out and start fast on both sides
Speaker 1: of the bar and always pays dividends in the end. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we left a lot of money
Speaker 1: on the table. There are some opportunities that we wanted
Speaker 1: to take advantage of. We could have taken advantage of
Speaker 1: that we that we just didn't. You know, those are
Speaker 1: things that we can control, and these are these are
Speaker 1: things that I preach all the time, you know. I
Speaker 1: think that's the mentality of this football team is controlling
Speaker 1: the things you can, um, you know, stay in the
Speaker 1: course and you know, just attacking every play, you know,
Speaker 1: and taking advantage of opportunities when they're presented to you.
Speaker 1: And I think we have a long way to go
Speaker 1: as a football team, um, in terms of our growth,
Speaker 1: our development and um everything. But UM, I think the
Speaker 1: beautiful about the beautiful part about this football team is
Speaker 1: regardless of the circumstance, regardless of how it looks, we
Speaker 1: stick together. And we've shown that throughout this first six
Speaker 1: h six weeks stint, and we just want to continue
Speaker 1: to grow, continue to grow together. UM. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be easy. UM, it's a climb, and how you're
Speaker 1: getting that climb much treacherous, you know. But UM, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot to take away from this game,
Speaker 1: good and bad, and we just wanted to continue to
Speaker 1: grow together. No, this is UM, I've never had one
Speaker 1: of these before. UM, Sunday Night Football Player, the game,
Speaker 1: the CBS, NBC, NBC. I don't. I don't work for them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you had another very long clot training fourth
Speaker 1: quarter drive. It's been sort of a theme this season
Speaker 1: is there's something, don't. I don't think there's a UM,
Speaker 1: it's just us kind of doing what we do, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think my mentality in those types of situations
Speaker 1: is kind of like last week, UM, I know I
Speaker 1: expressed my frustration, UM, giving a situation when we're in
Speaker 1: kind of not taking advantage of a situation we controlled.
Speaker 1: And I feel like again today that kind of came
Speaker 1: up and we just want to get you to grow
Speaker 1: from that. You know. UM, given an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: plays and keep the ball in our hands in the
Speaker 1: end of the game like that. We want to take
Speaker 1: advantage of that. I want to take advantage of that. UM.
Speaker 1: And I put that on me, you know. UM, I
Speaker 1: just want to you know, kind of kind of impose
Speaker 1: you your will on them in the end of the
Speaker 1: game like that. UM. And you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: we did that the way we wanted to. We found
Speaker 1: a way and it was enough. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: to learn from. Compared Dallas Philadelphia to some college rivalries,
Speaker 1: one of them Alabama Auburn. You've been in now both,
Speaker 1: how do you feel it compares its Eagles Dallas and
Speaker 1: you're feeling now after beating them. Yeah. I think when
Speaker 1: you talk about rivalries, you know, every every every rivalry
Speaker 1: rivalry individually has something to it that makes it uniquely special. UM.
Speaker 1: You know Alabama, UM, Auburn, Alabama versus everybody really UM.
Speaker 1: You know you have Oklahoma takes the game, a pretty
Speaker 1: big game in the Oaky State Oklahoma game. UM. And
Speaker 1: here you know, you see the passion um surrounded about
Speaker 1: this game, and you know it's it's robbably football. UM.
Speaker 1: That's how it is at every level. UM. So we're
Speaker 1: just happy we got it done to day. I was
Speaker 1: I'm not last trial that you were talking about the
Speaker 1: last two players were you know, what's the twenty two
Speaker 1: yard guys and the seven yards take. Kyle was going
Speaker 1: on at that points like where did you see because
Speaker 1: I tell you gets pretty Yeah. I think we rand
Speaker 1: the ball really effectively today. Um. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think there were times the opportunities to throw the ball
Speaker 1: in the passion game. Um, but I think when we
Speaker 1: did for the most part, I think, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the numbers say, but um, there's there's there's meat
Speaker 1: out there on the bone if you will. Um, there's
Speaker 1: money on the table left. Um. But I think we
Speaker 1: made players when we needed to, and that's that's what matters.
Speaker 1: In the Atlas mentioned the expression who's toughest longest, and
Speaker 1: Jordan said, that's something you say, what is the significance
Speaker 1: of that expression? You? Yeah, I think, um, who's toughest,
Speaker 1: the longest, who can control the things that they can
Speaker 1: the longest, Who can stay the course? Who can truly
Speaker 1: stay the course? And um, like I said, I think
Speaker 1: this football team the day we played together, um, circumstances
Speaker 1: in the game change, we had momentum change in the game.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of different things going in the game,
Speaker 1: but we didn't waver from what we wanted to accomplish. UM,
Speaker 1: and we trusted in each other. You know what I mean. UM,
Speaker 1: now you're getting a situation like that, you kind of
Speaker 1: started off really high and okay, ball games twenty twenty
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen. UM, you know, don't flinch, you know,
Speaker 1: take your hair strong and keep going, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I think that was a great display
Speaker 1: of control of what we could and UM, playing together
Speaker 1: and trusting each other on that drive, it's a big
Speaker 1: there's a big time drive for this for this win today.
Speaker 1: Jay on the on the A. J. Brown touchdown drive.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the drive when you gets are around midfield,
Speaker 1: Kenny picked up Michael on you know when you stepped
Speaker 1: up and then hit the hole and then I think
Speaker 1: I played later like Kenny convert on third down. It's
Speaker 1: how big was he for human team on the drive? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think, Um, Kenny has been tremendous. UM. He has
Speaker 1: a he has a very unique role on this football team.
Speaker 1: UM thrust it into different situations. UM. Obviously Miles starting,
Speaker 1: but him coming in and having different responsibilities and he
Speaker 1: does a good job of preparing for it. He's always
Speaker 1: putting in extra work. Um, when everybody else is off
Speaker 1: the field, I'm walking off the field, I see him
Speaker 1: putting in. Coach putting extra work with coach Singleton. Um,
Speaker 1: he's ready for it, you know. And UM, that was
Speaker 1: my message to everybody, UM today, you know, tying that
Speaker 1: all in together. UM. I went up to every every
Speaker 1: individual guy in the locker room and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: everybody played a part in this win. Because everybody truly
Speaker 1: did you know, scout team in preparation throughout the week. Um,
Speaker 1: people staying ready when the number was called, Jack dri
Speaker 1: Drisco coming in, Opeta coming in. Um, everybody, everybody playing
Speaker 1: the role and excelling in the role. Um. And that
Speaker 1: that's what I loved about this about this the most today.
Speaker 1: Every everybody did it together. And UM, you know, no man,
Speaker 1: that's an island. You must draw your strength from others.
Speaker 1: And we definitely played together as a football team. UM.
Speaker 1: And we we were together. Um, we were together the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. You led this team one game
Speaker 1: winning drive would drive to kind of close out of
Speaker 1: the game. And you mentioned earlier something about imposing your wills.
Speaker 1: That is that the thing that the mentality you approach
Speaker 1: those to drop those drives with its definitely you want to.
Speaker 1: I think about Michael Jodan when he said put them away.
Speaker 1: Mj Um, I want to put them away. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You want to put them away. You
Speaker 1: don't want to give them an opportunity to um making
Speaker 1: a close game or get an opportunity how to ball
Speaker 1: in their hands? UM. And that's that's that's the time
Speaker 1: we have. And there's different ways to do that. You
Speaker 1: can be aggressive, UM, throw the ball, you can run
Speaker 1: the ball, whatever it is, but you have to be
Speaker 1: able to do it efficiently. UM. And I feel like
Speaker 1: we've done that throughout six games sometimes and I feel
Speaker 1: like we haven't at times, but it's always been enough.
Speaker 1: So you know, when the standard hasn't been met, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not I'm not satisfied with it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So, so it's a lot to
Speaker 1: learn from from that, which is continue to excel in
Speaker 1: the area. Did you carry the last year's lost against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys with you? Um? And you know, use it
Speaker 1: stage it wouldn't want anything more than that, you know,
Speaker 1: I treat I try and treat every game independently. UM.
Speaker 1: You know you you'd bet you'd be naive to think
Speaker 1: that I hadn't you know? Remember that, UM, I try
Speaker 1: and find value in all of my experiences, you know.
Speaker 1: And that was a value experience, valuable experience from me. UM.
Speaker 1: I know. UM, after that game, you know the next week,
Speaker 1: who played Kansas City, and UM, we were pretty efficient offense,
Speaker 1: taking away touchdowns. We had a call back. But you
Speaker 1: just want to, you know, find value and every experience
Speaker 1: you have. And UM, I think this team was hungry
Speaker 1: for it, UM. Eager to eager to come out here
Speaker 1: and playing the big time game. UM. And I look
Speaker 1: at I look at the people in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and this is what amazes me. And this is what
Speaker 1: I love about it the most is when I'm talking
Speaker 1: to the guys breaking the huddle down, like I feel
Speaker 1: their energy, I feel their hunger, I feel their unsatisfaction.
Speaker 1: I feel all of this and guy in my shoes,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what I love because I know that
Speaker 1: I have guys around me that's gonna step. I got
Speaker 1: guys around me that's gonna go regardless. UM. And they
Speaker 1: know that we have to do that together, you know.
Speaker 1: So we've kind of built this mentality, we've built this, UM,
Speaker 1: this sense of not being satisfied. We've we've we've had that,
Speaker 1: you know, and we'll ever take this, this, this this
Speaker 1: feeling of winning for granted. UM. But we're always gonna
Speaker 1: be hungry, We're always gonna be eager, um to to
Speaker 1: fix the things that we need to fix and grow. UM.
Speaker 1: It's it's a journey, you know, and we take that
Speaker 1: journey head on and we just want to learn from it.
Speaker 1: UM every day. Thanks, Thanks us, And that's your quarterback.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts or Lear. In the locker room, A J.
Speaker 1: Brown spoke to reporters about what it felt like to
Speaker 1: play his first Eagles Cowboys and all his thoughts surrounding
Speaker 1: the atmosphere tonight. Let's take a look. I was that absolue.
Speaker 1: That was like the best atmosphere I played in. That
Speaker 1: was a regular season game, you know, and we was
Speaker 1: before like like when MEA came out performing. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: talking to Smitthi and Quaiz, I'm like, man, this is
Speaker 1: a regular season game. The playhoffs or something, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, so that was big that that gave us
Speaker 1: so much. Man. I'm like, meet meet Milis some of
Speaker 1: my favorite rappers. So that was a big man. The city,
Speaker 1: little Philly is little. That's all I'm enjoying being And
Speaker 1: Brownie mentioned Meek mill here. He is, uh super excited
Speaker 1: to be in the house tonight. A lot of celebrities,
Speaker 1: a lot of star power at the Lake. Yeah, I mean, um,
Speaker 1: I think he got his get his sons. What you
Speaker 1: mean got he got the ball? That's the ball slay game. Yes,
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, big time man. Um. This is it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun to be an Eagles fan. You know, this
Speaker 1: is already a major city. It's a lot of celebrities,
Speaker 1: a lot of entertainers, whether singers, actors, actresses, rappers like
Speaker 1: such as Meek mill Um. When you got the Eagles
Speaker 1: going the way that they're going out, everybody wants to
Speaker 1: be a part of it. So it's a party over
Speaker 1: at the Link. And and the one thing about this
Speaker 1: town it's a football town. It's a it's a football town.
Speaker 1: So I love just looking at the social media and
Speaker 1: you get the celebrities that are from this area on
Speaker 1: their talking trash to their ety friends that are fans
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys, like None of them came out tonight,
Speaker 1: none of the Cowboys, celebrity fans, Yah soccer. Yeah right
Speaker 1: to me, the look from A. J. Brown. Want my
Speaker 1: big takeaway. We saw the play strength with him show up.
Speaker 1: We talked about how big he is, how physical he
Speaker 1: is after the catch. We saw him as a blocker.
Speaker 1: But the strength he showed in that press conference holding
Speaker 1: that chain man, that thing was gigantic. Folks called dripped.
Speaker 1: I got none of that. I know. That's that's about.
Speaker 1: But in the million dollars smile or one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars smile what every want to call it, he had
Speaker 1: it all going on. But I dollars when I when
Speaker 1: I laughed at me, it really is. It is the
Speaker 1: greatest thing his birthday gift to you. Yes, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. All right, Well, earlier tonight, friend broke down CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson's first interception of the night. Here it is
Speaker 1: for the RICO review. All right, so this week here
Speaker 1: on the RICO Reviewer, take a look back to the
Speaker 1: first half an interception by safety CJ. Gardner Johnson, and
Speaker 1: this happens thanks to a pass breakup from Eagles cornerback
Speaker 1: James Bradberry. Does an outstanding job reading this route. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at exactly what made this play happen.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are in quarters coverage, so James Bradberry at CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson. They are splitting their side of the field
Speaker 1: into quarters. So what you're gonna see is you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Bradberry get into his pedal and off coverage. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see Gardner Johnson get into his pedal in off coverage,
Speaker 1: and they're just reading routes as they deploy themselves. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna see this route from Michael Gallop. He's gonna
Speaker 1: attack vertically down the field, then break back to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: make himself available just beyond the sticks. We're gonna let
Speaker 1: this run and watch Bradberry here, he's reading the body
Speaker 1: language of the receiver. He sees Gallop running vertically down
Speaker 1: the field, and he's gonna see that his pad level
Speaker 1: is about to lower. You're gonna watch as Gallop starts
Speaker 1: to drop his pads. Bradberry knows there's only a certain
Speaker 1: amount of routes that he's gonna run from this down
Speaker 1: and distance first and ten for this formation, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna have an understanding. You know what this is gonna
Speaker 1: be the route. He's gonna back towards the quarterback. Watch
Speaker 1: how quickly number twenty four, James Bradberry breaks on this route.
Speaker 1: You're gonna let this run and he's gonna jump the throw.
Speaker 1: Put himself right in the passing lane, knock the ball
Speaker 1: up in the air. CJ. Gardner, Johnson, he's Johnny All.
Speaker 1: The spot comes away with the interception. The Eagles do
Speaker 1: something that Dallas has not really done. They force a
Speaker 1: turnover here in the first half they turn into points,
Speaker 1: the Eagles getting two touchdowns worth of points off of
Speaker 1: Cowboys turnovers in that second quarter. Eagles take a sizeable
Speaker 1: lead into halftime. Now is your chance to vote for
Speaker 1: the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: vote and get a chance at a brand new Toyota.
Speaker 1: All Right, fellas, here we go. Three nominee is starting
Speaker 1: off with James Bradberry. His second quarter pass breakup. He
Speaker 1: had quite the night A J. Brown. You gotta go
Speaker 1: with the wide receiver. This is his second quarter touchdown.
Speaker 1: Love to watch him play. Fourth quarter. CJ. Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1: Here we go the inner reception, he was getting it
Speaker 1: down all over the field. Two I nts on the
Speaker 1: night for him. A good night for CJ. Gardner Johnson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Timpting can't give him to a J. Brown ill my
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I gotta go with I gotta go with CJ.
Speaker 1: All right, I gotta go with Johnson Gardner Jo right.
Speaker 1: I think he is the best shot for the Eagles
Speaker 1: to go six for six here and have a player
Speaker 1: of the Week once again. C J. Gardner Johnson two
Speaker 1: interceptions on Prime Time. Yeah, give a big hot tip
Speaker 1: to James Radberry as we saw in that breakdown making
Speaker 1: the play to create the pick. But I think CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson gets the dub. I think when you look
Speaker 1: at that pick in the fourth quarter, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: go back and watch that one on take because that
Speaker 1: looked like that was all him. Yeah, sealed it. Really,
Speaker 1: here's the first time we agreed on the player of
Speaker 1: the game, you and I. Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 1: On offense every week you're feeling generous on your birthday, right, Well,
Speaker 1: I need a AJD catch two morning. I would have gone, ah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's side to the Jamison Nightcap. As we
Speaker 1: said that Eagles are headed into a bye this week,
Speaker 1: but when they returned from the bye, they're facing the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. They're currently two and four, fourth in the
Speaker 1: AFC North. Today had a big win in the NFC,
Speaker 1: defeating the Buccaneers twenty to eighteen. What do we think, guys,
Speaker 1: that's a young team. They're more in the rebuilding phase.
Speaker 1: You know, Kenney Pike got knocked out of the game today,
Speaker 1: so Rubisky had to come in and really pulled out
Speaker 1: the win. For him. He's a veteran, so we obviously
Speaker 1: know what he can do. But they fight, they play
Speaker 1: hard for Mike Tomlin. But you get them on the road,
Speaker 1: they're a different team. They were at home today against Tampa.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have enough to slow down
Speaker 1: in this Eagles team. This Eagles team is something special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got some players on defense. Obviously no t J.
Speaker 1: Watt at this point with his injury, but you look
Speaker 1: at MAKEA. Fitzpatrick and some of the guys they've got
Speaker 1: up front, certainly some playmakers defensively, and then on offense, Look,
Speaker 1: Mitch Drubisky came in in relief and made some big
Speaker 1: time third down conversions in this win over Tampa. When
Speaker 1: Kenny Picketts in there, he gives them a little bit
Speaker 1: of juice. By the time we get to about two
Speaker 1: weeks from now, my guess is we'll see the rookie,
Speaker 1: but we'll see exactly what is to come. I always
Speaker 1: hate a Sunday without Eagles football. But luckily Philly fans,
Speaker 1: do you have the Phillies coming up. It's a good
Speaker 1: time to be a Philly sports fan. Well before we go,
Speaker 1: our Eagles social media team, they've been Walden out. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you look tuin it out tonight. How about
Speaker 1: them Eagles? Stephen A is gonna be on another level
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning on tvay. Definitely will. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's the number one cowboy hater, and the cover he
Speaker 1: certainly has the biggest platform us aren't playing well, and
Speaker 1: the fact that he worked here in this town covered
Speaker 1: me when I played with the Eagles for the Philadelphia Enquirer.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's gonna be excited tomorrow when once
Speaker 1: his show starts. That's the thing is, he doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be an Eagles fan. He's not. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Eagles fans and staying up
Speaker 1: way past all of our bed times. Get a good
Speaker 1: week's rest on the Viye and we'll see the following
Speaker 1: week to face the Steelers. Thanks so much, and go birds.
Speaker 1: We ain't gonna turn this field into the party. We
Speaker 1: ain't gonna turn the day in tune all night. We
Speaker 1: ain't gonna pull that good stuff in a call Saturday night.
Speaker 1: We gonna say, let's go, let's go. It's about the
Speaker 1: time to get started with the roof on, with his party.
Speaker 1: Let's go