Speaker 1: It was a dominant forty eight to twenty two victory
Speaker 1: in the meadow Lands, and ten was the lucky number.
Speaker 1: That's his son Reddick getting number his tenth sack of
Speaker 1: the season. Miles Saider's rushing for his tenth touchdown. A J.
Speaker 1: Brown he catches his tenth touchdown of the season right here,
Speaker 1: and it was a day for everyone. Jalen hurts he
Speaker 1: rushes for his tenth touchdown on the ground. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico. I'm Gabrielle d Gibanni,
Speaker 1: joined by fran Duffy and I got you gotta hold
Speaker 1: the Ears today. Eagles fans, it's going down. WHOA Yes,
Speaker 1: indeed got out were great. I haven't seen a win
Speaker 1: like that up in MetLife. Right When was the last
Speaker 1: time the Eagles blew the Giants out on the road.
Speaker 1: This way, you can see it on the sideline, you
Speaker 1: can see it the stands. There was a party up
Speaker 1: in MetLife for Eagles fans and for the entire team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this team is scary right now. They are locked in,
Speaker 1: they're playing their best football. You look at what they've
Speaker 1: done over the last three weeks. I mean they're easily
Speaker 1: the best team in football, and they have all three
Speaker 1: phases clicking right now. Special teams in the return game.
Speaker 1: Great job today the defense just smothering on this Giants offense,
Speaker 1: and then the Eagles offense today pretty much able to
Speaker 1: move the ball at will through the air early when
Speaker 1: they needed to, but on the ground mostly when they
Speaker 1: wanted to. Great job today by that offensive line. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurt's operating with efficiency as he's done all year long.
Speaker 1: Just really a total team effort going on the road
Speaker 1: in an environment that the Eagles don't typically play well in,
Speaker 1: you know, the last two times there's been losses up
Speaker 1: there in the Meadowlands. Great job by Nick's, Tirianni and
Speaker 1: this coaching sta have getting this team mentally prepared to
Speaker 1: go on the road and play a team. Listen, you
Speaker 1: can easily play down to your competition. You can easily
Speaker 1: get laws to sleep when you're facing a team like
Speaker 1: the New York Giants that on paper don't necessarily look
Speaker 1: like they pose a threat to you. But I like
Speaker 1: what the Eagles mentality is right now, which has played
Speaker 1: to their own standards. They have set a standard that
Speaker 1: they want to play and meet almost perfection every week
Speaker 1: and regardless of who the opponent is right now, they
Speaker 1: are locked in and they're playing the best, best foot
Speaker 1: best football in the NFL. They were explosive out offense,
Speaker 1: They were destructive on defense, seven sacks for that unit,
Speaker 1: outstanding on third down again, get back in the turnover
Speaker 1: category with that sack fumble from Brandon Graham. Just both
Speaker 1: sides of the football. The special team is making plays
Speaker 1: in this game as well. Boston Scott explosive and the
Speaker 1: kick return unit. This has just been a really, really
Speaker 1: decisive win here for this Eagles team past three weeks.
Speaker 1: Forty points on the Packers, thirty five on the tight ends,
Speaker 1: and forty eight on the Giants. They shut down Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: shutdown Derrick Henry stay Quon Barkley was a little limited today,
Speaker 1: but they also shut down Daniel Jones because his legs
Speaker 1: are just as much of a threat. So from an
Speaker 1: offensive perspective, they put up the points and from a
Speaker 1: defensive perspective, they put a stop on every weapon that's
Speaker 1: been on the football field on the other side for
Speaker 1: three weeks in a row. Now. Yeah, and you can
Speaker 1: tell they came into this game with a mental focus.
Speaker 1: If they didn't necessarily want to play down to any
Speaker 1: type of competition. They want them force the Giants to
Speaker 1: play up to the Eagles standards, and the Giants, Jess
Speaker 1: weren't able to keep up. Eagles jumped out on this
Speaker 1: team early. Like I said, through the air, wink Martindale,
Speaker 1: you want to bring pressure, try to blist this offense.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts in that first half, great job being decisive
Speaker 1: where he wanted to go with the football to touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to DeVonta Smith, My goodness, great pass, even a
Speaker 1: better catch from DeVante Smith, concentrating on the ball, not
Speaker 1: worrying about the contact that he made a hit, he
Speaker 1: didn't even get the contact, was able to take that
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone. And when they got up
Speaker 1: twenty one and nothing, you almost felt like this game
Speaker 1: was in hand. Giants tried to make a little bit
Speaker 1: of a push there, but I like what the Eagles
Speaker 1: were able to do right before the half, big kickoff
Speaker 1: return they got. They were able to get a field
Speaker 1: goal in there, and I thought they at that point
Speaker 1: put out any chance to Giants had in coming back
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, we talked about that in the
Speaker 1: Cookoff Show. Right. Ella was the fact that if this
Speaker 1: Eagle's heam could get out fast on this giant squad,
Speaker 1: that the New York would not be able to play
Speaker 1: from behind the sticks and get back into this football game.
Speaker 1: And like you mentioned it, Jalen was an absolute heater
Speaker 1: opening to open this game. Open nine of ten. You
Speaker 1: saw a couple of those touchdown throws and even some
Speaker 1: of the ones that didn't go for big plays, impressive,
Speaker 1: impressive throws from Jalen Hurts. And that's the thing these
Speaker 1: last two weeks. A lot of this production it is
Speaker 1: not coming from RPOs and screen passes. You're seeing the
Speaker 1: traditional drop back pass game, down the field, attacking at
Speaker 1: all three levels. Jalen Hurts playing very, very quality football
Speaker 1: right now, and they're setting the tone in every game
Speaker 1: that they've played in in the past. Six of seven
Speaker 1: games or opening drive his results in a touchdown. So
Speaker 1: when they open these games, they're saying, look, we're the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, this is how we're gonna play ball. You
Speaker 1: have to catch up with us. And I think that
Speaker 1: says a lot about kind of the grit that this
Speaker 1: team has. But you have to think about too, there
Speaker 1: was some juice that went into this game. Because if
Speaker 1: they want to accomplish the things they want to accomplish
Speaker 1: the season, it starts with the NFC East. So to
Speaker 1: pick up this game on the road in the NFC East,
Speaker 1: take down a team that they're in the playoff hunt
Speaker 1: just as much as the Eagles are, it's a pretty
Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, And that's what I meaning by they
Speaker 1: had the right mental approach to this game. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't start on Sunday. It starts on Tuesday when you
Speaker 1: start to prepare for your next week's opponent. So that
Speaker 1: means you're putting in the proper amount of time preparation wise,
Speaker 1: to make sure you go over all the details that
Speaker 1: you need to study to get prepared for this New
Speaker 1: York Giants offense. We knew that the Giants would struggle
Speaker 1: trying to throw the ball, but Daniel Jones and say
Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley when he's healthy, pose a real threat in
Speaker 1: the running game. And we know Daniel Jones with his
Speaker 1: legs has hurt this Eagles defense in the past. To me,
Speaker 1: all those things allowed the Eagles to prepare for this
Speaker 1: game with the proper amount of attention to detail that
Speaker 1: they needed. That you know what you know on the outside,
Speaker 1: you may look at this game and say, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is an easy game for the Eagles. They should go
Speaker 1: up there and blow this team out. But if you
Speaker 1: as the team don't necessarily prepare properly, that's how you
Speaker 1: want to find yourself in a close game. And you
Speaker 1: could tell the Eagles by the way they played early.
Speaker 1: They started winning this game early in the week preparing
Speaker 1: for it. Open the game, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. On offense,
Speaker 1: you open the game defensively, punt punt, punt, a couple
Speaker 1: of sacks, some TFLs in there, so creating explosive plays
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. Like you talked about
Speaker 1: stopping the run. Sae Quon Barkley went for twenty six
Speaker 1: yards today, Daniel Jones went for twenty eight yards today.
Speaker 1: Gary Brightwell, who got a chunk of the yardage for
Speaker 1: behind sae Quon Barkley twenty three yards today. So the
Speaker 1: run defense was swarming, the pass rush was devastating the
Speaker 1: way that they were able to get after Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: make him feel uncomfortable from the jump. I mentioned seven sacks,
Speaker 1: but how many of those incompletions were due to the
Speaker 1: pressure getting home and forcing Aaron throw. So the defense
Speaker 1: is all over the place, the offense continues to be
Speaker 1: explosive and efficient. This team is again just a complete
Speaker 1: team victory. Seven team sacks. Like you said, BG was
Speaker 1: responsible for three of those. He was all over the
Speaker 1: football field today. But when you talk about the pressure,
Speaker 1: we mentioned it in the kickoff show, how important that
Speaker 1: would because Daniel Jones has played considerably well under pressure
Speaker 1: this season. He kept the ball protected, he didn't throw
Speaker 1: any interceptions, but the pressure just became too much for
Speaker 1: him and Darius Layton didn't get his first reception until
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, so he just didn't have enough time
Speaker 1: to even find his leading weapon down the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great job from the scheme today from Jonathan Gannon not
Speaker 1: using a lot of blitzes to get after Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: You know, he's an athletic quarterback back there, so you
Speaker 1: know he has the ability to extend plays with his legs.
Speaker 1: But they got after Daniel Jones with that four man
Speaker 1: pressure today, and those dollars guys did a great job
Speaker 1: up front winning there one on one situations. We saw
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham turned back the clock. Three sacks a day
Speaker 1: for him, I thought Josh Schwett set the tone early
Speaker 1: beating Thomas around the corner. That's their number one overall
Speaker 1: draft pick from a couple of years ago. Josh Schwett
Speaker 1: had no problem beating him off the snap of the ball.
Speaker 1: That's how you keep an offense in checks when you
Speaker 1: don't have to bring the extra guys, when you can
Speaker 1: get pressure by just bringing four guys and allows you
Speaker 1: to put four guy i mean more guys back in coverage.
Speaker 1: And it's funny looking at the lack of blitz from
Speaker 1: the Eagles, the lack of necessity to blitz. Then you
Speaker 1: go to the other side. The Giants flitz more than anybody.
Speaker 1: And what do we talk about pregame is that the
Speaker 1: Eagles ability to create those explosive plays against the blitz.
Speaker 1: How many times did we see early in this game
Speaker 1: first half the Giants sending extra rushers at Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: and Jalen making them pay. Certainly on that fourth down
Speaker 1: play to DeVante Smith forty one yards for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but it was the case on the thirty three yard
Speaker 1: or to a J Brown for six points as well.
Speaker 1: So Jalen continuing to execute against the blitz, that is
Speaker 1: gonna be a very very valuable tool for this offense
Speaker 1: moving into the postseason, which, by the way, clinching that
Speaker 1: playoff victory today with the win also very very big
Speaker 1: for this team as well. We're gonna keep rolling here
Speaker 1: on the postgame show, but I want to remind fans
Speaker 1: to head to the Facebook comments for a Ask Ike's segment.
Speaker 1: You can ask any questions you may have and we'll
Speaker 1: get to them right here. On the show mentioned A J. Brown,
Speaker 1: we're talking Miles Sanders. Big days for both of them.
Speaker 1: Both are passing the one thousand yard mark on the season.
Speaker 1: AJ Brown He's done it two other times. Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: this is his first time eclipsing a thousand yards. The
Speaker 1: way that he's been able to play so well this season,
Speaker 1: what kind of advantage does he give this Eagles offense
Speaker 1: Because we see a day like today, we think it's
Speaker 1: all going to get done on the ground. It's rainy,
Speaker 1: it's wet up at MetLife. They start out passing, it
Speaker 1: was looking very strong and the male Sanders goes up
Speaker 1: career high day for him and he hits out one
Speaker 1: thousand yard mark. I said this in the summer fran
Speaker 1: and Ella, that this Eagles offense. The X factor in
Speaker 1: this offense would be Miles Sanders, and if Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: plays to the potential in which they envisioned him playing
Speaker 1: when they drafted him, it would take this offense to
Speaker 1: the next level. And that's really what it's done. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of attention has gone to the quarterback, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so. He is the front running for the MVP
Speaker 1: hands down right now. But Male Sanders being a complimentary
Speaker 1: runner to what Jalen Hurst done does and at sometimes
Speaker 1: in some games really been the bill Cow where you
Speaker 1: can give the ball tow almost twenty times a game.
Speaker 1: That's the difference in Males Sanders as a runner to
Speaker 1: day and how he's running behind his pads, making guys
Speaker 1: miss when need be, playing with a sort of physical
Speaker 1: nature and authoritative running style that you envisioned him having
Speaker 1: a whole that he would have and he really has
Speaker 1: stepped into that franchise back mold this year. Really happy
Speaker 1: to see that Miles is taking this game to the
Speaker 1: next level because we all saw it when he was drafted.
Speaker 1: All Right, I gotta cut you off like three sacks
Speaker 1: today for Brandon Graham and he joins us at the
Speaker 1: podium that's one box we can check check off. You
Speaker 1: know we're not done yet. Um I feel great on
Speaker 1: you know, just us reaching our goals of you know,
Speaker 1: making the playoffs postseason, but man, we got so much
Speaker 1: more more game and more bar to go. You just
Speaker 1: gotta make sure we finished like we want to. And
Speaker 1: you know, great great first step contract for sacks, well
Speaker 1: you know, get as many as you can. Know. It
Speaker 1: sent us though, but just you know, just trying to
Speaker 1: help the team. It felt good. Man. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been a minute since I had three in the game.
Speaker 1: The Jets was the last game I had three, So
Speaker 1: um man, I'm just just happy at this age, you know,
Speaker 1: just just still trying to stay stay relevant, stay helping
Speaker 1: the team. Rush you most about the terms group from pass,
Speaker 1: I just feel like we're hungry. I mean, if anything, man,
Speaker 1: them boys motivated me even more to day to make
Speaker 1: sure that, like you know, I make my Russias count
Speaker 1: because I mean, Hassan was just beating up on seventy
Speaker 1: three to day and you were seeing him. He was
Speaker 1: on the sideline mad because he was one step away
Speaker 1: every time, and you know, it's just it's just cool
Speaker 1: that everybody once we do what we're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: and that stopped the run. You know, everybody just knowing
Speaker 1: our strength is as a pass as pass rushers, and
Speaker 1: how hungry we all are to try to get out
Speaker 1: there and make make them count. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 1: just thankful for the group because we all motivating each
Speaker 1: other stages of playing your basket football. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of part of that push to start. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: be up up in your game a little bit more
Speaker 1: if anything. You know, that's two. That's when you want
Speaker 1: to get hot. You want to get hot towards the
Speaker 1: end so that you can carry over to the next,
Speaker 1: to the to the playoffs. And like you said, man,
Speaker 1: things is coming together. Special teams playing better. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: even though we got a pump block today, we came
Speaker 1: back and you know, we we we handle them like
Speaker 1: we're supposed to. But that's the that's the little stuff
Speaker 1: that we got to stay working on, making sure that
Speaker 1: we don't have those hiccups because in good and against
Speaker 1: a good team, you know they're gonna make us pay
Speaker 1: for that, and so we just gotta make sure we
Speaker 1: just keep cleaning up. And wanted to clean it up.
Speaker 1: And I just think that. Yeah, man, were playing our best,
Speaker 1: our best ball is starting to happen now towards the
Speaker 1: end of the before we make this run. Man, you
Speaker 1: know what, du you know it, dude, this would be
Speaker 1: my first time, you know, this year, if I could,
Speaker 1: if I could do it, I got four games left,
Speaker 1: you know, that's on my mind. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I'm just gonna do like today it
Speaker 1: came to day three. Didn't even know it was gonna
Speaker 1: come like that, but just happy that. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we just got to win at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Extra juice for this game for you after missing last season,
Speaker 1: missing this game, and it was a tough loss off
Speaker 1: here last year, Oh yeah, for sure. We that was
Speaker 1: talked about, just how they did this last year and
Speaker 1: I wasn't even I was here, but I wasn't part
Speaker 1: of it because you know, I toured my Achilles last
Speaker 1: year and of course, you know, it's been on my
Speaker 1: mind to be out here and try to, you know,
Speaker 1: be the best that I could be this year. Let
Speaker 1: him know that I still got some more juice left
Speaker 1: in the tank. Can Yeah, man, I'm just having fun. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you can clinching the playoffs, you said it checks. The
Speaker 1: Bots obviously played long enough to not take that for granted.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, no teams like this to who come around
Speaker 1: too often. So how do you guys kind of view
Speaker 1: it in the locker room? Just you know, hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: that's just the first step. That's the first step to
Speaker 1: the goals that we set for ourselves. Make it the
Speaker 1: postseason winning division. We didn't want a division yet because
Speaker 1: obviously we got four more, but we made the playoffs,
Speaker 1: got a spot. But you know, yeah, man, we just
Speaker 1: got so much more that we got to accomplish. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's the artsmate thing
Speaker 1: is to get a ring or I ain't gonna say
Speaker 1: it's I'll just say this, it's a great season so far.
Speaker 1: Let's just stay stay stay focused, stay focused on the
Speaker 1: task that hand, and that's getting that ring clinching today
Speaker 1: Compared other times in the locker rooms, man, you know
Speaker 1: what we I Clinston some places. I Clinston Dallas one year,
Speaker 1: Clinston Well, Clinston Dallas two years. Uh, but you know
Speaker 1: the Clints right now to get to the playoffs, man,
Speaker 1: with four games left, that's the first for me because
Speaker 1: we usually had to wait till the end, you know,
Speaker 1: to somebody win the division. So um yeah, I'm just man,
Speaker 1: thankful for this team, trying to make sure we take
Speaker 1: full advantage of the opportunities when they come. And man,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to enjoy one day at a time
Speaker 1: with these boys because we know next year it's gonna
Speaker 1: be next year. But you know, this team, it's what
Speaker 1: we do not and so I want to make sure
Speaker 1: we take full advantage of it. Too. Long offensive drives
Speaker 1: getting the game. Uh you know what it's I know
Speaker 1: how I go, um um the first fifteen plays, I
Speaker 1: mean you're just trying to see how they're hitting you,
Speaker 1: and you know they made some plays in there. But
Speaker 1: I feel like we just had to stay focused, stay coming,
Speaker 1: making sure we stayed after stay quine because we knew
Speaker 1: they running game was you know, something that they was
Speaker 1: definitely gonna try to do. And um yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: just I just know we adjusted well as the game went.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, you're talking about us. Oh it helps,
Speaker 1: it helps us, you know, keep keep touch fresh at least,
Speaker 1: you know, staying on the sideline seeing the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: where their defense down a little bit because those long drives.
Speaker 1: Definitely were you down after while if you don't get
Speaker 1: off the field, and um, I'm just happy to the
Speaker 1: offense you know, went down to score both we went
Speaker 1: up for a team. Um was it twenty one at
Speaker 1: one point? Yeah? Twenty one U and man this that
Speaker 1: definitely helps and it changed the mindset of the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator on the side on what he can call trying
Speaker 1: to make sure that he, um, you know, get get
Speaker 1: them back in the game. And up up front, we
Speaker 1: know that they got to pass the ball in order
Speaker 1: in order for that to happen. So we're just licking
Speaker 1: our chops at the end of the day. Can you
Speaker 1: talk about you know, everything started fun offensive line. We
Speaker 1: talked about the how you guys played with goth intemperty
Speaker 1: and the linebacker, just the free flow. Um, yeah, we
Speaker 1: knew getting off the rock was number one, and like
Speaker 1: you said, we want to play on the side of
Speaker 1: the ball. And so I think that in the middle
Speaker 1: interior interior wise, Um, you know, them boys was knocking
Speaker 1: the boys back and you know, we knew on the
Speaker 1: edge what we was gonna do. But it was just
Speaker 1: more about just playing together and I think, yeah, everybody
Speaker 1: was just taking care of the run first before we started,
Speaker 1: you know, playing for the past, and when it was
Speaker 1: time to play for the past, we knew it wasn't
Speaker 1: no run. Weren't we ain't we ain't playing to run
Speaker 1: them all, So you know it's it was. It was
Speaker 1: cool to make sure that we checked that box first
Speaker 1: before we actually went out and went after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's a Vet and he's still got three sacks on
Speaker 1: the day in a big divisional game. But his alma mater,
Speaker 1: that team up North, they took to Twitter giving him
Speaker 1: a bunch of love. Let's see what they said. A
Speaker 1: three sack day for Brandon Graham. Hashtag Walter Payton Man
Speaker 1: of the Year challenge, hashtag Pro Bowl vote, hashtag go Blue.
Speaker 1: You don't want to say that one, but it's a reminder.
Speaker 1: It's a good reminder to get your Pro Bowl voltes. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: he is one of the few things that I like
Speaker 1: about that team on the board. Who doesn't love Brandon Graham.
Speaker 1: Awesome job by him today, three sacks. Fletch got you
Speaker 1: by two today, so him and Fletcher out there. Fletcher
Speaker 1: was able to get one, Brandon was able to get three.
Speaker 1: It truly is awesome to see Brandon coming back from
Speaker 1: that Achilles Hill injury. You don't have an injury like
Speaker 1: that at this stage of your career and make a
Speaker 1: full recovery, and so Brandon being able to do that,
Speaker 1: it's just a testament to the hard work that he's
Speaker 1: put in, the trainers and the staff that helped him
Speaker 1: get through that. But it's great to see that smile
Speaker 1: out there. Man. Sometimes you forget how much you miss
Speaker 1: Brandon's personality being up there at the podium, and we
Speaker 1: certainly missed that last year. Is great to have him
Speaker 1: back this year. And just to give a quick tease
Speaker 1: to that Walter Payton Man of the Year video that
Speaker 1: went out earlier this week on Eagles Entertainment all Eagles
Speaker 1: digital channels, go check out when Brandon Graham found out
Speaker 1: that he was the honoree for the Walter Payton Man
Speaker 1: of the Year. But in your box of tissues, a
Speaker 1: few with you. You will need it, because I know
Speaker 1: I did watching it on my desk. Very well done. Oh,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the offense a little bit. Devonte
Speaker 1: Smith had a great day. That touchdown. Friend's gonna break
Speaker 1: down a little later on in the show. The way
Speaker 1: he's been used in this offense. And we've been talking
Speaker 1: about him for the past few weeks because you feel
Speaker 1: like you don't hear enough about Devontae Smith and you
Speaker 1: look at his numbers and he's still Devontae Smith. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know what, he probably had a couple of
Speaker 1: uncharacteristic drops out there to day, and I know he'll
Speaker 1: tell you that he usually makes those catches, and you're right,
Speaker 1: he had a quiet day today except for that big
Speaker 1: explosive touchdown. You look at his todown. That was a
Speaker 1: big boy touchdown. But I love the consistency that we
Speaker 1: get out of Devontae Smith. Says very little comes out,
Speaker 1: puts his hard hat on every day. He knows the
Speaker 1: other Wilde receivers is getting a lot of fanfare, devantage
Speaker 1: Is typically takes advantage of his opportunities when they present itself.
Speaker 1: Got to be happy for that young man as well,
Speaker 1: because I know how hard he works and he's still
Speaker 1: the best route runner on the team without question, and
Speaker 1: also their co to weapon on third down, and he
Speaker 1: showed up a number of times on third down in
Speaker 1: this game. That first one an outstanding throw from Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts and a great route from DeVante. You couldn't ask
Speaker 1: for more from either guy on that play. So DeVante
Speaker 1: Smith continuing to shine both inside and outside, doing a
Speaker 1: lot of work from the slot. That forty one yard
Speaker 1: touchdown came from inside as well from an empty set.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about that this year. What the
Speaker 1: Eagles have done when Jalen Hurts is in the backfield
Speaker 1: by himself. So a lot of different layers here to
Speaker 1: this offense and some different signature tools that allow Jalen
Speaker 1: to be at his best. Now you're talking about third down,
Speaker 1: their third down efficiency today six for eleven. It's an
Speaker 1: area where this Eagles team has has been very successful
Speaker 1: this season. How much does that benefit of football team
Speaker 1: when they can can convert on third down? It seems
Speaker 1: like an obvious question to ask because being efficient on
Speaker 1: third down is so important, But the way that they've
Speaker 1: been able to do it and stay consistent in doing it,
Speaker 1: why is that so important? And most of these the
Speaker 1: opportunity it's important because you want to be able to
Speaker 1: sustain dribs right and you want to be able to
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm. You know, those coaches over there
Speaker 1: have that playbook. You know they can't go into that
Speaker 1: playbook deep if you don't have sustained drives out there,
Speaker 1: So you gotta be able to give them six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight play drives so they can get deep into that playbook.
Speaker 1: And you saw that on that eight minute touchdown drive.
Speaker 1: I believe it was the first drive at the first drive, Yeah,
Speaker 1: at fourteen play drive where the Eagles could go deep
Speaker 1: in their playbook. Fran mentions a couple of those empty
Speaker 1: sets there you just get, you get jailing out there,
Speaker 1: operating like a point guard where he seems to be
Speaker 1: in control. And here's what I believe is also key
Speaker 1: for them and why they're able to convert those third downs.
Speaker 1: Most of those third downs are in manageable situations. So
Speaker 1: they do a good job on first and second down
Speaker 1: giving themselves an opportunity to convert third downs that are manageable.
Speaker 1: And even when they sometimes have the third downs where
Speaker 1: it has to be third and long, they're able to
Speaker 1: get those two. All right, we gotta go head coach Sirianni.
Speaker 1: He's at the podium. Yeah, you know, actually they said
Speaker 1: that to me in there. I'm like, that's that's nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's yeah, we got we got way bigger
Speaker 1: goals and it's onto the next one. So, um, it's
Speaker 1: nice to get this win here because we know this
Speaker 1: is a good football team. It's nice to come out
Speaker 1: here and play good on the road and and we'll
Speaker 1: boom on to the next one. Enjoy this one for
Speaker 1: a little bit and move on to the next one.
Speaker 1: What's it like putting up this took a performance after
Speaker 1: a rough game here last season? Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think we think through that, like we don't think
Speaker 1: about that like what happened last year. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a whole new team, This is a whole new
Speaker 1: coaching staff on their side, This is a two different
Speaker 1: teams playing, so that really it just feels good to
Speaker 1: go out there and and perform offense, defense and special teams, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, to really well and uh and be a
Speaker 1: good football team out there. And so that that's not
Speaker 1: in our mind again when we when you think about
Speaker 1: when we talk about dog mentality, it is literally learned
Speaker 1: from your mistakes, but move on from your mistakes and
Speaker 1: that and that mistake happened a long time ago and
Speaker 1: with a different team, with a different, different group of guys,
Speaker 1: and we're on to this year and we'll we'll learn
Speaker 1: from the mistakes we made in this game, learned from
Speaker 1: the things that we did well in this game, and
Speaker 1: and try to take that on to our next game.
Speaker 1: Gall how important was it for him to have this
Speaker 1: kind of performance in this game? Yeah, there's only a
Speaker 1: couple of times I've given game balls after a game.
Speaker 1: If what he have a hundred? What do you have?
Speaker 1: One hundred forty four one hundred? Yeah, he'll get a
Speaker 1: game ball, all right, So you just Miles, you'll get
Speaker 1: a game ball. He knows, he'll know what he knows,
Speaker 1: he'll already get one of those, and so he'll get
Speaker 1: one from that. And it's good. I mean, first first
Speaker 1: time he's went over a thousand. He's been great all year. Um.
Speaker 1: He's ran the ball hard, he's protected his butt off,
Speaker 1: he's protected the football. Um, and he's just playing really
Speaker 1: good football right now. Just the fact that he's been
Speaker 1: healthier this year. Yeah, mature, I think I see his
Speaker 1: play improving too. You know, he's he's always we've always
Speaker 1: been able to count on Miles, and we know we
Speaker 1: know he missed some time last year with some some
Speaker 1: injuries with the with the ankle, but it is it's
Speaker 1: it's both in right, It's it's that he's out He's
Speaker 1: been out there every single game and he's improving as
Speaker 1: a player. And that's our goal as a team is
Speaker 1: how do we get better every single day as a team.
Speaker 1: How do we get better every every single day as
Speaker 1: an individual? And Miles is a is a great example
Speaker 1: of that because he's improved his games, not only running
Speaker 1: the football, but all those other things that I just
Speaker 1: talked about. What do you think those first two drives
Speaker 1: they were both long. There are those sustained. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, it's not easy sustaining drives that long
Speaker 1: in this league. But you know we we were really
Speaker 1: good on third down and some some third down areas. Um,
Speaker 1: you know we we put it in our players hands
Speaker 1: to go forward on fourth down. And in one of
Speaker 1: those areas and in Tafante and and Uh, Jalen went
Speaker 1: out and made a big time play. So it was
Speaker 1: being able to convert on in third down scenarios and
Speaker 1: be able to keep the sticks moving. And again it
Speaker 1: was Jalen was I felt like Jalen was just in
Speaker 1: complete control. There's a there's a play that he hits
Speaker 1: Miles on the on the sideline on a checkdown where
Speaker 1: he didn't force anything, the defense dictated where the ball went.
Speaker 1: He took it to miles and we got eight yards
Speaker 1: off of that, which I thought was an awesome play.
Speaker 1: Um and he was just in complete control there. So
Speaker 1: it was it was the conversions on third down and
Speaker 1: it was also the just really good quarterback play by Jayleen.
Speaker 1: It's the first twelve in the season your career, and
Speaker 1: a lot of teams you've been a part of had
Speaker 1: the ball into the postseason. So what does it say
Speaker 1: that it's not that signific team, it's you know, I
Speaker 1: talked to you, you know, asked Ellie asked the question
Speaker 1: about me and getting the playoffs. I guess that is
Speaker 1: nice that you don't have to sit there and wait
Speaker 1: to see, um, hey am I getting in. But we
Speaker 1: know our goals are higher. We want to win the
Speaker 1: division and um, and that that takes one game at
Speaker 1: a time because we know that the Cowboys are playing really,
Speaker 1: really good football and so yes night, that's that's a
Speaker 1: nice part of it. You don't have to sit there
Speaker 1: and say who's this team playing, who's that team playing?
Speaker 1: You just handle your own business and uh, well, hopefully
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll do that from here on outta scent
Speaker 1: games from Jalen. I mean, what can you say about
Speaker 1: the loveliest playing out? Yeah, really high level um, really
Speaker 1: high level um. You guys have seen it. He's playing
Speaker 1: really good and we're in the team. I mean, the
Speaker 1: last three games we've scored, has it been forty forty four?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if one of them wasn't forty,
Speaker 1: but last week was thirty five. Um. But that's that's
Speaker 1: good quarterback play. It's good offensive line play. It's good
Speaker 1: tight end play. That's good receiver play. It's good running
Speaker 1: back play. It's good quarterback play. And he touches the
Speaker 1: ball every time. So it's it's big time played by him.
Speaker 1: Our offensive line has just done a great job. I
Speaker 1: think the the tight ends have really stepped up. It
Speaker 1: was really nice to see those guys. They blocked their
Speaker 1: butts off today and then they also made plays when
Speaker 1: it when it came to him, uh in the passing game,
Speaker 1: and so that was really good to see. Everybody's stepping up.
Speaker 1: Quez is stepped up, and and you know, you got it.
Speaker 1: You got an injury to Dallas, got or it takes
Speaker 1: everybody and uh and and they've they've accomplished that. And
Speaker 1: it's a while after the game watching you on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: you're very emotional. Have you always been this kind of
Speaker 1: emotional guy sidelines? Yeah? I think so. Uh, I definitely
Speaker 1: think so. I'm uh. You know, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: picture that I love of my dad um yelling. I
Speaker 1: don't know who he's yelling at, but nineteen seventy eight
Speaker 1: I think the picture was taken. He's got these plaid
Speaker 1: pads pants on that was a style. Then he's coaching,
Speaker 1: he's got his headset kind of ripped off, and he's
Speaker 1: got these he's kind of got I don't know if
Speaker 1: he had a food man chew or if he just
Speaker 1: had big lamb chops of sideburns off to get the
Speaker 1: picture for you, But and he's he's going crazy and
Speaker 1: uh and being emotional. It's an emotional game, um and
Speaker 1: so um. It's it's fun to be able to go
Speaker 1: out there and show your emotion and get excited when
Speaker 1: you need to get excited, get mad when I need
Speaker 1: to get mad, but then be able to move on
Speaker 1: and play the play the next play. So I've been
Speaker 1: blaming that on my dad Um. But yeah, I've always
Speaker 1: I think I've always been emotional and football, I think
Speaker 1: it's a little easier to be emotional because you got
Speaker 1: forty seconds to the next play, until you're you got
Speaker 1: you know, Shane's calling the play. I can do what
Speaker 1: I need to do and then and then get myself
Speaker 1: back in the mode or I know I had I
Speaker 1: had a big time issue in basketball. If I turned
Speaker 1: it over, I'd be there. I'd had a hard time
Speaker 1: with that because the turnover is so quick. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's always how I've been And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. Do you feel that
Speaker 1: you all are in the beginnings based start play your
Speaker 1: best football. You're coming into January. It's a process and
Speaker 1: you want to be able to continue to elevate as
Speaker 1: the season goes on, and so you know, hopefully you're
Speaker 1: starting to play your best football around this time. I
Speaker 1: think that we got really good players on this team,
Speaker 1: we got really good coaches on this team, and we're
Speaker 1: we're we've we've shown these last weeks three weeks that
Speaker 1: we keep getting better and that's just got to be
Speaker 1: the the goal here and that's how we that's how
Speaker 1: we go about our goals. Uh, during the week, we
Speaker 1: want to make sure we're meeting with high high detail.
Speaker 1: We want to make sure we're walking through full speed
Speaker 1: to the snap, and we want to make sure we
Speaker 1: have high high intensity at practice because that's the that's
Speaker 1: to us. What how you get better when you when
Speaker 1: it's it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, when you're
Speaker 1: getting better and then you're able to go out there
Speaker 1: and perform, so you know, you know, hopefully we continue
Speaker 1: to do that. Um, and I know we got the
Speaker 1: right leaders on this team and the right guys on
Speaker 1: this team that understand the importance of that. And we'll
Speaker 1: go back to work. We'll enjoy this one and go
Speaker 1: back to work tomorrow and uh and uh see if
Speaker 1: we can get better next week. If competitive? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I'm going to get more information.
Speaker 1: I usually come here to talk to you guys, and
Speaker 1: then I get to talk to the doctors and then
Speaker 1: I'll figure a little bit more out. So I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure quite yet. Injury, what was the
Speaker 1: sideline like scrambling to make a plan there? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if scrambles the right word, you know, because
Speaker 1: I think I know coach Clay and coach Penunzi on
Speaker 1: coach Brown or on top of it. Unfortunately, you practice
Speaker 1: those things and you hope they don't have to come
Speaker 1: to fruition, but you practice them and you get ready
Speaker 1: for him. Just like if Scott forbids something happened to
Speaker 1: the quarterback you did, you do the same thing there,
Speaker 1: and so you have backups. You have to, you know,
Speaker 1: with the roster, the size is the way they are,
Speaker 1: you have to be ready for that. And so it
Speaker 1: was just, hey, we might not like what's going on
Speaker 1: right here, but here's the plan. Here's Covey, you go
Speaker 1: to holder, Jake you go to punter, and let's get
Speaker 1: through this and let's let's let's make sure we're on
Speaker 1: top of it everywhere else. Right snap, Rick you've got
Speaker 1: to be great with the snap to Covey and Jake
Speaker 1: you got to be great with your operation because it's
Speaker 1: just a little different. And Rick in the in the
Speaker 1: punt team, you got to be great with your your
Speaker 1: operation right here when we go punt. And so the
Speaker 1: guys did a nice job of that. So it was
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a scramble because of how
Speaker 1: much preparation goes into each and everything, and coach Clay
Speaker 1: deserves a lot of credit for that. Thanks everybody. Coach
Speaker 1: is happy with the win, happy that they're headed to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but he said the goals are much bigger
Speaker 1: than this. Well, Eagles fans some alum, they've been taking
Speaker 1: to Twitter. Let's see what they had to say. Everyone's
Speaker 1: excited about the Eagles future. Here. Rob McIlhenny, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: hashtag fly Eagles Fly. Who's up next? Shady? He's excited
Speaker 1: about Miles Sayers the day he's had. He said, let's
Speaker 1: go bro, bro, Who's up next? RG three? The Eagles
Speaker 1: are head over heels the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Hard to argue that, to argue that, does he mean
Speaker 1: hidden shoulders? Yeah? Okay, well let's just take the compliment. Um,
Speaker 1: he's not you're right, you're right, you're right, right. And
Speaker 1: I think he's been a big fan of the Eagles
Speaker 1: this year. Well, how can you not be a big
Speaker 1: fan of this football team the way that they played
Speaker 1: every week? I think you look at this football team
Speaker 1: and you know, Jalen Hurts is a guy that people
Speaker 1: want to root for. It that people want to see succeed.
Speaker 1: Anytime you come out and you overcome people's expectations of you,
Speaker 1: you're usually gonna get support behind you. And I think
Speaker 1: people are fans of Jalen watching him play, it's a
Speaker 1: great brand of football. And then having Shady out there,
Speaker 1: we know he and Miles are close to Pennsylvania Western
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania guys, and uh, I love the fact that Miles
Speaker 1: paid homage to us Shady today. That's what Shady was
Speaker 1: referring to the Shady bounced Shady used to do in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Yeah. Yeah, great job by Miles paying
Speaker 1: homage to the guys before. And so it's a lot
Speaker 1: of as alumni that are proud of this football team
Speaker 1: and loving what we're saying that they're doing. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think it's just again it kind of speaks to the
Speaker 1: way that this team is executing on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football. When you were talking about Jalen, it made
Speaker 1: me start thinking, it's like every week now he's breaking
Speaker 1: some kind of record or setting some kind of milestone.
Speaker 1: I know they Rhando graphic on the broadcast saying that
Speaker 1: he's the first player in the history of the NFL
Speaker 1: the quarterback wise to rush for ten touchdowns in two
Speaker 1: straight seasons, first quarterbacks in NFL history. When you think
Speaker 1: about the dynamic players that have played that position over
Speaker 1: the course of the history of the league. For him
Speaker 1: to be the first player to do it says something,
Speaker 1: especially with four games left to go. Another record today too,
Speaker 1: was Hurtz's ten rushing touchdowns, Sayers ten rushing and A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown's ten receiving touchdowns, the first time in team history
Speaker 1: to have three players with ten plus touchdowns, which when
Speaker 1: you think about all the great players that have played
Speaker 1: for the Eaules organization, the fact that this is the
Speaker 1: first time it's ever done is pretty impressive. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at this all offense, I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: of in recent history of this organization, this could be
Speaker 1: the best offense that we've had from an overall standpoint.
Speaker 1: You think about the two thousand and four team we
Speaker 1: had with TiO being a part of the team and
Speaker 1: Brian Westbrook in his breakout season as a as a
Speaker 1: featured back, I think this offense is more complete. You know,
Speaker 1: TiO may be the better individual player, but as a
Speaker 1: complete offense, I think this offense is more complete because
Speaker 1: Jalen has a dynamic to his game that at that
Speaker 1: stage Donovan Jess didn't have in his game from the
Speaker 1: running standpoint, and they're going to continue to set records.
Speaker 1: The league is set up for the offense to be
Speaker 1: able to do that, and the fact that you have
Speaker 1: Devontae Smith on the opposite side of A. J. Brown,
Speaker 1: it just makes for a balanced attack. And Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: when he gets back in there, you're also talking about
Speaker 1: another Pro Bowled caliber player. This offensive line the best
Speaker 1: in football. You're looking at arguably the best offensive unit
Speaker 1: we've singen around here ever. And what stands out to
Speaker 1: me about it is that, you know, we are something
Speaker 1: we talk about a lot, the versatility, and they're constantly
Speaker 1: having an answer to what defenses are throwing at them.
Speaker 1: Whatever kind of game the opponent wants to play, the
Speaker 1: Eagles offense is gonna go and and say, okay, you
Speaker 1: want to blitz us, all right, we here's the way
Speaker 1: we're going to beat the blitz. And early on in
Speaker 1: the season we led the NFL in screens against the
Speaker 1: blitz and said that's gonna be our tool. Well, teams
Speaker 1: started to take that away, So now how do they respond, well,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go bombs away over the top, and
Speaker 1: you've got to stop a j Brown DeVante Smith. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna send extra rushers at Jalen Hurts, you better
Speaker 1: bet your butt you can cover those two guys on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, because now the Eagles have the most explosive
Speaker 1: offense against the Blitz in the entire NFL. Always finding
Speaker 1: different ways. It's like the terminator. Every time you find
Speaker 1: one little flaw, they all of a sudden they run
Speaker 1: an update and now it's like our We're coming back
Speaker 1: at you with a new iteration. That's what this offense is.
Speaker 1: It's just so much fun. No matter what you throw
Speaker 1: at it, they're gonna come back with some kind of
Speaker 1: an answer. Well, the NFL has chimed in on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Let's see what they have to say. And then they said,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be twelve and one look at the smiles
Speaker 1: on those faces. Hashtag fly, Eagles Fly. Everybody is vibing
Speaker 1: with the Eagles on this Football Sunday. But kind of
Speaker 1: going off of what you said for an about all
Speaker 1: the ways of the Eagles offense can get things done
Speaker 1: from a defensive perspective, ike when you're game planning against
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you're the Chicago Bears, you're putting on this
Speaker 1: giant's film this week. Where do you begin. It's difficult
Speaker 1: because what you what you want to try to do
Speaker 1: as a defense is to force an offense out of
Speaker 1: their comfort zone. You want to take away what they
Speaker 1: like to do best and make them uncomfortable. And so
Speaker 1: you can't do that with the Eagles offense because they
Speaker 1: feel just as comfortable running the football as they do
Speaker 1: throwing the football. So if you want to load up
Speaker 1: to try to stop a j Brown DeVante Smith and
Speaker 1: force Jalen Hursts to beat you running the football by
Speaker 1: giving them a light box two safeties high, then guess
Speaker 1: what the Eagles will oblige you by running the football
Speaker 1: down your throat with Miles Sanders and Jalen Hurts. And
Speaker 1: if you want to load up on the box to
Speaker 1: try to stop the run, then Jalen Hurts has the
Speaker 1: ability to throw the ball on the outside because you
Speaker 1: have dynamic playmakers on the outside. And while we're talking
Speaker 1: about the offense, let's give Shane steike In a lot
Speaker 1: of credit because he's the play designer back there. And
Speaker 1: more importantly, he's the play caller back there. So when
Speaker 1: you're in a rhythm out there and you're looking for
Speaker 1: something that plays off of the last play you just ran,
Speaker 1: and so form an offensive coordinator and being rhythm and
Speaker 1: being able to dial up plays that keeps a defense
Speaker 1: on his heels. It just makes it that much more
Speaker 1: difficult for a defense because you don't know where to
Speaker 1: load up to try to stop this Eagles offense. And
Speaker 1: that's where the complimentary football aspect of it comes into play,
Speaker 1: because when you have an offense that is going to
Speaker 1: beat you every which way, and then you have a
Speaker 1: defense that is going to make you play left handed
Speaker 1: going into the game saying, hey, you know what you
Speaker 1: have Justin Jefferson. We're gonna take out Justin Jefferson. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna beat us with Justin Jefferson, Derrick Henry. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hold you to thirty yards, make you have a
Speaker 1: game where you don't break a tackle for the first
Speaker 1: time in three years. Oh, you want to run the
Speaker 1: ball with Sakewad, We're gonna keep you under thirty yards.
Speaker 1: Whatever the game is. The Eagles, more often than not
Speaker 1: this season, if coming in and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna shut down your number one offensive weapon. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make you feel uncomfortable, and we're gonna count on
Speaker 1: our offense to build up a lead. That's the thing
Speaker 1: is that both sides work hand in hand consistently with
Speaker 1: this football team. They jump out to that early lead,
Speaker 1: they throw, they throw, they throw, And we said it
Speaker 1: to you, we're coming out a halftime. Ella and I
Speaker 1: were sitting watching the game together and I'm looking through
Speaker 1: the stats and the Eagles ran for sixty one yards
Speaker 1: in the first half, and I said, Ella, they're gonna
Speaker 1: run for sixty one on this drive. They ran for
Speaker 1: rosa sixty five on the drive. They came out and
Speaker 1: they ran the football. And that's the thing is that
Speaker 1: this is a complimentary football team, everything helping each other, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and special teams. We always talk about how Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: never gets too high, never gets too low. Well, we
Speaker 1: got some footage that perfectly describes Jalen Hurts right here.
Speaker 1: All right. Look he drowns. They are feeling good, they're
Speaker 1: having fun, they're smiling. Look at Jalen Hurts. Job's not
Speaker 1: done yet. You wouldn't know if they were winning losing
Speaker 1: in a tie. Who knows is he having the best
Speaker 1: game of his life the worst game of his life?
Speaker 1: Who knows? That is right? Yeah, and it's it's so
Speaker 1: rare with a young player, like you just don't necessary
Speaker 1: normally get that with young players. And the fact that
Speaker 1: he has a sense of maturity about himself, it allows
Speaker 1: him to effectively be a leader out there. And so
Speaker 1: he's constantly thinking about what's next, staying a play ahead,
Speaker 1: standing a series ahead. And that's what you want from
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks, the receivers, the running backs. They can have
Speaker 1: fun over there to your to the left, but he
Speaker 1: is a quarterback. He's already thinking about what's next and
Speaker 1: what are we doing? What are we doing the next
Speaker 1: time we go back out there, because he's the one.
Speaker 1: I love this quote. What did he What did he say?
Speaker 1: He said, instead of gauging the temperature in the room,
Speaker 1: he said, be the thermostat. So in other word, he's
Speaker 1: the one who sets the temperature in the room, and
Speaker 1: he lives by that model. So that doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: that he's on the sideline completely locked in. You know,
Speaker 1: he's sitting there think about one of like his tenning
Speaker 1: completions on the like the three and out of not
Speaker 1: the four touchdown drives to start the game. You know,
Speaker 1: that's what he's thinking about in that scenario. So I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting this week when I was talking to
Speaker 1: Slay at his locker, I said, is there some more
Speaker 1: juice playing the Giants? Because to accomplish anything, it starts
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. We already talked about this, but
Speaker 1: he said there is. He said, but our goals are
Speaker 1: bigger than this. We want to buy in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So as a player, how important is it to have
Speaker 1: that type of motivation? I mean, going in this game,
Speaker 1: they're eleven and one, around twelve and one, but to
Speaker 1: know that we're still playing for more. They're already in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they clinched the playoff berth. But as a player,
Speaker 1: how important is that motivation to keep going, to keep
Speaker 1: wanting more. It's huge, and it starts with your leaders,
Speaker 1: and I bet you they set that tone earlier in
Speaker 1: the week. Forget about the opponent we're facing. This is
Speaker 1: basically a faceless opponent. We have our own standards and
Speaker 1: our own goals that we're trying to achieve and attaining
Speaker 1: the number one seed, obviously getting in the playoffs first
Speaker 1: and foremost, winning the nfcas you want to win a
Speaker 1: division because you assure yourself you're gonna have a home
Speaker 1: playoff game, and then trying to lock up that number
Speaker 1: one seed. It's a lot of e to make it
Speaker 1: to the Promised Land if they have to come through
Speaker 1: your building and you have one less game to play.
Speaker 1: So we know what that was like for us in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen considering those circumstances. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: don't have home field advantage, do we make it to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl in twenty seventeen. So that's how important
Speaker 1: it is. And the fact that they're going to have
Speaker 1: that bye week will allow for guys to base or
Speaker 1: if they get the body we got, should say we
Speaker 1: haven't locked it in yet. It'll allow for guys to
Speaker 1: basically rest up and hill up and be ready to go.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing is that all these milestones, all
Speaker 1: they are is just stepping stones to get to that
Speaker 1: ultimate goal. And there's a bunch of analogies that coaches
Speaker 1: will use to illustrate that point. You know, it's the mountaintop.
Speaker 1: You're not getting to the top of the mountain without
Speaker 1: those first one hundred steps right, So being able to
Speaker 1: go step by step by step for this team, that's
Speaker 1: something that this Eagle's offense, this Eagles defense, they talk
Speaker 1: about consistently, and you know they're going to continue to
Speaker 1: do so as these milestones start to be reached here
Speaker 1: on the backstretch of the season. It is the backstretch
Speaker 1: of the season when you see what's coming down the pike.
Speaker 1: There's two more games on the road, gonna play the
Speaker 1: Giants again, the Saints at home to those last few
Speaker 1: games are going to close things out. All very different teams.
Speaker 1: That Dallas game is going to meet a lot on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. But do you think these players are looking
Speaker 1: ahead or is it right now at Chicago and Chicago only.
Speaker 1: This is the hard part right here. Ala fran is
Speaker 1: trying to stay week to week. You know, when you
Speaker 1: go take care of business. This New York Giants. Now
Speaker 1: you're sitting at twelve and one, it's hard not to
Speaker 1: look ahead. They know they're going to Chicago next week,
Speaker 1: and believe me, they know what lies ahead Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: night down in Dallas. They understand that the key is
Speaker 1: to not look past as Chicago bears and make sure
Speaker 1: you take care of that business first, and you got
Speaker 1: good veteran leadership here that I think is going to
Speaker 1: make sure these guys stay focused on the task at hand.
Speaker 1: And as long as you respect your opponent, the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: you'll prepare as if they're twelve and one. You won't
Speaker 1: worry about what their record is. You know you're going
Speaker 1: on the road, and that's what I like. I like
Speaker 1: that this game is on the road because it almost
Speaker 1: forces you to lock in. You're not playing at home
Speaker 1: where you get that sort of false sense of security
Speaker 1: where you believe you're gonna win the game no matter
Speaker 1: what it's in your building. When you're on the road,
Speaker 1: there's us against the world mentality. They can lock in.
Speaker 1: There's less distractions when you go on the road. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be cold, it's gonna be winning, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about them going out anywhere while they're there,
Speaker 1: and they know they have to go out there and
Speaker 1: take care of business so that the game the following
Speaker 1: week doesn't have as much pressure on them going down
Speaker 1: to Dallas. So you know, I like the I like
Speaker 1: the veteran leadership on this team. They've shown us that
Speaker 1: they know how to get prepared for the opponents, no
Speaker 1: matter who it is. The game against Washington, the one
Speaker 1: game that they lost, in my opinion, that wasn't because
Speaker 1: there was a lack of respect for their opponent or
Speaker 1: a lack of preparation. That's just one of those games
Speaker 1: out of many business. It's just gonna happen. Happens to
Speaker 1: just about every team in the league every year. So
Speaker 1: I don't even hold that against the Eagles. I'm pressed
Speaker 1: with the way they bounced back since then, because that's
Speaker 1: the true indicator or indication of who this team is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you talked about the focus throughout that and just we
Speaker 1: saw that here in this game on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football. It's a saying that has got a little
Speaker 1: bit cliche, especially in this city. But trust the process.
Speaker 1: This team embodies that all right. One hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four yards on the ground, two touchdowns, Miles Sanders is
Speaker 1: at the podium. It's a blessing. Uh oh God, I
Speaker 1: gotta give it all credit to God. Um hard working,
Speaker 1: my old line of course, and coach Stout. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say the same stuff, but um ain't done yet. Um.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a great accomplishment long uh, long time coming.
Speaker 1: But UM ain't done yet. Second career high I think
Speaker 1: in three weeks rushing. Um what's working? I don't know? Um,
Speaker 1: I do know, but you know I put everything in
Speaker 1: God's hands. I've been to that and it's just been
Speaker 1: blessing me, blessings on blessings. And I gotta give all
Speaker 1: my credit to th line. Like I said, I'm it's
Speaker 1: gonna sound repetitive, but I really do respect and I
Speaker 1: appreciate my old line and coached out for believing to me,
Speaker 1: and coaching staff believe in coach Shane believing to me,
Speaker 1: Coach Nick believe in me. So UM, I couldn't do
Speaker 1: what I'll doing. You said, do you know what's working now? Individually?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it the health? Is it? You? Nick?
Speaker 1: Set that you are definitely playing better? Um? What would
Speaker 1: you say? They looking at yourself? Um, it was all
Speaker 1: all minset Um. I could say just yeah, I just
Speaker 1: gotta say it's all all masset Um. Everything's coming together
Speaker 1: and you know, my mindset changed and just focus on
Speaker 1: what I control, control what I can control, and That's
Speaker 1: what I've been doing. Um, whatever it is, blocking whatever,
Speaker 1: just out there having fun as long as I'm having fun,
Speaker 1: I think everything else will take care of yourself. But
Speaker 1: just doing my job and doing whatever I can to
Speaker 1: help the team win the yards of the touchdowns, uh,
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Going back to the off season, Miles, he
Speaker 1: said he made some changes in your workout routine. Do
Speaker 1: you think that health? Absolutely? Um? This Uh workout changed
Speaker 1: and I didn't really change it much. Um, But like
Speaker 1: I said, it's all all the mindset. My mindset changed
Speaker 1: and my demeter changed, and uh just focused on more
Speaker 1: the Portant things and what I need to do to
Speaker 1: you know, stay healthy. You know, I'm in a training
Speaker 1: room sometimes when I don't even need to be in there,
Speaker 1: just to keep my body right. And it's it's been
Speaker 1: working across an additional meeting across the field. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: my dog. I'm proud of him too. Um, you know
Speaker 1: all the stuff that he'd been going through, you know,
Speaker 1: his health and stuff. But I'm happy he's playing at
Speaker 1: a high level healthy too. And I know he's a
Speaker 1: little banged up today. But I'm just happy for him too,
Speaker 1: just like he was happy for me. How Portant wasn't
Speaker 1: to jump on them early the way he did. Twine,
Speaker 1: my mother Uh, super good because we know the type
Speaker 1: of packages that they like to do. They like to
Speaker 1: put a lot of guys up in front and you know,
Speaker 1: try to bully you with those blitzes and games and stuff.
Speaker 1: But we're too talented on outside. So we got them
Speaker 1: two talented up front too. Um, you guys gotta say
Speaker 1: thanks to coach Stout and Kelsey, you know, figuring out
Speaker 1: how we're gonna pick up all the exotic blists that
Speaker 1: they have and pick them up and gashed them on
Speaker 1: all of them and they kind of shot shot away
Speaker 1: from all that exotic stuff that they tried to do
Speaker 1: the third quarter. You're really excited that for a Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're so excited. Oh man, Uh, I had a plan
Speaker 1: the uh yell like the water boy because I was
Speaker 1: miked up today and I hope y'all hear it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what went on. How hard is it to
Speaker 1: not figure out how much money you're making yourself? Again?
Speaker 1: Is it hard to not think about all the money
Speaker 1: you're making yourself? This year? Oh, I ain't worry about that.
Speaker 1: That's gonna come. That's gonna come. I ain't gonna I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it. But every year of
Speaker 1: contract year for you. We're about we're about getting better
Speaker 1: EC game and that's that's what's got me this far
Speaker 1: spot in the playoffs here. Just that's big, big, But
Speaker 1: we're not done. We got a lot more stuff that
Speaker 1: we want to do and we got four more games
Speaker 1: to shut. When you're gonna one thousand? Were you aware
Speaker 1: of it on the killer No, not to the end,
Speaker 1: not to the end. But it's a blessing, that's all
Speaker 1: I gotta say. It's a blessing a long time coming.
Speaker 1: What do you think. I mean, it's like both of
Speaker 1: you and over one thousand yards. You know, you got
Speaker 1: a rush around and receiver over one thousand yards the
Speaker 1: same season. I mean that's probably a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1: For Yeah, it's a pretty big deal. I think it's
Speaker 1: first time since I forgot who But um, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a good thing, a good thing for the team,
Speaker 1: good thing for the organization. Um, it's a key to
Speaker 1: us winning the all these games. And as long as
Speaker 1: everybody keep doing a job, I don't think anybody can
Speaker 1: beat us. So don't keep going forward. Your reaction when
Speaker 1: the top ten building came out and you weren't in
Speaker 1: there I didn't see that. Maybe they should put me
Speaker 1: in there, but it is what it is. Uh, I
Speaker 1: ain't truging got bigger goal hopefully I hopefully I don't
Speaker 1: got played in that thing. Soles one, do you feel
Speaker 1: like this offense is getting you better at this point?
Speaker 1: To see? And how far? How you know? How how
Speaker 1: good can this office be heading towards the playoffs and
Speaker 1: getting away for that fun than Jackie Sky's a limit? Um.
Speaker 1: As long as we can control, we can control and
Speaker 1: you know, not not beat ourselves up. And I think
Speaker 1: we had a pretty clean game and all over the
Speaker 1: all aspects of the ball um. Like I said, nobody
Speaker 1: can beat this home thing um just all access to
Speaker 1: the ball. I think special teams, defense and offense. As
Speaker 1: long as we keep doing what we're doing at a
Speaker 1: high level, I don't think anybody can beat with us
Speaker 1: get something. As long as we keep doing what we're
Speaker 1: doing at a high level, nobody can beat us. That's
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders having a career day talking with that kind
Speaker 1: of confidence. Do you think that can carry them through? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I believe it can. And it's what you want. It's
Speaker 1: what you're looking for is from a football team, right
Speaker 1: as players, we want confirmation and all the hard work
Speaker 1: that we put in to study in the off season training,
Speaker 1: and the only confirmation we can get is the results,
Speaker 1: and it has to be with WS. And more WS
Speaker 1: you stack up, the more confidence you're gonna have as
Speaker 1: a football team. And that's why you see from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. As a season progresses, a team
Speaker 1: starts to play with more swagger the more games that
Speaker 1: they typically win. And this Eagles team right now, you're
Speaker 1: starting to see that they believe. First six seven games
Speaker 1: of the season, it was more or less pinch myself,
Speaker 1: are we really this good? And can we keep it going?
Speaker 1: But since that Washington football game and they finally felt
Speaker 1: defeat and realize what that felt like and they didn't
Speaker 1: like it, they've come out and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we are this good and this is what we expect
Speaker 1: from ourselves, and now they have dared to dream bigger.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna talk about it because that's just what
Speaker 1: players do. They don't necessarily talk about that end goal.
Speaker 1: But believe me, they all know it. We all knew
Speaker 1: it as players. They may talk about it amongst themselves,
Speaker 1: but they aren't going to talk about it public publicly,
Speaker 1: And there's a balance there and a thin line between
Speaker 1: being consumed with it and daring the dream versus keeping
Speaker 1: reminding yourself like, this is what we're working for. So
Speaker 1: as long as you do it that way, you won't
Speaker 1: take shortcuts, you won't skip out on what you did
Speaker 1: in September and October to win those games. You will
Speaker 1: continue to do that. And I think that's where this
Speaker 1: football is, that football team is at right now. If
Speaker 1: they're playing with a confidence and a swagger like we're
Speaker 1: no longer a surprise to the league. We are the
Speaker 1: best team in football, there's no question. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing is there's this like this laughable concept that's still
Speaker 1: out there like today that the Eagles haven't beaten anybody.
Speaker 1: All this team has done is go out and dominate
Speaker 1: every single team for the most part on the schedule.
Speaker 1: They're ahead in the number one division not in the
Speaker 1: NFL this year. In the history of the NFL, no
Speaker 1: division has been as dominant in the win lost column
Speaker 1: as the twenty twenty two nfcast. They have been destroyed
Speaker 1: the number two team in the NFC in the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Back in Week two, they beat the Living breaks off
Speaker 1: the toughest team in football last week against the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: Every single test is thrown in front of this team.
Speaker 1: They go out and they win, and they win decisively
Speaker 1: in different ways on both sides of the football. All
Speaker 1: they do is go out and take care of business.
Speaker 1: Kevin AA Gandhi. He's a big Philly fan, as you know.
Speaker 1: He said, please everyone keep talking about the forty nine Ers, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Bucks and Vikings. The NFC actually prefer that hashtag fly.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a Philly guy with keep bringing the
Speaker 1: talk right. Yeah, and believe me, inside players feel that
Speaker 1: way too. You know, we as players, we're looking for
Speaker 1: some sort of edge to drive us. You give me
Speaker 1: something that's going to drive me and motivate me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out and push myself even more so. The
Speaker 1: lack of attention or the fact that you may be
Speaker 1: talking up other teams and not necessarily given this team
Speaker 1: the credit they think they deserve. It just makes them
Speaker 1: want to go out there and play harder and play
Speaker 1: better each week. Yeah. And you know what, when you're
Speaker 1: at twelve and one, you need little things like that.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, as great as he was, and everyone knew
Speaker 1: how great he was. He needed something to drive him
Speaker 1: every year, and he picked out things that he can
Speaker 1: use to motivate himself, whether they were real or fabricated,
Speaker 1: somehow he uses his motivation. I'm not saying this team
Speaker 1: is where MJ is that, but when you're as good
Speaker 1: as they are and seemingly that much better than everyone else,
Speaker 1: or you now know that you're basically competing against your
Speaker 1: own standards and trying to live up to the own
Speaker 1: standards that you now have set for yourself. And if
Speaker 1: it takes someone sliding you or or not mentioning a
Speaker 1: certain player or a coach in postseason awards, anything, it
Speaker 1: could be right. You know, we didn't get NFC Player
Speaker 1: of the Week. We seemingly get NFC Player the Week.
Speaker 1: Everything somebody does. I'm wonnat be surprised if somebody doesn't
Speaker 1: get it this week also. But they have to find
Speaker 1: those sort of things to keep them motivated. Is it
Speaker 1: four games left to go? Four four games left to
Speaker 1: go in the season. They know when the postseason hit,
Speaker 1: postseason hits, you know the motivation will be there. But
Speaker 1: they got to get to that postseason for well. Right,
Speaker 1: take tackle Lane Johnson, he spoke to reporters a little
Speaker 1: bit ago in the locker room about what it's like
Speaker 1: playing with Jalen Hurtz. Yeah, I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: Janeen's an old soul just you know, being around him
Speaker 1: for a few years. I know he definitely likes the
Speaker 1: old music and the old classics. So uh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I think he's a mature man for you know how
Speaker 1: you know how young he is. But I thought he's
Speaker 1: always hand the handling himself well, you know, going from
Speaker 1: college and now you know, being at the professional level,
Speaker 1: he's always handled adversity well, it's always worked hard, and
Speaker 1: now I feel like, you know, his talents are really
Speaker 1: shining through and uh but you need that out of
Speaker 1: your quarterback lane. Johnson, of course, was ruled out in
Speaker 1: this game with an abdominal injury. That's going to be
Speaker 1: something that we watched throughout the week. Two other injuries
Speaker 1: just to take note of safety read Blankenship. He was
Speaker 1: carted off as well as punter Aaron Sippass. So when
Speaker 1: it gets to this time of year, those injuries, if
Speaker 1: they start to add up, they could really be costly.
Speaker 1: So three injuries that will definitely be taking a look
Speaker 1: at Yeah, and that's the one thing you I talk
Speaker 1: about players talking about certain things which you don't ever
Speaker 1: want to talk about his injury, Right, You always know
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind that could change the
Speaker 1: course of your season. There's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: You gotta go out there and play hard every game.
Speaker 1: You can't go out there and play as if you're
Speaker 1: trying to protect yourself from injury. But that would be
Speaker 1: the only thing that would concern me going down to
Speaker 1: stretches is can we get to the postseason with our
Speaker 1: full compliment of players fully healthy and ready to go.
Speaker 1: I think back to OZ four and that's the one
Speaker 1: thing that I always having the back of my mind.
Speaker 1: Two of our best offensive weapons weren't one wasn't there
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and Chad Lewis he got hurt
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game. And imagine that t O
Speaker 1: had have been one hundred percent healthy. He gave you
Speaker 1: nine catches in one hundred and twenty two yards on
Speaker 1: one leg. If he had both legs, we may have
Speaker 1: been able to win that game. Yeah. The thing about
Speaker 1: those injuries too, I mean Aaron Siposse goes out with
Speaker 1: the with the ankle injury in the first half. But
Speaker 1: the way that Jake Elliott went in and punted. Now,
Speaker 1: thankfully the Eagles only had to punt one other time
Speaker 1: after that. But Kellytt goes in and punts and then uh,
Speaker 1: give a lot of credit credit to Britain Covey as well,
Speaker 1: coming in and holding on a couple of field goals. Uh.
Speaker 1: And in the rain, no less for Britain Covey to
Speaker 1: come in and do that. Impressive, all right, Quarterback Jalen
Speaker 1: hurts he joins us at the podium. What does it
Speaker 1: mean to make the playoffs? It means everything to come
Speaker 1: out here and get a w UM. Another week, another
Speaker 1: challenge in front of us, and another week what we
Speaker 1: would accomplished our goal and getting to win. So we're
Speaker 1: grateful for that, Jaral, And a lot to talk about
Speaker 1: your game here last year. To come back here this
Speaker 1: year and play so effectively and score, you know, three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in a row and there's person three possessions. UM
Speaker 1: what cluck to thank called? Well? I tell you guys,
Speaker 1: you know UM. You know every game is an opportunity
Speaker 1: to learn from UM. Every moment there's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: see UM. If you've grown if you haven't to assess
Speaker 1: it and ultimately learn something and take away something from it,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think, um, as I said earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, all of the games that we've played
Speaker 1: in in the past, I'm every experience that we have
Speaker 1: that we've had there, they've kind of been formative experiences
Speaker 1: for us, and we've just taken stuff away from them
Speaker 1: and tried to learn from everything, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think for us to come out here today and just
Speaker 1: executing the way we did, you know, that's that's a
Speaker 1: testament to the preparation. That's a testament to the experiences
Speaker 1: that you know, everything that we went through, um, this year,
Speaker 1: the past, whatever it is. So like I said the
Speaker 1: postgame interview, we just want to continue to grow, chase progress, um,
Speaker 1: and you know, continue to raise the standard for ourselves. Um.
Speaker 1: That's that's what it is. If you've always has been
Speaker 1: as good on the deep ball, I mean it just
Speaker 1: seems like you're just so good on the deep balls
Speaker 1: as much as anything that ever had. Man, there's a
Speaker 1: point of time where people say I can throw the
Speaker 1: deep ball into alone through at five yards. So um,
Speaker 1: I've always go out there and play my game for real.
Speaker 1: You know, we put a lot of work in Smidia
Speaker 1: aj Quaz um, all of us who put the work
Speaker 1: in in the off season, and we just want to
Speaker 1: come out here and um, you know, come out here
Speaker 1: and play, do what we prepared ourselves to do. So
Speaker 1: one of one of those dupiles obviously pork and sevens
Speaker 1: and two, Davonte just kind of like ain going forward
Speaker 1: on that situation and and be what you saw with
Speaker 1: Devon d Yeah. Yeah, I think that was a pivotal
Speaker 1: moment in the game. Um, a big momentum swing for
Speaker 1: us and um to be out there and get to
Speaker 1: a get to a big time play like that. Davante
Speaker 1: makes it. I didn't see it. I was on the ground,
Speaker 1: to be honest, Um, you know, I can't have to
Speaker 1: watch the FAM to see. But it's a big moment
Speaker 1: in the game. I'm happy. Um it went our way.
Speaker 1: You know, I know the safety was rushing over there.
Speaker 1: She's headed that way really fast with with some urgency.
Speaker 1: But um, you know we made the play. Said you
Speaker 1: check to that preseat what you said? Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: an advantageous look for him to do exactly what he did.
Speaker 1: And you know we we did it slay so that
Speaker 1: he wanted to convert the wide receiver after it, so
Speaker 1: he get the third down? One to ques, you run
Speaker 1: us through through that play? Which one? It was? The
Speaker 1: third down? To quess down the right sideline that's there?
Speaker 1: Wasn't there? Was it? Third down? It was third I
Speaker 1: don't I don't remember. I don't remember. I had to
Speaker 1: watch the fan. Two wins in a round, that's a
Speaker 1: rare one. Uh, two weeks in a row. Now the
Speaker 1: starters haven't had to play the full game. I mean this,
Speaker 1: this team really kind of locked in even more than
Speaker 1: you were earlier in the season. Yeah, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into anything more than what
Speaker 1: it is. You know. I think that the most simple
Speaker 1: thing that that we've been trying to do is just
Speaker 1: trying to to grow, you know what I'm saying, trying
Speaker 1: to grow, trying to go ouhead and execute. UM. It's
Speaker 1: good that we prepared in a way we've been able
Speaker 1: to execute at the high level. UM. We just want
Speaker 1: to continue to do that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's the name of the game. UM. Never never get
Speaker 1: too how, I never get too low. Just to stay
Speaker 1: true to what's what's important to keep the main thing
Speaker 1: the main thing, and the main thing for me um
Speaker 1: is the daily deposits, chasing the growth, putting the work in,
Speaker 1: being consistent. And I think that's that's our main thing
Speaker 1: as a team as well. It's running the ball really well,
Speaker 1: hitting the whole um, showing up when his numbers called,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think the you know how this
Speaker 1: offense is, he's played a really big role in that,
Speaker 1: being able to show up in the moments he's has
Speaker 1: he has in the last three weeks an indication that
Speaker 1: you are starting a coming close to playing your best football.
Speaker 1: Yeah know, you've got some time to go, but what
Speaker 1: do you think? What do you think? Asking you man,
Speaker 1: I said, I don't, I don't. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: to me, you know what I'm saying. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: to me because I know the preparation that we put in.
Speaker 1: I know we prepare, I know the time that we
Speaker 1: invest into it. I know we sacrifice to come out
Speaker 1: here and play on Sundays, but not only that, the
Speaker 1: preparation throughout the weeks, coming home late, getting up early,
Speaker 1: doing all those things. And if you want something bad enough,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to sacrifice some things for
Speaker 1: it and you know, work for it. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think when you put the type of work
Speaker 1: in and we put in and when you invest what
Speaker 1: you invest into it, you know, you go out there,
Speaker 1: you know you just want to execute out of high level.
Speaker 1: You want to kind of collect the check, you want
Speaker 1: to um that all the works. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think that's just what we're doing as a football team.
Speaker 1: It all comes down to the process, nothing else. UM,
Speaker 1: no outcome of anything else. Like it's about the process.
Speaker 1: What are you doing throughout the week to prepare yourself
Speaker 1: for the game. So we just need to stay true
Speaker 1: to that. I said that this week in the pressure,
Speaker 1: this week in Philly, stay true to the process and
Speaker 1: the hustle and what's important and everything else will always
Speaker 1: handle itself as dollars you rather the past. Does that help?
Speaker 1: Has that driven you or have you always been like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, I I carry my scars on me everywhere
Speaker 1: I go. Um, I don't forget UM Do I waste
Speaker 1: my energy worrying about the opinion of someone else, opinion
Speaker 1: of a seat? Um No, But UM, I truly invest
Speaker 1: my focus in me getting getting better as a team,
Speaker 1: getting better as a player, excuse me, getting better as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, um, and doing the things I need to
Speaker 1: do for my team. So, um, everybody in the opinion
Speaker 1: opinion on deposit at the bank. Um, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just literally I just try to stay true to myself,
Speaker 1: stay true to my teammates, and um just just chase
Speaker 1: that growth along shot with them. Jump out to such
Speaker 1: a big lead on your first pig. Actually, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think when you come when you're able to come out
Speaker 1: and execute at a high level early, UM had some
Speaker 1: really had a long drive. The first drive has some
Speaker 1: some conversions on third down. UM, I mean that's big,
Speaker 1: is really big. You know the importance of execution when
Speaker 1: you're getting these different looks. We know the coach at
Speaker 1: you know, he has the pedigree. He's known for doing
Speaker 1: exotic things, and you have to be able to execute
Speaker 1: versus those exotic looks. It was fourth and seven, the
Speaker 1: Birds go for it. Jalen Hurts finds DeVante Smith in
Speaker 1: the end zone. So of course and how to break
Speaker 1: it down earlier today in this week's freak O review.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look back into the first half.
Speaker 1: One of the top highlights from this game, a forty
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown reception by DeVante Smith. It happened on
Speaker 1: fourth and seven, and what we're gonna see here is
Speaker 1: a great example of what the Eagles have been doing
Speaker 1: over the last month to defeat the Blitz. Since the
Speaker 1: Eagles have come back from the bye week against the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, they have been the most explosive pass offense
Speaker 1: against the Blitz in the entire NFL. This play perfectly
Speaker 1: encapsulates exactly why. First up, you're gonna see that Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts is in an empty set here. He's all buying
Speaker 1: self in the backfield. Now, what this means on fourth
Speaker 1: down is that if the Giants want to blitz, which
Speaker 1: they are, you're in. They're in their pressure look. They
Speaker 1: cannot disguise anything because the ball is likely to come
Speaker 1: out fast. When you are by yourself in the backfield
Speaker 1: like Jalen Hurts is, You're not gonna be holding onto
Speaker 1: the football waiting for things to develop down the field.
Speaker 1: It is gonna be a rhythm throw for the quarterback,
Speaker 1: So you can't disguise. If you're the defense, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna blitz, you need all those rushers up on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And that's exactly what the Giants are here,
Speaker 1: the number one blitz team in the NFL, the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. So the Eagles are expecting pressure. They go
Speaker 1: empty to spread the defense out and you confirm that
Speaker 1: you've got man to man covered, just as a man
Speaker 1: look all the way for Jalen Hurts, so he knows
Speaker 1: he's got Davanta Smith one on one in the slot,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are running a great man beating concept.
Speaker 1: It is a slot fade where basically you're gonna get
Speaker 1: Davante Smith running a fade to the outside the route
Speaker 1: from aj Brown. He's just gonna hold that corner underneath
Speaker 1: to keep him from running into this area. That's why
Speaker 1: this slap fade they're often called a big box fade
Speaker 1: because you have a ton of space, this large box
Speaker 1: out by the sideline for Jalen Hurts to be able
Speaker 1: to drop this ball in outside the numbers for DeVante Smith.
Speaker 1: Look at this ball from Jalen Hurts as we let
Speaker 1: this run outstanding throw to get this away from the safety.
Speaker 1: There's no threat from the corner of the outside. It
Speaker 1: is perfectly placed. DeVante looks it in over the shoulder,
Speaker 1: through his eyelids, pull this in for a touchdown forty
Speaker 1: one yards to the house for DeVante Smith. The Eagles
Speaker 1: keep up their explosive ways against the pass again, the
Speaker 1: number one explosive offense against the Blitz so far over
Speaker 1: the last month and a half. This Philadelphia Eagles offense.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts DeVante Smith forty one yards for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: let's we got for our three nominees tonight. Starting it
Speaker 1: off with the defensive guy, Brandon Graham three sacks. Say
Speaker 1: that was his fourth quarter strip sack. Of course, Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: This is him rushing in for his tenth rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: of the year and number three mile singers one thousand
Speaker 1: yards for him. What do we think? Guys? Wow, that
Speaker 1: is a tough tough from today. You know what, I
Speaker 1: gotta go with the old man. Give me Brandon right,
Speaker 1: three sacks today, three tackles for lost, another three quarterback
Speaker 1: hits BG turned back to clock today NFC Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Week. I'm gonna guess for Brandon Graham, I
Speaker 1: like his odds here for this one. For me, it's tough,
Speaker 1: it's hard, it's tough. I think I'm gonna Jalen. Jalen
Speaker 1: was awesome in the openning of this game, and again
Speaker 1: the milestones that he continues to hit almost in a
Speaker 1: weekly basis, both throwing the football and running. He gets
Speaker 1: into the end zone again as a runner here in
Speaker 1: this game. I'm gonna go Jalen Hurts. All right, get
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Speaker 1: on to the Jamison nightcap shot he wheels up to Chicago.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we got the Bears they were gonna
Speaker 1: buy this week, so it'll be a little more fresh
Speaker 1: going into Sunday's game. There are three and ten they
Speaker 1: sit forth in the NFC North Justin Fields and you
Speaker 1: can never count him out. He's really come on the
Speaker 1: past month or so showing what he could be potentially
Speaker 1: as a quarterback in the National Football League. But on paper,
Speaker 1: the Eagles, of course, are the much much better team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and watching Justin Fields play reminds me a lot of
Speaker 1: where Jalen was a year ago as a football player,
Speaker 1: where he's a run first type of quarterback. That's where
Speaker 1: he's gonna hurt you first and foremost. But he does
Speaker 1: have the ability with his arm to push the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. I just don't think he has the
Speaker 1: requisite weapons on the outside to necessarily do it consistently.
Speaker 1: But he's a type of player that if he gets
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make a play with his legs, is
Speaker 1: he had a thousand yards and I know he was
Speaker 1: close to a thousand and about a week ago, so
Speaker 1: that lets you know he's more than willing to use
Speaker 1: his legs. Yeah. I think when you look at the
Speaker 1: group of pass catchers right now, Darnell Mooney, who was
Speaker 1: the number one receiver, he's on injured reserve. He's going
Speaker 1: to be out. Khalil Herbert, the backup running back who
Speaker 1: had been working in tan and with David Montgomery, he
Speaker 1: was on injured reserve. I think he's eligible to come back.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he's eligible here in this game. But
Speaker 1: between Fields and Montgomery, you're gonna be worried about the
Speaker 1: run game here defensively, and then when you go on
Speaker 1: the other side of the football, this is a group
Speaker 1: that's just banged up. Obviously, they traded away Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: they traded away the linebacker Roquan Smith. They lost Eddie Jackson.
Speaker 1: He's on injured reserve, one of the starting corners on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. So it's a banged up mash unit there. Defensively.
Speaker 1: Sirianni said it earlier, he said, all we could do
Speaker 1: is care about our own business. So they're fortunate that
Speaker 1: they are in that situation. All they have to look
Speaker 1: to right now is beating the Bears next Sunday. But
Speaker 1: we will have you covered all throughout the week leading
Speaker 1: up to the big game on Sunday. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for tuning in. The Eagles are twelve and one,
Speaker 1: they punched their ticket to the playoffs, and we appreciate
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