Speaker 1: Welcome into the postgame show presented by Rico. I'm Gabriella
Speaker 1: d Givanni joined here with the fellas Fran Duffy, Ike Grace.
Speaker 1: Guys want to know, Yeah, as I like to say,
Speaker 1: to start my show off on Mondays, out their big
Speaker 1: Eagles win. I'll give it to us victory. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: the victory, thirty two to six. I mean, it's nice
Speaker 1: to start the season off with such a decisive win.
Speaker 1: The Eagles, I mean, on both sides of the football.
Speaker 1: Defense came out was really really impressive. The fact that
Speaker 1: they were to stop the Falcons from getting on the
Speaker 1: board early and there was just lights out from that point.
Speaker 1: And there were so many question marks going into this game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we didn't know what to expect from a Nick Sirianni team,
Speaker 1: right We saw little glimpses in preseason, but they were
Speaker 1: keeping it very close to the chest. Same on the
Speaker 1: other side, we didn't know what to expect from Arthur Smith.
Speaker 1: So now looking at game one, the offense and the
Speaker 1: defense really clicking. What would be a word you would
Speaker 1: use to describe a Nick Sirianni team right now after
Speaker 1: Week one? Well, I would say a team that's played smart.
Speaker 1: They played hard and without a lot of preseason action.
Speaker 1: I mean, they went out there and did a fairly
Speaker 1: decent job. Now, there was some spots where you don't
Speaker 1: want penalties. That shows a little bit of rust and
Speaker 1: the lack of playing out there. I think they can
Speaker 1: clean that up as the season goes along. But I
Speaker 1: like what they did on offense, and if I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at a Nick Sirianni offensive philosophy, you know they
Speaker 1: still had the same aggressive mentality that the last coaching
Speaker 1: regime had. I thought there were some areas in the
Speaker 1: first half where I maybe would have kicked the ball,
Speaker 1: punting the ball. Thankfully he saw it aggressive. They converted
Speaker 1: on fourth down and led the points. I liked the
Speaker 1: idea of attacking and setting the temple at energetic too.
Speaker 1: All both sides. I thought you really saw a lot
Speaker 1: of really good energy from this Eagles football team. Defense.
Speaker 1: I thought they were flying to the football offensively, just
Speaker 1: guys that you've got it like good vibes watching this
Speaker 1: team right, whether it's on the field, on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: in the huddle. I thought we saw some really good things.
Speaker 1: I think we have to start with Jay Hurts, right
Speaker 1: he was the nucleus of this team throughout. He was settled,
Speaker 1: he was calm, his composure, his leadership on and off
Speaker 1: the field. I think a big thing that I noticed
Speaker 1: from Jalen Hurts was his footwork. It was clean in
Speaker 1: the pocket. His pocket presence was very strong, and that
Speaker 1: was something that people weren't really sure what they were
Speaker 1: going to get from Jalen Hurts once he entered the
Speaker 1: NFL in terms of his pocket presence and using his arm. Right,
Speaker 1: we know he can run, but I thought today he
Speaker 1: did a really good job in finding the balance in
Speaker 1: his run game and using his arm. Yeah, show poise
Speaker 1: for the most part out there. You liked the calm,
Speaker 1: cool collectiveness that which he plays with. That allows the
Speaker 1: offense to sort of play with the calming presence. They
Speaker 1: had some dribs early in the game that sort of
Speaker 1: stalled not many points being scored early, but you didn't
Speaker 1: see Jalen try to force anything. He stayed within the offense.
Speaker 1: And then in the second half and really right before halftime,
Speaker 1: he was able to use his legs to extend some draws.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about Dane Pas, we broke in
Speaker 1: down and what he would try to do to Jalen, Well,
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of different blitz packages and Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts and his first start coming into the season as
Speaker 1: a starter, I think he passed the test with flying
Speaker 1: colors of being able to handle the pressure, picking up
Speaker 1: the blitz, knowing where to get rid of the football,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, even if there's nothing there, not turning
Speaker 1: a bad play into a disastrous play. Can we can
Speaker 1: we talk about that touchdown at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half. Yeah, I mean Dallas got you could check
Speaker 1: so many boxes off when you talk about it. His poison,
Speaker 1: the pocket, his pocket movement, he felt the rush coming
Speaker 1: from his blindside, stepped to his right, stays under control,
Speaker 1: under command, and then just delivers a laser on the
Speaker 1: money to Dallascott, I mean ridiculous, like jump out of
Speaker 1: my seat kind of touchdown throw. And you to me
Speaker 1: like that whole two minute drive was managed perfectly. They
Speaker 1: didn't rush, they didn't get too ahead of themselves, they
Speaker 1: knew there was a good sequencing of play calls, and
Speaker 1: then to finish with six before the before half, big time.
Speaker 1: Well at two minute drive, I think we learned a
Speaker 1: lot about this team in those two minutes. I think
Speaker 1: you can learn a lot about football teams and what
Speaker 1: they do in a two minute drive right before half, right,
Speaker 1: and so I think we learned how Nick Sirianni can
Speaker 1: manage a game in two minutes. I think, check right,
Speaker 1: and then we can see how that offense operates and
Speaker 1: how Jalen Hurts really commands the offense in those types
Speaker 1: of situations. No one was getting too worried, too anxious.
Speaker 1: Like you said earlier, Ike, he wasn't forcing anything. But
Speaker 1: they got the job done, found the end zone, put
Speaker 1: up some points, and when to halftime. And I know
Speaker 1: the offensive line, particularly the right side, is experienced when
Speaker 1: you talk about Lane and Brandon and Jason in the middle.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's enough that could be said
Speaker 1: about the maturity of these young players that they showed today,
Speaker 1: starting with Jalen Hurts at the quarterback position, Davante Smith
Speaker 1: being solid catching the football. I don't think he had
Speaker 1: any drops out there today, Jalen Rager with a big touchdown,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders with big runs, Kenny Gainwell with big runs.
Speaker 1: I'm naming all young players. There are the building blocks
Speaker 1: for nucleus here and then their first game on the
Speaker 1: road and for three quarters in the tight situation, I
Speaker 1: didn't see our young guys fold under pressure. And give
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni a lot of credit in his first game, COOCHI,
Speaker 1: I thought he called a phenomenal game today. And even
Speaker 1: quiz Watkins three players to start the game. He felt
Speaker 1: like everybody kind of had their moment to shine here
Speaker 1: in this game. It was a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: watch this whole offense operated, very disciplined football team. Right.
Speaker 1: We hear from Nick Sirianni all the time, and he
Speaker 1: gives you all those buzzwords, all those cliches, but to
Speaker 1: actually see it come together on the field and you
Speaker 1: see a very well executed football team. And this is
Speaker 1: brand new, right, this is just newly installed, a lot
Speaker 1: of new faces on both sides of the ball. And
Speaker 1: like you said, you wouldn't really know how young the
Speaker 1: team is by the way that they played today. Jordan Malata, right,
Speaker 1: I mean three years ago, this is his story, right,
Speaker 1: he didn't know how to put football pads on. He
Speaker 1: is out there just trucking people over and he's another
Speaker 1: big part of the success of that offense today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pockets a little heavier to day too, to me, like,
Speaker 1: even though we've talked about the offense a lot, like
Speaker 1: the defense, get the first drive fifteen plays, ends in
Speaker 1: the field goal, get off the field. Second drive fourteen plays,
Speaker 1: another field goal, get off the field. After that, it
Speaker 1: was like three and out, three and out, five and out,
Speaker 1: three and out. The way that the defense responded after earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, they were able to run the football. You
Speaker 1: saw some quick completions. The defense, to me, really really
Speaker 1: shine today's as well. I was a little worried about
Speaker 1: that defense in the beginning because those first two drives
Speaker 1: by Atlanta's offense were two seventy five yard drives. That's long.
Speaker 1: The defense is gas. This is just week one, right,
Speaker 1: so I thought this might catch up, this might catch up.
Speaker 1: But then they made the stops when it mattered, and
Speaker 1: they held Atlanta to not too many points. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was very impressed. I know both of you have mentioned
Speaker 1: the first two drives, but they were so critical. When
Speaker 1: you start off the first game of the season and
Speaker 1: the opposing team's offense is able to march down the
Speaker 1: field on you time consuming drive out of the drives,
Speaker 1: it can be deflating. This defense bowled their necks up
Speaker 1: when they got down to the red zone, able to
Speaker 1: hold Atlanta to just field goals there. That's a victory.
Speaker 1: That's I think they were able to catch there, you know,
Speaker 1: collect themselves, catch their breath, and then from that point on,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Ganathan Jonathan Gannon sort of had a beat on
Speaker 1: what the Arthur Smith offense was gonna do. They weren't
Speaker 1: going to throw the ball down the field. They tried
Speaker 1: to establish the run. The Eagles defensive line completely dominated
Speaker 1: this game when it come to stopping the run and
Speaker 1: taking over in the second half. But those first two
Speaker 1: drives to hold Atlanta to field goals, I thought that
Speaker 1: was critical because you give up two touchdowns there. Now
Speaker 1: you're playing uphill on the road. That crowd can get
Speaker 1: into the game and it can be tough sledding for
Speaker 1: a young offense. I think those two stops by the
Speaker 1: defense allowed the Eagles offense to sort of get into
Speaker 1: the game as well. Yeah, and La you made a
Speaker 1: great point too about it being long drives and the
Speaker 1: threat of people getting gassed. Right, But what do we
Speaker 1: see You talked about all the offensive players we got
Speaker 1: to hear from. Defensively, we saw TfL by Patrick Johnson.
Speaker 1: We saw Sean Bradley getting in there for tackles behind
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage across all three levels. Milton Williams
Speaker 1: making plays, Ryan Kerrigan out there, Hassan Ridgeway time and
Speaker 1: time again. Seeing a lot of these backups come in
Speaker 1: and contribute. I think it's really really big for the
Speaker 1: future of this football team. Well, another storyline this week,
Speaker 1: of course, was how this defense was going to adjust.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this being two new staffs
Speaker 1: on either side, and they didn't know what to expect,
Speaker 1: what they were going to get from a veteran like
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, and so in the beginning it was looking
Speaker 1: a little like the defense needs to have an answer
Speaker 1: to Atlanta's run game. The Atlanta established the run game
Speaker 1: really early on, and it looked pretty good. It was
Speaker 1: working for them. Remember they don't have Julio anymore. That
Speaker 1: takes a whole threat away from Matt Ryan. Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 1: We didn't know what to expect from the rookie. He
Speaker 1: didn't do too much, he wasn't targeted too often. But
Speaker 1: the way that the defense responded and had an answer,
Speaker 1: especially in the second half, I think is a huge
Speaker 1: credit to Jonathan Gannon and the defense that he's establishing
Speaker 1: here in Philadelphia, but also the guys from the D
Speaker 1: line to the secondary, what they're doing together and they're
Speaker 1: just having fun. So yeah, I thought the D line
Speaker 1: really took this game over. They decided not gonna run
Speaker 1: the football on us, We're gonna force you to beat
Speaker 1: us throwing the ball, and the secondary stepped up today.
Speaker 1: Calvin really had some catches early in that game, and
Speaker 1: I think I checked stat line was in the middle
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. He still only had one catch
Speaker 1: after that opening drive of the game. So I like
Speaker 1: what our secondary was able to do. And then our
Speaker 1: D line they just were able to pin their ears
Speaker 1: back and get out of this Atlanta Falcons offensive line.
Speaker 1: We knew if the Eagles had one clear cut advantage
Speaker 1: coming into this game, it was our D line going
Speaker 1: up against that offensive line. The key was going to
Speaker 1: get them was to get them in obvious passing situations.
Speaker 1: And once the Eagles got up by two touchdowns, the
Speaker 1: Falcons couldn't run the ball anymore. And Matt Ryan, who
Speaker 1: has no mobility, not a lack of mobility, no mobility
Speaker 1: back there. This Eagle's front four knew where Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: would be at and it was a meeting at the
Speaker 1: quarterback man that that front four. I want to get
Speaker 1: ahead of myself. If they reminded me of what I
Speaker 1: saw in two seventeen when they could go where our
Speaker 1: d line was worth eight to ten deep far as
Speaker 1: rotating players and everybody stayed fresh. That's what I saw
Speaker 1: out there today, a fresh defensive line. I think it's
Speaker 1: a formula, you know. I think in years past you
Speaker 1: would say, oh, well, you know, it's dehabilitating for a
Speaker 1: defense to allow the run to take over, right offensively,
Speaker 1: But I think today's NFL, it's the big plays. It's
Speaker 1: the explosive plays that get after you, right, So it's
Speaker 1: tiring for an offense. All right, we gotta go fourteen plays,
Speaker 1: fifteen players like the Falcons did. All right, go ahead,
Speaker 1: do it again, roll the ball out. See if you
Speaker 1: can do it again, and we're gonna stop you from
Speaker 1: getting in the end zone. That's disheartening from an offensive
Speaker 1: side as well. I gotta give some love to Alex
Speaker 1: Singleton too, right, you didn't hear his name too much today,
Speaker 1: But wherever the ball is, Alex is somewhere nearby, and
Speaker 1: I think he brings such an energy to that defense,
Speaker 1: in that linebacker corps. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: he does this season. Yeah, you gotta get love to
Speaker 1: the LB. Eric Wilson. I'm not gonna point out could
Speaker 1: have had a tip intersection and I saw, but it's okay.
Speaker 1: He's normally around the football as well. A great start
Speaker 1: to the season on the road all teams. It's only
Speaker 1: gonna be sixteen undefeated team after this week, right, sixteen
Speaker 1: teams to win will be unless there's a tie in
Speaker 1: there somewhere. More than likely, the Eagles are sitting at
Speaker 1: the top of the division with a victory. What a
Speaker 1: great way to start off the twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 1: Ella's gonna fluff you up by bring up the linebackers.
Speaker 1: I want to bring up the special teams. How about
Speaker 1: the special teams today? Aaron Sipposs putting four punts. I
Speaker 1: thought Greg Olsen on the broadcast did a great job
Speaker 1: of pointing out Andre chacherre of what he would have
Speaker 1: got that illegal touch on the one down punt. Just
Speaker 1: really really impressive special teams execution across the board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two two very good uh notes right there? Frand that
Speaker 1: that played to point out to the other gunners down
Speaker 1: the field and let him know you need to get
Speaker 1: the ball first. I can't touch it. I've already gone
Speaker 1: out of bounds. That's a smart football player. And then
Speaker 1: Sippas come on, man, it's awesome. Four and you said
Speaker 1: four inside fow just I mean that that that is
Speaker 1: so beneficial to a defense to know that you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the opposing team's offense pent near their end zone
Speaker 1: and you can just get out through them. I mean
Speaker 1: a great example was that too. I talked about the
Speaker 1: two gonna try offensively. That starts with the punt inside
Speaker 1: the tent and now they punt put it back to
Speaker 1: the Eagles and they start from their fifty. When you say,
Speaker 1: like flip the field, all that's like a you know,
Speaker 1: a coaching axium. That's never No, that's the hidden yard
Speaker 1: example right there. Yeah, that's the hidden yardage the special
Speaker 1: teams will do for you when you when you down
Speaker 1: the punt inside the ten like that. Like Frank, I
Speaker 1: have to cut your off. I'm sorry we have Miles. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm judging by the way you walked in here pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels real good, real good. A lot of energy,
Speaker 1: a lot of vibes. Um, I've been talking about it
Speaker 1: the whole time in the off season, and I love
Speaker 1: the chemistry that we got going on. And it just
Speaker 1: feels like a real family in there. So real exciting.
Speaker 1: Twice a little down and it's your pointing conversion what
Speaker 1: it mean for you know? Oh, that just shows the
Speaker 1: type of aggressiveness study has. Um. You know we're gonna
Speaker 1: play conservative conservative sometimes, you know, but you know, first game,
Speaker 1: when we know what type of line that we have, Um,
Speaker 1: you know we can go get it. So we don't
Speaker 1: have no problem taking chances on one time. Oh. Absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 1: this is definitely what I expected, you know, and this
Speaker 1: is only beginning, only beginning, taking it one week at
Speaker 1: a time. Weren't round ones over got the dub on
Speaker 1: the San fran Sport today is that? I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you tell that many sport? Oh? I say to
Speaker 1: both of them, I say, it's it's a blessing. Man. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, you get to this moment, You've been working
Speaker 1: so hard to get to this moment, and then it's
Speaker 1: finally here. You just gotta take advantage of it. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm really happy for Kenny because my first game I
Speaker 1: scored and they took it back, which happened to him,
Speaker 1: but he win got it back, So I'm real happy
Speaker 1: for him and DeVante too. Starting starting off with the
Speaker 1: touchdown too. So you got off the game playing is
Speaker 1: playing coming in and what do you mean, um, really
Speaker 1: try to run the ball down the throat? You know, Uh,
Speaker 1: we we start we have like an RPO, so, I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of different reads that goes into
Speaker 1: each run play, but every plays a run to be honest,
Speaker 1: if and if anybody don't know, but um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: this's just trying to be aggressive and attack tacked the
Speaker 1: defense as much as we can in different ways possible
Speaker 1: with with j Um, just just his will to win.
Speaker 1: You know, he don't stop. You know, he's running it,
Speaker 1: he's giving calls, giving checks. You know, he's real locked
Speaker 1: in and he's had holding everybody to the high standard.
Speaker 1: Two so and he's field general on the field. You know,
Speaker 1: how did you say he was? I think it was excellent. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it opened up the run game tremendously for for all
Speaker 1: the running backs, and um, that's that's all we can
Speaker 1: ask for. I mean we've been talking about it the
Speaker 1: whole off season. Uh, you know, people have been I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say that, but uh, or work in practice
Speaker 1: are very very intense and fast paced. So we're really
Speaker 1: getting a lot of good work in practice. So um,
Speaker 1: despite of all the starters not playing a whole lot
Speaker 1: in a preseason, uh, not really a big deal to us,
Speaker 1: I mean type because of the type of work that
Speaker 1: we get in practice. So I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it happened as expected. We could definitely be better. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You know what I mean. But uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, good start, good dub first weekend, were
Speaker 1: just on the next week first, Um, what was well,
Speaker 1: you know, he he loves the movie clips, had a
Speaker 1: lot of movie clips last night. UM, just just telling
Speaker 1: us to have fun and just go out there and
Speaker 1: play as a family. And you know, just he's just
Speaker 1: real pumped up, real pumped up. Um and yeah, just
Speaker 1: you know, stick together. And when you all players as one,
Speaker 1: I think that was a real team team win that
Speaker 1: right there. And when you all players one, I don't
Speaker 1: think nobody can stop us. Um. I think thing now
Speaker 1: I'm on the spot out trying to remember. I can't
Speaker 1: remember right now, I can't remember. I'm sorry. As a
Speaker 1: party and still a party. And now I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get back just the beginning. You know, we got seven
Speaker 1: seventeen games now, just taking a one week at a
Speaker 1: time on the same frame. Now, yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: those those guys up there, man, those are the vets.
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Man with Kelsey, with with
Speaker 1: Brandon Brooks, with Lane, you got Isaac and then you
Speaker 1: got m A lot of money man. Uh, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't take none of that for branded. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we got the best old line in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And whenever, whenever it's time to line up, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be ready no matter what the circumstances. You guys they
Speaker 1: can send. That's a bigger part of the soul and
Speaker 1: its wire as an um. I think honestly, just because
Speaker 1: we've been executing on everything else, you know, the ring
Speaker 1: game and then with Jalen pulling it opening up for
Speaker 1: us and then we're throwing the ball down the field
Speaker 1: with completing passes and we just ran it with them
Speaker 1: unexpecting it so and it happened to work perfectly. Preach
Speaker 1: one more time situation. Um, I mean, he's he's a
Speaker 1: he's able to do it. You know, everybody in our
Speaker 1: room between me, him and Boston are able to do anything.
Speaker 1: Uh you know routes coming out the backfield and the
Speaker 1: slide were all capable of doing it. And um, he
Speaker 1: just showed you know, the most efficient way of doing
Speaker 1: it and practice sot And that's just easy to him,
Speaker 1: you know. He, like I said, he has the best
Speaker 1: hands in in an argy room to me in my opinion. Um,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's that's that's his thing. Two minutes it
Speaker 1: that's that's it. Let's say, all right, that was running
Speaker 1: back Miles Sanders. He had fifteen carries for seventy four yards.
Speaker 1: But I think the other part of that box where
Speaker 1: we need to take a look at it is his
Speaker 1: four catches for thirty nine yards. We know a huge
Speaker 1: emphasis from Nick Sirianni through camp was finding a way
Speaker 1: for these running backs to also be able to catch passes.
Speaker 1: Male singers did that today. Yeah, we know Miles as
Speaker 1: an explosive player. You give him enough touches, eventually he's
Speaker 1: gonna break one big and you saw that late in
Speaker 1: the game, the twenty three yard run that he had.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing that I'll point out that I
Speaker 1: was so much more impressed with with Miles today. His
Speaker 1: blitz pick up as protection says as much blitzen as
Speaker 1: Dean Pas did today. You were gonna need to be
Speaker 1: solid in your protection and Miles along with the other backs,
Speaker 1: even Kenney gain well when he was out there. But
Speaker 1: I noticed Miles several times with big blocks in the
Speaker 1: middle of that defense, I mean the middle of that
Speaker 1: offensive line. Nice job from him. Didn't drop any passes
Speaker 1: they called. All the balls thrown to him, ran the
Speaker 1: ball well. But I I was so much more impressed
Speaker 1: with the way that he blocked and pass protection. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you didn't say it, I was gonna say it.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on Eagles game Plan this week. Right.
Speaker 1: One of the things that this Eagles offense was gonna
Speaker 1: have to do to keep Jalen Hurts clean was make
Speaker 1: sure that they picked everything up from a blitz pickup standpoint.
Speaker 1: A number of times on some of those Jalen hurt scrambles,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders was able to pick a guy up. Said
Speaker 1: the locker room, they're having fun. It's a party, he said.
Speaker 1: On to San Francisco. We're gonna head back to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: We have DeVante Smith at the podium. Yeah, hyah, doing
Speaker 1: to day first. The rest of Uh, it just comes
Speaker 1: to reps. I mean, just coming to practice every day,
Speaker 1: getting your reps, getting comfortable with it, and um when
Speaker 1: they call it the play. I mean we've repped it
Speaker 1: a lot and I was comfortable with it. Strip that feeling,
Speaker 1: I'm sure your entire life start feeling. Getting in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Um, everything ain't hit me yet, honestly because
Speaker 1: just like in a moment, just kind of still getting
Speaker 1: to it. No, I have a task in hand right now, Bob,
Speaker 1: he ain't hit me yet. I think it's through the
Speaker 1: play there. It looked like created some separation one online.
Speaker 1: Just think it's through. You know what's going through the um.
Speaker 1: Just come down to seeing the coverage that we wanted
Speaker 1: and then just roll it and just execute the playing. Um,
Speaker 1: it comes down the RELs. I mean when you rep
Speaker 1: it so much and you just get used to it,
Speaker 1: and then all the reps that we that we've done.
Speaker 1: That's why that's cute. A good UM. When I've seen
Speaker 1: it was man, I mean we, like I say, we
Speaker 1: repped it a lot. When I seen it was, man,
Speaker 1: I just knew just because all the repetition that we
Speaker 1: did that was gonna be that play. No, you just
Speaker 1: called a PLAYE. I think that was just the whole
Speaker 1: team just wanting to get out there, get back to it.
Speaker 1: We've been working hard to get to this point, but
Speaker 1: we understand it's just round one that's sixteen. More so
Speaker 1: just getting back out there getting our feet with Um. No,
Speaker 1: not at all. I mean the NFL. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's slower just because you got time. You go to
Speaker 1: the hard to ever play to where college you just
Speaker 1: own the ball, getting sickness and things like that. So
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of slower than college. Say it again,
Speaker 1: Um Now, I think it's just college period. Like everybody
Speaker 1: goes no huddle, nobody huddles up. So I think that's
Speaker 1: just how college is played, and this is just how
Speaker 1: NFL has played. I mean, he's a leader. I mean
Speaker 1: when things are wrong, he's the guy that's picking everybody up.
Speaker 1: When things are right, he's the one that's telling us
Speaker 1: keep pushing just him, the offense, him in the office line.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that's gonna lead the team. Um. And
Speaker 1: that's that's what they did. I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 1: whole point of off season to attack the things that
Speaker 1: you know you need to get better at. And um,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what he did. He'd been working hard
Speaker 1: at that, and I mean I'm proud of him down.
Speaker 1: Um that's just the first one. We gotta keep going game,
Speaker 1: not over straight time to one point on the drive
Speaker 1: where they all designed the place for you. Um, it
Speaker 1: was just a play call. That's how That's how it
Speaker 1: kind of was just the person that we was saying. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a scramming rules. No matter what
Speaker 1: side here to roll to. If he to roll to
Speaker 1: the other side, he had done the same thing to
Speaker 1: the other guys. So that's just something that you just
Speaker 1: gotta get used to. When a quarterback scramming, you just
Speaker 1: gotta find something where to be. I mean, everybody's excited,
Speaker 1: but we understand. We enjoyed this for twenty four hours
Speaker 1: and then move on to next week. Um. Just we've
Speaker 1: been working. I mean, we came in working and just
Speaker 1: that's we understood that it's gonna be played, that's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be made by us, and we was ready
Speaker 1: for it. Um. I don't know. I usually don't call
Speaker 1: people out the game. I just let them call me
Speaker 1: keep keep that ball. They take it from him, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Nah, I'll fine. Man. That was the rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver DeVante Smith at the podiums laughing over here
Speaker 1: because he's funny. Without even knowing that he's funny, He's
Speaker 1: up there like, yeah, he took it from it. He
Speaker 1: took the ball from men. He didn't know where his
Speaker 1: first touchdown win. So um. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: he doesn't get too high, too low. Um. I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting there listening to him talk about catching this first touchdown,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, dude, I gotta I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: catch one hundred more anymore. I've done this before. It's
Speaker 1: no big deal to me. I like that though. I
Speaker 1: like that. I am trying to envision, though you have
Speaker 1: after catching your first time, you would have already had
Speaker 1: it in the mail. I know we're having fun, but
Speaker 1: to cut off the fun again. Nick Sirianni at the podium, Yeah, thanks,
Speaker 1: you got going better for you. Yeah, you know, offense
Speaker 1: played good. I thought played really well on defense, played
Speaker 1: lights out special teams. It was a good team win.
Speaker 1: It felt like the guys played together for each other,
Speaker 1: with each other. I mean so really pleased with the
Speaker 1: way we played as a football team game. Can you
Speaker 1: describe now what this feels like? Sure? Yeah, you know again, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to I had to stop before
Speaker 1: I went out and addressed the team and had a
Speaker 1: moment with myself and just it was it meant a lot,
Speaker 1: and so it just thought about all the work that
Speaker 1: that got me to this position. And so um again
Speaker 1: though that the team that they just again, the guys
Speaker 1: played together so well in the offense, the defense was
Speaker 1: just such a complimentary game all the way around. Can't
Speaker 1: say enough good things about our defense. You know, as
Speaker 1: les pretty really a lot of screens. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we wanted to execute uh some of that short control
Speaker 1: passing game with but still be able to take the
Speaker 1: ball down the field like the deep ball to uh
Speaker 1: to to Zach, and there was there were some other
Speaker 1: things that were down the field as well. Um that
Speaker 1: the Atlanta did a good job of taking away and
Speaker 1: making us forcing us to throw it underneath. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we get a coverage that we want and then we
Speaker 1: have the ability to go down field. If not. Jalen
Speaker 1: did a good job with his reads and taking what
Speaker 1: the defense gave him. Um, Well, that was just the
Speaker 1: look that again, it's the same thing. That's a look
Speaker 1: that defense was giving us. Um that's not necessarily planning
Speaker 1: to go to him. The defense of look, let it
Speaker 1: go to him. There's options. I'd like to give our
Speaker 1: quarterbacks options on plays and give Jalen options on plays,
Speaker 1: and and you just react off the defense. And so
Speaker 1: sometimes on run plays that's like that, and then sometimes
Speaker 1: on pass plays it's like that. So you're built in
Speaker 1: everywhere around the field and you're just trying to teach
Speaker 1: the quarterback where to go with the ball versus different looks.
Speaker 1: And Jalen did a great job of executing to start
Speaker 1: the game off with that. Yeah, you know, the the
Speaker 1: ability to be able to get on the ball and run, run,
Speaker 1: and feel really good about running the football because of
Speaker 1: who our offensive line was. That I mean, that's that's always.
Speaker 1: That's always something that you're like, man, this, I gotta
Speaker 1: go up and use these guys that use miles and
Speaker 1: use the offensive line. So that was that was that
Speaker 1: makes it easier to call the game when you're firing
Speaker 1: on all cylinders like that. We still had a little
Speaker 1: bit too many pre snap penalties that we got to
Speaker 1: clean up. Um, we have to. We have to clean
Speaker 1: up the things that we acquire no talent, you know,
Speaker 1: master the things that quire require no talent. We had
Speaker 1: a little bit too many of those, and we got
Speaker 1: to clean that up. We've been thinking of all the
Speaker 1: time about when you've been telling guys, you know, before
Speaker 1: the game, coach, So what did you tell them on
Speaker 1: story and story? Well, I'll keep the story. The story
Speaker 1: is a little embarrassing for me, so I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna keep the story in house. But the whole
Speaker 1: message was about UM having a dog mentality. And dog
Speaker 1: mentality to us means that no matter what happened on
Speaker 1: one play, whether it was an interception, whether it was
Speaker 1: a touchdown, whether it was a minus run, whether it
Speaker 1: was a twenty yard run, whether it's a sack, no
Speaker 1: matter what happened, play, the next play being the moment,
Speaker 1: just like in our analogy, is just like a dog
Speaker 1: would when you open up the cage and he goes,
Speaker 1: he goes to hunt. UM. So that was the message.
Speaker 1: That was the main message, and I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had a good first half, you know, especially the
Speaker 1: way we ended the first half. UM. The defense was
Speaker 1: firing and and and that's kind of something something thing
Speaker 1: that the guys were talking about, like, hey, that first
Speaker 1: half doesn't count, it doesn't matter, it doesn't it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: We're right here, You're in the moment again. And that
Speaker 1: was my message to the team. And uh, it was
Speaker 1: good to see him execute it with John calls with
Speaker 1: all three months for you or they toss ups fourth
Speaker 1: and twenty. Was at listen to a toss up the
Speaker 1: fourth and the fourth and what I didn't think we
Speaker 1: went for a fourth and um, yeah, I felt good.
Speaker 1: I felt good about the calls we did. We didn't
Speaker 1: execute it, um um. You know, the they were definitely
Speaker 1: green lights for us to be able to go for
Speaker 1: it with a field position that we had, the way
Speaker 1: the defense was playing, and you know the one, the
Speaker 1: one you could argue back and forth. You know, I
Speaker 1: went back and forth with it. But what ended up
Speaker 1: happening with the way our defense was was going, I
Speaker 1: don't know, off the ball Somewhere in the between the
Speaker 1: twenty and the thirty, I think we didn't get We
Speaker 1: didn't get in on fourth and two. Our defense got
Speaker 1: a three and out, they gave us the ball back
Speaker 1: and we scored a touchdown, so we still had that
Speaker 1: fuel position, so that it makes you feel better about
Speaker 1: decision when you don't get it, when the defense bails
Speaker 1: you out like that. Um, so you know those were
Speaker 1: green lights for us. You know, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: do what my gut says, and uh, it was green light.
Speaker 1: I followed. I followed it at that time and just
Speaker 1: didn't work out the first out much to touchdown was
Speaker 1: the press were most about jail Yeah, just just again
Speaker 1: the taking what the defense gave him. Um, methodically going
Speaker 1: down the field, making big throws when he needed to
Speaker 1: make big throws, making create you know, checking it down
Speaker 1: they needed to check it down, making a run when
Speaker 1: he needed to make run. Just playing good quarterback, just
Speaker 1: good quarterback play. So to go down and get a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a two minute drill, like you're you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're thinking, let's go get points. Then you get
Speaker 1: to a point, you're like, all right, let's go get seven.
Speaker 1: And when you get seven, you obviously feel really good
Speaker 1: about it. And Jalen was complete control there. He was
Speaker 1: a complete controlled the whole game, played a heck of
Speaker 1: a football game. And um, really just really happy with
Speaker 1: the way he played like, but like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you know when we practice that in the in the
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I've told you guys this, and when
Speaker 1: you play against another team, I mean, you're to me,
Speaker 1: that's a game. If you're if you're truly in the
Speaker 1: business of getting better every single day and improving every
Speaker 1: single day, then you treat practice like the game. So
Speaker 1: whether we played zero plays with the starters in the
Speaker 1: preseason games, ten plays, twenty plays, thirty plays, three games,
Speaker 1: three full games, the practice has prepared us for it.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's no different when you get into
Speaker 1: the season. The practices prepare you for the for the game. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, this week we had a great third down
Speaker 1: h third down day where I thought we were firing
Speaker 1: alls owners. It got us ready for today. And we
Speaker 1: had a great red zone practice and we were three
Speaker 1: for three today. So and we had and I thought
Speaker 1: our I thought our run game looked really good. So
Speaker 1: it's it's this, you know what you do in the week,
Speaker 1: and that's our emphasis to the team and in the player.
Speaker 1: These guys have won a lot of games here and
Speaker 1: so they know how to practice, um, and they know
Speaker 1: how to get better throughout the season where you don't plateau,
Speaker 1: you continue to get better, and I felt like we
Speaker 1: got better every day this week. The goal for next
Speaker 1: week is to get better every day to put yourself
Speaker 1: in position to be able to win. UM at home
Speaker 1: there against San Francisco. I know you waited a long
Speaker 1: time to l a lot of their offenses. How much? Yeah, shoot,
Speaker 1: that's that was just game one. I mean we got
Speaker 1: we got a lot more left, so a lot more
Speaker 1: about it. I'm sorry after the game. It's just the
Speaker 1: excitement of being in the locker room with the guys.
Speaker 1: One of our first meetings, UM, I talked about when
Speaker 1: we talked about connecting. I said that there's probably not
Speaker 1: a better feeling. There's not a lot of feelings that
Speaker 1: are better that when you're in the locker room after
Speaker 1: the games, celebrating, hugging, doing your handshakes with each other,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, UM, there's not a better feeling in
Speaker 1: the world unless you're connected with the people across from you.
Speaker 1: Like if we just if we didn't think about connecting
Speaker 1: every day and we went in and won that game,
Speaker 1: it would be still feel really sweet and those hugs
Speaker 1: would still be really cool. But when you really connect
Speaker 1: with somebody, those hugs meeting a little bit more and
Speaker 1: those are special moments. And so it was just embracing
Speaker 1: that special moment that we had UH in there as
Speaker 1: a team and watching the guys celebrate, watching the guys
Speaker 1: UH dance and and and you know, so that was
Speaker 1: a good that was a good feeling there at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, and just wanted to let that
Speaker 1: go as long as possible. Touchdowns And what does that
Speaker 1: mean for the team going say that? I'm sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: score touchdowns at Kenny, What does that mean for the
Speaker 1: team going forward? And what does it mean for their
Speaker 1: confidence level listeners the season goes on. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought those guys played. Again, I got to look
Speaker 1: at the tape and and see what how they played.
Speaker 1: But they made some they made some good plays, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. I want to see how consistent they were
Speaker 1: throughout the game. But um, to get in the end
Speaker 1: zone on your first NFL game, that's pretty cool, um,
Speaker 1: and they and they made it. I thought Jaila made
Speaker 1: a great throw to Davant's act did a good job
Speaker 1: of helping Davante get open on that play. If you
Speaker 1: watch it, and the offensive line, Um, Kenny didn't have
Speaker 1: to do much on his touchdown, So the uh again,
Speaker 1: that's just why it's such a great team game. I'm
Speaker 1: happy for them that they scored, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the credit go to and that's why it's this awesome game. Right.
Speaker 1: If you look at that plays, Zach helped DeVante get open,
Speaker 1: Jalen put a great ball on their offensive line got
Speaker 1: Kenny Kenny in there. So happy for them as a rookie,
Speaker 1: but really happy as with the success of the way
Speaker 1: the offense played. Um is, particularly in those couple of plays,
Speaker 1: you kind of realized that Kenny was reading as a
Speaker 1: rookie for some of those high level situations. You put
Speaker 1: them in the dirt down obviously in the touchdown, Why
Speaker 1: did you kind of feel up days James practice right practice,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's just it's such a great indicator
Speaker 1: what you're going to get in the game. And he
Speaker 1: practices hard, he practices to get better. Um. He has
Speaker 1: no choice because you know the team is demanding that
Speaker 1: of him. The players on the team are demanding them,
Speaker 1: We're demanding that of him, and so he showed him
Speaker 1: what he can do every day in practice. UM. And
Speaker 1: so he's a tough kid. When when guys are tough
Speaker 1: and they like football and they really love football and
Speaker 1: they have talent, those guys reach their potential. And obviously
Speaker 1: that's only Kenny's first game, but you like those things
Speaker 1: about him that makes you make you trust him to
Speaker 1: be able to make some plays in that in those moments.
Speaker 1: Thank you talking about an I'll Answererston. You talk about
Speaker 1: the connections between the players and you're trying to have
Speaker 1: forced connections. So with that your handshake with Jail and Hurts,
Speaker 1: who came up with that and how much, well that
Speaker 1: is my son and I was handshake to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, and you know, as Jail and I got closer,
Speaker 1: uh throughout there, UM, I told him that and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is my son, and I was handshake and we
Speaker 1: started doing it. We had fun with it. We did
Speaker 1: it last night before the meetings, um, and then it
Speaker 1: was fun to do that in the game again. Like
Speaker 1: I said, like when you when you're in there celebrating
Speaker 1: with somebody, um, and you're going through and you're having
Speaker 1: those emotions, those emotions meet even more when you're when
Speaker 1: you're close with that person. So that was that was fun.
Speaker 1: That was special. My son doesn't mind. He's just a
Speaker 1: young young boy, so he doesn't he doesn't mind that
Speaker 1: we share that handshake. So it's my son, myself and
Speaker 1: Jaalen's handshake. Now, there was obviously really tired of throw
Speaker 1: dangerous side about Jens after seas confidence. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a great play. It was a really good play. It
Speaker 1: wasn't Sometimes you don't get what you think you're gonna get,
Speaker 1: and sure helps when your quarterback can get you out
Speaker 1: of that of that situation and make a big time play.
Speaker 1: So there was a heck of a throw. I look
Speaker 1: forward to watching it on tape. I couldn't see the
Speaker 1: I couldn't see up the big screen on there, so
Speaker 1: it's a little hard to see. If you guys probably
Speaker 1: had a good view of it from the big screen.
Speaker 1: I didn't, um, but uh look forward to seeing it
Speaker 1: on tape. But it says that, you know, he made
Speaker 1: a heck of a football play, and he made it.
Speaker 1: He made a lot of those today and which is
Speaker 1: why we were in the position to win the game.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks yalla. Gotta feel good right to start
Speaker 1: the season attack so dominated fashion. How does that feel? Oh?
Speaker 1: If it definitely feels great. Especially to come out with
Speaker 1: the win. Uh, anytime you can have a great game
Speaker 1: and get the win, it's it's just a great feeling
Speaker 1: going back home. You guys down right again, Basically you
Speaker 1: take you guys down. Did you guys kind of feel
Speaker 1: that as the game is kind of going on, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm necessarily not saying wearing down, but we knew, uh,
Speaker 1: they was gonna have to drop back and pass, and
Speaker 1: we really really confident with everybody in our room that
Speaker 1: we could get to the quarterback. So when it came
Speaker 1: to them down, you know, everybody was just trying to
Speaker 1: get there, and I just so happened to be the
Speaker 1: one that was winning team. Different games out there, most
Speaker 1: most definitely, when you can't hold a team out from
Speaker 1: getting points, it's always gonna change the game. Um, even
Speaker 1: though they had a long draw, to hold them the
Speaker 1: three points, it was a big thing. Like, um, I
Speaker 1: think they was at the three yard line or it
Speaker 1: was real close. So that was just a turning point
Speaker 1: for us. I mean, I think we just started making tackles. Um,
Speaker 1: we was doing some things wrong. Um, just somebody here
Speaker 1: and there just making mistakes. But I guess in the
Speaker 1: second half we kind of corrected the mistakes and start
Speaker 1: coming up and making tackles. I don't really know systematically,
Speaker 1: but I guess j G was calling some different things
Speaker 1: or talking to different people. But like you said, we
Speaker 1: started making beat, stop saying coming up, letting them, letting
Speaker 1: out rush, get hot. I started much. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: definitely great. Last show, I was really just sitting at home. UM.
Speaker 1: I think they went down to play Washington. I was
Speaker 1: sitting at home. That was my first first time missing
Speaker 1: the first game UM ever in my career. So it's
Speaker 1: just a great feeling to be out there with my
Speaker 1: teammates and definitely two SATs and getting to win. What's
Speaker 1: your complimence? Much higher level. I mean I've been complimenting
Speaker 1: um even when when I was down last year, I
Speaker 1: got an amazing confidence in myself. So I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just encouraged. I'm really not gonna let this game get
Speaker 1: to me and just really focusing on San Francisco now. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I always expect things, but
Speaker 1: I was more so just happy that we got a
Speaker 1: great win. And like I said, we're just focusing on
Speaker 1: Sam friend now when you're other sidelines. Man, we was
Speaker 1: happy just seeing them score points and moving the ball
Speaker 1: like they did. Um. It was just you know, a
Speaker 1: great team team victory UM seeing them score points and
Speaker 1: us making great stops and special teams making plays. So
Speaker 1: it was just a great feeling overall. No, not at all,
Speaker 1: just seeing them something and some of them joint practices
Speaker 1: against other teams. I wasn't really surprised because they was
Speaker 1: really playing good against them teams too, So nah, I
Speaker 1: knew we had a good offense. You know what. It
Speaker 1: was a great start. It was it was fun. I
Speaker 1: felt like the energy was right everybody, even when we
Speaker 1: was in a close game. I just felt like everybody
Speaker 1: just was on the same page and just wanted to
Speaker 1: go out there and just have fun together. First time
Speaker 1: out there together, like k S, a Ryan one and
Speaker 1: uh Man. That was a great start. Nobody really do
Speaker 1: want to expect with this team because you know, coach
Speaker 1: quarterback that doesn't play much, I think people. I mean,
Speaker 1: we believed in ourselves and that's one thing for sure
Speaker 1: that going into it, we knew that's one that's a
Speaker 1: box we can check off. Everybody believe in it and
Speaker 1: knowledge it's all about going to do it. I Mean
Speaker 1: sometimes it ain't pretty, but I think today was a
Speaker 1: great start. We made some mistakes out there, I felt
Speaker 1: like we can capitalize on some of them opportunities we
Speaker 1: had that we kind of let slip away. I know,
Speaker 1: we had a fourth dime that we that I felt
Speaker 1: we should have got. But it's all good, like you know,
Speaker 1: how I go. But I felt like the defense held
Speaker 1: together the way we was out there having fun together
Speaker 1: even during uh, when they first came out, they was
Speaker 1: driving down and we held held up in the red zone.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing we were just talking out there, Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: they don't score, they don't score, they don't win. And
Speaker 1: so um, I'm just excited because it's only the first round.
Speaker 1: We got plenty more rounds to go, and m so far,
Speaker 1: so good, this so well. I'm happy Zach still here
Speaker 1: because boy, it was all ugly in the beginning. But uh,
Speaker 1: but I'm happy that everything got worked out. I'm happy
Speaker 1: that he's feeling that energy that we feel and and
Speaker 1: all we gotta do is just just stay together. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know how to handle wins, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we ain't got to handle too many losses, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But I know that. Um, the way
Speaker 1: we played together, the way we stuck in together, I
Speaker 1: mean we can build on that. For those camp we
Speaker 1: didn't see and then we saw in this game seem
Speaker 1: like they were writing a lot against this kind. That's
Speaker 1: that's pretty much what it is. Man Like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is the first game, this first game action for us. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's why I say we gotta get better. Um, coach,
Speaker 1: just do a good job of not keeping us in
Speaker 1: the same spot so people can just tee off on
Speaker 1: us and stuff like that. We just gotta get better
Speaker 1: with our technique. Once we watched the film, then we
Speaker 1: can figure out what what it was that got us
Speaker 1: and we just keep going from there. But yes, we
Speaker 1: knew it was that was something that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get better with. We knew that. Obviously we loved
Speaker 1: the four down look as a defensive end I mean
Speaker 1: defense aligned, but we know that we got we gotta
Speaker 1: do both, and so we just gotta we we gotta
Speaker 1: continue to keep on going upward and and working to
Speaker 1: get better with that. With that, with that scheme of
Speaker 1: it out, I think it's just you, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to fight for him because you know he's he hasn't.
Speaker 1: He's been the same guy since he got here. And
Speaker 1: he even you know, joked about the other day about
Speaker 1: his first first time doing the media and how everybody
Speaker 1: ripped him and how mad he was. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, he was like, you know, you had to
Speaker 1: shake it off and come back and do it again,
Speaker 1: and you got to make sure you had that next
Speaker 1: player and that dog mentality and know that you know
Speaker 1: you're here for a reason and you can do it
Speaker 1: and you're gonna make mistakes. But it's the ones that can,
Speaker 1: uh not worry about it and not let that mistake
Speaker 1: uh keep you keep it stay in your mind, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that for him, Um, we just wanted
Speaker 1: to go out there and play hard for him because,
Speaker 1: like I said, he'd been the same guy since he
Speaker 1: got here. It's no fake fakeness with this team. I
Speaker 1: think that the energy is real and man, it's just
Speaker 1: disguised the limit for us if we just stayed keep
Speaker 1: at it. When he first Commas, was that one of
Speaker 1: us Saturday night. I mean he's been saying it for
Speaker 1: a minute, but yeah, it was part of it. This week,
Speaker 1: just during the week, Jel said, Myles said that it
Speaker 1: was a part of another locker right now and describe
Speaker 1: the honest share. I mean, first game out of coach,
Speaker 1: everybody don't know what to expect. And now you now
Speaker 1: you got a building. Now you now you can see
Speaker 1: a little bit of what we've been working so hard for.
Speaker 1: And you see why he did what he did with us,
Speaker 1: holding us off for a little bit so we can
Speaker 1: fly around on it on game day. And I think that, uh,
Speaker 1: coach just wanted us to go out there. He just
Speaker 1: wanted to get a w but he wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that we took care of the little things, the
Speaker 1: stuff that uh kind of go by the wayside. Make
Speaker 1: sure that we go out there as a team and
Speaker 1: we're gonna and we're gonna finish as a team, whatever
Speaker 1: the score is. We're gonna stay together. And and I mean,
Speaker 1: I like what's going on, and um, we just gotta
Speaker 1: we just gotta keep on believing in and keep working
Speaker 1: hard to get better. You're honestly another next serious but
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you know you rule those guys on. You
Speaker 1: want to you want to stay in the game. And
Speaker 1: I think that uh, seeing those guys make plays. Man,
Speaker 1: that boy got some receivers out there that I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you've seen six scores, first time, first
Speaker 1: time touchdown of many and I think it was good
Speaker 1: to see, Uh Jalen, I mean Jalen, Both of both Jalens,
Speaker 1: you know, do good, especially not knowing what to expect.
Speaker 1: But I know them boys confident in each other. And
Speaker 1: it's only gonna get better with with the old line
Speaker 1: that we got right there. Everybody healthy, man, It's gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna be able to handle you know,
Speaker 1: everything this year if we just stay healthy and stay together.
Speaker 1: Money Man Miles Sanders stalking the money Man talk about
Speaker 1: the extension, and I mean, I mean obviously it's you know,
Speaker 1: an incredible feat. Um. You know, I'm extremely blessed to
Speaker 1: have gotten that extension. And you know, like I said before, um,
Speaker 1: you know my Eagles video. I'm incredibly happy to keep
Speaker 1: representing the city and this team, an organization and everything
Speaker 1: that it stands for. Um, you know, it gives me
Speaker 1: an opportunity to represent my family, my country, and my people.
Speaker 1: I mean, they all had a similar reaction. Everyone called
Speaker 1: me big money. Um. I told him, they call me that.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to take it day by day. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and I still have the same process, you know,
Speaker 1: keep getting better every every day, one percent better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I strongly believe in that, and so that's the same
Speaker 1: attitude I'm going to keep going with regardless of how
Speaker 1: I'm getting paid. But you know, that's just me. I
Speaker 1: talked to this stout now I'm about to talk to
Speaker 1: out tomorrow. Um. I did have a chance to say,
Speaker 1: you know, quick, thanks, but we both shut it down
Speaker 1: just because we wanted to focus on the game. There
Speaker 1: are already enough people you know, constantly reminded me, you know,
Speaker 1: or the contract situation. But for me, I was putting
Speaker 1: it on hold just because I wanted to focus on
Speaker 1: the game. Mate. You know, we wanted to buy my parents'
Speaker 1: house and so I can finally do that by trackers.
Speaker 1: Is something that came up quickly or was it kind
Speaker 1: of in negotiation stage? Ah? Yeah, I think it kind
Speaker 1: of came quickly. Hey, Um, we didn't really I didn't
Speaker 1: really want to know anything about it till they had
Speaker 1: something concrete with my agents, and so you know, once
Speaker 1: they came back with an offer, you know, it was
Speaker 1: kind of like just happened so fast. Um, just because
Speaker 1: I wanted to focus on me and focus on the
Speaker 1: game and on the week, and my agents knew that,
Speaker 1: and so those day came around and yeah, they had something,
Speaker 1: and by Friday, you know, we agree and Saturday was signing.
Speaker 1: So the perspective of things, like, I remember when we
Speaker 1: came here and he told us all, you know, literally
Speaker 1: never played down in football. Yeah, you si sixty four
Speaker 1: billion dollars, that's the stuff of movies. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it. I think it is a movie. I'm just
Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to say cut and then you know,
Speaker 1: all the lights come down. I'm like, oh wow. But
Speaker 1: until then, I'm gonna just keep doing my my process,
Speaker 1: you know, you guys know it for Philly, for one
Speaker 1: percent better every day, um, and just keep learning from
Speaker 1: my mistakes. You know. Obviously today it wasn't a clean game,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna watch the tape and learn from it.
Speaker 1: Un I was just I was just doing my job.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd had that play earlier in the week
Speaker 1: and the timing wasn't right, and so when you know,
Speaker 1: we called the play out on the huddle, I knew
Speaker 1: what I had to correct. And so yeah, as you can,
Speaker 1: he said that again. Yeah, I mean focus, it's it's
Speaker 1: a process. Yeah, even every place. So yeah, at the
Speaker 1: time he had to be perfect, and for me was
Speaker 1: just knowing the snap count first and then knowing the
Speaker 1: timing on the screen and then just be lining it
Speaker 1: and now bury someone if you get the opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks guys that first series in the World War you
Speaker 1: think come first out of little how we did that?
Speaker 1: Be only kind to start off as fast as you
Speaker 1: guys did just that touch shout, Um, I think you know,
Speaker 1: just a little recap for me. I think it's good
Speaker 1: to win opening day. I'm opening week for us all
Speaker 1: the hard work. If we put in, um, all the
Speaker 1: different changes we've endured and have to overcome and prosevere
Speaker 1: through new coaching, m new values as a football team
Speaker 1: and buying into it and coming out here week one
Speaker 1: and started off the right way, I think that's good, um,
Speaker 1: and start off with it's very comfortable with the game
Speaker 1: as your practicing this past week all over you know
Speaker 1: what the point did you show on we chop at
Speaker 1: the bid every day and we chop at the bid
Speaker 1: every day. Well I always say it, rent and do
Speaker 1: every day, but I want to take a step in
Speaker 1: preparing my preparation and learning UM and understanding our plan
Speaker 1: of attacking what we want to do, and everybody being
Speaker 1: on the same page. UM, And that's something I think
Speaker 1: we need to be consistent with moving forward to be
Speaker 1: the team that we want to be. Take the sequence,
Speaker 1: the ball line narrative after the first stay, we have
Speaker 1: the touchdown, best the game, Well, the fos and that
Speaker 1: that's all off the tanks playing as you got it. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a situation, man, we talked about it. It's hidden
Speaker 1: yardage and hidden points right, and we could have doubled
Speaker 1: dip there. We didn't come out in the second half
Speaker 1: UM and score like we wanted to, But I mean
Speaker 1: it was good to get it in. You know, we
Speaker 1: found a way in that situation. We found a way.
Speaker 1: That's good to see. You want to shake off that
Speaker 1: overturn of the initial touchdowns through your mind at that point,
Speaker 1: it's my seconds left in the half. I guess when
Speaker 1: the play started, but you know, not not seconds left
Speaker 1: in that situation. You know, think about do you want
Speaker 1: to scramble around? Do you want to make a play? UM?
Speaker 1: It was a situation where a play was made. UM.
Speaker 1: Dallas caught the ball threw it and it's good. I'm
Speaker 1: happy we scored. We gotta we gotta come out if
Speaker 1: we had the ball in the second half, we want
Speaker 1: to score that when we get the ball back. Well,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the confidence he you know he has and
Speaker 1: shows to say that. UM as a testament to the
Speaker 1: hard work and what we put in and UM all
Speaker 1: the effort we put into what we do. But I'm
Speaker 1: in something. We worked on, UM and got the look
Speaker 1: we wanted and we hit it. Happy we hit it.
Speaker 1: Got this His first catch was a touchdown. I think
Speaker 1: so like old times, give me a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of scraps and studs. It's not a thing about control.
Speaker 1: Let's a think of me going out there and doing
Speaker 1: what I'm clach to do. UM. We prepare, we hit it.
Speaker 1: Every day I go out. I want to always talk
Speaker 1: about executing. I want to hit execute at a high level.
Speaker 1: Whatever that is, UM, running the ball, throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: alignment things, situation things. I just want to execute at
Speaker 1: a high level. So we go through it. We're on
Speaker 1: the same page. We prepare together, we do all these
Speaker 1: things together. UM. We're trying to be on the same
Speaker 1: page when we go about our business to execute when
Speaker 1: you have play balls, figure skills sad when you wanted
Speaker 1: to college, I don't, I don't. I really don't know
Speaker 1: what the skill skill set question is. Um, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I just want to execute it. Um. For like we
Speaker 1: we just want to execute whatever it is. And now
Speaker 1: what's that? Um? It means? So what I would simply
Speaker 1: so what not would? All right? Every play has to
Speaker 1: be played independently, I mean, and you know, never get
Speaker 1: too high, I never get too low in the midst
Speaker 1: of all things, and keep going. You know, last player
Speaker 1: is over, good or bad? How are we gonna respond
Speaker 1: to the next play? How are we going to attack
Speaker 1: the next play? So I think it's um, it's a
Speaker 1: good start for us. I'm with the dog mentality and
Speaker 1: we just want to be consistent. A lot of things.
Speaker 1: We need to clean up a lot of things. I
Speaker 1: need to clean up. Um. But go go back to
Speaker 1: work and enjoy for twenty five hours and we'll be
Speaker 1: back working. Yeah. Yeah, you know, you don't turn the
Speaker 1: ball or you want to turnover about it. That's a
Speaker 1: big thing, you know. That's that usually thives like a
Speaker 1: seventy four percent chance, seventy two percent chance you win
Speaker 1: the game if you don't turn the ball over. So, UM,
Speaker 1: good good that we didn't do that. Um, can't turn
Speaker 1: it over on downs. You know, we want to execute
Speaker 1: and do a better job of that when we have
Speaker 1: our opportunity to do it if we're gonna play aggressive.
Speaker 1: So it all comes down a few things, right, come
Speaker 1: down to connecting, being on the same page. We talk
Speaker 1: about that. It comes down to executing and knowing what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to do, being on the same page to
Speaker 1: execute at a high level. And UM, it's just you want.
Speaker 1: We want to do that on a on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: So so, UM, I don't know your question, but I'm
Speaker 1: anna answer. UM. I mean we prepare. Um, we prepare
Speaker 1: with the intent to go out there and play our
Speaker 1: best ball every time we touched the field. That's what
Speaker 1: That's what we worked for. You know, this is this
Speaker 1: is what we do. So, UM, just having a right
Speaker 1: focus and practice. And I think practice went well. I
Speaker 1: think practice was intentional and how we sought after it
Speaker 1: and how we went about it every day. So I'm
Speaker 1: happy to end the week. Would it would have wind
Speaker 1: you shoul look at something. I just wanted to win
Speaker 1: the football game. For my team. All Right, we heard
Speaker 1: from a handful of players head coach Nick Sirianni as
Speaker 1: the Nick Sirianni era has officially be gone, Fellows, would
Speaker 1: you think of some of the things we heard from
Speaker 1: the players. I think it's interesting when we hear from
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and DeVante Smith around the same time. They're
Speaker 1: wired pretty similar. It's like they were cut from the
Speaker 1: same Nick Sabing cloth, if you will. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: a little bit of that cloth too, except that I
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball. I'm a little
Speaker 1: more exciting than these two guys are. But I like
Speaker 1: their temperament and their personality because that's going to rub
Speaker 1: off on the rest of these guys. They're young right now,
Speaker 1: so they defer to the Jason Kelsey's and the Brandon
Speaker 1: Brooks and the Lane Johnson's of the world. But eventually
Speaker 1: these guys will be the leader of the team, and
Speaker 1: these are the type of mindsets and and um temperaments
Speaker 1: you want to be the dominant force in your locker room.
Speaker 1: Listening to all these guys, including coach Sirianni after the game,
Speaker 1: they're obviously excited and happy they got their first win,
Speaker 1: but to a man, each one of them say, there's
Speaker 1: just one. It's just the first game, twenty four hours
Speaker 1: to enjoy it, and then we get back to work
Speaker 1: to get ready for next week. So with that type
Speaker 1: of mentality, that's going to carry you a long way.
Speaker 1: You got to keep the highs here and the lows here.
Speaker 1: You see that's even killed. You see that friend, that's
Speaker 1: even But you know I'm trying to take after Jalen
Speaker 1: and Davante Smith a little bit. They don't want me
Speaker 1: even killed on this show. I want to me like
Speaker 1: just listening to this press conferences. Look, it's like you said,
Speaker 1: they're coming off their first win. Everybody's excited, but you
Speaker 1: kind of get that sense that this team all kind
Speaker 1: of vibes well together. Right. It's a lot of really
Speaker 1: good things being said both on and off the field
Speaker 1: about this team and how they're all jelling together. They're
Speaker 1: strong of both lines of scrimmage. They've got speed at
Speaker 1: the skill position. On offense, you've got a defense that's
Speaker 1: flying around trying to create turnovers. And it's a team
Speaker 1: that really seems to care about each other. That's a
Speaker 1: really good recipe. It's one game, but I'm excited about
Speaker 1: what direction this team's heading. All right, let's dig into
Speaker 1: some XS and note shall we. Earlier this afternoon, Fran
Speaker 1: was able to break down a big play from the game,
Speaker 1: so let's head to his Rico review. All right, So
Speaker 1: for the Rico review, we really can't start anywhere else
Speaker 1: but with DeVante Smith's first touchdown as an Eagle. Woul
Speaker 1: happened on the opening drive. If you're an Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: you love the season, starting with the way that they
Speaker 1: did getting the ball into the paint. Let's see how
Speaker 1: it all happened. What you see here pre snap, You've
Speaker 1: got a lot of white jerseys down on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. A pressure look here from the Falcons on
Speaker 1: third down, the first third down of the game for
Speaker 1: this Eagles offense. Now across the board, when you've got
Speaker 1: that pressure look, it has a look of man to
Speaker 1: man coverage for Jalen Hurts with a single high safety.
Speaker 1: So you have an idea that there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: blitz with man coverage behind it. So now the Eagles
Speaker 1: have a great play call to attack this coverage, and
Speaker 1: all they're gonna have is Davonte Smith working down the
Speaker 1: field on a slot fade. The reason why you like
Speaker 1: this running from the slot is that now he gives
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts plenty of room. There's lots of real estate
Speaker 1: to drop this ball in. If DeVante Smith runs this
Speaker 1: from outside the numbers and works down the field, a
Speaker 1: lot less real estate for him to be able to
Speaker 1: drop that in right with a corner right on his hip.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have Davonte Smith running the slot fade.
Speaker 1: And the other important aspect to this is you're gonna
Speaker 1: create a little natural rub here with zach Ertz working
Speaker 1: inside and setting up in a little bit of a
Speaker 1: ball route, a little snag rout here from zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let this run for a second. And it's
Speaker 1: really important for zach Ertz here to not be called
Speaker 1: for a pick here, not be called for offensive pass interference.
Speaker 1: He has a right to this grass. He does a
Speaker 1: nice job of getting his eyes back to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And then the angle that DeVonta Smith takes running right
Speaker 1: off of Zach's hip, that creates some separation from the
Speaker 1: corner number twenty two, and we can let this roll.
Speaker 1: You can see the throw from Jalen Hurts again plenty
Speaker 1: of space, lots of real estate out there for him
Speaker 1: to drop this throw in to Davante Smith. The Eagles
Speaker 1: go up seven to three. Great start for this Eagles
Speaker 1: offense earlier in this game. Now is your chance to
Speaker 1: vote for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player of the Week
Speaker 1: to cast your vote and get a chance at a
Speaker 1: brand new Toyota this week. The three nominees for the
Speaker 1: Toyota Player of the Week our Javon Hargrave, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: and DeVonta Smith. There's jay Von Hargrave him the d
Speaker 1: line got after it, eating it up this week against
Speaker 1: the Atlanta offensive line. There he is having some fun.
Speaker 1: Look at the boys. Go. Jalen Hurts, He's next up
Speaker 1: for this weeks um nominee for Toyota Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: He went twenty seven thirty five two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four yards, three touchdowns and played a pretty clean game.
Speaker 1: Look at him using those feet areas got him Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard in the end zone. Nice and settled tosses it
Speaker 1: up areas. DeVante Smith, speaking of the rookie, He's nominee
Speaker 1: number three this week. Six reception, seventy one yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown himself. There he have it, guys, three nominees
Speaker 1: Toyota Player of the Week. What do we think? Oh,
Speaker 1: only hurt one name Jen? I mean, nice job from
Speaker 1: Devonte Smith and his rookie debut first catch, four touchdown
Speaker 1: which he had a guy in that ball. I hope
Speaker 1: they found a way to get it to him. And
Speaker 1: then jay Von Hargrave, the big free agent signing from
Speaker 1: last year. Nice to see him come out first game.
Speaker 1: It was a party at the quarterback and he was
Speaker 1: leaning it. Two sacks for him. But this game was
Speaker 1: about Jalen Hurts. Man about Jalen Hurts. If you watched
Speaker 1: Eagles game plan this week, if you listen to the
Speaker 1: Eagle of the Sky podcast, if you watch the kickoff
Speaker 1: show before the game, we talked about how big of
Speaker 1: a test this would be for Jalen Hurts. To me,
Speaker 1: he passed that big test with flying colors. Ye love
Speaker 1: it well. On the Week two right, We're gonna look
Speaker 1: at Week two on the Jamison Nightcap the film off.
Speaker 1: Eagles will be hosting the San Francisco forty nine ers
Speaker 1: here at Lincoln Financial Field next Sunday at one o'clock.
Speaker 1: This week, San Francisco defeated Detroit forty one to thirty three.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget last year San Franz finished six and ten,
Speaker 1: not too hot coming off of that Super Bowl year.
Speaker 1: And there we go again with that big win over
Speaker 1: Detroit this week. Guys, what do we think about next week?
Speaker 1: It looks like San Francisco's defense is struggling a little bit.
Speaker 1: Detroit was able to put some points up on them
Speaker 1: thirty three today, so it looks like the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: will have some opportunity just to make some plays. San
Speaker 1: Francisco playing in back to back road games, played in
Speaker 1: Detroit this afternoon and have to come back out here
Speaker 1: to the East Coast to play next week in a
Speaker 1: one o'clock game. I like the Eagles, and the only
Speaker 1: thing is is you have to make sure they remember
Speaker 1: Week two. Last year. Eagles played the La Ramps very
Speaker 1: similar often a lot of struggles right with all the
Speaker 1: different eye candidates, a new defensive scheme with a lot
Speaker 1: of the same issues that that offense can present. So
Speaker 1: the Eagles will have another big mental test here this week.
Speaker 1: We'll see if the Eagles can keep things rolling, and
Speaker 1: that's it for us here at the Novacare Complex. For
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rigo, I'm Gabriella de Givanni,
Speaker 1: and for fran Duffy and I Greece. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next week.