Speaker 1: It's Saturday night, and it's time to celebrate. Here on
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico, I'm Chris McPherson alongside
Speaker 1: former Eagles linebacker I Greece. The Eagles victorious for the
Speaker 1: third time in the preseason, and once again in dominating fashion,
Speaker 1: a thirty nine to twenty six victory over the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. But the big story ike, of course, the
Speaker 1: performance of Sam Bradford, a perfect ten of ten, guiding
Speaker 1: the Eagles to a twenty five to nothing lead at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter. Yeah, great job Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford tonight. We wanted to see him for an extended
Speaker 1: period of time. We got a chance to see him.
Speaker 1: I believe for three drives. He scored a touchdown on
Speaker 1: every drive that he was out there at tenth to ten,
Speaker 1: got the ball out of his hands decisively, gave his
Speaker 1: his receivers and running backs a chance to run after
Speaker 1: they caught the ball. I thought he displayed perfect touch.
Speaker 1: His best word on my opinion, was to touchdown to
Speaker 1: Tredy Burton where he had to stand there in the
Speaker 1: pocket take a big hit coming right down the pike,
Speaker 1: and he was able to do that without flinching and
Speaker 1: give Trey Burton a pass that only he could catch.
Speaker 1: So on the night Darren sprowls with a receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Trey Burton, he had two scores, Brent Sellick
Speaker 1: had a touchdown, Jeff mel contributed one, and you had
Speaker 1: to pick six from the defense, Walter Thurman chipping in
Speaker 1: picking off the rookie Brett Huntley and taking the ball
Speaker 1: back to the house to pad the lead. So the
Speaker 1: Eagles in all three faces, dominating the Packers to come
Speaker 1: out victorious again thirty nine to twenty six. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from head coach Hi Kelly and quarterback Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: in just a little bit, and we're gonna take your
Speaker 1: phone calls here two one five three, two zero five
Speaker 1: one seven zero is a phone number, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: welcome in great co sell from NFL Films a little
Speaker 1: bit later in the show, as he's gonna break down
Speaker 1: the all twenty two to showcase exactly why the Eagles
Speaker 1: came out victorious. Now, Ike, we're now three cords away
Speaker 1: through the preseason. It's getting to the nitty gritty time.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have to get to the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster a week from now? What do you what do
Speaker 1: you take from this Eagles team at this point? What
Speaker 1: do you what have you learned about the philadelph Eagles
Speaker 1: going into the twenty fifteen season. Well, first and foremost, Chris,
Speaker 1: I think they've been the most precise team this preseason
Speaker 1: so far. Their offense is operating with precision. They've scored
Speaker 1: more points than anyone else so far through three games
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I like what I've seen, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: mission accomplished for the preseason. They have not lost any
Speaker 1: significant players due to injury. Through these first preseason games.
Speaker 1: You wanted to see Sam Bradford get his first action,
Speaker 1: and over a year they were able to do that
Speaker 1: in just two games. He looked very confident out there
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, he wrote, and he operated the offense
Speaker 1: with efficiency. I'm telling you, man, through three weeks the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and I know it's only preseason, and I've seen enough
Speaker 1: preseason games through these three weeks around the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and there's not a team of the thirty two that
Speaker 1: look more like in sync than Philadelphia Eagles. And I
Speaker 1: know it's all three of their phases and their first
Speaker 1: team has only been out there for a short period
Speaker 1: of time, but they look like they're already in mid
Speaker 1: season form as a whole team. In my opinion, it's
Speaker 1: interesting because there are a lot of questions about how
Speaker 1: much should you play some of these key players because
Speaker 1: of the fact that you want to make sure that
Speaker 1: they're ready for the start of the season, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, you don't want to get guys injured.
Speaker 1: You look at Green Band the area lost Jordy Nelson
Speaker 1: for the season. They didn't have three of they didn't
Speaker 1: have three of their starting alignment in for the game tonight.
Speaker 1: They also lost Raynald Cup early on in the game.
Speaker 1: Don't know how long that is for. But nonetheless, you
Speaker 1: have to balance at where you don't want to be
Speaker 1: too conservative and not have your guys ready for the
Speaker 1: start of the regular season, but you obviously do want
Speaker 1: to protect them. Now. A veteran team like Green Bay
Speaker 1: they know what they have in Aaron Rodgers, but the
Speaker 1: Eagles are still learning about the likes of Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: and DeMarco Murray in this offense. That's why it was
Speaker 1: imperative for them to get those guys out in the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean green Green Bay's in a totally different situation
Speaker 1: than the Eagles are in. They brought in. The Eagles
Speaker 1: brought in a lot of players this solf season, so
Speaker 1: there needs to be cohesiveness that needs to be formed.
Speaker 1: When you look at Green Bay, I think they returned
Speaker 1: all twenty two of their starters. They lost Jordy Nelson,
Speaker 1: but they still have the majority of their starters on
Speaker 1: offense and defense. They want to get to the regular
Speaker 1: season game. Tonight's game isn't a true indicator just how
Speaker 1: good the Eagles were offensively. Yeah, Green Bay had their
Speaker 1: first team defense out there, Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson
Speaker 1: does not play defense, so they would not have been
Speaker 1: able to stop Sam Bradford in this offense tonight. But
Speaker 1: when I look at the Eagles defense and the way
Speaker 1: they performed tonight, we can only take it so far. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you got a third stream quarterback out there who's a rookie.
Speaker 1: They're missing significant weapons at the other positions. Eddie Laces
Speaker 1: out of the game early, Ramblew Carbat the one catches
Speaker 1: out of the game. So you got to take what
Speaker 1: the Eagles were able to do defensively with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt, But tonight was really about the offense. The
Speaker 1: first extensive action for the starting quarterback in Sam Bradford,
Speaker 1: and I thought he passed to Night's tests with flying colors.
Speaker 1: You were able to see a lot from short passes,
Speaker 1: touch passes over the top. They had the running game
Speaker 1: going as well. I mean, I'm anxious to get the
Speaker 1: season starting. I know it's only been a small sample
Speaker 1: of watching this offense being ran with Sam Bradford under
Speaker 1: the center. I believe less than thirty thirty five plays,
Speaker 1: maybe a thirteen last week fifteen to night, So maybe
Speaker 1: less than thirty plays in two games for Sam Bradford.
Speaker 1: But from what I've seen in those two games, my
Speaker 1: mouth is watering waiting for this offense to take the
Speaker 1: field Monday night in Atlanta. It was very reminiscent. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Monday night games, go back to the two thirteen
Speaker 1: season when we were waiting to see the offense come
Speaker 1: alive for the first time in game action. That's what
Speaker 1: it reminded me here tonight when you saw them in
Speaker 1: that debut against the Washington White Redskins, and you saw
Speaker 1: the tempo for the first time come to life, and
Speaker 1: you were like, are we seeing a new brand of football.
Speaker 1: Is this something that we've never seen before? It at
Speaker 1: least felt that way into Eagles fans because you didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was going to be until it was
Speaker 1: fully unleashed on the football field, and then you saw
Speaker 1: it in that Week one game. It seems like that's
Speaker 1: a feeling I kind of had tonight coming into this
Speaker 1: game where look, we got a small taste, a small
Speaker 1: glimpse of Sam Bradford in the win over Balmer last week.
Speaker 1: This is where we kind of, I think, saw more
Speaker 1: of what we can expect down the line now that
Speaker 1: he's getting fully ingretiated into his offense. And make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it, when the Eagles hit you early in games,
Speaker 1: you had better be ready to recover and get back
Speaker 1: there and ready to play defense. When this offense is
Speaker 1: coming at you, it puts you on your heels as
Speaker 1: a defense. It started with the opening kickoff what Rahei
Speaker 1: mostered sixty seven yard kickoff retire, setting the Office offense
Speaker 1: up in great position with a short field, and the
Speaker 1: next thing you know, the Eagles are rolling. It didn't
Speaker 1: look like the Green Bay Packers were able to catch
Speaker 1: their breath until the Eagles were up twenty five to nothing.
Speaker 1: That's when the game seemed to slow down for the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, And that'll be a real threat for
Speaker 1: every team that the Eagles face this year, is can
Speaker 1: you keep up with the tempo in the pace that
Speaker 1: this offense is going to come at you, when they're
Speaker 1: picking up first downs, when they're completing passes, when they're
Speaker 1: able to roll and they're not being stopped by ineffectiveness
Speaker 1: of their own on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: ie negative plays in the run game or incomplete passes.
Speaker 1: Those are benefits for the defense. But when the offense
Speaker 1: it's rolling like they were tonight, almost unstoppable. How much
Speaker 1: you have to factor in that the offense was running
Speaker 1: at the tempo that had and teams don't, especially in
Speaker 1: the preseason, prepare for it. It's harder for a defense
Speaker 1: to get used to it for if you're seeing it
Speaker 1: one time throughout the course of the season. But in
Speaker 1: the preseason game like this one, Green Bay I'm sure
Speaker 1: wasn't really game playing that much for the tempo. How
Speaker 1: much you have to take that into consideration. I mean,
Speaker 1: you certainly have to. But the bottom mind is this
Speaker 1: is the way the Eagles want to play, and of
Speaker 1: course the game may I've looked a little and the
Speaker 1: Eagle's favor. All right, we'll gon do now said at
Speaker 1: the Lambeau Field here for head coach Chip Kelly. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: shots shots fired? We are you looking at the table
Speaker 1: finding something to Uh? No, I thought Sam played well,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought he was really poised out there.
Speaker 1: I had a real good command of what we were doing,
Speaker 1: really located the football. I thought he played really well
Speaker 1: for us. We just talked about, you know, a couple series,
Speaker 1: so just see how it would, see how it was
Speaker 1: going to express itself. So I thought, after we had
Speaker 1: three drives, you know, three touchdown drives, we felt we
Speaker 1: felt comfortable with that. We got some good working for him.
Speaker 1: So now Kiko tried to run around his legs bothering
Speaker 1: him a little bit. So he tried to run around
Speaker 1: a little bit pregame, and uh just didn't feel one
Speaker 1: hundred percents, so held him out. No, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's his No, it's not his knee, it's not his an.
Speaker 1: It's just a little nagy meed leg injury. I don't
Speaker 1: know particularly what he is. A tendon nightis or something
Speaker 1: like that. So he should be fine. Sorry for anyone
Speaker 1: out here that had any doubts about Sam Rader coming
Speaker 1: in here and visit all that time, the zeals, I
Speaker 1: didn't have any debts on Sam, So I know, I'm
Speaker 1: not concerned with what people else I think. So I
Speaker 1: concerned with those three inside backers can go as him.
Speaker 1: We'll go into Atlanta having not played, assuming played together,
Speaker 1: to have limited vs. Yeah, it's not a concern for us.
Speaker 1: I think we got real good death and Inside under first.
Speaker 1: I mean, they all you got to look at the film.
Speaker 1: But I think you know, we're we're we're. Um, we
Speaker 1: did some nice things tonight. We don't need to continue
Speaker 1: to build on it, you know. Um, we still haven't
Speaker 1: didn't have Zac. You know. I think he's he's another
Speaker 1: component that we can add to it. Um, Josh sat
Speaker 1: out tonight. He's another guy that we can add to it.
Speaker 1: So um, but I was pleased with how they played
Speaker 1: in the three series of those guys were in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a leg. He just kind of tweaked it
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. We're just being precautionary with him. If we
Speaker 1: were playing a game, he would have kicked tonight. So
Speaker 1: he's he's it's nothing that we're overly concerned with. Give
Speaker 1: kIPS some reps. So um, but if it was, if
Speaker 1: he had a kick, he could have kicked to night
Speaker 1: really pretty Yeah he did. I thought he was sharp,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think, uh, starting a round in
Speaker 1: the form, you know, he's he's uh, he's always seems
Speaker 1: like he's going north and south. You know, I think
Speaker 1: there's um. But he also I think people forget. I
Speaker 1: think he had fifty five catches last year, but he's
Speaker 1: a real good receiver out of the backs, so he
Speaker 1: had you know, I think in that first couple of
Speaker 1: drives he had six carries and two catches, so he
Speaker 1: touched the ball eight times in those in those first
Speaker 1: three drives. But uh, you know, you're starting to see
Speaker 1: that explosion that that um you know we've all seen,
Speaker 1: you know, from the other side. Now, it's good to
Speaker 1: have him on our side. Yeah, we're not really game planning,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they were game planning through, so
Speaker 1: you know, you can't say, hey, they were, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they just kind of look out and they
Speaker 1: got a personnel out and they're kind of you know,
Speaker 1: just looking at it to its Um, but I think
Speaker 1: Darren and we've talked about trying to get the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands more. And obviously, you know you hit
Speaker 1: him on a shallow crossing route that's a three or
Speaker 1: four yard pass and he turns it into a big game. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's just a great weapon to have on
Speaker 1: your shot on the two point conversions. Yeah, we just
Speaker 1: want to try to see, you know, get a couple
Speaker 1: of things on tape. We can take a look at
Speaker 1: him tid I don't know where the breakdown was on
Speaker 1: the on the first one, but well we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at film and see what happened. No, he could
Speaker 1: have come back in what else do you want to
Speaker 1: see at a Sam gonna go back now? I think
Speaker 1: like anybody, I mean, there's just we always can continue
Speaker 1: to improve. So I think as we get uh, you know,
Speaker 1: every day, I think. And that's the great thing about
Speaker 1: Sam is that he's not going to rest on anything
Speaker 1: he's got to. Um, you know, he's come back from
Speaker 1: he missed a lot of football coming into this. But
Speaker 1: I think he's playing well right now, but he can
Speaker 1: always get better and um be sharper and you know
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing I love about And we'll be
Speaker 1: back out in the field on Monday, UM, firing and around,
Speaker 1: trying to trying trying to get better, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to get a better rapport with the receivers, get a
Speaker 1: better understanding of where they are. Um. So there's there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of a lot of things for us
Speaker 1: to work on. Try that was our move. That's what
Speaker 1: we did this week. That was just his turn. And
Speaker 1: you know, we still got two weeks before we play
Speaker 1: uh Atlanta and we finalize that. But we've we've used
Speaker 1: a lot of different combinations and um, you know, try
Speaker 1: to make an educated decision on what's the best best
Speaker 1: combination of five out there when we go to Nicols.
Speaker 1: Now we just it just how it's expressed itself. We
Speaker 1: still have two more two more weeks of training and
Speaker 1: we'll still go ones on ones, you know this week
Speaker 1: where we get a chance to you know, seeing guys
Speaker 1: matched up with Jordan and some of those guys that
Speaker 1: we put in a slot, so you feel you feel
Speaker 1: good about what these guys are. Yeah, we still got
Speaker 1: two weeks, so we're we're I think we're all comfortable
Speaker 1: in our progression in terms of where we are so small.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's quick. Yeah, and this is his first year.
Speaker 1: Well he yeah, he did it in college, so I
Speaker 1: you know, I think Sam's just shop. Sam's a really
Speaker 1: good football player, so I think he's he's been real
Speaker 1: comfortable in it. I think he enjoys it. So defense practice, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't put a whole you know, stock. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of game planning that goes on
Speaker 1: in games like this. I know we didn't do a ton.
Speaker 1: I know Mike probably didn't do a ton. You're still
Speaker 1: trying to get better, so you know you didn't. They
Speaker 1: didn't have specific matchups and kind of how they did things.
Speaker 1: They're just kind of running their stuff more running our
Speaker 1: stuff though. First game. Yeah, I mean I think they're okay.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I really wouldn't. We're looking at inside linebackers
Speaker 1: unless they make a splash player like a sack or
Speaker 1: an interception of things like that. You really got to
Speaker 1: look at the tape so specifically about quarterback, but plays
Speaker 1: given them any U tangible when it comes to making it. Now,
Speaker 1: we were just trying to see what going for two
Speaker 1: was like. So I no, I think we didn't. We
Speaker 1: didn't look at it that way. So a few big plays,
Speaker 1: although they weren't on the screen. Game. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: you know something we gotta It's a little bit to
Speaker 1: do with the rushing, a little bit to do with
Speaker 1: the coverage in terms of being able to close it
Speaker 1: down turn it back to your help. But those are
Speaker 1: things Usually we've we've been a very good defense against screens.
Speaker 1: I think our defensive line does a great job sniffing
Speaker 1: those out. So and then sometimes it may be the
Speaker 1: play call may have been a real jet rush up
Speaker 1: field and they're getting upfield. Um, but you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you got to give I think green Bay called them
Speaker 1: a kind of the appropriate time. I think it was
Speaker 1: one of those games we get a couple of screens
Speaker 1: on them. I kind of it was one of those
Speaker 1: deals where they where everybody seemed like they were getting
Speaker 1: up field towards the quarterback. So I think the screens helped.
Speaker 1: So thanks guys. All right, there's head coach Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: addressing the media following the Eagles thirty nine to twenty
Speaker 1: six went over the green Bay Packers. We are going
Speaker 1: to hear from quarterback Sam Bradford in just a little
Speaker 1: bit now. One of the positions I want to touch
Speaker 1: on here, like real quick inside linebacker. We saw Michael Kendricks,
Speaker 1: we saw Demiko Ryans make their preseason debuts. Great to
Speaker 1: see Demiko out there after he missed the second half
Speaker 1: of last year with the achilles injury. However, Keiko Alonso
Speaker 1: did not suit up. There's a chance that he could
Speaker 1: play in that final preseason game, which usually don't see
Speaker 1: the starters in for that contest. So what do you
Speaker 1: make of the fact that we have not yet seen
Speaker 1: Alonzo to his point in the preseason. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they're gonna take their time with trying to bring
Speaker 1: him back his whole concussion that he received a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. We're not sure exactly where he stands with
Speaker 1: the protocol before he's ready to get back on the field.
Speaker 1: But obviously the Eagles don't feel like he's ready to
Speaker 1: go just yet. Would be completely surprised if he played
Speaker 1: in that fourth preseason game. There's nothing the game for
Speaker 1: him playing in the fourth preseason game. He's not going
Speaker 1: to be out there with starters lined up in front
Speaker 1: of him as a front the front defensive line in
Speaker 1: front of him as another linebacker. Mates wouldn't be out there.
Speaker 1: Secondary wouldn't be out there. What's the purpose of Keiko
Speaker 1: Alonso being out there in the fourth preseason game. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna bank on the fact that he's gonna be
Speaker 1: ready to go on Monday Night in Atlanta. But you
Speaker 1: know what, even if he's not ready to play one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the snaps on Monday Night in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: that's the luxury the Eagles have because they have three
Speaker 1: capable starters at the inside position. Michael Kendricks and de
Speaker 1: Mico Ryan's getting their first action tonight. Neither made a
Speaker 1: big splash getting their feet wet in their first game.
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks overran one play, miss another tackle to me,
Speaker 1: totally understandable in his first game back seeing live action.
Speaker 1: Demiko Ryan's wiley veteran, not worried about him. He'll be
Speaker 1: ready to go, win the seasons, ready to kick off.
Speaker 1: So I like what the Eagles have at linebacker. Loved
Speaker 1: their front seven again tonight. Is hard to gauge as
Speaker 1: a unit how well they played because they're playing against
Speaker 1: a rookie and Brett Hunley, who's the third string quarterback
Speaker 1: for Green Bay. He wants to see the execution, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing you want to see out that, and
Speaker 1: the fact that they did lower their level of intensity
Speaker 1: to come down to the competition. Now, is there anything
Speaker 1: since Alonzo, Look, he's going into his third NFL season,
Speaker 1: he didn't play at all in twenty fourteen because of
Speaker 1: a knee injury. Is there any value for him to
Speaker 1: get just a couple reps just to get the feel
Speaker 1: of what it's like once again, Or the fact that
Speaker 1: the Eagles practiced so fast, they're intense workouts that you know,
Speaker 1: that should be enough to at least get them in
Speaker 1: the flow. Yeah, you mean in that fourth preseason game.
Speaker 1: I just don't see the rationale behind playing him in
Speaker 1: the fourth preseason game. He's too valuable to this team. Again,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be out there with starters. He's
Speaker 1: not going to be going against starters from the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. More than likely they're gonna have their backups
Speaker 1: out there. If it's conditioning that we're worried about, stammina
Speaker 1: that we're worried about, he's just gonna have to do
Speaker 1: some extra running, you know, after practice, extra gashers. There's
Speaker 1: nothing like game shape to get you ready. But think
Speaker 1: about this, even if he were to go out there
Speaker 1: for one or two series against the Jets next Thursday night,
Speaker 1: is that gonna make him game ready for Monday night
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. No, it's not the risk, it's not worth
Speaker 1: the reward. In my mind, I think Keiko Alonso, because
Speaker 1: you have Michael Kendricks and Demiko Ryan's as well on
Speaker 1: your team, you can sort of ease Keiko Alonso back
Speaker 1: into the fold. Again, he doesn't have to be a
Speaker 1: three down linebacker at the beginning of the season. When
Speaker 1: he does get his wind up and his stamina is
Speaker 1: where it needs to be to where he's game ready
Speaker 1: where he can play three downs, then it won't be
Speaker 1: a problem. But again, they have the luxury right now
Speaker 1: of having Michael Kendricks and Demiko Ryans and Jordan Hicks
Speaker 1: has seen a lot of game action as a rookie
Speaker 1: in these first three three season games. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: Thursday as well, So if you need it, there's enough
Speaker 1: depth there in the inside you don't have to take
Speaker 1: unnecessary risk with Keiko Alonso. I just think he's just
Speaker 1: too valuable to this team to run him out there
Speaker 1: in the fourth season game. I agree with that sentiment,
Speaker 1: I wonder if Demiko Ryans is like I thought, I
Speaker 1: wasn't playing a thousand snaps again this season. That's the
Speaker 1: one thing. It's Look, it's fine at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season as long as you get to kurtail it
Speaker 1: back at some point. So we gotta work Alonzo in there.
Speaker 1: But Demigo's like, I sign him for another thousand snaps
Speaker 1: again this season, so you shouldn't have to. No. No,
Speaker 1: that was the whole point of making the overhaul at
Speaker 1: the position, which was something that they really want to address,
Speaker 1: one of the top priorities after all the injuries ravaged
Speaker 1: the death last season, where you didn't have Demiko Ryans,
Speaker 1: you didn't have Michael Kendricks before games there. During the
Speaker 1: course of this season, that was a focal point to
Speaker 1: improve the middle of the defense because look, you look
Speaker 1: at the Eagles offense. When you have guys like Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews come out of slot, Darren Sproles who can lamp
Speaker 1: in the slot as well, you gotta be able to
Speaker 1: defend that middle of the field. You need to have
Speaker 1: that interior strength there. You know, what's the strongest point
Speaker 1: of defense. You gotta be strong up the mill. You
Speaker 1: got Benny Logan at the nose. You got three outstanding
Speaker 1: inside linebackers now with Alonso Ryans and Kendricks, and of
Speaker 1: course Jordan Hicks are going to come to his own.
Speaker 1: And then the safety position you have Malcolm Jenkins the
Speaker 1: event and if Walter Thurman, who has just simply been
Speaker 1: all around the football throughout the course of the preseason,
Speaker 1: returning the pick six tonight, and he already had solidified
Speaker 1: the starting spot opposite of Jenkins. But now it's almost
Speaker 1: like an exclamation point at this point. So the Eagles
Speaker 1: want to make sure that that middle of the defense
Speaker 1: is very stout and strong, and I think they've done
Speaker 1: enough to fortify that through the moves that they made
Speaker 1: this preseason in the offseason. Now it is a matter
Speaker 1: of being able to see those guys on the field.
Speaker 1: So in a couple of minutes, we're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: the man who torched the Packers middle of the defense
Speaker 1: and pretty much every way which around it, in Sam Bradford.
Speaker 1: Tonight's You know, I know we had hoped to see
Speaker 1: more of him. What do you think was the one
Speaker 1: thing to impress you the most? I can being able
Speaker 1: to see this ten for ten performance tonight, well, I
Speaker 1: think he did a great job of just picking up
Speaker 1: where he wanted to go with the football immediately and
Speaker 1: then getting the ball out of his hands to the
Speaker 1: right people. A lot of easy throws, not many tough throws.
Speaker 1: I liked the throw he made the Jordan Matthews in
Speaker 1: the slot versus Micah Hide, where he put it up
Speaker 1: high where only Jordan Matthews, who basically is about an
Speaker 1: inch or two taller than Micah Hyde, could go up
Speaker 1: and get the football. That was a great throw. The
Speaker 1: nice little toss the Sprows little touch passed that was
Speaker 1: another great throw from him. I thought to throw the
Speaker 1: Sprows to pick up the key first down Sprows coming
Speaker 1: across the middle, another throw with Bradford hit Darren Sprows
Speaker 1: in stride allowed him to run after the catch. And
Speaker 1: then I thought his most impressive throw was the touchdown
Speaker 1: to Trey Burton where he had to stand in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He went through his first read, a second read, and
Speaker 1: he caught Trey Burton coming across the middle under the rest,
Speaker 1: stood in there, took the hit and still delivered a
Speaker 1: nice catchable ball as you can see right here. Trey
Speaker 1: Burton just I think it's a tremendous job of a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's confident and not only his officsive line of
Speaker 1: protecting him, but he's not thinking about that knee. He's
Speaker 1: not thinking about his knee. He's going through his reads
Speaker 1: that lets you know that that knee feels fully healthy
Speaker 1: to him and he has full confidence in it. I
Speaker 1: think that bodes well for his team as you move
Speaker 1: down to stretch. I was a little concerned as to
Speaker 1: how fast he would get reacclimated to game speed, and
Speaker 1: more importantly, how fast would he get over the fear
Speaker 1: of something else happening to that knee. And it certainly
Speaker 1: appears through the first two games, albeit in a short
Speaker 1: period of time, doesn't seem like Sam Bradford is thinking
Speaker 1: about his knee at all out there playing. And that's
Speaker 1: probably the one benefit of the hits that he took
Speaker 1: last week against Baltimore, Whereas if you look at the
Speaker 1: hits that he was able to take tonight, pretty much
Speaker 1: he was in the pocket. It was a money pocket
Speaker 1: at times, and that's a big thing for a quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's one thing when you have the nice clean pocket,
Speaker 1: you have the red jersey on you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about the you don't have to worry about the
Speaker 1: boys flying around you. But now, speaking of Bradford, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna send it out to lambeau Field and
Speaker 1: here from the quarterback himself, really, you know, and it
Speaker 1: was nice to you know, come off the field, go
Speaker 1: back on, you know, keep that rhythm, you know, and
Speaker 1: just keep firing. I mean you talked about how last
Speaker 1: week was a big step playing one series. How big
Speaker 1: a step? What sixteen days before the openers? This? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it was huge. You know. Obviously it was
Speaker 1: nice to get out there last week, you know and
Speaker 1: play the one series, but you know today to be
Speaker 1: out there, you know for three series, have three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you know, but to be able to come to the sideline, communicate,
Speaker 1: you know, with the offensive line, talk to Chip, you know,
Speaker 1: just about kind of where we're going and what we're thinking.
Speaker 1: I think that was big too. As a quarterback, when
Speaker 1: you look at what you want to accomplish, what you
Speaker 1: want to do, getting better and coming back from all
Speaker 1: these injuries, is tonight the game you're going to look
Speaker 1: at and go, you know, as ray as sharp as
Speaker 1: you want. This is the game I need to have
Speaker 1: it every time out. Um, I think it'd be a
Speaker 1: little bit unrealistic to think that you're gonna have that
Speaker 1: type of a game every time out. But you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, it was just, uh, it was good
Speaker 1: to see that, you know, the work we've put in
Speaker 1: during the week payoff tonight. You know, I thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, our guys up front did a great job,
Speaker 1: not only in pass protection, but we're on blocking as well.
Speaker 1: You know, it seemed like we were just firing on
Speaker 1: all cylinders tonight and we got in a rhythm. You know.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's something that we can continue to do different
Speaker 1: types of throws. Two you stood in there against I
Speaker 1: hate from I think it wasn't got you and leave
Speaker 1: it passed the burden so you can pump your face.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel they're gonna be able to get
Speaker 1: up from first to complete the throw then and be
Speaker 1: able to kind of get up and yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said last week, it was nice to get
Speaker 1: in there. You know, take a few hits. You know,
Speaker 1: playing this position, you're gonna have to be able to
Speaker 1: do that, especially you know fourth down, you know on
Speaker 1: two or three. Uh, you know, most of the time
Speaker 1: they're gonna come after you. They've probably you know, they're
Speaker 1: bringing one more than we can block, and you know
Speaker 1: you just got to hang in there and make a throw.
Speaker 1: How really do you think the offense is for Open
Speaker 1: New Day and for the season. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: still got two weeks a word, you know before uh
Speaker 1: we go out there and play Atlanta. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think tonight was a big step. You know, I
Speaker 1: think we played well. Um, but we're just gonna look
Speaker 1: to build off this twice, you know, on pretty big
Speaker 1: place and everything, Like what kind of demension do you
Speaker 1: think out of precast through office? It's a it's a
Speaker 1: great mismatch for us when we can find him, you know,
Speaker 1: on linebackers, you know, even safeties at times. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got a great feel for you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of those choice routes, you know, especially inside um, you know,
Speaker 1: like the one on down the sideline the wheel. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know we drew that up for that coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: to get him matched up with the linebacker. You know,
Speaker 1: he ran a great route and made a nice catch.
Speaker 1: Everything loves about you is the fact that you be
Speaker 1: able to look at this game and go, you know
Speaker 1: what if there's things I can do to get better.
Speaker 1: So you get back to work. What are some of
Speaker 1: the things that you want to get better at when
Speaker 1: this game where you go? You know what as good
Speaker 1: as this love that still needs to time? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean we'll have to look at the tape. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I missed a few things tonight, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just continue to work, you know, timing and rhythm,
Speaker 1: you know in the passing game. You know, I thought
Speaker 1: it was better than it was last week, but by
Speaker 1: no means is it perfect. Um. You know, like I said,
Speaker 1: we've got two weeks till we play Atlanta. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. You know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's still some things that we're going to put in
Speaker 1: before we play. Uh you know that season opener, And
Speaker 1: just continue to work with the guys, you know in
Speaker 1: that chemistry see them all the backs? Can you can
Speaker 1: catch it and run? Yeah? How much of the levers
Speaker 1: to throw it to the backs when it's a high
Speaker 1: percentage play you can get good yards after Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's huge. Um. Yeah, I think you talked to a
Speaker 1: lot of those defensive guys that truly frustrating when they
Speaker 1: take away everything down the field and then we're able
Speaker 1: to throw a check down, you know in Sprowls or
Speaker 1: DeMarco or Ryan make someone miss and then it's a
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen yard pickup on a play that they had
Speaker 1: good coverage on. And the fact that all three of
Speaker 1: our bast can do that, you know, it's huge. You know,
Speaker 1: certain teams, you know, you know that you know Sprowles
Speaker 1: was coming in the game that it was going to
Speaker 1: be a pass play. But with our backs, we can
Speaker 1: throw it to any of them. Last week about his
Speaker 1: own reading those handoffs really close to that. Were you
Speaker 1: guys doing anything differently post handoff that before? Uh No,
Speaker 1: it was still pretty similar to what we were doing
Speaker 1: last week. The first replays today, um not with me.
Speaker 1: I don't believe two. The first touchdown just rolls and
Speaker 1: it's such a nice touch pass, wheel route or whatever
Speaker 1: you guys call it. You must be still amped up
Speaker 1: to be back playing football again. That's the first drive.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that calm in this offense to be
Speaker 1: able to deliver that inteligent pass in that situation? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things we work on. Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know we throw those with Sproles all the time.
Speaker 1: It's something that you know, in the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks we've got you know, several reps at that and
Speaker 1: obviously you ran a great route tonight and you know,
Speaker 1: I was able to get it to him. Defense, it
Speaker 1: seemed like it was mostly man, you know, especially the
Speaker 1: first couple of series, and I think our wide receivers,
Speaker 1: the guys on the outside, you know, even the tight
Speaker 1: ends did a great job one in those one on
Speaker 1: one matchups. Right, thank you, All right, there's quarterback Sam
Speaker 1: brad Or leaving the podium again. A perfect ten of ten,
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes in a quarter of work. Certainly we've
Speaker 1: seen enough before the regular season opener on Monday, September fourteenth,
Speaker 1: when the Eagles travel to Atlanta to take on the Falcons. Now,
Speaker 1: all the addition to the Eagles at the running back
Speaker 1: position this offseason, I think certainly will help in the
Speaker 1: passing game, and not the way that you would typically
Speaker 1: think ike, but the fact that Darren Sprowles, who was
Speaker 1: the primary backup running back a year ago, can now
Speaker 1: be unleashed in the screen game, be line up in
Speaker 1: the slot you saw him in the touchdown where he
Speaker 1: was able to go on the wheel route and linebackers
Speaker 1: can't match up against him. And even if you bring
Speaker 1: the safety down, now you have two players who have
Speaker 1: to account for them. So I think that his presence
Speaker 1: in the past game is going to certainly help the
Speaker 1: offense that much more. It's just a nice little security
Speaker 1: blanket for the quarterback to half. Yeah. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: said it from the time they sign DeMarco Murray and
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews that I thought the Eagles had the best
Speaker 1: group of running backs in the National Football League. When
Speaker 1: you look at the depth that they have all three
Speaker 1: of these guys, they can hurt you in multiple ways,
Speaker 1: catching the ball out of the backfield, hurt you in
Speaker 1: short yardage. Is a power runner with DeMarco Murray and
Speaker 1: then Ryan Matthews, in my opinion, has had a great
Speaker 1: camp and he looks like a game breaker anytime he
Speaker 1: gets ready to touch the ball. So you know, running
Speaker 1: quarterbacks best friend at times can be a healthy running game.
Speaker 1: It certainly looks like the Eagles through the first three
Speaker 1: preseason games have all three of their main running backs
Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders. Haven't got a ton of carries
Speaker 1: because they're trying to They're trying to get them ready
Speaker 1: for the regular season. But you know, I think when
Speaker 1: a running game is going, that's what's gonna carry this team,
Speaker 1: all right, So it's gonna be time for your phone
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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Carl from DC to the postgame Show. Carl,
Speaker 1: how much did you enjoy the win? Oh? I love
Speaker 1: dever bit of it. One thing I liked and I
Speaker 1: noticed granted out no experts, but the one thing to
Speaker 1: me and looked like is Bradford was not only reading progressions,
Speaker 1: but he has a fast release than folesit and I
Speaker 1: like the ball got out, it hits people in stride.
Speaker 1: And I also loved the way our defense played in
Speaker 1: the first half with kendricks back. I was thrilled we
Speaker 1: exended him. I didn't believe all the stuff with the
Speaker 1: media that Henders was going to go. I just love
Speaker 1: what I've seen the first three games. I can't wait
Speaker 1: till the Beason, especially with my two daughter in law
Speaker 1: being Cowboys fans. Thank you very much for the phone call, Carl,
Speaker 1: And yes, this preseason has been a very nice appetizer
Speaker 1: for Eels fans. I can't recall when the last time
Speaker 1: that I was excited this excited for the regular season
Speaker 1: to get underway. You know, you can go back to
Speaker 1: I don't want to go all the way back to
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, because there have been a lot
Speaker 1: of years where the Eagles you knew that they were
Speaker 1: going to be one of the prominent teams to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. But it's just there were so many
Speaker 1: questions going into this training camp, this preseason, and everything
Speaker 1: has been positive to this point. There have been no
Speaker 1: setbacks of teams whatsoever. I think what we're what we're
Speaker 1: starting to realize, is that a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of the fears have been erased through these first three
Speaker 1: preseason games. When you had a type of turn over
Speaker 1: that this team had this offseason, it makes for a
Speaker 1: very concerned, an anxious fan base, and that's what you
Speaker 1: heard all off season. A lot of us were anxious
Speaker 1: to see what this team was gonna look like. How
Speaker 1: long would it take for them to jail together, when
Speaker 1: would they be clicking on all cylinders, and I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you they far exceeded my expectations as to how
Speaker 1: fast they've been able to come together and look like
Speaker 1: a unit. Again, it's the preseason. I don't want to
Speaker 1: overreact to it, but it looks good. But you can't
Speaker 1: saying about it. Why not good? This is the time
Speaker 1: to be excited about. This is time to be optimistic.
Speaker 1: So one of the plays, as Eagles fans optimistic, it
Speaker 1: was a touchdown that Bradford threw to Trey Burton. It
Speaker 1: was a fourth down right by the goal line, deep
Speaker 1: in the red zone. You knew they had to get
Speaker 1: the six points or they were going to turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. Well, Bradford stood in the teeth of the
Speaker 1: pass rush and was able to deliver the ball over
Speaker 1: the mill to the tight and Trey Burton for the
Speaker 1: first of its two touchdowns on the day. Let's bring
Speaker 1: in great Coasell from NFL Elms to analyze the all
Speaker 1: twenty two of the touchdown. This was the Eagle's second touchdown.
Speaker 1: A beautiful combination of design and tremendous execution by Sam Bradford.
Speaker 1: Now this play starts with Nelson Agila right here going
Speaker 1: in motion, he actually works behind Sam Bradford, and this
Speaker 1: stretches the defense horizontally. Let's clear the screen and see
Speaker 1: that first, because that's important here. This is part of
Speaker 1: the Chip Kelly offense horizontal motion. Now as we start
Speaker 1: this play, frees it right here. What Bradford wants is
Speaker 1: the throw in the flat here to Ryan Matthews. There's
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews. This is what Bradford wants initially, but the
Speaker 1: pressure right here, an unblocked defender, takes this away. So
Speaker 1: Bradford is unable to make the throw into the flat
Speaker 1: to Ryan Matthews. Now, if we keep it right here,
Speaker 1: what you're going to see is a really interesting mesh concept.
Speaker 1: And what we mean by that is you're going to
Speaker 1: have crossing routes coming from both sides, which really causes
Speaker 1: problems for man to man defense. Now what you have
Speaker 1: here is you have Sellek right here, you have Riley
Speaker 1: Cooper right here, and you have Burton right here. Now, Burton,
Speaker 1: the last person I just hit. He's going to catch
Speaker 1: the ball. But what you have to keep in mind
Speaker 1: here is Bradford is under tremendous arrests, so his ability
Speaker 1: to react to the pressure and pick out Burton on
Speaker 1: the throw is really remarkable. Let's clear the screen. Let
Speaker 1: this run. So that's what I mean when I talk
Speaker 1: about a tremendous combination of design with the mesh concept
Speaker 1: creating Burton getting open, but Bradford beating the pressure with
Speaker 1: tremendous execution. You know, we're getting closer to the start
Speaker 1: of the regular season when Greg ho Sell is stepping
Speaker 1: up his fashion game, no question about it. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the phone lines. Let's welcome in Ralph from
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Ralph, welcome to the postgame show for Zenabarrico.
Speaker 1: Thank Sala's nice game again. Today saw a lot of
Speaker 1: good things. I agree with you. I think that we
Speaker 1: got a lot of depth at some key positions. I
Speaker 1: have no reason why they you know, I think they're
Speaker 1: going to finish strong because of that depth. And I
Speaker 1: could see, you know, I don't need Keiko to come
Speaker 1: in if and play every down right away, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as they're winning games. And if I see
Speaker 1: early leagues like three score leagues or twenty point plus league,
Speaker 1: even early in games, I see Sanchez being able to
Speaker 1: you know, hold the lead for them, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm more considered with Sanchez playing straight up and putting
Speaker 1: the game in his hands, but playing with a big
Speaker 1: league I think, you know, Bradford's going to get I
Speaker 1: think a lot of players are going to get a
Speaker 1: lot of rest because of their death, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: finish very strong. Well, I think that's a great point
Speaker 1: round about the death. Now I don't quite agree with
Speaker 1: exactly how they're going to get in the games. Just
Speaker 1: because they're up early, say like tonight it was twenty
Speaker 1: five nothing doesn't mean all right, it's time to bring
Speaker 1: in Sanchez and they'll give graph the rest of the
Speaker 1: night off, because you see how quickly these teams can
Speaker 1: score in the NFL. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: think Chip Kelly wanted to build as deep a roster
Speaker 1: as possible, and I think that's why they've dominated so
Speaker 1: far in the preseason, going against Indianapolis, going against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You see it tonight with Green Bay, three elite teams,
Speaker 1: three teams capable of possibly contending to win their respective
Speaker 1: conference championships and go onto Super Bowl. Well you look here,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Eagles have just as much depth,
Speaker 1: if not more, than some of those other teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really do. I mean, it's really about experience that
Speaker 1: some of the skilled position players for the Eagles, and
Speaker 1: it's about building something towards December. You know, of course,
Speaker 1: you want to get off to a fast start. You know,
Speaker 1: bank bank as many wins as you can at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. But this thing is about playing
Speaker 1: your best football in December and January, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's the way we did it years ago. When you
Speaker 1: build up and you play at your best late in
Speaker 1: the season. It's great that the Eagles are doing well
Speaker 1: right now, but this thing is a marathon. It is
Speaker 1: not a sprint, and you want to start fast and
Speaker 1: you certainly want to finish fast, but it's most important
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are playing well late in the season. Well,
Speaker 1: you go back to two thousand and three when you
Speaker 1: guys went to then MC championship game. You gotta struggle
Speaker 1: out of the gate going oh and two. Now you
Speaker 1: look at last year, the Eagles were nine and three,
Speaker 1: but we'ren't able to get the job done, losing three
Speaker 1: of their final four games. So we're gonna have some
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Speaker 1: presented by Rico Chris McPherson alongside Ike Reese. Now, one
Speaker 1: of the position battles that's coming into focus here is
Speaker 1: the depth. And we've been talking about depth already, the
Speaker 1: depth at wide receiver. So you obviously look at some
Speaker 1: of the players who are locked in here, but let's
Speaker 1: get down to nitty gritty, those you know, five at
Speaker 1: the fifth, six seventh spots there on the roster. You
Speaker 1: don't quite know how many we'll make the fifty three
Speaker 1: roster put some tough decisions here. When you have guys
Speaker 1: like rookie Rashid Bailey, who's doing very well, and then
Speaker 1: you have veterans like Miles Austin and Jeff Mayo Team
Speaker 1: I mean, I happen to believe Chris that's there are
Speaker 1: six spots that are already spoken for at the receiver position, Aguilar.
Speaker 1: You see as year two two, who's brought in here
Speaker 1: for a special teams. Miles Austin and Raley Cooper bringing
Speaker 1: the veteran presence. They're bigger ride receivers. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to block on a perimeter. And then obviously you
Speaker 1: got Josh help is gonna make it. But the young
Speaker 1: guys and I like Rashid Bailey and Jeff Mayo. Jeff
Speaker 1: Mayo has found a way to uh come into his
Speaker 1: third training camp and make plays whenever the ball is
Speaker 1: thrown to him. The other thing you gotta like about
Speaker 1: Jeff Mayo is that he plays special teams. He's out there,
Speaker 1: he doesn't He's not afraid to stick his head in
Speaker 1: there on kickoff, go down to make a tackle. So
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at those younger guys, that
Speaker 1: could be possibly kept around to continue to develop. At
Speaker 1: the top of my list, I would go with Rashid
Speaker 1: Bailey and Jeff May as the young guys that you
Speaker 1: would think about keeping a route here for practice squad
Speaker 1: purposes so that they can can continue to develop as receivers.
Speaker 1: Jeff mal Wentz wait six spots locked in, Not so fast.
Speaker 1: He had a touchdown reception from Mark Sanchez tonight. Let's
Speaker 1: bring back Greco cell to break down the all twenty
Speaker 1: two other touchdown from Sanchez to Mail. Sam Bradford, as
Speaker 1: we've seen, had an excellent game against the Packers, very
Speaker 1: very efficient, completed all of his passes. Mark Sanchez also
Speaker 1: had a very good night. And I want to show
Speaker 1: you sanchez first touchdown pass. And it's really a principle
Speaker 1: that the Eagles use very effectively with shallow crossing routes
Speaker 1: in the red zone. And actually you'll see right here,
Speaker 1: this will be Jeff Mail inside. It's a three receiver
Speaker 1: set to the left, what we call a three by
Speaker 1: one set, three receivers to one side of the formation.
Speaker 1: Mail is the inside slot receiver here and he's being
Speaker 1: played actually man to man by this corner. Now what
Speaker 1: happens very often when you see shallow crossing routes is
Speaker 1: the man to man defender will pass him off to
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker right here, and that's what happens here.
Speaker 1: The problem is the inside linebacker does not play with
Speaker 1: great awareness and Mail ends up breaking free. So let's
Speaker 1: clear the screen and let this run a little bit. There.
Speaker 1: You go freeze it right about here, and you can
Speaker 1: see on the edge of your screen to the right
Speaker 1: that there's Mail and the linebacker right there does not
Speaker 1: do a good job of really accounting for Jeff Mail,
Speaker 1: so he's open on the shallow cross and Sanchez hits
Speaker 1: him for an easy touchdown. As we let this run.
Speaker 1: This is actually not a difficult throw. It's a well
Speaker 1: executed play, and just like Sam Bradford, Mark Sanchez was
Speaker 1: very very effective in the red zone as the Eagles dominated.
Speaker 1: Thanks great good to see the mail get delivered on
Speaker 1: the weekend. Still have to work the bad pun in there.
Speaker 1: Come on, we reached that point of the show, like,
Speaker 1: what did you think of Tim Tebow coming under two
Speaker 1: point conversions? We haven't really delved into that tonight. I
Speaker 1: thought we were gonna stay strictly positive to night Man
Speaker 1: I mean the two point conversions. I'm listen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: deferred to Chip here. Chip said that he got some
Speaker 1: stuff on tape. It's you know, they'll look at the
Speaker 1: film and see where the miscommunications or the breakdowns were
Speaker 1: on both of those plays. I thought the running play
Speaker 1: had a chance to get in there because Tim Tebow
Speaker 1: is a big guy. And don't be surprised if that's
Speaker 1: not a setup play for a play that they ran
Speaker 1: in Florida that Tim Tebow was famous for running calling
Speaker 1: the jump pass when you throw the ball to the
Speaker 1: tight end. So the second two point conversion I thought
Speaker 1: was sort of screwed up from the beginning. It was
Speaker 1: just too many people and his throwing lanes didn't really
Speaker 1: have a chance. But I like the fact that Chip
Speaker 1: he hadn't gone for two points this far, so far
Speaker 1: in the preseason in that role. From the start. Everyone
Speaker 1: said they brought Tim Tebow to be the two point specialists,
Speaker 1: and I like seeing it didn't work. Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the phone lights. Now, let's welcome Paul from Virginia
Speaker 1: to the postgame show for zeb Rico. Paul, what do
Speaker 1: you think of the win? I thought the win was
Speaker 1: very exciting. It was nice to see Sam Bradford's accuracy. UM.
Speaker 1: I think he did pretty good last week, but today
Speaker 1: he really he really put his accuracy on his play. UM.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense is really good. I thought the
Speaker 1: coverage was really good. UM. But on a on a
Speaker 1: another note, I would like to see personally a better
Speaker 1: pass rush. UM. I think our runs, our run defenses
Speaker 1: was excellent today. UM, it's a lot better than it
Speaker 1: was yesterday. I mean last week we really struggled last
Speaker 1: week for the first team. UM, But our pass rush,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks having way too much time back there, and
Speaker 1: with man coverage, it's just a matter of time before
Speaker 1: somebody start to get open. Paul great point, and I
Speaker 1: think that's something that the Eagles had to figure out now.
Speaker 1: Bill Davis very crave defensive astermind can come up all
Speaker 1: kinds of blitz schemes and you can see it in
Speaker 1: the preseason. You want to see basic execution. But still
Speaker 1: that third outside linebacker spot is one of the ones
Speaker 1: that we've been wanting to see. And that's a good
Speaker 1: question that Eagles still have to figure out these next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Maybe Marcus Smith is healthy, he could
Speaker 1: be in that role. You have Brad Jones, but Vinny
Speaker 1: Curry is the guy who I think that could have
Speaker 1: an expanded role, you know, being able to rush from
Speaker 1: the edge spot there. Yeah, nice officers racing from park.
Speaker 1: There's one thing I could knit nitpick at that they
Speaker 1: would like to see them improve upon, and that's putting
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback. He's right, he had a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback back there. They seem to have a lot of
Speaker 1: time to throw the ball in the preseason game. Billy
Speaker 1: Davis is not going to show his hand by bringing
Speaker 1: a bunch of blitzers that he would use in a
Speaker 1: regular season. But I would have liked to have seen
Speaker 1: some of our pass rushers get after that offensive line
Speaker 1: that young quarterback early in that first half. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, if there's anything you want to nitpick at
Speaker 1: and find something to work on this week, there you
Speaker 1: go right there. I gotta be some negative. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: this is some coaches, believe me. Coaches they look for
Speaker 1: small things to have for teaching points. They never want
Speaker 1: the players to get too full of themselves. They want
Speaker 1: them to remain hungry. This would be something they'll work on.
Speaker 1: You have been a natural coach the way you nitpick everything. No, man,
Speaker 1: they work too hard. Coaches weren't too hard. I like
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