WEBVTT - Post-Game Show: Eagles Win 16-15 Vs Bears 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.440 Eagles team, special teams, defense. I thought it was a 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.080 hard fall game. And then Doug Peterson icing former Eagle 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.240 Cody Parking late in the game. My goodness, take a 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.640 deep breath, Take a deep breath. We're still alive. What 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.960 a game? Five and advance. You already have to go 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.800 one and out in this game. Come into this game. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.799 You knew the Eagles were gonna be undermanned. Okay, the 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.240 Eagles at battle injuries throughout the course of the season 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.800 to get to this point, fairly healthy for the most 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:32.879 part with the players they had. But you looked at 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.720 this Bears team. This is an outstanding Bears team, a 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.559 very sound team that was great at taking away the 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.320 football this season, had two more turnovers on the day 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.320 force takeaways today. Also is a great job of protecting 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.600 the ball. There are some passes there to be had 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.600 for the Eagles and Avante Max Tray Sullivan in the 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.960 end zone not able to come up with them. That 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.560 bizarre end of the first half play we're crave on 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.640 the blog with the strip that really really I think 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.680 saved the game for the Eagles because the Bears are 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.080 on their way to get a touchdown at that point 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.560 instead they are kept out of the end zone. And 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.679 the Eagles actually had a streak going back to the 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.520 Washington game where they shut out Washington last week seven 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.800 consecutive chorus without allowing a touchdown. That ended in the 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.480 fourth quarter as the Eagles allowed the Bears to get 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.120 that lead. But with one last opportunity, Nick Foles comes 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.840 out and with key clutched conversions on third down and 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.920 then the fourth down touchdown passed the Golden Tate. Okay, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.520 Golden Tate was acquired at the trade deadline. If you 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.959 remember for a third round pick, you know there were 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.280 some you know, struggles trying to work him into the 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.240 offenses figure out exactly how he would best fit. Well, 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.800 that move paid off in a huge, huge way, the 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.360 biggest play of the season, and look, Ty had some 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.200 amazing catch up throughout the course of the game. You 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.600 remember that one pass he caught over the battle he 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.560 takes a hit from Sherrick McManus. Obviously it was a 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.440 Bank Bay play, very very tough to hold on to 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.680 the football, but huge cast to move the chains at 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.560 the time. So Golden Tate, knowing that he may only 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.000 have one more opportunity to impress the Eagles, because you 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.840 remember he is a free agent after this season. Okay, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.240 so with one more opportunity to impress the Eagles, he 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.760 comes up in a huge way with the game winning 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.600 touchdown and again the defense doing just enough to make 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.160 it a deep enough field goal, I mean, just all 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.720 around a tremendous, tremendous performance. This is a team that 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.680 has rallied around one another. This was, as you said, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.680 like the ultimate team effort to come out here to 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.280 get the win on the road. That that is a 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.440 soldier field crowd. That's way since two and ten for 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.360 a home playoff game two and ten, and that place 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.400 was raucous. That's the one thing you forget about is 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.919 the Eagles on the amazing run a year ago. It 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.680 was Lincoln Financial Field, Lincoln Financial Field, and then in 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.760 the Super Bowl friendly confines of US Bank Stadium, it 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.520 was a pro Eagles crowd. They have not had to 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.360 face this at any point. Nick Foles, even going back 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.000 to his other playoffs start twenty and thirteen, never had 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.720 to face a raucous road crowd. He stepped up to 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.440 the attast today and of course he had a couple 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.960 of mistakes during the course of the game. The two intercept. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.840 But when all was un the line, when the season 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.919 was on the line, nick Foles steps up and delivers 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.680 and just adds another chapter to his amazing, amazing legacy. Yeah, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.280 just a big game. I mean, listen, that's what big 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.239 time quarterbacks do. When you struggle early in the game. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.400 It's not about what you do early, it's about how 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.200 you finish the game. And the great quarterbacks in this 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.560 league they can overcome early struggles in the game. And 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.560 I expected some of these struggles. Give Chicago's Bears defense 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.640 a lot of credit. That's the number one defense in 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.880 the league. Is hard to score on this team. It's 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.200 difficult to move the ball on them. They don't give 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.960 up very many big plays. They make no dinking dunk 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.440 down the field, forcing you into a mistake. Eventually in 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.400 the Eagles had a couple of mistakes early in the game, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.120 but again, Nick Foles has been in this position before. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.720 Wasn't gonna whittle through the tough part of this game. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.320 Able to overcome that stuff, and when they needed him 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.720 late in the game, he was able to make the 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.840 big throws. He was able to stand in the pocket 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.840 under durest under some heat at times, and deliver some 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.720 big throws to al Sean to Dallas Goddard to Golden take. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.160 This is why you brought Nick Foles back. This is 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.040 why you held on the Nick Foles when teams were 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.720 acquiring about Nick Foles around the draft last year and 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.479 the Eagles asking price was as high as it was. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.240 This is why, because you need to have a quarterback 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.479 like this that can do this in these type of moments, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.800 and not very many teams have a backup quarterback that 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.000 can play this well under these circumstances, under these conditions 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.520 on the road, in a playoff atmosphere, Nick Foles worth 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.479 every penny the Eagles are paying help. And this is 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.200 why you brought him back. Man. What an awesome, awesome 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.080 win for this team today. Just absolutely, Let's just go 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.400 through the final drive here, okay. First play of that 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.359 final drive, the game willing drive. The ends with a 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.920 touchdown to Golden tap fifteen yard pass Alshan Jeffrey going 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.160 against his former team that alone got the ball in 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:58.359 bearss territory. It was key because the Bears punter horrible punt. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.200 They gave the Eagles great Philip as a and the 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.240 field position battle was heavily in favor of the Bears 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.280 throughout the course of the day, but the one time 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.360 that they needed they made a mistake. Foles helped make 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.720 them pay. Okay, then you have Dallas gotd You mentioned 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.359 Dallas Goddard touchdown in the third quarter to give the 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.479 Eagles a lead from ten yards out. Another big catch 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.279 here on the final drive where they did the fake 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.640 screen twice, then they went to gave it to God 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.400 or the dump off for ten yards. Then Nelson Agilor 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.600 gets a pass in a flat, jukes a defender and 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.320 gets eight yards. And how about zach Ertz not being 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.720 placed on either of the all pro teams, an absolute 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.720 sham in and of itself after one hundred and sixteen 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.200 catches during the course of the regular season, reaches above 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.119 his body, Chris Collinsworth kept using the term going above 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.159 the rim, extending his arms above him to get the 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.560 first down catch over the middle of the field. That 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.479 a Smallwood run, Wendell Smallwood. You know comes from big plays. Actually, 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.480 I will actually say his biggest play might have been 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.359 a pass block in the first half of the game 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.440 an oncoming defender. Okay, you get to the two minute warning, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.320 and then the other big play here, a third and 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.360 nine pass complete to alshon Jeffery to get the ball 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.960 to to yard line. They tried it a couple times 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.760 to get it in with Darren Sprowles. They get down 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.920 to the fourth down situation. First they try to get 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.480 to Jeffrey on third down. Kyle Fuller give a credit 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.560 to him for the nice pass breakup. You figured that 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.640 would have been the sweetest Hollywood ending right there, because 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.880 Alshan really wanted to take it to his former team today. Okay, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.719 not able to get the touch, So you're wondering what 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.159 is Doug gonna call on fourth down? What could he 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.360 pull out of his bag of tricks here? With the 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.760 season on the line, you want to say that you're 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.680 still the defending champions after this game. What's it gonna 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.880 take to keep that momentum going? That's West Coast offense 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.479 Playwright sprint Wright, that sprint Wright playoffs saying that play 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.640 roun a whole lot. You know what, I don't know 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.800 if it's the exact play. You've been to the great points. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.440 Let's go back in time Folds his rookie season twenty twelve. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.320 Jeremy Macklin as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was almost 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.800 I would almost love to see those plays side by side, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.680 right that I think. I think it's almost identical, the 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.600 same play. And that was Fules first career win. It 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.920 was the last win for Andy Reid as a head 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.160 coach of the team. You know, it was the one 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.680 bright spot on what was a very down twenty and 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.920 twelve campaign, but set the tone for Foles moving forward, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.080 and he's led the Eagles to not just the Super 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.400 Bowl title, but keeps their hopes alive here in twenty eighteen. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.360 I was just hoping that when the Bears were driving 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.200 at the end there it was not gonna be another 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.960 situation like Foles's first playoff game two thousand and thirteen, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.360 or they're playing against a New Orleans Saints. It's at 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.520 Lincoln Financial Field. Foles leads the Eagles on a go 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.880 ahead drive in the fourth quarter, ends with a touchdown 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.120 to Zach Ertz, but then Darren Sproles with the big 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.560 kick return, Carrie Williams with the horse collar penalty and 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.280 it pretty much gives him a short field and they 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.559 end up getting the game winning field goal. Almost happened again, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.400 but Doug Pearce and having the time out using it 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.160 to ice Cody Park at the perfect time, and Cody 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.840 Park has been unreliable. That that was kind of the 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.920 one week link going into this game for the Bears. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.400 And sure enough Parky is not able to deliver Park 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.920 If you remember rookie season had a Pro Bowl campaign 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.640 for the Eagles, suffered an injury I believe it's in 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.120 twenty fifteen, a second season, and just was not the same. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.760 He's bounced around a little bit, so everyone thought he 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.320 found his home in Chicago. Big part of a run 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.440 again that this Bears team twelve and four, biggest loss 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.920 of the entire season was to the Patriots by just 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.160 seven points. So to go to Soldier Field, okay, where 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.600 the Bears had lost just one game, that Patriots game, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.640 that was their only lost at Soldier Field all season long. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.600 To go there in that raucous environment okay, and for 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.040 the most part, for the most part, of the Eagles 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.040 outplay them. The question was going to be with those 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.720 missed opportunities, a couple penalties that extended Bears drives, some 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.840 balls that were batted in the air that they couldn't 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.480 come down with for interceptions. You were wondering, was that 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.920 going to be enough to kind of keep the Bears 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.400 in the game long enough that if they got a 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.439 score two they would pull out the win. Well, I 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.920 tell Christ, the difference in this game was the red zone. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.000 I mean, that's that's the flat out difference to me 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.199 in this game the Eagles. The Eagles were two and 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.160 three or two up three excuse me, in the red 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.760 zone converting getting touchdowns, and the Bears were or in three. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.560 They were over three in the red zone. Listen, the 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.760 Bears and the defense did what they wanted to do today. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.440 They held this high powered Eagles offense over the last 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:25.000 month to sixteen points. They got two turnovers off the Eagles. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.880 The Bears defense did exactly what they wanted to do. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.240 The difference in this game was the Eagles defense. In 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.000 my opinion, they were able to keep this Bears offense 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.760 to just fifteen points, and when the Bears were able 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.000 to move the ball and get in scoring position, the 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.600 Eagles were able to hold them to field goals. You 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.440 mentioned the craveon Craive von LeBlanc play. That's a huge 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.440 play right before the half. I mean, because if the 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.800 Bears even just recover that ball, the Bears have the ball, 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.640 what at the ten yard line somewhere around there, right 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.040 there in scoring position as it is, they get a 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.200 field goal out of it and the six to three 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.880 instead of with a possible touchdown and making it ten 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.600 to three in favor of the Bears. So I think 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.800 the Eagles defense was outstanding to day. It's a tricky 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.840 offense to have to defend because Matt Niggie likes to 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.319 do so many different things with Mitchell Trubisky. Trubisky wasn't 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.360 as effective with his legs today as he had been 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.040 throughout the year. I thought the Eagles defense had Nigel 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.000 Bradham sort of spying on him at times. Yeah, I 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.640 thought i Vante Maddox had an outstanding game early in 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.760 the game. They started to get some plays on him 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.600 late in the game, but I thought for the most part, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.319 he did an outstanding job early in the game, and 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.040 that front four was able to get at the Trubisky 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.600 all day. So I look at the way this defense 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.160 played man to hold that team the only fifteen points 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.800 old for three in the red zone, that's really the 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.040 difference in the game. I mean, if I'm a Chicago 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.360 Bears defense and I say I hold this Eagles offense 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.360 to just sixteen points and I got two turnovers off 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.360 of you. Yeah, you feel like you should have won 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.840 that game. Here's the thing you mentioned, the red zone defense. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.280 Eagles number one red zone defense in the league this season. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.679 People might forget that. Everyone talks about the Bears the 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.280 vaunted pass rush with Khalil mac and Leonard Floyd and 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.800 all the amazing things that that unit did this season. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.120 And look, that unit is a huge reason why they 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.000 went twelve and four. But the Eagles, they were able 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.559 to strap it down. I'll use Crabon LeBlanc's nickname there. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.680 They strapped it down inside the twenty yard line to 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.640 have the best red zone defense in the league. You 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.080 mentioned Mitchell Trubisky and his legs. Well, there was the 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.920 third down run early in the first half where he 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.319 runs out of bounds and you could tell he pulled something, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.640 pulled up a little bit, went into the medical tent, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.040 and he was basically forced to be a pocket passer. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.600 I actually think he was dealing as a pocket passer. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.720 He would do much more than I expected, because typically 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.520 he has beaten teams with his legs first and foremost 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.560 on the season. Okay, I believe he finished fifth in 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.400 the league. Someone in his top five in rushing yards 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.880 amongst quarterbacks. You're probably thinking Mitchell Trupisky. You're not thinking 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.120 of him as one of those guys. Well, look that's 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.240 what you've done. Very good athlete. And he's not afraid 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.040 to keep going for extra yards. Most quarterbacks once they 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.840 get in a position where defenders coming, they're just gonna slide. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.000 He'll put the shoulder pads down and try to get 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.200 a couple extra yards. As youthfulness exactly, Yes, little naive 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.680 there so to speak. There if you look at the numbers, say, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.640 look he had completed over sixty percent of his passes 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.640 over three hundred yards. There, had a touchdown, you know, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.320 throw to Alan Robinson there in the fourth quarter. I 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.280 mean I thought when he was forced to be containing 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.280 the pocket, he made some nice plays. Good arm, it's 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.440 a live arm, yes, And there were some questions about 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.640 that because he had a shoulder injury that he suffered 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.400 about midway through the season just before Thanksgiving that sidelined 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.520 him for a couple of games and Chase Daniel, former 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.520 Eels great, had to come in in his place there. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.720 So there's some question whether he's had some residual effects 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.520 from that injury. But you see you see the numbers there. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.240 The biggest thing there rushing yards just not okay, so 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.880 the front four was able to get after him. You know, 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.679 Michael Bennett had a sack of this game. They were 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.440 able to get to him a couple of times. But 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.000 pretty much what that helped the Eels do was drop 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.280 everyone else into coverage. Okay, maybe you're using bram as 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:59.880 a spy, but you were able to drop everyone else 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.560 in the coverage to try to take away the other 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.480 playmakers in that offense, and for the most part they 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.640 were containing I mean, Taylor Gabriel. You didn't hear his 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.400 name called much at all. Alan Robinson, he had the 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.160 big touchdown cast, he had a good day. All that's Look, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.160 that was a matchup coming into this game where Alan 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.480 Robinson sixty three, Avontae max Is five nine, Right, Okay. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.520 The one thing down the stretch where the Eagles won 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.679 their last three games and they've had Rasul Douglas and 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.240 Avonte max In as a starring corners is teams have 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.959 not been able to test them vertically down the field. Okay, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.800 the Bears were the first team to be able to 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.960 do that with a little bit of success. But again 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.640 it didn't really happen until the second half of the game. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.800 And you know, gi give the Bears some credit. Okay. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.040 They were taking advantage of the tendencies where they were 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.680 doing a lot of receiver screens bubble screens to try 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.840 to get yards after the catch, and that's where they 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.760 caught Maddox on the big touchdown play to Alan Robinson 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.520 or Max thought was going to be a screen in 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.840 the flat well, all of a sudden, Alan Robinson does 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.800 a little double move, goes up the sideline and comes 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.640 up with the touchdown. So you know, credit Mattneggie for 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.840 the play called there. But again, when you're the Eagles defense, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.199 and again you're using the guys the front four, you're 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:05.839 not do a whole lot of rotation. You get a 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.600 little more rotation inside. Okay, because Tim During is back healthy. Now, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.960 holy Na has been the best. Yeah, holy No has 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.640 been the healthiest he's been all season long. But really 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.960 at the end, you're going Brandon Graham, Chris Long, Michael Bennett, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.000 those are your guys, okay, And in this type of environment, 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.440 in this playoff atmosphere, those are the guys you're going with. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.640 These are the ballots as a veterans who have won 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.440 championships in this league, So those are guys you have 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.880 to go with. But still it is still difficult to 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.960 be able to go there, down after down after down, 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.280 to try to hold an offense that has been good 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.960 for most of the season to only just fifteen points there. So, 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.960 once again, the Eagles beating the Chicago Bears sixteen to fifteen. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.800 Golden Tape two yard touchout reception on fourth and goal 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.880 to put the Eagles ahead, Windows Smallwoods two point conversion 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:55.880 attempts just yeah, it's a little short, Okay, we're trying 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.240 to stretch that rule of breaking the play in there. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.880 Okay by a lega absolute millimeter. It didn't quite happen. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.320 So the Bears get the ball back Cody Parkey, a 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.200 forty three yard attempt goes off the left upright to 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.520 end the game. We're gonna hear shortly from head coach 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.560 Doug Peterson and quarterback Nicko amongst others. I'm sure let 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.880 me tell you something about that play with Windel Smallwood. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.800 The crazy thing is he actually fumbled the ball, yes, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.360 and and if the Bears had recovered it and ran 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.000 it back. They would have a seventeen to sixteen leads. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.600 So that was a live ball that the Bears could 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.080 have recovered and ran back for a two point conversion. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.080 Always pick up, gotta pick up the ball. You gotta 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.440 pick up the ball. Pick up the ball. That bizarre 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.720 play at the end of the first half. So what 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.640 happens is Anthony Miller of the slot receiver catches a 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.080 ball down the seam against Craven on the blank yeah, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.920 and as he's going down to the ground, what Blanc 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.320 is able to get the ball at the very last second. Okay, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.480 so on the field they called it incomplete. But the 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.040 way that Miller came down with the ball, he got 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.680 a couple of feet down then the ball came out. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.600 So the referees go to review it and they're like, well, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.480 there is a fumble on the play. There's only there's 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.920 and it looks like a catch. It's a fumble. But 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.720 here's a problem. There was no recovery because the referee 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.560 is right away blew the play debt. Okay, everyone is saying, 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.280 why don't the Eagles go pick up the ball? Trey 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.800 Sullivan is there waving incomplete Corey Graham was around on 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.360 the Playlet's set the soldier field, Hey, coach Doug Pearson 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:25.119 on the way over the bears right the sprint out, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.760 Nick sprint out the golden tape. Why that play? Actually 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:30.960 that was a third play in a row that we 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.640 ran down there. The first two plays actually had that 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.400 killed attached to it. It was a kill play. It 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.320 was a run kill to that play. And uh, we 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.160 just you know, I just Nick and I we talked 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.400 on the sideline and we said, you know what, let's 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.680 let's let's just run the sprint out. Um. So, actually 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.400 that was that was the third play in a row 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.560 that we ran and well executed. Succession successfully ran that 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.240 play in two thousand and twelve to win a game 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.640 in the last second touchdown to Jeremy mcliff. You think 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.840 you were calling he called Tampa Bay. Yeah, yeah, this 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.040 one too. I mean, now it was it was it 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:04.760 was still part of the game plan. I mean, we 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.760 just we knew that. Uh, I had a feeling that 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.320 that that coach fan Joe, he's a zero blitz guy. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.320 When you kind of got to have it, and and 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:13.800 I felt like that there was the best thing to 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.200 do was get him on the move at that time 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.639 to be still pretty emotional for the lock croup that 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:23.080 something in my still do actually I know, okay, yeah, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:28.240 I am I disagreet, weird. I mean just just overwhelmed. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.720 I mean, that's a good football team. And uh, um, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.920 you know, Matteggi did a great job this season, and 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.560 and my hat's off to him and and that Chicago 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.919 Bear team. It's it's a tremendous football team. And and 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:40.760 quite frankly, just for us to come in here and 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.159 just just hang together for sixty minutes. We knew it 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.560 was going to be, uh that type of football game, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.359 and um, we hung in there. We made wasn't pretty 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.600 good times, but we made the plays when we needed to. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.200 And and my hat's off to to our guys and 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:58.000 and then and my coaches like the legend of being 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.680 able to continue to do this, that final drive you're down, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.040 comes down the field, down to that last play on 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.800 board down, I mean, he just always seems to get 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.760 it done in the biggest moments. Yeah, and you know, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.359 and he had let's had some help. Um, you know, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.560 Golden obviously making the play at the end. Alshall made 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.800 a big catch, Dallas made some huge catches act. I mean, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.800 just go around the around the room there, and um, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.000 you know, Nick is Nick is Nick. He's gonna stay calm, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.360 he's gonna stay collected. Um, just you know, very efficient. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.920 You know. It wasn't uh again, it wasn't pretty good times. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.520 I know that. You know, the two turnovers early in 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.879 the first half which could have led to some points. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.680 But you know, he hung in there and and did 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.640 some good things for that final drive there and set 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.600 up for the field. But what's going on and in 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.720 your mind in that situation, well, we were still talking 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.280 scenarios for us offensively. Um, I still had one time 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.080 out I think at the time, and you know, um 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.000 just preparing to get the ball back and and see 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.600 how much time we had and just kind of getting 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.199 ready for the next series, keeping that time out in 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.000 case you had to start going the other way. Yeah, 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.800 I mean we could have. There could have been several things, obviously, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.639 I mean, you know, um, but uh, you know, it 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.560 turned out to be a pretty good decision to save 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.359 it on the on the final play the game. Cody 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.439 and Parky earlier in the game work, So were you 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.080 thinking to yourself, do I do it or not do 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:19.600 it or you were just gonna go, Hey, I was 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.760 doing it regardless. I was doing I wasn't even thinking 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.000 about the first half. I was gonna use it. Wasn't 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.080 gonna take it with me. But what is it? What 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.440 is it about Nick Fole puts him that makes him 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.560 different in those moments? I mean, he had the middle 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.680 of the game, then the last four minutes were no 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.479 matter what we've come to. Maybe I'm realistically you know, 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.480 it's it's playing it's playing quarterback in the National Football League. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.679 It's it's not always gonna be pretty. Um and and 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.320 you know, but you have you have confidence in your offense, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.679 you have confidence in your quarterback, and you know you 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.800 put it, uh quite frankly, put it in his hands 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.840 to to win. And you know, he just does a 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.240 great job of just staying staying in the moment, staying calm, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.320 and uh, you know, no panic. There was no panic 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.600 on on offense or on the sideline. And um, even 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.320 after we punted the football there, um it felt like, 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.320 you know, defense got a three and out. We just 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.880 offensively just say, hey, we're gonna put a drive together 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.560 and score and and uh, you know, well we set 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.159 our mind to it. We did it be able to 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.959 do everything that normal would do. Was he limited by 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.160 the Yeah, now now he actually did did everything. Um, 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:25.800 you know we had to walk through on Wednesdays. There's 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.239 not a ton of throwing there. And then Thursday, you know, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.560 took everything on Thursday and Friday. So, um, he had 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.680 a normal week. When you when out showing, I called 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.040 that first down passed down to the two you had 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.240 two runs called first Well, those are the two those 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.159 are the two plays that had that kill attached to it. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.879 We still had plenty of time and and uh, you 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.400 know so at the time out there and and uh 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.960 you know it's a run killed a pass. So we 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.760 kind of had the best of both worlds there. Um, 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.000 and you know, credit the Bears. They came off the 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.080 edge with the outside back or there and and uh 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.760 and tackle us and and for we were able to 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.120 finish the drive first down in the first half. Second 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:05.560 half kind of switched out up a little bit. Was 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:07.280 that was that the plan? A little bit? You know, 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:09.040 I probably could have you know, called a few more 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.720 passes on first down early in the game, particularly on 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:13.760 first down. So I mean I'll look at that, uh, 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:19.800 you know, tomorrow and get better is the experience experience 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.680 for you guys, especially in that you guys have done 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.960 this before. You team. Well, yeah, I think I think 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:28.640 there's a lot of confidence in the in the room. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.080 You know, the team. Um, guys understand that you know, 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.840 everything matters, every play matters. Um, these games, these these 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.000 these these postseason games are gonna you know, they're gonna 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.840 be full sixty minute games and um, you know, and 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.600 just uh it's just a matter of I just just 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:47.480 staying in the moment. You know, I don't let things 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.040 to get too to too too big for us. And 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:54.080 uh you know, UM rely on your playmakers to make plays. 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.639 And you know, I do think that being in this 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:59.040 situation last year has has prepared us for this for 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:03.840 this time. Was the message to the players. Message basically 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.119 was was, uh, you know, team effort, great team effort. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.080 Um you know part of part of uh you know, 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.200 to to just to go one to know each week 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:17.120 and gives ourselves an another opportunity next week. And um, 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:21.199 guys are excited, guys are thrilled, but uh, we know 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.240 that we've got to clean some things up and get 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:28.240 ready for next week. Consider calibern on and you faced 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.840 side with the way the offensive line up that our 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:32.840 offensive line did some did some great things. I mean 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.359 they really held up well. Um, you know, without looking 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:37.840 at any numbers, I don't I don't know what the 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:42.120 sacks or pressures hurries are. But um, you know gave 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:44.280 gave Nick some time to throw and push the ball 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:48.400 down the field. And you know, uh sometimes sometimes uh 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:50.120 you know it's gonna happen that way where you gotta 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:51.679 you gotta throw a little bit more than you'd like to. 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.960 But uh, our offensive line did did a nice job 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:59.480 this year. Your thoughts about going back and trying to 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.160 make some of Yeah, it wasn't It wasn't very good 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.560 the first time. And you know, um we'll take a 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.600 look at that film. Uh, we'll take a look at 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.280 this one. I think I think we're we're a different 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.639 football team now than we were then. And you know, 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:14.199 we just got to put a good plan together in 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:16.960 all three phases and uh, you know, go back down there. 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:18.520 We're on the roads. Canna be an domes can be 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.280 loud again, all those things, and um, it's gonna be 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:24.840 a great atmosphere at all. With Eddie Jackson not playing. 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:26.760 I know he obviously can make a big difference back there. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.639 Yeah no, it didn't. It didn't. Yeah, No, we stuck 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.080 to what we had. A lot of guys were talking 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.040 about this week there by the end of the day, 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:36.440 we're going to be the better defense. Let's talk about it, Brandon, 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:38.360 talk to not a lot of guys. Did we're your 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.440 defense to come in here and really contain them and 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:42.760 most of the game with all the injuries you've had. 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:44.879 What does it say about this defense that you know, 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.840 kind of patchworth guys out there at times pretty big 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:51.760 getting It just shows that one they're they're getting better 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:53.960 as a unit, playing together with some of the young 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:57.480 guys that are out there. Um, I think I think 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.439 Maddox is playing well. LeBlanc is playing well in the 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.440 back end. You know, Trey has come on. I wish 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:04.639 you would have cut the ball there at the end 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.600 of the half, but but he's been coming on and 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.760 and really resolve resules. He's done a nice job here 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:13.440 down the stretch. And those young players are just getting 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.640 valuable experience and um, that's what it takes. And then 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.119 our defense has a lot of confidence right now. We 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:20.919 know that it starts up front with our with our 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:23.920 front four UM putting pressure on quarterbacks and trying to 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.960 stop the run. And um, you know they did a 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:34.359 nice job today. Thank you. All right, this is the 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:37.560 scene in South Philadelphia expected a lot after Dallas got 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.480 it scored a ten yard touchdown in the third quarter 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:44.639 to give the Eagles the lead. What an absolute amazing 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:46.560 scene down there. We showed you at the start of 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:49.880 the show the reaction after Cody Parkey missed the field goal. 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:54.080 You see drinks flying around. Everybody's celebrating. What an amazing, 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:57.280 amazing place to be to witness the Eagles knocking off 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.480 the Chicago Bears. Now, let's take a look our tag 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:03.440 for social media feature to see what some people are posting. 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:07.119 And they've got Kobe Bryant goes Eagles emoji, thank you, 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:10.720 next black mambo. He knows, he knows how to clothes. 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.040 He's in the clutch right there. Mike Trout, he was 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:19.320 just too he's too excited. He gave capitalize all the 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:23.480 letters there, get the fly Eagles fly lecture. Yeah, Mike, 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:26.320 See he come to Philadelphia, gets experiences more often like 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:28.960 Ryan Howard deep when he won a World Series with 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:31.880 the Phillies. Okay, big piece checking in What a game 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:36.120 congrats to the Eagles, on to New Orleans. Let's go Birds. 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:39.520 So Doug Peterson addressing the media, we're gonna hear from 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:41.600 quarterback Nick Foles, possibly some others. I would I mention 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:44.439 golden tape. Probably gonna need to come to the podium, 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:48.800 this podium game exactly, you know. So Doug Peerson talking 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:51.120 about how that final play, the game winning pass touch 0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:54.360 up pass two golds, it was indeed a sprint out there, 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:57.920 like you called, very similar to Foles' first career game 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:01.639 winning touchdown against the box in twenty twelve. It's actually 0:26:01.640 --> 0:26:04.280 it reminded me of how a lot of similarities between 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:06.600 this and the Falcons playoff game a year ago. The 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.360 scores were eerily similar fifteen ten Eagles, this one sixteen fifteen. 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.359 But the final player of that game, which if you remember, 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:16.120 the entire defense called, was a sprint to the right, 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:19.520 and of course Jail Mills there to make sure that 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:22.760 Julio Jones doesn't come down with the ball inbounds passing 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:27.120 complete in the Eagles get the victory. There So, so 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:29.760 also asked about the next round gonna be taken on 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:33.520 the New Orleans Saints. This Eagle's team since then, it's 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:36.000 one six of seven. Let me tell you much different 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:39.000 team than when they faced off earlier this season. Yeah, well, 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:42.080 and we'll have time to get it. Yeah, we'll have 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:45.040 time to get into this matchup. But I guarantee you 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:49.119 these players know exactly how they felt leaving New Orleans 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:53.399 about six weeks ago at the Saints basically ran the 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:55.640 score up on them late in the game. So that's 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:58.640 going to be added motivation for these guys going down 0:26:58.640 --> 0:27:00.639 there next week, and they're gonna need The Saints are 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:03.680 good football team. Believe me, I played in that dome 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:07.720 when they are loud and raucous. It is a tough 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:11.240 place to play. But this is a championship tested team 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:14.760 that the Eagles are. I thought today was a difficult 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:19.439 environment to thrive in. They managed to overcome some early 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.760 struggles and overcome that crowd in Chicago. You know, the 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.520 Eagles fans weren't able to take over Soldier feel like 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:28.240 they've done and some other cities. Chicago has a very 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.679 good football fan base, and you knew that they were 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:33.160 going to be loud today, and I thought the Eagles 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:36.639 they were able to overcome that crowd, overcome the energy 0:27:36.680 --> 0:27:40.399 of that crowd and really feed and create some energy 0:27:40.440 --> 0:27:43.000 themselves sort of to feed off of. I thought our 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:47.040 defense played outstanding the day. They've really carried this momentum 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:50.000 that they started to build throughout the last weeks and 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:54.880 it really reached its peak last week in Washington when 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.399 they were able to shut the Redskins out, and that 0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:00.320 was good. Going into this game, thought they had confidence. 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:04.239 Against an inexperienced quarterback like Mitchell Trubisky, you're gonna need 0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:06.960 to pose much more of a threat to them. And 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.120 like you said, we talked about the red zone defense 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:11.719 being the number one red zone defense in the league. 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.280 We'll give you some things underneath. We'll give you some 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:16.679 stuff underneath, but we're not allowing you to get in 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:18.640 the end zone. And that's what the Eagles were able 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:21.159 to do today, keeping the Bears out of the end 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.680 zone when they were in the red zone three times. 0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:26.439 You mentioned the inexperience of Trubisky, and that's probably the 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:28.560 biggest reason going to this game that I felt the 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:31.640 most optimistic for the Eagles chances, especially when you're kind 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:33.200 of trying to figure out who would you want to 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:35.040 see the Eagles play in this first matchup and you're 0:28:35.040 --> 0:28:36.959 gonna take whoever you get. But when you look at 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:39.280 the matchup with the Bears, the Eagles have handled themselves 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:42.040 against very good defenses in the past. You look at 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:44.640 the run to the Super Bowl last season. Okay, remember 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:47.000 they have faced the number one defense against Denver during 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:49.280 the season and put up over fifty points on them 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:52.400 NFC Championship game. What did we hear the entire week 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:55.560 leading up to that game? How are the Eagles gonna 0:28:55.560 --> 0:28:57.920 score well? As a team? They put up thirty eight 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:00.800 points thanks to that pick six also from Patrick Robinson. 0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:04.360 So Doug Pearson knows how the game plan against very 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:07.160 good defenses. I like the fact that you had an 0:29:07.160 --> 0:29:10.840 inexperienced quarterback on the other side because all the pressure 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:13.640 was on the Bears. Again again, I say, how this 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:18.240 is their first home game since twenty ten. Okay, this 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:22.080 is a second year quarterback who has made huge strides 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:23.880 out the course of the season. Look, he threw twenty 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:27.240 four touchdowns against twelve interceptions. Good second year for him, 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:30.000 But he didn't make the leap that Carson Wentz made 0:29:30.000 --> 0:29:31.800 from year one to year two where you're talking about 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:34.440 him as an MVP candidate. You're looking at Trabisky as 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.120 kind of the guy to you know, be the game manager, 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:40.040 so to speak. The defenses was gonna win it for us. 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:42.360 Just make sure you don't turn the ball over, take 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:44.840 care of it, and don't get caught up in the atmosphere. 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:47.160 I gotta be honest with you. He played well today. 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:49.000 He did play well. He played well today. He didn't 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:52.440 turn the ball over. Listen, over three hundred yards against 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:55.040 this Eagles defense. That's something he can sort of hang 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:58.400 his hat on. Really drove his team down the field. 0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:00.880 He got him in position. Yes, so you played a 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:03.360 good game, but again Eagles kept him out of the 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:06.000 end zone. Kept him out of the end zone over three. 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:08.920 That's really the difference. Even with Nick struggling with a 0:30:08.920 --> 0:30:11.240 couple of turnovers, he was still able to get this 0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:14.600 team in the end zone with two critical touchdowns, including 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:17.040 that final drive where he was able to hit Golden 0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:20.000 Tate for the game winning touchdown. How about Golden Tate? 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:23.440 Many people wondering whether or not Howary Roseman made the 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:25.440 right move giving up a third round pick the brain 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:29.000 Golden Tate in I always felt, Chris that you wouldn't 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:32.880 be able to justify bringing Golden Tate in with just 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.080 numbers throughout the regular season, you pick him up in 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:38.000 the middle of the season, it's difficult for him to 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:40.640 come in and all of a sudden become the focal 0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:42.480 point of your offense when you have the type of 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:45.160 weapons that are also on the offensive side of the ball. 0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:48.920 Always felt the way you would justify bringing in Golden 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:52.640 Ta the postseason. Eight making the postseason, so the Eagles 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:55.200 were able to do that, and then his play in 0:30:55.240 --> 0:30:59.080 the postseason. He's a veteran obviously looking forward to this opportunity, 0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:01.800 and I thought the day the five catches that he 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:03.920 made the seam, at least four of them were big 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:07.560 catches that he made, including that game winning touchdowns. So 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:10.800 having a guy like that a calming presence, and then 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:13.160 trying to find a way to fit him and Nelson 0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:16.880 into the offense when they basically played the same position. Yeah, 0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:19.080 they played the same position, but you want to try 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.800 to use both guys, and so they got to move 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:24.640 them around. And I thought today he was huge, coming 0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:27.680 up with some tough catches and in some key moments 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:30.600 of the game. I mean, if you ever wonder why 0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:32.280 you go out and make a move for a guy 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:34.720 like that, This is why you do it, because once 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:37.479 you get to the postseason, you need as many veteran 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:39.840 laden players that will be able to rise up to 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:42.360 the occasion. As you can look at the Jji acquisition 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:45.640 last exactly came up huge in the postseason for the Eagles. 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:47.800 Contribute through the course of the regular season, but really 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:49.600 made his mark there in the playoffs to health the 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:53.120 Eagles get the Super Bowl Championship. The irony is not 0:31:53.240 --> 0:31:56.600 lost on me that we needed the Bears their help 0:31:56.880 --> 0:31:59.040 to get into the playoffs to begin with because they 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:01.840 had to knock off minute So the week seventeen, they 0:32:02.040 --> 0:32:04.520 help us get in and then we kicked them right 0:32:04.520 --> 0:32:06.600 out there. So you want to do anything in back 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:10.360 like maybe if we had let Minnesota end, could be 0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:12.960 a much different story. So you'll never know, but yeah, 0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:15.880 well listen, I'm pretty sure some of the fans had 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:18.040 that feeling. As a matter of fact, I did. I 0:32:18.120 --> 0:32:20.160 talked to I was on a radio show out there 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:22.200 during the week talking about the game, and one of 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:23.920 the things I asked was like, you know, I know 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:26.320 the fans. How did the fans feel about the Bears 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:28.960 basically beating the Vikings to let the Eagles get in, 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:31.920 and there was some trepidation out there because this is 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:35.760 a hot team. There's a championship tested team, and you know, 0:32:35.840 --> 0:32:38.480 once they get in the playoffs, that's all they wanted. 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:40.880 And that's all the Eagles wanted, was an opportunity to 0:32:40.920 --> 0:32:43.360 get in. Didn't matter who they faced, they were gonna 0:32:43.360 --> 0:32:44.560 be ready for it. And you knew you were going 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:46.440 to get their best shot. And I also knew this 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:48.200 was going to be a close game because you have 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:51.560 two coaching staffs that are familiar with the schemes on 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:53.719 both sides of the ball. So there was gonna be 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:57.240 very few surprises in this game, right, There were gonna 0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:00.800 be very few surprises from a schematics stand point, And 0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:04.120 so you knew it really was gonna boil down to execution. 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:06.640 Who was going to be able to execute better even 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:09.280 though you may have known certain plays were coming in 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:13.160 certain situations. And really, I mean, the Eagles did what 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:15.160 they needed to do when they had the ball last 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:19.320 to go ahead, and the Bears, quite honestly, their offense 0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:21.560 moved the ball down the field after a very good 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:25.040 kickoff return from Tarik Cohen, and Cody Parkey missed the 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:27.960 field goal. Yeah, he missed. He missed the game winning 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.680 field goal that was very makeable and the Eagles able 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:32.480 to get out of this game with a win. And 0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:35.240 that's all it matters, as you survive and you advance 0:33:35.560 --> 0:33:37.720 and the Eagles are moving on to the second round. 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:40.640 And the New Norm has never felt so good being 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:44.719 able to just be a be a staple in the postseason. 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:48.040 Not only that just getting in, but knowing that no 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:50.840 matter who you face, you're a difficult out. And that's 0:33:50.840 --> 0:33:53.719 what the Eagles are trying to establish. Regardless of how 0:33:53.760 --> 0:33:55.400 you play in the regular season, if we get in 0:33:55.400 --> 0:33:59.000 the postseason, we're gonna be a difficult out consecutive trips 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:02.040 to at least the divisional round. First time since since 0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:04.320 you're a tenure. Yeah, okay, And that's what we used 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:06.320 to be able to do when we got in, is 0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:08.719 we were certainly gonna win that first game that we played. 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:11.240 We're gonna be ready to go. And we had problems 0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:14.560 finishing off the playoff runs, but typically when we got in, 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:16.640 we knew we were in for a long stay. And 0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:19.279 then when Doug talks about the New Norm, um, I 0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:22.120 know he's talking about championships as well, but you know, 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:23.920 when you think about the Patriots, what do you think 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:27.399 about They are staples for the postseason every every year 0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:31.440 the playoffs, they win the division in there and championship, 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:33.000 and that's sort of what you want to have. And 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:36.759 I look at that shot from Exfinity Live of the fans, man, 0:34:37.000 --> 0:34:39.680 that's what I mean. That's what makes it being a 0:34:39.760 --> 0:34:42.640 sports fan in this city so great because no one 0:34:42.680 --> 0:34:45.719 comes together like a sports community a city like this 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:51.360 Philadelphia city does. And we come together better for the Eagles, 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:54.399 better than any team in this city because, um, while 0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:58.480 we all have our little pockets, Flyers, Eagles sixers, everybody, 0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:01.479 everybody's in Eagles. Can we can we do our show 0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:05.160 next week from that live? Maybe a little louder, Yeah, 0:35:05.200 --> 0:35:07.279 it might be a little bit. So that's hey, I'm 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:10.360 perfectly fine with that. Let's get into your takeaways. And 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:12.960 I think you gotta start with number nine, who is 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:16.959 now four and one in the playoffs, man Ice Water 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:20.399 in his veins, Nick Foles a k A. Nikki six. 0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:23.120 I mean, you gotta start with him, mister clutch. You 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:25.759 just said it. Four and one in the postseason, came 0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:28.720 into the game as the highest rated quarterback in NFL 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:33.000 history in the postseason. Based on his few starts and 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:35.600 when he needed to be clutched, that's what he was 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:38.799 late in the game, big throws to Alshon, Jeffrey Golden, Tate, 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:42.480 Dallas Goddard. I mean, just big play at the big 0:35:42.520 --> 0:35:44.279 play late in the game when you needed him to 0:35:44.280 --> 0:35:47.840 be big, overcoming you know, a tough start to the 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.000 game for himself, and then just being the clutch quarterback 0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:54.640 that we've all known and become to know Nick Foles 0:35:54.680 --> 0:35:57.760 to be. So their second takeaway here, and the Eagles 0:35:57.760 --> 0:36:00.560 have been playoff tested basically over the last month. And 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:02.560 you know, two of those wins, two of the three 0:36:02.680 --> 0:36:05.200 consecutive wins again to the playoffs, came on the road, 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:07.880 especially that first one at Los Angeles. So this is 0:36:07.880 --> 0:36:10.759 a team that knows how to overcome adversity away from 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:12.440 the link. Yeah, and that's what they had to do 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:14.360 today when you're on the road going up against the 0:36:14.400 --> 0:36:17.719 team like the Chicago Bears, who's as opportunistic as they are. 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.439 They led the league and takeaways, that's what they want 0:36:20.440 --> 0:36:22.520 to do. They want to take the football away from 0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:25.360 you shorten to feel for that offense and try to 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:28.200 game points that way. But I thought the Eagles early 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.400 in the game, we struggle putting points on the board. 0:36:30.680 --> 0:36:32.760 That three hung on the world for a long time, 0:36:32.960 --> 0:36:34.680 and then it was ten to six, and then next 0:36:34.680 --> 0:36:37.759 thing you know, the Bears got a little momentum and 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:40.200 they're able to go up fifteen to ten. And at 0:36:40.200 --> 0:36:42.520 that point you're saying to yourself, man, this just may 0:36:42.560 --> 0:36:45.759 not be our day. It's been tough getting anything going. 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:48.879 But as my first key to the game and Nick 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:51.400 Foles and his clutchness, that's what they were able to do, 0:36:51.560 --> 0:36:55.239 overcome that early struggle and then get the league late 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:58.640 and then even overcome that kickoff return from Tarif Cohen 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:01.000 late in the game. So I bring you my third 0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:03.080 sort of kid to the game, and that's the defense. 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:05.840 That's the defense. I talked about how good the Chicago 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:08.120 Bears defense played the day. And when you look at 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:12.239 the your goal chart going into a game, you want 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:16.080 to be outstanding on third down, you want to get takeaways, 0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:18.200 and you want to be outstanding in the red zone. 0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:20.480 That's what the Eagles were able to do today. That 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:22.840 the Bears were able to get some yardage in between 0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:25.120 the twenties when they got to the red zone. The 0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:27.560 Eagles shut the door on them over three in the 0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:30.200 red zone, holding them the field goals. Yeah, they gave 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:33.440 up some passing yardage. Hats all to the Bears, Michael, 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:38.920 I mean, Robinson is a very good wide receiver. But again, 0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:42.680 you win, you win football games by scoring touchdowns, and 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:45.200 they didn't score many touchdowns the day. I thought the 0:37:45.239 --> 0:37:48.279 defense did an outstanding job even though they didn't get 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:50.719 a ton of turnovers and a bunch of sacks. The 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:53.759 fact that they only gave up fifteen points on the road, 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:57.000 making this Bears defense one dimensional. That was huge day, 0:37:57.120 --> 0:38:00.000 especially because you were worried would you score enough? Yeah, 0:38:00.160 --> 0:38:02.680 the thing and they scored sixteen and it's turned out 0:38:02.719 --> 0:38:05.200 to be the perfect number to get the win. Let's 0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:07.439 get some more reaction this. Some of this is coming 0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:12.399 from the players themselves. Corey Clement moving on. How many 0:38:12.400 --> 0:38:15.360 Eagle emojis are we got in there? Five? Five Eagle emojis? 0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:19.040 Moving on, I actually enjoy the injured players like he 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:23.720 and Jail Mills home watching and tweeting along. It's it's entertained, 0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:26.600 to say the very least. So Corey Clement saluting the Eagles. 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:31.560 Chris Long three letters. Wow, Wow, how many how many 0:38:31.600 --> 0:38:33.440 texts have you gotten that pretty much say the same thing. 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:36.600 That's what my wife texted me that along with other things. 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:40.240 But yeah, well yes, text me other things too prior 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:45.160 to that miss. And then he got Cam Johnson. Let's go, 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:49.279 Cam Johnson making his playoff debut for the Eagles. There, 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:52.440 let's go, and I don't count I think seven exclamation 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:56.920 points right there. So overall though, just a total team 0:38:56.960 --> 0:39:00.520 performance here for the Eagles. We're gonna hear from quarterback 0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:04.040 Nick Foles and other players very shortly. But again, it's 0:39:04.080 --> 0:39:07.240 just it's it's a great high to enjoy. That's that's 0:39:07.239 --> 0:39:10.280 you mentioned. You know how everyone's comes together in the city, 0:39:10.280 --> 0:39:12.160 and it's just great that you'll be able to enjoy 0:39:12.239 --> 0:39:15.400 it this way once again. And as the season was 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:18.160 going along and things were going topsy turvy, the Eagles 0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:19.719 were four and if you remember, there were four and 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:22.520 six after the New Orleans game, and then all of 0:39:22.560 --> 0:39:25.720 a sudden they were down nineteen to three against the Giants. 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:27.879 You thought that this season was really going to start 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:31.000 spiring out of control or had the potential to. Well, 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:33.480 they're able to rally to get themselves in a postseason, 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:36.239 and you're getting to the point where you know you're 0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:39.160 so emotionally invested once again that you just don't want 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:41.120 to see this run comes to it. This is this 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:44.040 is a glorious run that's you know, two years in 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:47.040 the making at this point. Okay, because you know the 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:49.600 season ends with the Super Bowl. You get to carry 0:39:49.600 --> 0:39:52.360 the euphoria that through the offseason. Then you have the 0:39:52.400 --> 0:39:55.759 amazing Opening Nights celebrations, You knock off Atlanta again, you 0:39:55.760 --> 0:39:58.960 get Carson once back, you go through the roller coaster season, 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:01.440 you make it in the playoffs, winning three straight. At 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:04.920 the end, you don't want to come this far just 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:07.440 to end with the loss of the Chicago Bears and 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:12.000 the Eagles delivering in thrilling fashion. I mean, I'm trying, 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:14.360 I'm trying to think this is such an instant classic. 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:17.440 Words going to rank among like the playoff thrillers in 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:19.799 Eagles history right right now? Well, certain thing is gonna 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:22.359 rank up there with them, because this is another good one, 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:25.880 and in typical Eagle fashion, we like to make them classics. 0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:29.719 And so it's it's what's great about this organization. We've 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:34.080 had a ton of great playoff moments. We've also had 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:38.880 our fair share of disappointing moments. But um, you know, 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:42.480 under this regime, under Doug Peterson, um, I think we 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:45.200 are to get We should never take it for granted, 0:40:45.280 --> 0:40:48.200 but we should come to sort of expect it and 0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:51.480 get used to it, and and sort of get comfortable 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:55.520 with the feeling of being successful and being expected to 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:59.480 win these type of games. And eventually that's sort of 0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:02.000 filling with come. It's repetition, right, It's just the more 0:41:02.000 --> 0:41:04.439 and more you do it, the more and more will 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:07.000 begin to expect it. But the way the season has 0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:09.360 sort of played out, you didn't really know how today's 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:12.080 game will go. You know, I'll talk to enough fans 0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:15.200 throughout the week that some were just satisfied that the 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:17.400 Eagles fought all the way hard to the end of 0:41:17.400 --> 0:41:20.280 the season and got in. You know, they were satisfied 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:23.440 that I was not. Well. Then you had another portion 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:25.919 of the fan basis say hey, now we're in, let's 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:28.439 take advantage of it, and they're waiting for another run. 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:33.120 I'm somewhere in the middle, you know, being the defending champs, 0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:35.759 you know, what expectations do you want to place on 0:41:35.800 --> 0:41:38.239 the team. Obviously want to win every year, but is 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:41.320 it really realistic? So for this team to overcome the 0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:44.400 whole Super Bowl hangover, actually get in the way that 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:46.759 they got in and then had enough to win this 0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:49.840 type of football game. Man, I want to be in 0:41:49.880 --> 0:41:52.600 your corner right where you're never satisfied. But part of 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:56.240 me says, wow, man, that was a gratifying win today. 0:41:56.719 --> 0:41:59.120 That was a good win today. You understand how difficult 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:02.040 it is. Yes, that's the biggest thing I'm not taking 0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:04.720 for granted what the Eagles were able to accomplish because 0:42:05.120 --> 0:42:07.600 this is an undermanned squad right at the end of 0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:11.200 let's face it. Let's look look at the secondary alone. Okay, 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:14.120 at the beginning of this season, you had Jail Mills, 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.239 Roald Derby, your Super Bowl starters on the outside, and 0:42:17.440 --> 0:42:20.560 a promising up and coming Sidney Jones working in the 0:42:20.600 --> 0:42:25.960 slot out there today Avante Max, Rosul Douglas Craven LeBlanc 0:42:26.080 --> 0:42:30.560 in the slot. Combined postseason experience in terms of defense, 0:42:31.160 --> 0:42:34.400 zero snaps zero Rosul Douglas played special teams for the 0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:36.520 Eagles in the postseason. He didn't have a single snap 0:42:36.560 --> 0:42:39.600 on defense. Okay, he had you know, a couple you 0:42:39.640 --> 0:42:42.120 know games where he had some significant roles in throughout 0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:44.080 the course of your due to injuries. But you know, 0:42:44.120 --> 0:42:45.799 for the most part, he's been like the first guy 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:48.080 off the bench. So during the Super Bowl run, you know, 0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:50.920 he was special teams that was in. So you're relying 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:54.200 on these guys. Okay, you're working in some newcomers, you know, 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:56.719 guys like Golden Tate and to the offensive side of 0:42:56.760 --> 0:42:59.680 the ball. All right, so it's you your defensive line, 0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:01.759 which was the hallmark of the team a year ago 0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:04.680 with the rotation. Again we talked about you're relying on 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:07.960 some trusty veteran guys, but you don't have like a 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:10.799 Derek Barnett, you know, to inject some youth coming off 0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:13.040 off the bench there to help you know, you know, 0:43:13.080 --> 0:43:16.040 give your guys a breather at any point. So so 0:43:16.239 --> 0:43:19.719 you're you're largely underman So it's not that I'm not satisfied, 0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:22.000 because I understand what's taking it get to this point. 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:24.520 It's just that once you're in it, you want to 0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:27.000 make the most of the run here. And that's the 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:29.680 way the team feels, yeah, and the players feel that 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.439 way as well. They've they've gone through the tough part 0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:36.000 of having to get through the regular season just to 0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:39.400 get back to the postseason so that they can defend 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:42.360 their Super Bowl title. They've gotten in and they're saying, 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:45.200 you shouldn't have let us in. We're here to win 0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:48.120 this thing now. And that's the great thing about these players. 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:52.239 Havn't experienced that championship run last year. They know what 0:43:52.320 --> 0:43:55.680 that champagne taste like, they know what that feeling was 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:57.480 like those that were able to do it. And then 0:43:57.520 --> 0:43:59.880 you have some players that have won in the past, 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.040 but it's been a few years since they've been Michael 0:44:02.440 --> 0:44:05.080 you know, the Michael Bennis, the Helodi noad Us, those 0:44:05.120 --> 0:44:07.799 guys Darren Sproz didn't get a chance to play last year, 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:10.480 Peter so Jason Peters didn't get a chance to play 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:14.440 last year. Those Jordan Hicks, those guys. Golden Tate, right, 0:44:14.520 --> 0:44:16.919 Golden Tate never won a playoff game, won his first 0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:19.200 playoff game to day, played in Detroit. I think they 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:22.760 won one playoff game in eighty years and that franchise's history, 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:26.440 so um, it's great to have so did that new energy, right, 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:30.319 that newfound energy and motivation as well once you get 0:44:30.320 --> 0:44:33.280 into postseason. Speaking of the hero, Golden Tate game winning 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.760 two yard touchdown reception on the fourth and gold Eagles 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:37.680 inside of days. But they're a call with them on 0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:40.960 the field after the victory. All right, Golden, let's let's 0:44:40.960 --> 0:44:43.520 talk about the touchdown, the call to play and the catching. 0:44:43.520 --> 0:44:46.840 Hell felt, you know, just a great play call by 0:44:46.600 --> 0:44:50.040 the by Doug and my number was called. I knew 0:44:50.040 --> 0:44:52.640 I had to make a play. And you know, Nick 0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:54.719 just dropped a gun. He d threw us along. I 0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:57.200 can catch it. Um, I just made a play. I 0:44:57.239 --> 0:44:59.680 just happen to have the opportunity to make a difference, 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:02.200 to give the city something to cheer for, and we 0:45:02.239 --> 0:45:04.040 did something big on the road against a really, really 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:08.040 good team. So I'm excited. What is the demeanor like 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:10.120 down in that situation? What are the guys like on 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:12.960 the field? Composed? And I think it starts at our quarterback. 0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:15.080 We got a quarterback that just wants to he wants 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:17.240 to live in it. Now. It doesn't matter what happened 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:20.200 early in the game. Just stay composed and let the 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:21.799 game come to us. And then at the end, we 0:45:21.880 --> 0:45:24.040 just you know, had an opportunity to make a play. 0:45:24.280 --> 0:45:26.640 But I can't say it was me. We moved the 0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:29.239 ball very well down the field when it matter, and 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:31.439 you know, just the last play my number was called. 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:33.040 And it's fun to win on the end, right, it 0:45:33.120 --> 0:45:36.279 is very fun. One thing we said this entire this 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.400 week is that you know, once we get in, you 0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:40.200 gotta deal with us. So we in and we're just 0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:43.960 gonna keep it going. Wow wow, Wow, number nineteen. They're 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:46.640 coming through in the clutch fourth and goal to give 0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:49.919 the Eagles the sixteen to fifteen victory. And we're gonna 0:45:49.920 --> 0:45:51.879 hear from quarterback Nick Foles in just a little bit. 0:45:51.920 --> 0:45:54.960 We're waiting to bring his press conference live from Soldier Field. 0:45:55.000 --> 0:45:57.600 But how about the protection today for Nick Foles. People 0:45:57.600 --> 0:45:59.799 to remember he took the shot to the chest at 0:45:59.800 --> 0:46:02.520 the end of the Washington game a week ago, couldn't finish. 0:46:02.600 --> 0:46:04.600 Nate Sudfeld had to come up, bitch speaking of Nick 0:46:04.640 --> 0:46:09.640 there is right now, let's end the over Soldier Field. Yes, yes? Again? 0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:12.240 Or yeah? We talked about it on the sideline. Um, 0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:14.080 you know, we had an option on the previous a 0:46:14.120 --> 0:46:15.920 couple of plays based on look they would give us 0:46:15.920 --> 0:46:18.600 to actually get to something like that, and um, you 0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:21.040 know we were over there talking and I figured in 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:23.839 you know, from studying them in those situations where games 0:46:23.840 --> 0:46:25.920 online they'd like to you know, blitz and bring a 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:28.279 lot of pressure. So you know, why don't we move 0:46:28.320 --> 0:46:30.360 the pocket and you know, put one of our you know, 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:32.399 best guys on one of their guys and let him win. 0:46:32.560 --> 0:46:35.719 So um, Doug, Doug and disgusting. He was all for it. 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:39.360 So you guys, think that play and make that decision. 0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:41.360 What's going through your mind if you go to the 0:46:41.400 --> 0:46:44.680 line of scrimmat chair, you snap and you roll out there. Um, 0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:47.359 really just reading body language, it's really you know, there's 0:46:47.360 --> 0:46:51.600 two routes, Um, Golden's primary, So it's really just you know, 0:46:52.040 --> 0:46:54.879 let him win and you know that's that's that's really 0:46:54.880 --> 0:46:57.239 a simple play. And he did a great job of 0:46:57.320 --> 0:47:00.359 really selling his route, hesitation and getting out and he's 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:03.040 got great hands as you can see, and he made 0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:08.840 a lot of big plays for tonight. Was it the 0:47:08.920 --> 0:47:12.680 same play from the from the mac of touchdown? Uh? 0:47:12.960 --> 0:47:16.320 Similar but different. It's not the same one, but it's 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:18.480 some similar concept with just a you know, a route 0:47:18.560 --> 0:47:20.440 working on verse man and getting out of the break 0:47:21.560 --> 0:47:23.319 to the team and the huddle on that prior to 0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:26.000 that final drive. I mean it's like we always talk about, 0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:27.600 you know, just staying in the moment. That's been the 0:47:27.880 --> 0:47:29.839 you know what I've been focusing on. That's what we've 0:47:29.880 --> 0:47:32.839 been focusing on. Um. You know, not you know, it 0:47:32.920 --> 0:47:36.320 was a crazy game. Um, that's a tremendous team. Um. 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:38.880 You know playing here, this is a crazy place to play. 0:47:39.560 --> 0:47:41.840 And uh, you know, our defensive an amazing job, and 0:47:41.880 --> 0:47:43.520 I really keeping us in it. You know, the first 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:46.880 half was you know, we struggled on offense. I struggled 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:48.640 through a couple of picks, Um, But you know, the 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:51.440 last drive was really just stay in the moments, play 0:47:51.520 --> 0:47:53.960 the play, Let's just keep going, let's march. Um. We 0:47:53.960 --> 0:47:55.600 didn't have to do anything too crazy. We just need 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:57.600 to play. And we were able to settle down the 0:47:57.600 --> 0:47:59.759 second half and make some plays, and you know, as 0:47:59.760 --> 0:48:03.239 a huge team win for us. You say yourself, at 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:05.480 any point as you're in this high pressure situation that 0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:08.239 I've been there before, I did this last year on 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:11.920 the biggest stage, you know, is not not really that. 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:14.640 More so, just what I learned on those stages is 0:48:14.680 --> 0:48:18.439 just how to calm myself in a chaotic momentum when 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:21.520 there's you know, from the outside world it's a ton 0:48:21.560 --> 0:48:25.000 of pressure and just really simplifying in my head getting 0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:26.880 in the huddle looking at the guys that I trust, 0:48:27.640 --> 0:48:29.359 Um know that it's all on the line for us 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:31.399 and we're just gonna get the job done. Um, it's 0:48:31.440 --> 0:48:34.439 just belief in one another. So um, that's just from 0:48:34.480 --> 0:48:37.680 you know, being around these guys, having the relationship and 0:48:37.680 --> 0:48:39.960 that's what wins games in the fourth quarter is we 0:48:40.000 --> 0:48:43.160 talk about brotherhood. I'm going to work every single day. Uh. 0:48:43.640 --> 0:48:45.399 You know, the game wasn't going great in the first 0:48:45.440 --> 0:48:47.920 half offensively, but our defense was keeping us in and 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:49.759 they just kept coming to silence. We got you, we 0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:51.880 got you, We're gonna get you the ball back And 0:48:51.920 --> 0:48:53.440 there was never and I always talk about like they 0:48:53.520 --> 0:48:56.839 never turned, They never you know, get upset. They just 0:48:57.040 --> 0:48:59.359 had our back and it was ultimately a great team win. 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:02.319 Anything you have any flashbacks to your first playoff fame 0:49:02.560 --> 0:49:04.239 when you left the field with the lead and then 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:06.359 the big return and the game when he field, Yeah, 0:49:06.360 --> 0:49:08.840 I mean there's definitely some similarities there. Um, that definitely 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:11.440 came in my mind a little bit, but um, you know, 0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:14.480 we were fortunate. Um. Parky's an amazing kicker. He's one 0:49:14.520 --> 0:49:16.560 of the best in the league. And I said it earlier. 0:49:16.600 --> 0:49:18.440 You know, he makes that ninety nine out of one 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:20.319 hundred times. We were just fortunate that that was the 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:23.520 one he missed. When you're in the huddle, in that situation, 0:49:24.080 --> 0:49:26.520 that the other guys in the huddles see you call 0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:28.800 him and see you kind of composed and not showed 0:49:28.840 --> 0:49:31.080 any signs of it. Yeah, I mean it's always important. 0:49:31.080 --> 0:49:34.200 It's always important to be genuinely that way, um, so 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:36.680 they can see through it if you're faking it. So 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:39.640 but I draw my strength from you know, those guys 0:49:39.640 --> 0:49:42.680 in the huddle, just looking their eyes, the belief they have, um, 0:49:42.760 --> 0:49:46.000 not only me, but in one another, and knowing that 0:49:46.080 --> 0:49:49.000 you know, this was a a crazy game. There's a 0:49:49.000 --> 0:49:50.680 lot of adversity. I mean, this is one of the 0:49:50.680 --> 0:49:53.319 most hostile environments I've played in. You know, their their 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:54.920 fans came out and you know we still had a 0:49:54.960 --> 0:49:57.239 lot of support here too. But um, it was a 0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:00.840 you know, I'll sleep well to night for sure. Excuse me. 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:03.279 Nick dug said earlier that on first and second down, 0:50:03.400 --> 0:50:05.920 this handoffs the sprolls, there was the kill and sprint 0:50:05.920 --> 0:50:07.600 out was the it was to play there. Why did 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:09.440 you stay with the the runs? Um? The look that 0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:11.040 they gave us was the look that we wanted for 0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:14.080 the run. Um, it wasn't the kill look. What was 0:50:14.120 --> 0:50:17.520 the h that where you had the fully special look? 0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:23.200 But you just had the direct snap. Yeah, it's just uh, um, 0:50:23.400 --> 0:50:25.440 Well it didn't work. So, I mean, I don't know 0:50:25.440 --> 0:50:28.479 if they wanted me saying it, um, but I'm gonna 0:50:28.560 --> 0:50:31.720 keep that one to myself. What's going on? What's flipping 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:34.080 with this team now? Over over this past few weeks? 0:50:34.400 --> 0:50:37.080 You know, it's it's just been the course of the year. Um, 0:50:37.120 --> 0:50:39.919 you know, just finding the DNA of the team. UM, 0:50:39.920 --> 0:50:41.600 going through We've gone through a lot as a team, 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:43.640 and we've we've continued to stick together. Everyone at the 0:50:43.680 --> 0:50:46.759 Overcare up facility just keeps believing in one another and 0:50:47.000 --> 0:50:49.200 it just takes time. And I think the big thing 0:50:49.320 --> 0:50:52.319 is it's about relationships, is about believing one another. Um. 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:54.239 In the hard times. It's easy to pet each other 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:56.319 on back when things are going well. It's hey, when 0:50:56.320 --> 0:50:58.319 things aren't going well, or you know, I throw a 0:50:58.320 --> 0:50:59.920 couple of picks, you know what's going to happen. And 0:51:00.520 --> 0:51:02.359 you know what happened today was I threw a couple 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:04.200 of picks, made a couple of mistakes, but the other 0:51:04.239 --> 0:51:06.040 guys were there to be there for me, lift me up. 0:51:06.360 --> 0:51:08.640 Defense said, they got me and that's what this team's about. 0:51:09.080 --> 0:51:11.200 And a chart seem to have a really good connection 0:51:11.239 --> 0:51:13.319 to most of the time. Obviously he played here before. 0:51:13.400 --> 0:51:15.560 Did he says that this game meant anything different obviously 0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:18.680 beyond you know, a playoff game and anything for him? Oh? Absolutely. 0:51:18.719 --> 0:51:21.440 I mean anytime you play against your former team, Um, 0:51:21.520 --> 0:51:23.120 you know, you obviously go out there and you focus 0:51:23.120 --> 0:51:24.880 and you want to play, but yeah, there's always something. 0:51:24.920 --> 0:51:27.680 There's always added something, and I knew that going in here, 0:51:28.360 --> 0:51:31.120 coming back to Chicago where you know he was an 0:51:31.160 --> 0:51:33.560 elite receiver when he was here. You know that's emotional, 0:51:33.600 --> 0:51:35.160 but you know he always comes ready to play and 0:51:35.160 --> 0:51:37.040 he's a big time player. Was a play on the 0:51:37.120 --> 0:51:38.520 third nine that you can play it to him down 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:40.600 to the two and was you know, was he the 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:43.399 first read there? Yeah, I mean you're sort of reading 0:51:43.400 --> 0:51:45.880 through an area, but um, you know you're reading defenders 0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:47.520 on that one just the way they coverage, but you 0:51:47.560 --> 0:51:49.800 you really want to get to him. So the way 0:51:49.680 --> 0:51:52.719 there the defenders reacted to the concept. It opened up 0:51:52.800 --> 0:51:57.399 nicely for him that you know, every game he played 0:51:57.440 --> 0:52:02.000 out last for your mind at all, like especially like 0:52:02.080 --> 0:52:06.719 going into not really in the last series. Um, it's 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.200 more so when I sit in the locker room, Um, 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:11.799 you know after a game, you know, I always try 0:52:11.800 --> 0:52:13.279 to take a moment and just sit there and just 0:52:13.320 --> 0:52:16.680 reflect because you know, you're enjoying it with your teammates, 0:52:16.680 --> 0:52:18.960 but it's also you're given everything you have. And I 0:52:19.080 --> 0:52:21.719 realized then that I'm blessed to be able to wear 0:52:21.760 --> 0:52:23.960 this jersey at least one more week. And that's something 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:25.600 that you know, I get to play with these guys 0:52:25.600 --> 0:52:27.360 one one week. I get to be with the coaches 0:52:27.400 --> 0:52:29.440 one more week, and that's something that's really you know, 0:52:29.520 --> 0:52:31.600 I look forward to and I'm blessed to be a 0:52:31.600 --> 0:52:33.520 part of it. You didn't play in the game, but 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:36.120 what did you notice from your teammates after the the 0:52:36.160 --> 0:52:38.319 New Orleans lost the first time, and what are your 0:52:38.320 --> 0:52:42.040 thoughts about the opportunity to have a rematch. Yeah, I mean, 0:52:42.680 --> 0:52:45.879 you know, obviously the first time New Orleans came out 0:52:45.920 --> 0:52:48.040 and you know, they did a really good job versus um, 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:51.279 you know, they you know it wasn't a good game 0:52:51.280 --> 0:52:53.160 for us. But at the same time, the thing that 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:56.600 impressed me about my team is even in those moments 0:52:56.640 --> 0:52:59.000 where you know it wasn't a good game for us, 0:52:59.200 --> 0:53:03.600 we still stuck together. Um. So it's gonna be a 0:53:03.680 --> 0:53:06.120 tall task this week. You know New Orleans is you know, 0:53:06.120 --> 0:53:08.600 they had a bye week. Their tremendous team, they had 0:53:08.640 --> 0:53:11.600 an amazing season. But you know, I love these guys 0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:13.040 that I get to go play with. I know we're 0:53:13.040 --> 0:53:15.359 ready for this week. Um, you know, just one day 0:53:15.400 --> 0:53:17.440 at a time. You know, now we get to go 0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:19.799 back home, get a little sleep, get our bodies ready, 0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:22.799 and get ready to roll again. Very much because you 0:53:22.840 --> 0:53:24.920 came in late in the season. But how long do 0:53:24.920 --> 0:53:26.799 you how many times you think you practiced that that 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:30.200 play with him that one, Um, you know, once or twice. 0:53:30.760 --> 0:53:33.520 So I just you know, I read body language, um, 0:53:33.560 --> 0:53:35.919 and it comes down to trusting your guy to get open. 0:53:36.520 --> 0:53:38.440 And you know, he came out big tonight and he's 0:53:38.440 --> 0:53:40.600 a playmaker. He made some great catches and he's really 0:53:40.680 --> 0:53:42.920 helped us a lot. He's coming along. Think you've had 0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:45.640 a few games roll in your career where you had 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:48.400 those interceptions early and the result wasn't what it was tonight? 0:53:48.640 --> 0:53:50.200 What was different for you? Or are you a different 0:53:50.280 --> 0:53:54.160 quarterback now in those situations? Yeah, I think that, Um, 0:53:54.239 --> 0:53:56.440 those games are tough when you make mistakes early that 0:53:56.560 --> 0:53:58.759 hurt your team, and you know it can affect you 0:53:58.800 --> 0:53:59.920 because you want to go out there and you want 0:53:59.920 --> 0:54:02.759 to help, um, and I think sometimes you can start 0:54:02.800 --> 0:54:05.160 forcing it. Um, you can be a little gun shy 0:54:06.040 --> 0:54:07.680 um as a younger player. But you know what I've 0:54:07.760 --> 0:54:09.799 learned is it's I'll talk about staying in the moment, 0:54:09.880 --> 0:54:11.960 good or bad. You know, when I'm if I throw 0:54:12.000 --> 0:54:14.400 a couple of touchdowns early, still at zero zero, just 0:54:14.480 --> 0:54:17.399 keep playing, Just keep playing. This unfortunately made a couple 0:54:17.400 --> 0:54:19.839 of mistakes, but still the same thing. Hey, just get 0:54:19.880 --> 0:54:23.120 back at zero zero, just play. Trust your teammates play. 0:54:23.160 --> 0:54:26.279 So Um. Yeah, absolutely, I put on things that I've learned. Um, 0:54:26.320 --> 0:54:28.440 I'm always learning. I learned a lot about you know, 0:54:28.520 --> 0:54:30.520 myself to I learned a lot about my teammates. And 0:54:30.600 --> 0:54:32.479 you know, that's where we continue to grow as a team. 0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:34.640 And that's that y'all keep asking me every week, like 0:54:34.680 --> 0:54:37.600 what's jelling. It's it's just continual growth through these games 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:40.080 that we go through. Um, that really helps our team, 0:54:40.200 --> 0:54:42.600 mesh and um, you know we continue to grow tonight. 0:54:43.840 --> 0:54:46.520 Jackson didn't play, did she says? The ma buil the field. 0:54:46.560 --> 0:54:48.640 There was a little more er than there might normally be. 0:54:48.800 --> 0:54:51.000 You know, they did a great job. You know, he's 0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:52.680 a he's a great player. I think they did a 0:54:52.800 --> 0:54:54.880 you know, that defensive thing that impressed me on film 0:54:55.000 --> 0:54:57.200 was obviously their front but the way they can move 0:54:57.200 --> 0:55:00.080 their coverages and disguise their coverages, and you know, I 0:55:00.120 --> 0:55:03.680 thought they do it amongst the best I've ever played against. Um, 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:06.000 you know, they did a really good job tonight, even 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:08.520 without him out there. You feel physically had to come 0:55:08.520 --> 0:55:11.239 out with the rips. I might feel good. I feel good. Um, 0:55:11.280 --> 0:55:13.040 you know, we gave it everything we had to night. So, 0:55:13.160 --> 0:55:15.920 like I said, we'll sleep good. All right, thank you? 0:55:15.960 --> 0:55:21.719 All all right? South Philadelphia's alive. That's the reaction after 0:55:21.800 --> 0:55:25.840 gold and takes go ahead touchdown on fourth and goal. Okay, 0:55:26.040 --> 0:55:28.799 ball at the two yard line after Alshon Jeffrey got 0:55:28.840 --> 0:55:32.080 them down there after three plays, two Sprowls runs and 0:55:32.120 --> 0:55:35.400 then an incomplete passed to Jeffrey, then all of a 0:55:35.440 --> 0:55:38.640 sudden sprint out fourth and goal. Season on the line. 0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:42.280 Gold take come up, Hughes there Reese Hockett, Hoskins Phillies 0:55:42.320 --> 0:55:44.680 player going with the double doing to wins the game. 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:48.920 Dogs are barking. I was wondering maybe if the underdog 0:55:48.960 --> 0:55:51.600 mass might come back out. How about that field goal 0:55:51.640 --> 0:55:54.640 miss that was a double doing. Yeah, that's hard to do. 0:55:56.400 --> 0:55:58.799 I mean that is hard to do. Man. All right. 0:55:59.120 --> 0:56:02.319 Uh one of the best, one of the absolute best 0:56:02.360 --> 0:56:07.800 pass rushers in Van Shis history. Okay, second and sex number. 0:56:07.920 --> 0:56:10.719 I'm telling you it is so special about that five 0:56:10.800 --> 0:56:13.279 eight number continues to this day. Try Cole. One of 0:56:13.280 --> 0:56:16.040 my all time favorites, right there, great battle between two 0:56:16.080 --> 0:56:19.200 great teams. And then how about the bell of Twins. Okay, 0:56:19.400 --> 0:56:20.960 Nikki check it in there. That's when you get the 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:24.360 little end. There go Eagles WWE fame. Of course, everybody 0:56:24.360 --> 0:56:28.480 knows who the Bella Twins are huge, huge Eagles fans, 0:56:28.520 --> 0:56:33.800 so but everybody everybody check it. Everyone coming out. It's playoffs, playoffs, 0:56:33.800 --> 0:56:37.279 it's playoffs even but in all serious final game in 0:56:37.320 --> 0:56:40.520 the weekend, so you know everybody's watching exactly, and it 0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:43.200 was an outstanding the game. Yeah, okay, low scoring but 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:47.000 good defensive games. Games today and it's close again. That's 0:56:47.080 --> 0:56:48.799 that's the biggest thing. It's coming down. It comes out 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:50.960 to the final drive. Okay, you get a fourth and 0:56:51.040 --> 0:56:53.799 goal to go ahead there in the final minutes, and 0:56:53.840 --> 0:56:57.000 then the Bears have one last opportunity again, big kickoff return, 0:56:57.239 --> 0:57:00.480 you know, pretty much get them in great field position, bisky. 0:57:00.680 --> 0:57:02.800 You know, first career playoff game, has a couple of 0:57:02.960 --> 0:57:05.439 completions to get themselves in field goal range. He comes 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:08.680 out the field saying, I've done my part. Yeah, just 0:57:08.840 --> 0:57:11.279 Dave Parking to put it through and a Parking he 0:57:11.360 --> 0:57:14.280 did put it through the first time, but Doug Peterson 0:57:14.800 --> 0:57:17.320 one more time out in his pocket, calls it to 0:57:17.360 --> 0:57:22.600 ice him second opportunity. Double doink. That's ball game. Yeah. 0:57:22.640 --> 0:57:24.720 And I tell you prior to that, when the Eagles 0:57:24.760 --> 0:57:27.120 had the ball. And I know Matt Matt's a rookie 0:57:27.120 --> 0:57:30.240 head coach out there in Chicago, but I know where 0:57:30.240 --> 0:57:32.040 he looks back at this game, He's gonna be thinking 0:57:32.040 --> 0:57:35.960 about the usage of his timeouts late there. I was 0:57:36.000 --> 0:57:38.280 surprised he didn't call a time out after the first 0:57:38.320 --> 0:57:41.160 darren Spros run. You imagine if they call a time 0:57:41.200 --> 0:57:44.800 out there, they probably have about thirty extra seconds, then 0:57:44.840 --> 0:57:46.640 you don't have to you know, maybe you got a 0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:49.120 couple of extra plays that you move the ball closer. 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:53.360 For Cody Parking, it's more like a field goal attempt. Again, 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:56.800 rookie head coach and time management is something that all 0:57:56.840 --> 0:58:00.880 coaches sort of have to field their way through. And um, 0:58:01.160 --> 0:58:03.040 I'm sure he looks back when he looks back at 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:06.120 this game, that's probably a situation there where he's probably 0:58:06.120 --> 0:58:07.560 gonna wish that he had to use one of his 0:58:07.640 --> 0:58:09.840 time oouts. You know, took Pearrison first time in the playoffs, 0:58:09.880 --> 0:58:11.600 he went all the way, he got the job done. 0:58:11.680 --> 0:58:18.160 So just just saying so we're talking about the defensive 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:21.000 line and one of the key contributors down the stretch here, 0:58:21.120 --> 0:58:25.240 Tim Juragan, who had offseason surgery, missed pretty much the 0:58:25.280 --> 0:58:28.080 first three quarters of the year, played one game, you know, 0:58:28.480 --> 0:58:31.840 reaggravated the injury, had to come out for a few weeks. Well, 0:58:31.960 --> 0:58:34.680 he's healthy, he's thriving in the middle of the defensive line, 0:58:34.840 --> 0:58:38.400 helping compliment Fletcher Cox there. Dave spadera our Eagles inside 0:58:38.400 --> 0:58:42.760 are caught up with him on the field following the win. Hey, Jimmy, 0:58:42.840 --> 0:58:44.680 Timmy tell me. How you feeling. What was it like? 0:58:44.680 --> 0:58:47.400 They're watching Cody lining up and missing Oh it felt good. 0:58:47.440 --> 0:58:49.640 You know. The crazy thing I bought it was I 0:58:49.720 --> 0:58:53.480 went to Nolage Brown, Nodge Brown and say, hey, you say, bro, 0:58:53.560 --> 0:58:56.840 he's gonna miss this. I say no, no, you say, 0:58:56.880 --> 0:59:01.360 by miss it? He did. He missed us. So tn 0:59:01.440 --> 0:59:03.160 the way you guys came back in this game. What's 0:59:03.200 --> 0:59:05.120 I tell about? Tell you about this football team? I 0:59:05.240 --> 0:59:07.640 said it four five weeks ago. Man. One thing we 0:59:07.680 --> 0:59:10.600 ain't gonna do is give up. We ain't gonna give up, 0:59:11.240 --> 0:59:13.160 and you're gonna have to beat us out of this thing. 0:59:13.600 --> 0:59:15.960 We'll just walk out. We we We ain't trying to 0:59:16.000 --> 0:59:18.200 go home. We're trying to be in Atlanta in februwhere 0:59:18.560 --> 0:59:21.560 fourth and Gold Eagles have the football. You're on the sidelines. 0:59:21.800 --> 0:59:24.280 What are you doing? Man, I'm over there. I'm just praying. 0:59:24.320 --> 0:59:26.160 I'm praying. To be honest with you, I'm just praying, 0:59:26.560 --> 0:59:28.280 you know, just talking to God, man, because at the 0:59:28.360 --> 0:59:30.160 end of the day, I know he would us. I 0:59:30.240 --> 0:59:33.160 know this what this team goes by. We are praying. Team, 0:59:33.520 --> 0:59:35.480 we stay together, and I feel like we deserve to win. 0:59:35.600 --> 0:59:39.280 So we won. Thank you, Jim, congrats man, the gold teeth. 0:59:39.680 --> 0:59:42.320 Just absolutely love seeing the gold teeth shine there on 0:59:42.400 --> 0:59:45.520 the field there in Chicago after the Eel sixteen to 0:59:45.640 --> 0:59:49.480 fifteen victory. Now there's one person Hall of Famer and 0:59:49.960 --> 0:59:52.640 icon we haven't heard from yet. Like, you know who 0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:57.720 I'm talking about, My uncle, your uncle, Meryl. Everyone's right, 0:59:58.200 --> 1:00:02.000 mar Race, Mike qu we're going inside the sports radio 1:00:02.160 --> 1:00:06.040 ninety four, w IP boot four. It's not Merron, Mike Cam. 1:00:06.440 --> 1:00:09.880 It's just Merrill Camp. Okay, he's the icon here. Okay, 1:00:10.200 --> 1:00:11.720 you know quick Quick is you know, one of the 1:00:11.760 --> 1:00:17.080 great receivers. Yeah, but he's you know, the side piece there. Okay, 1:00:17.080 --> 1:00:19.440 it's all it's all about Merrill Race here. How did 1:00:19.640 --> 1:00:23.120 how did he call this game? Let's go and get 1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:25.600 the best of the best in Merrill Cam take it away. 1:00:27.000 --> 1:00:29.720 Here is a field goal attempt. This will be a 1:00:30.040 --> 1:00:33.920 forty three yard attempt by Jake Elliott. Do the Eagles 1:00:34.040 --> 1:00:37.000 hit the scoreboard first? The kick is away, it's got 1:00:37.040 --> 1:00:40.200 the distance and it is the Eagles three on the Bears. 1:00:40.320 --> 1:00:46.080 Nothing urbhiskey and the gun brave receivers right urbhiskey back again. 1:00:46.160 --> 1:00:49.600 He pumps, he's firing and it's complete down across the 1:00:49.720 --> 1:00:53.360 five and now when they say ain't complete, Anthony Miller 1:00:53.520 --> 1:00:56.440 had its. Then he was stripped of the football by 1:00:56.520 --> 1:01:00.560 Pravn LeBlanc. This is outstanding play. Don't don't count him 1:01:00.560 --> 1:01:06.240 before they hatch LeBlanc is he's actually beaten early, but 1:01:06.480 --> 1:01:09.320 he doesn't give up. He gets his hand in. Anthony 1:01:09.400 --> 1:01:11.800 Miller has a football, but LeBlanc gets his hand in 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:17.400 and he ripped the football out. Three receivers left, Alan Robins, 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:19.720 the former didn'ty lion out to the nearest side of 1:01:19.760 --> 1:01:23.400 the field. That goes back to Urbisky. He's looking, he's looking, 1:01:23.760 --> 1:01:26.440 and it's too late because the Eagles gobble him up. 1:01:26.920 --> 1:01:30.320 They get him back at the forty five yard line 1:01:30.720 --> 1:01:33.560 Tim Jurnagan and Brandon Graham. But the first sick of 1:01:33.640 --> 1:01:39.600 the game. Aguilar comes in motion. Shotgun falls back looking 1:01:39.720 --> 1:01:44.440 for the end zone, firing complete touchdown. He's got Dallas 1:01:44.600 --> 1:01:48.360 Gardard for a touchdown. Well, they didn't waste any time 1:01:48.480 --> 1:01:51.480 going to the end zone. Dallas Gardar lines up in 1:01:51.600 --> 1:01:54.600 the slot Nelson Agilar motions outside of him and he 1:01:54.720 --> 1:01:59.080 just runs down the scene. Durbiskey takes the snap, he looks, 1:01:59.120 --> 1:02:02.320 steps up and he is hit. They've got him back 1:02:02.360 --> 1:02:05.400 at the fifteen yard line. I'm not as Michael Bennett 1:02:05.720 --> 1:02:10.880 with the suck. Fol takes to snap, he rolls, he looks, 1:02:10.960 --> 1:02:15.520 he fires, and it is complete. It has complete touchs down, 1:02:15.760 --> 1:02:22.240 golden tight and the Eagles bread game the lead. We're 1:02:22.240 --> 1:02:24.680 gonna have that for you available on philadelphias dot com 1:02:24.840 --> 1:02:27.240 later on. But Merril Reese go right to Twitter after 1:02:27.320 --> 1:02:31.200 the game. Look at this really special team. Never seen 1:02:31.240 --> 1:02:33.280 an Eagles team put on a stretched drive like that. 1:02:33.480 --> 1:02:37.040 One needed some breaks, but you know what kickers have 1:02:37.160 --> 1:02:39.920 dashed or hopes in the past. Doug Pearson is a 1:02:40.000 --> 1:02:44.400 winner and Nick Foles has unshakable poise like you. That 1:02:44.840 --> 1:02:46.640 I like it is that the second book. The first 1:02:46.680 --> 1:02:48.560 one was Believe It, so it's unshakable. It's gonna be 1:02:48.680 --> 1:02:53.080 the second Nick Foles unshakable right there. So I'm leaving 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:55.960 this set. I'm writing that one right now, so going 1:02:56.040 --> 1:02:59.680 to the press. But nonetheless, it's great. I just love 1:02:59.760 --> 1:03:02.080 that peek behind the curtain because fans get to listen. 1:03:02.120 --> 1:03:03.880 You get to listen on Sports Ray or ninety four WAP, 1:03:04.200 --> 1:03:07.080 you can listen around Philadelphia dot com or Eagles appen. 1:03:07.480 --> 1:03:10.080 You don't know what's going on behind the scenes. You 1:03:10.160 --> 1:03:11.960 get to see the end product, but you don't know 1:03:12.080 --> 1:03:14.480 how the sausage is made, so to speak. And I 1:03:14.640 --> 1:03:19.440 love media relations extraordinaire Anthony Bonnagura, call him the godfather 1:03:19.680 --> 1:03:22.840 there to Merrill's left in the booth there who's working 1:03:22.920 --> 1:03:26.320 as the statistician, the spotter to tell him what's going 1:03:26.360 --> 1:03:28.520 on during the course of game. And you know, there's 1:03:28.560 --> 1:03:30.480 the fan in you that wants to be going berserk, 1:03:30.520 --> 1:03:32.680 but you gotta make sure. I gotta make sure Maryll 1:03:32.760 --> 1:03:35.080 gets the right great guys, gotta make sure put everything 1:03:35.120 --> 1:03:37.280 out so I like that anything goes the little fist bump, 1:03:37.600 --> 1:03:39.320 you know, and then gets back to doing the job 1:03:39.360 --> 1:03:41.480 to take care of Merrill, because you know, you can't 1:03:41.560 --> 1:03:44.160 let them go down whatsoever. That's the biggest thing. You 1:03:44.200 --> 1:03:46.720 can't let them down. So you know, we've talked to 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:49.440 a little bit about Dallas Scott. We showed the reaction 1:03:49.520 --> 1:03:52.120 from mcs faniy live to his touchdown in the third 1:03:52.160 --> 1:03:55.000 corner which gave the Eagles the lead. Just amazing. Speaking 1:03:55.200 --> 1:03:59.280 of unshakable and amazing poise, God are stepping up late 1:03:59.320 --> 1:04:01.560 in the season as a rookie. We were wondering how 1:04:01.680 --> 1:04:04.080 much twelve personnel we were gonna see with he and 1:04:04.200 --> 1:04:06.040 zach ERTs on the field at the same time. Today 1:04:06.080 --> 1:04:08.400 going and gets a Bears defense that pretty much season 1:04:08.480 --> 1:04:11.240 base at all times. Okay, so even if you have 1:04:11.320 --> 1:04:13.720 a third receiver on the field, they're like, we'll drop 1:04:13.800 --> 1:04:16.480 Leonard Floyd and coverage, We'll drop Klill Maggi's And you 1:04:16.560 --> 1:04:19.480 saw that you saw Roquan Smith covering receivers down the 1:04:19.560 --> 1:04:21.800 field in this game. So we're gonna go to a 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:24.040 one on one ambew with Dallas Gott who haulted his 1:04:24.160 --> 1:04:27.320 first career playoff touchdown today in the win over the Bears. 1:04:27.640 --> 1:04:29.600 All right, let's talk about this first. Tell me about 1:04:29.640 --> 1:04:32.200 the touchdown, the route to catch, how it felt. It 1:04:32.320 --> 1:04:35.200 was incredible. Um, you know, we called ze right eight. 1:04:35.200 --> 1:04:37.240 I went in there wasn't the playoff. I thought it 1:04:37.280 --> 1:04:39.280 was gonna be went out there and Nick gave me 1:04:39.320 --> 1:04:41.920 a nice ball. You know, we got ahead. It was 1:04:41.960 --> 1:04:44.080 a pretty pretty big time in the game, pretty exciting. 1:04:44.280 --> 1:04:46.240 Do you know where your family is in this building? 1:04:46.280 --> 1:04:48.480 Did you wave to them after the touchdown? I did? 1:04:48.760 --> 1:04:51.000 I tell you too, they're one of the corners somewhere. 1:04:51.320 --> 1:04:53.720 You know, it's awesome to have them all here. Excited 1:04:53.720 --> 1:04:55.800 to play one more game with these guys. Dallas, the 1:04:56.160 --> 1:04:59.040 last drive, the offensive drive, take me through the drive 1:04:59.080 --> 1:05:02.720 and what Nick show once again in cluck situation. Yeah, 1:05:02.760 --> 1:05:05.200 you know, Dick has been incredible ever since he stepped 1:05:05.200 --> 1:05:07.600 on the field. Um, you know it was it was 1:05:07.680 --> 1:05:11.160 crunched time, We're down six late in the game. You know, 1:05:11.200 --> 1:05:13.400 everybody stepped up, elevated their play. There's a lot of 1:05:13.440 --> 1:05:15.880 big plays on that drive. Your first playoff game, What 1:05:16.080 --> 1:05:19.240 was the experience? Like, man, it was incredible. Um, you know, 1:05:19.600 --> 1:05:22.360 this place was rolling all night. Obviously, you couldn't ask 1:05:22.360 --> 1:05:25.440 for a you know, a closer fish fight to the end. 1:05:25.720 --> 1:05:28.720 You know, it went down to game missing field goal. Um, 1:05:28.800 --> 1:05:30.680 you know it was incredible. I had a blast looking 1:05:30.720 --> 1:05:34.040 forward to next week. Thanks Dallas. Girats. I would think 1:05:34.160 --> 1:05:36.120 that that's a playoff beer for Dallas got but he's 1:05:36.160 --> 1:05:38.640 had that the whole season, so it might be just 1:05:38.760 --> 1:05:42.400 one time. That's the way it is. So he absolutely 1:05:42.520 --> 1:05:44.480 hated the fact that he had a tweet out support 1:05:44.520 --> 1:05:47.960 of North Dakota State winning the FCS National championship because 1:05:47.960 --> 1:05:50.480 he lost the bet because South Dakota State lost to 1:05:50.840 --> 1:05:53.480 Easton Sticking Company there Carson Wentz' is alma mater in 1:05:53.520 --> 1:05:55.840 the semi final. So Dallas got was on Twitter like 1:05:56.520 --> 1:05:59.360 great job, best team in the country, Like, yeah, I 1:05:59.480 --> 1:06:02.520 lost the bet, I lost a bet. But just absolutely 1:06:02.680 --> 1:06:05.520 you look at with him and with the Vantae Maddox. 1:06:05.760 --> 1:06:07.840 You know the contributions you're getting from the young guys, 1:06:07.960 --> 1:06:10.360 Josh Adams working his way in there as well. You 1:06:10.480 --> 1:06:12.919 have to feel good about the future of the team 1:06:13.040 --> 1:06:16.440 because you're getting these contributions from young players. This is 1:06:16.520 --> 1:06:19.160 the pipeline. This is how you talk about the new normal. 1:06:19.520 --> 1:06:22.919 This is how you maintain the new normal is having 1:06:23.000 --> 1:06:24.800 the pipeline of success. You've got to be able to 1:06:24.920 --> 1:06:27.680 draft well so that when the veterans are aging and 1:06:27.960 --> 1:06:29.920 you know, getting to the end of their careers, that 1:06:30.040 --> 1:06:32.560 you have some one you can step in and during 1:06:32.640 --> 1:06:34.920 your tenure with the Eagles, you know, first round picks 1:06:35.000 --> 1:06:37.120 might not really get on the field a whole lot, okay, 1:06:37.200 --> 1:06:39.680 because you have veterans locked in those positions. But I 1:06:39.840 --> 1:06:43.080 always think back to the Brian Westbrook draft, the Leo Shepherd, 1:06:43.160 --> 1:06:45.760 Sheldon Brown, Michael Lewis draft of O two where it's 1:06:45.800 --> 1:06:47.840 like most of these guys aren't getting on the field 1:06:47.880 --> 1:06:50.840 because you already have established players at those positions. You 1:06:51.000 --> 1:06:52.640 just need to get them in the pipeline and get 1:06:52.680 --> 1:06:55.320 them ready so that when the time comes, they're able 1:06:55.360 --> 1:06:57.680 to step in. We didn't think that, you know, I 1:06:57.720 --> 1:06:59.640 think Dascard was the one guy we thought would be 1:06:59.680 --> 1:07:02.080 a pe for the offense. This season took him probably 1:07:02.120 --> 1:07:04.680 a little longer than expected, because he showed flashes of 1:07:04.760 --> 1:07:07.240 brilliance throughout the training camp in preseason. They've done a 1:07:07.240 --> 1:07:09.760 great job working him in Alfonte Max is the one 1:07:09.800 --> 1:07:12.320 guy though that we were like, we didn't think that 1:07:12.400 --> 1:07:14.400 he was going to be a contributor, maybe special teams 1:07:14.440 --> 1:07:17.720 at the most. And here he is starting an outside cornerback, 1:07:18.080 --> 1:07:21.520 you know, going against the MC North champions Alan Robinson, 1:07:21.680 --> 1:07:24.440 giving up you know, six inches to him and yet 1:07:24.640 --> 1:07:27.120 getting the job done to help the defense get the victory. Yeah, 1:07:27.160 --> 1:07:29.680 and playing very well. He has been a pleasant surprise 1:07:29.840 --> 1:07:33.360 at the cornerback position. You talk about what his expected 1:07:33.480 --> 1:07:36.479 role was coming into the season, I mean I thought 1:07:36.880 --> 1:07:41.120 obviously he'd be of the fourth or fifth cornerback, specialties 1:07:41.200 --> 1:07:46.880 contributor and even inactive on some Sundays, but injuries have 1:07:47.440 --> 1:07:51.800 forced him into action early this year, and so he's 1:07:51.840 --> 1:07:54.480 excelled wherever they've asked asked him to play, whether it 1:07:54.640 --> 1:07:57.200 was at free safety, whether it was at the nickel position, 1:07:57.560 --> 1:08:01.000 or even on the outside, he's excelled. And he got 1:08:01.080 --> 1:08:03.400 some great experience going up against the guy like Alan 1:08:03.480 --> 1:08:07.360 Robbinson the day and I would give a Vontae Maddox 1:08:08.400 --> 1:08:11.480 the benefit of the doubt the first half of the game. 1:08:11.560 --> 1:08:13.880 Second half of the game, they saw some things and 1:08:13.960 --> 1:08:17.200 then they took advantage of the young rookie in the 1:08:17.320 --> 1:08:20.040 second half. But I love watching a Vonte Maddox player. 1:08:20.040 --> 1:08:22.280 I think he is a gamer. I think he's gonna 1:08:22.320 --> 1:08:25.000 be huge for us moving forward. I think they're gonna 1:08:25.040 --> 1:08:28.519 have a hard time keeping him off the field next year. 1:08:28.760 --> 1:08:31.920 I think he's an outside corner. I really do. It's 1:08:31.960 --> 1:08:34.320 one of those great topics that we get to debate 1:08:34.640 --> 1:08:37.240 all off season, but we get to push the offseason 1:08:37.320 --> 1:08:41.600 off for at least another week. So, speaking of huge acquisitions, 1:08:41.640 --> 1:08:43.960 a couple of years ago, the Eagles in free agency 1:08:44.160 --> 1:08:47.360 getting Brandon Brooks from the Houston Texans has made back 1:08:47.400 --> 1:08:50.439 to back Pro Bowl appearances. He was huge and helping 1:08:50.479 --> 1:08:53.160 protect Nick Foles, especially on that final drive as the 1:08:53.240 --> 1:08:55.920 Eagles came from behind to get the win. He talked 1:08:55.960 --> 1:08:58.599 with Eagles entire days. But they're on the field following 1:08:58.760 --> 1:09:01.240 the victory, all right, Brandon, you guys are down at 1:09:01.240 --> 1:09:03.240 the goal line trying to get in. What's going on 1:09:03.320 --> 1:09:04.880 in the huddle? What was it? What was the demeanor 1:09:04.960 --> 1:09:06.680 like there? So it was do or die at that point. 1:09:06.720 --> 1:09:09.280 I mean obviously you know you you went your lose, 1:09:09.320 --> 1:09:12.080 you go home. So for us, maybe one one any 1:09:12.120 --> 1:09:13.560 other way to have it on our back. So we 1:09:13.600 --> 1:09:15.680 got the DROB done collectively. How do you think you 1:09:15.720 --> 1:09:18.360 did against that Bears front? I thought the Bears defense 1:09:18.439 --> 1:09:19.880 was an excellent defense. I mean they've been one of 1:09:19.920 --> 1:09:21.400 the best ones in the league for you know, the 1:09:21.439 --> 1:09:25.120 whole year. So say we're feeling good, let's just keep 1:09:25.160 --> 1:09:27.000 the thing rolling, all right. So you're sitting there watching 1:09:27.040 --> 1:09:28.760 what are you looking at? What are you looking at? 1:09:28.840 --> 1:09:31.360 When Cody's lining up the kick? Well, first I was like, 1:09:31.600 --> 1:09:34.240 is he gonna isis? Then he isslan? Then I saw 1:09:34.320 --> 1:09:36.640 him making and I was like, yeah, after this one, 1:09:36.680 --> 1:09:39.439 it's gonna be here right here. It's the way playoff 1:09:39.479 --> 1:09:41.160 games are they always come down to the wire? Do 1:09:41.160 --> 1:09:44.760 you enjoy that? Honestly no, I was on the edge 1:09:44.800 --> 1:09:48.519 of my seat, but glad we got w That was 1:09:48.560 --> 1:09:51.600 a heavyweight showdown in the trenches between Heat and the 1:09:51.720 --> 1:09:55.280 chem Hicks. I mean, the chem Hicks is a devastating 1:09:55.520 --> 1:10:00.360 defensive tackle, has mammoth size, amazing strength, doesn't quiet There's 1:10:00.400 --> 1:10:02.600 some comparisons of Fletcher Cox. I think Fletcher Cox is 1:10:02.600 --> 1:10:04.840 a little more of an athlete, you know, Barrett in 1:10:05.000 --> 1:10:07.160 terms of gaining the quarterback. But you know, if you 1:10:07.200 --> 1:10:09.200 were able to watch the broadcast, they showed some of 1:10:09.280 --> 1:10:11.560 the hand fighting that Kim Hicks was able to do 1:10:11.680 --> 1:10:14.400 and able just to you know, move around the arms 1:10:14.439 --> 1:10:17.920 of whatever offensive lineman was against him. Brandon Brooks had 1:10:17.960 --> 1:10:20.800 his handful today but helped keep Nick Foles clean because 1:10:20.800 --> 1:10:22.200 again that was one of the big things coming to 1:10:22.320 --> 1:10:25.120 this game with that rib injury. Would he be affected 1:10:25.120 --> 1:10:26.880 at all whatsoever? You knew the Bears were going to 1:10:26.960 --> 1:10:29.200 try to take their shots, and you really didn't hear 1:10:29.320 --> 1:10:32.840 much from clil Mac, didn't hear too much from Leonard Floyd. 1:10:32.920 --> 1:10:35.960 I mean, overall, they had able to get pressure at times, 1:10:36.040 --> 1:10:39.160 but the offensive line with Isaac Salemile coming in there 1:10:39.240 --> 1:10:41.160 for you know, his first game in weeks because of 1:10:41.240 --> 1:10:43.720 that Chess injury. You were wondering if they were gonna say, 1:10:44.160 --> 1:10:46.479 we want three straight games with Wizz in there, let's 1:10:46.520 --> 1:10:49.160 keep it moving. But they want a bigger body inside 1:10:49.479 --> 1:10:53.400 to handle this Bears defensive front. And look, the offensive 1:10:53.439 --> 1:10:55.679 line was up to the task once again. Yeah, another 1:10:55.760 --> 1:10:58.519 great job in this offensive line have gone up against 1:10:58.520 --> 1:11:01.720 some pretty good defensive front, particularly on that line when 1:11:01.760 --> 1:11:04.639 you look at Aaron Donald and Dominican Sue, JJ Watt, 1:11:04.720 --> 1:11:09.080 Jadeveon Clowney, Ryan Carrigan and those young Alabama boys down 1:11:09.120 --> 1:11:12.400 there in Washington they faced last week, and then you 1:11:12.560 --> 1:11:15.240 had this week with this Chicago Bears defense, the number 1:11:15.280 --> 1:11:18.519 one defense in the league. Khalil Matt gets all the attention, 1:11:18.840 --> 1:11:21.360 but they are a good defensive unit. That whole front 1:11:21.400 --> 1:11:25.400 seven is a good unit. And so I had. What 1:11:25.520 --> 1:11:27.720 I liked that the Eagles offensive line was able to 1:11:27.800 --> 1:11:30.599 do today is that they didn't allow that front seven, 1:11:30.800 --> 1:11:36.080 particularly that defensive line, to dominate the offense, to disrupt 1:11:36.160 --> 1:11:38.680 the offense all day. Sure, they made some plays and 1:11:38.760 --> 1:11:41.040 part of the game plan was get the ball out quick, 1:11:41.320 --> 1:11:44.400 so you can sort of neutralize that Bears front. But 1:11:44.560 --> 1:11:46.800 the Bears, they get that sort of game plan from 1:11:46.840 --> 1:11:51.040 everyone every week, and they still manage to disrupt offenses. 1:11:51.040 --> 1:11:54.479 I watched this Bears defense on Monday Night destroy the 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:58.280 La Rams offense, and so I thought the Eagles offensive 1:11:58.320 --> 1:12:01.479 line did a nice job of not allowing this Bear's 1:12:01.600 --> 1:12:04.600 front to really just dominate the game. They made a 1:12:04.680 --> 1:12:07.759 couple of plays here and there, but they didn't dominate 1:12:07.840 --> 1:12:09.880 the game, and that's what they can do at times. 1:12:10.040 --> 1:12:13.160 Cleio Mac has been an absolute game record this season. Okay, 1:12:13.240 --> 1:12:15.680 I'll go back to even in the season opener for them, 1:12:15.760 --> 1:12:19.040 his debut against Green Bay, and the first half alone, 1:12:19.120 --> 1:12:22.960 you just said, they can't stop this guy whether no 1:12:23.000 --> 1:12:25.000 matter what side he's lying up on. And that's what's 1:12:25.000 --> 1:12:27.360 instrict about Mac. When you go back to the Raiders 1:12:27.439 --> 1:12:31.200 game last season, he lined up exclusively over Lane Johnson. 1:12:31.479 --> 1:12:34.439 Well tonight he was moving back and forth between Lane 1:12:34.520 --> 1:12:38.679 Johnson Jason Peters, and both times you weren't seeing either 1:12:38.760 --> 1:12:41.320 tackle would get a ton of help whatsoever. I mean, 1:12:41.439 --> 1:12:45.080 Doug Pierson, new look, you guys, you're you're the book 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:48.200 end tackles, the stalwarts or the offensive line. You know, 1:12:48.360 --> 1:12:50.800 Lane Johnson an All Pro year ago. I think he's 1:12:50.880 --> 1:12:52.800 motivated by the Slight, not just the pro Bo but 1:12:52.880 --> 1:12:55.360 the All Pro which was announced this week. Jason Pierce 1:12:55.400 --> 1:12:57.160 we talked earlier, didn't get to be a part of 1:12:57.200 --> 1:12:59.840 that playoff front on the field last season, but he 1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:02.760 was a motivating force because remember in the Super Bowl, 1:13:02.840 --> 1:13:05.519 the NFC Championship game, Lane Johnson is running out with 1:13:05.600 --> 1:13:08.519 his seventy one jersey out there on the field. Okay, 1:13:08.640 --> 1:13:11.559 So those guys had to hold their own whether whether 1:13:11.600 --> 1:13:14.400 it was against Mac or Floyd, and both were up 1:13:14.439 --> 1:13:16.639 to the task. Those guys were not able to dominate 1:13:16.680 --> 1:13:18.800 the game. A Kam Hicks I thought was very very 1:13:18.880 --> 1:13:20.880 good in the middle of the interior. You know, they 1:13:20.960 --> 1:13:23.479 didn't give the Eagles allowed room to run the ball. 1:13:23.600 --> 1:13:27.559 Today I cried Doug Pearson for finding striking a nice 1:13:27.600 --> 1:13:30.599 balance where it was not You didn't completely go away 1:13:30.640 --> 1:13:33.240 from it, you didn't abandon the run, but you sprinkled 1:13:33.240 --> 1:13:35.559 it in just when you had to just to keep 1:13:35.600 --> 1:13:38.880 the Bears defense honest. Okay, because it was tough. It's 1:13:38.880 --> 1:13:41.640 been tough Slight against that defense all season long from 1:13:41.640 --> 1:13:45.879 a run standpoint, and especially was so today for the Eagles. 1:13:45.960 --> 1:13:48.799 So speaking of Doug Pearson, let's get some more insight 1:13:48.920 --> 1:13:51.120 into what the game plan was for today and how 1:13:51.160 --> 1:13:53.160 the Eagles came out with the win. Let's sit it 1:13:53.240 --> 1:13:55.200 to the one on one interview with the Hall of 1:13:55.280 --> 1:14:00.479 Fame wide receiver Mike Quick. Coach, not many people expected 1:14:00.520 --> 1:14:02.720 you to even be in the playoffs, more or less 1:14:02.840 --> 1:14:06.680 advancing what is it about this team that they continue 1:14:06.760 --> 1:14:09.720 to do what you're doing? You know, I think our 1:14:09.760 --> 1:14:12.080 guys really they do a great job of just blocking 1:14:12.120 --> 1:14:14.320 a lot of things out, you know, and just focusing 1:14:14.360 --> 1:14:16.800 on their job. And you know, I talk a lot 1:14:16.800 --> 1:14:20.240 about ownership and accountability and it's really starting to show 1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:22.040 up now this last month, month and a half of 1:14:22.080 --> 1:14:25.280 our season, and you know, it proved itself again tonight. 1:14:25.360 --> 1:14:28.000 I mean, it's a Chicago Bear team is a They're 1:14:28.040 --> 1:14:30.280 well coached, it's a great football team. They're gonna win 1:14:30.320 --> 1:14:32.680 a lot of games. They're gonna be a force to 1:14:32.760 --> 1:14:34.519 be reckoned with in the NFC for a while. And 1:14:35.200 --> 1:14:36.960 you know, for us to come in here in battle 1:14:37.000 --> 1:14:38.680 in play sixty minutes, I think it just shows the 1:14:38.720 --> 1:14:41.200 resiliency again of our football team. It's a defense that 1:14:41.360 --> 1:14:43.400 they don't give up anything in the run game. They're 1:14:43.439 --> 1:14:45.000 the best in the red zone, but you still are 1:14:45.040 --> 1:14:47.320 able to get two touchdowns in the red zone. Tell 1:14:47.400 --> 1:14:50.080 me about that plan when you got into red zone. Yeah, 1:14:50.160 --> 1:14:53.280 I mean, you know, we knew that if we could 1:14:53.280 --> 1:14:54.840 get them in nickel defense, we had a chance to 1:14:54.920 --> 1:14:56.479 run the ball just a little bit. And you know, 1:14:56.560 --> 1:14:58.800 coach Fanjio does a great job of holding personnel. But 1:14:59.200 --> 1:15:01.560 you know, our plan us to it was to you know, 1:15:01.680 --> 1:15:04.320 try to attack that way and and uh um and 1:15:04.400 --> 1:15:05.960 then and then we had the you know, we had 1:15:06.000 --> 1:15:07.880 the touchdown early in the in the in the second 1:15:07.960 --> 1:15:10.160 quarter that kind of got us, you know, to ten points. 1:15:10.200 --> 1:15:12.320 And then of course the last drive of the game 1:15:12.400 --> 1:15:15.080 was was outstanding and getting us in there on fourth down. 1:15:15.160 --> 1:15:17.280 But you know, we felt like we could do some things. 1:15:17.520 --> 1:15:19.680 That's again, that's a good red zone team. And um, 1:15:20.360 --> 1:15:22.000 we're fortunate to come away with what we did. But 1:15:22.080 --> 1:15:23.880 you kind of understand when he's going to come after 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:25.720 you with an all out blitz and play men on 1:15:25.840 --> 1:15:28.160 the becks end, so you're able to take advantage of that. 1:15:28.320 --> 1:15:30.719 Huh we did, and he you know, you know, coach 1:15:30.760 --> 1:15:33.200 Fanjio again is a he loves to bring pressure inside 1:15:33.240 --> 1:15:35.360 to five, especially in those got to have it type moments, 1:15:35.400 --> 1:15:37.599 and that was a gotta have a moment and um, 1:15:38.080 --> 1:15:39.679 you know, it was a play that we had rapped 1:15:39.720 --> 1:15:41.559 during the week and Golden is one of the best. 1:15:41.640 --> 1:15:44.479 That a little quick out and um, Nick is a 1:15:44.560 --> 1:15:46.559 very accurate pastor there and put a good, good ball 1:15:46.640 --> 1:15:49.080 on it and um got us in the end zone. 1:15:49.439 --> 1:15:52.160 You were in New Orleans, didn't go well. Looking forward 1:15:52.160 --> 1:15:54.400 to going back to New Orleans. Yeah, I mean it's uh, 1:15:54.760 --> 1:15:57.160 it's a great opportunity again. Um. You know, anytime you 1:15:57.439 --> 1:15:59.920 can continue and keep playing in the postseason, that's a pot. 1:16:00.400 --> 1:16:02.040 And you know, we'll look at that film again and 1:16:02.160 --> 1:16:04.680 go back and make some adjustments. And I feel like 1:16:04.800 --> 1:16:07.880 we're a different football team at this point, um than 1:16:07.920 --> 1:16:09.720 we were, you know, say a month and a half, 1:16:09.720 --> 1:16:12.160 two months ago, and um, and we're just looking for 1:16:12.200 --> 1:16:14.200 the opportunity. It's a good football team. They're well coached 1:16:14.240 --> 1:16:16.680 as well, Uh you know, and we just gotta put 1:16:16.720 --> 1:16:18.320 another good plan together. Let me go back to the 1:16:18.400 --> 1:16:21.559 offensive line, because this was a defense that everyone talks 1:16:21.600 --> 1:16:23.720 about it and how and they are one of the 1:16:23.840 --> 1:16:26.519 best that I've seen, but your offensive line today, you 1:16:26.640 --> 1:16:28.920 got to talk about their play because I thought they 1:16:28.960 --> 1:16:31.120 were Stella today. I meant tell you, you know, each 1:16:31.160 --> 1:16:34.479 week coached out puts a great run plan together, they 1:16:34.520 --> 1:16:36.360 do a great job with the protection plan. And then 1:16:36.479 --> 1:16:40.160 and then our guys just embrace, embrace the work, embrace 1:16:40.240 --> 1:16:42.880 the joy of kind of playing together. And they're they're 1:16:42.920 --> 1:16:46.040 playing really well right now together and and uh, it's 1:16:46.080 --> 1:16:48.320 it's fun to watch our guys quite frankly, you know, 1:16:48.439 --> 1:16:51.320 five guys come off the ball and do some things 1:16:51.360 --> 1:16:54.160 in the run game and then to keep your quarterback clean. Um, 1:16:54.920 --> 1:16:57.000 they're doing a great job. They're playing well right now. Thanks, 1:16:57.040 --> 1:17:00.720 Cod's good luck down the Thanks Quick. Great interview is 1:17:00.760 --> 1:17:04.160 always from Mike Quick. Now there's there's a photo circulating 1:17:04.240 --> 1:17:07.200 Twitter right now of Doug Peterson in the locker room 1:17:07.200 --> 1:17:09.800 after the wind standing with Tim Joern again with a 1:17:09.960 --> 1:17:13.559 gold chain around his neck that I would have loved 1:17:13.600 --> 1:17:15.479 if he had the gold chain on during the interview 1:17:15.600 --> 1:17:18.200 right there, that I would have just been classic, absolutely 1:17:18.240 --> 1:17:21.920 classic right there. So Doug Peterson phenomenal job getting the 1:17:22.040 --> 1:17:24.320 Eagles the win. So we have more come up here 1:17:24.360 --> 1:17:26.599 on the postgame show for his ina by Rico. We're 1:17:26.600 --> 1:17:29.000 gonna dig deep in go inside the film room after 1:17:29.080 --> 1:17:31.639 the break, and then later we're gonna preview the matchup 1:17:31.840 --> 1:17:34.240 with the Saints. 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Okay, that's I guess the 1:20:27.320 --> 1:20:30.639 comparison right there. So everybody's looking for what's the mask 1:20:30.720 --> 1:20:32.320 gonna be for this year? You got the ski mask? 1:20:32.439 --> 1:20:36.160 What's gonna be the dancing celebration moment. Well you see 1:20:36.160 --> 1:20:39.200 it right there with Doug Peterson rocking the gold chain. There, 1:20:39.479 --> 1:20:43.880 yea great moment after the game. And you know the 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:46.559 great thing about Doug, you know, being the coach here, 1:20:47.200 --> 1:20:49.960 You know, Doug was in that position that those players 1:20:50.000 --> 1:20:52.160 are in. You know, Doug has won a Super Bowl 1:20:52.439 --> 1:20:54.720 with the Green Bay Packers. Doug has been around a 1:20:54.800 --> 1:20:56.240 lot of good teams. He's done on a lot of 1:20:56.320 --> 1:20:58.280 good teams. He knows what that locker room is like. 1:20:58.600 --> 1:21:00.439 And one thing I always think about when I think 1:21:00.439 --> 1:21:02.000 about the one year I got a chance to play 1:21:02.080 --> 1:21:04.559 with him when he was holding the spot for Donovan 1:21:04.600 --> 1:21:08.760 and Nap, was that how Doug came to work every 1:21:08.840 --> 1:21:11.960 day with a smile on his face. How Doug it 1:21:12.120 --> 1:21:15.559 was just a was like a warm, welcoming filling around him. Right. 1:21:15.600 --> 1:21:17.960 We didn't win very many football games that year, that 1:21:18.080 --> 1:21:20.160 was Andy's first year, and we got off I believe, 1:21:20.240 --> 1:21:22.680 to an old and five start. But Doug seemed to 1:21:22.760 --> 1:21:26.600 have the same upbeat personality every day he came in 1:21:26.680 --> 1:21:29.240 that locker room man. And when I watched him as 1:21:29.280 --> 1:21:31.880 a coach during his time of year as the Eagles man, 1:21:32.360 --> 1:21:35.519 I just U there's always a moment that takes me 1:21:35.640 --> 1:21:38.000 back to what he was like as a teammate, and 1:21:38.320 --> 1:21:42.160 I can see it's no surprise how why his players 1:21:42.640 --> 1:21:45.920 enjoy playing for him because he has that sort of personality. 1:21:46.320 --> 1:21:50.760 He sort of makes everyone feel comfortable and important on 1:21:50.920 --> 1:21:53.040 the team, from the fifty third man on the roster 1:21:53.400 --> 1:21:57.160 to the franchise quarterback. You know, Doug makes everyone feels 1:21:57.200 --> 1:21:59.240 like they're a part of this thing, and he's a 1:21:59.320 --> 1:22:02.000 part of it. Right. There is that line between coach 1:22:02.080 --> 1:22:05.120 and player, but Doug has played the game, so he 1:22:05.320 --> 1:22:08.800 knows what that's like and it's never lost on him, 1:22:09.040 --> 1:22:12.280 so he can always draw on that experience as a player, 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:16.519 not just in games, not just postgame celebrations, but in 1:22:16.680 --> 1:22:20.719 rough times and difficult moments when things can sort of splinter. 1:22:21.280 --> 1:22:24.280 You know, Doug has the ability to bring everybody together, man, 1:22:24.640 --> 1:22:26.559 and he doesn't get enough credit for that. As a coach. 1:22:27.040 --> 1:22:29.160 We pass it around to the players a lot, but 1:22:29.280 --> 1:22:31.880 the coaches are always there to get the blame when 1:22:31.920 --> 1:22:34.920 things don't go well. This guy has the ability to 1:22:35.240 --> 1:22:38.320 bring this team together. Great actor along the same lines, 1:22:38.479 --> 1:22:41.320 This was in our Kickoff Show presented by EXALTA Earlier today, 1:22:41.720 --> 1:22:44.719 Mike Rick sat down with Michael Bennett amazing eleven minute 1:22:44.760 --> 1:22:46.479 interview we aired I think about three minutes of it 1:22:46.560 --> 1:22:48.280 in the show, but you can watch the entire interview 1:22:48.320 --> 1:22:51.400 on Philadelphias dot com. And Michael Bennett goes back to 1:22:51.840 --> 1:22:54.680 I believe it's the Tennessee game where get an altercation 1:22:54.840 --> 1:22:58.280 with an assistant coach on the bench following the game. Well, 1:22:58.400 --> 1:23:01.400 the next day he gets he comes into the visit Doug, 1:23:01.840 --> 1:23:04.680 and Doug's first question wasn't about what happened or there, 1:23:04.800 --> 1:23:06.840 what caused the fight? This that or the other? Why 1:23:06.880 --> 1:23:09.080 were you guys arguing? It was like, are you okay? 1:23:09.840 --> 1:23:12.360 I don't care about the football stuff as a person, 1:23:12.920 --> 1:23:15.720 are you okay? And Michael Benn, who admitted that he 1:23:15.840 --> 1:23:18.760 was struggling with the transition going from Seattle to Philadelphia 1:23:18.880 --> 1:23:21.679 because you know, he was in trench in that Seattle 1:23:21.760 --> 1:23:23.560 community and he didn't know if he was going to 1:23:23.600 --> 1:23:25.880 be in Philadelphia for the long haul. So why should 1:23:25.880 --> 1:23:28.639 I bother building relationships with the guys in the locker room, 1:23:28.680 --> 1:23:31.400 or you know, bonding with the coaches or anything like that. 1:23:31.479 --> 1:23:33.439 If I'm just gonna be a mercenary be here for 1:23:33.520 --> 1:23:35.720 a year. Who cares. I'll just do them. I'll do 1:23:35.800 --> 1:23:38.120 my job, Cluck my paycheck, dude, and get out here. 1:23:38.400 --> 1:23:41.000 But he said, after that interaction with Doug Pearson, he said, 1:23:41.360 --> 1:23:44.160 this guy cares, and that kind of like turn was 1:23:44.200 --> 1:23:46.320 a turning point for him. That flipped the switch, and 1:23:46.400 --> 1:23:48.639 he's like, all right, I've got to be a team player. 1:23:48.720 --> 1:23:50.080 I've got to do what I can to help this 1:23:50.200 --> 1:23:52.439 defense win. And you look at the numbers, you look 1:23:52.479 --> 1:23:54.519 at the production. This Eagles team would not be in 1:23:54.560 --> 1:23:56.760 the playoffs if it weren't for Michael Benn. So just 1:23:57.080 --> 1:24:00.439 so just another example of the touch that Mad touched 1:24:00.439 --> 1:24:03.719 at Doug Pearson has in terms of working with the players. 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:05.439 All Right, so what we're gonna do now is we're 1:24:05.479 --> 1:24:08.280 gonna go inside the film room. Fran Duffy and Greg 1:24:08.400 --> 1:24:12.640 Cosell breakdown Dallas Goddard's ten yard touchdown reception in the 1:24:12.760 --> 1:24:16.400 third quarter in this edition of the Rico Review. Let'sten 1:24:16.520 --> 1:24:18.720 over to the RICO whiteboard right now where the guys 1:24:18.760 --> 1:24:25.240 are standing by. All right, back to the offense. Now, 1:24:25.280 --> 1:24:27.080 we're gonna take a look at this touchdown catch by 1:24:27.160 --> 1:24:30.080 Dallas Goddard Lake in the third quarter. Eagles now down 1:24:30.200 --> 1:24:31.920 six to three in this game. And this is a 1:24:32.040 --> 1:24:34.920 route greg that we've seen zach Ertz score on hundreds 1:24:34.960 --> 1:24:38.680 of times the last few years. And they connect here 1:24:38.920 --> 1:24:41.400 Nick Foles to Dallas Goddard down in the red zone. 1:24:41.479 --> 1:24:42.960 Show us how they set this play well. And that's 1:24:43.000 --> 1:24:46.000 what's interesting. They're in eleven personnel, meaning that they've got 1:24:46.200 --> 1:24:48.800 just one tight end on the field and it's Goddard here, 1:24:48.800 --> 1:24:51.519 which speaks now in this situation to how they feel 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:53.800 about him as a receiver. And we know he's very 1:24:53.840 --> 1:24:56.160 good and only getting better. So what they're going to 1:24:56.280 --> 1:24:58.720 do here is they're going to bring it's really more 1:24:58.760 --> 1:25:00.640 of a shift than a most, but they're going to 1:25:00.720 --> 1:25:04.599 bring Nelson Aglar across the formation and he's now going 1:25:04.680 --> 1:25:07.400 to be outside of Goddard but on the same side 1:25:07.479 --> 1:25:11.320 with Goddard and the offset back Windel Smallwood. So let's 1:25:11.360 --> 1:25:13.960 see that happen, because this sets up a three man 1:25:14.160 --> 1:25:17.560 route combination to the boundary. And what they're trying to 1:25:17.680 --> 1:25:20.120 do here as we set this up, is they're trying 1:25:20.160 --> 1:25:22.960 to get Goddard matched up man to man on a safety. 1:25:23.000 --> 1:25:24.880 So right about here, you can sort of see it 1:25:25.000 --> 1:25:27.000 start to develop. What you're going to see here is 1:25:27.000 --> 1:25:30.080 aglar work inside on a little kind of curl snag 1:25:30.200 --> 1:25:32.960 type route, and you're going to see smallwood work outside 1:25:33.000 --> 1:25:35.720 on an arrow route. And then what do you get here? 1:25:35.960 --> 1:25:38.080 You can't see the safety in the shot, but you 1:25:38.280 --> 1:25:40.840 end up with Dallas Goddard one on one with the 1:25:40.920 --> 1:25:44.040 safety Adrian Amos, and that's exactly what they wanted. And 1:25:44.160 --> 1:25:47.679 also the nature of this route concept opens the window 1:25:48.000 --> 1:25:50.760 for the throw by Nick Foles, so that's the whole 1:25:50.800 --> 1:25:52.960 point in this. So you end up with exactly what 1:25:53.160 --> 1:25:56.439 you want from a one on one perspective, with Goddard 1:25:56.479 --> 1:25:59.479 on Amos and with Nick Foles having the throwing windows. 1:25:59.520 --> 1:26:02.160 So let's run this now and you'll see, and it's 1:26:02.200 --> 1:26:05.439 beautifully done, well executed. You see the throw with timing, 1:26:05.720 --> 1:26:08.439 with touch and put right on the money. So really 1:26:08.800 --> 1:26:11.320 nicely designed play. And here you can see the one 1:26:11.360 --> 1:26:13.720 on one with god Or doing a really nice job 1:26:13.920 --> 1:26:16.840 of widening his stem, getting Amos to turn and then 1:26:16.920 --> 1:26:19.240 working back inside. It looked like Art's running that round. 1:26:19.240 --> 1:26:21.320 You sure did. Yeah, And when I saw the play concert, 1:26:21.439 --> 1:26:24.120 it was actually the first touchdown catch of Goddard's career 1:26:24.160 --> 1:26:27.240 against the Indianapolis Colts. Carson Wentz's first touchdown of the season, 1:26:27.520 --> 1:26:30.760 same exact play, same doesn't si very similar concent very 1:26:30.800 --> 1:26:32.760 well done, very well executed there by the Eagles in 1:26:32.800 --> 1:26:34.519 the red zone. They now go up ten to six 1:26:34.560 --> 1:26:40.479 in this game. Thanks Fran and Gray. 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I mean, that's 1:29:30.680 --> 1:29:33.559 gonna be great for the other athletes in the city 1:29:33.600 --> 1:29:36.960 to see when you see those images from Expanding Live 1:29:37.160 --> 1:29:39.840 and how the crowd goes absolutely berserk and you're seeing 1:29:40.080 --> 1:29:43.400 the parade down Broad Street and the fans collecting there 1:29:43.400 --> 1:29:45.960 after huge wins. As a professional athlete in the city, 1:29:46.000 --> 1:29:47.920 you're like, I could be a part of this. I 1:29:48.000 --> 1:29:51.000 can help. And he's the centerpiece there for the Sixers, 1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:53.679 So he is someone who certainly can bring that type 1:29:53.680 --> 1:29:56.760 of atmosphere and feeling just down the street to the 1:29:56.800 --> 1:30:00.280 Walls Fargo Center. So certainly exciting times here in South Philly. Listen, 1:30:00.320 --> 1:30:02.839 and I'm sure when they see, you know, the Eagles 1:30:02.920 --> 1:30:06.080 win the other teams in the city and see how 1:30:06.160 --> 1:30:09.040 the city gets behind the team and how much fun 1:30:09.280 --> 1:30:11.800 that run was last year. They all want to do 1:30:11.880 --> 1:30:14.960 it themselves as well. So I'm sure the Sixers, Flyers, 1:30:15.080 --> 1:30:17.960 the Phillies, the Phillies know what it's like two thousand 1:30:17.960 --> 1:30:20.400 and eight. I can remember what it was like when 1:30:20.439 --> 1:30:22.800 they won the World Series back in two thousand and eight, 1:30:22.800 --> 1:30:25.040 and the only thing that I could think about was 1:30:25.680 --> 1:30:28.720 the opportunities that we squandered during the time that I 1:30:28.880 --> 1:30:31.360 play here, because I said to myself, man, this is 1:30:31.400 --> 1:30:33.840 what it would have been like had we won. So 1:30:33.960 --> 1:30:36.720 when the Phillies wanted bigger, yeah when bigger. But in 1:30:36.840 --> 1:30:38.920 O eight, I mean, that was the first championship for 1:30:39.000 --> 1:30:42.040 the city in twenty five years, So that made it 1:30:42.120 --> 1:30:44.800 a big deal itself because it had been so long 1:30:45.200 --> 1:30:49.360 since the city had celebrated the championship. Uh celebrated with 1:30:49.479 --> 1:30:52.519 the championship parade. And then we saw last year. I mean, 1:30:52.600 --> 1:30:55.639 come on, man, that was that was That was everything 1:30:56.000 --> 1:31:00.720 I imagined it would be and more. Yes, exactly, yes, 1:31:00.880 --> 1:31:04.120 it was all my years here in Philadelphia. Everyone said, okay, 1:31:04.160 --> 1:31:06.320 you may see the parades for the other teams, right, 1:31:06.640 --> 1:31:08.840 but the Eagles one will be epic. It will top 1:31:09.000 --> 1:31:11.759 every other parade there is because, like you said earlier 1:31:11.840 --> 1:31:14.599 in the show, it's different with the Eagles. In this city, 1:31:14.800 --> 1:31:17.600 everyone comes together for the Eagles. We support all the 1:31:17.640 --> 1:31:21.920 sports teams, but everyone truly is behind this Eagles team here. 1:31:22.960 --> 1:31:26.320 So next week, at the same time, next Sunday, four 1:31:26.520 --> 1:31:30.040 forty pm, Eagles taken on the thirteen and three number 1:31:30.120 --> 1:31:32.960 one seed New Orleans Saints at the Superdome. You talk 1:31:33.000 --> 1:31:37.800 about raucous road environments that I recall covering the two 1:31:37.920 --> 1:31:41.080 thousand and six season, the Jeff Garcia Divisional Round game 1:31:41.840 --> 1:31:46.160 down there against them, and that place is an absolute, 1:31:46.320 --> 1:31:48.800 absolute nightmare to play in on the road. It is, 1:31:49.520 --> 1:31:51.920 and I was a part of the reopening of the 1:31:52.000 --> 1:31:55.360 Superdome played in Atlanta. When I played in Atlanta, we 1:31:55.520 --> 1:31:58.120 played there and reopened the Superdome on that Monday night. 1:31:59.439 --> 1:32:03.240 I've never heard it be as loud as it was 1:32:03.439 --> 1:32:05.759 that night. So I can only imagine what the playoffs 1:32:05.800 --> 1:32:07.920 will be like, what next week's game will be like. 1:32:08.400 --> 1:32:11.080 They know they had the defending champion coming in. They 1:32:11.160 --> 1:32:13.320 also know they put up forty eight points on us 1:32:13.520 --> 1:32:16.560 when it was unnecessary in that game earlier, so a 1:32:16.680 --> 1:32:19.280 lot of that will be discussed this week. The Eagles 1:32:19.320 --> 1:32:22.760 will certainly be motivated going into this game. Saints are 1:32:22.760 --> 1:32:24.559 going to be motivated. You gonna get the Saints best, 1:32:24.880 --> 1:32:27.599 best game. But what I like is that the Eagles 1:32:27.960 --> 1:32:29.920 I think will be ready to roll next week and 1:32:30.040 --> 1:32:33.400 so I'm looking forward to another great game. Saints offense 1:32:33.760 --> 1:32:37.080 hasn't really been as explosive since that last Eagles game, 1:32:37.560 --> 1:32:40.280 so they've been held to thirteen points, ten points in 1:32:40.320 --> 1:32:42.679 a game you know they had to win. They lost 1:32:42.720 --> 1:32:45.840 a tough game to the Cowboys thirteen to ten. They 1:32:45.920 --> 1:32:48.400 had to win a tough one against Pittsburgh, so you know, 1:32:48.560 --> 1:32:51.519 this isn't the same Saints team that was clicking the 1:32:51.680 --> 1:32:54.639 last time the Eagles faced them. So this this could 1:32:54.680 --> 1:32:57.960 be a good opportunity for the Eagles here. And conversely, 1:32:58.400 --> 1:33:02.080 I think the Eagles are their best football. The Eagles 1:33:02.120 --> 1:33:05.080 weren't playing their best football when they faced the Saints 1:33:05.160 --> 1:33:08.000 the first time. They're gonna get the best Eagles version 1:33:08.479 --> 1:33:11.920 of the twenty eighteen slash nineteen team. You're added. There 1:33:11.960 --> 1:33:15.000 are so many great storylines. Nick Foles and Drew Prees 1:33:15.080 --> 1:33:18.000 went to the same Westlake high school. They're in Austin, 1:33:18.120 --> 1:33:21.200 Texas in a rematch of the twenty thirteen Wild Cards 1:33:21.240 --> 1:33:26.000 show that broke his record records down records in high school. Okay, 1:33:26.080 --> 1:33:29.160 remember Foles wasn't the quarterback for the first meeting this season. 1:33:29.240 --> 1:33:33.080 And then Malcolm Jenkins Darren Sprowles, former Saints going against 1:33:33.120 --> 1:33:37.160 their you know, their previous team, and you know Malcolm Jenkins. 1:33:37.200 --> 1:33:40.280 There's gonna be some bad blood there with Sean Payton 1:33:40.360 --> 1:33:43.400 after Alvin Kamara getting that touchdown, you know, to run 1:33:43.479 --> 1:33:45.360 up the score late in the game. And uh, and 1:33:45.479 --> 1:33:47.680 not to mentioned Alvin Kamara doing all the talk and 1:33:47.760 --> 1:33:50.719 he did last year certainly. Yeah, and had the Eagle, 1:33:50.800 --> 1:33:53.400 had the Saints come to Philadelphia instead of Minnesota. So 1:33:54.040 --> 1:33:56.920 it's it's it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fine, 1:33:57.000 --> 1:33:58.800 tell you what. It's gonna be fun for me leading 1:33:58.920 --> 1:34:00.880 up to this game. Yeah, en up to the game. 1:34:01.000 --> 1:34:03.760 Because when you get a team like the Saints, who 1:34:03.800 --> 1:34:07.720 a lot of people are picking as the NFC representatives 1:34:08.000 --> 1:34:10.040 because they've been so good all year longer than they 1:34:10.120 --> 1:34:12.880 have home field advantage. You got the defending champs coming 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:17.000 in here with the whole underdog ski mask type of mantra. 1:34:17.200 --> 1:34:20.080 So I can't wait to get to work tomorrow to 1:34:20.240 --> 1:34:23.800 let out that victory chant that we yell out when 1:34:23.840 --> 1:34:26.720 the Eagles win. But just the sort of the build up, 1:34:26.760 --> 1:34:29.599 breaking down the game, the matchup, the ends, and out 1:34:29.680 --> 1:34:34.200 the differences that the team's sort of the difference where 1:34:34.240 --> 1:34:36.599 the teams are right now compared to where they were 1:34:37.200 --> 1:34:39.920 weeks ago, right when when the Eagles left there was 1:34:40.000 --> 1:34:42.720 at four and six after the game, after that game 1:34:42.840 --> 1:34:46.040 four and six, this is a completely different Eagles football 1:34:46.080 --> 1:34:48.720 team on both sides of the ball. The biggest thing 1:34:48.960 --> 1:34:51.639 is taking the lessons from today applying to next week. 1:34:52.000 --> 1:34:55.360 They got to minimize the miss opportunities. That's the biggest thing. 1:34:55.439 --> 1:34:57.560 You're you're not going against Mitchell Trubisky, who's in his 1:34:57.640 --> 1:35:01.040 first playoff games, right, That's again happened to in New Orleans. 1:35:01.120 --> 1:35:04.439 Can have two turnovers, Okay, you can't, you know, missed 1:35:04.479 --> 1:35:07.720 opportunities if Drew Brees throws one there, Trey Selivan and 1:35:07.800 --> 1:35:10.160 vanta match whatever it is, you gotta come down with it. 1:35:10.360 --> 1:35:13.479 You got you gotta be able to get some extra 1:35:13.640 --> 1:35:17.080 drives for your offense against this vaunted offense. So it's 1:35:17.080 --> 1:35:20.920 going from going from the amazing Bears defense. We're gonna 1:35:20.960 --> 1:35:23.439 hear all this week about Drew Brees and you know, 1:35:23.560 --> 1:35:25.960 the Hall of Fame career, and you know that we 1:35:26.000 --> 1:35:27.720 don't know how many years Brees has left, but is 1:35:27.760 --> 1:35:29.719 this the year where you know, he gets that second 1:35:29.760 --> 1:35:32.439 Super Bowl title? You know we're gonna be hearing about 1:35:32.520 --> 1:35:35.200 all of that this week. Here, this is where the 1:35:35.280 --> 1:35:37.800 Eagles defense. It's an amazing challenge. I mean, this is 1:35:37.840 --> 1:35:40.439 what you want, Okay for the guys on that side 1:35:40.479 --> 1:35:42.880 of the football, you know, this is your opportunity to 1:35:42.960 --> 1:35:45.679 leave them, Mark, this is your opportunity to go there. 1:35:45.760 --> 1:35:49.479 And this Saint's team, you know, was arguably the best team, 1:35:49.880 --> 1:35:51.240 not just in the conference, one of the best teams 1:35:51.280 --> 1:35:53.160 in the league throughout the course of the season. Okay, 1:35:53.240 --> 1:35:55.479 they're deserving of the number one seed. You can go 1:35:55.560 --> 1:35:57.840 to their house, one of the most difficult places to 1:35:57.960 --> 1:36:01.800 play and really put the NFL world unnoticed with the 1:36:01.840 --> 1:36:03.720 way and you look at the numbers here, Okay, I 1:36:03.800 --> 1:36:08.840 mean Drew Brees thirty two touchdowns against five interceptions. Yeah, okay, 1:36:08.960 --> 1:36:11.320 he's not gonna make a lot of mistakes. Okay. The 1:36:11.479 --> 1:36:13.760 offense continue to put up points per game thirty one 1:36:13.800 --> 1:36:16.439 and a half points per game. You know it's it's 1:36:16.479 --> 1:36:19.720 gonna be quite a challenge, But Doug Peterson knows how 1:36:19.760 --> 1:36:23.679 to coach in big game situations. I mean across the board. 1:36:23.720 --> 1:36:26.960 The head coach matchups. The offense against Stevens both sides 1:36:27.520 --> 1:36:30.080 is to be great, and those running backs are gonna 1:36:30.080 --> 1:36:32.960 be the key that you gotta contain. Album Kamara mark 1:36:33.200 --> 1:36:36.880 Ingram to me, that's the key. Their passing game really 1:36:37.000 --> 1:36:39.960 is there there to sort of set up those running 1:36:40.000 --> 1:36:41.880 backs coming out of the backfield, whether they throw the 1:36:41.960 --> 1:36:44.000 ball to him or they hand it off to him. 1:36:44.280 --> 1:36:47.479 Album Kamara mark Ingram to me is to keep Michael 1:36:47.520 --> 1:36:50.719 Thomas is gonna catch his balls. He's the only reliable 1:36:50.800 --> 1:36:53.160 receiver Drew Brees has, so they're gonna throw it to 1:36:53.280 --> 1:36:55.120 him enough that he's gonna get his catches. You're not 1:36:55.120 --> 1:36:58.599 gonna shut Michael Thomas out. He's the only real receiver 1:36:58.760 --> 1:37:01.519 they have. It's those two backs that you have to 1:37:01.640 --> 1:37:05.680 be concerned with. Kamara is a serious threat out of 1:37:05.720 --> 1:37:08.760 the backfield. Matching up against him and man and man 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:11.520 coverage will be a key for us. They took advantage 1:37:11.560 --> 1:37:14.639 of some matchup situations the last time we played them. 1:37:14.840 --> 1:37:17.719 But like I said, this is a much different Eagles defense. 1:37:17.800 --> 1:37:20.400 They're playing much better now. I don't think the Saints 1:37:20.520 --> 1:37:23.400 offense is clicking the way it was back then. I 1:37:23.520 --> 1:37:25.720 think some teams are sort of called up to what 1:37:25.920 --> 1:37:29.200 New Orleans likes to do schematically, and they realize, well, 1:37:29.320 --> 1:37:31.479 you can only beat us with thirteen throwing the ball, 1:37:31.640 --> 1:37:33.960 like you can't beat us when anybody else throwing the football. 1:37:34.240 --> 1:37:36.519 So we need we really need to watch forty one 1:37:36.880 --> 1:37:39.040 and number twenty two. I thought you brought up a 1:37:39.080 --> 1:37:43.160 great point about the quarterbacks. This isn't Mitchell Trubisky. This 1:37:43.360 --> 1:37:46.519 is one of the smartest quarterbacks to ever play the game. 1:37:46.800 --> 1:37:52.360 He makes very few mistakes. That's evident in the five interceptions. 1:37:52.400 --> 1:37:55.719 He's one of the least sack quarterbacks in the NFL 1:37:55.920 --> 1:37:58.880 year in and year out. So this will be one 1:37:58.920 --> 1:38:02.080 of those games where if he if he is off 1:38:02.160 --> 1:38:04.920 his game, you had better take advantage of some of 1:38:05.000 --> 1:38:08.760 those opportunities. But more importantly, you can't kick field goals 1:38:08.800 --> 1:38:11.200 in this game. No, you're gonna need You're gonna need touchdowns. 1:38:11.240 --> 1:38:13.360 You gotta need to kick some touchdowns. I think the 1:38:13.400 --> 1:38:16.120 Eagles only got what one touchdown today? Did they get too? 1:38:16.360 --> 1:38:19.759 Because they got two touchdowns one and then the touchdown. 1:38:19.800 --> 1:38:22.000 That's right. So yeah, you're gonna need to score when 1:38:22.040 --> 1:38:24.559 you're in the rid zone against this Saint stand sixteen fifteen. 1:38:24.600 --> 1:38:27.280 Probably not gonna to do in New Orleans. Yeah, so 1:38:27.720 --> 1:38:30.760 mark series tomorrow two pm. Yeah, man should be uh. 1:38:31.000 --> 1:38:33.160 I think everyone would be happy with the with the game. 1:38:35.439 --> 1:38:39.040 My my reaction Philadelphia. It is Philadelphia. I know. My 1:38:39.240 --> 1:38:41.880 reaction there is similar to the reaction when they pan 1:38:42.040 --> 1:38:45.120 to the sideline the Bear Sylon after Park he missed 1:38:45.160 --> 1:38:48.240 the kick. Everyone just just belief like did he really? 1:38:49.200 --> 1:38:51.040 Did you really miss that? Right? That? That was my 1:38:51.120 --> 1:38:53.360 reaction right there. I would hope that everyone's in a 1:38:53.439 --> 1:38:58.160 jubilant mood. So as we're keeping the high going, I 1:38:58.280 --> 1:39:00.439 get I give up, I give up. That's gonna do 1:39:00.479 --> 1:39:02.360 it for us here on the postgame show for his 1:39:02.479 --> 1:39:05.280 any Barrico for Ike raising office here at the Philadelphia Eagles. 1:39:05.479 --> 1:39:08.439 Have a great Eagles night. I'm Chris McPherson. Doug Pearson 1:39:08.479 --> 1:39:10.519 will address the media tomorrow at noon. We will carry 1:39:10.600 --> 1:39:14.120 that for you live until then. Enjoy this Eagle's win 1:39:14.479 --> 1:39:17.240 over the Bears, the Eagles advancing to the divisional round 1:39:17.479 --> 1:39:20.120 to take on the New Orleans Saints. Good Night everyone,