Speaker 1: Eagles team, special teams, defense. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: hard fall game. And then Doug Peterson icing former Eagle
Speaker 1: Cody Parking late in the game. My goodness, take a
Speaker 1: deep breath, Take a deep breath. We're still alive. What
Speaker 1: a game? Five and advance. You already have to go
Speaker 1: one and out in this game. Come into this game.
Speaker 1: You knew the Eagles were gonna be undermanned. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Eagles at battle injuries throughout the course of the season
Speaker 1: to get to this point, fairly healthy for the most
Speaker 1: part with the players they had. But you looked at
Speaker 1: this Bears team. This is an outstanding Bears team, a
Speaker 1: very sound team that was great at taking away the
Speaker 1: football this season, had two more turnovers on the day
Speaker 1: force takeaways today. Also is a great job of protecting
Speaker 1: the ball. There are some passes there to be had
Speaker 1: for the Eagles and Avante Max Tray Sullivan in the
Speaker 1: end zone not able to come up with them. That
Speaker 1: bizarre end of the first half play we're crave on
Speaker 1: the blog with the strip that really really I think
Speaker 1: saved the game for the Eagles because the Bears are
Speaker 1: on their way to get a touchdown at that point
Speaker 1: instead they are kept out of the end zone. And
Speaker 1: the Eagles actually had a streak going back to the
Speaker 1: Washington game where they shut out Washington last week seven
Speaker 1: consecutive chorus without allowing a touchdown. That ended in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter as the Eagles allowed the Bears to get
Speaker 1: that lead. But with one last opportunity, Nick Foles comes
Speaker 1: out and with key clutched conversions on third down and
Speaker 1: then the fourth down touchdown passed the Golden Tate. Okay,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate was acquired at the trade deadline. If you
Speaker 1: remember for a third round pick, you know there were
Speaker 1: some you know, struggles trying to work him into the
Speaker 1: offenses figure out exactly how he would best fit. Well,
Speaker 1: that move paid off in a huge, huge way, the
Speaker 1: biggest play of the season, and look, Ty had some
Speaker 1: amazing catch up throughout the course of the game. You
Speaker 1: remember that one pass he caught over the battle he
Speaker 1: takes a hit from Sherrick McManus. Obviously it was a
Speaker 1: Bank Bay play, very very tough to hold on to
Speaker 1: the football, but huge cast to move the chains at
Speaker 1: the time. So Golden Tate, knowing that he may only
Speaker 1: have one more opportunity to impress the Eagles, because you
Speaker 1: remember he is a free agent after this season. Okay,
Speaker 1: so with one more opportunity to impress the Eagles, he
Speaker 1: comes up in a huge way with the game winning
Speaker 1: touchdown and again the defense doing just enough to make
Speaker 1: it a deep enough field goal, I mean, just all
Speaker 1: around a tremendous, tremendous performance. This is a team that
Speaker 1: has rallied around one another. This was, as you said,
Speaker 1: like the ultimate team effort to come out here to
Speaker 1: get the win on the road. That that is a
Speaker 1: soldier field crowd. That's way since two and ten for
Speaker 1: a home playoff game two and ten, and that place
Speaker 1: was raucous. That's the one thing you forget about is
Speaker 1: the Eagles on the amazing run a year ago. It
Speaker 1: was Lincoln Financial Field, Lincoln Financial Field, and then in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl friendly confines of US Bank Stadium, it
Speaker 1: was a pro Eagles crowd. They have not had to
Speaker 1: face this at any point. Nick Foles, even going back
Speaker 1: to his other playoffs start twenty and thirteen, never had
Speaker 1: to face a raucous road crowd. He stepped up to
Speaker 1: the attast today and of course he had a couple
Speaker 1: of mistakes during the course of the game. The two intercept.
Speaker 1: But when all was un the line, when the season
Speaker 1: was on the line, nick Foles steps up and delivers
Speaker 1: and just adds another chapter to his amazing, amazing legacy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a big game. I mean, listen, that's what big
Speaker 1: time quarterbacks do. When you struggle early in the game.
Speaker 1: It's not about what you do early, it's about how
Speaker 1: you finish the game. And the great quarterbacks in this
Speaker 1: league they can overcome early struggles in the game. And
Speaker 1: I expected some of these struggles. Give Chicago's Bears defense
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. That's the number one defense in
Speaker 1: the league. Is hard to score on this team. It's
Speaker 1: difficult to move the ball on them. They don't give
Speaker 1: up very many big plays. They make no dinking dunk
Speaker 1: down the field, forcing you into a mistake. Eventually in
Speaker 1: the Eagles had a couple of mistakes early in the game,
Speaker 1: but again, Nick Foles has been in this position before.
Speaker 1: Wasn't gonna whittle through the tough part of this game.
Speaker 1: Able to overcome that stuff, and when they needed him
Speaker 1: late in the game, he was able to make the
Speaker 1: big throws. He was able to stand in the pocket
Speaker 1: under durest under some heat at times, and deliver some
Speaker 1: big throws to al Sean to Dallas Goddard to Golden take.
Speaker 1: This is why you brought Nick Foles back. This is
Speaker 1: why you held on the Nick Foles when teams were
Speaker 1: acquiring about Nick Foles around the draft last year and
Speaker 1: the Eagles asking price was as high as it was.
Speaker 1: This is why, because you need to have a quarterback
Speaker 1: like this that can do this in these type of moments,
Speaker 1: and not very many teams have a backup quarterback that
Speaker 1: can play this well under these circumstances, under these conditions
Speaker 1: on the road, in a playoff atmosphere, Nick Foles worth
Speaker 1: every penny the Eagles are paying help. And this is
Speaker 1: why you brought him back. Man. What an awesome, awesome
Speaker 1: win for this team today. Just absolutely, Let's just go
Speaker 1: through the final drive here, okay. First play of that
Speaker 1: final drive, the game willing drive. The ends with a
Speaker 1: touchdown to Golden tap fifteen yard pass Alshan Jeffrey going
Speaker 1: against his former team that alone got the ball in
Speaker 1: bearss territory. It was key because the Bears punter horrible punt.
Speaker 1: They gave the Eagles great Philip as a and the
Speaker 1: field position battle was heavily in favor of the Bears
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the day, but the one time
Speaker 1: that they needed they made a mistake. Foles helped make
Speaker 1: them pay. Okay, then you have Dallas gotd You mentioned
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard touchdown in the third quarter to give the
Speaker 1: Eagles a lead from ten yards out. Another big catch
Speaker 1: here on the final drive where they did the fake
Speaker 1: screen twice, then they went to gave it to God
Speaker 1: or the dump off for ten yards. Then Nelson Agilor
Speaker 1: gets a pass in a flat, jukes a defender and
Speaker 1: gets eight yards. And how about zach Ertz not being
Speaker 1: placed on either of the all pro teams, an absolute
Speaker 1: sham in and of itself after one hundred and sixteen
Speaker 1: catches during the course of the regular season, reaches above
Speaker 1: his body, Chris Collinsworth kept using the term going above
Speaker 1: the rim, extending his arms above him to get the
Speaker 1: first down catch over the middle of the field. That
Speaker 1: a Smallwood run, Wendell Smallwood. You know comes from big plays. Actually,
Speaker 1: I will actually say his biggest play might have been
Speaker 1: a pass block in the first half of the game
Speaker 1: an oncoming defender. Okay, you get to the two minute warning,
Speaker 1: and then the other big play here, a third and
Speaker 1: nine pass complete to alshon Jeffery to get the ball
Speaker 1: to to yard line. They tried it a couple times
Speaker 1: to get it in with Darren Sprowles. They get down
Speaker 1: to the fourth down situation. First they try to get
Speaker 1: to Jeffrey on third down. Kyle Fuller give a credit
Speaker 1: to him for the nice pass breakup. You figured that
Speaker 1: would have been the sweetest Hollywood ending right there, because
Speaker 1: Alshan really wanted to take it to his former team today. Okay,
Speaker 1: not able to get the touch, So you're wondering what
Speaker 1: is Doug gonna call on fourth down? What could he
Speaker 1: pull out of his bag of tricks here? With the
Speaker 1: season on the line, you want to say that you're
Speaker 1: still the defending champions after this game. What's it gonna
Speaker 1: take to keep that momentum going? That's West Coast offense
Speaker 1: Playwright sprint Wright, that sprint Wright playoffs saying that play
Speaker 1: roun a whole lot. You know what, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's the exact play. You've been to the great points.
Speaker 1: Let's go back in time Folds his rookie season twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Macklin as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was almost
Speaker 1: I would almost love to see those plays side by side,
Speaker 1: right that I think. I think it's almost identical, the
Speaker 1: same play. And that was Fules first career win. It
Speaker 1: was the last win for Andy Reid as a head
Speaker 1: coach of the team. You know, it was the one
Speaker 1: bright spot on what was a very down twenty and
Speaker 1: twelve campaign, but set the tone for Foles moving forward,
Speaker 1: and he's led the Eagles to not just the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl title, but keeps their hopes alive here in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: I was just hoping that when the Bears were driving
Speaker 1: at the end there it was not gonna be another
Speaker 1: situation like Foles's first playoff game two thousand and thirteen,
Speaker 1: or they're playing against a New Orleans Saints. It's at
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field. Foles leads the Eagles on a go
Speaker 1: ahead drive in the fourth quarter, ends with a touchdown
Speaker 1: to Zach Ertz, but then Darren Sproles with the big
Speaker 1: kick return, Carrie Williams with the horse collar penalty and
Speaker 1: it pretty much gives him a short field and they
Speaker 1: end up getting the game winning field goal. Almost happened again,
Speaker 1: but Doug Pearce and having the time out using it
Speaker 1: to ice Cody Park at the perfect time, and Cody
Speaker 1: Park has been unreliable. That that was kind of the
Speaker 1: one week link going into this game for the Bears.
Speaker 1: And sure enough Parky is not able to deliver Park
Speaker 1: If you remember rookie season had a Pro Bowl campaign
Speaker 1: for the Eagles, suffered an injury I believe it's in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, a second season, and just was not the same.
Speaker 1: He's bounced around a little bit, so everyone thought he
Speaker 1: found his home in Chicago. Big part of a run
Speaker 1: again that this Bears team twelve and four, biggest loss
Speaker 1: of the entire season was to the Patriots by just
Speaker 1: seven points. So to go to Soldier Field, okay, where
Speaker 1: the Bears had lost just one game, that Patriots game,
Speaker 1: that was their only lost at Soldier Field all season long.
Speaker 1: To go there in that raucous environment okay, and for
Speaker 1: the most part, for the most part, of the Eagles
Speaker 1: outplay them. The question was going to be with those
Speaker 1: missed opportunities, a couple penalties that extended Bears drives, some
Speaker 1: balls that were batted in the air that they couldn't
Speaker 1: come down with for interceptions. You were wondering, was that
Speaker 1: going to be enough to kind of keep the Bears
Speaker 1: in the game long enough that if they got a
Speaker 1: score two they would pull out the win. Well, I
Speaker 1: tell Christ, the difference in this game was the red zone.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the flat out difference to me
Speaker 1: in this game the Eagles. The Eagles were two and
Speaker 1: three or two up three excuse me, in the red
Speaker 1: zone converting getting touchdowns, and the Bears were or in three.
Speaker 1: They were over three in the red zone. Listen, the
Speaker 1: Bears and the defense did what they wanted to do today.
Speaker 1: They held this high powered Eagles offense over the last
Speaker 1: month to sixteen points. They got two turnovers off the Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Bears defense did exactly what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: The difference in this game was the Eagles defense. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, they were able to keep this Bears offense
Speaker 1: to just fifteen points, and when the Bears were able
Speaker 1: to move the ball and get in scoring position, the
Speaker 1: Eagles were able to hold them to field goals. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the craveon Craive von LeBlanc play. That's a huge
Speaker 1: play right before the half. I mean, because if the
Speaker 1: Bears even just recover that ball, the Bears have the ball,
Speaker 1: what at the ten yard line somewhere around there, right
Speaker 1: there in scoring position as it is, they get a
Speaker 1: field goal out of it and the six to three
Speaker 1: instead of with a possible touchdown and making it ten
Speaker 1: to three in favor of the Bears. So I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense was outstanding to day. It's a tricky
Speaker 1: offense to have to defend because Matt Niggie likes to
Speaker 1: do so many different things with Mitchell Trubisky. Trubisky wasn't
Speaker 1: as effective with his legs today as he had been
Speaker 1: throughout the year. I thought the Eagles defense had Nigel
Speaker 1: Bradham sort of spying on him at times. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought i Vante Maddox had an outstanding game early in
Speaker 1: the game. They started to get some plays on him
Speaker 1: late in the game, but I thought for the most part,
Speaker 1: he did an outstanding job early in the game, and
Speaker 1: that front four was able to get at the Trubisky
Speaker 1: all day. So I look at the way this defense
Speaker 1: played man to hold that team the only fifteen points
Speaker 1: old for three in the red zone, that's really the
Speaker 1: difference in the game. I mean, if I'm a Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears defense and I say I hold this Eagles offense
Speaker 1: to just sixteen points and I got two turnovers off
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, you feel like you should have won
Speaker 1: that game. Here's the thing you mentioned, the red zone defense.
Speaker 1: Eagles number one red zone defense in the league this season.
Speaker 1: People might forget that. Everyone talks about the Bears the
Speaker 1: vaunted pass rush with Khalil mac and Leonard Floyd and
Speaker 1: all the amazing things that that unit did this season.
Speaker 1: And look, that unit is a huge reason why they
Speaker 1: went twelve and four. But the Eagles, they were able
Speaker 1: to strap it down. I'll use Crabon LeBlanc's nickname there.
Speaker 1: They strapped it down inside the twenty yard line to
Speaker 1: have the best red zone defense in the league. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Mitchell Trubisky and his legs. Well, there was the
Speaker 1: third down run early in the first half where he
Speaker 1: runs out of bounds and you could tell he pulled something,
Speaker 1: pulled up a little bit, went into the medical tent,
Speaker 1: and he was basically forced to be a pocket passer.
Speaker 1: I actually think he was dealing as a pocket passer.
Speaker 1: He would do much more than I expected, because typically
Speaker 1: he has beaten teams with his legs first and foremost
Speaker 1: on the season. Okay, I believe he finished fifth in
Speaker 1: the league. Someone in his top five in rushing yards
Speaker 1: amongst quarterbacks. You're probably thinking Mitchell Trupisky. You're not thinking
Speaker 1: of him as one of those guys. Well, look that's
Speaker 1: what you've done. Very good athlete. And he's not afraid
Speaker 1: to keep going for extra yards. Most quarterbacks once they
Speaker 1: get in a position where defenders coming, they're just gonna slide.
Speaker 1: He'll put the shoulder pads down and try to get
Speaker 1: a couple extra yards. As youthfulness exactly, Yes, little naive
Speaker 1: there so to speak. There if you look at the numbers, say,
Speaker 1: look he had completed over sixty percent of his passes
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards. There, had a touchdown, you know,
Speaker 1: throw to Alan Robinson there in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: mean I thought when he was forced to be containing
Speaker 1: the pocket, he made some nice plays. Good arm, it's
Speaker 1: a live arm, yes, And there were some questions about
Speaker 1: that because he had a shoulder injury that he suffered
Speaker 1: about midway through the season just before Thanksgiving that sidelined
Speaker 1: him for a couple of games and Chase Daniel, former
Speaker 1: Eels great, had to come in in his place there.
Speaker 1: So there's some question whether he's had some residual effects
Speaker 1: from that injury. But you see you see the numbers there.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing there rushing yards just not okay, so
Speaker 1: the front four was able to get after him. You know,
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett had a sack of this game. They were
Speaker 1: able to get to him a couple of times. But
Speaker 1: pretty much what that helped the Eels do was drop
Speaker 1: everyone else into coverage. Okay, maybe you're using bram as
Speaker 1: a spy, but you were able to drop everyone else
Speaker 1: in the coverage to try to take away the other
Speaker 1: playmakers in that offense, and for the most part they
Speaker 1: were containing I mean, Taylor Gabriel. You didn't hear his
Speaker 1: name called much at all. Alan Robinson, he had the
Speaker 1: big touchdown cast, he had a good day. All that's Look,
Speaker 1: that was a matchup coming into this game where Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson sixty three, Avontae max Is five nine, Right, Okay.
Speaker 1: The one thing down the stretch where the Eagles won
Speaker 1: their last three games and they've had Rasul Douglas and
Speaker 1: Avonte max In as a starring corners is teams have
Speaker 1: not been able to test them vertically down the field. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Bears were the first team to be able to
Speaker 1: do that with a little bit of success. But again
Speaker 1: it didn't really happen until the second half of the game.
Speaker 1: And you know, gi give the Bears some credit. Okay.
Speaker 1: They were taking advantage of the tendencies where they were
Speaker 1: doing a lot of receiver screens bubble screens to try
Speaker 1: to get yards after the catch, and that's where they
Speaker 1: caught Maddox on the big touchdown play to Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: or Max thought was going to be a screen in
Speaker 1: the flat well, all of a sudden, Alan Robinson does
Speaker 1: a little double move, goes up the sideline and comes
Speaker 1: up with the touchdown. So you know, credit Mattneggie for
Speaker 1: the play called there. But again, when you're the Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: and again you're using the guys the front four, you're
Speaker 1: not do a whole lot of rotation. You get a
Speaker 1: little more rotation inside. Okay, because Tim During is back healthy. Now,
Speaker 1: holy Na has been the best. Yeah, holy No has
Speaker 1: been the healthiest he's been all season long. But really
Speaker 1: at the end, you're going Brandon Graham, Chris Long, Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: those are your guys, okay, And in this type of environment,
Speaker 1: in this playoff atmosphere, those are the guys you're going with.
Speaker 1: These are the ballots as a veterans who have won
Speaker 1: championships in this league, So those are guys you have
Speaker 1: to go with. But still it is still difficult to
Speaker 1: be able to go there, down after down after down,
Speaker 1: to try to hold an offense that has been good
Speaker 1: for most of the season to only just fifteen points there. So,
Speaker 1: once again, the Eagles beating the Chicago Bears sixteen to fifteen.
Speaker 1: Golden Tape two yard touchout reception on fourth and goal
Speaker 1: to put the Eagles ahead, Windows Smallwoods two point conversion
Speaker 1: attempts just yeah, it's a little short, Okay, we're trying
Speaker 1: to stretch that rule of breaking the play in there.
Speaker 1: Okay by a lega absolute millimeter. It didn't quite happen.
Speaker 1: So the Bears get the ball back Cody Parkey, a
Speaker 1: forty three yard attempt goes off the left upright to
Speaker 1: end the game. We're gonna hear shortly from head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and quarterback Nicko amongst others. I'm sure let
Speaker 1: me tell you something about that play with Windel Smallwood.
Speaker 1: The crazy thing is he actually fumbled the ball, yes,
Speaker 1: and and if the Bears had recovered it and ran
Speaker 1: it back. They would have a seventeen to sixteen leads.
Speaker 1: So that was a live ball that the Bears could
Speaker 1: have recovered and ran back for a two point conversion.
Speaker 1: Always pick up, gotta pick up the ball. You gotta
Speaker 1: pick up the ball. Pick up the ball. That bizarre
Speaker 1: play at the end of the first half. So what
Speaker 1: happens is Anthony Miller of the slot receiver catches a
Speaker 1: ball down the seam against Craven on the blank yeah,
Speaker 1: and as he's going down to the ground, what Blanc
Speaker 1: is able to get the ball at the very last second. Okay,
Speaker 1: so on the field they called it incomplete. But the
Speaker 1: way that Miller came down with the ball, he got
Speaker 1: a couple of feet down then the ball came out.
Speaker 1: So the referees go to review it and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: there is a fumble on the play. There's only there's
Speaker 1: and it looks like a catch. It's a fumble. But
Speaker 1: here's a problem. There was no recovery because the referee
Speaker 1: is right away blew the play debt. Okay, everyone is saying,
Speaker 1: why don't the Eagles go pick up the ball? Trey
Speaker 1: Sullivan is there waving incomplete Corey Graham was around on
Speaker 1: the Playlet's set the soldier field, Hey, coach Doug Pearson
Speaker 1: on the way over the bears right the sprint out,
Speaker 1: Nick sprint out the golden tape. Why that play? Actually
Speaker 1: that was a third play in a row that we
Speaker 1: ran down there. The first two plays actually had that
Speaker 1: killed attached to it. It was a kill play. It
Speaker 1: was a run kill to that play. And uh, we
Speaker 1: just you know, I just Nick and I we talked
Speaker 1: on the sideline and we said, you know what, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's just run the sprint out. Um. So, actually
Speaker 1: that was that was the third play in a row
Speaker 1: that we ran and well executed. Succession successfully ran that
Speaker 1: play in two thousand and twelve to win a game
Speaker 1: in the last second touchdown to Jeremy mcliff. You think
Speaker 1: you were calling he called Tampa Bay. Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: one too. I mean, now it was it was it
Speaker 1: was still part of the game plan. I mean, we
Speaker 1: just we knew that. Uh, I had a feeling that
Speaker 1: that that coach fan Joe, he's a zero blitz guy.
Speaker 1: When you kind of got to have it, and and
Speaker 1: I felt like that there was the best thing to
Speaker 1: do was get him on the move at that time
Speaker 1: to be still pretty emotional for the lock croup that
Speaker 1: something in my still do actually I know, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am I disagreet, weird. I mean just just overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good football team. And uh, um,
Speaker 1: you know, Matteggi did a great job this season, and
Speaker 1: and my hat's off to him and and that Chicago
Speaker 1: Bear team. It's it's a tremendous football team. And and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, just for us to come in here and
Speaker 1: just just hang together for sixty minutes. We knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be, uh that type of football game,
Speaker 1: and um, we hung in there. We made wasn't pretty
Speaker 1: good times, but we made the plays when we needed to.
Speaker 1: And and my hat's off to to our guys and
Speaker 1: and then and my coaches like the legend of being
Speaker 1: able to continue to do this, that final drive you're down,
Speaker 1: comes down the field, down to that last play on
Speaker 1: board down, I mean, he just always seems to get
Speaker 1: it done in the biggest moments. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: and he had let's had some help. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Golden obviously making the play at the end. Alshall made
Speaker 1: a big catch, Dallas made some huge catches act. I mean,
Speaker 1: just go around the around the room there, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, Nick is Nick is Nick. He's gonna stay calm,
Speaker 1: he's gonna stay collected. Um, just you know, very efficient.
Speaker 1: You know. It wasn't uh again, it wasn't pretty good times.
Speaker 1: I know that. You know, the two turnovers early in
Speaker 1: the first half which could have led to some points.
Speaker 1: But you know, he hung in there and and did
Speaker 1: some good things for that final drive there and set
Speaker 1: up for the field. But what's going on and in
Speaker 1: your mind in that situation, well, we were still talking
Speaker 1: scenarios for us offensively. Um, I still had one time
Speaker 1: out I think at the time, and you know, um
Speaker 1: just preparing to get the ball back and and see
Speaker 1: how much time we had and just kind of getting
Speaker 1: ready for the next series, keeping that time out in
Speaker 1: case you had to start going the other way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we could have. There could have been several things, obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, um, but uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: turned out to be a pretty good decision to save
Speaker 1: it on the on the final play the game. Cody
Speaker 1: and Parky earlier in the game work, So were you
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, do I do it or not do
Speaker 1: it or you were just gonna go, Hey, I was
Speaker 1: doing it regardless. I was doing I wasn't even thinking
Speaker 1: about the first half. I was gonna use it. Wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna take it with me. But what is it? What
Speaker 1: is it about Nick Fole puts him that makes him
Speaker 1: different in those moments? I mean, he had the middle
Speaker 1: of the game, then the last four minutes were no
Speaker 1: matter what we've come to. Maybe I'm realistically you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's playing it's playing quarterback in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: It's it's not always gonna be pretty. Um and and
Speaker 1: you know, but you have you have confidence in your offense,
Speaker 1: you have confidence in your quarterback, and you know you
Speaker 1: put it, uh quite frankly, put it in his hands
Speaker 1: to to win. And you know, he just does a
Speaker 1: great job of just staying staying in the moment, staying calm,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, no panic. There was no panic
Speaker 1: on on offense or on the sideline. And um, even
Speaker 1: after we punted the football there, um it felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, defense got a three and out. We just
Speaker 1: offensively just say, hey, we're gonna put a drive together
Speaker 1: and score and and uh, you know, well we set
Speaker 1: our mind to it. We did it be able to
Speaker 1: do everything that normal would do. Was he limited by
Speaker 1: the Yeah, now now he actually did did everything. Um,
Speaker 1: you know we had to walk through on Wednesdays. There's
Speaker 1: not a ton of throwing there. And then Thursday, you know,
Speaker 1: took everything on Thursday and Friday. So, um, he had
Speaker 1: a normal week. When you when out showing, I called
Speaker 1: that first down passed down to the two you had
Speaker 1: two runs called first Well, those are the two those
Speaker 1: are the two plays that had that kill attached to it.
Speaker 1: We still had plenty of time and and uh, you
Speaker 1: know so at the time out there and and uh
Speaker 1: you know it's a run killed a pass. So we
Speaker 1: kind of had the best of both worlds there. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, credit the Bears. They came off the
Speaker 1: edge with the outside back or there and and uh
Speaker 1: and tackle us and and for we were able to
Speaker 1: finish the drive first down in the first half. Second
Speaker 1: half kind of switched out up a little bit. Was
Speaker 1: that was that the plan? A little bit? You know,
Speaker 1: I probably could have you know, called a few more
Speaker 1: passes on first down early in the game, particularly on
Speaker 1: first down. So I mean I'll look at that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow and get better is the experience experience
Speaker 1: for you guys, especially in that you guys have done
Speaker 1: this before. You team. Well, yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of confidence in the in the room.
Speaker 1: You know, the team. Um, guys understand that you know,
Speaker 1: everything matters, every play matters. Um, these games, these these
Speaker 1: these these postseason games are gonna you know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be full sixty minute games and um, you know, and
Speaker 1: just uh it's just a matter of I just just
Speaker 1: staying in the moment. You know, I don't let things
Speaker 1: to get too to too too big for us. And
Speaker 1: uh you know, UM rely on your playmakers to make plays.
Speaker 1: And you know, I do think that being in this
Speaker 1: situation last year has has prepared us for this for
Speaker 1: this time. Was the message to the players. Message basically
Speaker 1: was was, uh, you know, team effort, great team effort.
Speaker 1: Um you know part of part of uh you know,
Speaker 1: to to just to go one to know each week
Speaker 1: and gives ourselves an another opportunity next week. And um,
Speaker 1: guys are excited, guys are thrilled, but uh, we know
Speaker 1: that we've got to clean some things up and get
Speaker 1: ready for next week. Consider calibern on and you faced
Speaker 1: side with the way the offensive line up that our
Speaker 1: offensive line did some did some great things. I mean
Speaker 1: they really held up well. Um, you know, without looking
Speaker 1: at any numbers, I don't I don't know what the
Speaker 1: sacks or pressures hurries are. But um, you know gave
Speaker 1: gave Nick some time to throw and push the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. And you know, uh sometimes sometimes uh
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna happen that way where you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta throw a little bit more than you'd like to.
Speaker 1: But uh, our offensive line did did a nice job
Speaker 1: this year. Your thoughts about going back and trying to
Speaker 1: make some of Yeah, it wasn't It wasn't very good
Speaker 1: the first time. And you know, um we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at that film. Uh, we'll take a look at
Speaker 1: this one. I think I think we're we're a different
Speaker 1: football team now than we were then. And you know,
Speaker 1: we just got to put a good plan together in
Speaker 1: all three phases and uh, you know, go back down there.
Speaker 1: We're on the roads. Canna be an domes can be
Speaker 1: loud again, all those things, and um, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a great atmosphere at all. With Eddie Jackson not playing.
Speaker 1: I know he obviously can make a big difference back there.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, it didn't. It didn't. Yeah, No, we stuck
Speaker 1: to what we had. A lot of guys were talking
Speaker 1: about this week there by the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we're going to be the better defense. Let's talk about it, Brandon,
Speaker 1: talk to not a lot of guys. Did we're your
Speaker 1: defense to come in here and really contain them and
Speaker 1: most of the game with all the injuries you've had.
Speaker 1: What does it say about this defense that you know,
Speaker 1: kind of patchworth guys out there at times pretty big
Speaker 1: getting It just shows that one they're they're getting better
Speaker 1: as a unit, playing together with some of the young
Speaker 1: guys that are out there. Um, I think I think
Speaker 1: Maddox is playing well. LeBlanc is playing well in the
Speaker 1: back end. You know, Trey has come on. I wish
Speaker 1: you would have cut the ball there at the end
Speaker 1: of the half, but but he's been coming on and
Speaker 1: and really resolve resules. He's done a nice job here
Speaker 1: down the stretch. And those young players are just getting
Speaker 1: valuable experience and um, that's what it takes. And then
Speaker 1: our defense has a lot of confidence right now. We
Speaker 1: know that it starts up front with our with our
Speaker 1: front four UM putting pressure on quarterbacks and trying to
Speaker 1: stop the run. And um, you know they did a
Speaker 1: nice job today. Thank you. All right, this is the
Speaker 1: scene in South Philadelphia expected a lot after Dallas got
Speaker 1: it scored a ten yard touchdown in the third quarter
Speaker 1: to give the Eagles the lead. What an absolute amazing
Speaker 1: scene down there. We showed you at the start of
Speaker 1: the show the reaction after Cody Parkey missed the field goal.
Speaker 1: You see drinks flying around. Everybody's celebrating. What an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing place to be to witness the Eagles knocking off
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. Now, let's take a look our tag
Speaker 1: for social media feature to see what some people are posting.
Speaker 1: And they've got Kobe Bryant goes Eagles emoji, thank you,
Speaker 1: next black mambo. He knows, he knows how to clothes.
Speaker 1: He's in the clutch right there. Mike Trout, he was
Speaker 1: just too he's too excited. He gave capitalize all the
Speaker 1: letters there, get the fly Eagles fly lecture. Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 1: See he come to Philadelphia, gets experiences more often like
Speaker 1: Ryan Howard deep when he won a World Series with
Speaker 1: the Phillies. Okay, big piece checking in What a game
Speaker 1: congrats to the Eagles, on to New Orleans. Let's go Birds.
Speaker 1: So Doug Peterson addressing the media, we're gonna hear from
Speaker 1: quarterback Nick Foles, possibly some others. I would I mention
Speaker 1: golden tape. Probably gonna need to come to the podium,
Speaker 1: this podium game exactly, you know. So Doug Peerson talking
Speaker 1: about how that final play, the game winning pass touch
Speaker 1: up pass two golds, it was indeed a sprint out there,
Speaker 1: like you called, very similar to Foles' first career game
Speaker 1: winning touchdown against the box in twenty twelve. It's actually
Speaker 1: it reminded me of how a lot of similarities between
Speaker 1: this and the Falcons playoff game a year ago. The
Speaker 1: scores were eerily similar fifteen ten Eagles, this one sixteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: But the final player of that game, which if you remember,
Speaker 1: the entire defense called, was a sprint to the right,
Speaker 1: and of course Jail Mills there to make sure that
Speaker 1: Julio Jones doesn't come down with the ball inbounds passing
Speaker 1: complete in the Eagles get the victory. There So, so
Speaker 1: also asked about the next round gonna be taken on
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. This Eagle's team since then, it's
Speaker 1: one six of seven. Let me tell you much different
Speaker 1: team than when they faced off earlier this season. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and we'll have time to get it. Yeah, we'll have
Speaker 1: time to get into this matchup. But I guarantee you
Speaker 1: these players know exactly how they felt leaving New Orleans
Speaker 1: about six weeks ago at the Saints basically ran the
Speaker 1: score up on them late in the game. So that's
Speaker 1: going to be added motivation for these guys going down
Speaker 1: there next week, and they're gonna need The Saints are
Speaker 1: good football team. Believe me, I played in that dome
Speaker 1: when they are loud and raucous. It is a tough
Speaker 1: place to play. But this is a championship tested team
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are. I thought today was a difficult
Speaker 1: environment to thrive in. They managed to overcome some early
Speaker 1: struggles and overcome that crowd in Chicago. You know, the
Speaker 1: Eagles fans weren't able to take over Soldier feel like
Speaker 1: they've done and some other cities. Chicago has a very
Speaker 1: good football fan base, and you knew that they were
Speaker 1: going to be loud today, and I thought the Eagles
Speaker 1: they were able to overcome that crowd, overcome the energy
Speaker 1: of that crowd and really feed and create some energy
Speaker 1: themselves sort of to feed off of. I thought our
Speaker 1: defense played outstanding the day. They've really carried this momentum
Speaker 1: that they started to build throughout the last weeks and
Speaker 1: it really reached its peak last week in Washington when
Speaker 1: they were able to shut the Redskins out, and that
Speaker 1: was good. Going into this game, thought they had confidence.
Speaker 1: Against an inexperienced quarterback like Mitchell Trubisky, you're gonna need
Speaker 1: to pose much more of a threat to them. And
Speaker 1: like you said, we talked about the red zone defense
Speaker 1: being the number one red zone defense in the league.
Speaker 1: We'll give you some things underneath. We'll give you some
Speaker 1: stuff underneath, but we're not allowing you to get in
Speaker 1: the end zone. And that's what the Eagles were able
Speaker 1: to do today, keeping the Bears out of the end
Speaker 1: zone when they were in the red zone three times.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the inexperience of Trubisky, and that's probably the
Speaker 1: biggest reason going to this game that I felt the
Speaker 1: most optimistic for the Eagles chances, especially when you're kind
Speaker 1: of trying to figure out who would you want to
Speaker 1: see the Eagles play in this first matchup and you're
Speaker 1: gonna take whoever you get. But when you look at
Speaker 1: the matchup with the Bears, the Eagles have handled themselves
Speaker 1: against very good defenses in the past. You look at
Speaker 1: the run to the Super Bowl last season. Okay, remember
Speaker 1: they have faced the number one defense against Denver during
Speaker 1: the season and put up over fifty points on them
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. What did we hear the entire week
Speaker 1: leading up to that game? How are the Eagles gonna
Speaker 1: score well? As a team? They put up thirty eight
Speaker 1: points thanks to that pick six also from Patrick Robinson.
Speaker 1: So Doug Pearson knows how the game plan against very
Speaker 1: good defenses. I like the fact that you had an
Speaker 1: inexperienced quarterback on the other side because all the pressure
Speaker 1: was on the Bears. Again again, I say, how this
Speaker 1: is their first home game since twenty ten. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a second year quarterback who has made huge strides
Speaker 1: out the course of the season. Look, he threw twenty
Speaker 1: four touchdowns against twelve interceptions. Good second year for him,
Speaker 1: But he didn't make the leap that Carson Wentz made
Speaker 1: from year one to year two where you're talking about
Speaker 1: him as an MVP candidate. You're looking at Trabisky as
Speaker 1: kind of the guy to you know, be the game manager,
Speaker 1: so to speak. The defenses was gonna win it for us.
Speaker 1: Just make sure you don't turn the ball over, take
Speaker 1: care of it, and don't get caught up in the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. He played well today.
Speaker 1: He did play well. He played well today. He didn't
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. Listen, over three hundred yards against
Speaker 1: this Eagles defense. That's something he can sort of hang
Speaker 1: his hat on. Really drove his team down the field.
Speaker 1: He got him in position. Yes, so you played a
Speaker 1: good game, but again Eagles kept him out of the
Speaker 1: end zone. Kept him out of the end zone over three.
Speaker 1: That's really the difference. Even with Nick struggling with a
Speaker 1: couple of turnovers, he was still able to get this
Speaker 1: team in the end zone with two critical touchdowns, including
Speaker 1: that final drive where he was able to hit Golden
Speaker 1: Tate for the game winning touchdown. How about Golden Tate?
Speaker 1: Many people wondering whether or not Howary Roseman made the
Speaker 1: right move giving up a third round pick the brain
Speaker 1: Golden Tate in I always felt, Chris that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to justify bringing Golden Tate in with just
Speaker 1: numbers throughout the regular season, you pick him up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season, it's difficult for him to
Speaker 1: come in and all of a sudden become the focal
Speaker 1: point of your offense when you have the type of
Speaker 1: weapons that are also on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Always felt the way you would justify bringing in Golden
Speaker 1: Ta the postseason. Eight making the postseason, so the Eagles
Speaker 1: were able to do that, and then his play in
Speaker 1: the postseason. He's a veteran obviously looking forward to this opportunity,
Speaker 1: and I thought the day the five catches that he
Speaker 1: made the seam, at least four of them were big
Speaker 1: catches that he made, including that game winning touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: having a guy like that a calming presence, and then
Speaker 1: trying to find a way to fit him and Nelson
Speaker 1: into the offense when they basically played the same position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they played the same position, but you want to try
Speaker 1: to use both guys, and so they got to move
Speaker 1: them around. And I thought today he was huge, coming
Speaker 1: up with some tough catches and in some key moments
Speaker 1: of the game. I mean, if you ever wonder why
Speaker 1: you go out and make a move for a guy
Speaker 1: like that, This is why you do it, because once
Speaker 1: you get to the postseason, you need as many veteran
Speaker 1: laden players that will be able to rise up to
Speaker 1: the occasion. As you can look at the Jji acquisition
Speaker 1: last exactly came up huge in the postseason for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Contribute through the course of the regular season, but really
Speaker 1: made his mark there in the playoffs to health the
Speaker 1: Eagles get the Super Bowl Championship. The irony is not
Speaker 1: lost on me that we needed the Bears their help
Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs to begin with because they
Speaker 1: had to knock off minute So the week seventeen, they
Speaker 1: help us get in and then we kicked them right
Speaker 1: out there. So you want to do anything in back
Speaker 1: like maybe if we had let Minnesota end, could be
Speaker 1: a much different story. So you'll never know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: well listen, I'm pretty sure some of the fans had
Speaker 1: that feeling. As a matter of fact, I did. I
Speaker 1: talked to I was on a radio show out there
Speaker 1: during the week talking about the game, and one of
Speaker 1: the things I asked was like, you know, I know
Speaker 1: the fans. How did the fans feel about the Bears
Speaker 1: basically beating the Vikings to let the Eagles get in,
Speaker 1: and there was some trepidation out there because this is
Speaker 1: a hot team. There's a championship tested team, and you know,
Speaker 1: once they get in the playoffs, that's all they wanted.
Speaker 1: And that's all the Eagles wanted, was an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get in. Didn't matter who they faced, they were gonna
Speaker 1: be ready for it. And you knew you were going
Speaker 1: to get their best shot. And I also knew this
Speaker 1: was going to be a close game because you have
Speaker 1: two coaching staffs that are familiar with the schemes on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. So there was gonna be
Speaker 1: very few surprises in this game, right, There were gonna
Speaker 1: be very few surprises from a schematics stand point, And
Speaker 1: so you knew it really was gonna boil down to execution.
Speaker 1: Who was going to be able to execute better even
Speaker 1: though you may have known certain plays were coming in
Speaker 1: certain situations. And really, I mean, the Eagles did what
Speaker 1: they needed to do when they had the ball last
Speaker 1: to go ahead, and the Bears, quite honestly, their offense
Speaker 1: moved the ball down the field after a very good
Speaker 1: kickoff return from Tarik Cohen, and Cody Parkey missed the
Speaker 1: field goal. Yeah, he missed. He missed the game winning
Speaker 1: field goal that was very makeable and the Eagles able
Speaker 1: to get out of this game with a win. And
Speaker 1: that's all it matters, as you survive and you advance
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are moving on to the second round.
Speaker 1: And the New Norm has never felt so good being
Speaker 1: able to just be a be a staple in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Not only that just getting in, but knowing that no
Speaker 1: matter who you face, you're a difficult out. And that's
Speaker 1: what the Eagles are trying to establish. Regardless of how
Speaker 1: you play in the regular season, if we get in
Speaker 1: the postseason, we're gonna be a difficult out consecutive trips
Speaker 1: to at least the divisional round. First time since since
Speaker 1: you're a tenure. Yeah, okay, And that's what we used
Speaker 1: to be able to do when we got in, is
Speaker 1: we were certainly gonna win that first game that we played.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be ready to go. And we had problems
Speaker 1: finishing off the playoff runs, but typically when we got in,
Speaker 1: we knew we were in for a long stay. And
Speaker 1: then when Doug talks about the New Norm, um, I
Speaker 1: know he's talking about championships as well, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you think about the Patriots, what do you think
Speaker 1: about They are staples for the postseason every every year
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they win the division in there and championship,
Speaker 1: and that's sort of what you want to have. And
Speaker 1: I look at that shot from Exfinity Live of the fans, man,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. That's what makes it being a
Speaker 1: sports fan in this city so great because no one
Speaker 1: comes together like a sports community a city like this
Speaker 1: Philadelphia city does. And we come together better for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: better than any team in this city because, um, while
Speaker 1: we all have our little pockets, Flyers, Eagles sixers, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody's in Eagles. Can we can we do our show
Speaker 1: next week from that live? Maybe a little louder, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit. So that's hey, I'm
Speaker 1: perfectly fine with that. Let's get into your takeaways. And
Speaker 1: I think you gotta start with number nine, who is
Speaker 1: now four and one in the playoffs, man Ice Water
Speaker 1: in his veins, Nick Foles a k A. Nikki six.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta start with him, mister clutch. You
Speaker 1: just said it. Four and one in the postseason, came
Speaker 1: into the game as the highest rated quarterback in NFL
Speaker 1: history in the postseason. Based on his few starts and
Speaker 1: when he needed to be clutched, that's what he was
Speaker 1: late in the game, big throws to Alshon, Jeffrey Golden, Tate,
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard. I mean, just big play at the big
Speaker 1: play late in the game when you needed him to
Speaker 1: be big, overcoming you know, a tough start to the
Speaker 1: game for himself, and then just being the clutch quarterback
Speaker 1: that we've all known and become to know Nick Foles
Speaker 1: to be. So their second takeaway here, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: have been playoff tested basically over the last month. And
Speaker 1: you know, two of those wins, two of the three
Speaker 1: consecutive wins again to the playoffs, came on the road,
Speaker 1: especially that first one at Los Angeles. So this is
Speaker 1: a team that knows how to overcome adversity away from
Speaker 1: the link. Yeah, and that's what they had to do
Speaker 1: today when you're on the road going up against the
Speaker 1: team like the Chicago Bears, who's as opportunistic as they are.
Speaker 1: They led the league and takeaways, that's what they want
Speaker 1: to do. They want to take the football away from
Speaker 1: you shorten to feel for that offense and try to
Speaker 1: game points that way. But I thought the Eagles early
Speaker 1: in the game, we struggle putting points on the board.
Speaker 1: That three hung on the world for a long time,
Speaker 1: and then it was ten to six, and then next
Speaker 1: thing you know, the Bears got a little momentum and
Speaker 1: they're able to go up fifteen to ten. And at
Speaker 1: that point you're saying to yourself, man, this just may
Speaker 1: not be our day. It's been tough getting anything going.
Speaker 1: But as my first key to the game and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles and his clutchness, that's what they were able to do,
Speaker 1: overcome that early struggle and then get the league late
Speaker 1: and then even overcome that kickoff return from Tarif Cohen
Speaker 1: late in the game. So I bring you my third
Speaker 1: sort of kid to the game, and that's the defense.
Speaker 1: That's the defense. I talked about how good the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears defense played the day. And when you look at
Speaker 1: the your goal chart going into a game, you want
Speaker 1: to be outstanding on third down, you want to get takeaways,
Speaker 1: and you want to be outstanding in the red zone.
Speaker 1: That's what the Eagles were able to do today. That
Speaker 1: the Bears were able to get some yardage in between
Speaker 1: the twenties when they got to the red zone. The
Speaker 1: Eagles shut the door on them over three in the
Speaker 1: red zone, holding them the field goals. Yeah, they gave
Speaker 1: up some passing yardage. Hats all to the Bears, Michael,
Speaker 1: I mean, Robinson is a very good wide receiver. But again,
Speaker 1: you win, you win football games by scoring touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: they didn't score many touchdowns the day. I thought the
Speaker 1: defense did an outstanding job even though they didn't get
Speaker 1: a ton of turnovers and a bunch of sacks. The
Speaker 1: fact that they only gave up fifteen points on the road,
Speaker 1: making this Bears defense one dimensional. That was huge day,
Speaker 1: especially because you were worried would you score enough? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing and they scored sixteen and it's turned out
Speaker 1: to be the perfect number to get the win. Let's
Speaker 1: get some more reaction this. Some of this is coming
Speaker 1: from the players themselves. Corey Clement moving on. How many
Speaker 1: Eagle emojis are we got in there? Five? Five Eagle emojis?
Speaker 1: Moving on, I actually enjoy the injured players like he
Speaker 1: and Jail Mills home watching and tweeting along. It's it's entertained,
Speaker 1: to say the very least. So Corey Clement saluting the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Chris Long three letters. Wow, Wow, how many how many
Speaker 1: texts have you gotten that pretty much say the same thing.
Speaker 1: That's what my wife texted me that along with other things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well yes, text me other things too prior
Speaker 1: to that miss. And then he got Cam Johnson. Let's go,
Speaker 1: Cam Johnson making his playoff debut for the Eagles. There,
Speaker 1: let's go, and I don't count I think seven exclamation
Speaker 1: points right there. So overall though, just a total team
Speaker 1: performance here for the Eagles. We're gonna hear from quarterback
Speaker 1: Nick Foles and other players very shortly. But again, it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's a great high to enjoy. That's that's
Speaker 1: you mentioned. You know how everyone's comes together in the city,
Speaker 1: and it's just great that you'll be able to enjoy
Speaker 1: it this way once again. And as the season was
Speaker 1: going along and things were going topsy turvy, the Eagles
Speaker 1: were four and if you remember, there were four and
Speaker 1: six after the New Orleans game, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they were down nineteen to three against the Giants.
Speaker 1: You thought that this season was really going to start
Speaker 1: spiring out of control or had the potential to. Well,
Speaker 1: they're able to rally to get themselves in a postseason,
Speaker 1: and you're getting to the point where you know you're
Speaker 1: so emotionally invested once again that you just don't want
Speaker 1: to see this run comes to it. This is this
Speaker 1: is a glorious run that's you know, two years in
Speaker 1: the making at this point. Okay, because you know the
Speaker 1: season ends with the Super Bowl. You get to carry
Speaker 1: the euphoria that through the offseason. Then you have the
Speaker 1: amazing Opening Nights celebrations, You knock off Atlanta again, you
Speaker 1: get Carson once back, you go through the roller coaster season,
Speaker 1: you make it in the playoffs, winning three straight. At
Speaker 1: the end, you don't want to come this far just
Speaker 1: to end with the loss of the Chicago Bears and
Speaker 1: the Eagles delivering in thrilling fashion. I mean, I'm trying,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think this is such an instant classic.
Speaker 1: Words going to rank among like the playoff thrillers in
Speaker 1: Eagles history right right now? Well, certain thing is gonna
Speaker 1: rank up there with them, because this is another good one,
Speaker 1: and in typical Eagle fashion, we like to make them classics.
Speaker 1: And so it's it's what's great about this organization. We've
Speaker 1: had a ton of great playoff moments. We've also had
Speaker 1: our fair share of disappointing moments. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: under this regime, under Doug Peterson, um, I think we
Speaker 1: are to get We should never take it for granted,
Speaker 1: but we should come to sort of expect it and
Speaker 1: get used to it, and and sort of get comfortable
Speaker 1: with the feeling of being successful and being expected to
Speaker 1: win these type of games. And eventually that's sort of
Speaker 1: filling with come. It's repetition, right, It's just the more
Speaker 1: and more you do it, the more and more will
Speaker 1: begin to expect it. But the way the season has
Speaker 1: sort of played out, you didn't really know how today's
Speaker 1: game will go. You know, I'll talk to enough fans
Speaker 1: throughout the week that some were just satisfied that the
Speaker 1: Eagles fought all the way hard to the end of
Speaker 1: the season and got in. You know, they were satisfied
Speaker 1: that I was not. Well. Then you had another portion
Speaker 1: of the fan basis say hey, now we're in, let's
Speaker 1: take advantage of it, and they're waiting for another run.
Speaker 1: I'm somewhere in the middle, you know, being the defending champs,
Speaker 1: you know, what expectations do you want to place on
Speaker 1: the team. Obviously want to win every year, but is
Speaker 1: it really realistic? So for this team to overcome the
Speaker 1: whole Super Bowl hangover, actually get in the way that
Speaker 1: they got in and then had enough to win this
Speaker 1: type of football game. Man, I want to be in
Speaker 1: your corner right where you're never satisfied. But part of
Speaker 1: me says, wow, man, that was a gratifying win today.
Speaker 1: That was a good win today. You understand how difficult
Speaker 1: it is. Yes, that's the biggest thing I'm not taking
Speaker 1: for granted what the Eagles were able to accomplish because
Speaker 1: this is an undermanned squad right at the end of
Speaker 1: let's face it. Let's look look at the secondary alone. Okay,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this season, you had Jail Mills,
Speaker 1: Roald Derby, your Super Bowl starters on the outside, and
Speaker 1: a promising up and coming Sidney Jones working in the
Speaker 1: slot out there today Avante Max, Rosul Douglas Craven LeBlanc
Speaker 1: in the slot. Combined postseason experience in terms of defense,
Speaker 1: zero snaps zero Rosul Douglas played special teams for the
Speaker 1: Eagles in the postseason. He didn't have a single snap
Speaker 1: on defense. Okay, he had you know, a couple you
Speaker 1: know games where he had some significant roles in throughout
Speaker 1: the course of your due to injuries. But you know,
Speaker 1: for the most part, he's been like the first guy
Speaker 1: off the bench. So during the Super Bowl run, you know,
Speaker 1: he was special teams that was in. So you're relying
Speaker 1: on these guys. Okay, you're working in some newcomers, you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Golden Tate and to the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. All right, so it's you your defensive line,
Speaker 1: which was the hallmark of the team a year ago
Speaker 1: with the rotation. Again we talked about you're relying on
Speaker 1: some trusty veteran guys, but you don't have like a
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett, you know, to inject some youth coming off
Speaker 1: off the bench there to help you know, you know,
Speaker 1: give your guys a breather at any point. So so
Speaker 1: you're you're largely underman So it's not that I'm not satisfied,
Speaker 1: because I understand what's taking it get to this point.
Speaker 1: It's just that once you're in it, you want to
Speaker 1: make the most of the run here. And that's the
Speaker 1: way the team feels, yeah, and the players feel that
Speaker 1: way as well. They've they've gone through the tough part
Speaker 1: of having to get through the regular season just to
Speaker 1: get back to the postseason so that they can defend
Speaker 1: their Super Bowl title. They've gotten in and they're saying,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have let us in. We're here to win
Speaker 1: this thing now. And that's the great thing about these players.
Speaker 1: Havn't experienced that championship run last year. They know what
Speaker 1: that champagne taste like, they know what that feeling was
Speaker 1: like those that were able to do it. And then
Speaker 1: you have some players that have won in the past,
Speaker 1: but it's been a few years since they've been Michael
Speaker 1: you know, the Michael Bennis, the Helodi noad Us, those
Speaker 1: guys Darren Sproz didn't get a chance to play last year,
Speaker 1: Peter so Jason Peters didn't get a chance to play
Speaker 1: last year. Those Jordan Hicks, those guys. Golden Tate, right,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate never won a playoff game, won his first
Speaker 1: playoff game to day, played in Detroit. I think they
Speaker 1: won one playoff game in eighty years and that franchise's history,
Speaker 1: so um, it's great to have so did that new energy, right,
Speaker 1: that newfound energy and motivation as well once you get
Speaker 1: into postseason. Speaking of the hero, Golden Tate game winning
Speaker 1: two yard touchdown reception on the fourth and gold Eagles
Speaker 1: inside of days. But they're a call with them on
Speaker 1: the field after the victory. All right, Golden, let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about the touchdown, the call to play and the catching.
Speaker 1: Hell felt, you know, just a great play call by
Speaker 1: the by Doug and my number was called. I knew
Speaker 1: I had to make a play. And you know, Nick
Speaker 1: just dropped a gun. He d threw us along. I
Speaker 1: can catch it. Um, I just made a play. I
Speaker 1: just happen to have the opportunity to make a difference,
Speaker 1: to give the city something to cheer for, and we
Speaker 1: did something big on the road against a really, really
Speaker 1: good team. So I'm excited. What is the demeanor like
Speaker 1: down in that situation? What are the guys like on
Speaker 1: the field? Composed? And I think it starts at our quarterback.
Speaker 1: We got a quarterback that just wants to he wants
Speaker 1: to live in it. Now. It doesn't matter what happened
Speaker 1: early in the game. Just stay composed and let the
Speaker 1: game come to us. And then at the end, we
Speaker 1: just you know, had an opportunity to make a play.
Speaker 1: But I can't say it was me. We moved the
Speaker 1: ball very well down the field when it matter, and
Speaker 1: you know, just the last play my number was called.
Speaker 1: And it's fun to win on the end, right, it
Speaker 1: is very fun. One thing we said this entire this
Speaker 1: week is that you know, once we get in, you
Speaker 1: gotta deal with us. So we in and we're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep it going. Wow wow, Wow, number nineteen. They're
Speaker 1: coming through in the clutch fourth and goal to give
Speaker 1: the Eagles the sixteen to fifteen victory. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback Nick Foles in just a little bit.
Speaker 1: We're waiting to bring his press conference live from Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: But how about the protection today for Nick Foles. People
Speaker 1: to remember he took the shot to the chest at
Speaker 1: the end of the Washington game a week ago, couldn't finish.
Speaker 1: Nate Sudfeld had to come up, bitch speaking of Nick
Speaker 1: there is right now, let's end the over Soldier Field. Yes, yes? Again?
Speaker 1: Or yeah? We talked about it on the sideline. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we had an option on the previous a
Speaker 1: couple of plays based on look they would give us
Speaker 1: to actually get to something like that, and um, you
Speaker 1: know we were over there talking and I figured in
Speaker 1: you know, from studying them in those situations where games
Speaker 1: online they'd like to you know, blitz and bring a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. So you know, why don't we move
Speaker 1: the pocket and you know, put one of our you know,
Speaker 1: best guys on one of their guys and let him win.
Speaker 1: So um, Doug, Doug and disgusting. He was all for it.
Speaker 1: So you guys, think that play and make that decision.
Speaker 1: What's going through your mind if you go to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmat chair, you snap and you roll out there. Um,
Speaker 1: really just reading body language, it's really you know, there's
Speaker 1: two routes, Um, Golden's primary, So it's really just you know,
Speaker 1: let him win and you know that's that's that's really
Speaker 1: a simple play. And he did a great job of
Speaker 1: really selling his route, hesitation and getting out and he's
Speaker 1: got great hands as you can see, and he made
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays for tonight. Was it the
Speaker 1: same play from the from the mac of touchdown? Uh?
Speaker 1: Similar but different. It's not the same one, but it's
Speaker 1: some similar concept with just a you know, a route
Speaker 1: working on verse man and getting out of the break
Speaker 1: to the team and the huddle on that prior to
Speaker 1: that final drive. I mean it's like we always talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, just staying in the moment. That's been the
Speaker 1: you know what I've been focusing on. That's what we've
Speaker 1: been focusing on. Um. You know, not you know, it
Speaker 1: was a crazy game. Um, that's a tremendous team. Um.
Speaker 1: You know playing here, this is a crazy place to play.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, our defensive an amazing job, and
Speaker 1: I really keeping us in it. You know, the first
Speaker 1: half was you know, we struggled on offense. I struggled
Speaker 1: through a couple of picks, Um, But you know, the
Speaker 1: last drive was really just stay in the moments, play
Speaker 1: the play, Let's just keep going, let's march. Um. We
Speaker 1: didn't have to do anything too crazy. We just need
Speaker 1: to play. And we were able to settle down the
Speaker 1: second half and make some plays, and you know, as
Speaker 1: a huge team win for us. You say yourself, at
Speaker 1: any point as you're in this high pressure situation that
Speaker 1: I've been there before, I did this last year on
Speaker 1: the biggest stage, you know, is not not really that.
Speaker 1: More so, just what I learned on those stages is
Speaker 1: just how to calm myself in a chaotic momentum when
Speaker 1: there's you know, from the outside world it's a ton
Speaker 1: of pressure and just really simplifying in my head getting
Speaker 1: in the huddle looking at the guys that I trust,
Speaker 1: Um know that it's all on the line for us
Speaker 1: and we're just gonna get the job done. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just belief in one another. So um, that's just from
Speaker 1: you know, being around these guys, having the relationship and
Speaker 1: that's what wins games in the fourth quarter is we
Speaker 1: talk about brotherhood. I'm going to work every single day. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the game wasn't going great in the first
Speaker 1: half offensively, but our defense was keeping us in and
Speaker 1: they just kept coming to silence. We got you, we
Speaker 1: got you, We're gonna get you the ball back And
Speaker 1: there was never and I always talk about like they
Speaker 1: never turned, They never you know, get upset. They just
Speaker 1: had our back and it was ultimately a great team win.
Speaker 1: Anything you have any flashbacks to your first playoff fame
Speaker 1: when you left the field with the lead and then
Speaker 1: the big return and the game when he field, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's definitely some similarities there. Um, that definitely
Speaker 1: came in my mind a little bit, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: we were fortunate. Um. Parky's an amazing kicker. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best in the league. And I said it earlier.
Speaker 1: You know, he makes that ninety nine out of one
Speaker 1: hundred times. We were just fortunate that that was the
Speaker 1: one he missed. When you're in the huddle, in that situation,
Speaker 1: that the other guys in the huddles see you call
Speaker 1: him and see you kind of composed and not showed
Speaker 1: any signs of it. Yeah, I mean it's always important.
Speaker 1: It's always important to be genuinely that way, um, so
Speaker 1: they can see through it if you're faking it. So
Speaker 1: but I draw my strength from you know, those guys
Speaker 1: in the huddle, just looking their eyes, the belief they have, um,
Speaker 1: not only me, but in one another, and knowing that
Speaker 1: you know, this was a a crazy game. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of adversity. I mean, this is one of the
Speaker 1: most hostile environments I've played in. You know, their their
Speaker 1: fans came out and you know we still had a
Speaker 1: lot of support here too. But um, it was a
Speaker 1: you know, I'll sleep well to night for sure. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: Nick dug said earlier that on first and second down,
Speaker 1: this handoffs the sprolls, there was the kill and sprint
Speaker 1: out was the it was to play there. Why did
Speaker 1: you stay with the the runs? Um? The look that
Speaker 1: they gave us was the look that we wanted for
Speaker 1: the run. Um, it wasn't the kill look. What was
Speaker 1: the h that where you had the fully special look?
Speaker 1: But you just had the direct snap. Yeah, it's just uh, um,
Speaker 1: Well it didn't work. So, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they wanted me saying it, um, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep that one to myself. What's going on? What's flipping
Speaker 1: with this team now? Over over this past few weeks?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's just been the course of the year. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just finding the DNA of the team. UM,
Speaker 1: going through We've gone through a lot as a team,
Speaker 1: and we've we've continued to stick together. Everyone at the
Speaker 1: Overcare up facility just keeps believing in one another and
Speaker 1: it just takes time. And I think the big thing
Speaker 1: is it's about relationships, is about believing one another. Um.
Speaker 1: In the hard times. It's easy to pet each other
Speaker 1: on back when things are going well. It's hey, when
Speaker 1: things aren't going well, or you know, I throw a
Speaker 1: couple of picks, you know what's going to happen. And
Speaker 1: you know what happened today was I threw a couple
Speaker 1: of picks, made a couple of mistakes, but the other
Speaker 1: guys were there to be there for me, lift me up.
Speaker 1: Defense said, they got me and that's what this team's about.
Speaker 1: And a chart seem to have a really good connection
Speaker 1: to most of the time. Obviously he played here before.
Speaker 1: Did he says that this game meant anything different obviously
Speaker 1: beyond you know, a playoff game and anything for him? Oh? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean anytime you play against your former team, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you obviously go out there and you focus
Speaker 1: and you want to play, but yeah, there's always something.
Speaker 1: There's always added something, and I knew that going in here,
Speaker 1: coming back to Chicago where you know he was an
Speaker 1: elite receiver when he was here. You know that's emotional,
Speaker 1: but you know he always comes ready to play and
Speaker 1: he's a big time player. Was a play on the
Speaker 1: third nine that you can play it to him down
Speaker 1: to the two and was you know, was he the
Speaker 1: first read there? Yeah, I mean you're sort of reading
Speaker 1: through an area, but um, you know you're reading defenders
Speaker 1: on that one just the way they coverage, but you
Speaker 1: you really want to get to him. So the way
Speaker 1: there the defenders reacted to the concept. It opened up
Speaker 1: nicely for him that you know, every game he played
Speaker 1: out last for your mind at all, like especially like
Speaker 1: going into not really in the last series. Um, it's
Speaker 1: more so when I sit in the locker room, Um,
Speaker 1: you know after a game, you know, I always try
Speaker 1: to take a moment and just sit there and just
Speaker 1: reflect because you know, you're enjoying it with your teammates,
Speaker 1: but it's also you're given everything you have. And I
Speaker 1: realized then that I'm blessed to be able to wear
Speaker 1: this jersey at least one more week. And that's something
Speaker 1: that you know, I get to play with these guys
Speaker 1: one one week. I get to be with the coaches
Speaker 1: one more week, and that's something that's really you know,
Speaker 1: I look forward to and I'm blessed to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. You didn't play in the game, but
Speaker 1: what did you notice from your teammates after the the
Speaker 1: New Orleans lost the first time, and what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts about the opportunity to have a rematch. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the first time New Orleans came out
Speaker 1: and you know, they did a really good job versus um,
Speaker 1: you know, they you know it wasn't a good game
Speaker 1: for us. But at the same time, the thing that
Speaker 1: impressed me about my team is even in those moments
Speaker 1: where you know it wasn't a good game for us,
Speaker 1: we still stuck together. Um. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tall task this week. You know New Orleans is you know,
Speaker 1: they had a bye week. Their tremendous team, they had
Speaker 1: an amazing season. But you know, I love these guys
Speaker 1: that I get to go play with. I know we're
Speaker 1: ready for this week. Um, you know, just one day
Speaker 1: at a time. You know, now we get to go
Speaker 1: back home, get a little sleep, get our bodies ready,
Speaker 1: and get ready to roll again. Very much because you
Speaker 1: came in late in the season. But how long do
Speaker 1: you how many times you think you practiced that that
Speaker 1: play with him that one, Um, you know, once or twice.
Speaker 1: So I just you know, I read body language, um,
Speaker 1: and it comes down to trusting your guy to get open.
Speaker 1: And you know, he came out big tonight and he's
Speaker 1: a playmaker. He made some great catches and he's really
Speaker 1: helped us a lot. He's coming along. Think you've had
Speaker 1: a few games roll in your career where you had
Speaker 1: those interceptions early and the result wasn't what it was tonight?
Speaker 1: What was different for you? Or are you a different
Speaker 1: quarterback now in those situations? Yeah, I think that, Um,
Speaker 1: those games are tough when you make mistakes early that
Speaker 1: hurt your team, and you know it can affect you
Speaker 1: because you want to go out there and you want
Speaker 1: to help, um, and I think sometimes you can start
Speaker 1: forcing it. Um, you can be a little gun shy
Speaker 1: um as a younger player. But you know what I've
Speaker 1: learned is it's I'll talk about staying in the moment,
Speaker 1: good or bad. You know, when I'm if I throw
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns early, still at zero zero, just
Speaker 1: keep playing, Just keep playing. This unfortunately made a couple
Speaker 1: of mistakes, but still the same thing. Hey, just get
Speaker 1: back at zero zero, just play. Trust your teammates play.
Speaker 1: So Um. Yeah, absolutely, I put on things that I've learned. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm always learning. I learned a lot about you know,
Speaker 1: myself to I learned a lot about my teammates. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's where we continue to grow as a team.
Speaker 1: And that's that y'all keep asking me every week, like
Speaker 1: what's jelling. It's it's just continual growth through these games
Speaker 1: that we go through. Um, that really helps our team,
Speaker 1: mesh and um, you know we continue to grow tonight.
Speaker 1: Jackson didn't play, did she says? The ma buil the field.
Speaker 1: There was a little more er than there might normally be.
Speaker 1: You know, they did a great job. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a he's a great player. I think they did a
Speaker 1: you know, that defensive thing that impressed me on film
Speaker 1: was obviously their front but the way they can move
Speaker 1: their coverages and disguise their coverages, and you know, I
Speaker 1: thought they do it amongst the best I've ever played against. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they did a really good job tonight, even
Speaker 1: without him out there. You feel physically had to come
Speaker 1: out with the rips. I might feel good. I feel good. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we gave it everything we had to night. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, we'll sleep good. All right, thank you?
Speaker 1: All all right? South Philadelphia's alive. That's the reaction after
Speaker 1: gold and takes go ahead touchdown on fourth and goal. Okay,
Speaker 1: ball at the two yard line after Alshon Jeffrey got
Speaker 1: them down there after three plays, two Sprowls runs and
Speaker 1: then an incomplete passed to Jeffrey, then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden sprint out fourth and goal. Season on the line.
Speaker 1: Gold take come up, Hughes there Reese Hockett, Hoskins Phillies
Speaker 1: player going with the double doing to wins the game.
Speaker 1: Dogs are barking. I was wondering maybe if the underdog
Speaker 1: mass might come back out. How about that field goal
Speaker 1: miss that was a double doing. Yeah, that's hard to do.
Speaker 1: I mean that is hard to do. Man. All right.
Speaker 1: Uh one of the best, one of the absolute best
Speaker 1: pass rushers in Van Shis history. Okay, second and sex number.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it is so special about that five
Speaker 1: eight number continues to this day. Try Cole. One of
Speaker 1: my all time favorites, right there, great battle between two
Speaker 1: great teams. And then how about the bell of Twins. Okay,
Speaker 1: Nikki check it in there. That's when you get the
Speaker 1: little end. There go Eagles WWE fame. Of course, everybody
Speaker 1: knows who the Bella Twins are huge, huge Eagles fans,
Speaker 1: so but everybody everybody check it. Everyone coming out. It's playoffs, playoffs,
Speaker 1: it's playoffs even but in all serious final game in
Speaker 1: the weekend, so you know everybody's watching exactly, and it
Speaker 1: was an outstanding the game. Yeah, okay, low scoring but
Speaker 1: good defensive games. Games today and it's close again. That's
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing. It's coming down. It comes out
Speaker 1: to the final drive. Okay, you get a fourth and
Speaker 1: goal to go ahead there in the final minutes, and
Speaker 1: then the Bears have one last opportunity again, big kickoff return,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much get them in great field position, bisky.
Speaker 1: You know, first career playoff game, has a couple of
Speaker 1: completions to get themselves in field goal range. He comes
Speaker 1: out the field saying, I've done my part. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: Dave Parking to put it through and a Parking he
Speaker 1: did put it through the first time, but Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: one more time out in his pocket, calls it to
Speaker 1: ice him second opportunity. Double doink. That's ball game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I tell you prior to that, when the Eagles
Speaker 1: had the ball. And I know Matt Matt's a rookie
Speaker 1: head coach out there in Chicago, but I know where
Speaker 1: he looks back at this game, He's gonna be thinking
Speaker 1: about the usage of his timeouts late there. I was
Speaker 1: surprised he didn't call a time out after the first
Speaker 1: darren Spros run. You imagine if they call a time
Speaker 1: out there, they probably have about thirty extra seconds, then
Speaker 1: you don't have to you know, maybe you got a
Speaker 1: couple of extra plays that you move the ball closer.
Speaker 1: For Cody Parking, it's more like a field goal attempt. Again,
Speaker 1: rookie head coach and time management is something that all
Speaker 1: coaches sort of have to field their way through. And um,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he looks back when he looks back at
Speaker 1: this game, that's probably a situation there where he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna wish that he had to use one of his
Speaker 1: time oouts. You know, took Pearrison first time in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: he went all the way, he got the job done.
Speaker 1: So just just saying so we're talking about the defensive
Speaker 1: line and one of the key contributors down the stretch here,
Speaker 1: Tim Juragan, who had offseason surgery, missed pretty much the
Speaker 1: first three quarters of the year, played one game, you know,
Speaker 1: reaggravated the injury, had to come out for a few weeks. Well,
Speaker 1: he's healthy, he's thriving in the middle of the defensive line,
Speaker 1: helping compliment Fletcher Cox there. Dave spadera our Eagles inside
Speaker 1: are caught up with him on the field following the win. Hey, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Timmy tell me. How you feeling. What was it like?
Speaker 1: They're watching Cody lining up and missing Oh it felt good.
Speaker 1: You know. The crazy thing I bought it was I
Speaker 1: went to Nolage Brown, Nodge Brown and say, hey, you say, bro,
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss this. I say no, no, you say,
Speaker 1: by miss it? He did. He missed us. So tn
Speaker 1: the way you guys came back in this game. What's
Speaker 1: I tell about? Tell you about this football team? I
Speaker 1: said it four five weeks ago. Man. One thing we
Speaker 1: ain't gonna do is give up. We ain't gonna give up,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to beat us out of this thing.
Speaker 1: We'll just walk out. We we We ain't trying to
Speaker 1: go home. We're trying to be in Atlanta in februwhere
Speaker 1: fourth and Gold Eagles have the football. You're on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Man, I'm over there. I'm just praying.
Speaker 1: I'm praying. To be honest with you, I'm just praying,
Speaker 1: you know, just talking to God, man, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I know he would us. I
Speaker 1: know this what this team goes by. We are praying. Team,
Speaker 1: we stay together, and I feel like we deserve to win.
Speaker 1: So we won. Thank you, Jim, congrats man, the gold teeth.
Speaker 1: Just absolutely love seeing the gold teeth shine there on
Speaker 1: the field there in Chicago after the Eel sixteen to
Speaker 1: fifteen victory. Now there's one person Hall of Famer and
Speaker 1: icon we haven't heard from yet. Like, you know who
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, My uncle, your uncle, Meryl. Everyone's right,
Speaker 1: mar Race, Mike qu we're going inside the sports radio
Speaker 1: ninety four, w IP boot four. It's not Merron, Mike Cam.
Speaker 1: It's just Merrill Camp. Okay, he's the icon here. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know quick Quick is you know, one of the
Speaker 1: great receivers. Yeah, but he's you know, the side piece there. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's all it's all about Merrill Race here. How did
Speaker 1: how did he call this game? Let's go and get
Speaker 1: the best of the best in Merrill Cam take it away.
Speaker 1: Here is a field goal attempt. This will be a
Speaker 1: forty three yard attempt by Jake Elliott. Do the Eagles
Speaker 1: hit the scoreboard first? The kick is away, it's got
Speaker 1: the distance and it is the Eagles three on the Bears.
Speaker 1: Nothing urbhiskey and the gun brave receivers right urbhiskey back again.
Speaker 1: He pumps, he's firing and it's complete down across the
Speaker 1: five and now when they say ain't complete, Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: had its. Then he was stripped of the football by
Speaker 1: Pravn LeBlanc. This is outstanding play. Don't don't count him
Speaker 1: before they hatch LeBlanc is he's actually beaten early, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't give up. He gets his hand in. Anthony
Speaker 1: Miller has a football, but LeBlanc gets his hand in
Speaker 1: and he ripped the football out. Three receivers left, Alan Robins,
Speaker 1: the former didn'ty lion out to the nearest side of
Speaker 1: the field. That goes back to Urbisky. He's looking, he's looking,
Speaker 1: and it's too late because the Eagles gobble him up.
Speaker 1: They get him back at the forty five yard line
Speaker 1: Tim Jurnagan and Brandon Graham. But the first sick of
Speaker 1: the game. Aguilar comes in motion. Shotgun falls back looking
Speaker 1: for the end zone, firing complete touchdown. He's got Dallas
Speaker 1: Gardard for a touchdown. Well, they didn't waste any time
Speaker 1: going to the end zone. Dallas Gardar lines up in
Speaker 1: the slot Nelson Agilar motions outside of him and he
Speaker 1: just runs down the scene. Durbiskey takes the snap, he looks,
Speaker 1: steps up and he is hit. They've got him back
Speaker 1: at the fifteen yard line. I'm not as Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: with the suck. Fol takes to snap, he rolls, he looks,
Speaker 1: he fires, and it is complete. It has complete touchs down,
Speaker 1: golden tight and the Eagles bread game the lead. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have that for you available on philadelphias dot com
Speaker 1: later on. But Merril Reese go right to Twitter after
Speaker 1: the game. Look at this really special team. Never seen
Speaker 1: an Eagles team put on a stretched drive like that.
Speaker 1: One needed some breaks, but you know what kickers have
Speaker 1: dashed or hopes in the past. Doug Pearson is a
Speaker 1: winner and Nick Foles has unshakable poise like you. That
Speaker 1: I like it is that the second book. The first
Speaker 1: one was Believe It, so it's unshakable. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: the second Nick Foles unshakable right there. So I'm leaving
Speaker 1: this set. I'm writing that one right now, so going
Speaker 1: to the press. But nonetheless, it's great. I just love
Speaker 1: that peek behind the curtain because fans get to listen.
Speaker 1: You get to listen on Sports Ray or ninety four WAP,
Speaker 1: you can listen around Philadelphia dot com or Eagles appen.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's going on behind the scenes. You
Speaker 1: get to see the end product, but you don't know
Speaker 1: how the sausage is made, so to speak. And I
Speaker 1: love media relations extraordinaire Anthony Bonnagura, call him the godfather
Speaker 1: there to Merrill's left in the booth there who's working
Speaker 1: as the statistician, the spotter to tell him what's going
Speaker 1: on during the course of game. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: the fan in you that wants to be going berserk,
Speaker 1: but you gotta make sure. I gotta make sure Maryll
Speaker 1: gets the right great guys, gotta make sure put everything
Speaker 1: out so I like that anything goes the little fist bump,
Speaker 1: you know, and then gets back to doing the job
Speaker 1: to take care of Merrill, because you know, you can't
Speaker 1: let them go down whatsoever. That's the biggest thing. You
Speaker 1: can't let them down. So you know, we've talked to
Speaker 1: a little bit about Dallas Scott. We showed the reaction
Speaker 1: from mcs faniy live to his touchdown in the third
Speaker 1: corner which gave the Eagles the lead. Just amazing. Speaking
Speaker 1: of unshakable and amazing poise, God are stepping up late
Speaker 1: in the season as a rookie. We were wondering how
Speaker 1: much twelve personnel we were gonna see with he and
Speaker 1: zach ERTs on the field at the same time. Today
Speaker 1: going and gets a Bears defense that pretty much season
Speaker 1: base at all times. Okay, so even if you have
Speaker 1: a third receiver on the field, they're like, we'll drop
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd and coverage, We'll drop Klill Maggi's And you
Speaker 1: saw that you saw Roquan Smith covering receivers down the
Speaker 1: field in this game. So we're gonna go to a
Speaker 1: one on one ambew with Dallas Gott who haulted his
Speaker 1: first career playoff touchdown today in the win over the Bears.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about this first. Tell me about
Speaker 1: the touchdown, the route to catch, how it felt. It
Speaker 1: was incredible. Um, you know, we called ze right eight.
Speaker 1: I went in there wasn't the playoff. I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be went out there and Nick gave me
Speaker 1: a nice ball. You know, we got ahead. It was
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty big time in the game, pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: Do you know where your family is in this building?
Speaker 1: Did you wave to them after the touchdown? I did?
Speaker 1: I tell you too, they're one of the corners somewhere.
Speaker 1: You know, it's awesome to have them all here. Excited
Speaker 1: to play one more game with these guys. Dallas, the
Speaker 1: last drive, the offensive drive, take me through the drive
Speaker 1: and what Nick show once again in cluck situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Dick has been incredible ever since he stepped
Speaker 1: on the field. Um, you know it was it was
Speaker 1: crunched time, We're down six late in the game. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody stepped up, elevated their play. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: big plays on that drive. Your first playoff game, What
Speaker 1: was the experience? Like, man, it was incredible. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: this place was rolling all night. Obviously, you couldn't ask
Speaker 1: for a you know, a closer fish fight to the end.
Speaker 1: You know, it went down to game missing field goal. Um,
Speaker 1: you know it was incredible. I had a blast looking
Speaker 1: forward to next week. Thanks Dallas. Girats. I would think
Speaker 1: that that's a playoff beer for Dallas got but he's
Speaker 1: had that the whole season, so it might be just
Speaker 1: one time. That's the way it is. So he absolutely
Speaker 1: hated the fact that he had a tweet out support
Speaker 1: of North Dakota State winning the FCS National championship because
Speaker 1: he lost the bet because South Dakota State lost to
Speaker 1: Easton Sticking Company there Carson Wentz' is alma mater in
Speaker 1: the semi final. So Dallas got was on Twitter like
Speaker 1: great job, best team in the country, Like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: lost the bet, I lost a bet. But just absolutely
Speaker 1: you look at with him and with the Vantae Maddox.
Speaker 1: You know the contributions you're getting from the young guys,
Speaker 1: Josh Adams working his way in there as well. You
Speaker 1: have to feel good about the future of the team
Speaker 1: because you're getting these contributions from young players. This is
Speaker 1: the pipeline. This is how you talk about the new normal.
Speaker 1: This is how you maintain the new normal is having
Speaker 1: the pipeline of success. You've got to be able to
Speaker 1: draft well so that when the veterans are aging and
Speaker 1: you know, getting to the end of their careers, that
Speaker 1: you have some one you can step in and during
Speaker 1: your tenure with the Eagles, you know, first round picks
Speaker 1: might not really get on the field a whole lot, okay,
Speaker 1: because you have veterans locked in those positions. But I
Speaker 1: always think back to the Brian Westbrook draft, the Leo Shepherd,
Speaker 1: Sheldon Brown, Michael Lewis draft of O two where it's
Speaker 1: like most of these guys aren't getting on the field
Speaker 1: because you already have established players at those positions. You
Speaker 1: just need to get them in the pipeline and get
Speaker 1: them ready so that when the time comes, they're able
Speaker 1: to step in. We didn't think that, you know, I
Speaker 1: think Dascard was the one guy we thought would be
Speaker 1: a pe for the offense. This season took him probably
Speaker 1: a little longer than expected, because he showed flashes of
Speaker 1: brilliance throughout the training camp in preseason. They've done a
Speaker 1: great job working him in Alfonte Max is the one
Speaker 1: guy though that we were like, we didn't think that
Speaker 1: he was going to be a contributor, maybe special teams
Speaker 1: at the most. And here he is starting an outside cornerback,
Speaker 1: you know, going against the MC North champions Alan Robinson,
Speaker 1: giving up you know, six inches to him and yet
Speaker 1: getting the job done to help the defense get the victory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and playing very well. He has been a pleasant surprise
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position. You talk about what his expected
Speaker 1: role was coming into the season, I mean I thought
Speaker 1: obviously he'd be of the fourth or fifth cornerback, specialties
Speaker 1: contributor and even inactive on some Sundays, but injuries have
Speaker 1: forced him into action early this year, and so he's
Speaker 1: excelled wherever they've asked asked him to play, whether it
Speaker 1: was at free safety, whether it was at the nickel position,
Speaker 1: or even on the outside, he's excelled. And he got
Speaker 1: some great experience going up against the guy like Alan
Speaker 1: Robbinson the day and I would give a Vontae Maddox
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt the first half of the game.
Speaker 1: Second half of the game, they saw some things and
Speaker 1: then they took advantage of the young rookie in the
Speaker 1: second half. But I love watching a Vonte Maddox player.
Speaker 1: I think he is a gamer. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be huge for us moving forward. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a hard time keeping him off the field next year.
Speaker 1: I think he's an outside corner. I really do. It's
Speaker 1: one of those great topics that we get to debate
Speaker 1: all off season, but we get to push the offseason
Speaker 1: off for at least another week. So, speaking of huge acquisitions,
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, the Eagles in free agency
Speaker 1: getting Brandon Brooks from the Houston Texans has made back
Speaker 1: to back Pro Bowl appearances. He was huge and helping
Speaker 1: protect Nick Foles, especially on that final drive as the
Speaker 1: Eagles came from behind to get the win. He talked
Speaker 1: with Eagles entire days. But they're on the field following
Speaker 1: the victory, all right, Brandon, you guys are down at
Speaker 1: the goal line trying to get in. What's going on
Speaker 1: in the huddle? What was it? What was the demeanor
Speaker 1: like there? So it was do or die at that point.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously you know you you went your lose,
Speaker 1: you go home. So for us, maybe one one any
Speaker 1: other way to have it on our back. So we
Speaker 1: got the DROB done collectively. How do you think you
Speaker 1: did against that Bears front? I thought the Bears defense
Speaker 1: was an excellent defense. I mean they've been one of
Speaker 1: the best ones in the league for you know, the
Speaker 1: whole year. So say we're feeling good, let's just keep
Speaker 1: the thing rolling, all right. So you're sitting there watching
Speaker 1: what are you looking at? What are you looking at?
Speaker 1: When Cody's lining up the kick? Well, first I was like,
Speaker 1: is he gonna isis? Then he isslan? Then I saw
Speaker 1: him making and I was like, yeah, after this one,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be here right here. It's the way playoff
Speaker 1: games are they always come down to the wire? Do
Speaker 1: you enjoy that? Honestly no, I was on the edge
Speaker 1: of my seat, but glad we got w That was
Speaker 1: a heavyweight showdown in the trenches between Heat and the
Speaker 1: chem Hicks. I mean, the chem Hicks is a devastating
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, has mammoth size, amazing strength, doesn't quiet There's
Speaker 1: some comparisons of Fletcher Cox. I think Fletcher Cox is
Speaker 1: a little more of an athlete, you know, Barrett in
Speaker 1: terms of gaining the quarterback. But you know, if you
Speaker 1: were able to watch the broadcast, they showed some of
Speaker 1: the hand fighting that Kim Hicks was able to do
Speaker 1: and able just to you know, move around the arms
Speaker 1: of whatever offensive lineman was against him. Brandon Brooks had
Speaker 1: his handful today but helped keep Nick Foles clean because
Speaker 1: again that was one of the big things coming to
Speaker 1: this game with that rib injury. Would he be affected
Speaker 1: at all whatsoever? You knew the Bears were going to
Speaker 1: try to take their shots, and you really didn't hear
Speaker 1: much from clil Mac, didn't hear too much from Leonard Floyd.
Speaker 1: I mean, overall, they had able to get pressure at times,
Speaker 1: but the offensive line with Isaac Salemile coming in there
Speaker 1: for you know, his first game in weeks because of
Speaker 1: that Chess injury. You were wondering if they were gonna say,
Speaker 1: we want three straight games with Wizz in there, let's
Speaker 1: keep it moving. But they want a bigger body inside
Speaker 1: to handle this Bears defensive front. And look, the offensive
Speaker 1: line was up to the task once again. Yeah, another
Speaker 1: great job in this offensive line have gone up against
Speaker 1: some pretty good defensive front, particularly on that line when
Speaker 1: you look at Aaron Donald and Dominican Sue, JJ Watt,
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney, Ryan Carrigan and those young Alabama boys down
Speaker 1: there in Washington they faced last week, and then you
Speaker 1: had this week with this Chicago Bears defense, the number
Speaker 1: one defense in the league. Khalil Matt gets all the attention,
Speaker 1: but they are a good defensive unit. That whole front
Speaker 1: seven is a good unit. And so I had. What
Speaker 1: I liked that the Eagles offensive line was able to
Speaker 1: do today is that they didn't allow that front seven,
Speaker 1: particularly that defensive line, to dominate the offense, to disrupt
Speaker 1: the offense all day. Sure, they made some plays and
Speaker 1: part of the game plan was get the ball out quick,
Speaker 1: so you can sort of neutralize that Bears front. But
Speaker 1: the Bears, they get that sort of game plan from
Speaker 1: everyone every week, and they still manage to disrupt offenses.
Speaker 1: I watched this Bears defense on Monday Night destroy the
Speaker 1: La Rams offense, and so I thought the Eagles offensive
Speaker 1: line did a nice job of not allowing this Bear's
Speaker 1: front to really just dominate the game. They made a
Speaker 1: couple of plays here and there, but they didn't dominate
Speaker 1: the game, and that's what they can do at times.
Speaker 1: Cleio Mac has been an absolute game record this season. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go back to even in the season opener for them,
Speaker 1: his debut against Green Bay, and the first half alone,
Speaker 1: you just said, they can't stop this guy whether no
Speaker 1: matter what side he's lying up on. And that's what's
Speaker 1: instrict about Mac. When you go back to the Raiders
Speaker 1: game last season, he lined up exclusively over Lane Johnson.
Speaker 1: Well tonight he was moving back and forth between Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson Jason Peters, and both times you weren't seeing either
Speaker 1: tackle would get a ton of help whatsoever. I mean,
Speaker 1: Doug Pierson, new look, you guys, you're you're the book
Speaker 1: end tackles, the stalwarts or the offensive line. You know,
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson an All Pro year ago. I think he's
Speaker 1: motivated by the Slight, not just the pro Bo but
Speaker 1: the All Pro which was announced this week. Jason Pierce
Speaker 1: we talked earlier, didn't get to be a part of
Speaker 1: that playoff front on the field last season, but he
Speaker 1: was a motivating force because remember in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, Lane Johnson is running out with
Speaker 1: his seventy one jersey out there on the field. Okay,
Speaker 1: So those guys had to hold their own whether whether
Speaker 1: it was against Mac or Floyd, and both were up
Speaker 1: to the task. Those guys were not able to dominate
Speaker 1: the game. A Kam Hicks I thought was very very
Speaker 1: good in the middle of the interior. You know, they
Speaker 1: didn't give the Eagles allowed room to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Today I cried Doug Pearson for finding striking a nice
Speaker 1: balance where it was not You didn't completely go away
Speaker 1: from it, you didn't abandon the run, but you sprinkled
Speaker 1: it in just when you had to just to keep
Speaker 1: the Bears defense honest. Okay, because it was tough. It's
Speaker 1: been tough Slight against that defense all season long from
Speaker 1: a run standpoint, and especially was so today for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So speaking of Doug Pearson, let's get some more insight
Speaker 1: into what the game plan was for today and how
Speaker 1: the Eagles came out with the win. Let's sit it
Speaker 1: to the one on one interview with the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame wide receiver Mike Quick. Coach, not many people expected
Speaker 1: you to even be in the playoffs, more or less
Speaker 1: advancing what is it about this team that they continue
Speaker 1: to do what you're doing? You know, I think our
Speaker 1: guys really they do a great job of just blocking
Speaker 1: a lot of things out, you know, and just focusing
Speaker 1: on their job. And you know, I talk a lot
Speaker 1: about ownership and accountability and it's really starting to show
Speaker 1: up now this last month, month and a half of
Speaker 1: our season, and you know, it proved itself again tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a Chicago Bear team is a They're
Speaker 1: well coached, it's a great football team. They're gonna win
Speaker 1: a lot of games. They're gonna be a force to
Speaker 1: be reckoned with in the NFC for a while. And
Speaker 1: you know, for us to come in here in battle
Speaker 1: in play sixty minutes, I think it just shows the
Speaker 1: resiliency again of our football team. It's a defense that
Speaker 1: they don't give up anything in the run game. They're
Speaker 1: the best in the red zone, but you still are
Speaker 1: able to get two touchdowns in the red zone. Tell
Speaker 1: me about that plan when you got into red zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we knew that if we could
Speaker 1: get them in nickel defense, we had a chance to
Speaker 1: run the ball just a little bit. And you know,
Speaker 1: coach Fanjio does a great job of holding personnel. But
Speaker 1: you know, our plan us to it was to you know,
Speaker 1: try to attack that way and and uh um and
Speaker 1: then and then we had the you know, we had
Speaker 1: the touchdown early in the in the in the second
Speaker 1: quarter that kind of got us, you know, to ten points.
Speaker 1: And then of course the last drive of the game
Speaker 1: was was outstanding and getting us in there on fourth down.
Speaker 1: But you know, we felt like we could do some things.
Speaker 1: That's again, that's a good red zone team. And um,
Speaker 1: we're fortunate to come away with what we did. But
Speaker 1: you kind of understand when he's going to come after
Speaker 1: you with an all out blitz and play men on
Speaker 1: the becks end, so you're able to take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Huh we did, and he you know, you know, coach
Speaker 1: Fanjio again is a he loves to bring pressure inside
Speaker 1: to five, especially in those got to have it type moments,
Speaker 1: and that was a gotta have a moment and um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a play that we had rapped
Speaker 1: during the week and Golden is one of the best.
Speaker 1: That a little quick out and um, Nick is a
Speaker 1: very accurate pastor there and put a good, good ball
Speaker 1: on it and um got us in the end zone.
Speaker 1: You were in New Orleans, didn't go well. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to going back to New Orleans. Yeah, I mean it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity again. Um. You know, anytime you
Speaker 1: can continue and keep playing in the postseason, that's a pot.
Speaker 1: And you know, we'll look at that film again and
Speaker 1: go back and make some adjustments. And I feel like
Speaker 1: we're a different football team at this point, um than
Speaker 1: we were, you know, say a month and a half,
Speaker 1: two months ago, and um, and we're just looking for
Speaker 1: the opportunity. It's a good football team. They're well coached
Speaker 1: as well, Uh you know, and we just gotta put
Speaker 1: another good plan together. Let me go back to the
Speaker 1: offensive line, because this was a defense that everyone talks
Speaker 1: about it and how and they are one of the
Speaker 1: best that I've seen, but your offensive line today, you
Speaker 1: got to talk about their play because I thought they
Speaker 1: were Stella today. I meant tell you, you know, each
Speaker 1: week coached out puts a great run plan together, they
Speaker 1: do a great job with the protection plan. And then
Speaker 1: and then our guys just embrace, embrace the work, embrace
Speaker 1: the joy of kind of playing together. And they're they're
Speaker 1: playing really well right now together and and uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch our guys quite frankly, you know,
Speaker 1: five guys come off the ball and do some things
Speaker 1: in the run game and then to keep your quarterback clean. Um,
Speaker 1: they're doing a great job. They're playing well right now. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Cod's good luck down the Thanks Quick. Great interview is
Speaker 1: always from Mike Quick. Now there's there's a photo circulating
Speaker 1: Twitter right now of Doug Peterson in the locker room
Speaker 1: after the wind standing with Tim Joern again with a
Speaker 1: gold chain around his neck that I would have loved
Speaker 1: if he had the gold chain on during the interview
Speaker 1: right there, that I would have just been classic, absolutely
Speaker 1: classic right there. So Doug Peterson phenomenal job getting the
Speaker 1: Eagles the win. So we have more come up here
Speaker 1: on the postgame show for his ina by Rico. We're
Speaker 1: gonna dig deep in go inside the film room after
Speaker 1: the break, and then later we're gonna preview the matchup
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Speaker 1: deliver the picture on Twitter? You got Tim like Tim
Speaker 1: Journing in there, you know, with the ski mask on
Speaker 1: and then Doug Peterson rocking the gold chain. There's gotta
Speaker 1: be a story behind that that that's absolutely amazing, That
Speaker 1: that is tremendous. That might be that maybe the photo
Speaker 1: of the year. That that photo is kind of like
Speaker 1: you go last year with Jeffrey Lurry, the team owner,
Speaker 1: dancing in the locker room. Okay, that's I guess the
Speaker 1: comparison right there. So everybody's looking for what's the mask
Speaker 1: gonna be for this year? You got the ski mask?
Speaker 1: What's gonna be the dancing celebration moment. Well you see
Speaker 1: it right there with Doug Peterson rocking the gold chain. There,
Speaker 1: yea great moment after the game. And you know the
Speaker 1: great thing about Doug, you know, being the coach here,
Speaker 1: You know, Doug was in that position that those players
Speaker 1: are in. You know, Doug has won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with the Green Bay Packers. Doug has been around a
Speaker 1: lot of good teams. He's done on a lot of
Speaker 1: good teams. He knows what that locker room is like.
Speaker 1: And one thing I always think about when I think
Speaker 1: about the one year I got a chance to play
Speaker 1: with him when he was holding the spot for Donovan
Speaker 1: and Nap, was that how Doug came to work every
Speaker 1: day with a smile on his face. How Doug it
Speaker 1: was just a was like a warm, welcoming filling around him. Right.
Speaker 1: We didn't win very many football games that year, that
Speaker 1: was Andy's first year, and we got off I believe,
Speaker 1: to an old and five start. But Doug seemed to
Speaker 1: have the same upbeat personality every day he came in
Speaker 1: that locker room man. And when I watched him as
Speaker 1: a coach during his time of year as the Eagles man,
Speaker 1: I just U there's always a moment that takes me
Speaker 1: back to what he was like as a teammate, and
Speaker 1: I can see it's no surprise how why his players
Speaker 1: enjoy playing for him because he has that sort of personality.
Speaker 1: He sort of makes everyone feel comfortable and important on
Speaker 1: the team, from the fifty third man on the roster
Speaker 1: to the franchise quarterback. You know, Doug makes everyone feels
Speaker 1: like they're a part of this thing, and he's a
Speaker 1: part of it. Right. There is that line between coach
Speaker 1: and player, but Doug has played the game, so he
Speaker 1: knows what that's like and it's never lost on him,
Speaker 1: so he can always draw on that experience as a player,
Speaker 1: not just in games, not just postgame celebrations, but in
Speaker 1: rough times and difficult moments when things can sort of splinter.
Speaker 1: You know, Doug has the ability to bring everybody together, man,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't get enough credit for that. As a coach.
Speaker 1: We pass it around to the players a lot, but
Speaker 1: the coaches are always there to get the blame when
Speaker 1: things don't go well. This guy has the ability to
Speaker 1: bring this team together. Great actor along the same lines,
Speaker 1: This was in our Kickoff Show presented by EXALTA Earlier today,
Speaker 1: Mike Rick sat down with Michael Bennett amazing eleven minute
Speaker 1: interview we aired I think about three minutes of it
Speaker 1: in the show, but you can watch the entire interview
Speaker 1: on Philadelphias dot com. And Michael Bennett goes back to
Speaker 1: I believe it's the Tennessee game where get an altercation
Speaker 1: with an assistant coach on the bench following the game. Well,
Speaker 1: the next day he gets he comes into the visit Doug,
Speaker 1: and Doug's first question wasn't about what happened or there,
Speaker 1: what caused the fight? This that or the other? Why
Speaker 1: were you guys arguing? It was like, are you okay?
Speaker 1: I don't care about the football stuff as a person,
Speaker 1: are you okay? And Michael Benn, who admitted that he
Speaker 1: was struggling with the transition going from Seattle to Philadelphia
Speaker 1: because you know, he was in trench in that Seattle
Speaker 1: community and he didn't know if he was going to
Speaker 1: be in Philadelphia for the long haul. So why should
Speaker 1: I bother building relationships with the guys in the locker room,
Speaker 1: or you know, bonding with the coaches or anything like that.
Speaker 1: If I'm just gonna be a mercenary be here for
Speaker 1: a year. Who cares. I'll just do them. I'll do
Speaker 1: my job, Cluck my paycheck, dude, and get out here.
Speaker 1: But he said, after that interaction with Doug Pearson, he said,
Speaker 1: this guy cares, and that kind of like turn was
Speaker 1: a turning point for him. That flipped the switch, and
Speaker 1: he's like, all right, I've got to be a team player.
Speaker 1: I've got to do what I can to help this
Speaker 1: defense win. And you look at the numbers, you look
Speaker 1: at the production. This Eagles team would not be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs if it weren't for Michael Benn. So just
Speaker 1: so just another example of the touch that Mad touched
Speaker 1: at Doug Pearson has in terms of working with the players.
Speaker 1: All Right, so what we're gonna do now is we're
Speaker 1: gonna go inside the film room. Fran Duffy and Greg
Speaker 1: Cosell breakdown Dallas Goddard's ten yard touchdown reception in the
Speaker 1: third quarter in this edition of the Rico Review. Let'sten
Speaker 1: over to the RICO whiteboard right now where the guys
Speaker 1: are standing by. All right, back to the offense. Now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a look at this touchdown catch by
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard Lake in the third quarter. Eagles now down
Speaker 1: six to three in this game. And this is a
Speaker 1: route greg that we've seen zach Ertz score on hundreds
Speaker 1: of times the last few years. And they connect here
Speaker 1: Nick Foles to Dallas Goddard down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Show us how they set this play well. And that's
Speaker 1: what's interesting. They're in eleven personnel, meaning that they've got
Speaker 1: just one tight end on the field and it's Goddard here,
Speaker 1: which speaks now in this situation to how they feel
Speaker 1: about him as a receiver. And we know he's very
Speaker 1: good and only getting better. So what they're going to
Speaker 1: do here is they're going to bring it's really more
Speaker 1: of a shift than a most, but they're going to
Speaker 1: bring Nelson Aglar across the formation and he's now going
Speaker 1: to be outside of Goddard but on the same side
Speaker 1: with Goddard and the offset back Windel Smallwood. So let's
Speaker 1: see that happen, because this sets up a three man
Speaker 1: route combination to the boundary. And what they're trying to
Speaker 1: do here as we set this up, is they're trying
Speaker 1: to get Goddard matched up man to man on a safety.
Speaker 1: So right about here, you can sort of see it
Speaker 1: start to develop. What you're going to see here is
Speaker 1: aglar work inside on a little kind of curl snag
Speaker 1: type route, and you're going to see smallwood work outside
Speaker 1: on an arrow route. And then what do you get here?
Speaker 1: You can't see the safety in the shot, but you
Speaker 1: end up with Dallas Goddard one on one with the
Speaker 1: safety Adrian Amos, and that's exactly what they wanted. And
Speaker 1: also the nature of this route concept opens the window
Speaker 1: for the throw by Nick Foles, so that's the whole
Speaker 1: point in this. So you end up with exactly what
Speaker 1: you want from a one on one perspective, with Goddard
Speaker 1: on Amos and with Nick Foles having the throwing windows.
Speaker 1: So let's run this now and you'll see, and it's
Speaker 1: beautifully done, well executed. You see the throw with timing,
Speaker 1: with touch and put right on the money. So really
Speaker 1: nicely designed play. And here you can see the one
Speaker 1: on one with god Or doing a really nice job
Speaker 1: of widening his stem, getting Amos to turn and then
Speaker 1: working back inside. It looked like Art's running that round.
Speaker 1: You sure did. Yeah, And when I saw the play concert,
Speaker 1: it was actually the first touchdown catch of Goddard's career
Speaker 1: against the Indianapolis Colts. Carson Wentz's first touchdown of the season,
Speaker 1: same exact play, same doesn't si very similar concent very
Speaker 1: well done, very well executed there by the Eagles in
Speaker 1: the red zone. They now go up ten to six
Speaker 1: in this game. Thanks Fran and Gray. You can check
Speaker 1: out the complete All twenty and two review tomorrow morning
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Speaker 1: with the New Orleans Saints after our final break here
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go back in. How about Joel mbid okay,
Speaker 1: Joel being Joel enjoy himself and you know, Eagles flagles
Speaker 1: fly and here they come, combine the Eagles and the
Speaker 1: Sixers there, so certainly he's excited about. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be great for the other athletes in the city
Speaker 1: to see when you see those images from Expanding Live
Speaker 1: and how the crowd goes absolutely berserk and you're seeing
Speaker 1: the parade down Broad Street and the fans collecting there
Speaker 1: after huge wins. As a professional athlete in the city,
Speaker 1: you're like, I could be a part of this. I
Speaker 1: can help. And he's the centerpiece there for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: So he is someone who certainly can bring that type
Speaker 1: of atmosphere and feeling just down the street to the
Speaker 1: Walls Fargo Center. So certainly exciting times here in South Philly. Listen,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure when they see, you know, the Eagles
Speaker 1: win the other teams in the city and see how
Speaker 1: the city gets behind the team and how much fun
Speaker 1: that run was last year. They all want to do
Speaker 1: it themselves as well. So I'm sure the Sixers, Flyers,
Speaker 1: the Phillies, the Phillies know what it's like two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. I can remember what it was like when
Speaker 1: they won the World Series back in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: and the only thing that I could think about was
Speaker 1: the opportunities that we squandered during the time that I
Speaker 1: play here, because I said to myself, man, this is
Speaker 1: what it would have been like had we won. So
Speaker 1: when the Phillies wanted bigger, yeah when bigger. But in
Speaker 1: O eight, I mean, that was the first championship for
Speaker 1: the city in twenty five years, So that made it
Speaker 1: a big deal itself because it had been so long
Speaker 1: since the city had celebrated the championship. Uh celebrated with
Speaker 1: the championship parade. And then we saw last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, man, that was that was That was everything
Speaker 1: I imagined it would be and more. Yes, exactly, yes,
Speaker 1: it was all my years here in Philadelphia. Everyone said, okay,
Speaker 1: you may see the parades for the other teams, right,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles one will be epic. It will top
Speaker 1: every other parade there is because, like you said earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, it's different with the Eagles. In this city,
Speaker 1: everyone comes together for the Eagles. We support all the
Speaker 1: sports teams, but everyone truly is behind this Eagles team here.
Speaker 1: So next week, at the same time, next Sunday, four
Speaker 1: forty pm, Eagles taken on the thirteen and three number
Speaker 1: one seed New Orleans Saints at the Superdome. You talk
Speaker 1: about raucous road environments that I recall covering the two
Speaker 1: thousand and six season, the Jeff Garcia Divisional Round game
Speaker 1: down there against them, and that place is an absolute,
Speaker 1: absolute nightmare to play in on the road. It is,
Speaker 1: and I was a part of the reopening of the
Speaker 1: Superdome played in Atlanta. When I played in Atlanta, we
Speaker 1: played there and reopened the Superdome on that Monday night.
Speaker 1: I've never heard it be as loud as it was
Speaker 1: that night. So I can only imagine what the playoffs
Speaker 1: will be like, what next week's game will be like.
Speaker 1: They know they had the defending champion coming in. They
Speaker 1: also know they put up forty eight points on us
Speaker 1: when it was unnecessary in that game earlier, so a
Speaker 1: lot of that will be discussed this week. The Eagles
Speaker 1: will certainly be motivated going into this game. Saints are
Speaker 1: going to be motivated. You gonna get the Saints best,
Speaker 1: best game. But what I like is that the Eagles
Speaker 1: I think will be ready to roll next week and
Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to another great game. Saints offense
Speaker 1: hasn't really been as explosive since that last Eagles game,
Speaker 1: so they've been held to thirteen points, ten points in
Speaker 1: a game you know they had to win. They lost
Speaker 1: a tough game to the Cowboys thirteen to ten. They
Speaker 1: had to win a tough one against Pittsburgh, so you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't the same Saints team that was clicking the
Speaker 1: last time the Eagles faced them. So this this could
Speaker 1: be a good opportunity for the Eagles here. And conversely,
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are their best football. The Eagles
Speaker 1: weren't playing their best football when they faced the Saints
Speaker 1: the first time. They're gonna get the best Eagles version
Speaker 1: of the twenty eighteen slash nineteen team. You're added. There
Speaker 1: are so many great storylines. Nick Foles and Drew Prees
Speaker 1: went to the same Westlake high school. They're in Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas in a rematch of the twenty thirteen Wild Cards
Speaker 1: show that broke his record records down records in high school. Okay,
Speaker 1: remember Foles wasn't the quarterback for the first meeting this season.
Speaker 1: And then Malcolm Jenkins Darren Sprowles, former Saints going against
Speaker 1: their you know, their previous team, and you know Malcolm Jenkins.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some bad blood there with Sean Payton
Speaker 1: after Alvin Kamara getting that touchdown, you know, to run
Speaker 1: up the score late in the game. And uh, and
Speaker 1: not to mentioned Alvin Kamara doing all the talk and
Speaker 1: he did last year certainly. Yeah, and had the Eagle,
Speaker 1: had the Saints come to Philadelphia instead of Minnesota. So
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fine,
Speaker 1: tell you what. It's gonna be fun for me leading
Speaker 1: up to this game. Yeah, en up to the game.
Speaker 1: Because when you get a team like the Saints, who
Speaker 1: a lot of people are picking as the NFC representatives
Speaker 1: because they've been so good all year longer than they
Speaker 1: have home field advantage. You got the defending champs coming
Speaker 1: in here with the whole underdog ski mask type of mantra.
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to get to work tomorrow to
Speaker 1: let out that victory chant that we yell out when
Speaker 1: the Eagles win. But just the sort of the build up,
Speaker 1: breaking down the game, the matchup, the ends, and out
Speaker 1: the differences that the team's sort of the difference where
Speaker 1: the teams are right now compared to where they were
Speaker 1: weeks ago, right when when the Eagles left there was
Speaker 1: at four and six after the game, after that game
Speaker 1: four and six, this is a completely different Eagles football
Speaker 1: team on both sides of the ball. The biggest thing
Speaker 1: is taking the lessons from today applying to next week.
Speaker 1: They got to minimize the miss opportunities. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: You're you're not going against Mitchell Trubisky, who's in his
Speaker 1: first playoff games, right, That's again happened to in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Can have two turnovers, Okay, you can't, you know, missed
Speaker 1: opportunities if Drew Brees throws one there, Trey Selivan and
Speaker 1: vanta match whatever it is, you gotta come down with it.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta be able to get some extra
Speaker 1: drives for your offense against this vaunted offense. So it's
Speaker 1: going from going from the amazing Bears defense. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear all this week about Drew Brees and you know,
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame career, and you know that we
Speaker 1: don't know how many years Brees has left, but is
Speaker 1: this the year where you know, he gets that second
Speaker 1: Super Bowl title? You know we're gonna be hearing about
Speaker 1: all of that this week. Here, this is where the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense. It's an amazing challenge. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: what you want, Okay for the guys on that side
Speaker 1: of the football, you know, this is your opportunity to
Speaker 1: leave them, Mark, this is your opportunity to go there.
Speaker 1: And this Saint's team, you know, was arguably the best team,
Speaker 1: not just in the conference, one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the league throughout the course of the season. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're deserving of the number one seed. You can go
Speaker 1: to their house, one of the most difficult places to
Speaker 1: play and really put the NFL world unnoticed with the
Speaker 1: way and you look at the numbers here, Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean Drew Brees thirty two touchdowns against five interceptions. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna make a lot of mistakes. Okay. The
Speaker 1: offense continue to put up points per game thirty one
Speaker 1: and a half points per game. You know it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be quite a challenge, But Doug Peterson knows how
Speaker 1: to coach in big game situations. I mean across the board.
Speaker 1: The head coach matchups. The offense against Stevens both sides
Speaker 1: is to be great, and those running backs are gonna
Speaker 1: be the key that you gotta contain. Album Kamara mark
Speaker 1: Ingram to me, that's the key. Their passing game really
Speaker 1: is there there to sort of set up those running
Speaker 1: backs coming out of the backfield, whether they throw the
Speaker 1: ball to him or they hand it off to him.
Speaker 1: Album Kamara mark Ingram to me is to keep Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas is gonna catch his balls. He's the only reliable
Speaker 1: receiver Drew Brees has, so they're gonna throw it to
Speaker 1: him enough that he's gonna get his catches. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna shut Michael Thomas out. He's the only real receiver
Speaker 1: they have. It's those two backs that you have to
Speaker 1: be concerned with. Kamara is a serious threat out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. Matching up against him and man and man
Speaker 1: coverage will be a key for us. They took advantage
Speaker 1: of some matchup situations the last time we played them.
Speaker 1: But like I said, this is a much different Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: They're playing much better now. I don't think the Saints
Speaker 1: offense is clicking the way it was back then. I
Speaker 1: think some teams are sort of called up to what
Speaker 1: New Orleans likes to do schematically, and they realize, well,
Speaker 1: you can only beat us with thirteen throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: like you can't beat us when anybody else throwing the football.
Speaker 1: So we need we really need to watch forty one
Speaker 1: and number twenty two. I thought you brought up a
Speaker 1: great point about the quarterbacks. This isn't Mitchell Trubisky. This
Speaker 1: is one of the smartest quarterbacks to ever play the game.
Speaker 1: He makes very few mistakes. That's evident in the five interceptions.
Speaker 1: He's one of the least sack quarterbacks in the NFL
Speaker 1: year in and year out. So this will be one
Speaker 1: of those games where if he if he is off
Speaker 1: his game, you had better take advantage of some of
Speaker 1: those opportunities. But more importantly, you can't kick field goals
Speaker 1: in this game. No, you're gonna need You're gonna need touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You gotta need to kick some touchdowns. I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles only got what one touchdown today? Did they get too?
Speaker 1: Because they got two touchdowns one and then the touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's right. So yeah, you're gonna need to score when
Speaker 1: you're in the rid zone against this Saint stand sixteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna to do in New Orleans. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: mark series tomorrow two pm. Yeah, man should be uh.
Speaker 1: I think everyone would be happy with the with the game.
Speaker 1: My my reaction Philadelphia. It is Philadelphia. I know. My
Speaker 1: reaction there is similar to the reaction when they pan
Speaker 1: to the sideline the Bear Sylon after Park he missed
Speaker 1: the kick. Everyone just just belief like did he really?
Speaker 1: Did you really miss that? Right? That? That was my
Speaker 1: reaction right there. I would hope that everyone's in a
Speaker 1: jubilant mood. So as we're keeping the high going, I
Speaker 1: get I give up, I give up. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us here on the postgame show for his
Speaker 1: any Barrico for Ike raising office here at the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Have a great Eagles night. I'm Chris McPherson. Doug Pearson
Speaker 1: will address the media tomorrow at noon. We will carry
Speaker 1: that for you live until then. Enjoy this Eagle's win
Speaker 1: over the Bears, the Eagles advancing to the divisional round
Speaker 1: to take on the New Orleans Saints. Good Night everyone,