Speaker 1: Wow. Wow Wow. After trailing fourteen and nothing early, the
Speaker 1: Eagles rallied with five consecutive touchdowns thirty five points total,
Speaker 1: and then held on late to defeat the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots thirty five to twenty eight to snap a three
Speaker 1: game losing streak and get to five and seven on
Speaker 1: the season. It was the Eagles first win in New
Speaker 1: England since nineteen eighty seven. Hold everyone, and welcome to
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico here in Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: dot com. I'm Chris McPherson, please to be joined by
Speaker 1: former Eagles linebacker Ike Rease. Ike. I think we need
Speaker 1: a second to take a deep breath after that thrilling finish.
Speaker 1: To say the very least, the Eagles having lost three
Speaker 1: straight games going to New England facing a ten and
Speaker 1: one New England Patriots team that does not lose back
Speaker 1: to back games very often, and the Eagles in all
Speaker 1: three phases came up with huge plays and was able
Speaker 1: to hold on for a thrilling finish thirty five to
Speaker 1: twenty eight to defeat the Patriots. Yeah, and let's not
Speaker 1: forget they were down fourteen and nothing in this game
Speaker 1: and it was not looking good. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick decides he wants to try an onside kick,
Speaker 1: pooch punt or pooch kick. Eagles do a great job
Speaker 1: of recovering it, take advantage of the short field, and
Speaker 1: I think the momentum started to change from that point on.
Speaker 1: They got the block punt after that score touchdown. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just this was just a great effort from
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and it was a little expected. Like you
Speaker 1: said that Patriots just don't lose very often consecutive games.
Speaker 1: They certainly don't lose very often up there at Foxboro.
Speaker 1: So Eagles collective effort offense, defense and special teams, and
Speaker 1: that's the type of effort you were going to need
Speaker 1: to go up there and beat the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Certainly everyone wondered how would the team respond after the
Speaker 1: last two games in which they gave up ninety points
Speaker 1: ten touchdown passes, and today you look at the total
Speaker 1: amount of yards. Nothing sexy from the Eagle standpoint, because
Speaker 1: they were pretty much getting it done on defense and
Speaker 1: special teams from a scoring standpoint, but the red zone offense.
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford comes back into the lamp and there's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal job of running the offense, and then you look
Speaker 1: at the rushing attack and what they were able to do,
Speaker 1: mixing in Darren Sproles who got the start today, working
Speaker 1: in Kenyon Barner. He did have that costly fumble, which
Speaker 1: luckily the Eagles defense was able to hold off late,
Speaker 1: but key contributions from them there throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game helped in the red zone. And Bradford with
Speaker 1: two touchdown tosses is one to Zach Ertz and the
Speaker 1: other to Jordan Matthews. Yeah, obviously a nice job from
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense. You get down in the red zone
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, you gotta score touchdowns instead of kicking
Speaker 1: field goals. They took great advantage of those two opportunities
Speaker 1: they had. But this game was set up by the
Speaker 1: defense and the special teams. I mean that pick six,
Speaker 1: then Malcolm Jenkins was able to get off of the
Speaker 1: Walter de Tournament tip ball. That really changed the game
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Also, Patriots looking like they're going in
Speaker 1: to score Eagles backs against the wall. Not only do
Speaker 1: they get the interception, but they take it back for
Speaker 1: seven and that was huge. So they have a special
Speaker 1: teams touchdown to darren Sproles eighty three yard punt return,
Speaker 1: his second punt return touchdown of the season. You saw
Speaker 1: on the screen there the Nagy good block punt return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, Chris Maragos with a key block punt
Speaker 1: and another key play on these darren Sproles punt return
Speaker 1: touchdown as well, key block to get that started. And
Speaker 1: then the Malcolm Jenkins ninety nine yards taking the ball
Speaker 1: to the house to be able to help the Eagles
Speaker 1: there in that situation. So all three phases contributing a
Speaker 1: little bit. Later on, we're going to hear from the
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Speaker 1: presented by Rico here in Philadelphia Eagles dot Com Chris
Speaker 1: McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese Ike. One of
Speaker 1: the big storylines coming into this game would be how
Speaker 1: would the Eagles respond, Because I go back to that
Speaker 1: Miami game a couple of weeks ago, and these were
Speaker 1: coming off that emotional win over the Dallas Cowboys. They're
Speaker 1: up sixteen to three in the first quarter, and everyone thought, Wow,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have this handled. They're gonna turn the corner
Speaker 1: and they're gonna take off. And obviously we saw what
Speaker 1: happened the last two and a half weeks, but here today,
Speaker 1: fourteen to nothing down in the first half, but they're
Speaker 1: able to rally for thirty five straight points and then
Speaker 1: hold on at the very end. So we saw a
Speaker 1: lot of resilience from this Eagle's team today. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I mean, this team was down and
Speaker 1: you're starting to say to yourself, oh, here we go again,
Speaker 1: fourteen none. But this they you know, they showed us something.
Speaker 1: They showed us that they have pride. They showed us
Speaker 1: that they do have resiliency and that you know, the
Speaker 1: testing of FOURT two to go out there and fight.
Speaker 1: And that's what we've been wanting to see the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You give up back to back forty
Speaker 1: five point games and that just didn't look like Eagles
Speaker 1: football the last couple of weeks. So if nothing else,
Speaker 1: you saw a team that played with pride. Today, you
Speaker 1: saw a team that played like they care. And this
Speaker 1: is the result when you put when you put the
Speaker 1: effort in. And this started last week. This didn't start today.
Speaker 1: This started when they came in to prepare for the
Speaker 1: New England Patris. They had the right frame of mind,
Speaker 1: They paid attention to detail, they blocked out all the
Speaker 1: negativity on the outside and they focused in. It may
Speaker 1: have drawn them closer together, let them unite, and they
Speaker 1: went out there and quite possibly had their best performance
Speaker 1: of the season. Against a team that was ten and
Speaker 1: one before the day, Like, what did it mean to
Speaker 1: you that Malcolm Jenkins made his comments to the media
Speaker 1: on his radio show earlier in the week saying how
Speaker 1: the coaches need to make the players more accountable, and
Speaker 1: then for him to have the performance that he had today.
Speaker 1: He didn't just have the ninety nine yard interception return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. He also had some key tackles for
Speaker 1: a loss in fact one to help set up that
Speaker 1: interception there down in the red zone. So in my
Speaker 1: estimation here, obviously he backed up his talk and had
Speaker 1: a huge game. What did it mean to you, ike
Speaker 1: for him to have the performance that he had today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a little shot I heard it. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. He had every right to say what he
Speaker 1: said when you've put it together the type of season
Speaker 1: and Malcolm James has put together, and he's prepared every
Speaker 1: week to go in and he's out there giving one
Speaker 1: hundred percent maximum effort. This is the pride for guy.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who knows what it takes, what
Speaker 1: the champagne tastes like, from winning the Super Bowl championship,
Speaker 1: from his days in New Orleans. So when he spoke
Speaker 1: up last week. He knows when things aren't right. This
Speaker 1: isn't just a guy just flying off the handle because
Speaker 1: he wants to point fingers. You know, this was a
Speaker 1: player that sounded concerned about the team's playout are on
Speaker 1: the field, that sounded concerned about their preparation heading in
Speaker 1: the games, and he felt the need to voice his
Speaker 1: frustration his opinions on those matters. And I think he's
Speaker 1: earned every right to do that. Listen, when you're out
Speaker 1: there and you can back up the talk and you're
Speaker 1: putting the production out on the field, you have every
Speaker 1: right as a team leader to step up. No, it
Speaker 1: may have rough with some feathers, some people may not
Speaker 1: have wanted to hear it, but that's the part about
Speaker 1: being the leader. You can't say everything that everyone wants
Speaker 1: to hear that's gonna make them happy. Being a leader
Speaker 1: also means sometimes you're gonna say things it's gonna make
Speaker 1: people feel uncomfortable, and as long as it's for the
Speaker 1: right reason, you'll be all better for it than the end.
Speaker 1: And I think that's exactly what Malcolm Jenkins was coming from.
Speaker 1: His heart was in the right place. And guess what
Speaker 1: it seems as if someone hurting, whether it be teammates, coaches,
Speaker 1: or whomever. They came out there with a better effort
Speaker 1: and he led. Certainly that's a case. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to the phone lines. We're also waiting to hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Chip Kelly at Jillett Stadium. Let's welcome Chris
Speaker 1: from Virginia to the postgame show presented by Rico. Chris
Speaker 1: Howard sayed, are you about this Eagles win? Smack Man?
Speaker 1: This says, see Lee Man. Great win. You know, I figured, hey,
Speaker 1: if this is a week to catch to Patriots, this
Speaker 1: is the time to doo was banged up one off,
Speaker 1: but great win. You know, you never know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen the best of the season. But they means
Speaker 1: the Zombs trim be the game next week. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about that and I am Seeley, no question about
Speaker 1: it that this is the time. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I would say, I don't know if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to beat the Patriots in the situation, just because
Speaker 1: it's so tough. They're coming off the loss to Denver
Speaker 1: ten to one on the season. You knew that they
Speaker 1: were going to be hungry, you know, Tom Brady made
Speaker 1: some comments on his radio show in Boston that you know,
Speaker 1: it was the most painful loss. And this is a
Speaker 1: guy who saw Super Bowls, but he came out of
Speaker 1: this lost feeling that it was such a painful loss
Speaker 1: that you felt like you were going to get the
Speaker 1: best effort from the Patriots today, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the Eagles they brought their a game and the Patriots
Speaker 1: didn't seem to be ready for it. So Seeley, thank
Speaker 1: you very much as always for the phone call there. Yeah, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: The Patriots were a little undergun today, undermanned. They didn't
Speaker 1: have grounk. They starting me to han the Edelman, who
Speaker 1: they won't have problemly for the rest of the regular season,
Speaker 1: didn't have high tower. But those other Patriots problems. We
Speaker 1: have our own problems here on the Eagles. We've lost
Speaker 1: three in a row and we needed to get this
Speaker 1: losing taste out of our mouth. So if we happen
Speaker 1: to catch the Patriots at the right time while they're
Speaker 1: a little banged up, a little injured, so be it
Speaker 1: not feeling sorry at all, not apologizing for getting to
Speaker 1: w by any means necessary. This was a much need
Speaker 1: to win for this team. Certainly, we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls later on in the show.
Speaker 1: We're waiting to hear from head coach Chip Kelly. But
Speaker 1: going back to the defense, we talked about Jenkins and
Speaker 1: the interception return that he had for a touchdown. Bill
Speaker 1: Davis schematically, I think we all wondered what he would
Speaker 1: do to attack Tom Brady because you might say, look,
Speaker 1: you might want to bring the house, but he gets
Speaker 1: rid of the ball so quickly that it's a waste
Speaker 1: of defenders. You don't want to sit back and just
Speaker 1: give one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history time
Speaker 1: to pick you apart, so you have to kind of
Speaker 1: mix things up there. I thought he pretty much stuck
Speaker 1: to his normal game plan, didn't go too far outside
Speaker 1: the script, and it was just a matter of the
Speaker 1: players seemed to execute. I know it's that word that
Speaker 1: the coach had been talking about all season, but just
Speaker 1: better execution from that side of the football today, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I mean, the defense certainly seemed
Speaker 1: to be on their a game and it started early.
Speaker 1: The pressure on Tom Brady. We all know how he
Speaker 1: responds to being knocked around. Even had a sack today
Speaker 1: where he went down most of these quarterbacks, and that's
Speaker 1: what you gotta do to a guy like Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: You gotta make him uncomfortable in the pocket. You look
Speaker 1: at his yards, A lot of those were junk yards
Speaker 1: late in the game when he was throwing a lot
Speaker 1: to try to catch up. I thought the defense for
Speaker 1: at least three quarters kept him confused. They hit him,
Speaker 1: took away the big playability at times, and you know,
Speaker 1: it made the Patriots sort of get out of character.
Speaker 1: And that's when you get surprise on sidekicks and things.
Speaker 1: That nature is when you're frustrated as an office and
Speaker 1: you can't do what you want to do. They were
Speaker 1: trying to steal an extra possession. I thought this Eagles defense,
Speaker 1: for the most part, played this Patriots offense to today. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: two sacks from Connor Barwin, two more from Brandon Graham.
Speaker 1: They were able to generate that pressure that we had
Speaker 1: not seen throughout the early part of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: times they were able to get the quarterback off his spot,
Speaker 1: but they were actually able to bring the quarterback down
Speaker 1: for the sack today. Also, to give some credit to
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe, you go to that last drive of the
Speaker 1: game the rookies, making his first career start, and the
Speaker 1: first play, Tom Brady's going deep to Branda Fell to
Speaker 1: try to get a cheap PI call something to really
Speaker 1: shift the field position because the Patriots didn't have any
Speaker 1: timeouts and they were backed up in their own territory.
Speaker 1: Eric rowe good coverage on the play, didn't bite for
Speaker 1: anything there. And then the last play of game, the
Speaker 1: fourth and long, Brady trying to find the titan over
Speaker 1: the middle and Roe was there to break up the past.
Speaker 1: So he hidled himself quite well for his first career start.
Speaker 1: You know, he knew come into this game that he
Speaker 1: was going to be tested time and time again by
Speaker 1: one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and he
Speaker 1: was up for the challenge. Today after playing a game
Speaker 1: win which a lot of people criticize him for his
Speaker 1: performance against Calvin Johnson, but I think as everyone showed
Speaker 1: much better than most people give him credit for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have been criticized for the game against de Trailer.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? From the Hall of Fame wide
Speaker 1: receiver going up against a rookie. I like the confidence
Speaker 1: of Eric row He accepted the challenge last week to
Speaker 1: go play Calvin Johnson. He wanted that challenge, and he
Speaker 1: certainly seemed to be excited throughout the week to be
Speaker 1: getting his first start of his national football career. So
Speaker 1: you know, if there's nothing else you're gonna listen. As
Speaker 1: a cornerback, you gotta have a short memory, and this league,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get beat. With the way the rules are
Speaker 1: in today's game, it's very difficult to play cornerback in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So you have to have a
Speaker 1: short memory, remain confident. You give up a play, brush
Speaker 1: it off your shoulders, go back in there and keep competing.
Speaker 1: And that's what he did. And you know these guys
Speaker 1: are going to catch balls from time to time, but
Speaker 1: you have to remain confident and keep competing every down.
Speaker 1: And that's what I've seen from Eric Row. I wanted
Speaker 1: to glance real quick at the rushing yards by the Patriots,
Speaker 1: just one hundred and three total on the day. And
Speaker 1: the reason I wanted to look at that is because,
Speaker 1: come into this game, it's a situation where you think
Speaker 1: the Patriots are going to throw the ball over the field.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to get the running backs matchup on
Speaker 1: the linebackers. Scott Chandler is gonna make plays in that
Speaker 1: Gronk role with Rob Gronkowski out Danny Amidol's back. But
Speaker 1: I always wondered, were they just kind of zigzag almost
Speaker 1: and go with la Garrett Blunt on the ground and
Speaker 1: try to beat the Eagles in the run game, especially
Speaker 1: with the fact that Cedric Thornton, one of the team's
Speaker 1: best run defenders up front, was out. Early on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: the Eagles announced that Benny Logan was added to the
Speaker 1: injury report as questionable due to a knee injury. So
Speaker 1: would the Patriots see all that and try to take advantage?
Speaker 1: And I thought the Eagles run defense, which has been
Speaker 1: much maligned in the last couple of weeks, came to
Speaker 1: play today to force Bradys to throw the ball in
Speaker 1: the air and they were able to get the win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's difficult when your game plan for the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: they have a multitude of game plans they can throw
Speaker 1: with you. You know, sometimes they like to feature the
Speaker 1: tight ends. They'll like the feature Garrett Blunt running the ball.
Speaker 1: When Dion Lewis was there, he'll get featured catching the ball.
Speaker 1: Out of the backfield. They'll throw the ball a lot,
Speaker 1: or some games they'll come in looking to run the ball,
Speaker 1: So it can be difficult trying to gain plan for
Speaker 1: this team. And then Brady is the type of quarterback
Speaker 1: that when he gets up to the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: he's calling plays from the line of scrimmage based on
Speaker 1: what he's seeing. The defense too, and that's why they'd
Speaker 1: been so successful throughout his career. I thought the Eagles
Speaker 1: hung in there. They gave up a few plays, but
Speaker 1: they made more than their fair share of four sacks
Speaker 1: on Brady two interceptions against him down there in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Big. I mean it's big. You don't make
Speaker 1: a guy like Tom Brady looked the way the Eagles
Speaker 1: were able to make him look today, certainly so. It
Speaker 1: was Brady's first two interception game of the season, the
Speaker 1: first two interceptions he's ever thrown against the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: and believe or not, it's the first turnovers of any
Speaker 1: kind by the Eagles defense dating back to Jordan Hicks's
Speaker 1: pick six against the Dallas Cowboys and the overtime win.
Speaker 1: It seems so long ago where you thought, hey, this
Speaker 1: is one of the most opportunistic defenses in the entire
Speaker 1: NFL throughout the early part of the season. What happened
Speaker 1: to that? Yes, they forced the safety against Miami, but
Speaker 1: from then on nothing is from a turnover standpoint by
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense. They got their mojo back. Now Listen,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you exactly what it was. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they would know better than anyone in that
Speaker 1: defensive meeting room. This team had played good defense weeks
Speaker 1: one through eight, and then it just all of a
Speaker 1: sudden fell off after they lost that game to the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and it did not look like the Eagles
Speaker 1: defense that we had seen through the most part of
Speaker 1: this season, getting sacks, getting turnovers. All right, we're saying
Speaker 1: the foxbour Massachusetts head coach Chip Kelly, addressing the media
Speaker 1: so much today and not as much with Murray, w
Speaker 1: went into that some of the matchups for the linebackers.
Speaker 1: You know, we felt like it's as big a group
Speaker 1: of linebackers as you're gonna face. And then we just
Speaker 1: kind of, as the game expressed itself, we're kind of
Speaker 1: just kind of trying to go with the hot hand
Speaker 1: and we used all three. Um, you know, DeMarco had
Speaker 1: a big run on the inside zone in the red
Speaker 1: zone there on that drive that tirteam played drive, we
Speaker 1: had a big run on that. But we just thought
Speaker 1: we were gonna use all three today and needed all three.
Speaker 1: But when you got Collins and Nikovic and guys, it's
Speaker 1: it's as big a linebacker crew as you're gonna face.
Speaker 1: So um, sometimes those smaller, quicker guys can can cause
Speaker 1: some problems in the matchup. I thought Darren played really
Speaker 1: well in all phases, and I think it's something you
Speaker 1: continue to see out of him. We see it every
Speaker 1: day in training, and you know it's it's on us
Speaker 1: as the staff. We need to continue to get there
Speaker 1: and involved in what we're doing because he he tilts
Speaker 1: to field a little bit. And when now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we hadn't used him that much, so people
Speaker 1: don't people hadn't weren't double in him. But then when
Speaker 1: he was in there, I started to draw some extra
Speaker 1: attention and open some other guys up. So going down
Speaker 1: the last three games help proudly you otherball teams happened. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I I've always been proud of him, and
Speaker 1: I told those guys that I said, I think sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't see in them what I see in them.
Speaker 1: And I know we have a good football team, and
Speaker 1: I think they showed it today and they they shown
Speaker 1: it at other times during the season. In the last
Speaker 1: two weeks we didn't show it, um and that's what
Speaker 1: was disappointing for them. But I think, um, we got contributions.
Speaker 1: I thought defensively, the pressure we got on the quarterback
Speaker 1: was instrumental today. You know, but then when you have
Speaker 1: a block kick for a touchdown, you have an interception
Speaker 1: return for a touchdown, and a punt return for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: it takes those things to win in the stadium against
Speaker 1: uh this coach, that coach, and in that quarterback. So
Speaker 1: in the defense today, I think we generated pressure and
Speaker 1: really those guys up front did a really good job. Um.
Speaker 1: I think we had four sacks. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times are hurries or hits on on Tom, but
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do because he's so good.
Speaker 1: And there's a couple of times he shook us off
Speaker 1: and kept drives alive, um, you know, running and made
Speaker 1: some big plays there. But I thought the effort that
Speaker 1: our guys that played with upfront was really really good
Speaker 1: and that's what we needed out of those guests. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we felt like we needed a first down. You know,
Speaker 1: we could have run it and then you got the
Speaker 1: appropriate time and where we are numbers wise, and we're
Speaker 1: talking about all that. We have charts, we know what's
Speaker 1: there and then but part of it is we felt
Speaker 1: like we needed a first down and that was our
Speaker 1: best option on that play. You know, we had run
Speaker 1: the naked play on third actually try to throw on
Speaker 1: first down, you know, try to run the naked play.
Speaker 1: And I thought Sam made a really good decision. It
Speaker 1: may have been closed trying to throw it, but then
Speaker 1: if it's not there, you know, keep the clock running,
Speaker 1: you know. I think when you have a smart quarterback,
Speaker 1: you trust him that you can do that. Um. We
Speaker 1: ran on second down obviously got the clock moving a
Speaker 1: little bit, and then on third down, we just you know,
Speaker 1: our concept was we we got to get a first
Speaker 1: down here, uh. And I got great faith and trust
Speaker 1: in Sam and I know he's got great faith and
Speaker 1: trust in his receivers. And we had to cut a
Speaker 1: little mirrored route deal on and he was going to
Speaker 1: the best side and was a big play by Coop
Speaker 1: and big throat by h Sam. I mean Fip always
Speaker 1: we always have a couple of schemes going in there
Speaker 1: in terms of being able to get him in the situation,
Speaker 1: and the half dictated it, you know, hit them pumping
Speaker 1: back to us and I was catching it. We're probably
Speaker 1: not going to get anything generated out of that. I
Speaker 1: think there was fit was a fifteen seconds I think
Speaker 1: was on the clock, So we're probably going to go
Speaker 1: after the punter in that situation. And that was the
Speaker 1: rush that we had had practice this week. So John
Speaker 1: scores and then they tried that role drop whatever was
Speaker 1: that kind of turned the game around. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: that was the turning point, but I think it was
Speaker 1: a huge another huge play by our special teams. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you know when you play this team that
Speaker 1: they're going to tax you in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: They ran the reverse past to Brady. Um, you know
Speaker 1: they did that. But I thought it was a great
Speaker 1: play by two too, good good reaction by him and
Speaker 1: um you know it's it's but I think Phip and
Speaker 1: UH did a really good job of the special teams
Speaker 1: preparing him for a lot of the different things that
Speaker 1: they do on special teams, and they challenge it from
Speaker 1: a special team standpoint. Say that again. So it was
Speaker 1: you know, a big, big job by malk You know
Speaker 1: that that interception was a real backbreaker. You know when
Speaker 1: you talk about turning good into great, you know, you
Speaker 1: stop a team when they're in the red zone from scoring.
Speaker 1: And I think anybody would have been happy if just
Speaker 1: with the interception, Hey let's turn it over. You know
Speaker 1: they were driving. We got to stop there. But to
Speaker 1: be able to take it the distance and return it,
Speaker 1: you know, he's really happy for him. Um, he's worked
Speaker 1: a lot. I know sometimes he gets maligned, but I
Speaker 1: you know, he worked really hard on on on catching
Speaker 1: the football and he did a great job. Looked at
Speaker 1: in the eyes to the tuck as we talk about
Speaker 1: all the time, and um, but to convert that into
Speaker 1: his score was a was a really big, real big
Speaker 1: turning point in a game for us at the hood.
Speaker 1: I know, I know you said that the team has
Speaker 1: given effort in the past, However, this was a different
Speaker 1: team tonight. Uh there's something about this game. It was
Speaker 1: so much different than the last two. What was it
Speaker 1: with your players? And what I mean, that's the same
Speaker 1: thing I told him. I believe in them and and
Speaker 1: uh that they were a really good football team and
Speaker 1: just we played together as a group. Cross is just
Speaker 1: a guy that's shown up in practice every single day,
Speaker 1: and we felt like we wanted to give him an
Speaker 1: opportunity to play that. Jeffrey Lurie said something about you
Speaker 1: fired up? Did speak to the team before the game
Speaker 1: or something? I mean he talks everybody before every game,
Speaker 1: so he usually is in the locker room and locks
Speaker 1: around the players individually. He didn't, you know, give a
Speaker 1: speech or anything. But jeff I mean, he's as good
Speaker 1: an owner as I've ever you know, been around. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he really truly cares about the players and
Speaker 1: the coaches and he always make sure um before every
Speaker 1: game that he takes it. He and I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody knows this, he talks every player before every game.
Speaker 1: He talks every coach before every game. So what was
Speaker 1: a plan in the fourth the last drive and the
Speaker 1: figures at the ball and the time out worked almost perfect.
Speaker 1: What was your plan? Well for them to drop it
Speaker 1: a couple of times, the little voodoo thing going now.
Speaker 1: I just think you knew the distance that they had
Speaker 1: to travel, and there's a lot of short Matthew, you
Speaker 1: have to do if the balls completed in bounds, it
Speaker 1: takes about sixteen seconds to get a clock off. So
Speaker 1: now you're just doing the math in your head. There's
Speaker 1: fifty two seconds. If it's completed in bounds, you get
Speaker 1: the ball down into the high thirties. If they complete
Speaker 1: another one in bounds, you know, so you're really trying
Speaker 1: to protect the sideline. You know, that's the key. If
Speaker 1: they can just nickel and dimeon get the ball moving.
Speaker 1: They got a shot, but you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: knew where it was. If they completed the last one,
Speaker 1: even though it was fourth and ten, they probably would
Speaker 1: have only had eight seconds on the clock if it
Speaker 1: was completed in bounds, and then they got to throw
Speaker 1: for the end zone. Um, you know, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in a clock situation. So we're just kind of
Speaker 1: playing the situation there. I think just growth, and he's
Speaker 1: grown every game. That's why it was it was so unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I thought he was playing really well. I think his
Speaker 1: passer rating was one eight team when he went down
Speaker 1: in the Miami game. Then you lose him for two games.
Speaker 1: But I think he's he's very smart with the football, um,
Speaker 1: you know that. That's why the two players before we
Speaker 1: called naked on first down. But it's not like I'm
Speaker 1: worried about him just throwing the ball away and stopping
Speaker 1: the clock. I thought that's as good a play, just
Speaker 1: kind of scrambling and get himself up there for to
Speaker 1: make it second and nine and taking so that the
Speaker 1: clock continues to run. So I we have great faith
Speaker 1: and great trust in him. I think he continues to
Speaker 1: grow because we were around each other. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gotten um, you know, eight or nine games underneath his belt,
Speaker 1: but I think you've seen improvement out of him, and
Speaker 1: that's in this league. Turnover as a paramount. I think
Speaker 1: that's a big part of it when you got a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's not going to go out there and turn
Speaker 1: the ball over to the Now, we're just talking about
Speaker 1: playing the next game, and I've said it since well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll pick our head up after the Giants
Speaker 1: game and see if we played well enough to get
Speaker 1: in or not. But I mean, I think that's just
Speaker 1: wasted energy to talk about playoff picture and what happens
Speaker 1: here and who wins here, and you know, because there's
Speaker 1: there's so many different things going on in terms of
Speaker 1: everybody's bottled up. You know, it seems like in the
Speaker 1: entire league there's a couple of teams that have played
Speaker 1: really well, you know, nine or ten wins, and then
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of us that are kind of in
Speaker 1: the middle there, And um, I just like it's wasted
Speaker 1: energy to talk about that when what we should be
Speaker 1: talking about is who are opponents and let's prepare to
Speaker 1: put to play them. So this kind of sends a message,
Speaker 1: I meaning to your team, but kind of league. And
Speaker 1: I don't think we get this question all the time.
Speaker 1: We were supposed to send a message after the Dallas
Speaker 1: game when we went down there on Sunday night. You know,
Speaker 1: it's every week in this league is a battle and
Speaker 1: you better prepare. Um, you're gonna get everybody's best and
Speaker 1: you hopefully you can give your best. And um, I
Speaker 1: think when you look at all that stuff, sending messages
Speaker 1: and all that, I think they make good stories. But
Speaker 1: you know that's not what we're talking about. But you
Speaker 1: know they went deep thrill or only in a right
Speaker 1: way with Frady and Eric Rold look like he held
Speaker 1: up as that. Yeah, I thought Eric row you know,
Speaker 1: for his first time, you know, started the game because
Speaker 1: obviously losing Nolan, who was a key key for us
Speaker 1: on defense. And um, I thought Eric and his first
Speaker 1: time of extended play, I thought he did a really
Speaker 1: nice job. They went after him, which we knew they
Speaker 1: were going to go after him, but I thought he
Speaker 1: battled and competed, you know, and uh, you know, they
Speaker 1: took the long bomb on him. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different things they tried to him. They had
Speaker 1: a couple of comebacks on running people off. But um,
Speaker 1: for the most part, I think Eric did a really
Speaker 1: nice job and it's good to see him, you know,
Speaker 1: start to develop that confidence because we we as a
Speaker 1: staff have a ton of confidence in Eric to play.
Speaker 1: So astoniz No, we just we talk about who's competing,
Speaker 1: who's playing, and who gets an opportunity that you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's every week is an evaluation. Every week is
Speaker 1: you you get an opportunity to show us what you
Speaker 1: can do. And um, you know, we brought Jonathan Krauss
Speaker 1: in here for a reason. We felt like he was
Speaker 1: a really good player. Um, we brought him up for
Speaker 1: a reason too. It wasn't just you know, let's just
Speaker 1: reward a guy. But when you watch him in practice
Speaker 1: and we see him as a staff that you know
Speaker 1: he can continue to do some really good things. So, um,
Speaker 1: and I think he had one catch on the shallow cross,
Speaker 1: but um, you know it's it's good when you have
Speaker 1: I think it's really good when you have competition. That's
Speaker 1: that's a good thing to have. What David polished years.
Speaker 1: Is there a sense of satisfaction maybe even just for
Speaker 1: a moment, I know you don't say carries over, but
Speaker 1: just for the moment, a greater sense of satisfaction maybe
Speaker 1: than now. I mean, I think obviously, and we're very
Speaker 1: aware of it. You got a first ballot Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame coach, you get a first ballot Hall of Fame quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the best quarterback they ever play in
Speaker 1: this game. Um, so you're aware of that. You know
Speaker 1: when his record here is it's off the charts. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like one hundred and I mean to like
Speaker 1: three losses or something. I mean it's and I'm not
Speaker 1: even exactly I think it's something like that. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's unbelievables in the So we're aware of that,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's anything where you just you
Speaker 1: know we I guess we always have the mindset we want.
Speaker 1: Now that's what's the next game, you know that week,
Speaker 1: because you spend too much time kind of patting yourself
Speaker 1: on the back of you're gonna We're play a really
Speaker 1: good Buffalo team coming in here, I think one today,
Speaker 1: So you know, there's always the next challenge in the
Speaker 1: next step, but it is, you know. I think I'm
Speaker 1: really proud of how our players played. I think that's
Speaker 1: the most important thing I took away from today, Almost
Speaker 1: the way the football team played against the Lions, against
Speaker 1: the Bats. When you see them go out and do
Speaker 1: what they need this plays against Brady and Dollowship, I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not surprised that anything. I said that all
Speaker 1: the time. I think you better every single day come
Speaker 1: to work in this league. If not, things can happen,
Speaker 1: and usually they're bad things, you know. So I think
Speaker 1: our players, UM don't even know what that was. I
Speaker 1: think our players did what I told him. I told
Speaker 1: him when I saw him last Tuesday that I know
Speaker 1: we have a really good football team, and um, when
Speaker 1: we put everything together as a group and everybody plays
Speaker 1: hard and kind of gives everything and plays with an edge. Um,
Speaker 1: we can be a good football team. So last year
Speaker 1: that specific pump block play, how many? How many times
Speaker 1: does that work for you either? You know? In this year,
Speaker 1: I don't think we have a I mean, we blocked
Speaker 1: a couple of punts last year at San Francisco we
Speaker 1: had a pump block. I think in the Titans game
Speaker 1: at home, we had a pump block. You know, we've
Speaker 1: had a few up in the Giants we had a
Speaker 1: pump block. But they're all have their own little individual
Speaker 1: wrinkles in terms of who you're playing and from a
Speaker 1: protection standpoint. So I don't know if um, that particular
Speaker 1: scheme we ran today is something that we ran those
Speaker 1: other games we've we've blocked a few in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. Okay, thanks, all right, there's head coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly addressing the media at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: We are going to hear from quarterback Sam Bradford and
Speaker 1: safety Malcolm Jenkins in just a little bit right here
Speaker 1: on the postgame show presented by Rico. The only thing
Speaker 1: that a press conference was lacking like was something like
Speaker 1: we're from Philadelphia, we fight. Yeah. Well, it was like
Speaker 1: those nice quote block type of things that you could
Speaker 1: put out there to, you know, make a statement to everyone.
Speaker 1: Remember he did that back in twenty thirteen after the
Speaker 1: win over the Chicago Bears in week sixteen. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: this is you know what this is, uh more like
Speaker 1: a I'm finally I'm glad we finally got this losing
Speaker 1: over with type of when it wouldn't matter who it
Speaker 1: would have come against. I know the reporters and we
Speaker 1: want to make a make it such a big deal
Speaker 1: because it's the Patriots. But you don't get anything extra
Speaker 1: for beating the Patriots. It's still count It's just one win.
Speaker 1: And that's sort of the way Chip seems to be
Speaker 1: sort of handling this. He knows that they have to
Speaker 1: come back next week and have a readpeople formants because
Speaker 1: if you lose next week, this win means nothing. And
Speaker 1: he said it several times, and it's time that people
Speaker 1: start listening to it. You beat the Patriots, it counts
Speaker 1: us one, just like when we beat the Cowboys. Everybody
Speaker 1: gets happy. It counts as one. You gotta come back
Speaker 1: the following week and back it up, or you make
Speaker 1: this win basically useless. All right, So again we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from quarterback Sam Bradford, We're gonna hear from safety
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins, and we're gonna get your phone calls as
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Speaker 1: to the postgame show, presented by Rico here on Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles dot com. I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker
Speaker 1: Ike Reese. You know a thing or two about special teams.
Speaker 1: It was your calling card in the NFL. And leave
Speaker 1: it to special teams to make not one, but two
Speaker 1: huge plays in today's win over the Patriots. Yeah, always
Speaker 1: happy when that third phase of the game can contribute.
Speaker 1: And you know, we got so used to this in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four team, we almost took it for granted.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I would get calls on our
Speaker 1: radio show throughout the week said, man, where's those special
Speaker 1: teams touchdowns that we had last week? And I try
Speaker 1: to explain to everyone, Man, that twenty fourteen season by
Speaker 1: the special teams was one for the ages. You just
Speaker 1: don't see that very often. But this is still a
Speaker 1: very good special teams and this has been their best
Speaker 1: game obviously so far this year when they get two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: All right, let's analyze the first of those two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Chris Maragos blocked up punt late in the first half.
Speaker 1: It was scooped up and returned by Nazi Good thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards for a score to tie the game at halftime.
Speaker 1: Let's bring an NFL film serior producer Great Cosell to
Speaker 1: highlight the all twenty two games can sure turn on
Speaker 1: the strangest play. We all thought at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half Patriots would punt, it would be fourteen seven,
Speaker 1: the Eagles would be in great shape going into halftime.
Speaker 1: But here's what happened when they punt it. Here is
Speaker 1: Chris Maragos. He's right here. Now he's off the ball,
Speaker 1: He's not right on the line of scrimmage. Now he's
Speaker 1: going to come through this gap. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: clear up what We're not going to go anywhere yet.
Speaker 1: So what's going to happen is, here's fifty three Darius Fleming,
Speaker 1: he's going to turn out. Here's ninety two Geno Grissom,
Speaker 1: he's going to turn in. So what happens is no
Speaker 1: one now blocks Chris Maragos let's clear the screen. You'll
Speaker 1: see exactly what happens. Forty three goes inside Marigos is
Speaker 1: clean because forty three goes right here, here comes Maragos.
Speaker 1: No one blocks him. Really well done by the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Let's clear the screen. You'll see him free to the punter,
Speaker 1: beautifully blocked. It's picked up by nag Good for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: There were less than ten seconds to go in the
Speaker 1: first half when this happened, and the Eagles tied the
Speaker 1: game fourteen fourteen. Grace up there from Greg. Now we're
Speaker 1: getting ready to send it back to George Sam and Foxworm, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: where Malcolm Jenkins is speaking to the media. The big
Speaker 1: play that's closer to go line, and he feels like
Speaker 1: the defense is, you know, slow to get back. He'll
Speaker 1: hurry up to the offense, but they run the same
Speaker 1: you know play most of the time, and he try
Speaker 1: to get a quick run and see, they can catch
Speaker 1: you off guard no matter what the personnel is, and
Speaker 1: so we were prepared for that. We did a good
Speaker 1: job I think of getting everybody lined up and really
Speaker 1: I just shot the gap and just you know, I
Speaker 1: was hoping to get a negative play and I thought
Speaker 1: that was huge because that backed him up a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then the interception. I probably owe Walter Thurman the
Speaker 1: Christmas gift because I'm on the mendola and he did
Speaker 1: a good job, but really just beat me inside. I
Speaker 1: knew I had some help in there, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: a true double team. But Walter saw kind of the
Speaker 1: position I was in and he took it and I
Speaker 1: was able to tip the ball up and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm right there, took catch it and you know, so
Speaker 1: he really, you know, my mind made that play. I
Speaker 1: just kind of, I guess took the glory for when
Speaker 1: you game, not a lot of people. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're given you guys a shot to come in here.
Speaker 1: Brady's played in this place. What does it say about
Speaker 1: you guys come up here a game? UM? I think
Speaker 1: it's you know, it just shows that we're resilient group.
Speaker 1: We believe in what we're doing, We believe in the
Speaker 1: guys that we have um in the building. Um. And
Speaker 1: it was just a matter of playing the way with
Speaker 1: the world capable of playing, and we know for our
Speaker 1: team to win, everybody has to contribute. You know. It's
Speaker 1: not just going to be the defense or the offense
Speaker 1: or special teams. We all got to play together to
Speaker 1: get a win. And we saw that today. We came here,
Speaker 1: UM beat a really really good team, beat you know,
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the league. UM, and that's not
Speaker 1: that's a tall task. They don't lose at home and
Speaker 1: so but this was a game that we needed to win.
Speaker 1: We needed this momentum. We needed this UM. It sparked
Speaker 1: to kind of carry us on throughout the season and
Speaker 1: the games don't get any easier for us going forward.
Speaker 1: Previous How does this impact Well, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: anybody who said our confidence is low, it was probably
Speaker 1: outside of our building. I think that the entire time,
Speaker 1: even though we weren't getting the results that we wanted,
Speaker 1: I think guys were confident in themselves. I thought we
Speaker 1: were confident in the scheme and I think it was
Speaker 1: obvious that we needed to change some things or add
Speaker 1: some things, UM, but we were confident in what we
Speaker 1: were we could do because we've seen it in the past.
Speaker 1: And I think really that was Chips message from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the week is just reminding us of who
Speaker 1: we've been. Defensively, We've been great until as of late.
Speaker 1: UM Offensively We're been able to move the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: everything that people say that we can't do, we've done
Speaker 1: before and really we just needed to get back to
Speaker 1: whatever that is. And so I think guys started to
Speaker 1: believe themselves. The morale all week was was hired than
Speaker 1: the normal. We didn't need a huge rock Ros speech.
Speaker 1: You know, guys just went to work and believed in
Speaker 1: the game plan and came in and executed out this week.
Speaker 1: Got some feedback. What kind of feedback did you get
Speaker 1: from ther teammates about what you said about the meetings
Speaker 1: and do you think it helped in any way. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know what I said helped U.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really But what I can say is
Speaker 1: I know that our the vibe around the building felt
Speaker 1: a lot different. I think, UM, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it had anything to do what I said, but
Speaker 1: it was it was just different. I think guys did
Speaker 1: a great job but really detailing there their part of
Speaker 1: the game plan, really taking ownership and what was going on. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of feedback going back and forth.
Speaker 1: Everybody had input, UM, and everybody was it believed. You know,
Speaker 1: we were preparing and we felt good about our plan,
Speaker 1: and we felt like we could come in here and
Speaker 1: get a win. UM. And and that's it's been different
Speaker 1: than in previous weeks since, not that we haven't been confident,
Speaker 1: but it's just a different field. And so whatever that
Speaker 1: that is, we're going to try to feed off of
Speaker 1: that and keep it going for you possibly. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's um, you know a little bit
Speaker 1: of personality that comes out when when some somebody, especially
Speaker 1: one of your leaders kind of uh speaks out. And
Speaker 1: not that I was calling anybody out or is anything negative,
Speaker 1: because there are no problems in our building, but UM,
Speaker 1: I think it does kind of shock the system or whatever.
Speaker 1: It starts conversations, it starts, UM to open guy's eyes
Speaker 1: as far as you know, taking ownership and UM and
Speaker 1: really taking a look at what's going on and what
Speaker 1: we've been doing and where we can get better. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, But like I said, whatever that spark is,
Speaker 1: hopefully UM our leaders will continue to lead and continue
Speaker 1: to set the example, and we'll keep building on top
Speaker 1: of this questions from Alcolm you uh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know the main thing really and when where
Speaker 1: my comments came from was just myself, you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like I played better when I'm coach harder. And
Speaker 1: you know I don't. I don't like to get you know,
Speaker 1: if I when you start to play the high level
Speaker 1: where you one of the leaders, a lot of the
Speaker 1: times you don't get coach as hard as some of
Speaker 1: the rookies or some of you know, the guys who
Speaker 1: aren't your your man guys, because they expect you to
Speaker 1: know what they expect you to kind of correct yourself. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know I'm human too, and I can let
Speaker 1: something slip. And so I think, uh, my coach definitely
Speaker 1: challenged me. I know my deference back coach challenged me
Speaker 1: all week. Um, you know that I was going to
Speaker 1: have a huge matchup and and have to play a
Speaker 1: big part in this game for us to have success.
Speaker 1: And so I had that challenge either this week. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think just as a team, we all
Speaker 1: played great. Last question for Malcolm, Sam's ready and I
Speaker 1: got Chip praised you because he said that, well, you
Speaker 1: took the risk to turn this turn the touchdown, to
Speaker 1: turn the interception there would touchdown. Can you talk about it?
Speaker 1: You might set and I'm making that play. I mean
Speaker 1: anytime I get the ball in my hands. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to score and it's that simple. Uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's yeah, there's no other option. It's there's nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: There's there really no risk in it at all, you know,
Speaker 1: it's uh, I got the ball like thankfully, thankfully, too
Speaker 1: thankful to Walter Thurman because he too it up. I
Speaker 1: think made a one of the lineman miss and I
Speaker 1: felt some pursuit coming from our left, so I just
Speaker 1: cut back and it's just a full race. All right,
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, No problem, all right. Safety Malcolm Jenkins, addressing
Speaker 1: the media and Foxborough, Massachusetts, following the Eagels thirty five
Speaker 1: to twenty, went over the Patriots. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: send it right back up there here from quarterback Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford Vernon from Connecticut. We know you're online. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to you and everyone else in just a few moments,
Speaker 1: but first we're gonna hear from the Eagles quarterback, who
Speaker 1: is headed to the podium. Now let's send it back
Speaker 1: to Jiltt Stadium. Sam, you have to be insanely proud
Speaker 1: of this team, as resilient as they've been coming off
Speaker 1: those three losses. Yeah, I don't think you can say
Speaker 1: enough about the guys in that locker room. You know, obviously,
Speaker 1: I think the last three weeks for tough on us. All. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure anyone outside that locker room gave us
Speaker 1: a chance to come in here and win tonight. But
Speaker 1: you know, we believed in ourselves. We knew we had
Speaker 1: a chance, and we had a great week of preparation,
Speaker 1: and then to come in here, you know, and get
Speaker 1: the contributions from all three phases tonight. You know, I
Speaker 1: think this is the definition of a team wins. It
Speaker 1: crazy that you guys are still alive and if Dallas
Speaker 1: wins tomorrow night, you guys first. Yeah, um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously this division, you know, it's been crazy thus far. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, after twelve weeks, you know, we're still in
Speaker 1: the hunt to make the playoffs. And you know, regardless
Speaker 1: of what your record is, obviously we'd like it to
Speaker 1: be much better. But you know, if you're still in
Speaker 1: the hunt at this point in the season, then you
Speaker 1: know you've got a shot, you know. And the Rams,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, and then I think you know,
Speaker 1: Seattle beat New Orleans, you know in the first round,
Speaker 1: you know, after going seven to nine, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's a very similar situation to my rookie year. You
Speaker 1: feel the need obviously we get seven, Yeah, you know obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we knew anytime we had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get points tonight that you know, we needed to convert touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you know, especially going against um, you know, that offense
Speaker 1: and that team. You know, we knew eventually at some
Speaker 1: point that it would catch up to us if we
Speaker 1: had to settle for fuel goals. So getting those two
Speaker 1: scores was big. When you lose, guys, some guys talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, you lose those three strains can shake confidence.
Speaker 1: Some guys have talked about tonight at least that you know,
Speaker 1: Chip reminded everyone last night that you know, we are
Speaker 1: a good football team forget those three lasses. I mean,
Speaker 1: did that feel like the case or like the Chip
Speaker 1: reassured you guys last night at all? Yeah, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I hope it didn't take Chip to reassure anyone in
Speaker 1: that room. You know, I still had the belief. I
Speaker 1: know there are a lot of other guys who still
Speaker 1: believed in themselves and believed in this team. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think tonight, you know, hopefully gives us even more
Speaker 1: of that belief, you know, to know that we can
Speaker 1: come on the road and beat a really good football team.
Speaker 1: That's sorry, I think it was third and eleven too late.
Speaker 1: We see the first option. Just talk about progressions play.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know, it's really one of those things.
Speaker 1: We're just kind of working at inside out off a
Speaker 1: squeeze and you know, we had Jordan in the middle. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they took him away and then
Speaker 1: Coop did a great job running that route, you know,
Speaker 1: pushing it to get us depth and then making a
Speaker 1: big catch for a first down. Yeah. Yeah. What was
Speaker 1: your message to the team before the game. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys talked about kind of gave a pregame. What
Speaker 1: made you decide to do that? What was your message? Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I think it was just
Speaker 1: one of those things that you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: felt like the time was right to say something. It
Speaker 1: was you know, just have that belief, have that confidence,
Speaker 1: know that you know, we can go out there and
Speaker 1: if we do play well, we will win, you know,
Speaker 1: and go out there. We knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be a four quarter game. Regardless of how it started,
Speaker 1: it was going to come down to the end, you know,
Speaker 1: and just to continue to fight whatever Sprowls and barn
Speaker 1: Or do for the pace and the and the way
Speaker 1: you ran your office. Yeah, you know, those guys ran
Speaker 1: hard today. Um. You know, I think you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot opportunities, um, you know, in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, but then you know, when we had the
Speaker 1: chance in the fourth quarter, I think we went on
Speaker 1: like a thirteen play eighty yard drive and the guys
Speaker 1: up front really started getting a great movement. And then
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, we're finding holes. They were running hard. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, picking up some extra yards. Guys changed things up. Obviously.
Speaker 1: That's good. It's good. It feels good in your part
Speaker 1: where you concerned it all about not being able to
Speaker 1: pick up where you left off because you felt confident
Speaker 1: about the way you played before the injury. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think anytime you missed a couple games with an injury,
Speaker 1: obviously you're not exactly sure how you're going to come back.
Speaker 1: But you know, I felt that I was playing really
Speaker 1: well before I got hurt. You know, I didn't know, um,
Speaker 1: exactly what it was going to be like tonight, you know,
Speaker 1: with the shoulder, But you know, I felt, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I made the plays when they had to be made time.
Speaker 1: How different was the offense running? This offense? DeMarco Murray
Speaker 1: seemed to be extremely limited. It was all daring Sprowls
Speaker 1: early to half. Only one yard for you know, only
Speaker 1: five cars for one yard for DeMarco. How did that
Speaker 1: kind of change things up for you guys? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: to be honest, sometimes we get out there and we
Speaker 1: get going so fast that I just have a hard
Speaker 1: time really knowing who's in the game out there. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think Sprowles did a great job tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, he found some holes that
Speaker 1: you know, might not have been there. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if anyone else but him could have squeezed through some
Speaker 1: of those. And I thought he ran hard, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and he picked up some extra yards for us tonight.
Speaker 1: Offensive touchdowns? What's up? Offensive? Oh, it's it's huge, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, not just for the offense, but for the defense.
Speaker 1: I think everyone feeds off that. You know, when our
Speaker 1: special teams contributes like that. You know, obviously, um, you
Speaker 1: can't ask them to score three touchdowns every night, but
Speaker 1: when they're able to go out and do what they
Speaker 1: did tonight. I think it just gives us, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of energy and a lot of momentum on
Speaker 1: our sideline fourteen nothing in that drive drive was at Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was huge. Um you know, I think, especially after
Speaker 1: you know, the past couple of weeks and when it's happened. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think to go down there and score,
Speaker 1: you know, and to keep it close, and then obviously
Speaker 1: to get the point return right before halftime or the
Speaker 1: pump block. Um, you know, that was huge Chip, you know,
Speaker 1: being come up here. For you guys to come up here,
Speaker 1: uh and and pull up away and given some of
Speaker 1: the things that outside the lock room have been being
Speaker 1: said about, uh, you know Chip and the team lately,
Speaker 1: you know, does it is it even a little bit
Speaker 1: more special for you guys to start us come up
Speaker 1: to his home base and and and take one up here.
Speaker 1: Um you know, I didn't really even think about that,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, I think to come in here
Speaker 1: and to beat that football team, you know, is really
Speaker 1: what's special about it, you know, football team. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's tough to come in here and beat him. So
Speaker 1: to come up here, you know and do what we
Speaker 1: did tonight, I think that's what makes it special, right,
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. Thanks. Maybe the Eagles just needed Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: back in the lineup. If you remember that Week ten
Speaker 1: game against Miami, Beagles were leading sixteen to thirteen and
Speaker 1: third quarter when he got knocked out. He comes back
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Eagles get a thirty
Speaker 1: five to win over the New England Patriots and help celebrate.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to New England, not all the way
Speaker 1: up to Foxborough, but Connecticut where Vernon is standing by
Speaker 1: on the line. Vernon, Welcome to the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. Thanks very much, guys. You know, today really
Speaker 1: made me feel better. I mean, because the thing was,
Speaker 1: I thought we were following by the way side, and
Speaker 1: I thought our time was up, and I was one
Speaker 1: who was looking for Kelly to be on his on
Speaker 1: the road. But I got to tell you today they
Speaker 1: came true and they made believers out of me again.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been with them since I was a
Speaker 1: little boy. I'm sixty two years old. I love my
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles and I don't like that having them to
Speaker 1: let me down. So this is a great game, and
Speaker 1: I got to give a lot of credit. I took
Speaker 1: the quarterback because I'll tell you what, Bradford really played
Speaker 1: a good game today. I give him all the credit.
Speaker 1: And then not a lot of yards, but a great game,
Speaker 1: no question there. Yeah, I mean, I mean especially that throw,
Speaker 1: even though ken Yon Barner eventually fumbled the ball and
Speaker 1: the Patriots got it back, but that throw on third
Speaker 1: down to Roley Cooper to convert for the first album,
Speaker 1: that was huge. He stood in the pocket, he knew
Speaker 1: he was gonna get hit, and he delivered a strike
Speaker 1: to Riley Cooper and it was a big catch. Jason Piers,
Speaker 1: he had a big bluck at the very last second
Speaker 1: on the Rob Nikovich who's coming off the edge. Pierce
Speaker 1: got just enough of them so Bradford could thread the
Speaker 1: ball in there. And also down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Both the touchdown passes, especially the one to Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: late in the game. I thought that was a phenomenal
Speaker 1: throw through traffic, beating the Super Bowl hero Malcolm Butler. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the the one thing I've learned watching Sam Bradford, you
Speaker 1: know he's not gonna put the ball in harm's way.
Speaker 1: He just doesn't, you know. And what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is he's not careless with the football. He's not
Speaker 1: making reckless throws. He's not trying to play hero ball.
Speaker 1: He typically takes what the defense gives him. And that's
Speaker 1: why when you look at his stat sheet, you don't
Speaker 1: see the high yards per temph a lot of his
Speaker 1: throws or to the running backs and to the tight ends.
Speaker 1: And that's okay, because I'd rather have that than to
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that typically puts the ball in harm's way,
Speaker 1: meaning he's going to turn the ball over. And you
Speaker 1: can't win football games like that, no, not whatsoever. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to more of your phone calls, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna welcome back Greco Sell for some more All
Speaker 1: twenty two analysis right after this quick break here on
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the postgame show for s anybody, Rico
Speaker 1: here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Like before we get
Speaker 1: back to the phone line, and here one of the
Speaker 1: things that I liked from Chip Kelly during the week.
Speaker 1: And you always hear about how he takes the one
Speaker 1: week at a time approach. Is that in his press
Speaker 1: conference on Thursday, it was the last time he addressed
Speaker 1: the media before the game on Sunday, and he had
Speaker 1: this jovial, confident attitude. Nothing cocky or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but just the right frame of mind. It sort of
Speaker 1: gave a sort of like a feel at ease, feel
Speaker 1: for the players almost to say, hey, look, I'm the
Speaker 1: leader here, I've got this, okay, just fall behind me
Speaker 1: and won't make this happen and write the ship. Well.
Speaker 1: Malcolm talked about that a little bit in his press
Speaker 1: conference where he said the atmosphere felt different around the
Speaker 1: Novocare Complex this week, and maybe it did start from
Speaker 1: Chip and the way to hear approach practice. The way
Speaker 1: he talked to the guys there certainly doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: be any panic when you hear his voice. Certainly doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be any wilt in his belief of his guys.
Speaker 1: So you know, the player's feet off of that. And
Speaker 1: that's the one thing I used to love about Andy Read.
Speaker 1: I used to say, you know, big Red can sit
Speaker 1: up there at the press conference and he can stare,
Speaker 1: He could stare down a tornado. He can stare into
Speaker 1: the eye of the storm and he didn't blink, and
Speaker 1: we could sense that. So whenever we got in a
Speaker 1: tough spot, we would take our cues from him. And
Speaker 1: then when you see that he's up there confident in us,
Speaker 1: we need to return that confidence in him and go
Speaker 1: out there and play that way. And it's certainly seemed
Speaker 1: as if the players played that way, and it was
Speaker 1: good to see because the last two weeks that team
Speaker 1: was hard to identify, certainly, and that's the type of performance,
Speaker 1: those performances that teams might say, look, this is not
Speaker 1: going to happen this year, and you could have all
Speaker 1: of a sudden players jumping off the ship and everything
Speaker 1: going by the wayside. But not the case here today
Speaker 1: in New England. Let's go back to the phone lines
Speaker 1: and welcome in Geo from Los Angeles. Geo, welcome to
Speaker 1: the postgame show. Pres anybody, Rico, thank you for having me,
Speaker 1: Thank you for having you for calling GEO to start
Speaker 1: off and say that that was an absolutely amazing team
Speaker 1: win and New England Patriot our ninety four in zero
Speaker 1: at home when leading by eight point since two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, so that was definitely a good win. And
Speaker 1: I can tell that they made adjustments. You know, adjustments
Speaker 1: were made. Definitely, Like Malcolm Jenkins said in his interview,
Speaker 1: there was a different vibe in the building, and I
Speaker 1: can tell that they played the game differently. They made adjustments.
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray didn't even play. They had Darren's Bowl, Kenyon Barner,
Speaker 1: and those backs looked good and better in my opinion
Speaker 1: in this system. Well, I thought those backs were able
Speaker 1: to get to the outside out a little juice. I mean,
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews was sidelined once again with a concussion and
Speaker 1: growing injuries, and we've seen what he's been able to
Speaker 1: do on the field this season, and someone on those
Speaker 1: outside zone sweep type plays, he's able to get to
Speaker 1: the edge and attack the defenses. And that's something that
Speaker 1: just this offense was lacking. This run game needed, needed
Speaker 1: a little bit of a spark. So they went to
Speaker 1: the guys like Darren Sprowles. They brought in Kenyon Barner
Speaker 1: and gave them some more of the reps to be
Speaker 1: able to to attack the edges. Remember Dante high Tower,
Speaker 1: he was out for the Patriots, So they really wanted
Speaker 1: to attack the run defense and they felt that those
Speaker 1: two guys gave him probably a better chance to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they did. I mean they gave him a spark
Speaker 1: where Needing. We know Sproles catching the ball out of
Speaker 1: the backfield is always a threat, but we want to
Speaker 1: see the little guy get a few carries back there
Speaker 1: because I think his tempo of hitting a hole it
Speaker 1: makes the un the run blockers a lot easier because
Speaker 1: they don't have to hold their blocks as long he
Speaker 1: gets there a lot faster. He darts by him, makes
Speaker 1: it more difficult for defenders to see him behind these
Speaker 1: big guys. And then ken Yan barn and we all
Speaker 1: fell in low with him during the preseason because he's
Speaker 1: seemed to have an outstanding game every week and he
Speaker 1: certainly knows this system. To me, it's no knock against
Speaker 1: de Marco Murray. It's just that when you need running
Speaker 1: backs to get to the edges, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: his fortee, that's not his strength. He's more of a
Speaker 1: north south, downhill guy, and tonight the Eagles need running backs.
Speaker 1: Deecond at times get around the edge is sort of
Speaker 1: what Dever was able to do to New England last week,
Speaker 1: and Barner and Danish Rolls were the two guys that
Speaker 1: fit that role best. Look the Patriots very good defensive line,
Speaker 1: especially the interior guys like Alan branch Dom easily was
Speaker 1: out for them by the first round. Picked Malcolm Brown,
Speaker 1: good players there in the middle, so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough to run against. So we've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins and the amazing play that he had the
Speaker 1: ninety nine yard return for a touchdown. You guys have
Speaker 1: seen the highlights, but what about the All twenty two
Speaker 1: Let's welcome back NFL film senior producer Greg Hosell to
Speaker 1: unearth exactly how the touchdown came to be. The Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins one hundred yard interception return for a touchdown gave
Speaker 1: the Eagles the lead. It was a really well designed
Speaker 1: red zone defensive concept by Bill Davis to take away
Speaker 1: the two most important threats of the Patriots. Brandon LaFell
Speaker 1: down here, he's going to be doubled right here. Danny
Speaker 1: a Mendola right here, and he's going to be doubled
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins and Walter Thurman. What they do is they
Speaker 1: double LaFell and a Mendola and play man to man
Speaker 1: on the other three eligible receivers. Let's clear it and
Speaker 1: take it to a spot where you can really see
Speaker 1: exactly what that is. But that's the defensive concept right here,
Speaker 1: right here, beautiful. You see the pure double on LaFell, excellent.
Speaker 1: You see the pure double on Amendola excellent. It's man
Speaker 1: to man everywhere else on the other three receivers. Whi's
Speaker 1: really interesting is Brady chooses to throw it to Amendola,
Speaker 1: who's being double. Let's clear it and now we can
Speaker 1: see exactly how this transpires. It's a forced throw to
Speaker 1: a double teamed receiver Malcolm Jenkins, off the deflection, makes
Speaker 1: the pick, and then he runs for the touchdown. But
Speaker 1: what I really really liked about this play was the
Speaker 1: concept in the red zone. You always have to do
Speaker 1: different things. Bill Davis did a great job here with
Speaker 1: his double team concepts. This turned the game around in
Speaker 1: the third quarter. Thank you very much. Greg. It's rare
Speaker 1: to see Tom Brady forced a pass like that. It
Speaker 1: seemed like he was like, I'm going to amundole, over
Speaker 1: the mill and to hell or high water. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to throw the ball in there, and even the
Speaker 1: best make mistakes from time to time. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to prove it, but I gotta
Speaker 1: sense there's a lack of respect showing the night from
Speaker 1: Brady and this offense going up against this defense. He
Speaker 1: made some uncharacteristic throws, almost as if he felt like
Speaker 1: either they weren't going to make the plays and I'm
Speaker 1: speaking to Eagles defense, or he felt like, even if
Speaker 1: I make a mistake, care this team is bad enough,
Speaker 1: we'll come back and win in the end. Eventually, you
Speaker 1: just don't make some of the throws that he was
Speaker 1: making out there to night. When you respect your opponent,
Speaker 1: when you know you need to take care of football,
Speaker 1: and then you're right. This was so uncharacteristic of Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: some of the throws that he made the night. And listen,
Speaker 1: he had new receivers, he had some drops out there,
Speaker 1: so he was pressing the issue a little bit. And
Speaker 1: he certainly was hit early and Alton in the game.
Speaker 1: That may have contributed to him getting rid of the
Speaker 1: ball sooner or predetermined in where he was going to
Speaker 1: throw the ball. But it certainly didn't look like the
Speaker 1: guy that I've seen played for the first ten weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, even last week against the Broncos in
Speaker 1: that lost. He looked very good in that game, they
Speaker 1: just didn't win it. Well, maybe that's what happened when
Speaker 1: you lose. Gronkowski, Julian Edelman. Maybe he's looking at the
Speaker 1: guys on the field saying, who am I throwing the
Speaker 1: ball too? Okay, maybe I gotta go to this guy
Speaker 1: because he's the only one that I know. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the phone lines. We're going up to Buffalo.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be playing the Bills next Sunday. Buffalo getting
Speaker 1: the big win today to get to six and six
Speaker 1: on the season. Let's bring in Tom to the postgame
Speaker 1: show for Zenoburrico. Tom, what's going on? Hey, Chris? How
Speaker 1: you doing? Wonderful? Absolutely outstanding too it earlier. It was
Speaker 1: a great day for Eagles fans today. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: this was pretty special. I wanted to make a couple
Speaker 1: of comments. I wanted to compliment the Chip for the
Speaker 1: way he handled this past week. A lot of people
Speaker 1: were jumping off the bandwagon, a lot of people were
Speaker 1: putting them down. He stayed steady, kept the team steady.
Speaker 1: I think it says a lot about him as a coach,
Speaker 1: and I think he's going to take us a long
Speaker 1: way in the future. I'm right with him. What do
Speaker 1: you guys think of that? Well, I certainly hope you're right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: certainly hope you're right. I just love the way the
Speaker 1: team responded. Again, this is a team that could have
Speaker 1: gone into the tank losing the way they did the
Speaker 1: past two games. Look, the Tampa Bay game obviously a
Speaker 1: big disappointment. They just could not get over that loss
Speaker 1: in time four short days on Thanksgiving in Detroit. Detroit
Speaker 1: playing really well at the time, but to see them
Speaker 1: with a little mini buy the chest, chance of regroup, refocus,
Speaker 1: be able to take advantage at a time, and to
Speaker 1: be ready for this Patriots team and overcoming early adversity again.
Speaker 1: They were down fourteen. Nothing easily. They could have said,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's just knocking me our day. We
Speaker 1: just can't keep up with them. Well, they got the
Speaker 1: one nice touchdown drive with the thanks to Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: big catch and then the Zacher's touchdown on the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Then special teams stepped up in
Speaker 1: a big way, and then defense again going back to
Speaker 1: forcing turnovers, something that they had not done earlier in
Speaker 1: the past. Couple of games, so they got back to
Speaker 1: what made them successful earlier and spurts throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the season. This team, believe or not, has shown times,
Speaker 1: They've shown flashes where they can be dominant. We just
Speaker 1: haven't seen it on a consistent basis weekend and week out,
Speaker 1: and that's the big difference here. So can they build
Speaker 1: upon this game? Can they build upon this win and
Speaker 1: be able to take it bring it home next week
Speaker 1: against Buffalo, a team that still has a lot to
Speaker 1: play for. The Eagles are very much in the hunt themselves.
Speaker 1: So are they able to capitalize on what happened here
Speaker 1: today or is it going to be like the Dallas
Speaker 1: win a couple of weeks ago and it just kind
Speaker 1: of goes by the wayside and nothing else happens. So, Tom,
Speaker 1: you said, yea, a couple other points to make. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to nominate math from Jenkins for the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's shown himself to be a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl player. And also, I'm really looking forward to next
Speaker 1: week's game. I'm going to get killed up here we
Speaker 1: don't win, So, man, we've got to keep this street
Speaker 1: and beat Buffalo. I wear my Eagles gear all over
Speaker 1: the place up here. So oh, let's let's go out
Speaker 1: and beat Buffalo. That's that's the next step, all right,
Speaker 1: like it, Tom, thank you very much for the phone call.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, absolutely right. Well here, here's the thing about
Speaker 1: today's game with this team, and I'll be interested in seeing.
Speaker 1: This is why I'm excited about next week's game, not
Speaker 1: because for Okay, I am excited. Shady's coming back next week.
Speaker 1: So you know, I like Shady. I like Shady all
Speaker 1: time leading Russia for the Philadelphia Eagles, Shady McCoy. He'll
Speaker 1: be back next week. But here's what I'm wondering. You know,
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills are gonna come here and motivated. They're
Speaker 1: in the playoff hunting. They're on a nice little winning
Speaker 1: streak here, they're playing well. Shady, I'll be motivated to
Speaker 1: come back here here. I want to see if this
Speaker 1: Eagles teams. Today's game a product of we've been kicked,
Speaker 1: we've been beat down, we've been talked about, we've been
Speaker 1: giving up on, and I'm tired of hearing about it.
Speaker 1: Sort of a win. So they had to answer the
Speaker 1: call for today. They've been beat up pretty much by
Speaker 1: us around here for the last three weeks here in Philadelphia. Well,
Speaker 1: next week, because you won this game, the expectations will
Speaker 1: get back to there. So I'm wondering do the Eagles
Speaker 1: believe they're still in the playoffs? Because this is the
Speaker 1: type of game that can propel you through the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, And we're gonna see do this team
Speaker 1: really believe that they have something left to play for
Speaker 1: in January? Because if they do, they'll come out next
Speaker 1: week ready to play. The Eagles basically are in the
Speaker 1: playoffs every week from here on out. They don't have
Speaker 1: much room for losses. They really don't. You're sitting at
Speaker 1: five and seven. You gotta hope that the Redskins lose
Speaker 1: them all to put you in the tie, and then
Speaker 1: you got to come back next week and you have
Speaker 1: to win. So that's what I'm going to be anxious
Speaker 1: to see. Do the Eagles as a team really believe
Speaker 1: they have something left to play for? Or did they
Speaker 1: win today because their backs were against the wall and
Speaker 1: they were tired of being talked about, kicked around and
Speaker 1: beat down, so they came out fighting to night. They fought.
Speaker 1: Though teams might get back to the corner and just
Speaker 1: will and if laps we did, but again, this is
Speaker 1: a chance. This is kind of almost that last stand,
Speaker 1: so to speak, where he said, you know what, enough
Speaker 1: is enough? You guys got to put up our shut up.
Speaker 1: So Chip, I'm Chip. You don't win next week, then
Speaker 1: what does today mean? Nothing? Exactly. That's why you got
Speaker 1: a bill, don't eat. It's so eerily similar to two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, where you remember they went down to Baltimore,
Speaker 1: they got routed, Donald McNabb was benched. Then they had
Speaker 1: that Thanksgiving win the route of the Arizona Carlos that
Speaker 1: propelled them down the stretch. But then they stumbled in
Speaker 1: that Washington game and needed so much help before forty
Speaker 1: four to six took place in Week seventeen, a thrilling
Speaker 1: finish to the regular season, and of course they went
Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship game that season. I feel like
Speaker 1: these two seasons have so many parallels. But at some
Speaker 1: point the Eagles need to catch fire and be able
Speaker 1: to get a streak going. It's not just one game,
Speaker 1: it's they gotta be able to put a streak together together.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it for us. Here on the
Speaker 1: postgame Show presented by Rico Here in Philadelphia Eagles doc
Speaker 1: again tomorrow, Chip Kelly, we'll address the media in his
Speaker 1: day after press conference, and then at five pm it
Speaker 1: will be a complete wrap up of the day's news
Speaker 1: and notes as Brian Westbrook joins Dave Spadera in studio
Speaker 1: on Eagles three sixty so again a thrilling finished. The
Speaker 1: Eagles defeat the New England Patriots thirty five to twenty
Speaker 1: eight for the first time in New England since nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven. Wow, where were you back in eighty seven?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was seven years old at the time.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I wasn't seven years old. I
Speaker 1: was fourteen years old. So thirteen years old, high school song,
Speaker 1: seventh grade, middle school. So Niedlass is say all time ago?
Speaker 1: He's a Chris. I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the
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