Speaker 1: That makes it three and oh for the Birds after
Speaker 1: twenty four to eight win. Bombs away, Jalen hurts forty
Speaker 1: five yards of DeVante Smith and this is how it
Speaker 1: went on the defensive side of the ball. Nine sacks today,
Speaker 1: one after another after another. It was a long day
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. Welcome to the postgame show, presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: I'm Gabriella de Givanni, joined by fran Duffy and I
Speaker 1: grace like, oh boy, oh boy, you can't see it.
Speaker 1: There's an IFB in my ear right. That's for like
Speaker 1: the studio to be able to communicate with me. No,
Speaker 1: it's an ear plug because I knew that this was
Speaker 1: coming after this game. Nine sacks, nine Just a ridiculous
Speaker 1: performance from this Eagles defense. DeVante Smith goes off the
Speaker 1: offense very efficient. Just what a win, huge win. The
Speaker 1: Birds are undefeated and victory work. Just an awesome job
Speaker 1: by his team. You know, on a short week, going
Speaker 1: to play a divisional opponent that's coming off the loss.
Speaker 1: I thought this will be a little bit of a
Speaker 1: tougher game. The final score doesn't really tell you the
Speaker 1: story of today's game. I thought the offense was just
Speaker 1: dominant and flawless in that first half, and the defense
Speaker 1: really for four quarters. I mean, the defense just really
Speaker 1: had their hand on the pulse of this game from
Speaker 1: the jump. I think it was two or three sacks
Speaker 1: in the first series against Washington or og the game,
Speaker 1: so they let you know what the tone and how
Speaker 1: the temple at this game was going to play out.
Speaker 1: Just an outstanding job from this Eagles offense. Defense, just
Speaker 1: a just a total effort today. They had five sacks
Speaker 1: in the first eight dropbacks for Washington, just got after
Speaker 1: Carson wentz from the jump. And it wasn't a ton
Speaker 1: of blitzing. I'm excited to go back and watch and
Speaker 1: just see exactly how many blitzes the Eagles sent. But
Speaker 1: it was mainly the four man rush and everybody was
Speaker 1: involved with this one. We saw Hassan Reddick called that one.
Speaker 1: We saw Hassan Reddick, we saw Josh Sweat, Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, the guys came in waves. It was a
Speaker 1: it was a party at the quarterback. We're gonna keep
Speaker 1: digging into the exes and o's here. But if you
Speaker 1: haven't noticed me, Brandon Ike, we match today. I know
Speaker 1: ever everyone's clicking on all the Winders, not just the Eagles. Well,
Speaker 1: this is how it went down today. Frann and I
Speaker 1: showed up to the kickoff show. We did not plan
Speaker 1: to match. We said, let's see if Ike we'll pick
Speaker 1: up on this. So we tweeted at him. He said,
Speaker 1: well he get the memo. Ike got the memo. This
Speaker 1: is how he responded to me on Twitter. And then
Speaker 1: he showed up with a matching tie and pocket swear. Awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome job by us. We listen, we're in, um, we're
Speaker 1: in uh what is it called concert? We're in together
Speaker 1: mid season mideason form. Yeah, and you said you're gonna
Speaker 1: wear that anyway. Yeah. I was kind of already in
Speaker 1: my sort of pink form this teague, as I did
Speaker 1: with the game day show over the peak on. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's great that we all thinking alike. The synergy. That's
Speaker 1: the one. You go, there, you go. That's my Ohio
Speaker 1: State degree as opposed by Michigan State. How long is
Speaker 1: the show? Five minutes? In tough weekends. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get things back on track here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the offense. First twenty four points. They were all
Speaker 1: put up in the second quarter. What I liked about
Speaker 1: this game is that first quarter was a little slow.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurst was challenged a little bit, but he responded.
Speaker 1: The whole offense adjusted and they just kept putting points
Speaker 1: up on the board. Here's the thing that I noticed
Speaker 1: about Jalen to date Washington at times weren't in bad
Speaker 1: coverage situations. Jalen gave his guys the opportunity to go
Speaker 1: up and make plays. You look at this screen here
Speaker 1: from Dallas Goddard. This is a nice job by Dallas
Speaker 1: avoiding tackles and getting in the end zone. But there
Speaker 1: were a lot of one on one situations, whether it's
Speaker 1: with a J. Brown or DeVante Smith, where Jalen said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trust my receivers and I'm gonna give them
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go up and make a play, and
Speaker 1: his receivers rewarded him with coming down with the catch.
Speaker 1: Looking at the right bro, I mean DeVante Smith today
Speaker 1: it may have been his best game as a pro
Speaker 1: the way he looked out there today, very dominant again.
Speaker 1: Jalen giving his guys the opportunity to make plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game, and when your receivers go up and
Speaker 1: reward you with getting a reception. Man, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: that trust and confidence to go back to them even
Speaker 1: when there seems to be tight coverage. There five catches
Speaker 1: eighty five yards for a J. Brown. You got DeVante
Speaker 1: Smith going off nearly one hundred and seventy yards receiving
Speaker 1: for him. Quiz Watkins didn't have a catch in this game,
Speaker 1: but he had two big plays that were drawing past
Speaker 1: interference flags. So this receiving corps just ridiculous. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: break down Dallas Goddard's touchdown catch a little bit later
Speaker 1: from the first half. The list of the verses, tility
Speaker 1: of this receiving corps, it's gonna make this offense really
Speaker 1: tough to stop on a weekly basis. Well after week one,
Speaker 1: there was so much panic. Oh no, it's the AJ
Speaker 1: Brown show. What about Davante Smith? What about the other receivers.
Speaker 1: This is what's going to happen in this offense. It's
Speaker 1: going to look different every single week. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a different way to get it done, and today was
Speaker 1: a perfect example of that. Yeah, when you have the
Speaker 1: multiple weapons that this offense has, you know, it basically
Speaker 1: boils down to Shane steike In finding a way to
Speaker 1: get different guys involved, and Jalen Hurts is his point
Speaker 1: guard out there on the field to where he's gonna dishball,
Speaker 1: dishball to his receivers and let them go out there
Speaker 1: and make plays. So whether you're getting shortyards, players with
Speaker 1: three staff drop in a quick throw, or when they
Speaker 1: decided to take a shot deep down the field, offensive
Speaker 1: line doing a great job of protecting. And Jalen really
Speaker 1: his ball placement I saw really the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean these three games, he hasn't put the ball
Speaker 1: in harm's way yet he has one interception on the season.
Speaker 1: Wasn't his fault with receivers hands. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that Jalen Hurts. I mean he is night and day
Speaker 1: as far as a passer watching him this year, And
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about the confidence standing back there in
Speaker 1: the pocket and as he's going through his progressions and
Speaker 1: then delivering the ball with accuracy. You could really see
Speaker 1: that the hard work that he's put in this off
Speaker 1: season paying off the first three games. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing is that he had a huge day Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: But it's not like, oh, well, he threw for one
Speaker 1: eighty and he ran for ninety a touchdown. No, he
Speaker 1: only ran for twenty yards in the day. This team
Speaker 1: as a whole only ran for seventy two. And again,
Speaker 1: that's the big thing that I keep harping on with
Speaker 1: this offense is that they've got answers for whatever the
Speaker 1: defense is gonna throw at them on any given Sunday.
Speaker 1: Because hey, one day they're gonna try and take a J.
Speaker 1: Brown away. Okay, that's fine, We're gonna go to some
Speaker 1: of these other pass catchers. Sometimes the pass game might
Speaker 1: not be clicking in general, let's rely on the run
Speaker 1: game today. Only seventy two yards rushing, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: now it's gonna be a throw day. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what the Eagles did to beat up on this Washington
Speaker 1: Commander secondary. As to keep breaking things down here, Eagles fans,
Speaker 1: be sure to go to the Facebook comments on the show. Askike.
Speaker 1: You can ask him anything. Will wear them on the
Speaker 1: show here, and I will answer them with all the
Speaker 1: caffeine and a system. Yeah, well, here's what I loved
Speaker 1: about today. You know, forhand, sometimes we look at matchups
Speaker 1: going into games and we feel like, okay, the Eagles
Speaker 1: were having advantage in this area or that area, and
Speaker 1: then you don't know if they're going to actually go
Speaker 1: out there and try to exploit that. This week, you
Speaker 1: knew that the Washington secondary couldn't hold up in coverage,
Speaker 1: and if you gave Jalen Hurts time, he would have
Speaker 1: played down the field. The Eagles made sure they took
Speaker 1: advantage of that. Defensively. This Washington offensive line coming in
Speaker 1: here banged up, you knew there would be some opportunities
Speaker 1: Detroit last week. I think they got five or six
Speaker 1: sacks against this offensive line, So you knew that the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense wouldn't necessarily have to bring extra pressure. Our
Speaker 1: guys up front, the front four would have to do
Speaker 1: their job beating one on one blocks, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what they did today. They exploited the weaknesses of this
Speaker 1: Washington offense with the fact that they attacked the offensive
Speaker 1: line and they attacked downfield against this Washington secondary. We
Speaker 1: talked about that guard center guard combination coming into this game.
Speaker 1: Was that didn't three for Washington could be had, and
Speaker 1: early on we talked about five sacks in the first
Speaker 1: fifteen plays for Washington's offense. You could just go back
Speaker 1: and forth. It was like a ping pong. The center
Speaker 1: would slide to the right. All right, Well, now Javon
Speaker 1: Hargray is gonna get the pressure right, we gotta slide
Speaker 1: back the other way. Well, here comes Fletcher Cocks for
Speaker 1: a sack. So really, you gotta pick your poison. If
Speaker 1: you're an opposing offensive line. When the defensive front is
Speaker 1: humming like it was today, they are tough to block.
Speaker 1: Nine sacks the most times that Wentz has gotten sacked
Speaker 1: in his career. Entering this game, Brandon Graham and Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cocks were tied for most career sacks, and then they
Speaker 1: were going back and forth. Fletcher surpassed him in the game,
Speaker 1: then BG got to him, then Flesh past him. I
Speaker 1: think Big wanted today. He had two and a half
Speaker 1: sacks on the day. But Brandon Graham, guys, we said
Speaker 1: this when we were all watching the game, thirteen years
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's out there flying around like he's
Speaker 1: like a three year dude. Those old dogs can steal
Speaker 1: hun Fletcher and BG best of friends. They won a
Speaker 1: championship here together. I'll never forget, you know, those two
Speaker 1: guys breaking down that play were branding out the strip
Speaker 1: sack against Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, and how
Speaker 1: they had been setting up that guard tackle combination over
Speaker 1: there and they were switching in and out. These two
Speaker 1: guys are best of friends and they're out there competing
Speaker 1: against each other. So when you're bringing that up, Ellen,
Speaker 1: when Fletcher gets a set, yeah, Brandon is so great competition.
Speaker 1: Those old dogs can still hunt and doing it from
Speaker 1: a number of different techniques. In front. We've seen Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham lineup inside and outside. Two and a half sacks today,
Speaker 1: five hits on quarterback Carson Wentz and also active in
Speaker 1: the run game as well. Fletcher Cox was really strong
Speaker 1: against the Washington run game. So again, just looking at
Speaker 1: this defensive front, all the different ways that they can
Speaker 1: attack opposing offenses. It's just a fun team. This is
Speaker 1: a fun team for three weeks and they're having fun.
Speaker 1: You can tell they're having fun. But when you talk
Speaker 1: about tackling, I your boys, the linebackers, they're leaving the way.
Speaker 1: T J. Edwards had ten again the leading tackler two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Kaiser White right behind them with
Speaker 1: nine total tackles seven forty three. I love both of them, man,
Speaker 1: They usually find their way to the big skin, and
Speaker 1: if you're defensive coordinated, that's what you want out of
Speaker 1: your linebackers. Get to the football, and these guys make
Speaker 1: plays in the run game and in the passing game.
Speaker 1: And I like the fact that both of them they
Speaker 1: rarely miss tackles in the open field. Very good shore tacklers.
Speaker 1: They don't get panicked when they see a running back
Speaker 1: or a tight end catch the ball in the open field.
Speaker 1: They usually know how to break down and secure it
Speaker 1: a tackle. Love with t J. Edwards and Kaiser Whine
Speaker 1: is doing it that linebacker position. You know, one thing
Speaker 1: that both guys are doing really really well is something
Speaker 1: that linebackers coach Nick Rallis he really harped on when
Speaker 1: I had him one on one last summer going into
Speaker 1: that first season. Block attention. So no matter who they're
Speaker 1: trying to take on, if it's an offensive lineman, if
Speaker 1: it's a tight end, a full back, you see them
Speaker 1: square up to that blocker full extension, both hands right
Speaker 1: into the opponent's chest and then you go stack and
Speaker 1: shed immediately. But it's not like they're ever getting ear
Speaker 1: hold everything that they see. You're able to get square,
Speaker 1: stack and shed time after time after time. T J.
Speaker 1: Edwards ten tackles, two TFLs. He gets the sack in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. This guy has been playing so so
Speaker 1: well through three weeks. Plays down heel. Yes, the attacks.
Speaker 1: You know, you could play the linebacker position tentatively and
Speaker 1: you allow you catch blocks or you allowed blockers to
Speaker 1: get into your chest, and it's a difficult time shedding
Speaker 1: the blocks and then making the tackles. Our linebackers do
Speaker 1: a great job of coming downhill. They strike, they delivered
Speaker 1: the blow, and then like Fran was just saying, they
Speaker 1: do a great job of shedding the blocks and getting
Speaker 1: to the ball carrier. Great job by these guys being
Speaker 1: able to play a physical brand of football, which really
Speaker 1: isn't allowed very much in the NFL to day at
Speaker 1: that position. They do a great job of being able
Speaker 1: to play physical even though their their best attributes are
Speaker 1: probably their athleticism and their speed, particularly in the passing game.
Speaker 1: They are showing that they will show up in the
Speaker 1: run game as well. All Right, we talked about DeVante
Speaker 1: Smiths having such a big day. He's now at the podium. Good,
Speaker 1: I can't go flow. Are you feeling after what happened
Speaker 1: for the forty four yard man, I recommend don't know
Speaker 1: abody to do that? Where right? Everything? Yuh, we'll be
Speaker 1: talking before in the off season though getting stronger. Um.
Speaker 1: But it seem like also we saw on the pre
Speaker 1: Hurn train kit which you're starting to win all the
Speaker 1: balls in the air. How did you go about that?
Speaker 1: That's got I mean as a receiver and that's what
Speaker 1: it comes down to, fifty fifty balls, you gotta win it.
Speaker 1: I mean the trust that Jayalen has and all the
Speaker 1: receivers just I mean it's our ball, no nobody's ball.
Speaker 1: So um, just being there with him, Um, just being
Speaker 1: able to make sure that if we don't come down,
Speaker 1: we didn't nobody comes down with it. What's your mindset? Man,
Speaker 1: when you see the ball coming your way and you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be like a fifty fifty type nobody?
Speaker 1: Could you could you take us through the last play
Speaker 1: of the first half? Um, you know when you saw
Speaker 1: their specifically win the ball is coming along my ball
Speaker 1: to nobody? How much was that gonna get back out
Speaker 1: there because you had to get a playoff the bield?
Speaker 1: How much where you kind of pushing and get back
Speaker 1: on the bield? I mean, I just I just had
Speaker 1: to catch my breath. You not have to win out myself.
Speaker 1: I just need to catch my breath, that's all. What
Speaker 1: was that sequence like for you? Because you made the catch,
Speaker 1: you went off, Then there was the run on third down.
Speaker 1: You guys had to scramble to the line. What was
Speaker 1: what was that? Lef was a chaot um? Yeah, just
Speaker 1: because I mean the play that was called, I mean,
Speaker 1: we didn't necessarily didn't happen in the game plan. So
Speaker 1: you just gotta be riddy. You never know what's gonna
Speaker 1: come up. And I mean everybody was on the same page,
Speaker 1: and I feel we executed it well. I didn't take
Speaker 1: it the call for you, I mean, how does that feel?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're a team guy, but you know,
Speaker 1: putting up numbers and stuff like that, the records that
Speaker 1: come with it, how do you feel about that? I mean,
Speaker 1: trust my training, preparation, to way prepare. I mean that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to, not just me, but the team. Um,
Speaker 1: the way we prepare, the way we go out there
Speaker 1: and tack every practice. I feel like that's what's god
Speaker 1: of what we are now. Always you said that the
Speaker 1: play to you touchdown wasn't in the game plan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was a play that said we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about in the minute, but everybody's just been on
Speaker 1: the same page. I mean it's in. We didn't ran
Speaker 1: it before, but it wasn't necessary in the game plan.
Speaker 1: But that comes down to our coaches trusting to school.
Speaker 1: I think it's cute whatever they call um. It kind
Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere. I didn't even know they
Speaker 1: had it. What you gets say, who's John called week
Speaker 1: doing that? You know, obviously he wasn't gonna face the
Speaker 1: Carson wa is certainly something that I was going to
Speaker 1: do to talk about how did you how did you
Speaker 1: can keep personal? Um, it's never about nobody else, always
Speaker 1: about him, how he can, how he control the things
Speaker 1: that he can control. So it's never about the opponent,
Speaker 1: never about nobody else, Always about us and how we
Speaker 1: approach the game and how we attack the day. I
Speaker 1: know you were asked a lot about not having a
Speaker 1: catch in week one, but but when that was going on,
Speaker 1: did you have the confidence underneath that like this day
Speaker 1: was going to come with a day like this, Like
Speaker 1: I always tell y'all, you gotta make the most opportunities
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you might have a game like
Speaker 1: that where you don't get the ball, you don't you know,
Speaker 1: get your opportunities, but when they come, you got to
Speaker 1: make most of them. Good. Thanks about good You said
Speaker 1: that you guys kind of do the strengths of weaknesses
Speaker 1: and Carson in that. But you guys really got after it.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that? I just think we just
Speaker 1: made it about us. We knew what we knew about Carson,
Speaker 1: but I mean we knew it was a new day.
Speaker 1: He's with a new team, and he knows his issues too.
Speaker 1: But we just wanted to go out there and play
Speaker 1: as a team and you know, just keep getting better
Speaker 1: our standard and our is our standard. And I'm just
Speaker 1: happy that, you know, we finally got one of them
Speaker 1: games where we got a nine SA game. We was
Speaker 1: out there having fun, and you know, we just want
Speaker 1: to win because we know how hard it is in
Speaker 1: this league. Told me, you told Carson that you were
Speaker 1: going to get free on him, but good luck after that.
Speaker 1: Did you say anything to him after your sacked him?
Speaker 1: I was just we I didn't say nothing to him
Speaker 1: after the after the sacks, but before the game, we
Speaker 1: had a little fun. He was just like no, I
Speaker 1: know what it feels like the uh you know, the
Speaker 1: here BG on the other side of it. So I
Speaker 1: just told him, I hope you have a great year,
Speaker 1: but just not today we're able to apply kind of him. So, um,
Speaker 1: just I mean just knowing knowing Carson. I mean, I
Speaker 1: felt like we just had to make sure with any
Speaker 1: quarterback that you get pressure on when when you can,
Speaker 1: and make sure that you keep them containing the pocket
Speaker 1: because we know when you get outside the pocket. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he was a great quarterback. And so I
Speaker 1: just felt like, you know, we just played together, um,
Speaker 1: and the biggest thing for us was just making sure
Speaker 1: that we do what we do and not worry about
Speaker 1: nothing else. And so I think that we played together
Speaker 1: whale to day. The defense said together even when we
Speaker 1: was up, we just tried to make sure we never
Speaker 1: let let off the gas. And I'm probably the boys
Speaker 1: on how we fought all the way through the game
Speaker 1: start fast like we did, Like, I mean, it was
Speaker 1: too right off the rip boy fletched sweaty uh Javan.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all was out there trying to get
Speaker 1: after him, you know, and it just kind of opened
Speaker 1: up for us as the game kept going uh, and
Speaker 1: then you know, Carson started getting it out a little quicker.
Speaker 1: But I just felt like at that point, we were
Speaker 1: just making sure that we we just was putting that
Speaker 1: pressure in his face, making sure that we tackle whale
Speaker 1: um and yeah, just had fun with it. Man, We're
Speaker 1: just having fun out there. You kind of noticed that
Speaker 1: he was getting around with it, and you guys, you know,
Speaker 1: I probably the first half special first half. I mean,
Speaker 1: we was hitting them, and that's that's the number one
Speaker 1: thing as a D lineman. You just want to hit them.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course we was getting sacks too, but
Speaker 1: you know, them hits them hits at up and I
Speaker 1: felt like we were starting where we wanted to start.
Speaker 1: And I think that it was more about just making
Speaker 1: sure that we didn't let up, because we know we've
Speaker 1: been in this situation before. We was up and they
Speaker 1: came back and beat us. So we just had to
Speaker 1: make sure that we stayed kept our foot on the gas.
Speaker 1: How much defense the office kind of started slogan, but
Speaker 1: it seem like more than more Saxon. Guys got just
Speaker 1: got into year after the Wall. You know, I told
Speaker 1: you our year, Uh, it's gonna be games where offense carriers,
Speaker 1: defense carriers, UM special teams sometimes make a play to
Speaker 1: put us back in the game. But I just think that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys just we just didn't matter. It
Speaker 1: didn't matter what the offense did. We just know if
Speaker 1: we got three points, we was gonna make sure we
Speaker 1: kept my design. That was the goal. And so I
Speaker 1: felt like the defense today, we just want to make
Speaker 1: sure we just keep getting better because like the first
Speaker 1: game we played the Troy, we kind of let it
Speaker 1: off a little bit, and I was happy it kind
Speaker 1: of happened, because you know that let us know that
Speaker 1: we that, yeah, we got a good team, but you see,
Speaker 1: if we don't stay put with our foot on the gas,
Speaker 1: that we um we just an average team if we
Speaker 1: if we don't take care of what we gotta do,
Speaker 1: and that's our responsibilities and you know, trusting one another.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just happy how we just keep getting
Speaker 1: better every weekend. Yeah, I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we just keep keep our foot on the gas
Speaker 1: in practice and to show up in the game. Before
Speaker 1: the game, well, I was playing with I was playing
Speaker 1: with it. We we had all little stuff. I didn't
Speaker 1: tell him that, but yeah, I just told him you know,
Speaker 1: I hope we have a great year and except today
Speaker 1: that was the only thing I said. But were just
Speaker 1: having having our fun with it. But uh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're gonna do in that game.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy that we was able to do what
Speaker 1: we had to do to win the game. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's nine sex was gonna help us win, I'm
Speaker 1: happy with that too. Granted, team the team could be three,
Speaker 1: feel like it's fortunate to be three now. And the
Speaker 1: team could be three And the thing, we're really pretty good.
Speaker 1: Where do you feel like you guys are at? I
Speaker 1: ain't falling into it, Fletch, you already know, but I
Speaker 1: know it's always room to get better, Like like Jalen said,
Speaker 1: like they didn't scored no more points than the second
Speaker 1: half offense, feel like they can get a lot better.
Speaker 1: And I know we can feel we can feel the
Speaker 1: same way it was plays out there we left, you know,
Speaker 1: But I think that overall, we look at the film,
Speaker 1: you start to see where you're week at and where
Speaker 1: people gonna start hitting you on certain stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: you just keep on making it about us, And I
Speaker 1: think that that's all you can really do every week.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be different, everybody attack you differently, and just
Speaker 1: make sure that you stay on point with what we do.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I'm not worried about where we are
Speaker 1: right now, because it's it's not how you start, it's
Speaker 1: how you finish. And so I love how we started,
Speaker 1: but we gotta make sure we finish the same way
Speaker 1: because it's a long season and it's about getting hot
Speaker 1: at the right time so that we can carry ourselves
Speaker 1: into the postseason. Told your message for uh with Carson,
Speaker 1: I saw years talking for the game to do. I
Speaker 1: mean you'd just say he had a little fun with him.
Speaker 1: It was yours like that at all. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: talking to give was I don't think we talked about
Speaker 1: football once. Uh. We just talked about and it's just
Speaker 1: how how how it's life and uh, you know what's
Speaker 1: going on home, mostly about honestly what we both love
Speaker 1: outside of football, hunt and you know, all doors and things, um,
Speaker 1: asking how the family and stuff for doing. But I
Speaker 1: don't think we spoke one word about football. You're doing
Speaker 1: pretty good, friends. I mean, how weird it wasn't it
Speaker 1: was weird? Uh, it was weird to see him in
Speaker 1: another color, you know, knowing that we were about to
Speaker 1: compete against each other, and uh, you know, we respected
Speaker 1: to inspect the hell out of Carson. You know, he's
Speaker 1: competitive and really hard worker. Um, you know, but he
Speaker 1: was on the other side today. UM. So you know,
Speaker 1: obviously our conversations and friendship, but still still go home
Speaker 1: because we got to see that team again. Taking Carson
Speaker 1: out of this game. We just played our our style
Speaker 1: of defense. You know, we just played just literally stacking
Speaker 1: stacking on getting better from what we did last last week.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, here in the second half, we
Speaker 1: got a little sloppy UM and that's not that's not
Speaker 1: what we want to be. I think it's a defense.
Speaker 1: We've got sloppy Plice kept Kemp the drive alive, and
Speaker 1: you know, we got to fix that. Um And and
Speaker 1: that's that's that's my biggest worry right now. We can't
Speaker 1: get slop. We gotta continue to just you know, stay
Speaker 1: consistent and uh and you know, just you know and
Speaker 1: put the game away. Stas what hard to come about
Speaker 1: it last year? What's different this year? That's a lot
Speaker 1: different for me. UM. I changed up a lot of
Speaker 1: things that you know, the way I trained, UM you know,
Speaker 1: was a little different. The way I eat a little different. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean this year, I'm just making sure that you know,
Speaker 1: I let nothing get in my way. Like I said
Speaker 1: earlier in the preseason that I think last year I
Speaker 1: got in my own way. So uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: happy having fun and uh and then this one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I came back that first drive. What
Speaker 1: the fact you think I had on the game hitting you,
Speaker 1: but you guys did early. I mean the first drive
Speaker 1: was you know for us the D line, we talked
Speaker 1: about just starting fast. I think when we start fast,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody else feed off us. UM. And you
Speaker 1: know that that was a message all week, keep the edge,
Speaker 1: start fast and basically the message every day every week, UM,
Speaker 1: to let everybody know, you know, like you know, we're
Speaker 1: you know we're here, We're here to play hard. You know, UM,
Speaker 1: we're respect whoever we're playing and knowing that you know,
Speaker 1: they did get paid to play too. But we just
Speaker 1: want to come out and start fast and set the tone.
Speaker 1: You always want to start fast everybody. But was that
Speaker 1: in the extra emphasis this week because I had a
Speaker 1: second you know, the backup center. Maybe some issues from
Speaker 1: the interior Honestly, all week we talked about how good
Speaker 1: we thought they were. Up front. You know, we thought
Speaker 1: there was a good veteran group that's played a lot
Speaker 1: of ball. Uh and you know, even with them having
Speaker 1: the center really didn't make an effect or drop off
Speaker 1: on them. Um. But at the end of the day, Um,
Speaker 1: you know we went out competed. Um, we got a
Speaker 1: big win. Now we got to enjoy this right now
Speaker 1: and move on tomorrow. It's going after the ball. So
Speaker 1: always you always want to turnovers. We talked about it.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, that's one of the problems one
Speaker 1: of the things we didn't get done last year. We
Speaker 1: didn't create another turnovers, enough turners to put our office
Speaker 1: in position to win or get points. So that's a
Speaker 1: big emphasis. There's been off since as an offseason preseason
Speaker 1: and now just trying to take it over into the
Speaker 1: regular season. Find like knack a knack and stacks years
Speaker 1: you guys, like, we don't really even talk about that honestly,
Speaker 1: now we don't. We just wherever we end up at,
Speaker 1: where we end up at. You know, I've been here
Speaker 1: for my left in the year. This is thirteenth year,
Speaker 1: and uh so, I mean we just go out and
Speaker 1: and and get it done. You know, whatever we end
Speaker 1: up are, we end up at. But right now we're
Speaker 1: just like you said, we're gonna neck and neck uh
Speaker 1: and uh. It's fun, you know, it's It's one of
Speaker 1: them things where we could compete, you know, go out
Speaker 1: and compete on Sundays. Don't matter what day is, you know,
Speaker 1: game Thursday, Monday, we don't matter. So it's fun though.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun with these guys. Stevens
Speaker 1: had a lot of two touchdowns in two weeks. One
Speaker 1: needs to get better if you're playing at this flip
Speaker 1: right now. Penalless, penalless. When we had, like I said,
Speaker 1: we had some penalties in the second half, which we
Speaker 1: know that's not us. We need to fix that, um
Speaker 1: and you know, stop keeping those those drives and loves.
Speaker 1: I think we had like three or four penalties on
Speaker 1: on a drive and kept a drive alive. You know,
Speaker 1: we need to clean that stuff up again. We missed
Speaker 1: some tackles. You know, we can't be happy with that. Um.
Speaker 1: So we just got to spend this week fixing it.
Speaker 1: Try to be less penalized and you know, and move
Speaker 1: on good. We heard from Devontae Smith Brandon Graham, Fletcher Cox.
Speaker 1: A big day for all three of those guys. I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting what BG said. He referenced the
Speaker 1: Lions game and how the Lions starts to kind of
Speaker 1: catch up a little bit late in that game. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm appreciative that we had that experience, he said, because
Speaker 1: we're a good team, but we're only average if we
Speaker 1: don't take care of what we need to take care of.
Speaker 1: So they learned a lot from that experience. And as
Speaker 1: we've seen now in the past few games, they have
Speaker 1: played all four quarters. That's really what it's about. When
Speaker 1: you want to when you've raised the standard around here
Speaker 1: and you expect to be in the upper echelon of
Speaker 1: the league in your specific area of expertise, you gotta
Speaker 1: play for sixty minutes. You got to play the entire game.
Speaker 1: And that was the only blemish on that first game
Speaker 1: is that it felt like we may have taken our
Speaker 1: foot off the gas. I think the score was like
Speaker 1: thirty one to fourteen or something like that. It felt
Speaker 1: like the game was over to me as well. Give
Speaker 1: the Lions credit for continuing the battle, but the Eagles
Speaker 1: learned something and in that game Jalen brought that up
Speaker 1: after the game about this is not the standard we
Speaker 1: played for sixty minutes, and that's what you've seen the
Speaker 1: last two games, particularly on that defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, when they takes blood in the water man,
Speaker 1: they are hunting, and that's what they've seen the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. When they had Kirk Cousins and that Biking's
Speaker 1: offense on his heels, they didn't let up. They continue
Speaker 1: to squeeze and squeeze and not give up anything. You
Speaker 1: saw the same thing today and this could have very
Speaker 1: easily been a shutout game. Could have very easily been
Speaker 1: a shutout. As a matter of fact, I thought they
Speaker 1: played well enough that it felt like it was almost
Speaker 1: a shutout game. So I love hearing the veterans speak
Speaker 1: in this manner because they're the ones to set the
Speaker 1: tone for the younger guys on this team. And when
Speaker 1: DJ and Fletcher speak, everybody in that locker room is listening. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, the devil's in the details when it comes
Speaker 1: to being able to hold out for four quarters. And
Speaker 1: I think when you look at the way that this
Speaker 1: defense has played over the last two games, you're seeing
Speaker 1: the tackling improved. You're seeing how sound they are in
Speaker 1: coverage both zone and in man. Guys are finishing on
Speaker 1: the ball. You have a lot of Eagles jerseys swarming
Speaker 1: to the football late in the down. So I think
Speaker 1: when you see that happening, when you see the defense
Speaker 1: playing with that level of personality, typically good football follows.
Speaker 1: And this is the National Football League. We saw last
Speaker 1: week in the Miami in the Baltimore game, you take
Speaker 1: the foot off the gas, Miami scored twenty one points
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Everybody that steps on the field
Speaker 1: is a good football player. So you have to play
Speaker 1: your best put your best foot forward for sixty minutes
Speaker 1: or you can see what happens like we saw last weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it really is a mentality, and you would think
Speaker 1: it's something that's a given to most athletes, but it
Speaker 1: really isn't. Human nature will sometimes allow you to relax
Speaker 1: and get a little complacent when you feel like you've
Speaker 1: secured a victory. But those teams that play championship style
Speaker 1: football or play dominant football as an entire team, they've
Speaker 1: finished the games, they played for four quarters, they played
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes, and you know the one thing about
Speaker 1: being three and oh you can almost a little overconfidence
Speaker 1: and feel like you have everything under control. There's always
Speaker 1: a little something that you can learn from in every game.
Speaker 1: And twenty four to eight, twenty four to nothing at
Speaker 1: half time today, I guarantee you they'll find some things
Speaker 1: that will get them ready for next week's game against Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: That's the thing is, like we could talk about playing
Speaker 1: sixteen minutes, can we just talk real quick about what
Speaker 1: they did in the first thirty because there's a stat
Speaker 1: from John Connote from Eagles pr zero points in the
Speaker 1: first half, fifty yards on twenty eight plays under two
Speaker 1: yards per play, six sacks three to three and outs,
Speaker 1: two forced fumbles and a turnover. Good Golling. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's an outstanding first half performance from that Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the last two opponents, these
Speaker 1: aren't offenses where you should be able to shut them
Speaker 1: down in the dominate. You look at the skill position
Speaker 1: gods from the last two games, justin Jefferson, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: Adam feel and Kirk Cousins to Terry McLaurin. You got
Speaker 1: Turtis Samuel is playing well. The rookie Johann Dodson and Wentz,
Speaker 1: who was second in the league and passing yard per
Speaker 1: game with seven touchdowns. These are very good offenses that
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense has put the handcuffs on the last
Speaker 1: eight quarters. This is this is I think this is
Speaker 1: so positive moving forward that they're not going to see
Speaker 1: very many more offenses that possessed a fire part that
Speaker 1: they saw today. So this bow's will. We have some
Speaker 1: Eagles alum taking to Twitter. They're very excited about this
Speaker 1: Eagles team as well. Who do we got Shady? I
Speaker 1: love AJ Brown? Baby, he catches everything, ball behind him,
Speaker 1: don't matter touchdown. I think that's the general attitude of
Speaker 1: all Eagles fans right now. I mean, even though the
Speaker 1: catch that he had on third down on that one
Speaker 1: touchdown drive at the end of the first half where
Speaker 1: he just violently snatched the ball behind him and he
Speaker 1: takes off big yards after catchplay that was the one
Speaker 1: that ended in the DeVante Smith touchdown. He catches everything.
Speaker 1: He's so good after the catch. He's a precise route runner. A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown is the real deal. It minds me so much.
Speaker 1: An Kuon Boden, I mean, he refuses to get give
Speaker 1: you anything you're gonna have to pride that ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands when he gets his hands on it.
Speaker 1: No one is knocking it away. I think it was
Speaker 1: a big third down Catchy had where a cornerback was
Speaker 1: right there in his chest, even got his hand on
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit, and Aj was still able
Speaker 1: to secure that against his chest and come down with
Speaker 1: it and don't let him get to run him with
Speaker 1: the football after he catches it. He's looking for contact.
Speaker 1: No dvs are going to tackle him. Man. Aj Brown
Speaker 1: has been more than what I imagine he was going
Speaker 1: to be as a Philadelphia Eagles A. It's been a
Speaker 1: pleasure to watch him the first three games. I think
Speaker 1: it was a big imperue we saw in the first
Speaker 1: half of the game is the Eagles had one penalty
Speaker 1: last week they had eight. It got a little sobbing
Speaker 1: in the second half, and then they ended the day
Speaker 1: with five total penalties. But to end the first half
Speaker 1: with one penalty after some of the calls that were
Speaker 1: made last week, I think that's a big step forward,
Speaker 1: and I think it goes back to giving the coaches
Speaker 1: created having these guys prepared. Whatever the schedule was for
Speaker 1: this week, it was certainly the right formula for success.
Speaker 1: Coming off a short week at home, going on the
Speaker 1: road down to the Washington they seem to be the
Speaker 1: fresher team they played on Monday night. They certainly looked
Speaker 1: fresher than what Washington looked like out there on the field.
Speaker 1: So great job about his coach and staff getting this
Speaker 1: team ready to go, not just mentally from the xs
Speaker 1: and os and schemes, but physically the Eagles look like
Speaker 1: the more dominant team out there. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, to your point, I'll just one penalty and
Speaker 1: they only had the one that was again late in
Speaker 1: the game, that was the Jordan Davis one on the
Speaker 1: field goal block. The Eagles defense end up stopping them anyway,
Speaker 1: But just an outstanding game from a you know, like
Speaker 1: crossing the tea's dot in the I standpoint. Everything very
Speaker 1: very detail oriented in this win. Like I want to
Speaker 1: ask you this, when the defense has been playing so well,
Speaker 1: where are the objectives moving forward in terms of how
Speaker 1: can they keep taking a step forward When they're playing
Speaker 1: at such a high level as it is. They want more, right, hey,
Speaker 1: they want more, and they start to realize how good
Speaker 1: they can be as an entire unit and everybody's going
Speaker 1: to get their opportunities to eat. You know, Monday night
Speaker 1: it was big play slave and a Vonte Maddox making plays.
Speaker 1: Today you had the defensive line completely dominate the game.
Speaker 1: The linebackers have been solid for three straight games and
Speaker 1: making plays in the run game and the passing game.
Speaker 1: So now it becomes Jonathan Gannon's like his. He gets
Speaker 1: to put the chemistry set together and he gets to
Speaker 1: look and see, Okay, what works well? What combinations come out?
Speaker 1: Can I come up with to try to add something
Speaker 1: new to the scheme. The one thing Jim Johnson used
Speaker 1: to do for all of us because he's playing seventeen
Speaker 1: eighteen guys every week, is finding new wrinkles in the defense. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what this guy does well and how can
Speaker 1: we implore it and to the defense. And that's what
Speaker 1: I would expect from Jonathan Ganning because once you've, like
Speaker 1: friend just said, donald all your eyes and cross all
Speaker 1: your teams, now you can add a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Just think about this. Chauncey Gardner, Johnson and James Bradberry,
Speaker 1: they haven't even been here very long, so wait until
Speaker 1: they get more comfortable with the defense. Now, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to see different disguises and coverages where you're going
Speaker 1: to be able to mix things up on the back end,
Speaker 1: which should lead to more turnovers. All right, well, let's
Speaker 1: hear what coach has to say all about this snake's podium.
Speaker 1: That's the line was getting close because you think they
Speaker 1: were nine sacks and blood right, they were. They were.
Speaker 1: They played their their tails off, they were, they were awesome. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we thought that they could get after them
Speaker 1: a little bit and uh and they did. And that's
Speaker 1: the strength of our team, you know. And so that's
Speaker 1: what you want and division game, you want to strength
Speaker 1: of your team to go out there and and and
Speaker 1: play like they did right there. And uh uh man,
Speaker 1: it was it was a full team effort there, full
Speaker 1: defensive line wasn't just one guy. It was all the
Speaker 1: guys that that really got after it. And it was
Speaker 1: fun to watch the situation. You had to be on
Speaker 1: the first half or round the ball and third down,
Speaker 1: had to hurry up to run the fourth down play
Speaker 1: in the goal. Well, what are your comments on jails
Speaker 1: boys in that situation? Yeah, we worked those a lot,
Speaker 1: we do. We worked those an awful lot, you know,
Speaker 1: and we went the first two downs. Um, we passed
Speaker 1: it on the first two downs, and we were like,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, we felt like we had enough time
Speaker 1: to get you know, with with the way how fast
Speaker 1: we got down there with that great completion to Davante,
Speaker 1: we felt like we had enough time. We weren't kicking
Speaker 1: in that scenario, right, Um, we wanted to put seven
Speaker 1: on the board, and we felt like we had enough
Speaker 1: time to run it there. I thought we were going
Speaker 1: to get in on the run. Credit to them. That's
Speaker 1: a good defense. That's a really good defensive line. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for paying and uh and
Speaker 1: Alan and Sweat like those are those are good football
Speaker 1: players and and uh, you know, but we knew we
Speaker 1: felt we had enough time to do that. Um. And
Speaker 1: so great job by Jalen being calm, Great job by
Speaker 1: Shane being calm getting the next play. You know, I
Speaker 1: was I was anticipating we get a little bit closer
Speaker 1: right there and then maybe we'll make a choice from there.
Speaker 1: And you know, but just awesome job, awesome operation. We worked,
Speaker 1: and we worked, we worked out a lot. Said that
Speaker 1: play wasn't even play with this week. So who ever
Speaker 1: came up, well you know, we got to a position
Speaker 1: where we were we lost some yards and we had
Speaker 1: to go to a no huddle play. Obviously we were
Speaker 1: gonna be no huddle no matter what. And again, like
Speaker 1: we said, we thought we were going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit closer and then you know, we had to
Speaker 1: we had to react. Now we have a certain amount,
Speaker 1: we have a couple of plays that we run in
Speaker 1: a no huddle scenario there, and we keep building off
Speaker 1: of that. And so credit to Shane to get to that,
Speaker 1: you know, in that scenario. And obviously DeVante made a
Speaker 1: you know, players make great plays, and you know he
Speaker 1: made a great play. Is it your experience, like good
Speaker 1: teams have that thing where you don't know who it's
Speaker 1: going to be on a given David, but somebody sort
Speaker 1: always yeah, I mean the more you can you can
Speaker 1: be where you're unpredictable, the better, right, And so you
Speaker 1: know Aj had the huge first game, DeVante had a
Speaker 1: huge third game. They both had big time second games.
Speaker 1: And and AJ's really played, you know, had big games
Speaker 1: throughout um, you know, maybe not one hundred and fifty yards,
Speaker 1: but he's had you know, sixty nine yards and then
Speaker 1: whatever you had today eighty five yards. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's huge. And then you get you had Dallas god
Speaker 1: or the pass game goes through those three guys. And
Speaker 1: I thought Quiz Watkins did a really nice job of
Speaker 1: you know, I know he didn't show up on the
Speaker 1: stat sheet, but he were some PI calls you know
Speaker 1: that were chunk yardage. We count those as explosive plays. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we count those as explosive plays. If you
Speaker 1: get a plus sixteen yard chunk uh on a penalty,
Speaker 1: we're going to count that. And we and he and
Speaker 1: he did that because of his speed out there. And
Speaker 1: then Zach Pascal did a nice job out there as
Speaker 1: well of you know, converting a couple of third downs
Speaker 1: in critical moments, get get after the quarterback. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was sure. I think one thing, one thing we
Speaker 1: really wanted to do on unknown pass was being able
Speaker 1: to get after him right and and get him the
Speaker 1: known pass right. And so I think we did a
Speaker 1: really nice job of getting them to known pass um,
Speaker 1: you know. And and then our defensive line just they
Speaker 1: went out and hunted and uh and again it wasn't
Speaker 1: just one guy it was it was it was all
Speaker 1: the guys. And but to get there, you have to
Speaker 1: be successful on first a second down and first down
Speaker 1: really because and so great job on first down to
Speaker 1: get us into non pass and uh and again they
Speaker 1: just they just went out there and they um you know,
Speaker 1: got after them and won their one on one matchups
Speaker 1: and compete it all day. Was going after the ball.
Speaker 1: From the point about Cisca carcon um, you know, going
Speaker 1: after the ball has been a point of emphasis for
Speaker 1: us all year. We know that the double positive is
Speaker 1: is extremely important how we protect the football and how
Speaker 1: we come after the football. So it's great to see
Speaker 1: and I think what you see in the NFL is, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got some guys that will create some some turnovers
Speaker 1: and we're coming after the ball like crazy at linebacker.
Speaker 1: I think we're close and we're gonna keep coming after
Speaker 1: the football. And they've worked so hard. Nick Rollis has
Speaker 1: worked so hard, and I think tj and and Kaiser
Speaker 1: come out are physical guys that are coming after them close.
Speaker 1: We're close. We're gonna keep coming after it. But where
Speaker 1: teams really do a great job of taking that ball
Speaker 1: away as when they get pressure on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: go after the arm, which we got two of those today.
Speaker 1: By Hassan and I think, uh, Brandon, yeah, so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, so that's always a point of emphasis we
Speaker 1: want to be we're obsessed with the football. We are
Speaker 1: absolutely obsessed with the football, because we know when you
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle, when you win the explosive play battle, um,
Speaker 1: that that suits you well. And so great job by
Speaker 1: them coming after the football and that and we got
Speaker 1: one of them. We didn't get the other one, but
Speaker 1: that was that was big time again by the defensive
Speaker 1: line to us about the fourth and one, yeah, not
Speaker 1: the second half for that any points Again, you said
Speaker 1: you took the foot off the gas last week, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was the quite the opposite this week.
Speaker 1: We were pretty aggressive this week, right, and you guys
Speaker 1: saw how we played that second half. Um, we're pretty aggressive, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and we didn't we uh you know. But
Speaker 1: there's probably somewhere in the middle there between the aggressiveness
Speaker 1: and the and the taking the foot off the gas.
Speaker 1: Where somewhere in the middle. And I'm always going to
Speaker 1: take responsibility for that. And when we gotta you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta put a game away like that, when it's
Speaker 1: twenty four to you know, twenty four to nothing, we
Speaker 1: gotta be able to put a game away. We started
Speaker 1: it with, you know, the big pass to Grant. His
Speaker 1: first catch went for what lat forty first catch. Great
Speaker 1: job there by him and great read by Jalen h
Speaker 1: And then we went to negative play again. But you know,
Speaker 1: you got to give them credit. They did some good
Speaker 1: things right there. But I felt like we played it
Speaker 1: almost exact opposite of the way to play last weekend.
Speaker 1: There might be somewhere in the middle if we get
Speaker 1: ourselves in that position again, might be somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 1: And one play that call might not a quarterbacks name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the play before that was a quarterback sneak
Speaker 1: and uh, you know you always, you always quarterback sneak
Speaker 1: is always on your mind. But you know, sometimes they're
Speaker 1: going to take that away. And when they take that away,
Speaker 1: the perimeters where the play is, you know, And it
Speaker 1: didn't work that time. Uh, I had a time out
Speaker 1: to be able to spend and I probably, on second thought,
Speaker 1: I probably should have spent it right there because I
Speaker 1: didn't love the look, um, you know, of what it
Speaker 1: looked like. I was great with the play call. I
Speaker 1: thought Shane's playing call was excellent right there. Um, if
Speaker 1: they gave us that look, we were gonna take it
Speaker 1: um and I probably should have called a time out
Speaker 1: in that particular case. Uh, but you know sometimes they're
Speaker 1: going to take that away. What's that mean for you
Speaker 1: and this team as you continue to develop it? All?
Speaker 1: I mean, all that means is a good start and
Speaker 1: and but that our message is the same each and
Speaker 1: every week, go to back to work, enjoy this tonight,
Speaker 1: and then onto the next round. We compare this to
Speaker 1: a heavyweight, a seventeen round heavyweight boxing match that you
Speaker 1: go down and you sit in your corner after each round.
Speaker 1: And if you think you're too good after that round,
Speaker 1: you know this league has a very good uh you know,
Speaker 1: does a good job of snacking you in the teeth
Speaker 1: if you do that. And so it's it's go sit down,
Speaker 1: enjoy this tonight, Go sit down in that round, rest
Speaker 1: your body up, take the day off that you get,
Speaker 1: correct the mistakes that we need. And then it's the
Speaker 1: same process that we went through. And I think it
Speaker 1: don't ride the waves of the season. And that's always
Speaker 1: going to be my message, whether we're two and five
Speaker 1: like we started last year or three and all. In
Speaker 1: this particular case, we see three and oh teams five
Speaker 1: and oh teams start hot all the time, but it's
Speaker 1: just about going back to work and not and because
Speaker 1: this game will humble you very quickly if you if
Speaker 1: you get too high on it. So go through the
Speaker 1: same process, dog mentality, all the different things the way
Speaker 1: we say it, um and and don't ride the ways
Speaker 1: ways and see um you guys the offense with the
Speaker 1: defense teams to energize your offense when you all struggled
Speaker 1: at the beginning. You know how much did the defense
Speaker 1: is progressive play energize your offense man? Big time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: big time to be able to you know, to to
Speaker 1: not I think what what two or three drives to
Speaker 1: start the game offer. We didn't get any points on offense,
Speaker 1: but knowing that the defense kept having our back boom
Speaker 1: back having our back having that's what a good teams do,
Speaker 1: right as they played complimentary football and so what a
Speaker 1: great you know, defense played good the entire game, and
Speaker 1: I think the offense kicked into a really good second
Speaker 1: quarter um and did some good and did some good
Speaker 1: things right there to really bust the game open. But
Speaker 1: to have that confidence that the defense was you know,
Speaker 1: just getting stops and getting pressure and getting stops. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we knew we were going to kick ourselves
Speaker 1: out of it, right, and we got the three and
Speaker 1: then we went up ten, and then you know, it
Speaker 1: was great from there all the day. On Jalen, that's
Speaker 1: you know, three straight games on where he said forty
Speaker 1: plus year competions. I'm sorry what you say, John, your
Speaker 1: impressions on jay Z Yeah, man, he played his butt
Speaker 1: off again right, uh and again. And what was great
Speaker 1: there is that they were taking away some of the
Speaker 1: things in the run game again, I got. I have
Speaker 1: so much respect for paying and Uh and Allen and Sweat,
Speaker 1: I got, those are really outstanding football players. But to
Speaker 1: be able to go out there and say, okay, you're
Speaker 1: doing a good job on the run, let's go past
Speaker 1: the football. Jalen did a great job and we had
Speaker 1: great playmakers make plays uh with it, you know, and
Speaker 1: that was a huge turnover to get us to tend nothing.
Speaker 1: And then that little screen to Dallas gotter. It was
Speaker 1: a big time play um, And so it was just
Speaker 1: trusting the playmakers and then Jalen just doing a nice
Speaker 1: job of you know, helping us get that you know,
Speaker 1: get that win because you know, it wasn't as it
Speaker 1: wasn't like that's what good teams do too. Rights, they
Speaker 1: don't win the same every week like you know, last year,
Speaker 1: a lot of times we were when we want we
Speaker 1: put the we put the game on the back of
Speaker 1: offensive line. And then you know today and it was
Speaker 1: on Jaalen and so you know, that's hard to That's
Speaker 1: what you want to be as multiple and be able
Speaker 1: to be really hard to stop, whether it's with aj
Speaker 1: and DeVante and Dallas and Quaz or you know, run game, pass, game, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: all those different things. Always about the explosive players. Now
Speaker 1: you've talked about it here. How much is it a
Speaker 1: luxury to have those receivers that you can maybe push
Speaker 1: the issue more offensively? Yeah, I mean when they're making play,
Speaker 1: like you know, you think about Jalen and you call
Speaker 1: a play and something breaks down and he scrambles and
Speaker 1: makes the play, right, that's that's huge, right, Um, you
Speaker 1: know we'd like to think sometimes that's good coaching, that's
Speaker 1: good play. Right, and then right where some somewhat covered
Speaker 1: and Jalen puts the ball where only Jalen can put
Speaker 1: the ball, and DeVante goes up and gets the ball
Speaker 1: or or or or aj creates separation on a you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the game on a fourth down,
Speaker 1: on the fourth down, call um or a cage separation
Speaker 1: and we got an easy path pitch and catch. Um Man,
Speaker 1: that's that's great to have, you know, to be but
Speaker 1: because at the end of the end of the day, right, Um,
Speaker 1: it comes down to matchups in this game, can you
Speaker 1: win a majority of your one on one matchups? And
Speaker 1: with those guys, like you know how He's done a
Speaker 1: great job of getting those guys in here, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so excited that the group that we have.
Speaker 1: I feel like we got a really well rounded group
Speaker 1: at wide receiver. You love Dallas Godder and those guys
Speaker 1: want when they're one on one matchups when they when
Speaker 1: they need to in critical moments. The third down, it's
Speaker 1: man right and you gotta win verse man and I
Speaker 1: thought we'd in fourth down in the red zone. We
Speaker 1: did get a stop on us and we gotta win
Speaker 1: verse tight man of man and Devonte goes up and
Speaker 1: makes a big time play. So great job to then
Speaker 1: um shows you who DeVante Sanitha's too right, Like didn't
Speaker 1: have a catch in the first game, you know, And
Speaker 1: all he did was come back to work, uh, figure
Speaker 1: out how to how to get it done the next
Speaker 1: game and had a huge game last game, had an
Speaker 1: even bigger game in this game. What did you wear
Speaker 1: the min Mike Quick? Well, first of all, I was
Speaker 1: a big Mike Quick fan growing up. I really was.
Speaker 1: And uh, I know that Quick had some big time
Speaker 1: what do the average? What did we say about nineteen
Speaker 1: yards a catch against Washington? And he how long Quick
Speaker 1: play fifteen games against Washington average and nineteen to catch
Speaker 1: us big time ball? And so always was a Quick fan. Uh,
Speaker 1: he had he had some great success here in Washington
Speaker 1: against what I think it was. I talked him a
Speaker 1: little bit today. It was against Arryl Green, So uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and then uh and and I'm taking Mike
Speaker 1: Quick over our monk every day, all right, Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and league course coaches out here give him Mike Quick
Speaker 1: on the long standing. Oh, it's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: week when he walks in here on Wednesday. Yeah, I mean, listen.
Speaker 1: He was one of the Greeks to ever played the game.
Speaker 1: And um, obviously if his career wasn't cut short by injuries, man,
Speaker 1: he was on his way to a pro I mean
Speaker 1: into a Hall of Fame career. I think he was
Speaker 1: five time All Pro and five time Pro bowler. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in his seven years as a player. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing of going back and watching some of his highlights
Speaker 1: a it was actually like this week, I wasn't even
Speaker 1: saying something highlights on Twitter. He was doing all this
Speaker 1: in the like when the safeties were coming over the
Speaker 1: middle field trying to knock all your teeth out, and
Speaker 1: he's putting up all this yardage in between the hashes.
Speaker 1: Quick was quick was something else you knew it was
Speaker 1: gonna be my quick day. Well, coach said, we're gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy this and then it's back to work. People putting
Speaker 1: in a lot of work. Or those fans in Australia
Speaker 1: who tuned in for Jordan Milatta, they have a question
Speaker 1: here for Ike and our Ask Ike segment watching from Australia.
Speaker 1: Give us your take on how important Milatta is to
Speaker 1: hurt the success this season so far. I mean he's
Speaker 1: very important. You're talking about the left tackle, the guy
Speaker 1: that protects his blindside, and not only that, but when
Speaker 1: the Eagles go to run the football, Jordan Malatta is
Speaker 1: a very good run blocker as well. So I continue
Speaker 1: to be a impressed and amazed at Jordan Malatta's development
Speaker 1: at that left tackle position. The fact that he didn't
Speaker 1: grow up playing American football and he was really a
Speaker 1: rugby football player. Jeff'son, He didn't work that Jeff Stouton
Speaker 1: has done to really help him become one of the
Speaker 1: best left tackles in all of football. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Jalen would tell you not to
Speaker 1: pick Jordan out over any of his other offensive linement.
Speaker 1: But we know how important that blindside guy is. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing is that when Jordan finally like puts
Speaker 1: it all together, like all to grow, Yeah, there's absolutely
Speaker 1: room to grow. And we've said it a couple of
Speaker 1: times here tonight already the devil's in the details are
Speaker 1: a couple of lapses here and there from Jordan each
Speaker 1: and every week. But once you get it all together,
Speaker 1: I mean, he is such a focal point to what
Speaker 1: they do, Like I said, not just the pass game,
Speaker 1: but the run game as well. I talked to him
Speaker 1: on Tuesday after Monday night and he just he was
Speaker 1: so down about his performance and they played great across
Speaker 1: line and he looked at me and he said, I
Speaker 1: am really really hard on myself, which isn't totally a
Speaker 1: bad thing. That's a great thing. When you're a player
Speaker 1: as good as Jordan my ladder, you could easily rest
Speaker 1: on your laurels, but he is striving for a perfection.
Speaker 1: I keep going back to Jalen's post games features in
Speaker 1: the Locker Room where he emphasizes the standard. He's talking
Speaker 1: about it from a totality and a team standpoint, but
Speaker 1: he's also talking about it from an individual standpoint. Each
Speaker 1: guy has a standard in which they should set that
Speaker 1: they have to live up to each and every week.
Speaker 1: And Jordan Milatta has gone from a project in the
Speaker 1: NFL to a starting left tackle in the NFL to
Speaker 1: now arguably one of the best left tackles in the NFL,
Speaker 1: And so that standard has been set by him and
Speaker 1: he expects to play that way every week. A little
Speaker 1: bit of a teams here in the breakdown that I
Speaker 1: do a little bit later in the show in the
Speaker 1: Rico review, Jordan Milatta his presence very very important on
Speaker 1: that play. If he's not as athletic as he is,
Speaker 1: that play doesn't happen. I think what I love about
Speaker 1: this team too. Is any player you ask, what's their success?
Speaker 1: Why is this team good? Why are you finding success?
Speaker 1: On the offensive side of the ball, They all go
Speaker 1: the offensive line, Dallas Goddard, the offensive line, Miles Standers,
Speaker 1: this weeks on the offensive line, like they are the
Speaker 1: core and the nucleus to this team right now. And
Speaker 1: I feel as though this offense goes as the offensive
Speaker 1: line goes. Yeah, and it's not just coach speak right
Speaker 1: when you think look at either side the ball, but
Speaker 1: we're talking about the offense in particular right now. It
Speaker 1: starts up front. They are the strength of that unit.
Speaker 1: The offensive side of the football. If you can't protect upfront,
Speaker 1: or you can't run block, the offense is stemy is
Speaker 1: there's confusion, there's discombinulation out there. And the same thing
Speaker 1: goes for on the defensive side of the ball. It
Speaker 1: starts upfront with those defensive linement and the players are
Speaker 1: smart that need those guys up front. It starts with
Speaker 1: the big uglies and I say that affectionately to those guys.
Speaker 1: You can't get anything going from an offensive standpoint or
Speaker 1: defensive standpoint if your trenches aren't together. And thankfully this
Speaker 1: organization has always recognized that that it starts upfront, and
Speaker 1: that's why they put so much of their resources, whether
Speaker 1: it's draft picks or whether it's dollars, they put so
Speaker 1: much of their resources into their lines of scrimmage, whether
Speaker 1: it's on the offensive side of the ball or defense.
Speaker 1: You think the team on the other sideline, I wish
Speaker 1: they had a good offensive they probably be wishing for.
Speaker 1: And you say that every single year. It feels like
Speaker 1: you look around the league, it's like, Oh, if this
Speaker 1: team had a better offensive line, where would they be?
Speaker 1: That's never going to be the case with the Eagles
Speaker 1: here under this regime. It has been the case for
Speaker 1: a long long time. And how about the players that
Speaker 1: sit behind them? Like the starting five are good, but
Speaker 1: there's some strong players waiting in the wings too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and again Frank touched on it. It's it's really a
Speaker 1: philosophy that's emphasized by the organization, started I believe under
Speaker 1: coach Reid decades ago. But it's it's a blueprint in
Speaker 1: which it leads to success. You have to show up
Speaker 1: your offensive line, and we have good players behind our
Speaker 1: offensive line. Think back to twenty seventeen, we lost some
Speaker 1: key guys there, and they were able to put some
Speaker 1: substitutes in there and really not miss a beat. You
Speaker 1: obviously don't want to lose guys on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but there's a reason why if you happen to lose one,
Speaker 1: guys can step in there. And I always tip my
Speaker 1: cap to Jeff Stotlin, the best offensive line coach in football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing is you want to have the best
Speaker 1: offensive line coach in football because you put so many ane.
Speaker 1: You want somebody that's go with the best chef to
Speaker 1: cook with the best ingredients. That's exactly what you're dealing
Speaker 1: with upfront. All right, Ike, we have another question for you, LSU.
Speaker 1: We got here. You can send it your questions on
Speaker 1: the Facebook comments. Ask I go to big place celebration
Speaker 1: when you played? I mean, you guys need them to
Speaker 1: stand up and like delustrate it. What exactly do you want? Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I didn't have a signature celebration, That's
Speaker 1: that's for certain. But I did you know I would
Speaker 1: come up with trying to come up with stuff that
Speaker 1: was spontaneous out there on the field. I may think
Speaker 1: about doing something throughout the week. Okay, if you get
Speaker 1: a big play here, you get a big tackle here,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Also, didn't want to embarrass
Speaker 1: myself by so there wasn't gonna be any dancing that
Speaker 1: was going on. If I didn't throw this up. I
Speaker 1: usually threw up some sort of fist pump or something
Speaker 1: like that. I usually talk to myself a lot too,
Speaker 1: not words that I could say on camera anything. Normally,
Speaker 1: when you're psyching yourself up, hitting yourself in the face,
Speaker 1: I'm saying some things to myself or to the opponent
Speaker 1: to let them know I'll be here all day. I
Speaker 1: just like imagining, like twenty four year old ike, like
Speaker 1: making a big play. Just yelling victory was in my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go to bed. That's like feeling good
Speaker 1: about that. That would be the clean version of the
Speaker 1: clean version of that. I don't sometimes I don't even
Speaker 1: know where to go from here. When I gets going,
Speaker 1: I just let them take it away, you know, well,
Speaker 1: I tell you being out there, See, when you're when
Speaker 1: you're a role player or cell player, you don't get
Speaker 1: too many opportunities used to make plays out there, and
Speaker 1: you certainly don't get a chance to necessarily celebrate. So
Speaker 1: I I used to always say to myself, when you
Speaker 1: make a play, making a memorable play, and don't embarrass
Speaker 1: yourself celebrating because we had a we had a rough
Speaker 1: locker roll man, and so you came out with the
Speaker 1: wrong celebration you were gonna hear. Did you hear more
Speaker 1: about bad celebrations or bad outfits postgame? Like? What was
Speaker 1: that bad outfits? Always? Yeah, it was. It was like
Speaker 1: a comedy roll show. You came in there with the
Speaker 1: wrong outfits on. And I remember, I can remember my
Speaker 1: rookie year man I Rodney peat was so hard man,
Speaker 1: our quarterback at that time. I remember wearing a shirt
Speaker 1: that these wearing style back then. It was like a
Speaker 1: Vassacci shirt, like a Vassaci shiny late nineties, early two thousands.
Speaker 1: And I remember I remember Rottney Pete calling me Liver
Speaker 1: Racchi because of the shirt that I had on. It
Speaker 1: was one of those shiny Vegas looking shirts, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I think, I see what the Midwestern flavor
Speaker 1: in me. It was kind of like the one BJ
Speaker 1: had on when they played Troit that first week. So
Speaker 1: Midwest has a little more splash and flash to our dressing. Um,
Speaker 1: but you can't do that in the NFL locker room
Speaker 1: because these guys are merciless. Man, you come in with
Speaker 1: the wrong outfit on. I remember Hollis Thomas wore a
Speaker 1: leather suit. Yeah, yeah, you know, Hollis. I don't need
Speaker 1: leather on. So that that was a fun weekend talking
Speaker 1: about Hollis. Well, the new thing to wear around here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia are Batman caps. Don't know ye saw them today?
Speaker 1: Here we go. I've been seeing some tweets from the
Speaker 1: locker room. A Brown said he got it on Amazon
Speaker 1: for nine ninety nine, so I'm sure Eagles fans are
Speaker 1: currently blowing up their Amazon Prime accounts ordering themselves. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what my hollow Halloween costume is going
Speaker 1: to be. Batman. Yeah, I want J Brown, got it,
Speaker 1: Smitty got it? Okay for everyone. I'm more of a
Speaker 1: I'm more of a I'm not a Swoll Batman. That's
Speaker 1: j Swoll Batman. I mean, I'm somewhere between skinny bat
Speaker 1: skinny Batman and the fast Batman. I'm not like Swoll Batman.
Speaker 1: I like swollen Batman. I'm at that question. I like
Speaker 1: how I just self proclaimed himself. Yeah, oh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to be smitty d I want
Speaker 1: to requests. I don't know what do I want in
Speaker 1: between quiz and the slim Reaper. I'm in between those.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you can keep submitting your questions and
Speaker 1: ask I in the Facebook comments. Guys, where do we
Speaker 1: go for me? I mean, we've gone completely off the
Speaker 1: rails here today. Well, now it's a good thing. Here's
Speaker 1: where I would go. Let's go to Jonathan Gannon. I
Speaker 1: talked about the defense earlier, obviously giving love to the
Speaker 1: defensive line in nine sacks, But the game plans that
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon has put together the last two weeks, I
Speaker 1: don't see how anybody can complain about him. I thought
Speaker 1: last week he took advantage of a situation where the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings when they started to become predictable on offense
Speaker 1: in that second half, Jonathan Gannon he ramped up the pressure.
Speaker 1: When you know you're gonna sit back there and throw, throw, throw.
Speaker 1: He had the opportunity to get at the Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: in that offense, and then you come into this week.
Speaker 1: He didn't need to bring in extra guys, He didn't
Speaker 1: need to bring an extra pressure let that front four
Speaker 1: eat and then I like how he mixed up the
Speaker 1: coverages pre snap and then once that's the snap of
Speaker 1: the ball, he gave Carson something else to look at.
Speaker 1: I know the Washington's offensive line wasn't very good today,
Speaker 1: but some of that was because what the secondary and
Speaker 1: defense was doing the force wins to hold the ball.
Speaker 1: We know Carson very well. You give him a pre
Speaker 1: snap look. He has a pre snap read. If you
Speaker 1: don't change it up, he could take advantage. He can
Speaker 1: pick you apart. But you're giving some different looks to
Speaker 1: where pre snap versus a snap at the ball. Now
Speaker 1: he doesn't know where to go with the football, and
Speaker 1: that's when he sits back there patting the baby and
Speaker 1: you end up getting sacks. And I thought Jonathan Gannon
Speaker 1: did a great job. They obviously had the inside intil
Speaker 1: on what frustrates cars at times at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: They were able to implement that today and I thought
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon his game playing to day was outstanding. You
Speaker 1: talked about with Minnesota's offense, how they were very predictable.
Speaker 1: You know that, hey, we're gonna drop backdrop back, drop
Speaker 1: back late in that game. I think what we've seen
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. This defense is very unpredictable,
Speaker 1: especially when they send pressure a number of times. Here today,
Speaker 1: I saw a number of second down pressure, second and long.
Speaker 1: Where you look last year you looked at the pressure scheme,
Speaker 1: the blitzing, especially in the second half, it was mostly
Speaker 1: third down. I was like, all right, certain long Eagles
Speaker 1: are gonna are gonna send pressure and they're gonna play
Speaker 1: man to man coverage. This year we're seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of a variety. And that's the thing is like, if
Speaker 1: you're an opposing quarterback first down, second down, third down,
Speaker 1: potential for blitz is there. Maybe the volume is not
Speaker 1: as high as other teams, but you have to be
Speaker 1: ready for it at any given point. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that has stood out over
Speaker 1: the first three weeks is that this defense really mixing
Speaker 1: up coverages and pressures, all the different front looks as
Speaker 1: well with guys lining up inside and outside the personnel groupings.
Speaker 1: To me, the variety is what stands out about this defense.
Speaker 1: We got another question for Yike. Let's say we have
Speaker 1: from Eagles fans, what was your favorite play from the
Speaker 1: offense through the first three games and what was your
Speaker 1: favorite play from the defense no pressure yet really digging
Speaker 1: the memory box here, I mean with the offense has
Speaker 1: been so much there from an offensive standpoint, My favorite
Speaker 1: play from the offense. Wow, you gotta come back to
Speaker 1: me on that one. It's easier to defense, I think defense.
Speaker 1: Is it that James Bradbury pick six where Kaiser White
Speaker 1: gets up and blocks out in front. Oh, I was
Speaker 1: gonna go with the slate interception first slate interception because
Speaker 1: he's matched up on Justin Jefferson, and Justin Jefferson really
Speaker 1: has a two or three way go on Slay and
Speaker 1: really he has to be sound in his technique in
Speaker 1: order to defend his play. He does a great job
Speaker 1: film study, tape study, understanding where they want to go
Speaker 1: with the ball, and he's able to jump that route.
Speaker 1: Reason why that's one of my favorite plays because it
Speaker 1: really highlights how good of a player Big Place Slay is.
Speaker 1: And it's not just from sheer athleticism. It's up here
Speaker 1: as well. He misme of Troy Vincent. From that standpoint,
Speaker 1: he's a better athlete probably than Troy Vincent. Don't tell
Speaker 1: the Troy I said that, but from the from the
Speaker 1: intelligence part of it, and understanding your opponent. I think
Speaker 1: their neck and neck. That's the one thing Troy always had.
Speaker 1: He understood who he was going up against and that
Speaker 1: gave him the advantage, and I think it does that
Speaker 1: for Slay as well. Now I can go back to
Speaker 1: the office now to something that's popped in my head.
Speaker 1: So many throws from Jalen Hurst, it's hard to choose
Speaker 1: which one that I like the most. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with a play from today, the play DeVante Smith called
Speaker 1: had the safety help over the top, he had the
Speaker 1: corner under him where he went up to get the football,
Speaker 1: but he was right before the half where they scored
Speaker 1: right in half. That was a very good played from Davonte.
Speaker 1: Or the play that didn't get challenged in the first
Speaker 1: half challenge they should have talked about them on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: They feel like they only talked about seven eight times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was also a great play from Davonte. So hard
Speaker 1: to choose from when so many guys have been making
Speaker 1: plays offensively and Jalen has really been at the forefront
Speaker 1: of that given his guys uh the opportunity to make
Speaker 1: those plays. So that played right there to to de Bonte.
Speaker 1: Just you don't expect that. I expect that play from
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, you know, I guess now I should expect
Speaker 1: that from Devonte. This guy's a Heisman Trophy winner, a
Speaker 1: very good wide receiver. I know we've been Google Guy
Speaker 1: guy over aj rightfully, so we may have forgotten just
Speaker 1: how good Number six can be when he gets his opportunities.
Speaker 1: In the last two weeks, man, he's looked very good, outstanding.
Speaker 1: The really the performance that reminds me us was Davonte
Speaker 1: last year against Denver. Remember he had a couple of
Speaker 1: those big catches in that game, a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But Jayalen Hurts in this game, guys, first quarterback since
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, since Donovan against the Rams early
Speaker 1: in that season, to go for two seventy five and
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in the first half. So again, just talking
Speaker 1: about this passing game. Jalen Hurts, A J Brown, DeVante Smith,
Speaker 1: the hits keep on going. Dallas Goddard obviously just a
Speaker 1: really fun offense to watch. We're talking about Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from the man himself. Jalen Hurts at the podium,
Speaker 1: all right, questing for John. Hey, Joe, you take us
Speaker 1: through the sequence on that play that that's plays at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half and didn't have time
Speaker 1: outs and the seconds for ficking down said the actual
Speaker 1: touchdown play wasn't in the game play? Um, what else
Speaker 1: did you say? That was what I remember? Yeah, well, um,
Speaker 1: we're in a situation in the game where we didn't
Speaker 1: have any timeoutse um, and pretty much you just had
Speaker 1: to make sure we're on the same page. Um. Kind
Speaker 1: of loud in the stadium. Um. So to to his saying, Um,
Speaker 1: it probably wasn't the intended call, um, but um, the
Speaker 1: all eleven guys on the field being on the same
Speaker 1: page and making the play work, that was called um
Speaker 1: from the quarterback. So, um, he made a great kids,
Speaker 1: made a really good kids. Even in the words the
Speaker 1: kind of game he had today. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: acrobatic catchers forty four yards, forty five yards. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's that's that's who he is. He's he's a
Speaker 1: he's a great player, UM, all around player. You know,
Speaker 1: slim reaper, slim reaper, h by the eyes. He may
Speaker 1: be a little slide, but he plays like a big
Speaker 1: boy and he is he's a grown man. So talk
Speaker 1: about that, you talk about the crowd noise. Most of
Speaker 1: that was for you guys. Did you feel it? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to give a special shout out to the
Speaker 1: Eaves fans, everybody who came out to FedEx Field. Um,
Speaker 1: it definitely felt like a felt like a home game. UM.
Speaker 1: Just a the how loud it was and there how
Speaker 1: much green and black was in the stadium. UM, it
Speaker 1: was very, very impressive and it was a sight to see. So, UM,
Speaker 1: you got to keep keep riding like that, keep going.
Speaker 1: J Will you call that play the establishing? What did
Speaker 1: you like about it? We made a great catch. UM,
Speaker 1: it's you know, we we kind of put ourselves in
Speaker 1: these situations all the time. And UM, like I said,
Speaker 1: one thing I've talked about all week is it's being
Speaker 1: on the same page with the coaches. UM. Making sure
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page seeing the game the same way. UM.
Speaker 1: So when there is a situation where communication is maybe
Speaker 1: not the best, maybe I'm not getting to play in
Speaker 1: because of how loud it is or whatever. UM, they
Speaker 1: they expect me to make it work with something that
Speaker 1: I know that will be UM, that will put us
Speaker 1: in an advantageous place to execute the play. UM. And
Speaker 1: that was one of those plays again not having any
Speaker 1: time out. I think it was a really big time
Speaker 1: played by him to go up there and snatch the
Speaker 1: ball out the air went the ball and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: get us points, get us points before I have time.
Speaker 1: And obviously I look back on it, UM and I
Speaker 1: we preach on important this to double dip and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that question will be coming soon the second half
Speaker 1: and how we play it, so I answer it now. UM,
Speaker 1: just just just just coming out in the second half,
Speaker 1: and UM, I want to say, not losing our intensity.
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody, UM has the right type of
Speaker 1: focus going into the second half. We just have to execute. UM.
Speaker 1: I think there are a couple a handful of plays
Speaker 1: in the second half where it can go the whole
Speaker 1: entire other way if we just hit it. If I
Speaker 1: you know, if we connect on the throw to Aj,
Speaker 1: a whole different feeling the second half, if we get
Speaker 1: Dallas the ball U, if we handle a certain pressure
Speaker 1: a certain way, UM, and those are all things that
Speaker 1: we can control. And that was my message to the team.
Speaker 1: You know, we go out there, UM, you lick yourself
Speaker 1: in the mirror as a man, and you say, am
Speaker 1: I controlling the things that I can control. Um, And
Speaker 1: if you can do that, that's how you get better.
Speaker 1: That's how you take steps, because that's a that's a
Speaker 1: kind of a piece of accountability. UM. But it's also
Speaker 1: the first step and you know, in the right direction
Speaker 1: to um growth, controlling the things you can's having to
Speaker 1: hunt through this first several drives. What do you mean
Speaker 1: if the defense is able to have such a dominating
Speaker 1: performance against against sins Well, I think, um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you know, if they were able to affect them early. Um,
Speaker 1: just to the front seven, Um, they played, they played
Speaker 1: a great game. They played a great game. Um, non sexes,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That's that's crazy. And we'll
Speaker 1: playing for the other eleven other ten guys on the
Speaker 1: field to not see their quarterback panic in one of
Speaker 1: those and the half tip situations. I can't tell you.
Speaker 1: I mean that's something that you kind of have to
Speaker 1: describe yourself. I mean that's who I am. Um. I
Speaker 1: try not to get too high, I get too low
Speaker 1: regardless of the situation, and just make it work. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we kind of get caught up in Well, this
Speaker 1: is the perfect look for this. This is like make
Speaker 1: the play work. And that's that's my mentality out there
Speaker 1: playing quarterback. And UM, I know I'm a reflection of
Speaker 1: the team. I'm a reflection of all the other guys
Speaker 1: on the field. UM I know they have their eyes
Speaker 1: on me. I mean they expect me to lead them.
Speaker 1: So I just want to do my job to my
Speaker 1: best abilities. For three year old get into the season.
Speaker 1: One of the some of the things that you see differently,
Speaker 1: this is as opposed to when you've got to play
Speaker 1: last year. Honestly, I don't in terms of us um
Speaker 1: playing to our standard and being who we think we
Speaker 1: can be as a football team, I said, it's about
Speaker 1: the same, you know I think, Um, I think you
Speaker 1: know we've yet to play our best ball yet. Um
Speaker 1: I think we're close in terms of executing on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis throughout four quarters of the football game. UM.
Speaker 1: Last year, you know, I remember I remember being asked
Speaker 1: the question of how close? How close are you? Saying
Speaker 1: this every week. Well, I think it's the same situation here.
Speaker 1: We just got three wins in our column. But um,
Speaker 1: I could care less about it because we haven't played
Speaker 1: to our standard yet. UM. So if we can continue
Speaker 1: to strive and play to our standard. Everything else to
Speaker 1: handle itself. And that's the day by day thing. Receivers
Speaker 1: they drive you know. Obviously the first game, I mean
Speaker 1: Jay Brown had a huge fan in Demante obviously day
Speaker 1: What does that say, like, you know, when the defense
Speaker 1: is trying to like stop on those guys, it just
Speaker 1: seems like it's pretty hard. Yeah, I think, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that as I said it out there on
Speaker 1: the field of work. We put it in the off season, um,
Speaker 1: which it is supposed to show in times like this. Um.
Speaker 1: The trust we haven't one another, UM been on the
Speaker 1: same page. Um to see it paying off now it's great.
Speaker 1: Well we know there's more to it, um, and we
Speaker 1: know you know, it's just the beginning. UM, but I
Speaker 1: have have a new messis amount of trust and every
Speaker 1: guy on the field eighty eight U eleven six, sixteen three, UM,
Speaker 1: all the running backs, everybody. You see g Cop coming
Speaker 1: in there making a big time play when Dallas wasn't available. Um,
Speaker 1: same with Jack Stole. So UM, it takes it takes
Speaker 1: a group effort, you know, and together everyone the teams
Speaker 1: achieves more, you know what I mean. And it takes
Speaker 1: everybody person wins this team. You and Carson are going
Speaker 1: to be connected probably for your entire careers. And you
Speaker 1: had a great game the first time you played Carson wins.
Speaker 1: Now that it's over, is there any satisfaction for you
Speaker 1: that you've you've shown that you've been into a handle.
Speaker 1: I say not. Um, I just think it's it's very
Speaker 1: good for us to come in here week three and
Speaker 1: get another win, regardless of the opponent. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: faces opponent to me. UM, and we came out here,
Speaker 1: we were able to get away with a win. Um.
Speaker 1: We didn't play to our standard and that's kind of
Speaker 1: the biggest takeaway I have from this game, same with
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. So, UM, we're grateful for the win.
Speaker 1: But but I'm not satisfied. Different now than he was
Speaker 1: a year ago. Yeah, I think, Um, he's always been
Speaker 1: who he is. UM. I don't think Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's the same guy. I think, Um, he's gotten more
Speaker 1: comfortable than what he's doing. UM. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great compliment to have who we have on the field
Speaker 1: outside UM, and I think, UM, he's a guy where
Speaker 1: UM know when when his number is called, I know
Speaker 1: you answered the phone. Thanks. Thanks Jalen Hurts with three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns today. So earlier fran broke down one of
Speaker 1: his touchdowns to Dallas Goddard in this week's Freako review.
Speaker 1: All right, so this week here on the Rico Review,
Speaker 1: and I take a look back to the first half.
Speaker 1: A sack phoneble by Brandon Graham leads to the Eagles
Speaker 1: getting the ball deep in Washington territory, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense capitalizes with a touchdown pass from Jalen Hurts to
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard, a screen pass to the tight end. By
Speaker 1: the way, Dallas Goddard comes into this game fifth in
Speaker 1: the NFL in yards after catching the entire league. So
Speaker 1: how did they get him the ball in space? Here?
Speaker 1: Really well designed play action screen pass. So here's what
Speaker 1: the Eagles do on this play. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a fake run two running back Miles Sanders, and all
Speaker 1: the Eagles are gonna pretend to do here is they're
Speaker 1: gonna pull the offensive tackle Jordan Malata in the hole.
Speaker 1: Not often that you get tackle power. Not many teams
Speaker 1: run this play where you're gonna pull the offensive tackle
Speaker 1: to the opposite side. The Eagles do run it, and
Speaker 1: these linebackers they see it and It's like they want
Speaker 1: to flow to the football as fast as possible, So
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and flow really fast to the opposing side.
Speaker 1: And what that does is it creates really favorable angles
Speaker 1: for center Jason Kelsey and for guard Isaac Saymalu. So
Speaker 1: we'll let this run here for a second and watch
Speaker 1: as soon as that play fake happens, watch those Washington linebackers.
Speaker 1: They both flow to that side. Then you see Jason
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Isaac saymala do an outstanding job of leveraging
Speaker 1: their blocks. They create an alleyway for Dallas Goddard. You
Speaker 1: can see there's the alley. He's just got to one
Speaker 1: man miss. It's Dallas Goddard versus the safety Cameron curl
Speaker 1: and Goddard does the rest here outstanding move in the
Speaker 1: open field. He's able to get the rest of the
Speaker 1: way into the end zone for a touchdown. The Eagles
Speaker 1: offense well designed play there. We know about this run game, well,
Speaker 1: that makes the play action pass go as well. Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard twenty three yards to the house for a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: got three players up. Fletcher Cox, what a day for
Speaker 1: the big boys up front, two quarterback hits to tackle
Speaker 1: for loss. And then Brandon Graham he ate today two
Speaker 1: two and a half sacks, five quarterback hits. Thirteen years
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and he has not taken his foot
Speaker 1: off the gas. The offensive side of the ball. DeVante Smith,
Speaker 1: you can't forget about him. Eight receptions, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards and that touchdown. What do we think, guys, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very unpratdictable heart and it's great of
Speaker 1: a defensive effort as it was the nine sacks. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: the Slim Reaper is your player of the game. DeVante
Speaker 1: Smith was outstanding today. I gotta go. I gotta go
Speaker 1: with Smith, Skinty Batman, I just want to get all
Speaker 1: of your former teammates on the fall. After a nine
Speaker 1: sack performance, you're going offense. Brandon Graham had two and
Speaker 1: a half sacks, He had five quarterback hits. He was
Speaker 1: constantly around the football, run game, pass game, give its
Speaker 1: number fifty five. All right, I gotta tell you a secret.
Speaker 1: In my former life, I was a wide receiver. You're
Speaker 1: the wide receiver that was in between quastrophy. You know,
Speaker 1: I still felt like my high school coach. And give
Speaker 1: me an opportunity to stow what I could should have
Speaker 1: been a receiver. Not lying back. You've moved on. You've
Speaker 1: moved on. You don't think it early, clearly moved on.
Speaker 1: All right, Jami's a nightcap. Doug Peterson's coming back to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: The Jacksonvill Jaguars will hit the road. They'll be at
Speaker 1: the Link on Sunday at one o'clock. They're playing right now.
Speaker 1: They lead the Chargers thirteen to seven in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: What do we think I was ever a pretty good Yeah, Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they win that division. You know,
Speaker 1: Doug's down there, great job of coaching earlier young team.
Speaker 1: They believe in him. There's a lot of talent on
Speaker 1: that defensive side of the ball, and you know he'll
Speaker 1: have his guys ready to go next week. Oh, we'll
Speaker 1: see how the rest of this game goes. Right now,
Speaker 1: they've got the lead on the Chargers. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: this right now. This is the best team the Eagles
Speaker 1: have faced yet. This team defensively outstanding for the first
Speaker 1: two games. Watch both of them on Thursday. Watch both
Speaker 1: games on offense on Friday. This team is kicking right
Speaker 1: now on offense, very very efficient. You know about Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: The scheme is really good Defensively, that is a really
Speaker 1: tough group that front gets after they play a lot
Speaker 1: of aggressive man covers. That's a good team. One of
Speaker 1: my former teammates, yeah, I'm a mentor when I came
Speaker 1: into the league, defensive coordinator Mike call Well down there
Speaker 1: for Doug Peterson. We were all former teammates at one point, Doug,
Speaker 1: Mike and myself. So it's great to see that Mike
Speaker 1: has his guys. I wonder if he's incorporating a little
Speaker 1: bit of Jim Johnson and there. He's probably got a
Speaker 1: lot more Todd Bowles in there. Right. Well, he's got
Speaker 1: a little bit more motivation this week after I pick
Speaker 1: a wide receiver for Toyota Player of the Week. He's
Speaker 1: coming after us a little bit more now that he
Speaker 1: knows you've turned to the dark side. Chrevyl Lawrence is
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at nine sacks today and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be watching up with his eyes wide well. Be sure
Speaker 1: to tune into the Kickoff Show at twelve ten, right
Speaker 1: before that one o'clock kick. We will have you covered
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