Coach. First of all, congratulations. We need so much druma in this game. You really don't. Sometimes we make this thing too hard on ourselves, quite frankly, with especially with a two score lead like we had. But you know, it's a it's a resilient group, as we know, we've talked about that all season, and they find a way to win. I mean it's a lot of individual efforts today, but but quite frankly, this was a great team win.
How important was it for you to get Darren sprows out and will first involved in the offense and in space the way you got him today? Yeah, I think it's important. Each week, you know, we're still um giving him more and more kind of each week kind of we've been kind of easing him back and with the injury, just don't want to push him. But after these last couple of weeks he can definitely take a little more
on on us plate. And you know he can be and he can be a matchup nightmare sometimes for for defenders and especially linebackers, and um, you know it's it's it's sometimes it's a you know, a safety blanket for the quarterback to knowing where your running backs are going. To be as far as the passing game goes, and then to make that long run he did at the end to put us really into field goal range is something that is a credit to him and just a
great job. You knew that defense at front seven Clowney, those guys could direct the defense or wreck your offense. He got some early what made the difference late in the game though, where he wasn't nearly as effective. You know, I think I think, you know when you get no situations that first of all, Clowney and J. J. Watty,
these are tremendous players. These guys are tremendous and and uh, you know, JJ kind of kind of had his way a little bit early in this football game, and you know, really the whole game, I guess I should say, but you know, I think I think it comes to time where um, you know, they started moving him around too late in the game. So once you start moving him around, you know, he pushed them through the middle of the pocket.
I understand what they're trying to do is put a little pressure up the middle, and he's a long guy. He could probably bat some balls down. But um, a great job by our offensive line just handling him late in the game and allowing Nick to complete the balls. You talked about the individual performances and Nick himself drawing for a four hundred and seventy one yards on the day. How big was this performance and then coming back in after that big hit. Yeah, you know, I mean Nick
had a tremendous game. I think he set a record today for for Eagles as far as the passing goes and yardage and all that. And then happy for him. And you know, he'll be the first to tell you that he credits everybody else's you know, that's just that's just it, Nick, And he credits his receivers, is lying his backs everybody else. And you know that's the thing about it is, you know, he's that point guard that
just wants to distribute the ball. He wants to get the ball in his playmaker's hands and and let them, let them do the work. And you know it's just a it's a credit to him he gets the ball out of his hand. And um, you know, it's probably more again about about the team kind of hanging together and being resilient and and really making plays for Nick. I mean, you know, you put a pass up and Alshan just elevates again played in the game, makes it
comes down with a huge, huge catch. I mean, those are those are just things that are our playmakers are starting to do. They're often centered around Watson and of course Hopkins, but you're able to limit them somewhat. What was the plan with their quarterback? Well, Number one, things we try You try to keep him in the pocket, yes, um, and if you can't, then you have to try to get him down in space. And there were times today where we didn't do a very good job of either one. Um. Now,
credit credit him. He's a tremendous athlete. He broke out us some tackles today that you're just kind of wild moments, you know. And and he's gonna continue to grow and get better. But you know, if you can kind of isolate him and control him, keep him in the pocket, um, you can get him on the ground and force him to make some erratic throws. But he's a special player. Uh. And you know, Hopkins is another one of those receivers
that can be very explosive. Um. You know, late in the game they went after him a little bit and targeted him and a little bit more and you know, um, that's what you do you put the ball in your playmaker's hands. I have to ask you about not necessarily the play calls anyone in particular, but when you have to go through the adversity that you have to go through, when you're getting those calls that go against you, what do you tell your guys? How do you keep your
guys up in those situations. I just keep telling them that we just got to continue to fight through it. I mean, that's all you can do. Um. You know, sometimes sometimes the call is gonna go against you. Sometimes it's gonna go in your favor. We just got to kind of block it out, block out the noise, and just just move on to the next play. It's like making a bad play. If you make a bad play, don't focus on it. Move forward. Let's get better the next time. Thanks coach, Thank quick