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still alive, is what it means. I had sworn after the Giants game, I am not going to talk playoff possibilities again. But you look at the math. It's not an easy path. But had they lost this game, you couldn't even discuss it. Now at five and four, it's a maybe. I had thought they might gain some ground on the division. That didn't happen. But they have a winning record, so you always have the path. You know, I'm gonna disagree with you on this sense. You don't

see him as a playoff team. I see no. I don't think a loss would have knocked out the conversation because the Green Bay Packers aren't what we thought they were. The Cincinnati Bengals are a struggling football team, the Baltimore Ravens are very beatable. And Seattle comes off that big win against New England. Will they be at that going on?

I like the matchup into the week here. I'll just get you caught up, and we're not gonna get you caught up on anything happening today because it's really nothing happening today at the Overcare Complex. But what we have for you is an exclusive Jason Peters, who we don't hear a whole lot from with the media. We put a microphone on him during a game against the Atlanta Falcons. What does Jason Peters have to say in the game and on the sidelines, we take a listen? All right,

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the tank. And through nine games, knock on wood, he's played very very well, really good. After last year when he missed a lot of time in games, would get hurt, would leave the game, didn't know if he was playing. He's only missed seventeen plays all year. I shouldn't even say missed. He's only been out for seventeen plays all year. Real bounce back year for him. And you mentioned the NFC East earlier. We're going to take a look around

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I'm duncan. Time now for Glenn macnow to take over the stage. It's his five Takeaways, a weekly feature here on Eagles three sixty. I enjoy it. You enjoy it. Let's see what's got. That's it. You're leaving it. I'm here by myself now. Yeah, yeah, he comments. Of course I always won your comments number one, and this is the one we've been waiting for. Carson Wentz's first fourth quarter win. How nice was that to see Falcons hold

a fifteen thirteen lead in the fourth quarter. Kind of early, but still eight play seventy six yard drive for the touchdown. He was five for five forty two yards on the drive. This is not the last minute far Van dramatic kind of drive, but it counts. He hadn't done it in the fourth quarter. He did it. That was really nice to see and also nice to see him playing so well at the beginning of the game, completed his first aid pass on a touchdown drive on the first possession.

You know what would be nice to read about that in the Philadelphia media. Here about that on Philadelphia Sports talk radio. Okay, you take how about that? How about that? That's hims Okay, I am not writing the media and won the heart of the story this week. Okay, am I the first to say that is Wow, here you go. Number two rookies are contributing and Wentz, but not just Wentz. We had talked to her in the week. I told you Wendel Smallwood was one of the guys. I thought,

let's see him do something. Thirteen carries, seventy yards. Really nice game by the rookie. Your guy Vitai continues to show he's very solid every week. Jalen Mills, he hung in there against Julio John's You're gonna get beat sometimes, but he fought back and I was pleased to see that and see them getting in there kind of that extra tackle. Eligible was in there to block for a lot of plays where they gained a lot of yards. That's four rookies, five rookies that really meant something in

this game. Yeah, and Destiny Vaejo plays a lot in the rotation at defensive tackles. So yeah, six rookies contributing quite a bit. Bryce Treg's also a rookie. Not a lot of playing time, no targets him. A little disappointed didn't see Moore him. But I like the youth stepping up when the Eagles needed all right. Number three, we talked about Jason Peters and Jason Peters and the offensive

line really had a nice game. A lot of credit to Ryan Matthew's for what he contributed and Smallwood, but those holes were created by an offensive line that was really on its game. The linemen were pulling. You saw Lineman, you saw Peters, You saw Kelsey fifteen twenty yards up the field making those blocks. That mobility was great to see. You saw Eagles runners getting through the line completely untouched, and the quarterback had good protection. I thought it was

all in all an excellent game by the line. Absolutely agree with you. One huge challenge on Sunday in the raucous environments in Seattle. All right, Yes it is, although they're apparently the Seahawks is an overlook game for them. That's what I hear in certain parts. Number four. The defense, at least at home, is a top five defense in this league. They've given up three touchdowns in the four home games. This defense, they were all over it. And

it starts, of course, with the defensive line. How nice was it to see Benny Logan back there. I know it didn't show up on the stat sheet, but I thought he was really disrupting there in the middle of the run. You got the pass rush. They only had two sacks, but I think it was six hurries. I think it was six hits on Matt Ryan. I think that the defense, particularly defensive line, showed up to play

at home. Now they got to do it on the road. Yeah, it's the home field advantage for the Eagles significant this year with four huge games coming Green Bay and then the NFC East Rivals. So keep it going. I look at financial field all right. Number five. I really like how Darren's Sprowles was used on Sunday. You and I have been debating, and the whole town has been debating. Can he be your lead back? Can he carry the

ball twenty times a game? I think not, But he was open every single time they went to that little pass, that little swing pass. I think he had six catches. Most of them seem to be first downs. For me. It was there all day. And this guy has not caught five hundred passes in the NFL by accident. Darren Sprowles as a receiver out of the backfield beautiful. Is Darren Sprowles a Hall of Famer? No, he's you know what it is, And I always like there's ways to quantify.

He's in the discussion. You know, they have the various cutdowns. He makes it past the first cutdown, certainly, maybe makes it to the finalists. No, he's an unusual player who's got some great career stats. I don't think he's a Hall of Famer because he hasn't enough dominant stats in one category. Yeah, I think because if you ever ranked the top twenty five players in the NFL in a

given year, Darren Sproles isn't gonna make it, Okay. I think he didn't want to minimum tremendous players saying he's not a Hall of Famer. I don't mean to know. He's so hard to categorize for voters who don't appreciate him. I mean, before he came to Philadelphia, how much did you really appreciate Darren Spoils. You didn't watch him that much. You saw him in the playoff game. I always love those Saints games. Yeah him, Yeah, but really appreciate how great is who he is. But career not a Hall

of Famer. Yeah, so good list. That's Glenn's five takeaways from the win over the Atlanta Falcons. When we return now on Eagles three sixty, we're here from head coach Doug Peterson. Is weekly one on one, presented of course by Wah Wah. We're coming right back. This portion of Eagles three sixty was presented by McDonald's Mix and Match on McDonald's mcpick two for two dollars and fifty cent menu now featuring Fileo Fish for a limited time. I'm

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Wawa Dave Spider. Here like way, I dropped my voice there, Doug Peterson. See how happy everybody is after a win? I like it? Yeah. Great letter Let's first begin with Lincoln Financial Field and the energy from the crowd. Philadelphia sports fans sometimes, Doug Nationally get a bad rap, and you've been here, you've been in Kansas City, a great fan base there. Also, Philadelphia Eagles fans certainly don't deserve any kind of bad rap this season, Dave, you apply right.

You know we've had we've had these four home games and and our our our crowd has been phenomenal each week. I mean, everybody stays to the end, nobody's leaving. Um, you know, hopefully they enjoy what they're seeing on the

football field. And and uh, that crowd noise. You can see the impact it has on not only our team, but you can see the impact on the opposing teams that come in here and how how much they struggle, whether they jump off sides or we can we can generate a pass rush, or we get a big first down on offense or an electric kickoff return. But but

our crowd has been has been phenomenal all year. Do you think that the routine change home game versus road game contributes to just in general NFL home team success. You're in your own bad for the week, You're fairly. Can you don't get a plane and travel, Yeah, it can, it can, and and uh, you know, of course, our first half of the season we had we were on

the road quite a bit. And now we get some some home games here down the stretch, and so it's gonna be it's gonna be imperative that we that that one, our players know how to handle the home game, but but that our fans are there each and every week. And it is different than being on the road because you're you are at your you know, on a Friday or Saturday, you're you're you can relax at home. Yeah, we do stay in the hotel and we do all

that like like a normal road trip. But the fact of the matter is you you've got a two mile drive, you know, to the stadium as opposed to a bus ride that might be twenty twenty five minutes. It's just the whole thing is a little bit different, you know, home in a way. And this week though, duggets on the road. It's maybe the most difficult place to play in the National Football League in Seattle. What is it like being on the sidelines there? It's extremely loud, extremely loud.

It's it's uh one of the loudest outdoor stadiums um outside of Kansas City, where I just came from, you know, in the National Football League. And and we we've got to do a great job of handling the crowd noise with our silent cadence on offense, being able to get off on the snap count number one and the number two.

You know, um, you know, just just trying to minimize penalties, minimize mistakes on both sides of the ball, and and and go in there with the mindset of, hey, if we can, if we can somehow eliminate whether it be an early touchdown, m a long punt return, kickoff return, an interception to turnover, something like that, if we can sort of minimize that crowd, it's definitely definitely an advantage to us for the fans who are going to watch

on Sunday. Silent count, if you can explain what it is, and then the role of the right guard who taps Jason sometimes once, sometimes twice, how do you vary it? How does everybody know all this stuff? It's just based on the things we communicate in the huddle. You know, we we just were not a traditional on one team, you know, we we go on twos, we go on threes, we go on double cadences. You know, even even when we're doing our normal verbal loud cadence, UM, we do

the same thing in the silent. So it's all based on the touch. It's all based on Kelsey's head turn. It's something that the league emphasize point of emphasis this year. The centers really have to be careful. They don't, you know, snap their heads too violently to draw teams off sides. But it's all we was everything that we would normally on a verbal loud cadence, we do the same thing in the silent, and Brandon's a big part of that.

With the touch. Doug on Sunday, big win against the Falcon's fourth quarter lead, lost it, came back, won the game, something that you hadn't done through the first part of this season. What does this demonstrate to you about this football team, especially offensively, is is that we're maturing. We're learning how to handle these situations. You know, still playing

with a lot of young guys at certain spots. Um. You know, with big v in there, it was great to see Isaac get in there a little bit as a tight end and do some good things, and and then and then then Ryan and Wendale Smallwood down the stretch. Um. But but it's great that that we're learning now how

to how to finish these football games. And that's all part of you know, the success that we have now in the last half of the season is because everything now gets a little more magnified too closer you get to the postseason, and if you have a chance to play past January first, then then you got to learn

how to finish these games. Nice to know for you that you've got this ability to change it up like that, that you can dial up a run game and say, hey, guys, we're gonna we're gonna play smash Mouth and know it's gonna work. I mean, you kind of had an idea, but you had never done that. And you know what, we haven't We haven't really shown that. It was great to see yesterday, Um, you know against the Falcons, to see that type of running, running, explosiveness, that we had

a lot of explosive runs. Yeah, you know, it wasn't just like three yards four yards. We had some explosive runs that really helped our offense, you know, stay on the field. But that's the that's the belief that I had and maybe maybe I just need to I just need to dial more runs up, you know, maybe maybe you know that's something that I look at every Monday. I gotta go, okay, how many how many runs? You know?

I went into this game thinking I need to be around thirty attempts, and I think we had thirty eight attempts, So that's something to consider. We didn't fall behind in this game early like we had, you know, against the Giants the week before, down fourteen nothing, so it kind of changes a little bit. You're playing catchup, so um,

something to look at every week. Um, you know, I was proud of the guys the way they handled it with that Ryan to an outstanding job running the ball and something we can we can definitely build on in future. What are Mondays like for you? I mean when when loser draw, are you sitting there just really not beating yourself up, but really and not even questioning yourself, but just challenging yourself when you watch the game I do

I go back and and obviously win or lose. I want to make sure that that that that I've done everything as a coach to put our team in that because I'm calling the players on offense. So I'm very very hard on myself and I want to make sure that I'm doing right by the players and putting them in the right positions and and then just managing the game overall. You know, offense, defense, special teams are We're making the right calls here, their decisions here and there,

and so that's that's part of your Monday morning. And then and then you just uh, you know, you get through the lunchtime hour and you start you start looking at your next next week's opponent. Five rookies, coach are playing really significant roles now that Isaac is five draft picks are really playing significant roles. And then also Destiny, So you're six rookies playing quite a bit here. Uh,

the future is bright for this football team. One. It's just a tribute to uh, to Howie Roseman and his staff and bringing these guys and drafting these guys and and making our team better. You know, it always starts in the April draft, and you never know how rookies are gonna play. It's um, you know, it's something that it's great that we got all these rookies playing now, you know, this first year because it's just going to

make our team stronger in the future. And and and we begin to put pieces around Carson and then of course this defense and who knows, who knows what's going to happen in the future. But you know, big v Isaac, these guys, Wendell, Carson, all these guys on offense, um can be very uh um, very explosive. And it's great. It's great to see they're getting all these rents. A lot of season to be played here. Coach, what about Seattle good football team, big win on Sunday night? You

know what it's it's another another test. You know, we're going on the road. Obviously, we talked about the crowd noise, um. Very similar structure of defense obviously, then what we just what we saw in Atlanta. You know, offensively there they can be very explosive. Again, I think, uh, you know their quarterback is playing playing well right now. Um, you know,

I got some explosive receivers, you know. And again defensively, there's some personnel there that uh, you know, we've I've had a chance to play these guys you know here in the last couple of years, and we've had success. But tough place to play. You know it's a it's a challenging place and we gotta be ready to go. Yeah. Well, hey, good luck. I know you got a lot of busy time this week, getting ready for that noise, ready for that crowd, ready for the test that Seattle brings to

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NFC is presented by Bob's Discount Furniture. Dave Spidero Glenn mac Now it's Eagles three sixty and Glenn, it's just hard to get traction in the NFC Beast what a division, Dave. I looked at this week going in right, I thought, Okay, the Eagles are at home. It's a tough team, but if they can beat Atlanta, they're gonna gain ground. Because the Giants had a tough game. I thought Dallas going into Pittsburgh was gonna be a win for Pittsburgh and the Redskins had a tough game. They all won, so

we started the top of the division. We talk about the Dallas Cowboys eighth straight wins, no quarterback controversy, and rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott absolutely probably the leading candidate to be the MVP in the National Football League this year. Glen Glens my first note there. Yeah, Glen's got his ballot ready to go. He's gonna be the youngest MVP ever. Yeah, and the Cowboys will play I think the Ravens this week.

Is that right? Um? So they are not really in position to lose a lot of games down the stretch here. They have a commanding lead in this division. They do, And I think he really is the story there. He's only the third rookie to gain over a thousand yards rushing in his first nine games of his career, joining Eric Dickerson and Adrian Peterson. Not bad company to be in. And to me, so much of it is about the

offensive line. If you saw the game over the weekend and you saw his three touchdowns, he wasn't touched once on any of those three touchdowns. Part of that is him, but part of that that line, offensive line. Yeah, it really just opens it up for him all the time. It's making the entire defense, the entire offense look great, which helps the defense look great. They've won eight in a row, they have two home games coming up. Yeah,

they're humming. How about the Washington Redskins impressive win over for the weekend against the Minnesota Vikings, a comeback victory for Washington, and I wonder at what point will we say. Glenn mcnow included that Kirk Cousins is a pretty darn good quarterback because he is having an outstanding season, and the Redskins deserve a lot of credit for resurrecting the career of tight end Vernon Davis, who's provided a really nice one two punch along with Jordan Reid at that position.

The Redskins continued to roll with that offense. Glenn, They're gonna be a tough out. They're gonna be a tough out. I'll give you the Vernon Davis. I'm still not set on Kirk Cousins, and I think the big story on their offense there right now is the kid Rob Kelly. The kid who we saw late against the Eagles had a forty five, fifty four whatever yard run it was. He's now their lead back. He had ninety seven yards this week. He had a good game the week before.

I'm watching this kid. He's got great instincts. He turns a two yard loss into a three yard gain every single time. I think they may have found a running back to go along with everything else they have. And then the Giants on Monday night, they're coming back to beat the Cincinnati Bengals, and there still seems to be a bit of I don't know full's gold here if you will, with the Giants, but they've won four straight games.

Eli Manning connecting with Odell Beckham Junior all night against the Bengals, I think eight of eight in the first half, couple of touchdowns, Odell Beckham showing just how important it is to be a superstar wide receiver and how you can carry an offense. To the last three games, I think they've rushed for under fifty yards in each game, and yet they've won all three games. Yeah, I agree.

I mean, he really is it. He had ten catches ninety seven yards, and even when he's not the primary receiver, he will lock up two defenders. And you saw in their game winning touchdown that Eli was able to have everybody gild the other way and then find somebody else on the other side that's working for them. I think their defense is kind of coming together. They'd spent all

that money, we hadn't seen it. Their defense looks a little bit better, right now, particularly Landon Collins, the young second year safety, interceptions in the last three games, just becoming an impact player on the Giants defense. David, there's not an easy out. They're not an easy win in this division. And I didn't see it coming in. I didn't see the NFC quarterbacks in Philadelphia, in Dallas. That

makes a difference. You've got a quarterback that some people still don't think it's very good in Washington still Overrateming has got some weapons around him, and the defense has improved quite a bit for the Giants. And remember, all three of those teams come to Lincoln Financial Field to

close the season. The Eagles hopefully in position to capitalize and push to the playoffs, something that not a whole lot of people would have said right now, right, So there you go, keep it going, all right, that's to look around the NFC East, presented by Bob's Discount Furniture. One more segment to go here on Eagles three sixty. We're back in a moment to set you up with what's going to be happening on a very busy Wednesday. All right, let's go out there and give them pack.

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caught up on that. Our Amirosso's on the menu. Look at what's ahead. We've got a busy when a lot of players going to meet the media on Wednesday, including Carson Winston. He'll talk about that very very difficult Seattle defense. Benny Logan, defensive tackle, joins me in studio to talk about what else the Seattle offense my co host tomorrow. They're great, my quick Amrosso's the reason Philly sandwiches are

so famous. Feeling good about this one, Glenn on this early part of the week, Tuesday, I'm still basking in the over You're still basking. How long does one named Glenn McNew bask or lament kind of depends on how it works. So you beat Atlanta, which was a really nice win. I'm looking at Seattle ahead. I think I'll bask for a few days. Okay, I I boom reading to the next one. I love the matchup against the

Seattle Seahawks. You do Eagles into this one, still thinking about still basking in there after glow beating the I think you reach certain emotional levels, and I think they were at their peak level on Sunday Night Road, and I think it will be very difficult to come back up to that level. Okay for the Philadelphia Eagles, however, they are undefeated at Century Linkfield. They're very good there,

and it'll be loud, it'll be nasty. Eagles must jump out early and make Russell Wilson run for his life. It is a great test for Wentz and part of it is that stadium, that whole twelfth Man thing that they do. He's not gonna be able to hear a thing. His players aren't going to be able to hear a thing. If he can keep his composure, get through a good, solid first quarter, then they have a shot. Yeah. And it's the false start, it's the communication. It's all that

that the Eagles are working on all week. We'll talk about that, of course as the week goes along. Glenn mcnow Dave Spidero, we thank you for joining us here on Eagles three sixty. I'll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, have yourselves a great Eagles Day.