Eagles Win 24 - 8!

the studio to be able to communicate with me. No, it's an ear plug because I knew that this was coming after this game. Nine sacks, nine Just a ridiculous performance from this Eagles defense. DeVante Smith goes off the offense very efficient. Just what a win, huge win. The Birds are undefeated and victory work. Just an awesome job by his team. You know, on a short week, going to play a divisional opponent that's coming off the loss. I thought this will be a little bit of a

tougher game. The final score doesn't really tell you the story of today's game. I thought the offense was just dominant and flawless in that first half, and the defense really for four quarters. I mean, the defense just really had their hand on the pulse of this game from the jump. I think it was two or three sacks in the first series against Washington or og the game, so they let you know what the tone and how the temple at this game was going to play out.

Just an outstanding job from this Eagles offense. Defense, just a just a total effort today. They had five sacks in the first eight dropbacks for Washington, just got after Carson wentz from the jump. And it wasn't a ton of blitzing. I'm excited to go back and watch and just see exactly how many blitzes the Eagles sent. But it was mainly the four man rush and everybody was involved with this one. We saw Hassan Reddick called that one. We saw Hassan Reddick, we saw Josh Sweat, Brandon Graham,

Fletcher Cox, the guys came in waves. It was a it was a party at the quarterback. We're gonna keep digging into the exes and o's here. But if you haven't noticed me, Brandon Ike, we match today. I know ever everyone's clicking on all the Winders, not just the Eagles. Well, this is how it went down today. Frann and I showed up to the kickoff show. We did not plan to match. We said, let's see if Ike we'll pick up on this. So we tweeted at him. He said, well he get the memo. Ike got the memo. This

is how he responded to me on Twitter. And then he showed up with a matching tie and pocket swear. Awesome, awesome job by us. We listen, we're in, um, we're in uh what is it called concert? We're in together mid season mideason form. Yeah, and you said you're gonna wear that anyway. Yeah. I was kind of already in my sort of pink form this teague, as I did with the game day show over the peak on. So, um, it's great that we all thinking alike. The synergy. That's

the one. You go, there, you go. That's my Ohio State degree as opposed by Michigan State. How long is the show? Five minutes? In tough weekends. Okay, all right, we're gonna get things back on track here. Let's go to the offense. First twenty four points. They were all put up in the second quarter. What I liked about this game is that first quarter was a little slow. Jalen Hurst was challenged a little bit, but he responded. The whole offense adjusted and they just kept putting points

up on the board. Here's the thing that I noticed about Jalen to date Washington at times weren't in bad coverage situations. Jalen gave his guys the opportunity to go up and make plays. You look at this screen here from Dallas Goddard. This is a nice job by Dallas

avoiding tackles and getting in the end zone. But there were a lot of one on one situations, whether it's with a J. Brown or DeVante Smith, where Jalen said, I'm gonna trust my receivers and I'm gonna give them an opportunity to go up and make a play, and his receivers rewarded him with coming down with the catch. Looking at the right bro, I mean DeVante Smith today it may have been his best game as a pro the way he looked out there today, very dominant again.

Jalen giving his guys the opportunity to make plays in the passing game, and when your receivers go up and reward you with getting a reception. Man, he's gonna have that trust and confidence to go back to them even when there seems to be tight coverage. There five catches eighty five yards for a J. Brown. You got DeVante Smith going off nearly one hundred and seventy yards receiving for him. Quiz Watkins didn't have a catch in this game, but he had two big plays that were drawing past

interference flags. So this receiving corps just ridiculous. I'm gonna break down Dallas Goddard's touchdown catch a little bit later from the first half. The list of the verses, tility of this receiving corps, it's gonna make this offense really tough to stop on a weekly basis. Well after week one, there was so much panic. Oh no, it's the AJ Brown show. What about Davante Smith? What about the other receivers. This is what's going to happen in this offense. It's

going to look different every single week. There's gonna be a different way to get it done, and today was a perfect example of that. Yeah, when you have the multiple weapons that this offense has, you know, it basically boils down to Shane steike In finding a way to get different guys involved, and Jalen Hurts is his point guard out there on the field to where he's gonna dishball, dishball to his receivers and let them go out there

and make plays. So whether you're getting shortyards, players with three staff drop in a quick throw, or when they decided to take a shot deep down the field, offensive line doing a great job of protecting. And Jalen really his ball placement I saw really the last three weeks. I mean these three games, he hasn't put the ball in harm's way yet he has one interception on the season. Wasn't his fault with receivers hands. I love the fact

that Jalen Hurts. I mean he is night and day as far as a passer watching him this year, And I'm just talking about the confidence standing back there in the pocket and as he's going through his progressions and then delivering the ball with accuracy. You could really see that the hard work that he's put in this off season paying off the first three games. And that's the thing is that he had a huge day Jalen Hurts. But it's not like, oh, well, he threw for one

eighty and he ran for ninety a touchdown. No, he only ran for twenty yards in the day. This team as a whole only ran for seventy two. And again, that's the big thing that I keep harping on with this offense is that they've got answers for whatever the defense is gonna throw at them on any given Sunday. Because hey, one day they're gonna try and take a J. Brown away. Okay, that's fine, We're gonna go to some

of these other pass catchers. Sometimes the pass game might not be clicking in general, let's rely on the run game today. Only seventy two yards rushing, all right, Well, now it's gonna be a throw day. And that's exactly what the Eagles did to beat up on this Washington Commander secondary. As to keep breaking things down here, Eagles fans, be sure to go to the Facebook comments on the show. Askike. You can ask him anything. Will wear them on the show here, and I will answer them with all the

caffeine and a system. Yeah, well, here's what I loved about today. You know, forhand, sometimes we look at matchups going into games and we feel like, okay, the Eagles were having advantage in this area or that area, and then you don't know if they're going to actually go out there and try to exploit that. This week, you knew that the Washington secondary couldn't hold up in coverage, and if you gave Jalen Hurts time, he would have played down the field. The Eagles made sure they took

advantage of that. Defensively. This Washington offensive line coming in here banged up, you knew there would be some opportunities Detroit last week. I think they got five or six sacks against this offensive line, So you knew that the Eagles defense wouldn't necessarily have to bring extra pressure. Our guys up front, the front four would have to do their job beating one on one blocks, and that's exactly

what they did today. They exploited the weaknesses of this Washington offense with the fact that they attacked the offensive line and they attacked downfield against this Washington secondary. We talked about that guard center guard combination coming into this game. Was that didn't three for Washington could be had, and early on we talked about five sacks in the first fifteen plays for Washington's offense. You could just go back and forth. It was like a ping pong. The center

would slide to the right. All right, Well, now Javon Hargray is gonna get the pressure right, we gotta slide back the other way. Well, here comes Fletcher Cocks for a sack. So really, you gotta pick your poison. If you're an opposing offensive line. When the defensive front is humming like it was today, they are tough to block. Nine sacks the most times that Wentz has gotten sacked in his career. Entering this game, Brandon Graham and Fletcher Cocks were tied for most career sacks, and then they

were going back and forth. Fletcher surpassed him in the game, then BG got to him, then Flesh past him. I think Big wanted today. He had two and a half sacks on the day. But Brandon Graham, guys, we said this when we were all watching the game, thirteen years in the NFL. He's out there flying around like he's like a three year dude. Those old dogs can steal hun Fletcher and BG best of friends. They won a

championship here together. I'll never forget, you know, those two guys breaking down that play were branding out the strip sack against Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, and how they had been setting up that guard tackle combination over there and they were switching in and out. These two guys are best of friends and they're out there competing against each other. So when you're bringing that up, Ellen, when Fletcher gets a set, yeah, Brandon is so great competition.

Those old dogs can still hunt and doing it from a number of different techniques. In front. We've seen Brandon Graham lineup inside and outside. Two and a half sacks today, five hits on quarterback Carson Wentz and also active in the run game as well. Fletcher Cox was really strong against the Washington run game. So again, just looking at this defensive front, all the different ways that they can

attack opposing offenses. It's just a fun team. This is a fun team for three weeks and they're having fun. You can tell they're having fun. But when you talk about tackling, I your boys, the linebackers, they're leaving the way. T J. Edwards had ten again the leading tackler two weeks in a row. Kaiser White right behind them with

nine total tackles seven forty three. I love both of them, man, They usually find their way to the big skin, and if you're defensive coordinated, that's what you want out of your linebackers. Get to the football, and these guys make plays in the run game and in the passing game. And I like the fact that both of them they rarely miss tackles in the open field. Very good shore tacklers. They don't get panicked when they see a running back or a tight end catch the ball in the open field.

They usually know how to break down and secure it a tackle. Love with t J. Edwards and Kaiser Whine is doing it that linebacker position. You know, one thing that both guys are doing really really well is something that linebackers coach Nick Rallis he really harped on when I had him one on one last summer going into

that first season. Block attention. So no matter who they're trying to take on, if it's an offensive lineman, if it's a tight end, a full back, you see them square up to that blocker full extension, both hands right into the opponent's chest and then you go stack and shed immediately. But it's not like they're ever getting ear hold everything that they see. You're able to get square, stack and shed time after time after time. T J. Edwards ten tackles, two TFLs. He gets the sack in

the fourth quarter. This guy has been playing so so well through three weeks. Plays down heel. Yes, the attacks. You know, you could play the linebacker position tentatively and you allow you catch blocks or you allowed blockers to get into your chest, and it's a difficult time shedding the blocks and then making the tackles. Our linebackers do

a great job of coming downhill. They strike, they delivered the blow, and then like Fran was just saying, they do a great job of shedding the blocks and getting to the ball carrier. Great job by these guys being able to play a physical brand of football, which really isn't allowed very much in the NFL to day at that position. They do a great job of being able to play physical even though their their best attributes are probably their athleticism and their speed, particularly in the passing game.

They are showing that they will show up in the run game as well. All Right, we talked about DeVante Smiths having such a big day. He's now at the podium. Good, I can't go flow. Are you feeling after what happened for the forty four yard man, I recommend don't know abody to do that? Where right? Everything? Yuh, we'll be talking before in the off season though getting stronger. Um. But it seem like also we saw on the pre Hurn train kit which you're starting to win all the

balls in the air. How did you go about that? That's got I mean as a receiver and that's what it comes down to, fifty fifty balls, you gotta win it. I mean the trust that Jayalen has and all the receivers just I mean it's our ball, no nobody's ball. So um, just being there with him, Um, just being able to make sure that if we don't come down,

we didn't nobody comes down with it. What's your mindset? Man, when you see the ball coming your way and you know it's gonna be like a fifty fifty type nobody? Could you could you take us through the last play of the first half? Um, you know when you saw their specifically win the ball is coming along my ball to nobody? How much was that gonna get back out there because you had to get a playoff the bield? How much where you kind of pushing and get back on the bield? I mean, I just I just had

to catch my breath. You not have to win out myself. I just need to catch my breath, that's all. What was that sequence like for you? Because you made the catch, you went off, Then there was the run on third down. You guys had to scramble to the line. What was what was that? Lef was a chaot um? Yeah, just because I mean the play that was called, I mean, we didn't necessarily didn't happen in the game plan. So you just gotta be riddy. You never know what's gonna

come up. And I mean everybody was on the same page, and I feel we executed it well. I didn't take it the call for you, I mean, how does that feel? I mean, I know you're a team guy, but you know, putting up numbers and stuff like that, the records that come with it, how do you feel about that? I mean, trust my training, preparation, to way prepare. I mean that's what it comes down to, not just me, but the team. Um, the way we prepare, the way we go out there

and tack every practice. I feel like that's what's god of what we are now. Always you said that the play to you touchdown wasn't in the game plan. Yeah, I mean it was a play that said we haven't talked about in the minute, but everybody's just been on the same page. I mean it's in. We didn't ran it before, but it wasn't necessary in the game plan. But that comes down to our coaches trusting to school. I think it's cute whatever they call um. It kind

of came out of nowhere. I didn't even know they had it. What you gets say, who's John called week doing that? You know, obviously he wasn't gonna face the Carson wa is certainly something that I was going to do to talk about how did you how did you can keep personal? Um, it's never about nobody else, always about him, how he can, how he control the things that he can control. So it's never about the opponent, never about nobody else, Always about us and how we

approach the game and how we attack the day. I know you were asked a lot about not having a catch in week one, but but when that was going on, did you have the confidence underneath that like this day was going to come with a day like this, Like I always tell y'all, you gotta make the most opportunities you know. I mean, you might have a game like that where you don't get the ball, you don't you know, get your opportunities, but when they come, you got to

make most of them. Good. Thanks about good You said that you guys kind of do the strengths of weaknesses and Carson in that. But you guys really got after it. Can you talk about that? I just think we just made it about us. We knew what we knew about Carson, but I mean we knew it was a new day. He's with a new team, and he knows his issues too. But we just wanted to go out there and play as a team and you know, just keep getting better

our standard and our is our standard. And I'm just happy that, you know, we finally got one of them games where we got a nine SA game. We was out there having fun, and you know, we just want to win because we know how hard it is in this league. Told me, you told Carson that you were going to get free on him, but good luck after that. Did you say anything to him after your sacked him? I was just we I didn't say nothing to him after the after the sacks, but before the game, we

had a little fun. He was just like no, I know what it feels like the uh you know, the here BG on the other side of it. So I just told him, I hope you have a great year, but just not today we're able to apply kind of him. So, um, just I mean just knowing knowing Carson. I mean, I felt like we just had to make sure with any quarterback that you get pressure on when when you can, and make sure that you keep them containing the pocket because we know when you get outside the pocket. Um,

you know, he was a great quarterback. And so I just felt like, you know, we just played together, um, and the biggest thing for us was just making sure that we do what we do and not worry about nothing else. And so I think that we played together whale to day. The defense said together even when we was up, we just tried to make sure we never

let let off the gas. And I'm probably the boys on how we fought all the way through the game start fast like we did, Like, I mean, it was too right off the rip boy fletched sweaty uh Javan. I mean, we all was out there trying to get after him, you know, and it just kind of opened up for us as the game kept going uh, and then you know, Carson started getting it out a little quicker.

But I just felt like at that point, we were just making sure that we we just was putting that pressure in his face, making sure that we tackle whale um and yeah, just had fun with it. Man, We're just having fun out there. You kind of noticed that he was getting around with it, and you guys, you know, I probably the first half special first half. I mean, we was hitting them, and that's that's the number one thing as a D lineman. You just want to hit them.

I mean, of course we was getting sacks too, but you know, them hits them hits at up and I felt like we were starting where we wanted to start. And I think that it was more about just making sure that we didn't let up, because we know we've been in this situation before. We was up and they came back and beat us. So we just had to make sure that we stayed kept our foot on the gas. How much defense the office kind of started slogan, but it seem like more than more Saxon. Guys got just

got into year after the Wall. You know, I told you our year, Uh, it's gonna be games where offense carriers, defense carriers, UM special teams sometimes make a play to put us back in the game. But I just think that, uh, you know, the guys just we just didn't matter. It didn't matter what the offense did. We just know if we got three points, we was gonna make sure we

kept my design. That was the goal. And so I felt like the defense today, we just want to make sure we just keep getting better because like the first game we played the Troy, we kind of let it off a little bit, and I was happy it kind of happened, because you know that let us know that we that, yeah, we got a good team, but you see, if we don't stay put with our foot on the gas, that we um we just an average team if we if we don't take care of what we gotta do,

and that's our responsibilities and you know, trusting one another. And so I'm just happy how we just keep getting better every weekend. Yeah, I just want to make sure that we just keep keep our foot on the gas in practice and to show up in the game. Before the game, well, I was playing with I was playing with it. We we had all little stuff. I didn't tell him that, but yeah, I just told him you know, I hope we have a great year and except today that was the only thing I said. But were just

having having our fun with it. But uh yeah, I mean, you don't know what you're gonna do in that game. But I'm happy that we was able to do what we had to do to win the game. Man, you know, if it's nine sex was gonna help us win, I'm happy with that too. Granted, team the team could be three, feel like it's fortunate to be three now. And the team could be three And the thing, we're really pretty good.

Where do you feel like you guys are at? I ain't falling into it, Fletch, you already know, but I know it's always room to get better, Like like Jalen said, like they didn't scored no more points than the second half offense, feel like they can get a lot better.

And I know we can feel we can feel the same way it was plays out there we left, you know, But I think that overall, we look at the film, you start to see where you're week at and where people gonna start hitting you on certain stuff, and you know, you just keep on making it about us, And I think that that's all you can really do every week. It's gonna be different, everybody attack you differently, and just make sure that you stay on point with what we do.

And so yeah, I'm not worried about where we are right now, because it's it's not how you start, it's how you finish. And so I love how we started, but we gotta make sure we finish the same way because it's a long season and it's about getting hot at the right time so that we can carry ourselves into the postseason. Told your message for uh with Carson, I saw years talking for the game to do. I mean you'd just say he had a little fun with him.

It was yours like that at all. Yeah, it was talking to give was I don't think we talked about football once. Uh. We just talked about and it's just how how how it's life and uh, you know what's going on home, mostly about honestly what we both love outside of football, hunt and you know, all doors and things, um, asking how the family and stuff for doing. But I don't think we spoke one word about football. You're doing pretty good, friends. I mean, how weird it wasn't it

was weird? Uh, it was weird to see him in another color, you know, knowing that we were about to compete against each other, and uh, you know, we respected to inspect the hell out of Carson. You know, he's competitive and really hard worker. Um, you know, but he was on the other side today. UM. So you know, obviously our conversations and friendship, but still still go home because we got to see that team again. Taking Carson out of this game. We just played our our style

of defense. You know, we just played just literally stacking stacking on getting better from what we did last last week. I think, you know, here in the second half, we got a little sloppy UM and that's not that's not what we want to be. I think it's a defense. We've got sloppy Plice kept Kemp the drive alive, and you know, we got to fix that. Um And and that's that's that's my biggest worry right now. We can't

get slop. We gotta continue to just you know, stay consistent and uh and you know, just you know and put the game away. Stas what hard to come about it last year? What's different this year? That's a lot different for me. UM. I changed up a lot of things that you know, the way I trained, UM you know, was a little different. The way I eat a little different. Um. I mean this year, I'm just making sure that you know,

I let nothing get in my way. Like I said earlier in the preseason that I think last year I got in my own way. So uh, you know, I'm happy having fun and uh and then this one of the reasons why I came back that first drive. What the fact you think I had on the game hitting you, but you guys did early. I mean the first drive was you know for us the D line, we talked about just starting fast. I think when we start fast,

you know, everybody else feed off us. UM. And you know that that was a message all week, keep the edge, start fast and basically the message every day every week, UM, to let everybody know, you know, like you know, we're you know we're here, We're here to play hard. You know, UM, we're respect whoever we're playing and knowing that you know, they did get paid to play too. But we just want to come out and start fast and set the tone.

You always want to start fast everybody. But was that in the extra emphasis this week because I had a second you know, the backup center. Maybe some issues from the interior Honestly, all week we talked about how good we thought they were. Up front. You know, we thought there was a good veteran group that's played a lot of ball. Uh and you know, even with them having the center really didn't make an effect or drop off on them. Um. But at the end of the day, Um,

you know we went out competed. Um, we got a big win. Now we got to enjoy this right now and move on tomorrow. It's going after the ball. So always you always want to turnovers. We talked about it. I think, you know, that's one of the problems one of the things we didn't get done last year. We didn't create another turnovers, enough turners to put our office in position to win or get points. So that's a

big emphasis. There's been off since as an offseason preseason and now just trying to take it over into the regular season. Find like knack a knack and stacks years you guys, like, we don't really even talk about that honestly, now we don't. We just wherever we end up at, where we end up at. You know, I've been here for my left in the year. This is thirteenth year, and uh so, I mean we just go out and and and get it done. You know, whatever we end

up are, we end up at. But right now we're just like you said, we're gonna neck and neck uh and uh. It's fun, you know, it's It's one of them things where we could compete, you know, go out and compete on Sundays. Don't matter what day is, you know, game Thursday, Monday, we don't matter. So it's fun though. We have a lot of fun with these guys. Stevens had a lot of two touchdowns in two weeks. One needs to get better if you're playing at this flip

right now. Penalless, penalless. When we had, like I said, we had some penalties in the second half, which we know that's not us. We need to fix that, um and you know, stop keeping those those drives and loves. I think we had like three or four penalties on on a drive and kept a drive alive. You know, we need to clean that stuff up again. We missed some tackles. You know, we can't be happy with that. Um. So we just got to spend this week fixing it. Try to be less penalized and you know, and move

on good. We heard from Devontae Smith Brandon Graham, Fletcher Cox. A big day for all three of those guys. I thought it was interesting what BG said. He referenced the Lions game and how the Lions starts to kind of catch up a little bit late in that game. He said, I'm appreciative that we had that experience, he said, because we're a good team, but we're only average if we don't take care of what we need to take care of.

So they learned a lot from that experience. And as we've seen now in the past few games, they have played all four quarters. That's really what it's about. When you want to when you've raised the standard around here and you expect to be in the upper echelon of the league in your specific area of expertise, you gotta play for sixty minutes. You got to play the entire game. And that was the only blemish on that first game is that it felt like we may have taken our

foot off the gas. I think the score was like thirty one to fourteen or something like that. It felt like the game was over to me as well. Give the Lions credit for continuing the battle, but the Eagles learned something and in that game Jalen brought that up after the game about this is not the standard we played for sixty minutes, and that's what you've seen the last two games, particularly on that defensive side of the ball.

I mean, man, when they takes blood in the water man, they are hunting, and that's what they've seen the last two weeks. When they had Kirk Cousins and that Biking's offense on his heels, they didn't let up. They continue to squeeze and squeeze and not give up anything. You saw the same thing today and this could have very easily been a shutout game. Could have very easily been a shutout. As a matter of fact, I thought they played well enough that it felt like it was almost

a shutout game. So I love hearing the veterans speak in this manner because they're the ones to set the tone for the younger guys on this team. And when DJ and Fletcher speak, everybody in that locker room is listening. Yeah. I mean, the devil's in the details when it comes to being able to hold out for four quarters. And I think when you look at the way that this defense has played over the last two games, you're seeing the tackling improved. You're seeing how sound they are in

coverage both zone and in man. Guys are finishing on the ball. You have a lot of Eagles jerseys swarming to the football late in the down. So I think when you see that happening, when you see the defense playing with that level of personality, typically good football follows. And this is the National Football League. We saw last week in the Miami in the Baltimore game, you take the foot off the gas, Miami scored twenty one points in the fourth quarter. Everybody that steps on the field

is a good football player. So you have to play your best put your best foot forward for sixty minutes or you can see what happens like we saw last weekend. Yeah, and it really is a mentality, and you would think it's something that's a given to most athletes, but it really isn't. Human nature will sometimes allow you to relax and get a little complacent when you feel like you've

secured a victory. But those teams that play championship style football or play dominant football as an entire team, they've finished the games, they played for four quarters, they played for sixty minutes, and you know the one thing about being three and oh you can almost a little overconfidence and feel like you have everything under control. There's always a little something that you can learn from in every game.

And twenty four to eight, twenty four to nothing at half time today, I guarantee you they'll find some things that will get them ready for next week's game against Jacksonville. That's the thing is, like we could talk about playing sixteen minutes, can we just talk real quick about what they did in the first thirty because there's a stat from John Connote from Eagles pr zero points in the first half, fifty yards on twenty eight plays under two yards per play, six sacks three to three and outs,

two forced fumbles and a turnover. Good Golling. I mean, that's an outstanding first half performance from that Eagles defense. And when you look at the last two opponents, these aren't offenses where you should be able to shut them down in the dominate. You look at the skill position gods from the last two games, justin Jefferson, Dalvin Cook, Adam feel and Kirk Cousins to Terry McLaurin. You got

Turtis Samuel is playing well. The rookie Johann Dodson and Wentz, who was second in the league and passing yard per game with seven touchdowns. These are very good offenses that the Eagles defense has put the handcuffs on the last eight quarters. This is this is I think this is so positive moving forward that they're not going to see very many more offenses that possessed a fire part that they saw today. So this bow's will. We have some

Eagles alum taking to Twitter. They're very excited about this Eagles team as well. Who do we got Shady? I love AJ Brown? Baby, he catches everything, ball behind him, don't matter touchdown. I think that's the general attitude of all Eagles fans right now. I mean, even though the catch that he had on third down on that one touchdown drive at the end of the first half where he just violently snatched the ball behind him and he takes off big yards after catchplay that was the one

that ended in the DeVante Smith touchdown. He catches everything. He's so good after the catch. He's a precise route runner. A. J. Brown is the real deal. It minds me so much. An Kuon Boden, I mean, he refuses to get give you anything you're gonna have to pride that ball out of his hands when he gets his hands on it.

No one is knocking it away. I think it was a big third down Catchy had where a cornerback was right there in his chest, even got his hand on the ball a little bit, and Aj was still able to secure that against his chest and come down with it and don't let him get to run him with the football after he catches it. He's looking for contact. No dvs are going to tackle him. Man. Aj Brown has been more than what I imagine he was going to be as a Philadelphia Eagles A. It's been a

pleasure to watch him the first three games. I think it was a big imperue we saw in the first half of the game is the Eagles had one penalty last week they had eight. It got a little sobbing in the second half, and then they ended the day with five total penalties. But to end the first half with one penalty after some of the calls that were made last week, I think that's a big step forward, and I think it goes back to giving the coaches

created having these guys prepared. Whatever the schedule was for this week, it was certainly the right formula for success. Coming off a short week at home, going on the road down to the Washington they seem to be the fresher team they played on Monday night. They certainly looked fresher than what Washington looked like out there on the field.

So great job about his coach and staff getting this team ready to go, not just mentally from the xs and os and schemes, but physically the Eagles look like the more dominant team out there. And that's the thing. It's like, to your point, I'll just one penalty and they only had the one that was again late in the game, that was the Jordan Davis one on the field goal block. The Eagles defense end up stopping them anyway, But just an outstanding game from a you know, like

crossing the tea's dot in the I standpoint. Everything very very detail oriented in this win. Like I want to ask you this, when the defense has been playing so well, where are the objectives moving forward in terms of how can they keep taking a step forward When they're playing at such a high level as it is. They want more, right, hey, they want more, and they start to realize how good they can be as an entire unit and everybody's going

to get their opportunities to eat. You know, Monday night it was big play slave and a Vonte Maddox making plays. Today you had the defensive line completely dominate the game. The linebackers have been solid for three straight games and making plays in the run game and the passing game. So now it becomes Jonathan Gannon's like his. He gets to put the chemistry set together and he gets to look and see, Okay, what works well? What combinations come out? Can I come up with to try to add something

new to the scheme. The one thing Jim Johnson used to do for all of us because he's playing seventeen eighteen guys every week, is finding new wrinkles in the defense. Okay, let's see what this guy does well and how can we implore it and to the defense. And that's what I would expect from Jonathan Ganning because once you've, like friend just said, donald all your eyes and cross all your teams, now you can add a little bit more.

Just think about this. Chauncey Gardner, Johnson and James Bradberry, they haven't even been here very long, so wait until they get more comfortable with the defense. Now, you're gonna get to see different disguises and coverages where you're going to be able to mix things up on the back end, which should lead to more turnovers. All right, well, let's hear what coach has to say all about this snake's podium. That's the line was getting close because you think they

were nine sacks and blood right, they were. They were. They played their their tails off, they were, they were awesome. Um, you know, we thought that they could get after them a little bit and uh and they did. And that's the strength of our team, you know. And so that's what you want and division game, you want to strength of your team to go out there and and and play like they did right there. And uh uh man, it was it was a full team effort there, full

defensive line wasn't just one guy. It was all the guys that that really got after it. And it was fun to watch the situation. You had to be on the first half or round the ball and third down, had to hurry up to run the fourth down play in the goal. Well, what are your comments on jails boys in that situation? Yeah, we worked those a lot, we do. We worked those an awful lot, you know,

and we went the first two downs. Um, we passed it on the first two downs, and we were like, you know, hey, we felt like we had enough time to get you know, with with the way how fast we got down there with that great completion to Davante, we felt like we had enough time. We weren't kicking in that scenario, right, Um, we wanted to put seven on the board, and we felt like we had enough time to run it there. I thought we were going to get in on the run. Credit to them. That's

a good defense. That's a really good defensive line. I got a lot of respect for paying and uh and Alan and Sweat like those are those are good football players and and uh, you know, but we knew we felt we had enough time to do that. Um. And so great job by Jalen being calm, Great job by Shane being calm getting the next play. You know, I was I was anticipating we get a little bit closer right there and then maybe we'll make a choice from there.

And you know, but just awesome job, awesome operation. We worked, and we worked, we worked out a lot. Said that play wasn't even play with this week. So who ever came up, well you know, we got to a position where we were we lost some yards and we had to go to a no huddle play. Obviously we were gonna be no huddle no matter what. And again, like we said, we thought we were going to be a little bit closer and then you know, we had to

we had to react. Now we have a certain amount, we have a couple of plays that we run in a no huddle scenario there, and we keep building off of that. And so credit to Shane to get to that, you know, in that scenario. And obviously DeVante made a you know, players make great plays, and you know he

made a great play. Is it your experience, like good teams have that thing where you don't know who it's going to be on a given David, but somebody sort always yeah, I mean the more you can you can be where you're unpredictable, the better, right, And so you know Aj had the huge first game, DeVante had a huge third game. They both had big time second games.

And and AJ's really played, you know, had big games throughout um, you know, maybe not one hundred and fifty yards, but he's had you know, sixty nine yards and then whatever you had today eighty five yards. So, um, yeah, that's huge. And then you get you had Dallas god or the pass game goes through those three guys. And I thought Quiz Watkins did a really nice job of you know, I know he didn't show up on the stat sheet, but he were some PI calls you know

that were chunk yardage. We count those as explosive plays. Um, you know, we count those as explosive plays. If you get a plus sixteen yard chunk uh on a penalty, we're going to count that. And we and he and he did that because of his speed out there. And then Zach Pascal did a nice job out there as well of you know, converting a couple of third downs in critical moments, get get after the quarterback. Uh, you know,

it was sure. I think one thing, one thing we really wanted to do on unknown pass was being able to get after him right and and get him the known pass right. And so I think we did a really nice job of getting them to known pass um, you know. And and then our defensive line just they went out and hunted and uh and again it wasn't just one guy it was it was it was all

the guys. And but to get there, you have to be successful on first a second down and first down really because and so great job on first down to get us into non pass and uh and again they just they just went out there and they um you know, got after them and won their one on one matchups and compete it all day. Was going after the ball. From the point about Cisca carcon um, you know, going after the ball has been a point of emphasis for

us all year. We know that the double positive is is extremely important how we protect the football and how we come after the football. So it's great to see and I think what you see in the NFL is, yeah, you got some guys that will create some some turnovers and we're coming after the ball like crazy at linebacker. I think we're close and we're gonna keep coming after

the football. And they've worked so hard. Nick Rollis has worked so hard, and I think tj and and Kaiser come out are physical guys that are coming after them close. We're close. We're gonna keep coming after it. But where teams really do a great job of taking that ball away as when they get pressure on the quarterback and go after the arm, which we got two of those today. By Hassan and I think, uh, Brandon, yeah, so, um, you know, so that's always a point of emphasis we

want to be we're obsessed with the football. We are absolutely obsessed with the football, because we know when you win the turnover battle, when you win the explosive play battle, um, that that suits you well. And so great job by them coming after the football and that and we got

one of them. We didn't get the other one, but that was that was big time again by the defensive line to us about the fourth and one, yeah, not the second half for that any points Again, you said you took the foot off the gas last week, but yeah, I think it was the quite the opposite this week. We were pretty aggressive this week, right, and you guys saw how we played that second half. Um, we're pretty aggressive, um,

you know, and we didn't we uh you know. But there's probably somewhere in the middle there between the aggressiveness and the and the taking the foot off the gas. Where somewhere in the middle. And I'm always going to take responsibility for that. And when we gotta you know, we gotta put a game away like that, when it's twenty four to you know, twenty four to nothing, we gotta be able to put a game away. We started it with, you know, the big pass to Grant. His

first catch went for what lat forty first catch. Great job there by him and great read by Jalen h And then we went to negative play again. But you know, you got to give them credit. They did some good things right there. But I felt like we played it almost exact opposite of the way to play last weekend. There might be somewhere in the middle if we get ourselves in that position again, might be somewhere in the middle.

And one play that call might not a quarterbacks name. Yeah, you know, the play before that was a quarterback sneak and uh, you know you always, you always quarterback sneak is always on your mind. But you know, sometimes they're going to take that away. And when they take that away, the perimeters where the play is, you know, And it

didn't work that time. Uh, I had a time out to be able to spend and I probably, on second thought, I probably should have spent it right there because I didn't love the look, um, you know, of what it looked like. I was great with the play call. I thought Shane's playing call was excellent right there. Um, if they gave us that look, we were gonna take it um and I probably should have called a time out in that particular case. Uh, but you know sometimes they're

going to take that away. What's that mean for you and this team as you continue to develop it? All? I mean, all that means is a good start and and but that our message is the same each and every week, go to back to work, enjoy this tonight, and then onto the next round. We compare this to a heavyweight, a seventeen round heavyweight boxing match that you go down and you sit in your corner after each round.

And if you think you're too good after that round, you know this league has a very good uh you know, does a good job of snacking you in the teeth if you do that. And so it's it's go sit down, enjoy this tonight, Go sit down in that round, rest your body up, take the day off that you get, correct the mistakes that we need. And then it's the same process that we went through. And I think it don't ride the waves of the season. And that's always going to be my message, whether we're two and five

like we started last year or three and all. In this particular case, we see three and oh teams five and oh teams start hot all the time, but it's just about going back to work and not and because this game will humble you very quickly if you if you get too high on it. So go through the same process, dog mentality, all the different things the way we say it, um and and don't ride the ways ways and see um you guys the offense with the defense teams to energize your offense when you all struggled

at the beginning. You know how much did the defense is progressive play energize your offense man? Big time? Yeah, big time to be able to you know, to to not I think what what two or three drives to

start the game offer. We didn't get any points on offense, but knowing that the defense kept having our back boom back having our back having that's what a good teams do, right as they played complimentary football and so what a great you know, defense played good the entire game, and I think the offense kicked into a really good second quarter um and did some good and did some good things right there to really bust the game open. But to have that confidence that the defense was you know,

just getting stops and getting pressure and getting stops. Uh. You know, we knew we were going to kick ourselves out of it, right, and we got the three and then we went up ten, and then you know, it was great from there all the day. On Jalen, that's you know, three straight games on where he said forty plus year competions. I'm sorry what you say, John, your impressions on jay Z Yeah, man, he played his butt

off again right, uh and again. And what was great there is that they were taking away some of the things in the run game again, I got. I have so much respect for paying and Uh and Allen and Sweat, I got, those are really outstanding football players. But to be able to go out there and say, okay, you're doing a good job on the run, let's go past the football. Jalen did a great job and we had great playmakers make plays uh with it, you know, and that was a huge turnover to get us to tend nothing.

And then that little screen to Dallas gotter. It was a big time play um, And so it was just trusting the playmakers and then Jalen just doing a nice job of you know, helping us get that you know, get that win because you know, it wasn't as it wasn't like that's what good teams do too. Rights, they don't win the same every week like you know, last year, a lot of times we were when we want we put the we put the game on the back of

offensive line. And then you know today and it was on Jaalen and so you know, that's hard to That's what you want to be as multiple and be able to be really hard to stop, whether it's with aj and DeVante and Dallas and Quaz or you know, run game, pass, game, offense, defense, all those different things. Always about the explosive players. Now you've talked about it here. How much is it a luxury to have those receivers that you can maybe push

the issue more offensively? Yeah, I mean when they're making play, like you know, you think about Jalen and you call a play and something breaks down and he scrambles and makes the play, right, that's that's huge, right, Um, you know we'd like to think sometimes that's good coaching, that's

good play. Right, and then right where some somewhat covered and Jalen puts the ball where only Jalen can put the ball, and DeVante goes up and gets the ball or or or or aj creates separation on a you know, at the end of the game on a fourth down, on the fourth down, call um or a cage separation and we got an easy path pitch and catch. Um Man, that's that's great to have, you know, to be but because at the end of the end of the day, right, Um, it comes down to matchups in this game, can you

win a majority of your one on one matchups? And with those guys, like you know how He's done a great job of getting those guys in here, and uh, you know, I'm so excited that the group that we have. I feel like we got a really well rounded group at wide receiver. You love Dallas Godder and those guys want when they're one on one matchups when they when they need to in critical moments. The third down, it's man right and you gotta win verse man and I

thought we'd in fourth down in the red zone. We did get a stop on us and we gotta win verse tight man of man and Devonte goes up and makes a big time play. So great job to then um shows you who DeVante Sanitha's too right, Like didn't have a catch in the first game, you know, And all he did was come back to work, uh, figure out how to how to get it done the next game and had a huge game last game, had an even bigger game in this game. What did you wear

the min Mike Quick? Well, first of all, I was a big Mike Quick fan growing up. I really was. And uh, I know that Quick had some big time what do the average? What did we say about nineteen yards a catch against Washington? And he how long Quick play fifteen games against Washington average and nineteen to catch us big time ball? And so always was a Quick fan. Uh, he had he had some great success here in Washington against what I think it was. I talked him a

little bit today. It was against Arryl Green, So uh, you know, and then uh and and I'm taking Mike Quick over our monk every day, all right, Yeah, go ahead, and league course coaches out here give him Mike Quick on the long standing. Oh, it's gonna be a big week when he walks in here on Wednesday. Yeah, I mean, listen. He was one of the Greeks to ever played the game. And um, obviously if his career wasn't cut short by injuries, man, he was on his way to a pro I mean

into a Hall of Fame career. I think he was five time All Pro and five time Pro bowler. Yeah, in his seven years as a player. And that's the thing of going back and watching some of his highlights a it was actually like this week, I wasn't even saying something highlights on Twitter. He was doing all this in the like when the safeties were coming over the middle field trying to knock all your teeth out, and he's putting up all this yardage in between the hashes.

Quick was quick was something else you knew it was gonna be my quick day. Well, coach said, we're gonna enjoy this and then it's back to work. People putting in a lot of work. Or those fans in Australia who tuned in for Jordan Milatta, they have a question here for Ike and our Ask Ike segment watching from Australia. Give us your take on how important Milatta is to hurt the success this season so far. I mean he's

very important. You're talking about the left tackle, the guy that protects his blindside, and not only that, but when the Eagles go to run the football, Jordan Malatta is a very good run blocker as well. So I continue to be a impressed and amazed at Jordan Malatta's development at that left tackle position. The fact that he didn't grow up playing American football and he was really a rugby football player. Jeff'son, He didn't work that Jeff Stouton has done to really help him become one of the

best left tackles in all of football. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that Jalen would tell you not to pick Jordan out over any of his other offensive linement. But we know how important that blindside guy is. And that's the thing is that when Jordan finally like puts it all together, like all to grow, Yeah, there's absolutely room to grow. And we've said it a couple of times here tonight already the devil's in the details are a couple of lapses here and there from Jordan each

and every week. But once you get it all together, I mean, he is such a focal point to what they do, Like I said, not just the pass game, but the run game as well. I talked to him on Tuesday after Monday night and he just he was so down about his performance and they played great across line and he looked at me and he said, I am really really hard on myself, which isn't totally a

bad thing. That's a great thing. When you're a player as good as Jordan my ladder, you could easily rest on your laurels, but he is striving for a perfection. I keep going back to Jalen's post games features in the Locker Room where he emphasizes the standard. He's talking about it from a totality and a team standpoint, but he's also talking about it from an individual standpoint. Each guy has a standard in which they should set that they have to live up to each and every week.

And Jordan Milatta has gone from a project in the NFL to a starting left tackle in the NFL to now arguably one of the best left tackles in the NFL, And so that standard has been set by him and he expects to play that way every week. A little bit of a teams here in the breakdown that I do a little bit later in the show in the Rico review, Jordan Milatta his presence very very important on that play. If he's not as athletic as he is, that play doesn't happen. I think what I love about

this team too. Is any player you ask, what's their success? Why is this team good? Why are you finding success? On the offensive side of the ball, They all go the offensive line, Dallas Goddard, the offensive line, Miles Standers, this weeks on the offensive line, like they are the core and the nucleus to this team right now. And I feel as though this offense goes as the offensive line goes. Yeah, and it's not just coach speak right when you think look at either side the ball, but

we're talking about the offense in particular right now. It starts up front. They are the strength of that unit. The offensive side of the football. If you can't protect upfront, or you can't run block, the offense is stemy is there's confusion, there's discombinulation out there. And the same thing goes for on the defensive side of the ball. It starts upfront with those defensive linement and the players are

smart that need those guys up front. It starts with the big uglies and I say that affectionately to those guys. You can't get anything going from an offensive standpoint or

defensive standpoint if your trenches aren't together. And thankfully this organization has always recognized that that it starts upfront, and that's why they put so much of their resources, whether it's draft picks or whether it's dollars, they put so much of their resources into their lines of scrimmage, whether it's on the offensive side of the ball or defense. You think the team on the other sideline, I wish they had a good offensive they probably be wishing for.

And you say that every single year. It feels like you look around the league, it's like, Oh, if this team had a better offensive line, where would they be? That's never going to be the case with the Eagles here under this regime. It has been the case for a long long time. And how about the players that sit behind them? Like the starting five are good, but there's some strong players waiting in the wings too. Yeah,

and again Frank touched on it. It's it's really a philosophy that's emphasized by the organization, started I believe under coach Reid decades ago. But it's it's a blueprint in which it leads to success. You have to show up your offensive line, and we have good players behind our offensive line. Think back to twenty seventeen, we lost some key guys there, and they were able to put some

substitutes in there and really not miss a beat. You obviously don't want to lose guys on the offensive line, but there's a reason why if you happen to lose one, guys can step in there. And I always tip my cap to Jeff Stotlin, the best offensive line coach in football. Yeah, that's the thing is you want to have the best offensive line coach in football because you put so many ane. You want somebody that's go with the best chef to cook with the best ingredients. That's exactly what you're dealing

with upfront. All right, Ike, we have another question for you, LSU. We got here. You can send it your questions on the Facebook comments. Ask I go to big place celebration when you played? I mean, you guys need them to stand up and like delustrate it. What exactly do you want? Well, here's the thing. I didn't have a signature celebration, That's that's for certain. But I did you know I would come up with trying to come up with stuff that was spontaneous out there on the field. I may think

about doing something throughout the week. Okay, if you get a big play here, you get a big tackle here, what are you gonna do? Also, didn't want to embarrass myself by so there wasn't gonna be any dancing that was going on. If I didn't throw this up. I usually threw up some sort of fist pump or something like that. I usually talk to myself a lot too,

not words that I could say on camera anything. Normally, when you're psyching yourself up, hitting yourself in the face, I'm saying some things to myself or to the opponent to let them know I'll be here all day. I just like imagining, like twenty four year old ike, like making a big play. Just yelling victory was in my mind. I'm just gonna go to bed. That's like feeling good about that. That would be the clean version of the clean version of that. I don't sometimes I don't even

know where to go from here. When I gets going, I just let them take it away, you know, well, I tell you being out there, See, when you're when you're a role player or cell player, you don't get too many opportunities used to make plays out there, and

you certainly don't get a chance to necessarily celebrate. So I I used to always say to myself, when you make a play, making a memorable play, and don't embarrass yourself celebrating because we had a we had a rough locker roll man, and so you came out with the wrong celebration you were gonna hear. Did you hear more about bad celebrations or bad outfits postgame? Like? What was that bad outfits? Always? Yeah, it was. It was like a comedy roll show. You came in there with the

wrong outfits on. And I remember, I can remember my rookie year man I Rodney peat was so hard man, our quarterback at that time. I remember wearing a shirt that these wearing style back then. It was like a Vassacci shirt, like a Vassaci shiny late nineties, early two thousands. And I remember I remember Rottney Pete calling me Liver Racchi because of the shirt that I had on. It was one of those shiny Vegas looking shirts, and I was like, I think, I see what the Midwestern flavor

in me. It was kind of like the one BJ had on when they played Troit that first week. So Midwest has a little more splash and flash to our dressing. Um, but you can't do that in the NFL locker room because these guys are merciless. Man, you come in with the wrong outfit on. I remember Hollis Thomas wore a leather suit. Yeah, yeah, you know, Hollis. I don't need leather on. So that that was a fun weekend talking about Hollis. Well, the new thing to wear around here

in Philadelphia are Batman caps. Don't know ye saw them today? Here we go. I've been seeing some tweets from the locker room. A Brown said he got it on Amazon for nine ninety nine, so I'm sure Eagles fans are currently blowing up their Amazon Prime accounts ordering themselves. Okay, well, I don't know what my hollow Halloween costume is going to be. Batman. Yeah, I want J Brown, got it, Smitty got it? Okay for everyone. I'm more of a I'm more of a I'm not a Swoll Batman. That's

j Swoll Batman. I mean, I'm somewhere between skinny bat skinny Batman and the fast Batman. I'm not like Swoll Batman. I like swollen Batman. I'm at that question. I like how I just self proclaimed himself. Yeah, oh yeah, right, all right, I want to be smitty d I want to requests. I don't know what do I want in between quiz and the slim Reaper. I'm in between those. All right, Well, you can keep submitting your questions and ask I in the Facebook comments. Guys, where do we

go for me? I mean, we've gone completely off the rails here today. Well, now it's a good thing. Here's where I would go. Let's go to Jonathan Gannon. I talked about the defense earlier, obviously giving love to the defensive line in nine sacks, But the game plans that Jonathan Gannon has put together the last two weeks, I

don't see how anybody can complain about him. I thought last week he took advantage of a situation where the Minnesota Vikings when they started to become predictable on offense in that second half, Jonathan Gannon he ramped up the pressure. When you know you're gonna sit back there and throw, throw, throw. He had the opportunity to get at the Kirk Cousins in that offense, and then you come into this week.

He didn't need to bring in extra guys, He didn't need to bring an extra pressure let that front four eat and then I like how he mixed up the coverages pre snap and then once that's the snap of the ball, he gave Carson something else to look at. I know the Washington's offensive line wasn't very good today, but some of that was because what the secondary and defense was doing the force wins to hold the ball. We know Carson very well. You give him a pre snap look. He has a pre snap read. If you

don't change it up, he could take advantage. He can pick you apart. But you're giving some different looks to where pre snap versus a snap at the ball. Now he doesn't know where to go with the football, and that's when he sits back there patting the baby and you end up getting sacks. And I thought Jonathan Gannon did a great job. They obviously had the inside intil on what frustrates cars at times at the quarterback position. They were able to implement that today and I thought

Jonathan Gannon his game playing to day was outstanding. You talked about with Minnesota's offense, how they were very predictable. You know that, hey, we're gonna drop backdrop back, drop back late in that game. I think what we've seen in the last two weeks. This defense is very unpredictable, especially when they send pressure a number of times. Here today, I saw a number of second down pressure, second and long.

Where you look last year you looked at the pressure scheme, the blitzing, especially in the second half, it was mostly third down. I was like, all right, certain long Eagles are gonna are gonna send pressure and they're gonna play man to man coverage. This year we're seeing a lot of a variety. And that's the thing is like, if you're an opposing quarterback first down, second down, third down, potential for blitz is there. Maybe the volume is not as high as other teams, but you have to be

ready for it at any given point. And to me, that's one of the things that has stood out over the first three weeks is that this defense really mixing up coverages and pressures, all the different front looks as well with guys lining up inside and outside the personnel groupings. To me, the variety is what stands out about this defense.

We got another question for Yike. Let's say we have from Eagles fans, what was your favorite play from the offense through the first three games and what was your favorite play from the defense no pressure yet really digging the memory box here, I mean with the offense has been so much there from an offensive standpoint, My favorite play from the offense. Wow, you gotta come back to me on that one. It's easier to defense, I think defense. Is it that James Bradbury pick six where Kaiser White

gets up and blocks out in front. Oh, I was gonna go with the slate interception first slate interception because he's matched up on Justin Jefferson, and Justin Jefferson really has a two or three way go on Slay and really he has to be sound in his technique in order to defend his play. He does a great job film study, tape study, understanding where they want to go with the ball, and he's able to jump that route.

Reason why that's one of my favorite plays because it really highlights how good of a player Big Place Slay is. And it's not just from sheer athleticism. It's up here as well. He misme of Troy Vincent. From that standpoint, he's a better athlete probably than Troy Vincent. Don't tell the Troy I said that, but from the from the intelligence part of it, and understanding your opponent. I think their neck and neck. That's the one thing Troy always had.

He understood who he was going up against and that gave him the advantage, and I think it does that for Slay as well. Now I can go back to the office now to something that's popped in my head. So many throws from Jalen Hurst, it's hard to choose which one that I like the most. I'm gonna go with a play from today, the play DeVante Smith called had the safety help over the top, he had the corner under him where he went up to get the football, but he was right before the half where they scored

right in half. That was a very good played from Davonte. Or the play that didn't get challenged in the first half challenge they should have talked about them on the broadcast. They feel like they only talked about seven eight times. Yeah, that was also a great play from Davonte. So hard to choose from when so many guys have been making plays offensively and Jalen has really been at the forefront of that given his guys uh the opportunity to make

those plays. So that played right there to to de Bonte. Just you don't expect that. I expect that play from AJ Brown, you know, I guess now I should expect that from Devonte. This guy's a Heisman Trophy winner, a very good wide receiver. I know we've been Google Guy guy over aj rightfully, so we may have forgotten just how good Number six can be when he gets his opportunities. In the last two weeks, man, he's looked very good, outstanding.

The really the performance that reminds me us was Davonte last year against Denver. Remember he had a couple of those big catches in that game, a couple of touchdowns. But Jayalen Hurts in this game, guys, first quarterback since two thousand and eight, since Donovan against the Rams early in that season, to go for two seventy five and three touchdowns in the first half. So again, just talking about this passing game. Jalen Hurts, A J Brown, DeVante Smith,

the hits keep on going. Dallas Goddard obviously just a really fun offense to watch. We're talking about Jalen Hurts. Let's hear from the man himself. Jalen Hurts at the podium, all right, questing for John. Hey, Joe, you take us through the sequence on that play that that's plays at the end of the first half and didn't have time outs and the seconds for ficking down said the actual touchdown play wasn't in the game play? Um, what else

did you say? That was what I remember? Yeah, well, um, we're in a situation in the game where we didn't have any timeoutse um, and pretty much you just had to make sure we're on the same page. Um. Kind of loud in the stadium. Um. So to to his saying, Um, it probably wasn't the intended call, um, but um, the all eleven guys on the field being on the same page and making the play work, that was called um from the quarterback. So, um, he made a great kids,

made a really good kids. Even in the words the kind of game he had today. I mean, you know, acrobatic catchers forty four yards, forty five yards. Yeah, I think that's that's that's who he is. He's he's a he's a great player, UM, all around player. You know, slim reaper, slim reaper, h by the eyes. He may be a little slide, but he plays like a big boy and he is he's a grown man. So talk about that, you talk about the crowd noise. Most of

that was for you guys. Did you feel it? Well, yeah, I want to give a special shout out to the Eaves fans, everybody who came out to FedEx Field. Um, it definitely felt like a felt like a home game. UM. Just a the how loud it was and there how much green and black was in the stadium. UM, it was very, very impressive and it was a sight to see. So, UM, you got to keep keep riding like that, keep going. J Will you call that play the establishing? What did

you like about it? We made a great catch. UM, it's you know, we we kind of put ourselves in these situations all the time. And UM, like I said, one thing I've talked about all week is it's being on the same page with the coaches. UM. Making sure everybody's on the same page seeing the game the same way. UM. So when there is a situation where communication is maybe not the best, maybe I'm not getting to play in

because of how loud it is or whatever. UM, they they expect me to make it work with something that I know that will be UM, that will put us in an advantageous place to execute the play. UM. And that was one of those plays again not having any time out. I think it was a really big time played by him to go up there and snatch the ball out the air went the ball and UM, you know, get us points, get us points before I have time.

And obviously I look back on it, UM and I we preach on important this to double dip and I'm sure that question will be coming soon the second half and how we play it, so I answer it now. UM, just just just just coming out in the second half, and UM, I want to say, not losing our intensity. I feel like everybody, UM has the right type of focus going into the second half. We just have to execute. UM. I think there are a couple a handful of plays in the second half where it can go the whole

entire other way if we just hit it. If I you know, if we connect on the throw to Aj, a whole different feeling the second half, if we get Dallas the ball U, if we handle a certain pressure a certain way, UM, and those are all things that we can control. And that was my message to the team. You know, we go out there, UM, you lick yourself in the mirror as a man, and you say, am I controlling the things that I can control. Um, And if you can do that, that's how you get better.

That's how you take steps, because that's a that's a kind of a piece of accountability. UM. But it's also the first step and you know, in the right direction to um growth, controlling the things you can's having to hunt through this first several drives. What do you mean if the defense is able to have such a dominating performance against against sins Well, I think, um, yeah, I think you know, if they were able to affect them early. Um, just to the front seven, Um, they played, they played

a great game. They played a great game. Um, non sexes, you know what I mean? That's that's crazy. And we'll playing for the other eleven other ten guys on the field to not see their quarterback panic in one of those and the half tip situations. I can't tell you. I mean that's something that you kind of have to describe yourself. I mean that's who I am. Um. I try not to get too high, I get too low

regardless of the situation, and just make it work. You know, sometimes we kind of get caught up in Well, this is the perfect look for this. This is like make the play work. And that's that's my mentality out there playing quarterback. And UM, I know I'm a reflection of the team. I'm a reflection of all the other guys on the field. UM I know they have their eyes on me. I mean they expect me to lead them. So I just want to do my job to my best abilities. For three year old get into the season.

One of the some of the things that you see differently, this is as opposed to when you've got to play last year. Honestly, I don't in terms of us um playing to our standard and being who we think we can be as a football team, I said, it's about the same, you know I think, Um, I think you know we've yet to play our best ball yet. Um I think we're close in terms of executing on a

consistent basis throughout four quarters of the football game. UM. Last year, you know, I remember I remember being asked the question of how close? How close are you? Saying this every week. Well, I think it's the same situation here. We just got three wins in our column. But um, I could care less about it because we haven't played to our standard yet. UM. So if we can continue to strive and play to our standard. Everything else to handle itself. And that's the day by day thing. Receivers

they drive you know. Obviously the first game, I mean Jay Brown had a huge fan in Demante obviously day What does that say, like, you know, when the defense is trying to like stop on those guys, it just seems like it's pretty hard. Yeah, I think, Um, you know, I think that as I said it out there on the field of work. We put it in the off season, um, which it is supposed to show in times like this. Um. The trust we haven't one another, UM been on the

same page. Um to see it paying off now it's great. Well we know there's more to it, um, and we know you know, it's just the beginning. UM, but I have have a new messis amount of trust and every guy on the field eighty eight U eleven six, sixteen three, UM, all the running backs, everybody. You see g Cop coming in there making a big time play when Dallas wasn't available. Um, same with Jack Stole. So UM, it takes it takes a group effort, you know, and together everyone the teams

achieves more, you know what I mean. And it takes everybody person wins this team. You and Carson are going to be connected probably for your entire careers. And you had a great game the first time you played Carson wins. Now that it's over, is there any satisfaction for you that you've you've shown that you've been into a handle. I say not. Um, I just think it's it's very good for us to come in here week three and get another win, regardless of the opponent. Um, it's a

faces opponent to me. UM, and we came out here, we were able to get away with a win. Um. We didn't play to our standard and that's kind of the biggest takeaway I have from this game, same with the last two weeks. So, UM, we're grateful for the win. But but I'm not satisfied. Different now than he was a year ago. Yeah, I think, Um, he's always been who he is. UM. I don't think Yeah, I think he's the same guy. I think, Um, he's gotten more

comfortable than what he's doing. UM. I think it's a great compliment to have who we have on the field outside UM, and I think, UM, he's a guy where UM know when when his number is called, I know you answered the phone. Thanks. Thanks Jalen Hurts with three passing touchdowns today. So earlier fran broke down one of his touchdowns to Dallas Goddard in this week's Freako review. All right, so this week here on the Rico Review, and I take a look back to the first half.

A sack phoneble by Brandon Graham leads to the Eagles getting the ball deep in Washington territory, and the Eagles offense capitalizes with a touchdown pass from Jalen Hurts to Dallas Goddard, a screen pass to the tight end. By the way, Dallas Goddard comes into this game fifth in the NFL in yards after catching the entire league. So how did they get him the ball in space? Here? Really well designed play action screen pass. So here's what

the Eagles do on this play. This is gonna be a fake run two running back Miles Sanders, and all the Eagles are gonna pretend to do here is they're gonna pull the offensive tackle Jordan Malata in the hole. Not often that you get tackle power. Not many teams run this play where you're gonna pull the offensive tackle

to the opposite side. The Eagles do run it, and these linebackers they see it and It's like they want to flow to the football as fast as possible, So they're gonna try and flow really fast to the opposing side. And what that does is it creates really favorable angles for center Jason Kelsey and for guard Isaac Saymalu. So we'll let this run here for a second and watch as soon as that play fake happens, watch those Washington linebackers.

They both flow to that side. Then you see Jason Kelsey and Isaac saymala do an outstanding job of leveraging their blocks. They create an alleyway for Dallas Goddard. You can see there's the alley. He's just got to one man miss. It's Dallas Goddard versus the safety Cameron curl and Goddard does the rest here outstanding move in the open field. He's able to get the rest of the way into the end zone for a touchdown. The Eagles offense well designed play there. We know about this run game, well,

that makes the play action pass go as well. Dallas Goddard twenty three yards to the house for a touchdown. Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota to cast your vote and get a chance at a brand new Toyota. All right, fellas, let's see we got three players up. Fletcher Cox, what a day for the big boys up front, two quarterback hits to tackle for loss. And then Brandon Graham he ate today two

two and a half sacks, five quarterback hits. Thirteen years in the NFL, and he has not taken his foot off the gas. The offensive side of the ball. DeVante Smith, you can't forget about him. Eight receptions, one hundred and sixty nine yards and that touchdown. What do we think, guys, Well, you know, I'm very unpratdictable heart and it's great of a defensive effort as it was the nine sacks. Come on, man, the Slim Reaper is your player of the game. DeVante

Smith was outstanding today. I gotta go. I gotta go with Smith, Skinty Batman, I just want to get all of your former teammates on the fall. After a nine sack performance, you're going offense. Brandon Graham had two and a half sacks, He had five quarterback hits. He was constantly around the football, run game, pass game, give its number fifty five. All right, I gotta tell you a secret. In my former life, I was a wide receiver. You're the wide receiver that was in between quastrophy. You know,

I still felt like my high school coach. And give me an opportunity to stow what I could should have been a receiver. Not lying back. You've moved on. You've moved on. You don't think it early, clearly moved on. All right, Jami's a nightcap. Doug Peterson's coming back to Philadelphia. The Jacksonvill Jaguars will hit the road. They'll be at the Link on Sunday at one o'clock. They're playing right now. They lead the Chargers thirteen to seven in the second quarter.

What do we think I was ever a pretty good Yeah, Jacksonville. I wouldn't be surprised if they win that division. You know, Doug's down there, great job of coaching earlier young team. They believe in him. There's a lot of talent on that defensive side of the ball, and you know he'll have his guys ready to go next week. Oh, we'll see how the rest of this game goes. Right now, they've got the lead on the Chargers. I'm gonna say this right now. This is the best team the Eagles

have faced yet. This team defensively outstanding for the first two games. Watch both of them on Thursday. Watch both games on offense on Friday. This team is kicking right now on offense, very very efficient. You know about Trevor Lawrence. The scheme is really good Defensively, that is a really tough group that front gets after they play a lot

of aggressive man covers. That's a good team. One of my former teammates, yeah, I'm a mentor when I came into the league, defensive coordinator Mike call Well down there for Doug Peterson. We were all former teammates at one point, Doug, Mike and myself. So it's great to see that Mike has his guys. I wonder if he's incorporating a little bit of Jim Johnson and there. He's probably got a lot more Todd Bowles in there. Right. Well, he's got a little bit more motivation this week after I pick

a wide receiver for Toyota Player of the Week. He's coming after us a little bit more now that he knows you've turned to the dark side. Chrevyl Lawrence is gonna be looking at nine sacks today and he's gonna be watching up with his eyes wide well. Be sure to tune into the Kickoff Show at twelve ten, right before that one o'clock kick. We will have you covered all day long. He're on Philadelphia Eagles dot com, comm

and all our social platforms. But for now, for myself, friend Duffy and I grease go birds.