Post-Game Show: Eagles Win 32-27 vs Redskins

We'll started off at a little nerve racking, right, you know, I think some of the russ from the preseason showed up, but I love the way the guys made the adjustments and got it going in the second half. At the end of the day, you're one to OH. And that's what everybody wants to stepped on that field today, is that they got to w Obviously some things to work on that's going to benefit the coaches because that they're a win. You want to have things that you can

keep these guys locked in for the following week. There's enough that needs to be worked on so this team can be even better and get off to a faster start next week. But I love the fact they came out in the second half and they really started to show what this team can be. You know, the reason why so many people are excited about this ball club, the way they put this roster together. It really showed itself today in the second half, absolutely, and come from

a seventeen point deficit. That you talk about the fast starts being the emphasis, and that was not what we saw today, but really turned it on. Do you think that that is possibly a result of just the new evolving preseason and the fact that we didn't see a lot of the starters getting majority of the reps in those preseason games, that there was a little bit of that rust to knock office things got going. I do think it was a factor in it. And it's not

to make an excuse. I think it's what you're going to see around the league. And it doesn't always lend itself to poor offense. It can sometimes lend itself to poor defense because these guys haven't had a chance to be out there communicating with each other, and it doesn't take much to have a big play go against you if you have miscommunication on the defensive side of the ball, particularly in the secondary, and you leave someone open in

a deep portion of the field. And I thought Washington in that first half was able to take advantage of our secondary. We just didn't look like we were in sync from a communication standpoint, and they were able to sort of correct some of those things. You think about it Amy after that big touchdown to put Washington up seventeen to three, the Eagles basically held under three points from for the majority of two plus quarters until that final touchdown of the game. So I like the adjustments

the defense made. I knew the offense would get it going eventually. They're just too talented to be held down for an entire game. But the defense I thought was also a little bit off in the first half that allowed Washington to get some confidence put some points on the board. The defense made adjustments. They looked much better in the second half until a little bit of the

prevent defense late in the game. Well, of course, you always look at how does the team come out of the second half, and the great ones really do make those adjustments. Let's talk about one of the best parts of the game. I know Eagles fans were super excited to see Deshan Jackson back like he never left. And we have a little news for you, Mike Quick. You are now bumped out of that number eight slot for

most receptions in Eagles history. DeShawn Jackson ties that number eight spot with three hundred and sixty three with most receptions in Eagles history. Pretty exciting stuff there for him. Look at that. That chemistry that he developed a Carson Wentz that we heard about really showed up today. Yeah. I think this is why everyone is excited to get the Sean back in Midnight Green. He's excited to be

back in Midnight Green. You're talking about arguably the best deep ball receiver in the history of the National Football League, Ladies and gentlemen, not just the Philadelphia Eagles. We know he's the best in the franchise's history. I'm talking about the best in the history of this great game that's a hundred years old. Amy, You're talking about a guy that scares every defensive coordinator when you have to line

up against him and know where he's at. Not only what he can do to you from a production standpoint, but what he allows the other offensive weapons to be able to do. He creates space for those guys to be able to operate. No surprise that Carson once he got in sync that they were going to be explosive.

It's just the beginning. Obviously, Carson hasn't had a receiver that can get deep like the Sean has in his young career, and other than Michael Vick, I don't know if Deshawn's had somebody that's going to be able to place the ball where Carson is going to be able to place it. Just game number one, we still have fifteen moreties to go with these two guys well, and a lot of times it takes quarterbacks and receivers time

to develop that rhythm. And this was something we heard about it all preseason, all through training camp, that this connection was a quick one for Carson Wentz and DeShawn Jackson there and we saw that today, especially with those deep passes, both touchdowns over fifty yards and that's more NFL history for DeShawn Jackson second all time in fifty plus yard touchdowns with thirty. Now he's only six behind the leader of Jerry Rice. Yeah, he's six behind the

goat and Jerry Rice. DeShawn obviously has I think the most sixty yard touchdowns in the history of the game already, he's number one in that department. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know if he'll get six more this year, but he should have a few more this year because it's going to be difficult to hold this offense down. When you start paying attention to de Sean, then al Sean starts to hurt you. And you saw it. You saw that come to fruition in the second half, Deshan

hits him with a deep ball. Now they have to spend extra time worried about where he's at. That's going to allow the guys underneath to get loose. And the great thing about this offense is that we have a collection of guys that are selfless, right, and when you have this many weapons, that's what you're gonna need. You're gonna need guys that are gonna be able to cheer

their teammates on. Your number may not get called this week, but you gotta hang in there, support the guys whose numbers are called, because eventually your number will get called. The Kansas City Chiefs are able to do it, the greatest show on turf, the Rams, they were able to do it. I've seen a lot of good offenses spread the ball around. We're gonna be able to do that this year. Well, that's a great point with DeShawn Jackson because as he started to really take the top off,

you saw Urts get more involved. You saw all Sean Jeffrey get more involved as well. Let's get to Spadaro more involved. Our Eagles inside are standing by from link in Financial Field, Dave. Your thoughts from a very exciting, very up and down game for the Eagles there in game one against Washington, Well, you've touched on so much of it, but how about this one? I wondered, and I wonder how many Eagles fans felt the same way early in the game. Why are you giving Darren Sprowls

so many touches? What is the strategy there? I can't wait to hear what Doug Peterson has to say. But I really thought coming out a halftime, getting the running game going on that first drive, the third quarter, getting Miles Sanders involved a little bit. Darren Sprowls, I mean amazing. I think it was thirteen touches he had in this game. I mean that is far beyond what we like We talked about it before the game. Where would he kind of line up in terms of number of touches? I

thought three to five touches a game? But he really did a terrific job and the defense turned it up a little bit on third Dock got off the field and he just could feel the momentum changing. Certainly not a happy crowd at the half, but after the Eagles came out and got that touchdown on the board to start the second half, they really poured it on, and we just get an indication of just how devastating and

how versatile this offense can be. Yeah, Dave, I'm talking to you a little bit about the deepness in that secondary, in particular possibly long coverageous little miscommunication out there. You think that's a result of not having these guys play as much together it could be. But I also think Liszt I don't think they particularly played a good game. I mean, flat out, it just didn't play a very good game. Sydney Jones needs did step up. Russell Douglas

needs to step up. Ronald Darby when you have an opportunity for an interception, yeah, I gotta make it so certainly you come out of this game going all right. Things have to get better. The pass rush has to get better. I thought they did a great job against the run, but when the Washington Redskins are picking up touchdown plays of forty plus yards on you, and you've got the Atlanta Falcons who are smarting coming off a

loss today, waiting next Sunday night in Atlanta. You know that defense has to be a lot better in Jim Schwartz will get it there. You escape today with a victory. Hopefully everybody comes out of this thing without any major injuries. We're we're going to keep our eyes on Malik Jackson and that injury toward the end of the game is foot injury. But yeah, I mean, the defense has to be better, there's no question about it. And the back end just did not play an A plus kind of game. Well,

the Eagles come away with a win. Like you said, Dave, escaped is a word that you used, and of course, plenty of things to talk about and improve on as practice unfolds throughout the week. I'm sure we'll be following that very closely as well. We'll catch up with you a little bit later, David. All right, thanks guys. All right, Ike, let's get to your three takeaways from this game. The classics segment that IKES takeaways, Well, I'll tell you we've

already touched on it a little bit. Amy. I think the first thing everyone noticed was how sluggish and how rusty this team looked. And listen, it's an even you know, it's a It's a great tradeoff. In my opinion, people want to know why, you know these guys aren't planning in the preseason. Where do you want to get as many of your starters to the first game as healthy as possible. And the tradeoff maybe a little bit of rust. We saw that in the first half, but again, you

have all your main players healthy. I'll accept that tradeoff anytime any year, especially when you come out with the W. And then I'll look at what de Sean Jackson brought to the table. Right Deshan Jackson, he is still explosive at thirty two years old. You're talking about the ability to unlock your offense, scared deepens, take the top off the defense. That's what we saw today, two bombs from from Carson Wentz to de Sean. Hopefully we'll see a lot more of that as the season goes along. And

then my third takeaway is the coaching adjustments. The first half was ugly, it was sluggish. It was a lot of sloppy play out there on both sides of the football. I'm sure they went in there at halftime. Doug wasn't happy, Jim Schwartz wasn't happy. They made the adjustments, and I loved the way the guys came out in the second half.

After Washington got that big touchdown to go up seventeen to nothing, the Eagles basically outscored them twenty seven to three for almost two plus quarters until they gave up that chief touchdown late in the game, where you're really just playing a little bit of prevent defense. Again, I don't know. We talked about this leading up to this game, that RUSS would be a concern. It came to fruition, But luckily this team was able to make the adjustments

sown enough and they got out. They got the clicking on all cylinders, the run game in the second half, the deep balls in the second half, all things that you can carry over to the next week. Well, here's the thing for me, I'd rather see a coach and a team have those halftime adjustments come out and really show something different that they were able to adjust from what they were given the first half. What was working,

what wasn't working. I'll take that any day over. You know somebody who just please you can't make adjustments, and there are so many teams that that's the case as well. If they don't start strong, that they're going to be in that hole, they're not going to be able to do it. So to me, a lot of good stuff here from this team being able to come from behind, especially with Washington scoring that field goal right before the half.

That always kind of takes the wind out of the sales a little bit when there's a score right before the half as well. Let's take a look at my favorite part of the day, Merrill cam. Let's check out my quick and merrill reason. Let's see how they enjoyed the Eagles first game. Let's send to the crowd for the Sean Jackson kind. He comes galloping out and Carson Wentz what's back? Went's looking? He's looking, He is going deep and it is cut touchdown the Shawn Jackson. Give

the people what they came to see. The Shawn Jackson on a deep ball perfectly thrown by Carson Wentz, put a touchdown that'll light up the stadium fifty one yards. He leaves defenders in his week. Where have you been? Number ten? Him takes the deep snap. He's looking for Thompson and he sacked at a field goal range, coming up with a Tim Jernigan right up the middle. Terrible Tim, an outstanding job. Give goes to Sanders up the middle fifteen ten and five down to the two Moons standers

his first impressive carrying. I love of that first wow. Jackson's on the near side. Went to the gun's back, he's looking, he is rolling, he fires and it is complete touchdown back of the end zone. As he fired it and won a great, great play as the Eagles come back in this ball game. Al Sean Jeffrey eight yards deep, four receivers, double wing Keenum slips an inside the geis and he loses more yards as he meets Fletcher cuts went back. Whence steps up, here comes the rush.

He is going deep and it is cut and in for a touchdown to Shaun jack sevenmon. Give the people what they want, give him some more Djack wins under center motion. Al Sean Jeffrey Wentz on first down, springs it to Jeffrey and Jeffrey spins in for the touchdown. Wentz under center, Sprowls behind him. Wentz pitches out the Sprowls tries to get inside cuts back spins. He's in for two. He's in for two. He fell down, he got up, he veered inside, he kept his incredible balance,

and he put two on the board. And now the Eagles lad twenty nine to twenty. Hey, welcome back to the Postgame Show, presenting by Rico. Guess what new studio? I get to have both my favorite people have one time. I don't know what if I can't even contain myself. I Greece of course, joined me always on the postgame fan We've done the postgame once or twice, but twice. Now I get to have a whole roundtable discussion. This is like my dream come true as host. Yes, we're

about to get smarter. It's the nerd stuff coming up right now. What are the three things you're most excited to dive into when you watch the film and you break it all down tomorrow? What can Eagles fans look forward to hearing more about from you? Well, like you and I, you know, were preparing for Eagles game plan this week. We talked a lot about the Eagles in their twelve personnel sets, so one back, two tight ends. How are they going to use zach Ertz and Dallas

Goddard to create matchups. And I think a lot of people when they hear that, they say, oh, well, how are they creating matchups for those two guys? Right, how are they gonna get Earth's open? How are they gonna get got it open? Well, a couple of times today I felt that they use those two players to help

create matchups for others. And that was a play that we had great co sell breakdown in the show was how it opened up Nelson Agilore for a big play last year against Washington on a couple of those plays, and I think in the next block here, when we do our Rica review, I'm going to show you exactly how they did that. I'm excited to go back and watch even more of that tomorrow morning. Yeah. Yeah, that's

the difficult part. When you're a defense of trying to defend against twelve personnel and when you have tight ends that are really slash wide receivers, meaning they can get open light wide receivers, then the defense has to adjust. They have to bring personnel on more of in the lightbox to try to cover these guys, and like you said, Fran, that's going to create the mismatch on a guy like Nelson Agilo. You can't put the third or fourth best corner on a guy like Nelson Agilo, who is a

starting caliber receiver. So I look forward to seeing a lot more of these personnel groupings because in this league, it's about finding the mismatch right, the one on one

advantage that you have and exploit it. Yeah. I mean, you can go back even to that opening drive of the third quarter and the Eagles start to drive twelve personnel, two tight ends, and they just ran it right down their throat, And that's really when you can start to establish and set the tone as an offense with the run game, two tight ends and then spread you out. Now as a defense, you're you're spinning circles. You have

no idea which way you're gonna go. The next thing I'm most excited is just how the Eagles were able to attack watching in the secondary, because I thought they did a really good job over the course of the day to really kind of catching them when they were trying to get a little bit cute on the back end, disguising some things. You know how it is. You know, pre snap, you're trying to show the offense one thing and then give them something else. The Eagles caught them

a couple of times. To them, I'm excited to kind of diagram exactly how it seemed to me like on the both of dish On Jackson's touchdowns that there wasn't really anybody near rope. Yeah, if that first one day, we're gonna give away too much. I'm just gonna say it, like he caught the ball like fifty yards downfield, there's a linebacker around. I'm I'm gonna show exactly how that happened.

I Mean, that's what you want, though, is when you're trying to create those kind of matchups number one, with what we just talked about, and then catch them in the disguise, that's a perfect storm for an offense. And defensively, it was just tough to match up. Yeah, And I'll tell you, when you get matchups like that, you need your offensive line to hold up right in order for

you to exploit those. And I thought the offensive line, at least from a pass protection standpoint, run blocking wasn't is good in the first half, but in the second half they got it going. But from a pass protection standpoint, I didn't think Wentz was under much pressure. Ye had a couple of times he had guys in front of him, he was able to escape it. But off the top of my head, I can't think of any big hits

he took the day. Yeah, they kept him clean, and in order to get those balls to the Sean Jackson down the field, you need time. And I thought the offensive line did a great job of holding up today. And you know what I loved too, like was it wasn't like necessarily where he was pressured and he had to break the pocket, but where the coverage was really good in the back end and he has to hold

the ball and create time and break the pocket. A couple of those third down conversions in the fourth quarter where he's spinning out of the pocket and rolling to his left finding Alshan Jeffrey, that seemed like twenty seventeen. Carson wentz to me, That's why those are the vibes I got watching that today. And I need to check the third down numbers on the stats here in a minute. But both of those touchdowns to Deshan Jackson were on

third and ten as well. So just I think a lot for Eagles fans to be optimistic about on those third down conversions, which was an area of emphasis heading into this season, something they didn't do so well last year. Yeah, no question. I thought you guys touched on it just before I came on, just about the adjustments that the coaching staff made. To me, that was one of the best things to come out of this is. You know, the team comes out a little bit flat on both sides.

You know, that's the thing. They score that first touchdown, Washington off the mistackle and you say, all right, that's that's on us, that's not even on them. And then you get the deep ball for a touchdown. He said, right tip of the cap. You got us on a deep ball. Let's see if you can sustain drives. The Eagles did a really good job of not panicking. They didn't force the shoe. They took what the defense gave them on offense, and they just buckled down on defense.

I love the adjustments they made on both sides and the way to come out with the victor. I thought it was just an awesome team effort. I had the third down stat here eleven of seventeen, so let's trading sixty five percent. That's pretty good if you're noticing the chemistry happening in this room right now, between the three of us, but especially these two. Oh and you know what, we're gonna send this over to the link because head coach Doug Peterson is ready for his press conference. I

don't think much of anything. We just kind of settled into the game, made a few adjustments at halftime. But you know, there were some plays to be made in the first half. We just we just didn't make them offensively. Defense. You know, we didn't get off the field on third down in the first half, but we got off the field on third down and the second half, and then we conversely, we stayed on the field. We made some plays on third down. So just a matter of staying patient,

stay and trust in the game plan. And you know, guys execute well. In saying that I got that first in the first drive in the second half, you had a quick fourth down conversion. I think it was from your own any hesitation to go none but about a half a yard, so there was no hesitation. I was going forward right there on that drive around the ball nine at twelve times. I think how much did that let you established control of the line of scrimmage in the game. Yeah, you know, even a couple of times

in the first half. I thought kind of controlled the line of scrimmage. We had some nice runs second half. UM kind of challenged the guys at halftime and said, hey, you know, offensive line control the line of scrimmage, and they did. Um, but those two long drives there in a second half and really, um, you know, dominated by the offensive line, and then hats off to those guys, UM helped us really get ourselves back into this football game and help us win. Think of the way Carson played, Yeah,

I thought he played. I thought he played within himself. I thought he really saw the field extremely well. Um, you know, distributed the ball well, you know, made the checks that we needed him to make. He played he played well. Um. Obviously look at the tape tomorrow and and see. But I think just my blink just says that he played played good. He was very one third down all three touchdown passes and the third down back passes. Okayni first down. So what was the key to that successful?

Some of it was a little tempo offense. We lined up quickly to the line of scrimmage. UM, I thought that there might have been a little confusion on defense, so we were able to kind of take advantage of which helped us there, M Deshaun. We caught him in the right coverage on one touchdown, Deshaun, you know, kind of suplit the the two deep safety there or at least one high safety at the what I thought. And

for the one touchdown, protection was really good. So just a combination of our execution and then just playing fast. It wasn't like seeing Deshaun Amy added his first game back in Philadelphia. I'm excited for him. I'm excited for the team, you know. Um, it's a great win, great way to start our season. Excited for Deshaun, you know, first game back. I wish you wouldn't have got the penalty in the first quarter there, but you know, emotions run high early and he settled into had a nice game.

That is going to have on the whole offense and his billy You're gonna create space. Yeah, I mean, it's it's obviously something that uh, you know, UM, we're blessed to have. He's blessed he's blessed to have as well. UM, take advantage of that, you know, and and and you know, you know, not all the time if you watch the game, and not all the time do you have to throw the ball deep with his speed and it might get a little off coverage from time to time, so take

advantage of that too. But uh, yeah, he's uh he fits in well with what we're doing. Obviously freed up you know Hal Sean and some of the things Nellie did, and you know even Zach and Dallas. So um, it's good to have first came out through the fourth quarter for Big T. Was that part of the plan for Acount? And they also defensively it sort it seemed like the

outside corners were kind of cycling in and out. Was that part a part of all part of the plan you know early in the season like that with especially with Darby, you know, put him on a little bit of a not a pitch account, but a rotating basis. All those guys are gonna play, you know when you got four corners out there, um and the three that played corn position obviously, Um, but yeah, all part of the plan. The seventeen done. How much did that touchdown pass?

The offensive guy going? I think the seventeen nothing kind of woke us up, um, and we kind of we did we knew what we had to do. Um, you know, we had to just kind of stay within, you know, within our game plan. Uh, I had to keep calling you know runs. The run game was eventually going to take over, and um, we were able to make some more plays there in the second half that that got us back in the game and the eventually uh uh you know, win the game. So yeah, you don't ever

want to see that, you know, seventeen nothing at home. Um, But hats off to the guys resilient group, staying true and uh crawling him, you know, crawling themselves back into it. So we're talking. I ask you so much about Miles and Jordan throughout the preseason. Why so much? Darn well? Some of it was by design, some of the some of the plays that were were affected if um, as you know, when we construct game plans, we have multiple

run schemes and they're designed for different guys. Um, the ones that we're kind of clicking today where the Darren ones um and and so just kept calling his number there. Um, those other two guys I thought ran Well, is also unfortunate we got the late holding call deep in you know, late in the game there on that one. But Miles as explosive as you know, um, Jordan ran extremely hard. Um so excited for all three of those guys. When just Sean uh hits that deep ball for the touchdown.

With his energy and emotion that he shows, is he coming back to you on the sidelines, let's let's get another one going here? Is he? Yeah? I mean he's you know, he's excited, um talking. He comes up to you and kind of high fires you a little bit and and you know said, you know, just kind of just whispers in your ear like hey, keep let's keep it going, you know type thing. And and that's him. Um, he obviously leads by example. Um, he's great to have

in the locker room. And uh, you know, we're just we're just fortunate that today was with his day drive first driving a third quarter randival and I've got to twelve plates. I had a lot of success on the ground help where it wasn't to establish that kind of balance and keep them a little bit of all balance. Yeah. It, I mean, it's it's anytime you can establish your run game, uh, during the game, it helps you opens up a lot

of things. And you know, a couple of times we caught them in in subdefense to our twelve personnel which was good for us to run the football in and uh, you take take advantage of that, but yeah, I mean anytime you can you can do that. It definitely opens up more things, you know in the second half for

us that it did, especially down the field throws. What kind of defensive adjustments did you make in the second half where you kept the receivers in check from the big plans For the most part, I think it really just starts with the front um getting a little more pressure on the quarterback, you know, disrupting some of his throws. And then and then just just um, you know, being being where your feet are, just understanding from a defensive standpoint where you need to be and being there and

executing the defense. But I do think we got a little bit more pressure on the quarterback there in the second Yeah, yeah, thanks. Okay, that's a head coach after his team's first victory. Um, as I was saying, with that strange transition to coach there, of course we got to go when coaches here. Um, if you've noticed all the chemistry in this room, it's because these two work together, not just on Sundays, not just today. Can probably tell us not their first time together but Eagles game plan.

Frand produces this show. Ike is on this show breaking down just all of the Why don't you tell us a bit more about it? Fran, Well, we're writing down the excess and nose every single week, and a little bit of a change in format this year, because you know, typically what we try to do is kind of preview what to expect in the upcoming game, and really we wanted to just kind of get back to roots and say, all right, what is the game plan for the Eagles

to win this game this week? And so a little bit of a different format, different outlook on the show. So some exciting things and I'm excited to get into lab.

We talked about it earlier before Coach talked, I'm excited to get in and just kind of watch this film both of this team and then also the Atlanta Falcons who had a tough loss this week, and just kind of break down exactly what we're gonna talk about, Like I would guess we're gonna talk a little bit about DeShawn Jackson's a big plays, I would imagine, and we talked about the chemistry Amy Frand not going into our

eighth year of doing Eagles game plans. So along with Mike Quick John Clark, looking forward to getting into this tape and looking at what the Eagles were able to do to be successful obviously the two big players to DeShawn Jackson. Can't wait till we break that film down. And the thing I love about breaking it down is we obviously see the Shawn catching a ball from wins, but I love getting into the past protection seeing what Carson saw pre snap and deciding he wants to go

to DeShawn Jackson there. So I can't wait to get in there. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. Are you looking at Atlanta? They've got some different things going on. It's a little early for us to get into it now, but this week, you know, they've got some different things going on both sides of the new coordinators, so, you know, just some different things for us to talk about. A parent. We can't start talking about Atlanta for like

thirty seven more minutes. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna stick with this in and you alluded to it, but let's break down a couple of those plays right now. We're gonna do our plays at the game. I get to start and I'm going with DeShawn Jackson's first touchdown as back as an Eagle again just really broke the game open, fifty one yards on a third and ten. And this was really like the first moment we saw in this

offense start firing. And I think what stood out to me the most was that Lincoln Financial Field from a distance from me listening on the broadcast, kind of went you could probably speak to this more because you were there, went from like pretty silent, pretty like upset, to like, okay, here we go, like Deshawn's back, Carson's back, this is what this is what we came to see. Yeah, we were waiting. I mean I was over there in the stadium and the fans of sitting there, they were pumped

up before the game. All the electricity was in the building. And then they have the riskins to jump out the way they did. It was a little deflating, right, and then you have them go up seventeen to nothing, and then we're scratching out here, like, man, what was going on? So I feel confident in saying I believe we all assume they would get it going eventually. Once you're down seventeen nothing, you're saying, Okay, I hope it won't be

too late when they do get it going. And when that that second touchdown to de Sean, you could almost feel everyone when the ball's in the air and they almost know that he's open, it's going to drop in there, he catches it, And I'll tell you, since the moment they resigned to Sean Jackson, this fan base has been waiting to cheer this guy on in this stadium, and

I mean, what better way to get it going. I think I can't imagine right what this guy was feeling like waiting for that first not just the first reception, but his first touchdown back at midnight Green. Yeah, I'm sure one he'll remember for a while the show. How you know, I'm a little bit new to the to the Eagles fan base here, as it's my second season with the team, but I knew since DeShawn Jackson has been here, and so to me, he's new and I know the story and I know how beloved he is

here and how much of a perfect videos. But I was so excited to see him today and that fit all of that hype that we've talked about all preseason long into training camp to see it in action today was really special. Yeah, and to me, that's why I agree with you Amy. It was my favorite play from the days and they know the play of the game well, was the DeShawn Jackson opening touchdown. And I'm going to break that play down in the next block in the

reco review. So I don't want to give away too much of the detail, but I'll just say this, it was a great combination of one, a great play call from Doug Peterson and number two, a great read by Carson Wentz. Because I'll just say this, pre snap, the ball probably shouldn't have gone to DeShawn Jackson, but reading what the defense did, he reacted to that and put the ball exactly where he needed to go. So from an ex's no standpoint, a really fun breakdown and a

lot of really cool things to take away from that play. Yeah, it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard to overthrow that guy. Do you have a play of the game that's different than ours? I do. I do. I'm gonna go with a play that works several times today. But I love the fact when they rented in the third quarter of opening drive or the third quarter, you need to get points coming out of the locker room. There forced with a fourth and one there, Doug, what are

you gonna do? You're gonna pump the ball? Give it back to the red Skins now, not our coach. He's going forward on fourth down and the quarterback sneak worked to perfection. I think they were three for three on the day. As a defense, what do you have to do to stop that play? Because Carson's so big and then line so good inside? What do you do as a defense? That's really an unstoppable play? It really is, and you're at the mercy of the offense. Jason Kelsey Carson.

They can get up to the line of scrimmage, hip the ball as soon as they want to, and when you only need a half a yard. Carson's the big guy. Yeah, all he has to do is fall forward. The only thing you're worried about on that is fumbling the snap. If he if he secures that snap, it's pretty much gonna be a first down, much like that team up in New England does. Has Tom Brady ever been stopped on the quarterbacks League? So I love the fact that

our quarterback is real good at doing it. He gets behind Jason Kelsey, and that was a big play there because it Doug punts the ball there. Who knows. Washington had momentum going into the locker room with that field goal, and so I love the fact that Doug went forward. He trust his old line, he trust his team. They needed to get points on that first drive. We wound up getting a touchdown there later to Deshan Jackson. Awesome, awesome decision from the coach to trust his players a

goal for it. There a couple of touchdowns for Shaun Jackson. Not the only receiver to do it all. Shan Jeffrey also had a rushing touchdown. It was awesome. He was Insider Dave Spidero when one on one with Jeffrey after the game. Take a look down to the field. Insider Dave Spiderow with wide receiver al Sean Jeffrey two touchdown catches today. Domination in the second half. What did you

see happening in that second half? We fed off the crowd energy, the way to hang in there and stay with us and Coach Peterson game was a hell of a speech in the locker room and we all stuck together. Seem like he was saying I'm here, come find me. Yeah, I mean he was. We're always in communication early in this game, trying to figure out what they were doing

coverage wise, and um, you know that specific play. You know, we were talking, hey, be alert if they do a certain coverage, be alert on this on this deep ball, and uh, we hit the home run and that one was fun. I didn't feel the air it after him. It felt great. It felt great to you know, to have him out here obviously creating the dynamic element that

he does for our offense. And then I know this city's pretty fired up to have him back here and so um to do that at home, I know for him means a lot, and for this team to get us going the way he did. It was huge horse way at the connection and you know, kind of just seeing let's start right out of the shoot. There's a

long one. Yeah. I mean I think that's just him and I, you know, going through the entire offseason together, you know, just working on our chemistry, working on you know, how we see coverages, how we see things, and um, you know we just we we made those plays in those cases, and it was good to see seniors toyere right with the song in the middle. Obviously having those three guys over there increase a lot of pressure uncause

once you see bring game about about that particular information. Yeah, I mean it was just something that you know, coaches did a good job scheming up and you know, we were able to get him and some mismatches and you know, there did some some coverage things that you know kind of surprised us a little bit, but we were able to have those answers and uh, you know we hit those two home runs, which was which was pretty sweetson on the second touchdown, it looked like he was so

wide open. What did you plan to go to him initially or did you just see he was open when he was that wide open. Yeah, we were on the ball and we made the We made the call base off of the look the defense has given us. So we really had either Nellie or to Shaun on that one and take your pick, and we made we made him pay. How did it feel for you and generally getting back out there first time this December? How do

you feel like you played? First of all, felt great, you know, it felt great to finally get out there, and you know, it was a long offseason, a lot of things going on, and so um to finally be out here in front of our fans running out of

the tunnel, Uh, it just felt. It felt awesome. And you know, obviously it was a little slower start than we'd liked as a team, but um, I think that was just good to see our resilience and just stay together and you know, do what we do and then finish the ball game the way we did on that I think nineteen play drive, um to finish it off. It was it was a good day for us. What do you think the reason was a little bit of a slow start. Yeah, it was just you know, a

couple of things. You know, it's just one of those things. It's hard hard to say. We kind of hurt ourselves early a little bit, and um, then we put that drive together. Then we came up short on fourth down down there, and UM, you know, those are just things we got to keep cleaning up and working on. But you know, I didn't feel offensively that we were really that bad. We just hurt ourselves with it with a penalty year and some things here and there, so things

we can definitely work on. How much we got that first question has kind of got the off gave the offense competa. Yeah, I mean anytime. You know, first of all, you know, our our strategies just trying to you know,

take completion, stake what they give us and UM. In that case, they gave us that that shot, you know, and it was a foot race between the Sean and their corner and uh, you know, Sean made him, made him pay and obviously it gave this offense, it gave the stay them, gave the defense a spark and to be able to do that, and you know it was a third down play. To be able to do that on third down, it was huge for us. What is it about third down in particularly even third and long

and thin you have so much confidence over there. Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's something you know, we work a lot on it. You know, it's third down and reds on something we always talk about. We always work on UM and you know a lot of teams always just you know, on third and long, just give up,

take a screen and we're gonna do that. I don't want to say give up, but we're gonna do our our screens and take take what's there sometimes, but you know, we're gonna try and push the ball down the field when we can, and uh, make plays when we can. So it was good to see that that we were able to do that today a couple of times, a couple of times in the second half left to go third down and meet accurate throws. Was it easier to do that today than it maybe it had been last year?

Close to I don't think so. I don't think so. No. I think that was pretty pretty natural for me really my whole career. So it was good to see, you know, those couple of plays that we were able to extend the play and pick up some key key third down. We're joking that this is twenty seventeen, Carson. Uh what ninth did you feel? Is this as good as you fell out there and in a couple of years, I mean business buscomptables you felt? Yeah? I mean I felt great,

you know, physically and mentally. You know, there's a lot of uh, you know, a lot of hard work really these last few weeks on game planning. So mentally I just felt really good with our plan. Coaches did a good job putting it together, and physically just feeling free, you know, chev being able to get rid of the excuse me being able to get rid of the knee brace um and just and go play ball. Uh, you know, it's been a blessing and I'm thankful for the way

recovery went. Follow that one question about to do scrambling word in the pocket and giving outside. Was it easier to do without the brace? It's hard to say, hard to say, I did you have anything particular you want to get accomplished on that first drive? And know one you've been bothered. Yeah, I mean we always come in a halftime and okay, what are they doing to us? What formations can we key in on? What can we what can we go out and attack? And we always

want to start fast the second half. Obviously we were in a hole where we didn't want to be, and uh we were able to come out there and put a good one together. And so we always we always as a as with coaches and play trying to put it put together first opening drive for the second half, and I think coaches did a great job there. Uh that that row to him was ruled to run. Alshan was surprised. Otherwise you before touching down throws? What was your view on that? Do you think that was a passer?

That's news to me. I had no idea, so but it is what it is. So I guess Alshan's got a Russian touchdown when the offense when the offense started waking, did you make any key adjustments or did it? Was it just a matter of just plugging away with the same game plan? Um, you know, a little bit of both. You know, we obviously had a game plan and we kind of threw it all out there early to see what they were doing and then kind of focus in on Okay, this is this is where our mismatches are,

here's our advantage. And so we did a lot more of that later in the game, and coaches did a great job of dialing it up. Said ten Bowls a big part of that in the second half in terms

of getting still mind, what were you doing there? T Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a couple times a day we just want to get on the ball and see what they were doing coverage wise, so that we could call it at the line of scrimmage, and um, you know, that's nice that we were able to communicate as effectively as we did and get us in the right calls and pick up some key third downs and uh, you know, it kind of simplifies the game for us and for them, um,

and just lets us go make place always clearly hyped four game and they early going and de penally. What would would you make of his uh obvious emotion early on and how did you guys kind of get up the focus? Yeah, I mean, first of all, I love

his emotion. I love his attitude. Obviously that the penalty is something that we all would say, you know, you can't do that, but um, you know, just his attitude and what he brings to the table mentally, he's he's a fighter, um, and he wanted to show show it today. And uh, it was good to see and have that passion that that he brings in really this entire offense brings. It was good to see the slow start. Was that more a product of what the defense was doing or

was it an execution issue? I'll just go back and watch tape. You know, it's hard to hard to say, you know, I think at the end of the day, with that penalty really hurt us early in the game, and um, you know, we had a couple of things here and there that we just didn't execute. And UM, you know, I'm not I'm not overly concerned. I think we'll get it right, you know on the role of course, a touchdown to all shot, you know, you roll, you

kind of put it up there. It was kind of like a fifty fifty ball, you know, it was kind of covered. Is that the type of thing you guys talk about where you say, hey, I'm gonna toward you got to take care of me. Yeah, I mean that's something especially down there, Alshin that's such a great job of body control and boxing out guys and being strong to the catch and you know, rolling out and saw

a linebacker on him. So I'm gonna give him that shot every time, you know, and I'm gonna believe he's gonna come down with it, you know, ninety nine percent of the time. And that's the type of player he is, especially when we get down to the red zone. Um to ghost snash that ball out of the air, and you know, it's good to see there. What I think of him, It is great and great time out there. You know. I love that guy and how hard he works and what he does for us situationally from third downs,

punt returns to different things. Uh. You know, he's a leader on this football team and it was. It was great to have him back out there thanks to more questions. We talked a lot about the Shawn's presence in the off season. Yeah, that you've seen it. Not even the touch shown, its just its presence on the field. You feel the difference in those intermediate routes because they got to keep the safety over there. Yeah. I mean that's that's the theory, and that's the plan and the hope.

You know that. Uh, you know, with him being out there and then these other weapons that we have us, we're gonna be able to keep teams on their toes, you know, and we're gonna we're gonna study this tape and see what we could have done better. But um, having the element of Deshaun to go with with Nelson and with al Sean, and then our tight ends and our running game, I mean, it's it. We got we got some talent and we got some weapons to to

take advantage of. Talked this offseason about you operating faster. How was that kind of realized in game? You know, with your greater comfort in the in the system. Yeah, I think it, you know. I again, I'll go back and watch the tape, but I felt like mentally, I was, I was playing fast going through reads. Uh, the old

line did a tremendous job. You know, I think them being able to get the running running game going a little bit later in the game and um, them just keeping me upright was really helped us, you know, execute some drives and owe a lot of it to those guys. Thank you guys. Hey like that Samon suit there for QB one. That is a winning quarterback, look right there, love it little style. I liked that right obviously. Carson feeling quite comfortable after today's performance, being back on the field,

being healthy. Impressive stat line there seventy one point eight percent completion three and thirteen yards, three touchdowns, zero interceptions. Basic takeaways on Carson Wentz's performance here today, Well, I thought he looked look magnificent. He took what the defense was giving him in the first half, didn't try to force anything, didn't get frustrated and try to force anything. That's what you saw early last year when he first came back off of that injury, is that you could

tell he was searching for the big play. He was looking forward as opposed to allowing it to happen organically. And today I thought he allowed the plays to come to him. Numbers didn't look very good for about a quarter and a half until he hit Deshaun with that big throw. And that's the maturity of him in this offense, right.

You know, Doug talked and Mike Girl talked all offseason about Carson allowing the offense to work for him, you know, not searching for big plays, just allowing the offense to work for him. Well, it's it's not easy for a player of his caliber to sit back and just let things come to him in the first half when the offense is struggling, you tend to have a tendency to want to make something happen, to try to provide your

team a spark. And I thought he did a great job of not getting frustrated, keeping his guys calm, and then eventually the big players started happening. And I didn't even realize he had over seventy percent completion percentage today. That's remarkable considering how many times he threw the ball down the field, you know. So I thought he looked great in the offense, spread the ball around. Obviously had chemistry early with the Sean, but then he was able

to get guys like al Shan involved. He was able to get zach Ertz involved. And then I love the fact that we had thirty rushers today. He had thirty Russian attempts, which is what I thought this team needed coming into this game. Twenty five plus Russian attempts. I thought Carson did a great job with that. I mean, we hadn't seen the guy played since they left the field in Dallas last year, and man, how can you not be excited to see him back out there healthy

for the first time. This guy hasn't been healthy since twenty seventeen. Yeah, and here's here's what really stood out to me about Carson's performance. And you touched on it a little bit. But in the past, as you said, when things maybe weren't going so well, we would see him get a little bit tight, kind of try and go into hero mode a little bit, maybe do too much rely on that athleticism that had gotten him this far.

But it got to a point where your game needs to evolve where you can't always rely on your legs, You can't always try to take everything upon yourself and make things happen. Trust your playmakers. And he commented on that as well. How he trusted to Seawan Jackson. And speaking of that, here comes to Sean Jackson for a press conference right now. The game, the game you had to pay as much. Game back a man, very exciting.

A lot of motion went into it. Uh, the past forty eight hours alwously been racing for me, just trying to keep my my calm, my jitters, you know, just anxiety is it's been, you know, a roller coaster the past forty eight hours. Just happy it's Ober. You know, the first game coming back to Philly, Um, you know, just all the emotions I had going into the game

couldn't have predicted to being the other way. Um, you know we came out, you know, started off slow, struggle, but uh, you know, not one moment in that game I didn't think, you know, we're gonna win that game. And I just kept stressing too the boys when we came into the locker room. You know, I've been over there before in that locker room, and I just know

how they are. And you know, I just stressed to my teammates that, you know I felt that halftime they probably thought they had the game, you know, sealed in one, and um, I just said, man, we're gonna just go out there. It's gonna take one one place and one play mentality. And you know, we came out and you know, as you saw, we scored and just had a lot of momentum the rest of the game. You know, we're gonna be that active in the game. I mean, honestly going into the game. You know, we had a great

game plan all week. I think Doug and a coach grow did a great job throughout the week. Man, we had good you know, ten to twelve days just preparing for this reskying team. And you know there's a lot of great things in the in the playbook, you know, for for me this week. So you know, you never really know how that kind of plans out once the

game comes. So you know, I just stayed calm and collective, you know, anytime my number was called, just made the most out of the opportunities, just started the game coming back here obviously, actually the start of the game, it was it kind of went down like I literally last night going to sleep all yesterday and meetings. You know, it's just just racing. I just couldn't stay calm. It was just like you know, I was just over excited

like a kid before Christmas. So you know, I just know, you know, just the reunion of me coming back and just what I mean to the city, and you know what the city means to me, being in the green colors and just being a part of this this organization and this family is just some special for me. So you know, I couldn't think of it being any other way. But uh, you know, I actually before the game, I

was actually kind of calm and collection. I was like, you know, and then I had the penalty first off, because I had to get that out the way, and I was good a team vers just like man, chill out man, I said, I know, I just had to get that out. But it was good just knowing once I got that penalty out, you know, because um, but within the game, you know, so many things happened, uh

you know, very competitive nature of the game. And I don't think people really know what goes on on that field, just to ends and out of just you know, going against other professional athletes, other guys that are pay high too. It's just so much that goes on to that end between the white lines. And you know, I caught a play on you know, a dumb bar, which is, you know, like a young brother to me. You know, I've seen him come up in the system over there, and you know,

he actually came into playing while receiving. Now I was playing dB, so I just knew that matchup was big for him, and you know, I just kind of talked some mess after I caught the first pass and he next play he came back and kind of hit me, and I just kind of lost a little bit, but you know what happens, it's part of the game. A couple of your teammates mentioned them you're halftime constucate you to them, What message did you deliver and what wasn't

about Washington? You said you had kind of an idea of what their mentality. I mean, the message honestly just was it's gonna take one play being down seventeen nothing. It's obviously, you know, it's one of the things where you got to kind of get going. You know, if one more score puts you down twenty four, then I'm not gonna say it's impossible, but it's almost impossible. So we just knew that coming into the to the locker room.

It's the mentality. It's all the mentality thing here, and I felt, you know, my past five years, since years being gone. It's just that's what already missed being a part of a team in the organization. It's just know it's known for winning, and just the mentality that regards to the score, regards to how many points you're down, and it's always a chance you can win the game. And you know, just saying I've been in that locker room,

I just know you know how they are. And that's not saying anything bad about might, just know how they are. I'm sure anybody going into the half and half and to halftime up seventeen points, they gonna feel like they got the game one. But just to mentality, just knowing that you gotta go out there and still keep fighting playing. What was going through your head on the first touchdown when he crossed the plane? Yeah, I actually, uh, I

wasn't the the intended receiver on that play. It's actually like a clear route, but Carson was like man, stay alert and the play was actually intended for Aushan on the on the deep cross route. But the way they played that cover ship was like in and out and uh, you know, Josh normal was outside. I was inside the slot and he was supposed to be guarding Sean, but when I went, he took me safety, kind of cut down on the route and it was just he threw the ball and shoot, I just ran caught it and

just one great feeling. You think of the day Carson had, not having had a preseason snap, your first game together. What what did you think? He? I felt he had a great game. Man. Uh, you know, once again, you know this is this is his show. You know, he's driving the car, and uh, you know, it's good to have a quarterback that has a confidence that you know, at any given time, the playmakers we have on this offense, he come to the line of scrimmage and basically, you know,

call whatever he wants. Because play style we have and the players we have in our on our hudor in our locker room, we're just very confident that we can all get it done, regardless of who it is. Like I was just telling Nelson, you know, he was a little down, but I'm like, you know, next week might be a game. It's impossible to you know, have big games all the time. So it's gonna be games they take you out. Just you gotta be ready for when it's your time and your number car just make the

most out of it, like you so necessarily. Man, they play a probably like a zone defense, you know, and it's different because I was in the slot. It wasn't like I was outside receiver. So when I was in the slot, you have a nickel corner on me, and then you have a safety that usually tries to cut you know, different you know, crossing routes and it just eyes in the backfield. So we knew all week once they get into this coverage and we see them give

it a signal. You know, Carson had the opportunity to check me a couple of times on a certain you know route, and uh, you know, we we just got it. Man. They gave us the courage we needed. First games you've been so until Why is that? And also gainst a team. You know, It's just how I'm built, man. I just I'm here for the long haul, man. Uh. You know, I feel like, you know, a lot of people sleep on me, regardless of what the case may be. They don't even respect I deserve. So you know, just keep

that on my shoulder. Every time I got opportunity to go out on the field and play, and I always pay at a high level. Um. As far as playing against old teams that I used to play for, I feel like, shoot, they had an opportunity to keep me, they didn't keep me. So anytime I play them, I'm making play team. After a half time and you got to start to score, did you see your teammates start to come around and realize that you guys had come back?

Any you gotta think, man, anytime you're able to, you know, score fifty yard touchdowns, a big plays, you know, it's a draws a different type of energy to your team. So when we came out, we got that that touchdown and that that that flew throughout the whole team, and that's the fuel that you feed off of. You know, playing this game, you know it's a team game collectively, and you know one guy makes a play, the other

guys come along with you. So think at that that moment, know us when you know the snapp at the finger, you know, clicked the end and everybody's like shore we were in the game now and now said thirteen playing game. We're seven and twenty now. So just the mentality we have here, we're just striving to you know, be be great and uh, you know, we know it's something gonna be a long season. Just one game in his own

Deshan Jackson back like he never left. I loved hearing what he said about all the energy that he had, especially over the last two days, that he was so ampted and just like so excited like a kid on Christmas, and then once the game started he really eased into it a little bit. Can you relate? Oh, have you always felt like that though, because he was like he had he had a little bit of that chippiness going,

had to get that energy out. Yeah, I hate bringing up there the one time I did played my former team because people don't like talking about that. But since we're playing Atlanta next week, I'm sure I'll be asked about mark my time I played against the Eagles. But that was the time. I do remember. That was Opening Days, right, It was Monday night football and leading up to that week, you know, I couldn't sleep all week, you know, part

of his excitement to see your old friends. And obviously it's been a few years since the Sean was in Washington. Mine was just the following season when I was here in Philadelphia being down there in Atlanta, and you do you want to beat the team you just left. That's it's just something that's natural because obviously you want to stay and he would have liked to have stayed here, and I would have liked to have stayed here, and so you when you're playing your old team, you want

to have success against him. But I've never had the type of success to shot his head against his old teams. I mean anytime he played against the Eagles, yea, and now when he plays against the Rads kids. I mean, this, dude, he knows how I forget. Yeah, he knows how to exact revenge. Yes, he certainly uses everything for motivation, as the great ones do. Earlier today, speaking of a great one, how you like that for a transition, Mike Quick caught up with Eagles head coach Doug Peterson one on one.

Let's take a look at that, coach. Let's start here. It was a slow start, But how important was it for you to stick to your game plan? You came in with the game plan, but even with the slow start, tell me about the game plan and how important it was to stick to that. Yeah, you know, we always talk about starting fast and then and then try to finish faster. Well today, it was a little bit of a slow start, but we did finish fast, and um, that was good to see. You know, we made made

a couple of adjustments a halftime. Um, you know we were able to you know, really kind of control the line of scrimmage in the second half. I thought, on both sides, our offensive line and our d line really controlled the line of scrimmage, which really helped us kind of get ourselves back in this game. How important was it was? The spark from number ten, the Sean Jackson back home again? Well down seventeen nothing. I mean, we needed a spark, we needed from anybody, um, and it

just happened it was his number. And then we caught him in the right defense and and of course with his speed being able to you know, stretch of field, Carson saw it, um and and made a great throw, great catch get us in the end zone. It was definitely the spark we needed to get on the scoreboard. Tell me about the fourth down call, and you're thinking in the second half going for it on fourth down, Well,

I had a really good view from the sideline. It was just inside a yard, almost a half yard, and it was really for me, it was a no brainer. I knew I was going to go for it. We had success on the QB snakes earlier in the game. I was coming right back to it. We had great surge, good push and and uh when it went down and eventually scored on that drive. Defensively, early they were able to move the ball against him. What change in that

second half where you defensive played so well. I think the defensive line really really got after you know case today, It got off of the offensive line, put a little more pressure on him and and then we were able

to kind of shut the run down. We talked about that all week that we felt like the the their strength coming in was going to be the run game and really feature that, and so we focused on shutting that down and and when you can make a team sort of one dimensional, it helps you, and our our defense was able to really do that and uh kind of get after him the second half. Coach, congratulations, I'm getting your first win and look forward to the similar

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they're welcome back. It's time for the Rico Review. Our very own friend Duffy breaks it all down here in this segment, here's a closer look at some of the best plays from the Eagles victory over Washington. Take a look. Well, let's take a look at the play that Eagles everywhere have been waiting for for months, and that's DeShawn Jackson's first touchdown back in Eagles Green. And this was a

result of two different things. Number one, a great play call from Doug Peterson and number two, a great read from quarterback Carson Went So we're gonna just take a look at what Carson is seeing pre snap, because this is what it's called a two high shell. What is a two high shell. You've got two safeties in the deep middle of the field. Those guys are splitting the field into half. That's what he's showing. So it's gonna be one of two coverages, Cover two or Cover four.

So ultimately, what that means is that the middle of the field is going to be open. And that's really what Carson Wentz is trying to decipher here pre snap. Is the middle field gonna be open or closed? What they're running here from a play pass standpoint is going to be dagger, and dagger is a deep vertical route from DeShawn Jackson from the slot receiver and then a deep dig route from the outside receiver. In that case,

that is gonna be Alshon Jeffrey. Now, if this is actually going to be a two high coverage, it's just what they're showing pre snap, that dig route from Alshon Jeffrey should be wide open right in the middle of the field. That would be the hope pre snap for Carson Wentz. But what's gonna happen here right before the snap is you're gonna see the linebacker Seawan Dion Hamilton, a second year guy from Alabama. He's going to actually drop into the deep third. This is gonna be a

form of Cover three. So we've got a lot of disguise here from the Washington defense. They're trying to get a little bit cute, trying to disguise something. So these safeties are actually gonna step up in zone coverage. You've got the linebacker dropping deep. So we're let this play develop a little bit, and I want you to see what Carson realizes and how he pulls the trigger. Here again, you're gonna see the linebacker drop. He's again gonna get

to that deep third. The corners are both gonna drop, and you're gonna get DeShawn Jackson running down the middle of the field. And this is gonna be a really great read from Carson Wentz. Here. As we let these routes develop a little bit, you're gonna see exactly how he sees this because he sees both of those safeties step up. Once Carson see that, look this the ball is already about to be out. He knows he's got

them deep middle of the field. This is gonna be Deshaun Jackson matched up with a corner who's playing inside to his help. That's why the corner is letting him go inside because he thinks he's got safety help from this linebacker Sean Don Hamilton, who started the play right about here. He's got to travel a long distance. Carson Wentz pulls the trigger and delivers this throw over the top two DeShawn Jackson in stride right up the shoot exactly where it needs to be. Deshaun comes away with

a touchdown. Just an outstanding throw and catch, great play call, great read from Carson Wentz because again pre snap, that ball should have gone to Alshon Jeffrey, but he did a great job of reading the defense, understanding where the ball needs to go in that situation, getting the Eagles on the board, making it seventeen seven. All right, Let's take a look at Alshon Jeffrey's first touchdown of the game.

It's the opening drive of the third quarter. And this was really fun because this comes as a result of the Eagles twelve personnel package, one back, two tight ends, and how it can create favorable matchups not just for zach Ertz and Dallas Goddard, but also these wide receivers. The real see really how the distribution of all these past targets really dictates how the Eagles want Washington to play in coverage. At the top of the screen, you've got zach Ertz isolated as an ex ISO receiver and

he is matched up on a corner. That's the corner of the rookie corner. Jimmy Morland. So you've got zach Ertz removed from the play. He now takes a cornerback out of the picture. At the bottom of the screen, you've got a bunch set from the Eagles, and number one at the top, you've got Alshon Jeffery, he's gonna catch the touchdown. You've Dallas Goddard on his right, and you've got DeShawn Jackson on his left. Now, the Redskins here are in their nickel package, so they've got five

defensive backs on the field. They feel like they should be able to match up with this set from a pass game perspective. But what they weren't expecting was that the Eagles, We're gonna kind of switch assignments here. And here's what's gonna happen. Before the snap. You've got a corner matched up on Alshon Jeffrey, and you've got a linebacker matched up on Dallas Goddard with two corners two dbs here matched up with DeShawn Jackson. But what happens at the snap is that al Shan Jeffrey is gonna

run inside and Dallas Goddard is gonna run outside. They're gonna switch releases and that causes the defenders for Washington to change responsibilities. So we're gonna let this play and you're gonna see exactly what I mean here Al Shan releases upfield. Now he's being taken by a linebacker. And as if you're the Eagles, you love the idea of a linebacker matched up one on one with Alshon Jeffrey. And again, why does that happen? Because they've got to

respect zach Ertz. The top of the screen, even here you see the safety who's he looking at? He's looking at zach Ertz in the red zone. That creates this one on one matchup for Alshon Jeffrey. Carson Wentz is going to start to his right, he sees that zach Ertz is removed from the picture. He breaks the pocket, great throw, threatening the needle to Alshon Jeffrey in the back of the end zone. Eagles get on the board and pull within a score. And it all started with

those two tight ends. And of course you can catch more of friends breakdowns the X is the Nose inside the Film on the Journey to the Draft podcast and the Eagle Eye in the Sky podcast. Lots of great stuff as always from our friend Duffy. Coming up, we will talk about the nominees for the Toyota Player of the Game after this short break, stay with us. Are you on the road and I hate the road Byne

was Rocky. I ain't nothing gonna break my stride. Nobody gonna I got to keep Sometimes we prosper most when we help others. We respect that because it's Santon deir Bank respect as a Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player of the Week to cast your vote and get a chance at a brand new Toyota Welcome back inside the studio at the Novocare Complex the postgame show presented by Rico. Three worthy nominees

for the Toyota Player of the Week. Of course, DeShawn Jackson back like he never left, Carson Wentz back and better than ever. Alshon Jeffrey a rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown. Three worthy nominees for for Eagles fans to vote on. Yeah, I don't think you can go wrong with either guy. To be interesting to see who the fans select as the player of the week. Something tells me maybe have something to do with that guy to

wearing number two. Yeah, I don't know, it's kind of you know, it takes I feel like it takes a lot to have it not be Carson obviously, but man, just kind of a storybook a storybook day. Welcome back for Deshan Jackson, of course, you know, just hearing how happy he is to be back, the energy that went into this and the place that broke the game open in you know, we're record setting as well, tying Mike Quick for receptions in Eagles history at number eight. I

mean that's pretty good. And you're right about Carson. I mean it should be welcome back to Carson as well. I don't think we've seen Carson and Lincoln financial field since they beat the Redskins on a Sunday night. I believe it was a Monday night. So and we startingly haven't seen him healthy since two thou and seventeen when you're talking about completely healthy. So welcome back to the Wentz wagon like he never left before. Should have had four touchdown passes today, but I guess that one is

a rushing touchdown for al Sean. Three pass three passing touchdowns, no turnovers, I don't remember a sack. I don't think the risk has got a sack today. Over seventy percent completion percentage. Yeah, I think the big fella is back. Yeah. And of course we heard all offseason just how he's changed his diet, he's changed his mindset. He has taken this transformation so seriously, and we really started to see

it on the field as well. And yeah, go ahead, and he played the game from the pocket to day. This is something that he's been and consciously doing and I got to give him credit. Man, it got a little anti back there a couple of times, but I thought when he decided to leave the pocket, you know, Fran mentioned this earlier, it had more to do with the Redskins having great coverage back there and less to

do with a break down in the offensive line. And even when Carson sort of scrambled around a little bit, it was really more to buy time to get the ball down the field. Didn't put himself in harm's way. I don't think he had a rushing attempt today. So those are the things you wanted to see from him in his first game. Is how comfortable would he look trying to play the quarterback position? From the pocket. I know that's something that he the coaching staff have worked

on this offseason. We watched him do it at practice out here in the preseason. It was great to see him get in the game and really be able to rely on sort of his new instincts, you know, his old instincts. Maybe he does something different, but it was great to see him out there today look comfortable in the pocket. That was the one thing I wasn't sure of is how comfortable would he look in the pocket?

And I gotta tell you, outside of that first quarter, I thought he looked great in the pocket, playing the position from the pocket. Yeah, especially first game of the season. Like you said, there's always gonna be a little bit of rest, a little bit of nurse. Let's finally look ahead to next week's Sunday night football on the road at the Atlanta Falcons, the team the Eagles took down to start the regular season last year here in Philadelphia.

They had a rough day today in Minnesota twenty eight to twelve, but that last touchdown in garbage time with a minute left to Julio Jones. So what do you see early on before you're digging into the Falcons? What are kind of your initial thoughts about this matchup for the Eagles. Well, we know the Falcons go as that offense goals Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Calvin Rialley, mohammas Nu,

DeVante Freeman. We've seen them. It seems like we played Atlanta Falcons every year, whether it's the regular season or the postseason. It's tough slanting going up to Minnesota. That's a good defensive team. It's hard to winning that building, and they basically had Atlanta shut out for like three quarters. They get a couple of touchdowns in there to put some points on the board. It'll be their first game at a home Sunday night. That crowd will be in

a frenzy. I tell you what I mean. We won't get away with playing the way we've played today in the first half. Hopefully we've knocked off that russ. When you go on the road, and particularly in a dome where your offense is gonna have a difficult time to hear. It's gonna be a lot of hand signals out there. You gotta be able to communicate silence to snap counts. I think when you go to Atlanta, you're gonna have to overcome. Sort of the early punch that the Falcons

will try to deliver. Like I said, it would be their opening games Sunday night. Everyone will be watching. But we have this team's number, we know their tendencies, and it'll be a great test for this Eagles team on the road, hostile environment against a team that has their back against the wall. They certainly don't want to go oh in two early in the season. I have the Falcons picked to win the NFC South, so I think they're a good football team. This will be a great

test for the Eagles early in the season. Yeah, I think well said, don't be fooled by today's result for the Atlanta Falcons. This is a team that is desperate coming off of today's win. Like you said, they don't want to start oh and two. It's the home opener, and dan Quinn made some changes to his Jaffie has a new defensive coordinator and a new offensive coordinator. That doesn't happen very much, so they are really trying to get things going there in Atlanta. Plenty of talent there

as well. Can they put it all together? And of course we will be taking you through it all week long, bringing it right back here Sunday night football. Doesn't get more exciting than that, I think not. Of course, we have the Kickoff Show presented by exalta thirty minutes before kickoff of that one. That'll be at seven fifty pm on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com, on the Eagles app on all of the social channels as well, so we'll see it. Then right back here from our new studio at the

Novacare Complex. We'll see you next time.