Post-Game Show: The Eagles Win The NFC East

of quarterback Carson Wentz moving forward. Hello everyone, I'm Chris McPherson and welcome to the postgame show presented by Rico. I'm joining alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reas. So much to unpack from this victory, Such a resilient game, Just one of the most hard fought Eagles victories that I've witnessed, and I'm sure you probably you could say you've witnessed I think all of us in Eagles Nation have witnessed

in quite some time. Ike. So in the short term, we are all celebrating the fact that Eagles are definitely going back to the postseason, and certainly we all thought that this time was coming. But of course, big picture, we all want to know who is going to be the quarterback moving forward. All we know at this moment is that quarterback Carson Wentz injured his left knee in the third quarter running into the end zone. He stayed in and he threw the touchdown pass on fourth down

to Alice John Jeffrey. He came out, went to the locker room. The team told the media that he has a left knee injury. We're gonna hear from head coach Doug Pearson in a little bit. At this point, that's all that's official. That's all that's known. All the other reports, whatever else you're reading on social media, that's just conjecture. At this point. We are waiting to find from the

head coach what the latest is. But first we should celebrate such a resilient victory by this Eagles team, which has been through so much, not just this season, but through the course of this game alone. Trailing seven nothing early after the wins interception, getting a twenty one to seven lead, having a ten point lead a halftime. A special team's play helped brought the Rams back in the third quarter, but the Eagles get behind Nick Foles, get a couple of field goals late and hold on for

the forty three to thirty five victory. Yeah, it's tough to bury the lete here though, great win by the Eagles today. I mean, it was an exhausting football game. When you look at two of the top offenses in the league, they certainly lived up to that, both teams coming in averaging over thirty points in this game. You see the final score of forty three to thirty five, late defensive touchdown from Brandon Graham to really push this game with it to eight points. But this was a

closely contested game from beginning to end. It started off with a turnover, ends with a turnover in favor of the Eagles. But I can't help but be somewhat a little bit tempered in my excitement, not knowing what the future holds for our franchise quarterback right now who left this game late in the third quarter after putting the Eagles up late in the game with a touchdown past

the cars. I mean to al Sean Jeffrey, But if you just want to go back to the game and you look at the ends and out to the game, I mean, you're talking about two of the heavyweights in the NFC. This game was built up Carson versus Jared Golf the number one and number two picks of last year's draft. It certainly lived up to that, billing Carson with an early interception that led to the Rams first score of the game, Jared Golf with a costly fumble sacked by Chris Long late in this game, which led

to the Eagles taking the league. I mean, just a great game. You talk about all the hype leading up to this game. Sometimes the matchups don't necessarily play out the way you sort of break them down throughout the week and you sort of anticipated. But for me, easily the game of the day, quite possibly the game of

the year in the seventeen season. Just a great victory for the Eagles on the road against a very tough team who knew that they needed to win this game at home before they head out on the road to face Seattle next week and then Tennessee two weeks from now, these two teams fighting for positions in the postseason, fighting for that bye week. Eagles get the tough win clinch the NFC East, so where we're assured a home playoff game as division champs. To this point, We'll see how

the rest of the season plays out. But Chris I can't. I can't get it off my mind. Man. The quarterback went out of the game, and until we hear from Doug Peterson that everything is gonna be okay, whether we hear it when Doug takes to the podium in a few moments or whether it's tomorrow when I'm sure he's probably gonna have an MRI and they find out definitely

what the situation is with Carson's need. It's really tough to really celebrate such a great victory because you just didn't know how this game was gonna turn out coming in and the Eagles, coming off a tough loss last week in Seattle, certainly want to get a split versus these two teams. They able to persevere in a back and forth game. Defense had really struggled all day to

slow this Rams offense down. Chris Loan comes up with the big sack late in the game, strip fumble and Jared Golf, great recovery from Rottney McCleod, and eventually Jake Elliot is able to put the Eagles ahead thirty seven thirty five, and from that point on, Eagles Deepens still had to go out there and stop this Ram offense. It was more than enough time on the clock for the Rams to go down and kick a field goal.

And we know that kickers areline He can kick it from about sixty five yards, so they certainly wouldn't have need a much field position. So when the Eagles defense took the field, even after they took the lead, they certainly still had to come up with a stop on downs against the Rams. They able to get a three and out, force the Rams to punt. Rams don't get the ball back until it's one second left in the game.

Great first down pick up Nelson Aguilard. Nick Foles able to come in like Mariano Rivera to close the game out, had some timely throws. We'll keep it on again, is my man. So coming in in a tough situation, in a close game, not not easy to close that game out against the Rams, He's able to come up with some timely throws, none bigger than that first down he picked up the Nelson Aglo. This is the reason why

Nick Foles was brought in. And it seems very fitting to me that Nick Foles happened to be the quarterback back in twenty thirteen when the Eagles last won the division. And you go back to Nick foles grace performance of his career seven touchdown throws against the Oakland Raiders happening in the state of California. Today's game is here in California. He's a West Coast guy from Arizona, so you know, it was a perfect setting for him to be able to come through in a big way from Texas players

college ball at Arizona. So huge performance for him. And you know, again just the resiliency of this football team through losing key guys throughout the course of the season. They've lost the leaks of Jason Peters, of Jordan Hicks, Darren Sprowles, and they're able to find ways to come back and still be the top. Right now, they are the number one team in the NFC. There's no tiebreakers,

no nothing there. Minnesota lost to Carolina, the Eagles are the top team with an eleven and two record, So as long as they take care of the business down the stretch and they have three very winnable games no matter who's in at quarterback. The rest of the way. They have the Giants who lost to the Cowboys today, they have the Oakland Raiders who have struggled their six and seven after losing to the Chiefs, and then they

end the season against the Cowboys. Okay, So if the Eagles can handle their business in the last three weeks, the road to the super Bowl will go through Philadelphia. Okay. So you're not just gonna get that home field, You're not just getting the first round by You're gonna get home field advanced throughout the course of the playoffs. So no matter what happens to this team moving forward, that they will have the play at the link in order

to be knocked out. So that's something that's at least reassuring as we try to figure out what's going to happen with this team moving forward. But just an amazing scenario for Nick to come in and on the last

offensive drive the third down call. Easily Doug could have just said we're gonna take a run, hand it off to the Ji, keep the clock running, force a time out by the Rams, but no, he threw the ball to sticks Aglare caught the ball away from his body, a tremendous throw, brilliant catch, Gussie call there, clutch played

by both the players involved. There they get the first down and that allowed them to whittle the clock down to the final seconds where all the Rams had was that Gadget trick play which Brandon Graham was able to recover the fumble and return it for the touchdown. Yeah, I mean, Doug Peterson, I mean you just think about some of the aggressive calls that he made today, going for it on fourth down to put the Eagles up.

When Carson Wentz was able to hit al Sean Jeffrey for that touchdown, most people would have kicked the field goal there. Doug said, no, we're going for it, and his team came through for him. They backed him and every aggressive call that he's made it throughout the year, and they typically come through for him. You know, lost in all of this with Nick Foles closing out the game and Carson Wentz being injured on that go ahead touchdown al Sean Jeffrey is the magnificent performance that Carson

Wentz was putting on throughout this game. I mean, four touchdowns before he exited the game, close to three hundred yards. I mean, he answered every call that needed to be answered. When the Rams made a charge, Carson Wentz was there to come up with big throw at the big throw, timely play at the timely play showing while he's a franchise quarterback and while the future is bright for this ball club as they moved forward. I mean, just a

magnificent performance between really both of these young quarterbacks. Again, Carson made the early mistake with the interception that led to the touchdown for the Rams to give them the early league. But I love the way he settled down, collected himself, kept his composure and became the aggressive, gunslinging quarterback that we've grown to love in the time that he's been here as the franchise QB for this team,

leading this team back. Every time the Rams took the lead, he was able to come back and answer it with the touchdown himself knows zach Hurst today his number one target out. Did that change the game plan? No? Did it change where Carson was gonna go with the football with the plays that are being called. No, Trey Burton, Brent Sellick big days today absent zach Ertz tight end still stepped up. Love the way Carson Steele showed the confidence in the rest of those guys. And how about

Tory Smith's day. Tory Smith, with his best game as an Eagle, he came up with some big plays, I mean right before the half, the big play that he had for the Eagles to get the field goal. I mean, it was just it was just say, a good well balanced offense all around the day, really high powered, back and forth all day long. Look at one hundred yards for Tory Smith. Two huge catches, both coming on third down.

The one at the end of the first half was so critical because if the Rams got the ball back right, they could have had a chance to go down and score and add some more points to cut into that Eagles lead just before the half. But that, like you said, kept the Rams from getting the ball and gave some additional points for the Eagle, so they took a ten point lead into the airmission. And the other third down

on one just flipped the field position. Okay, So Tory Smith using that speed in a huge way to help boost the Eagles offense today. You know, the best thing that we've seen is someone has stepped up. It seems like in recent weeks where a couple of weeks ago, you know, Zach Ertz gets one hundred yards, Okay, last week in the losing effort to Seattle, it was Nelson agil Are having a big day today, it's Tory Smith.

There's so many weapons on this offense, and you go back to the day by the tight ends, not just the performance they had, but Trey Burton. I think back to that second touchdown grab with the pinpoint accuracy by Carson Wentz on the throw, the tough grab in traffic. It was nice coverage by the Los Angeles Rams defense on the play, but still to be able to come down with that and to showcase then show that no matter who's injured, guys are going to step up to

fill that role. And we just saw that throughout the course of the day. Even when number eleven goes down, Nick Foles comes in and is able to leave the offense to a pair of scoring drives, which was just

enough to get the victory today. So you know, Doug has pushed the right funds with this team pretty much all season long, and I really wanted to know how this team was going to respond after the loss, and in some ways, to me, I think the interception was probably the best thing because I think it kind of settled the Eagles down, at least settled. I think Carson Wentz down to say he's probably thinking I'm going against Jared goff. It's the you know, not the primetime game,

but the big national four thirty game. Everybody's gonna be watching. We're coming off the loss. You know, we're playing another playoff bound team. What are we gonna do? You know, he throws an interception early. It kind of lets him step back say, okay, I've made my mistake. I can settle down and now I can get into my rhythm. And after that he was on five okay, you know, And the best thing about the offense was getting up early twenty one to seven. That took Todd Gurley out

of the game. Todd Gurley was just a man among boys out there for the Rams offense today. The defense struggled all day long trying to contain him. He was able to get easily through the defensive line. And you know, Sean mcvats, who his credit, does a great job of scheming the offense so that it spreads out the defense to open up those huge gaps. And the Eagles they like to play the nickel defense. Only you know what, you're gonna have an extra defensive back on the field

if you're not playing that base defense. It's gonna lighten things just a little bit there, and I think the Rams are the great job of taking advantage because even if you say you want to load up and stop Girly, there's weapons on the perimeter. Sammy Watkins had the touchdown, you know, Robert Woods obviously was was injured tape. But they have Farrell Cooper. Yeah, there's Cup Cooper Cup obviously with that one play that nobody could stop, There's plenty,

there's play other weapons in the arsenal. It's not just a one man show there in Los Angeles. Jared Goff doing a great job distributing the ball to all the weapons to you know, really pick apart this Eagles defense until the very end when Eagles had to bear down, thinking, look, Carson's doze saving us today, We've got to back Nick Foles up. And they were able to step up in a huge way to get the win and seize the

division crown in the process. Well, listen, make no mistake about it, Jim Schwartz saying, Way Phillips will both be burning this game tape. Either one either one of those defensive coordinators are going to be proud about what they're see on film. But the fact that Jim Schwartz guys came up with the plays late in the game. That's

something he'll certainly hang his hat on. Once the Rams became sort of one dimensional, it became a little easier for the Eagles to defend them once they got down and it looked like Sean McVay was gonna abandon the run. Jared Golf dropping back time at the time. It gave a chance for that Eagles defensive line to pinning their ears back and get after Jared Golf. Fletcher Cox was in Jared Golf's face all day to day. Brandon Graham, we know he lives in the backfield on a regular

basis week in and week out. Tim Jernigan around the quarterback throughout the day, so you know the secondary Listen, they gave up plays, but they were able to come up with plays as well late in that game. And when you're facing two high powered offenses that can sort of beat you through the air and on the ground, it's gonna be difficult to slow him down. It just is. And I would have been surprised had either of these defenses were able to hold the other's offense two under

twenty points. I expected this game to be in the high twenties. I'mwhere got up a little higher than I anticipated. But when you're looking at the type of offensive firepower both teams possess, you got to expect points to be on the board. And the Rams even came away with

special teams points. Being able to block a point, I mean block a punt, you rarely see that from the Eagles special teams, but they gave up a pump block for a touchdown to day also, and it's amazing that that wasn't a backbreaker because at the time you're thinking to yourself, the Eagles are unraveling. The Eagles had the ten point lead a halftime, but can't get things going there in the second half. You thought, Okay, if the Eagles can stop the Rams offensive start the second half,

you know that would be tremendous. It would put the Eagles in position to add to that lead and make the Rams one dimensional once again. But the Rams march

down the field and score. The Eagles struggle through a three and out, go to punt the ball away and then it's blocked in Former Eagles draft pick Blake Countess is the one who's returning the ball into the end zone, and right there the Eagles could have just packed up shop and said, you know what, it's not going to be it for us, all right, But that's not the case. It's been this way throughout the course of the season where they've had their backs against the wall and they've

been able to fight back. So you love seeing that fight from the team, and they're just gonna have to have it moving forward, you know, whether or not Carson Wentz's injured, they're gonna need to show this resiliency because this is a team you might see again in the playoffs. I mean, the last two weeks you've seen teams who are most likely going to be in the playoffs here and you might be seeing them, thankfully, you know, getting

the edge day over the Rams. They'll have to come to Philadelphia most likely instead of traveling back out on the West Coast to whether it's Los Angeles or Seattle. And again we don't we don't know how long or if anytime, Carson is gonna miss because we don't know the extent of the injury. But I will tell you this, I've been on teams that have experienced with losing key guys late in the season. Los Donovan McNabb after he broke his ankle against the Arizona Cardinals. I believe it

was the tenth game of the season. He missed the last six games of the season. Veteran lating team. We're able to go five and one with AJ finally at the quarterback position. Lost Tho in two thousand and four, I believe in the thirteenth or fourteenth game of the season. We all know how that turned out. Still able to

go to the Super Bowl. TiO made this return. So I think regardless of the extent of the injury and how much time Carson may or may not miss, this isn't something that the team can sort of let hang over their heads. They certainly have goals in mind. The mantra for this team has always been about the team.

There is no I in team, so there's never it's never about one person, right, so you lose a guy, it's been about next man up every time, and so when the news comes out, to the extent of the team will just have to rally around the situation and keep this train rolling until Carson is able to get back on the field as soon as possible. Let's go

back to two thousand and two. Their first second okay, because it was the latter half of the season, you know, and it was the year after the run away to your first run to the NC Championship game where you guys lost to the Rams, so obviously big things are expect. Did you're on your way to win the division again?

How did you guys keep things from unrival? How did you guys say to yourselves, all right, we're gonna trust in you know, Koy Detmer and aj Feely and be able to trust in them to lead us down the stretch and not knowing whether or not Diamond would be able to make a return for the playoffs. What I will say the big difference for us was that we were a team that had gone through a couple of postseasons together. We were a veteran laden team that had

experience went winning. We were a defensive, really oriented team. We really the defense was really our calling card for that team. We held teams of seventeen and other points. I think that was one of our best seasons of the gym when they came to fewest points allowed, So we didn't put a lot of pressure on our offense

to have to score a ton of points. Could allow Andy to let A. J. Feeley and Coy Depper for the game that he was in against San Francisco, to sort of feel their way through a game and really just not give up a ton of points. We know this is an offensive team. This team can put up thirty points a game. But what's good for them is that they have a good defense. This isn't a defense that's given up a ton of points all year long. Despite what you saw today, I think this is something

that they'll be able to rally around again. We don't know how long they will have to do this. But when you got veterans like Chris Long, Malcolm Jenkins, guys of that nature, Rodney McCleod, guys that have been in this league, Patrick Peterson, who've been in this league for a long time. There's won a lot of football games. They know that the strongest link, you know, comes together, right. You're only as strong as your weakest link, and when you lose a guy, the next man has to step up.

That's three cliches for you right there in one sense? How you like that? Like that? That's that's three Eagles touchdown celebrations. But now, since you guys back in two thousand of two, or a defensive laden team. Did you guys talk amongst yourself to say we got to pick up the slack. Okay, we lost a quarterback, we lost the franchise number five. Yeah, but it's on us to make sure we don't put added pressure on whoever has

to step in there. Yeah. I can remember Jim Johnson in the meetings that we that first meeting saying, hey, we know we need to do. We got to pick it up in here cave. We can't give up a ton of points. Can't give up a ton of points. And so we went out there at San Francisco and played well and coy Deverid gets hurt, then we're coming

back to play the greatest show on turf. I think it was a Sunday evening game, four to thirty game, bitter code outside, defense, stepped up, didn't give up a touchdown, even scored a touchdown, wind up winning the game ten to three. And really from that point on we sort of took off as a defense and didn't give up a ton of points and was able to get home field advantage and hold down the fort until Donovan was

able to come back in the playoffs. Now take us through two thousand and four, what would you say was the difference, because obviously it's not the quarterback, but TiO was an integral part of the offense that season, and Paul Alile, the swagger to that football team, to that offense, really got things go on that side of the ball. So but at that point, it was later in the season and you guys already knew you were destined to pretty much win the division. You were running away with it.

You're gonna have probably you know, the buy for the first round at the least home field advantage. All wrapped up, what was the difference going from two thousand and two and what you learned then and being able to apply it in two thousand and four, Again, another veteran laden team, you know, a team that had been together for years, that have gone through the wars of going through you know, tough seasons. We had the experience of losing Donovan and

prior seasons, and TiO was our offense. I know, we had Brian Westbrook and other guys, but t O was the guy that made everything go. Because he drew so much attention wherever he was on the field, it made the rest of the offense easy to operate, and this is a similar situation. I think we lost t O in the thirteen to fourteen game of the season. We had just locked up the number one seed in the NFC.

Andy eventually set the starters the last two games of the season, not worried about it if we won those games, and the first team offense the first team defense basically rested for the next three to four weeks until we had to play the Minnesota Vikings. And the Eagles locked up the NFC East, so they've locked up a home playoff game to this point. Right now they sit as the number one seed, but there's still three games left the goal and there's team there are teams that are

right behind them. So I'm not so sure whether or not dug and sit guys, because you don't have the number one seed locked up, and that's certainly still going to be a goal of there. So they still have the pressure of having to play at least for another week until you see the rest of the NFC play itself out. Whereas we had the benefit of the game we lost t O n we locked up the whole NFC and so it didn't matter who played the last

two weeks of the season. The Egels are very fortunate that Minnesota lost because when you looked at the schedule of the last couple of weeks, it seemed like that this was the gauntlet where the Vikings were gonna slip up at some point. They figured the Eagles gotta be able to take advantage to get a game on them moving forward. So it looked like that they were going to try a rally to beat the Panthers today. But luckily the Panthers, they two had something to play for.

They're in the mix of the NFC South, so for them, it was good that they were able to sustain and get the victory there the scenes. Losing on Thursday night also helping the Eagles. So finally, after for a couple of weeks it felt like all the teams the Eagles need to lose kept on winning. Some things went the

Egels way. It's just unfortunately that while the Eagles clinched the division, they get the win over the Rams, that Carson Wentz gets injured and we just don't know at this time what his dask is going to be for the rest of the twenty seventeen regular season and now we can say postseason because the Eagles will be in the tournament. So again, if you're just joining us, we are waiting to hear from head coach Doug Pearson from

the Kyle Sium in Los Angeles. Carson Wentz left the game in the third quarter with the left knee injury after engineering a touchdown drive. That is what we note to this point. I'm sure Doug Pearson has been speaking to the trainers that that's gonna be the big story at this press conference is what is the situation regarding Carson Wentz. What's the quarterback situation going to be moving forward.

That's what we know at this time, and at any moment we're gonna be able to bring you Doug Pierson live. I don't expect to hear from Carson went since he left the game with an injury. Whether or not we hear from Nick Foles. If we do hear from them, we will bring that to you. So we're just standing

by here as probably any moment now. As the Eagles beat the Los Angeles Rams by a score of forty three, I'm just catching my breath there forty three to thirty five to again win the NFC East for the first time since twenty thirteen, and now here's what everyone wants here. Hey, coach Doug Pierson at the coliseum, let's bring it to you. I'll find out more tomorrow. I just don't know. I don't know anything yet until we evaluate him fully tomorrow. It's just a report. Yeah, trying to read your mind,

you guys, well, I mean you you're speculating. You know that he's gonna be out. So until I know more tomorrow, UM on him. You know, it's hard, it's hard to say, but listen, there's a lot of leaders on that football team right now. Uh. And you saw it tonight, you know what. I was really blocked on the play. So I gotta check out the tape tonight on the way home. Um, he did get up a little hobbly, you know. Um, I knew something was up, but didn't know the extent

of it. Obviously, he'll have it tomorrow. Yeah, I love it. I love it. You know, this guy's come in and he's played a lot of football games in this league. He started in this league. Um, guys have confidence in him. I have confidence in him. Um, A great way to step in under these circumstances and pull this game out and It's huge for Nick Jubilasian. I mean this is uh, this is one of those heavyweight fights. I mean, this is the Rams great football team. We knew that coming

in here. Uh give them a lot of credit that you know, um, their playoff caliber team, and we we we found a way. You know, this team has been resilient all all season long. We're on the road, um, back to back. We spent a week out here. Guys did a nice job focusing in and then getting this win. Well, first of all, congratulated them on you know the NFC East. Um. You know, they're proud of the guys where they fought.

But you know, we get back back to Philly and and and we still have three games left and we still have an opportunity. The road is uh um or I should say, everything's still right in front of us, um for us to take and we just got to make sure we take care of business again. This week, they lost, they rallied. Well that's what you gotta have. I mean, you know, when you're in these type of games and playoff type atmosphere and and uh, you know

your back's a little bit against the wall. You need guys to step up and you need players to make plays, and um, that's what happened. Second half of this football game was just a gut check and uh um, just so proud of the guys for the way they battled and hung in there tonight. What kind of response did you get talking about I never did uh talk to

you mean when during the game tonight? Season? Oh, I mean, we just have conversations about uh, you know, just understanding where you are and when what you're doing and then getting down and sliding and protect your body. And he's a quarterback, he under he understands that. And uh, um, you know, we we we we talk about it. Uh you know, with all you know, with all our guys, did you address Carson's injury? I don't know. I mean,

not until I get further information. I didn't. I didn't address any injury after the game before laughing same, yeah, I mean, that's it's a great question. Um. It just shows how how tough he really is, uh, you know, to to to be to be a little banged up at that time, and then to on a fourth down to make that throw and I was trying to make that catch and um, again, just mental and physical toughness

by he as a quarterback. But but we also had a lot of guys kind of make plays in that second half that we needed and showed a lot of a lot of toughness by the football team. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's really a it's an ideal situation. Even if you don't get it. You know, they're backed up on about the two yard line and and um, again, anything can happen at that is early in the game.

And you know, you get a chance to early in the second half, as you say, and you get a chance to uh um really if you if you if you make it, obviously, it's it's a it's a it's a shot for us offensively and for the as a team. If you don't make it, our defense takes the field at the at the two yard line, three yard line, and uh um, you know it's uh it's it's sort of a win win, you know, fro us for some reason. Well, we brought Nadin here for that reason obviously, and um,

you know, going forward, we'll we'll evaluate that. But but we're comfortable with the guys that we have. Yeah. I just saw him inside. Yeah, Oh, he was excited. He was excited. NFC's champs. I mean he's he's fired up. You know, he's excited, and uh, we'll get back on the plane and uh, you don't get ready for next week. Yeah, you know, Treys Trays a tremendous athlete. He works extremely hard, he's a you know, he's a core special teams player

for us. And and really, you know, Trey hasn't probably gotten a lot of offensive plays this year, but when he has, if you go back to the Denver game, when he has, he's made the most of his opportunity. He did that tonight. Uh, real, proud of were proud of the way Trey played. And consider no, no, I didn't excuse me. It just gets us to eleven, just gets us to eleven, and we're we're one step closer to where we want to be. Um My mentality all along has been you know, and we set goals before

the season starts. Obviously NFC East, we check the box, put it behind us, We move on. It's the New York Giants next week. To keep him out. Yeah, right now, he's still in challenge. Today the game were stopped at the end of the day. Well, again, offensively, they're very explosive. You're coming in with two offenses that are that are uh tied in points and you look at the score tonight, I mean it's uh, you know, a two point game, and it's uh, it's unbelievable. Um, they're a good offense.

I mean, they got a great running back. Their offensive line is is uh again one of the one of the best in the league. Their quarterback has been real efficient all season long, making plays down the field. And um defense, I mean this you saw tonight, a solid football team over there. And uh they they've you know, there's probably a chance we see them so somewhere in

the near future. What happened to left guard? Uh just yeah, with with you know, with ankle and uh and then again went with went with chance because the ankle, why Isaac, Just get them both in there, um, you know, and get them both some work in this in this game. All right, guys, all right, there's head coach Doug Pearson leaving the podium at the College Seemed in Los Angeles. Carson wentz while a full evaluation on Monday, nothing new

to report anything else. The coach has just speculation at this point, so we know that he has suffered a left knee injury. Let the game in the third or to put anything beyond that. We just don't know, and unfortunately won't know until Monday morning after the team returns from its week on the West Coast. Be a long night to night. Everyone's gonna be waiting and hoping and praying and cross their fingers hoping for good news to

come out of it. And that's all we can do at this point and sit there and hope that it's a spraining, it's something that he'll be able to come back from. You know, I know, so close to the end of the regular season, and you just hope that maybe it's something you can be back from in a short amount of time. Yeah, because again I hate to even speak on it, but you know, worst worst case scenario, you're talking about an injury that could potentially affect your

two eighteen season as well. I mean, we're this late in the season and to have an injury like this, you know what it could potentially be. Again worst case scenario, this thing could run into the twenty eighteen season. So you know, there are a couple of different layers to this whole equation that we ought to be hoping for him. We're certainly hoping that he's going to be healthy and

back as soon as possible. But you're talking about something that could be a few weeks, something that could be six weeks, something that could be six, eight, twelve months. You just don't know at this point. You just don't know. So, like you said, you just gotta go. You gotta hope for the best when it pertains to Carson. But obviously Doug has a job to do as a head coach to get his team mentally ready for whatever the situation

may be and get them prepared for next week. You know you you you sit back, You got a long plane ride home. You enjoy today's victory. You are NFC East champions, will join the playoffs. That it is no easy feat. Every team goes into the all season with the goal of winning their division. That's their number one goal. You know, everyone's number one goal, ultimately, yes, is to win the Super Bowl. But when you start about realistic goals,

it's about winning your division. And the Eagles can check the box for their number one goal, which is to win the NFC East. They've done that. They're gonna be assured of a home playoff game, whether it's in the first round or the second round. That's something that all those layers should celebrate because it was a long offseason with a lot of people that didn't have high expectations for this team, and this team should be proud of

themselves that they've exceeded expectations. And I remember Malcolm Jenkins talking in the preseason the week leading up to the first game. I don't know if he did this interview with you or someone else with the team, but I remember him saying he was asked the question, who's the team to beat in the NFC East, and he said, we are. We're the team to beat in the NFC East. And that was prior to the season beginning. So you know, this team obviously had that as a goal for themselves

and they were able to accomplish that goal with a win. Today. He has speaking Malcolm Jenkins, he has the goals not just for himself with the team written in his locker and winning. He's a first one. That's always the first one. He wants it out there, he wants it publicly known that the goal is to start off by earning a spot in the playoffs and winning the division. That's the first and foremost, and he wants it out there publicly. He's not afraid to, you know, back his team up

and be able to say that we can accomplish this. Okay. Nalav analyst at the be game season, thought that the Eagles would win the NFC East. A lot of people thought the Cowboys would repeat. A lot of people thought the Giants, okay, one of the biggest stories of the year. The Giants coming off they're eleven win season would be

in the mix for a playoff spot. They thought the Reggins could still be in the mix there, okay, with the quarterback in Kirkcutt will say, I picked in the B eleven and five at NFC East, Chaps, so I hope that we're gonna stop at eleven. They won eleven games that at least, yes, okay, I was eleven at this point. They just because I don't want you know, We'll see what happens down the stretch here. They got the eleventh win, which was a big one, and again

they are right now. If this season were to end today, they would be the number one seed to have home field advantage throughout the playoffs, so the road to Minneapolis and the Super Bowl would go through Philadelphia. But here's what we got to give a little bit of credit to Howard Okay, Howie Roseman and the job he did this off season is that he didn't leave that backup quarterback position uncovered. Okay, a lot of teams and look,

I'll say it. You can look at the Green Bay Packers. Yeah, okay, I have one of the best quarterbacks in league and Aaron Rodgers. Because of him alone, the Packers are in a mix each and every year. But Aaron Rodgers goes down with the collarbone injury, Bret Henley comes in, struggles, He's won a couple of starts of late. But you know, if Aaron Rodgers were in there, they'd be in this discussion. They would be one of the teams here jocking for

top position in the NFC. And there was even talk that if they were still in the mix, Rodgers could come back. And one of my fears, I'll be honest, was that the Packers. Packers slide in it a like number six seed and Aaron Rodgers comes back and just runs a table to the playoffs, similar we he ran. He went to the NFC championship game last year. I think about two Thousen when he came to Philadelphia in the first round. Okay, there was the Michael Vickier the

year he was comeback Player of the Year. You know the game went to the final seconds, But that's the year the Packers wanted to win the title and it could have been the Eagles year if it weren't for Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. But back to your original

point about bringing Nick Foles in. It was the reason why I was excited about this move this offseason when we signed Nick Foles, because you brought in someone who's familiar with this offense, the Dug's familiar with, who has enough starting experience under his belt, has played in some big game situations where if something unfortunately happens like today with the Winz injury, the season wouldn't be lost, right.

You got a guy who can go in there and can win you some ball games as long as it's for a nice little window there. Now, we don't know how long this or how big this window will be

the Nick Foles may have to play. But I tell you what, I'm not as concerned when I know Nick Foles is out there, because you got a veteran quarterback that knows the offense that if that's played in big games, he's played in the postseason, there's enough help around him that he doesn't necessarily have to do all of it himself. Got a good defense and so Nick can be able to navigate you through this little this little period here,

depending on how long it has to be. I think that the team will be able to rally around him, and this could be a positive having a guy like Nick Foles and in the fold. Certainly hope to see Stefan Wisnouski back out there on the field. Yeah, Okay, didn't realize how he would be such an integral part

to this team. When you look back to the beginning of the season, go back to training camp, preseason, everyone thought Isaac Sayamal, third round pick a year ago, he'd be the guy left guard in that position, would be locking you feeling good moving forward with that spot. Okay. They even traded Alan Barber okay to Denver, feeling good about that position. But sayam Ale struggled. Okay, they gave

Chance Warmack the opportunity. He wasn't getting it done. So Wisnowski went in there, locked it down, and it had been the guy there was a rotation early on with Warmack, but the Eagles realized that the offense was just moving better, more consistently with Wisnowski and place, and then all of a sudden the second quarter today we start seeing Warmack in there. We're like, are they doing the rotation again? There's gotta be something going on. Whisnoski gets the ankle injury,

he comes out, Warmack struggled. I mean basically they just moved Aaron Donald to whoever was playing that left guard spot and say blow by that person. So Warmack was benched. Samala came in, he struggled. You know, that led to a lot of pressure on Carson Wentz. He was hit

multiple times because of it. It's initially when you look at the statue for Carson Wentz, he's only sacked once in a game, but he was hit with countless time over a dozen times in his football game just because he did such a great job eluding the pressure that was coming in from the offensive line. So it'll be great to get whiz. That's gonna be a key injury to watch because you want to give Nick as much protection.

Another thing to know here is certainly not It's almost like the difference in going from facing Russell Wilson up. Speaking of Nick Foles, let's send it back to the Kyle seeing where he's going to address the media. I mean I just saw, you know, him favoring him his leg a little bit, and UM, it's just one of those things where, um, you know, he toughed it out and you know, throw a touchdown and you know he's one of the toughest players I played with. And then

Canada Sione got checked out. I was just told, you know, be ready to go in and uh, you know that that's when I went in so hardest to be ready to situation. Um, I mean it's not I mean, you just have to do what you gotta do. Um. You know, you go in there a lot of times you're just trying to find completions, trying to play fast because it's been a while, so you try to pick up the speed as much as you can and um, don't make

a bad play worse. Um, So you're just go in there and you're really just trying to get the win. You're trying to get the win leaning on the guys and they did a really good job defensive, awesome job stepping up when carsoning down and Guy's really rallied. Um it means a lot to this team means a lot to me. So I'm excited we're Innoc's champs. But you know it's emotional. Guy you work with every day, you think the world of I know it's earlier. I think

he's the MVP. Um. You know it's not easy, but uh, you know, I know this team will step up, um and rally no matter what. So we'll see what happens from here. This team the rest of the season. I'm absolutely ready. Um. I mean that's why I'm here. So I'm ready to go. Um, prepare every day, work every day, so I'm ready to go. Need be franchises, Yeah, you can't. You know, it's just one of those things where you don't think too much about it. You really just thinking

about getting to win. Um, you're really thinking about just coming out, finishing the game and getting a W and we did. Uh. You know it's a big one on the road. Um. You know, it's a good environment for football. So yeah, Carson's there waiting for everybody when they were walking in. So, I mean, like I said, he's one of the leaders on the team. He was right there um, making sure you know, congratulate, congratulating and celebrating with everyone.

So UM, it's really you know, one of those things where um they went two man coverage and it was one on one inside and Nelson did a great job of you know, getting off his defender and I threw it away from his defender. He did a great job catching and getting the first down, and that allowed us to run a lot of the clock out, which is big. Um, it's based on coverage. So that was my that's you know, that's my job. That's that's why they brought me here. Uh and uh, just going in there getting a win.

Like I said, everyone stepped up when Carson went down, Um, because he means so much to his team in the city. So it's great to get a win. I mean that's one. I mean, everyone's really excited because we put in a lot of work this season, Um, a lot a lot of work. We've won a lot of games. You know, it's been a great team effort. Carson's been a big piece of that puzzle. Um, Everyone's really excited about the win. But yeah, I mean you have you know, your your

starting quarterback go down. It's uh, it's emotional it's emotional for me. I work with him every day, we do everything together. Um, I'm excited we won, but at the same time, you know I'm doing emotionally with you know, seeing him go down that and you never want that conversation, just seeing how he's doing. Um, and then you know he was watching every single play and just sitting on pins and needles watching so and you know he wants to be out there obviously. Sure, yeah, that's fine for sure,

And um, yeah absolutely. I mean I want the ball in my hands. You know, I love throwing the ball. I love having the ball in my hands making decisions. And it's one of those things in those situations you know, hey it's not there. You either run, you know, you know what you gotta do, Just don't don't make a bad play worse. And that was one of those things where Nelson Nelson did a great job winning, showed coach

Peterson showed a lot of confidence. I mean, I have a long history with him, and he knows I can't go out there and play, So we'll see what happens. You know. Right now, I'm just I've always tried to live in the moment. It's really just a lot of adversity. Um. For our team, tonight is a win tonight. Um, I'm blessed to do what I do. It's no hard feelings.

It's crazy that it was with the Rams going out there, but at the same time, I'm just really happy to celebrate with the Philadelphia Eagles, you know, being NFC's champs. These guys are put in so much work. We've worked so hard this season, the coaching staff and everyone at the facility, and it's really you know, it's testament to them. So uh, that's really what I focus on these moments. Starter. Um,

I'm gonna be me. Um. When you are the starter, obviously you're more vocal, you're getting more reps, so that stuff changes. But I'm gonna be me Um. So I don't have to change. I just you know, but we're gonna see what happens here Carson's doing and go from there. There a couple of games that you gotta yeah, does that We're just yeah, I mean it helps. Anytime you

get into a game and you have game reps, it helps. Um. So you just you get out there and you try to pick up the speed as much as you can because the game, just as the season goes on, the game gets faster and faster, so yeah, you know he yeah, I was just trying to get the ball away. One of those things. We're not making bad play worse. And yeah, we won't design any place for him. But he does

a great job bocking. Awesome, thank y'all. So there is Nick Foles addressing the media that Kyle see him again the state where he had his amazing seven touchdown performance. Gets a different team from the West, this time of the Los Angeles Rams, getting a couple scoring drives coming of a relief for one and only Carson Wentz help the Eagles get the forty three to thirty five victory.

Just I'm still blows my mind here in the score coming out of this football game, the two top offenses scoring wise and early coming to this matchup, living up to his name by being able to put points going up and down the field all throughout the course of the game. But basically Nick saying he's going to remain himself. Okay, it's emotional seeing Carson, someone who's very close to go down, but you know, he doesn't all of a sudden say to himself that if this is going to be his

job for the foreseeable future. He's not gonna try to do anything different. Okay, this is a guy, like you said, he started in the league. Look, he won the twenty third NFC East Divisional championship game in Dallas. Okay, He's played in the playoffs. Okay, so he's been through the fire before, he's been the starting quarterback. This is nothing

new to him. He's just coming into a situation now where the team is already cleansed the division title with three games to go and is playing for playoff seating and potential home field advantage through the entire course of the way. And one positive thing you could say for the Eagles, they're six to no at home. Okay, so at least are undefeated home, So you figure out you feel better about your chances if you can get teams to come to Philadelphia, especially if you can get that

bye week. So hopefully that extra week could mean something positive for Carson. Once but again, we're all gonna be holding our breath pretty much until Monday morning whenever the Eagles were able to do the MRI evaluation to find out and get the full evaluation that the full results from the testing there, Well, let's just assume though, that Nick Foles will have to be the guy for the foreseeable future. This isn't all bad. I view Nick Foles as a guy that's unflappable, a guy who's gonna go

in there. He knows how to keep control of his emotions. You're not gonna get too high, too low. Certainly, a player that teammates love playing with. He certainly has that type of personality, will spread the ball around, will stay within the offense, not try to do too much. Rarely makes a bad throw. Difficult to judge Nick Foles and

Jeff Fisher led offense. But when he was in Chip Kelly's offense, when he was in Andy's offense as a rookie, when he got to play late in the year, when he went out to Kansas City last year and had to fill in for Alex Smith, nick Foles has done a pretty good job. Again, if you have talent around him, If you have talent around him, he's more than capable of using the weapons around him and stand within the

framework of the offense. I have no issue if Nick Foles has to take over, regardless of how long it is. This is board down to the game plan and calling the game. How what positions are you gonna put Nick Foles in? Are you gonna run the football a little bit more? Are you gonna play the Nick stremps? He can throw the ball down the field at times, but he doesn't have as stronger went on as Carson Wentz. He's not the athlete. He's not the athlete that Carson

Wentz is, so there are some things different. Yeah, he's gonna be able to do so you got you gotta account for those things. And when you have an offensive line that's banged up a little bit, you're also gonna have to account for that. So I'm not so much worried about Nick Foles if he has to go in there, because I think there's enough help around him and he's more than capable of being able to run an offense. As long as you put him in the right positions,

I think Nick Foles can guide you to victories. How do you think the run game will change? Because one thing that was quite noticeable down the stretch was Jagi was the feature Paul looks. He's look comfortable, doesn't he do? Fifteen carries by far the most he's had in his time with the Eagles. Hadn't been above ten carries in the game prior to today, so to me, maybe he does. Doug Pearson and Frank right, do they lean more on a Ji saying, look, we know you could be the

bell cow. We need you to be the guy to take some of that pressure off of Nick Foles. Yeah, I think you have to. I think you had to. You gotta run the football. I think Jayagi looked as well as he did today over five yards per carry. Gave him the ball late in the game. He's able to tote the rock and hold on to it. You can tell he's running with a lot of determination. He's running with purpose. He's running as if he wants you to continue to feed him the ball, and that's what

you want at this time of the year. So I like what I saw a JAYGII today. Look forward to seeing a lot more of that. And Corey Clement didn't look bad either, doesn't running the football certainly? All right, So come up on the show. Okay, we've heard from Doug Peerson, We've heard from Nick Foles. We are gonna further analyze Nick foles performance in a Rika review at the Rika Whiteboard where great co selling Frande Duffy are

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for Nick Foles? Okay, obviously hard to tell. And again with ERT's not playing is ky hard with his old sample side, see who he might lean toward. But do you think he's someone who might use that arm to rely upon Alshon Jeffrey or do you think it's still going to be the zach Ertz show there when he comes back. Yeah, I believe so. Nick has always been a guy who likes to throw the ball down the hashes right, so he's gonna work the middle of that field.

When he was here, it was either Jason Navan, you know, Jeremy Macklin when he was in the slot. At times, you know he'll take the deep pass on the play action when he gets to the plus forty going in towards the end zone. But I think for the most part, if zach Ertz is back in a week, you can imagine zach Ertz, Trey Burton, Nelson aguilor working a middle

of the field. Every once in a while, Tory Smith and Alshan Jeffrey get their throws on the outside, But for the most part, Nick is most accurate throwing down the middle of the field. Speaking down the middle of field, Nelson Aglore, key guy in the slot and one of the biggest players, where not only was a big time throw and catch for Nick Foles and Nelson Aglor, but just the amount of faith that the coaches showed him

in this situation. Again, late in the game, third and long, the coaches figure it, look, we could just run the ball, run a few seconds off force the Rams, use the time out and go from there and give him the ball back. But no, Doug Peterson was very confident in the offense no matter who's in there quarterback and want to push the envelope to try to keep his offense on the field and keep the Rams on the sideline.

And it worked. But why so, what we're gonna do now is send it over to the RICO whiteboard for the Rico review where Great Cosell and fran Duffy are standing by. So from one great play on third and long to another great play on third and long, obviously two different quarterbacks. Now it's late in the game, just under two minutes left in this football game, and Nick Foles has the opportunity to ice this victory for the Philadelphiagles that Carson Wentz has already left the game with

an injury. It's third and eight, must have situation. What do we see from this Rams defense and what are the Eagles hoping to do on offense? This is pretty big time, but the Rams are showing it looks, particularly on the outside, like it's man coverage. Okay, this looks man all the way. But notice right here, this is Nickel Roby Coleman. Okay, he's the slot corner over Nelson Aguilar. Two things to notice about him. Number one, his eyes are here, first of all, and his body is inside

of Agilar. Okay, So that tells you that's an alert that it might not be man coverage, but it might be particularly to that side of the field, something we call a trap coverage. Okay, And that's what it's going to be, because the reason that Nikel Roby Coleman is playing a little bit inside is he wants Agilar to break outside. He does not want Agilar to get inside of him. He wants him to break outside because this owner up top, Kevin Peterson, He's not going to be

playing pure man. He's going to turn back inside. So we can really clear that and see how that works. So let's run this now and you'll see exactly what happens. Look right here, perfect, notice what's happening. You see Nikel Robie right here. He's walling Aglar off. He does not want Agilar to get inside of He wants him to break outside. Why because Kevin Peterson right here he has turned.

That's a trap concept. He's the trap corner. They want the throw to go outside, so Aglar can break right into that corner and either be an incompletion or hey, if you're the Rams, you're looking for the interception. But what happens here is this is an unbelievable timing, anticipation throw with tremendous accuracy by Nick Foles. So it's the timing and anticipation that beat the coverage. If he waits a beat longer, who knows. But the play beat the

coverage because of the great execution of the play. And again you call that a trap coverage because the defense is hoping to confuse the offense, make them think, oh it's man man. You want that outbreaking route. You think you're throwing for a first down to the sideline, But no, it's going right into the hands of the cloud corner there the trap player and the Eagles did a great job.

That's Nelson agilor that's Nick Foles understanding the concept and understanding what the Rams could be doing on that play. Wait another beat on that throw. You're throwing it right into the coverage where the Rams want you to throw the ball. So Nick Foles coming up big. Carson wentz obviously in the locker room at this point, but Nick Foles comes up big, helps ice the victory for the Eagles.

All right, thanks Greg and Fran. The complete All twenty two review will be available for fans tomorrow morning here at Philadelphiagle dot com and the Eagles EPP. So we don't know who the quarterback will be moving forward, but we do know who's left on the regular season schedule. We're gonna preview that as well. Revealed the Toyota Player of the Week nominees after this file break here on

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are you voting for this week? We're gonna start with the man who stepped up in the absence of Zach Ertz. That's tight end Trey Burton. Two touchdowns a career high for him, so marvelous catches in all six targets on

the day, seventy one receiving yards. Just an outstanding performance overall by a guy who you know, again, Zach Ertz, your leading receiver, your go to guy in this offense for most of the seasons out So credit to both Brent Salak who got the eels on the board early, and Trey Burton for stepping up in a big way. That guy's gonna be a starter for somebody and in their future may not be here. He's in the final year of his contract. I would be a free agent

at the end of the year. Trey Burton has really turned himself into a nice, reliable weapon at that tight end position, really able to go up and make a lot of the same athletic plays that Zach Ertz makes in this offense. So good job by Trey Burton, philing and for Zach certainly so very deserving again two touchdown and graphs for him on the day. So second, we've been talking all throughout the show like about who is going to step up on defense because you know, to me,

it was pretty easy. Who would represent the offense for the Toyota player that week nominees, But who would be coming in and coming up for the defense? And I think Chris Long. I mean his presence felt in the fourth quarter when he got the strip sack recovered by Ronnie mccleoud. The Eagles needs someone to make a play on defense. You know, Jared Goff and Todd Gurley pretty much or successful in moving the ball up and down the field for most of the day, especially in the

second half there. But Chris Long. You know, he's a guy who's been around the cornerback all season long, and it's amazing the production that the Eagles have gotten out of him this year. Yeah, so fitting defense struggle today to keep this high power but Rams offense out of

the end zone. But when they needed to come up with a play, who better than the former Saint Louis ram the number one pick for this franchise back in the day, comes back to haunt him, making the game winning sack, forcing the fumble giving the Eagles the opportunity to go ahead for good late in the game. Kudos to Chris Long coming up with the big play against his former team. Ronnie McCloud, also a former Ronny McLeod for All Circles got him with Saint Louis Rams Right.

All right, So last but not least, you know, we're gonna pay homage to Carson Wentz and a phenomenal performance. He had almost three hundred yards, four touchdowns. We haven't really mentioned the fact that they set the franchise single season touchdown record today with thirty three. Now for this season, it seems like having four touchdown performances are nothing for him at this point. I believe this is his fifth

performance of three or more scores this season. I think is one short of the franchise record in that department. But you know, just a phenomenal job with accuracy, ball placement, moving in the pocket, just everything that we didn't see last week against Seattle came back to fruition this week on a big stage and a spotlight game going against Look the guy who was picked ahead of you. Yeah, no, no brainer. Was a duel I wanted to see all

week long. Carson Wentz showed up despite the interception on the first drive. Loved the way he bounced back, his resiliency, the fact that he doesn't allow negative plays to weigh on him. I mean, there's this is a no brainer to me. He's the player of the game. They don't win this game without Carson Wentz in the performance that he had today bringing them back time at the time. You know, after that block punt, you're saying, all the momentums in the Rams favor, they're gonna win this game. No,

Carson Wentz wasn't having that. Came back with a touchdown on fourth down. The alshon Jeffrey not to mention the big drive before the half to get three points to put them up by ten. Those three points were also crucial considering the Rams or getting the ball coming of coming out of the locker room, and the Rams went down and score with these with that first drive. So Carson Wentz to me, no brainer, player of the game. Broke the franchise record for the single or most touchdowns

in a season. Don't know the extent of the injury, but certainly this is a little feather than the cat for him to have his franchise record in a game like this four touchdowns, going up against the guy that was picked one spot ahead of him a year ago. I think we got the right guy. Yeah, I would believe, so yes to me. Like you said, it's a no brainer in this instance. So again, those are three nominees, but Carson Wentz. You think back to signature moments with

other quarterbacks and Eagles history. Think back to Donald McNabb throwing for four touchdowns on the broken ankle. You'll get the four touchdowns throw way Wentz. That came after he suffered the knee injury, so he was not able to move in the pocket, but he was able to deliver that ball. And kudos to Alshon Jeffrey for reaching behind him to making that fingertip grab. I mean that's something that I don't even know if that bass was for him. No, I mean I was right exactly so mayna I've been

for him. But he came up with the player there. But like you said, the knee was already injured. Didn't know the extent of it, and he wasn't able to step into that throw. No, could not do it. So still got it there, So kudos to him again. Philadelphi Eagles dot Com slashed Toyota Player of the Week. I wanted to talk about Carson last because he deserves the award again. He was a player of the game and hopefully, cross our fingers, it's not the last time we see

him this season. So now it's time to look at the Eagles upcoming schedule, which is presented by NFL Ticket Exchange powered by Ticketmaster. For the only one percent verified away to buy or sell NFL tickets, visit NFL ticket exchange dot com. So the Eagles took care of business of clinching the division title, which was huge because Dallas won earlier in the day, kind of prolonging it a little bit. So to me, it's great that the Eagles were able to win it on their terms. It wasn't

like they the back door of their way exactly. So the Cowboys were no exactly, So they win so final three games of the season. Like you get the Giants who have had a turmoil filled season. They fired Ben macdo, fired the GM you know, c spagnol came in as the interim coach, Eli manning of all the stuff with

benching him and then bringing him back here. You know, their season's been a mess, but this might be to them their ways to go out on a high note by knocking down the number one seed, whether it's with or without Carson wentz Yeah, And again it's going to be interested to see how this team has to display their resiliency Once again, again we don't know the extent of Carson's injury, but if he's not able to go next week, how does the team come out? Are they

able to rally around Nick Foles? Can they keep the energy up the way that they had for today? They came in ready to play today. They knew they were in for a dog fight. They were up for the challenge against the Rams. There's gonna take a lot for them to get themselves back up next week against a divisional fold third straight game on the road. That can

be difficult as well. If Carson isn't able to go, do the Giants sort of see that as a way of getting the victory and they come in with the energy. So it'll be interesting to see how Doug's able to get these guys ready to go. I'll tell you one thing, it really hasn't been a problem since this guy has been the head coach with this team being ready to go week in and week out. So I'll take it. I'll take it on face value that the team will

be ready to play next week. Hopefully it's That's why one of the things I was reassuring about the win today was how aggressive Doug was with a play call. We didn't see that last week and see out it seemed like that the team just wasn't itself. They got back to their ways. You saw the nice celebration with the flying v after Prince Selk's first touchdown, paying homage

to the Mighty Ducks movie there. But it's just nice and it seem like they were getting back to having fun and the things that they were doing to get them to his point here. So they were getting back to that a little bit there today. So hopefully, whether it's with or without Carson Wiz, they'll be able to

continue that mojo moving forward. And then the last two games are at home, and you know, hopefully this will be the last time the Egles are on the road for the season if they can somehow get the number one seed for the entire postseason, and again, the road to the Super Bowl would have to come through Philadelphia, So let's go do it for this edition of the Postgame Show presented by Rico. Again, the Eagles winn by score forty three to thirty five over the Los Angeles Rams.

Carson Wentz exits the game with a knee injury, who have a full evaluation On Monday. Doug Pearson's press conference is live at noon here on philadel Eagles dot com and the Eagles App, so you will definitely not want to miss that. Ike Reas will be on the air at two pm tomorrow recapping what head coach the head

coach says, as well as taking everyone's calls. And depending on the news, it might be we might be breathing us high of relief or you might you might have to you exactly that might have to be the case here, So either way, now I'll be here for you, ike okay, as you're walking through the build the next couple of days doing your game plan. Show we got we got each other's back here, so again, thank you very much

for joining us here. So we have complete coverage all through at the night here on philadelphias dot com and the Eagles App and all day tomorrow, so stay tuned for the latest news when it comes to quarterback Carson Wentz and his knee injury. So for ike Reas, I'm Chris McPherson. For all of us here at the Philadelphia Eagles thank you for joining us, and everyone have a great Eagles Night. The Eagles are NFC East Champions for the twenty seventeen season.