Postgame Show: Eagles Win 32-6 Against the Atlanta Falcons

Defense came out was really really impressive. The fact that they were to stop the Falcons from getting on the board early and there was just lights out from that point. And there were so many question marks going into this game. Obviously, we didn't know what to expect from a Nick Sirianni team, right We saw little glimpses in preseason, but they were keeping it very close to the chest. Same on the other side, we didn't know what to expect from Arthur Smith.

So now looking at game one, the offense and the defense really clicking. What would be a word you would use to describe a Nick Sirianni team right now after Week one? Well, I would say a team that's played smart. They played hard and without a lot of preseason action. I mean, they went out there and did a fairly decent job. Now, there was some spots where you don't want penalties. That shows a little bit of rust and the lack of playing out there. I think they can

clean that up as the season goes along. But I like what they did on offense, and if I'm just looking at a Nick Sirianni offensive philosophy, you know they still had the same aggressive mentality that the last coaching regime had. I thought there were some areas in the first half where I maybe would have kicked the ball, punting the ball. Thankfully he saw it aggressive. They converted on fourth down and led the points. I liked the idea of attacking and setting the temple at energetic too.

All both sides. I thought you really saw a lot of really good energy from this Eagles football team. Defense. I thought they were flying to the football offensively, just guys that you've got it like good vibes watching this team right, whether it's on the field, on the sidelines, in the huddle. I thought we saw some really good things. I think we have to start with Jay Hurts, right he was the nucleus of this team throughout. He was settled, he was calm, his composure, his leadership on and off

the field. I think a big thing that I noticed from Jalen Hurts was his footwork. It was clean in the pocket. His pocket presence was very strong, and that was something that people weren't really sure what they were going to get from Jalen Hurts once he entered the NFL in terms of his pocket presence and using his arm. Right, we know he can run, but I thought today he did a really good job in finding the balance in his run game and using his arm. Yeah, show poise

for the most part out there. You liked the calm, cool collectiveness that which he plays with. That allows the offense to sort of play with the calming presence. They had some dribs early in the game that sort of stalled not many points being scored early, but you didn't see Jalen try to force anything. He stayed within the offense. And then in the second half and really right before halftime, he was able to use his legs to extend some draws.

And when you talk about Dane Pas, we broke in down and what he would try to do to Jalen, Well, we saw a lot of different blitz packages and Jalen Hurts and his first start coming into the season as a starter, I think he passed the test with flying colors of being able to handle the pressure, picking up the blitz, knowing where to get rid of the football, and more importantly, even if there's nothing there, not turning

a bad play into a disastrous play. Can we can we talk about that touchdown at the end of the first half. Yeah, I mean Dallas got you could check so many boxes off when you talk about it. His poison, the pocket, his pocket movement, he felt the rush coming from his blindside, stepped to his right, stays under control, under command, and then just delivers a laser on the money to Dallascott, I mean ridiculous, like jump out of my seat kind of touchdown throw. And you to me

like that whole two minute drive was managed perfectly. They didn't rush, they didn't get too ahead of themselves, they knew there was a good sequencing of play calls, and then to finish with six before the before half, big time. Well at two minute drive, I think we learned a lot about this team in those two minutes. I think you can learn a lot about football teams and what they do in a two minute drive right before half, right, and so I think we learned how Nick Sirianni can

manage a game in two minutes. I think, check right, and then we can see how that offense operates and how Jalen Hurts really commands the offense in those types of situations. No one was getting too worried, too anxious. Like you said earlier, Ike, he wasn't forcing anything. But they got the job done, found the end zone, put

up some points, and when to halftime. And I know the offensive line, particularly the right side, is experienced when you talk about Lane and Brandon and Jason in the middle. But I don't think there's enough that could be said about the maturity of these young players that they showed today, starting with Jalen Hurts at the quarterback position, Davante Smith

being solid catching the football. I don't think he had any drops out there today, Jalen Rager with a big touchdown, Miles Sanders with big runs, Kenny Gainwell with big runs. I'm naming all young players. There are the building blocks for nucleus here and then their first game on the road and for three quarters in the tight situation, I didn't see our young guys fold under pressure. And give Nick Sirianni a lot of credit in his first game, COOCHI,

I thought he called a phenomenal game today. And even quiz Watkins three players to start the game. He felt like everybody kind of had their moment to shine here in this game. It was a lot of fun to watch this whole offense operated, very disciplined football team. Right. We hear from Nick Sirianni all the time, and he gives you all those buzzwords, all those cliches, but to actually see it come together on the field and you

see a very well executed football team. And this is brand new, right, this is just newly installed, a lot of new faces on both sides of the ball. And like you said, you wouldn't really know how young the team is by the way that they played today. Jordan Malata, right, I mean three years ago, this is his story, right, he didn't know how to put football pads on. He is out there just trucking people over and he's another

big part of the success of that offense today. Yeah, pockets a little heavier to day too, to me, like, even though we've talked about the offense a lot, like the defense, get the first drive fifteen plays, ends in the field goal, get off the field. Second drive fourteen plays, another field goal, get off the field. After that, it was like three and out, three and out, five and out, three and out. The way that the defense responded after earlier, you know, they were able to run the football. You

saw some quick completions. The defense, to me, really really shine today's as well. I was a little worried about that defense in the beginning because those first two drives by Atlanta's offense were two seventy five yard drives. That's long. The defense is gas. This is just week one, right, so I thought this might catch up, this might catch up. But then they made the stops when it mattered, and they held Atlanta to not too many points. Yeah, I

was very impressed. I know both of you have mentioned the first two drives, but they were so critical. When you start off the first game of the season and the opposing team's offense is able to march down the field on you time consuming drive out of the drives, it can be deflating. This defense bowled their necks up when they got down to the red zone, able to hold Atlanta to just field goals there. That's a victory.

That's I think they were able to catch there, you know, collect themselves, catch their breath, and then from that point on, Jonathan Ganathan Jonathan Gannon sort of had a beat on what the Arthur Smith offense was gonna do. They weren't going to throw the ball down the field. They tried to establish the run. The Eagles defensive line completely dominated this game when it come to stopping the run and

taking over in the second half. But those first two drives to hold Atlanta to field goals, I thought that was critical because you give up two touchdowns there. Now you're playing uphill on the road. That crowd can get into the game and it can be tough sledding for a young offense. I think those two stops by the defense allowed the Eagles offense to sort of get into the game as well. Yeah, and La you made a great point too about it being long drives and the

threat of people getting gassed. Right, But what do we see You talked about all the offensive players we got to hear from. Defensively, we saw TfL by Patrick Johnson. We saw Sean Bradley getting in there for tackles behind the line of scrimmage across all three levels. Milton Williams making plays, Ryan Kerrigan out there, Hassan Ridgeway time and time again. Seeing a lot of these backups come in and contribute. I think it's really really big for the

future of this football team. Well, another storyline this week, of course, was how this defense was going to adjust. You know, we talked about this being two new staffs on either side, and they didn't know what to expect, what they were going to get from a veteran like Matt Ryan, and so in the beginning it was looking a little like the defense needs to have an answer to Atlanta's run game. The Atlanta established the run game really early on, and it looked pretty good. It was

working for them. Remember they don't have Julio anymore. That takes a whole threat away from Matt Ryan. Kyle Pitts. We didn't know what to expect from the rookie. He

didn't do too much, he wasn't targeted too often. But the way that the defense responded and had an answer, especially in the second half, I think is a huge credit to Jonathan Gannon and the defense that he's establishing here in Philadelphia, but also the guys from the D line to the secondary, what they're doing together and they're just having fun. So yeah, I thought the D line

really took this game over. They decided not gonna run the football on us, We're gonna force you to beat us throwing the ball, and the secondary stepped up today. Calvin really had some catches early in that game, and I think I checked stat line was in the middle of the fourth quarter. He still only had one catch after that opening drive of the game. So I like

what our secondary was able to do. And then our D line they just were able to pin their ears back and get out of this Atlanta Falcons offensive line. We knew if the Eagles had one clear cut advantage coming into this game, it was our D line going up against that offensive line. The key was going to get them was to get them in obvious passing situations. And once the Eagles got up by two touchdowns, the

Falcons couldn't run the ball anymore. And Matt Ryan, who has no mobility, not a lack of mobility, no mobility back there. This Eagle's front four knew where Matt Ryan would be at and it was a meeting at the quarterback man that that front four. I want to get ahead of myself. If they reminded me of what I saw in two seventeen when they could go where our d line was worth eight to ten deep far as rotating players and everybody stayed fresh. That's what I saw

out there today, a fresh defensive line. I think it's a formula, you know. I think in years past you would say, oh, well, you know, it's dehabilitating for a defense to allow the run to take over, right offensively, But I think today's NFL, it's the big plays. It's the explosive plays that get after you, right, So it's tiring for an offense. All right, we gotta go fourteen plays, fifteen players like the Falcons did. All right, go ahead,

do it again, roll the ball out. See if you can do it again, and we're gonna stop you from getting in the end zone. That's disheartening from an offensive side as well. I gotta give some love to Alex Singleton too, right, you didn't hear his name too much today, But wherever the ball is, Alex is somewhere nearby, and I think he brings such an energy to that defense, in that linebacker corps. I can't wait to see what he does this season. Yeah, you gotta get love to

the LB. Eric Wilson. I'm not gonna point out could have had a tip intersection and I saw, but it's okay. He's normally around the football as well. A great start to the season on the road all teams. It's only gonna be sixteen undefeated team after this week, right, sixteen teams to win will be unless there's a tie in there somewhere. More than likely, the Eagles are sitting at the top of the division with a victory. What a great way to start off the twenty twenty one season.

Ella's gonna fluff you up by bring up the linebackers. I want to bring up the special teams. How about the special teams today? Aaron Sipposs putting four punts. I thought Greg Olsen on the broadcast did a great job of pointing out Andre chacherre of what he would have got that illegal touch on the one down punt. Just really really impressive special teams execution across the board. Yeah,

two two very good uh notes right there? Frand that that played to point out to the other gunners down the field and let him know you need to get the ball first. I can't touch it. I've already gone out of bounds. That's a smart football player. And then Sippas come on, man, it's awesome. Four and you said four inside fow just I mean that that that is so beneficial to a defense to know that you're gonna have the opposing team's offense pent near their end zone

and you can just get out through them. I mean a great example was that too. I talked about the two gonna try offensively. That starts with the punt inside the tent and now they punt put it back to the Eagles and they start from their fifty. When you say, like flip the field, all that's like a you know, a coaching axium. That's never No, that's the hidden yard example right there. Yeah, that's the hidden yardage the special teams will do for you when you when you down

the punt inside the ten like that. Like Frank, I have to cut your off. I'm sorry we have Miles. Well, I'm judging by the way you walked in here pretty good. Yeah, it feels real good, real good. A lot of energy, a lot of vibes. Um, I've been talking about it the whole time in the off season, and I love the chemistry that we got going on. And it just feels like a real family in there. So real exciting. Twice a little down and it's your pointing conversion what

it mean for you know? Oh, that just shows the type of aggressiveness study has. Um. You know we're gonna play conservative conservative sometimes, you know, but you know, first game, when we know what type of line that we have, Um, you know we can go get it. So we don't have no problem taking chances on one time. Oh. Absolutely, absolutely, this is definitely what I expected, you know, and this is only beginning, only beginning, taking it one week at

a time. Weren't round ones over got the dub on the San fran Sport today is that? I mean, what do you tell that many sport? Oh? I say to both of them, I say, it's it's a blessing. Man. Uh. You know, you get to this moment, You've been working so hard to get to this moment, and then it's finally here. You just gotta take advantage of it. Man. I'm really happy for Kenny because my first game I scored and they took it back, which happened to him, but he win got it back, So I'm real happy

for him and DeVante too. Starting starting off with the touchdown too. So you got off the game playing is playing coming in and what do you mean, um, really

try to run the ball down the throat? You know, Uh, we we start we have like an RPO, so, I mean there's a lot of different reads that goes into each run play, but every plays a run to be honest, if and if anybody don't know, but um, but yeah, this's just trying to be aggressive and attack tacked the defense as much as we can in different ways possible with with j Um, just just his will to win. You know, he don't stop. You know, he's running it,

he's giving calls, giving checks. You know, he's real locked in and he's had holding everybody to the high standard. Two so and he's field general on the field. You know, how did you say he was? I think it was excellent. Obviously, it opened up the run game tremendously for for all the running backs, and um, that's that's all we can ask for. I mean we've been talking about it the whole off season. Uh, you know, people have been I'm not gonna say that, but uh, or work in practice

are very very intense and fast paced. So we're really getting a lot of good work in practice. So um, despite of all the starters not playing a whole lot in a preseason, uh, not really a big deal to us, I mean type because of the type of work that we get in practice. So I think it's I think it happened as expected. We could definitely be better. You

know what I'm saying, You know what I mean. But uh, like I said, good start, good dub first weekend, were just on the next week first, Um, what was well, you know, he he loves the movie clips, had a lot of movie clips last night. UM, just just telling us to have fun and just go out there and play as a family. And you know, just he's just real pumped up, real pumped up. Um and yeah, just you know, stick together. And when you all players as one, I think that was a real team team win that

right there. And when you all players one, I don't think nobody can stop us. Um. I think thing now I'm on the spot out trying to remember. I can't remember right now, I can't remember. I'm sorry. As a party and still a party. And now I'm trying to get back just the beginning. You know, we got seven seventeen games now, just taking a one week at a time on the same frame. Now, yeah, yeah, I mean those those guys up there, man, those are the vets.

That's all I can say. Man with Kelsey, with with Brandon Brooks, with Lane, you got Isaac and then you got m A lot of money man. Uh, I don't. I don't take none of that for branded. I mean, I think we got the best old line in the NFL. And whenever, whenever it's time to line up, they're gonna be ready no matter what the circumstances. You guys they can send. That's a bigger part of the soul and

its wire as an um. I think honestly, just because we've been executing on everything else, you know, the ring game and then with Jalen pulling it opening up for us and then we're throwing the ball down the field with completing passes and we just ran it with them unexpecting it so and it happened to work perfectly. Preach one more time situation. Um, I mean, he's he's a he's able to do it. You know, everybody in our room between me, him and Boston are able to do anything.

Uh you know routes coming out the backfield and the slide were all capable of doing it. And um, he just showed you know, the most efficient way of doing it and practice sot And that's just easy to him, you know. He, like I said, he has the best hands in in an argy room to me in my opinion. Um, and yeah, it's that's that's his thing. Two minutes it that's that's it. Let's say, all right, that was running back Miles Sanders. He had fifteen carries for seventy four yards.

But I think the other part of that box where we need to take a look at it is his four catches for thirty nine yards. We know a huge emphasis from Nick Sirianni through camp was finding a way for these running backs to also be able to catch passes. Male singers did that today. Yeah, we know Miles as an explosive player. You give him enough touches, eventually he's gonna break one big and you saw that late in the game, the twenty three yard run that he had.

But here's the thing that I'll point out that I was so much more impressed with with Miles today. His blitz pick up as protection says as much blitzen as Dean Pas did today. You were gonna need to be solid in your protection and Miles along with the other backs, even Kenney gain well when he was out there. But I noticed Miles several times with big blocks in the middle of that defense, I mean the middle of that offensive line. Nice job from him. Didn't drop any passes

they called. All the balls thrown to him, ran the ball well. But I I was so much more impressed with the way that he blocked and pass protection. Yeah, if you didn't say it, I was gonna say it. We talked about it on Eagles game Plan this week. Right. One of the things that this Eagles offense was gonna have to do to keep Jalen Hurts clean was make sure that they picked everything up from a blitz pickup standpoint. A number of times on some of those Jalen hurt scrambles,

Miles Sanders was able to pick a guy up. Said the locker room, they're having fun. It's a party, he said. On to San Francisco. We're gonna head back to Atlanta. We have DeVante Smith at the podium. Yeah, hyah, doing to day first. The rest of Uh, it just comes to reps. I mean, just coming to practice every day, getting your reps, getting comfortable with it, and um when they call it the play. I mean we've repped it a lot and I was comfortable with it. Strip that feeling,

I'm sure your entire life start feeling. Getting in the end zone. Um, everything ain't hit me yet, honestly because just like in a moment, just kind of still getting to it. No, I have a task in hand right now, Bob, he ain't hit me yet. I think it's through the play there. It looked like created some separation one online. Just think it's through. You know what's going through the um. Just come down to seeing the coverage that we wanted and then just roll it and just execute the playing. Um,

it comes down the RELs. I mean when you rep it so much and you just get used to it, and then all the reps that we that we've done. That's why that's cute. A good UM. When I've seen it was man, I mean we, like I say, we repped it a lot. When I seen it was, man, I just knew just because all the repetition that we did that was gonna be that play. No, you just called a PLAYE. I think that was just the whole team just wanting to get out there, get back to it.

We've been working hard to get to this point, but we understand it's just round one that's sixteen. More so just getting back out there getting our feet with Um. No, not at all. I mean the NFL. I feel like it's slower just because you got time. You go to the hard to ever play to where college you just own the ball, getting sickness and things like that. So it's a little bit of slower than college. Say it again, Um Now, I think it's just college period. Like everybody

goes no huddle, nobody huddles up. So I think that's just how college is played, and this is just how NFL has played. I mean, he's a leader. I mean when things are wrong, he's the guy that's picking everybody up. When things are right, he's the one that's telling us keep pushing just him, the offense, him in the office line. They're the ones that's gonna lead the team. Um. And that's that's what they did. I mean, that's that's the whole point of off season to attack the things that

you know you need to get better at. And um, I mean that's what he did. He'd been working hard at that, and I mean I'm proud of him down. Um that's just the first one. We gotta keep going game, not over straight time to one point on the drive where they all designed the place for you. Um, it was just a play call. That's how That's how it kind of was just the person that we was saying. So, I mean, that's just a scramming rules. No matter what

side here to roll to. If he to roll to the other side, he had done the same thing to the other guys. So that's just something that you just gotta get used to. When a quarterback scramming, you just gotta find something where to be. I mean, everybody's excited, but we understand. We enjoyed this for twenty four hours and then move on to next week. Um. Just we've

been working. I mean, we came in working and just that's we understood that it's gonna be played, that's gonna have to be made by us, and we was ready for it. Um. I don't know. I usually don't call people out the game. I just let them call me keep keep that ball. They take it from him, I don't know, Nah, I'll fine. Man. That was the rookie wide receiver DeVante Smith at the podiums laughing over here because he's funny. Without even knowing that he's funny, He's

up there like, yeah, he took it from it. He took the ball from men. He didn't know where his first touchdown win. So um. I love the fact that he doesn't get too high, too low. Um. I'm just sitting there listening to him talk about catching this first touchdown, and it's like, oh, dude, I gotta I'm probably gonna catch one hundred more anymore. I've done this before. It's no big deal to me. I like that though. I

like that. I am trying to envision, though you have after catching your first time, you would have already had it in the mail. I know we're having fun, but to cut off the fun again. Nick Sirianni at the podium, Yeah, thanks, you got going better for you. Yeah, you know, offense played good. I thought played really well on defense, played lights out special teams. It was a good team win. It felt like the guys played together for each other, with each other. I mean so really pleased with the

way we played as a football team game. Can you describe now what this feels like? Sure? Yeah, you know again, Uh, you know, I had to I had to stop before I went out and addressed the team and had a moment with myself and just it was it meant a lot, and so it just thought about all the work that that got me to this position. And so um again though that the team that they just again, the guys played together so well in the offense, the defense was

just such a complimentary game all the way around. Can't say enough good things about our defense. You know, as les pretty really a lot of screens. Yeah, you know, we wanted to execute uh some of that short control passing game with but still be able to take the ball down the field like the deep ball to uh to to Zach, and there was there were some other things that were down the field as well. Um that the Atlanta did a good job of taking away and

making us forcing us to throw it underneath. Um. But yeah, we get a coverage that we want and then we have the ability to go down field. If not. Jalen did a good job with his reads and taking what the defense gave him. Um, Well, that was just the look that again, it's the same thing. That's a look that defense was giving us. Um that's not necessarily planning to go to him. The defense of look, let it

go to him. There's options. I'd like to give our quarterbacks options on plays and give Jalen options on plays, and and you just react off the defense. And so sometimes on run plays that's like that, and then sometimes on pass plays it's like that. So you're built in everywhere around the field and you're just trying to teach the quarterback where to go with the ball versus different looks. And Jalen did a great job of executing to start

the game off with that. Yeah, you know, the the ability to be able to get on the ball and run, run, and feel really good about running the football because of who our offensive line was. That I mean, that's that's always. That's always something that you're like, man, this, I gotta go up and use these guys that use miles and use the offensive line. So that was that was that makes it easier to call the game when you're firing

on all cylinders like that. We still had a little bit too many pre snap penalties that we got to clean up. Um, we have to. We have to clean up the things that we acquire no talent, you know, master the things that quire require no talent. We had a little bit too many of those, and we got to clean that up. We've been thinking of all the time about when you've been telling guys, you know, before the game, coach, So what did you tell them on

story and story? Well, I'll keep the story. The story is a little embarrassing for me, so I don't I'm not gonna keep the story in house. But the whole

message was about UM having a dog mentality. And dog mentality to us means that no matter what happened on one play, whether it was an interception, whether it was a touchdown, whether it was a minus run, whether it was a twenty yard run, whether it's a sack, no matter what happened, play, the next play being the moment, just like in our analogy, is just like a dog would when you open up the cage and he goes, he goes to hunt. UM. So that was the message.

That was the main message, and I felt like, you know, we had a good first half, you know, especially the way we ended the first half. UM. The defense was firing and and and that's kind of something something thing that the guys were talking about, like, hey, that first half doesn't count, it doesn't matter, it doesn't it didn't happen. We're right here, You're in the moment again. And that

was my message to the team. And uh, it was good to see him execute it with John calls with all three months for you or they toss ups fourth and twenty. Was at listen to a toss up the fourth and the fourth and what I didn't think we went for a fourth and um, yeah, I felt good. I felt good about the calls we did. We didn't

execute it, um um. You know, the they were definitely green lights for us to be able to go for it with a field position that we had, the way the defense was playing, and you know the one, the one you could argue back and forth. You know, I went back and forth with it. But what ended up happening with the way our defense was was going, I don't know, off the ball Somewhere in the between the twenty and the thirty, I think we didn't get We

didn't get in on fourth and two. Our defense got a three and out, they gave us the ball back and we scored a touchdown, so we still had that fuel position, so that it makes you feel better about decision when you don't get it, when the defense bails you out like that. Um, so you know those were green lights for us. You know, I gotta I gotta do what my gut says, and uh, it was green light.

I followed. I followed it at that time and just didn't work out the first out much to touchdown was the press were most about jail Yeah, just just again the taking what the defense gave him. Um, methodically going down the field, making big throws when he needed to make big throws, making create you know, checking it down they needed to check it down, making a run when he needed to make run. Just playing good quarterback, just

good quarterback play. So to go down and get a touchdown in a two minute drill, like you're you know, sometimes you're thinking, let's go get points. Then you get to a point, you're like, all right, let's go get seven. And when you get seven, you obviously feel really good about it. And Jalen was complete control there. He was a complete controlled the whole game, played a heck of

a football game. And um, really just really happy with the way he played like, but like, yeah, I mean you know when we practice that in the in the in the preseason. I've told you guys this, and when you play against another team, I mean, you're to me, that's a game. If you're if you're truly in the business of getting better every single day and improving every

single day, then you treat practice like the game. So whether we played zero plays with the starters in the preseason games, ten plays, twenty plays, thirty plays, three games, three full games, the practice has prepared us for it. And that's and that's no different when you get into the season. The practices prepare you for the for the game. Um. You know, this week we had a great third down h third down day where I thought we were firing

alls owners. It got us ready for today. And we had a great red zone practice and we were three for three today. So and we had and I thought our I thought our run game looked really good. So it's it's this, you know what you do in the week, and that's our emphasis to the team and in the player. These guys have won a lot of games here and so they know how to practice, um, and they know how to get better throughout the season where you don't plateau, you continue to get better, and I felt like we

got better every day this week. The goal for next week is to get better every day to put yourself in position to be able to win. UM at home there against San Francisco. I know you waited a long time to l a lot of their offenses. How much? Yeah, shoot, that's that was just game one. I mean we got we got a lot more left, so a lot more about it. I'm sorry after the game. It's just the excitement of being in the locker room with the guys. One of our first meetings, UM, I talked about when

we talked about connecting. I said that there's probably not a better feeling. There's not a lot of feelings that are better that when you're in the locker room after the games, celebrating, hugging, doing your handshakes with each other, whatever it is, UM, there's not a better feeling in the world unless you're connected with the people across from you.

Like if we just if we didn't think about connecting every day and we went in and won that game, it would be still feel really sweet and those hugs would still be really cool. But when you really connect with somebody, those hugs meeting a little bit more and

those are special moments. And so it was just embracing that special moment that we had UH in there as a team and watching the guys celebrate, watching the guys UH dance and and and you know, so that was a good that was a good feeling there at the end of the game, and just wanted to let that go as long as possible. Touchdowns And what does that mean for the team going say that? I'm sorry, yeah, score touchdowns at Kenny, What does that mean for the

team going forward? And what does it mean for their confidence level listeners the season goes on. Yeah, you know, I thought those guys played. Again, I got to look at the tape and and see what how they played. But they made some they made some good plays, that's for sure. I want to see how consistent they were throughout the game. But um, to get in the end zone on your first NFL game, that's pretty cool, um,

and they and they made it. I thought Jaila made a great throw to Davant's act did a good job of helping Davante get open on that play. If you watch it, and the offensive line, Um, Kenny didn't have to do much on his touchdown, So the uh again, that's just why it's such a great team game. I'm happy for them that they scored, but a lot of the credit go to and that's why it's this awesome game. Right.

If you look at that plays, Zach helped DeVante get open, Jalen put a great ball on their offensive line got Kenny Kenny in there. So happy for them as a rookie, but really happy as with the success of the way the offense played. Um is, particularly in those couple of plays, you kind of realized that Kenny was reading as a

rookie for some of those high level situations. You put them in the dirt down obviously in the touchdown, Why did you kind of feel up days James practice right practice, and you know, he's just it's such a great indicator what you're going to get in the game. And he practices hard, he practices to get better. Um. He has no choice because you know the team is demanding that of him. The players on the team are demanding them, We're demanding that of him, and so he showed him

what he can do every day in practice. UM. And so he's a tough kid. When when guys are tough and they like football and they really love football and they have talent, those guys reach their potential. And obviously that's only Kenny's first game, but you like those things about him that makes you make you trust him to be able to make some plays in that in those moments. Thank you talking about an I'll Answererston. You talk about the connections between the players and you're trying to have

forced connections. So with that your handshake with Jail and Hurts, who came up with that and how much, well that is my son and I was handshake to be honest with you, and you know, as Jail and I got closer, uh throughout there, UM, I told him that and I said, hey, this is my son, and I was handshake and we started doing it. We had fun with it. We did it last night before the meetings, um, and then it

was fun to do that in the game again. Like I said, like when you when you're in there celebrating with somebody, um, and you're going through and you're having those emotions, those emotions meet even more when you're when you're close with that person. So that was that was fun. That was special. My son doesn't mind. He's just a young young boy, so he doesn't he doesn't mind that we share that handshake. So it's my son, myself and

Jaalen's handshake. Now, there was obviously really tired of throw dangerous side about Jens after seas confidence. Yeah, it was a great play. It was a really good play. It wasn't Sometimes you don't get what you think you're gonna get, and sure helps when your quarterback can get you out of that of that situation and make a big time play. So there was a heck of a throw. I look forward to watching it on tape. I couldn't see the I couldn't see up the big screen on there, so

it's a little hard to see. If you guys probably had a good view of it from the big screen. I didn't, um, but uh look forward to seeing it on tape. But it says that, you know, he made a heck of a football play, and he made it. He made a lot of those today and which is why we were in the position to win the game. All right, thanks yalla. Gotta feel good right to start the season attack so dominated fashion. How does that feel? Oh? If it definitely feels great. Especially to come out with

the win. Uh, anytime you can have a great game and get the win, it's it's just a great feeling going back home. You guys down right again, Basically you take you guys down. Did you guys kind of feel that as the game is kind of going on, I'm not I'm necessarily not saying wearing down, but we knew, uh, they was gonna have to drop back and pass, and we really really confident with everybody in our room that

we could get to the quarterback. So when it came to them down, you know, everybody was just trying to get there, and I just so happened to be the one that was winning team. Different games out there, most most definitely, when you can't hold a team out from getting points, it's always gonna change the game. Um, even though they had a long draw, to hold them the three points, it was a big thing. Like, um, I think they was at the three yard line or it

was real close. So that was just a turning point for us. I mean, I think we just started making tackles. Um, we was doing some things wrong. Um, just somebody here and there just making mistakes. But I guess in the second half we kind of corrected the mistakes and start coming up and making tackles. I don't really know systematically, but I guess j G was calling some different things

or talking to different people. But like you said, we started making beat, stop saying coming up, letting them, letting out rush, get hot. I started much. I mean, it's definitely great. Last show, I was really just sitting at home. UM. I think they went down to play Washington. I was sitting at home. That was my first first time missing the first game UM ever in my career. So it's just a great feeling to be out there with my teammates and definitely two SATs and getting to win. What's

your complimence? Much higher level. I mean I've been complimenting um even when when I was down last year, I got an amazing confidence in myself. So I mean, I'm just encouraged. I'm really not gonna let this game get to me and just really focusing on San Francisco now. Uh. I mean, like I said, I always expect things, but I was more so just happy that we got a great win. And like I said, we're just focusing on

Sam friend now when you're other sidelines. Man, we was happy just seeing them score points and moving the ball like they did. Um. It was just you know, a great team team victory UM seeing them score points and us making great stops and special teams making plays. So it was just a great feeling overall. No, not at all, just seeing them something and some of them joint practices against other teams. I wasn't really surprised because they was really playing good against them teams too, So nah, I

knew we had a good offense. You know what. It was a great start. It was it was fun. I felt like the energy was right everybody, even when we was in a close game. I just felt like everybody just was on the same page and just wanted to go out there and just have fun together. First time out there together, like k S, a Ryan one and uh Man. That was a great start. Nobody really do want to expect with this team because you know, coach

quarterback that doesn't play much, I think people. I mean, we believed in ourselves and that's one thing for sure that going into it, we knew that's one that's a box we can check off. Everybody believe in it and knowledge it's all about going to do it. I Mean sometimes it ain't pretty, but I think today was a great start. We made some mistakes out there, I felt like we can capitalize on some of them opportunities we

had that we kind of let slip away. I know, we had a fourth dime that we that I felt we should have got. But it's all good, like you know, how I go. But I felt like the defense held together the way we was out there having fun together even during uh, when they first came out, they was driving down and we held held up in the red zone. And that's one thing we were just talking out there, Hey, y'all,

they don't score, they don't score, they don't win. And so um, I'm just excited because it's only the first round. We got plenty more rounds to go, and m so far, so good, this so well. I'm happy Zach still here because boy, it was all ugly in the beginning. But uh, but I'm happy that everything got worked out. I'm happy that he's feeling that energy that we feel and and

all we gotta do is just just stay together. Um. I mean, we know how to handle wins, and hopefully we ain't got to handle too many losses, you know what I'm saying. But I know that. Um, the way we played together, the way we stuck in together, I mean we can build on that. For those camp we didn't see and then we saw in this game seem like they were writing a lot against this kind. That's that's pretty much what it is. Man Like, Oh, this is the first game, this first game action for us. Uh,

that's why I say we gotta get better. Um, coach, just do a good job of not keeping us in the same spot so people can just tee off on us and stuff like that. We just gotta get better with our technique. Once we watched the film, then we can figure out what what it was that got us and we just keep going from there. But yes, we knew it was that was something that we're gonna have

to get better with. We knew that. Obviously we loved the four down look as a defensive end I mean defense aligned, but we know that we got we gotta do both, and so we just gotta we we gotta continue to keep on going upward and and working to get better with that. With that, with that scheme of it out, I think it's just you, you know, you want to fight for him because you know he's he hasn't.

He's been the same guy since he got here. And he even you know, joked about the other day about his first first time doing the media and how everybody ripped him and how mad he was. But at the same time, he was like, you know, you had to shake it off and come back and do it again, and you got to make sure you had that next player and that dog mentality and know that you know you're here for a reason and you can do it

and you're gonna make mistakes. But it's the ones that can, uh not worry about it and not let that mistake uh keep you keep it stay in your mind, you know. And I think that for him, Um, we just wanted to go out there and play hard for him because, like I said, he'd been the same guy since he got here. It's no fake fakeness with this team. I think that the energy is real and man, it's just disguised the limit for us if we just stayed keep at it. When he first Commas, was that one of

us Saturday night. I mean he's been saying it for a minute, but yeah, it was part of it. This week, just during the week, Jel said, Myles said that it was a part of another locker right now and describe the honest share. I mean, first game out of coach, everybody don't know what to expect. And now you now you got a building. Now you now you can see a little bit of what we've been working so hard for. And you see why he did what he did with us, holding us off for a little bit so we can

fly around on it on game day. And I think that, uh, coach just wanted us to go out there. He just wanted to get a w but he wanted to make sure that we took care of the little things, the stuff that uh kind of go by the wayside. Make sure that we go out there as a team and we're gonna and we're gonna finish as a team, whatever the score is. We're gonna stay together. And and I mean, I like what's going on, and um, we just gotta we just gotta keep on believing in and keep working

hard to get better. You're honestly another next serious but oh yeah, you know you rule those guys on. You want to you want to stay in the game. And I think that uh, seeing those guys make plays. Man, that boy got some receivers out there that I'm excited about. I mean, obviously you've seen six scores, first time, first time touchdown of many and I think it was good to see, Uh Jalen, I mean Jalen, Both of both Jalens, you know, do good, especially not knowing what to expect.

But I know them boys confident in each other. And it's only gonna get better with with the old line that we got right there. Everybody healthy, man, It's gonna we're gonna we're gonna be able to handle you know, everything this year if we just stay healthy and stay together. Money Man Miles Sanders stalking the money Man talk about the extension, and I mean, I mean obviously it's you know, an incredible feat. Um. You know, I'm extremely blessed to

have gotten that extension. And you know, like I said before, um, you know my Eagles video. I'm incredibly happy to keep representing the city and this team, an organization and everything that it stands for. Um, you know, it gives me an opportunity to represent my family, my country, and my people. I mean, they all had a similar reaction. Everyone called me big money. Um. I told him, they call me that.

I'm just trying to take it day by day. Um, you know, and I still have the same process, you know, keep getting better every every day, one percent better. Yeah, I strongly believe in that, and so that's the same attitude I'm going to keep going with regardless of how I'm getting paid. But you know, that's just me. I talked to this stout now I'm about to talk to out tomorrow. Um. I did have a chance to say, you know, quick, thanks, but we both shut it down

just because we wanted to focus on the game. There are already enough people you know, constantly reminded me, you know, or the contract situation. But for me, I was putting it on hold just because I wanted to focus on the game. Mate. You know, we wanted to buy my parents' house and so I can finally do that by trackers. Is something that came up quickly or was it kind of in negotiation stage? Ah? Yeah, I think it kind

of came quickly. Hey, Um, we didn't really I didn't really want to know anything about it till they had something concrete with my agents, and so you know, once they came back with an offer, you know, it was kind of like just happened so fast. Um, just because I wanted to focus on me and focus on the game and on the week, and my agents knew that, and so those day came around and yeah, they had something, and by Friday, you know, we agree and Saturday was signing.

So the perspective of things, like, I remember when we came here and he told us all, you know, literally never played down in football. Yeah, you si sixty four billion dollars, that's the stuff of movies. Yeah, I mean, it's it. I think it is a movie. I'm just waiting for somebody to say cut and then you know,

all the lights come down. I'm like, oh wow. But until then, I'm gonna just keep doing my my process, you know, you guys know it for Philly, for one percent better every day, um, and just keep learning from my mistakes. You know. Obviously today it wasn't a clean game, but we're gonna watch the tape and learn from it. Un I was just I was just doing my job.

You know, I'd had that play earlier in the week and the timing wasn't right, and so when you know, we called the play out on the huddle, I knew what I had to correct. And so yeah, as you can, he said that again. Yeah, I mean focus, it's it's a process. Yeah, even every place. So yeah, at the time he had to be perfect, and for me was just knowing the snap count first and then knowing the timing on the screen and then just be lining it

and now bury someone if you get the opportunity. Yeah, thanks guys that first series in the World War you think come first out of little how we did that? Be only kind to start off as fast as you guys did just that touch shout, Um, I think you know, just a little recap for me. I think it's good to win opening day. I'm opening week for us all

the hard work. If we put in, um, all the different changes we've endured and have to overcome and prosevere through new coaching, m new values as a football team and buying into it and coming out here week one and started off the right way, I think that's good, um, and start off with it's very comfortable with the game as your practicing this past week all over you know what the point did you show on we chop at the bid every day and we chop at the bid

every day. Well I always say it, rent and do every day, but I want to take a step in preparing my preparation and learning UM and understanding our plan of attacking what we want to do, and everybody being on the same page. UM, And that's something I think we need to be consistent with moving forward to be the team that we want to be. Take the sequence, the ball line narrative after the first stay, we have the touchdown, best the game, Well, the fos and that

that's all off the tanks playing as you got it. Yes, it's a situation, man, we talked about it. It's hidden yardage and hidden points right, and we could have doubled dip there. We didn't come out in the second half UM and score like we wanted to, But I mean it was good to get it in. You know, we found a way in that situation. We found a way. That's good to see. You want to shake off that overturn of the initial touchdowns through your mind at that point,

it's my seconds left in the half. I guess when the play started, but you know, not not seconds left in that situation. You know, think about do you want to scramble around? Do you want to make a play? UM? It was a situation where a play was made. UM. Dallas caught the ball threw it and it's good. I'm happy we scored. We gotta we gotta come out if we had the ball in the second half, we want to score that when we get the ball back. Well, I appreciate the confidence he you know he has and

shows to say that. UM as a testament to the hard work and what we put in and UM all the effort we put into what we do. But I'm in something. We worked on, UM and got the look we wanted and we hit it. Happy we hit it. Got this His first catch was a touchdown. I think so like old times, give me a lot of a lot of scraps and studs. It's not a thing about control. Let's a think of me going out there and doing what I'm clach to do. UM. We prepare, we hit it. Every day I go out. I want to always talk

about executing. I want to hit execute at a high level. Whatever that is, UM, running the ball, throwing the ball, alignment things, situation things. I just want to execute at a high level. So we go through it. We're on the same page. We prepare together, we do all these things together. UM. We're trying to be on the same page when we go about our business to execute when you have play balls, figure skills sad when you wanted to college, I don't, I don't. I really don't know

what the skill skill set question is. Um, whatever it is. I just want to execute it. Um. For like we we just want to execute whatever it is. And now what's that? Um? It means? So what I would simply so what not would? All right? Every play has to be played independently, I mean, and you know, never get too high, I never get too low in the midst of all things, and keep going. You know, last player is over, good or bad? How are we gonna respond to the next play? How are we going to attack

the next play? So I think it's um, it's a good start for us. I'm with the dog mentality and we just want to be consistent. A lot of things. We need to clean up a lot of things. I need to clean up. Um. But go go back to work and enjoy for twenty five hours and we'll be back working. Yeah. Yeah, you know, you don't turn the ball or you want to turnover about it. That's a big thing, you know. That's that usually thives like a seventy four percent chance, seventy two percent chance you win

the game if you don't turn the ball over. So, UM, good good that we didn't do that. Um, can't turn it over on downs. You know, we want to execute and do a better job of that when we have our opportunity to do it if we're gonna play aggressive. So it all comes down a few things, right, come down to connecting, being on the same page. We talk about that. It comes down to executing and knowing what we're supposed to do, being on the same page to execute at a high level. And UM, it's just you want.

We want to do that on a on a consistent basis. So so, UM, I don't know your question, but I'm anna answer. UM. I mean we prepare. Um, we prepare with the intent to go out there and play our best ball every time we touched the field. That's what That's what we worked for. You know, this is this is what we do. So, UM, just having a right focus and practice. And I think practice went well. I think practice was intentional and how we sought after it and how we went about it every day. So I'm

happy to end the week. Would it would have wind you shoul look at something. I just wanted to win the football game. For my team. All Right, we heard from a handful of players head coach Nick Sirianni as the Nick Sirianni era has officially be gone, Fellows, would you think of some of the things we heard from the players. I think it's interesting when we hear from Jalen Hurts and DeVante Smith around the same time. They're wired pretty similar. It's like they were cut from the

same Nick Sabing cloth, if you will. Yeah, I got a little bit of that cloth too, except that I on the other side of the ball. I'm a little more exciting than these two guys are. But I like their temperament and their personality because that's going to rub off on the rest of these guys. They're young right now, so they defer to the Jason Kelsey's and the Brandon

Brooks and the Lane Johnson's of the world. But eventually these guys will be the leader of the team, and these are the type of mindsets and and um temperaments you want to be the dominant force in your locker room. Listening to all these guys, including coach Sirianni after the game, they're obviously excited and happy they got their first win, but to a man, each one of them say, there's just one. It's just the first game, twenty four hours to enjoy it, and then we get back to work

to get ready for next week. So with that type of mentality, that's going to carry you a long way. You got to keep the highs here and the lows here. You see that's even killed. You see that friend, that's even But you know I'm trying to take after Jalen and Davante Smith a little bit. They don't want me even killed on this show. I want to me like just listening to this press conferences. Look, it's like you said,

they're coming off their first win. Everybody's excited, but you kind of get that sense that this team all kind of vibes well together. Right. It's a lot of really good things being said both on and off the field about this team and how they're all jelling together. They're strong of both lines of scrimmage. They've got speed at the skill position. On offense, you've got a defense that's flying around trying to create turnovers. And it's a team

that really seems to care about each other. That's a really good recipe. It's one game, but I'm excited about what direction this team's heading. All right, let's dig into some XS and note shall we. Earlier this afternoon, Fran was able to break down a big play from the game, so let's head to his Rico review. All right, So for the Rico review, we really can't start anywhere else but with DeVante Smith's first touchdown as an Eagle. Woul

happened on the opening drive. If you're an Eagles fan, you love the season, starting with the way that they did getting the ball into the paint. Let's see how it all happened. What you see here pre snap, You've got a lot of white jerseys down on the line of scrimmage. A pressure look here from the Falcons on third down, the first third down of the game for

this Eagles offense. Now across the board, when you've got that pressure look, it has a look of man to man coverage for Jalen Hurts with a single high safety. So you have an idea that there's gonna be a blitz with man coverage behind it. So now the Eagles have a great play call to attack this coverage, and all they're gonna have is Davonte Smith working down the field on a slot fade. The reason why you like this running from the slot is that now he gives

Jalen Hurts plenty of room. There's lots of real estate to drop this ball in. If DeVante Smith runs this from outside the numbers and works down the field, a lot less real estate for him to be able to drop that in right with a corner right on his hip. So you're gonna have Davonte Smith running the slot fade.

And the other important aspect to this is you're gonna create a little natural rub here with zach Ertz working inside and setting up in a little bit of a ball route, a little snag rout here from zach Ertz. We're gonna let this run for a second. And it's really important for zach Ertz here to not be called for a pick here, not be called for offensive pass interference. He has a right to this grass. He does a nice job of getting his eyes back to the quarterback.

And then the angle that DeVonta Smith takes running right off of Zach's hip, that creates some separation from the corner number twenty two, and we can let this roll. You can see the throw from Jalen Hurts again plenty of space, lots of real estate out there for him to drop this throw in to Davante Smith. The Eagles go up seven to three. Great start for this Eagles offense earlier in this game. 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 this week. The three nominees for the Toyota Player of the Week our Javon Hargrave, Jalen Hurts, and DeVonta Smith. There's jay Von Hargrave him the d line got after it, eating it up this week against the Atlanta offensive line. There he is having some fun.

Look at the boys. Go. Jalen Hurts, He's next up for this weeks um nominee for Toyota Player of the Week. He went twenty seven thirty five two hundred and sixty four yards, three touchdowns and played a pretty clean game. Look at him using those feet areas got him Dallas Goddard in the end zone. Nice and settled tosses it up areas. DeVante Smith, speaking of the rookie, He's nominee number three this week. Six reception, seventy one yards and

a touchdown himself. There he have it, guys, three nominees Toyota Player of the Week. What do we think? Oh, only hurt one name Jen? I mean, nice job from Devonte Smith and his rookie debut first catch, four touchdown which he had a guy in that ball. I hope they found a way to get it to him. And then jay Von Hargrave, the big free agent signing from last year. Nice to see him come out first game. It was a party at the quarterback and he was leaning it. Two sacks for him. But this game was

about Jalen Hurts. Man about Jalen Hurts. If you watched Eagles game plan this week, if you listen to the Eagle of the Sky podcast, if you watch the kickoff show before the game, we talked about how big of a test this would be for Jalen Hurts. To me, he passed that big test with flying colors. Ye love it well. On the Week two right, We're gonna look at Week two on the Jamison Nightcap the film off.

Eagles will be hosting the San Francisco forty nine ers here at Lincoln Financial Field next Sunday at one o'clock. This week, San Francisco defeated Detroit forty one to thirty three. Let's not forget last year San Franz finished six and ten, not too hot coming off of that Super Bowl year. And there we go again with that big win over Detroit this week. Guys, what do we think about next week? It looks like San Francisco's defense is struggling a little bit.

Detroit was able to put some points up on them thirty three today, so it looks like the Eagles offense will have some opportunity just to make some plays. San Francisco playing in back to back road games, played in Detroit this afternoon and have to come back out here to the East Coast to play next week in a one o'clock game. I like the Eagles, and the only thing is is you have to make sure they remember

Week two. Last year. Eagles played the La Ramps very similar often a lot of struggles right with all the different eye candidates, a new defensive scheme with a lot of the same issues that that offense can present. So the Eagles will have another big mental test here this week. We'll see if the Eagles can keep things rolling, and that's it for us here at the Novacare Complex. For the postgame show presented by Rigo, I'm Gabriella de Givanni,

and for fran Duffy and I Greece. We'll see you next week.