Postgame Show: Eagles Win 34-10 Against the New York Giants

Fran Duffy and I grief. Guys. The first half it was looking a little rough. I would love to know, Nick Sirianni said at halftime, because then the players came out in the second half really turned it on. Jalen Hurts played great, the defense played well all four quarters. A much needed win here today and they got it done. Yeah, I'm warning of Coach Sirianni gave them the fire and Brimstone speech at halftime to sort of wake them up right because it seemed like they were sleepwalking through the

first half. Short week, played a game on Tuesday night. He's not going to use that as an excuse. Neither will I. I'll just look at it this way. They got all to a slow start, but they were able to hang in there, and in the second half you saw we're getting turnovers and getting into short field was able to help them prevail in this game. The biggest thing in that first half was the Giants never had to get out of their comfort zone because the Eagles

didn't force him out of their comfort zone. Once the Eagles did that, you saw the scoreboard start to run up in the eagles favor. And all of that is all well and good, all that's great, but guys, we gotta thick six today. A Lane Johnson tych Can we run that back? The Lane Johnson touchdown? I mean, it's so rare that we get to see an offensive lineman reached the end zone. The first touchdown by an Eagles

offensive lineman since Todd Herriman's back in twenty ten. Just awesome to see big Lane get into for paid dirt. One of my highlights from the twenty twenty one season, if we're gonna be honest, absolutely, it caps off a little link and leap too. I like the high step in the end zone. That was great. Let's talk about the first half first. Okay, bad news first, and then

we'll get to all the good stuff. Okay. We talked a lot in the Kickoff show about Dallas Goddard and the great two games he had shrunk together against the jetson Washington. The Giants have his number a little bit, kept him quiet in the first half, didn't haul in a pass until the second half. I thought that was very interesting. I think the Giants game plan pretty well for Dallas Goddard, but of course it did give other guys opportunities to Yeah, and this league is about matchups,

you know. One of the things that fran and I talked about this week on Eagles game Plan is what the Giants like to do on defense with their sub packages. So you get these athletes out there, they could be a linebacker or a safety or dB. Right, so you got a guy's big enough and fast enough to run with Dallas, and he's always going to get extra help paid towards him, extra attention paid towards him. But the Giants seemingly have done a nice job one tight ends

all year long. Dallas in the first game, I believe he only had one catch versus the Giants, or maybe one target versus the Giants in that first game, So I'm not totally surprised there A lot of it is, you know, that Giants defense saying we're not going to allow eighty eight to beat us today. You're gonna have to go somewhere else with the bar and look, all's fair, right. A couple of those players are on Dallas as well. A couple of tough drips for him in this game,

one on that opening drive. He had a little one a little bit later as well. So it's just unable to connect with him to the level that we've seen over the last couple of weeks. But the Eagles were able to find some playmakers in the second half. Yeah. Well, sticking with the first half and their playmakers, Davantae spent three receptions for seventy five yards at halftime. Of course, none of those converted to a score unfortunately in the

first half. But the rookie came to play today. We talked a lot about him in the Kickoff show because he has been a little quiet the past few weeks, but not today. Yeah, and I like some of the play designs from the office to sort of get DeVante open. You know, he is such a great route runner, and when he's running those crossing routes, he gets those dbs to get on their horse, and they started to chase him. I saw some plays where we moved Jalen out to

one side of the pocket. We would run a little bit of a banana route with DeVante and Jalen has enough arm shaft to get the ball back to the other side. So just doing some different things to try to free DeVante up. Because when you're when you're the number one wide receiver, you draw all the most attention you're gonna draw James Bradberry and some safety help over the top. So then it becomes how do we get

him freed up? And I thought they did a nice job at least in that first half getting in some open looks. Yeah, and I talked about creating that separation and how he was able to get open. I loved him at the catch point today. To me, when you saw some of the catches, obviously the touchdown was big time getting you talked about the two toed drag swag down there along the sideline. We see that play here coming up, coming in for six points an outstanding catch.

But how about that forty eight yarder from the first half where he went up and attacked the football, took it away from the corner in James Bradberry. I love what DeVante Smith has done at the catch point lately, capitalizing on those opportunities. Ela. That's what we talked about earlier on the Kickoff Show, was that ability to come up big when your number is called. We saw that from DeVante here in this game. That forty eight yarder was a career high, and we also saw a big

plays from Quaiswakins and Jalen Rager as well. That's why Jalen Hurst is at the top of the league in big plays right now because he can throw it down the field when he needs to, and he has receivers you can haul it in. But we're gonna actually check in with Eagles insider Dave Spider, who's over at Lincoln Financial Field. Dave, they got the win. We were just talking about the first half. It was kind of the tale of mistakes and misqs, but Nick Sirianni. Sirianni obviously

had a good message at halftime. What do you think was the huge turnaround in the second half? Well, you know, l I just talked to Rodney McLeod as he came off the field. He's the one who got things going with the interception. Great pass rush from Genard Avery there, but it was just the Eagles knew they had to get something to seize the momentum of the football game, and the defense was on the field first play number two of that second half and McLeod came up with

the big interception. So I don't think it was anything particularly that Nick said, but certainly everybody as they were walking off the field. It was a pretty tough first half and the players were not pleased when they came off the field, so everyone understood what they had to do. They had to take control of the football game, and they went on a blitz creek in that third quarter. Thirty one unanswered points turned the game around. So credit

to the Eagles. After a really real, the sluggish first half, they poured it on in half number two. Dave, you talked about the Davante Smith. We talked about him a little bit earlier. I'm interested to get your thoughts on the rookies performance then also that touchdown. I mean, you've been around this team for a long time. You've been watching the NFL for a long time. Have you ever seen a review process like that on where the call

is announced and then reversed after extended review. Yeah? So, well, now I'm not quite sure if I understand what exactly happened it It was ruled a touchdown, then upon review, as they review every scoring play, it was overturned, and then did the Eagles challenge? I think the Eagles may have challenged that review, and so then it was reversed

back to the original call. Remarkable catch. Look last week, that was one of the great catches I've ever seen Davante on the sidelines today, that catch falling out of bounds. His ability to get the left foot in and then the right toe in and control the football while being pushed out of bounds going backwards. His body control is incredible. Frame you talked about him at the catch point, the way he went up up, up in the first half

for that great catch. Just the way this young man is able to keep his body under control catch everything. You never see a babble going out of balance and could get his feet down like that. This is the stuff of truly special talents and Devontae Smith has that. Yeah, I think sometimes Dave, we almost have to pinch ourselves to realize that, you know, a guy that's making plays on the sideline like that. We just don't accustomed to seeing that. And Devanta's gonna be making plays like that

for a lot more years. In Midnight Green, I want to talk to you a little bit about Jalen Hurts though at the quarterback position. Ella brought up the first half and how we sputtered. What'd you think of Jalen's play in the first half of this game? Well, I think that it was too similar to what happened last on Tuesday night against Washington, and you know, you have to polish this stuff up. I respect and certainly sorry. We have Devanta Smith at the okay, doing good? I'm good.

Did you know you were in even though there are so many reviews? Uh? Yeah, I mean like when I get on the sideline, I gotta got a second sense. So you know, it's kind of my thing. Have you ever seen a referees review or review before what was going? No, I ain't never seen that one. What are you saying it's kind of your thing? How long has that been the case? Um? I mean I would say past few years. I mean just kind of as you play the game, you just kind of get used to it. Kind of

your awareness kind of goes up. You kind of just know where you are. Kind of sideline catch last week and then you had that touchdown catch? Which one was better? Do you think? I would say the one the day was built? Uh, just because I was going backwards. So it was just kind of like I had to drag my foot lit bit. It kind of felt like Michael Jackson out of his body control as opposed to just awareness, UM a lot of it. I mean, you gotta just

with your momentum. You just gotta know how like how to have your feet and things like that, just what you can do over again. Um, honestly, I wouldn't even say it's rips. It just kind of just happens. The slick start for the offense. Um, I mean just finding out groove, I mean, come out just things just wasn't going our way. So I mean we just had to find out groove, UM, make some adjustments, and I mean that's all it was. To see La Johnson score that

touch down. Oh, I mean it was big. I mean the drive before that, he was calling himself so, and then when they did call it, it was just like, no, it was gonna be touchdown. I mean it's big. We've been ripping it for a while. Last week, Jayalen had a shot to you down the middle. You were miked up saying you lost the ball. This week you're very similar, you know, are you? And you were able to mold the process there. Um just didn't just didn't take my eyes off of it. Last we got took my eyes

off of it for a second. I lost it. This we got just didn't take my eyes off of him. I think the Giants wanted to draft you and the Eagles came up and made that trade. Just playing well against them today the rest of your career, does that mean a little something extra. I mean, I'm here for a reason. I'm glad to be here. So I mean that's gonna be every game, not just that game. I mean every game, gonna go out there and give them all.

I think the first pass was to you. Was there a concerted effort after what happened last Giants game where you just really see the ball a lot to get you in the ball right away? Um? I mean that's that's just the play calls I mean we have we have play plays that we know we're gonna run the first possession. I mean they coaches called what they had. It's a call on the on the touchdown you did that little motion thing? Was that? Just explain to us

what the point of that is for against the defense? Um? I mean just to just to kind of get the defense loss. I mean, you're you know you're on the gold line. You're probably gonna play man, so just to kind of whoever guard and you just to get him going. You're nice, Uh pass breakups this year too? To have any corner in your background, Oh, yes, a lot of it's a lot of the background. I mean before the receiver thing, I was the corner. So what do you think about the state of the team here with two

to play? About? Say again, the state of the team with two to play? What do you think? Um? I mean just every week, I mean, just keep chipping away every week. I'm just going out there taking it day by day and just chipping away. Just every little one percent were the next message in the locker room? UM, I mean, how things weren't going out way? Defense played great today. Offensively things weren't going out way. But we adjusted. So just being out there noing day and games, you're

gonna have to adjust. Um, just just make our adjustments. We know we gotta do. Go out there, correct our mistakes and move on. Alex. It's actually getting this one. Oh yeah, I'm sure I haven't looked yet, but yeah, Hill, I might not even get it. I might just shift it straight home, just ready for the batted ball right away. What did you see on that play and let the interceptions? Yeah, obviously they were running a lot of that empty so

we kind of knew, you know, disguising coverages. Obviously I'm moving around a lot in those and so we kind of knew, you know, once I moved in, they were gonna go back to that side, So you know, obviously, you know, I thought Rod they were gonna throw it on the out and Rod was gonna get the pick. But obviously he cut back in and Rod broke it up and just right place, right time, really, Alice, even when they switched quarterbacks, the Sea defense maintained it. And

it's intensive. What do you have noticed from from and then as opposed to Glenned you know, be the key with that. Yeah, I mean, obviously we watched a lot of you know, Glennon during the week like he was. He's been their quarterback for the last month, and so we just knew they were gonna kind of run similar things with from and they kind of changed it up

a little bit. Obviously, they ran the ball a lot more, and then so when they went back to Glennon, we knew what they were going to try to go to. He was obviously more you know, they were throwing more shots with him, you know, a lot of the bikes and stuff outside, and so we knew once they switched that, we knew we were gonna get. They were only avered two yards of play through three quarters. Did you ever

feel like they could seriously meet the ball? You guys, No, you know, we we knew, you know, we know what we had to do to win this game. We know

what happened, you know against them last time. We knew, you know, we needed to create plays on defense and we needed to stop them, and you know kind of you know they're saying, you know, you know, step on their throat, you know, the whole game, and just you know, and that's what we're able to do and just give our offense, you know, as many opportunities until they got going, and once they did, it was just kind of we can continue to play the way we did the like,

you know, kind of creating turnovers and making places to help the offense out. Yeah, you know, we've been saying it for a few weeks. You know, we we know as a defense, we've been playing well, you know for the like the last month, just you know, not enough turnovers and that was kind of the emphasis. Obviously, It's always been our emphasis, we talked about all the time.

And so to be able to you know, get those and you know, give the offense more opportunities, you know, that's it's what we want to do, and we're able to do it today. For you personally, I mean, your whole career has kind of been up and down. This year's kind of been up and down. What does a moment like this mean to you? To make the play that ice is the game and you know sort of does what your defense asks. Yeah, it's nice, obviously, you know, it's exciting to you know, be able to do that.

You know high you know, obviously scoring now two years in a row in the NFL. You know, I scored once in college my sophomore year, and you kind of don't you know, get those opportunities and obviously even you know, for me to just play in the NFL, you know,

as a privilege every week. So to have those opportunities and be able to do this for this team and the way we're trending and you know, the guys in that locker room, it's exciting to be able to do that, and you know, just continue to you know, press on because you know, we know it's in front of us, and you know we obviously it's Washington, and then you know, hopefully we just continue to roll. The fact that Nick's dialed things back on practice as early as way back

in November helped you guys on a short week like this. Yeah, I think, you know, with how our schedules have been, Like you said, you know, obviously Wednesday's being double walk theirs this week wasn't really a shock to us. It was kind of the same routine we just didn't have, you know, I guess a Monday Tuesday. We just kind of went into it into a Wednesday day day you know, on Thursday and Friday, so it wasn't as big of

a shock to us. You know, we came out of the last game, you know, healthy, and we were ready to go. You know, you guys, I mean you guys know you asked us all week, you know, if we were gonna take what happened last time of MetLife into this game, and I think you know, we showed that. Obviously we did what was this week like sort of physically, just with the tight turnaround and also you know, not having Nick in the building. Ah yeah, obviously the tight

turn around. Me personally, I love when we play on a short week. You know, I said all the time I would take a basketball schedule, so you know, I love I'd rather play every day, so I enjoy it. I think you know, we handled it well. Obviously with Christmas as well, it can be a tough week. You were going to have a shorter practice days whether or not we played on Sunday or Tuesday. So as a team, obviously we handled it very well. We everyone put in

the work they needed to. And you know, same thing with having you know, coach obviously out it was different, but I think you know, we stuck to the game plan. Whether or not you know a coach is there, you know we're going to continue to work and you know, with Zoom and everything. Nowadays, you're pretty much in the room whether you know, he's not a player, so you can face time in and be pretty much there the entire time. Stop would happen in bed life and applied

it in what way? Yeah, I mean, we know, you know, we lost a game we should have won, and so to you know, come off of that and as a defense, No, we didn't create any turnovers that week, and we needed to. You know, if we would have had two or three like we did today, it would have made it would have you know, been a different game. And so to be able to remember that and come out and play the way we did, you know, it's huge for us

as moving forward. Touchdown that was sick interception like to start things off for the second half of the town back was that, I mean not really prett you guys defensive I seem to get the offensecreting two. Yeah, it's huge, I think you know obviously you guys know, I mean this stadium gets rock in every stadium, you know, but when you come in after halftime, stadiums are always people are still in line, you know, but it's not as

it's not as you know, hyped up. So it's nice you know, especially as a defensive player when the offense goes first, because you know they can drive down by the time they score and everyone's back in, and so when you start on defense, you know it's a little empty. You don't always have that, you know, crowd momentum in a game like this, so you know to obviously, you know, two to three plays in. To have a pick like that and give the offense a short field is huge

in that situation. Thanks guys. That was linebacker Alex Singleton, of course, recording his second pick six, the first coming last year. Big day for the linebackers, obviously, the defense as a whole. Friend and I talked a lot about the kickoff show. We're actually going back to the podium, Nick Sirianni. Sure, yeah. The name of the play called a lane East Texas. East Texas some of those gadgety ones you don't you don't, uh, you don't try to

name everything because it's hard to name it all. So you kind of come up with a specialized name in lane from East Texas, and that's what we called it that he had been talking about during the game. Lane. Uh, did you hear that? And did you go with that? I'm sorry say that one more time, said that Lane had been talking about being open or running that play throughout the game. Is that true? Well, Lane wasn't eligible until that very play, So Lane couldn't have been open.

I don't know. I don't know what DeVante is thinking right there. Um So, but um, we had a lot of confidence in the play because of the way we practiced this week, and you know, just confidence in Lane that. I mean, Lane's a phenomenal football player. Um. You know, I don't agree that he's not in the Pro Bowl. I think that I think you got a chance to have a guy who's gonna be a first or second team All Pro and not in the Pro Bowl. And so it was great to be able to get him

a touchdown. Uh. You know, he just deserves so much credit. It's so much more credit than he's getting. This This guy is just I've never been in around an offensive tackle that it has as talented as this guy is. Like he could play tight end if you want. You should see him throw the football. This guy is so immensely talented. Um, I just got so much respect for him,

and it was nice. It's it's always great when you can reward guys that don't get in the end zone with a touchdown like that, and so and I think it was his first touchdown since, uh, since high school. I'm sure he scored a lot of him in high school because the guy's just a stud and and just so happy that he's anchoring O. You know, he's anchoring our offensive line. And look forward to the accolades that

he's gonna get because he deserves them. How long you've been for a while, Uh, that's not a play that can be in each week. We've had it in the plan before, um when it when it fits again, it doesn't fit against every team in every system. So uh, it's been in the plan before, so we've had reps of it, but you know it hasn't been in in a couple of weeks. So again, just a great job by our coaches and our players. You know, the detail of how the coaches installed the play and then obviously

the detail of the way the players executed the play. Um, you know, being able to accomplish that in a in a short week like the short turnaround in your absence this week affected I don't I don't we I you know what our defense played an outstanding game. We all know that. How how they came out, and they were they were hitting right from the beginning. Obviously, you never want to start a game on special teams by by putting the ball on the ground right to right to start.

JJ was there to get the fumble recovery, but you don't want to do that. Um. You know, we definitely weren't executing the way we need to execute. But I got so much respect for that defensive coordinator and those that defense that we just played today. I think that's a really really outstanding defense. That's a great defensive line. That's a coach Graham I think is just a really good coordinator that I've had a lot of respect for

for a lot of years now. Um. So again, you got to say, anytime you start off that way and you only score three points in the first half, it's always gonna be you know, we didn't coach well enough for sure, Um, we didn't play well enough. But hats off to them because that's a good defense. So it's a combination all three. But I don't I don't put anything into the short week. This team's handled adversity all year, you know, um, through different things, and that's just that's

just what you have to do in the NFL. You have to handle adversity and because it rarely is going to go the way you think it's gonna go, just perfectly smooth the whole time. And our our team's handle adversity. And I think that's has a lot to do with who are who our leaders are on this team and our captain's uh you know with Jason Kelsey and and Flatcher Cox and Ronnie McLeod, Jalen Hurts, Alex Singleton, Brandon Graham. Uh,

those guys lead the way. And uh, you know, so just a lot of credit to our leaders on this team. Scored twenty four straight points coming out a half time. What was said to the offense and the team when you guys back into getting Walker, Uh, you know, just the Hey, good teams win games. However they need to win games. Uh, you know, if we have to grind this out and be grimy and let the defense carry the way the whole time, we'll do it that way.

But hey, just have that next play mentality of forget the first half um and and have that next play mentality and come out and ready to go. And uh, they definitely did a good job of uh you know, of coming out and just and forgetting that. They just they did exactly that they forgot the first half and they and they execute it in the second half. Why was Janeling so much better in the second half than he was in the first day? Again, it was just I think that's a combination of just how our entire

offense played. He definitely missed some throws in the first half that he's gonna want back, and uh um, I thought he went to the right place with the ball. I know there's a question about you know, Bob Prett me for a question about a red zone play um that we threw to Quiz over the middle. Guys, you just when there's guys breaking this way and breaking that way, you have to alert a certain player, which I'll just try to explain to you as much as I possibly

can without giving anything away. You alert a certain player and then your read starts somewhere else. So our alert was to Dallas that versus a certain coverage. It wasn't that coverage. So now you know, we read shallow to to angle and and that's what he read. So his

eyes aren't there. So I'm not one bit concerned. Like when you give a quarterback and you say to him, you know when you you know there reads as a as a as a coach, you don't ever get on him when he misses something like that because it's not a his eyes went here to hear and Dallas is only a pre snap read. There's no we don't know. Jalen doesn't know that they're gonna they busted the coverage. Jalen doesn't know at the beginning of that play that

they're gonna bust that coverage. Like they made a mistake. They were out of position on that particular play. Um, and that was the read and so and so I want to make sure that everybody understands that. And so again, he didn't play his great this best first half. And when we play good, when he plays good, the offense, offense roles and he and he did his just great job bouncing back that second half. And again it's just not having Jalen. We didn't play good as in the

skill positions. We didn't play as good as we played on the offense line, We didn't coach as good as we needed to coach um in that first half. So but again, just a credit to Jalen to rebound and play a good second half, because that's what good teams do. They find ways to win bunch today. You guys would

in the playoffs. Obviously it doesn't you guys games, But what does that say about how far you guys have coming, especially after the start, and it's pretty yeah, I think, you know, I think again, it just speaks to the leaders that we had having this team and and the fact that we knew adversity is going to come. That's

just the way this league is. Adversity hits, whether it's a two and five start, whether it's a postponement of a game and having to play two games, you know, play a game off a thirteen day rest wherever it was, and then play a game on five. I mean, that's what happens in this league. So you try to prepare yourself for adversity and be able to handle it. And that's the whole message that we've talked about from from the beginning of uh just dog mentality. Next play, next play,

next play. Jason Kelsey gave a message to the team last night, which was awesome, and his message was press on, um, you know, and you know, bad things happened, Press press press. He was awesome talking to the team last night. Uh, you know, he's just he's just such a great leader. And so it all comes back to the types of guys that we have in that locker room. A ton of credit obviously to how he and his staff of

how they've assembled this team. I said to how he in there, you know how he said, you know, great job coming back from a two and five start, I said, how a great job? Like what other first year head coaches are in the position I'm in. We have a great offense and defensive line usually when there's a new new head coaches, because the offense and defensive line aren't any good. And and so it's just been a great

team effort, a great organization that we're part of. And then it always comes down to these players and the type of leaders that we have. A couple more, please, Kelsey. Thing actually is that? Is that abnormal? Or do you have somebody addressed the team every week? Well, I I it's been twelve weeks one through twelve week. I addressed them. They were probably tired of hearing my voice, so changed it up. And that's something I've done in the PAB

and on teams that have done that past. Frank's done that. Uh you know, let your let your captains here, uh, you know talk at the at the end of the year and get the guys ready to go on Saturday night. I've always had a good experience with that. How big was the interception by Roding McCloud. You guys had that pick set up a score. You had to pick six later in the game. Ice the game. I mean, all all praised to Jailing and the receivers in the second

half of your defense. They played incredible. There's no doubt the defense kept the game a game when it when it wasn't going well, right and uh, huge huge play uh by Ronnie unbelievable rush by Jenard Avery just to get pressure on the quarterback in the game that they played up front um and so you get that pressure, he sails the ball high and Ronnie gets a big play. And it was three to three at that time, I believe, right, And that was their first drive of the second half.

I mean, that's that was everything, right. I Mean, you end up going up seven, the defense feels like they can't that they're not going to get any more points, and we're like we're up seven. We ain't freaking losing this game because the way their defense is, but the way our defense is playing, and our defense knew that

and so obviously they played unbelievable. It was. It was just again, it was the whole game of the pressure that how good they are were in the run game, how good we were, you know, covering and taking away some of the dank and dunks um because that wind was blowing a little bit more than I think people realize out there today. Um you didn't. It didn't look bad like in certain spots, but you see the flags up at the top, they were they were they were humming.

And so just again, just great job by our defense. And then the pick six obviously that was huge. It put us that put the game out of reach. We were able to take some guys out after that, and uh, again just it always starts up front and just a great job by our defensive line. And then trickled down to everybody down. What was your advantage point on the Bonte touchdown? And it seemed like a strange review, seem

really clear, what's happening? Yeah, I think they were there might have been, I don't know exactly, but I thought it was a touchdown that they were viewing and and and basically something happened. It might have went to a TV commercial. I don't know exactly what happened, but uh, they came back and the time when I thought they were reviewing it, whatever, whatever was happening was happening, and then they decided to review it, and hey, I'm just glad it counted. I don't know, it felt like a

long time we had to wait for it. But uh, the rest, I thought the rest did a good job. And then they were they were communicating with us the entire game. Uh. Again, their job's never easy and I value what they do out there. Oh yeah, yeah. Just Devanta has been really good on the back line and on the on the sideline all year, you know, And that's that's something you got to learn, right because you don't.

You only have to have one in in college, right and so, um, he's just been really good and clean with his footwork on the sideline for his first year. I mean, he's just he's a technician, um, and it's just not and the guy loves football and wants to be better at football. And we know that, you know, a guy can go from here to here because of the technique he plays with, and so DeVante works endless hours to do that and he's just again he'd had the catch like that last week where he dragged the

foot from behind. So a great job to Aaron moorehead of drilling that as well. I know he drills that every single day. Uh. And then DeVante obviously playing with great technique. Thanks guys, find this same body. Head coach Nick Sirianni crediting the defense, and rightfully so. The past four games they've allowed an average of fourteen and a half points. Very impressive by Jonathan Gannon and that entire defense.

We're here from Alex Singleton or who had a great game as well, but we got to talk about Ronnie McCleod and the defensive line. A huge part of Ronnie McLoud coming up with that opening interception was the pressure Jake Frown was feeling up front. Yeah, I thought it was a big time. You know, I'm watching that game. You know, you kind of get a feel for what the crowd is sensing at halftime, and there was some nervousness. You know, I'm on this game and I have to

cut Boston Scott of the podium. Boston Scott Well, you're known as the giant killer, but Lane Johnson's the guy that kind of put it away today. Help. How good do you feel for him having been around him as long as you have and known when he went through this year. I mean, just him battling through you know, things off the field too. I have a tremendous amount of respect for that dude and just being able to see him, you know, the smile on his face after

all the work that he's put in. I mean, he's been an elite, one of the best to do it ever and it's always fun to see big guys gett into the end zone and get an opportunity. It's cool the past six days, Um just I mean I've always known it a tenacious group. You know, um fight through anything and stay close knit. You know, we don't let what's going on on the outside or anything like that nfere with you know, the camaraderie and the brotherhood we have going on inside of that locker room. Um. I

love those guys, man. I go to war from every week guy who's that? What's that? Read? The league guy? Anytime anytime came over the left side, it looked like a pretty Big Hole era Big Hole. I didn't do anything. It was all the offensive line. I just ran into the end zone. That was it. That's all that really salt like, Um, yeah, I mean it was Um who's herb? Herb? It's the one that sprung me, I believe pretty sure. But yeah, I mean it's good stuff, good stuff, awesome.

What was said to you back the mutuals on fraction that kind of just wipe out that big run that you had. Did the Rippery say anything? No, I hadn't heard any. Well, I'm sure we'll talk about it whenever we get back into the facility. Guys kind of keep everything together. As bad as you guys were playing in the first half of offense and you didn't seem like you guys were struggle, Well, um no, I think we

just I don't know, man. We just stay calm, you know, because the last thing you want to do is panic. You don't want to you don't want to get emotional, you don't want to feel like you have to do anything over the top. We just have to take it play by play, stay present, you know. Um. So that's that's what we try and do. We all hold each other accountable and uh, we all motivate each other, so we keep it, we keep it calm, we keep it focused. That big factor on the team two years ago to

be a late run to get into the playoffs. Do you see any similarities connections between when you guys did in tween nineteen what's happening now it's twenty twenty one. So we we we're just focusing on it one game at a time. When you say, Boston that you always knew that this team was able to overcome adversity, How did you know at two and five? Um? Just just through how we continue to battle that practice. Um, We've

had obviously like undisciplined losses. UM, you know, and it can be kind of hard to after that week after just to kind of go. But everybody's remain focused, everybody remained locked in, still had energy, still had juice, and m guys are continuing to to love on each other, push each other. Um. So there was never any panic,

never any panic, just always let's work. Let's work more eight touchdowns now for you in six games against New York, how do you how do you make sense of that or anything like personal with this team or what does it mean? It's NFL team. I mean it's it's uh, I don't know. I'm just I'm just out there doing my job. You have a fumbling the last game against the giantson and you're able to sporting touchdown today. You do take anything? Do you have any special feeling because

of that? Hardy, are you feeling things specials? Uh? Not necessarily. I mean, uh, that that was a mistake. Like I said, I was committed to correcting. Uh, I just wanted to make sure that, uh, being in the game, if I got my opportunity, just to focus in on the fundamentals and just do my job. Thanks bust, Thank you Auston. Of course that was running back Boston Scott. The running game looking a little different today, obviously, Miles Sanders ruled out at halftime. I mean, it's not bad that they

had more passing yards than rushing yards. Just look different. Not what we've seen from the Eagles in the past several weeks. Yeah, I think that the Giants made a conservative effort to at least try to slow down the Eagles running game. You know, we talked about the last game that they lost to the Giants. We're only scored seven points. They still rushed for two hundred plus yards in that game. We were close to two hundred yards. So if you're a Giant, you're sandy yourselves. This is

what they like to do. We have to get them out of their comfort zone. I thought they did that in the first half. But then again the defense special teams in the second half came alive and gave the Eagles the ball in field position where I mean they

score points, but it weren't They weren't long jobs. So that's where some of the yardage comes off of what the Eagles were doing, and especially early on in this game, and that first half where things obviously got a little bit dicey offensively, they just could not get things going in the past game or in the run game. Too often they were in third and long and now you're taking them, you're forcing yourself to be throwing the ball first, right, And so that happened too often in that first half.

They just could not get things going on the ground. In the cook Off Show and we spoke with Dave Spidero, he mentioned maturity of a team, and I think we saw that today. You know, when you have when you're assembling a new team and a new staff, you don't know how they're going to grow throughout a season, and so I think we definitely saw maturation today because the first half wasn't pretty. I mean, everybody knows that luckily there there's a defense in place that can keep the

game within reach. They were never out of it by any meetings. They went to half time tied at three. But we definitely saw character building today and certainly maturation. From really an offensive standpoint, yeah, this was gonna be a defensive led game early we saw it. The Eagles came out that first drive. I mean there are two plays there when you include the kickoff return that the Eagles could have turned the ball over early in the game.

So you kind of got a sense that this may be a little bit of a slow start, and that can happen at times with offenses when you need to be in rhythm and half synchronation when you're calling plays. But from a defensive standpoint, if you're not facing a quarterback that can threaten you down the field, then you're going to be able to sit on your heels and just wait until he makes a mistake. Darius Slay had

a play on the interception in the first half. I think the sun kind of gotten his way there a little bit, so he dropped it. That led to three points for the Giants. I think other than that, I thought the defense held this Giants offense and check for the entire game. It was only where we may have shortened to feel for them that their offense did anything

for the most part for three quarters. And when your defense playing against the likes of a Jake from or even a Mike Glennon, and no disrespect to those guys as NFL quarterbacks, but they know they don't want to win the game off of their arm. And the key for the defense is less put the ball in their hands. We're not gonna let you run the ball. You're gonna have to throw it. And there were some opportunities there early,

they just didn't capitalize on them. In the second half, the quarterbacks made those same mistakes and we took advantage of them. That interception by Rodney McCloud on that first drive was huge. I mean, it really was huge for the Eagles team. Yeah, and when you look at you highlighted some of those mistakes and it happened at all three phases, right. You had missed opportunities on offense, dropped interceptions on d fumbled footballs on special teams. What happens

then as the team starts to bounce back. You get a long punt return on special teams Jalen reagor you get those interceptions big players on offense, full team today, the next one Jordan Mylotta at the podium or what was the offensive line celebration Like when Lane Johnson scored that touchdown? We should have spent more time figuring out a celebration that was. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.

It was like half bor room dancing, kind of like half making it up on the spot, half lincoln Field leap. It was. It was a mess, see though, Yeah it was. Yeah, I'm not gonna swear, yeah it was. It was awesome. It was awesome. Man. I'm so happy that he got a touchdown. And you know, if Lane, guy of his uh you know caliber, he deserves it. So why because it's an offensive lineman or because it's Lane, or it's because what Lean went through this year? You know why

what's all three of those? He's a you know, it's Lane, he's an offensive lineman. I mean, big man. Touchdowns. Everybody loves to see that. But when you actually know the guy and you play with a guy and you know how much he gives himself to the team, you love that for him. You know how much is he meant in your I know, Jason Peters kind of took you under his wing, but you're on the right side, I believe it, or for a while. How much has Lane it influenced you since you since you got your chance

here in Philadelphia, just as much as JP. Lane and JP were like my older brothers here when I first got here, and the amount of detail that they emphasized every day and made sure that I was correcting self correcting. Instead of you know, relying on the coaches to tell me what to do, they would teach me how to coach myself and holding me to a highest standard. And that was JP and Lane's just thing. They always did it.

They would never shy to offer help. And that's one thing that I'll never forget started lobbying for a touchdown of your own Nadia thing. That's a great question. It's a great question. Thing is a debate right now. It's a big Twitter thing now. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to say and if the people want to see it. The people want to see it, but I'm just going to do my job as a left tackle. I still got a lot to work on. So did Jordan, do you feel better about why you played today? Um? Yes, yes,

I mean I know the effort I gave today. Um, but you know the film don't lie. So I'll let you know again later on the week when I watched the film, how the angle feeling? It's great? I told you, I told you it was a stupid question, she did. What was the difference between the first half and the second half from an offensive point of view? Um, I think that's I think with the short turnaround, I think you could really feel the effects of that short turnaround

in the first half. Sorry excuse me. And you know, I think it was just the rhythm. Rhythm was off. So once we came back out in the in the second half and we found that rhythm again, you know, we just kept it going and it was great. It was good fun. Jason Kelsey's speech last night, what can you tell us about that? Press on? Yeah, effort to the whistle, effort to the end of the play, Just press on, keep pressing on. Why is Jason such a

good messenger for that because he believes in it. And when you have somebody who believes in somebody so much and you listen to him, you believe it yourself. He ins biased people. You know, you know, statistically right now in the playoffs, I mean, does that mean anything to you? At this point? The only thing that means the most is the next game. You know, we're gonna look at this film, We're gonna make the corrections, and then we're gonna move on to the next game, because that's the

most important. Lane the kind of guy kind of like logging for a while to I can get a chance to the sport time shown. No, he's not that kind of guy. Lane just puts his head down and works. It's one of the hardest workers in the room. Gifted athletically, he's insane. So he just puts his head down, he works hard. We watch him. He inspires us, and then you know, we figure out these strict plays and I'm like, oh yeah, what about me? Like okay, I'll just play

left tackle, So you know, it's all good. How big a deal was the tournament with tat you think about all this happen about this team more than the past six seven days. What have you learn about this perseverance and even just Kelsey's message to press on, to keep pressing on next play mentality, Um, you know the grit of this team, you can feel it, how guess, passion for that for each other, you know, building that brotherhood.

That's that's the one thing that you know. Coach Sirianni emphasizes us on building that that brotherhood and you can feel it in the critical parts of the game when when you need to lean on each other special teams making plays, defense making plays. You know, you just play for each other. I think the last couple of weeks we were starting to notice that and we're gonna keep building on it. Was that How big was that turnover

at the beginning of the third quarter? Nick said, it really uh, maybe spice the offense a little bit too. Rodney Mcloud's pick, Oh, roddy, I was like which one? Sorry? I was like, which one? Uh, he's kind of foggy. Um, Yeah, it was important. It was very important that we got that very crucial moment of the game, and we had to make sure that we capitalize on it. You know, we get gifted a pick like that, kind of let it go to waste. So the momentum definitely shifted from

then on and then we just pressed on. Thanks guys, Yeah, I'm a clown Roundney McLoud start a second after that was huge. Uh, you know, coming out in the second half, to be able to put our team in the position that I was able to, I think it created a lot of momentum. And that's what we talked about a half, just coming out man and really showing who wanted it more. Um, And so now I think we responded the right way. My interception helped and then we just kept rolling from there.

How about on Alex's interception, the one you fucked? What was that play? Yeah? So they ran a lot of empty sets today and a few times most of the time they were doing option routes with Tony backside, so Sing and I, you know, talked about I think something happened before that they didn't run and they lined in that formation, and uh, we said, hey, you know, if he goes out, you know, I'm jumping it myself. If he comes in, then you know, he'll be in the spot.

And happened to make a great play. I she was looking for the ball on the ground because I knew I broke it up. I didn't know it got in um that he picked it. I just see him running, man, and it was another huge play for us. Ronnie. After that Las Vegas game, you spoke to the team the center you committed to making ron I know it's not over again. You guys are heard. We're sitting here, eat seven.

What change just our continue belief in one another, us figuring out ways to get better as individuals to help this team out. And you know, it took a lot of hard work to put us back in this position that we're in today. But like you just said, man, it's it's far from over and all we can do is just take it one step at the time. That's been our mindset as we've been in this playoff mode, right and just take it one game at a time. And we do that, man, we'll end up what we

need to be. The Giants are having to like ten points a game over the last five Do you ever think they can move the ball on you guys like where they ever? Did everythink they were a real threat? I mean, honestly, they have a lot of great players over there, you know, who've proven themselves in this league, So you never can take that for granted, and understanding that you gotta put records, you know beside um, you know, records aside. They're gonna show up and they're going to

play hard, right because one it's an NFL game. Two were very profit individuals, and it's a division opponent, So I didn't know what to expect. I think we just came out man and dominated from start to finish. A memorable reactions to Lane Johnson's touchdown on the sideline that man pressive hands. I'm like jennerally, you gotta take some zip off the ball man, It's it's alignment. But he put his hands up there, he caught it. I was a hype for man, very excited to see him scores

first touchdown. I thought he was gonna give us, show us some of his dance moves, but I think he just jumped in the crowd. But that was pretty cool to see. After Malcolm left before last season and then losing Brandon, you know early this season, did you feel like you needed to take on a greater leadership role that you feel like you just kind of needed to continue to be the guy you've always been. How did their kind of absences affect when you thought your role

in defense rooms. And those are two great players, you know, who've made a lot of plays for the Seagul's defense over the years since I've been here. But I feel as though I just needed to continue to just be myself, allowed my voice to be heard when needed, and uh, you know, the teams responded well. It always hurts when you lose a guy like Brandon, guy that caliber, who's played in a lot of games and contributed at a very high level. So we just always say next man up, though,

and that's what you've seen. Younger guys on that D line stepped up and filled the shoes and and we've now relied on guys like Sweating and Derek our Net to play a lot more than maybe they were asked initially. So it's been good. And obviously we're starting to hit our shod when we needed the most at these for these meaningful games playing Robbie, I think we're playing, I mean very well right now. Uh, you know, the biggest thing is reset. Um, you know it's gonna be another

challenge next week versus good Washington offense. They'll have you know, their quarterback back and we have to show up nobody cares what we did this week or last week. It's all about what you do that that next Sunday. First time speaking to you in a few weeks. You were one of the guys who was not happy with the game being pushed back, of course, and then and then obviously Nick was out this week. How didn't think you guys handled as six days? I think we handled it

the best way that we could. And then the day, I don't think any of us were happy about it, but the stage was set. Those are the cars that we were held, and we're pros man and at the end of the day, you know, we could line up on Wednesday, we can line up on Saturday. It's all about how we show up, how we prepare, and how we execute come game day. We heard Jason Kelsey give a lot of speeches over the years, had it last night. Compare very emotional, and that's what you expect from guy

like Kelsey. You know, he he's very passionate about this game. We have a lot of respect for him, and his words were felt and it was heard loud and clear, and so you know, we went out and today was exactly what he talked about. Perseverance, pushing through. Uh didn't start off the way that we all envisioned it was. It was hard. I mean you heard the booze going on. Uh, it was tough. But we stuck with it, hung in there and found a way. I mean, I've been here

for a while, I know how it goes here. Uh, Philly man, this passionate city. But they love us dearly and you gotta love it. The effects of the quick turnaround? Huh did you did you or do you feel like your defense felt the effects of the quick turnaround? Jordan might a loot of said or it might have been Jordan been somebody else. So yeah, you know you could tell them first half that there was a quick turnaround. Man, defensively,

I felt like and we didn't. We didn't blink. We just we understood what this simon was, what the mission was, and uh we made that choice and decision that we weren't leaving out leaving out of here with nothing short than to win. So M proud of the defense, the way we played, proud of the entire team because, like I said, no matter who they have out there, um, it's hard to do, you know, to play the way that we did and dominate a team on the way that we did today. So uh, you know, twenty four

hour rule, We'll enjoy it. But also on the Washington good big veteran presence from Ronnie McLeod the past few weeks, especially since he returned from injury. We had to remember the season started without Rodney McLoud, so to see the way that he has really stepped up and grown with this defense. Along with this defense, especially when you're missing the big voices like the Brandon Grahams in a season like this, yeah, it's great to see Rodney has found

his voice. You know, quiet leaders are also effective leaders when you have other guys that can be the guys that get up in front of the team and do the majority of speaking just because they're comfortable with it. It allows the quiet leaders to lead by example, and I think that's what Rodney has done during his time as an Eagle. It doesn't mean he hasn't been one

of the better leaders on the team. It's just you got guys like Fletcher, you got Malcolm, you got Brandon Graham, and Jordan Hicks was here like he's been here for a while. We forget how long Rodney McLoud has been here and it's great to see that he has a voice in a locker room. You know, he reminds me of It reminds me of Quentin Michael, who was a

very good leader on this team. Came here as an undrafted player, but also came into a locker room and in the defense that had enough vocal leaders that he didn't have to necessarily be the guy. But he was a sponge soaked it all up, understood what it meant to be a leader of this team. And when those guys left, when the Brian Dawkins left, when the Jeremiah Trotters left, Quentin Michael's voice became bigger, particularly on that side of the football. And it doesn't mean he wasn't

a good leader earlier. It just means other people were doing it. And that's I kind of feel where Rodney. He's always had this ability. He sees that this team this year needs him to be one of the guys to step up. It can't be Fletcher all the time. You gotta have another voice there. And Rodney has the resume.

He's won a championship, He's played in big games, he has the respect of the young players on his team, and Jordan Milotta was on Eagles Game Plan this week talking about Jason Kelsey and said, he's a guy that makes everybody right around him, not just offensive lineman, but receivers, tight ends, a quarterback, everybody. And I feel like Rodney has that effect on defense. And I don't think that it's a coincidence that the defensive turnaround started happening when

he got inserted back in the lineup. He does a lot of hidden things that I don't think we were gonna notice on the outside, but he's one of those fixers on the back end of this defense. And when you look at what's ahead for the Eagles, Rodney McLoud was asked about it being touched on it. There's two games to go. They're both nfc S opponents, ones at home, ones on the road, and they're in the driver's seat.

The Eagles are in full control of what happens next, and it's gonna be up to the Rodney Mclouds and the Jason Kelsey's to get this team through this push in this final stretch, because, like you said, they've been here, done that, and we mentioned this earlier on the Kickoff Show. This coaching staff has done a great job and riding with these young players, letting them go through the ups and downs of a season. But now it's up to

these veteran guys to pull them through. Yeah, and I think the coaching staff has done a great job leaning on their veterans, right. There's a lot of coaches that are here that are in new positions, right, and they for a team that was supposed to be growing as a young team and with sort of moderate to lower expectations, they have exceeded those expectations and now they find themselves and off run. Well. This is new for a lot of them, except for the guys that have won a

championship here. So now it's time to lean on those guys as well to make sure that their message is getting through to the rest of the players on the team. It's not a position we like being in every year, except for the fact that we have something to play for and this team has the grit. I think they have the character when you look at the veterans on this team that they know that there's something special that they can accomplish. But you can't put the cart before

the horse. They understand that they took care of business this week, not ideal circumstances. They didn't let it become a distraction. Now you get back to a full week of preparation getting ready for this Washington football team, and believe me, they know what's ahead of them, they know what's at stake. They just don't need to necessarily talk about it and put it out there for everyone else.

We'll do that for them. And it's not just the pregame speeches or the night of the night before in the locker or in the in the hotel where Jason Kelsey speaks to the whole team where parts off on the young guys. It's the every day it's the grunt work stuff that nobody else sees but your teammates see. So Jason Kelsey setting that example for younger offensive lineman, and you go right down the list all of those veterans. This is when you're leaning on them most. But it's

the everyday stuff. It's not just the stuff under the lights. I think it was interesting too, how these players have all said that they've been through a lot this season, and you kind of forget because of the success that they've had recently. You have to remember they started it off two and five. I mean there was a lot of criticism surrounding this team. Obviously, injuries are part of the game, and you never want to see players who

go down, but it happens, right. You don't want to lose Brandon Graham in the beginning of the season, but you did, and then you're dealing with injuries along the offensive line that you don't want to deal with. But to see that they can now end the season with nine or ten wins, the turnaround has been quite impressive. Yeah, and that's why I will lean more towards the coaches,

because that's really where their impact has come in. And when you're in that first year, it's very easy to start a second guessing yourself, switching everything up and sort of getting out of character. They seem to have stuck to the game plan. I don't see any finger pointing going on. There is no in fighting going on. Everybody is in this thing together. They believe in the coaches, and that's big when you're going through tough times. It's the only way you're going to fight out of those

tough times. It is by doing it together, not by pointing fingers. That's one of the things that I've liked about this team that I'm impressed with, with a young coaching staff that's getting this first opportunity. Is that in this city, when adversity hits, it can spiral out of control,

it can snowball. Doesn't seem like that has happened with this team, with this coaching staff, and the credit should go to Nick Sirianni and his staff, because when things aren't going well, it's up to those guys to really set a tone and be an example for other players. When the coaches don't point fingers, when the coaches don't get out of character, the players know that they need

to stay focused and stay in character. And it seems like that's what's happened with this football team, and that's why they find themselves in this position. And it's something you know, I feel like when people talk about it on the outside and media, it's always about, Oh, he lost the locker room and the coach lost the locker room. Everything you just said gets umbrella in that one little

four phrase sentence. And I think when you look at Nick Sirianni and this coaching staff and what they've done, they've pushed all the right buttons with this team and the veterans have kind of repaid that with how they have played, with how they have acted, and you see

the young players off following suit. We can continue to see players get better throughout the course of the season, young players and even the young veterans as well, continuing to improve on both offense and defense in this new scheme. I'm interested to know what both of you think about what we learned from this team today, because, like we kind of touched on, things did look different than what

we've been used to the past few weeks. Good special team's performance for the most part, good passing game, the defense really holding down two running backs again who have had success in the National Football League. So I'm just curious to know what you think we learned from the Philadelphia Eagles. For me, I think we learned that there are some fight and some grit to this team. You know, we talk about this team trying to, you know, carve

out its identity and figure out who they are. Well, some of that applies to schemes out there on the field, production out there on the field, but also some of that applies to the intangibles, and you know, you may be a certain way as a makeup of a team early in the season because there's a lot of unknown there.

But as the season goes, you start out to form an identity as well as whether or not you're a tough team, a team that will throw in the towel when things aren't going well, whether or not you're a team that will fight back, play for sixty minutes, all those things that coaches like the US to identify what their characteristics that their players are. Well. I think with this team, I've I've been pleasantly surprised at the amount of grit and fight that I'm seeing from the young players.

I already know what's there with Jason Kelsey, Lane Johnson, Fletcher Cox, all these guys, but it's the younger guys that you just don't know how they're going to respond and react to things until they're placed in that position.

And the quarterback is one of those guys that he's been under the microscope all year long, and when things aren't going well, he isn't pointing fingers, he isn't making excuses, He's working hard, he puts his head down, and I think that rubs off on the rest of the players,

particularly on that young offensive side of the football. To me, I learned that this team found another way to be able to win a football game, And I think good football teams find ways to win games outside of what that blueprint has been, and what has the blueprint been over the last couple of months. They're gonna run the heck out of the football, they're gonna control the clock, and they're gonna play a fishing defense. Well, the Eagles lost the time of possesion battle today. They didn't run

for one hundred fifty yards. They didn't hit that one hundred and seventy five yard mark that they had done for the previous seven games. So I think looking at the way this team won defense, special teams were making some big players when it mattered, and the offense being opportunistic. That's a good way to be able to come out and win a football game when things don't go well with that. We're actually going to hear from the quarterback

Jalen Hurts is at the podium two halves. Yeah, I think, Um, it's another week where we we've kind of come out and obviously not executed like we wanted to. Um. But um, I've always admired from day one the fight of this team, the residency of this team, to grit and pressive perseverance

of of this team. And UM, you know, you look at this football team right now and I just think we have so much character, UM, so much character and how we do things, how we operate on what we strive for, how we work every day, UM, and how we're able to overcome so UM. I was very happy about that today. For while they offense started so slowly in the first half. UM, it starts with me. It

starts with me. UM has some different things we just didn't execute, but we put it together, made some big plays, UM, and UM put up put up some points challenge. I'm sorry, oh man, UM, I mean one of the greatest and obviously I can't hear UM. And I always talk about how how much it means to me to be able to play for it, for this organization and UM knowing you know, the great great due with three quarterbacks I've had come before me, UM, Mike vic Me, Nabbed five

and and randall count of him. And I just want to, you know, play at a high level and make them proud because they come before me, don't you see on the plane and how I have the one of you guys to see him. Well, well, I'll just say this, I know Lane Age, UM he's been I mean, y'all, whoever votes, they vote, they motivated him. He's very motivated all week UM by not not making the Pro Bowl. And UM, I mean I'm happy he got him one. UM. I know, I know he just so we stayed jerseys

after the game. Actually, UM, because I've never thrown a touchdown to an offensive tackle. UM, but he's a freak athlete, UM, but never thrown a touchdown to offensive tackle. And I gave my jersey, UM signed that, gave it to him, and he gives me his jersey and leaves it in my locker. UM, and he wrote on there, he said, UM, when I caught that ball, I didn't know what. I

didn't know what to think. All I could think was what CHALL know about them Texas Boys, And UM, it's just it's just so so so much fun to see him UM out there making plays like that and obviously UM playing at such a high level like he has all year at tackle, and UM, I know, you know, he may not be in the Pro Bowl, but I know he better be first team All Pro. UM the player he is now. I worked out with laying a lot in the offseason. So, um, he was, he was,

he was equipped and well prepared practice. Yeah, played a quarterback in high school. You're telling that that moment meant more to the team because of what Lean kind of battle back from and went through this season. Well, I think I think it's a testimony of of of of presseverance and um, obviously being strong, you know what I mean. And and Lane knows that his teammates has his back.

You knows I have I have his back, and going through the things that he went through earlier in the season, obviously being able to come back and be with us and um, you know, be a big part of our football team in our offense. Um, I'm happy for him, but I'm happy that he's good. I'm happy he got an Z on the day other touchdown past. What do you notice about Devonte DeVante's for work and it's awareness? So well, that's a big time playing. That's a big

time playing the big time moment in the game. And um, that's two weeks in a row he's made big, big time toe tapping plays. Um, dragging that foot And it's something we practice all the time. We preach all the time. So, um, DeVante, you know he may be in his first year, but you know he he's a he's a true pro im how prepares and on the different things that may come up in the game. So, um, big time play back to where you find the game when you had two

carries as a starter. Um, I guess what's the reason for that? And it's that something that that's gonna change going forward. I'm sorry to have only two carries for you as a starter. That's that's just kind of how the game went. It's how to kind of how the game went. He's that because of the ankle. Was that the game is just kind of how the game win. Did the referees explain why they need to further review

the touchdown throw to Davante at all? What was going on in the field where you guys were waiting And I was a little I was a little confused on that. But um, I mean I thought it was a catch. Um, it was a catch whom we got it. We got it in a nice job as the quest you know, what does it mean to have got the receivers were able to make plays on balls up in the air. Um, it's it's a it's a big thing. UM. It's it's a big thing for for those guys to be able

to go up there and make those plays. And I tell them that I might trust them, um, regardless, UM, regardless of what's going on, regardless of who's saying this, I trust them to go out there and make plays. UM, and they and they do. UM. You know you're gonna have You're gonna have your mis misques, You're gonna have

some jobs here and there. But that doesn't phase me and my belief in the receivers, everybody on the field, your expectations for yourself heading in of the season, for the team, and how close have you and a team come to meeting those? So well around the question. But I'll tell you honestly, UM, I stand a moment everything. Um. Everybody has goals, Everybody has dreams and things that they want to accomplish. UM. You know, we put so much's work into this so UM there are big dreams and

big goals that we want to achieve. But right now in this moment, UM, just happy, UM kind of bounce back, UM and found a way to win this game and winning a good fashion and UM, we'll enjoy for twenty five hours and move on to it to play Washington at Washington talking about you know, when you have a good game, you talk about whether you want or not. When you have a bad game, we talk about whether you want to The winning seems to be the only

thing that really matters to you. You guys are a winning team now for the first time, and uh, I think you're qualified for the playoffs that have it. If it ended today, off, I'm gonna cut you off. I'm gonna cut you off. I'm not I'm not in the business of talking about anything but being in the moment um and everything that we do. UM, it's it's focus on getting better every day and being one to know every day. And we know as a football team, if we control the things that we can control, UM should

be all right. So UM, any external factors, any rat poison out there, you know, everybody, I don't, I don't. I don't really care for it. I'm not trying to hear it. Um. We we know as a football team, and I know in my heart that we've yet to play our best game. We've yet to put it all together, UM, and we're striving for that, and I know it'll come at the right time. But we're striving for that. So he already June on the passing which Dallas got to open on the bus to cover. And how did you

how did you see it? Well, put the play in, um, and we're respecting. We're respecting seven bracket, So basically twenty nine.

The safety McKinney from Alabama, he's bracketting rager and they're playing kind of ending out right, but they're in quarters cover seven, so you got to find a single maybe, But in the play what I was coached to do, just go through it as a pre progression or at the shallow to the running back coming only throw that versus a certain look, UM, and shallow popped UM and Kenney fell off and drove on the shallow after I

threw the ball. So McKinney made a really good play and he busted the coverage backside, so he was wide open over there. So my prestable look did not give me, um what I wanted to throw the corner to Dallas, but definitely looking after the fact, Um, it's easy to say throw them the ball, but um, hey, you're gonna miss something like that, you know. And and as a quarterback, you want to play on schedule and get the ball on on time and try your best to do that. Um,

and just trust your preparation and your reason your progressions. UM. And you're gonna have guys that pop, but UM, you got to try and stay on schedule and do those things, and UM, you know those happened. Dylan Hurts likes to stay in the present, but we're gonna look a little bit in the past while we have a few more minutes left of the show. Earlier today, friend broke down one of the big defensive plays earlier on in the

game and this week's freak O Review. All right, so this week here on the Rico Review, I want to go back to the very first third down of the game for the Seagles defense again holding the New York Giants just three points in the first half, and a big part of that was their excess on third down. And I thought they really mixed up some looks against a young quarterback in Jake From first third down of the game, it's third and long, and you could see

the Eagles they're showing pressure here. There's the potential threat for a number of different blitzers from the second level. So there's a lot now that quarterback Jake from and this Giants offensive line has to handle. Now at the snap of the ball, what I think is happening is the Giants have double chips called in here just to help out these offensive tackles. You're gonna see at the top that the tight end he's gonna help out with a little bit of a chip here on Derek Barnett,

and you're gonna get the running back. He's also gonna have eyes on Josh Sweat as well, just to kind of help out that offensive tackle if necessary. Now, what happens with offensive tackles and think that they've got chip help on their outside, they might make sure that they protect that inside shoulder, thinking hey, I've got a running back helping my outside. So we're gonna get back to that here in a little bit. Let's get into what

the Eagles are doing defensively, because again you've got Rodney McLeod, TJ. Edwards, and Jenard Avery all walked up close to the line of scrimmage with the threat of all of these guys coming. Now, obviously not all of them are going to blitz, So you're gonna see t. J. Edwards he's gonna get out of there. Rodney McLeod, he's gonna drop out as well.

The Eagles have a nice t T stunt tackle tackle stunt, so you have Fletcher Cox and Hargrave both working inside, and then you also have Jenard Avery looping back around as well, and he's gonna loop into that B gap. We're gonna let this run for a second and let's just see how all of this plays out again. You've got that chip from the tight end at the top of the screen. The offensive tackle at the bottom. He's also expecting some chip help, and you can see he's

kind of undersetting. He's letting Josh Sweat take that outside angle because he thinks that he's got that running back helping. But look at those running backs eyes. Where is he going. He's got to handle the blitzer because Jenard Avery, who started here, he's looping inside right into that B gap. So the running back he can't help with the chip on Josh Sweat. He has to pick up the blitzer, so that leaves Josh Sweat while all one with the offensive tackle and he's able to run the hoop here

and get home to Jake from impacts. This throw forces an incomplete pass and the Eagles get off the field on third down. One of many examples of how not all pass rush is about sacks. You love to get pressures and find ways to be able to get off the field. Here Josh wet get to hit on the quarterback, forces the incomplete pass and the Eagles force a punt. Now is your chance to vote for the Toyota Player

of the Week. To go to Philadelphia Eagles dot com slash Toyota Player the Week to cast your vote and get a chance at a brand new Toyota. All right, guys, here we go. Three nominees talked about him all night. Ronnie McCloud coming up with that big interception to light the fire to start the second half. Next up we got the rook DeVante Smith. Five receptions for eighty yards and of course that touchdown. And lastly, Josh Sweat making an appearance this week. Four total tackles and a sack.

What do we think, Well, you know, I'm going to deepens a side of the ball. I thought. Rodney McCloud really changed this game with that interception early in the second half, and it gave the Eagles the opportunity to get their first touchdown of the game, and I thought from that point they didn't look back. I thought you were gonna go Davante Smith for sure. I thought you were going Slim Ray for there. I am going to go with Rodney McLoud. I'll will with the fixer there.

I think that big play was really the catalyst moving forward. I will get your votes in Eagles fans. And here's a reminder, there's a new way for you to get a recap of each game. Check out our voice app on Alexa and Google devices. For more information, visit Philadelphia Eagles dot com Slash Voice. Now it's time to look ahead, Okay, tonight's Jamison nightcap. We're gonna look at Sunday's opponent, and

it looks a little familiar, the Washington football team. This would be the third game the Eagles have played in thirteen days when they hit the road to take on the Washington's football team on Sunday, January second, at one o'clock. Of course, they are six and eight they played tonight. If you want to know who the Eagles are seeing the final two weeks in the season June in Tonight Sunday Night football again, another huge oppert n for the

Birds on the road. Yeah, and I love Jalen's demeanor, you know, when being I guess prompted to answer questions about the playoffs or what have you. He understands about the rat poison. But the bottom line is on the tht they know what the task is and they know what lies ahead for them. They just faced this team less than a week ago. They're gonna see him Sunday.

They're ready for it. It's it's it's when it's when you can see the finish line there at the end, but you know you got business to take care before you get to the finish line. I think the Eagles in the right frame of mind, it won't be easy, but it won't be because they overlooked this football team. I mean, if they don't win next week, it'll be because Washington came out and earn it. It feels like

just this week we were talking about Washington, right. Really, I think it's such a unique situation with such a short turnaround. But you'll take a Washington down the road. Their last road game here of the regular season here in twenty twenty one. Yeah, and they've been pretty good on the road this year, so hopefully they'll get another one to close out their road schedule. That'll do it for us here on the postgame show. Be sure to join us on the Cakeoff Show next Sunday before the

Eagles play the Washington football team. But for now, for myself, friend Duffy and I Greece, Happy holidays and go Birds.