The Post-Game Show: Eagles Win 51-23

obviously eight and one through nine games. An outstanding start up for his team, and they just I don't know, they cease to amaze us week in and week out. I'm thinking this is gonna be a tough game, friend, you got the number one defense coming in here. They've lost three straight. I'm thinking, okay, this may be an ugly game, but the Eagles will pull it out. And I tell you, man, week in and week out, this team comes prepared to play. Credit to Doug Peterson and

this staff for getting this team ready to go. Could be a difficult mental game when you're heading into a bye week facing the team that seems to be out of it. You have nothing, Seemingly the game only things to lose. But this team, like a true championship caliber team, comes in, takes care of business. They don't play down to the level of their competition. They make you raise your game. And guess what, the Broncos cannot raise their level of play to match what the Eagles put on

the field. That was one of the things I wanted to ask it right out of the game. Your Eagles teams were known as so being so great coming off of bye. How difficult was it going into a game where you have to buye week on the horizon. You're seven and one, You've got an conference opponent coming into town who's lost three straight games, quarterback change, everything going on with that team. You've got some division in the

locker room. How hard is it to stay focused and say, you know what we've got to We've got to go one to know this week, come in and just knock this ball out of the park. It really can be a tough mental challenge for the team. But I tell you what you don't like. When they kicked off the day, they were already ready to go. You know this started Wednesday when they put in the game playing. The tone was set in the meeting rooms out on the practice field. You can tell this club came to work every day

last week with one thought in mind. We're not losing before the bye week. We're coming in to take care of business next Sunday. And kudos to the coaching staff for getting these guys ready, and then hats off to the players for being able to get laser light focused. Forget about the record of the opponent. Showed a proper respect to the Denver Broncos. Listen, this team won the Super Bowl just a couple of years ago, and we

know how good that defense is. So speaking to a couple of players throughout the week, you could tell defend they felt like they had to match what the Denver Broncos were bringing to the table. You know, they weren't

taking anything for granted. If it was going to be difficult for our offense to score against that number one defense, it seemed like our defensive players had the mindset that we weren't going to give up any points either, and that's the way that the game pretty much rode for three quarters until they gave up a couple of garbage touchdowns in that fourth quarter. But hats off to this coach, coaching staff starting with Doug Peterson getting his guys ready

and then the players going out there and executing. It can be a mental hurdle for you to overcome when you're looking at a team that you know that you're superior then and you got a bye week coming up. Everyone's been patting you on the back, telling you how great you are. You almost feel like you can just roll your helmet out there and you're winning the football game.

But that's the different thing about this team, man, regardless of who they played this week, they've met that challenge and that's why they sit right now eight and won the best record in the NFL, no question about it. And when you look at this offensive performance, because I think defensively, going to this game, we kind of expect, you know what, bronckos Wilder, he struggles coming yeast, he struggles against teams with winning records, and he's coming off

his first start, hasn't played all season long. And then you look at the run game, they've been very, very up and down. And then now you look over to the defensive side and you say, hey, they should have some success against this Denver team. I expected a low scoring game, like a twenty six to thirteen kind of game. That was the case. In the first quarter, Carson Wentz first four touchdowns, Jaygi, he reaches the end zone off a big play. Corey Clement reaches the end zone three

times in this game. Talk about this offensive performance in the game plan from Doug Peterson. Well, if you look at Carson's numbers, you say, okay, I mean he's four touchdowns. The game wasn't necessarily on his shoulders to day, but he made the plays when they needed to be made. And you talked about that first quarter putting up to twenty something points. I mean, the defense gets a turnover, we're able to cash that in for a touchdown. I

thought he had PenPoint accuracy for the most part. Today. Listen, it is tough sledding when you're throwing against this Denver Broncos secondary. They got three pro bo caliber he backs out there, and they got a front four with a future Hall of Famer and Von Miller that likes to get after the quarterback. But I liked that the defense gave a short fields to play on and we mixed it up. You know, we ran the ball when we needed to run the ball. But I thought the play

action was the best thing today. And then to play to Alshon Jeffrey right the touchdown to Alshon Jeffrey Earl in this game. I hadn't seen that play before and neither had a key to leave because when Carson fakes that ball to Jaya Jaii and basically bootlegs out a key to leave, didn't know what to do. Alshan takes off and it's an easy floater touchdown for Carson to al Shan's good to see al Sean so to get

himself going the last couple of weeks. Three touchdowns for him, but then the running then and then the running game today. I mean, my goodness. You know, al Shann e Levin targets six catches, could have had a couple more. I mean Corey Clement Man, I mean, I really am happy for this kid, local kid glass Borrow. Three touchdowns to day. Has there been another player that has made the most of the opportunity on these that he's been given this year?

This kid, it seems like every time he touches the ball something positive is happening. He's catching the ball out of the backfield, which he really wasn't known for coming out of Wisconsin undrafted free agent. Really am happy to see him having success. And then the Jay Train. We got to see a little bit of the Jay Train today. Jagie, the new acquisition that we traded for from the Miami Dolphins. He got a few carries in there, got a chance

to break one. I mean, fran you and I could have ran through that hole at the offensive line opened up for him, one of us, both of us great blocking from the offensive line on that play there. But it was great to see jay Agi get his first touches and then score his first touchdown of the season

right here in Philadelphia. And one of the things that I loved just about this entire game plan going in is that we knew that Denver Broncos were soft against the tight end position, and you know, coming into the game, zach Ertz is questionable. He warms up pregame and then he's declared an active he's out. Does the game plan change? No, They go out with Trey Burton to go out with

Brent Selleck. Very early in this game. They come out with multiple tight end sets and they challenge that Denver base defense to say, you know what, match up to Trey Burton on the outside, match up to Brent Selleck on the outside. Brent Selleck has a couple of key receptions early in the game. And then you got Trey Burton matched up on linebacker Brandon Marshall on a long touchdown where they knew that they were gonna get that matchup and they ran Trey Burton vertically down the field

off a double move. Brandon Marshall had no chance. Carson Wentz delivered a pinpoint accurate throw to the outside shoulder on the move. Just an outstanding play. And that all starts with game plan that goes with Doug Pearson, the offensive coaching staff really just knowing where are they going to push their buttons against this opposing defense, and they

found a matchup they liked and they exploited it. Yeah, and I love the fact that you mentioned the confidence that the coaching staff has and regardless of who's playing, they talk about next man up mentality. Well, when you lose that Urts prior to the game, that's your number one offensive weapon. Trey Burton has to go in there. And like you said, it didn't change the game plan whatsoever.

They still wanted to attack those safeties when they had an opportunity with the tight ends and it was great for us. Now, the energy level at Lincoln Financial Field was outstanding. And for more on what was going on in that atmosphere at Lincoln Financial Field, let's go to Eagles insider Davis Sparo. Dave an outstanding game. I don't think anybody really expected fifty one points against this Denver defense. What was it like seeing that out in the field.

Talk about Carson Wentz and his performance. You know that when you come back, Denver goes down the field and kicks a field goal to begin the game, and then Eagles came. Just no flinch, no panic, just go down and dissect the defense. And I agree with what you guys are saying. A brilliant game plan once again by the Eagles and this coaching staff that just finds matchups.

And then you've got a quarterback good enough to exploit, You've got an offense that's versatile enough to gash you in so many ways to go one ninety eight on the ground against a run defense allowing three yards to carry. I think five of the first six opponents this year, or six of the first seven opponents didn't even average three yards to carry against Denver, So I mean just it's you sit there and you kind of after a while ago. Please don't pinch me. I don't want to

wake up from this dream. That. That's kind of the way it is at Lincoln Financial Field, David, I thought one of the big things and and I talked about it just now, was just the mindset of this team and Doug Peterson keeping that team ready going into a bye week against a team that's lost three straight from another conference. What have you seen from Doug Pearson and the staff and knowing what buttons to push with this team?

It's it's there's no there's no doubt about it. And look when you go down the roster and talk about all the players having career years, Patrick Robinson, you know, uh, Jim Jernegan, Fletcher Cox playing his best football, Brandon Graham playing great off at Nelson Agelo. I mean, up and down the line of Corey Klenning comes out of nowhere and has three more touchdowns today. You know, Stephen wiz

newskeezer starter at left guard. They don't they lose Jason Peters and big vegos in they don't skip a beat. I mean, it is really remarkable how everything kind of started as I was kind of writing this. It all started on the Jake Elliott sixty one yard field goal. It just kind of it meant so much that game. It was Carson's first game where he led the last drive points to win the game. Jake makes the field goal.

Everybody really started to believe all the way wholehearted, go all the way in, and now every time they step on the field, they're playing their very best football up and down the roster. It's you know, I guess I've never been around. I've certainly got a taste it. In two thousand and four, Ike, when you know that you're a great team and you're going to be a playoff team, you're gonna go deep in the playoffs. This is what happens. Everybody raises their level of game. I believe it starts

with a quarterback when you have somebody very special. But certainly has made Doug a better coach, It's made Jim Schwartz a better defensive coordinator. They're having a great just a great run here, seventh straight wins. It's remarkable. Yeah, that run we went on day back in two thousand and four, a little bit expected run. I mean, we obviously were a proven team, a team that had been

in the playoffs several years conference championship games. Getting TiO was really like the issen on the k Forces that year. This year with this team, the reason why I'm more impressed with what they're doing is that they're doing it so early in the stages of this unit. I mean, Carson is in his second year, Doug is in his second year as a head coach. Some of the players they brought in this all season haven't had a whole

lot of time to jail together. So to come together the way that they have so quickly, I think it's been remarkably impressive. And I mean it just doesn't happen like that everywhere around the league, where you get a unit to play this well, this fast, And I'm with you, it starts with number eleven that that guy is playing at a whole other level. You know, I think the number,

I don't know if you guys got this number. He is the youngest quarterback in the history of the NFL to have in the history of the NFL, and I think only one of five quarterbacks in the history, but if the youngest to have twenty three touchdown passes and five or fewer interceptions in the first nine games of a season. So he's playing at an entirely different level than anyone we've seen. And finally, I'll see this two thousand and four. There were a couple of close games

in that early run. It was Chicago. It's a tough game, Baltimore a tough game. This group has been blowing teams out lately, and I mean, how do you stay sharp? Well, we'll think about it for a week, because the bye week comes in absolutely the perfect time. Well, Davis, I appreciate the time as always. Over from Lincoln Financial Field, We're gonna head over to the press conference shortly. I know you've got a run inside to hear from Doug Peterson and Carson Wentz. So thank you very much, Dave.

Like I think, bouncing off of what Dave said, I think you see the momentum that this team is carrying going forward, and I think going into the bye it's gonna be really big for Doug Peterson and the staff to build on that as they go into this week of rest or rest up. And you know, all the things that Doug is saying to the team right now in the locker room, take care of your bodies, rest up, but stay focused, come back. We've got Dallas on Sunday

night in two weeks. Yeah, I mean that that becomes the challenge now for Doug and this coaching staff and put the vetchan players on this team. Right, you're sitting at eight and one. Nope, you're not going to surprise anybody anymore. You got a week. Also, people will continue to talk about you. You're the best team in the league record wise. Now you're gonna have to deal with expectations, right,

you have these next seven games. Everybody's gunning for you in the NFC, and I'm excited to see how how this team handles it. You know, when you it's a little different when you're flying under the radar and they're low expectations, you kind of use that as a motivational chip on your shoulder. Well, when these guys come back from the break, they're gonna find out that they are

the hunted. Now everybody's gonna be hunting the Philadelphia Eagles and it's going to make for an exciting November, December, and January. I can't wait. It's been a few years since we had this level of football around here. To be excited about. And now we're gonna get into the winning months of the National Football League calendar. Right, this is the time whether the games matter most. There's playoff jockeying that will be going on, and it's gonna be

hard to block out that noise. That's gonna be the biggest challenge, right, stand healthy and then blocking out the outside noise, the ulation, everybody wanting to patch you on the back, everybody wanting to crown you champions before you actually go get it done. This team, that's the hardest work they're gonna have to do. Talent wise, we don't

have to worry about that anymore. There are no more measuring sticks, there are no more barometers you need to live up too, with the exception of playing up to the level of your expectations every week. And listen, now they're the hunting. That's right, it should be. It should be fun. Hey, well, Doug Pearson, the mindset has always been one to know. We're gonna go one to know each and every week. And really, and like you mentioned these couple of months now, November December, those are the

games that people remember. Yes, you know what you've done. Now through September and October has been outstanding, going eight and one, winning seventh straight. But now it's about closing this season, so they're gonna rest up. We got a couple of guys banged up. I think it's a great time for those guys going to the buy. But, like you said, a huge win before we get into Dallas

and we start talking about moving forward. Coming into this game, I think the big concern we all had was von Miller and this pass rush, and I thought, going back to the game plan and the execution of that game plan, they did a great job of really negating what he could bring to the table because you've got the ability to beat the right tackle lane Johnson off the edge, and I think that what they did was with the quick game, they got the ball out of Carson's hands

very quickly. There wasn't a lot of designed deep shots down the field in this game. And then also moving the pocket a couple of those plays as well. Where they're reading von Miller, you know he's gonna have the ability to where he can't be right on the player you talked about earlier, the touchdown passed to alshon Jeffrey. They're reading von Miller at the snap of the ball, and then on the touchdown to Corey Clement, they're reading. They're reading von Miller off the snap of the ball.

So you've got the ability where he can't be right and you're really you say, you can't block him. Let's read him, and now you don't have to block him. Want to take care of him. You get the ball down the field. That goes back to the game plan that they put together. I mean, listen, when you talk about number fifty eight being on the other side, you

had better account for him every snap. And when you watched this game plan, you know that they wanted to know where number fifty eight was at and you said it best instead of running away from him, they ran at him. They read off of him. You know that option played to Corey Clement was a nice red play

where Von Miller you got a choice. Either you go out to Corey Clement and Carson is going to keep the ball and run up the field, or you're gonna try to get the Carson, which we know Von Miller wants to hit the quarterback, and he sucked him in good enough to where he was able to pitching to Corey Clement and he basically went the end zone untouched. That's what you do when you have a defensive player that's as disruptive as von Miller is. You don't try to go away from him. You go right at him.

You go right at him, make him make decisions as opposed to being free over there. And it wasn't until Lane went out of the game and we had a couple of backups in there that Von Miller was even heard from today other than jumping off sides once or twice. So just a real nice game plan in my mind leaning up to these games, right, I try to come up with ways where I think the Eagles are gonna

lose the game. Just that's just because I worry throughout the week and I'm saying to myself, were the only way they're gonna lose his game is if Denver's defense forces a bunch of turnovers, And that's the only way. And I thought the offense did a great job taking care of football and really not playing necessarily conservative against this defense, but being calculated in the shots when they

wanted to take the shots. Like you mentioned, the rollouts, the bootlegs, the misdirections, that's what you do to a speed defense. Even a key to lead. I thought, way he took al Sean Jeffrey and went right at a key to leave. I mean al Sean had eleven targets today, six sketches for eighty four yards, two touchdowns. Most I guarantee you a key to leaves. Nothing used to seeing that much action now. And I think the other play too, where you look at the ability to prey on that

aggressiveness from the Denver defenses. How many times did Carson draw them off sides? I mean Shane Read, the second year guy was off sides a few times. He's got von Miller a couple of times as well. Just the ability to use those hard counts and just steal yards from that defense I thought was great. And you mentioned he believe to go after a key to lead. But let's focus now on that run game and namely Jaya.

What were your expectations going this week? We saw, Okay, he's gonna be in there for a handful of plays. He ended up double digits and carriages, which I don't know that many of us expected. But what did you see from Jaji in this game? And was it about what you expected coming out of the game. Yeah, you know, listen for us first week here, he's only been here for a few days. And to get in there and to be able to be productive eight carries seventy seven yards.

I was eleven. I wanted to see some more. I wanted to see some more of the Jay train. So excited about this acquisition. This isn't just for this year, these eight games. Of course, he's going to be important for the stretch run, but I'm excited about the future with Jagie as well. I mean, this is a twenty four year old Pro Bowl running back. These guys just don't become available, and he became available this week for whatever reason. How we jumped on it. We had the

picks available to get him here. And this offense was already an explosive offense with the running game fourth in the league in Russian prior to today. So to add a guy like JAYAJII to this already stacked backfield, I mean, wow, when's the last time we had a backfield like this with the power? And then Corey Clement the way he's running the ball as well. So, man, I tell you, Deuce has his hands full trying to figure out who

to putting there in the game. And the thing about Jayaji, He's going to be able to play all three downs question. So I mean just a big plus big acquisition this week. One of my favorite parts of that touchdown was shortly afterwards and the Miami Dolphins played tonight. Jarvis Landry, one of those stars of the Miami Dolphins, tweets out Jay Train and you saw You're like, oh, maybe maybe he wasn't a bigger problem in the locker room and some of his team has missed him. The players weren't happy

that he was gone. Believe me, Yeah, the players were not happy. And you get those two physical backs and just seeing how this coaching staff is gonna be able to incorporate both Jayagi and Lagarrett Blunt moving forward to really big, physical running backs. They're built for the second half of this year when it starts to get colder.

And you can speak as a defender, when you have a two hundred twenty five pound two hundred and thirty pounds Lagarrett Blunt maybe two hundred forty two and forty five pound running back coming down the hall at you and it's thirty degrees outside. Yeah, yeah, it builds. It takes a tall Yeah, a lot of business decisions get made by guys in the back seven of a defense when you got a tackle these big boys. And you're right when December rolls around here, we play up here

in the northeast. Who knows what the weather is gonna be. Like, Man, that's what you want. I mean, that's what you want. Big guys that will punishing, that will wear your defense down as you go through a game and you get to that fourth quarter, I'm telling you, guys on the defensive side of that ball, they're looking for somebody else to make the tackle because they don't want to tackle those big boys. Well, let's shift over now to the

defensive side, and I've got a great linebacker next. Man, We've maybe spent thirty seconds talking about defense this entire show, But this Eagles defense came out and had an outstanding day against Denver and that offense that's been very much up and down. Patrick Robinson made an outstanding play that really swung the momentum towards the Eagles way. It's seven to three, he jumps a pass and intended for Demarrius Thomas and really and really kind of swings the tide

towards the Eagles. Yeah, just a terrible throw about brock Oswald. I needed to get that out of there. I mean that Patrick Robinson interception. Great job by him. He's been one of the biggest unsung heroes as well this season. You know, struggled in training camp a little bit, even through his own admission, didn't know he was gonna make

the final cut. He's here. He's been able to find a niche in this defense as our nickel corner, which we definitely needed, and I think he's excelled at that position. You know, we got a nice problem in that secondary when it comes to the corners. A lot of talent, a lot of young guys, and Patrick Robinson this is a former first round draft pick, right you know, he's moving around a little bit from New Orleans to Indy and now coming over here. I think he's found a

home playing that that nickel back in this defense. With that great front four up there, they're gonna disrupt a lot of quarterbacks in the pocket, and these guys on the back end, they're starting to reap the benefits. You know, early in the season there were some drop balls and dropped interception things of that nature. You're starting to see those balls being caught now and I think that's gonna

bowl well as the season goes on. And the other thing I learned about with those secondary guys, there's competition going on in that group. There's competition going on in that group. And these guys when the ball is in the air, not only do they want to get it interception, they want to take it back to the house and score. We found that out last week when Jail Mills took it to the house. Those guys are all rooting for each other. It's a really fun atmosphere in that room.

And now Katchack Robinson a huge play. I don't know if it made the cut for the Merrill Cam segment this week, but let's find out. Let's go to see inside the Booth with Merrill Reese and Mike Quick Robot touchdown, what a beautiful seenter up with the fake ins of the belly of a g talk at back and went to Jeffrey thirty two yards touchdown play action O spoiler over the middle. I ter recepted Robinson Robinson at the thirty, at the twenty, at the fifteen and out of bounds.

Robinson fine money backs that Brown goes or you know one of the top crushing defenses in the NFL. Obviously one set a tone with running the ball week. How much do you think they wanted to make a scene Tom here with gut um. Well that's um, let me start again. That is a good defense, and that's a good rushing def um. And they're that way for a reason. And uh, you know, I just think that that when you hear um, when you hear that all week, you know,

everybody's got a lot of pride. They want to they want to do their jobs and do them do them right, and and uh you know, it's it's a good test for offensive line. And uh they they really stepped up to the occasion and uh gosh, they rose up and did a nice job today. Uhcribing parts, Well, yeah, it was it was all part of our game plan. I mean, it was all part of our game plan. We wanted to utilize the tight ends. Obviously we do every week, and and uh, you know, we got a lot of confidence.

And uh, you know, and Trey and Brent and listen, they they uh they do a great job. They do a great job. And and Justin Peel does a great job with getting them ready to play. And and you know, we had to make some some last second adjustments, you know, prior to the game. But you know what that's that's what that's coaches, that's what that's what our job is, you know, to make those adjustments. And and uh, guys were ready to play. And uh did an I job on a double move you know early in the game.

Uh oh al Sean Okay, took us through that play. I know that carting those the ball really well on the move. I mean just drop it in there, refresh my memory. Oh yeah, the read Okay, So it's it's just a play. I mean it's a read option. Um, uh read the defensive end. It it just so happened we're on the right hash so I think Vaughan was over there and uh we knew their d m's closed a little bit and and then um, it's just it's

something that we build into that play. It's something where we've it's a day one training camp, Day one OTA play and um it's just a one step hitch and go and and we got twenty one to bite on the on the play and um did a great job throwing the ball on the run and and and all Shana game in the end, zone. It's got some explosion, you know, explosion this things we saw in film. Um again, I didn't want to give him a big workload, but it's same time wanting to get him in the game

and and see what he could do. And and uh did a nice job for us. Obviously had the long touchdown and run there I believe in the second quarter. Um and and uh did it did some really nice things for us. You know, we'll just we'll just keep increasing his workload as as we go. Is the first eaves a quarterback to have a stretch of five teas or seventeen touchdowns like he has, get even better, get every week in your own he improves every single week. And and uh, Um, you know, the guys around him

really elevate their game. They they I think we talked about this quite a bit with um with with with great quarterbacks and good quarterbacks that make the other guys really want to play at a high level. And that's and that's what you're doing, is it's taking it. It's a team effort. Obviously offensively, offensive line has to protect. But he's doing a great job. He knows where everybody's

going to be. He he prepares so well each week and and uh um, it's it's fun to watch and when when things are really clicking like that, and to see the guys having having fun doing that. The first one Big said in a game, I can't remember the down and distance actually might have been second? Was it first? And ten second down? I can't remember. But it's it's a play that it just so happened. I mean I wanted to put it on the right hash. The ball was on the right hash fifty eight lines up to

our right and and uh it was. It was one of the plays that we had worked on all week. And um, like I said, it's it's something that we've it's been in our playbook. It's actually actually in our tempo package. Um, and we we pulled it out this week just uh um kind of dusted it off and worked on it all week and and executed it to the perfect. What you haven't seen is the United person

again same thing. Take advantage of their their their defensive ends. Um, you know those outside lbs and and um, um you know actually we kind of got the idea from Kansas City on Monday night they did the same thing. Um, and uh, you know, Carson's very athletic to do it. Corey did a great job and and again it was on the right hash exactly what we wanted. And uh um, credit to our guys for the execution on both of those places. It was a struggle to get in seven

weeks last years down in nine games. Is there a personal validation for you at all? You know what? Um? I know, I mean listen, I come to work every day. I'm the same guy and and and I just want to win the week. And uh um, you know, last year's last year, it is what it is. This year's this year. Um, we are where we are because that that group in the locker room and uh they're playing with a lot of confidence. They're there. They they love

to play together. They practice extremely well during the week and prepare themselves and and they're doing they're doing the little things right and uh um, that's what you want out of your football team. And then and then you know, uh they do that. These these types of games are going to happen. And um, whether that's validation or not, I you know, I really don't care. Just focused on now this bye week and then then getting ready for Dallas. Give them the bye week and yeah, I'm gonna give them.

I'm gonna give him the week and and uh, you know, listen, they've they they talk about having something special, and I want them to remind themselves that this is a this is a special group. And and you know we we've uh we were at eight and one for a reason, and we don't need to go backwards now, So enjoy the time. We need to get healthy. Uh, this is a good week for us to get healthy and make up, make a push and and and get ready for the

second half of the season. Surprised, like Courty Clement that the way he continues to develop, I mean, drop Din on the screen today for a touchdown and second effort runs. You know what I'm not because I you know, when we had them all the way back into rookie camp, you started seeing us sort of flashes and signs of what what he was is and was capable of doing then and now and he again, he's another one that that uh you know, we sort of increase his workload

each week, and uh, he's a smart guy. He's he's really picking up the offense extremely well, and he runs hard and he's aggressive, and um, you know, he can't do it obviously without the offensive line, but um, yeah, he's one that very very special running back right now, and we'll just keep him, keep him coming. Yeah, you know, he tried to tried to go on his on his on his leg there and and just um, you know,

just didn't feel right. Um. So you know, made the decision with with seven games remaining, having a buy a couple you know, really a couple of weeks here to rest, just made the decision that that we need him more for the long term than than than this game, and uh just decided to keep him out. He passed running all because that team ran pretty well as a team, very good defensive, team of execution, operationally, love him almost the keys. I just think it comes down to the

way the guys practiced, the way they prepare during the week. Um, you know a lot of a lot of pride with that offensive line that kept here in all week, how how good this and this is a good defense, don't get me wrong, but they kept hearing all week how good you know, uh this defense is. And I think our guys got a lot of pride too, and they want to take that upon themselves. And I think the offensive line wanted to um, also kind of rebound too

from the week before. I don't think they played necessarily great the week before, and and uh they were up against a good opportunity and a good team this week, and then you know, rose to the occasion thinking that that progress might move bottle or around or the probably week did today. I just think that. I just think Lane Johnson played today and how I think he's played through the entire I think Lane, Lane has listened. Lane's

playing playing extremely well, playing at a high level right now. Um, I think they got to Carson the one time. Um, you know, I think it might have been in the second half. I can't really remember where it was a stunt, but he did a great job on on on Vaughan,

who's a tremendous pass rusher. And you know, Lane's Lane is one of those guys man that that uh um, when he gets locked in in his own he's he's a tough he's a tough tackle and and uh um, hats off to him the way he the way he prepares too, and the way he practices to get ready for guys like like baub Miller. They did, they did,

and you don't ask their deal. You know they're gonna play a lot of their bass defense and rush five and and uh, you know they also played with a lot of five D linemen in there, uh late in the game, and and just just try to put pressure on Carson and um, we did a great job of just uh, you know, sort of moving the pocket around, a little bit ball out of his hand, quick throws, you know, a little bit of the screen game, and then the ability to run try to keep him off balance.

The best we can. Defense is unbelievable. Defense is unbelievable. Takeaways to stop that team. I think they are thirty something yards rushing at the time, and um, they're they're playing it's it's uh, it's fun to watch our defense right now. Um, they're playing at a high level. They're playing well together. Pass rushes there, getting after the quarterback and the takeaways and and uh it's it's uh, it's like they're you know, it's like the offense. I mean

they get better every week too, playing together. So, um, it's fun to watch those guys. Start of the season, we weren't half exceeding. Might mean it's a team I mean, well, I mean you'd love to be undefeated going in near by, but you know we're not. Um. I mean, listen, you you have you have those expectations coming out of training camp.

You think your team's going to be a certain way or you know, you you go, you look at the schedule and the way we started on the road, you know, and okay, if we can get this, this and this to fall our way. But listen, these guys, it doesn't matter. I mean, it's it's just a matter of women the week, um. And and for us to be at eight and one right now, I mean it's a it's a tremendous credit to the to the guys and the coaches in the

locker room. Hats off to those guys for the way they work, the way they practice, prepare um and standing here today looking back at it, I'm not surprised by the way they by the way they work. Thanks all right. So that's head coach Doug Peterson, which a victorious locker room. A lot to say after that really dominant win over the Denver Broncos. So we cut away from our Merril Camar point of view camera inside the booth there with Merrill Reese and Mike Quick. Very much thanks to ninety

four WYP for the access to these radio calls. Let's get back to that piece now for some of the big plays of the game. A GI gets no, that's a fake pass to Jeffrey in from the touchdown. What a beautiful center up with the fake into the belly of a Gia tuck it back and what the Jeffrey thirty two yards touchdown? Play action O spoiler over the middle at are recepted Robinson Robinton at the thirty, at

the twenty, at the fifteen and out of bounds. Robinson took bad football away over the middle under center is Wins, Wins, fakes, he rolls, he swings it out to Clement clement As at the five. He takes for the touchdown. Beautiful Wentz is back, Lenz Fax. He looks, he is firing it and it has caught touchdown inside the pylona. Now I'm waiting for the signal, still waiting. It was thrown the tray Burton. It's Tray Burton and it's a touchdown. It's

a touchdown. Wentz again in the shotgun. Wentz comes back to a joy again. He's at the forty, He's at the thirty, at the twenty, at the fifteen, ten to five, he dies, and he is and for the touchdown, his first touchdown as an Eagle, a forty six yard explosion by Jay A Joy. You know, when you're listening to Marylyn Mike, it almost feels like you're in the booth with them. So now having access to be able to watch them make those calls, I think it's a lot

of fun. Yeah, I'm telling you, I was jumping up and down the saying where they were, and I'm pretty sure the voice got a little tired with fifty one points is a lot of points. But I tell you, Uncle Merrill, he does a great job. Every touchdown seems like the first touchdown or the game winning touchdown. No one's more excited for this team. The Merrell Reese, who has been here for what forty years? Almost something like that. I don't want to dat him. And then the great

Mike Quick. I mean that's a great duo right there. Those two, no question. So let's obviously they were put to work often today because of how successful the sequel's offense was. And there was an interesting quote that came out of the Denver locker room. Chris Harris, who's an outstanding cornerback for that team, told reporters that he felt that the Eagles offense knew everything Denver's defense was going to do from snap to finish. And that's a testament

to Doug Peterson. Yeah. I mean, when you think about it, Doug coming over from Kansas City a couple of years ago, he's obviously used to facing this team twice a year, and even though they have a new head coach, the defense, the tendency, things of that nature, what they like to do on that side of the football, he's very familiar with, and he understood where the weak spots would be in that defense. Listen, it wasn't an offensive day where Carson

just shredded the defense left and right. It was up and down for him. But the fact that they The thing I was most impressed with was the amount of

success we had running the football against this defense. They were right behind the Eagles and rushing defense allowed in this season, and to put up one hundred and ninety seven yards against this defense, man, that's that's taking another team's will, right as as a former defensive player, when the team is running the ball down your throat like that, man, that's that's pretty much saying we're gonna bully you. Even though you know what's coming, you can't do anything about

it to stop it. And that's the way these running backs ran the day. All three guys, Corey Jayagi and and la Garrett Blunt. When they had opportunities to run the ball, they ran downhill. Uh, this is against a physical defense that loves to tackle, come up and hit you. And I thought we did an outstanding job in the running game. Can I say the moment where I knew the game was over and it was thirty one to nine at this point, I wasn't like going out on

a limb. It wasn't like a hot take. But coming out of the second half, the Eagles get the football and they run the ball so well. In that opening, Driver said Denver's done, their will is gone to put it to take your words, they really, I thought, took it to one of the best run defenses in the NFL. Denver was the only team in the league ike that didn't allow a rushing touchdown through the first eight weeks

of the season. The Eagles reached the end zone three times today on the ground, So it really goes to show the kind of success that they were able to get We talked about that jays I run. We're gonna break that run later on down on the show with Greg Kosell in the Rico review. But you see that long run from Jasi, really solid steady runs there from Corey Clement. They were able to get the Garrett Blunt

downhill a number of different times in this game. So you're talking about that Eagles offensive line, the physicality they've shown even with backups in the game. Lane Johnson comes out, You already had halipool of body viti in, but now you put Isaac say Amilo in at right tackle, your your fourth tackle really entering the game, and they're still able to control the clock and run the football. Yeah.

I think you brought up a great point. That first drive coming out of the locker room really broke the wheel of the Broncos that they had any any hope of putting up a fight in that second half. The Eagles basically doused at with that first drive. I mean, to go down and score seven plus minutes on the drive, I mean, that's how you come out of the locker room saying we're not taking our foot off the gas pedal, We're gonna put our foot on your throat and basically

bury you this half with this first drive. And that's what the Eagles were able to do. And from that point on, the Broncos really were looking for the exit door. Yeah, and when you go on the other side of it, you flip the coin. In the Eagles defense one point eight yards to carry in this game, they allowed the Denver offense. I mean they shut down whether it's Davante Booker, whether it was Anderson, no matter who was carrying the football for this Denver offense. The Eagles defense really came

to play. Not that we expected anything less because this is the best rushing defense in the entire NFL entering the week. But if you're gonna beat this Denver offense, you had to make them one dimensional fourth brock Oswalder to beat you. That's exactly what they did. They stopped the run and they turn it around three sacks, two

picks on brock Man. This defense plays with an attitude with a disposition of nobody's running the ball on us, and when you stop the run, you're basically playing bullyball. And that's what this ego defense wants to do. They want to make every offense they face one dimensional. You're not going to run the ball on this defense. Malcolm Jenkins with the personality of it's not happening. Those guys set the tone upfront. That defensive line, Tim Jernegan, Fletcher Cox,

Brandon Graham, Vinny Curry. That's been outstanding against the run this year, several tackles for losses, I honestly believe, and we can check the numbers to look back, but I know for a fact the defenses I played with under Jim Johnson, we never had a run defense this good, never had a run defense this good, and would I would dare to say it's the best run defense that's been around here. You gotta go back to Buddy's days or either Bug Carson that night ten ninety one defense

to have a run defense. We played great pass defense under Jim Johnson, but running stopping the run wasn't necessarily our primary goal. Stopping the pass, not giving up touchdowns was our primary goal. This team refuses to let anybody run the ball against them. I think they like the fact that they are number one against the run in

the league. They know that and they go in there every week saying, not on our watch, you're not running the football, and it's a beautiful thing to see because when you stop the run like that, that's a mentality that permeates throughout that whole side of the football, and it's a nasty attitude you want to play with and you want to have. It's intimidating, it really is. When when you force the team to say, now we're gonna throw the ball today and then go up against that

defensive line in the pass rushing mode. Man, I just think, I just think we got something special that they're building on right now with the way that they're playing defense. And that's how you win and get in December and January. You better be able to stop the run. Yeah, run defense travels when you when you go into the playoffs and you have to go on the road, and right now, the Eagles team won't have to go on the road if they were going to the playoffs. But really that's

something that carries with you. And when you look at this defense, the energy that they play with and that fanatical pursuit of the football. We see it in all the mikings each week. You know, you mike up Nigel Bradham last week against San Francisco and you just see the energy Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, Jalen Mills, Rodney McLeod, Malcolm Jenkins. Those guys are flying to the football NonStop. And you just see that relentless pursuit of excellence on

that defensive side. And I think we're shooting Eagles game plan this week, and you know, we have a lot of fun when we're shooting Eagles game plan, and John Clark bust out of stat and I think all of us kind of raised our eyebrows. Kareem Hunt is the only running back on the Eagles schedule that has rushed for more than forty yards a single player, and he did all that on basically one carrier. So if you took that one carry out, they haven't given a forty

yard rusher all season long. Just a ridiculous performance by this front seven, even despite the injuries. You had Fletcher Cox out for a couple of games. You've missed now, Jordan Hicks for a couple of games. Vinny Curry was out for a little bit. In this game, you've seen mix and matching a personnel, but still the same result. This defense is really really solid upfront. Yeah, and it's

because I believe the attitude starts in practice. The way that they've practice, they've already made up their minds that they aren't gonna allow anybody to run the football on this We're gonna force you to throw the ball against our pass rush, but you will not run the football. And it starts up front, it starts up the middle. You mentioned not having Jordan Hicks, that certainly could have hampered this defense, but Nigel Bradham has been able to move in there. Joe Walker has been able to play

as a young player against the run. Michael Kendricks, the Angry Bird, one of my favorite players have He's re emerged in this defense, and when you watch them swarm to the football, that's how you play great run defense. You know, a runner may get through that line of scrimmage, but what you aren't seeing is ten yard, fifteen twenty yard runs from running backs. And that's because you're getting so many people to the football. If one guy misses the tackle, there are two or three guys right there

to clean it up for him. So you mentioned not really since that Kareem Hunt run which came in the second half, really on a play where one of our linebackers kind of over pursued the gap and he was able to come out of the back door, and I think they took that personal and said they're not gonna

let that happen again. It's really been a pleasant surprise to watch them play this style of defense, and me being a defensive guy, and with so much going on with Carson Wentz and the offensive side of the ball and all the hoop law and adulation over the rightfully, so it's good to see that defense just handling their business week ind and week out, and talking to talking to Jalen Mills earlier in the week, you know, they had to answer questions about this Bronco defense all week

and how great they were. So as a good defensive unit themselves, you sort of get tired of hearing about that. You get tired of hearing about how great the defense is for the other team. And it reminded me of that Carolina game on Thursday night when they had to hear about how good Carolina's defense was. So the defense sort of takes it as a challenge, like we play

good ball on this side of the football too. In Midnight Green and so I think they go into every week trying to prove they are the best defense in the league. Let me ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you to kind of take your radio hat off and put your team captain hat on. Yeah, and you're

looking at this team, and you're in this locker room. Now, you're eight and one, you're going into the by How difficult is it to maintain that focus and maintain that steadfast focused on winning one at one game at a time and looking ahead, where as opposed to you know, kind of telling or letting everybody tell you how good you are, and hey, you're the number one seed. You're you're gonna be Uh, you know, the road's gonna go to through the Super Bowl to Philadelphia. How do you

stay focused? Now? How do you keep your teammates focused? It's difficult. You try to remind them and I know after this, uh, at the after the game, in the meeting, you probably had veterans trying to remind every everybody be smart. Remember we still got a season left to play. You want it, You want them to know. You go and enjoy yourself on the break, but make sure you keep in the back of your mind that we still have a goal that we're trying to achieve and what's going

to be interesting with this team. I mentioned it when we were talking to Dave. This team, this corp of guys don't necessarily have an extensive pass together. You know the difference with the teams that we played on. We've been in the playoffs year in and year out, so we kind of knew how to handle everything. This is really the first year of success for this core group of guys, and this will be the biggest challenge for them.

It's on their bye week, whether some go back home, the younger guys may decide to go back to school. Everybody's going to tell them how great they played the first half of the season. Everybody's going to tell them that no team in the NFC, possibly the NFL can beat them. They got to block that step out, all right. So from what I'm sure he's gonna ask about this, let's go over to Carson Wentz across the street like a financial field, people prenning game going. It's a very

good defense. How was this effort? Did not these ways? Yeah, it was a great effort. Um. The beautiful thing about what we did today is we were balanced. We spread the ball around the way we did UM, both in the run game in and throw game. Um, you know Zach went down obviously, we we thought Urch was gonna be ready to play, and uh we didn't miss a beat. You know. We had Selik and Trace tap up and make some big plays, and um, that's just how we're wired.

That's how we're built. Next guy up and shooting, and the old line, I mean, hats off of them as that d line, Um, that front seven. I hear all about them, and that's a great defense. So our old line really handled some business today and it was a it was a good team win. And did you guys adjust that during the game. Yeah, No, we had a we had a pretty good idea how we want to utilize him in the running game, um with some of our simple stuff, and um, you know he I mean

he's picked up on things pretty quickly. He's a smart kid. So um, it was a sweet to get him in, get him on that long run, get him going early. Um, you know, he he's a talented back. So it's cool to be able to spread the ball to him, to lea Garrett to Corey today when Dell at the end. You know, I think just having those guys, um makes my life a lot easier to come in and within five days, you know, to have a big role. It's

in present. I mean it hats off to him. You know, he came in with a he wanted to work attitude right away, and um that was great too, great to see. Um, great communication. He fits in well in the locker room and everything as well. So like I said, he's a smart kids, so he's picked up on things pretty quickly. Um. And like I said, huge to to see him get that that big score of down to al Shank. You take us through that the read and yeah alone, Yeah,

it was just his own read. Um, his own read play with that little tag to al Shan there, so he knew, um to leads a pretty aggressive corner. So with that action, you know, I just knew I had to just get enough time um to let Alshan win. And and and he did the rest of Carson, we're hearing from a couple of Broncos defensive players saying, it seem what you guys on this knew what they were running on defense. He's that something all week or even need

a game as well. Did you feel that way? Yeah, I mean I think we felt really confident in our in our plan. Um, and then the looks that they were showing us. You know, we study the tape every week, you know, you dive into it. Um, And with some of the blitz pickups and everything, today we felt really confident and it worked, it worked out, and UM, yeah, we just we had a great plan and we executed it well. You talk before about out each week having

o's having multiple ways been to this offense. Uh, you know, Jags has more fast. You know, how can you guys between keep doing this? Um? Do you feel like you have to have that kind of Yeah? I think that's first of all, just what makes us tough to defend because we can spread it out. And the best part about it is we have a ton of unselfish guys. You know, any week it's somebody different, um, and no one really cares who it is, you know, as long

as we're winning games and making plays. Um, we just have a bunch of unselfish guys, and we do feel we can keep spreading the ball around, spreading the love like that, um and making play. You're vibing just has that sound that you turn up that slowly? All right now? Yeah, I mean it feels good, you know, it feels good.

Especially coming off a big win like this, UM at home, you know, against a great defense offensively to put up what we did today, Um, you know we we obviously feel like we have some momentum and we're gonna enjoy this or relax and kind of get away and then come back ready to go. Stings out with the way it stands out, with the way Duck's calling plays right

now and keeping defenses off balance, you nailed it. He keeps them off balance, you know, just with with the the nakids that we do, the sprint outs, the drop back, the quick game. Um, we have a bunch of different running sets and everything as well. We did someone balanced today. Um. We just mix it up so well. And you know, being able to mix it up well like that, and like I already talked about, spread the love the way we do, UM, I think it makes us really tough

to defend. We touch the US today for a rookie h and I guess it was the first option for all of those. How much is he grown? Yea the soul offense to the point where you're coming, Yeah, he's growing a bunch, you know, seeing Corey all through even training camp, you know he's just a guy that wanted to work, wanted to learn, you know, and he's um just always ready whenever his numbers called in today. Um, he made the most of them. He made the most of them. And he's a heck of a back, heck

of a player, heck of a teammate as well. You know, I just love seeing those backs celebrating when they're other guys scores. You know, that's just the culture that we have, that's just the relationship they all have, and UM, it's pretty special to be a part of it. What's the game player to kind of counter? Yeah, I mean we first of all, we studied it. We had a pretty

good idea of how we wanted to call protections. You know, we did some some chips and some different things to um, kept the tight end a couple of times, did some different things and UM then they kind of got the ball out fairly quick as well. So I thought we did a good job of that. Absolutely. Absolutely, We're never going to settle. Um. Like I said, We're gonna enjoy this this break that we have. UM, but we're gonna

come back. You know, we got a good Dallas team to to go up against next and UM, Yeah, we'll we'll never settle. There's always things to learn from on the film. Well personally, um, you know, there's definitely some players want back um. There always is. UM. But I thought I thought we executed as an offense pretty well. We stayed pretty efficient. We had a couple of drives that that would definitely would want back um. But you know, overall, I thought we were fishing. They able to spread the

ball around pretty good. Um. Oh the speed option, yeah, yeah, that was part of the plane. Um. We practiced that, um a little bit in training camp, but but not a lot. And just this week we got some good reps at it, and um, it worked out working. I mean see something Yeah, yeah, just the way they set their front and down in the low red zone, the way they kind of called their defense. We knew it was just you know, just read him, make the right reading.

It's gonna be a touchdown. Four touchdowns again they leave the league in touchdowns past. Did you expect this is kind of production to see? Yeah, you know, at the end of the day, I don't touchdowns whatever. I mean, that's all great, but being eight and one is what it's all about. You know, I didn't really know what to expect with how stats all that stuff that doesn't really matter. Um, but I will say I've always had high expectations for myself for this team. UM, so we're

fortunately where we're at it. Did you anything, I'm just some formations and stuff. UM, I think formationally, um in personnel wise, just pregame, you know, we have to just kind of make some tweaks. But um, nothing too major, you know. I think having sealec, having Trey, Um, those guys. First of all, they're smart, so they could they know kind of everyone's position, so that helps you just plug them in. But um, not only are they're smart, they're talented.

So they were always they were ready to go. They've always been. Um they made some big place today touchdown play they started what you see from that match. Yeah, they just they ran a linebacker out there to cover Trey on this land and go and we knew we had a mismatch there from from from early on and uh traded the rest. What's that? What you uh, just relaxing, maybe get a little hunting in, you know, hang out. Um, yeah,

well we'll be We're excited to get back though. Is definitely time for you kind of wish party kind of wish that want to keep this going or is this story time for the everybody right now? I think it's a good time, you know. I think it's a good time just being in the middle of the season. I think we're fortunate this year kind of where our by falls, um, just for mentally and physically, UM, to kind of just get away, get refreshed and so we can come back

and make our run. You okay, I mean you got dropped the card a couple of times, so yeah, great, the right time for you too. Great. I'm great, fortunate, I'm fortunate this being this far in the year. Obviously I've taken some some hits today there's really just the one um. But yeah, I'm fortunately. I'm feeling great. We're here to add ways. Yeah for you. You amos a

lot of times, yeah, a lot of times. Yeah. I mean the relationship Doug and I have, UM, I just have a lot of confidence in the way he's called things um and and we obviously we've talked about it before, but him and I are meeting up quite a bit and just dropping ideas to each other. So um, yeah, I have a really good, really good feeling of how he's gonna call the game, and when he stays to it,

obviously like today, good things happen. Yeah, we did. We built a relationship, um during I mean we have the same agent. I think that's been documented. But um, you know last week when we played the Niners, we had some crossover film and I shot him a couple of texts and um, he's a great dude and he's playing well. I'm not sure how they did today, but um, yeah, he's playing well. So I'm happy for him. Yeah, I

think we can just keep getting better. I mean at the end of the day, Um, al sean kind of every week. You know, the biggest thing with him is, first of all, he's unselfish. Um. Second of all, even when the weeks he's not getting the ball, I mean, he's drawn the attention, he's drawn the best corner, he's drawn some cloud safety, some different things. So um but yeah, with with Alshan, with Jay now and just again, the way we can spread the ball around, Um, I think

that'll make us even more nam going forward. Thanks everybody. Yeah, so a lot to unbutton there. From quarterback Carson Wentz. My favorite part Ike was talking about Ji and the preparation and just the fact that he arrived, he had his head down, he wanted to get to work, and really kind of proved those Dolphins wrong, the team that traded him. What was your takeaway ultimately there from Carson? I mean, listen, it's here's a guy that seems like everything is going well for him, and I just love

the way that he keeps that laser like focus. He never gets too high, never gets too low. And that's really the tone that's being set for the team. I mean, it starts with the quarterback and the way that he

approaches the game. Everyone's gonna follow his league just so impressed with this young man to only be in his second year and to have been able to not only have the success he's having on the field, but I think the impact that he's having in the locker room, that he's having away from the game and the meeting rooms is really the thing that I've been most in with.

It's rare that you get a young guy from a small school like North Dakota State come into a building and really change the atmosphere in the building, and you you work here every day and you see it more than anyone that this kid has really set the tone for everyone in this building. And that's a good thing, because when you're a quarterback of his magnitude and of his caliber, you should be the one that's setting the

tone and having everyone follow your lead. So for him to be as young as he is, it's so impressive, the maturity level, the focus that he has, and the fact that he wants everyone included. This is a guy that's not about me, me, me, me me, It's about everyone else. And getting Jaya Gie in here in the first week, working with him, making sure he's caught up with everything and making sure they're on the same page.

That just goes to show you that a guy like a GII comes in here and not to speak out of turn about anything that's going on in anybody else's locker room, but just knowing the quarterback that's down there in Miami from a farm. He ain't Carson Wins. Let me just put it that way. It ain't Carson Wentz. So nothing surprises me at this point with Carson Wentz

and his approach to the game. It's the reason why he's having the success that he's having, But more importantly, it's the reason why he's able to sustain that level of success and have the impact on his teammates because he puts the work in first and foremost, and everybody sees it. So the Eagles are getting ready to head into their first break, and we're actually getting ready to do the same. We're gonna go into our first commercial break. But that means that we have to say goodbye to

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afternoon and everybody was happy to see it. Let's go over to the RICO review with Greg Kosel from NFL Films. Thanks guys. One thing everybody was excited to see was Jayagi, the newest Eagle. He's been one of my favorites since I watched him coming out of Boise State. He's tough, physical, he can get to the perimeter, and he scored on a touchdown run right at the end of the first half to make it thirty one that really put this

game away. It was the fourth touchdown against the number one ranked defense in the NFL coming into this game. And what you're going to see here is basically, I think it's an inside zone type run, but because of the nature of the front by the Broncos, you're going to see Jason Kelsey right here with a little bit of a fold block. He's going to work around. Looks

like he's pulling, but it's really a fold block. So what that does, and this is the critical block at the point of attack is Wiznuski right here on the defensive tackle. This is an absolutely critical block. If he doesn't make this block, this play does not happen. So let's clear it and take a look right now as we watch this, let's run it right here. Oh that is beautiful. There's the block we're speaking about by Wiznuski.

That block has to happen because then what you get you get Kelsey, he's able to work around to get into the second and third level, you get Brooks. He gets to the second and third level, he's gonna end up taking out two. So this is really well executed, well done. We can run it now. There's a Ji with the left sideline. Now totally clean, really really well done.

A Ji scores on a long run. As we said, this came at the end of the first half, and what this did was really wrap up the competitive phase of this game. I don't know about you, Ike, but to me, that was one of the biggest players of the game and something that I was really hoping we would see was a big run from jays I. And then when you look at his acquisition. To me, all these other teams around the league, and you talk about all these other playoff contenders, they're all kind of licking

their wounds right now, everybody. It's a battle of attrition at this point. The Eagles are going into the bye and on the outside of that, they're gonna be becoming a better football team because now you're gonna have Jasi Off a full compliment of the playbook. You're gonna have the return of Ronald Darby we hope coming out of that.

You're gonna have Zach Ertz back fully healthy. All these guys are kind of nicked up, are gonna get fully healthy, but potentially rookie corner Sidney Jones coming out of that. So as other teams get weaker, the Eagles are gonna be getting a little bit stronger on the other end

of this. Yeah, and adding jayagi E to this mix, I just think he brings an explosive dimension to the offensive side of the football from a running game perspective, and la Garrett Blunt has done a fantastic job with the carries that he's been given so far this year.

Corey Clement been outstanding in his surprising role. But Jayagi Jai is a Pro Bowl running back that was fourth in the league and rushing last year, had three games of two hundred plus yards rushing, and for whatever reason, he became available at the trading deadline due to the Miami Dolphins wanting to move on from him. I'm not even so short that the Eagles were out looking for Jaya Jaii just because you don't get that caliber of player to become available in the middle of a season.

And so there's a working relationship there between Mike Tannemaum and Howard Roseman. They've done business in the past, so they're able to work something out. We had the picks available to get Jayajii, And not only do I love this for the rest of the season, he's certainly going to help as they moved down the rest of this season, but this was a move that was made for the

future as well. He's on his rookie deal. He'll be here for a full year next year, highly motivated, ready to go, and I believe they acquired a three down running back that has explosive ability, has the ability to take the play, take the ball to the house like we saw there, and you give him a little bit of a hole and he's going to be able to run through it. And we didn't even get to see his his his run breaking tackles. I mean, how did yeah,

his ability to break tackles ability. Yeah, that's what I wanted to say. We didn't even get to really see that today. Just wait until we see that in December. Really happy about the acquisition of Jaya Ji. Yeah, And I think through two it just kind of mirrors some of the other acquisitions that Howie Roseman and his team have made over the course of the offseason. You have a whole of defensive tackle with the departure Bunny Logan. Let's find a defensive tackle shore. But how about we

get a young budding star and Tim Journey. Oh, we have a hole of corner. Oh, instead of trading for an older vet corner, they are picking someone off the street. Now, we're gonna trade for Ronald Darby, who not only can help us in the short term, but also can be resigned long term. And just like Journegan and just like jays I, Now you didn't just find band aids to kind of say, Okay, we're good for now, but we need to worry about it in the future. You've got

people that connect. He help you in the short term and the long term. And that's one of the other things that I love about this Jays I pick up. It's a lot of exciting things going on with this Eagles team. Yeah, I mean, and that's a big key point you mentioned about some of the other young players they brought in. They brought in guys with the exception of Tim Journegan that are still on under contract. I know tim iz deal is up at the end of this ship, but the Eagles that had the ability to

bring him back if they so desire. But they brought in a mixture of veterans. You brought in La Garrett Blunt, you brought in al Sean, Jeffrey, Tory Smith, Chris Long, all guys that are contributing. He took to the success that this team is having. But they've also been able to replenish some of the young talent and set themselves up for the future with the acquisition of Journeying, Darby

and now Jaya Jay. Just a masterful, just masterful moves being made by Howie Roseman Joe Douglas in the front office. Given the coaching staff, the players that they need that they can be successful, and not only that, bringing high character guys in here. But I know Jaya Jay may have been baggage on him somewhere else, but here, this is a winning coacher. It's a great locker room with

great leadership. And he's already talked about how excited he is to come in and just contribute to what they've already started here. That's the type of mentality you want when you bring in new guys. Not guys that want to come in and get all the recognitions, but guys that want to come in and add to what you've already started here. Yeah, you've put that money in the bank with the character that they've instilled in the locker room. All Right, we're gonna take one more break and then

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to vote for the Toyota Player of the Week. Go to Philadelphiagles dot com slash Toyoa Player of the Week to cast your vote and get a chance at a brand new Toyota. And now for your first nominee behind door number one, of course, number eleven, the franchise quarterback Carson Wentz a huge day against this Denver Broncos defense. Fifteen to twenty seven, one hundred nine nine yards, four touchdowns,

long way towards a fifty burger against this defense. This kid every week four touchdowns twenty three on the season. Sometimes you gotta pinch yourself to wake up and realize just how good we have it right now with Carson Wentz is the quarterback of this franchise, Just so many more of these days to come down the road. He's a nominee every week, brand I mean, I think he's in this category every week. He's got to be. He makes plays every single week that that just make you

go wow. Yes, whether it's whether it's him moving in the pocket, little things like even late in the two minutes You're old, late in the first half, he makes a throw over a defendered alshon Jeffrey Long the sideline that makes you just say, like, is he a human? Is he a robot? Like? What is going on with this kid? Just outstanding and you just saw a lot of the big players if he had in this game. A really outstanding performance from Carson Wentz in this game.

All right, let's get to our second nominee, and I think this guy is very much well deserving. Rookie running back Corey Clement twelve carries fifty one yards, two touchdowns on the ground. He adds one catch for fifteen yards and a touchdown through the air his career day so far. And he does it in front of a home crowd, which is great obviously from Glassburg, New Jersey. So he got lots of friends and family in attendance there for the rookie running back. If he's smart, he's not buying tickets.

You make those family members by their own tickets. Man, he was undrafted. This is my boat. He gets my vote. Friend, guy's just been outstanding when called upon. Three more touchdowns for him today. Didn't I mean, was a serious long shot to make this roster when training camp began. But he's done nothing but impressed every time he touches the ball. Three touchdowns for him today. I gotta give him my boat.

He gets my boat this week. All right, Well, maybe if you go online again at Philadelphiagles dot Com toy the Player of the week. You can then win a Toyota. I don't know if you know what your car situation is, all right, So let's get go behind door number three here for our only defensive option in today's game, and that's cornerback Patrick Robinson, who was just outstanding. Two tackles

in the day, doesn't do them any justice. One interception, two passes defend, and I'll tell you what the score is, seven to three. The Devin Brown goes at scored on their opening drive, we come down, we score a touchdown, and then you get this play from or not exactly this play, but you see Patrick Robinson go and pick a pass off and really just help turn the tide for the Philadelphia Eagles, And it was just an outstanding way to get momentum going in their way. Outstanding read

on the football. I'm gonna break it down in the All twenty two review with Great coastl tomorrow. But you just saw those instincts in that veteran leadership from Patrick Robinson on that play. Yeah, I gotta be impressed with the way Patrick Robinson has played this year. We talked about him earlier coming out of training camp, unsure of his role on this team, has found his niche as the nickel defensive back in this defense. It seems to be in the right place at the right time every week.

He's certainly deserving. He and coreyklan Man. I mean, tell me about two guys that prior to this season, if you would have said back in July, will they even be on this roster, most people would have probably guessed that they would not have been on the roster, and both have played huge roles that they've been given and seemed to be in the right spot all the time. Really impressed with Patrick Robinson this year. It's kind of

like a microcosmo with this whole Eagle season. Right Like, if you had said back in training camp that Patrick Robinson was going to be winning Toyota Player of the Week against the Denver Broncos where we score fifty points, you just said that's a long shot. Where the eight and one Eagles, Well, guess what, that's exactly where I at right now, Patrick Robinson. I mean you said it earlier. He may not have been made the team coming out of camp, but he has just been outstanding both inside

and outside for this Eagles defense. All right, let's take a look now at the next few games coming up, and it's really gonna be a really tough stretch for this Eagles offense. But let's take a look at the Eagles upcoming schedule, presented by NFL Ticket Exchange powered by Ticketmaster. For the only one percent verified way to buy or sell NFL tickets, visit NFL ticket exchange dot com and you see there's a few one. There's a few games

in there like that. Yeah, we're eight in one, but this season can turn still because you've got a couple of really big road games, four out of the next five on the road. What are your initial thoughts looking at the final part of the schedule. Yeah, you're talking about teams that they're still fighting for their playoff lies. We finally get a chance to see the Cowboys. We know what that game means to everybody in the Philadelphia area. So when we come back from the buy, we'll be

there prime time on Sunday Night. Bears a better defense than people give them a lot of credit for, you know, a struggle on offense, but they play hard on defense. And the key thing there Frand is three of those four games are on the road, back to back in La and Seattle. You gotta play three straight. I mean that's four out of five. I'm sorry, four out of five games that are on the road. Three straight on

the road. That's gonna be a difficult stretch. The Giants, you know, as a divisional opponent, they'll want to play spoiler. This is where the real season begins, right. They come back after the bye week, those finals, seven games against teams at least five of them will be fighting for playoff positionings somewhere, keeping their playoff hoax alive. And the Eagles, the thing that we have to hope and I have confidence in is that they haven't peaked, right, they're Aiden one.

You hope they still have good football, a lot of good football left and then to play because those teams will be playing their best football when they come back for the second half. The Eagles have to make sure that they're able to match that intensity of some of these desperate teams they're gonna wind up facing when they get off the bye week. Yeah, It's like you said earlier, Aiden one is outstanding. It's beyond imagination where I think a lot of people expected for this team outside the

building going into the year. But now these games in November and December, they're other ones you remember, and it's going to be a really tough stretch for the Eagles team coming out of the bottle'll be up to this coaching staff, which has passed checked every single box along the way so far this season. I think it'll be a huge test for this team coming out of the bye. So, like I think, I'll do it. Man, it's the first show you and I have ever hosted together. We've done

podcasts together, we've worked together for now for five six years. Obviously, we missed Chris McPherson who had a little bit of a medical procedure done. He'll be back at this desk in two weeks hosting the postgame Show presented by RICCO. But for eye crease for everybody here at the Novcare Complex, I'm Fran Duffy. Thanks again for joining us here on

the postgame Show presented by RICCO. Stay tuned for more coverage of this win and the Eagles on Philadelphi Eagles dot com and the Eagles Mobile app.