The Post-Game Show Pres. by Ricoh: Eagles vs. Patriots

dot com. I'm Chris McPherson, please to be joined by former Eagles linebacker Ike Rease. Ike. I think we need a second to take a deep breath after that thrilling finish. To say the very least, the Eagles having lost three straight games going to New England facing a ten and one New England Patriots team that does not lose back to back games very often, and the Eagles in all three phases came up with huge plays and was able to hold on for a thrilling finish thirty five to

twenty eight to defeat the Patriots. Yeah, and let's not forget they were down fourteen and nothing in this game and it was not looking good. And all of a sudden, Bill Belichick decides he wants to try an onside kick, pooch punt or pooch kick. Eagles do a great job of recovering it, take advantage of the short field, and I think the momentum started to change from that point on. They got the block punt after that score touchdown. I mean, it was just this was just a great effort from

the Eagles, and it was a little expected. Like you said that Patriots just don't lose very often consecutive games. They certainly don't lose very often up there at Foxboro. So Eagles collective effort offense, defense and special teams, and that's the type of effort you were going to need to go up there and beat the New England Patriots.

Certainly everyone wondered how would the team respond after the last two games in which they gave up ninety points ten touchdown passes, and today you look at the total amount of yards. Nothing sexy from the Eagle standpoint, because they were pretty much getting it done on defense and special teams from a scoring standpoint, but the red zone offense.

Sam Bradford comes back into the lamp and there's a phenomenal job of running the offense, and then you look at the rushing attack and what they were able to do, mixing in Darren Sproles who got the start today, working in Kenyon Barner. He did have that costly fumble, which luckily the Eagles defense was able to hold off late, but key contributions from them there throughout the course of the game helped in the red zone. And Bradford with two touchdown tosses is one to Zach Ertz and the

other to Jordan Matthews. Yeah, obviously a nice job from the Eagles offense. You get down in the red zone against the Patriots, you gotta score touchdowns instead of kicking field goals. They took great advantage of those two opportunities they had. But this game was set up by the defense and the special teams. I mean that pick six, then Malcolm Jenkins was able to get off of the Walter de Tournament tip ball. That really changed the game

in my opinion. Also, Patriots looking like they're going in to score Eagles backs against the wall. Not only do they get the interception, but they take it back for seven and that was huge. So they have a special teams touchdown to darren Sproles eighty three yard punt return, his second punt return touchdown of the season. You saw on the screen there the Nagy good block punt return for a touchdown, Chris Maragos with a key block punt and another key play on these darren Sproles punt return

touchdown as well, key block to get that started. And then the Malcolm Jenkins ninety nine yards taking the ball to the house to be able to help the Eagles there in that situation. So all three phases contributing a little bit. Later on, we're going to hear from the head coach, Chip Kelly as well as from some of the Eagles players, and we'll also delve into exactly how the big plays came truition, and of course we want to hear from you, so you can call in in

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McDonald's I'm Loving It. Welcome back to the postgame Show, presented by Rico here in Philadelphia Eagles dot Com Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese Ike. One of the big storylines coming into this game would be how would the Eagles respond, Because I go back to that Miami game a couple of weeks ago, and these were coming off that emotional win over the Dallas Cowboys. They're up sixteen to three in the first quarter, and everyone thought, Wow,

the Eagles have this handled. They're gonna turn the corner and they're gonna take off. And obviously we saw what happened the last two and a half weeks, but here today, fourteen to nothing down in the first half, but they're able to rally for thirty five straight points and then hold on at the very end. So we saw a lot of resilience from this Eagle's team today. Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean, this team was down and you're starting to say to yourself, oh, here we go again,

fourteen none. But this they you know, they showed us something. They showed us that they have pride. They showed us that they do have resiliency and that you know, the testing of FOURT two to go out there and fight. And that's what we've been wanting to see the last couple of weeks. You give up back to back forty five point games and that just didn't look like Eagles football the last couple of weeks. So if nothing else, you saw a team that played with pride. Today, you

saw a team that played like they care. And this is the result when you put when you put the effort in. And this started last week. This didn't start today. This started when they came in to prepare for the New England Patris. They had the right frame of mind, They paid attention to detail, they blocked out all the negativity on the outside and they focused in. It may have drawn them closer together, let them unite, and they went out there and quite possibly had their best performance

of the season. Against a team that was ten and one before the day, Like, what did it mean to you that Malcolm Jenkins made his comments to the media on his radio show earlier in the week saying how the coaches need to make the players more accountable, and then for him to have the performance that he had today. He didn't just have the ninety nine yard interception return for a touchdown. He also had some key tackles for a loss in fact one to help set up that

interception there down in the red zone. So in my estimation here, obviously he backed up his talk and had a huge game. What did it mean to you, ike for him to have the performance that he had today? Yeah, I was a little shot I heard it. But here's the thing. He had every right to say what he said when you've put it together the type of season and Malcolm James has put together, and he's prepared every week to go in and he's out there giving one

hundred percent maximum effort. This is the pride for guy. This is a guy who knows what it takes, what the champagne tastes like, from winning the Super Bowl championship, from his days in New Orleans. So when he spoke up last week. He knows when things aren't right. This isn't just a guy just flying off the handle because

he wants to point fingers. You know, this was a player that sounded concerned about the team's playout are on the field, that sounded concerned about their preparation heading in the games, and he felt the need to voice his frustration his opinions on those matters. And I think he's earned every right to do that. Listen, when you're out there and you can back up the talk and you're putting the production out on the field, you have every

right as a team leader to step up. No, it may have rough with some feathers, some people may not have wanted to hear it, but that's the part about being the leader. You can't say everything that everyone wants to hear that's gonna make them happy. Being a leader also means sometimes you're gonna say things it's gonna make people feel uncomfortable, and as long as it's for the right reason, you'll be all better for it than the end. And I think that's exactly what Malcolm Jenkins was coming from.

His heart was in the right place. And guess what it seems as if someone hurting, whether it be teammates, coaches, or whomever. They came out there with a better effort and he led. Certainly that's a case. We're gonna go to the phone lines. We're also waiting to hear from head coach Chip Kelly at Jillett Stadium. Let's welcome Chris from Virginia to the postgame show presented by Rico. Chris Howard sayed, are you about this Eagles win? Smack Man?

This says, see Lee Man. Great win. You know, I figured, hey, if this is a week to catch to Patriots, this is the time to doo was banged up one off, but great win. You know, you never know what's going to happen the best of the season. But they means the Zombs trim be the game next week. So I'm excited about that and I am Seeley, no question about it that this is the time. At the same time, I would say, I don't know if you're gonna be able to beat the Patriots in the situation, just because

it's so tough. They're coming off the loss to Denver ten to one on the season. You knew that they were going to be hungry, you know, Tom Brady made some comments on his radio show in Boston that you know,

it was the most painful loss. And this is a guy who saw Super Bowls, but he came out of this lost feeling that it was such a painful loss that you felt like you were going to get the best effort from the Patriots today, and for whatever reason, the Eagles they brought their a game and the Patriots didn't seem to be ready for it. So Seeley, thank you very much as always for the phone call there. Yeah, listen, listen. The Patriots were a little undergun today, undermanned. They didn't

have grounk. They starting me to han the Edelman, who they won't have problemly for the rest of the regular season, didn't have high tower. But those other Patriots problems. We have our own problems here on the Eagles. We've lost three in a row and we needed to get this losing taste out of our mouth. So if we happen to catch the Patriots at the right time while they're a little banged up, a little injured, so be it not feeling sorry at all, not apologizing for getting to

w by any means necessary. This was a much need to win for this team. Certainly, we're gonna get to more of your phone calls later on in the show. We're waiting to hear from head coach Chip Kelly. But going back to the defense, we talked about Jenkins and

the interception return that he had for a touchdown. Bill Davis schematically, I think we all wondered what he would do to attack Tom Brady because you might say, look, you might want to bring the house, but he gets rid of the ball so quickly that it's a waste of defenders. You don't want to sit back and just give one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history time to pick you apart, so you have to kind of

mix things up there. I thought he pretty much stuck to his normal game plan, didn't go too far outside the script, and it was just a matter of the players seemed to execute. I know it's that word that the coach had been talking about all season, but just better execution from that side of the football today, Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean, the defense certainly seemed to be on their a game and it started early. The pressure on Tom Brady. We all know how he

responds to being knocked around. Even had a sack today where he went down most of these quarterbacks, and that's what you gotta do to a guy like Tom Brady. You gotta make him uncomfortable in the pocket. You look at his yards, A lot of those were junk yards late in the game when he was throwing a lot to try to catch up. I thought the defense for

at least three quarters kept him confused. They hit him, took away the big playability at times, and you know, it made the Patriots sort of get out of character. And that's when you get surprise on sidekicks and things. That nature is when you're frustrated as an office and you can't do what you want to do. They were trying to steal an extra possession. I thought this Eagles defense,

for the most part, played this Patriots offense to today. So, yeah, two sacks from Connor Barwin, two more from Brandon Graham. They were able to generate that pressure that we had not seen throughout the early part of the season. Yeah, times they were able to get the quarterback off his spot, but they were actually able to bring the quarterback down

for the sack today. Also, to give some credit to Eric Rowe, you go to that last drive of the game the rookies, making his first career start, and the first play, Tom Brady's going deep to Branda Fell to try to get a cheap PI call something to really shift the field position because the Patriots didn't have any timeouts and they were backed up in their own territory. Eric rowe good coverage on the play, didn't bite for

anything there. And then the last play of game, the fourth and long, Brady trying to find the titan over the middle and Roe was there to break up the past. So he hidled himself quite well for his first career start. You know, he knew come into this game that he was going to be tested time and time again by one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and he

was up for the challenge. Today after playing a game win which a lot of people criticize him for his performance against Calvin Johnson, but I think as everyone showed much better than most people give him credit for it. Yeah, he shouldn't have been criticized for the game against de Trailer. Are you kidding me? From the Hall of Fame wide receiver going up against a rookie. I like the confidence of Eric row He accepted the challenge last week to

go play Calvin Johnson. He wanted that challenge, and he certainly seemed to be excited throughout the week to be getting his first start of his national football career. So you know, if there's nothing else you're gonna listen. As a cornerback, you gotta have a short memory, and this league, you're gonna get beat. With the way the rules are in today's game, it's very difficult to play cornerback in the National Football League. So you have to have a

short memory, remain confident. You give up a play, brush it off your shoulders, go back in there and keep competing. And that's what he did. And you know these guys are going to catch balls from time to time, but you have to remain confident and keep competing every down. And that's what I've seen from Eric Row. I wanted to glance real quick at the rushing yards by the Patriots,

just one hundred and three total on the day. And the reason I wanted to look at that is because, come into this game, it's a situation where you think the Patriots are going to throw the ball over the field. They're gonna try to get the running backs matchup on the linebackers. Scott Chandler is gonna make plays in that

Gronk role with Rob Gronkowski out Danny Amidol's back. But I always wondered, were they just kind of zigzag almost and go with la Garrett Blunt on the ground and try to beat the Eagles in the run game, especially with the fact that Cedric Thornton, one of the team's best run defenders up front, was out. Early on Sunday morning, the Eagles announced that Benny Logan was added to the injury report as questionable due to a knee injury. So would the Patriots see all that and try to take advantage?

And I thought the Eagles run defense, which has been much maligned in the last couple of weeks, came to play today to force Bradys to throw the ball in the air and they were able to get the win. Yeah, it's difficult when your game plan for the New England Patriots, they have a multitude of game plans they can throw with you. You know, sometimes they like to feature the tight ends. They'll like the feature Garrett Blunt running the ball.

When Dion Lewis was there, he'll get featured catching the ball. Out of the backfield. They'll throw the ball a lot, or some games they'll come in looking to run the ball, So it can be difficult trying to gain plan for this team. And then Brady is the type of quarterback that when he gets up to the line of scrimmage, he's calling plays from the line of scrimmage based on what he's seeing. The defense too, and that's why they'd been so successful throughout his career. I thought the Eagles

hung in there. They gave up a few plays, but they made more than their fair share of four sacks on Brady two interceptions against him down there in the red zone. Big. I mean it's big. You don't make a guy like Tom Brady looked the way the Eagles

were able to make him look today, certainly so. It was Brady's first two interception game of the season, the first two interceptions he's ever thrown against the Philadelphia Eagles, and believe or not, it's the first turnovers of any kind by the Eagles defense dating back to Jordan Hicks's pick six against the Dallas Cowboys and the overtime win. It seems so long ago where you thought, hey, this is one of the most opportunistic defenses in the entire

NFL throughout the early part of the season. What happened to that? Yes, they forced the safety against Miami, but from then on nothing is from a turnover standpoint by the Eagles defense. They got their mojo back. Now Listen, I can't tell you exactly what it was. I mean, I think they would know better than anyone in that

defensive meeting room. This team had played good defense weeks one through eight, and then it just all of a sudden fell off after they lost that game to the Miami Dolphins, and it did not look like the Eagles defense that we had seen through the most part of

this season, getting sacks, getting turnovers. All right, we're saying the foxbour Massachusetts head coach Chip Kelly, addressing the media so much today and not as much with Murray, w went into that some of the matchups for the linebackers. You know, we felt like it's as big a group of linebackers as you're gonna face. And then we just kind of, as the game expressed itself, we're kind of just kind of trying to go with the hot hand

and we used all three. Um, you know, DeMarco had a big run on the inside zone in the red zone there on that drive that tirteam played drive, we had a big run on that. But we just thought we were gonna use all three today and needed all three. But when you got Collins and Nikovic and guys, it's it's as big a linebacker crew as you're gonna face. So um, sometimes those smaller, quicker guys can can cause

some problems in the matchup. I thought Darren played really well in all phases, and I think it's something you continue to see out of him. We see it every day in training, and you know it's it's on us as the staff. We need to continue to get there and involved in what we're doing because he he tilts to field a little bit. And when now all of a sudden, we hadn't used him that much, so people don't people hadn't weren't double in him. But then when he was in there, I started to draw some extra

attention and open some other guys up. So going down the last three games help proudly you otherball teams happened. Well, you know, I I've always been proud of him, and I told those guys that I said, I think sometimes they don't see in them what I see in them. And I know we have a good football team, and I think they showed it today and they they shown it at other times during the season. In the last two weeks we didn't show it, um and that's what

was disappointing for them. But I think, um, we got contributions. I thought defensively, the pressure we got on the quarterback was instrumental today. You know, but then when you have a block kick for a touchdown, you have an interception return for a touchdown, and a punt return for a touchdown, it takes those things to win in the stadium against uh this coach, that coach, and in that quarterback. So in the defense today, I think we generated pressure and

really those guys up front did a really good job. Um. I think we had four sacks. I don't know how many times are hurries or hits on on Tom, but that's what you have to do because he's so good. And there's a couple of times he shook us off and kept drives alive, um, you know, running and made some big plays there. But I thought the effort that our guys that played with upfront was really really good and that's what we needed out of those guests. Yeah,

we we felt like we needed a first down. You know, we could have run it and then you got the appropriate time and where we are numbers wise, and we're talking about all that. We have charts, we know what's there and then but part of it is we felt like we needed a first down and that was our best option on that play. You know, we had run the naked play on third actually try to throw on first down, you know, try to run the naked play.

And I thought Sam made a really good decision. It may have been closed trying to throw it, but then if it's not there, you know, keep the clock running, you know. I think when you have a smart quarterback, you trust him that you can do that. Um. We ran on second down obviously got the clock moving a little bit, and then on third down, we just you know, our concept was we we got to get a first down here, uh. And I got great faith and trust in Sam and I know he's got great faith and

trust in his receivers. And we had to cut a little mirrored route deal on and he was going to the best side and was a big play by Coop and big throat by h Sam. I mean Fip always we always have a couple of schemes going in there in terms of being able to get him in the situation, and the half dictated it, you know, hit them pumping back to us and I was catching it. We're probably

not going to get anything generated out of that. I think there was fit was a fifteen seconds I think was on the clock, So we're probably going to go after the punter in that situation. And that was the rush that we had had practice this week. So John scores and then they tried that role drop whatever was that kind of turned the game around. I wouldn't say that was the turning point, but I think it was

a huge another huge play by our special teams. Um, you know, you know when you play this team that they're going to tax you in a lot of different ways. They ran the reverse past to Brady. Um, you know they did that. But I thought it was a great play by two too, good good reaction by him and um you know it's it's but I think Phip and UH did a really good job of the special teams preparing him for a lot of the different things that they do on special teams, and they challenge it from

a special team standpoint. Say that again. So it was you know, a big, big job by malk You know that that interception was a real backbreaker. You know when you talk about turning good into great, you know, you stop a team when they're in the red zone from scoring. And I think anybody would have been happy if just with the interception, Hey let's turn it over. You know they were driving. We got to stop there. But to be able to take it the distance and return it,

you know, he's really happy for him. Um, he's worked a lot. I know sometimes he gets maligned, but I you know, he worked really hard on on on catching the football and he did a great job. Looked at in the eyes to the tuck as we talk about all the time, and um, but to convert that into his score was a was a really big, real big turning point in a game for us at the hood. I know, I know you said that the team has given effort in the past, However, this was a different

team tonight. Uh there's something about this game. It was so much different than the last two. What was it with your players? And what I mean, that's the same thing I told him. I believe in them and and uh that they were a really good football team and just we played together as a group. Cross is just a guy that's shown up in practice every single day, and we felt like we wanted to give him an opportunity to play that. Jeffrey Lurie said something about you

fired up? Did speak to the team before the game or something? I mean he talks everybody before every game, so he usually is in the locker room and locks around the players individually. He didn't, you know, give a speech or anything. But jeff I mean, he's as good an owner as I've ever you know, been around. Um. You know, he really truly cares about the players and the coaches and he always make sure um before every

game that he takes it. He and I don't know if anybody knows this, he talks every player before every game. He talks every coach before every game. So what was a plan in the fourth the last drive and the figures at the ball and the time out worked almost perfect. What was your plan? Well for them to drop it a couple of times, the little voodoo thing going now.

I just think you knew the distance that they had to travel, and there's a lot of short Matthew, you have to do if the balls completed in bounds, it takes about sixteen seconds to get a clock off. So now you're just doing the math in your head. There's fifty two seconds. If it's completed in bounds, you get the ball down into the high thirties. If they complete another one in bounds, you know, so you're really trying

to protect the sideline. You know, that's the key. If they can just nickel and dimeon get the ball moving. They got a shot, but you know, you kind of knew where it was. If they completed the last one, even though it was fourth and ten, they probably would have only had eight seconds on the clock if it was completed in bounds, and then they got to throw for the end zone. Um, you know, so you're gonna get in a clock situation. So we're just kind of

playing the situation there. I think just growth, and he's grown every game. That's why it was it was so unfortunate. I thought he was playing really well. I think his passer rating was one eight team when he went down in the Miami game. Then you lose him for two games. But I think he's he's very smart with the football, um, you know that. That's why the two players before we called naked on first down. But it's not like I'm worried about him just throwing the ball away and stopping

the clock. I thought that's as good a play, just kind of scrambling and get himself up there for to make it second and nine and taking so that the clock continues to run. So I we have great faith and great trust in him. I think he continues to grow because we were around each other. You know, he's gotten um, you know, eight or nine games underneath his belt, but I think you've seen improvement out of him, and

that's in this league. Turnover as a paramount. I think that's a big part of it when you got a quarterback that's not going to go out there and turn the ball over to the Now, we're just talking about playing the next game, and I've said it since well, you know, we'll pick our head up after the Giants game and see if we played well enough to get

in or not. But I mean, I think that's just wasted energy to talk about playoff picture and what happens here and who wins here, and you know, because there's there's so many different things going on in terms of

everybody's bottled up. You know, it seems like in the entire league there's a couple of teams that have played really well, you know, nine or ten wins, and then there's a bunch of us that are kind of in the middle there, And um, I just like it's wasted energy to talk about that when what we should be talking about is who are opponents and let's prepare to put to play them. So this kind of sends a message,

I meaning to your team, but kind of league. And I don't think we get this question all the time. We were supposed to send a message after the Dallas game when we went down there on Sunday night. You know, it's every week in this league is a battle and you better prepare. Um, you're gonna get everybody's best and you hopefully you can give your best. And um, I think when you look at all that stuff, sending messages and all that, I think they make good stories. But

you know that's not what we're talking about. But you know they went deep thrill or only in a right way with Frady and Eric Rold look like he held up as that. Yeah, I thought Eric row you know, for his first time, you know, started the game because obviously losing Nolan, who was a key key for us on defense. And um, I thought Eric and his first time of extended play, I thought he did a really

nice job. They went after him, which we knew they were going to go after him, but I thought he battled and competed, you know, and uh, you know, they took the long bomb on him. You know, there's a lot of different things they tried to him. They had a couple of comebacks on running people off. But um, for the most part, I think Eric did a really nice job and it's good to see him, you know, start to develop that confidence because we we as a staff have a ton of confidence in Eric to play.

So astoniz No, we just we talk about who's competing, who's playing, and who gets an opportunity that you know, it's it's every week is an evaluation. Every week is you you get an opportunity to show us what you can do. And um, you know, we brought Jonathan Krauss in here for a reason. We felt like he was a really good player. Um, we brought him up for a reason too. It wasn't just you know, let's just reward a guy. But when you watch him in practice and we see him as a staff that you know

he can continue to do some really good things. So, um, and I think he had one catch on the shallow cross, but um, you know it's it's good when you have I think it's really good when you have competition. That's that's a good thing to have. What David polished years. Is there a sense of satisfaction maybe even just for a moment, I know you don't say carries over, but just for the moment, a greater sense of satisfaction maybe than now. I mean, I think obviously, and we're very

aware of it. You got a first ballot Hall of Fame coach, you get a first ballot Hall of Fame quarterback, you know, maybe the best quarterback they ever play in this game. Um, so you're aware of that. You know when his record here is it's off the charts. I mean it's like one hundred and I mean to like three losses or something. I mean it's and I'm not

even exactly I think it's something like that. I mean it's it's unbelievables in the So we're aware of that, but I don't think it's anything where you just you know we I guess we always have the mindset we want. Now that's what's the next game, you know that week, because you spend too much time kind of patting yourself on the back of you're gonna We're play a really good Buffalo team coming in here, I think one today, So you know, there's always the next challenge in the

next step, but it is, you know. I think I'm really proud of how our players played. I think that's the most important thing I took away from today, Almost the way the football team played against the Lions, against the Bats. When you see them go out and do what they need this plays against Brady and Dollowship, I don't I'm not surprised that anything. I said that all the time. I think you better every single day come to work in this league. If not, things can happen,

and usually they're bad things, you know. So I think our players, UM don't even know what that was. I think our players did what I told him. I told him when I saw him last Tuesday that I know we have a really good football team, and um, when we put everything together as a group and everybody plays hard and kind of gives everything and plays with an edge. Um, we can be a good football team. So last year that specific pump block play, how many? How many times

does that work for you either? You know? In this year, I don't think we have a I mean, we blocked a couple of punts last year at San Francisco we had a pump block. I think in the Titans game at home, we had a pump block. You know, we've had a few up in the Giants we had a pump block. But they're all have their own little individual wrinkles in terms of who you're playing and from a

protection standpoint. So I don't know if um, that particular scheme we ran today is something that we ran those other games we've we've blocked a few in the last couple of years. Okay, thanks, all right, there's head coach Chip Kelly addressing the media at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. We are going to hear from quarterback Sam Bradford and safety Malcolm Jenkins in just a little bit right here

on the postgame show presented by Rico. The only thing that a press conference was lacking like was something like we're from Philadelphia, we fight. Yeah. Well, it was like those nice quote block type of things that you could put out there to, you know, make a statement to everyone. Remember he did that back in twenty thirteen after the

win over the Chicago Bears in week sixteen. Yeah, well this is you know what this is, uh more like a I'm finally I'm glad we finally got this losing over with type of when it wouldn't matter who it would have come against. I know the reporters and we want to make a make it such a big deal because it's the Patriots. But you don't get anything extra for beating the Patriots. It's still count It's just one win. And that's sort of the way Chip seems to be

sort of handling this. He knows that they have to come back next week and have a readpeople formants because if you lose next week, this win means nothing. And he said it several times, and it's time that people start listening to it. You beat the Patriots, it counts us one, just like when we beat the Cowboys. Everybody gets happy. It counts as one. You gotta come back the following week and back it up, or you make

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Eagles dot com. I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese. You know a thing or two about special teams. It was your calling card in the NFL. And leave it to special teams to make not one, but two huge plays in today's win over the Patriots. Yeah, always happy when that third phase of the game can contribute. And you know, we got so used to this in two thousand and four team, we almost took it for granted.

And so you know, I would get calls on our radio show throughout the week said, man, where's those special teams touchdowns that we had last week? And I try to explain to everyone, Man, that twenty fourteen season by the special teams was one for the ages. You just don't see that very often. But this is still a very good special teams and this has been their best game obviously so far this year when they get two touchdowns. All right, let's analyze the first of those two touchdowns.

Chris Maragos blocked up punt late in the first half. It was scooped up and returned by Nazi Good thirty eight yards for a score to tie the game at halftime. Let's bring an NFL film serior producer Great Cosell to highlight the all twenty two games can sure turn on the strangest play. We all thought at the end of the first half Patriots would punt, it would be fourteen seven, the Eagles would be in great shape going into halftime. But here's what happened when they punt it. Here is

Chris Maragos. He's right here. Now he's off the ball, He's not right on the line of scrimmage. Now he's going to come through this gap. So I'm just gonna clear up what We're not going to go anywhere yet. So what's going to happen is, here's fifty three Darius Fleming, he's going to turn out. Here's ninety two Geno Grissom, he's going to turn in. So what happens is no one now blocks Chris Maragos let's clear the screen. You'll

see exactly what happens. Forty three goes inside Marigos is clean because forty three goes right here, here comes Maragos. No one blocks him. Really well done by the Eagles. Let's clear the screen. You'll see him free to the punter, beautifully blocked. It's picked up by nag Good for a touchdown. There were less than ten seconds to go in the first half when this happened, and the Eagles tied the

game fourteen fourteen. Grace up there from Greg. Now we're getting ready to send it back to George Sam and Foxworm, Massachusetts, where Malcolm Jenkins is speaking to the media. The big play that's closer to go line, and he feels like the defense is, you know, slow to get back. He'll hurry up to the offense, but they run the same you know play most of the time, and he try to get a quick run and see, they can catch you off guard no matter what the personnel is, and

so we were prepared for that. We did a good job I think of getting everybody lined up and really I just shot the gap and just you know, I was hoping to get a negative play and I thought that was huge because that backed him up a little bit. And then the interception. I probably owe Walter Thurman the Christmas gift because I'm on the mendola and he did a good job, but really just beat me inside. I knew I had some help in there, but it wasn't

a true double team. But Walter saw kind of the position I was in and he took it and I was able to tip the ball up and you know, I'm right there, took catch it and you know, so he really, you know, my mind made that play. I just kind of, I guess took the glory for when you game, not a lot of people. I don't think we're given you guys a shot to come in here. Brady's played in this place. What does it say about

you guys come up here a game? UM? I think it's you know, it just shows that we're resilient group. We believe in what we're doing, We believe in the guys that we have um in the building. Um. And it was just a matter of playing the way with the world capable of playing, and we know for our team to win, everybody has to contribute. You know. It's not just going to be the defense or the offense or special teams. We all got to play together to

get a win. And we saw that today. We came here, UM beat a really really good team, beat you know, the best quarterback in the league. UM, and that's not that's a tall task. They don't lose at home and so but this was a game that we needed to win. We needed this momentum. We needed this UM. It sparked to kind of carry us on throughout the season and the games don't get any easier for us going forward.

Previous How does this impact Well, I mean, I think anybody who said our confidence is low, it was probably outside of our building. I think that the entire time, even though we weren't getting the results that we wanted, I think guys were confident in themselves. I thought we were confident in the scheme and I think it was obvious that we needed to change some things or add some things, UM, but we were confident in what we were we could do because we've seen it in the past.

And I think really that was Chips message from the beginning of the week is just reminding us of who we've been. Defensively, We've been great until as of late. UM Offensively We're been able to move the ball. You know, everything that people say that we can't do, we've done before and really we just needed to get back to whatever that is. And so I think guys started to believe themselves. The morale all week was was hired than the normal. We didn't need a huge rock Ros speech.

You know, guys just went to work and believed in the game plan and came in and executed out this week. Got some feedback. What kind of feedback did you get from ther teammates about what you said about the meetings and do you think it helped in any way. I don't know if you know what I said helped U. You know, it's really But what I can say is I know that our the vibe around the building felt a lot different. I think, UM, and I don't know if it had anything to do what I said, but

it was it was just different. I think guys did a great job but really detailing there their part of the game plan, really taking ownership and what was going on. Uh, there was a lot of feedback going back and forth. Everybody had input, UM, and everybody was it believed. You know, we were preparing and we felt good about our plan, and we felt like we could come in here and get a win. UM. And and that's it's been different than in previous weeks since, not that we haven't been confident,

but it's just a different field. And so whatever that that is, we're going to try to feed off of that and keep it going for you possibly. I mean, you know, there's there's um, you know a little bit of personality that comes out when when some somebody, especially one of your leaders kind of uh speaks out. And not that I was calling anybody out or is anything negative, because there are no problems in our building, but UM, I think it does kind of shock the system or whatever.

It starts conversations, it starts, UM to open guy's eyes as far as you know, taking ownership and UM and really taking a look at what's going on and what

we've been doing and where we can get better. Uh. You know, But like I said, whatever that spark is, hopefully UM our leaders will continue to lead and continue to set the example, and we'll keep building on top of this questions from Alcolm you uh yeah, I mean, and you know the main thing really and when where my comments came from was just myself, you know, I feel like I played better when I'm coach harder. And

you know I don't. I don't like to get you know, if I when you start to play the high level where you one of the leaders, a lot of the times you don't get coach as hard as some of the rookies or some of you know, the guys who aren't your your man guys, because they expect you to know what they expect you to kind of correct yourself. Um, but you know I'm human too, and I can let something slip. And so I think, uh, my coach definitely challenged me. I know my deference back coach challenged me

all week. Um, you know that I was going to have a huge matchup and and have to play a big part in this game for us to have success. And so I had that challenge either this week. And you know, I think just as a team, we all played great. Last question for Malcolm, Sam's ready and I got Chip praised you because he said that, well, you took the risk to turn this turn the touchdown, to turn the interception there would touchdown. Can you talk about it? You might set and I'm making that play. I mean

anytime I get the ball in my hands. I'm trying to score and it's that simple. Uh yeah, I mean it's yeah, there's no other option. It's there's nothing to lose. There's there really no risk in it at all, you know, it's uh, I got the ball like thankfully, thankfully, too thankful to Walter Thurman because he too it up. I think made a one of the lineman miss and I felt some pursuit coming from our left, so I just cut back and it's just a full race. All right,

Thanks everybody, No problem, all right. Safety Malcolm Jenkins, addressing the media and Foxborough, Massachusetts, following the Eagels thirty five to twenty, went over the Patriots. I think we're gonna send it right back up there here from quarterback Sam Bradford Vernon from Connecticut. We know you're online. We're gonna get to you and everyone else in just a few moments, but first we're gonna hear from the Eagles quarterback, who is headed to the podium. Now let's send it back

to Jiltt Stadium. Sam, you have to be insanely proud of this team, as resilient as they've been coming off those three losses. Yeah, I don't think you can say enough about the guys in that locker room. You know, obviously, I think the last three weeks for tough on us. All. Yeah, I'm not sure anyone outside that locker room gave us a chance to come in here and win tonight. But

you know, we believed in ourselves. We knew we had a chance, and we had a great week of preparation, and then to come in here, you know, and get the contributions from all three phases tonight. You know, I think this is the definition of a team wins. It crazy that you guys are still alive and if Dallas wins tomorrow night, you guys first. Yeah, um, you know, obviously this division, you know, it's been crazy thus far. Um, you know, after twelve weeks, you know, we're still in

the hunt to make the playoffs. And you know, regardless of what your record is, obviously we'd like it to be much better. But you know, if you're still in the hunt at this point in the season, then you know you've got a shot, you know. And the Rams, I mean, yeah, yeah, and then I think you know, Seattle beat New Orleans, you know in the first round, you know, after going seven to nine, but you know,

it's a very similar situation to my rookie year. You feel the need obviously we get seven, Yeah, you know obviously, Um, you know, we knew anytime we had an opportunity to get points tonight that you know, we needed to convert touchdowns, you know, especially going against um, you know, that offense and that team. You know, we knew eventually at some point that it would catch up to us if we had to settle for fuel goals. So getting those two

scores was big. When you lose, guys, some guys talked about, you know, you lose those three strains can shake confidence. Some guys have talked about tonight at least that you know, Chip reminded everyone last night that you know, we are a good football team forget those three lasses. I mean, did that feel like the case or like the Chip reassured you guys last night at all? Yeah, Um, you know, I hope it didn't take Chip to reassure anyone in

that room. You know, I still had the belief. I know there are a lot of other guys who still believed in themselves and believed in this team. Um, you know, I think tonight, you know, hopefully gives us even more of that belief, you know, to know that we can come on the road and beat a really good football team. That's sorry, I think it was third and eleven too late. We see the first option. Just talk about progressions play. Uh yeah, you know, it's really one of those things.

We're just kind of working at inside out off a squeeze and you know, we had Jordan in the middle. Um, you know, I think they took him away and then Coop did a great job running that route, you know, pushing it to get us depth and then making a big catch for a first down. Yeah. Yeah. What was your message to the team before the game. A lot of guys talked about kind of gave a pregame. What

made you decide to do that? What was your message? Um, I don't know, you know, I think it was just one of those things that you know, I kind of felt like the time was right to say something. It was you know, just have that belief, have that confidence, know that you know, we can go out there and if we do play well, we will win, you know, and go out there. We knew it was going to

be a four quarter game. Regardless of how it started, it was going to come down to the end, you know, and just to continue to fight whatever Sprowls and barn Or do for the pace and the and the way you ran your office. Yeah, you know, those guys ran hard today. Um. You know, I think you know, we didn't have a lot opportunities, um, you know, in the third quarter, but then you know, when we had the chance in the fourth quarter, I think we went on like a thirteen play eighty yard drive and the guys

up front really started getting a great movement. And then those guys, you know, we're finding holes. They were running hard. Um, you know, picking up some extra yards. Guys changed things up. Obviously. That's good. It's good. It feels good in your part where you concerned it all about not being able to pick up where you left off because you felt confident

about the way you played before the injury. Um, you know, I think anytime you missed a couple games with an injury, obviously you're not exactly sure how you're going to come back. But you know, I felt that I was playing really well before I got hurt. You know, I didn't know, um, exactly what it was going to be like tonight, you know, with the shoulder, But you know, I felt, like, you know, I made the plays when they had to be made time.

How different was the offense running? This offense? DeMarco Murray seemed to be extremely limited. It was all daring Sprowls early to half. Only one yard for you know, only five cars for one yard for DeMarco. How did that kind of change things up for you guys? Um? You know, to be honest, sometimes we get out there and we get going so fast that I just have a hard time really knowing who's in the game out there. But you know, I think Sprowles did a great job tonight.

You know, like I said, he found some holes that you know, might not have been there. I'm not sure if anyone else but him could have squeezed through some of those. And I thought he ran hard, um, you know, and he picked up some extra yards for us tonight. Offensive touchdowns? What's up? Offensive? Oh, it's it's huge, you know, I think, not just for the offense, but for the defense. I think everyone feeds off that. You know, when our

special teams contributes like that. You know, obviously, um, you can't ask them to score three touchdowns every night, but when they're able to go out and do what they did tonight. I think it just gives us, you know, a lot of energy and a lot of momentum on our sideline fourteen nothing in that drive drive was at Yeah, that was huge. Um you know, I think, especially after

you know, the past couple of weeks and when it's happened. Um, you know, I think to go down there and score, you know, and to keep it close, and then obviously to get the point return right before halftime or the pump block. Um, you know, that was huge Chip, you know,

being come up here. For you guys to come up here, uh and and pull up away and given some of the things that outside the lock room have been being said about, uh, you know Chip and the team lately, you know, does it is it even a little bit more special for you guys to start us come up to his home base and and and take one up here. Um you know, I didn't really even think about that, but uh, you know, I think to come in here and to beat that football team, you know, is really

what's special about it, you know, football team. Um, you know, it's tough to come in here and beat him. So to come up here, you know and do what we did tonight, I think that's what makes it special, right, Thanks guys. Thanks. Maybe the Eagles just needed Sam Bradford back in the lineup. If you remember that Week ten game against Miami, Beagles were leading sixteen to thirteen and

third quarter when he got knocked out. He comes back and all of a sudden, the Eagles get a thirty five to win over the New England Patriots and help celebrate. Let's go back to New England, not all the way up to Foxborough, but Connecticut where Vernon is standing by on the line. Vernon, Welcome to the postgame show presented by Rico. Thanks very much, guys. You know, today really

made me feel better. I mean, because the thing was, I thought we were following by the way side, and I thought our time was up, and I was one who was looking for Kelly to be on his on the road. But I got to tell you today they came true and they made believers out of me again. I mean, I've been with them since I was a little boy. I'm sixty two years old. I love my Philadelphia Eagles and I don't like that having them to let me down. So this is a great game, and

I got to give a lot of credit. I took the quarterback because I'll tell you what, Bradford really played a good game today. I give him all the credit. And then not a lot of yards, but a great game, no question there. Yeah, I mean, I mean especially that throw, even though ken Yon Barner eventually fumbled the ball and the Patriots got it back, but that throw on third down to Roley Cooper to convert for the first album,

that was huge. He stood in the pocket, he knew he was gonna get hit, and he delivered a strike to Riley Cooper and it was a big catch. Jason Piers, he had a big bluck at the very last second on the Rob Nikovich who's coming off the edge. Pierce got just enough of them so Bradford could thread the ball in there. And also down in the red zone. Both the touchdown passes, especially the one to Jordan Matthews late in the game. I thought that was a phenomenal

throw through traffic, beating the Super Bowl hero Malcolm Butler. Yeah. And the the one thing I've learned watching Sam Bradford, you know he's not gonna put the ball in harm's way. He just doesn't, you know. And what I mean by that is he's not careless with the football. He's not making reckless throws. He's not trying to play hero ball.

He typically takes what the defense gives him. And that's why when you look at his stat sheet, you don't see the high yards per temph a lot of his throws or to the running backs and to the tight ends. And that's okay, because I'd rather have that than to have a quarterback that typically puts the ball in harm's way, meaning he's going to turn the ball over. And you

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Welcome back to the postgame show for s anybody, Rico here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Like before we get back to the phone line, and here one of the things that I liked from Chip Kelly during the week. And you always hear about how he takes the one week at a time approach. Is that in his press conference on Thursday, it was the last time he addressed the media before the game on Sunday, and he had this jovial, confident attitude. Nothing cocky or anything like that,

but just the right frame of mind. It sort of gave a sort of like a feel at ease, feel for the players almost to say, hey, look, I'm the leader here, I've got this, okay, just fall behind me and won't make this happen and write the ship. Well. Malcolm talked about that a little bit in his press conference where he said the atmosphere felt different around the Novocare Complex this week, and maybe it did start from

Chip and the way to hear approach practice. The way he talked to the guys there certainly doesn't seem to be any panic when you hear his voice. Certainly doesn't seem to be any wilt in his belief of his guys. So you know, the player's feet off of that. And that's the one thing I used to love about Andy Read. I used to say, you know, big Red can sit up there at the press conference and he can stare, He could stare down a tornado. He can stare into the eye of the storm and he didn't blink, and

we could sense that. So whenever we got in a tough spot, we would take our cues from him. And then when you see that he's up there confident in us, we need to return that confidence in him and go

out there and play that way. And it's certainly seemed as if the players played that way, and it was good to see because the last two weeks that team was hard to identify, certainly, and that's the type of performance, those performances that teams might say, look, this is not going to happen this year, and you could have all of a sudden players jumping off the ship and everything going by the wayside. But not the case here today in New England. Let's go back to the phone lines

and welcome in Geo from Los Angeles. Geo, welcome to the postgame show. Pres anybody, Rico, thank you for having me, Thank you for having you for calling GEO to start off and say that that was an absolutely amazing team win and New England Patriot our ninety four in zero at home when leading by eight point since two thousand and one, so that was definitely a good win. And I can tell that they made adjustments. You know, adjustments

were made. Definitely, Like Malcolm Jenkins said in his interview, there was a different vibe in the building, and I can tell that they played the game differently. They made adjustments. DeMarco Murray didn't even play. They had Darren's Bowl, Kenyon Barner, and those backs looked good and better in my opinion in this system. Well, I thought those backs were able

to get to the outside out a little juice. I mean, Ryan Matthews was sidelined once again with a concussion and growing injuries, and we've seen what he's been able to do on the field this season, and someone on those outside zone sweep type plays, he's able to get to the edge and attack the defenses. And that's something that just this offense was lacking. This run game needed, needed a little bit of a spark. So they went to

the guys like Darren Sprowles. They brought in Kenyon Barner and gave them some more of the reps to be able to to attack the edges. Remember Dante high Tower, he was out for the Patriots, So they really wanted to attack the run defense and they felt that those two guys gave him probably a better chance to do that. Yeah, and they did. I mean they gave him a spark

where Needing. We know Sproles catching the ball out of the backfield is always a threat, but we want to see the little guy get a few carries back there because I think his tempo of hitting a hole it makes the un the run blockers a lot easier because they don't have to hold their blocks as long he gets there a lot faster. He darts by him, makes it more difficult for defenders to see him behind these

big guys. And then ken Yan barn and we all fell in low with him during the preseason because he's seemed to have an outstanding game every week and he certainly knows this system. To me, it's no knock against de Marco Murray. It's just that when you need running backs to get to the edges, I don't think that's his fortee, that's not his strength. He's more of a north south, downhill guy, and tonight the Eagles need running backs.

Deecond at times get around the edge is sort of what Dever was able to do to New England last week, and Barner and Danish Rolls were the two guys that fit that role best. Look the Patriots very good defensive line, especially the interior guys like Alan branch Dom easily was out for them by the first round. Picked Malcolm Brown, good players there in the middle, so it's gonna be tough to run against. So we've talked a lot about Malcolm Jenkins and the amazing play that he had the

ninety nine yard return for a touchdown. You guys have seen the highlights, but what about the All twenty two Let's welcome back NFL film senior producer Greg Hosell to unearth exactly how the touchdown came to be. The Malcolm Jenkins one hundred yard interception return for a touchdown gave the Eagles the lead. It was a really well designed red zone defensive concept by Bill Davis to take away the two most important threats of the Patriots. Brandon LaFell

down here, he's going to be doubled right here. Danny a Mendola right here, and he's going to be doubled Malcolm Jenkins and Walter Thurman. What they do is they double LaFell and a Mendola and play man to man on the other three eligible receivers. Let's clear it and take it to a spot where you can really see exactly what that is. But that's the defensive concept right here, right here, beautiful. You see the pure double on LaFell, excellent.

You see the pure double on Amendola excellent. It's man to man everywhere else on the other three receivers. Whi's really interesting is Brady chooses to throw it to Amendola, who's being double. Let's clear it and now we can see exactly how this transpires. It's a forced throw to a double teamed receiver Malcolm Jenkins, off the deflection, makes the pick, and then he runs for the touchdown. But what I really really liked about this play was the concept in the red zone. You always have to do

different things. Bill Davis did a great job here with his double team concepts. This turned the game around in the third quarter. Thank you very much. Greg. It's rare to see Tom Brady forced a pass like that. It seemed like he was like, I'm going to amundole, over the mill and to hell or high water. I'm gonna try to throw the ball in there, and even the

best make mistakes from time to time. Yeah, you know, it's hard for me to prove it, but I gotta sense there's a lack of respect showing the night from Brady and this offense going up against this defense. He made some uncharacteristic throws, almost as if he felt like either they weren't going to make the plays and I'm speaking to Eagles defense, or he felt like, even if I make a mistake, care this team is bad enough,

we'll come back and win in the end. Eventually, you just don't make some of the throws that he was making out there to night. When you respect your opponent, when you know you need to take care of football, and then you're right. This was so uncharacteristic of Tom Brady, some of the throws that he made the night. And listen, he had new receivers, he had some drops out there, so he was pressing the issue a little bit. And he certainly was hit early and Alton in the game.

That may have contributed to him getting rid of the ball sooner or predetermined in where he was going to throw the ball. But it certainly didn't look like the guy that I've seen played for the first ten weeks of the season, even last week against the Broncos in that lost. He looked very good in that game, they just didn't win it. Well, maybe that's what happened when you lose. Gronkowski, Julian Edelman. Maybe he's looking at the guys on the field saying, who am I throwing the

ball too? Okay, maybe I gotta go to this guy because he's the only one that I know. Let's go back to the phone lines. We're going up to Buffalo. We're gonna be playing the Bills next Sunday. Buffalo getting the big win today to get to six and six on the season. Let's bring in Tom to the postgame show for Zenoburrico. Tom, what's going on? Hey, Chris? How you doing? Wonderful? Absolutely outstanding too it earlier. It was a great day for Eagles fans today. I'll tell you

this was pretty special. I wanted to make a couple of comments. I wanted to compliment the Chip for the way he handled this past week. A lot of people were jumping off the bandwagon, a lot of people were putting them down. He stayed steady, kept the team steady. I think it says a lot about him as a coach, and I think he's going to take us a long way in the future. I'm right with him. What do you guys think of that? Well, I certainly hope you're right. Yeah,

certainly hope you're right. I just love the way the team responded. Again, this is a team that could have gone into the tank losing the way they did the past two games. Look, the Tampa Bay game obviously a big disappointment. They just could not get over that loss

in time four short days on Thanksgiving in Detroit. Detroit playing really well at the time, but to see them with a little mini buy the chest, chance of regroup, refocus, be able to take advantage at a time, and to be ready for this Patriots team and overcoming early adversity again. They were down fourteen. Nothing easily. They could have said, you know what, it's just knocking me our day. We

just can't keep up with them. Well, they got the one nice touchdown drive with the thanks to Jordan Matthews big catch and then the Zacher's touchdown on the back of the end zone. Then special teams stepped up in a big way, and then defense again going back to forcing turnovers, something that they had not done earlier in the past. Couple of games, so they got back to what made them successful earlier and spurts throughout the course of the season. This team, believe or not, has shown times,

They've shown flashes where they can be dominant. We just haven't seen it on a consistent basis weekend and week out, and that's the big difference here. So can they build upon this game? Can they build upon this win and be able to take it bring it home next week against Buffalo, a team that still has a lot to play for. The Eagles are very much in the hunt themselves.

So are they able to capitalize on what happened here today or is it going to be like the Dallas win a couple of weeks ago and it just kind of goes by the wayside and nothing else happens. So, Tom, you said, yea, a couple other points to make. Yeah, I want to nominate math from Jenkins for the Pro Bowl. I'm telling you he's shown himself to be a Pro Bowl player. And also, I'm really looking forward to next

week's game. I'm going to get killed up here we don't win, So, man, we've got to keep this street and beat Buffalo. I wear my Eagles gear all over the place up here. So oh, let's let's go out and beat Buffalo. That's that's the next step, all right, like it, Tom, thank you very much for the phone call. Well yeah, absolutely right. Well here, here's the thing about today's game with this team, and I'll be interested in seeing. This is why I'm excited about next week's game, not

because for Okay, I am excited. Shady's coming back next week. So you know, I like Shady. I like Shady all time leading Russia for the Philadelphia Eagles, Shady McCoy. He'll be back next week. But here's what I'm wondering. You know, the Buffalo Bills are gonna come here and motivated. They're in the playoff hunting. They're on a nice little winning streak here, they're playing well. Shady, I'll be motivated to come back here here. I want to see if this

Eagles teams. Today's game a product of we've been kicked, we've been beat down, we've been talked about, we've been giving up on, and I'm tired of hearing about it. Sort of a win. So they had to answer the call for today. They've been beat up pretty much by us around here for the last three weeks here in Philadelphia. Well, next week, because you won this game, the expectations will get back to there. So I'm wondering do the Eagles

believe they're still in the playoffs? Because this is the type of game that can propel you through the rest of the season, And we're gonna see do this team really believe that they have something left to play for in January? Because if they do, they'll come out next week ready to play. The Eagles basically are in the playoffs every week from here on out. They don't have much room for losses. They really don't. You're sitting at

five and seven. You gotta hope that the Redskins lose them all to put you in the tie, and then you got to come back next week and you have to win. So that's what I'm going to be anxious to see. Do the Eagles as a team really believe they have something left to play for? Or did they win today because their backs were against the wall and they were tired of being talked about, kicked around and beat down, so they came out fighting to night. They fought.

Though teams might get back to the corner and just will and if laps we did, but again, this is a chance. This is kind of almost that last stand, so to speak, where he said, you know what, enough is enough? You guys got to put up our shut up. So Chip, I'm Chip. You don't win next week, then what does today mean? Nothing? Exactly. That's why you got a bill, don't eat. It's so eerily similar to two thousand and eight, where you remember they went down to Baltimore,

they got routed, Donald McNabb was benched. Then they had that Thanksgiving win the route of the Arizona Carlos that propelled them down the stretch. But then they stumbled in that Washington game and needed so much help before forty four to six took place in Week seventeen, a thrilling finish to the regular season, and of course they went to the NFC Championship game that season. I feel like these two seasons have so many parallels. But at some point the Eagles need to catch fire and be able

to get a streak going. It's not just one game, it's they gotta be able to put a streak together together. So that's gonna do it for us. Here on the postgame Show presented by Rico Here in Philadelphia Eagles doc again tomorrow, Chip Kelly, we'll address the media in his day after press conference, and then at five pm it will be a complete wrap up of the day's news and notes as Brian Westbrook joins Dave Spadera in studio

on Eagles three sixty so again a thrilling finished. The Eagles defeat the New England Patriots thirty five to twenty eight for the first time in New England since nineteen eighty seven. Wow, where were you back in eighty seven? I don't know. I was seven years old at the time. I was gonna say, I wasn't seven years old. I was fourteen years old. So thirteen years old, high school song, seventh grade, middle school. So Niedlass is say all time ago?

He's a Chris. I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the postgame show presented by Rico here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com.