October 10, 2025 • 42 mins
Did Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo really just do that to the defending Super Bowl champions??? Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook recap an absolutely dominant win from what looks like a new-era New York Giants over the Philadelphia Eagles. From the G-Men's good to the Philly suspect, the NFL Daily duo has you covered on all of the major takeaways from Thursday Night Football. Plus, Atlanta Falcons star running back Bijan Robinson stops in for an interview with Gregg Rosenthal and Jourdan Rodrigue. Robinson takes us inside the head of an NFL RB, including how he decides to make his signature jump cuts when running downfield. Bijan's development, expectations for this Falcons team, and much, much more from this interview with one of the NFL's best.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hurts had a shotgun set Parkley to his white motion
Smith out Perks back Rose Lpez or something hold on the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right sideline, racing up the sideline for the Giants, there's
Cornel flot racing the forty thirty and knocked out about
of the Philadelphia twenty two perks quicklock for the first
five of this year, Portel.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Plots the same.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh that was Bob Papa on.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
W f A N You never know what you're gonna
get on Thursday Night football. You never know if you're
gonna get a highlight starring Cordale flop on a thirty
four to seventeen Giants victory.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
What a dup set, What a night.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
At some point Nick Shook, this went from a game
that I thought Jackson Dart had taken a really good
step forward to a game where Jackson Dart is gonna
get Jeremy Lynn levels of hype over the next ten days.
And he might because that performance really was incredible by
the young Giants quarterback.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Yeah, only in New York do you get that level
of hype after a flash of a moment of success.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But man, what a great game he had.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
You know, we talked about this before the season that
Russell Wilson was going to lose his job with Jackson Dart,
the riding was on the wall, and we saw why
in the preseason and even in his first game with
the Giants. He led them to a victory, but it
wasn't overly impressive. He had a nightmarish game in New
Orleans last week. This is the exact opposite. He did
everything that makes him special and makes him a great
fit for Brian Dable as he's trying to save his job.
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He scrambled, he threw a number of dimes, He passed
confidently all night. He shook off a trip to the
blue tent in which Brian Dable was in rage that
it wasn't moving quickly enough, and came back and helped
them finish this game. I'm not going to go so
far as to say that the Giants at their franchise quarterback,
but they should feel very very good about what they
saw from Jackson Dart tonight, a huge step forward and
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leading them to an upset victory.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, they certainly believe they have their franchise quarterback, that
is for sure, and it is a game that was
good enough to change the expectations I believe for Dart
for this giant season, not like they're going to the
playoffs or anything like that, but it was special because
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of everything that you said in terms of what he
added to the running game, and that it's not just
him running thirteen times for fifty eight yards in a
key early touchdown where he saved what looked like a
dead play, but it's Cam Skataboo going nineteen for ninety
eight on the ground like just an electric player to
watch run through the face of these Philadelphia Eagles on
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the way to three touchdowns, and the way that those
two have just energized an entire team with a big
time assist from Andrew Thomas, an All Pro left tackle
who returned a few weeks ago and gets better and
better every week. But the reason why for me it
changes the expectations shook is the diversity of what Dart did.
(03:02):
You mentioned in the first two games. I thought, yeah,
he looked like a rookie, like he's had some fun
moments and everything.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
This game.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The scrambles that he had were electric, but some of
the touch passes that he had three of his best
throws I actually wrote down, I thought were not complete.
There was the seambal, the Theo Johnson that he couldn't
haul in. There was a really nice touch pass on
the goal line to Little Jordan Humphrey that he couldn't
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finish the play. And then he had a great throw
in the red zone that was called pass interference late
that set up the third Cam Skataboo touchdown. And between
those throws and the shots down the field, he's gonna
give his guys chances, and he doesn't have a great
receiver group right now. There was no Darius Slayton tonight,
so they're one and two wide receivers were Wandale Robinson
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and Little Jordan Humphrey and Jalen Hyatt was out there
making a key third down catch. Between that and the
ability to just make something happen with his legs, that's
enough to build an offense around. And you can see
how excited Dabel is to build that offense.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, and you can see how frantic he was when
Dart was there was a chance of Dart not coming
back in the game. Like I tweeted it, it was
like Davie would rather walk barefoot over broken glass than
play one more series with Russell Wilson because he knows
that the difference is just so significant and guy, and
yes he did, Yes, he yelled at the guy in
the in the suit or in the sport code.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
At least he yelled. And you know who knows what
happened with that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
We can probably get the details on that later, but
it just goes to show how much he believes in
Jackson Dart and the beauty of Jackson Dart and why
he fits with New York so well is because he
made those throws that you just listed with no fear,
with complete confidence, and that's the quarterback he's been throughout
the course of most of his collegiate career. Now that
rubbed some people the wrong way, as if he was
overly confident, but it works perfectly in New York, where
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you have to be built to deal with the scrutiny
of the New York media and also the fact that
you're playing for the giants who haven't taste success in forever.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You're gonna go out there and lead them to a win.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Over the defending Super Bowl champions, a division rival, and
you're gonna do it with absolutely zero regard for a
the possible outcomes and be your own health at times
when scrambling, that's gonna win the hearts of Giants fans.
I think it just did tonight and is a huge
reason why they won that game.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And you're right about the scramble.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
That touchdown run early in the game, Oh my god,
that was beautiful. Like the way he knifed through the
Eagles defense to get to the end zone. He might
watch that back and think like, wow, they really did
a terrible job of containing him. Well, Zach Bond got
kind of juked out of his shoes.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But that takes.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Courage, and that takes athleticism that we saw in the
preseason that is now coming through in the regular season.
I'm excited for them, Like you said, not gonna be
a playoff team necessarily, but they're gonna be interesting to
watch entertaining, which is more than we've been able to
say about them for a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, why don't we go watch that one back in
and listen? Shall we a little more Bob popa?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, the Eagles bring heat in, shotgun set drops back
to throw a states.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Now, who's going to run with it? Puts at the
fifteen to the ten to the five touchdown Giants juxon Dark.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Twenty yard touchdown run.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I like the touchdown celebrations. I like how he undressed
Zach Bond and the open field. It was in a
tough spot to try to tackle Jackson Dart there. But
Zach Bond's had a couple rough games. And we're gonna
get to the Eagles side of this, because if you
thought the Eagles fans were panicking at four and oh,
and then panicking a little more at four and one,
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the sky is going to be falling tonight in Philadelphia
as the Phillies fly back to the East Coast and
our producer Chris Babona and Eric Roberts and heck me,
the Dodger faithful celebrate a bizarre, lucky win for the
baseball team. We're also, by the way, going to have
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Jon Robinson on the show. Oh, by the way, Big
Time Show. But first we're going to talk about this game.
We have an interview with Bajon coming up a little later.
So that touchdown drive was part of a couple sequences
Nick that I thought were really good by the offense.
Responding Eagles have a great opening drive where Saquon Barkley
rips off his longest run of the year, on the
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very first play eighteen yards thirteen yards the next play
for Saquon Barkley and you're thinking, oh, it's gonna be
one of those nights. But Jalen Hurts makes a bad
decision on an RPO where he keeps the ball lose
a few yards. They end up settling for three and
the Giants go down the field on that first touchdown drive.
They build what was a thirteen to three lead to
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start the game, and you're thinking, okay, it's off and running. Meanwhile,
Eagles offense, like they have all year, had one great
half of football in him and that half was the
first half. They respond, they get a couple touchdowns. Back,
let's actually listen to one of the most comical seasquences
of the year. The Eagles have a third and like
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a long two maybe even three inside the five, they
decide to go for the tush push there get it close.
It was a two play to tushbush sequence to get
the first down, Like that was the plan. They got
the first down, and then they just ran it two
more times for their touchdown as in line.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Right back up in the same formation.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Here we go again, full scrum toush push Frum the
one pooper.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
It's around step to Hurtz. He pushes forward, he drives
into the KSN.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
It's a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Philadelphia takes the lead with pure, rugged, go low behavior.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
That's a great call.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That was Jason Bennetti.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Haven't heard from him all year on Westwood One with
Devon mccorty. Was listening to that on my way back. Actually, Shuk,
I didn't know that it was Devon. I thought it
was Jason mccordy. Sometimes it's tough to tell. At that point,
you know they established the Hertz played. I thought a
near perfect first half until the last sequence. We'll get
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to that, but looked great. I think in the first
half of this game, and the Eagles storm back and
you think, Okay, the better team now has the lead.
Like I just figured they're going to take over the game.
That is not what happened. And I thought the next
drive from the Giants was really telling in important in
this game.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, absolutely, And the way that they capped it, I
mean a fifteen play, sixty seven yard march finished off
with camp Scadbu's first of three touchdown runs. And I
think that that is when the game shifted because you know,
the Eagles, they probably encountered a lot of teams over
the last year or so in the run of success
that would kind of get tired and kind of wilt
in the face of, you know, constant pressure from these
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this Eagles offense, like, oh, every time we find success,
suddenly you're just gonna match us.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Like what do we have to do? The Giants did.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
They did not blink in the face of adversity against
the Eagles tonight, and that drive right there capital I mean,
it basically captured their mindset going into this entire game,
which is that we're going to fight four quarters. Turns
out they only needed like three quarters to fight because.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
The is the Eagles who blinked.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
It was the Eagles who decided we're gonna pack it
up and go home tonight and figure things out because
like you said, they put together one good half, they
didn't put together two good halves.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It keeps happening that way. And that drive that you mentioned,
the fifteen play drive ends with a minute in nineteen
seconds on the clock, and I was I was looking back,
like for some key plays in that drive, but it
it was actually just four plays at a time, like
a third and four to Higatt, but he's wide open
on the sideline for a first down. It's skataboo picking
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up chunks. It was just a very workman like drive
the Eagles for me, and pass rush tonight was absent,
and it really is striking to me to think a
little big picture before we get back into the game
flow that so much focus has been on aj Brown
and Jalen Hurts and it got quiet in the second
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half of this game again, but I think Jalen Hurts
in the passing game on some level is it's pretty
similar to where it was on average in the regular
season last year. Like it's not a top ten group.
It wasn't last year either, but it's not a bottom
ten group either. It's efficient enough, it's in the middle.
What's different Nick to me is there's no four man
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pass rush that's consistent, and there was no Jalen Carter tonight.
We should point out he was inactive for the game.
There's no Landon Dickerson either, so that's important for the Eagles.
But there's no foreman pass rush like they've always had,
and there's not a good running game and Saquon after
that opening spurt was shut down and it's like, that's
what's different about these Eagles, and that's what's been good
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about the Eagles for a decade, and that's really not
there for them right now.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, and you're kind of teeing me up to get
bashed by Eagles fans who've been in my mentions for
a year saying I've ranked Jalen Hurts too low in
the QB indext But that's fine because what really matters
more than anything is that it starts in the trenches,
Like you know where I'm gonna go with this, and
tonight proved it. I mean, you lose Jalen Carter, he's
not able to play. That's your most important defensive interior player.
He's he's a game wrecking type of player. You take
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him out, all you have left there is Jordan Davis.
I felt like I was watching a cast of anonymous
rushers on the front four for the Eagles, like the
teeth had been taken from their defense. Not to mention
they lost Quiny and Mitchell during this game, They're already down,
like their cornerback situation is rough. At one point, it's
keiey Ringo and a Dori Jackson out there, which both
of them are a liability, so their defense is banged up,
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like they're missing key contributors on that side of the ball,
and that's why they couldn't get stopped and why they
gave up thirty four points to the Giants. But also
on the offensive side, just like you said, there's no
running game. There's been no running game all year, and
you come to learn how valuable a player like Landon
Dickerson is to this group. But that alone is not
enough for me, because like losing one lineman can hurt
any team, especially a player of Dickerson's caliber.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
But the way in which they try to.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Get Saquon going is just so inconsistent to the point
where they're down I think ten in the fourth quarter
and Kevin patula is just putting them in five wide,
just empty, just go empty the whole time.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Saquon's out there wide.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
One time AJ Dillen's out there wide again, he ends
up committing a turnover in that situation, and it just
makes you wonder, like where the identity of the Eagles,
a team those built around the strength of their offensive line,
their running game and could build out.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Of that, where did they go?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And obviously the easy conclusion is all the passing games,
you know, disjointed. They're stuck in a run. Well, yeah,
because that's all they can do. Like, we go back
to the Rams game, they couldn't stop a nosebleed in
the first half. They had to air it out, and
luckily they did enough to come back and beat the
Rams with a couple of block fielgals as well. But like,
this has been a concerning sign for now three games,
and I don't know if it gets any better anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
No, because Dickerson needs to get healthy. There are a
couple of weeks away from their bye week. Their schedule
is very interesting by the way. They go at Minnesota
next week and then they have the Giants again at home.
I hate when teams play twice in three weeks, yep,
especially if it's late in the year. There is something
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about this particular situation that we're going to get a
replay of this game in two weeks that I do
find interesting because you better win that game, Philadelphia. You
get swept by the Giants at home, losing twice in
three weeks, that that puts the stakes at.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
That game very high.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
But I think it was really well said about the line.
They just can't run block this year, and three interior guys.
It's Steen, it's Jurgens, and it's Dickerson when he's out there.
And then you know the group they had today just
wasn't good enough because you know who also didn't really
get much pressure today like the Giants. The Eagles offensive
line played great. And that's I mean in terms of
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pass protection, that's where maybe you can criticize Hurts and
Patulo because Jalen hurts his time to throw. I'm so
glad to four to three tonight, at least when I
last checked, I don't know if that was the final.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Three point four two is what it finished at. Yeah,
so the same thing. Yeah, that's an obviously.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I haven't seen like a number that high since Justin
Fields is like rookie year.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
He was.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Jalen the guy who usually he holds out of the
ball longer than the average quarterback already, he's a guy
who likes to float around back there and wait for
guys to get open. And early in this game it
was where they were running they ran a Mills concept
where he waited for the drag, the crosser on the
drag to get open.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And it got a first down.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
He waited again and kind of improvised found another guy
wide open at the sticks for a first down. It
was fine, But in the second half, once the Giants
really gained the lead Number one built a ten point lead,
they didn't have to play against the run.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They didn't have to try to stop the run anymore.
They could just play coverage.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
At that point, there was nowhere for Hurts to go,
and it just undercut this entire offense, which kind of
typifies where this entire unit has.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Been for a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Now, right. They it's like, just make a decision, and.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They're a hard team to talk about because actually he
made a lot of nice throws in the first half.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
It's just these little things.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The half ends, they get the ball with one minute
in nineteen seconds left and they run out of time.
He manages it really poorly. Yeah, at one point he's
totally unaware of the clock, trying to get the last playoff.
He's like jumping back into shotgun. He is not good
in the two minute drill. I feel like I'm comfortable
in saying that that's the weakest part of his game.
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He's really bad at the clock management. Part of it,
and that's that could be blamed on coaching a little bit.
I kind of blame that more on Jalen Hurts, so
he's bad at that, and then there's been a player
two each week where you're just man that would have
changed the game. And that play tonight was when DeVante
Smith beat Yeah, was it flat?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
By about eight yards. I mean, you cannot be more open.
Hurts is on his own goal line. When he throws
that ball, it's his best throw. Usually he misses it
by so much and if he hits DeVante Smith there,
I think it's like a ninety six yard touchdown. Instead,
they punted away to the Giants who are on a
short field and then they end up taking a big lead.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, it was a game changing myths. But you know,
I when I watched him, I'm watching on prime visions.
You're getting that behind the line, you know, film angle,
and you can see what Jalen was trying to do. Like,
I don't blame this entirely on him. He just sent
it too deep, but like there's a safety there, and
the way that DeVante Smith was running that route, he
had to throw it away from the safety. So he
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tries to put it over his outside shoulder and it
kind of gets devanted, like like turned around, and he
kind of can't track the ball.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And especially it's like.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
A Willie Main style like over the basket catch over
the shoulder type of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So it's a tough play to make. But yeah, he
missed him by a few yards and.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
It was a pivotal miss in that game because of
what you know unfolded from there. And then the other
one that I hate to bring up because I hate
to be the guy who sits back and just looks
at when guys are open in certain spots in film.
But I watched this live and I thought, oh, it worked,
and he didn't go to the guy that I thought
he was going to go.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
To, which was the pick. It was the Cordill flop pick.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Jalen's dropping back and he's eyeing his outside target the
entire time out of the corner of his eye, waiting
for him to break sleek and throw it. First off,
he puts the ball on the wrong side of his receiver.
He leaves it too far inside, which is why Flatt
was able to jump the route. Secondly, they run this
concept where they run Godard up to about the sticks
and he sits down and it brings the safety down
and AJ Brown's running a crosser right behind him and
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he's open, And I'm like, man, Jalen, if you didn't
decide so quickly that you were going to throw the
out as if you're trying to make the safe play,
you had a touchdown there.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
And again, don't like to be the.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Guy who's like because I don't know where the progression
was supposed to dictate that his eye should be. But
just looking back in the way that this game kind
of melted down for them, I really wish you would
have made the throw to aj Brown there.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It might have changed the conversation with this game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, you know, it's tough to kill a guy for
his first interception and three hundred regular season snaps or
whatever the crazy stat was, But tonight that interception killed
their chances, killed the game. It was a bad throw,
it was a bad decision. It was a great play
by Flott who won that battle in training camp, so
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that helped put the game away. But we were talking
about that sequence, you know, when the Eagles are punting
out of their own end zone and it sets up
what is really the touchdown that made me think, oh wow,
I guess the Giants might just win this game. And
this was I believe on a drive where again third
down Dart was absolute money. The variety of the throws
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that he had were really impressive to me tonight. But
he had a nice, you know, quick like slant up
the seam on that drive on the third down that
kept it going. There was a lot of like just
little plays by Dart. There was the one that he
just scrambled forever before making a play to the Wandel
Robinson long long touchdown. There was another you know scramble
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where he avoids having a big negative and he just
gets a couple of yards in the play. He keeps
them in a good down and distance. But let's actually
go back and listen to the second cam Skataboo touchdown
that really started to put this game.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Out of reach.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Dart over center statabo bat hand off, Stataboo.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Once to his wife fighting for the end zone. Did
he break the plan?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yes, touchdown Giants, Pam Statabu with extra effort.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
If you're watching that on YouTube, we appreciate that we
are able to show these highlights. And we're now re
rolling Jackson Dart's asking for them to call the touchdown.
He hears one official I think, tell the other official
who is marking it down at the half yard line,
that that's a touchdown, and he just slaps the official five.
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The official doesn't want it to happen. But when Kirk
Kirbstreet is kind of making me roll my eyes and
gaggle a little bit, being.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Like, well, I don't know, you know, you get the
fund what's it? But he's got it.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't know if that's what Jackson Dart has. But
he's a hell of a watch like he's entertaining to watch.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, he's a fireball of a quarterback. I mean, the
kid plays with passion. It extends well beyond the weird
one eye black thing that he does in his face. Yeah,
he has very fun to watch. It was also not
to pivot is back toward the negative. But I'm just
looking all the Eagles players in the field that there
were multiple times tonight speaking to their how thin they
are defensively right now where I'm like, who is ninety five,
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who's ninety four? I even had a double check what
number a door Jackson was wearing there, like that's not
a play that Eagles teams of the past get bullied
in on the goal line, Like Scataboo is an absolute
rhino of a running back, like he's Peyton Hillis blended
with a more athletic and quicker running back, Like that's
who if.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Peyton Hillis could do backflips. I mean they give came
out and covers.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That they would.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
They might have given him three if the fan vote
just determined all of them. But like so, he's gonna grind,
you know, he's gonna turn up his legs and try
to win that battle on the goal line. But Eagle
teams of the past wouldn't have that wouldn't have happen
to them. Like that speaks to the fact that Jalen
Carter's not out there and just some of the concerns
I have with their defensive personnel overall right now. But
that's not to take anything away from the Giants. Like
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the Giants earned this victory. It was a victory built
on desire, passion, and love for the game, as exemplified
by their quarterback.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
You sound like Brian Dable. I mean Brian Dabele.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No, Brian Dables. He's he's filled with rage and panic
when Jackson darts in the tent.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And then and then after he gets out he's out there,
he's practically like kissing him on the head. He's head
button scataboo. He's like slapping Dart's head the second he
gets out of the concussion protocol ten and it's like
all right, all right, Brian, No, yeah, let's come down
just a little bit. Well, I think there are some
real personnel takeaways for the Eagles. So you mentioned adri
Jackson's weak tackle attempt on the goal line. There was
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also kiey ring kiey Ringo not only giving up a
you know, thirty four yard passed to little Jordan Humphrey
on that first touchdown drive where he kind of mossed him,
but giving up a longer pass to Wandel Robinson later
in that drive where then he just doesn't have any
effort and he doesn't touch him down. He just he
just watches him and Wandale then gets up and runs
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for another seventy yards. And even in that moment, like
he didn't even be like, oh why did I do that?
I just was watching him. He just he just kind
of watched it. And the touchdown to Wandell Robinson where
Jackson Dart scrambles around and just kind of makes a play.
Makuba comes in and just kind of flies after him.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Sadly.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, terrible tackle attempt and that should have been a
tackle at the twenty eight yard line. Instead, Robinson goes
in for a score. Howie Roseman had to have been
on the phone tonight to go get a cornerback because
if Quinion Mitchell has a hamstring injury, who knows, Maybe
they're just being careful, but those are usually injuries that
keep you out a couple of weeks, Like he could
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be out into their bye week and suddenly they're very
thinncked cornerback.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, he should have did what the Jags did earlier
this week, which is trade for Greg Newsom, Like you
gotta make a trade link and you gotta go get
a guy.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
We're trade for Tyson Campbell. Whichever one you like better.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, apparently they were exactly. Yeah, they were both available.
Tyson Campbell's in her team patrol for through twenty twenty nine.
So I don't know if that fits his salary cap strategy,
but he's got to go get somebody because adri Jackson
was getting torched in week one, Keely Ringo was a
liability tonight, they're both out on the field at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
You are a weaker as a defense.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
And that mistackle by Andrew mccoola, who I think is
a very promising player by the way, but got caught
a little bit of position, poor form on the tackling
one of thirteen miss tackles by the Eagles tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's just not good enough. That's not Philadelphia Eagles football.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And I just am so glad that the Giants are
like back on the board. And what I mean by
that is we started the recap show last week talking
about like all these one in four teams or even
a couple of two and three teams that feel a
little dead, that if you got them in primetime, it's
gonna be less exciting. You know, when we're previewing their games,
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it doesn't feel like a good game just because they're involved.
And you know what, with the Giants, even if they
lose next week in Denver, which you know that's a
very tough game, and they go to two and five,
they're just alive. They're just gonna be more interesting to watch.
Between Dart Skataboo and the pass rushers they have who
even tonight they didn't even have a good night. They
didn't even a great night, but they didn't they didn't
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need to. Maybe maybe the strategy was to contain Hurts
as a runner, and they did it. Burns did have
a couple sacks. I'm just glad they're back in the mix. Okay,
that's it for Eagles Giants. I think we're good unless
you have anything really big to say. I did want
to get your thoughts on the Greg Newsom for Tyson
Campbell trade, just because we're here and we didn't hit it.
You know, it happened after we taped, and you're a
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Browns fan and I just watched Greg Newsom be targeted
quite a bit by Carson Wentz. It did okay in
that game, but also gave up some plays. But I
think's had a good season so far for the Browns.
What a surprising trade that Greg Newsom goes to the Jaguars,
who are in you know, contention here for the AFC
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South title, and they trade a guy who's under a
long term contract, Tyson Campbell, for Greg Newson, A rare
challenge trade. Newsom is going to be a free agent
after this year, whereas the Browns get a guy in
Campbell who's cost controlled maybe about fifteen million the year
for the next few years. What did you think of
a very surprising trade. A couple of late round picks
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were exchanged in it that that the Browns get to
go higher in the draft. But to me that was
a less important part of the deal.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, yeah, it's said to me two things.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
It said.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
One, the Jaguars are very much interested in capitalizing on
their hot start, on the fact that they're four and
one and coming off of a win over the Chiefs,
and they believe the time is now to I guess
go all in to a degree by Trady for a
guy in Newsom who's always played the opposite corner of
Denzel Ward and done a pretty good job, he was
not a guy I think the Browns were interested in
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paying long term at the market rate that he was
probably going to command.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But it's also an illustration.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Of where the Browns are as a team right now,
which is that A they are very much open for business,
and B they'd rather get somebody under team control with a.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Fairly friendly contract.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That that contract kind of bumps up in cap number
a couple of years from now, but it's a low
enough number next year that they can get through the
end of the Watson contract and it's affordable, and they
have a player that they can line up opposite ward
before they have to start, you know, reallocating some of
that money elsewhere, including to that contract. So it's an
example of two teams in very different places that picked
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up the phone and said, look, yeah, we'll send you
Greg newsoon as long as you give us a replacement
who's like somewhat comparable. And I think that they both
got that deal. They both achieved that in this deal.
But it was a bit of a surprise given that
I thought the most shocking news from the Browns this
week would be the Joe Flacco trade.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Turns out they also decided to trade Greg Newsom.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know, I really liked Tyson Campbell a couple of
years ago, and as it was explained by John Shipley
on SI dot Com, they just didn't see Tyson Campblell
as a scheme fit and he wasn't playing well in
this system that happened. He's a good man coverage corner.
That's how he wins. He's not a huge cornerback, but
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he plays tough. That's the type of football that the
Browns play a lot of man coverage. Relatively, they had
Newsom playing in the slot quite a bit just because
that's where they needed him.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
The Jaguars c Newsom as a guy who's more of
a player, who's going to be good in zone with
his eyes on the quarterback and looking to be more
of a playmaker. That makes total sense to me, And
I think from the Browns perspective, if you could sign
Tyson Campbell to a contract and free agency, it would
cost a lot more than they're going to pay him.
So now they have a guy at what could be
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a pretty thin position for them next year.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
So I like it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What I really like about is that the Jaguars especially
are just going to be rams like whereas like they
if they think they can improve their team, they're just
going to go do it, like forget about convention. I know,
Like they're in the mix and it's kind of unconventional
to trade a starter for a starter in the middle
of the season like this, Like who cares. They're just
trying to get better for now and the future. And
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if they really love Greg Newsom. They can put the
franchise tag on him or figure out a contract with
him in the future.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
So yeah, they have the opportunity to do that if
they like him. And at the zone versus man thing,
I think is good because if you look at what
they did against the Chiefs, seventy three point nine percent
zone coverage on Monday. So you're absolutely right about the
scheme fit. There is one adjustment that Greg Newsom is
going to have to make. Jim Schwartz encourages his players
to celebrate every success. Yes, Greg news Some built a
reputation in Cleveland for dancing rather expressively after the smallest
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of victories in which a throw might have been five
yards over the head of the guy that he was covering.
But he's still gonna celebrate seat belt. He had this
like guitar strumming celebration. Jags fans, you're either going to
see a lot of Greg news Some celebrating on some
big or small plays, or he's gonna have to tone
it down.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
With the Jaguars, I feel.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like they will support that endeavor.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh what man, I was not expecting to talk about that,
but it came up and I love it. I'm in
a great mood because it was. It was a great
night of sports, a big upset victory on TNF, the
two lane Green Wave after blowing a ton of red
zone opportunities, get a late touchdown and escape and get
a much needed win.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Five one baby, you know they're in the mix.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And most importantly, Colleen Wolf represented all the Philadelphia fans
out there that said, this day of sports can go
straight to Hell and bur and forever. Actually, I have
nothing against Philadelphia fans in general, but I was rooting
against the Phillies tonight. And look the Eagles, They've had
enough fun over the years. The NFC East is suddenly
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very interesting. The Commanders are feeling a little better. The
Cowboys are thinking, hmm, what's possible. Even the Giants, I think,
are looking at this NFC and just wondering. You never know,
it's a long season. We're gonna take quick break here,
shook great job tonight, and we're gonna listen to an interview.
I'm very excited for our listeners to hear this. We
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got Bajohn Robinson on the show. We taped this on Wednesday,
so it's both me and Jordan rod Riege talking to
Bijon Robinson.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
You will hear our conversation and he was great.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
After for.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Very excited to welcome in John Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons,
one of my favorite players to watch since the day
he entered the league. Good to talk to you, John.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yeah, absolutely, good talk to you guys. Will I appreciate
you guys grabbing me.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Some people's favorite players since you know Texas, but Greg's
only counting NFL stuff. I mean, oh, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I guess it's a little unprofessional to just be like
calling people your favorite player right right off the top.
I did want to ask, though, because I've noticed something,
and I'll run this theory by you. I think you've
improved steadily like each season. You obviously came in at
a very high level, and I think seeing that gradual
improvement each and every year, to me is pretty noticeable.
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But because it's been gradual, I don't think maybe like
the average fan has seen like, oh, this is his
breakout season, because it's been so steady. What do you
think you've improved the most at since you entered the league.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yeah, I'll say just my confidence in very much slowed
down for me. You know, obviously it's a process from
your first year to your second year and then to
your third year, and when when everything starts to you
start to see everything at a different pace, at a
different speed, and you know, that's that's what I feel
like it's happening for me right now, which is such
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a blessing.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Because, like, you know, God's gave.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Me a gift to do so many things on the field,
So for me to get to exploit that and help my.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Team win and do at a high level, it has
been great.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
But yeah, I even tell people, like even even from college,
from your first year to your third year, you know,
there's a difference.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
So it's the same thing for the NFL, and it's
been It's been fun.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Man, John.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
I really like watching how you see your gaps open
up and how you maneuver and sort of manage. It's
very it's artistic, but it's decisive at the same time.
You guys run a lot of stuff out a pistol.
I know Zach Robinson well from from back here in
LA and I know he really appreciates you being able
to see everything laying out and unfolding in front of you,
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almost like how a quarterback would in the gun, right,
So can you kind of explain what that is to
you to be able to kind of see the portrait
unfold and then pick your spots accordingly when you can
see everything in front of you like that.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Yeah, I mean, well, first off, like it's sto line
that that that helps me do all that. You know,
those guys up there are are tremendous when it comes
to communication, when it comes to you know, finding those
slips and passing off blocks and getting to the second
level and making those cuts happen. Like it's it's all
those guys when it when it at the end of
the day and when it comes down to it, and
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for me, it's just you know, using using my vision
and just anticipating with what's coming before it even happens,
before the play even starts.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
And for me, like you know, it's very important.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
To use my eyes at a very high level and
to manipulate linebackers, safeties, uh D, linemen just just every
every one of them because when I do that and
when I'm controlling the pace of the game, then then
everything else is taking care of yourself. So you know,
it's it's a it's a really big, you know thing
in my game that I that I really take pride
in and obviously I want to continue to you know,
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up that level.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Then just use that gift at a high level.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
Yeah, I love that you said that, because it's not
something you can really quantify. You can feel when you
take over with what you're seeing and kind of when
you hit that flow a little bit like you're just
seeing it really well and you're you're hitting the hole
where you need to and setting those guys up. And
I guess I wonder what that shift feels like and
can can your teammates feel it when you're feeling it?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Absolutely, I mean everybody in the stadium can feel that,
just because you just kind of know, like all right,
like some something's happening, and it's like this, this is
a gradual pace of you know, we want to dominate
on the field as offense, and you know, as as
you get the run game going, then the past game
opens up. Then when the past game gets going and
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the run game opens up. So we just played complimentary
ball with each other on this offense, and like you said,
with Zrab, you know, he's so big into playing complimentary
football and make sure that we're affecting the game, in
both run game and pass game, and that's just that's
just our identity, and for us to continue to be
consistent with that, like knowing the details, knowing the little
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things that we're supposed to do, and even when me
being in the past game as well, like me knowing
those kind of details as well, is very important for
us to be the team we want to be, but
they'd be the offense we want to become too.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So when you're in one of the middle of one
of those runs where you're throwing like three different jump
cuts in the same exact run, it's like playing Froggert,
Like do.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
You see where the play is going to go?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Are you thinking one cut ahead when you're making that
first cut?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Absolutely, Like when I'm in I'm already seeing the second level.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
And where I need to go for the second one
if I have to make another cut or if I
just got to get vertical right away, because if I
if I make that first one, then I'm leaving an
area that was closed, but there's still a lot of
defenders on that side of the area for me to
make another jump cuts and you know, try to find
that crease.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
But you know, it's just like I said, like, it's
all it's all in.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
My vision and the vision that you have to run
with and die and bless with. And you know, I'm
gonna continue to get better at that as as the
season goes on. But yeah, man, like when I'm trying
to set up my blocks and everything like that, that's
that's that's where it comes from.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
You know. You mentioned kind of that shared feeling that
you can get when things are going well as a team.
This is something I've been dying to ask you because
I heard Leonard Floyd talking about in training camp how
Michael Pennix talks a little smack And you would think,
you know, interviewing him in the past and all that
he's quiet and and all of that, but you keep
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hearing these things coming out of Atlanta that he's he's chattering,
he's talking to to the defense. Can you kind of
peel the curtain back on that a little bit, Like
what's he really like when he's when he's feeling it
when he gets going, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
I mean he's super super calm and collected. Like that's
that's Mike, that's his game, that's who he is as
a person. And for him, I mean, yeah, when the
when the moment presents itself and when when the like
maybe he might say a couple of things, might say
a couple of words, but in all aspects of it,
he's so locked into what he has to do. He's
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so locked into his his process. Like you know, you
might not get that a lot out of him, but
if you get it out of him, that means he's
just on a different level, ready to gang, ready to go.
And you know, it's been fun to watch. It's it's
fun to see. It's been fun to just be a
part of because you know, he's so talented, but not
only that, he's so smart in his process and how
he goes about it.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
So it's been it's been fun.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I look at this team and think how you've already
in such a short season, had a little bit of everything.
Like you had you had a dominant prime time win,
you had a like a heartbreaking loss in Week one
which was back and forth division rivalry game. You had
a rough game in Carolina where you guys got shut out,
and then you had an offensive explosion, and your defense
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has been pretty consistently good, I would say for the
most part throughout. So make the case, uh, John of
like where this team is going to go and you
know why, you you know, can can accomplish some of
the goals that I know you guys have set out
for yourself.
Speaker 7 (38:10):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing for us, as you
just said, is for us to be consistent, you know
West for this season. We have to take every take
everything one game at a time, like not look ahead.
You know, we have to make sure that we're in
the moment of of this game, of this week, of
every single day, because I feel when we start looking
ahead and we start going in the games complacent, and
that's when we lose.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
That's when we get shut out.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
So it's very important for us to play with continue
to play with that edge, continue to play for each
other as a team, play for God, like play for
play for everything that we're supposed to do. Because when
we do everything the right way, you know, we everybody
seem the result that we put out, but we're not
doing things at our standard or not doing it the
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way we want to do it, then you know, that's
that's when when bad things happen. So that's that's the
most important thing. Rest as a team as individuals and
you know, we really came together during that loss against
the Panthers and it really changed the direct you know
how we just look at the rest of these games,
how we look at each other as the team, and
it just really brought us closer together so we can
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be at our best.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
You're going to be in the center of the NFL
the next couple of weeks primetime games against the Bills
against the forty nine ers that the forty nine Ers
one is going to be on Sunday Night Football. I
love a little like Falcons in the center because y'all
have like the best fans I think just about in
the league. Like they're crazy, and just more Falcons fans
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in my mention, the better.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
That's it. That's it. They're amazing. Man. They bring the
energy every game. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Tell us what you're doing here. You're starring in a
new ad. So speaking of primetime games, you have an
ad that's actually going to be going up with Colgate
Total during tn F.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
How do you like your life as an actor?
Speaker 6 (39:59):
Man, it's been and.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Like even doing that commercial with the Colgate and even
now just partnering with Coldgate and the Total Active Prevension
system is just been amazing, you know, with the toothbrush,
the toothpaste and the mouth washed like you know, I
take it so important. I take it so serious because
you know, I'm such a positive guy. I love to smile.
I love to to make people happy. So I need
to make sure my teeth and my gums and my
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ore health is is that at all at all time high? So,
you know, partnering with Colgate, it's been nothing but amazing.
But onto your onto the ad you know for tomorrow,
you know, premiering on on NFL, you know, Thursday night
prime time is going to be just amazing to for
people to see that and for people to want to
buy and get the tot Active Provision System, it's going
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to be even better. So it's gonna be a good
time tomorrow and I can't wait for everybody to see it.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
But Jean, if I am remembering correctly, you're pretty interested
in acting, right, like you have some experience with it
and Atlanta, I mean that's a big there's a lot
of studios, a lot of movies being made over there.
Am I bring that correctly?
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Oh, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 7 (41:03):
I definitely am getting into it a little bit as
as I can, and I'll have like friends and people
that like are in it now. So it's been it's
been cool to see their process and you know, hopefully
one day I can do the same thing.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Love it well, hopefully long, long, long time from now,
because we're having so much fun watching you.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, it'll be a while. And you said you
love having that big smile on your face. You're you're
putting smiles on the face of a lot of football
fans around the country, including my son Walker, who you're
just like anchoring and dominating for his fantasy football league. Yes, yes,
you just made his entire year. Appreciate you. Thanks for talking.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. Good talking to you, guys.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Oh that was a great talk.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Always cool when one of your favorite players turns out
to be a really cool guy.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Great show tonight.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Was really excited to break down one of biggest upsets,
maybe one of the biggest seasons changing winds of the season,
Giants over the Eagles. We will be back on Sunday night, Yes,
Shooky and Jordan and Patrick and myself recapping Week six.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
We'll see you that
Hurts had a shotgun set Parkley to his white motion
Smith out Perks back Rose Lpez or something hold on the.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right sideline, racing up the sideline for the Giants, there's
Cornel flot racing the forty thirty and knocked out about
of the Philadelphia twenty two perks quicklock for the first
five of this year, Portel.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Plots the same.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh that was Bob Papa on.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
W f A N You never know what you're gonna
get on Thursday Night football. You never know if you're
gonna get a highlight starring Cordale flop on a thirty
four to seventeen Giants victory.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
What a dup set, What a night.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
At some point Nick Shook, this went from a game
that I thought Jackson Dart had taken a really good
step forward to a game where Jackson Dart is gonna
get Jeremy Lynn levels of hype over the next ten days.
And he might because that performance really was incredible by
the young Giants quarterback.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Yeah, only in New York do you get that level
of hype after a flash of a moment of success.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But man, what a great game he had.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
You know, we talked about this before the season that
Russell Wilson was going to lose his job with Jackson Dart,
the riding was on the wall, and we saw why
in the preseason and even in his first game with
the Giants. He led them to a victory, but it
wasn't overly impressive. He had a nightmarish game in New
Orleans last week. This is the exact opposite. He did
everything that makes him special and makes him a great
fit for Brian Dable as he's trying to save his job.
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He scrambled, he threw a number of dimes, He passed
confidently all night. He shook off a trip to the
blue tent in which Brian Dable was in rage that
it wasn't moving quickly enough, and came back and helped
them finish this game. I'm not going to go so
far as to say that the Giants at their franchise quarterback,
but they should feel very very good about what they
saw from Jackson Dart tonight, a huge step forward and
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leading them to an upset victory.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, they certainly believe they have their franchise quarterback, that
is for sure, and it is a game that was
good enough to change the expectations I believe for Dart
for this giant season, not like they're going to the
playoffs or anything like that, but it was special because
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of everything that you said in terms of what he
added to the running game, and that it's not just
him running thirteen times for fifty eight yards in a
key early touchdown where he saved what looked like a
dead play, but it's Cam Skataboo going nineteen for ninety
eight on the ground like just an electric player to
watch run through the face of these Philadelphia Eagles on
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the way to three touchdowns, and the way that those
two have just energized an entire team with a big
time assist from Andrew Thomas, an All Pro left tackle
who returned a few weeks ago and gets better and
better every week. But the reason why for me it
changes the expectations shook is the diversity of what Dart did.
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You mentioned in the first two games. I thought, yeah,
he looked like a rookie, like he's had some fun
moments and everything.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
This game.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The scrambles that he had were electric, but some of
the touch passes that he had three of his best
throws I actually wrote down, I thought were not complete.
There was the seambal, the Theo Johnson that he couldn't
haul in. There was a really nice touch pass on
the goal line to Little Jordan Humphrey that he couldn't
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finish the play. And then he had a great throw
in the red zone that was called pass interference late
that set up the third Cam Skataboo touchdown. And between
those throws and the shots down the field, he's gonna
give his guys chances, and he doesn't have a great
receiver group right now. There was no Darius Slayton tonight,
so they're one and two wide receivers were Wandale Robinson
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and Little Jordan Humphrey and Jalen Hyatt was out there
making a key third down catch. Between that and the
ability to just make something happen with his legs, that's
enough to build an offense around. And you can see
how excited Dabel is to build that offense.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, and you can see how frantic he was when
Dart was there was a chance of Dart not coming
back in the game. Like I tweeted it, it was
like Davie would rather walk barefoot over broken glass than
play one more series with Russell Wilson because he knows
that the difference is just so significant and guy, and
yes he did, Yes, he yelled at the guy in
the in the suit or in the sport code.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
At least he yelled. And you know who knows what
happened with that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
We can probably get the details on that later, but
it just goes to show how much he believes in
Jackson Dart and the beauty of Jackson Dart and why
he fits with New York so well is because he
made those throws that you just listed with no fear,
with complete confidence, and that's the quarterback he's been throughout
the course of most of his collegiate career. Now that
rubbed some people the wrong way, as if he was
overly confident, but it works perfectly in New York, where
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you have to be built to deal with the scrutiny
of the New York media and also the fact that
you're playing for the giants who haven't taste success in forever.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You're gonna go out there and lead them to a win.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Over the defending Super Bowl champions, a division rival, and
you're gonna do it with absolutely zero regard for a
the possible outcomes and be your own health at times
when scrambling, that's gonna win the hearts of Giants fans.
I think it just did tonight and is a huge
reason why they won that game.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And you're right about the scramble.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
That touchdown run early in the game, Oh my god,
that was beautiful. Like the way he knifed through the
Eagles defense to get to the end zone. He might
watch that back and think like, wow, they really did
a terrible job of containing him. Well, Zach Bond got
kind of juked out of his shoes.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
But that takes.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Courage, and that takes athleticism that we saw in the
preseason that is now coming through in the regular season.
I'm excited for them, Like you said, not gonna be
a playoff team necessarily, but they're gonna be interesting to
watch entertaining, which is more than we've been able to
say about them for a long time.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, why don't we go watch that one back in
and listen? Shall we a little more Bob popa?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, the Eagles bring heat in, shotgun set drops back
to throw a states.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Now, who's going to run with it? Puts at the
fifteen to the ten to the five touchdown Giants juxon Dark.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Twenty yard touchdown run.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I like the touchdown celebrations. I like how he undressed
Zach Bond and the open field. It was in a
tough spot to try to tackle Jackson Dart there. But
Zach Bond's had a couple rough games. And we're gonna
get to the Eagles side of this, because if you
thought the Eagles fans were panicking at four and oh,
and then panicking a little more at four and one,
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the sky is going to be falling tonight in Philadelphia
as the Phillies fly back to the East Coast and
our producer Chris Babona and Eric Roberts and heck me,
the Dodger faithful celebrate a bizarre, lucky win for the
baseball team. We're also, by the way, going to have
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Jon Robinson on the show. Oh, by the way, Big
Time Show. But first we're going to talk about this game.
We have an interview with Bajon coming up a little later.
So that touchdown drive was part of a couple sequences
Nick that I thought were really good by the offense.
Responding Eagles have a great opening drive where Saquon Barkley
rips off his longest run of the year, on the
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very first play eighteen yards thirteen yards the next play
for Saquon Barkley and you're thinking, oh, it's gonna be
one of those nights. But Jalen Hurts makes a bad
decision on an RPO where he keeps the ball lose
a few yards. They end up settling for three and
the Giants go down the field on that first touchdown drive.
They build what was a thirteen to three lead to
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start the game, and you're thinking, okay, it's off and running. Meanwhile,
Eagles offense, like they have all year, had one great
half of football in him and that half was the
first half. They respond, they get a couple touchdowns. Back,
let's actually listen to one of the most comical seasquences
of the year. The Eagles have a third and like
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a long two maybe even three inside the five, they
decide to go for the tush push there get it close.
It was a two play to tushbush sequence to get
the first down, Like that was the plan. They got
the first down, and then they just ran it two
more times for their touchdown as in line.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Right back up in the same formation.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Here we go again, full scrum toush push Frum the
one pooper.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
It's around step to Hurtz. He pushes forward, he drives
into the KSN.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
It's a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Philadelphia takes the lead with pure, rugged, go low behavior.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
That's a great call.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
That was Jason Bennetti.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Haven't heard from him all year on Westwood One with
Devon mccorty. Was listening to that on my way back. Actually, Shuk,
I didn't know that it was Devon. I thought it
was Jason mccordy. Sometimes it's tough to tell. At that point,
you know they established the Hertz played. I thought a
near perfect first half until the last sequence. We'll get
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to that, but looked great. I think in the first
half of this game, and the Eagles storm back and
you think, Okay, the better team now has the lead.
Like I just figured they're going to take over the game.
That is not what happened. And I thought the next
drive from the Giants was really telling in important in
this game.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Yeah, absolutely, And the way that they capped it, I
mean a fifteen play, sixty seven yard march finished off
with camp Scadbu's first of three touchdown runs. And I
think that that is when the game shifted because you know,
the Eagles, they probably encountered a lot of teams over
the last year or so in the run of success
that would kind of get tired and kind of wilt
in the face of, you know, constant pressure from these
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this Eagles offense, like, oh, every time we find success,
suddenly you're just gonna match us.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Like what do we have to do? The Giants did.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
They did not blink in the face of adversity against
the Eagles tonight, and that drive right there capital I mean,
it basically captured their mindset going into this entire game,
which is that we're going to fight four quarters. Turns
out they only needed like three quarters to fight because.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
The is the Eagles who blinked.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
It was the Eagles who decided we're gonna pack it
up and go home tonight and figure things out because
like you said, they put together one good half, they
didn't put together two good halves.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It keeps happening that way. And that drive that you mentioned,
the fifteen play drive ends with a minute in nineteen
seconds on the clock, and I was I was looking back,
like for some key plays in that drive, but it
it was actually just four plays at a time, like
a third and four to Higatt, but he's wide open
on the sideline for a first down. It's skataboo picking
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up chunks. It was just a very workman like drive
the Eagles for me, and pass rush tonight was absent,
and it really is striking to me to think a
little big picture before we get back into the game
flow that so much focus has been on aj Brown
and Jalen Hurts and it got quiet in the second
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half of this game again, but I think Jalen Hurts
in the passing game on some level is it's pretty
similar to where it was on average in the regular
season last year. Like it's not a top ten group.
It wasn't last year either, but it's not a bottom
ten group either. It's efficient enough, it's in the middle.
What's different Nick to me is there's no four man
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pass rush that's consistent, and there was no Jalen Carter tonight.
We should point out he was inactive for the game.
There's no Landon Dickerson either, so that's important for the Eagles.
But there's no foreman pass rush like they've always had,
and there's not a good running game and Saquon after
that opening spurt was shut down and it's like, that's
what's different about these Eagles, and that's what's been good
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about the Eagles for a decade, and that's really not
there for them right now.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, and you're kind of teeing me up to get
bashed by Eagles fans who've been in my mentions for
a year saying I've ranked Jalen Hurts too low in
the QB indext But that's fine because what really matters
more than anything is that it starts in the trenches,
Like you know where I'm gonna go with this, and
tonight proved it. I mean, you lose Jalen Carter, he's
not able to play. That's your most important defensive interior player.
He's he's a game wrecking type of player. You take
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him out, all you have left there is Jordan Davis.
I felt like I was watching a cast of anonymous
rushers on the front four for the Eagles, like the
teeth had been taken from their defense. Not to mention
they lost Quiny and Mitchell during this game, They're already down,
like their cornerback situation is rough. At one point, it's
keiey Ringo and a Dori Jackson out there, which both
of them are a liability, so their defense is banged up,
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like they're missing key contributors on that side of the ball,
and that's why they couldn't get stopped and why they
gave up thirty four points to the Giants. But also
on the offensive side, just like you said, there's no
running game. There's been no running game all year, and
you come to learn how valuable a player like Landon
Dickerson is to this group. But that alone is not
enough for me, because like losing one lineman can hurt
any team, especially a player of Dickerson's caliber.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
But the way in which they try to.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Get Saquon going is just so inconsistent to the point
where they're down I think ten in the fourth quarter
and Kevin patula is just putting them in five wide,
just empty, just go empty the whole time.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Saquon's out there wide.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
One time AJ Dillen's out there wide again, he ends
up committing a turnover in that situation, and it just
makes you wonder, like where the identity of the Eagles,
a team those built around the strength of their offensive line,
their running game and could build out.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Of that, where did they go?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
And obviously the easy conclusion is all the passing games,
you know, disjointed. They're stuck in a run. Well, yeah,
because that's all they can do. Like, we go back
to the Rams game, they couldn't stop a nosebleed in
the first half. They had to air it out, and
luckily they did enough to come back and beat the
Rams with a couple of block fielgals as well. But like,
this has been a concerning sign for now three games,
and I don't know if it gets any better anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
No, because Dickerson needs to get healthy. There are a
couple of weeks away from their bye week. Their schedule
is very interesting by the way. They go at Minnesota
next week and then they have the Giants again at home.
I hate when teams play twice in three weeks, yep,
especially if it's late in the year. There is something
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about this particular situation that we're going to get a
replay of this game in two weeks that I do
find interesting because you better win that game, Philadelphia. You
get swept by the Giants at home, losing twice in
three weeks, that that puts the stakes at.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
That game very high.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
But I think it was really well said about the line.
They just can't run block this year, and three interior guys.
It's Steen, it's Jurgens, and it's Dickerson when he's out there.
And then you know the group they had today just
wasn't good enough because you know who also didn't really
get much pressure today like the Giants. The Eagles offensive
line played great. And that's I mean in terms of
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pass protection, that's where maybe you can criticize Hurts and
Patulo because Jalen hurts his time to throw. I'm so
glad to four to three tonight, at least when I
last checked, I don't know if that was the final.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Three point four two is what it finished at. Yeah,
so the same thing. Yeah, that's an obviously.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I haven't seen like a number that high since Justin
Fields is like rookie year.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
He was.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Jalen the guy who usually he holds out of the
ball longer than the average quarterback already, he's a guy
who likes to float around back there and wait for
guys to get open. And early in this game it
was where they were running they ran a Mills concept
where he waited for the drag, the crosser on the
drag to get open.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And it got a first down.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
He waited again and kind of improvised found another guy
wide open at the sticks for a first down. It
was fine, But in the second half, once the Giants
really gained the lead Number one built a ten point lead,
they didn't have to play against the run.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They didn't have to try to stop the run anymore.
They could just play coverage.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
At that point, there was nowhere for Hurts to go,
and it just undercut this entire offense, which kind of
typifies where this entire unit has.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Been for a few weeks.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Now, right. They it's like, just make a decision, and.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They're a hard team to talk about because actually he
made a lot of nice throws in the first half.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
It's just these little things.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
The half ends, they get the ball with one minute
in nineteen seconds left and they run out of time.
He manages it really poorly. Yeah, at one point he's
totally unaware of the clock, trying to get the last playoff.
He's like jumping back into shotgun. He is not good
in the two minute drill. I feel like I'm comfortable
in saying that that's the weakest part of his game.
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He's really bad at the clock management. Part of it,
and that's that could be blamed on coaching a little bit.
I kind of blame that more on Jalen Hurts, so
he's bad at that, and then there's been a player
two each week where you're just man that would have
changed the game. And that play tonight was when DeVante
Smith beat Yeah, was it flat?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
By about eight yards. I mean, you cannot be more open.
Hurts is on his own goal line. When he throws
that ball, it's his best throw. Usually he misses it
by so much and if he hits DeVante Smith there,
I think it's like a ninety six yard touchdown. Instead,
they punted away to the Giants who are on a
short field and then they end up taking a big lead.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, it was a game changing myths. But you know,
I when I watched him, I'm watching on prime visions.
You're getting that behind the line, you know, film angle,
and you can see what Jalen was trying to do. Like,
I don't blame this entirely on him. He just sent
it too deep, but like there's a safety there, and
the way that DeVante Smith was running that route, he
had to throw it away from the safety. So he
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tries to put it over his outside shoulder and it
kind of gets devanted, like like turned around, and he
kind of can't track the ball.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And especially it's like.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
A Willie Main style like over the basket catch over
the shoulder type of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
So it's a tough play to make. But yeah, he
missed him by a few yards and.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
It was a pivotal miss in that game because of
what you know unfolded from there. And then the other
one that I hate to bring up because I hate
to be the guy who sits back and just looks
at when guys are open in certain spots in film.
But I watched this live and I thought, oh, it worked,
and he didn't go to the guy that I thought
he was going to go.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
To, which was the pick. It was the Cordill flop pick.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Jalen's dropping back and he's eyeing his outside target the
entire time out of the corner of his eye, waiting
for him to break sleek and throw it. First off,
he puts the ball on the wrong side of his receiver.
He leaves it too far inside, which is why Flatt
was able to jump the route. Secondly, they run this
concept where they run Godard up to about the sticks
and he sits down and it brings the safety down
and AJ Brown's running a crosser right behind him and
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he's open, And I'm like, man, Jalen, if you didn't
decide so quickly that you were going to throw the
out as if you're trying to make the safe play,
you had a touchdown there.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
And again, don't like to be the.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Guy who's like because I don't know where the progression
was supposed to dictate that his eye should be. But
just looking back in the way that this game kind
of melted down for them, I really wish you would
have made the throw to aj Brown there.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
It might have changed the conversation with this game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, you know, it's tough to kill a guy for
his first interception and three hundred regular season snaps or
whatever the crazy stat was, But tonight that interception killed
their chances, killed the game. It was a bad throw,
it was a bad decision. It was a great play
by Flott who won that battle in training camp, so
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that helped put the game away. But we were talking
about that sequence, you know, when the Eagles are punting
out of their own end zone and it sets up
what is really the touchdown that made me think, oh wow,
I guess the Giants might just win this game. And
this was I believe on a drive where again third
down Dart was absolute money. The variety of the throws
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that he had were really impressive to me tonight. But
he had a nice, you know, quick like slant up
the seam on that drive on the third down that
kept it going. There was a lot of like just
little plays by Dart. There was the one that he
just scrambled forever before making a play to the Wandel
Robinson long long touchdown. There was another you know scramble
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where he avoids having a big negative and he just
gets a couple of yards in the play. He keeps
them in a good down and distance. But let's actually
go back and listen to the second cam Skataboo touchdown
that really started to put this game.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Out of reach.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Dart over center statabo bat hand off, Stataboo.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Once to his wife fighting for the end zone. Did
he break the plan?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yes, touchdown Giants, Pam Statabu with extra effort.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
If you're watching that on YouTube, we appreciate that we
are able to show these highlights. And we're now re
rolling Jackson Dart's asking for them to call the touchdown.
He hears one official I think, tell the other official
who is marking it down at the half yard line,
that that's a touchdown, and he just slaps the official five.
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The official doesn't want it to happen. But when Kirk
Kirbstreet is kind of making me roll my eyes and
gaggle a little bit, being.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Like, well, I don't know, you know, you get the
fund what's it? But he's got it.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't know if that's what Jackson Dart has. But
he's a hell of a watch like he's entertaining to watch.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, he's a fireball of a quarterback. I mean, the
kid plays with passion. It extends well beyond the weird
one eye black thing that he does in his face. Yeah,
he has very fun to watch. It was also not
to pivot is back toward the negative. But I'm just
looking all the Eagles players in the field that there
were multiple times tonight speaking to their how thin they
are defensively right now where I'm like, who is ninety five,
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who's ninety four? I even had a double check what
number a door Jackson was wearing there, like that's not
a play that Eagles teams of the past get bullied
in on the goal line, Like Scataboo is an absolute
rhino of a running back, like he's Peyton Hillis blended
with a more athletic and quicker running back, Like that's
who if.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Peyton Hillis could do backflips. I mean they give came
out and covers.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
That they would.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
They might have given him three if the fan vote
just determined all of them. But like so, he's gonna grind,
you know, he's gonna turn up his legs and try
to win that battle on the goal line. But Eagle
teams of the past wouldn't have that wouldn't have happen
to them. Like that speaks to the fact that Jalen
Carter's not out there and just some of the concerns
I have with their defensive personnel overall right now. But
that's not to take anything away from the Giants. Like
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the Giants earned this victory. It was a victory built
on desire, passion, and love for the game, as exemplified
by their quarterback.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
You sound like Brian Dable. I mean Brian Dabele.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No, Brian Dables. He's he's filled with rage and panic
when Jackson darts in the tent.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And then and then after he gets out he's out there,
he's practically like kissing him on the head. He's head
button scataboo. He's like slapping Dart's head the second he
gets out of the concussion protocol ten and it's like
all right, all right, Brian, No, yeah, let's come down
just a little bit. Well, I think there are some
real personnel takeaways for the Eagles. So you mentioned adri
Jackson's weak tackle attempt on the goal line. There was
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also kiey ring kiey Ringo not only giving up a
you know, thirty four yard passed to little Jordan Humphrey
on that first touchdown drive where he kind of mossed him,
but giving up a longer pass to Wandel Robinson later
in that drive where then he just doesn't have any
effort and he doesn't touch him down. He just he
just watches him and Wandale then gets up and runs
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for another seventy yards. And even in that moment, like
he didn't even be like, oh why did I do that?
I just was watching him. He just he just kind
of watched it. And the touchdown to Wandell Robinson where
Jackson Dart scrambles around and just kind of makes a play.
Makuba comes in and just kind of flies after him.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Sadly.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, terrible tackle attempt and that should have been a
tackle at the twenty eight yard line. Instead, Robinson goes
in for a score. Howie Roseman had to have been
on the phone tonight to go get a cornerback because
if Quinion Mitchell has a hamstring injury, who knows, Maybe
they're just being careful, but those are usually injuries that
keep you out a couple of weeks, Like he could
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be out into their bye week and suddenly they're very
thinncked cornerback.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Yeah, he should have did what the Jags did earlier
this week, which is trade for Greg Newsom, Like you
gotta make a trade link and you gotta go get
a guy.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
We're trade for Tyson Campbell. Whichever one you like better.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, apparently they were exactly. Yeah, they were both available.
Tyson Campbell's in her team patrol for through twenty twenty nine.
So I don't know if that fits his salary cap strategy,
but he's got to go get somebody because adri Jackson
was getting torched in week one, Keely Ringo was a
liability tonight, they're both out on the field at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
You are a weaker as a defense.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
And that mistackle by Andrew mccoola, who I think is
a very promising player by the way, but got caught
a little bit of position, poor form on the tackling
one of thirteen miss tackles by the Eagles tonight.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
That's just not good enough. That's not Philadelphia Eagles football.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And I just am so glad that the Giants are
like back on the board. And what I mean by
that is we started the recap show last week talking
about like all these one in four teams or even
a couple of two and three teams that feel a
little dead, that if you got them in primetime, it's
gonna be less exciting. You know, when we're previewing their games,
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it doesn't feel like a good game just because they're involved.
And you know what, with the Giants, even if they
lose next week in Denver, which you know that's a
very tough game, and they go to two and five,
they're just alive. They're just gonna be more interesting to watch.
Between Dart Skataboo and the pass rushers they have who
even tonight they didn't even have a good night. They
didn't even a great night, but they didn't they didn't
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need to. Maybe maybe the strategy was to contain Hurts
as a runner, and they did it. Burns did have
a couple sacks. I'm just glad they're back in the mix. Okay,
that's it for Eagles Giants. I think we're good unless
you have anything really big to say. I did want
to get your thoughts on the Greg Newsom for Tyson
Campbell trade, just because we're here and we didn't hit it.
You know, it happened after we taped, and you're a
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Browns fan and I just watched Greg Newsom be targeted
quite a bit by Carson Wentz. It did okay in
that game, but also gave up some plays. But I
think's had a good season so far for the Browns.
What a surprising trade that Greg Newsom goes to the Jaguars,
who are in you know, contention here for the AFC
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South title, and they trade a guy who's under a
long term contract, Tyson Campbell, for Greg Newson, A rare
challenge trade. Newsom is going to be a free agent
after this year, whereas the Browns get a guy in
Campbell who's cost controlled maybe about fifteen million the year
for the next few years. What did you think of
a very surprising trade. A couple of late round picks
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were exchanged in it that that the Browns get to
go higher in the draft. But to me that was
a less important part of the deal.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah, yeah, it's said to me two things.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
It said.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
One, the Jaguars are very much interested in capitalizing on
their hot start, on the fact that they're four and
one and coming off of a win over the Chiefs,
and they believe the time is now to I guess
go all in to a degree by Trady for a
guy in Newsom who's always played the opposite corner of
Denzel Ward and done a pretty good job, he was
not a guy I think the Browns were interested in
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paying long term at the market rate that he was
probably going to command.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But it's also an illustration.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Of where the Browns are as a team right now,
which is that A they are very much open for business,
and B they'd rather get somebody under team control with a.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Fairly friendly contract.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That that contract kind of bumps up in cap number
a couple of years from now, but it's a low
enough number next year that they can get through the
end of the Watson contract and it's affordable, and they
have a player that they can line up opposite ward
before they have to start, you know, reallocating some of
that money elsewhere, including to that contract. So it's an
example of two teams in very different places that picked
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up the phone and said, look, yeah, we'll send you
Greg newsoon as long as you give us a replacement
who's like somewhat comparable. And I think that they both
got that deal. They both achieved that in this deal.
But it was a bit of a surprise given that
I thought the most shocking news from the Browns this
week would be the Joe Flacco trade.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Turns out they also decided to trade Greg Newsom.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
You know, I really liked Tyson Campbell a couple of
years ago, and as it was explained by John Shipley
on SI dot Com, they just didn't see Tyson Campblell
as a scheme fit and he wasn't playing well in
this system that happened. He's a good man coverage corner.
That's how he wins. He's not a huge cornerback, but
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he plays tough. That's the type of football that the
Browns play a lot of man coverage. Relatively, they had
Newsom playing in the slot quite a bit just because
that's where they needed him.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
The Jaguars c Newsom as a guy who's more of
a player, who's going to be good in zone with
his eyes on the quarterback and looking to be more
of a playmaker. That makes total sense to me, And
I think from the Browns perspective, if you could sign
Tyson Campbell to a contract and free agency, it would
cost a lot more than they're going to pay him.
So now they have a guy at what could be
(28:11):
a pretty thin position for them next year.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
So I like it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What I really like about is that the Jaguars especially
are just going to be rams like whereas like they
if they think they can improve their team, they're just
going to go do it, like forget about convention. I know,
Like they're in the mix and it's kind of unconventional
to trade a starter for a starter in the middle
of the season like this, Like who cares. They're just
trying to get better for now and the future. And
(28:36):
if they really love Greg Newsom. They can put the
franchise tag on him or figure out a contract with
him in the future.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
So yeah, they have the opportunity to do that if
they like him. And at the zone versus man thing,
I think is good because if you look at what
they did against the Chiefs, seventy three point nine percent
zone coverage on Monday. So you're absolutely right about the
scheme fit. There is one adjustment that Greg Newsom is
going to have to make. Jim Schwartz encourages his players
to celebrate every success. Yes, Greg news Some built a
reputation in Cleveland for dancing rather expressively after the smallest
(29:08):
of victories in which a throw might have been five
yards over the head of the guy that he was covering.
But he's still gonna celebrate seat belt. He had this
like guitar strumming celebration. Jags fans, you're either going to
see a lot of Greg news Some celebrating on some
big or small plays, or he's gonna have to tone
it down.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
With the Jaguars, I feel.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like they will support that endeavor.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh what man, I was not expecting to talk about that,
but it came up and I love it. I'm in
a great mood because it was. It was a great
night of sports, a big upset victory on TNF, the
two lane Green Wave after blowing a ton of red
zone opportunities, get a late touchdown and escape and get
a much needed win.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Five one baby, you know they're in the mix.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And most importantly, Colleen Wolf represented all the Philadelphia fans
out there that said, this day of sports can go
straight to Hell and bur and forever. Actually, I have
nothing against Philadelphia fans in general, but I was rooting
against the Phillies tonight. And look the Eagles, They've had
enough fun over the years. The NFC East is suddenly
(30:14):
very interesting. The Commanders are feeling a little better. The
Cowboys are thinking, hmm, what's possible. Even the Giants, I think,
are looking at this NFC and just wondering. You never know,
it's a long season. We're gonna take quick break here,
shook great job tonight, and we're gonna listen to an interview.
I'm very excited for our listeners to hear this. We
(30:36):
got Bajohn Robinson on the show. We taped this on Wednesday,
so it's both me and Jordan rod Riege talking to
Bijon Robinson.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
You will hear our conversation and he was great.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
After for.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Very excited to welcome in John Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons,
one of my favorite players to watch since the day
he entered the league. Good to talk to you, John.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Yeah, absolutely, good talk to you guys. Will I appreciate
you guys grabbing me.
Speaker 8 (31:13):
Some people's favorite players since you know Texas, but Greg's
only counting NFL stuff. I mean, oh, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I guess it's a little unprofessional to just be like
calling people your favorite player right right off the top.
I did want to ask, though, because I've noticed something,
and I'll run this theory by you. I think you've
improved steadily like each season. You obviously came in at
a very high level, and I think seeing that gradual
improvement each and every year, to me is pretty noticeable.
(31:42):
But because it's been gradual, I don't think maybe like
the average fan has seen like, oh, this is his
breakout season, because it's been so steady. What do you
think you've improved the most at since you entered the league.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yeah, I'll say just my confidence in very much slowed
down for me. You know, obviously it's a process from
your first year to your second year and then to
your third year, and when when everything starts to you
start to see everything at a different pace, at a
different speed, and you know, that's that's what I feel
like it's happening for me right now, which is such
(32:14):
a blessing.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Because, like, you know, God's gave.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Me a gift to do so many things on the field,
So for me to get to exploit that and help my.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Team win and do at a high level, it has
been great.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
But yeah, I even tell people, like even even from college,
from your first year to your third year, you know,
there's a difference.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
So it's the same thing for the NFL, and it's
been It's been fun.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Man, John.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
I really like watching how you see your gaps open
up and how you maneuver and sort of manage. It's
very it's artistic, but it's decisive at the same time.
You guys run a lot of stuff out a pistol.
I know Zach Robinson well from from back here in
LA and I know he really appreciates you being able
to see everything laying out and unfolding in front of you,
(32:57):
almost like how a quarterback would in the gun, right,
So can you kind of explain what that is to
you to be able to kind of see the portrait
unfold and then pick your spots accordingly when you can
see everything in front of you like that.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Yeah, I mean, well, first off, like it's sto line
that that that helps me do all that. You know,
those guys up there are are tremendous when it comes
to communication, when it comes to you know, finding those
slips and passing off blocks and getting to the second
level and making those cuts happen. Like it's it's all
those guys when it when it at the end of
the day and when it comes down to it, and
(33:32):
for me, it's just you know, using using my vision
and just anticipating with what's coming before it even happens,
before the play even starts.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
And for me, like you know, it's very important.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
To use my eyes at a very high level and
to manipulate linebackers, safeties, uh D, linemen just just every
every one of them because when I do that and
when I'm controlling the pace of the game, then then
everything else is taking care of yourself. So you know,
it's it's a it's a really big, you know thing
in my game that I that I really take pride
in and obviously I want to continue to you know,
(34:04):
up that level.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Then just use that gift at a high level.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
Yeah, I love that you said that, because it's not
something you can really quantify. You can feel when you
take over with what you're seeing and kind of when
you hit that flow a little bit like you're just
seeing it really well and you're you're hitting the hole
where you need to and setting those guys up. And
I guess I wonder what that shift feels like and
can can your teammates feel it when you're feeling it?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Absolutely, I mean everybody in the stadium can feel that,
just because you just kind of know, like all right,
like some something's happening, and it's like this, this is
a gradual pace of you know, we want to dominate
on the field as offense, and you know, as as
you get the run game going, then the past game
opens up. Then when the past game gets going and
(34:49):
the run game opens up. So we just played complimentary
ball with each other on this offense, and like you said,
with Zrab, you know, he's so big into playing complimentary
football and make sure that we're affecting the game, in
both run game and pass game, and that's just that's
just our identity, and for us to continue to be
consistent with that, like knowing the details, knowing the little
(35:11):
things that we're supposed to do, and even when me
being in the past game as well, like me knowing
those kind of details as well, is very important for
us to be the team we want to be, but
they'd be the offense we want to become too.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
So when you're in one of the middle of one
of those runs where you're throwing like three different jump
cuts in the same exact run, it's like playing Froggert,
Like do.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
You see where the play is going to go?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Are you thinking one cut ahead when you're making that
first cut?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Absolutely, Like when I'm in I'm already seeing the second level.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
And where I need to go for the second one
if I have to make another cut or if I
just got to get vertical right away, because if I
if I make that first one, then I'm leaving an
area that was closed, but there's still a lot of
defenders on that side of the area for me to
make another jump cuts and you know, try to find
that crease.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
But you know, it's just like I said, like, it's
all it's all in.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
My vision and the vision that you have to run
with and die and bless with. And you know, I'm
gonna continue to get better at that as as the
season goes on. But yeah, man, like when I'm trying
to set up my blocks and everything like that, that's
that's that's where it comes from.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
You know. You mentioned kind of that shared feeling that
you can get when things are going well as a team.
This is something I've been dying to ask you because
I heard Leonard Floyd talking about in training camp how
Michael Pennix talks a little smack And you would think,
you know, interviewing him in the past and all that
he's quiet and and all of that, but you keep
(36:38):
hearing these things coming out of Atlanta that he's he's chattering,
he's talking to to the defense. Can you kind of
peel the curtain back on that a little bit, Like
what's he really like when he's when he's feeling it
when he gets going, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
I mean he's super super calm and collected. Like that's
that's Mike, that's his game, that's who he is as
a person. And for him, I mean, yeah, when the
when the moment presents itself and when when the like
maybe he might say a couple of things, might say
a couple of words, but in all aspects of it,
he's so locked into what he has to do. He's
(37:11):
so locked into his his process. Like you know, you
might not get that a lot out of him, but
if you get it out of him, that means he's
just on a different level, ready to gang, ready to go.
And you know, it's been fun to watch. It's it's
fun to see. It's been fun to just be a
part of because you know, he's so talented, but not
only that, he's so smart in his process and how
he goes about it.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
So it's been it's been fun.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I look at this team and think how you've already
in such a short season, had a little bit of everything.
Like you had you had a dominant prime time win,
you had a like a heartbreaking loss in Week one
which was back and forth division rivalry game. You had
a rough game in Carolina where you guys got shut out,
and then you had an offensive explosion, and your defense
(37:54):
has been pretty consistently good, I would say for the
most part throughout. So make the case, uh, John of
like where this team is going to go and you
know why, you you know, can can accomplish some of
the goals that I know you guys have set out
for yourself.
Speaker 7 (38:10):
Yeah, I think the biggest thing for us, as you
just said, is for us to be consistent, you know
West for this season. We have to take every take
everything one game at a time, like not look ahead.
You know, we have to make sure that we're in
the moment of of this game, of this week, of
every single day, because I feel when we start looking
ahead and we start going in the games complacent, and
that's when we lose.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
That's when we get shut out.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
So it's very important for us to play with continue
to play with that edge, continue to play for each
other as a team, play for God, like play for
play for everything that we're supposed to do. Because when
we do everything the right way, you know, we everybody
seem the result that we put out, but we're not
doing things at our standard or not doing it the
(38:53):
way we want to do it, then you know, that's
that's when when bad things happen. So that's that's the
most important thing. Rest as a team as individuals and
you know, we really came together during that loss against
the Panthers and it really changed the direct you know
how we just look at the rest of these games,
how we look at each other as the team, and
it just really brought us closer together so we can
(39:15):
be at our best.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
You're going to be in the center of the NFL
the next couple of weeks primetime games against the Bills
against the forty nine ers that the forty nine Ers
one is going to be on Sunday Night Football. I
love a little like Falcons in the center because y'all
have like the best fans I think just about in
the league. Like they're crazy, and just more Falcons fans
(39:36):
in my mention, the better.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
That's it. That's it. They're amazing. Man. They bring the
energy every game. It's cool.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Tell us what you're doing here. You're starring in a
new ad. So speaking of primetime games, you have an
ad that's actually going to be going up with Colgate
Total during tn F.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
How do you like your life as an actor?
Speaker 6 (39:59):
Man, it's been and.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Like even doing that commercial with the Colgate and even
now just partnering with Coldgate and the Total Active Prevension
system is just been amazing, you know, with the toothbrush,
the toothpaste and the mouth washed like you know, I
take it so important. I take it so serious because
you know, I'm such a positive guy. I love to smile.
I love to to make people happy. So I need
to make sure my teeth and my gums and my
(40:21):
ore health is is that at all at all time high? So,
you know, partnering with Colgate, it's been nothing but amazing.
But onto your onto the ad you know for tomorrow,
you know, premiering on on NFL, you know, Thursday night
prime time is going to be just amazing to for
people to see that and for people to want to
buy and get the tot Active Provision System, it's going
(40:45):
to be even better. So it's gonna be a good
time tomorrow and I can't wait for everybody to see it.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (40:50):
But Jean, if I am remembering correctly, you're pretty interested
in acting, right, like you have some experience with it
and Atlanta, I mean that's a big there's a lot
of studios, a lot of movies being made over there.
Am I bring that correctly?
Speaker 6 (41:01):
Oh, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 7 (41:03):
I definitely am getting into it a little bit as
as I can, and I'll have like friends and people
that like are in it now. So it's been it's
been cool to see their process and you know, hopefully
one day I can do the same thing.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Love it well, hopefully long, long, long time from now,
because we're having so much fun watching you.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, it'll be a while. And you said you
love having that big smile on your face. You're you're
putting smiles on the face of a lot of football
fans around the country, including my son Walker, who you're
just like anchoring and dominating for his fantasy football league. Yes, yes,
you just made his entire year. Appreciate you. Thanks for talking.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. Good talking to you, guys.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Oh that was a great talk.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Always cool when one of your favorite players turns out
to be a really cool guy.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Great show tonight.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Was really excited to break down one of biggest upsets,
maybe one of the biggest seasons changing winds of the season,
Giants over the Eagles. We will be back on Sunday night, Yes,
Shooky and Jordan and Patrick and myself recapping Week six.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
We'll see you that
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