Super Bowl champion London Fletcher and Bram Weinstein break down the NFC Championship matchup before discussing the historic season lead by Dan Quinn and Jayden Daniels. Finally, they relive some of the biggest moments they will never forget from the radio booth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on this edition of The Booth Review, London.
The season did not end the way we wanted it to.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
No, it did not, man, But what a ride this
year was.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And we're going to go through all of our favorite
moments from calling the games from an unforgettable twenty twenty
four season.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
That's next on the Booth Review.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome into the final twenty twenty four edition of the
Booth Review podcast. I'm Bram Weinstein with London Fletcher. Were
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one step away, London.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We missed it by one step. What a rough ending
to the season, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Very rough ending, you know it just what I also
say this though, Brown, what a ride man, this Yeah,
this season was just phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Wish our guys would have played better.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And you know it was a more competitive football game.
But just in totality and looking at the season as
a whole, what in our standing year by these man
they took us on a joy ride?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, it was euphoric. It was unique.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It rewrote the script of the franchise and we'll go
through some of that stuff. Let's focus on the game
for a minute. You know, I think both of us
were surprised. This is the first time they had multiple
turnovers in a game since the second Eagles meeting. They're
not a team that have made mistakes that hurt themselves,
and I think that's kind of the hardest part of
this whole thing is they were poised, they took care
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of the ball, they played the game the right way.
They didn't make a lot of mistakes. And it's hard
walking out of the link yesterday knowing that it really
is their mistakes that were the difference in the ball game.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, you see the first fum about the amy
and I know he's trying to make a play and
continue to gain extra yards. And you know, one thing
that Bass security was was something is emphasized all the time.
And when you had that football in your hands, you
have the entire team in your hand, and I know
coach Quinn and all those guys, they they constantly talk
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about the ball being life. So protecting the football, taking
away those are things that are always emphasized there. When
when when they had that fumble, it's like, dang it,
you know, you wish he would have just went down,
but he's trying to He's trying to get all he
could out of that play, and and nice played by
the Eagles linebacker Zach Bond.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But so that happens, and then.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You get the the fumball on the on the kickoff return.
He's like, oh my goodness, what what's happening here? Like,
you know, after especially, it seemed like we were going
to have about a minute and what thirty something seconds
left before the half of Jaden to potentially go out
and lead us to some points before the half and
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fumble that ball away and a lot of Eagles could
get more points right before the half.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
He's just like wow. And obviously the the Eckler.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Fumble that was the that was the dacker because we
had momentum eleven point game at that point in time,
moving football. I guess the egos and he's trying to
get up, you know, make a play, and guy punches
the ball out. So just just go Those are gut
Richard turnovers.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, the timing of them, it's just the timing of them.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Like they fill it up.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He scored.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's still a one score game. They had used their
timeouts wisely on defense. They're giving themselves a shot to
get back into it. Even the Diami one, Like, obviously
he's poorly timed, but it's so early, you know, in
the game that I didn't feel like it was gonna
be something that really hurt them. I think we even
vocalized on the air, were like, we already did this before.
They were down twenty one to seven after one in
the second go around, and they came back and were
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able to fight through it, and I felt that momentum shift,
but the one at the end of the half was
a killer, and then the Eckler won. Unfortunately, because the
momentum had actually turned like it was an eleven point game.
They got the score, Jayden made that run, that defense
got a stop, they're at midfield, like they even just
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end up with a field goal there and it's a
one score game. The momentums completely shifted, the vibe in
the stadium would have been completely shifted, and all of
a sudden, you're starting to believe again that they're going
to overcome the mistakes. And I don't want to, you know,
blame one person. There is no one person to blame.
But it's hard, you know, walking out of there, going
here's a team that never beat itself the entire year,
never beat itself. And this is the one with so
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much on the line where I know they're looking around
each other going, you know, had we held onto the
ball differently, I think it potentially could have been a
different outcome.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And something also about the the moment of the Eckler
fumble Philadelphias e the Philadelphia Egos defense looked like they
were real and they were they were searching for asks
against that offense really had it. You know they always
go no huw to our offense does, but seemed like
they had kicked it a little bit more up tempo
type of type of gear and the Eagles defense, we're
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really having trouble. I think the running game has started
hitting a little bit Mason Mason yards in the run game.
The passing game was coming alive. And the Eagles defense there,
guys are looking a little winded. And when that happened,
that was the kind of the shift back to shifting
the momentum back in the Eagles favor. I also, I
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also say this from a defensive standpoint, I wish the
Eagles weren't able to get all those points off the turnovers,
because it's one thing to turn the football over. But
they got out of the three turnovers though first three
turnovers they got twenty one points. You know, if you
give up ten points, maybe thirteen points, you know, you
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hold them to a couple of field goals or some
instances not give up points at all. That would also
helped our case, but just wasn't complimentary football the way
that we had played. Also the last you know, let's
call it seven eight weeks of the season, great complimentary
football pick the worst time to have really our worst
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game over the second half of the season.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, obviously the run defense, which had been struggling throughout
the year but really reared up here. I mean, how
many times do we talk about during the week, Saquon
Barkley's gonna have a game, He's gonna get yardedge. You
can't hold him to twenty carries forty yards, Like, that's
not going to happen. What cannot happen is the home
runs that he hits. And it's their first play from
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scrimmage is a sixty yard touchdown run. I mean, it
was a bad omen for what was coming throughout the
course of the game. And really, I mean this was
the deficiency of the defense the entire season was trying
to handle the run games, especially of top tier run
offenses like Philadelphia's.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Is yes, no, that was that was deflate.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I will admit to coming to the game knowing that, say,
Kuan is the guy, he's the one that you got
to get stopped when you're looking at this Philadelphia Eagles
offense because it just he energizes that offense, he energizes
that team. And for him to go sixty yards on
the very first play, I'm like, are you kidding? Are
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you kidding? Because we you know, we have an eighteen
play drive to start the game, get three points out
of that, so how are you feeling pretty good?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Maybe the Eagles will come back and get points.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But for it to be a one play sixty yard
or eighteen seconds that that had that that crowd electric,
that atmosphere was electric.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Then we have the.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Turnover the very next next series and there before you
know it, in a blink of an eye, I think
you said at one point the Eagles had the ball
for less than three minutes and they were up.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They were up fourteen to three. It was like two
maybe had.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Some weird games specifically with them, you know, like it
it's unusual if a team turns the ball over five
times and wins. That happened in the second matchup, and
in this one, Washington had the ball for almost twelve
minutes and thirty seconds of the first quarter and trailed
fourteen to three because of one play and then the
second drive off the Diami fumble, they scored very quickly. Again,
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so they just didn't even need the ball to score
extremely quickly. So like you throw the stats out the
window in situations like this, with the exception of typically
when you turn the ball over against the good team
and don't cause any turnovers, you lose. And you know,
so they were their own worst enemy. Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I just looked at the play by play of that,
and the Eagles had the ball for two minutes and
twenty seconds. Yeah, first play it was an eighth one play,
eighteen second drive, and the second score was sixth plays
two minutes and two seconds, So seven plays, two minutes
and twenty seconds, and they had they were up fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It totally played out the way you'd want it to.
We wanted to shorten the game. We hadn't seen you
know what was Jalen Hurt's mobility. That was going to
be a big question. He answered that, but like, this
couldn't have started better. They get the ball, they have
this long seven minute drive, so they run off almost
half of the first quarter. I know they ended up
with a field goal and not a touchdown, which is
the one thing that you know you could argue with.
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But I remember after that happened, I went, this is
exactly what we need to do. Shorten this game, don't
give them a lot of possessions, have long drives, keep
their offense off the field. Eighteen seconds later they're losing.
I mean, it was so it was so deflating, Really.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It really was.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It really was, man, I just I even I don't
know if you felt the same way, I believe you did.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And because.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
We've grown so accustomed to this team, never been out
of a fight, always battling back, and we battled back
to score fourteen to twelve. Jay, the company got it going,
to offense got it going, and uh it's fourteen twelve score,
and you know you're look at hoping the defense can
make the plays, makes the plays to kind of get
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us back, because the game felt like it got tight
for Philadelphia, and they go down and get a twelve
play seventy two yard t us now drive. Yeah, but
that's not okay. You're still a well score game. But
did that fumble right before the half? That was another
uh just gut punch man before.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think the hardest part, like for me, like coming
out of it, is Jayden played really well again and
under you know it was going to be difficult circumstances,
and you know, I want to give the offensive line credit.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I think they did what they could.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like they were missing people, they're rotating guards. Chris Paul
was playing a good amount of plays. He hadn't played
a good portion of the season. He was inactive many weeks.
Trent Scott, who had to come in in relief of
Sam Cosmi a week before, is rotating with him guards.
Not the natural position that he's playing this year, but
they've asked him to do it up against the number
one defense and maybe the most disruptive interior defensive lineman
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in the NFL. So they got a really, really tough ask.
And that's the hardest part for me because Jayden played well.
Jayden kept bringing him back. He gets them at fourteen twelve,
he doesn't get the ball backed again until it's twenty
seven to twelve, and then he gets them to within
eleven and got the ball back and they lose it again.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Like there were there were.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
These occasions where you go, I just wanted to see
it one more time with him because I trust him,
and the team unfortunately didn't put him in the position
to make the plays for the comebacks. That's that's the
hardest part walking out of there, because it's not like
he played poorly or they figured him out like they didn't,
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but the mistakes kept Washington away from pulling off, you know,
potentially a comeback.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, no, you're you're absolutely right. I thought.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I thought the the adjustments that they made from an
office a lion standpoint in terms of protection, double doubling
Jayden Carter a lot more, making sure he wasn't going
to be the game record because I think the very
first play of the game, you do, the very first
first or second step of the game, he got im
media pressure on on Jaden and and Jayden had to
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throw a foot all away. But the offensive line they made,
they made some adjustments, made sure you saw more double
teams on on Jalen Carter.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I really liked some of the things they did in
the run game in terms.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Of and we talked about this a couple of times
and doing the broadcast, how they were running like this
inside zone type of run and they were leaving Jalen Jay,
did I mean Jalen Carter to be blocked by uh
by John Bates on a on a kind of a
cross block and he's coming. One time he cut him low.
That's the time he cut him, and uh, Jalen Carter
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jumps over, but by the time by him jumping over John,
he was out of the play. And then another time
he hit him high. So it was a good, good thing,
good ways to kind of attack him. But there was
a there was a crucial sack lay in the game
where after a defense goes three and out the second half,
we go three and out to start the second half,
get the ball back and it was a second down
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sack we gave up and put us in second.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And twenty third, twenty. Yeah, like all those lines.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But you know, I want to say this too, because
after the second matchup, everybody in Philadelphia it was like
all excuses about oh, how they lost or why they lost,
or why why they could rationalize how Washington came back
and won it wouldn't give them credit for winning. They
were they were blaming the injury to Jalen Hurts, they
were blaming a phantom false start.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Gardner, Johnson got kicked out. They were like they were
just coming up with excuse after excuse after excuse. Right,
I will say this, like the officiating had a lot
left to be desired for on a number of occasions. Right,
the Sandra's still quote unquote late hit the PI in
the end zone, which was marginal on Devonte Smith. The
lack of a p I call on Luke McCaffrey late,
that was. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There was a gun back, yeah, hold on on on
Louvu on a on.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
A fourth MOVI on the fourth and five throw like that.
That was. That was one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
But I just want to say this out loud, the
officials didn't lose this game for them, Like, there's no
excuses here. I think the officials there's a there's a
lot to be desired with what happened, and it didn't
go their way for sure, Washington's, but like I didn't
walk out of their going they lost because of the refs.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't feel that way at all.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Really, No, no, I don't feel like that, but I
felt feel like the score would have been more competitive
because if they if they call that that hold on
Louisville on the fourth and five, they played that football,
putting that football, punting that football, they get a testdown
out of that. The late hit quote unquote late hit
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on saber Steel that's a third third down stop. They're
going to kick a field goal, So you know you're
taking that's what eleven points off the board, particularly right there.
I guess there was a misfaced mask on on this. Yeah,
so all these things kind of add up throughout the
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course of game. No, you cannot turn the football over
three times, and especially on the road, I guess the
best team in NFC. And you know that's not They're
not the reason we lost the game, but they played
a part in the score not being more competitive patient
the game being a lot tighter, and we know how
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we do it in close ball games.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, and you know what, like I hate that score.
I don't think that score is indicative of what this
team is. They hadn't lost by double digits to anybody
since week one, and you know, you know how it
goes like they were and they talked about this leading
into it, and we used it as a storyline that like,
this team has been dismissed the whole year by everybody
outside of the area, and we're the ones watching them
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every week, and we're the ones seeing what Jade's doing,
and we're seeing like the brotherhood and the connection and
the chemistry. It's all real, and the way they were
winning games, it wasn't an accident. And we that's why
we were like, go ahead, you know, underestimate them. All
you want. All they're going to do is keep winning.
But they kept getting dismissed week after week after week.
And you know how this goes, Like the people who
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aren't paying attention and then just see a score like
that and they go, see, I told you, And that's
the worst part of this whole thing. And I agree
with you about maybe the officiating or some of the intangibles.
The score shouldn't have looked like that, and frankly, this
team didn't deserve to have a score that looks like that,
like lopsided like that. But in the end, I still
don't I don't want to use excuses. I still don't
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believe that that's the reasons why they lost like those
fumbles are the reasons why they lost. They didn't take
advantage of the opportunity to have. They didn't cause a
turnover like they say, ball is life. It's on them
that they lost. But I agree the score in the
end Karmicley shouldn't have looked like that in the way
that the season went this year.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
No, No, that's that was that just added in sought
to injury. Yeah, when you see fifty five points, it
was a late fourth and I think eleven fourth and
twelve you go for and then backed up there in
a different scenario, different situation, you're putting the football, you're
not going to continue to go forward, and the Egles
the end up getting to so they turned over on
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down to get a touchdown out of that play. Just
not again, it wasn't the complimentary football. I didn't think
the the coverage Yonders were that good on the on
the kickoff coverage.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
There were times.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Where the Eagles, like the first the first kickoff return
for them, they got it out to the forty. That's
why Sakwan went sixty et cetera. You know, let's call
it seventy or eighty yards. But I think overall you know,
it was just just not complimentary football man, the way
that we had, uh we had played all season long.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it wasn't their best day. And that's a really
good team they like they were. They've lost once since
October like that. That's a really really good team with
a really really good roster. Jalen Hurts played a really
good game yesterday. I think he was the big question
mark coming in what was his mobility with his knee injury?
He answered that earthly. We found out early. We saw
it early, and we went that questions answered. And yes
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there was a hold on that fourth and five, but
that was a perfect throw too, So like I want
to you want to credit them like they played well.
They played like a team that belongs in New Orleans.
I want to credit them for that.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, you're You're absolutely right when they when they
went forward out on that fourth and five. Initially I
was like, are they really going to snap this football?
Because it was a balls about on what the forty
five yard line.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They'd already missed the long fifty yard field goal. You
knew they weren't going to try another one, right right.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah, So it was it was beyond what you would
think is a realistic field goal opportunity for them, And
you're like, okay, if they go for this and they
don't get it, they don't give us great field goal
field position if they don't get it. And it took
it took him a while actually snapped the ball, so
I was like, is he trying to draw us off
off size? And then when he snapped it, him and
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Marshaan it was fourth and five.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
He was playing.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
He's playing for like a shorter route because he got
physical with with A J. Brown, thinking hey, maybe it's
gonna be a back shoulder I slant something in those situations,
and I mean they maybe it was such a call
where you could convert a slant to a goal route
if he's pressed.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And they did. He made he made it. He made
a nice catch man. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, but he did again and a great throw too.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So it was the wrong ending for sure. It was
a big ass to go up there and win in
the first place. I hate the score. It wasn't their
best game. It was far from it. I mean, so
that's the hard part I think today. But I think
largely and I know you agree with this, and I
think most people do that like have followed this team.
You know, I don't know, this isn't that far away
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from where I thought that they could be this year.
But it is above my expectation, like and I think
above most people's expectations. And it was and I think
they were getting dismissed through the year for a lot
of reasons.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Rookie quarterback, new.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Coach, new front office, a lot of new players, Like
there's you know, people are looking at their roster going
like where are the explosive players? Where are the playmakers?
So no one figured that it would go this far,
and that's why no one believed it would along the
way do what they did. So I do want to
spend a moment. I know it's hard off of that.
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It was really hard last night because they thought they
were going to win. They didn't go up their house
money or whatever they thought they were going to win.
It was hard a day later. You know, I still
feel like there was a missed opportunity here, but it
is worth crediting. That was an amazing season and one
that's not going to be replicated. Winning six games in
a row on the final play from scrimmage, winning on
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a hail Mary, seeing Jaden for the first time be
the guy, you know, seeing this team come together the
way that it did from the spring to now they
were strangers eight months ago. This was incredible and memorable
and unforgettable. And I know it fell short of what
they wanted and want, I think what we wanted once
they got to this point, but it really was an
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incredible ride.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It was an incredible ride. Man.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Just think about this. Brow Twenty four hours ago, we
were getting ready to call a championship game, an NFC
championship game.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Who would have thought we'd be there?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Like, you know, that's when you have to kind of
just count your blessings and sit back and kind of like,
you know what, yes, we're extremely disappointed with our count,
but we played in the NFC Championship Game, sixty minutes
away from going in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Playing in the Super Bowl, Man, this is.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The most fun I've had going back to it, with
the exception of being on the ninety nine Rams team
where we won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That team was great. I mean, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
This is the second most fun I've had being involved
with the with the National Football League. Was a player
we wanted to Super Bowl, the second as a broadcaster
and being a part of this ride.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Man, this is this was just was just great.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, there was kind of nothing like this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And you know, I think, you know, a lot of
people deserve a lot of credit for that, Like the
ownership group deserves a lot of credit for that. Like
they spent an inordinate amount of money not only to
purchase the team, but to do all these different things
along the way a lot of people don't really see
or think about. Like they upgraded the stadium, They upgraded
the practice facility in many many ways. Last week when
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they cleared off you know one field, that field was
an AstroTurf field. It had been for twenty five years.
They spent the money to remove that field to use
that for this practice, like to get ready to play
Philadelphia in the cold, to put grass there when they
had three other fields, it didn't really have to do it.
They've done so much on behalf of what the front
office and coaching staff have asked for here. They spent
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a lot of money on them. They've given Adam Peters
a robust front office. He wants to hire people, they
say yes. They gave Dan Quinn one of the most
robust and experienced staffs he could possibly ask for in
his return to being a head coach again. They signed
all these different free agents, Like, I gotta give it,
this is a top to bottom reboot that really worked.
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And like to your point, because early in your career
you won a Super Bowl and then for a long
time after you didn't go back to a space like that,
Like I want to celebrate this because nothing's guaranteed, Like
I feel really good about the future, but it doesn't
mean they're going to get back here again. And I
think that's why this season was just so incredible to
be a part of this year, and now you.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's each season is this season in itself of its own,
So there's no there's no carryover from the momentum that
we had this year, the all the different things that happened,
as you mentioned winning six ball games on a final
play of regulation or final play of the game, I
should say, there's no all of a sudden it's going
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to carry over into the twenty five season. I will
say this, one thing that that they have now that
they didn't have a year ago a year from today,
is they have a foundation of their brotherhood. They have
a foundation of their their culture. They have a foundation
of how dan Quinn and the coaches want to do things.
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They'll be you know, there'll be some new guys that
come to the football team via the draft or free agency,
and it'll be a different roster, but the core nucleus,
the core foundation of how and how we do things,
the standard and our way of life, that's going to continue.
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That'll that'll carry over, but they'll, you know, they'll continue
to add pieces to that to make sure the core
of what it means to be a commander is it
remains the same.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You know, and they have a lot of decisions to
make because it's interesting, like a lot of the guys
came here came on one year deals like and some
of them in advanced stages of their career, like Zach
Ertz and Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So this could be it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
And dan Quin kind of acknowledged it last night when
he was asked after the game, like it's gonna be
a different team next year, and he goes, yes, It
is like a tacit acknowledgement that what happened here, this
isn't This locker room, even as incredible as this run was,
is not going to look the same. And so this
is a really really interesting offseason that's coming up here
that I can't even at this point. I don't really
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want to predict at this point, but I think it's
hard to because there are going to be a lot
of changes across the board with the draft capital, with
the cap space that they have, and a lot of
players that do need to make decisions about their careers
because they came here on one year deals.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh yeah, it's I'm just I'm just happened to look
at the list of our free agency.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
This isn't so long.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I can't even I'd be here, we'd be here for
about thirty minutes, calling off all the days. But there's
some guy, some obvious guys that you like the front
office will want to resign and bring back. You mentioned
Bobby Wagner. I think Jeremy chan is a guy that
you want to bring back. Marcus Mariota, he was great
for Jaden and his development. Tres Waye's a free agent,
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Dante Fowler, you mentioned zach Ertz. You know, there's definitely
some guys you you want.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
To bring back.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
So a lot, a lot of decisions that need to
be made, and front office has a lot of work
ahead of.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
The Yeah, the Peter's he's got to work ahead of him.
Let's talk about Jayden for a minute. I want to
reflect on him since the last time we're going to
do this this year, eight hundred twenty two passing yards
in the three postseason games, most by a rookie in
postseason history. Across the boardy passed Russell Wilson from his
twenty twelve season, most in a single season in franchise history. Obviously,
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that passed Joe Seizeman seven hundred and seventy four from
nineteen eighty three. He has the highest qualified completion percentage
of any rookie ever. He has the most combined offensive
touchdowns rushing passing of any rookie ever. When you combine
regular season postseason. He passed RG three for most rush
yards in a single season by a rookie. He has
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the most combined yards by any rookie ever. He clearly
is going to win the Rookie of the Year and
I still firmly believe it's the greatest season we've ever
seen from any rookie quarterback ever. His play, his poise,
he's so far ahead of the curve, his work ethic,
his humility, his ability to you know, really become close
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with a veteran leaden team where he's friends with Bobby
Wagner and Terry mcclaurin, who's ahead of him. You know,
like there are a lot of questions like are they
going to match up in age because Terry's twenty nine
and he's twenty four, And man, he turned into a
number one receiver again in a way.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know that I think.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
We've been waiting to see, but Jayden Daniels this year.
I don't know what's left to say about it. I'm
out of adjectives for it. But all I can really
say is he's the guy we've been waiting for my
whole life as a fan and certainly as somebody who
is in and around this team and wants to see
them win at the highest level. I know what we
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have in him. And it was amazing to see his
rookie season.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
It really was.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
And just watching it where all the clutch moments, the
poison at the let's start with the humility from the
moment he stepped into that building, all the humility and
he came in Heisman Trophy winner, number two overall pick
viewed as a guy who the franchise. We've been working
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a franchise quarterback for over twenty plus years. He's the
savior of the franchise. And all these expectations and the
humility that he displayed and displays that in itself is
you know, something you don't see a lot from a
guy who's accomplished what he's accomplished. But then you get
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to the field that you look at from Week one
against Tampa Bay to where he was yesterday against the Eagles,
which was the number one defense in the in the league,
scoring wise, and all the other things that they were
great at, but he was he was dicing them up
man with with the football and I'll be it for
you know, I mean except for the turnovers, like the
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Eagles really didn't stop him. And just think Brown, He's
only going to get better because of all this experiences
that he gained this year.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
He'll he'll get back.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
And I asked him last year, oh last night, and
you know when we interviewed him, like what's his process
going to be like before he gets back to to
work it on, you know, next season, his craft? And
he sounded like he was only going to wait a
couple of weeks to get back in the last and
improve it.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I mean, his work ethic was everything we heard about him.
He's very modern in the way he works. Has been
a lot about the VR technology he's used. We've heard
so many stories of it's Tim and Cliff Kingsbury at
five and morning talking to one another in the hall,
working on things and working out plays. It's just been
a match at every turn with him, with his teammates,
and that goes back to him, like he has to
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want to be that way. He has to want to
put team first. There's gonna be a lot of you know,
things pulling at him because he's now a superstar on
this level, so there's gonna be a lot of things
pulling on him.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
But I trust him and I.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Trust that, Like what I've seen so far is that
what's important is going to come first, and that's the
team and his ability to keep getting better. And it
really it was just an amazing ride to watch him.
You played with so many great players I watched. It
was funny. It was fun to watch you with Kurt Owner,
you know, seeing you on the sideline with him twenty
five years ago. You guys want a Super Bowl together.
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Kurt Owner is in the Hall of Fame. You're going
to be there soon, I really hope and sincerely believe
will happen. And I'm sitting there and I'm like looking
at Jaden and I'm going like, where are we going
to be in twenty years from now with him? Like
I just I feel like we're at the beginning of
something that could be very very special.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
We might still be playing as logus quarterbacks play nowadays.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
About that?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we got another twenty Oh that's
easily all.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Right, So let's just get this over with.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Big Fletch's Heavyweight Commander Championship Belt obviously goes to.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Is there even a this is?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
This is a season long Big Fletch Heavyweight Commanders Championship Belt.
So this is a culmination of all the games that
were playing from the regular season at the postseason. So
when you look at all those things, I don't think
we are getting much argument from the guy that that
I'm gonna choose the guy who has the belt. He
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won more championship belts during the during the course of
the season. Jayden daniels Man, Jaden Daz and I'm gonna
read off his regular season numbers.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, actually, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Read off his season regular season half playoff numbers. Pleaded
sixty seven point four percent of his passes, thirty four
hundred and ninety yards passing, so almost thirty five hundred
yards passing, thirty touchdown passes, ten interceptions, rush forward one
thousand yards, and had seven rush TVs. Mad the tainment passing,
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mad the tament rushing. He did it all man. Jayden
Dalliels is Big Fletch's heavyweight championship chap. It up the
twenty twenty four NFL season, And you know.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
What, I think it was funny.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I was looking at the Eagles yesterday and I looked
at their defense and they don't have a lot of
resources in it because they have really young players. So
this might be the first of many over the next
few years between these two teams. Jalen Carter's on the
rookie contract, So is Jordan Davis, So is Quinjon Mitchell,
so so Zach Bond was a deal for them. It
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is Cooper dejen like a lot of their star players
are not over the next two years in line to
get those big extensions, so they're gonna be able to
keep this together and pay the offensive lineman and carry
Hurtz's contract and hang on to Saquon for as long
as they want. This is probably round one between these
two for the next few years. And I know, if
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they're being honest, when they look across the field and
see number five, they know that he's the reason why
they may be kept away from being consistently where they
are in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I was thinking about this, man, getting the whole playoff
game or home playoff games would be great, But.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
In order to do that, we gotta win the division.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Gotta beat them, gotta beat them, gotta gotta knock off
the right in NFC Chaps, Philadelphia Eagles would just happen
to be in our division.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I know these guys have to. When the dust settles.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
You get an opportunity to kind of decompress and get
a couple of weeks past the season, some guys gonna
be like, man, I can't wait to strap it up
again next season, play the Eagles and look at the
goal will be to win that division and get haul
playoff games at Northwest Stadium. And you know, I know
the front office is gonna feel that way. Hey, this
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is like you said, this is just the beginning. Yeah,
this new renewed rivalry.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
So we're unfortunately done for the season, so we're not
gonna be doing this in the booth till August next year.
It feels like a long time. So Jason, our producer,
asked me, for both of us to say, what was
our favorite moment from the booth? And it's hard, Like,
when I really think about it, it's hard because of
all the ways that the games ended this year, it's
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so hard to pick a favorite one. I would say this,
I don't want to put more work on your play,
but I told Ryan and everybody down there, we should
do a top ten because this of any year to
do something like that, we really should because this was unique.
But if I had to pick them, I would pick two.
One was Monday Night Cincinnati, the throw Jaden to Terry
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because it was our first glimpse at how special he
is doing it on a stage against a really really
good team, being written off and doing it anyway. He
completed ninety percent of his throws that one. And then
for me, I think it's Detroit because they were a
massive underdog and you and I never thought they should
have been that big of an underdog. They walked in
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there and they diced that team up, and I actually
will pick defensive plays. The sand we're still pick at
the end of the first half and the Kwan Martin
picked six. I'll never forget those moments either. So those
are the two for me. The first real glimpse of
it Cincinnati at the end of the game, the throw
to Terry and Detroit Terry's touchdown, and the two picks.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That one was a pick six.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That's what really I'm like thinking about today for favorite
moments of the year.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Oh Man, the hell Mary, hell Noah, the hell Noah plays.
That's play like those those are great plays and great moment.
But the hell Noah play will live in infamy, infamy,
like they're gonna play that game, that that play forever.
That right there they the thirteen seconds and thirteen fourteen
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seconds that Jaden bought time before even lost it and
then for Chicago to defend it like they did, and
for the ball it just fall right into the heads
of Noah Brown.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
That right there is great.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
And the second one it's between two either the touchdown
throw to Jamison Crowder to beat the Eagles, the game
winner with six seconds left or the touchdown and overtime
to Zach Hertz to be uh be the Falcons, And
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they said, who wants to go to the playoffs because
that got us in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
So those are those are? Those are two uh two
two ball us right there? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
The honorable mention is the Saints game where he scrambles,
drops the ball, picks it up, and throws a dart
into traffic to Terry McLaurin, which I think is like
the but because it wasn't a game winning score, it's
like underrated of I can't believe what I just saw
them do, Like that was insane when he made that play.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
How about how about the honorable mentioned Marcus Mariota gets
the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yes, yeah, I know we were.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
The four run and then to set up for the
final play throw to Terry.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yeah, those those are yeah, you said listen, they didn't
put together a top ten and do it all video
had a video footage and the ad, so that put
that together. Throw it all, the throw it all to
you too, throw it on the you know the content
they got til they got nothing else to do for
a while at the I know they got I need
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to do, buddy, I'll say, they have stuff to do,
but there's time enough to Hey, when you look back,
let's click at the top ten plays from the Booth
and put together that.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Uh those top ten plays.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, this was just an incredible year.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I know it didn't end the way I wanted it to,
uh and any of us wanted it to. But incredible run,
incredible seasons. Pleasure is always working with you. Nobody has
more fun in the league than we do. Trust me, like,
we had a blast doing that this year and can't
wait for next year. It can it can't come fast enough.
So get through the draft, get through free agency, get
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to OTA's and hopefully August will be here before we
know it. Get into the preseason and get going again. London,
it was pleasure working with you and Logan this year,
and hopefully next time we're talking about the Super Bowl,
we'll do We'll do one extra Booth Review next year.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That's our goal.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
That's the goal. Absolutely, I'm with that, all right.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
That'll do it for this season of the Booth Review.
Coming up on this edition of The Booth Review, London.
The season did not end the way we wanted it to.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
No, it did not, man, But what a ride this
year was.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And we're going to go through all of our favorite
moments from calling the games from an unforgettable twenty twenty
four season.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
That's next on the Booth Review.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome into the final twenty twenty four edition of the
Booth Review podcast. I'm Bram Weinstein with London Fletcher. Were
brought to you by Microsoft Surface powering a better game
one step away, London.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We missed it by one step. What a rough ending
to the season, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Very rough ending, you know it just what I also
say this though, Brown, what a ride man, this Yeah,
this season was just phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Wish our guys would have played better.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
And you know it was a more competitive football game.
But just in totality and looking at the season as
a whole, what in our standing year by these man
they took us on a joy ride?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, it was euphoric. It was unique.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It rewrote the script of the franchise and we'll go
through some of that stuff. Let's focus on the game
for a minute. You know, I think both of us
were surprised. This is the first time they had multiple
turnovers in a game since the second Eagles meeting. They're
not a team that have made mistakes that hurt themselves,
and I think that's kind of the hardest part of
this whole thing is they were poised, they took care
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of the ball, they played the game the right way.
They didn't make a lot of mistakes. And it's hard
walking out of the link yesterday knowing that it really
is their mistakes that were the difference in the ball game.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You know, you see the first fum about the amy
and I know he's trying to make a play and
continue to gain extra yards. And you know, one thing
that Bass security was was something is emphasized all the time.
And when you had that football in your hands, you
have the entire team in your hand, and I know
coach Quinn and all those guys, they they constantly talk
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about the ball being life. So protecting the football, taking
away those are things that are always emphasized there. When
when when they had that fumble, it's like, dang it,
you know, you wish he would have just went down,
but he's trying to He's trying to get all he
could out of that play, and and nice played by
the Eagles linebacker Zach Bond.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But so that happens, and then.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You get the the fumball on the on the kickoff return.
He's like, oh my goodness, what what's happening here? Like,
you know, after especially, it seemed like we were going
to have about a minute and what thirty something seconds
left before the half of Jaden to potentially go out
and lead us to some points before the half and
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fumble that ball away and a lot of Eagles could
get more points right before the half.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
He's just like wow. And obviously the the Eckler.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Fumble that was the that was the dacker because we
had momentum eleven point game at that point in time,
moving football. I guess the egos and he's trying to
get up, you know, make a play, and guy punches
the ball out. So just just go Those are gut
Richard turnovers.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, the timing of them, it's just the timing of them.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Like they fill it up.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He scored.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It's still a one score game. They had used their
timeouts wisely on defense. They're giving themselves a shot to
get back into it. Even the Diami one, Like, obviously
he's poorly timed, but it's so early, you know, in
the game that I didn't feel like it was gonna
be something that really hurt them. I think we even
vocalized on the air, were like, we already did this before.
They were down twenty one to seven after one in
the second go around, and they came back and were
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able to fight through it, and I felt that momentum shift,
but the one at the end of the half was
a killer, and then the Eckler won. Unfortunately, because the
momentum had actually turned like it was an eleven point game.
They got the score, Jayden made that run, that defense
got a stop, they're at midfield, like they even just
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end up with a field goal there and it's a
one score game. The momentums completely shifted, the vibe in
the stadium would have been completely shifted, and all of
a sudden, you're starting to believe again that they're going
to overcome the mistakes. And I don't want to, you know,
blame one person. There is no one person to blame.
But it's hard, you know, walking out of there, going
here's a team that never beat itself the entire year,
never beat itself. And this is the one with so
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much on the line where I know they're looking around
each other going, you know, had we held onto the
ball differently, I think it potentially could have been a
different outcome.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And something also about the the moment of the Eckler
fumble Philadelphias e the Philadelphia Egos defense looked like they
were real and they were they were searching for asks
against that offense really had it. You know they always
go no huw to our offense does, but seemed like
they had kicked it a little bit more up tempo
type of type of gear and the Eagles defense, we're
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really having trouble. I think the running game has started
hitting a little bit Mason Mason yards in the run game.
The passing game was coming alive. And the Eagles defense there,
guys are looking a little winded. And when that happened,
that was the kind of the shift back to shifting
the momentum back in the Eagles favor. I also, I
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also say this from a defensive standpoint, I wish the
Eagles weren't able to get all those points off the turnovers,
because it's one thing to turn the football over. But
they got out of the three turnovers though first three
turnovers they got twenty one points. You know, if you
give up ten points, maybe thirteen points, you know, you
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hold them to a couple of field goals or some
instances not give up points at all. That would also
helped our case, but just wasn't complimentary football the way
that we had played. Also the last you know, let's
call it seven eight weeks of the season, great complimentary
football pick the worst time to have really our worst
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game over the second half of the season.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, obviously the run defense, which had been struggling throughout
the year but really reared up here. I mean, how
many times do we talk about during the week, Saquon
Barkley's gonna have a game, He's gonna get yardedge. You
can't hold him to twenty carries forty yards, Like, that's
not going to happen. What cannot happen is the home
runs that he hits. And it's their first play from
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scrimmage is a sixty yard touchdown run. I mean, it
was a bad omen for what was coming throughout the
course of the game. And really, I mean this was
the deficiency of the defense the entire season was trying
to handle the run games, especially of top tier run
offenses like Philadelphia's.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Is yes, no, that was that was deflate.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I will admit to coming to the game knowing that, say,
Kuan is the guy, he's the one that you got
to get stopped when you're looking at this Philadelphia Eagles
offense because it just he energizes that offense, he energizes
that team. And for him to go sixty yards on
the very first play, I'm like, are you kidding? Are
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you kidding? Because we you know, we have an eighteen
play drive to start the game, get three points out
of that, so how are you feeling pretty good?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Maybe the Eagles will come back and get points.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But for it to be a one play sixty yard
or eighteen seconds that that had that that crowd electric,
that atmosphere was electric.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Then we have the.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Turnover the very next next series and there before you
know it, in a blink of an eye, I think
you said at one point the Eagles had the ball
for less than three minutes and they were up.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They were up fourteen to three. It was like two
maybe had.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Some weird games specifically with them, you know, like it
it's unusual if a team turns the ball over five
times and wins. That happened in the second matchup, and
in this one, Washington had the ball for almost twelve
minutes and thirty seconds of the first quarter and trailed
fourteen to three because of one play and then the
second drive off the Diami fumble, they scored very quickly. Again,
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so they just didn't even need the ball to score
extremely quickly. So like you throw the stats out the
window in situations like this, with the exception of typically
when you turn the ball over against the good team
and don't cause any turnovers, you lose. And you know,
so they were their own worst enemy. Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I just looked at the play by play of that,
and the Eagles had the ball for two minutes and
twenty seconds. Yeah, first play it was an eighth one play,
eighteen second drive, and the second score was sixth plays
two minutes and two seconds, So seven plays, two minutes
and twenty seconds, and they had they were up fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It totally played out the way you'd want it to.
We wanted to shorten the game. We hadn't seen you
know what was Jalen Hurt's mobility. That was going to
be a big question. He answered that, but like, this
couldn't have started better. They get the ball, they have
this long seven minute drive, so they run off almost
half of the first quarter. I know they ended up
with a field goal and not a touchdown, which is
the one thing that you know you could argue with.
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But I remember after that happened, I went, this is
exactly what we need to do. Shorten this game, don't
give them a lot of possessions, have long drives, keep
their offense off the field. Eighteen seconds later they're losing.
I mean, it was so it was so deflating, Really.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It really was.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It really was, man, I just I even I don't
know if you felt the same way, I believe you did.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And because.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
We've grown so accustomed to this team, never been out
of a fight, always battling back, and we battled back
to score fourteen to twelve. Jay, the company got it going,
to offense got it going, and uh it's fourteen twelve score,
and you know you're look at hoping the defense can
make the plays, makes the plays to kind of get
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us back, because the game felt like it got tight
for Philadelphia, and they go down and get a twelve
play seventy two yard t us now drive. Yeah, but
that's not okay. You're still a well score game. But
did that fumble right before the half? That was another
uh just gut punch man before.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think the hardest part, like for me, like coming
out of it, is Jayden played really well again and
under you know it was going to be difficult circumstances,
and you know, I want to give the offensive line credit.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I think they did what they could.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like they were missing people, they're rotating guards. Chris Paul
was playing a good amount of plays. He hadn't played
a good portion of the season. He was inactive many weeks.
Trent Scott, who had to come in in relief of
Sam Cosmi a week before, is rotating with him guards.
Not the natural position that he's playing this year, but
they've asked him to do it up against the number
one defense and maybe the most disruptive interior defensive lineman
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in the NFL. So they got a really, really tough ask.
And that's the hardest part for me because Jayden played well.
Jayden kept bringing him back. He gets them at fourteen twelve,
he doesn't get the ball backed again until it's twenty
seven to twelve, and then he gets them to within
eleven and got the ball back and they lose it again.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Like there were there were.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
These occasions where you go, I just wanted to see
it one more time with him because I trust him,
and the team unfortunately didn't put him in the position
to make the plays for the comebacks. That's that's the
hardest part walking out of there, because it's not like
he played poorly or they figured him out like they didn't,
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but the mistakes kept Washington away from pulling off, you know,
potentially a comeback.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, no, you're you're absolutely right. I thought.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I thought the the adjustments that they made from an
office a lion standpoint in terms of protection, double doubling
Jayden Carter a lot more, making sure he wasn't going
to be the game record because I think the very
first play of the game, you do, the very first
first or second step of the game, he got im
media pressure on on Jaden and and Jayden had to
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throw a foot all away. But the offensive line they made,
they made some adjustments, made sure you saw more double
teams on on Jalen Carter.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I really liked some of the things they did in
the run game in terms.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Of and we talked about this a couple of times
and doing the broadcast, how they were running like this
inside zone type of run and they were leaving Jalen Jay,
did I mean Jalen Carter to be blocked by uh
by John Bates on a on a kind of a
cross block and he's coming. One time he cut him low.
That's the time he cut him, and uh, Jalen Carter
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jumps over, but by the time by him jumping over John,
he was out of the play. And then another time
he hit him high. So it was a good, good thing,
good ways to kind of attack him. But there was
a there was a crucial sack lay in the game
where after a defense goes three and out the second half,
we go three and out to start the second half,
get the ball back and it was a second down
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sack we gave up and put us in second.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And twenty third, twenty. Yeah, like all those lines.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But you know, I want to say this too, because
after the second matchup, everybody in Philadelphia it was like
all excuses about oh, how they lost or why they lost,
or why why they could rationalize how Washington came back
and won it wouldn't give them credit for winning. They
were they were blaming the injury to Jalen Hurts, they
were blaming a phantom false start.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
CJ.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Gardner, Johnson got kicked out. They were like they were
just coming up with excuse after excuse after excuse. Right,
I will say this, like the officiating had a lot
left to be desired for on a number of occasions. Right,
the Sandra's still quote unquote late hit the PI in
the end zone, which was marginal on Devonte Smith. The
lack of a p I call on Luke McCaffrey late,
that was. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There was a gun back, yeah, hold on on on
Louvu on a on.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
A fourth MOVI on the fourth and five throw like that.
That was. That was one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
But I just want to say this out loud, the
officials didn't lose this game for them, Like, there's no
excuses here. I think the officials there's a there's a
lot to be desired with what happened, and it didn't
go their way for sure, Washington's, but like I didn't
walk out of their going they lost because of the refs.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't feel that way at all.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Really, No, no, I don't feel like that, but I
felt feel like the score would have been more competitive
because if they if they call that that hold on
Louisville on the fourth and five, they played that football,
putting that football, punting that football, they get a testdown
out of that. The late hit quote unquote late hit
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on saber Steel that's a third third down stop. They're
going to kick a field goal, So you know you're
taking that's what eleven points off the board, particularly right there.
I guess there was a misfaced mask on on this. Yeah,
so all these things kind of add up throughout the
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course of game. No, you cannot turn the football over
three times, and especially on the road, I guess the
best team in NFC. And you know that's not They're
not the reason we lost the game, but they played
a part in the score not being more competitive patient
the game being a lot tighter, and we know how
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we do it in close ball games.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, and you know what, like I hate that score.
I don't think that score is indicative of what this
team is. They hadn't lost by double digits to anybody
since week one, and you know, you know how it
goes like they were and they talked about this leading
into it, and we used it as a storyline that like,
this team has been dismissed the whole year by everybody
outside of the area, and we're the ones watching them
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every week, and we're the ones seeing what Jade's doing,
and we're seeing like the brotherhood and the connection and
the chemistry. It's all real, and the way they were
winning games, it wasn't an accident. And we that's why
we were like, go ahead, you know, underestimate them. All
you want. All they're going to do is keep winning.
But they kept getting dismissed week after week after week.
And you know how this goes, Like the people who
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aren't paying attention and then just see a score like
that and they go, see, I told you, And that's
the worst part of this whole thing. And I agree
with you about maybe the officiating or some of the intangibles.
The score shouldn't have looked like that, and frankly, this
team didn't deserve to have a score that looks like that,
like lopsided like that. But in the end, I still
don't I don't want to use excuses. I still don't
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believe that that's the reasons why they lost like those
fumbles are the reasons why they lost. They didn't take
advantage of the opportunity to have. They didn't cause a
turnover like they say, ball is life. It's on them
that they lost. But I agree the score in the
end Karmicley shouldn't have looked like that in the way
that the season went this year.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
No, No, that's that was that just added in sought
to injury. Yeah, when you see fifty five points, it
was a late fourth and I think eleven fourth and
twelve you go for and then backed up there in
a different scenario, different situation, you're putting the football, you're
not going to continue to go forward, and the Egles
the end up getting to so they turned over on
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down to get a touchdown out of that play. Just
not again, it wasn't the complimentary football. I didn't think
the the coverage Yonders were that good on the on
the kickoff coverage.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
There were times.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Where the Eagles, like the first the first kickoff return
for them, they got it out to the forty. That's
why Sakwan went sixty et cetera. You know, let's call
it seventy or eighty yards. But I think overall you know,
it was just just not complimentary football man, the way
that we had, uh we had played all season long.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it wasn't their best day. And that's a really
good team they like they were. They've lost once since
October like that. That's a really really good team with
a really really good roster. Jalen Hurts played a really
good game yesterday. I think he was the big question
mark coming in what was his mobility with his knee injury?
He answered that earthly. We found out early. We saw
it early, and we went that questions answered. And yes
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there was a hold on that fourth and five, but
that was a perfect throw too, So like I want
to you want to credit them like they played well.
They played like a team that belongs in New Orleans.
I want to credit them for that.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, you're You're absolutely right when they when they
went forward out on that fourth and five. Initially I
was like, are they really going to snap this football?
Because it was a balls about on what the forty
five yard line.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
They'd already missed the long fifty yard field goal. You
knew they weren't going to try another one, right right.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah, So it was it was beyond what you would
think is a realistic field goal opportunity for them, And
you're like, okay, if they go for this and they
don't get it, they don't give us great field goal
field position if they don't get it. And it took
it took him a while actually snapped the ball, so
I was like, is he trying to draw us off
off size? And then when he snapped it, him and
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Marshaan it was fourth and five.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
He was playing.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
He's playing for like a shorter route because he got
physical with with A J. Brown, thinking hey, maybe it's
gonna be a back shoulder I slant something in those situations,
and I mean they maybe it was such a call
where you could convert a slant to a goal route
if he's pressed.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And they did. He made he made it. He made
a nice catch man. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, but he did again and a great throw too.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So it was the wrong ending for sure. It was
a big ass to go up there and win in
the first place. I hate the score. It wasn't their
best game. It was far from it. I mean, so
that's the hard part I think today. But I think
largely and I know you agree with this, and I
think most people do that like have followed this team.
You know, I don't know, this isn't that far away
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from where I thought that they could be this year.
But it is above my expectation, like and I think
above most people's expectations. And it was and I think
they were getting dismissed through the year for a lot
of reasons.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Rookie quarterback, new.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Coach, new front office, a lot of new players, Like
there's you know, people are looking at their roster going
like where are the explosive players? Where are the playmakers?
So no one figured that it would go this far,
and that's why no one believed it would along the
way do what they did. So I do want to
spend a moment. I know it's hard off of that.
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It was really hard last night because they thought they
were going to win. They didn't go up their house
money or whatever they thought they were going to win.
It was hard a day later. You know, I still
feel like there was a missed opportunity here, but it
is worth crediting. That was an amazing season and one
that's not going to be replicated. Winning six games in
a row on the final play from scrimmage, winning on
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a hail Mary, seeing Jaden for the first time be
the guy, you know, seeing this team come together the
way that it did from the spring to now they
were strangers eight months ago. This was incredible and memorable
and unforgettable. And I know it fell short of what
they wanted and want, I think what we wanted once
they got to this point, but it really was an
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incredible ride.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It was an incredible ride. Man.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Just think about this. Brow Twenty four hours ago, we
were getting ready to call a championship game, an NFC
championship game.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Who would have thought we'd be there?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Like, you know, that's when you have to kind of
just count your blessings and sit back and kind of like,
you know what, yes, we're extremely disappointed with our count,
but we played in the NFC Championship Game, sixty minutes
away from going in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Playing in the Super Bowl, Man, this is.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
The most fun I've had going back to it, with
the exception of being on the ninety nine Rams team
where we won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That team was great. I mean, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
This is the second most fun I've had being involved
with the with the National Football League. Was a player
we wanted to Super Bowl, the second as a broadcaster
and being a part of this ride.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Man, this is this was just was just great.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, there was kind of nothing like this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
And you know, I think, you know, a lot of
people deserve a lot of credit for that, Like the
ownership group deserves a lot of credit for that. Like
they spent an inordinate amount of money not only to
purchase the team, but to do all these different things
along the way a lot of people don't really see
or think about. Like they upgraded the stadium, They upgraded
the practice facility in many many ways. Last week when
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they cleared off you know one field, that field was
an AstroTurf field. It had been for twenty five years.
They spent the money to remove that field to use
that for this practice, like to get ready to play
Philadelphia in the cold, to put grass there when they
had three other fields, it didn't really have to do it.
They've done so much on behalf of what the front
office and coaching staff have asked for here. They spent
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a lot of money on them. They've given Adam Peters
a robust front office. He wants to hire people, they
say yes. They gave Dan Quinn one of the most
robust and experienced staffs he could possibly ask for in
his return to being a head coach again. They signed
all these different free agents, Like, I gotta give it,
this is a top to bottom reboot that really worked.
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And like to your point, because early in your career
you won a Super Bowl and then for a long
time after you didn't go back to a space like that,
Like I want to celebrate this because nothing's guaranteed, Like
I feel really good about the future, but it doesn't
mean they're going to get back here again. And I
think that's why this season was just so incredible to
be a part of this year, and now you.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's each season is this season in itself of its own,
So there's no there's no carryover from the momentum that
we had this year, the all the different things that happened,
as you mentioned winning six ball games on a final
play of regulation or final play of the game, I
should say, there's no all of a sudden it's going
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to carry over into the twenty five season. I will
say this, one thing that that they have now that
they didn't have a year ago a year from today,
is they have a foundation of their brotherhood. They have
a foundation of their their culture. They have a foundation
of how dan Quinn and the coaches want to do things.
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They'll be you know, there'll be some new guys that
come to the football team via the draft or free agency,
and it'll be a different roster, but the core nucleus,
the core foundation of how and how we do things,
the standard and our way of life, that's going to continue.
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That'll that'll carry over, but they'll, you know, they'll continue
to add pieces to that to make sure the core
of what it means to be a commander is it
remains the same.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You know, and they have a lot of decisions to
make because it's interesting, like a lot of the guys
came here came on one year deals like and some
of them in advanced stages of their career, like Zach
Ertz and Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So this could be it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
And dan Quin kind of acknowledged it last night when
he was asked after the game, like it's gonna be
a different team next year, and he goes, yes, It
is like a tacit acknowledgement that what happened here, this
isn't This locker room, even as incredible as this run was,
is not going to look the same. And so this
is a really really interesting offseason that's coming up here
that I can't even at this point. I don't really
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want to predict at this point, but I think it's
hard to because there are going to be a lot
of changes across the board with the draft capital, with
the cap space that they have, and a lot of
players that do need to make decisions about their careers
because they came here on one year deals.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Oh yeah, it's I'm just I'm just happened to look
at the list of our free agency.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
This isn't so long.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I can't even I'd be here, we'd be here for
about thirty minutes, calling off all the days. But there's
some guy, some obvious guys that you like the front
office will want to resign and bring back. You mentioned
Bobby Wagner. I think Jeremy chan is a guy that
you want to bring back. Marcus Mariota, he was great
for Jaden and his development. Tres Waye's a free agent,
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Dante Fowler, you mentioned zach Ertz. You know, there's definitely
some guys you you want.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
To bring back.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
So a lot, a lot of decisions that need to
be made, and front office has a lot of work
ahead of.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
The Yeah, the Peter's he's got to work ahead of him.
Let's talk about Jayden for a minute. I want to
reflect on him since the last time we're going to
do this this year, eight hundred twenty two passing yards
in the three postseason games, most by a rookie in
postseason history. Across the boardy passed Russell Wilson from his
twenty twelve season, most in a single season in franchise history. Obviously,
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that passed Joe Seizeman seven hundred and seventy four from
nineteen eighty three. He has the highest qualified completion percentage
of any rookie ever. He has the most combined offensive
touchdowns rushing passing of any rookie ever. When you combine
regular season postseason. He passed RG three for most rush
yards in a single season by a rookie. He has
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the most combined yards by any rookie ever. He clearly
is going to win the Rookie of the Year and
I still firmly believe it's the greatest season we've ever
seen from any rookie quarterback ever. His play, his poise,
he's so far ahead of the curve, his work ethic,
his humility, his ability to you know, really become close
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with a veteran leaden team where he's friends with Bobby
Wagner and Terry mcclaurin, who's ahead of him. You know,
like there are a lot of questions like are they
going to match up in age because Terry's twenty nine
and he's twenty four, And man, he turned into a
number one receiver again in a way.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know that I think.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
We've been waiting to see, but Jayden Daniels this year.
I don't know what's left to say about it. I'm
out of adjectives for it. But all I can really
say is he's the guy we've been waiting for my
whole life as a fan and certainly as somebody who
is in and around this team and wants to see
them win at the highest level. I know what we
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have in him. And it was amazing to see his
rookie season.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
It really was.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
And just watching it where all the clutch moments, the
poison at the let's start with the humility from the
moment he stepped into that building, all the humility and
he came in Heisman Trophy winner, number two overall pick
viewed as a guy who the franchise. We've been working
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a franchise quarterback for over twenty plus years. He's the
savior of the franchise. And all these expectations and the
humility that he displayed and displays that in itself is
you know, something you don't see a lot from a
guy who's accomplished what he's accomplished. But then you get
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to the field that you look at from Week one
against Tampa Bay to where he was yesterday against the Eagles,
which was the number one defense in the in the league,
scoring wise, and all the other things that they were
great at, but he was he was dicing them up
man with with the football and I'll be it for
you know, I mean except for the turnovers, like the
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Eagles really didn't stop him. And just think Brown, He's
only going to get better because of all this experiences
that he gained this year.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
He'll he'll get back.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
And I asked him last year, oh last night, and
you know when we interviewed him, like what's his process
going to be like before he gets back to to
work it on, you know, next season, his craft? And
he sounded like he was only going to wait a
couple of weeks to get back in the last and
improve it.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I mean, his work ethic was everything we heard about him.
He's very modern in the way he works. Has been
a lot about the VR technology he's used. We've heard
so many stories of it's Tim and Cliff Kingsbury at
five and morning talking to one another in the hall,
working on things and working out plays. It's just been
a match at every turn with him, with his teammates,
and that goes back to him, like he has to
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want to be that way. He has to want to
put team first. There's gonna be a lot of you know,
things pulling at him because he's now a superstar on
this level, so there's gonna be a lot of things
pulling on him.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
But I trust him and I.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Trust that, Like what I've seen so far is that
what's important is going to come first, and that's the
team and his ability to keep getting better. And it
really it was just an amazing ride to watch him.
You played with so many great players I watched. It
was funny. It was fun to watch you with Kurt Owner,
you know, seeing you on the sideline with him twenty
five years ago. You guys want a Super Bowl together.
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Kurt Owner is in the Hall of Fame. You're going
to be there soon, I really hope and sincerely believe
will happen. And I'm sitting there and I'm like looking
at Jaden and I'm going like, where are we going
to be in twenty years from now with him? Like
I just I feel like we're at the beginning of
something that could be very very special.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
We might still be playing as logus quarterbacks play nowadays.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
About that?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we got another twenty Oh that's
easily all.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Right, So let's just get this over with.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Big Fletch's Heavyweight Commander Championship Belt obviously goes to.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Is there even a this is?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
This is a season long Big Fletch Heavyweight Commanders Championship Belt.
So this is a culmination of all the games that
were playing from the regular season at the postseason. So
when you look at all those things, I don't think
we are getting much argument from the guy that that
I'm gonna choose the guy who has the belt. He
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won more championship belts during the during the course of
the season. Jayden daniels Man, Jaden Daz and I'm gonna
read off his regular season numbers.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, actually, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Read off his season regular season half playoff numbers. Pleaded
sixty seven point four percent of his passes, thirty four
hundred and ninety yards passing, so almost thirty five hundred
yards passing, thirty touchdown passes, ten interceptions, rush forward one
thousand yards, and had seven rush TVs. Mad the tainment passing,
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mad the tament rushing. He did it all man. Jayden
Dalliels is Big Fletch's heavyweight championship chap. It up the
twenty twenty four NFL season, And you know.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
What, I think it was funny.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I was looking at the Eagles yesterday and I looked
at their defense and they don't have a lot of
resources in it because they have really young players. So
this might be the first of many over the next
few years between these two teams. Jalen Carter's on the
rookie contract, So is Jordan Davis, So is Quinjon Mitchell,
so so Zach Bond was a deal for them. It
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is Cooper dejen like a lot of their star players
are not over the next two years in line to
get those big extensions, so they're gonna be able to
keep this together and pay the offensive lineman and carry
Hurtz's contract and hang on to Saquon for as long
as they want. This is probably round one between these
two for the next few years. And I know, if
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they're being honest, when they look across the field and
see number five, they know that he's the reason why
they may be kept away from being consistently where they
are in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I was thinking about this, man, getting the whole playoff
game or home playoff games would be great, But.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
In order to do that, we gotta win the division.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Gotta beat them, gotta beat them, gotta gotta knock off
the right in NFC Chaps, Philadelphia Eagles would just happen
to be in our division.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
And I know these guys have to. When the dust settles.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
You get an opportunity to kind of decompress and get
a couple of weeks past the season, some guys gonna
be like, man, I can't wait to strap it up
again next season, play the Eagles and look at the
goal will be to win that division and get haul
playoff games at Northwest Stadium. And you know, I know
the front office is gonna feel that way. Hey, this
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is like you said, this is just the beginning. Yeah,
this new renewed rivalry.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
So we're unfortunately done for the season, so we're not
gonna be doing this in the booth till August next year.
It feels like a long time. So Jason, our producer,
asked me, for both of us to say, what was
our favorite moment from the booth? And it's hard, Like,
when I really think about it, it's hard because of
all the ways that the games ended this year, it's
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so hard to pick a favorite one. I would say this,
I don't want to put more work on your play,
but I told Ryan and everybody down there, we should
do a top ten because this of any year to
do something like that, we really should because this was unique.
But if I had to pick them, I would pick two.
One was Monday Night Cincinnati, the throw Jaden to Terry
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because it was our first glimpse at how special he
is doing it on a stage against a really really
good team, being written off and doing it anyway. He
completed ninety percent of his throws that one. And then
for me, I think it's Detroit because they were a
massive underdog and you and I never thought they should
have been that big of an underdog. They walked in
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there and they diced that team up, and I actually
will pick defensive plays. The sand we're still pick at
the end of the first half and the Kwan Martin
picked six. I'll never forget those moments either. So those
are the two for me. The first real glimpse of
it Cincinnati at the end of the game, the throw
to Terry and Detroit Terry's touchdown, and the two picks.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That one was a pick six.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That's what really I'm like thinking about today for favorite
moments of the year.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Oh Man, the hell Mary, hell Noah, the hell Noah plays.
That's play like those those are great plays and great moment.
But the hell Noah play will live in infamy, infamy,
like they're gonna play that game, that that play forever.
That right there they the thirteen seconds and thirteen fourteen
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seconds that Jaden bought time before even lost it and
then for Chicago to defend it like they did, and
for the ball it just fall right into the heads
of Noah Brown.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
That right there is great.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
And the second one it's between two either the touchdown
throw to Jamison Crowder to beat the Eagles, the game
winner with six seconds left or the touchdown and overtime
to Zach Hertz to be uh be the Falcons, And
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they said, who wants to go to the playoffs because
that got us in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
So those are those are? Those are two uh two
two ball us right there? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
The honorable mention is the Saints game where he scrambles,
drops the ball, picks it up, and throws a dart
into traffic to Terry McLaurin, which I think is like
the but because it wasn't a game winning score, it's
like underrated of I can't believe what I just saw
them do, Like that was insane when he made that play.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
How about how about the honorable mentioned Marcus Mariota gets
the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yes, yeah, I know we were.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
The four run and then to set up for the
final play throw to Terry.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yeah, those those are yeah, you said listen, they didn't
put together a top ten and do it all video
had a video footage and the ad, so that put
that together. Throw it all, the throw it all to
you too, throw it on the you know the content
they got til they got nothing else to do for
a while at the I know they got I need
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to do, buddy, I'll say, they have stuff to do,
but there's time enough to Hey, when you look back,
let's click at the top ten plays from the Booth
and put together that.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Uh those top ten plays.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, this was just an incredible year.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I know it didn't end the way I wanted it to,
uh and any of us wanted it to. But incredible run,
incredible seasons. Pleasure is always working with you. Nobody has
more fun in the league than we do. Trust me, like,
we had a blast doing that this year and can't
wait for next year. It can it can't come fast enough.
So get through the draft, get through free agency, get
(38:49):
to OTA's and hopefully August will be here before we
know it. Get into the preseason and get going again. London,
it was pleasure working with you and Logan this year,
and hopefully next time we're talking about the Super Bowl,
we'll do We'll do one extra Booth Review next year.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
That's our goal.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
That's the goal. Absolutely, I'm with that, all right.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
That'll do it for this season of the Booth Review.
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