Week 6 Postgame Show

Tune in to hear Gabriella DiGiovanni, Fran Duffy, and Ike Reese break down the Eagles victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football.

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Six and oh, here we go and back to Dallas
the Cowboys go. The second quarter, it was like a
scoring fest. Twenty points, A J. Brown fifteen yard touchdown.
That was the second touchdown of the night. And A. J.
Brown came up big again in the fourth quarter, twenty
four yard catch. That's set up perfectly for Hurts to
find Devontae Smith. Here we go the snap. Hurts rolls

(00:54):
right find Zavonta Smith wide open for the touchdown. How
about this defense? Though Chauncey Gardner Johnson two interceptions. This
was interception number two on the night, his third in
two games. Welcome to the postgame Show, presented by Rico.
I'm Gabriella d Givanni, joined by friend Duffy and I Grace.
What do you got for us? It'll never get old, man,

(01:23):
It was never get old. I couldnot wait for it
every single night. I was worried, they're gonna fall back
in that chair. Who that's the only danger there right there,
falling all the way back. So yeah, you're getting up there.
But we got we got this. Let's a good start,
all right, guys. Twenty six to seventeen. Got close in
the second half, but let's start with the first half
purely dominant performance. The Eagles came out swinging in the

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second quarter like they've historically done through the first five
games of the season. Twenty points in the second quarter,
let's start there. You could tell early that that Cowboys
offense was gonna have problems moving the ball against this
Eagles defense. They did a fantastic job in the first half,
allowing the offense eventually to find their rhythm. And what
hasn't become customary in the twenty two season is that

(02:09):
the second quarter explosion happened again. So they were awesome
in that second quarter. The fact that Jalen Hurt is
able to move the ball through the air and on
the ground when they needed to. I thought, when we
got back to running the football, I thought we started
to take this game over. I thought, when you look
at the defensive just to start to this game, to
go punt, puntick, turnover on downs, punt, really good start

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to this football game. Now, some things to clean up
early in the second half, right, you got a nine
play drive that ended up in points, a fifteen play
drive that took off eight minutes off the clock. The
Cowboys went three for three on third down on that drive.
It feels like teams have one of those drives a game,
and look, at the end of the day, you gotta
tip your cap to the other team. Obviously they play,
they get paid as well. But at the end of
the day, the Eagles defense comes up with the turnover,

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comes up with the big play when they need it.
You get the interception from CJ. Gardner Johnson in the
fourth quarter, come back with a turner for all downs
to end the games. That's what you're looking for. Second half,
a little more adversity for the Eagles. That was the
big storyline last week against the Cardinals. How would they
respond They're put up against the same kind of thing
in the second half. It got pretty close. But the
way that they responded, the way the defense came up

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big when it mattered most, that's what good teams have
to do. Yeah, two weeks in a row, when they
needed a huge drive in the fourth quarter to put
points on the board, they were able to do it.
Jalen Hurts being managed for Nick Sirianni change stik in
the play calling the diversity they show you in the
offense getting the ball to Moles Sanders. A. J. Brown
with big catches in that fourth quarter. It's obviously something

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the Eagles don't want to make a habit out of,
you know, they certainly want to get whatever issues they
may be having in the second half corrected. Thankfully. You
gotta buy week coming up, so these things, when you're
a six and old team, you gotta find things that
you need to work on it. There's always something there.
And that's probably the only thing you can nitpick at
with the team right now is that we seem to

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get off to a little bit of a slow start
in that second half and allow teams to get back
in there. But again, when a drive was needed, when
points were needed, they were able to get it done.
And that's the mark of a great team, no doubt.
And that goes on both sides, right the defense able
to come up with that stop at the end of
the offense, able to go thirteen plays, march the ball
down the field, Miles Sanders runs for twenty plus, you

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get the big completion to aj the touchdown to DeVante
and one thing I love Ella should We showed those
in the highlights to start the show. The touchdown passes
to A. J. Brown and DeVante Smith, same exact play call,
same exact play design. Jalen Hurts finds a different receiver
on both times. Because of how the defense played, both
of those throws ended up reaching the paint for a touchdown.
I love the balance on this offense. One hundred and

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thirty seven on the ground, one fifty five through the air.
I mean that is almost fifty fifty. But something so
special that the Eagles have going for them. And I
feel like we talk about this every week. If it's
not working on the ground, they can put it through
the air and vice versa. And we saw that today.
There were some drives that were run heavy, some that
were run heavy, but then you needed that threat through
the air to score at the end. I'm not surprised

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when you look at the box score, you look at
the yardage at the end of the game that this
isn't one of those four hundred, four hundred and fifty
yard explosions. And Dallas Cowboys are very Dallas Cowboys are
very good defense, so they're gonna make you earn every
blade of grass that you get out there. So that
doesn't surprise me. Or what the Eagles did is they
stayed patient. They stayed patient. The ball was rarely, if ever,

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put in harm's way, and that's really the difference in
this ballgame. You had two good football teams with two
good defenses going against each other. Our quarterback was able
to make plays, whether it was through the air or
on the ground with his legs, and he certainly was
a better decision maker back there. Dallas made a few
plays defensively, they got some sacks and things of that nature.
Not surprised by that, but I love that we stayed

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within the framework of what we do well and didn't
get out of our comfort zone. And one thing I
know you'll love. Look, I think one of the other
big things this Eagle's offense will need to do over
the course of the break is be a little bit
more consistent when you get on the third down. Overall, Now,
this is a team that likes to go obviously on
fourth down, and so understanding, hey, you've got some wiggle
room to be short of the sticks on third down.

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That certainly plays into these numbers. But when the Eagles
were on third and short, third and medium, perfect tonight,
when they were on third and long over so again,
just trying to improve on third down, I think that'll
be another point of emphasis over the course of the
break as well. But at the end of the day,
this team was able to make plays when they needed
to in clutch time. Here at the end of the game,
we're gonna keep rolling here. But I want to remind
fans at home to get your questions into the Facebook comments.

(06:29):
Ask Hike and the Facebook comments will be going through
them throughout the night, and I will be answering them
to the best of his ability, like he likes to say.
And I'll tell you the Eagles from the standpoint of
the Cowboys defense, right, they love to take the ball
away as well. These are two of the top teams
in the league when it comes to force and turnovers.
The Eagles got what four to night three or forty
to night down here to night and the Cowboys got none.

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The Cowboys got none, and in the end, that really
was the big difference in the game. Yeah, the turnover
differential has been a huge, huge staple of this Eagles team.
When that's complimentary football that requires both sides to hold
up their end of the bargain, the defense forcing three offense.
He had that fumble in that fourth quarter A little
bit scary there, but outside of that, they were able
to protect it and they did not put the ball
in harm's way. But I thought it was interesting was

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the things that the Cowboys came into this game with,
things that they were good at. The Eagles completely exploited.
Cooper Rush hadn't thrown an interception all season. He threw
three tonight. The Cowboys defense hadn't given up a touchdown
to a running back. They gave up one all season.
Miles Sanders was the first Eagle to score tonight on
the ground. So things that the Cowboys had been able
to do well, I think the Eagles took complete advantage

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of Yeah, and the Eagles they said to themselves, listen,
we're gonna run right at you. And I thought Miles
ran tough tonight. Didn't He had the one big run,
I know, but he had nice tough yards in between
the tackles, get behind your shoulder pads, leaning forward on
most of those plays. I like the way Miles Sanders
ran the ball tonight. I agree, said the sea where
we were watching this felt like one of the best

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nights we've seen from Miles Sanders. I thought he was decisive,
he got downhill, he didn't doing nice. He wasn't dancing
or anything like that. I thought he picked up all
the yards that were available to him and more here
in this game he got to say tough Dallas defense.
Of course, a lot of that credit goes to the
offensive line. We need to talk about the injuries a
little bit across that offensive line. Right tackle Lane Johnson
was ruled out with a concussion. Jack Driscoll took his place.

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It was pretty clear how important Lane Johnson is to
this offensive line because it got a little tough for
that old line, and it got a little more pressure,
a little more defenders up in. Jalen hurts his face
when Lane Johnson was no longer in the fold. Like
you mentioned, we're going into a bye this week, so
it's a good time for these guys to rest up
and get healthy. Yeah, for sure. I mean listen, when
Lane went out, you could tell that the Dallas Cowboys

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mindset changed. He got Jack drisk over their plan right
tackle something he's uncomfortable with doing. The Cowboys They're going
to load up on that side and bring extra guys
and try to create confusion over there. And that's really
what happened in that third quarter. I think it took
us a little bit a while to get our footing
and settle down a little bit, whereas Dallas started getting
a little momentum and they started feeling confident on the

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defensive side of the ball. And when you don't have
sixty five out there, you know, as a defensive player,
you're saying, now is our time to get after Jalen.
And thankfully we got to the fourth quarter, settled down,
and they took care of business. At the end of
the day, when you lose a blue chip player like
Thanking Johnson, your margin for error just shrinks just a
little bit, right, and so that impacts both the run

(09:20):
game and the pass game. I thought we saw that
early in the second half. And then of course, Landon
Dickerson he fell out later in the game, so Appetta
took his place when she got some snaps on that
side of the football last week as well. So just
things to keep an eye on as we keep going here,
because this offensive line clearly is very crucial to this
Eagles offense. But when we talk about this Eagles offense,
AJ Brown he just came up in big moments today.

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Of course having that touchdown early on, but the way
that he's able to fight for those extra yards ends
up paying off when you're trying to shrink together along
drive bike. Yeah, it reminds me a lot of a
guy who played here years ago. When I played here
eighty one, I was pretty good. It's one of the
best receivers to ever do it. And I think A
has a lot of those same physical traits that TiO

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possessed as a player, because who could believe me defenders
That defender literally got out of the way. He didn't
want to tackle a J. Brown right there. So when
you run as hard as a J. Brown does, dB,
they don't really want to tackle number eleven. Look at
they just those those are courtesy waves at a J.
Brown and they're waiting for the rest of the crew

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to get there to make that tackle. A J. Brown
when a big play was needed, Number one knows he's
gonna find Number eleven. Well, what was the question that
you asked Dave in the Kickoff show? La, You asked,
what does the identity of this offense? What does the
identity of this football team? And he said physicality. And
one of the reasons why is when you have skill
players like AJ Brown, like DeVante Smith, like Dallas Goddard.
Guys that are known for catching the football, making plays

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in space that bring that physical dimension to the game.
That's when you can call yourself a physical offense. The
Eagles are certainly that. I mean, Dallas Goddard caught two passes,
but I feel like he was all over the football field.
If I looked at this box score and I thought
he only called two passes, I thought he was doing
so much more out there because of the way that
he plays so physically. But we're gonna hear from Chauncey
Garner Johnson first at the podium. The lights two brass

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we I got the glasses on. I apologize. My grandma
tasted me. What she said. Grahams, all right, tell you
what she said. I'm proud of you, baby. I told
you is what you wanted. Flag goes fly, yeah, Grahams,
all right, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. See you

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manage your third bigging in two games. How are you
feeling for that last? Oh, I'm feeling better, getting better,
adjusting still to the defense and just playing with Coach
Telby to play really and just put your eyes in
the right spot, read your keys, and go get the ball.
You know, I didn't playing middle field and so long,
so it feels good to like come out the middle
field like a hawk and go get the ball. Feel

(12:01):
more comfortable there now, Uh, I'm blessed to be there.
I'm comfortable. I can't say too comfortable, because you get
when you get comfortable, you don't get better. So I
think every day as a learning progress for me. You know,
I still left some plays on the field, but it's
still a lot of stuff out there that I can
I can fix and clean up. But just being out
there and adjusting to a new positions, it's it's it's
amazing going out there and competing with ten other guys

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you know who you know, fifty three other guys that
love to win and is It's just it's just amazing
to me right now. What happened to your hand? I'm good,
I play football, Yes, soldier mentality. Soldier mentality didn't hurt
any comfortaball? Nah, I'm or something soldier mentality. I don't
know about that. We called a pick. It's all that matters.

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It seemed like you were particularly excited by Meek's performance
before the game. What what kind of food is that you? Oh?
I got it. I got this tatted on my Dream Chases.
I've been a Dream Chases fan since I was like
middle school, you know, when he was making mixtapes, when
he was on the block, you know, with Nappy Bride.
So just to have him come out there, like you
gotta think about it, you'll never get a chance to

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really see a performance like you gotta go pay for
a ticket. So performing for when our games kind of
giving out a little energy trust team six and out
now heading into the boy, I mean, how's that feeling
for the six and our natural um you know play
out of winning football. But just it's just a learning curve.
Like you said, you got every step you gotta get better.
Like being a bye week is just not a relaxation time.
It's time to actually focus in on your body, focusing

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on more what you can do to fix yourself. And
so when you come back out of the buy, you
don't letting none. You don't leave it on the field.
So I think the best thing for us is just
continue to get better on and off the field as
a team. On off the field when we watch the film,
just like finding little things to fine tune so we
can make this run into the postseason. What's happen to
the defense and the third four the ball drive? What

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you guys stop? Um? Oh dang, that's a hard question
to answer. I can't say nothing. We couldn't stoppages all
on us. You know, it's just it's a team effort.
So we got to just collect our thoughts. We still
was running pretty high for going in the twenty to three,
So you gotta just focus in and just make sure
that you still can play a full four quarters, not

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just two quarters of the ball, because you know what happens.
You just happened in the Super Bowl one time. You know,
he played two quarters of the ball. You know, let
the team come back. Gotta keep your feeling thought. I was,
like I said on the sideline, you gotta go from
good to great. It's where the best is. The best
go from good to great. So as always preaching, see
what do you enjoy most about playing with those three corners?
And then Marcus subspector it teach me a lot, I

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mean humble me a lot, because you know it's not
about me. You know, it's about it's about a team.
Everybody knew me to be this talker, this flashy, but
just playing with guys that that got a chip on
their shoulder and we all got the same goal in mind.
You know, It's just it's a humbling the experience with
me because I had to swallow my problem I first
got here, and you know, coach made me. You know,
you got on me about it. But it's all tough love.

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You know, when coaches talking to you know, you gotta
take heed to it. And I think just listen to
how they play ball. Like you said, all of us
with this our first time playing together. So I think
it's just a blessing is to be a part of
a humble group that you know, all young men just
like to play ball and just focus on what we
can do. Who got exactly Cannon, who got on you?

(15:20):
It's all the coaches, you know, all of them get
on me when you think I was a new guy
coming in, you know, coming in loud, show bolding. But
it's like, I'm not here to do a show going.
I'm here to get better, improve and help this team wins.
So I think the best thing I can do is
continue to gradually just gravitate to the group. Because I
said I can't be right for the season, so I
really didn't have a full camp, preseason. So I think

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I just being around them guys and understanding where they
come from, how they play balls, just a difference. I
love it, you know. Came complain honestly along those lines
to the text from my grandma and like to having
to have a night like this in prime time with
everybody watching more the I mean, you live good, you
feel good, you play good, you play good, you do great.
That you can have so many new faces in the

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secondary come together, come together so quickly. Oh like cold say, well,
it's that that back end was put together, you know
for a reason. I think the main part is God
really just helping us come together. Really really one thing,
God for just putting us all in the same room,
because you don't get a room like that every day.
Guys got the same aunt too. They're selfless. You know,

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they'll give up anything for you or you give anything
for them. So I think the best part is just
about being a professional and being a pro and actually
being a man about your job and actually having to
give up something to be great. Thanks question, Thanks see
Chauncey Gardner Johnson two interceptions tonight, his third in two games.
He just got here not that long ago. Guys. The

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way he's been able to assimilate into the secondary has
been so so incredible to watch. Yeah, I've been pressed
with this whole defensive unit. I mean we spent a
lot of time talking about the offense, and rightfully so,
but they only added one new player that side of
the football, and aj the defense almost had a total makeover.
When you look at the guys they brought in upfront,

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and Hassan Reddick, the Jordan Davis who they drafted, you
look at the linebackers that are here, to the guys
that are in the secondary, and for these guys to
play together and have the type of cohesiveness it can't
be It can't be overstated that it's very impressive, man,
it really is, because normally when you get new personnel
back there, you get a lot of mistakes and miscommunications

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just because guys aren't used to playing with each other.
So to see all of these guys come together as
quickly as they have, I mean, James Bradberry got here
right before training Canada. He wasn't here for Ota, So
I mean that's the testament obviously to them and the
hard work that they're doing. But also you gotta get
a coaches a lot of credit because they found a
way to at least put these guys in their comfort

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zone to make the transition easier for him. And that's
the thing is that he was very honest I thought
in that press conference was saying it wasn't always easy,
and the adjustments that he has had to make, both
as an individ Jewel and working as a group with
the rest of that secondary. It's been really impressive to
watch that group. Jel getting a Vanta Maddox back in
the lineup I think was big. But you have all
of these other guys like you mentioned, you know, adding

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James Bradberry, adding Kaisier White, Marcus Epp steps into a
starting role for the first time in his career. So
all these guys taking on new roles. You have new faces,
and they're able to play and execute the way they are.
It's very, very impressive start of the year. All right, Ike,
we have an ask guy question from the fans in
the Facebook comments. Let's see who we got. I think
we have the best secondary in the league? Ike, Do

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you agree? I do. I may be hard to find
one this better, especially when you talk about the entire secondary.
Marcus Septs is probably the least known of the group
back there, and he's having probably his best year of
his career. And then you see CJ. He just came
up with his third interception and somewhat playing out of position.
I mean, he came here playing and playing more nickel

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than he did safety. So now he's learning a position
on a new team. He's doing a great job. Dan,
I already think the three corners, man, that's the best
set of corners that we've had around here since I
gotta go al, Troy and Bobby. Wow, you're talking two
thousand and two is the last time we had all
three of those guys here before our Harris went to

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Green Bay. So yeah, that's and that's three Pro Bowl
caliber corners. And I think these guys had that type
of capability. Yeah, And I think what I like most
about it too, is that you have all these different
body types like a match up in different ways, all right,
So no matter what a receiving corps poses to you,
you've got the answers for it in your toolbox. You
kind of give Jonathan gann and credit the way that
he's been able to scout a lot of these players

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that they picked up in free agency and realize that
they have a role on this team within this defensive scheme.
Is what's so impressive because, like you said, t J. Garner,
Johnson isn't playing his natural position. But the way he's
been able to come in here. JG knew he had
something there and the way he's been able to work
him into his scheme is really impressive. It really is.
It really is. And I tell you, the one thing

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that has been also impressive about Jonathan gann and this
year is that he's almost giving you a different philosophy
or or a different defensive scheme every week. He caters
that to whomever they're playing against. And the reason why
that's in president because it's hard to figure out tendencies
when you look at the defense, whether it's from a

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personnel standpoint or whatever type of blitzes or coverages he
likes to run. Because he uses so many players, it's
hard for an offense to find weak areas in the defense.
One thing that's been really interesting to kind of follow
has been, you know, we talk about all the complimentary
football all the time, offense helping the defense and vice versa.
You know, we see this offense, come out, throw the

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ball early, try and jump out on teams earlier. We
see we've talked about how good this team has been
on the second quarter of games. Defensively, I think that
shows up as well. They're excellent on third down in
the first half of games, all the different blitzes, the
ways they're the way they're using linebackers and safeties in
the middle of the field to you mess with opposing quarterbacks.
And then you get into the second half and you're like,
all right, teams are playing from behind, let's back up

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a little bit and really kind of say like, let's
let's force the offense to come to us, and really,
if they want to try and move the ball, it's
not gonna be over the top. They have to go
fifteen plays, they have to bleed time off the clock.
We're gonna let our offense put points on the on
the board. And then defensively, we're gonna let them play
to our pace and we're gonna say, you know, we're
gonna sit back and if you want to try and

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go over the top. CJ. Gardner, Johnson's there to pick
it off if you want to try and be over
uber aggressive. Otherwise, you're gonna have to just milk the
clock and move the ball slowly down the field. And guys,
we have to recognize another week another wide receiver completely
shut down, and the first half, Sea Lamb had one
catch for eight yards. He picked up some more yardage
in the second half. Yeah, but the first half. To
hold CD Lamb, who's been targeted fifty times in this

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season so far, to one catch for eight yards, that's
some good football. And it's because these guys decided from
the start of this game, we're gonna get up in
your face. We're gonna get up at the line of scrimmage.
We're not giving you a free release. I love the
fact they played a lot of bumping round coverage out
there tonight, really challenging, not just see Lamb and Michael Galler,

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but really Cooper Rush. I dare you to throw the
ball out here. That's basically what they were telling him,
and they didn't believe that he could throw the ball
over their heads, which he couldn't. One time he threw
it deep, I think he got picked off Chauncey Gardner Johnson.
So I love the mentality of the corners that we
have on the outside. These guys feel like I don't
care who you are, well, I'll line up against you

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and challenge you. And that's the type of personality and
temperament you need to have when you want to have
a great defense. It certainly seems like that's what happened
on the sleigh interception. I'm excited to go back and
watch that. They didn't show a great replay of it
on the broadcast. I'm gonna break down c J. Gardner
Johnson's first interception later in the show. In that one
that was just a great read by Bradbury. It was
a quick throw. He's playing from off coveragure, he's playing

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from depth, but he reads it perfectly and is able
to jump the route. I'm excited to go back and
see what slay of it because he was he was
playing underneath that route, so I do wonder if he
was playing some press men on the boundary there. Well,
Like we have another question for you fans. You can
submit your questions in the Facebook comments for Ike and
a segment see what we got. How hard is it
to not let six and OO go to your head?
How do you self evaluate during the buying? Do you

(23:06):
focus on the positives or negatives during evaluation. Well, I
tell you it's not easy, right because you always have
to fight against what's human nature is to be complacent, right,
you steel like you had success. You have to almost
do a lot of self scouting. So obviously getting their
bodies healthy, resting will be the number one priority, but

(23:29):
also do a little self evaluating. Every player should have
high expectations and high standards for themselves. And there's no
player that can say they played the best they could
possibly playing where there's no areas of improvement there. So
because it is a long season, I think these guys
have the right leadership here. That's what I like about
this team is because the captains on this team, outside

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of slave, they were part of a Super Bowl championship,
so they know what it's like to be a dominant
team and still have to finish the job. Six and
oh is great, but it ain't seventeen and oh and
it's a lot of football still left to be played.
And I think you got the right leadership in the
house to be able to keep everybody focused. I know
that's what we did, but we had we had to
benefit a building up to what we were in two

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thousand and four. To become that dominant team. So you
had a lot more season guys, veteran guys that have
sort of gone through these battles together. What's so impressive
about this team is that it's still a relatively new
team as far as playing with each other. So I
wouldn't be surprised if coach, all the coaches before these

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guys get out of here tomorrow or what have you,
they haven't talked with them. Let them know, Hey, listen,
great job for six weeks. We still got a lot
of work to do and there and their expectations are high.
So as long as that carrot is still in front
of you, you'll chase it. Yeah, And I think it
was a good insight, even just hearing from C. J.
Gardner Johnson earlier. He talked about, hey, look, we know
we haven't played our best ball yet, and I know

(24:56):
I could be a little bit better. We had some
growing pains early on, and so it gives you a
little little bit of an insight into what's going on
in these players minds going into the break. And when
you think about it, six weeks in an NFL season
is nothing. No things can change so quickly, and we
know that and it is a tough game, and there
are injuries and all those things come with it. And
so these six weeks have been pretty remarkable, pretty unforgettable.

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There's a lot of football left to play. Then it
becomes the pressure of you're the big dog in the league,
and so you know, the longer they stay unbeaten, the
more and more they're going to be talked about every week.
And so now you become the team that everybody is
trying to knock off. They want to be the first
team to to knock the unbeaten, the last unbeaten team
off in the league. So um being able to deal

(25:41):
with that is also important, all right. If we have
DeVante Smith at the podium, want to take you through
the touchdown here at the end, Oh me. All came
down to the scramming drew, having a quarterback be able
to get outside the pocket. We work on a lot,

(26:03):
so that's really what it came down to, just being
available when scrambled throws a little bit behind him and
it seem like you needed to have the strong hands
to bring it in. Do you do anything to keep
your hands where you want them to be to be
able to make cat blake or there certainly exercise wool.
That's just things that you do. Oh that that's a
routine kitch. I mean every ball is not gonna be perfect.

(26:25):
I mean it's the ball behind me a little bit.
He expect me to make that kitch. I spect myself
to make their kitch, the whole receiver room, spect anybody
in the room to make that kitch. I mean that's
just a routine catch. So the toughness on this dribe,
you mean it just this drive and keep it on.
He branded it ain't being good to keep that drive.

(26:45):
What is that say about? It's toughness and just eating
back down? Um. I mean we needed a spark, and
I mean that's what he gave us. That's what it
all came down to us having a spark and not
killing ourselves. So I mean he gave us the spark
that we needed. How do you go to our hill
getting us like all like really really like going feeling
hard with that? Um? I mean I don't know the

(27:06):
really answer to it. I mean I feel like it
worked out well. Um, just taking what the defense give us.
When you guys, you guys are able to wat different
things offensive from when you front you that jail and
run it. You gonna have the back stupid when you
guys need to bear down on the drive that you do.
What's the bright part of what's the thing that you

(27:28):
guys know when you can find? Um? I mean, I
feel like it's really anything that they call. I mean,
the main thing is we was killing ourselves, stopping ourselves
on penalties and things like that. UM, not getting the
right chicks and things like that. So I feel like
anything called probably would have worked on It just came
down to us in the execution. Didn't feeling of the

(27:48):
game like I was at this something like like didn't
feel like a thing again the usual. Every game is
a big game, all right, all right, Davonta Smith is
a big touchdown today. It's it's so cool to see
the way that Shane Steiken has developed this offense to

(28:10):
be so creative and balanced. Devonte Smith, A J. Brown
and Dallas Goddard. Yeah, and the slim reaper man. He
just seems to catch just about everything that's thrown his way.
And Fran was talking about, you know, toughness and sort
of the personality and mentality has been built up on
this team. That's a prime example, right, there. This guy
is no bigger than my left arm here in one

(28:32):
hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty pounds, but he
plays like he weighs two hundred, Like he is fearless
out there in the running game. He's out there blocking
on a perimeter. So I love that mentality. Reminds me
a lot of Alan Iverson. Yeah, so AI was not
that big, but he was the toughest guy. We're making
all the Philly analogies we got an I don't. I

(28:54):
haven't even got to the Phillies yet. A good time time.
Why do you think the Red Ties were here tonight?
I look, at the end of the day, this is
an offense that you just have to love if you're
a Philly fan, right because you are able to present
that toughness and win in a lot of different ways,
but you still have the flash of the pass game,
you still have that ability to go over the top
and win it. And so you get a little bit
of the sizzle, a little bit of the steak here

(29:14):
with this offense, and that's what's exciting. That versatility is
what really makes me love this group as a whole. Now,
DeVante Smith is drip right there, is pretty undefeated. I
know you're I know you're liking a Dike. Yeah, but
let's go pregame warm ups, all right. The three Batmans.
Look what they were wearing this Warman up tonight. They're
really playing into the Batman mentality. I'm liking it. Yeah,

(29:37):
you got skinny Batman, swooll Batman and fast Batman. See
and and I know he's skinny Batman, but as a
guy that was skinny myself lean, you know, we don't
like to use the term skinny. Yes, yes, so he's
the lean Batman, right or either he's uh, the slim
reflin Yeah, slim Batman. You gotta remember that this came

(30:00):
from slay. Yeah, you're using slay. It's worse, it's pretty.
They go after each other and practice every day, and
that's right, that's a little hey. He keeps taking down
those wah wahis, like he says he is. He won't
be skinny Batman for long. Man. Tell you looking sweet
to night he had he had the prime time suit

(30:20):
on the night. He wasn't losing, And that are you good?
I wonder if they have like a little bit of
a um competition amongst each other as far as like
we used to do that. Now, I was never really
in that group because I didn't have enough money like
Troy and those guys. And those guys, we used to
judge them when they came in the locker room. It's
like a fashion show. So you wanted to come in
like we came in. We checked out your suit and

(30:42):
seeing what it looked like, we'll give you the thumbs
up or the thumbs I won't tell you. I mean times.
So certain guys got thumbs down because they thought his
suits were pretty good. They weren't. My favorite is Jake
Elliott just strolled in his Philly's T shirt and stow
the kickers normally rolled in and that's how they roll there.
Koy Detmer never won the fashion show. Yeah, well yeah,

(31:04):
you have the toothbrush on the clothes on his back.
That was it. That's how it goes, no core, you
know that's an inside joke about it. Wardrobe nowadays you're
getting the thumbs up. Look at this, look at this
get up. Well, I mean, you know, it's a special day,
so I had to wear a special soup. Would you
like to share it with a special day? Okay, I'll
share the special day. It is like's birthday everybody, so

(31:24):
be sure to wish like a very happy birthday. We
won't tell them how old you are. We won't get
into it. They could probably google youtieth birthday. Yes, thank
you thirty. I like that, all right. This is what
happens when the Eagles win. We get off the rails,
we talk about alphits. Where do we go next? This defense,
defensive line, let's go there. How about that um deepest

(31:45):
in line and night I thought. I thought Jordan Davis
showed some flashes in there again tonight, you know, the
deepest in line with Cooper Rush back there. I thought
we did a great job of really pushing the middle
part of that pocket. So I thought our tackles played great.
BG had the big hit late in the game to
help cause that interception. Tonight it was about that secondary.
But this is one of those nights where we talk

(32:06):
about how to defense, how to pass rush, and the
coverage is sort of mirror. So I thought the pressure
that they got up front on Cooper Rush and some
of the Aaron throws, I honestly thought he started seeing
ghosts back there. He made a couple of throws where
it was like like who are you throwing that ball too?
You threw away behind him, And a lot of that
came from he's worried about getting hit, so he wants

(32:28):
to get them get rid of the ball first. Yeah. Well,
it's it's no question. It's one of those games where,
you know, go back a few weeks ago and the
Eagles beat Washington. You have nine sacks, and a handful
of those sacks because of awesome coverage on the back end.
So I'm excited to go back. Hey, three interceptions, how
many of them were due to the rush. We saw
a number of times where defensive lineman Hassan Reddick got
some good pressures, Josh Sweat, Brandon Graham, Jordan Davis, Javon Hargrave.

(32:49):
So going through all of them, excited to see the pressure.
All right, Well, let's hear from coach head coach Nick
Sirianni at the podium. You guys in here, let's go God. Yeah,
the players ain't mad mistaken they meet Dallas served last
last year, but now that the actually meet Dallas for
the first time. No, no, it's you know again, our

(33:12):
greatest motivation, right, Our greatest motivation is each other, right,
And so that's why you guys asked me about bulletin
board material all those things, Like we got our we
got each other's back, and that said last week, like
teams are either teams are either coming together or they're not.
I mean that's really the way it is. And and
this team's coming together, and um, and they fight each week.
And the motivation of not letting your teammate down coach

(33:35):
to player, player to coach, player to player, coach to
coach is like that's love, right, That's just the love
that you have for your teammates. And like there's no
greater motivation, right, there's no greater motivation than that. And so, uh, man,
this is this is a close team, and we're gonna
keep working on getting closer. We're gonna keep working on
getting better. You're yelling at Dallas, so let's be honest.

(33:57):
You're gonna be honest right always. However, Dallas, Hey, you
know this is a great there's no doubt that this
is one of the best rivalries. Like this feels like
this feels like Auburn Alabama. This feels like right Michigan,
Ohio State, That's what this feels like. And uh and
so of course, like you want to win the games
against the teams in this division, because I mean, this

(34:19):
is what's so cool about this division. Like these are
the hated rivalries, right, They're hated rivalries that you know
that guys are still playing into. Right. I you know,
sometimes I hear Michael Irvan talking about the rivalry that
he has with Philadelphia. I think that's so cool. And uh,
you know, and you know I hear uh Eagles players
of the past talking about how important this game is,
you know, with with Westbrook and and McNabb and those

(34:41):
guys like and vic like. So I think that's really cool.
Like there's no doubt that's cool. Um, now they all
count the same, right, all of them count for one win. Right,
that didn't count for two wins. That was still one win.
And uh and so you know, our next biggest game
is the next one. But it's sweet. Yeah, it's sweet.
And because this is, uh, this is a cool division
to be in. What was the significance of that and

(35:07):
why saw that situation? Well, you know, you you come
out and you're and you're you're in a law. This
happens in training camp. You'll hear me say this in
training camp. Sometimes it's like we're in a law and
this is going to happen in in the season. All
it takes is somebody to make a play to get
us out of this law. And that and that, and
I've had these conversations with these guys in training camp before. Well, right,

(35:29):
you lean on your best guys in that situation, and
Aj made a big play on a on a route
on a short route and and he broke the tackle
and went for a big play that set us up
for the score. And then but what but what was
really sweet about is we got to lean on five guys, right,
We got to lean on the offensive line in that scenario.
It's kind of what happened last week, right when in Arizona,

(35:50):
right that long drive, we leaned on that offensive line. Um,
it's nice that we're able to make some plays in
the passing game and in the run game and be balanced. Um,
but that right there, Uh, we leaned on the guys
that we knew could make a play, and they just
consistently made a play, you know, up front, and Miles
did a great job running it. Kenny did a great
job running in that one. Um. I think Boston had

(36:10):
a good run in that drive as well, and so
you lean on what your what your strength is in
that scenario to get you out of rut. Like that's
I've been taught that from from the very beginning. Like
you're in a rut, get it to your player makers.
And uh, you know our playmakers in that scenario. Where
was our offensive line? Yeah, you were yelling in the
hallway he walked in. How about those Eagles? What do
you think the national audience tut the team at night? Um?

(36:33):
You know what's cool about playing Sunday night. What I
learned also about playing Monday night or just playing in
Philadelphia in general, that there's all old national buzz about
the Eagles and that's pretty sweet, right. Um. You know
you dream about you know, when you're when you're in
high school, you dream about playing in front of the
stadium as crowded as it could possibly be so everyone
can see you and see you on display. And the
same thing in college. And then what's so cool about

(36:54):
Philadelphia is it's such a great sports town that it
matters here and uh, it matters nationally here and it's
great just to see, you know, be able to put
that on put that on display. Um, and uh, you
know our guys made big plays and uh, you know,
it's just it was it was great to be able
to play it. You know, I know a lot of
my friends and coaching, watching a lot of my family
members watching my brother and Jamestown, New York's probably still

(37:18):
up stressed and has to go teach uh uh eleventh
and twelfth grade social studies on h on tomorrow. But
he's still stressed. He's probably still watching and and uh,
but it's it's it's pretty cool when you're able to
play nationally in front of national audience in Philadelphia. That
great job fans. Uh, it was rocking in there. It
was rocking from play from play number one and that
sets the stage, that sets the tone and so um

(37:40):
it just it just carried over all week from game four.
It was a game four from game three, Game four
in the Philadelphia with the Phillies, Uh, the Flyers getting
two big wins this week and into the into the game.
So uh so appreciative of our fans. You can talk
about those lulls, those ruts. What's it like for you

(38:02):
on the sideline when you feel that coming do you?
Is it is it something that that know you need
to take it over and say, we know we got
to play a complete game. Uh, we know we got
to play a complete game. And what's exciting about being
six and ol and not have played a complete game
yet in my opinion, Um, and then players will tell
you the same is that there's only room to get better,

(38:23):
right and uh that's our goal. And so um, you know,
if I felt it coming, Um, if I felt it coming,
I'd do something. I'd try to do something. By a match,
I think every time we get ready to go for
a drive, I look at the offense, I look at Jalen,
and I look at aj and look at Davante, and
I look at Dallas and look at that offensive line,
at Miles Sanders, and I'm like, we've got a chance
to go score right here, right no matter no matter

(38:45):
what the situation. That's a heck of a defense right there.
Uh man, that's a really good defense. Parsons, Lawrence uh digs,
those are those are prime time. They're they're really good players.
So they made it hard for us. Uh. Um. But
you know, every time I confidence going out there just
because of who we got in that huddle where you
kind of got Mark Michael Parsons in space. What did

(39:06):
you like about that Logan kind of look worthing. Hey,
sometimes it's like you can't block him read them. I've
said that before and and our guys did a good
job blocking him in the run game, There's no doubt.
And I didn't know how many how many sacks you
have to Yeah, so they did a good job in
the in the past pro as well. I felt like
now they put some pressure on us at times, which
that's what's gonna happen with a good rushing team. Um

(39:29):
but uh, you know, you know we're we're we're reading
them at times, and um you know we knew we
had had a groin that he was recovering from as well. Um,
but he's he makes it hard. He makes it really hard.
That's that's a really really outstanding player. Um So yeah,
seconds left in the first half, had a couple of

(39:51):
times pross half. Yeah, Lane came out. Lane came out.
I'm like, I don't regret that decision. Lane came out.
We ran at the first down, see what happened, and
didn't anything from that, and decided to go into locker
room from there, Drive, what did you think of your
quarterbacks performance in that situation? He made some extra drops
on the that run football wouldn't think of a lover

(40:12):
ball leadership and how big, big time leadership. This guy's
not phased by things, right. He's got a great demeanor
that you see in great quarterbacks. That that there's so
many big games in the NFL. Is a huge game
right Sunday night football, uh division rival both at the
top of the division. And he's unfazed by things, right,

(40:32):
And so that's what I love about him is that
he just he just goes and he plays the next play.
And he made a big play on third and four,
I think when we didn't have anybody open that and
made a play with his legs. He controlled the offense.
He used the clock like he was in complete I've
said this before. He was in complete control, right and
communicating with what our message was to the offensive line

(40:52):
or the or the running backs in that scenario, and
it was you know, it was it was quarterback one
on one right there by Jammen. When when Lane left out,
do you feel like you guys have to si definitely
changed for protection? Of course, we're gonna you know, it's
our job as coaches to make sure that uh, you know,
we're accounted for. And there again we're playing one of
the best pass rushers in the NFL, if not the

(41:13):
best pass rusher in the NFL, you know, next to
our guys, right, I take sweat and I'll take uh,
and I'll take a sign and I'll take BG over anybody.
But um, you know, of course we're alert for it.
But Jack Driscolls gave us some really good minutes and
we were confident, um in that and uh, you know,
so we we talked about it a little bit, but
we we had a lot of confidence right there that

(41:33):
we were going to be able to hold up because
you know Jack has has done that in the past.
That's one to go that NBC zoomed in on you
and like when they called time out, you weren't happy
with it. Oh no, not about the time out. I
was just mad about I was you know, I'm always
gonna stick up for our guys, like I just get
I mean, I get animated. He should have called time
out right there, right to keep the game going. I

(41:55):
had no that that'n't you know. I was mad about
the extra curricular activity. And hey, I'm always gonna I
told I'm always gonna stick up for our guys. You
saw me, right, You may have saw me in the
Jets game this preseason and they hit Jalen laid out
of bounds and I reacted very similar, and so they're
you know it was I'm sure we weren't angels and
that and that confrontation right there, right, I'm sure that

(42:16):
we had something to do with it a little bit
as well. Um, And there was a little scuffle right there.
And I'm just I'm just gonna stick up for our guys.
That's that's just who I am. Hum. I love these guys.
These are my This is my family, right. I got
a great family at home. I got great parents, I
got a great wife, I got great kids, I got
great brothers. Um, but this is my other family, right.
And so just like when my brother's team was oh

(42:39):
and two to start off, and somebody was making fun
of my brother when I was in sixth grade and
he was when he was a senior, and I stuck
up for him in that scenario, I'm gonna stack up
for my guys in this scenario. And I know they
know I got their back. I know they got my back.
And that's what a team is. I love being a
part of a team. Right, it's so special. Right, I'm
forty one years old and I'm still part of the team.

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I mean, that's that's unbelievable, and that's a great feeling.
That my question. All right, we got a roll. You
heard it from coach. But earlier before we went to
head coach Nick Sirianni, we announced that it's Ike's birthday.
So I hear some fans are taking in Twitter and
Facebook to say, happy birthday. Oh wow, look what we got.
Happy birthday some of your guys. A sports radio wip.

(43:24):
But we also have a little surprise for you, a
little cake. Wow. Our friend Chris malanis delivering the goods. Yes,
here's your birthday confetti cake. Oh man, but the dealers
you gotta share after the show for sure. Taking cheers after. Yeah,

(43:47):
that looks nice. We love Mike on the show. We
couldn't do with that. I'm so little cake say happy birthdays.
Stare at this, don't hurry out the show that we
have more people saying happy birthday for other fans are
chiming in to say happy birthday. I love it, appreciating it.

(44:11):
Aloha on happy Birthday, I thank you, happy you just
can't tell you are kind of oddly silent right now,
and I don't know what to do with that. Okay,
look at them fighting people love you, Thank you, thank you.
This is weird. I don't know. Well, the birthday is

(44:31):
always embarrassing, yes, it is. What's the attention that becomes
an embarrassing you know, I don't like for people to
know that I like attention. I like to be humble
about it because the victory that you give up, That's
what I'm saying, modesty. Every time you screamed victory until
you pass out, do you want to take the cake
off the table? I'm being told to take the cake off.

(44:54):
Thank you. We got all everybody's coming, everybody to help out.
Thank you so much. Everyone's got to look at the
behind the scene. We need that afterwards. I've been thinking
about that cake all day. Also, you knew about it,
are you? Guys? Go on, man, I'll tell you all right. So,

(45:14):
while we rang for Jalen Hurts to come to the podium,
this was a big game for him. Hasn't beaten the
Cowboys as a starter. He finally did it today, got
that monkey off his back. A big day for him. Yeah,
and the game mattered to him, right, the fact that
he obviously didn't play well against them last year. Um,
down there in Dallas on Sunday Night football. Then you
had a few of the Dallas Cowboys players chirping uh

(45:38):
before before this game. Earlier this week, you know about
giving Jalen credit for the type of player he is
and what he had done so far this year, and
that they hadn't played the Cowboys defense yet. So well,
now we've seen him played the Cowboys defense and you
can give him this credit. He's been in the MVP
race this year for a reason. It's because he's the engine,

(45:58):
uh in this thing. And every week, man, you just
become more and more impressed with how the kid, no
matter how the game is going, he always seems to
be under control, composed, never plays outside of himself. And
like I said earlier, when they needed a big drive,
when Dallas had seemingly seize the momentum that drive, when

(46:20):
the score was twenty to seventeen, they needed to get
points and they got a touchdown. All right, Well here
he is the man himself. Jalen hurts, how about these
storg you guys had, how much of an effective it
happens to the other games play today? Should you repeat
the question, I'm sorry these stargy guys have and talk

(46:42):
about how much of an effended had the last game.
I think, UM, I think, um, you know, when you're
able to come out and start fast on both sides
of the bar and always pays dividends in the end. Um,
you know, I think we left a lot of money
on the table. There are some opportunities that we wanted

(47:05):
to take advantage of. We could have taken advantage of
that we that we just didn't. You know, those are
things that we can control, and these are these are
things that I preach all the time, you know. I
think that's the mentality of this football team is controlling
the things you can, um, you know, stay in the
course and you know, just attacking every play, you know,
and taking advantage of opportunities when they're presented to you.

(47:26):
And I think we have a long way to go
as a football team, um, in terms of our growth,
our development and um everything. But UM, I think the
beautiful about the beautiful part about this football team is
regardless of the circumstance, regardless of how it looks, we
stick together. And we've shown that throughout this first six

(47:47):
h six weeks stint, and we just want to continue
to grow, continue to grow together. UM. It's not going
to be easy. UM, it's a climb, and how you're
getting that climb much treacherous, you know. But UM, you know,
a lot, a lot to take away from this game,
good and bad, and we just wanted to continue to
grow together. No, this is UM, I've never had one

(48:11):
of these before. UM, Sunday Night Football Player, the game,
the CBS, NBC, NBC. I don't. I don't work for them.
So yeah, you had another very long clot training fourth
quarter drive. It's been sort of a theme this season

(48:33):
is there's something, don't. I don't think there's a UM,
it's just us kind of doing what we do, you know.
And I think my mentality in those types of situations
is kind of like last week, UM, I know I
expressed my frustration, UM, giving a situation when we're in
kind of not taking advantage of a situation we controlled.

(48:55):
And I feel like again today that kind of came
up and we just want to get you to grow
from that. You know. UM, given an opportunity to make
plays and keep the ball in our hands in the
end of the game like that. We want to take
advantage of that. I want to take advantage of that. UM.
And I put that on me, you know. UM, I
just want to you know, kind of kind of impose

(49:17):
you your will on them in the end of the
game like that. UM. And you know, I don't think
we did that the way we wanted to. We found
a way and it was enough. But there's a lot
to learn from. Compared Dallas Philadelphia to some college rivalries,
one of them Alabama Auburn. You've been in now both,

(49:38):
how do you feel it compares its Eagles Dallas and
you're feeling now after beating them. Yeah. I think when
you talk about rivalries, you know, every every every rivalry
rivalry individually has something to it that makes it uniquely special. UM.
You know Alabama, UM, Auburn, Alabama versus everybody really UM.

(49:59):
You know you have Oklahoma takes the game, a pretty
big game in the Oaky State Oklahoma game. UM. And
here you know, you see the passion um surrounded about
this game, and you know it's it's robbably football. UM.
That's how it is at every level. UM. So we're
just happy we got it done to day. I was

(50:20):
I'm not last trial that you were talking about the
last two players were you know, what's the twenty two
yard guys and the seven yards take. Kyle was going
on at that points like where did you see because
I tell you gets pretty Yeah. I think we rand
the ball really effectively today. Um. And you know, I

(50:40):
think there were times the opportunities to throw the ball
in the passion game. Um, but I think when we
did for the most part, I think, I don't know
what the numbers say, but um, there's there's there's meat
out there on the bone if you will. Um, there's
money on the table left. Um. But I think we
made players when we needed to, and that's that's what matters.
In the Atlas mentioned the expression who's toughest longest, and

(51:05):
Jordan said, that's something you say, what is the significance
of that expression? You? Yeah, I think, um, who's toughest,
the longest, who can control the things that they can
the longest, Who can stay the course? Who can truly
stay the course? And um, like I said, I think
this football team the day we played together, um, circumstances
in the game change, we had momentum change in the game.

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We had a lot of different things going in the game,
but we didn't waver from what we wanted to accomplish. UM,
and we trusted in each other. You know what I mean. UM,
now you're getting a situation like that, you kind of
started off really high and okay, ball games twenty twenty
twenty to seventeen. UM, you know, don't flinch, you know,
take your hair strong and keep going, you know what

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I'm saying. And I think that was a great display
of control of what we could and UM, playing together
and trusting each other on that drive, it's a big
there's a big time drive for this for this win today.
Jay on the on the A. J. Brown touchdown drive.
Earlier in the drive when you gets are around midfield,
Kenny picked up Michael on you know when you stepped

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up and then hit the hole and then I think
I played later like Kenny convert on third down. It's
how big was he for human team on the drive? Yeah?
I think, Um, Kenny has been tremendous. UM. He has
a he has a very unique role on this football team.
UM thrust it into different situations. UM. Obviously Miles starting,
but him coming in and having different responsibilities and he

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does a good job of preparing for it. He's always
putting in extra work. Um, when everybody else is off
the field, I'm walking off the field, I see him
putting in. Coach putting extra work with coach Singleton. Um,
he's ready for it, you know. And UM, that was
my message to everybody, UM today, you know, tying that
all in together. UM. I went up to every every

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individual guy in the locker room and I said, hey,
everybody played a part in this win. Because everybody truly
did you know, scout team in preparation throughout the week. Um,
people staying ready when the number was called, Jack dri
Drisco coming in, Opeta coming in. Um, everybody, everybody playing
the role and excelling in the role. Um. And that

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that's what I loved about this about this the most today.
Every everybody did it together. And UM, you know, no man,
that's an island. You must draw your strength from others.
And we definitely played together as a football team. UM.
And we we were together. Um, we were together the
last couple of weeks. You led this team one game
winning drive would drive to kind of close out of

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the game. And you mentioned earlier something about imposing your wills.
That is that the thing that the mentality you approach
those to drop those drives with its definitely you want to.
I think about Michael Jodan when he said put them away.
Mj Um, I want to put them away. You know
what I'm saying. You want to put them away. You
don't want to give them an opportunity to um making

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a close game or get an opportunity how to ball
in their hands? UM. And that's that's that's the time
we have. And there's different ways to do that. You
can be aggressive, UM, throw the ball, you can run
the ball, whatever it is, but you have to be
able to do it efficiently. UM. And I feel like
we've done that throughout six games sometimes and I feel
like we haven't at times, but it's always been enough.

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So you know, when the standard hasn't been met, you know,
I'm not I'm not I'm not satisfied with it, you
know what I mean. So, so it's a lot to
learn from from that, which is continue to excel in
the area. Did you carry the last year's lost against
the Cowboys with you? Um? And you know, use it
stage it wouldn't want anything more than that, you know,

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I treat I try and treat every game independently. UM.
You know you you'd bet you'd be naive to think
that I hadn't you know? Remember that, UM, I try
and find value in all of my experiences, you know.
And that was a value experience, valuable experience from me. UM.
I know. UM, after that game, you know the next week,

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who played Kansas City, and UM, we were pretty efficient offense,
taking away touchdowns. We had a call back. But you
just want to, you know, find value and every experience
you have. And UM, I think this team was hungry
for it, UM. Eager to eager to come out here
and playing the big time game. UM. And I look
at I look at the people in the locker room,

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and this is what amazes me. And this is what
I love about it the most is when I'm talking
to the guys breaking the huddle down, like I feel
their energy, I feel their hunger, I feel their unsatisfaction.
I feel all of this and guy in my shoes,
that's what That's what I love because I know that
I have guys around me that's gonna step. I got

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guys around me that's gonna go regardless. UM. And they
know that we have to do that together, you know.
So we've kind of built this mentality, we've built this, UM,
this sense of not being satisfied. We've we've we've had that,
you know, and we'll ever take this, this, this this
feeling of winning for granted. UM. But we're always gonna

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be hungry, We're always gonna be eager, um to to
fix the things that we need to fix and grow. UM.
It's it's a journey, you know, and we take that
journey head on and we just want to learn from it.
UM every day. Thanks, Thanks us, And that's your quarterback.
Jalen Hurts or Lear. In the locker room, A J.
Brown spoke to reporters about what it felt like to

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play his first Eagles Cowboys and all his thoughts surrounding
the atmosphere tonight. Let's take a look. I was that absolue.
That was like the best atmosphere I played in. That
was a regular season game, you know, and we was
before like like when MEA came out performing. Um, I'm
talking to Smitthi and Quaiz, I'm like, man, this is
a regular season game. The playhoffs or something, and uh,

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you know, so that was big that that gave us
so much. Man. I'm like, meet meet Milis some of
my favorite rappers. So that was a big man. The city,
little Philly is little. That's all I'm enjoying being And
Brownie mentioned Meek mill here. He is, uh super excited

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to be in the house tonight. A lot of celebrities,
a lot of star power at the Lake. Yeah, I mean, um,
I think he got his get his sons. What you
mean got he got the ball? That's the ball slay game. Yes,
so yeah, yeah, big time man. Um. This is it's fun.
It's fun to be an Eagles fan. You know, this
is already a major city. It's a lot of celebrities,

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a lot of entertainers, whether singers, actors, actresses, rappers like
such as Meek mill Um. When you got the Eagles
going the way that they're going out, everybody wants to
be a part of it. So it's a party over
at the Link. And and the one thing about this
town it's a football town. It's a it's a football town.

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So I love just looking at the social media and
you get the celebrities that are from this area on
their talking trash to their ety friends that are fans
of the Cowboys, like None of them came out tonight,
none of the Cowboys, celebrity fans, Yah soccer. Yeah right
to me, the look from A. J. Brown. Want my
big takeaway. We saw the play strength with him show up.

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We talked about how big he is, how physical he
is after the catch. We saw him as a blocker.
But the strength he showed in that press conference holding
that chain man, that thing was gigantic. Folks called dripped.
I got none of that. I know. That's that's about.
But in the million dollars smile or one hundred million

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dollars smile what every want to call it, he had
it all going on. But I dollars when I when
I laughed at me, it really is. It is the
greatest thing his birthday gift to you. Yes, thank you
so much. All right, Well, earlier tonight, friend broke down CJ.
Gardner Johnson's first interception of the night. Here it is
for the RICO review. All right, so this week here
on the RICO Reviewer, take a look back to the

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first half an interception by safety CJ. Gardner Johnson, and
this happens thanks to a pass breakup from Eagles cornerback
James Bradberry. Does an outstanding job reading this route. Let's
take a look at exactly what made this play happen.
The Eagles are in quarters coverage, so James Bradberry at CJ.
Gardner Johnson. They are splitting their side of the field
into quarters. So what you're gonna see is you're gonna

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see Bradberry get into his pedal and off coverage. You're
gonna see Gardner Johnson get into his pedal in off coverage,
and they're just reading routes as they deploy themselves. And
you're gonna see this route from Michael Gallop. He's gonna
attack vertically down the field, then break back to the quarterback,
make himself available just beyond the sticks. We're gonna let
this run and watch Bradberry here, he's reading the body

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language of the receiver. He sees Gallop running vertically down
the field, and he's gonna see that his pad level
is about to lower. You're gonna watch as Gallop starts
to drop his pads. Bradberry knows there's only a certain
amount of routes that he's gonna run from this down
and distance first and ten for this formation, and he's
gonna have an understanding. You know what this is gonna

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be the route. He's gonna back towards the quarterback. Watch
how quickly number twenty four, James Bradberry breaks on this route.
You're gonna let this run and he's gonna jump the throw.
Put himself right in the passing lane, knock the ball
up in the air. CJ. Gardner, Johnson, he's Johnny All.
The spot comes away with the interception. The Eagles do
something that Dallas has not really done. They force a

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turnover here in the first half they turn into points,
the Eagles getting two touchdowns worth of points off of
Cowboys turnovers in that second quarter. Eagles take a sizeable
lead into halftime. Now is your chance to vote for
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All Right, fellas, here we go. Three nominee is starting
off with James Bradberry. His second quarter pass breakup. He
had quite the night A J. Brown. You gotta go
with the wide receiver. This is his second quarter touchdown.
Love to watch him play. Fourth quarter. CJ. Gardner Johnson.
Here we go the inner reception, he was getting it

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down all over the field. Two I nts on the
night for him. A good night for CJ. Gardner Johnson. Yeah,
Timpting can't give him to a J. Brown ill my
wide receivers. I gotta go with I gotta go with CJ.
All right, I gotta go with Johnson Gardner Jo right.

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I think he is the best shot for the Eagles
to go six for six here and have a player
of the Week once again. C J. Gardner Johnson two
interceptions on Prime Time. Yeah, give a big hot tip
to James Radberry as we saw in that breakdown making
the play to create the pick. But I think CJ.
Gardner Johnson gets the dub. I think when you look
at that pick in the fourth quarter, I'm excited to
go back and watch that one on take because that

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looked like that was all him. Yeah, sealed it. Really,
here's the first time we agreed on the player of
the game, you and I. Yeah, it's been a while.
On offense every week you're feeling generous on your birthday, right, Well,
I need a AJD catch two morning. I would have gone, ah,
all right, let's side to the Jamison Nightcap. As we
said that Eagles are headed into a bye this week,

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but when they returned from the bye, they're facing the
Pittsburgh Steelers. They're currently two and four, fourth in the
AFC North. Today had a big win in the NFC,
defeating the Buccaneers twenty to eighteen. What do we think, guys,
that's a young team. They're more in the rebuilding phase.
You know, Kenney Pike got knocked out of the game today,
so Rubisky had to come in and really pulled out

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the win. For him. He's a veteran, so we obviously
know what he can do. But they fight, they play
hard for Mike Tomlin. But you get them on the road,
they're a different team. They were at home today against Tampa.
I don't know if they have enough to slow down
in this Eagles team. This Eagles team is something special. Yeah,
they've got some players on defense. Obviously no t J.
Watt at this point with his injury, but you look

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at MAKEA. Fitzpatrick and some of the guys they've got
up front, certainly some playmakers defensively, and then on offense, Look,
Mitch Drubisky came in in relief and made some big
time third down conversions in this win over Tampa. When
Kenny Picketts in there, he gives them a little bit
of juice. By the time we get to about two
weeks from now, my guess is we'll see the rookie,
but we'll see exactly what is to come. I always
hate a Sunday without Eagles football. But luckily Philly fans,

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do you have the Phillies coming up. It's a good
time to be a Philly sports fan. Well before we go,
our Eagles social media team, they've been Walden out. Let
me tell you look tuin it out tonight. How about
them Eagles? Stephen A is gonna be on another level
tomorrow morning on tvay. Definitely will. I don't know if
he's the number one cowboy hater, and the cover he

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certainly has the biggest platform us aren't playing well, and
the fact that he worked here in this town covered
me when I played with the Eagles for the Philadelphia Enquirer.
I'm pretty sure he's gonna be excited tomorrow when once
his show starts. That's the thing is, he doesn't need
to be an Eagles fan. He's not. Well, thank you
so much for joining us. Eagles fans and staying up

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way past all of our bed times. Get a good
week's rest on the Viye and we'll see the following
week to face the Steelers. Thanks so much, and go birds.
We ain't gonna turn this field into the party. We
ain't gonna turn the day in tune all night. We
ain't gonna pull that good stuff in a call Saturday night.

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We gonna say, let's go, let's go. It's about the
time to get started with the roof on, with his party.
Let's go