The All-Pro Philly Players Show w/ Jerrold Colton & Mike Quick - 02/17/25

Jerrold Colton and Mike Quick are LIVE from Chickie's and Pete's in Marlton, NJ to wrap a bow around this #SuperBowl Champion Philadelphia #Eagles season.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you get a wager on it, We're talking about it.
It's the Gambler coming to you live from Chicks and
Pete's in Marlton, New Jersey, every Monday night. It's the
All Pro Philly Players Show. Now Here are your hosts,
Gerald Colton and Eagles inside him Dave Spidero.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good evening and welcome to the Chickens and PiZZ in Marlton,
New Jersey for the All Pro Philly Players Show. This
is our final installment and rap of what has been
a glorious season. We had sixteen out of seventeen victorious
victory Mondays, and of course we are here after the
Philadelphi Eagles won.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Super Bowl fifty nine by.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Crushing the Kansas City Chiefs forty to twenty two just
eight days ago in New Orleans, Louisiana. We appreciate everybody's
helped us all through this season. A great group of
philadelph Eagles players have come out every weekend. Tonight, we
are joined by an Eagles legend who has remained part
of the Philadelphia Eagles for over forty years since been

(01:04):
the first pick out of North Carolina State back in
eighty two.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Right Mike Yes and.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Now being the long term color commentator on the Great
Broadcast with Merl Reese.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
We've got Eagles legend.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
And now owner of two Super Bowl Championship rings himself,
Mike Quick.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh well, thank you, thank you very much. And Mike
is a local here with his kids having gone to
Cherokee High School, so.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
He knows the area, you will, I has spent a
lot of time at Chicky's and Pizza. We just have
so much to talk about of what was to me
the most glorious, greatest season in philadelph Eagles history, and
an amazing Super Bowl and just so much for this
whole region to celebrate. And everybody's been celebrating Mike for
a long time. So first of all, how did you
spend your Valentine's Day? Now, I'm just kidding, I know,
I know you had a nice ride down Broad Street

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and got to participate in your second Super Bowl barade.
But have you recovered yet from New Orleans in the
eight days in between? Give you a little bit of respite,
zero will? We are still celebrating.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, it's been it's been such a blast, Like the
entire season has been so good.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Quite honestly, I'm tired you know, you know, So it's
not just the four to three preseason games.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's then the seventeen weeks of the regular season and
then when you're fortunate enough to do what the Eagles
have done this season. It's a long freaking season. And yes,
I am tired at this point. Each and every week
of the of the season, my Monday is very similar,
my Tuesdays or similar, my Wednesdays are the same. So

(02:43):
you know, once you get off that wheel for all
of those weeks, it's time to just exhale, take a break.
And so that's what I'm doing now. I'm just taking
it down. And if I didn't really like you, I
would have just stayed home and did nothing tonight. You know,
I got it, that's really what I felt like doing.
I felt like sitting home and watching mindless television and

(03:06):
just vaging on the sofa.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
You got a few weeks to do that after this,
but I appreciate that so much.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Sure, you are an incredible friend, and thank you for
coming out and joining all of us here, and truly
you are one of the real Eagles legends, and the
whole community appreciates you, and it's thank you. Really lucky
to have you, And it's not just you, Yeah, though
you're number one in my book, but it's a whole organization,
the people that have played for the Party of the
Eagles for a long time. And truly, Mike, in my opinion,

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this was just the most special team of all.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, I have to agree with that.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
First of all, you're on point when you say that
it's a special organization, and I do truly believe that.
I look at the ownership of this team and I
think it all starts there, and I think that makes
a huge difference what I was blown away with, probably
as much as anything. When we go to New Orleans
and I see because I'm over there a lot at

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the Eagles complex, and I see the guy who's the
guy who cleans the toilets, I see the guys who
cook the meals. I see all of these people that
work around that facility. Jeffrey Lourie made sure that they
all were there. Dude, that to me, that was a big,
big deal. Like all of these people, the security guards

(04:19):
who make sure that the right people coming through the gates,
the people who park the cards, the people not just
the people up in the pretty sweets where the big
offices are, but everybody in that organization had an opportunity
to go to New Orleans and witness what happened with,
as you said, the best team, in my eyes, that

(04:41):
this franchise has ever.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Had, and I really don't think it's close.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
We only have one other Super Bowl and that was
seven years ago, and that was a terrific team and
the first one we ever had. But this one is
just flat out better. And it's not any knock on them.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
They're better, They're they're dominant. They they've proved. So you know,
I thought about this and I had a conversation about
when did I see a defense so dominant in a
Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
And I think you have to go back to.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Unless you go to the to the Steelers and the
Steel Curtain. I think you have to go back to
eighty five the Chicago Bears, and how good the Chicago
Bears were in that Super Bowl when they beat New England.
This to me was the most dominant performance against a
team that we all thought was about to well many

(05:27):
of us thought were about the three peat. They certainly
didn't think so. I didn't think so. They certainly thought
that they were about to three peat. But because this
defense is so dominant because they are so well schooled.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It was just a runaway from the start.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
But then on the flip side of that, of course,
is the Eagles offense, and that's playing against a great
Kansas City defense, and they took care of business on
that side of the ball as well, And it was
just such a total dominant performance. And you know, Jalen Hurts.
There's so many things I want to touch on. I
want to go through the time down New Orleans, and
I want to go through a lot of members of
this Philadelphia Eagles team. But let's start with Jalen Hurts

(06:07):
because the day after they win the.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Super Bowl and he gets.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
The MVP, I get texts from people I know all
over the country tell me it wasn't Jalen, it was
all the defense. Jalen is still just, you know, an
average quarterback. And it's just he's never been appreciated for me,
for how great he is. And this team was certainly
built with a great defense, an amazing offensive line. To me,
the best running back season in the Eagles history, maybe
the NFL history. Yeah reivers, to me, the best receiving

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core in the history of the phildelp Eagles great best
you and Harold or these two. It's these two guys,
I'm clear on that they're saying what these twos.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
I'm saying that these two guys the best pair of
receivers that you know, as you said when you started
to show, I've been around here forty years, forty some years.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I don't. Yeah, I was ten county, but uh, but this.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Pair of receivers I think is the best pay receives
we've ever had in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
And that's fine, And they're both terrific.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
They're both number ones, they're both they both could be
dominant in their own right. But this team didn't win
because of them, which says how great this team is
that they didn't have to rely on that because the
offense really relied more on the ground game and they
annihilate everyone in the ground game. But Jalen, to me,
had a job to do and he did it so
well and he was such a big reason why they won.

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And maybe he's not the best quarterback, maybe the Allen's,
the Mahomes Jackson's people want to point a whole lot
of other guys. Yeah, but he was the right quarterback
for the Philadelphia Eagles and has been for a while.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
He's the reason they won't you think he did reason? Well,
that's yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Listen, a quarterback, what is the quarterback primarily asked to do?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Take care of the football.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
He's asked to do two things, Cheryl. He's asked to
score points. He's asked to win games.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
He did that. He did that over and over and
over and over and over again. Did it better than
anyone in the National footb did it better than anyone
in the league.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Even the last time that they played the dynasty that
is the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl two
years ago, super Bowl fifty seven. He outplayed Mahomes in
that game. I'm the biggest stage. So he had two
mistakes in that game which cost him the game.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
And they were very unfortunate.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
But he outplayed him on the biggest stage and back
to back performances, and he got cheated in Super Bowl
fifty seven two years ago of having that opportunity to
have the ball down three in those last two minutes.
But we can't go backward, like A. J. Brown said,
you know, we can't rewrite history.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
But well, just a couple of things we can make
the score even and they did. And if we have
to play the rubber match next year, god, we'd all
be happy and lucky to do something and bring it
on because Mike gets so funny.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
You were all over the National.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Football League through your whole career here and Kansas City
was always kind of a nice place. And this little
rival between the Eagles and kansaity's interesting because you have
Andy Reid over there, he's back no older than they're,
Rick Burkehlers and and Mark Donovan's and and and so
much apart, and then you've got the Kelsey brothers, which
makes m feel like family. And you know, obviously Taylor

(09:09):
Swift didn't realize they she'd be booed when they put
her on the screen.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
But it was fun because it doesn't feel the hate
that you're normally doing a robbery like a cowboys type thing.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
But it was really interesting down there because two years
ago in Arizona, the Kansas City people are all nice.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
They were jerks.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Down there, like and you might not have felt it,
but I was placed with my son Tucker, where they're
cursing out the bar tars, they're yelling people. They were
gruff all the time and they I was. I developed
a real dislike for them during my few days down there,
and I liked watching them. Literally had nothing to cheer
about the entire football game.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
I'm sure that the arrogance has kind of trickled in
not only just the players, because they are arrogant that
whole that those players very are arrogant, and you can
tell by just the way they carried themselves. But I
think that is now trickled over to their fandom, and
their fans are very much like their players. They think

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that when they walk onto the field, they're gonna win,
and in a large part over the past few years
they have Hatchrick Mahomes has been the best quarterback in
the league for maybe the past five years or so,
and so they didn't see this coming. Although I have
to think that Andy Reid, being the astute mind that

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he is, being the guy that he's watched so much
football for more than I'll ever watch, I have to
think that Andy kind of knew what he was up
against and he realized that that his offensive line really.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Didn't match up with the Eagles defensive line.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
And that's where the game was so dominant, so one sided,
because the Eagles defensive line just took a part that
offensive line.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
It's as simple as that.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
There were many times when they went to a six
man and a seven man protect against just four rushers
to try and slow down what was happening to them,
and they still could not keep these four men.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Off of their quarterback. That's a big, big deal and
it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I do want to touch on all different guys that contributed,
and it's pretty much everybody on that roster. But it
was a development of these guys over the last couple
of years.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
And especially this year.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
At the start of this year, some of these guys
who were so dominant Super.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Bowl weren't expected to do that or weren't even hadn't
done anything like that in the past.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, I know, and so I know it was so
great to watch because coming to the season, like I
remember seeing you in Rittenhouse Square the summer of the
Super Bowl fifty seven year, and the Eagles had won
the Super Bowl a few years before fifty two.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
It was five years later.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
They took a little sag as often happens after a
Super Bowl, and going into that fifty seven year I thought, man,
this is a really good team and I saw it ago, Mike,
this is a really good team. It was I know,
and I loved your reaction, and it was a great team.
It could have been a super Bowl champion, but it
wasn't as good as this team. But going to this year,
I just had the real question I had going into
this year because I knew Barkley when and this offensive line,

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we're really going to get it done.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
And you mentioned the receivers and.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Dallas Goddard, but it was a defense was a real
question because they had not ended last year well and
they had a lot of new parts, the two kids
at corner with Quinnon Williams and getting Cooper de Jene.
You hope the first and second pick were good. You
didn't know they were going to be that good that fast. Yeah,
And then you also grew up back CJGJ, who you

(12:33):
really missed the year before, made a huge difference. And
then this linebacking crew because they signed they made two
pigs sign Howie Rosen did so many things incredibly, but
he missed on two signings and that didn't hurt him.
They missed on Devin White's at middle linebacker, and they
missed on college.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
At the end, you fixed.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
It but he did so many great things that you
can afford that if you're as ripe as you are
and you're throwing all those things, and if you missed,
no big deal. The fix was there elsewhere and so
and they hit on so many draft picks over.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
These last four years.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
You're laughing at me. I'm so excited at what they
did and so amazed. But going to the year, we
didn't know that Zach Bond was anything. We didn't know
for sure that Nikobe Dean could actually play because he
hadn't been healthy. He didn't know for the you know,
the Nolan Smith who got better during the season, the
two huge tackles from Georgia. We hadn't seen them play
dominantly yet. And then jaloks Hunt. We didn't even know

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his name or his school and so and so it
just it developed into this unbelievable defense that you just
said was the most dominant since at least Super Bowl
twenty forty years ago. So do you understand why I do?
But I want to hear the expert tell me. No,
I want to know what you think.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
What I think.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
First of all, there were so many big acquisitions by
the Eagles this year, and Vic Fangio may have been
right up there with the SA kuon Barkley's in a
few while.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
I love that because you're right in the right neighborhood.
And it's to me, the difference between what we had
going on this year and what happened last year, when
after eleven games it felt like they fell off of
a cliff.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
They were just not a well coached team last year.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
The difference is the coaching staff that they have right now,
and because of the success, they're going to lose some
of these guys. They've already lost Kellen Moore, they'll lose more.
But this coaching staff, they are so unbelievable with their detail,
with the attention to detail and all of the little

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things that they harp on each and every day. I
love their cornerbacks coach and their safeties coach, both of
those young guys. They are going to be excellent coaches
in this league for a long long time.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
They got it.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
They bought in as the linebackers coach did a phenomenal job.
Bobby King, he did a phenomenal job because when n.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Kobe goes down, we're in Berk steps and they're ready.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, they both were ready because they were well coached.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
The end the defensive ends coach, you know, so you've
got you've got one guy who coaches the guys in
the trenches, the big guys, the Jordan Davis's and the
Jalen Carter one guy, and Clint Hurt who coaches those guys.
But you got Washburn who's coaching the edge rushers, and
those guys spend so much time on all the little details,

(15:34):
and to mean it makes all the difference. Now, Vic Fangio,
he is the guy that's pulling all the strings in
all of this.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
But he's giving them the marching orders.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
He's giving them the detail and exactly how he wants
each technique played, and they are coaching those techniques. And
what was really impressive in the Super Bowl when is
some of these guys had opportunities to go at the quarterback,
but they're discipline. They stayed in their lanes and made
sure that they they were squeezing the pocket rather than

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one guy going off and losing the continuity of that pocket.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
They stayed in their lanes.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
They made sure that they squeezed the pocket down so
that they got.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
To Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Like the detail, like that there's so much detail that
when I said back and I watched this game again,
it just kind of pops off the page that, man,
these guys are so well coached and.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Every single guy contributed, every single Tivery guy did a
great job. And Mike, Uh, one of the things I'm
watching the game and there was it was like I
really did expect the Eels to win. I thought they
would win big. I thought their only danger of losing
this game is if it was close at the end.
And this Mahomes magic of knowing how to win a game.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
So now we all we all were concerned about that
was that was that was the risk.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
But as it was progressing, what you're saying is exactly right,
and we have seen Mahomes extend plays, run around to
do all the stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
They didn't let him do.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
That by by what you just described, and it was
just glorious to watch and uh, he almost got killed
at one point later. But like on the position coach stuff,
Having represented players for a long time, every one of
my players has always told me their most important coach
is their position coach, and if they have a good one,

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it helps her career a ton and they really notice it.
If they don't have a good one and they go
from a good one to a bad one. And you
just highlighted that day each one of these position coaches too.
Most people don't know their names. They will, they will
because Steve Stagnola was here as a d Backs coach
assistant d Backs coach initially, and the and the horrorballs
and all that sort out there that way, and you're
saying they have the guys on this staff right now
that will be head coaches the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
God, I absolutely believe that, and some for really really
bright young coaches that I just enjoyed watching these guys work.
I watch them. I you know, I like to follow him.
And it really started for me in training camp just
watching the secondary work because I like to see the

(18:05):
secondary work because I need to know who the receiver
is going to be going against and you know that
whole thing. I like that matchup when they do one
on ones, I like to stand there and watch the
one on ones.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm curious you as a color commentator, but played receiver,
do you watch the ball?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
You watch it sort of? You can't follow the ball.
You don't follow No, that's not which is what that's
me that's a Merril's job. Merrill follows the ball, that's
his that's his job.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
But just watching the way this guy, these guys would
break down things and teach what they teach, and.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's just it was fun for me.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
And I knew that they were going to be good
because I I knew how detailed they were in their
approach each and every day.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Well, look at a guy like Read Black and Chip
one of our guests on the show this year, and
just want to just such a great guy, you know,
read it. And this whole team is made up of great,
great people. For me, I'm so lucky that.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
I wasn't even drafted. He was, And that's why I
wanted to put out he was not even drafted.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Middle Tennessee State, Tennessee, Yeah, Middle Tennessee State.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
And you know, and and guys like him generally don't
make the league if they did. With short term he
started early on and has stayed that way. You would
have thought at one point, well that's a weakness. They
got to get better, and he just has gotten better
and better. And he is the closer. He makes big
plays all the time.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
That's correct.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
And by the way, just as a compiment to him
when he sat here with me this year he said,
and he was talking about, you know, his young bride,
and he married his decordinator's daughter, but he did not
date her until he did not date her until after
he was done college. And and his coach just as
a competent who has said if I would love you
to be my son when he was playing for him,

(19:51):
and then afterwards he winds up married his daughter and
is actually his son. That's not a tribute to the
to the person. Heah, so so good stuff. No one
ever said that about me. But but anyway, the other
part was down there, and I ran into you a
few times, and you know you're talking about how you
just want to go back and kind of rest. Now
you kind of want to do the same thing while

(20:12):
all craziness is going around New Orleans. But I know
you were there focusing on Sunday and then Sunday was
game day for you in a big in a big way,
it was.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
It was a work trip for it was a business trip.
For me, it wasn't you know. I got a chance
to go to dinner and see some friends. But for me,
I went down like players. I went down for the
business of it.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
And then did you make it to Jawles's party, because
Jaws has I did that along with that year old
tem that's a Thursday night, usually the week of the
Super the week before the Super Bowl game, that Thursday night,
and that's usually when I come to town. It was
just so terrific being down there, like New Orleans is
sort of a second home to me because I've represented
a lot of New Orleans Saints and my guy Ji
Re Evans spent his whole career there. My week, and

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so I want to talk to you about another old
one of our Eagles guys who got into the Hall
of Fame this week, and that's Eric Allen and after
nineteen years after his last down to play and he
finally got in. But Mike and Jyrie Evans, who was
my partner on the show until he took his job
coaching down in New Orleans. He was one of the
ten finalists and he didn't make it to the top five,

(21:19):
but they.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Only and it's only his third year of Eligibili, so
hopefully it's coming. He's a guard.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's a little different situation, but unbelievably, Mike in that
political sphere, of the way Hall of Fame works. They
only elected four and they always elect five, and two
of the guys had him played in a while because
Sterling Sharp hasn't played since the nineties. Eric hasn't played.
And it's so ridiculous in the history of the NFL
to only have four guys going. The other guys that
was Jared Allen and Antonio Gates. It's like, come on,

(21:46):
don't waste the spot.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, but god, there are so many guys that I mean,
they are really Hall of famers.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Farming, Oh, they are really Hall of Famers.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, you know, that's a discussion for another day. So
as we could all are they all? I believe there's
people in there that are not. But I'm so glad
that I think you're a Hall of Famer now and
had you not, I'm so glad.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
That Eric Allen is in because I think Eric Allen
certainly deserved to be in. And this probably took a
little bit too long just looking at what he did,
not just here, but when he went to the Raiders
h he was still one of the best players at
the position and finished in the National Football League and
then down in New Orleans. He was a great player

(22:29):
everywhere he went, a playmaker like crazy, a wonderful guy.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
And we had two people from Philadelphia, very instrumental the
way it works because there's fifty writers pretty much right,
There's a couple other guys involve.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
And I know Sale was behind him.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
I know Sath Paul, and I gotta get Paul tip
of the cap too, because yeah, because he was really great.
Isaiah Rodgers is texting me as we speak, and that's
another guy who was out here.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Isaiah Rodgers is a great story that people don't appreciate.
He's a fun guy.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
He is a fun young man and he and he's fast,
and he's good and he really a member of the
Indianapolis Colts. Got caught in a kind of garbage gambling
thing that he was just helping family members out. Cost
him a year and getting cut from the culture. That
was good for us was that it was good for
the Eagles. Yeah, and how he brilliantly picked him up,
he knew not to sit out for the year, how

(23:17):
much he contributed. I can still see him running down
sideline in this no picking up the fumble and some
other great stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
And that's how deep this team was.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
That guys like him, were just picked up really off
the scrap heap and played such big roles.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
How is special?

Speaker 4 (23:31):
What what Howie Rosamond has done with this rosta and
the roster construction is.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
It's really special?

Speaker 2 (23:38):
So you you rode with the Eagles of course down
Broad Street and then up the Parkway and and for
that phenomenal ceremony and tribute the other day, and how
we got how he got pegged I heard.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
So when he walked up to me, I said, come here, man,
I gotta get a picture of that. And I take
a closer picture and you could see the can. You
could see the intention of the can on his forehead.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
You know, I'm glad we did.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
We didn't lose them going into this off season where
he's gonna have to make some critical decision now.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
He has been great.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
And I thought about that when the when the when
we went to training camp back in the summer, and
I'm looking at the talent at all the positions, and
you know, I've seen it before, and I'm thinking, man,
this is this is really really good. I don't know
where they're gonna go because I didn't know how good
Fangio would be. I didn't know how good Kella Moore

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would be. But I could see even back in training
camp that the roster was strong. The talent on the
roster just looked really strong at every position.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, it was one of those things, Mike, where the
Eagles were already a playoff team despite the fact that
your wheels fell off last year and only two years,
two years removed from almost win the Super Bowl, probably
should have won.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
So you knew you still had a good beast.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Right, although he lost Fletcher Cox, he lost Jason Kelsey.
Kelsey's a sure Hall of Famer, Cox is a maybe,
but two of the long stalwart great players. If Cox
was the best defensive player I thought on the team
going down the stretch last year, and so you removed them,
and what happens, Jurgen slides over from guard. You sign
a guy becked In who steps in that no one
expected anything of it, and he did a terrific year

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and he's one of the guys.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Now you got it decisions on and in.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Place of Fletcher Cox, you had both Carter and Davis
step up. And I mean, you know, in the year
that Carter had, he's now the best defensive tackle in
the league.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
What about Bill Willie.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's what I was going to get to Milton Williams,
who has been here, and nobody Bill Williams is now
He's a guy that I think they have to figure
out how to keep, whether it's franchise tag or something,
because he is he has risen to one of the
best defensive tackles in the league. And then you're gonna
have to deal with sweat, and you're gonna have to
deal with Bond.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
You're gonna have to deal with But who does it
better than Howie?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Nobody, No, nobody, and no one.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
Manages the better than how We Rulsmith and I don't
know how, but there's there are always these situations where
we're told that they're up against the cap, and then
somehow he's able to massage what he has and bring
in a guy that he really needs.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Well, there's six million dollars or so in cap room,
but that can be played with that because it's not
a hard cap, and you can defer money. You redo contracts, correct.
He given signing buses and spread out Mike. In my
own personal relationship with Howie, I've been dealing with him
since the late nineties when he came in under Joe
Banner and he was Joe Bander's lackey. But we've always
had a good relationship. Yeah, and I've always admired how

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smart he is on the CAP stuff. And I wouldn't
be surprised if one or two veterans that you're not
hearing the name of it might not be here next year.
But that's but that's to be. But that's to be.
That's gonna happen, And that's just the price you pay
when your set's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Just like you just said, you lost Fletcher Cox to retirement,
and you lost Jason Kelcey and everyone think, oh Kelsey's gone,
what's gonna happen?

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well, it worked out, But Mike, and on that same note,
I want to come back to the cap for a second.
But you know, so Jurgens plays center all year, he
gets hurt for the.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
NFC Championship game.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Dickerson over, who hasn't played center since whatever. So you
take your all pro left guard, you put him at center.
You put Steen as a drafted I haven't really played
many meaningful downs. And then Dickerson gets hurt and Jurgis's
only dress is an emergency player comes in and plays great.
This team had so much depth so everyone could do.
They always say next man up. This was next man,

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next man, next, all down the line.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
But I would say that that goes a little deeper
than just depth. That goes to who these men are.
The fact that they're not gonna let the guy next
to them down. They work with this guy so much
next to them, they do not want to let that
guy down. And if it's any way possible that they
can get their bodies on the field and do what

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they do, they know that the team is gonna be
better with them on the field. Landon Dickerson, he was
unbelievable all year long, and on one leg because he's
he's having surgery this week. He injured his leg in
the game against Washington the championship game, and many guys

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would not have played two weeks later.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
But this guy in the Super he.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Made one of the best best blocks in the Super
Bowl that I've ever seen an offensive lineman make in
my entire life. Described so, he's got Chris Jones, one
of the best defensive linemen in all of football.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
He's got to block Chris Jones.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
But he sees out of the corner of his eye,
he sees the linebacker blitzen. That was dann of fifty
one blitzing, and somehow he passes Chris Jones off. He
makes a complete spin around and gets right in front
of Dana.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
It was unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
I've never seen anything like it in my life. It
is the best block. Just like I went crazy when
hurdled the guy backwards. This is one of the best
blocks I've ever seen by a big three and forty
fifty pounds man.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
The game was such a blowout that I actually haven't
gone back and watch it.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
I always I always do, but I haven't. I just
go back. You have to see it. I'm gonna watch it.
IM gonna enjoy it. You'll see him.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
He comes off of Chris Jones and he just makes
a complete spin and gets right in front of the
linebacker who's blitzing. And then he picked up and he
picked up that blitz and he'll Chris Jones because that's
so he passed Jones off to probably Cam Okay, No,
he passed him off to.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Cam Okay Okay, right right just right next to it.
But that's part of the continuity. And you mentioned the
assistant coaches I mean, is there a better one than Scotland?

Speaker 3 (29:42):
No?

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Okay, no, no, no, So he's in a different category.
He's not even lik an assistant coach anymore because he
is a mainstay. As long as he wants to coach
in Philadelphia, he's gonna be the offensive line coach. And
I don't think there's gonna I don't think any offensive
line coach will have a better contract than Stout at
any point in his career.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
He deserves really head coaching money, certainly coordinator plus money. Yes,
and we're gonna take a quick break, Mike, I'm so
excited talking to you about all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I don't I don't want this. There is a lot
to talk about now that I think about it. So
much going.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
On, and I don't want the feeling to go away.
You know, we've got a lot of months still, football
starts off again. We're the world champions until that time,
and really forevyta champions. My friend Gelling, I saw Jordan
the night after the preade. I go, Jordan, how hard
was this to sing a cappella? You know when you're
not hearing it? Because he did that? But keep going.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
That was pretty good take. We're going to take a break.
Here we are the Chickens and PiZZ and Marlton, New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
We're wrapping up the Eagles fantastic champion season of twenty
twenty four and victory in Super Bowl fifty nine. We're
here with the legendary Mike Quick, who's going to sing
us out the break right here on Fox. Welcome back
to Kicks and Pizza and Marleston, New Jersey, the All

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Pro Philly Players Show. I'm Gerald Colton along with Eagles
legend Mike Quick. We are having a great time talking
about the Eagles championship team, super Bowl fifty nine and
just the wonderful people that made this happen. Mike, you know,
one of the things that you and I were both
talking about is that sports is so much win in sports.

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I love sports for so many reasons. I have spent
my whole life involved in some way. My uncle was
equipment manager for the Sixers championship team in eighty three.
I got the privilege of riding down for All Street
on the float and I had nothing to do with
the team, but one of the great highlights of my
life that was on my twenty first birthday actually, but
six Ers of course haven't had another periode since and
might not for a long time, but the Eagles have

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had two recently, and what he did for this community.
You do not have to be a fan of football
per se, but everyone in this community is so passionate
about the Philadelphi Eagles. And when I say the community,
I'm talking about the region that spreads far and why
when you're down in New Orleans or any road game,
but Nordon's in particular, it was only green it was

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you know, it's at least eighty plus percent Eagles everywhere,
and they just mean so much this community and it's
so much more than football sports and you have been
able to be a part of for so long, and
truly in the time has been part of it. The
Eagles have only grown. The NFL wasn't where it is
now after nineteen eighty two. When you came in, this
town was a baseball maybe even basketball town. The Eagles

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hadn't been successful for a long time. Dick for meal
game a little charge. But the Eagles rule now, and
the NFL rules, and the Eagles rule the NFL. So
it's just a great time to be part of the organization.
And we hope it continues. And there's a lot of
reasons they got there. You talked about it's the quality
of Jeff Loriie on down. But we can all feel
a part of it and feel very good about ourselves
and our area.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Yeah, that's one of the real cool things about the
whole situation is that we all get to feel this,
we all get to enjoy this. This is our super Bowl,
it's our team. It's not like it's just the team
and the coaches. It goes so far beyond that, and
it's an organization that understands that, that understands that they

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are part of the community. Like that parade and watching
guys get off of their floats and getting down on
broad streets so that they could go by and slap
hands with folks and have us shot or drink with
folks and just just enjoy the people enjoying them and
the success that they've had. That was so cool to watch,

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because you're right, it's not just this is for everybody, dude.
Everywhere we go. You know, I've traveled with the team
for a long time now, and everywhere we go we
have fans from our area that are taking over stadiums.
We have fans that come from different parts of the country,
even sometimes different parts of the world, and they're taking

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over stadiums.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I'm like I spent my elementary school years in Cherry
Hill in a school called bread Heart.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
I ran into at the game.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Four people I went to elementary school with there with
their kids, and I'm there with my son. And it
just the ability to be able to share that and
do that and pass that down for generations. I broke
down when when your team won the Super Bowl after
the seventeen season in February of twenty eighteen in Minnesota,
or when when that final passed from Brady hit the ground.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
I was overwhelmed with emotion.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
I broke down and cried like a baby because I
just started thinking to my grandfather, my.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Uncle and all the generations.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
And I'm sure you saw as you're running down Broad
Street onto the Parkway, just a passion and emotion everybody face,
the utter joy you have brought to this city.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Yeah, this is it's very special, and it's probably one
of the reasons I you know, as a kid who
grew up in North Carolina and went to school at
DN'CA State, I came here in eighty two. One of
the reasons why I and many guys in my situation
never left the area. It's, you know, I think about
Harold Carmack, I think about so many guys like Jaworski,

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my quarterback, so many guys that moved to this area
from other parts of the country and they just never left.
And a lot of it has to do with all
of that love that a guy like Jaws can still feel.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
And he hasn't thrown the ball here in fifty.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Years almost, and Jaws has given so much back to
this community.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
He's unbelievad. I mean, we've adopted him. It's unbelievable. He
is one of the best people that I know. And
it's not incredible. And you've known him ever since you
got here.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
You played with him and his energy, his enthusiasm, is
positivity and what he gives back and his golf courses,
which I know you've got a good time.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
But he's he's just so great. But he's not the
only one.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
He might be the epitome of the guy who's out
in the community after all these years, but he's so many,
so many, so many others. And listen, your broadcast partner,
I gotta give a tip my cap to him.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
I mean, MERTL took over.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I was a kid when he took over, and it
was under really typical circumstances because our play by play
guy had taken his own life and Meryl stepped in
Charlie Swift.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, and it was.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
And I knew that voice well and that he had
because the blackout rule.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Even though you were that old.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
I was there for the forty eight and forty nine
championship Eagles team. But I've been around a long time,
and I but back in those days to show how
the NFL was in the early seventies. You didn't have
the home games on TV, so that we did listen
to the broadcast of the radio broadcast and Merl was

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just a part of but he wasn't the play by
play early on. In anyway, this this organization runs deep,
and it runs through every.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Single single segment of this community.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
And you see it because you go around it and
everybody gives you a lot of love.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
I'm sure. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
And so when I travel around to other cities and
I talked to other players that live in and have
stayed in other cities, I just don't believe that they
have what we have. And one of the reasons why,
you know, seth Join is back here now. He went
out to Arizona to finish his career in Denver, and

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you know it, played Green Bay, he jumped around a
lot of places. But it's interesting how a guy like
that now wants to be here, and he wants to
be here just because of what we just finished talking about.
It's because you know, when you play here, you want
to stay here because you are a part of the

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community forever.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
And I've told all my guys Jets, it's like sticks
and jets. If you're Jets, you're Jets.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way.
But not if you're a New York Jet, because they
don't stick around. And truly, you know, those teams don't
need the same to a community because there is no community.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
They're just right out.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
And truly, as I go around the NFL, and I've
been fortunate to be in every city, there really is
nothing like the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
There's nothing.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
New Orleans is interesting because that carries covers a whole region,
but it's just it's just different and and and.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
That down South is college football territory.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Here is NFL territory, Philadelphi Eagles territory and Philadelphi Eagles
compared to all the other teams, and it's at least
probably eighty to the other twenty percent for the others combined.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
And you hear about that with ratings and things like that.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
But I also want to mention, give mention to all
the guys who came out here because I just I
just want to tick him down for us thanks to it.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
And you know, all these guys, but we have had
such This is a list from the season, a.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
List of my guests, our guest, Dave Spanera mine, and
we're missing Dave to say, but Dave did a great
job posting the parade, and I just want to thank
all these guys for coming out.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
During the season. Was big time in you tonight. Yeah
it's not the first listen, Dave MC the parade.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I was at the prade, but I was at the
parade with Day's Grip and a whole bunch of family
and friends. And we just had a bail right now
and we'll see if they have either you or the
guy pegging Howie Roseman. If we detect who that was
and By the way, just another note on Howie Roseman.
So I've known him for over twenty five years, and listen,
the negotiating contract, there's going to be some fights.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
So we fought out a little even David Akers and
guys like that.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
But yeah, but but you come away shaking hands and
respecting each other. When he got the general manager job,
he he called me up like right away, like an
hour later, calls me up. He goes, Gerald, do you
have any advice?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
What do I need to do? And I said, Howie,
you're already doing some of this stuff. Great.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
The one thing I would recommend you do, because he
was taking over for Joe Banner. Really, I said, the
one thing I'd recommend you do is be nicer. Just
be nicer and and and I don't I think he
has gotten that message because his personality changed a lot,
and he's grown really with the position. Then he got
outsted during the chip Yeah, and he came in. He
came back so much more mature and ready. And I'm

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very very proud of of who he is and how
he developed. But I just want to thank Cooper Dejan
Zach Bond, Nikobe Dean.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Is this incredible. That's a great lineup, and some of
these guys. When I brought him out here, people are like,
who is that?

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Orrin Burke's okay? Oran started great Super Bowl last year
for San Francisco, but he got you know, signed here
as a free agent, and when he stepped in for
to Kobe Dean, he played terrifically. I went a great athlete,
great kid, Jeremiah Trotter junior. Of course you know his
father very well, Isaiah Rodgers. Britain Covey, who I love
Britain Covey. Unfortunately he got hurt early, but Britain gives

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you everything he could give. Rick Levado, who unfairly I
think I called for a penalty in the game.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
But so that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
So the one thing that Kansas City picked up that
they could use in the game was that the long
snapper would make a motion before the ball was snapped,
and they were able to get two penalties because of that.
Come on, you got a scout harder than that.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
That's the one thing. That's the one thing that they
did well.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
And by the way, getting back to what you said
before about Andy Reider, it just seemed and you've played
in a lot of games and watched a lot of games,
and it's hard to necessarily tell when you're not really
on the field, but it just didn't seem like Kansas
City brought it that day.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
They just seemed so flat.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Now I know the eals had a lot to do
with that, but you just looked at him and they
just puzzled and perplexed from the start. And I felt
pretty early on this is over. Despite the call that
went against AJ on the first drive and then the
interception jailing through, they didn't let that.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Stuff bother them whatsoever. There was not missing a beat.
All right.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Let me just finish a great list of guys who
came out to help us. Fred Johnson and another guy
who's a backup lineman, Big big.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Fred, and and just a happy guy.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
And he played some tackle, he played some guard, He
filled in when guys went down. He did a very
bad admirably and good Thomas Hoooker, guy I love smartest.
He came here with his father and they and I
had him both on them Morojoe, Yeah, and he played terrifically,
terrifically and and and I got to know his father too.
His father's Nigerian and raised. Moro was a really smart guy.

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Almost they looked down on sports. It was to look
towards your academics. So when I on Sunday night after
the game, when I saw him, I was like, how
do you feel about it? He was just a very
very proud father and as he as he should be.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
So Jomo is one of these guys that you know,
if you have any time, you spend any time with him,
you know he's going to be one of these guys
very successful outside of football. Whenever he decides to do,
whatever he decides to do, he's going to be a
very successful person.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
But MIKEE on that point, to make it to the
National Football League takes so much, so much. Every one
of you has a story. Yep, not just face Footpali.
Every one of you has a story. Sorry it didn't
mean it's venue, but and you have to deal with
so much, overcome so much. You have to be supported

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by family, friends, coaches, and you also have to go
through three years of college so dummies can't survive, that's good.
And you have to learn a playbook and all that stuff.
So I have really felt that most guys I've met
that have made it to the National Football League can
succeed in anything they put their mind to in life.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I agree.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
I agree, it's a It takes a discipline that I
would venture to say that most of people just don't have.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
It's a different type of discipline.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well, you know what it's like to be a student
athlete back when it really was a student athlete.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Where you had to go to class.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yes, they weren't necessarily helping you that much at NC State,
and you also had to know your playbook and perform
on the field and all those things. You weren't getting
paid a million dollars.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Maybe, but you're not a million but it's not but
it was no n I l right.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
But anyway, well at NC State where you were there
on the Gymvlvano basketball, don't let them eighty three championship.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
I mean basketball is king down there. It is and
it still is still is Okay, And I'm going to
add Tanner McKee.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
I want I want to make a reference to Tanner
blow because I think Tanner is a starting quarterback, so
do I Okay.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
I tell him that all the time.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
And so I just want to put a little thought
out there that no one said. And I'm not rooting
for this but but Tanner's going to start, and it's
probably not going to be here because we are Jalen
hurts Kellam Moore just went to the New Orleans Saints.
Tanner McKay, I'm calling it will be a New Orleans
Saints starting quarterback in the next year or two.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
I could very easily see that good call.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
And I know that Keller Moore would love to have
Tanne McKay. I like you, I think he's a starting
quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
He's he's just a terrific person and he did a
great job when he was in there. Can do all
the things quarterback he is, and he's big, he's a
big arm YEP and just another great guy. Will Shipley
and Will came out here after his tremendous performance in
the championship game.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I actually and he was I mean after touchdown game.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
He actually he came out before that, but then after
the touchdown game, and you know, he had a terrific
championship game, got a fumble recovery, four carries down the field,
finally got into the end zone. And I'll pull out
the picture to show you. I took him to a
Sixers game two nights later. Now everyone in this region
is watching the Philadelphia Egles. Everyone knows, you know, everything

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about them, who what their names are, but they don't
necessarily know what they look like. You've experienced this of this,
the anonymity of the helmet. And it was just so
funny to be at the the Sixers game two days
after he had that electrifying performance and almost nobody recognized it,
and it was it was It.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Was really just funny.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
But he's a Super Bowl champion, you know, and and
like all these and I think he's a guy could
really play in the league too.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Well, you know, Lebron apologized to Cooper.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
He's snubbed Cooper, Yeah, because he was at a game
with with Cooper. And then when he found out later
who Cooper was, he apologized to him because he didn't
say a lode to him.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
And he said alone to all the other guys. And
there's there's Pete Pete. You got to get up here, Pete.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Repeat this is this is little Pete Pete, the peach
Cherokee family at here, Jase Peake, look at the picture
of myself with the star of the one of the
stories of the NFC Championship Game and you can see.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Why no one of those.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
It looks like myself with my son and my sons
are bigger. But but it's just another terrific, terrific young man.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
And then we had j Alex Hunt, who is one
of those guys that is going.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
To be awesome. He's going to be a are and
you listen, brilliant guy. Another brilliant guy.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Cornell and it switches to to Abilene Baptist now which.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Is Houston Baptist.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Houston Baptist, Okay, which is mixed I mixed up because
it was Houston Christian or Houston whatever whatever it was.
But Houston Baptist and Cornell. And he winds up and
he played safety at Cornell just a couple of years ago.
An area is wreaking havoc on the field at the
Super Bowl. This just two years later. And just another
brilliant guy. And then a couple of the classic guys

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and Seth Joiner and Mike Quick that came out to
help us out here and share their wisdom and their passions.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
It's Seth right before the Super Bowl. Yeah, and you
know how fire he was.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
I mean, that's that's the part when you say Seth
you know, came back this area. It's one of the
things as a player, you your college area loves you,
your hometown loves you, and the place you play if
you really make a difference in the NFL. Now, when
you were a part you were of course the first
round pick, a five time All Pro or Pro bowler,
and and you were just a terrific player. But even
anybody just was a Philadelphia Eagle can make a home

(47:04):
here and be appreciated in the community and loved. But Seth,
Seth Joyner matches the passion of this city so well, yeah,
he can't live out. He's a Philadelphian no matter what.
Even though he came from Texas or you know, down south,
he's thinking he is.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
No, he's actually born in New York. Seth is from
New York, all right.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Went he went to UTU, went to I have him
coming out of Western Texas, you.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
Know, went down to UTEP because he just didn't get
heavily recruited late round pick. I remember when the buddy
after fIF was like it was six. I remember the
day that Buddy Ryan cut him. Buddy released him. Have
been eighth round he could have.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I think he was after this what now they have
this even and Buddy cut him.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
And I knew that Buddy was going to bring him back,
but he had to do one of these roster moves.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Where he released Seth. And then, you know, three or
four days we saw Seth with his back.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Then you always took a trash bag and threw all
your things in the trash bag. So we saw walking
back in in about three or four days with his
trash bag over his shoulder with all of his shoes
and things, and to go back into his locker.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
That's all the luggage you could afford back then.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
And.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Everybody left with the big black trash bag.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
But Mike, it's also was set tense. Oh yeah, back
then he was one of the most intense people I've
ever known. He's so smart and so passionate and so good.
And guy kept running to him everywhere in New Orleans
and we kept laughing, can't get away from each other.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
And he was. He was doing it up down there
and very very very stylish. He dresses. He dresses unbelievable.
So I just went in a.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Fashion business season the habodash rooms.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
He pulls colors together. I'm looking at the screen. Now
you've got BJ with Dave Spandara behind him. So Dave
is here in spirit, but not actually physically, but he's
He's been, of course a great part of the show
all year, and I really appreciate it. I want Pete Cherokee,
the third over there, to come over here. You got
to get up here. Repeat all right, he's respecting his elders.
Didn't move when I said. As soon as you said repeat,

(49:07):
he's coming up here. So Pete, I gotta thank you
your father, all the people here, Chickens and Peace.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I love your staff herem Altil. They treat us so well.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
And Chickens and Piece has been having me for five
years to start out with Rodney McLeod. The next year
was Dallas, Guard of Auntie Maddox. Then we had TJ.
Edwards and we've had this cast of thousands the last
couple of years. And just thank you so much for
your support for being so good to us. It has
been so much fun to be here every Monday night.
This has been incredible, but I know you got to
share and all the festivities down in Dollens.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
Yeah, it was great. Thank you so much for another
great year. It seems to be good luck you know.
Oh yeah, yeah, having this you know, I'm the reason
you in a lot. Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm gonna saved
the best guests, at least the best looking for last,
which is always great. I noticed a big female demo
in here tonight. They must have got the word out.
But yes, thank you so much for another great year.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
New Orleans was great, but man, being being here every Monday,
with the people of Philadelphia having great guests. We had
a really great lineup this year. It was really really
a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
And Pete, you and your family have done such a
great job.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
And I've known your father now for over forty years
and love him and appreciate him so much. And you know,
talk about passion, that is that is the passionate Philadelphia
fan who also has incorporated into business. And there's no
place better to go than chickens or piece Mike quickly
we found out after every game and the spot.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
And is the spot, and everyone knows that. I want
to know this though, where were you during the parade?
Working like he's in South Philadelphia. He's so hard working. Yeah,
we were. Mind we had.

Speaker 7 (50:43):
People camped out of really all of our locations, but
in South Philly They literally tense outside of our front doors,
lined up to get a good spot at the official
sports bar of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
The thing that we had that the Prey didn't.

Speaker 7 (50:58):
You know, we had heaters, great food, bathrooms, and we
also had a cold beer and drinks and surf sides
and everything.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
So there was a line to get you know I
need and.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
We had a lot of call outs all the kids working.
You know, not everybody showed up that day. Everybody seemed
to get sick.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Pete, Pete, I want you to also describe because I
was with you down Islands and your father one day.
It was I think it was a Saturday morning before
the game and he's like, one day before and the
family's beauty for a brunch. Your family goes well, Pete's
back in the hotel working, and I'm so.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Proud of you for how hard you work.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
But talk about what Super Bowl Sunday was, Like, I
know you weren't here, but all your trickis and Peaza
over the region.

Speaker 7 (51:37):
Yeah, our team really at every single location, really wanted to.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Do something special for our guests.

Speaker 7 (51:44):
So we had rally towns made, We had a lot
of our different partners, Berg Gang Baka. Shout out to
them for sponsoring us, getting some stuff put together, and
put exclusive.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Game day menu together, had a DJ, had a live.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
Feed of our fans inside Chickens and Pete's broadcasting all
the different locations, face painters, camera people.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
It was great.

Speaker 7 (52:06):
There's a lot, a lot of hard work that our
team had to put in. Wow, but we really created
I mean, it's the busiest day in history.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Jen, Where were you?

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Jen?

Speaker 6 (52:16):
Jen?

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Get a bottle of champagne? Can we get a bottle
of champagne? We gotta pop this before Is there any
champagne around here? I want to be able to celebrate
with Pete and Mike right here. And but Pete, Chickens
and Peach doesn't close with the end of the Eagles season,
so we got Sixers and Flyers will be at home stretch.
Sixers haven't had a glorious season. Maybe it turns around.
Then it's Phillies baseball and all the other stuff will

(52:39):
be March Madness and a whole lot of March man.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
That's coming up. We got hockey tonight, right USA Hockey.
That's USA Hockey. It's fun. It's not tonight Thursday against Canada.
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
They had three fights in the first nine seconds of
the man, Mike, you gotta watch a championship game on
Thursday night. This little tournam's pretty good left bearer in
the NBA All Star Game. But Pete, thanks for thanks
for all you do for the community. This really is
the place to watch sports on TV, to come for
a sports part. Your food is terrific, your atmosphere is great,
your staff is great, and thanks for having us. And
hope to do it again next year because it's been

(53:10):
a lot of fun. Yeah, it's good luck, all right,
And how was your how was your trip? How much
you love being down there?

Speaker 3 (53:16):
Great?

Speaker 7 (53:17):
It's it's it's our it's our brotherly city in the South. There,
it's very similar to Philly.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
I love it.

Speaker 7 (53:23):
I love being with the people. I'm a parade in
the street and you know, nobody does it better than Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
And it's a lot smaller in the world. It's just
on a few blocks.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
We do it all the way through the city, all
the way down broad all the way up the park
and keep doing it again and again. So listen, I
gotta thank you Pete and your staff and Mike Quick
so much for joining us because you have had a
long season.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Are you more tired now?

Speaker 5 (53:48):
We're after the season where you played. Oh, I'm after
the season when I played. We never went anywhere else
when the regular season was over, we were done. This
has been a long, long season and I'm tying and
ready to risk.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Go birds, Go birds. Thanks and listen again. How many
seasons has it.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Been for you and Merrow? For Merrow forty eight six,
for me twenty six. Well, we hope to hear you
again again and again, and we.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Got to share this now a little champagne to us.
I want to shine. Thank John Jansen. Jansen, he's here
every week, has us on, got us on the screen.
Thanks having the radios that we're streaming everywhere as well,
and he's been so valuable to me. He's back in
the studio, John Nick Okact, thank thank you so much
for always being there for us and all the people
over at Fox Sports to Gamba.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
So wait, we got it. We gotta do this because
it has been an unbelievable season.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
And I don't know if you had any champagne on
Sunday night, Mike, did you? No, you may not want
any now, but we're going to do it at least
and to the nineteen or to the twenty xtguining the
twenty twenty four Filled Olph Eagles, champions of Super Bowl
fifty nine. Congratulations, thank you for amazing, amazing season. And

(55:01):
let's see if this makes any noise. Yeah, it's all
you here, come out here every week.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Thank you for your supporting. Have a great off season.
We keep ahead. We the Philadelphi Eagles are the world Chippins.

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Go birds, spreads, totals and all the prop that's in
the Queens.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
It's the gambler.