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The DiCecco Daily Post Postgame Show: Inside Thrilling Eagles Win Over Rams · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? How you doing out there? This is
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Speaker 1: the check O Daily. I am Andrew Dicheco. The Eagles
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Speaker 1: hold on and win, and a thrower at Lincoln Financial Field,
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Speaker 1: and what was one of the most bizarre, wild whatever
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Speaker 1: adjectivity would like to use games that I've ever covered.
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Speaker 1: And bear in mind that I've covered two Super Bowls.
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Speaker 1: That covered the snow game that in the Divisional round,
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Speaker 1: the Commander's Game last season where Jaywen Hurts left the game,
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Speaker 1: and there was all kinds of things that happened that
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Speaker 1: in that one.
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Speaker 2: But this one was up there.
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Speaker 1: I'm not quite ready to say this is the wildest
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Speaker 1: game I've ever covered, but it had a little bit
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Speaker 1: of everything. And so the start of the game, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Zach Bond gets the Eagles rolling with an interception off
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford read the eyes of Stafford, jumps the pass,
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Speaker 1: returns session to the Eagles.
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Speaker 2: The Eagles go on and they.
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Speaker 1: Score Jaywen Hurts with a one yard plunge up the middle,
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Speaker 1: and you get the sense that the Eagles are going
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Speaker 1: to be rolling. But then the Rams get the ball
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Speaker 1: and they are in really good command. I thought they
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Speaker 1: did a nice job controlling the line of scrimmage. They
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Speaker 1: got handled. They handled the Eagles up front, especially with
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Speaker 1: that inside zone with Kyron Williams. Kyron Williams had sixty
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Speaker 1: nine yards on thirteen carries at the break, and I
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Speaker 1: thought that you saw the Eagles of defensive line struggle,
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Speaker 1: the second level struggle to defend that inside zone, and
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Speaker 1: they controlled the clock. Matthew Stafford hits DeVante Adams for
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Speaker 1: a forty four yard touchdown over reblanket ship, and you
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Speaker 1: just get the sense that things are starting to get
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Speaker 1: a little bit out of control, and the Eagles offense
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Speaker 1: was not able to counter.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: They did a nice job with Saquon Barkley this time,
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Speaker 1: but again the passing game wasn't really there to compliment
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Speaker 1: or offset what the Rams were looking to do. And
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Speaker 1: I like to always throw this out there because I
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Speaker 1: do need to go back and watch the game the
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Speaker 1: coaches tape and get a better idea of where the
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Speaker 1: breakdowns were, why some of those deficiencies were surfacing. But
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Speaker 1: the Rams were in really good control of that first half.
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Speaker 1: Joshua Carty the kicker, was delivering on their field goals.
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Speaker 1: I thought I thought Sean McVay was maybe a little
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Speaker 1: bit conservative, But there were moments that I didn't think
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Speaker 1: that I thought that the Eagles could have or should
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Speaker 1: have been able to benefit off of Stafford because there
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Speaker 1: were sometimes in that first half where he was throwing
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Speaker 1: high and inaccurate, and those are opportunities where if you're
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Speaker 1: able to defend the run and force him to make
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Speaker 1: those throws he wasn't necessarily dealing as a passer. That's
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Speaker 1: where you're able to capitalize and sort of flip momentum
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Speaker 1: and play complimentary football. But as it were, the the
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Speaker 1: Rams were able to to kind of take care of
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Speaker 1: business in the first half. But then I should also
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Speaker 1: mention that Lane Johnson goes out with a neck injury,
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Speaker 1: who's listed as questionable, didn't return to the game. But
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Speaker 1: the Eagles put Matt Pryor in there at right tackle,
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Speaker 1: not Fred Johnson initially.
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Speaker 2: And I guess, and I've gotten asked a lot about that.
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Speaker 1: Why Matt Pryor, why not Fred Johnson too at the
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Speaker 1: you know, for the immediate replacement, And I think it's
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Speaker 1: because Matt Pryor had been there all summer working with
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Speaker 1: Jeff Stotlin. Fred Johnson got there, you know, before the season.
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Speaker 2: But there was it was.
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Speaker 1: It was via trade and maybe you have to, you know,
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Speaker 1: familiarize yourself a little bit before they felt comfortable. But
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Speaker 1: what I did notice is Matt Pryor struggled the offense.
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Speaker 1: And it's not solely because of Matt Pryor, but they
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Speaker 1: weren't able to run their offense effectively with him. There
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of third and longs in that
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Speaker 1: first half, and they had to be passive in that
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Speaker 1: situation in punt were I'm sorry, hand the ball offer
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Speaker 1: and I know that there was a lot of frustration.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of booing going on for a
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Speaker 1: two to zero team, surprisingly and.
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Speaker 2: There was a lot of frustration there. I understand that.
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Speaker 1: But the offense was not able to run effectively and
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Speaker 1: it got things started a snowball.
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Speaker 2: When Matt Pryor was put into the game.
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Speaker 1: There was a play coming out of the break where
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Speaker 1: he gave up a sack fumble to Jared Verse, and
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Speaker 1: that looked like here we go, Like, you know, they're
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Speaker 1: going to continue to build off of what they were
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Speaker 1: able to do in the first half. And then the
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Speaker 1: Eagles turn and they put Fred Johnson in it right
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Speaker 1: tackle and that sort of turned the tides, But I
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Speaker 1: think the big story here and there's so much to unpack,
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Speaker 1: so it may seem like I'm a little bit all
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Speaker 1: over the place here because I'm trying to replay this
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Speaker 1: game in my mind. The Eagles were three for three
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Speaker 1: in the red zone. The Rams were one for four.
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Speaker 1: They weren't able to cash in despite being able to
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Speaker 1: move the ball up and down the field. You know,
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Speaker 1: I thought that the passing game for the Rams didn't
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Speaker 1: quite exploit the Eagles secondary as much as I thought,
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Speaker 1: particularly a Dory Jackson in that cornerback spot. So I
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Speaker 1: think you have to give a Dory Jackson some credit
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Speaker 1: for being able to largely hold his own. He left
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Speaker 1: the game with the groin injury and was replaced by
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Speaker 1: Jacory and Bennett. You heard about the Lane Johnson neck injury.
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Speaker 1: He didn't come back in the game. And also Darius Cooper,
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Speaker 1: the wide receiver, left the game with a shoulder injury
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Speaker 1: and did not return.
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Speaker 2: Special teams.
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Speaker 1: We have to talk about special teams because while they
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Speaker 1: made several or I should say a couple of really
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Speaker 1: big plays that altered the momentum in this game, there
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Speaker 1: was also an issue that they had fielding the knuckleball
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Speaker 1: of kicker Joshua Cardy, and whether it was Tank Bigsby
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Speaker 1: sort of muffing it and misplaying the ball or John Metchi,
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Speaker 1: they weren't able to really get a good read on it,
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Speaker 1: and it put the Eagles offense, which was already struggling.
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Speaker 2: They were reeling right. They put them in bad field position.
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Speaker 1: They have to figure out that kick return situation, or
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Speaker 1: at least who knows, maybe that was a byproduct of
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Speaker 1: the kicker, but they didn't have those explosive qualities. And
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Speaker 1: I think not having Will Shipley, who was out for
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Speaker 1: this game, perhaps he returns next week when the Eagles
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Speaker 1: are in Tampa, that is able to kind of alter
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Speaker 1: the complexion of the return game and get them on
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Speaker 1: the right foot.
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Speaker 2: But today they weren't good enough in.
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Speaker 1: That area, and I think a lot of that had
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Speaker 1: to do with possibly the way that Joshua Carty kicked
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Speaker 1: the football. But in the second half, what I noticed
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Speaker 1: was the Eagles were able to run their offense. Now
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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley still it was tough sledding for him to
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Speaker 1: find yards, and I thought that the Rams did a
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Speaker 1: nice job of swarming to the football A hat on
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Speaker 1: a hat and really playing physical and this is an
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Speaker 1: undersized RAMS unit. Well again, I have to go back
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Speaker 1: and watch the tape a second time to figure out
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Speaker 1: where the deficiencies lie. But when the running game wasn't
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Speaker 1: going well, I thought that jaywhen hurds in the third
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Speaker 1: quarter really sort of reinvigorated the offense. There was a
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Speaker 1: thirty eight yard pass to AJ Brown down the right sideline.
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Speaker 1: Then there was the thirty three yard touchdown over the
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Speaker 1: middle to Dallas Goddard. DeVante Smith came up big a
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Speaker 1: lot in this game on short to intermediate completions, usually shorthanded.
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Speaker 1: He had a drop in that one. Dallas Goddard had
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Speaker 1: to drop in the game. Just very uncharacteristic for the Eagles.
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Speaker 2: But who, by the way, went.
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Speaker 1: Into this game winning eighteen out of nineteen games. Now
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Speaker 1: they've won nineteen out of twenty, so they went at
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Speaker 1: a remarkable clip, of course, but that was not their
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Speaker 1: best start to the game. And it started to get
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Speaker 1: into a rhythm once AJ.
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Speaker 2: Brown got going.
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Speaker 1: And I think back to a play where it was
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Speaker 1: the third and ten late in the game, maybe it
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Speaker 1: was their fourth quarter.
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Speaker 2: AJ catches a pass on Darius Williams.
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Speaker 1: The corner shakes the tackle and it turned into a
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Speaker 1: twenty five yard gain and I think he had a
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Speaker 1: twenty three yarder on that series. As on that same
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Speaker 1: series as well, Davante had a number of big catches,
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Speaker 1: So this is you're starting to see perhaps the passing
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Speaker 1: game start to round into form a little bit. I
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Speaker 1: thought the Eagles were more aggressive in the second half,
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Speaker 1: and that's something that is a sentiment that I thought
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Speaker 1: Jaywen Hurts expressed. AJ Brown after the game expressed that.
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Speaker 1: But we'll have to wait and see if they're able
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Speaker 1: to kind of have some similar success against the Buccaneers
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Speaker 1: because I imagine they're gonna have to get the football moving
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Speaker 1: through the air and that one as well. We'll see
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Speaker 1: if they're able to get off to you know, if
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Speaker 1: they're able to kind of exploit that.
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Speaker 1: Special teams and I mean look Jalen Carter block the
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Speaker 1: field goal and Jordan Davis shot through the a gap
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Speaker 1: with three seconds left. Joshua Cardy going for the forty
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Speaker 1: four yard field goal for the win, and he gets
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Speaker 1: in there, gets a pall up there and bats the
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Speaker 1: pass down, rejects it. The ball is in front of him,
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Speaker 1: he runs to it, sprints, gets eighteen point five miles
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Speaker 1: per hour on the on the top speed scores. The
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Speaker 1: Eagles win thirty three to twenty six, but it looked
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Speaker 1: a little dicey there for a second because Jalen Hurts
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Speaker 1: marches the Eagles down the field, throws a touchdown to
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Speaker 1: Devonte Smith for the go ahead touchdown to make it
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Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty six. The two point conversion to
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Speaker 1: DeVante Smith was incomplete, but it left.
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Speaker 2: The Rams with a minute forty eight to go.
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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford gets, you know, a pass to pooka Akua
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Speaker 1: he had won to Jordan Wittington. Kyron Williams had a
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Speaker 1: couple of catches and boom, all of a sudden, they're
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Speaker 1: in field goal territory and in position to win the game,
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Speaker 1: and Jordan Davis comes through with a massive play to
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Speaker 1: step in there and get a hand in and runs
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Speaker 1: it the rest of the way. The team swarms him
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Speaker 1: into the end zone. The Eagles win in an unprecedented fashion.
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Speaker 1: So there's just so many different elements in this game.
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Speaker 1: That I find to be pretty fascinating and it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be very difficult to cover it all. But I also
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Speaker 1: want to circle back to an unsung hero in this game,
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Speaker 1: and that was Fred Johnson. Because Fred Johnson, when he
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Speaker 1: was acquired, it was largely because of the Eagles not
14:06
Speaker 1: being one hundred percent sold on their depth along the
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Speaker 1: offensive line. You bring him in, a player who has
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Speaker 1: been a nice story of development here under Jeff Staltland.
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Speaker 1: You know that he can be the swing tackle, and
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Speaker 1: in my estimation he was going to be the swing
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Speaker 1: tackle on game day. That's sixth offensive lineman. You know
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Speaker 1: what he can do. He's familiar with the system, so
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Speaker 1: was surprising to me to see Matt Prior get the
14:31
Speaker 1: initial nod in replacement of Lane Johnson. Fred Johnson gets
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Speaker 1: plugged in, holds his own more than holds his own,
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Speaker 1: at least on first watch, and I think that that
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Speaker 1: is a byproduct of what of his ability to be
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Speaker 1: receptive to the coaching. This is just a good system
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Speaker 1: for him, but he has a knack for stepping in
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Speaker 1: and answering the bell every time his numbers called, and
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Speaker 1: the offense likely isn't able to produce the points that
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Speaker 1: they did in the second half without him doing enough
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Speaker 1: in his the area to kind of keep some of
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Speaker 1: those pass rushers at bay. So he deserves a lot
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Speaker 1: of credit in this game. So does Jordan Davis, who
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Speaker 1: had five tackles a sack. He had the tackle for
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Speaker 1: the fourth down stop, which I thought was huge. I Mean,
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Speaker 1: they credited Jalen Carter and Zach Bond, but it looked
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Speaker 1: like Jordan Davis was in there. The sack play that
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Speaker 1: he had on Matthew Stafford running towards the sideline, it
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Speaker 1: reminded me of the Josh Allen play from two years ago.
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Speaker 1: But asking Jalen Carter about that after the game, when
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Speaker 1: he was asked about it, he spoke and said, look,
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Speaker 1: he's been able to make those plays.
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Speaker 2: He's faster than me. I've told you guys that before.
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Speaker 1: Just really proud of Jordan Davis and everything that he's
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Speaker 1: been able to do to round in the form.
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Speaker 2: He's in fantastic shape. He's playing.
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Speaker 1: You know, he played everything like forty five ish snaps
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Speaker 1: around there.
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Speaker 2: Second.
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Speaker 1: I think he played more snaps than Moro Jomo by
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Speaker 1: the way. Just being a disruptive force at the point
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Speaker 1: of attack and making the most of his opportunity, making
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Speaker 1: good on the investment that the Eagles, the investment and
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Speaker 1: the support that the Eagles have shown him. So he
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Speaker 1: was obviously the player of the game, probably going to
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Speaker 1: get Defensive Player of the of the Week or at
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Speaker 1: least certainly a candidate for that, and had Joshua Cardy
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Speaker 1: not had the two field goal blocks and Jay when
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Speaker 1: Carter was asked about did you see anything on tape
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Speaker 1: about their deficiencies in the past in the field goal protection,
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Speaker 1: he said, well, they lost the right guard. They had
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Speaker 1: to plug somebody in and that was Bo Limmer, a
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Speaker 1: second year offensive lineman, and he just got bull rushed,
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Speaker 1: sort of pushed into the lap and that allowed Jordan
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Speaker 1: Davis to shoot through the a gap, make the play
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Speaker 1: and pick up the football and take it the rest
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Speaker 1: of the way. But he mentioned that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: Joe Pinunzio, one of the Special Teams coaches, he meets
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Speaker 1: with them and they are able to assess where those
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Speaker 1: deficiencies may lie. So he gave credit to the coaches.
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Speaker 1: But you could see how proud Jalen Carter was of
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Speaker 1: Jordan Davis, who's been his teammate for about five or
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Speaker 1: six years now, they've they worked alongside each other, they're
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Speaker 1: in the position room together, and I think that that
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Speaker 1: was sort of embodied the work that Jordan Davis has
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Speaker 1: put in. Not a surprise to his teammates. He's it's
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Speaker 1: a surprise to those maybe on the outside who needed
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Speaker 1: to see it before they believed. I guess the building momentum,
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Speaker 1: the hype train, if you will, surrounding Jordan Davis entering
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Speaker 1: this season.
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Speaker 2: But his teammates said, nothing's changed. This is Jordan Davis.
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Speaker 1: This is what he's been doing, and it's good to
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Speaker 1: see the work sort of manifest in those big plays.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's lost on Jordan Davis that he's
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Speaker 1: been gonna have to play more snaps this year and
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Speaker 1: be counted on. He has leadership qualities that are inherent.
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Speaker 1: I've mentioned that on the podcast before, and so we'll
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Speaker 1: see what this all means. Because it took everybody to
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Speaker 1: get this win for the Eagles. So I think that
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Speaker 1: they've done a nice job of being resilient coming back
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Speaker 1: from nineteen points in the first half in the second half,
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Speaker 1: and sa Kwon Barkley said, look, we all made real
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Speaker 1: shitty plays, but we all made good ones too, and
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Speaker 1: that's the sign of a good team.
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Speaker 2: And then he probably said a great team.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see with what this all means moving forward
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Speaker 1: and if the Eagles are able to build on that
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Speaker 1: moving forward into Tampa Bay, which has been sort of
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Speaker 1: a house of hers for.
18:28
Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Eagles.
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Speaker 1: But there's plenty more to uncovered this week on Inside
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Speaker 1: the Birds, on all the various podcasts, and of course
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Speaker 1: right here on the Czechodaily.
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Speaker 2: This has been to Czechodaily.
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Speaker 1: I am Andrew Decheco and I'll catch you on the
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