PHLY Philadelphia Eagles Podcast - Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts & the lasting memories of Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl season

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

Still in the afterglow of the Eagles’ stunning, demonstrative Super Bowl LIX victory and the ensuing parade, we’re looking back at the most vivid memories of every game of the Eagles’ season, from Brazil to Bourbon Street. Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, Jalen Carter and A.J. Brown have their fair share of highlights, but so do the likes of Grant Calcaterra, Reed Blankenship and Tanner McKee. Zach Berman and Bo Wulf look back on an unforgettable season to remember. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello, everybody. The P.H.O.Y. Eagles podcast. Bo Wolf, Zach Berman in studio, much to get to. We're going to talk about our lasting memories from every game of this Super Bowl champion Eagles season, some news and notes around the league. We want to talk about some things we learned about the team from the unscripted video of the speeches before the Super Bowl. And we got a nice studio audience here today, Zach.

How you doing? Doing well. Excited for the show. I was jealous. I wasn't on Friday's show. So, he was like in the chat. You're supposed to have the day off. No, no, no.

I was doing what everyone should be doing, watching the show, listening to the show. I wanted to hear all the parade takeaways. But thrill for what's ahead for the next. I would say two months. Two months. It's a two-month push here until things kind of quiet down with Eagles. How was the play with music? It actually was a play with music, if I'm being honest, because there was a play.

Then there was music interludes, like between different scenes. So it wasn't a traditional musical where they break out in song. It was fine. There was some good lines in it. Good lines, okay. My mind was going astray a few times, but it was good. Where was your mind going? To like, you know, will Jim and Walker be available at the number 32 overall pick?

Things like that. Fascinating. I mean, I'm so glad Emily got a nice romantic getaway. Well, she was into it. And look, there was different, like there were scenes of the show that I was, I was into. But I try so hard to stay present. Like that's something I really focus on is staying present. Something about shows and my mind drifts.

So to work, to different things like that. So, but no, thrilled to be in the studio. And how was your parade experience? The parade experience was, was really neat. My son loved it. And it was cool seeing it from his. his perspective and being around the different fans. I thought Les Bowen on all p.hly.com had had had real good insight.

And it was the same takeaway I had that I felt like the parade in 2018 was like a cleansing almost. It was everyone was waiting so long for that to happen. This was more like a party, right? This wasn't now I'm sure there were people who brought ashes of family members and things like that. It seemed the big theme in 2018 was they had waited so long for it. And I think this was more just like a big party celebration of the team. It wasn't how could this possibly, you know, I've always dreamed this would happen. It was more like everyone just enjoying each other, enjoying the team.

And the players were certainly enjoying themselves. They sure were. Yeah, I think that is the right framing. I think this was much more about like celebrating this, the best team in full. Whereas that was like the entire arc of the of the of the organization and being a fan of the team. It was a it was a much bigger existential deal. Yes, exactly. Whereas this was very much just like a great celebration about a great team.

Yes, well said. And I enjoyed the show. I thought there was there's some some I thought the speech that I thought was the best was AJ Brown. For sure. Because I felt AJ had something to get off his chest. And I felt there was, there was a lot of spirit to him saying, you know, and you get to call me, you know, an F& champion, right? That jumped out to me because I think that the one, the, my, this is not a problem with his take. Yeah.

It is just, the framing of like, A.J. Brown is a diva wide receiver. Yeah. I don't think that has ever really, like, has that ever been the case in Philadelphia media? Well, yeah, it has. It's like a national media thing. But I think it's very much, I mean, not to pick on. I think it's a very much talk radio thing. And the whole situation last year where he called into, you know, there was an entire

new cycle about. And so I think a lot of it comes from that. But I've been saying this and like you say it as well. The people who are around AJ Brown every day covering the team have never framed him in that way. And I think there's a, I think there's a, because I think sometimes there's a, there's, this convenient narrative to try to fit people into a box. And AJ Brown, it's like to fit into this diva wide receiver box where if you spend any time around him, he is emotional.

I think he would tell you that. He speaks his mind, but I don't find him to be a diva. A matter of fact, like he's, and we saw this in the unscripted, he's very much like a team guy, very much like he's very approachable. Exactly. He gets to know people throughout the locker room. So, yeah, I... Shout on Kyle Phillips.

Yeah, exactly. But I think those labels that he only cares about his stats, that he is a diva, look, if you're watching the game and you look at body language, you might think one thing, but that's not at all what those who cover the team every day have framed him to be. And what did you think of Sherell Parker's speech? I agreed with you. It was long.

It was long. Way, way, way, way, way, way, way too long. Get in and get out. Sherrell. I thought, I mean, from the politicians' point of view, I thought our recurring guest, Josh Shapiro, he was in, he was out, ripped on the Cowboys. It was like he read straight from the manual of like what the politicians supposed to do there. And how he told us about how he getting hit what they can't beer before we knew anything about it.

Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, as everybody, I imagine, knows by now, the video has surfaced of, you know, of that smack. Franz's perspective was spot on because I was, you know, I've always thought to. Yeah, I mean, they, your head has to be on a swivel, but you can't see where these are coming. Like, I wouldn't throw the beer can unless someone's asking you for the beer can. Right, right. It's just in any other context.

It's also possible that it happened, and it was a bad to throw. It could have, yeah. but do you think how he improvised the I bleed for the city? I presume he did. Do you think he had a different speech he was going to say? And then he changed. But I don't think it was improvising. I think he thought of it on the way up to the podium.

You know what I'm saying? But do you think he had something he wanted to say, then he's bleeding in whether it's vanity or just he was, he wanted to be in and out. Yeah, absolutely. Use what you got. Yeah, exactly. So I thought, look, he was quick on his feet.

Well, I mean, and that's become... Not really. And that's because, well, for the speech at least. But not really. And that's becoming... Even then, he had a long time to think about, okay, how am I going to work this into the speech. And that's become an enduring image now from the parade is how with the battle scar. Yeah, it worked out very well for him, I think.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm curious. Aside from the pain. I mean, he did... He took that. I mean, he took an absolute digger right there. But there are, like, there are a lot of people on that bus. I mean, they're, you know, they're a prayer.

pregnant women. Yeah, the kids, like, the kids should not be up on that top level. Well, I want them to experience it, right? I guess. But, yeah, like, you know, Devante's significant other, his, hey, I think it's his fiance now. She's pregnant. They're on the, you know, you got to be careful throwing stuff up there.

Well, yeah, but you also got to be careful up there. Sure. So you put the burden on the people on the bus as opposed to people throwing in at them? Well, I'm not saying the people throwing it are not. are not also doing something wrong, but you've got to know the situation. Okay, okay. I mean, I would have imagined they were warned that this was going to be a possibility. It would be a possibility, sure.

And not even a possibility, a certainty. Yeah. But no, overall, it was, it was funny too because it was like the perfect, it was the perfect day. If you think about what last week was like, the weather was bad early in the week, the weather was bad all weekend. Friday was the only nice day there was all week. Great day for parade. and yeah my son who's here today I had to say to him shout out to read shout out to read he doesn't have school so he wanted to come see the show he had to tell me what BTA meant

did you know but what what BTA meant yes like did you know the belt part of it I I thought it meant yeah I knew what it meant okay all right I'm sorry I did not well okay um yeah so he he's filled me in on that. I asked Mel he knew. He said YouTube. He said YouTube. Okay. Did he see Milton Williams' dad? He did not. I heard you guys talk about it. I did not. And I just want to say shout out to the whole Ph.L.Y team, family. There were a lot of great videos that were up there that were shot by a bunch of people who went to the parade. So it was awesome. See, like I was shooting. And then I looked at my stuff and I'm like, this is nothing compared to what everyone else got.

I got to work on shooting better. Like, shooting videos better. I'm going to get them. Thanks. I think Vinny's sunglasses will help. There you go. Right, yeah. Write that bad boy off.

It's been your dream. Yeah, so, but no, it was a good show. A good show and good parade. There is a little bit of Eagles news as they try to fight against the quote-unquote brain drain. We got brain drain bad. in the Eagles vocabulary. What's the latest from a Stone Cold Newsman? Well, Kellan Moore is busy putting together a coaching staff

and interviewed Christian Parker, the Eagles defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator. He interviewed Doug Nussmeyer, the Eagles quarterback's coach for offensive coordinator. Word out today that he's going to interview Jamal Singleton, the Eagles assistant head coach and running backs coach. I can say my expectation is that Doug Nussmeyer is the offensive. I don't know that to be a fact, but that's my expectation.

The defense coordinator, there's a lot of buzz behind the scenes that that's going to be Brandon Staley, which would make sense an accomplished defense coordinator, a former head coach, he gives you that head coaching experience. I think we could argue a little bit about how accomplished of a defensive coordinator he is, but. Well, he had the number one defense in the NFL, so by virtue that that wasn't accomplishment. He was a defensive coordinator. He was a defensive coordinator?

I mean, was his defense not a defense? number one in the NFL? I believe it was, yeah. If you say so. I mean, am I wrong about that? I don't know. In the chat. The defenses as a head coach were terrible.

No, but I didn't say accomplished head coach. I said accomplished defense coordinator. I think that year he was with the Rams, they happened. They were a very accomplished defense. Go ahead. So first time head coach, he would fit the role of former head coach. They worked with each other with the chargers. But Christian Parker is going to be a defense coordinator in this league

sooner rather than later. Nick Siriani, as we said last week, you asked him this, and Nick has like a rule against poaching from his staff or tries to now. As we said, he poached from Frank Reich's staff, number one, and you can't block someone from a promotion, nor should you block someone from a promotion. Here we go. They were first in point.

Thank you. I appreciate this. Tyler is in the producer seat today. Thank you, Tyler. And make sure you check out the PHLY Philly show as well. Brandon Staley's Rams were first in points allowed and total yards. Yes. third in DVOA.

So I would say that's fairly accomplished as the defense coordinator. He was a defense coordinator for one year. He's living off of Wade Phillips's hard work. He's just picking up the scraps. And then he goes and when he has a chance to really build the defense, it sucks. I mean, I'm not going to argue. Like, I think it's fair to say in the year he was defensive coordinator, he was accomplished. That's fun.

So I would expect Steyer be the defense coordinator. I think Nussmeyer's going to get a funny. It is a funny, funny dynamic to have. the guy who was the coach and the coordinator, they flip. And like, who's in charge now? I am the captain now. True. Or maybe it's one of these things like Ruffin McNeil and Lincoln Riley.

Like when I become a head coach, you can come work for me. You know, they have a deal in place. Okay. Do you understand that reference? No. I thought when you said Ruffin McNeil, I thought you were maybe having a stroke. Ruffin McNeil was the head coach in East Carolina. He's a famous college football coordinator.

he was at Texas Tech and when he was at Texas Tech working with Lincoln Riley he said that when you become a head coach I will come work for you so he left East Carolina where he well he, no he got fired by East Carolina he went to Virginia

okay he was the head coach at East Carolina became the defense coordinator of Virginia and then he promised Lincoln Riley that when Lincoln Riley got a head coaching job he would work for him so he went to work with Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma wasn't he like weren't Lincoln rally's defense is like notoriously terrible? They were, but it was our...

But they had a deal. They had a Ruffin McNeil. So maybe it is the right precedent for Brandon Staley. Anthony Point Dexter and Bob Diaco had that same deal. Sometimes you see that in the coaching ranks. Okay. Make up some more names for us. This is all, this is just following the world of football.

You know Bob Diaco? Of course not. Bob Diaco is the former head coach at Yukon. he was the broils award winner when he was at Notre Dame. He was a defense coordinator at Notre Dame. Bob Diaco, this was like eight years ago. Do you know Anthony Point Dexter? No.

Anthony Point Dexter now is an assistant coach at Penn State, former defense coordinator at, well, Yukon at Purdue. But he was also, he was a second round pick in the NFL by the Cleveland Browns. Okay. Yeah. These are not names that I'm making up. These are names that people. I mean, just because you say you're not making them up doesn't really prove that you're not making them up.

But anyway, do you expect Christian Parker and or Jamal Singleton to get those jobs? You think it's going to be Nussmire? I think it's going to be Nussmeyer. I think the Annelmere cronyism is undefeated. Sure. I mean, I suppose we can frame it that way. Although Nussmeier, he's been a package deal with Staley all along. And he was the quarterback's coach for the Super Bowl MVP.

It's not atypical for the quarterbacks coach from. the team that just won the Super Bowl to get an offensive coordinator job. So, yeah, but I am expecting that to be the case. And then I think Christian Parker is going to be a defense coordinator sooner rather than later. Very good reputation. You have the video up on your Twitter page of him celebrating after the Super Bowl. But I don't think that's going to happen with the Saints.

We'll see. I'm expecting that to be staley. I have more confidence in Staley being the defense coordinator than Nussmeyer being the O.C. Okay. Interesting. I wonder knowing how much the Eagles do not want to get stuck in a post-Vic Fangio middle ground, do you think they would be of the mind to like promise Christian Parker the you get the job whenever Vic retires kind of deal? I just don't know when Vic's going to retire. And I think Christian Parker will be a decorinator. My guess is next off season. Yeah, next off season.

I kind of think so too. It doesn't make sense unless, unless Vicks, unless this is Vick's swan song. Right. It doesn't make sense for Christian Parker to agree to such a deal. Yeah. Okay. The other thing from the weekend to talk about was the release. And this is, you know, when the Eagles are in the Super Bowl, what's great is you get all this great content, all the behind-the-scenes stuff and the Eagles produced video of the speeches the night before were very interesting to me.

And I want to talk to you about what what you thought was in. interesting. I believe nine players spoke before the game. So Jalen Hertz, Sequin Barclay, A.J. Brown, Lane Johnson, Jordan Milata, Zach Bond, Nacobi Dean, Darius Slay, C.J. Gardner Johnson. Let me start with. Were you surprised that anyone who wasn't up there? Oh, that wasn't up there? Okay, I was surprised with someone who was up there. We'll do both. Why don't you start with that then? Okay, yeah. So my note here is it was notable to me that Zach Bonn

spoke. Yeah. Zach Bonn, first year with the team, not a captain, not really known as, like, the vocal leader of the team.

I think it really shows his standing on the team that he's one of the guys up there speaking. So, yeah, that part of... Oh, no, there's Brennan Graham, too, so there were 10. I thought you mentioned CJ twice.

Did you not? Is that... No. Okay. Yeah, Brennan spoke to. Okay. As far as... The six captains,

and then the four who were not captains were Sequin, Dean, Bond and CJ Gardner Johnson. Yeah. As far as, well, Jake Elliott did not speak. And so I thought maybe, you know, he is a captain, he's a long, tenured player.

Although maybe it's like he thought people don't need to hear from the kicker. I don't know. I thought maybe we would hear Landon Dickerson. That slight surprise. But other than that... My Lott, I gave a little nod to him that, like, he's the one to give the fiery pregame speeches.

That's not his thing. Yes. So, no, but Zach Bond speaking. King surprised me. Yeah. And Nicopi Dean, I thought was interesting and probably a good bit of insight into what his role is like when he is on the field as a leader of the defense, right? I was a little bit surprised that Tavante wasn't up there.

Okay. And this is like, it's been just a bit of an oddity that he was a captain last year and then wasn't a captain this year and the idea being that they had too many captains the year before, but you would think that he is still one of the leaders on the team. I would have sort of thought that he would have been. up there. That's a good point. A little bit of a surprise.

But the big takeaway to me was Jalen's speech, which somebody said this and I agree with it. Like was probably as good of it and more of an insight into the way that he thinks than anything he's said his entire time with the organization. Elaborate on that. Well, he's talking about like I was in this game a couple years ago and I gave a good show. We didn't get the win. But at least I wasn't benched.

Yeah. Which shows you how much that gave me college store hangs with. It's very clear that that is like... That's in my notes here. That's what he stuck with him. He completely changed his life. And it's like his origin story. It's like when he was bit by a radioactive spider.

Like that is... That's what started everything for the way he thinks and the way that he approaches life. And it's funny because he gets so... Just to prove that he is not that same person. And he gets sick when you... He gets annoyed when you keep bringing that up but is this very much like is something that hangs with him i you're absolutely right i

put that in here yeah i thought that was the i thought that was fascinating and the most interesting thing to come out of that video for sure the changed yeah the changed my life and how how sick he was like you really saw the effect that that's who it's it's one thing that have the wallpaper on his phone which he says he did not want to get out and i actually believe him on that that was like someone else took that photo from behind. But how even putting on, he said he put on a good show but it didn't mean anything to him.

It really, it, it's, we can say Jayland's image conscious, which I think is fair. We can say that there's some things he does for show, which I think is fair.

But what I think is absolutely genuine is how winning is what matters to him. Like winning, I think that is. And even I would say, the right framing is probably, it's not winning that matters to him,

it's not losing that matters to him. So that's a good way putting it. But even, you know, and we talked about this last week when John Ganoed from the Eagles PR staff told him, you're Super Bowl MVP, and he says Super Bowl champ. And then I wrote about this today.

What jumps out to me is when Roger Goodell gave him the MVP trophy the next day and he was supposed to be done with the photos and he wanted to take it with the Lombardi trophy. Like I think that is genuine. I don't think that's just something he says, which I actually thought a few years ago, it was like, it was almost like an excuse for himself when he kept saying,

when did it stop being about winning, when did it stop being about winning? And he started saying that interestingly after the Super Bowl. He said that in 2023. 22, his actually, his message was a little different. His message was all about the standard. Yeah. He said he didn't want to hear about, you know, wins and losses. It's all about the standard. That was his message. 2023, and from then on, everything was winning, winning, winning. And if you follow, this timeline, maybe the Super Bowl showed him, you can play to your standard, right, or near it and lose, and you feel sick and it haunts you.

Yeah, because that was a notable difference in the way that he was talking about things last year. No, I think that's right. And then the last thing to mention, I think, from those speeches that was interesting was just Lane correctly calling out that, like, they couldn't block you, they can't block you, this is a finesse team, like you guys are going to just be able to run right through them on defense, and he had that properly scouted. Well said. Yeah, there were two things I would add with, with Lane.

First off, his message throughout the playoff run was don't be emotional, don't be emotional. Execution, non-emotion. And it was clear in this speech that he thought the team was too emotional last year. And then also he clearly kept receipts. You know, from like an offensive lineman's perspective, those those t-shirts that they had or the sweatshress, whatever, no sacks allowed. That hung with them for two years. I thought Sequan's confidence

like Sequin knew they were going to win that game that jumped out Jordan Milata him saying that's why I let Landon speak I thought that was a good line AJ we talked about how emotional AJ is he said he's not in the moment yet to think about the game like the night before the game there's so much time

it shows you and then how much he was talking about his teammates and then real quick like CJ Gardner Johnson was essentially in tears, it seemed like, addressing his teammates. You can see how much being a part of the Eagles meant to him. All right, let's take a quick break. And then on the other side, we will run through the Eagles schedule and give you what we think will be our lasting memories from this season,

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Recall 610-4,000 to get started. All right. Let's get into this sack. 20, 20 games. 21. 21 games. I'm good at math. 21 games for the Eagle.

season, 21 memories. Now let's start this. And let's say that this is presented by our friends at Khan Murphy's, the big takeaway. Let's begin this with this exercise that I did with the players during the Super Bowl Media Week. Now, this was before the Super Bowl. So this would be only 20 games for them to go through. But some of the players on the team, what's the one thing you remember about every game this

season? Let's see what those guys said. A great experience in Brazil. Front flight. Zach Bonds, sack, end the game. Damn, we lost. We three. How we do that?

After they had scored to tighten up the game or I think getting the lead, by a few points, Dallas's drag rod that he caught and took it for like 60 yards. Damn. Again. I won't even mad. I'm like, damn. Looked in the mirror at ourselves. First start. Sacon Barclan Barkley.

Confusing Sidney Brown with his twin brother. DeMonte Smith's catch in the back of the end zone. We generally just kind of chucked it up there. They're made the crazy catch. I know that that was definitely dope for sure. That was like the most like highlights I've seen in the game because it was Smitty's crazy catch. Sequin jumping over a guy backwards.

Nukobie's one-hand catch in the back of the end zone. So I would just say highlights. Shit, at first it was a dog fight, but then we, yeah, we destroyed them. Intense. Oh, it was a freaking physical game. Physical game. At the Rams, good test for us out in L.A. We were doubted.

Cooper's hit. Cooper's hit. Cooper's hit. A weird game. Ooh. Nail biter. nail biter, nail biter. Sears was a good test.

I feel like the Mike Taumman team, they always played tough and state opponent as well, so a lot of bracket rights there. Yeah, we let them come back. We had like five turnovers, didn't we? Yeah. Second Kelly Green game, Cidys pick six, won that NFC East that night. Destroyed. My first start, yeah, that was a lot of fun.

That was great. Destroyed. Dallas, stiff arming them all the way down to noon. Good rematch, but we destroyed them too, right? Oh, lit. That's when I got one. In the snow, too. Snow game, it felt like a video game.

Sequan's first run when he cut the pitch and just took it to the house. I was like, he's playing NCAA or Madden on rookie. Destroy it. And then it goes to destroy it at the end. First of all, Joshua, fantastic. Just an elite content producer on that front. My other takeaway from doing that.

Wait, wait. How about Bo Wolfe? Fantastic. And was that Julia? Julia and Chris together. Yeah, Joey and Chris together. Fantastic. Like that, that is a real great piece of content there.

Well, my other takeaway from doing that was Keeley Ringo, who, like, you wonder, like a guy like Kila Ringo, who was, he didn't play that much this season, like, how much is he taking in from the sidelines? He had, like, very specific play-by-play memories of every game. We only used a couple of them, but, like, it was a good example to me of just how locked in he was on the sideline. You're absolutely right. And that's, that's a lot of these players are, right?

I mean, they're one chin strap away, but they are watching the game, literally. I mean, I was excited for this exercise because, like, you know, hypothetically, if you're putting like chapters together for something. Oh, hypothetic. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like you don't want to get too into the weeds. Work smart, not harder, my friend.

Let's combine your tasks. No, no, no. So you want to know the show prep work for a potential. Yeah. So you want to know like, like, like what jumps out from a given week. And actually, you know, I was playing this with my son too there. Yeah, he was, he was knocking it out of the park. He was like a 44-yard touchdown on this game.

I was like, that's the exact. That's the exact number. Boom. Yeah. So this is a fun game. All right. Let's move forward with it. And thank you to Con Murphy's for the big takeaways here.

Week one, Green Bay. Now I have a couple non-football ones. Yeah. But I do have a football one. For me, the lasting memory of the non-football will be your personal struggle against the Wi-Fi in Sao Paulo. I was so frustrated. Like, I try to keep even. keeled at all times.

I think that's important, but that was as frustrated as I've been all year. You shouldn't have been so frustrated. I take this job for the show, right? It's like, it's the, you know, and I'm excited for this, and I couldn't get on the show. I was so mad that night.

I'm all the way down in Brazil, and I'm not on the post game show. Yeah, that was frustrating as it could be. Shout out to Nick B with the Super Chat, who says, Thanks for an awesome season. So excited for the NPO.

Ph.P.O. BWF, PHO-Y helps connect me to home. I love that. Thank you, Nick. To hear, Nick. Where are you, by the way? Tell us where abroad you are. For me, the snapshot football memory of that game

is the Sequin Barkley receiving touchdown because it was a play that we saw them rep like 15 times during the course of training camp, that specific route combination. And then for them to throw it in week one and Sequin to make a nice play. Now, what was more predictive was that, like, as a runner, he was very impressive in that game. But that specific play, that receiving touchdown is the play that I will remember. Sure.

Yeah, for me, it's similar to what the player said. Like, the first thing that jumps to my mind is being in Brazil. And just that atmosphere, how unique it was. It was a real cool venue. Like Lane said, it's a long way to – it was a lot of travel for a game, long way to go for a game from the game itself. It was to flip a switch, a nature of it, because the Eagles started slow, and then they were just, the points came in bunches there. And you saw AJ had the big play.

Sequin had that touchdown play you mentioned. So what I think of is it actually wasn't the way the offense turned out. But to me, that was like the proof of concept of the offense was it was a star-driven game. Well, it was also like that game delivered a lot of the things we were expecting from the Kellynmore offense. Exactly. They ran a lot of motion. They did a lot of play action. They did some under center stuff.

And then they didn't do that again for like 10 weeks. Yes, exactly. Exactly. The AJ touchdown is also worth noting because when I did the surveyed the locker room for guys, individual favorite plays, that was AJ's favorite play of the season was that that touchdown in part because I think it came against Jeter Alexander. He appreciated that it came against good competition. Was that the first play in the second half?

It might have been. Yeah. Okay. We moved to week two. Monday night against the Atlanta Falcons. My non-football memory is just the lead-up to the game of Kirk Cousins is coming off this Achilles and they haven't run a single play action.

He's just like sitting back in shotgun. But for me, the football memory, I think there are two ways to go here. There is the Sequin drop. But to me, this was about the Syrianic coaching decision. You know, to kick the field goal, to go up six instead of three. That was the thing that I will remember

because that was when early in the season, that felt like Nick was on thin ice. Yeah, to me, obviously, Sequin's drop, right? They're right there. It's in his hands. It's actually how Nike led that commercial with him. And then the defense collapsed there, too, by the way, right? I mean, we talked about this number one defense,

but there were concerns about the defense early in the season, and it was the way Atlanta just went down the field easily and quickly on that final draft. Week three, of course, Clint Kubiak, the Genius Week, for me, the memory is, is the Goddard mesh play. Yes. But less for the play and more because of the ensuing conversation about whether it was the biggest play of his career.

It was the longest play of his career. I know that. So by yards it was the biggest play of his career. To me, what I'll remember from that game, yeah, the Goddard play, but the grittiness of that win, you don't have Devante Smith, A.J. Brown. And at the time, right, this was before it became a run-centric team. It's like, how are you going to win this game without Devante and AJ?

And Lane went down. And Lane went down too. Yeah, you're right. And the grittiness of that final drive, they really couldn't move the ball for three quarters of that game. And I know the emotion of the win is typically attributed to the Cleveland game with Siriani. But I thought the New Orleans game was like as hyped as I've seen Siriani. If you remember that post-game press conference. You remember Jalen Carter on the sidelines.

Exactly. But Nick gave like an eight-minute rambling answer to start that press conference. And like he was, I don't want to say unhinged, but he was like so emotional after that particular game. So maybe he was feeling the heat then after Atlanta. Week four, Tampa Bay. We all remember Nick Berman's Bachelor Party. We all remember that. And the swooper photo that unfortunately did not count.

my football memory is just the idea of you know the ball was coming up so quickly and they were not pressing on the outside and you're like wondering what what's going on with the defense i mean they got picked apart in that game you're right that that game was a train wreck i had the offense without a j and devante because the offense really struggled but then defensively you had serious questions about vick fanjo's group it looked similar to last year yes yeah and then you get into the buy now the the The chat is reminding us that after week two, I think I was saying that, like, I think at this point, Jeffrey regrets not firing Nick Siriani. And I did say that. And I stand by that. I think after week two, Jeffrey felt that way. And I think if you had a truth serum with him, I think as early as, as late as like week six, he might have felt that way. And then things started to turn around. So he was rewarded for the patience. I mean, there's a difference between the decisions you make at the end of the season. And like the way you feel over the course of a season, you're not necessarily willing to jump in

and make a big decision. Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. Now, I mean, you can evaluate your decisions in the middle of it. I do recall, you know, I've had a conversation with, with Jeffrey where a big point of emphasis he has is like, you need to remember how long a season is and that, like, calm decisions and calm times. And that's a phrase how he uses often.

but yeah, I mean, clearly early on, especially after that Cleveland game and after the Tampa game, it looked shaky, but that's why you make decisions with all your information. Well, let's get to that Cleveland game. Week 5, the win over the Browns at home. To me, you know, this is obviously the first game after the buy. This is about the haircut and the screaming at the fans after the game, right?

I mean, that will no doubt be my lasting, enduring memory from that game. Yes. I mean, the word association here, the game association is Siriani screaming and that. But I also recall to like the defense from a football perspective, that was the game where it's like, ooh, this defense is interesting. Because if you remember Cleveland didn't score an offensive touchdown that whole game. Yeah, they were a terrible offense though. No, but that was, but after the Tampa game. The notable thing was that it was Cooper DeGine. Yes, exactly.

Finally getting into the lineup and it being his first start. Exactly. And we got to see Marissa. So that was fun too. That's right. Week 6 at the Giants. This to me, I don't know if there's a specific play from this game. This is one where I struggled with a specific play.

It's just Sequin. The specific moment is actually the miced up on the sidelines. That's what I have. Where Nick asking, you know, Sequin does he want to keep going? And he says, like, let the young guys eat. Exactly. Well said. Yeah, I mean, this was Seekon Week.

Seekoine going back. You know, my son said before them the Giants fans burning Seekwon jerseys, before the game. Yeah, that's a good help. But Siguan not breaking the record. And I remember asking Nick about it. And Nick said that conversation. And I thought it was hyperbole until

the Eagles had the mic'd up. And I remember saying to Nick, like, it was exactly as you described. Yeah. All right. What more break to hear from our sponsors. And then we will go with the second and third, thirds of the season.

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day of to Cincinnati. What do you remember about that game? What's your, what's your snapshot? Yeah, Devante Smith, him having that big game, him saying you can't F with him. And then also, this was when, like, I know Cooper the Gene entered the line up a few weeks earlier, but Cooper the jeans in there. The big play on fourth down

jumps out. Against Jamar Chase. Yeah, that was a very nice play. To me, it is a Devante catch. It was 1717 at that point when he makes that catch, and then they win 37 to 17. So that was a play in the game. I also have a very specific memory of the Bengals opening touchdown where they get Jamar Chase one-on-one with Nolan Smith

by the way that they motioned it out. But yeah, I mean, that was, this was a good indication that this was when the defense really started to look for real because it was against the good offense. Now, Jayland's watching this right now and he's frustrated that we didn't mention Jayland two shoes because he was hoping that would really catch on from this game.

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Okay. Week 9 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, 2823. This is one where there, as Tanner McKee said in the video, a lot to choose from, but there is one that obviously stands above the rest. Sequin's hurdle. backwards hurdle. I didn't know if there was a joke there. Yeah.

I mean, you got to pick up what I'm putting down. Oh, yeah. Sequin's backward hurdle is definitely the place to go here. The play of the season. And it's not just the play itself. It's the reaction from the sideline. All of those guys reacting to the play. And as guys say, like, to be like the best athletes in the world and be around world-class athletes all the time and be that stunned by something you see tells you just how insane it was. What's number two for you?

Number two is the Nikobe pick. And then the miced up of him being so happy about it and saying that's the one that I knew was coming because he got beat by an injury. Exactly. Well said. Yeah, that's my number two. My son remembered Sidney Brown forcing the fumble. I forgot all about that. Yeah. So Sydney Brown, shout out to Sydney Brown. Okay. Week 10, 34 to 6, a dominating win at Dallas. This one was one where I didn't have a play. It was just, I remember that Cooper Rush offense just not having any chance. I think you threw for like 40 something yards. Yeah, this was the Zach Bond game for me. This was when Zach Bonn really kind of solidified himself as like an all pro type player. Okay, that's a good one. Yeah, a relatively unmemorable game on its own.

But that sets up then the Thursday night game against the Washington commanders, the first of three meetings between these teams on Vinnie Curry night. On Vinny Curry night. Well said. Short week, I just remember Jaylon Carter being such a presence at the line of scrimmage, that fourth downplay when he disrupted it. That really jumps to mind. Actually, if you look at the score of this game, the game was much closer than the score suggests.

Sequin had two touchdowns late, but you remember Washington was driving. The play of the game to me was, as I said, that fourth down, Washington's going for it. Zach Bond makes the tackle, but it was Jalen Carter disrupting. It's Jalen Carter right at the snap, forcing it to be a little bit different than designed. It's Reed Blankenship, screaming downhill to force Daniels to go even a little bit further to the outside, and then Zach Bond making the actual tackle yet. It's those three guys combining for the play of the game. Well said.

We go then to week 11, out to L.A., your favorite place in the world. It's not my favorite place in the world, but I do enjoy going to Los Angeles. And I wrote, wow, Sequin, because Sequin was otherworldly in that game, setting a franchise record for rushing yards, but just those home run runs. And specifically coming out of halftime is the one that jumps out to me. I remember that was the first and I might even say the best of the franning casts that we did, which was very fun. To me, it was,

I mean, I know that Sequin had the monster game. Yes. For whatever reason, my memory is, is BG was dominating that game and was playing at such a high level. And then that's when he suffered the season ending injury, which turned out to not actually end his season,

but most of the season. Yeah, that's my memory from the locker room after the game was Brennan Graham telling you. Oh, Alex remembers the fran cast. There we go. Yeah, that he's done because one of the downsides of covering the Eagles

is how cool they are with injuries and Nick Seriani like four days later will still be like yeah we're waiting for more information and Brandon Graham right there 10 minutes after the game saying I'm done for the year and actually shout out to Jimmy Kemsky Jimmy Kempski thought he was he was joking

when he said it Jimmy was like no come on Brian's like no I'm serious I'm serious yeah Super chat from Jack who says, thanks for your coverage all year. I flew back for the parade and recognized Laken Vakalahi in the airport on Saturday. He seemed genuinely excited to be recognized, and we had a nice chat about our parade experiences. What a great story.

Chat, good, chat. You are a down and dirty sicko, if you can recognize Lake in Vakalahi. Yeah, well said. I like that. Very nicely done. Okay, we move on to week 13. Big game in Baltimore against the Ravens. They win 24 to 19.

What do you remember? Well, Cooper's a gene lifting up Derek Henry. More specifically, you on the post game show not being willing to do this. That's not what I remember from it, but I do remember that. Yeah, I mean, the defense is domination. That was the last time this year that I picked against the Eagles. I picked Baltimore in that game. And I love this Baltimore offense, and you just saw the defense dominated.

it. So that was the time. I did want to ask you, I was going to ask you at the end of this, but have we gotten to the point yet, or was this the game where you said they could win the Super Bowl? Because for me, in 2017, it was that Carolina, I always said, that Carolina game, I said, wow, they could win the Super Bowl. Was it already at this point? Because the Baltimore game was when I said, like, they are a legitimate heavyweight. Yeah, I think there's a difference between can they win the Super Bowl? Like, I thought they could win the Super Bowl, but I thought, that game was like, oh, they might be the best team in football. Yes, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I think that flipped out. I mean, that was the most impressive of their wins all season long, in a season of very impressive wins. I remember driving back, driving back from Baltimore and having that same thought you just said, like this is, this might be the best team in the NFL. And then they come back the next week against Carolina and have probably their worst game of the second half of the season

with Jalen Hertz that Carolina. line of game. And to me, this is twofold. It's Xavier Leggett drops, which, you know, as Danez has pointed out, that was like Vicks only all out blitzer of the entire season. But more importantly, it was AJ Brown in the locker room

afterwards saying that the passing game needed to be fixed. You're right. That jumped out to me. The fact that they did not play well. And if the week before you said this could be the best team in the NFL, the Carolina game, you're like, well, what's, what's wrong with this passing offense because going into the week you kept hearing behind the scenes like

this is going to be a big game for a jay and big game for defante and this is where they're going to attack carolina and they did not get that uh week 15 you got the Steelers at home they bounced back with the passing game 27 to 13 what do you remember about that game so that's what you all wanted to see right or huh he said so that's what you all wanted to see huh that's what jumps out to me is this was this was jellon hurts um saying saying he's answering your questions uh weirdly like a big Kenny gainwell game do you remember that i do yeah um that conference call after the game it's like how valuable Kenny is oh that's right that's right uh week 15 i mean it's the it's the jalen injury that is the snapshot memory yeah but uh you know they get five turnovers and still lose the

game not ideal yeah the jailen hurts concussion and devonte's drop okay uh excuse me week 16 Tanner McKee's touchdown to AJ Brown throws it into the stands. I have picket at McKee, the backup quarterback game. Okay. And the fact that those guys both combined for a game that the Eagles needed to win. Regular season finale,

Tanner McKee, dialing it up. Yeah, big game from Tanner McKee. And the conversation should Tanner McKee be the backup quarterback going into this. I mean, or the starting quarterback. The starting quarterback did just fine, I would say.

We did fine. Yeah. All right. go to the playoffs. What will you remember about the Packers game, the wildcard round? Talk to someone behind the scenes who said that, and this is funny because the closest game they played was the game the next week against the Rams, but they said that the Packers game, winning that game is when they all started to feel like, oh, like we're going to win the Super Bowl. Yes, I just remember how gritty this game was. You know, I mean, a 12-point win

jumps out as like, oh, they're controlling the game. But, It didn't feel like they were running away with it. It was just a gritty game, I remember. Yeah, I think my memory will be the, the Oren Burke's force fumble on the opening kickoff. Yeah. Because it also, like, it set the tone for over the next month of the season, this team is going to beat up everybody they play.

Good point. Like, from the first hit of the playoffs, they sent a message, like, we are the meaner, more physical team, and we are going to beat you up for an entire game, like a message to the league. Well said. Yeah, that, that, that,

That's a good one there. This was the, I think of the four postseason games, this is the one that's probably the least memorable. Sure. But it's the one that, yeah, probably put them on the band. They just strangle the life out of them. Exactly. Yeah. The defense was awesome.

And if you recall going into this game, there was a thought like Green Bay is a tough matchup. And the Eagles were clearly the superior team. Okay. You get to the snow game the next week. What we remember about the snow game? I mean, yes, Sequan's touchdown run, the end of the game or the, or the, late touchdown run where the eyes, you know, and he's celebrating in the snow. But just as the players were saying, it's just a cool way to watch a game.

The snow coming down, it really did seem like a video game. Yes. You very seldom get the snow globe effect in a football game. So that's the enduring memory to me. But then also the defense to stand there at the end, because it did seem like the Rams had a good chance of winning that game. and Jalen Carter makes that huge play on third down. Yeah, you say the defenses stand. To me, this is just the force of Jalen Carter.

Two plays back to back to win the game by himself when the team needed it. I mean, the Sequin play had the Rams not come back, would have been the last year memory. But to me, this is the closest they came to not winning the Super Bowl. Yep. Was those two plays by Jalen Carter and just the absolute, force of will he had to make those plays in that moment while playing like 95% of the snaps was just unbelievable.

And it's a championship game, what do you got? Honestly, so this is as much me as the team of any high leverage game during my time covering the team, this is the one that I felt like most confident they would win. Like I remember going to the stadium thinking, like they're going to the Super Bowl. Like Washington is not going to hang with them. them.

And- To the chagrin of the Washington media. But that jumped out to me from the jump is just how much of a mismatch that game was. Yeah, this is twofold for me.

It's on the one hand, no doubt, Hard Rock Cafe, that the Hard Rock Cafe has fallen. And we're still trying to rebuild that bad boy. We will be back stronger than ever.

But, I mean, it's the first play of the game for the offense. You know, like it's the dichotomy of the commanders take like 19 plays to score three points

and then Sequin Barker scores a touchdown on the first play of the game for the Eagles. And the defense forcing the five turnovers? In just a laughable way. Yeah. The defense forcing the five turnovers. That to me was these two teams don't belong in a championship game against each other.

All right. And then the Super Bowl, what will be the play for you from the Super Bowl? I mean, there are. Tyler, by the way, still baffled about Dan Quinn settling for two, or settling for three on that opening drive after two, fourth down conversions. So the two plays and first off, the, the play. First off, the pick six. Yeah, I think it's, I think it's the pick six.

The pick six and the Devante touchdown. So the pick six was when it's like, man, they're going to, you know, they can win this game. And then the Devante touchdown was Kansas City's not coming back. As Nick said on the sideline, that's, you know, the game's over. But yeah, definitely Cooper's pick six. I think Cooper's pick six. That was, and also like the reaction from the crowd, the incredibly pro Eagles,

Yes. Super Bowl crowd. Yeah, that was when it was like this defense is not giving up anything. Yeah. And then the postgame locker room, I'll remember that. The cigar in the year, for sure. Yeah, just how much of a party that was. Yeah.

Yeah. No doubt. All right. Fun exercise. Let me ask you this, Sack. Yes. As a way of reframing this, let me give you a rapid fire on 2017. Okay.

Seven years later, you tell me what you remember about every single one of these games. I did not prepare for this. Good. Okay. Week one against Washington. Doug Peterson getting carried off the field, Fletcher Cox, and Brandon Graham having that sack, forced fumble, touchdown at the end of the game. Very nice. Week two at Kansas City.

Week two at Kansas City. They weren't running the ball. And there was, I remember in Arrowhead Stadium there was a sign about running the ball. And that was the big conversation after the game is they were not running the ball. Also benched Isaac Siamalo. That's the one I remember about that game. Week three against the Giants. Jake Elliott's field goal.

That's what, Alishon Jeffers catch for Jake Yelius' field goal. Week four at the Chargers. Week four at the Chargers, how much they ran the ball. And being in that soccer stadium and that turning into an Eagles crowd. And actually, Nick Siriani was coaching the Chargers and vividly remembers the crowd for that game. But how much they ran the ball in that game. There was that drive at the end of the game. Yes.

Like lasted nine minutes or whatever, right? That's the one I remember. Week five against the Cardinals at home. Week five against the Cardinals at home. So I'm conflating a few Cardinals games together. This one is tough. But because I don't want to conflate this with a David Johnson game. This is one where I think they had a good game offensively if memory serves.

It's 34 to 7. Yeah. So they could game both sides. But this is the one that I should. It's a 59-yard touchdown to Tori Smith and a 72-yard touchdown. Johnson-A-Gallor, but I actually don't remember those very well. I remember the Yagler one. Who do you think there's the quarterback for the Cardinals in this game?

Who was the quarterback for the Cardinals in this game here? Was it Drew Stanton? True Stanton? No. Who was it? Carson Palmer. Oh, okay. That feels like 40 years ago.

All right. Week 6, the Thursday night are at Carolina. Yeah, this is the game when I knew they were going to win the Super Bowl. I'm sorry, when I knew they could win the Super Bowl. I remember Lane Johnson being out. I mean, Cam Newton was awesome at that time, and Carson Wentz outplayed Cam Newton there. I remember talking about him. Nigel Browdham had an unbelievable game, and Fletcher Cox was doubtful coming into the game and played it.

It was awesome. Yes, exactly. I remember also that this was like, okay, this team is very much for real. Yep. Week 7, home against Washington. Week 7, home against Washington. Jason Peters. Jason Peters tours ACL in this game.

and so I remember the whole team coming out there and then I remember the two great plays that Carson Wentz played in this game, escaping pressure on one and then also the touchdown pass, the right sideline, a play that they put in from North Dakota. The Corey Clement one. The Corey Clement one.

I thought it was the best play he made all year. Yes. Totally agree. And it was a play from North Dakota that they put in. Week 8, 33 to 10 victory over the Niners. Yes, actually this changed the course of Niners history They traded for Jimmy Garoppel after this game. I remember Jalen Mills had a pick six down the right side line.

J. Bethard was the quarterback? Yeah, you made a joke then. I was listening to Birds with Friends, but about C.J. Beat Hard. Okay. Yeah. Do you remember that? It sounds like something I would do.

Yes. I mean, I remember beat hard, yeah. Week 9, 51 to 23 against the Denver Broncos at home. Yeah, this was Jay Jai's first game with Eagles. And they had just traded for him, and he had a huge run in his first game. And he did the J-Train thing. Okay. Yes.

J-Train. I forgot about that self-appointed nickname. Yes. They're the bi-week, and then week 11 is at Dallas, 37 to 9. Yeah, Jay-J-I had another huge game here. I remember this game here, and I remember Camusier Hill was the kicker in this game. Oh, that's right. That's a good one.

I remember they came out of the by starting slow. They had a big second-half onslaught, and the camera was in Alshon Jeffrey's face. Thanks for watching on Fast, by the way, and check out the very rest of this episode. on all p hilly.com. And Alshan Jeffrey basically said don't F with us. Week 12, 31 to 3 over the Bears at home. Yeah, this was Alshan Jeffrey

against his former team. And that was the big story going into the game. I remember talking to Kyle Long that week for Kyle Long, Chris Long's story. But Alshan against the Bears was the big story here.

This for me was the day I got to spend watching Merrill and the game broadcast in the radio booth. So that was a memorable one for me. That's cool one. Week 13 at Seattle. Oh yeah, so I remember Carson Wenz actually fumbling the ball out of the end zone

And because a big topic of conversation that following week in LA was about him like taking hits But he phoned the ball out of the end zone there And then seen throw he made the Nelson Aglars yeah yeah Nelson Aglare had a great play down the left side line But this was the lone blemish late in the year than they lost Week 14 at the Rams yeah well first off I remember that whole week in Los Angeles there staying there covering it going from Orange County to LA. There were wildfires actually in LA at the time. But of course, being in the Coliseum,

Carson Wentz getting hurt, and just how, like, wow, is their season over? They clinched the NFC East that day, but what does this look like? Week 15 at the Giants. A good game from Nick Foles. That was up there. And Nick played well.

The defense didn't play great that game, but Foles did enough. Oh, I'm sorry, you said, all right, they can do this with Foles. Week 16 against the Raiders. Yeah, Christmas night, right? Yes. And I remember Foles looked horrible.

It was brutally cold. Ronald Darby had the touchdown at the end of the game to clinch it, but that was not a good game for the Eagles. And then the regular season finale, a loss 6-0 to the Cowboys. Yeah, so that one there, they tried playing Nick Foles rolling the game to get some momentum.

It did not go well. That was as cold a game as there's been in a long time. I remember just how ugly that second half was. A divisional round game against the Falcons. Well, of course, we all remember the play at the end of the half with Tori Smith and hitting the knee of Keanu Neal and then Jalen Mills and well, the whole defense late in the game. When Julio Jones could have made that catch, the defense has that stand at the goal line. Vikings game as a championship?

As Chris Long says, no one could have had, you know. Anybody could have got it. Anyone could have had him that night. Yeah. I mean, the play that jumps out to me there is the flea flicker. Yeah. But then also Patrick Robinson's pick six. And then the Super Bowl.

What happened in that game? Of course. I mean, the Phillies special. Zach Ertz, the fourth down conversion. Zach Ertz is touchdown. And then Brandon Graham Strip, Zach. God, that Arizona game is going to haunt me. Well, it's good that the listeners always know what from the episode is going to keep you up in night.

Yeah, the Arizona game will keep me up in night. Okay, well, good. I mean, something's going to keep you up at night. It might as well be something innocuous. Okay. Very excited for tomorrow's show. Tomorrow show, a tent pole show of the offseason. We've got Fran Duffie coming in for this year's edition of Flu World Order.

Wherein we take all of the Eagles impending free agents, all of the potential trade players, cap casualties, retirees, and rank them from 1 to 24 is what we have right now in how likely we think they are to be back with the Eagles, setting up all the transactions. to come over the next couple months going on the record. So very excited about that show with Fran tomorrow, Zach as well. And then we got the rest of the week.

So we're into the NPO, baby. Yep. But just to kind of set the tone for what's ahead, too, the franchise tag deadline starts tomorrow, February 18th. So it's a good day for us to do it because transactions start to, I don't want to say pick up, but this is like the start of the transaction calendar. is February 18. Teams can use the tag for either one of those days.

Combines next week, but the important day for the Eagles fans to know and four-hour show is three weeks from today, March 10th is when free agency opens. Or is when the negotiation period opens. Too soon. Yeah, it literally, it's like, it is crazy how quickly this comes.

I do, I was mapping out some stuff over the weekend for how I'm going to, like, my written stuff. And one of my favorite pieces to do each year is what would, is what I would do if I were Hallie Roseman. And I typically do that the week in between the Combine and Free Agency, like a 15-step guide. And I'm like, that's a week and a half from now, right? So I got to get moving.

Yeah. There you go. My wife wants Reed to say hi. He's having fun. He's watching the show. Okay. It's good to have Reid here. Yep.

All right. That'll do it. this episode. Reed, you want to come in? Read, do you want to come in? Say hi to the show? Not interested. Not interested. Sorry, Emily. All right, that'll do it for this episode of the P.H.L.Y. Eagles podcast back tomorrow and all week at 2 o'clock. We'll talk to you then. And as always, we love you.