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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, a team that hit on their quarterback, no doubt.
Jalen Hurts MVP of the Super Bowl yesterday. I may
have given it to somebody else, but we'll find out
what she thinks. From the morning show WIP, celebrating another
Eagles title, got the big parade on Friday for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Morning show superstar Ria Hughes is back with us.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
How surprised were you by that ass kicking in that
game yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That was a curve stomping. I mean it was. It
was absolutely like you said, you called it a term.
I'm sure everyone.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Outside of Philadelphia thought it was an awful game. The
rest of us just like literally enjoyed it because it was.
It was just it was remarkable. I mean just think
of this point at halftime. The Eagles had twenty four points,
the Chiefs had twenty three yards.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yep. I mean it was just I was not surprised
the defense played well against them. I was surprised they
destroyed them like that.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Yeah. Well, your confidence level when you came on with
us last week. I even commented on it with Dave
after you got off the air. I was like, wow,
I mean she not only she she's like borderline cocky.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now, was that going back be honest with us now?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yet?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Was that all real confidence or were you kind of
like playing a little.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Bit extra confidence at the time. It turned out to
be accurate.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You mean, with Softy trying to goat me into saying something. Use.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
The thing is, I absolutely thought they would beat them.
I picked them to win twenty eight to seventeen.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But I never thought that I would look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You know that scene in Miracle where her Brooks is
on the sidelines against the Russians and he looks over
at the Russian coach and he goes.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
He doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
That's right, that's any time they showed Andy Reid on
the sidelines, And I am not an Andy Reid chan.
I just you know, I know he spent fourteen years
here and everybody worst the groundie walks.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
On and that is not me. I loved it. I
love that Spags didn't know what to do.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I mean because basically, hey, I thought Saquan was gonna
have a huge game. The chief Spag said, we are
going to sell out to stop Saquon and make Jalen
Hurts beat us with his arm.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
So Jalen said, hold my beer. Yeah, and he was
the Super Bowl MVP. So I didn't expect that.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I did think they would beat them, but I didn't
expect it would be that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, and Jalen ends up being the MVP.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I gotta tell you, I don't have a real problem
with it, but I do think it should have been
somebody from the defense.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I mean, the way that those guys played against.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Rick Mahos mean well, I mean Cooper dejen had to
pick six for the touchdown that made it seventeen to nothing.
Malcolm Smith had a pick six against the game that
made it twenty two to nothing. So I mean I
would have given it maybe to him. I would have
given it maybe to Josh Sweat. I mean, are you
cool with Jalen winning the MVP, or would you have
taken somebody from the defense?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, so, I you know, if they could give it
to a coach, that would have given it to Vic
Fangio just because you look, they were the worst defense
in the NFL last year. And he came into his
very first team meeting with the defense and said, you
guys don't work hard, but it's not your fault. I'm
gonna teach you how to work hard.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Miami Dolphins players who openly mocked him might want to
take a little heartbeat from that. But yeah, I think
the Cooper Degene pick six was the turning point because
I believe it was ten to nothing at that point, correct,
And I don't think the Eagles ever looked back from
that moment on. So yeah, I mean, listen, the quarterbacks
always get it. I think Saquon Barkley should have gotten
an MVP this year, but they're always going to give
(03:20):
that award to a quarterback. But you know, Cooper Rejin
or Josh Schwett to me had the best case to
make for getting MVP.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
But you know, listen, Jalen was terrific. You know, the
the passes he was dropping in his usage of lay
of his legs was phenomenal. So you know that was
able to styme me. You know, the blitz by by Spag.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
So yeah, it's no one's really complained about it. But
now the defense, the defense won that game.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Let's play alternate universe for a second area, and let's
say Kansas City gives Saquon his yards, you know, give
they give him one hundred and ten On twenty carries
and five yards of carry and and don't attack Jalen
so much with the How does this game look different
to you?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I don't know if it looks different.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Sort of looked different obviously, But that defense, they they
literally had Mahomes seeing ghost on play.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Even on plays when he had time to throw, he overthrew,
he underthrew. I don't think the defense. The defense was
just coming so swarming.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Now with the Eagles have put up forty points, if
they just had Saquon's had a lot of explosive plays
this year. It's almost as explosive as a passing game
with some offenses. But I just this defense, they were
just crushing Mahomes. I mean, you know, it may have
been a lower scoring game in terms of.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
What the offense, but I don't think you know, those people,
you know, ten years from now, they're going to look
at that scoring go not forty twenty two. That's not bad.
Mahomes had more yards passing than.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Those last two touchdowns were garbage touchdowns, you know, it
was it was for them to try to make the
score look a little bit more respectable, But that was
a beating that the defense put on them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Hughes WIP with us Philadelphia, and I gotta be honest
with you bye. About the mid of part of the
third quarter, I was already a bunch of Tito's SODA's in,
So I can't tell you what kind of personnelity Eagles
and Fangio were running out there, but I remember tweeting
and saying to a buddy of mine, I mean, my god,
it's thirty four to nothing. Whatever it is, they got
to go for this. They got to go for the shutout.
(05:20):
I mean, nobody's ever done that in the history of
the Super Bowl. Was that even being talked about on
the sideline? You think to keep everybody in and get
your shut out and make some history, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I don't know, And we'll find out, you know, they
just landed.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So we'll find out in the next couple of days.
We usually Brandon Graham's in studio with us on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I will not be shocked if he's there tomorrow, which
will be great. So we'll find that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Because I absolutely I wanted to shut out Andy Reid
in the worst possible way. I don't really have a
lot of hatred for Patrick Mahomes, and he's a great player,
but I wanted to stick a zero on them in
the worst way. So, I mean, they didn't cross midfield.
So there was two minutes left in the third quarter.
I'm real, So yeah, I absolutely want the shutout. So
we'll find out when the players if they did. But
(06:03):
you know they it was, they were it was. It
was the most impressive defensive performance I think I've ever seen.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well and arguably the most depressive defensive performance of the season.
I saw a great stat today that it was the
first game all year that a defense had kept the
opposition out of their own end of the field for
the first nine driver, right, crazy. I mean that is
just that is absolutely unbelievable. So where where do we
go from here?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Rea?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I mean, does this feel different than the last time
you guys won the Super Bowl? Does this feel like
the beginning of something where that one was just a hey,
that was a nice year.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, so here's what I'll say.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I also hated Jonathan Gannon, and you know, I mean
that the defensive performance that the Eagles put up in
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Again, we hay a lot of people. By the way,
I have.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
A long list offtie. It's very low, but it's never
you guys. You guys are never on that list.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Thank but you know, you look at it and and Gannon,
I believe is a Fangio disciple. You think if you
had Gannon, if you had Fango in that twenty twenty
two Super Bowl that was only a three point loss.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Last year, the Eagles are ten to one. They utterly collapsed.
The defense is a trocius.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You have to wonder if Fangio had been there these
last two years or a confident defensive coordinator, that this
Eagles team could maybe be talked about in those kind
of levels. The problem with going forward is there's a
lot of guys who were on you know, free agent deal.
You know, you've got Zach Baughn, who's going to be
needed to pay him out, Milton Williams, Josh Sweat.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So there's gotta be a lot of decisions.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And that happened after twenty twenty two they lost like
five players, So this will you know, and listen, Hallie Roseman.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Has pulled rabbit out of his hat. He puts together
an amazing team. So it's going to be keeping this
team together. The amazing thing about it, though, is for
the most part, though they're super young. I mean Cooper
dejen and Quinna Mitchell. You saw many times yesterday that
Patrick Mahomes actually had time.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
No one was open because the Eagle secondary and that
outside of Diaryus Sleigh, which it might be.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
His last year, that Eagles secondary is super young.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
So you know they're and you know Jalen Carter's young,
Jordan Davis, they had guys.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Along that line. Jyleb Hunt was supposed to be a
developmental player this year. He was playing safety in college.
Hit a sack in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, Ria Hughes is with us. I do got to
ask it because you mentioned it twice. That was your
problem with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Andy Reid took over an Eagle football team that was
a three win team. Two years later, they win eleven games,
They go to the conference title game four times in
a row. He took you to your first Super Bowl
since nineteen eighty. What's your problem with Andy Reid?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So I will find you my problem with him. The
cha NFC Championship game against Tampa Bay. Okay, that was
the year the Eagles. You know, we were sure they
were going to win the Super Bowl. They would have
gone against Oakland. We know what a mess Oakland was
they run the ball down their throats, they come out.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Brian Mitchell, you know, takes it, gets into the twenty
do Sally runs it in and then he proceeds to
throw the ball fifty times.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Andy Bree doesn't like to run the ball. Okay, it
cost us many many championship games.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
We were literally favorites, and I think four of the
five NFC championship games that they lost, and they lost,
and so I'm just and I was sick of them
after fourteen years.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
To be honest, I got it. Well, she's speaking my
aunt language. As far as running the I want to
cross the way the ball. What was the deal with?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I mean, can we not get through an Eagles game
without a spat between a player and Sirianni or a
coach In syrianam They're.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Up seventeen to nothing and A. J. Brown is yelling
at his head coach, what was that? What was the
deal behind that?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Here's the thing We've learned this to Syria because there's
a lot of times I'm like, oh, he's a total.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Knucklehead, but he is a very extraordinarily passionate guy, and
it bubbles over and it gets out of hand sometimes.
But they love them. I mean we we thought.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
After the Cleveland game, when he's jawling with players, I
mean drawling the fans, he was kind of he was
kind of a little unhinged in his postgame news conference,
even though it was a win. But they, I don't
know what it is, but they're fine with him. He
loves Chauncey Gardner Johnson. I think most coaches would have
a problem.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
With because he's so in your faith.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They missed that last year when Chauncey Gardner went to
Detroit for the one year he likes. You know, the
edgy behavior works for them. So who am I to
complain the players? You have never despite those stats that
they occasionally have in the sideline, you've never heard of
players say a bad word about him.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, well that was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
My next question is how much credit does he deserve?
But you just answered the question, man. I mean the
guys taking you to two Super Bowls. He's got a
championship and he wins every single year. Whether it's his
fault or his credit. He's the guy walking the sideline.
So whatever, All right, listen and enjoy the parade On Friday,
Happy Valentine's Day, go get some balance, Eagles, A lot.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Of love in the air, of love in the air, Softie.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I'm sure there will be all right, great stuffed and
adulations and we'll talk soon Rio Ali
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Guys, take care,