Eagles-Chargers Week 14 MNF Recap | Jalen Hurts 4 INTs, & Philip Rivers RETURNS?

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3:20Based on average annual single line of payment of AT &T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers, compared to 12 months on the Boost Mobile Unlimited Wireless plan as of January 2026. For full offer details, visit boostmobile.com. Hurts in the shotgun. A touchdown would win it for the Eagles. Hurts pulls it. Throws. Intercepted. Game over. Intercepted. Game over. Deion Henley. Game over. The fourth interception. Tony Jefferson. Unbelievable. Unk does it. The Bull always finds Tony Jefferson. And it was tipped to him. Unbelievable way to end this game. For the second week in a row, Tony Jefferson with a huge interception.

4:07Oh, Tony Jefferson calls game. Matt Monty-Smith calls game as well. Chargers win in overtime, 22-19. after an incredible diving tip from Chargers cornerback Cam Hart. It's been their secret sauce all season, these cornerbacks. And yes, Tony Jefferson, who a couple of years ago was in the scouting department of the Baltimore Ravens, gets the game-winning interception, and the Chargers survive in one of the nuttiest games of the entire season. I was watching it at SoFi across the street here, Shook. did it look as stupidly entertaining on tv as it was in person absolutely do you love slot fests do you love crazy bounces of uh the spheroid that we call a football then then you're gonna absolutely love this game do you do you love it when a diva receiver lets a ball go off his hands for an interception and then you see three turnovers happen in one play an interception a fumble and another fumble is this great it was highly entertaining even if it wasn't precise, well-executed football all the time.

5:12Well, they always, they wrote that book back in the day, like the greatest game ever played. You know, the game that changed football, Giants, Colts. Like there was seven turnovers in the first half of that game. So an ugly game can be great. And this was great. I don't know if it was the greatest game ever played, but it did include eight fumbles. Five were recovered. I believe we got up to seven turnovers. Four of those were Jalen Hurts' interceptions, which was, you know, more than he had by far all season. But yeah, when they were driving at the end of the game, that play reminded me just a little bit of the Malcolm Butler play in that it felt like one team is going in for a game winning touchdown.

5:52Obviously, they're not on the goal line or anything. And instead, in one second, you hear Matt Money Smith on that call. A touchdown, you know, could win the game for the Eagles. Instead, it completely flips. Matt Money Smith said he's been calling games. I just saw him walk by with Daniel Jeremiah. He's been calling games for 15 years. He has never blown out his voice before. He could not speak before. Like, it cracked. It was over. And it was that kind of game. And maybe I shouldn't be that shocked. Because for every good play that Jalen Hurts made tonight, and he did have a good drive at the end of regulation, he got them into position there, into overtime.

6:34there was another play where he was just half a second late and he let the chargers make plays because of it. Yeah. And I hate to start with the negative, but it's pretty clear to me at this point in the season with the Eagles and their dysfunctional offense that is constantly stuck in the mud that they're the, if they just operated with a sense of urgency that they display in key moments, they'd be a much better team. Like when they have, when their backs are against the wall and they have to produce, they move the football. They do it. Well, Jalen Hurts steps up in overtime and throws a bullet to Devonta Smith on third and 16 he finds aj brown on a quick slant that moves them into field goal range just before the end of regulation like they're capable of doing this it's just that they're over complicating everything and he's holding on to the ball a little too long and it's almost as if the perfectionist in him is trying too hard to make the perfect play instead of the play that his instincts tell him to make and that is a huge reason why they're just so stuck right now and why they end up losing games like this and he commits the amount of turnovers that he did tonight yeah Yeah, it's so funny because he plays such a safe brand of football.

7:33Like, that's his biggest problem. It's too safe. Right. And yet, the last couple of weeks, it's suddenly like the one thing that he had as a superpower, which was avoiding these turnovers, is suddenly turning around on him. Hell, he had two turnovers, as you mentioned, in one play. And here comes a blitz from Dayon. Kick it there. Intercepted. Big man. Oh, and the ball is out. And the ball is out again. And the Chargers fall on it. My goodness, that's an interception, a fumble recovery by the offense, and a fumble recovery by the defense. Let's get it all sorted out. When it's all uncovered, it's Troy Dye that's got the ball.

8:19Oh, my goodness. Oh, man. Troy Dye, who also had a big force fumble, I believe, in the game. wasn't it on specialty? I'm losing track of how many different fumbles there were in this game. I thought, man, I've never seen two turnovers in one play like that. My son, Walker, was next to me at the game and is in the control room right now, literally being our video playback operator. He's hitting the button for the highlights, which is incredible. He was like, no, there was three turnovers in that play. Yes, apparently, according to Elias sports bureau. Yeah. That's the first play they have on record that one person committed two turnovers in a single play.

9:01You never know what you're going to say. You know, you know that we love our listeners, right? So one of our listeners reached out to me via Instagram DMS, Andrew Khalil said, Hey, can you and Greg, please look into whether or not anyone else in NFL history prior to Jalen hurts has thrown an interception and fumbled the ball in the same place. So I asked our research team and they said, according to the information system that they use, that it's the first two turnover play committed by a player since at least 1991. So we saw history tonight. Wasn't the greatest game, but we saw history. I mean, you said it by pointing out like the great, the good throws that Jalen Hurts had like the Devante rip over the middle.

9:36I made a comment when he nearly threw an interception on a pass over the middle in the first quarter. They called it a pick and then it was overturned upon review. It's like, well, that's why Jalen Hurts doesn't throw the ball over the middle and Eagles fans are getting mad in the mentions and everything. And actually he did have a couple really nice anticipation throws over the middle in this game, but like for every good play that they make for every play that AJ Brown makes tonight, you mentioned the drop that he had and he had really three or four passes. You know, the first throw of the game could have been a long touchdown to AJ Brown.

10:12He can't bring it down. There's a, another play. I believe it was the last drive of regulation, not overtime, right? where Hertz throws it up on third down. And I'm watching that pass and I'm like, you know, Brown is well covered. I don't know about that. And actually he put perfect amount of air under it and AJ Brown could have made a play. And AJ Brown, even though he gets a hundred yards, like didn't make enough plays in this game. Yeah. And I think I, we had three total drops, at least off that tally. And it's kind of mystifying because it is a receiver. He usually has very sure, very strong hands losing the battle at the catch point against to defensive back and really be on his own volition just by dropping these passes.

10:51And it also like, it's a great example of the Eagles. Now they started the game with this, but they also have this third or fourth down tendency to just say, F it. We're just going to throw it to AJ Brown down the field somewhere. And one-on-one, they did it again in overtime before they hit that third and 16. And it, it just kind of points to me, the dysfunction of this team overall, because what has been the narrative with this team throughout this entire season, AJ Brown is unhappy. It's, it's a nightmare as he wants to describe it in different words on a Twitch stream. And then when the opportunity presents itself for him time and time again in this game, he fails to deliver.

11:22I mean, the ball over the middle that ended up in an interception was it was a high ball, but it hit him right in the hands. Just a shocking display of a lack of lack of execution from one of the best receivers in the NFL. Saquon Barkley has a big play in this game and we'll we'll listen to it in a little bit. But I do want to point out how like the success rate for both these teams running the ball was actually really poor. There was a lot of negative runs by Barkley that put them in bad down and distance situations. Kimani Vidal got most of the carries for the Chargers. Their success rate was even lower.

11:57Make no mistake, this was a defensive game. Not only the turnovers, there were 27 drives in this game, which is an incredibly big amount. Where are we talking about a game on Sunday where one of the teams had six drives? Like the Eagles in this game. It was the Broncos game. Right. Broncos had six drives. The Eagles had 14 drives. The Chargers had 13. And yet the Chargers still didn't crack 300 yards. And the Eagles didn't, I don't believe, until overtime. Like the Chargers somehow survived the game where Justin Herbert throws for 139 yards. This was such a strange game. He is their leading rusher, despite them being very run heavy.

12:38Their leading receiver is Kimani Vidal, who had exactly one catch. And it was on the third play of the game. It was like a 60-yard dump off to Vidal where he gets loose on the sideline. They really couldn't get anything going consistently on offense except for Herbert scrambling. And yet, despite all that, I think Herbert played a pretty good game. How would you describe this Justin Herbert game as they get to 9-4 and they keep winning games this year that in the past you would say, oh, they're going to charge her this one. And instead, they're finding ways to win them. They do. That's the defining theme of their season is that they, in games in which they would charge it away, they're doing the opposite.

13:17They're winning these games, which I don't know if that's emblematic of a regime change and a culture change taking effect. I don't know. We'll unpack that eventually. But what I will say is that for, for as, as many takeaways as they got, they couldn't turn anything into points. Justin Herbert led them in rushing a guy with a broken left hand with a pad on it, trying to stiff arm defenders with a broken left hand leads you in rushing. How about this? You don't want to talk about like, this is why numbers don't scan the box scores guys on the next morning. I know that people used to do it with the newspapers and every night, do it with the internet.

13:50Don't do it. That is not defining this game because he finished 10 to 21. I believe that was his passing line. He was sacked a career high seven times. He completed a career low 46.2 % of his passes. He posted a lowest passer rating in a where and in a win in his career on Monday night. And he won the game and he's been sacked six or more times in three games in his career. He's three and Oh, in those games. This justifies the idea that he's Superman because he's overcoming incredible odds that are against him. That's all absolutely true. It's so hard to pick apart Herber in general because of the team he plays for and especially this year because everything you said is true and he had three or four really awesome throws tonight.

14:35He did not have any open receivers. That really stuck out. One of the reasons why he kept holding the ball. I'm watching it. You know, I got the all 22. We're up in the third section. Got it live. And like, they're just not creating open receivers with formations, with motion, with rubs, with anything. Guys are covered. And he had some nice plays where he was on the move and he would like throw it over the middle. He had some sidearms. All that said, something DJ and Money said to me, and I totally agree was going to be one of my big points today, is he left the pocket without any pressure a lot.

15:10I think he got spooked fairly early in this game with good reason that like the pressure was not going to his protection was not going to hold up. And when it did hold up, he would just leave anyways. But it's kind of hard to blame him when you're just watching Bradley Bozeman be like, hey, N 'Kobe Dean, would you like to just blitz up the middle? Why don't I just let you walk right by me again and again? They're running the same blitz over and over. It's not even a blitz some of the times because it looks like they're going to rush five and it's only four. And so it's hard to blame Herbert too much.

15:43And some of his runs where he made people miss and obviously showed toughness were among the biggest reasons they won this game. So overall, like I think he played great. And yet it's, it's a systemic problem that honestly has me pretty worried in the wrong matchup, basically against any good pass rush, they're going to be in trouble. Yes. In fact, N 'Kobe Dean got home so often that the one time he was an unabated rusher, like just complete free rusher to Justin Herbert. He ends up whiffing on a sack attempt and Herbert turns it into a positive gain on the ground because he was just, I think he was probably surprised that he didn't run into Kamani Vidal for the first time all night.

16:16And you're right. And if things got worse, once they lost Trey Pipkins to injury, the right tackle, and they had to replace him with another body. It's been the story of their entire season. They cannot stay healthy up front. They have different offensive line combinations every week. But I think two things can be true here in that Herbert did play really well, given the fact that his stat line does not reflect that. and at the final score while they win by three points doesn't reflect that because he had to overcome so much but he also did step up into pressure at times greg if you had to guess what do you think his average time to throw was tonight three three point two one seconds which is far too long to hold on to the football behind that offensive line but i think you're absolutely right that at times he didn't trust his line and felt like he needed to do what deshaun watson used to do in houston which is break clean pockets because he didn't trust his offensive line and not to say that the pocket was clean all the time because it wasn't, but it just felt a little bit unnecessary.

17:04And yet they find a way to win. They have to give a game ball to Cameron Dicker for hitting all these field goals to win this game. Is it a viable path to success down the road? Probably not big reason that you should be concerned about this team, but we should also give credit to their defense for playing good ball and stepping up in the big spot. Look, Jim Harbaugh thinks it's a path to success. He's playing this way the whole game. He's kicking field goals on fourth and two in the red zone, and it's working for him. He kicked it also on a punt when he had a fourth and short kind of in the middle of the field where most coaches at this point are going to go for it.

17:42And I don't really blame him. Of all people, of all people, Troy Aikman pointed to analytics on the broadcast and said, you know, analytics says you should go for it here, but that's not Harbaugh style. No. And I think about the first drive of the second half, which took 10 minutes long. I believe it was like, you know, 16 plays, something like that. And when 60 yards like they ended up kicking a pretty long field goal, they actually had Cameron Dicker kick two field goals, 16 plays, 42 yards. And took up about 10 minutes. And I was like, this is what Jim Harbaugh wants to do. He's like, oh, we're winning by four?

18:18Like, I'm going to treat it like it's 21. They only had five first downs passing the whole night. Like, it is Harbaugh's dream to just go three yards, three yards, three yards. And they do have a couple good running backs. I love what I saw out of Hampton tonight showing some explosion. And I love that they kept Vidal, like, very active. He's a good pass protector. Hampton's just coming off the injury. And it's a good one-two punch. But, man, they just had too many drives. On a night when they had 13 drives, there was only four where they had multiple first downs. So it is going to be really hard for them to win games.

18:56But in the AFC, how many defenses have that good of a pass rush? Not many. And they found a way to beat this one tonight. I'm thinking about a potential AFC West showdown in the final few weeks between the Denver Broncos and the Chargers in week 18. And how gross that game truly could be. Because you have a Broncos defense that is good. You have a chargers defense that's playing its best ball of the season right now. And you have two offenses that are inconsistent. The Broncos are getting better offensively in recent weeks, but we know what the chargers are. We've, we saw it tonight. This is unfortunately largely their ceiling, unless Herbert can connect with his receivers and they can get open, which they did not tonight.

19:31So how gross is that week 18 game going to be? If the Broncos are playing their starters and it matters, it could be one of the grossest of the entire season. I know we should pick up here a little bit, but I do want you to give me something on what you saw out of their defense. Cause I think that is a big takeaway to me that Jesse mentor has come out of the bi-week being more aggressive. He showed a lot of cool like designer blitzes, which he is not known for. I thought it was very effective. It's one of the reasons why I picked the chargers tonight. Adam rank wasn't the only one. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the chargers social loved it.

20:06I thought they would roast me. I thought they would prevent the big play, which through the air in the end, they got some breaks, but, but they did. They only gave up one touchdown and their cornerbacks have played great all year. Their pressure was good. And I thought that the pass rush was a good plan tonight. What did you see? Yeah, I love the way that they're deploying different blitzes where they'll show us a sim pressure on one play and a real pressure on the next. It complicates the picture for opposing quarterbacks. But what I really like more than anything is their continuity at every level of their defense.

20:34Since they've gotten Khalil Mack back from that elbow injury, they've been a better defense. I love their defensive interior. Deshaun hand drops back in coverage tonight. Jalen Hurts is never expecting a defensive tackle to be near the line to gain throws it right to him for an interception. That was the multiple turnover play. And it starts with the defensive lineman picking off Jalen Hurts. So that's a great product of good design, catching an offense by surprise. I love what TR Tart has done throughout this season. There was a game earlier this season where he's deflecting like every third pass with his hands at the defensive line.

21:04They're active up front. Their linebackers play good ball. They like this rotation with Denzel Perryman in on the early downs and the running downs. You put Troy down at dying back on, on passing downs. Cause he's more athletic. He's younger. He can move better. I love what their secondary is doing. It's not just Derwin James anymore. It's it's cam hard. It's Tarheed steel, steel, still, excuse me. It's Tony Jefferson back there making plays. Like they play cohesively at every level. And no, they don't have a ton of star power necessarily, but they're playing together. And I think that's what matters the most.

21:31And they rotate their cornerbacks and it's really worked. Dante Jackson, for people who have not watched the chargers has been one of the best free agent pickups in the NFL this year. I'm shocked by it because he struggled in Pittsburgh, but they have a bit of a secret sauce reminds me a little bit of the chiefs where almost any cornerback they bring in, like even Christian Fulton, who, who, you know, came from Tennessee, whether it's guys that they inherited from, from the previous regime, like they just coach them up and they're all playing well. And so it's Jefferson, it's Benjamin St. Juice came a heart had that big plate.

22:04Tarheep still was running step for step with AJ Brown and Devontae Smith throughout the night. And it's a really good defense. So if you have a really good defense, a team that plays hard, it has talent on offense. Like Herbert has some skilled players around him. Maybe they can make up for that huge weakness, but man, it is a huge weakness. Shout out to the Eagles defense too, by the way. Jordan Davis, Mojo Ojimo, Jalen Phillips all had six pressures. and then Hunt and Byron Young had had four. So it's like they had five guys with at least four pressures, which is just an outrageous amount for one.

22:41And they did that, you know, without Jalen Carter in there. I thought that was a big part of Jordan Davis's performance tonight was kind of plugging the gap and making up for the loss of Jalen Carter by just being a menace on the interior. And, you know, I think the Kobe Dean's had a really good run as of late, too. You know, like Jihad Campbell, I thought was going to be a big part of this defense that he hasn't really needed to be because of the Kobe Dean. Yes and no. I think the last two weeks he has been boomer boss. Watching him live, especially like he was on the wrong end to early of some negative plays where he was a little too aggressive.

23:13He's got to finish the play. He kind of reminded me of Derwin James, who I thought the Eagles were actually picking on early. He made a couple of plays of his own, too. But sometimes they used his aggressiveness against them. Man, that was a crazy game. I give the Chargers fans some credit on a night where the Eagles fans took over that stadium. and, you know, they're booing the Eagles at some points and they're making it loud for the Chargers offense at other points and the Chargers fans are getting loud too. We're leaving the stadium and, you know, we're packed like on our way out of there and Eagles fans are outnumbering the Chargers fans for sure.

23:49But there is a hearty, let's go Chargers chant. And I was like, is the fight going to break out right now with my son right here? Like, I'm actually a little surprised by the chutzpah the Chargers fans, like staring at all the Eagles fans in the face and chanting a big let's go Chargers. So the Chargers fan have some toughness, just like that team, even if they're overmatched a little bit. Hey, man, they set the tone in preseason 2024. Welcome to the field, Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers. That's right. Going all the way back to that first preseason game we were at. We have one more highlight.

24:27Chris, should we run it just to give Walker another chance to press the button. It's up to you. I mean, he has been killing it. It is flawless, so I think we should put him to the test. I do like that we've been talking about maybe it's the end of the tush-bush, but maybe not when the Eagles are finally getting explosive play running a variation of the tush-bush. Let's make this, it's time, for Who Delivered, presented by Uber Eats. Hurts with a quick pick out to Barkley. He has the first down on board. 40, 30, 20, 10 Touchdown! Saquon Barkley! You're not going to catch him You're not going to catch him It's a 53-yard scamper by Saquon Barkley They set up that touch-push formation But there's so many things that they're able to do off of that And yes, Saquon, getting it done That was Who Delivered presented by Uber Eats When football makes you hungry Get game day deals on Uber Eats The official on-demand delivery partner of the NFL Order now Watch it in person, though.

25:30I got to say, I don't even think it's a question. If you give me Amari and Hampton with a little bit of space or Saquon Barkley with a little bit of space, I'm taking Hampton. I believe that. And, you know, as he broke free, Saquon broke free on that run, the thought crossed my mind, which was, does he know how to finish these runs still? Because he just hasn't had these this year. Like, he's probably like, oh, I forgot what this feels like, being in open space with nobody between me and the end zone. I thought for a second he'd slow down and get caught, but he didn't. No, he has enough straight line speed.