Hugh Douglas & Adam Kaplan Discuss Eagles' Super Bowl Strategy

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00:00Hello everyone again it is Adam Kaplan here for Sports Grid with a former Eagle

00:04number 53 in your hearts the great Hugh Douglas good to see you my friend good

00:09to be here man how you doing today good man good yeah this man you know one of

00:12the cool things about coming here is you see so many former Eagles alumni you can

00:16go back to Jaws in the 70s go to yourself in the 90s and early 2000s so

00:21forth so but they're back again okay yes and I know you're broadcasting for WIP

00:26Sports Radio in Philly so hey let's talk about your week here so as a former

00:31player what is the Super Bowl week like for you for the media well for the media

00:36you know we get the chance to to talk to different players different outlets

00:39different analysts from other places and just get a feel for how they feel about

00:44the game but for me personally you know being a former player and not being a

00:48member of the media get a chance to come out here and fellowship with guys you

00:51haven't seen in years that's right and that's the great part about it man

00:54because as you know a lot of in an old NFL players come back alumni come back

00:57and they come down for this game and you get a chance to see guys that you've

01:01either played with or played against and that's the that to me that's the best

01:05part about it all right so Andy Reid is a guy that you're very familiar with

01:08okay so what what kind of stories can you talk to us about anyway give us a

01:14real quick one real quick one well it was just one time I remember when Andy

01:18first got there we didn't really know what kind of plan he was implemented we

01:22did three days of training camp where we were just you know we were just

01:26getting after it for three days and and I remember being in a huddle and I was

01:29like I don't think coach knows what he's doing and he heard me and he told me to

01:34quit complaining because we're getting better and that's one story that I

01:37remember because at that point I didn't understand that coach was trying to weed

01:41him out weed us out right to figure out who was gonna be the guys he could

01:44depend on right on Sunday you know and so we that's why we had those hard

01:47training camps and ever since then that day I had a tremendous amount of respect

01:52for coach did you know Hugh that he was this great of a head coach maybe the

01:55best in NFL history no I did you know what I think the coach that we see now

01:59there's a coach that's learned from his mistakes okay you know he got five

02:03Philadelphia sure he probably had a couple blind spots there but he grew

02:08from that and he became a better coach for that and now the Kansas City Chiefs

02:12are you know one of the teams that are being considered as a dynasty right and

02:16that's because of him man the fact that you know I was going back and I was

02:20looking at some of the old press clippings that are old press footage of

02:22when he traded up to get Patrick Holmes even though he had a quarterback and

02:26people thought that he was crazy crazy like a fox yeah he went out there and

02:31now you got teams that are looking at that trade and him trading up for him

02:35saying damn I wish we would have saw what Andy Reid saw that's right that's

02:38right so okay let's fast-forward to the game on Sunday what do your Eagles have

02:42to do to beat the Chiefs hmm what we have to do to beat the Chiefs I think

02:45that you have to figure out a way to slow down Patrick Holmes he's a

02:47phenomenal quarterback man and every game that I've seen every Super Bowl

02:52that I've seen he play in there's always one or two plays where he makes himself

02:56at the worst time you could have being made if you're the defense that he's

03:01playing against and those two plays that I think about thinking when they play

03:04the Eagles when he pulled the ball down he ran for like 20 yards yeah and he did

03:07it last year against the San Francisco 49ers late in the game so he's a very

03:12patient quarterback you have to stay within your coverages and you have to

03:17stay sound on your assignments and everything because if you don't it's

03:20gonna be that one time that if you have a breakdown in your assignment that he

03:24can take advantage of that did you make your pick on the on the air yet or not

03:28yet but I'm definitely picking the birds go birds oh yeah definitely going birds

03:31I don't think it's gonna be as easy game as a lot of Eagles fans anticipated to

03:36be I think it's gonna be a lot closer than that but I do think the birds come

03:40out on top all right you heard from a former Eagle himself the Eagles are

03:43gonna get it done on Sunday Super Bowl 59 here in New Orleans for Hugh Douglas

03:48I'm Adam Kaplan

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