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The Philadelphia Eagles improved to 2-1 on Sunday, turning in one of their best defensive performances in years to suffocate the previously red-hot New Orleans Saints. Their most productive edge rusher in the matchup, and throughout the early parts of the 2024 season: None other than 36-year-old Brandon Graham, who in his franchise-record 15th season with the Birds is defying time — and bolstering his fan-favorite status — on and off the field.
An elder statesmen for this year’s Campbell’s Chunky Sacks Hunger campaign, which donates meals to Feeding America for every NFL sack recorded in 2024, Graham spoke with CBS Sports this week about everything from his community service and signature trash-talking strategy to the Eagles’ chances of winning a second Super Bowl:
It’s been seven years since you strip-sacked Tom Brady in Super Bowl LII to win it all. How close are the Eagles to getting back to the big stage?
Graham: I think we’re close. I think we’re building right now. I think it can happen this year. But we gotta choose to believe in each other. We gotta choose to be intentional about how we prepare every week. … When we come in, let’s make it about ball. … I wanna know who I got on the side of me. … It takes about four games to build that identity, and see who you are, and see who kinda shows up all the time.
Teams are gonna try us [on the ground] every game, because it worked with the Packers and it worked with the Falcons. … I hope everybody learned their lesson and goes out there now and take every rep serious. I think we did, but if we didn’t, [the first two weeks were] a wakeup call. A good wakeup call, because we responded the way we were supposed to.
How much would it mean to you to lift another trophy to close your career?
Graham: That first one is gonna forever be crazy, because it was the first one. But I think it would even double because, ‘We got two now?!’…
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Author : Cody Benjamin
Publish date : 2024-09-25 14:58:59
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