C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Jalen Carter have words for the Saints and their fans

The fellas were talking that talk after beating the Saints in New Orleans on Sunday.

While it certainly wasn’t pretty, the Philadelphia Eagles will be leaving the Big Easy with a big win after beating the New Orleans Saints, 15-12. Coming off a disastrous collapse on Monday Night Football last week against the Atlanta Falcons, the fans wanted to see the Birds come out firing on all cylinders in Week 3 so obviously … the Saints were up 3-0 after three quarters.

Thankfully, NFL games are four quarters long and the Eagles offense joined the party in the final 15 minutes to propel Philadelphia to a 2-1 start on the season. After the game, the always demure and mindful C.J. Gardner-Johnson had a few thoughts about the Saints, the team that drafted him and let him walk after his rookie contract.

First up, CJGJ posted to Twitter immediately after the final whistle that: “Yall favorite DB’s couldn’t chase a TE down [3x crying laughing emoji].” This is almost assuredly in reference to the Saints defensive backs being unable to cover Dallas Goedert all day, especially on Philly’s game-winning drive where he got free on 3rd and 16 and turned a short Jalen Hurts pass into a 61-yard gain.

On that play, a beautiful mesh concept from Kellen Moore’s playbook, two Saints defensive backs ran into each other, which allowed Goedert the freedom to gallop all the way down to the New Orleans 4-yard line.

Coming into this weekend’s game there were many pundits praising the New Orleans offense, led by quarterback Derek Carr, for scoring 91 points in their first two games of the young season. After two weeks, Carr was 30-of-39 (76.9%) passing for 443 yards, five touchdowns, and only one interception. He had also only been sacked twice.

Against the Eagles defense, however, Carr had 11 incompletions (two more than he had in the prior two games combined), threw a pick, and was sacked once as the Birds kept New Orleans under wraps all afternoon.

Gardner-Johnson wasn’t done yet though! Upon sitting down for post-game media availability he began by saying the Eagles have “the best secondary in the league” and then went on to note that they have “best front seven in the league” too. Philadelphia’s defense was, rightfully, flamed all week after giving up a game-winning touchdown to an immobile Kirk Cousins but as CJGJ said, “we keep receipts!”

He was also referring to the fact that the Saints are his former team so he may have had a little added motivation to have a good game beyond getting the taste of last week’s loss out of his mouth.

While all of Gardner-Johnson’s talking came after the game, not everyone on the Eagles was that patient. Jalen Carter, who along with Jordan Davis and the rest of the front seven held the Saints to only 89 yards rushing on 29 carries, was chirping with New Orleans’ defense as the Eagles were in victory formation.

According to the FOX commentators, Carter was getting after Saints defensive backs Tyrann Mathieu and Marshon Lattimore. Carter, an extremely large man himself, was being held back by multiple other large men (head of security Big Dom and defensive line coach Clint Hurtt) while talking junk to the Saints crowd before head coach Nick Sirianni came over and got Carter to reel it in a bit.

The Eagles, who are nothing if not interesting, travel to Tampa next weekend to take on the Bucs in a rematch from last season’s embarrassing postseason loss.