. >> corey clement is giving wendell smallwood a run for his money for the final running back spot onrised by clement in camp on and off the field. he compares him to a car. >> he does it all well. he reminds me of one of those old school honda athe clerk will record thaccord.you can put a ln it. you know what i'm saying? >> it's third down. i have to catch the ball out the backfield. >> zach prescott says the cowboys not the eagles will win. eagles will not play dallas for three months. >> don't tell the phillies it's pretty in california. they are 0-11 in the state of california. they are having giant problems on the west coast. last time the phillies won a game in california, this guy was clean shaven. first pitch from jarred eickhoff deep to right center. cam perkins kicks it to center, running the bases in the first. phils down two in the third. reece hoskins, three run homer, fourth home run in six games, phillies up 4-3. in the sixth, phillies score seven times a giant blow. ty kelly the pinch hit gland slam phillies up 11-4 in the sixth. that's the most in ten weeks. more spor

blunt getting up in age, wendell smallwood, you can't count on him, humphrey.x, he's as small as you are. i don't know if he can play in the league. >> but at ex at least can hold on to the football. >> she looks better than darnell. but come on, he's so small, then you've got cory clemente, who is a young guy, can't count on yet. so i could see them maybe picking somebody up in the free agency. >> i'll be darn. at least that derrick barnett is playing well. d wins superbowls. >> yes. >> yes, that's right. the defense has been playing very well. and they've got a lot of plus', i like what we've seen out of the defensive line, fletcher cox, derek barnett, all of the guys back there have been playing well, mychal kendricks has been playing some great football. then you have th the addition of darby, who has been a great edition, they traded for him, and he's definitely their best cornerback, he is big plus to that defensive secondary. >> this d can be huge for this team. as you said, defense can win championships, but can also get to you a championship. it can be

wendell smallwood for the first time this season. he wants to show he's got it. >> it's exciting to be able to show the things i could do. knowing what i could do. just frustrated with the injury and had the setback. can't do anything not on l field. i'm back and it's time to pick up where i left off. >> he's bounced back from injuries and looked good so i'm comfortable where he's at. >> and the high school blitz is back. we need you to choose our game of the week. phillies desperate for a win tonight against the marlins. the best part is rookie reese hopkins. he hit his sixth home run yesterday. fastest rookie ever to six home runs. he had the most homers in the national league over the last week and a half. his first homer last week his teammates gave him the traditional silent treatment. he laughed about that today. >> i thought it was going to happen when i was running back to the dugout and he kind of sunk hold of me. and there was no e reaction from him. this is probably going to happen. sure enough, guys are paying attention t

darrin sproles has been banged up wendell smallwood we expected him to be the number one guy but he just't look that great. so wendell knows the pressure is on this game. he hasn't really played in first two preseason games all on this one. >> it's the game, man. it's the game i get to come out and i get to -- it's my welcome home party. i'm back on the field. i'm going to run and get some plays and get some runs and get passes it's real important to me. >> he's heard all the talks about the running game beep being inconsistent. >> we sense it. we hear it hay like doug said we're not going to over reaction or under reaction. it's preseason. we'll get better at it. we know what we're capable of doing. so we're not going to let it get to us that much. >> ♪ >> jordan hicks and brandon graham will not play today. no worries their injuries are day to day. if this was regular season game, they'd be playing. let's get to the phillies. they had a game across the street trying to tie up the four game series again the marlins and it was all about haas kin much this guy is a monster hit another sol

wendell smallwood looked really really good.ed like the guy we thought he'd be and will he garrett blunt played tough type of guy we wanted to see. now, the bad aspect was defense specifically ronald darby tonight we found out he has weakness and it's double moves. he bit every single time. someone gave him a double move and it looked bad. touchdown a couple of times. we need to correct that. still all in all, a positive dress rehearsal for the eagles. lucy? >> all right. there you go. >>> speaking of cool things, the last jedi the latest film in the star wars saga comes out on december 15th. but why wait that long to find out what new characters are going to appear? from septembed only three days you'll be able to use a special app to find characters. all you have to do is journey to not a galaxy far far away. only to select retail locations scan a special graphic in the store and a star wars character will appear on your screen. sound a little confusing? >> yes. >> okay. so think of it sean as pokemon go with jedi jedis and si

and wendell smallwood the eagles running back will make his preseason debut he missed the first two games with the hamstring. and we are live at the linc i'm jeff skversky back to you new studio. >> time for a check of the "action news" traffic report thursday night. matt pellman is standing by and birds fans are not flying to the linc for the preseason game, we say lot of traffic along 95 and the schuylkill expressway especially now that the phils game is over, everybody is leaving the bank and heading to the and the schuylkill is busy and blue route 476 is even busier, a lot of red and an overturned vehicle crash here approaching the schuylkill just cleared within the last five minutes, still over an hour on the northbound travel time. southbound it's a big gaper delay, 252 and 352 are you better off. telegraph road and thorndale road the fire and police directing you there. a wreck at cooper landing one lane out of commission in that location. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >>> still ahead on "action news" at 5:00 tonight it may look like a big hair dryer but new technolog

he's the number one running back, i probably would say wendell smallwood is number two, and then of course the guy, probably going to be the most productive, can't use him so much because he's so small, and he's the guy for third down, going to watch a lot of passes, humphrey is the young guy who i don't know how he's going to do. he has to start hanging on to the ball. can't be fumbling the football like he's been if the first game. >> don't we also want to see big things from nelson agholor, especially since now he's pretty much all we have returning? >> speaking every hanging on to the ball. >> yes. >> i think everybody wants to see him catch the football. and that's accurate, yes. but, at the same time, i don't want his refs out there at the expense of somebody else. we have to slot position that is open now, because jordan matthews isn't here. so the g's point, you can put darren sproles. uncle put humphrey, you can put zach ertz out there. i don't want to force nelson agholor to be happy so he can catch a couple of passes. >> we definitely need him to step up though. somebody has to