Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions had not scored twenty points in the game,
Speaker 1: and their last four contests won't. That was not an
Speaker 1: issue today, as Matthew Stafford through not one, not two,
Speaker 1: not three, foot five touchdown passes in a forty five
Speaker 1: to fourteenth victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Hello everyone, and
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving to y'all out there. I'm Chris McPherson and
Speaker 1: this is the postgame show presented by Rico here in
Speaker 1: Philadelphi Eagles Com. I'm joined alongside former Eagles linebacker ike
Speaker 1: reas I the Eagles lose forty five to fourteen on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: We'll go back in time a little bit. Since that
Speaker 1: first quarter against Miami, when the Eagles raced out to
Speaker 1: a sixteen to three lead, the Eagles have been outscored
Speaker 1: one hundred and seven to thirty four since that point.
Speaker 1: I'm a loss for words. The Eagles allowed all six
Speaker 1: possessions that the Lions had in the red zone to
Speaker 1: result in a touchdown. Offense didn't get much going on
Speaker 1: their end. The fourteen points came. The last touchdown was
Speaker 1: a Jordan Matthews score in the fourth quarter, when the
Speaker 1: game was already well at hand. At one point. This
Speaker 1: was a seven seven ballgame. What in your cutimation, what
Speaker 1: in your estimation has happened specifically to this Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: It's hard to figure out, you know, what's going on
Speaker 1: with this team right now. You know they've been able
Speaker 1: to hang their head on their defensive performances pretty much
Speaker 1: throughout the year to the defense has pretty much kept
Speaker 1: them and just about every game, but these last two games,
Speaker 1: given up ninety points to the Buccaneers and now to
Speaker 1: the Jroity Lions on Thanksgiving afternoon. It's really disheartening. It's
Speaker 1: really not a brand of football that we've become accustomed
Speaker 1: to watching in these parts, particularly in midnight Green. To
Speaker 1: go out there and have an effort like today where
Speaker 1: it's forty five to fourteen final score, it's just real disappointing.
Speaker 1: It's for a season that had so much promise and
Speaker 1: had so much hope coming into it. These last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks have been hard to swallow it as an
Speaker 1: Eagle fan, no question about. The Eagles have now lost
Speaker 1: three straight there four and seven on the season. After
Speaker 1: this very disappointing and I don't even know what disappointing
Speaker 1: at this point would be. The right word to describe it. Certainly,
Speaker 1: you thought that the Eagles defense would come out and
Speaker 1: put on a much better performance after allowing five touchdowns
Speaker 1: a week ago to the rookie number one overall pick
Speaker 1: and Jamie's wins. But of course it's not just the
Speaker 1: fact that the Eagles gave up so many points, but
Speaker 1: there are injuries that impacted the outcome. Nolan Carroll suffered
Speaker 1: a broken right ankle during the contest. In the second quarter.
Speaker 1: He was rolled up on during a joy bell run
Speaker 1: by the Lions and he had to be carved off
Speaker 1: the field. X rays determined that it was a break
Speaker 1: and second round pick Eric Rowe had to go in there,
Speaker 1: and he was not given much help going against one
Speaker 1: of the all time greats in Calvin Johnson, who had
Speaker 1: three of the five touchdown passes on the day from
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. I actually can't blame the second round pick
Speaker 1: in some of these instances. You had good coverage at times,
Speaker 1: but it was more of an instance of just simply
Speaker 1: how great Calvin Johnson is and the arm town of
Speaker 1: quarterback Matthew Stafford. Well, no doubt about it. Number eighty one.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, he has a spot and can't know
Speaker 1: how you're waiting for him five years after his career
Speaker 1: is Overwitt and Calvin Megan, Tron Johnson. But you knew
Speaker 1: with this Detroit Lions allfense, it could be dangerous if
Speaker 1: he can get clicking. The skill position players are there.
Speaker 1: You know Matthew Stafford, He's thrown for over five thousand
Speaker 1: yards in this league. He's thrown for over forty touchdowns
Speaker 1: in this league. You know what he and Calvin Johnson
Speaker 1: can do when they get hot. And today the Eagles
Speaker 1: secondary was the remedy for the Lions offensive wolves. They
Speaker 1: had won their last two games, but they won those
Speaker 1: games by putting up only eighteen points. They went through
Speaker 1: an offensive explosion this afternoon going up against this Eagle secondary.
Speaker 1: You know what, when I look at the Lions offense
Speaker 1: in the way that it performed today, I see what
Speaker 1: I would hope the Eagles offense would be. A dominant
Speaker 1: wide receiver, Calvin Johnson, a great slinger at quarterback. There
Speaker 1: a gun slinger there in Matthew Stafford, and then those
Speaker 1: skill position players in addition to Calvin Johnson theoretic. You
Speaker 1: knew coming into this game that he led all running
Speaker 1: backs in terms of receptions in the entire NFL. Well,
Speaker 1: he was someone that the Eagles had to worry about
Speaker 1: and contend with throughout the course of the game and
Speaker 1: Golden tape look. He maybe the number two receiver in
Speaker 1: this offense, but very good in his own right and
Speaker 1: someone who was able to be a chess piece in
Speaker 1: this Lions off and someone who could be moved around
Speaker 1: the formation. And to make matters worse, this was a
Speaker 1: rushing attack that was dead last coming into the league
Speaker 1: second round pick of mer Abdullah Joyce Bell. As we
Speaker 1: mentioned before, they were able to get to churn out
Speaker 1: some big plays, they were able to move the chains,
Speaker 1: and on the day, not sexy numbers, they gained over
Speaker 1: one hundred yards on the ground, but when you consider
Speaker 1: that they'd only done that twice in their first ten
Speaker 1: games of the season, certainly something to consider there. So
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do now is take our first break
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Speaker 1: little bit, we're going to hear from the head coach,
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly as well as quarterback Mark Sanchez, and we
Speaker 1: also delve into some of the All twenty two of
Speaker 1: exactly how this result transpired, so make sure you're stay
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Speaker 1: mcphears alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike reecee and Ike I
Speaker 1: really just want to take a moment to apologize to
Speaker 1: the fans out there. I mean, this is as gut
Speaker 1: wrenching a loss as I think any of us have
Speaker 1: seen or experience in quite some time. Obviously, the Miami
Speaker 1: lost a couple of weeks ago, very just a point
Speaker 1: with the way the Eagles were able to get off
Speaker 1: to a hot start last week, very demoralizing because you
Speaker 1: figured Tampa Bay a team that struggled offensively, a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback that could have been what helped the Eagles out.
Speaker 1: Then you figure, okay, let's forget about the fact that
Speaker 1: Eagles are still in the playoff picture, that MCAS is
Speaker 1: still up for grabs. Just go out and play for pride,
Speaker 1: Just try to summon up what's inside of you and
Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and play inspired football.
Speaker 1: You figure the best thing coming off they lost to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was a short turnaround, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it didn't prove to help. Yeah, I mean, just real
Speaker 1: disappointing that, you know, the Eagles couldn't come out after
Speaker 1: the disappointing lost this past Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: And like you said, nothing else. You want to see
Speaker 1: that pride shown out there on the field. You want
Speaker 1: to see the effort put forward to try to win
Speaker 1: this football game today. And they may have come in
Speaker 1: with the right intentions, with the right mindset, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't very long into this game today where it looked
Speaker 1: like there was just one team that just wanted it
Speaker 1: more than the other team, and for two teams that
Speaker 1: seemingly had not a whole lot to play for, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles had more to play for. Coming into this
Speaker 1: game against the Lions, it certainly appeared that the Lions
Speaker 1: were the team that were playing as if their season
Speaker 1: was on the line, as if they still had a
Speaker 1: chance to get into playoffs. And that's what you wanted
Speaker 1: to see from the Eagles today after that Buccaneers loss.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see what type of football team would
Speaker 1: take the field today wearing midnight green. Will be a
Speaker 1: team that takes the field with pride, that wants to
Speaker 1: go out there and get that bad taste out of
Speaker 1: their mouth that they had this past Sunday against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Or would it be a team that goes into the
Speaker 1: game and says, what do we have to play for?
Speaker 1: It's Thanksgiving? I can't wait to get back home, And
Speaker 1: sadly to say, that's what it looked like after that
Speaker 1: first quarter, that one team was looking to get out
Speaker 1: of Detroit as soon as possible, and the other team
Speaker 1: looked like they smelled blood in the water and they
Speaker 1: just kept powling on the points and points and points.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen a performance like this from an Eagles
Speaker 1: team in some wow maybe you're a rookie season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, especially when you're talking about back to back
Speaker 1: performances like this. I mean, ninety points in two games,
Speaker 1: ten touchdown passes in two games. It's just not Eagle football.
Speaker 1: This isn't Eagle football. This isn't what we've become accustomed
Speaker 1: to watching out there on the field. And that's what's
Speaker 1: disappointing to the Eagles fan basis that this isn't a
Speaker 1: team that they can identify with because it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like what typically represents the Philadelphia Eagles now whatsoever. So
Speaker 1: coming into this season, look, the Eagles had won ten
Speaker 1: games in back to back seasons. You figured they had
Speaker 1: made some big moves to try to get that team
Speaker 1: to turn from good to great, and some of them
Speaker 1: just haven't worked up until his point. Now, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe if we just over judge out that they would
Speaker 1: need some time to gel that. You have so many
Speaker 1: different pieces coming together that you know it's gonna take
Speaker 1: time for all that to coagulate to gel together. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: you figure at this point of the year, everyone'll be
Speaker 1: finding the right note, everyone would be on track, and
Speaker 1: things would be moving on up and you'd be making
Speaker 1: that push toward the latter half of the season, the
Speaker 1: final quarter of the season in fact. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: that just hasn't been the case. The defense, which everyone
Speaker 1: has been able to rely upon in the early part
Speaker 1: of the season, especially that rushing defense, anchored by Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox and Benny Logan upfronts. You know, their play has
Speaker 1: slipped ever since the Carolina performance, and then the secondary,
Speaker 1: which had been very good. From a takeaway standpoint, maybe
Speaker 1: they'd given up some yards, but at least they've made
Speaker 1: teams pay with the takeaways twenty one coming into this game.
Speaker 1: You just have not seen that in the last couple
Speaker 1: of games. You go back to the Miami game, they
Speaker 1: got the safety in the first quarter and they were
Speaker 1: not able to get any turnovers outside of the safety,
Speaker 1: even though that doesn't technically count as a safety. In
Speaker 1: the game against Tampa Bay a week ago, they actually
Speaker 1: didn't get it takeaway that came from the offense after
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray coughed up the ball and then Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: and Brent Sulk were able to force the ball loose
Speaker 1: and be able to get it right back for the offense.
Speaker 1: So the one takeaway there came from the offense. And
Speaker 1: then today, nothing going as they were not able to
Speaker 1: dark much pressure on Matthew Stafford. Again, five touchdown passes
Speaker 1: on the day, three of them to Megatron. Look at
Speaker 1: times there was good coverage, but again it just shows
Speaker 1: how dumb. Even though he's getting up there in age,
Speaker 1: he is thirty years old, he is still one of
Speaker 1: the best receivers, not just in a national football league now,
Speaker 1: but of all time. Like, oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're gonna leave single coverage on Calvin Johnson,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay. I mean, that's that's just the quarterback
Speaker 1: and wide receiver basically salivating when they see a rookie
Speaker 1: like Eric Row over there on Megatron. They're gonna put
Speaker 1: the ball up in eighty one's area and allow him
Speaker 1: to go up and make a catch on the ball.
Speaker 1: You see fourteen targets. It's probably the most he's been
Speaker 1: targeted in the last few games. He sees a young
Speaker 1: player over there on him, you gotta take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: And like I said, Matthew Stafford, a guy who's thrown
Speaker 1: forward five thousand yards in the sleeve forty plus touchdowns
Speaker 1: multiple times, they know how to get the ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone. And this was sort of the defense
Speaker 1: that they had been looking for to sort of get
Speaker 1: their offense clicking. Calvin Johnson had three touchdowns coming into
Speaker 1: this game. He got three to day alone. For my money, here,
Speaker 1: I can't blame defensive Cordy build Dave for not wanting
Speaker 1: to put extra attention over there. And here's what I'll
Speaker 1: say why it is because throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: game in that first half, you saw theoretic given the
Speaker 1: linebackers lots of problems. You saw a golden tape again
Speaker 1: being a thorn in the Eagles side. So for those
Speaker 1: two guys as well, I mean, you can't just say
Speaker 1: we're gonna double coverage or apply double coverage to Calvin
Speaker 1: Johnson each and every time. Unfortunately, you know what, one
Speaker 1: of the other guys in that offense is going to
Speaker 1: come back to burn you. So that's why I understand
Speaker 1: why Bill Davis made that decision in certain points not
Speaker 1: to alleviate the help over there, because there are just
Speaker 1: times where, look, if you're playing inside leverage and you're
Speaker 1: as Eric Roy cornerback would do down the red zone
Speaker 1: and say, look, I'm gonna play with the boundary, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play with the sideline and just squeeze Megatron in
Speaker 1: between there and say, hey, Stafford, make a good throw
Speaker 1: in there. Guess what he would. So we're now going
Speaker 1: to send it to four field in Detroit head coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly about to address the media. Take it away.
Speaker 1: It's right at the top. I mean, I mean we
Speaker 1: didn't didn't well, didn't coach well today, didn't uh, didn't
Speaker 1: really do anything well today. So UM, it's very disappointing. Um,
Speaker 1: what you wanted not the outcome anybody's looking for. So
Speaker 1: give it up for two games and what's going on?
Speaker 1: I thought, again, we got to do a better job
Speaker 1: at getting to the quarterback. Um, I'm at it too
Speaker 1: much time. Uh, gotta get a little credit to try
Speaker 1: to create some more pressure. Uh, Calvin. Obviously it was
Speaker 1: a very difficult matchup for US. UM, you know, when
Speaker 1: we didn't do a good job putting those guys in
Speaker 1: position to make plays that they had to make in
Speaker 1: the game. I test, is it for you to be
Speaker 1: confident of Wall team? Would you have stretched like ISRAELUS team?
Speaker 1: Especially that I guess the answer that is the there's
Speaker 1: no there's no other option. You know, you know you
Speaker 1: got five games left here as we come up and
Speaker 1: we get back in December. Um, and that's what we
Speaker 1: gotta do. We gotta go play. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna feel sorry for US UM as a group.
Speaker 1: We gotta play and we gotta play better. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's you know, they're trying to prove a
Speaker 1: point or anything like that. I just think we didn't
Speaker 1: we got we got out coach today and didn't do
Speaker 1: a very good job. So, um, you we'll see. Yes,
Speaker 1: what's that have confidence and most players in the locker
Speaker 1: room because I've seen him play before and I've got
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in those guys. I think we've
Speaker 1: got some really good guys at Damiko Ryots and Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: that Jason Kelsey's the Brent Selex that you know, there's
Speaker 1: a ton of guys in there that I think I've
Speaker 1: seen him compete and I've seen him play and I've
Speaker 1: seen him play at a really high level. And Um,
Speaker 1: I told those guys in the locker room I have
Speaker 1: confidence in there. Now I haven't seen it. We didn't
Speaker 1: play well in the two gas. I'm not gonna make
Speaker 1: any excuses for that. Well, this this was a different
Speaker 1: week mark I think is because it was short week.
Speaker 1: So um, but we've we have trained before this week
Speaker 1: very well. You know, we were all obviously on a
Speaker 1: limited schedule with kind of a pro glide walk through
Speaker 1: Tech Temple on Monday, because you're the day after the game,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you're into your forty eight hours
Speaker 1: before the game. But they handled that well. It's the same, really,
Speaker 1: the same schedule we use. Last year we've played UM
Speaker 1: Dallas on Thanksgiving, you know. So it's it's a you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those where you look at it. One
Speaker 1: year it worked really well for us, and obviously this
Speaker 1: year didn't work well for us. How much accountability, I
Speaker 1: think we all take accountability, but I speak for I'm
Speaker 1: a coach. I'm not a player, So it starts to
Speaker 1: may I'm not pointing fingers in anybody, and I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody points fingers in anybody. I think it's we
Speaker 1: all got to look inside ourselves and see what we
Speaker 1: can do to change the outcome of what's going on.
Speaker 1: And that's the way it has to be. But I
Speaker 1: think once you start pointing fingers in saying it's you
Speaker 1: blame it on somebody else, then you know that then
Speaker 1: you've lost what you gotta do. I mean think everybody's
Speaker 1: got to look inside and figure out what they can
Speaker 1: do as an individual to make this team better. Just
Speaker 1: I mean that's the that's a question. You gotta everybody
Speaker 1: wants to know, you know, you gotta look at it
Speaker 1: and look at tape, and we'll coach them better, and
Speaker 1: we'll coach them harder and put him in positions where
Speaker 1: they can make plays that I know when we all
Speaker 1: know that they can't they can't make because I've seen
Speaker 1: him make of so mean. Yeah, I mean I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody, I mean, we didn't. I didn't see this happening,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't. I don't feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: coming in, I wasn't going, oh my god, this is this,
Speaker 1: this thing's gonna get away from us. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought I'm gonna have a chance to commending him really
Speaker 1: compete with the good football team. Um. I think we
Speaker 1: tried to, you know, specifically at halftime, tried to come
Speaker 1: after him a little bit more. He brought a little
Speaker 1: bit more pressure on um Matt. But I thought Matt
Speaker 1: did a good job. If you watched him, a couple
Speaker 1: of times he checked in into protections and got himself
Speaker 1: in a situation where he was picking up what was coming. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he was he's a he's a guy that's
Speaker 1: been around for a while. Um. I think he did
Speaker 1: a really good job of handling some of the book
Speaker 1: slicks that we were giving him in terms of getting
Speaker 1: them set in the protection, in terms of being able
Speaker 1: to pick those guys up games the first two seas.
Speaker 1: You can't do that this year now as a step back. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't look at I mean, I said before, ten
Speaker 1: wins wasn't enough. You know, if you don't finish as
Speaker 1: the number one team in the league, then it's a
Speaker 1: step back. And that's what That's what our mentality is,
Speaker 1: and that's what my mentality has always been. But I
Speaker 1: was never happy when we were ten and six, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that. And I think, UM, you're always
Speaker 1: trying to go out there and give yourself an opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's still an opportunity for us UM to make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and that's what this deal's all about. You got to
Speaker 1: get into the tournament and then see what happens from there.
Speaker 1: We got a lot, we've got a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do to get ourselves into that. So it's a
Speaker 1: U But I don't I've never looked at it like, hey,
Speaker 1: I won ten games. We did a good job. I mean,
Speaker 1: ten games means nothing if you don't do anything in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We went ten and six last year and
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs. It wasn't good enough your team job. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're doing a better job. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that. I mean we're not. But I don't
Speaker 1: look at ten wins as a good job either. I've
Speaker 1: never looked at it like that. I believe our players
Speaker 1: played today. Yeah, I believe our players compated. Yes, I
Speaker 1: do all the players. Yes, the players, and you guys
Speaker 1: lose one of the problem with you. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't have that answer. I just know. I just know. So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do it all the time, and it's we haven't
Speaker 1: put our partners in position to make plays in last
Speaker 1: two weeks. And that's on us. That's on That's on
Speaker 1: me as a head coach. I'll take responsibility for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm competed to seeing this film's now and I think
Speaker 1: it's two weeks. I don't know. I think the week
Speaker 1: before was a little bit different. You know, it was
Speaker 1: on one point last for we really made a lot
Speaker 1: of week week I know that, but we weren't up
Speaker 1: sixteen three and the last two games. That's why I
Speaker 1: kind of look at the last two one of the
Speaker 1: ones that I think hurt, hurt, you know in terms
Speaker 1: of our how we how we performed and what the
Speaker 1: fund score was. You know, I think the other game,
Speaker 1: you know, you just kind of when you watch that game,
Speaker 1: the Miami game, you go back and forth and how
Speaker 1: many times we had missed opportunities that were right there
Speaker 1: for us to take and ano in the game by
Speaker 1: a point. You know, you have a touchdown call back,
Speaker 1: you miss a field goal. You know, we have the
Speaker 1: ball bounce up in the air and no one sees it,
Speaker 1: and then we turned around and the guy catch. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of different things that happened in that game.
Speaker 1: I think that game is a different game than these
Speaker 1: last two weeks. And my biggest concerns the last two
Speaker 1: weeks players, what did you say to them afterwards? Somehow
Speaker 1: intend to keep them off. I told him that, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have UM and I don't think anybody has
Speaker 1: any words. Is gonna make it feel good right now?
Speaker 1: And rightly? So, I mean, we got beat today, UM,
Speaker 1: And what we have to do is that we have
Speaker 1: to come together as a group and we're gonna figure
Speaker 1: out we got five games left in December, and actually
Speaker 1: four games in December and one in January, that first
Speaker 1: week of January, that will determine where we are as
Speaker 1: a football team. So we need to get our head
Speaker 1: straight here in the next couple of days because they're off,
Speaker 1: and then when we come back on Tuesday, we get
Speaker 1: ready to go go play in New England Patriots. I'm not
Speaker 1: happy with how we play. Sam's not clear cleared to
Speaker 1: go full fold right now. His head is cleared to shoulders,
Speaker 1: but he's not clear to go full right now. What
Speaker 1: are some of the issues with the offense minus nine
Speaker 1: yards offense in the second quart of for yeah, I
Speaker 1: think specifically in this game, we struggled with their rush.
Speaker 1: You know, they're only rush and four um and they
Speaker 1: generated a lot of pressure um on market times, you know.
Speaker 1: So we didn't we didn't do a we didn't do
Speaker 1: a good job from a protection standpoint. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: there's head coach Chip Kelly addressing the media following the
Speaker 1: Eagles forty five to fourteen loss at the hands of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. We will hear from quarterback Mark Sanchez
Speaker 1: in a little bit, but first we're gonna take a
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Speaker 1: alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese. Ike, we just heard
Speaker 1: from the head coach. We'll hear from quarterback Marks Stanchez
Speaker 1: and just a little bit. But what can a coach
Speaker 1: say to the players at this point in time that
Speaker 1: will get them riled up, that would really be able
Speaker 1: to reach them. I'm not sure as much he can say.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, we are professionals, or these guys are professionals,
Speaker 1: and there has to be some self pride, you know,
Speaker 1: at some point it can't be about the coach giving
Speaker 1: you a motivational speech trying to light a spark on you.
Speaker 1: At some point you got to look in the mirror
Speaker 1: and say, I expect more of myself. And that's each
Speaker 1: individual player. Now, you can accept the results of a
Speaker 1: game knowing that you put forth the effort and the
Speaker 1: preparation going into that game that would give you the
Speaker 1: best chance to have success. And if it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: you can sleep easy at night. I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: many of these players can honestly look themselves in the
Speaker 1: mirror over the last two games and say that they've
Speaker 1: done everything they could to give themselves the best opportunity
Speaker 1: to have success out there on the field, whether it
Speaker 1: be preparation prior to the game, the right mindset going
Speaker 1: into the game, and even being in the game and
Speaker 1: handling adversity and trying to fight through it. There's only
Speaker 1: so much a coach can do. There's only so much
Speaker 1: a coach can do. These are grown men. They get
Speaker 1: paid a handsome salary. This is the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Have some self pride, look yourselves in the mirror and
Speaker 1: say this is unacceptable. And that's really what it boils
Speaker 1: down to. It's only so much that chip can do.
Speaker 1: As far as verbally trying to get a team ready
Speaker 1: to go, his job is to get you ready to go,
Speaker 1: X and os, why have you prepared going into a game?
Speaker 1: And then he may occasionally give you words that may
Speaker 1: inspire you. But the last two weeks, to me, this
Speaker 1: isn't about the coach coming up with the right words
Speaker 1: to get his players motivated to play. This is about
Speaker 1: the players and whether or not they have enough self
Speaker 1: pride to not put the direct that they put out
Speaker 1: on the field for the past two games. That's what
Speaker 1: it boils down to me. That's why for me, it's
Speaker 1: good to have Chip Kelly take the one week at
Speaker 1: a time approach that he has because at this point
Speaker 1: you have to eliminate the outside noise. You can't look
Speaker 1: at the previous week's results, you can't look at the
Speaker 1: record or the standings. Throw all of that out the
Speaker 1: window at this point and just focus on a task
Speaker 1: at hand. The Eagles have a couple of days off
Speaker 1: to kind of regroup, get away to whatever they need
Speaker 1: to do. You know, some players like Jason Peters, Jason Kelsey,
Speaker 1: guys who are battling some injuries, they can get a
Speaker 1: little bit healthier and then come back on Tuesdays and
Speaker 1: an overcare complex, watch the film, figure out what rent
Speaker 1: wrong and move on from there. So the biggest thing
Speaker 1: there is going to be can they just maintain that,
Speaker 1: you know, tunnel vision approach or to speak to not
Speaker 1: think big picture, not worry about all the little things
Speaker 1: going on, all the chit chats that's gonna begin to
Speaker 1: surround the novercare complex. Just focus on everyone's individual jobs
Speaker 1: and just stay focused on the task at hand in
Speaker 1: terms of preparing for the next game and treating that
Speaker 1: game as if it's the biggest game on the schedule,
Speaker 1: the only game on the schedule at that point there, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a few days to get ready before you
Speaker 1: had a head up to New England in ten days.
Speaker 1: And if you think these last two weeks were embarrassing, well,
Speaker 1: if they don't come back with the right mindset to
Speaker 1: go up there and play Tom Brady and Build Belichick
Speaker 1: in Foxborough, it can get even worse. So these players,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what you're gonna do during
Speaker 1: this time off, a few days that you have take
Speaker 1: a dare to enjoy it with your family, But you
Speaker 1: have to realize, do you want to be a field
Speaker 1: that egle? Do you know what it means to be
Speaker 1: a Philadelphia Eagle? Do you want to be a part
Speaker 1: of this team, because that's what I'm looking for. You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get a win if they're coming up.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at this team and I'm looking for
Speaker 1: who's putting out the effort. You know, if I'm on
Speaker 1: the inside, of this building. I'm looking to see who's
Speaker 1: doing what they need to do to prepare each and
Speaker 1: every week, who's taking shortcuts. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: I want to know who's in the foxhole with me
Speaker 1: right now. Because I can lose with bad players. I
Speaker 1: can lose with bad players. What I can't lose with
Speaker 1: is guys that's posing as if they care, and they
Speaker 1: don't care because they're infesting my locker. So these guys
Speaker 1: need to figure out what they want to do as
Speaker 1: far as what type of legacy you want to leave
Speaker 1: here as a Philadelphia Eagle, What does it mean to
Speaker 1: you as an NFL player? The type of performance they
Speaker 1: put out there in the past two weeks, Every guy
Speaker 1: in that locker room should be embarrassed that they're in
Speaker 1: the National Football League because you don't give up forty
Speaker 1: five points back to back weeks in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: This isn't college football. This doesn't happen in the NFL
Speaker 1: unless players are putting on a performances if they don't care.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm concerned with is the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: I've seen guys out there not putting out the performance
Speaker 1: that we've become accustomed to wanting to see on the
Speaker 1: football field and seeing on the football field, and that's
Speaker 1: what they need to get clear over these next few days.
Speaker 1: And you come back in here next week, you would
Speaker 1: better be prepared to go up to Foxborough, because if
Speaker 1: you think these last two games were embarrassing, you don't
Speaker 1: go up there ready to play. It can be forty
Speaker 1: five or fifty more points put on you can we
Speaker 1: bring you into the auditorium to address the team. I
Speaker 1: think every player needs to hear that exact sentiment because
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks, everyone is going to
Speaker 1: be looked at, scrutinized, evaluated to see exactly, as you said,
Speaker 1: not just your performance on the field, but behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: What kind of player? What kind of person are you
Speaker 1: inside this overcare complex? Are you someone who's going to
Speaker 1: help this team moving forward? Now? One of the players
Speaker 1: that hurt the Eagles early on was a big run
Speaker 1: by rookie running back a Mere Abdullah. To look exactly
Speaker 1: how it came to fruition, let's bring an NFL Film
Speaker 1: senior producer Greg Cosell to analyze the All twenty two.
Speaker 1: This was the Lion's first offensive series of the game.
Speaker 1: It was a twenty three yard run by a mere Abdullah.
Speaker 1: Now it's a counter run, and by counter we mean
Speaker 1: that the guard from the backside is going to pull
Speaker 1: and lead up. But the key and looking at a
Speaker 1: counter run is the steps by the back He's going
Speaker 1: to take a step or two this way and then
Speaker 1: come back here. Now Malcolm Jenkins is right here. He's
Speaker 1: a filling safety on this run. He has to come
Speaker 1: up and he has to fill right here. Basically, that's
Speaker 1: his second level gap. He's got to be there and
Speaker 1: he will be there. Let's clear the screen. Let's watch
Speaker 1: this play run. You see the pulling action by the guard,
Speaker 1: you see the counter steps. Freeze it right here. There's Abdullah,
Speaker 1: there's Malcolm Jenkins. Now, you may remember last week Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins on the Doug Martin long run was also in
Speaker 1: good position to make a tackle. Malcolm Jenkins has to
Speaker 1: make this tackle. Let's clear the screen. The tackle is
Speaker 1: not made. Abdullah runs for twenty three yards. Unfortunately, it's
Speaker 1: been symptomatic of the Eagles run defense the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Thank you very much, Greg, and that just
Speaker 1: symbolizes what's going on with this football team. It's not
Speaker 1: just one person, it's every play there's something else going wrong.
Speaker 1: If there was one thing the coach that could scheme
Speaker 1: around it, try to fix it. But when that type
Speaker 1: of stuff happens, especially from one of your leaders and
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins, what are you gonna do? Yeah, And that's
Speaker 1: the thing you know, people get on or they want
Speaker 1: to get on the coach is about whether or not
Speaker 1: that putting the players in the right position. Well, that's
Speaker 1: a clear example right there. That should have been a
Speaker 1: five yard run that a mirror Abdullah earned, but because
Speaker 1: the tackle isn't made by Malcolm Jenkins, it turns into
Speaker 1: a twenty three yard run. And that's typically what we've
Speaker 1: seen over the last couple of games. Guys have been
Speaker 1: in place to make a play, they just don't make
Speaker 1: the play. It's not to pick up Malcolm Jenkins. There's
Speaker 1: probably examples for each and every person on an Eagles defense. Today,
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Speaker 1: we're going to delve into some of the offensive numbers.
Speaker 1: What's happened to the rushing attack. We'll discuss after this break.
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Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico here on Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: dot com Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese.
Speaker 1: We are not going to hear from quarterback Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 1: In fact, we will have his comments later on in
Speaker 1: the evening here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com for you
Speaker 1: to check out on demand. But what we do have
Speaker 1: for you right now is some more All twenty two,
Speaker 1: we mentioned that Matthew Stafford had five touchdowns in the game,
Speaker 1: three of them to Megatron Calvin Johnson. Let's bring back
Speaker 1: great co Sell to break down one of those three
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. Seventeen seconds left in the first half. This
Speaker 1: was the touchdown that made a twenty four to seven
Speaker 1: at halftime. Now let's break this down piece by piece.
Speaker 1: Here is the matchup that Matthew Stafford wanted. He has
Speaker 1: Alvin Johnson against Eric Row right here, and Johnson is
Speaker 1: what we call ex iso. He's the single receiver to
Speaker 1: the boundary side of the field, very common in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But that's the matchup that Matthew Stafford wanted. He knew
Speaker 1: he was getting that matchup the entire final drive by
Speaker 1: the Lions. Let's clear this and now let's look at
Speaker 1: this from Matthew Stafford's perspective. He trusts that Calvin Johnson
Speaker 1: will win on the outside against the rookie Eric Row.
Speaker 1: Here is the player that Matthew Stafford has to control.
Speaker 1: The safety over the top, that's Walter Thurman. Now, as
Speaker 1: I said, he trusts Stafford trust that Johnson will win
Speaker 1: on the outside. He has to make sure that Thurman
Speaker 1: does not get over here to impact the throw. This
Speaker 1: is on Matthew Stafford. The safety is his responsibility. So
Speaker 1: let's clear the screen. Run this play. You'll see that
Speaker 1: Stafford's right in the middle of the field. That keeps
Speaker 1: Thurman where he is. It gives him just enough room
Speaker 1: to make this throw. And by the way, this was
Speaker 1: not bad coverage by Eric row. This was a big
Speaker 1: time throw by Matthew Stafford and a big time catch.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you're six five, two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five pounds and wide receiver. Thank you very much, Greg,
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, it didn't look any better the second
Speaker 1: time seeing it there unfold The issue for me here
Speaker 1: is it feels like that everything has to go perfectly
Speaker 1: right for the Eagles at this point. Here. You look
Speaker 1: at the first drive of the game. The offense took
Speaker 1: the field early on and look, they moved the ball
Speaker 1: down the field, converted a couple of third downs. Things
Speaker 1: were looking pretty good. Then Lane Johnson, who had a
Speaker 1: step in a left tackle for the injured Jason Peters
Speaker 1: Pierce came out with an ankle injury on that first drive,
Speaker 1: got called for a face mass penalty that took the
Speaker 1: team back, and then Mark Santez was sacked. Caleb Sturgis
Speaker 1: goes to an attempt a fifty or field goal, It
Speaker 1: goes off the upright and all of a sudden and
Speaker 1: you felt like the Eagles were once again, after a
Speaker 1: promising opening drive, we're behind the eight ball once again.
Speaker 1: And then from there on out the rushing attack, what
Speaker 1: has happened to it? Obviously no Ryan Matthews in the game,
Speaker 1: and you understand the juice that he brings to the outside,
Speaker 1: but it still seems like that even with the Marco
Speaker 1: Murray and Darren sproles, Kenyon Barnary getting some reps in there,
Speaker 1: they're just not able to sustain anything on the ground
Speaker 1: and it's obvious that they really need that rushing attack
Speaker 1: to be able to get this offense on track. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think earlier in the season we got away with,
Speaker 1: you know, having our three hitted monster in there as
Speaker 1: the running bag trio and without having that deep threat
Speaker 1: to sort of create space for us. You know, Ryan
Speaker 1: Matthews was sort of a change up, sort of a
Speaker 1: guy that you could run in there and it catch
Speaker 1: teams off balanced a little bit. But these last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, these last two games, I feel like the
Speaker 1: defense is sort of constricted the field and they made it,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, tight for the Eagles offense to operate.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're closer to the line scream. You're getting
Speaker 1: the eighth man up in the box, and they're basically
Speaker 1: daring this Eagles offense to throw the ball over the
Speaker 1: top and they're nuts and they're not. And so you
Speaker 1: got extra guys up there as defenders, which makes it
Speaker 1: a lot harder to be able to run the ball effectively.
Speaker 1: And when you get down like the Eagles have gotten
Speaker 1: down the last few weeks, it's hard to stick with
Speaker 1: the running game because you're trying to put points back
Speaker 1: on the board. You're trying to do as fast as
Speaker 1: you can. For the second straight week, the Eagles had
Speaker 1: a big deficit going to halftime, and the Eagles defense
Speaker 1: went on the field to start the third quarter, and
Speaker 1: you're thinking yourself, Okay, maybe if the Eagles defense can
Speaker 1: come up with a big stop, get one of those
Speaker 1: key takeaways, maybe they'll be right back in this ball game.
Speaker 1: Have a chance. But for the second straight week, they
Speaker 1: allow a long drive down the field over seven minutes today,
Speaker 1: allow you another touchdown. The deficit is extended, and just
Speaker 1: like that, any hopes for a comeback are pretty much evaporated.
Speaker 1: And as like as you alluded to that, you're now
Speaker 1: forcing Sanchez to pretty much be in throw only mode
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game. And it's not Santizis strength.
Speaker 1: That's not a skill set. And now with the outside
Speaker 1: receivers pretty much being a non factor here, you know,
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews being locked up in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: it's just very hard for the offense to get anything
Speaker 1: going here. Yeah, and then continuity. You listen, when you're
Speaker 1: playing on a short week, you almost have to be
Speaker 1: perfect and everything that you do in order to have success.
Speaker 1: So the Eagles short rest had to travel game plan
Speaker 1: sort of constricted a little bit because you can't put
Speaker 1: as much in. Then you started having players go down.
Speaker 1: You just limited as to what you can do. And
Speaker 1: then to get down as early as they did. It
Speaker 1: basically makes the offense, as you mentioned a second ago,
Speaker 1: one dimension. When a defense can sit back there and
Speaker 1: pin their ears back because they know you have to
Speaker 1: throw just about every down, it's basically feast or famine
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. I mean, that's really what you're gonna have.
Speaker 1: And when we don't have that sort of downfield threat
Speaker 1: to scare defenses, it makes it harder for the offense
Speaker 1: to move the ball. All right, let's look at the
Speaker 1: defense Before we wrap things up here on the postgame
Speaker 1: show presented by Rico. You look at rookie Eric Rowe. Okay,
Speaker 1: you have the injury to know him Carol broken ankle.
Speaker 1: At this point, it looks like that he's going to
Speaker 1: be done for the season. So Eric Row goes out
Speaker 1: there to start opposite Byron Maxwell. It looks like that
Speaker 1: he's going to be the guy they're moving forward. What
Speaker 1: does that mean in your estimation, Ike, for his development,
Speaker 1: his progress and what can he take from a tough
Speaker 1: outing like he had today going against one of the
Speaker 1: all time greats and Calvin Johnson. This was good, believe
Speaker 1: it or not for Eric Row. You're going up against
Speaker 1: one of the greatest of all time in Calvin Megatron Johnson.
Speaker 1: You're not going to see many better than Megatron. So
Speaker 1: he was baptized to day trial by Eric being out
Speaker 1: there on the field. He's going to be able to
Speaker 1: learn from him. Take the little nuances that Calvin Johnson's
Speaker 1: was able to have success against you with, learn from them,
Speaker 1: put them in your memory brain, and know that most
Speaker 1: receivers you go up against won't be as good as
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson. So you're trying to learn from the mistakes
Speaker 1: that you made. I don't really think he played a
Speaker 1: bad game of day tough situation. Like I said, you're
Speaker 1: going up again is one of the best ever. He's
Speaker 1: a rookie. This is gonna bode well for him going
Speaker 1: down the stretch. In my opinion, is certainly disheartened to
Speaker 1: have Nolan Carroll basically lost for the rest of the
Speaker 1: season due to a broken ankle. But Nolan Carroll is
Speaker 1: a free agent at the end of the season. Eric
Speaker 1: Row was a second round draft pick. We hadn't seen
Speaker 1: much of him playing at that cornerback position. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get a chance to see him five straight weeks. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he'll be the starter out there because they
Speaker 1: need to find out what eric ro can do. Canny,
Speaker 1: he played corner at the NFL level. This is your
Speaker 1: potential starter for the twenty sixteen season, and Eric Row
Speaker 1: a second round draft pick, So you know it's unfortunate
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll is gonna be out for Eric Row, a
Speaker 1: young player, This is gonna be good experience for him
Speaker 1: these last five weeks, all right, So that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us. Here on the postgame Show presented by
Speaker 1: Rico will of complete coverage throughout the evening, including Great
Speaker 1: Corsell's All twenty two review coming for you on Friday morning,
Speaker 1: Eagles three to sixty comes your way. At Monday five pm,
Speaker 1: Dave Smadari will be joined by Brian Westbrook here in
Speaker 1: the studio to call kind of take a step back
Speaker 1: and rehash everything that had transpired here on this Thanksgiving holiday.
Speaker 1: For ike reason, all of us here at Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving holiday with all of us. We are blessed,
Speaker 1: to say the very least, to have you out there
Speaker 1: as fans and please be able to join you on
Speaker 1: this evening. Unfortunately, we wish it was under better circumstances,
Speaker 1: but nonetheless that's going to do it for us here.
Speaker 1: So for everyone here, I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching
Speaker 1: the postgame show presented by Rico. The Eagles lose forty
Speaker 1: five to fourteen Fran