WEBVTT - Postgame Show: Eagles Lose 38-20 vs the Vikings 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.400 And you are watching the postgame show presented by Rico. 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.080 Thirty eight to twenty or final score the Eagles fall 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.480 to the Minnesota Vikings. I creased friend Duffy Amy Campbell, 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:14.240 the Eagles now sitting at three and three. I finished 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.320 the kickoff show with a Lizzo quote. I'm going to 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.640 start the postgame show saying truth hurts. Guys. Let's start 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.680 putting this in perspective. I'll go to your first initial thoughts, Well, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.520 just a tough game. I mean, defensively, you certainly wanted 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.000 to come in and have a better showing. We've done 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.159 a nice job of not allowing explosive plays. I think 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.040 when they look back at this game, that's the thing 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.360 that sticks out to me the most is the big 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.120 plays given up in the first half. I believe the 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.960 Vikings able to score four times on their first four drives, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.800 putting up twenty four points. Like, that's a tough way 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.280 to start a game when you're on the road. Really 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.479 allowing that crowd to just speed off of that energy. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.240 It makes it an uphill battle for your own face. Yeah, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.800 Eagles trail by twenty one. Able to get it within four. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.880 Still not enough when you put yourself in not much 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.440 of the whole. Yeah, I think, And you look on 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.920 both sides, right, there's offense and defense. The defense too 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.480 often you had some busted coverages in the back end. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.840 I know, that long long touchdown just to find Digs 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.600 down the left sideline looks like a busted coverage resuls 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.920 expecting help. There wasn't any help there. Certainly some miscommunication, 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.240 it seemed like based off what we saw on television. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.920 But I think when you look at this game, you know, 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.400 just not even missed opportunities, but just putting yourself in 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.440 bad situations on both sides. You know, defensively you can't 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.679 have that many big plays given up against you. You 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.559 put yourself in that early hole. And then offensively, they're 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.680 they're trying. You have to try really hard to get 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.360 points against a good defense, right, So to be able 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.640 to stack plays on top of plays, you have to 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:40.840 be you have to be able to execute at a 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.279 high level. They weren't able to do that today. Today 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.160 too often they're setting themselves back. Well, look coming into 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.320 this when we were talking about, hey, it's that Eagles 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.000 run defense against the Vikings run offense. The Vikings did 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.360 put up the most rushing yards that the Eagles have 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.960 allowed this season with one hundred and twenty two. But 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.320 it was really the big place through the air that 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.520 seemed to really crushed the Eagles today. What did you 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.080 see from the secondary? I will start with you, Mike. Yeah, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.960 Fran mentioned it miscommunication. You're right, you know you get 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.519 plays like that when you get guys running wide open 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.200 down the middle of field. You know, Jim Schwartz isn't 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.280 a call on the coverage where he's gonna leave Rossul 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.880 Douglas with that much field to cover Stefan Diggs man 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.280 to man miscoverage, and then you need to gonna you 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.799 have to have defensive backs that are willing to get 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.919 up and challenge receivers. It's too difficult in this league 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.720 to play defense against the offense. The rules just want 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.400 to allow it. So you gotta be able to get 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.160 up at the line of scrimmish challenge guys. And too 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.480 often the day I thought that bike is wide receivers 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.000 were able to really just run freely through the zone defenses, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.480 and even when they're in man coverage, they're beating our 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.560 man coverage with pretty much ease. I want to get 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.520 into ice takeaways. But Fran, think about this because you're 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.919 not usually with us at the top of the show. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.239 So I'm going to give you three takeaways as well, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:56.640 So if you want to chew on that for a second, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.440 let's get to yours. Well, I'm pretty sure they may 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:04.160 be similar, and I my first takeaway. My first takeaway 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.880 is another slow start. You know, this is the thing 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.960 that has plagged this team all year long, getting behind 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.720 the eight ball, down ten points again. I think it 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.680 got down to seventeen twenty one points at one point 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.360 early in the game. It's just too big of a 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.280 hill to climb up in this league against these type 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.320 of teams, especially when you're on the road, especially when 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.800 you're missing DeShawn Jackson, when you're missing that deep threat, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.320 that quick strike ability. To have to say, Okay, we're 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.359 gonna come back down from three scores down and matriculate 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.919 the ball down the field, not have that quick it's very, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.120 very tough. It reminded me of the Redskins game, the 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.840 first game of the season, where the Vikings really just 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.400 dominated the whole first quarter. I mean they had the 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.920 ball the entire time, two drives in that first quarter, 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.880 pretty much eight up the clock, got got ten points 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.480 out of it, and it just wears your defense down 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.760 and it doesn't allow your offense to really get in 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.880 the rhythm because they're sitting on the sideline off a 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:00.600 long time for your takeaways more. Oh, then you look 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.440 at it, Yeah, look at the defense. Yeah, look at 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.040 the defensive side of the ball. Right, we talked about 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.200 the explosive plays, just way too many big plays through 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.160 the air, Kirk Cousins with Stefan digs. Whether it's blown 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.680 coverage or whether it's the right plays called at the 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.000 right time. This is a copycat league. That first time, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.839 that first touchdown the Stefan Diggs had remind me of 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.200 the same touchdown that Terry McLarin scored against us in 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.040 that Red Skins game. You know, when you when you 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.560 when you give up big plays in this league, you're 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.400 gonna see them repeatedly every week until you figure out 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.479 a way to stop them. And how many times do 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.279 the Vikings use play action play action pass then then 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.000 go deep. They must have did it three or four 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.280 times easily in that first half and seemingly connected on 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.080 all of them. So when you look at the explosive 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.680 plays given up on defense, you can't have that in 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:54.000 the game. And then my final takeaway Stefan Diggs, I mean, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.400 my goodness, that's that's just you know, for god, it 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.279 want to be traded eight nine, ten days ago. He 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.560 certainly looked happy on the sideline today and they certainly 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.800 wanted to get him in the game. When you look 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.640 at this Eagles defense, it's difficult to run the ball. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.720 I know they got over one hundred yards, but I'd 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.680 like to look at the yards per carry. I think 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.719 the Eagles did a decent job. How many of those 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.039 yards came on the reverses to that straight off runs. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.039 I mean they when it came just to Dalvin Cook 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.120 first three quarters did a great job sto run. It 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.520 just couldn't stop stop the Vikings passing game. And the 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.080 book on this Eagles defense is, if you want to 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.400 move the ball, move it through the air, not on 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.880 the ground. I thought Stefan Diggs obviously had a career day. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.480 Three touchdowns, over one hundred and sixty yards receiving. We 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.840 did it. We did a bad job containing him today. Yeah, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.200 you mentioned those average numbers, thirty five carries for three 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.600 three average three and a half yards to carry. Vikings 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.280 so you know, pretty you'll take that one ten point 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.359 eight yards through the air. So that's really where they 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.360 got to look. I have all over my notes here. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.760 Stefan diggs touchdown looked really easy. Stefan Digg's touchdown looked 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.400 really easy. What's baffling to me is that, like you said, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.320 this was a guy you know eight ten days ago, 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.200 wasn't sure if you wanted to be in Minnesota, and 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.520 you have Adam Feeling coming out and saying things about 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.560 Kirk Cousins not being able to get him the ball. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.760 I mean, this was just a totally different Vikings team 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.760 than we saw earlier this season. I think really what 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.920 you have with that Minnesota team is a team that's 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.240 they're very hard to play against defensively for all the 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.680 reasons we talked about on Eagles game Plan, for what 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.800 we talked about on the Kickoff Show. Because this is 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.760 a group that a they want to run the ball, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.960 they want to do play action, they're great with the 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.719 screen game. So as a defensive line, like from a 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.240 front seventh standpoint, that's a lot to handle. There's a 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.800 lot of things going on, so on the back end, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.960 you've got to have things buttoned up and from a 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.640 just from an assignment standpoint, it didn't seem like that 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.880 was the case, especially in that first half and all 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.160 that takes. We talked about this so many times is 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.120 that in football, so many games are determined by four 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.440 or five plays, and when you don't know when those 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.720 four or five plays are gonna come. So ultimately, if 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.080 you're not ready on those four or five plays, you're 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.800 gonna give up. The big plays are gonna go the 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.000 other way. Here's what was maybe, friend, you can explain 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.720 this to me because I'm watching this whole game, and 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.840 I'm watching the Eagles front seven do a really good 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.760 job to blow things up and stop the run, and 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.719 then you see those big plays over the top. But 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.520 when you're looking at this secondary obviously there's a couple 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.440 of injuries there, but so many just mistakes there. Where 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.400 do we isolate what actually went wrong in the secondary? Well, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.560 I think ultimately it's some number one. It's tough at 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.200 times to be able to tell without being able to 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.840 go back and look at the film, you know, especially 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.880 from a secondary play, because without the all twenty two 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.000 it could be a little difficult. They did show some 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.720 good replays on TV, so you were able to get 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.880 a couple of things on that one long touchdown. The 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.080 Eagles were in what's called quarters coverage and quarter every glook. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.880 Every coverage has strengths, every coverage has weaknesses. If you're 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.560 gonna be able to go up against a team that 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.320 played likes to run the football, you like quarters coverage 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.400 because your safeties are going to be impactful in the 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.800 run game, so you're gonna play a good amount of quarters. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.440 The downside of that is that you're the deep middle 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.720 of the field can be easily manipulated by crossing routes 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.400 and things like that, and that's what you saw. You know, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.760 Roddy McLeod, he's jumping up on a crossing route. And 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.760 if you've got run responsibility as well, that can leave 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.960 you vulnerable a little bit. So you know, Rasul Douglass, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.400 he's playing as if he's got help, but that help's 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.600 not there because it's being taken away. So that's one 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.000 of those things where you give your tip of the 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.200 cap to the offense and say, hey, they beat the coverage. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.840 That's a tough one. That's second one. That's tough to say. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.080 What happened on that I'm that second one, and we 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.400 can't really give the answer that because we don't know. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.640 It's clearly there was some kind of miscommunication there somewhere 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.080 in the back end. I'm sure there's going to be 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.760 a question YEA to coach very early about that. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.600 I thought you explain the coverage. They're great. I think 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.439 it's difficult for Malcolm and Rodney to play their run 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.600 responsibilities when you had that play action and a guy 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.480 like Dalvin Cook in the backfield, you need all those 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.400 guys up there to be able to bottle him up. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.240 But the flip side of that is a team like 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.560 the Vikings, they're gonna use your speed against you. So 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.680 they know you're a fast flowing team, they give you 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.439 that play action. All it takes is a few steps 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.160 of you stepping up trying to support that run, and 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.800 it allows stealing and digs to get behind those safeties, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.400 leaving those corners vulnerable with no middle of the field 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.200 help because both guys are basically trying to get up 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.680 there to run support and help out that front seven. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.880 Just a purchat call from the Vikings offensive side against 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.920 what they know the Eagles are likely to play defensively 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.640 in that coverage. It's a quarters beaters. It's just a 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.480 difficult play to have to coverage. Teams all over the 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.559 NFL do a great job playing for you know, Buffalo 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.719 is one of the best defensive in the NFL. This year. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.440 They played primarily quarters coverage Carolina playing great defensive football. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.679 I know it wasn't great today. They had five turnovers 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.640 though of Jameis Winston. A lot of quarters coverage down Carolina. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.000 So the coverage is one that works and it is 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.920 good against the run. But there are, like I said, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.160 there are strengths and weaknesses to every coverage. They got 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.440 caught with one of the weaknesses on that play. Let's 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.600 go to the Eagles offense and when we look at 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.880 what really went wrong for them today, I mean, just 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.320 looking at the stats, it seemed like for the most part, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.720 they did everything well. They just weren't able to get 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.079 into the red zone. What did you think really went 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.320 wrong for them today? Well, they couldn't get the run 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.440 game going. Yeah, as well as I think we would 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.160 have expected, right, I mean, that was one thing that 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:06.880 we've seen from this game. Would go back to that 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.680 Thursday night win over Green Bay. We made that connection 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.800 on the kickoff show numerous times amy that you know 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.640 that would be something that you would hope they'd be 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.480 able to get that going. You did get the running 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.880 backs heavily involved in the passing game, and that's been 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.960 a really prevalent team throughout the course of the last 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.720 few weeks. Is you know, getting Miles Sanders opened down 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.400 the scene, get him matched up on linebackers, that's been great. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.520 But the run game just couldn't get going to the 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.880 point where you felt like, hey, they they've really they're 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.720 really in a rhythm right now up front. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.200 and some drive stalled on us in the first half. Right, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.800 you got to be able to pick up those first 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.600 downs third and two, fourth and two. You're throwing on 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.960 both plays. We don't pick up the first down, that 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.000 gives the Vikings the ball in great field position. They're 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.600 able to go on top in the very first play 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.880 to go up twenty four to three, and at that 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.079 point I thought we became one dimensional, right, you get 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.320 down three touchdowns, you got to try to pass, pass 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.559 pass to get back in the game. Not being able 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.840 to score right before the half to get any points 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.360 out of that drive. That also hurt you because you 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.600 need to be able to stay close in a game 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.240 like that, and although they were able to pull within 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.480 four late in the game worthily late in that third quarter, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.280 I thought miss too many opportunities early in the game 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.520 to where you couldn't get back to the run game. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.599 You almost the Vikers knew what you were going to 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.200 do just about every down, which is basically thrown. When 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.200 we came into this game, Eagles one of the best 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.520 third down teams in the league second statistically with fifty 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.080 two percent conversion rate. That was a big area they 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.520 struggled today thirty three percent conversion. What about the Vikings 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.800 defense was able to really stop with the Eagles do 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.320 best on those third down conversions. Man you up, I 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.480 mean they're gonna man our guys up, and we got 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.120 to be able to beat man coverage. There were a 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.640 couple of times there where Carson was able to get 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.240 the ball to guys and you gotta be able to 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.280 pull it in. You've hit al Sean in his hands 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.800 on one, zach Ertz got hitting his hands on one. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.720 I Novid thought it was a little bit of passing 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.200 afference there, but the ball still hits you in both hands. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.760 You got to be able to catch the ball. You 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.480 catch the ball. Either those occasions, you're extending the drive. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.320 You're giving yourself a chance to go down there extended 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.400 driving path and put points on the board instead of 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.559 putting that hot Vikings offense back on the field. So 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.319 as much as the Vikings were doing offensively in the 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.760 first half, I thought we had opportunities in that second 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.280 quarter to sort of move the ball. First quarter, they 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.400 sat on the sideline watching the game like most of 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.719 us did. But in that second quarter there were some 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.920 opportunities there through the air. We just didn't come down 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.480 with the play. So many drops there too many drops 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.000 overall over the course of the game, and something that 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.920 they won't even go down as drives drives, you know. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.200 And even the one deep ball to Nelson Agiloor landed 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.800 in bounce in the back of the end zone. I mean, yeah, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.840 there are there are a lot of players were say, man, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.520 they left some meat on the bone offensive in the 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.120 past game. Let's go back to our keys to the 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.480 game that we talked about in the pregame show. Um, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.439 I mean we're gonna evaluate what those looked like. What 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.520 did you see from that friend? So mine was the 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.920 screen game and they did hit a couple of screens. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.559 They were very I mean, they were very active. And 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.880 when we talked about it on the Kickoff Show, was 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.640 it's not just Davin Cook and the running backs, the 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.880 tight ends the wider series. How many screens did we 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.320 see that Adam Feeling and Stefan digs today they were 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.079 picking up. It's not about the eighteen to twenty five 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.000 yard pickups on those, it's the eight yards and eleven yards. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.000 It's those little chunk players that now all of a 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.640 sudden a second and one and you're like, all right, well, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.520 now they run the ball. You might stop them for two, 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.880 but you're moving the chains, you're keeping drives alive. So 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.839 the screen game was very, very tough for them, just 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.840 struggle to stop the bleeding. And I was looking at 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.800 the offensive line against the Minnesota front, very aggressive, watching 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.320 the run game for the Eagles, but also protecting Carson Wentz. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.800 Carson sacked twice in this one. One I think was 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.120 in garbage time and then one was like that really 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.000 awful one on third down. What did you see from 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.079 the Eagles offensive line in this one night? I thought 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.959 they did a good job. For the most part. I 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.839 thought Carson had time to throw the ball. I like 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.800 the fact that Carson when the pocket did collapse, the 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.440 time he was able to escape, get out and find 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.040 new passing lanes. That was something I wanted to see 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.679 for him today. And listen, Mike Zimmer is a guy 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.559 who's gonna heat you up. He's gonna bring in extra guys. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.280 You know, we didn't do a great job on one 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.120 of those pass for Texans where we missed the blitzer 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.559 coming right up in the middle. I think that was 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.160 Jordan Hallard there, you've picked that up. That's where sad 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.240 comes from. But I thought the officeive line, for the 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.120 most part, the Eagles had time to throw the ball. Today, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.800 they had time to throw the ball. That was an issue, 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.640 and I thought Andre Dillard it seemed that fairly well. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.360 Yeah against EF, that's a pretty good pass rush. Yeah, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.360 you're talking about trial by fire. I think let's spend 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.080 a little bit of time talking about Carson because one 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.560 of my big takeaways obviously, you know, not the results 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.360 that this team wanted, but one of my big takeaways 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.440 I thought we saw him do some really special things 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.760 with his legs that you alluded to that extend extending 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.400 the play a little bit when the pocket collapsed to 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.040 get out and do some like superhuman athletic moves against 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.600 the you know, the Vikings pass rush pass rushers. We 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.040 really got to see why he is so special. I mean, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.400 like you as a linebacker, I mean, Eric Hendricks down 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.360 on the goal line is putting a tough spot on 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.960 that Alshon Jeffrey touchdown. Because you have a quarterback breaking 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.200 the pocket. You're kind of stuck in no man's land 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.040 of do you go up and attack the quarterback who 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.120 has already running. You had that twenty three yard runner 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:57.840 early in the game, so you know he's got the 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.640 ability to beat you with his legs, or do you 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.640 kind of stay home and coverage and he was kind 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.200 of stuck in no man's land there. Yeah, I think 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.520 that's when we get the best Carson Wentz when he's 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.920 able to extend plays, and also our receivers that struggle 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.320 a little bit with man and man coverage. When he's 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.240 extending plays, he's allowing them to get uncovered. And I 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.200 thought we saw a lot of that today where Carson 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.280 was able to either escape to his left or escape 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.520 to his right, and then the receivers did a great 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.480 job of staying active, getting open and Carson is typically 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.120 smart with the football. He's not going to put it 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.560 in harm's way. He was able to make some plays 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.840 down the field. I like to see a little bit 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.960 more of that. I know we want him to be 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.800 efficient from the pocket, but I think I don't think 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.120 he's ever gonna be just a pure pocket passer. I 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.280 think he's at his best like guys like the Shaun 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.680 Watson Pat Mahomes, when you get them out on the 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.560 perimeter and he's able to be a threat either running 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.280 the ball or throwing the ball. Well. A part of 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.040 his evolution has been to know when to do that, 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.320 when not to do that. I think this year we've 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.640 really seen, at least for me, him kind of turned 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.840 a corner and when to be part about doing those 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.520 things and went to, you know, kind of take care 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.680 of himself a little bit. I mean, the interception total 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.800 has been so down coming into this game, so him 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.600 being able to take care of the football, you know, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.960 I think you kind of tow that line, especially without 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.440 DeShawn Jackson, you don't have that vertical thread of Okay, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.120 how how long do I want to hold onto the 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.560 football and let things open up, let guys that maybe 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.520 don't separate as quickly as Deshaun would to allow those 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.520 guys to get free from a corner, didn't you know, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.400 seventeen eighteen yards downfield versus you know, let me take 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.720 the check down and let's play for third down. You 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.120 got to try and tow the line there, and for 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.840 the most part, he's done that. I think that the 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.760 criticism of him, I think, you know, from a big 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.880 picture standpoint, has been a little bit overblown. From that standpoint, 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.880 but because he's not He's not gonna be perfect, but 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.360 you know, a lot of none of these guys are. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.040 But I think that that's an interesting storyline to kind 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.080 of follow. Do you does this game feel like an 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:55.360 eighteen point loss. I think it doesn't. It doesn't feel 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.160 like an eighteen point loss to me. I thought they 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.720 played him a lot closer than the eighteen points. But 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.040 when you think about the plays from the first half 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.080 and the big chunk plays and they're down twenty four 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.080 to three, that's who you realize, like, yeah, we forget 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.560 that they gave up a lot of explosive plays in 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.959 that first half, and really the vikings are caught between 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.280 when you get up about that many points that early. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.120 Now you're caught between do you keep the gas down 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.440 or do you start running the ball. They try to 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.119