Speaker 1: And you are watching the postgame show presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight to twenty or final score the Eagles fall
Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Vikings. I creased friend Duffy Amy Campbell,
Speaker 1: the Eagles now sitting at three and three. I finished
Speaker 1: the kickoff show with a Lizzo quote. I'm going to
Speaker 1: start the postgame show saying truth hurts. Guys. Let's start
Speaker 1: putting this in perspective. I'll go to your first initial thoughts, Well,
Speaker 1: just a tough game. I mean, defensively, you certainly wanted
Speaker 1: to come in and have a better showing. We've done
Speaker 1: a nice job of not allowing explosive plays. I think
Speaker 1: when they look back at this game, that's the thing
Speaker 1: that sticks out to me the most is the big
Speaker 1: plays given up in the first half. I believe the
Speaker 1: Vikings able to score four times on their first four drives,
Speaker 1: putting up twenty four points. Like, that's a tough way
Speaker 1: to start a game when you're on the road. Really
Speaker 1: allowing that crowd to just speed off of that energy.
Speaker 1: It makes it an uphill battle for your own face. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Eagles trail by twenty one. Able to get it within four.
Speaker 1: Still not enough when you put yourself in not much
Speaker 1: of the whole. Yeah, I think, And you look on
Speaker 1: both sides, right, there's offense and defense. The defense too
Speaker 1: often you had some busted coverages in the back end.
Speaker 1: I know, that long long touchdown just to find Digs
Speaker 1: down the left sideline looks like a busted coverage resuls
Speaker 1: expecting help. There wasn't any help there. Certainly some miscommunication,
Speaker 1: it seemed like based off what we saw on television.
Speaker 1: But I think when you look at this game, you know,
Speaker 1: just not even missed opportunities, but just putting yourself in
Speaker 1: bad situations on both sides. You know, defensively you can't
Speaker 1: have that many big plays given up against you. You
Speaker 1: put yourself in that early hole. And then offensively, they're
Speaker 1: they're trying. You have to try really hard to get
Speaker 1: points against a good defense, right, So to be able
Speaker 1: to stack plays on top of plays, you have to
Speaker 1: be you have to be able to execute at a
Speaker 1: high level. They weren't able to do that today. Today
Speaker 1: too often they're setting themselves back. Well, look coming into
Speaker 1: this when we were talking about, hey, it's that Eagles
Speaker 1: run defense against the Vikings run offense. The Vikings did
Speaker 1: put up the most rushing yards that the Eagles have
Speaker 1: allowed this season with one hundred and twenty two. But
Speaker 1: it was really the big place through the air that
Speaker 1: seemed to really crushed the Eagles today. What did you
Speaker 1: see from the secondary? I will start with you, Mike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Fran mentioned it miscommunication. You're right, you know you get
Speaker 1: plays like that when you get guys running wide open
Speaker 1: down the middle of field. You know, Jim Schwartz isn't
Speaker 1: a call on the coverage where he's gonna leave Rossul
Speaker 1: Douglas with that much field to cover Stefan Diggs man
Speaker 1: to man miscoverage, and then you need to gonna you
Speaker 1: have to have defensive backs that are willing to get
Speaker 1: up and challenge receivers. It's too difficult in this league
Speaker 1: to play defense against the offense. The rules just want
Speaker 1: to allow it. So you gotta be able to get
Speaker 1: up at the line of scrimmish challenge guys. And too
Speaker 1: often the day I thought that bike is wide receivers
Speaker 1: were able to really just run freely through the zone defenses,
Speaker 1: and even when they're in man coverage, they're beating our
Speaker 1: man coverage with pretty much ease. I want to get
Speaker 1: into ice takeaways. But Fran, think about this because you're
Speaker 1: not usually with us at the top of the show.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you three takeaways as well,
Speaker 1: So if you want to chew on that for a second,
Speaker 1: let's get to yours. Well, I'm pretty sure they may
Speaker 1: be similar, and I my first takeaway. My first takeaway
Speaker 1: is another slow start. You know, this is the thing
Speaker 1: that has plagged this team all year long, getting behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball, down ten points again. I think it
Speaker 1: got down to seventeen twenty one points at one point
Speaker 1: early in the game. It's just too big of a
Speaker 1: hill to climb up in this league against these type
Speaker 1: of teams, especially when you're on the road, especially when
Speaker 1: you're missing DeShawn Jackson, when you're missing that deep threat,
Speaker 1: that quick strike ability. To have to say, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come back down from three scores down and matriculate
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, not have that quick it's very,
Speaker 1: very tough. It reminded me of the Redskins game, the
Speaker 1: first game of the season, where the Vikings really just
Speaker 1: dominated the whole first quarter. I mean they had the
Speaker 1: ball the entire time, two drives in that first quarter,
Speaker 1: pretty much eight up the clock, got got ten points
Speaker 1: out of it, and it just wears your defense down
Speaker 1: and it doesn't allow your offense to really get in
Speaker 1: the rhythm because they're sitting on the sideline off a
Speaker 1: long time for your takeaways more. Oh, then you look
Speaker 1: at it, Yeah, look at the defense. Yeah, look at
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Right, we talked about
Speaker 1: the explosive plays, just way too many big plays through
Speaker 1: the air, Kirk Cousins with Stefan digs. Whether it's blown
Speaker 1: coverage or whether it's the right plays called at the
Speaker 1: right time. This is a copycat league. That first time,
Speaker 1: that first touchdown the Stefan Diggs had remind me of
Speaker 1: the same touchdown that Terry McLarin scored against us in
Speaker 1: that Red Skins game. You know, when you when you
Speaker 1: when you give up big plays in this league, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see them repeatedly every week until you figure out
Speaker 1: a way to stop them. And how many times do
Speaker 1: the Vikings use play action play action pass then then
Speaker 1: go deep. They must have did it three or four
Speaker 1: times easily in that first half and seemingly connected on
Speaker 1: all of them. So when you look at the explosive
Speaker 1: plays given up on defense, you can't have that in
Speaker 1: the game. And then my final takeaway Stefan Diggs, I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, that's that's just you know, for god, it
Speaker 1: want to be traded eight nine, ten days ago. He
Speaker 1: certainly looked happy on the sideline today and they certainly
Speaker 1: wanted to get him in the game. When you look
Speaker 1: at this Eagles defense, it's difficult to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I know they got over one hundred yards, but I'd
Speaker 1: like to look at the yards per carry. I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles did a decent job. How many of those
Speaker 1: yards came on the reverses to that straight off runs.
Speaker 1: I mean they when it came just to Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: first three quarters did a great job sto run. It
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop stop the Vikings passing game. And the
Speaker 1: book on this Eagles defense is, if you want to
Speaker 1: move the ball, move it through the air, not on
Speaker 1: the ground. I thought Stefan Diggs obviously had a career day.
Speaker 1: Three touchdowns, over one hundred and sixty yards receiving. We
Speaker 1: did it. We did a bad job containing him today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned those average numbers, thirty five carries for three
Speaker 1: three average three and a half yards to carry. Vikings
Speaker 1: so you know, pretty you'll take that one ten point
Speaker 1: eight yards through the air. So that's really where they
Speaker 1: got to look. I have all over my notes here.
Speaker 1: Stefan diggs touchdown looked really easy. Stefan Digg's touchdown looked
Speaker 1: really easy. What's baffling to me is that, like you said,
Speaker 1: this was a guy you know eight ten days ago,
Speaker 1: wasn't sure if you wanted to be in Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: you have Adam Feeling coming out and saying things about
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins not being able to get him the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was just a totally different Vikings team
Speaker 1: than we saw earlier this season. I think really what
Speaker 1: you have with that Minnesota team is a team that's
Speaker 1: they're very hard to play against defensively for all the
Speaker 1: reasons we talked about on Eagles game Plan, for what
Speaker 1: we talked about on the Kickoff Show. Because this is
Speaker 1: a group that a they want to run the ball,
Speaker 1: they want to do play action, they're great with the
Speaker 1: screen game. So as a defensive line, like from a
Speaker 1: front seventh standpoint, that's a lot to handle. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things going on, so on the back end,
Speaker 1: you've got to have things buttoned up and from a
Speaker 1: just from an assignment standpoint, it didn't seem like that
Speaker 1: was the case, especially in that first half and all
Speaker 1: that takes. We talked about this so many times is
Speaker 1: that in football, so many games are determined by four
Speaker 1: or five plays, and when you don't know when those
Speaker 1: four or five plays are gonna come. So ultimately, if
Speaker 1: you're not ready on those four or five plays, you're
Speaker 1: gonna give up. The big plays are gonna go the
Speaker 1: other way. Here's what was maybe, friend, you can explain
Speaker 1: this to me because I'm watching this whole game, and
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Eagles front seven do a really good
Speaker 1: job to blow things up and stop the run, and
Speaker 1: then you see those big plays over the top. But
Speaker 1: when you're looking at this secondary obviously there's a couple
Speaker 1: of injuries there, but so many just mistakes there. Where
Speaker 1: do we isolate what actually went wrong in the secondary? Well,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately it's some number one. It's tough at
Speaker 1: times to be able to tell without being able to
Speaker 1: go back and look at the film, you know, especially
Speaker 1: from a secondary play, because without the all twenty two
Speaker 1: it could be a little difficult. They did show some
Speaker 1: good replays on TV, so you were able to get
Speaker 1: a couple of things on that one long touchdown. The
Speaker 1: Eagles were in what's called quarters coverage and quarter every glook.
Speaker 1: Every coverage has strengths, every coverage has weaknesses. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go up against a team that
Speaker 1: played likes to run the football, you like quarters coverage
Speaker 1: because your safeties are going to be impactful in the
Speaker 1: run game, so you're gonna play a good amount of quarters.
Speaker 1: The downside of that is that you're the deep middle
Speaker 1: of the field can be easily manipulated by crossing routes
Speaker 1: and things like that, and that's what you saw. You know,
Speaker 1: Roddy McLeod, he's jumping up on a crossing route. And
Speaker 1: if you've got run responsibility as well, that can leave
Speaker 1: you vulnerable a little bit. So you know, Rasul Douglass,
Speaker 1: he's playing as if he's got help, but that help's
Speaker 1: not there because it's being taken away. So that's one
Speaker 1: of those things where you give your tip of the
Speaker 1: cap to the offense and say, hey, they beat the coverage.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one. That's second one. That's tough to say.
Speaker 1: What happened on that I'm that second one, and we
Speaker 1: can't really give the answer that because we don't know.
Speaker 1: It's clearly there was some kind of miscommunication there somewhere
Speaker 1: in the back end. I'm sure there's going to be
Speaker 1: a question YEA to coach very early about that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought you explain the coverage. They're great. I think
Speaker 1: it's difficult for Malcolm and Rodney to play their run
Speaker 1: responsibilities when you had that play action and a guy
Speaker 1: like Dalvin Cook in the backfield, you need all those
Speaker 1: guys up there to be able to bottle him up.
Speaker 1: But the flip side of that is a team like
Speaker 1: the Vikings, they're gonna use your speed against you. So
Speaker 1: they know you're a fast flowing team, they give you
Speaker 1: that play action. All it takes is a few steps
Speaker 1: of you stepping up trying to support that run, and
Speaker 1: it allows stealing and digs to get behind those safeties,
Speaker 1: leaving those corners vulnerable with no middle of the field
Speaker 1: help because both guys are basically trying to get up
Speaker 1: there to run support and help out that front seven.
Speaker 1: Just a purchat call from the Vikings offensive side against
Speaker 1: what they know the Eagles are likely to play defensively
Speaker 1: in that coverage. It's a quarters beaters. It's just a
Speaker 1: difficult play to have to coverage. Teams all over the
Speaker 1: NFL do a great job playing for you know, Buffalo
Speaker 1: is one of the best defensive in the NFL. This year.
Speaker 1: They played primarily quarters coverage Carolina playing great defensive football.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't great today. They had five turnovers
Speaker 1: though of Jameis Winston. A lot of quarters coverage down Carolina.
Speaker 1: So the coverage is one that works and it is
Speaker 1: good against the run. But there are, like I said,
Speaker 1: there are strengths and weaknesses to every coverage. They got
Speaker 1: caught with one of the weaknesses on that play. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Eagles offense and when we look at
Speaker 1: what really went wrong for them today, I mean, just
Speaker 1: looking at the stats, it seemed like for the most part,
Speaker 1: they did everything well. They just weren't able to get
Speaker 1: into the red zone. What did you think really went
Speaker 1: wrong for them today? Well, they couldn't get the run
Speaker 1: game going. Yeah, as well as I think we would
Speaker 1: have expected, right, I mean, that was one thing that
Speaker 1: we've seen from this game. Would go back to that
Speaker 1: Thursday night win over Green Bay. We made that connection
Speaker 1: on the kickoff show numerous times amy that you know
Speaker 1: that would be something that you would hope they'd be
Speaker 1: able to get that going. You did get the running
Speaker 1: backs heavily involved in the passing game, and that's been
Speaker 1: a really prevalent team throughout the course of the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. Is you know, getting Miles Sanders opened down
Speaker 1: the scene, get him matched up on linebackers, that's been great.
Speaker 1: But the run game just couldn't get going to the
Speaker 1: point where you felt like, hey, they they've really they're
Speaker 1: really in a rhythm right now up front. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and some drive stalled on us in the first half. Right,
Speaker 1: you got to be able to pick up those first
Speaker 1: downs third and two, fourth and two. You're throwing on
Speaker 1: both plays. We don't pick up the first down, that
Speaker 1: gives the Vikings the ball in great field position. They're
Speaker 1: able to go on top in the very first play
Speaker 1: to go up twenty four to three, and at that
Speaker 1: point I thought we became one dimensional, right, you get
Speaker 1: down three touchdowns, you got to try to pass, pass
Speaker 1: pass to get back in the game. Not being able
Speaker 1: to score right before the half to get any points
Speaker 1: out of that drive. That also hurt you because you
Speaker 1: need to be able to stay close in a game
Speaker 1: like that, and although they were able to pull within
Speaker 1: four late in the game worthily late in that third quarter,
Speaker 1: I thought miss too many opportunities early in the game
Speaker 1: to where you couldn't get back to the run game.
Speaker 1: You almost the Vikers knew what you were going to
Speaker 1: do just about every down, which is basically thrown. When
Speaker 1: we came into this game, Eagles one of the best
Speaker 1: third down teams in the league second statistically with fifty
Speaker 1: two percent conversion rate. That was a big area they
Speaker 1: struggled today thirty three percent conversion. What about the Vikings
Speaker 1: defense was able to really stop with the Eagles do
Speaker 1: best on those third down conversions. Man you up, I
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna man our guys up, and we got
Speaker 1: to be able to beat man coverage. There were a
Speaker 1: couple of times there where Carson was able to get
Speaker 1: the ball to guys and you gotta be able to
Speaker 1: pull it in. You've hit al Sean in his hands
Speaker 1: on one, zach Ertz got hitting his hands on one.
Speaker 1: I Novid thought it was a little bit of passing
Speaker 1: afference there, but the ball still hits you in both hands.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to catch the ball. You
Speaker 1: catch the ball. Either those occasions, you're extending the drive.
Speaker 1: You're giving yourself a chance to go down there extended
Speaker 1: driving path and put points on the board instead of
Speaker 1: putting that hot Vikings offense back on the field. So
Speaker 1: as much as the Vikings were doing offensively in the
Speaker 1: first half, I thought we had opportunities in that second
Speaker 1: quarter to sort of move the ball. First quarter, they
Speaker 1: sat on the sideline watching the game like most of
Speaker 1: us did. But in that second quarter there were some
Speaker 1: opportunities there through the air. We just didn't come down
Speaker 1: with the play. So many drops there too many drops
Speaker 1: overall over the course of the game, and something that
Speaker 1: they won't even go down as drives drives, you know.
Speaker 1: And even the one deep ball to Nelson Agiloor landed
Speaker 1: in bounce in the back of the end zone. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are there are a lot of players were say, man,
Speaker 1: they left some meat on the bone offensive in the
Speaker 1: past game. Let's go back to our keys to the
Speaker 1: game that we talked about in the pregame show. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean we're gonna evaluate what those looked like. What
Speaker 1: did you see from that friend? So mine was the
Speaker 1: screen game and they did hit a couple of screens.
Speaker 1: They were very I mean, they were very active. And
Speaker 1: when we talked about it on the Kickoff Show, was
Speaker 1: it's not just Davin Cook and the running backs, the
Speaker 1: tight ends the wider series. How many screens did we
Speaker 1: see that Adam Feeling and Stefan digs today they were
Speaker 1: picking up. It's not about the eighteen to twenty five
Speaker 1: yard pickups on those, it's the eight yards and eleven yards.
Speaker 1: It's those little chunk players that now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden a second and one and you're like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: now they run the ball. You might stop them for two,
Speaker 1: but you're moving the chains, you're keeping drives alive. So
Speaker 1: the screen game was very, very tough for them, just
Speaker 1: struggle to stop the bleeding. And I was looking at
Speaker 1: the offensive line against the Minnesota front, very aggressive, watching
Speaker 1: the run game for the Eagles, but also protecting Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Carson sacked twice in this one. One I think was
Speaker 1: in garbage time and then one was like that really
Speaker 1: awful one on third down. What did you see from
Speaker 1: the Eagles offensive line in this one night? I thought
Speaker 1: they did a good job. For the most part. I
Speaker 1: thought Carson had time to throw the ball. I like
Speaker 1: the fact that Carson when the pocket did collapse, the
Speaker 1: time he was able to escape, get out and find
Speaker 1: new passing lanes. That was something I wanted to see
Speaker 1: for him today. And listen, Mike Zimmer is a guy
Speaker 1: who's gonna heat you up. He's gonna bring in extra guys.
Speaker 1: You know, we didn't do a great job on one
Speaker 1: of those pass for Texans where we missed the blitzer
Speaker 1: coming right up in the middle. I think that was
Speaker 1: Jordan Hallard there, you've picked that up. That's where sad
Speaker 1: comes from. But I thought the officeive line, for the
Speaker 1: most part, the Eagles had time to throw the ball. Today,
Speaker 1: they had time to throw the ball. That was an issue,
Speaker 1: and I thought Andre Dillard it seemed that fairly well.
Speaker 1: Yeah against EF, that's a pretty good pass rush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking about trial by fire. I think let's spend
Speaker 1: a little bit of time talking about Carson because one
Speaker 1: of my big takeaways obviously, you know, not the results
Speaker 1: that this team wanted, but one of my big takeaways
Speaker 1: I thought we saw him do some really special things
Speaker 1: with his legs that you alluded to that extend extending
Speaker 1: the play a little bit when the pocket collapsed to
Speaker 1: get out and do some like superhuman athletic moves against
Speaker 1: the you know, the Vikings pass rush pass rushers. We
Speaker 1: really got to see why he is so special. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you as a linebacker, I mean, Eric Hendricks down
Speaker 1: on the goal line is putting a tough spot on
Speaker 1: that Alshon Jeffrey touchdown. Because you have a quarterback breaking
Speaker 1: the pocket. You're kind of stuck in no man's land
Speaker 1: of do you go up and attack the quarterback who
Speaker 1: has already running. You had that twenty three yard runner
Speaker 1: early in the game, so you know he's got the
Speaker 1: ability to beat you with his legs, or do you
Speaker 1: kind of stay home and coverage and he was kind
Speaker 1: of stuck in no man's land there. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's when we get the best Carson Wentz when he's
Speaker 1: able to extend plays, and also our receivers that struggle
Speaker 1: a little bit with man and man coverage. When he's
Speaker 1: extending plays, he's allowing them to get uncovered. And I
Speaker 1: thought we saw a lot of that today where Carson
Speaker 1: was able to either escape to his left or escape
Speaker 1: to his right, and then the receivers did a great
Speaker 1: job of staying active, getting open and Carson is typically
Speaker 1: smart with the football. He's not going to put it
Speaker 1: in harm's way. He was able to make some plays
Speaker 1: down the field. I like to see a little bit
Speaker 1: more of that. I know we want him to be
Speaker 1: efficient from the pocket, but I think I don't think
Speaker 1: he's ever gonna be just a pure pocket passer. I
Speaker 1: think he's at his best like guys like the Shaun
Speaker 1: Watson Pat Mahomes, when you get them out on the
Speaker 1: perimeter and he's able to be a threat either running
Speaker 1: the ball or throwing the ball. Well. A part of
Speaker 1: his evolution has been to know when to do that,
Speaker 1: when not to do that. I think this year we've
Speaker 1: really seen, at least for me, him kind of turned
Speaker 1: a corner and when to be part about doing those
Speaker 1: things and went to, you know, kind of take care
Speaker 1: of himself a little bit. I mean, the interception total
Speaker 1: has been so down coming into this game, so him
Speaker 1: being able to take care of the football, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you kind of tow that line, especially without
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, you don't have that vertical thread of Okay,
Speaker 1: how how long do I want to hold onto the
Speaker 1: football and let things open up, let guys that maybe
Speaker 1: don't separate as quickly as Deshaun would to allow those
Speaker 1: guys to get free from a corner, didn't you know,
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen yards downfield versus you know, let me take
Speaker 1: the check down and let's play for third down. You
Speaker 1: got to try and tow the line there, and for
Speaker 1: the most part, he's done that. I think that the
Speaker 1: criticism of him, I think, you know, from a big
Speaker 1: picture standpoint, has been a little bit overblown. From that standpoint,
Speaker 1: but because he's not He's not gonna be perfect, but
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of none of these guys are.
Speaker 1: But I think that that's an interesting storyline to kind
Speaker 1: of follow. Do you does this game feel like an
Speaker 1: eighteen point loss. I think it doesn't. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like an eighteen point loss to me. I thought they
Speaker 1: played him a lot closer than the eighteen points. But
Speaker 1: when you think about the plays from the first half
Speaker 1: and the big chunk plays and they're down twenty four
Speaker 1: to three, that's who you realize, like, yeah, we forget
Speaker 1: that they gave up a lot of explosive plays in
Speaker 1: that first half, and really the vikings are caught between
Speaker 1: when you get up about that many points that early.
Speaker 1: Now you're caught between do you keep the gas down
Speaker 1: or do you start running the ball. They try to
Speaker 1: eat up clock and that kind of got their offense
Speaker 1: out of whack and allowed the Eagles to get back
Speaker 1: in because it's difficult for a coach, right you get
Speaker 1: a twenty one point leaned that early, you're saying, run
Speaker 1: the football now so you can eat up some clock
Speaker 1: instead of giving the ball back to the Eagles, which
Speaker 1: they did, and that allowed the Eagles to get back
Speaker 1: in the game. We always say, like a tale of
Speaker 1: two halves. This one was like the first quarter and
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter put them off to one side, and
Speaker 1: then the second and third quarter. This was a game
Speaker 1: like this is not good. This we're going back and forth.
Speaker 1: It was a look they always want to start fast,
Speaker 1: and that's been a theme throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: last three years. You're twenty seventeen. They started so fast
Speaker 1: consistently on both sides of the football. Everyone makes the
Speaker 1: thing about the offense. The defense has also allowed ten
Speaker 1: points i think on four of six games so far
Speaker 1: this year on the first two drives, so allowing them
Speaker 1: to get to score on the opening two drives. I
Speaker 1: mean that puts you in a hole as well, and
Speaker 1: no matter what you do on offense, so both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball have got to figure out where to
Speaker 1: start faster. What was the turning point of this game
Speaker 1: for you? What play would you label as the turning point?
Speaker 1: I think like and I are on the same page here,
Speaker 1: and it's the when they had that four point it
Speaker 1: was a four point deficit. And then you give up
Speaker 1: that touchdown to go down eleven. The Eagles get the
Speaker 1: ball back six plays, they punch the ball away and
Speaker 1: then they go down to score again at eighty eight yards.
Speaker 1: So giving up those two long drives of seventy plus
Speaker 1: that was what kind of stealed the victory. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, you get to twenty four to twenty,
Speaker 1: you seem to be back in the game. The offense
Speaker 1: got some momentum going. You give up that touchdown drive
Speaker 1: a seventy five yards to go down thirty one to twenty.
Speaker 1: Now you're putting even more press shore on the offense
Speaker 1: because you know you need to get points on that
Speaker 1: next drive. Offense stalls in six plays, you get a
Speaker 1: ball back to the vikings and then you see that
Speaker 1: really that that dagger that ad a yard touchdown drive
Speaker 1: to really really put the game out of reach. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For me, it was that sack that Carson Wentz took.
Speaker 1: You know, they're third and four at the top of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter delay of game penalty. They go, yeah,
Speaker 1: third and nine takes that sack, and at that point
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, the vikings go up by eleven. Not
Speaker 1: enough time on the clock to me. That that sack
Speaker 1: and that that penalty. Really the film is really yeah,
Speaker 1: because when you get third and four, you got better
Speaker 1: options of players you want to run right third and four,
Speaker 1: you can send someone deep, someone intermediate, someone short, and
Speaker 1: still get that first down. You go on third and nine,
Speaker 1: Now the defense knows where to play. The defense said
Speaker 1: how to get to the sticks, and because they do
Speaker 1: such a great job and man and man coverage, they're
Speaker 1: gonna send extra guys to make Carson get rid of
Speaker 1: that ball fast. And so that's that's a great game
Speaker 1: changer right there. That delayed a game, really put them
Speaker 1: behind the a ball. That's what everyone talks about, staying
Speaker 1: ahead of the sticks. If it's third and four, exactly
Speaker 1: what I just said. I mean, the defense, you know,
Speaker 1: forget even when an offensive standpoint what you've got at
Speaker 1: your disposal, but the defense can say, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go cover zero here, We're gonna send more than they
Speaker 1: can block. The ball's gonna come out quick. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna let them get nine yards. That's not going to happen,
Speaker 1: and it was ended up being a busted protection in
Speaker 1: a sack. But that blitz may not be in play
Speaker 1: if it's third and four, not thirty yards. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we've talked about some of those things, but friend, we
Speaker 1: always look ahead to what you're most excited to take
Speaker 1: a second look at when you can really get that film,
Speaker 1: get the all twenty two, get all the different angles.
Speaker 1: What are some things that you are especially looking forward
Speaker 1: to exploring, kind of getting a little more insight on
Speaker 1: this week? I want to can we talk a lot
Speaker 1: about the pass rush and the marriage between that and
Speaker 1: coverage because they impact each other so greatly over the
Speaker 1: course of a game, So you know, going up I
Speaker 1: talked about it earlier. When you have this Minnesota offense
Speaker 1: and all the different things that they do, I am
Speaker 1: interested to see what the pressure looked like from the
Speaker 1: defensive line because it did see that there were bodies
Speaker 1: around kirk Cousins and the coverage didn't always hold up.
Speaker 1: And and but there are examples going the other way too,
Speaker 1: where you know, the were just tight, the rush doesn't
Speaker 1: get hold. Now kirk Cousins has time to roll around.
Speaker 1: So those two are very are tied together, very closely.
Speaker 1: As always, I'll be interested to see what that team
Speaker 1: looks like tomorrow morning. Any thoughts on Brand thought, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, he's right about the pass rushing. It
Speaker 1: seemed as if kirk Cousins had guys around him, especially
Speaker 1: in that second half when the defense started to really
Speaker 1: get at them a little bit and they were getting stops.
Speaker 1: I thought the guys up front, even Fletcher being around
Speaker 1: the quarterback Brandon Graham with a sack early, those guys
Speaker 1: were able to get in front of kirk Cousins, get
Speaker 1: hands up in his face and it really allowed them
Speaker 1: to get back into the game. Just got to that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I don't know if they're gassed, you know,
Speaker 1: or what, but we couldn't get him down when we
Speaker 1: needed to be able to get him down late in
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, let's talk about Brandon Graham a little
Speaker 1: bit because I to me, I thought he had a
Speaker 1: great game. Like, let's talk about a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that did really well today. We've been dissecting a lot
Speaker 1: of what went wrong. Let's talk about Brandon Graham a
Speaker 1: little bit. Like you mentioned that sack, but to me,
Speaker 1: he was stopping the run all day and made a
Speaker 1: lot of big place What did you? I agree? I mean,
Speaker 1: Brandon the last few weeks has really come on right.
Speaker 1: He's been He's been one of the league leaders in
Speaker 1: getting quarterback hurries and quarterback hits. The last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks it seems to have paid off for him. Four
Speaker 1: sacks in the last two weeks. Another good He always
Speaker 1: plays the run well. So I thought they did a
Speaker 1: great job up front clogging up those running lanes, and
Speaker 1: Brandon is a big part of that. When you talk
Speaker 1: about stopping Dalvin Cook, if you really had an interception
Speaker 1: on that one screen pass right, it so well I
Speaker 1: was able to retrace it and get back into the
Speaker 1: throwing lane. I think when you look at BG he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to impact the quarterback off the edge.
Speaker 1: We saw the sack on third down for the lining
Speaker 1: up inside as a three technique, so you know that
Speaker 1: versatility is so pivotal. And what I loved about that
Speaker 1: play was the offense they slid the protection towards Fletcher Cox.
Speaker 1: So Fletcher's getting a double team that allows BG to
Speaker 1: be one on one. The offense has to kind of
Speaker 1: pick their poison, and we want to slide towards the
Speaker 1: side that's got two defensive ends and say, okay, we
Speaker 1: want to make sure we cover up here, or do
Speaker 1: we kind of take care of number ninety one. So
Speaker 1: Number Fletcher Cox impact in the game once again from
Speaker 1: that well, and they talked about that earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Bed a fun moment in the locker room where actually
Speaker 1: Fletch crashed into BIG's interview and said, hey, did you
Speaker 1: did you credit Fletcher for your sack for any of
Speaker 1: your three sacks against the Jets, and and BG was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I paid them the real defensive linement. Do you,
Speaker 1: as a former player, do you know anything about this
Speaker 1: transition here? Well, actually it sounds like we're about to
Speaker 1: hear from coach coach Doug So yeah, well, well maybe
Speaker 1: I'll forget that by the time we come back, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure lots of questions for the head coach about
Speaker 1: this one. I think probably some of the things that
Speaker 1: we discussed. Um here, I'm really interested to hear his thought.
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. First question. Yeah, yeah, disappointed, you
Speaker 1: know that we didn't do a better job there. Um,
Speaker 1: disappointed a lot of things. But we just gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta look at this tape. We gotta be critical of
Speaker 1: each other, critical of myself, and and we gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta fix, uh fix what's wrong. Uh yeah, until I
Speaker 1: really look look at the tape, it's hard to say
Speaker 1: at this point. I gotta talked to Jim and see
Speaker 1: what we were, you know, coverage wise, what we were
Speaker 1: in and if there was a breakdown. But until I
Speaker 1: look at the tape, I really can't answer that. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's credit to those guys in the locker room,
Speaker 1: you know. But uh flip side of that, we can't
Speaker 1: be down twenty four to three. Um, we gotta start
Speaker 1: the game well faster. We gotta be better. U Um.
Speaker 1: We were a little sloppy, had some mistakes early that
Speaker 1: kept some drives going offensively. Um, and just gotta you know,
Speaker 1: as a staff and really as players, we got to
Speaker 1: evaluate it and and and get it corrected. Well, one. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, were there are some injury you know, but
Speaker 1: you know again, I'm not going to use that as
Speaker 1: an excuse. So you guys have to play, you know,
Speaker 1: and UM, you know, we just we just gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta leave the tape. We gotta be critical of of
Speaker 1: ourselves as coaches first, uh, and then make them make
Speaker 1: the corrections during the week with the players. Yeah, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to. We had to. Look. We wanted, um
Speaker 1: try to take advantage of it, get a little bit closer,
Speaker 1: an opportunity to maybe shoot it in the end zone.
Speaker 1: After that, Um made a great play. That would have
Speaker 1: been the idea. Yes, complete the pass right, we were
Speaker 1: gonna get out of bound. The play was designed to
Speaker 1: hit Dallas and get out of bound. We're in the
Speaker 1: short side of the field, so ran a lot of gadgets.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of reverses that they take you
Speaker 1: by surprise at all. No, I mean, that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of who they are. Um. We understand their personnel and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know I thought kind of looking back now,
Speaker 1: just you know, they had a good game plan, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of misdirection, um utilizing the receivers that way. Um,
Speaker 1: but uh, Yeah, we've got to you know, we've we've
Speaker 1: got to be ready for all that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: just commented on that. Until we look at the tape,
Speaker 1: it's hard to answer back. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: there's some similarities. I think we can draw from, you know,
Speaker 1: some conclusions from that. But you know, different season, different team. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we still got a lot of season ahead
Speaker 1: of us. Ten games and and um, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's where we are right now. Uh, we gotta get
Speaker 1: gotta get guys healthy as we know, Um, and uh
Speaker 1: gotta get everybody, Gotta get everybody kind of uh you know,
Speaker 1: focused in on on you know, win in the next game.
Speaker 1: Winning going to want to know and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's something that our team does best, is
Speaker 1: rallying around each other and picking each other up and
Speaker 1: moving forward. We all have to, uh you know, take accountability,
Speaker 1: and myself included. You know, we're all we're all in
Speaker 1: this together. And and um it's an ownership and and
Speaker 1: you know it starts with me. And I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta look at myself in the mirror and am I
Speaker 1: doing everything I can to help this football team win? Uh?
Speaker 1: Through you know, decisions during the game or during the week,
Speaker 1: or how we practice whatever it might be. Um, but
Speaker 1: we all have to do that and um, you know,
Speaker 1: hold each other accountable and move forward. For the last week,
Speaker 1: it's been just very I don't have a crystal ball, um,
Speaker 1: if that's what you're asking. But we've got definitely got
Speaker 1: to do a better job there. UM, got to evaluate
Speaker 1: it and UM, you know it. It just comes down
Speaker 1: to just understanding, we gotta we we have to start
Speaker 1: the game better. Um, you know. Uh, and and uh
Speaker 1: we'll take a look at that this week. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: not out there. We had some opportunity today, UM to
Speaker 1: get down the field the ball was was you know,
Speaker 1: we stretched the field a little bit a few times.
Speaker 1: So you know, we get creative with it, um, with
Speaker 1: with moving some guys around. Obviously Deshaun helps that, UM
Speaker 1: when he's out there. So uh, you know, but that's
Speaker 1: as something that we got to continue to you know,
Speaker 1: work work with and work through and and and find
Speaker 1: ways to to be creative. That way. Sanders was very
Speaker 1: effective in the past. You need to talk about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been uh, he's been doing really well in the
Speaker 1: passing game. You know, he's been uh making some plays
Speaker 1: down the field. The touchdown catch was was big. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he's just he just seems like each week
Speaker 1: there's a there's a chunk play with him, you know,
Speaker 1: in the passing game. So something we'll keep looking at. Nah.
Speaker 1: First play the game was actually a down the field pass.
Speaker 1: It's a shot play, but based on coverage, we killed
Speaker 1: the play, which is what we're supposed to do. Um.
Speaker 1: And then and then on the third down play, we
Speaker 1: had a mental assignment up front on a third and
Speaker 1: short and uh kept us off the field. We I guess,
Speaker 1: but you only got forty six guys. I don't know
Speaker 1: what else it's gonna play if I start kicking guys
Speaker 1: off the field. I mean, yeah, we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: look at it. Obviously, we gotta coach it up, and
Speaker 1: we gotta show him and and teach them, and the
Speaker 1: guys have to um understand that you know, this is
Speaker 1: you know, this is something that uh you know is
Speaker 1: being called more and more. Um. But yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: we gotta you know, we have to eliminate those penalties,
Speaker 1: those mistakes, those are those are hard too hard to overcome,
Speaker 1: you know, um, whether it's on offense or defense, Um,
Speaker 1: but we'll take a look at him and you know,
Speaker 1: keep keep coaching our guys. How do you did some
Speaker 1: really good things? Um, you know he we gave him
Speaker 1: again each week like we do with run pass or
Speaker 1: pass run checks. He did a nice job there in
Speaker 1: a game. You know, obviously the end of the game,
Speaker 1: which is something we're trying to trying to get chunk
Speaker 1: plays and you know that's going to happen from time
Speaker 1: to time. But you know, I thought overall he played
Speaker 1: tough again, you know, in the pocket, made some made
Speaker 1: some tough throws down the field. So again I thought,
Speaker 1: thought he played overall, thought he played good. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Coach says, it starts with me and a lot of
Speaker 1: things to look at, but address some of the different
Speaker 1: parts of the game. We need to be critical of
Speaker 1: each other, critical of myself and fix what's wrong. Um,
Speaker 1: if you're coming in here Monday morning, what are the
Speaker 1: big things that you're looking at in that department? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think really the he when he talked about some
Speaker 1: of the critical penalties, some of those negative plays, I
Speaker 1: mean that's those are the things that kill drives and
Speaker 1: if you're on offense, and he's obviously speaking from an
Speaker 1: offensive standpoint, those are the things that turned you from
Speaker 1: second and two, and second and three to second and
Speaker 1: nine or second to eleven. Those the things that you
Speaker 1: really can't have too often. Those things, those mistakes compound
Speaker 1: on each other when you're playing a defense like this
Speaker 1: on the road. For you as a former player, and
Speaker 1: obviously you didn't play offense, but every week we come
Speaker 1: in here and talk about the lack of the fast start.
Speaker 1: It's something the coaches have been addressing, the players have
Speaker 1: been addressing. Have you experienced something like this as a
Speaker 1: player where it's like we talk about this all the
Speaker 1: time and we are still not executing. Where do you
Speaker 1: plug the hole on something like that. Well, you just
Speaker 1: got to keep working at it. And I thought they
Speaker 1: came out and sure I have when I've been a
Speaker 1: part of some bad teams where it looks as if
Speaker 1: we can't do anything right on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. I remember rookie year, we average ten points
Speaker 1: a game, scored one hundred and sixty points on the
Speaker 1: entire year, so there was a lot of three and
Speaker 1: outs in that season. But I thought they came out
Speaker 1: today with the idea to try to run the football
Speaker 1: and they ran the ball three consecutive plays. That's that's
Speaker 1: a rare for Doug and so they lets you know
Speaker 1: that he wanted to put the onuses on his offensive
Speaker 1: line to try to move that line of scrimmage. They
Speaker 1: weren't able to do that. And when you're on the
Speaker 1: road and you have the offense conversely putting up points,
Speaker 1: meaning the Vikings offense putting up points and extending drives,
Speaker 1: it puts your It puts even more pressure on your
Speaker 1: offense to try to get something going. And they've yet
Speaker 1: through six games, they've yet to clean up a lot
Speaker 1: of the little things that good football teams just don't
Speaker 1: allow to happen to them. You just don't beat yourself
Speaker 1: when you're a good football team. And when they were
Speaker 1: able to put nine wins in a row together back
Speaker 1: in two and seventeen, those are the things that didn't
Speaker 1: happen to them. As an offense, they were able to
Speaker 1: score on early drives, they were able to have sustained
Speaker 1: possessions because you're able to pick up first downs. Even
Speaker 1: if you're not scoring, you're eating up the clock, you're
Speaker 1: allowing your defense. I remember that year they played the
Speaker 1: fewest amount of snaps that season as a defense because
Speaker 1: their offense led the league in time of possession because
Speaker 1: they ate up the clock every game and this here
Speaker 1: thus far, they've lost time of possession and just about
Speaker 1: every game, even the games that they've won, the lost
Speaker 1: time of possession because that defense is out there on
Speaker 1: the field. And Fran mentioned it early. You talk about
Speaker 1: getting off to a fast start offensively, there's no guarantee
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick up first downs, but the more cracks
Speaker 1: you get at it, the better you will be at executing.
Speaker 1: And far too often our defense can't get off the
Speaker 1: field on third down early in games. Yeah, that's really
Speaker 1: been one of the biggest things is the you know,
Speaker 1: the slow start you start. It's not that you press
Speaker 1: every start of every game, but when you start slow
Speaker 1: and in a giving game and you get into that
Speaker 1: early hole, now on both sides, you start feeling the pressure.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, you try and press and try and
Speaker 1: make a tackle, go in a little bit differently than
Speaker 1: you normally would. You're trying to fit a ball in,
Speaker 1: or you're trying to catch a ball, or fight for
Speaker 1: extra content or extra yardage more than you normally would.
Speaker 1: Those things that you kind of get out of your
Speaker 1: comfort zone a little bit, a bright spot coach talked
Speaker 1: about and no, we talked about in here a little bit. Look,
Speaker 1: we've talked about the absence of DeShawn Jackson and especially
Speaker 1: as that big play threat who can really just break
Speaker 1: the game open in a second. But Miles Sanders was
Speaker 1: that guy today year, Brit, I mean, what kind of
Speaker 1: value is this guy to this team? Well, I think
Speaker 1: that's when you look at Miles Sanders and yeah, a
Speaker 1: second round pick, a relatively early second round pick, when
Speaker 1: you're talking about somebody who can impact the passing game.
Speaker 1: We talked about this last week on The Eagle and
Speaker 1: the Sky podcast that it's almost like what the Saints
Speaker 1: have had over the last few years with mark Ingram
Speaker 1: and Alvin Kamara, where you had a guy that was
Speaker 1: your early downs, you know, your your tone setter, you're
Speaker 1: finisher as a runner in mark Ingram, but then you
Speaker 1: had your dynamic playmaker in Alvin Kamara. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that Sanders Alvin Kamara, who was one of the best
Speaker 1: young stars in the NFL, but what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: is that he can play that kind of a role.
Speaker 1: He can be used that way that brings a lot
Speaker 1: of value to this offense. And when everything is clicking together,
Speaker 1: now you're talking about being able to attack defenses in
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways. And he gets his first
Speaker 1: NFL touchdown today, it's a receiving touchdown, which we all
Speaker 1: totally predicted that. What did you say from the rookie?
Speaker 1: I guess well, I thought he had a very nice game.
Speaker 1: And I like the way the Eagles are using him.
Speaker 1: Right If you're not going to give him a bunch
Speaker 1: of carries from behind the line of scrimmage as a runner,
Speaker 1: you want to use him in the passing game. I
Speaker 1: actually like the game plan from the offense today. I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to need to at least test
Speaker 1: this defense down the field. All right, we are going
Speaker 1: to hear from Carson Wentz on this game. Here's Carson
Speaker 1: at the podium. You know, offensively, you know the slow start. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a good defense, tough place to play again, down
Speaker 1: early makes it tough. So, UM, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of things. We gotta we gotta come out and execut better,
Speaker 1: we gotta stay on the field, maintain drives and um,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's a good team. They beat us today,
Speaker 1: but it's on to the next I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about that. But after the slow start, you guys,
Speaker 1: really sounds car and go about the state. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's that's that's football. You know, that's football. It's
Speaker 1: slow start, and you know we're down and we gotta
Speaker 1: make some plays and we do, but we just didn't
Speaker 1: make enough, you know, offensively, we didn't make an off
Speaker 1: Like I said, we got to stay on the field better.
Speaker 1: We got to put ourselves in better situations and just
Speaker 1: execute a higher level. Yeah, we don't, you know, look
Speaker 1: at it like that. Necessarily, we just try and stay
Speaker 1: the course. You know, early in the ballgame, a lot
Speaker 1: of time left. You try to avoid putting pressure on
Speaker 1: yourselves and just um, like I said, stay the course
Speaker 1: and keep playing playing offense and coach keep calling it,
Speaker 1: you know, the same way. And um, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought we did a decent job of that, but just
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't good enough to say. I wasn't
Speaker 1: on the sideline. I mean I was standing there waiting
Speaker 1: for coach to just tell us what was going on.
Speaker 1: So uh, yeah, that wasn't involved in that. I mean, hey, coach, coach,
Speaker 1: make the call and you know, if it works, it
Speaker 1: would have been awesome, you know, and it didn't. So
Speaker 1: that's football. A lot of chub so just a team
Speaker 1: that much. Yeah, I mean, you know, hats off to them.
Speaker 1: That's a good defense. You know. There are some shots
Speaker 1: today that we just we didn't connect. You know, there's
Speaker 1: some other times where um, you know, I might have
Speaker 1: missed some guys and those types of things. But it's
Speaker 1: a good defense, and um, we really had to earn
Speaker 1: it today, and like like you said, I mean, we
Speaker 1: we just we we didn't get any of those deep
Speaker 1: shots really really going today. Yeah, I mean, everyone's just
Speaker 1: gotta do their job. You know. We know the guys
Speaker 1: that we have, We know the talent that we have
Speaker 1: and the ability we have um in that locker room.
Speaker 1: And so for us, it's just stay in the course,
Speaker 1: you know, push put this behind us. You know, it
Speaker 1: is a tough road game. We got beat, straight up,
Speaker 1: we got beat today, but we're excited for next weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll turn the page past that. I mean, the plan
Speaker 1: is to learn from this without doubt. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you never want to want to lose a game. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna watch the tape, you know, really thoroughly, and UM,
Speaker 1: you know everyone's gonna take ownership and accountability of where
Speaker 1: they can improve, where they can get better. UM. And
Speaker 1: like I said, we're gonna turn the page quick. And
Speaker 1: you know we're excited to go down there and face
Speaker 1: a good Dallas team. Yeah, we just miscommunications up front
Speaker 1: and we didn't we didn't get it off. It's it's
Speaker 1: frustrating one. Something that we got to clean up for sure,
Speaker 1: and I got to do better. UM, I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. No, there a lot of plays today
Speaker 1: that UM, I mean without a doubt. You know, like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, we gotta stay on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: whether that's third downs, fourth downs, UM, put ourselves in
Speaker 1: better situations on you know, from second down. UM. And
Speaker 1: so we just got to stay on the field and
Speaker 1: make better plays in those key key situations. Play right
Speaker 1: after one yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: a good, good defensive scheme there. You know, they schemed
Speaker 1: us up, they got us there. UM. A frustrating one,
Speaker 1: tough one, but you know, hats off to them. They
Speaker 1: made heck of a play. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: You know, coach is gonna make that decision and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I trust whatever whatever decision he makes home town.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you had a lot of friends and family.
Speaker 1: Anything special about playing in Minnesota, Um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: cool knowing you know a lot of support out there,
Speaker 1: friends and family, a lot of you know, NDSU fans
Speaker 1: in the area. You know, I wish, wish could have
Speaker 1: given them a better show today and come out with
Speaker 1: the victory. But you know, it's it's actual being this
Speaker 1: close to home and you know, playing in front of
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people that I grew up
Speaker 1: knowing and and caring about. Thank you guys. Okay, last
Speaker 1: week you had the Denham jacket. This week we have
Speaker 1: the green. The green jacket, We've got the hat, We've
Speaker 1: got the pattern. It's a little North Dakota green. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was going back home or close to home as
Speaker 1: the closest he would be at home, so obviously expecting
Speaker 1: a bunch of fans. That's that's what we would call
Speaker 1: friend a victory suit. You on the hat though, ye oh,
Speaker 1: I mean that looks like a Brian Dalkins Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame edition type of hat. I have two of those
Speaker 1: myself on the shelf, So yeah, no big deal. You know,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it. Man, Listen, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: a that's an outfit that you expect to sort of
Speaker 1: win the football game. Man, Happy birthday of the Hall
Speaker 1: Fame or something. By the way, that's right, be dog,
Speaker 1: happy birthday, Happy birthday, dog? What is he seventy? I
Speaker 1: can see. I'm want to go back and reflect the
Speaker 1: things Carson said. You're teammate. If you guys can deal
Speaker 1: with that show, we're gonna Oh is he calling me
Speaker 1: right now? We I really loved Carson's demeanor. Um, I
Speaker 1: just thought, you know, he he was just like, let's
Speaker 1: put this behind us, and you really I believed him,
Speaker 1: you know, just we have to stay the course, put
Speaker 1: this behind us. We know the talent we have and
Speaker 1: everybody just needs to do their jobs. I think there's
Speaker 1: a difference between this team is not good enough versus
Speaker 1: we know we're good enough and we didn't execute today.
Speaker 1: What kind of vibe did you get from him? The
Speaker 1: team's three and three. Yeah, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: there are three and there are three and three. We're
Speaker 1: going on the road. A great opportunity this week against
Speaker 1: a team that you were either going to be tied
Speaker 1: with or behind one game in the division. So you
Speaker 1: very much. It's not like the season's over. We can,
Speaker 1: you know, I think with his demeanor, I think you
Speaker 1: can kind of appreciate that. Look. They're gonna come back.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and improve on some of the things
Speaker 1: that they need to improve on. This week. You've got
Speaker 1: this week of practice, you go on the road with
Speaker 1: a night game on Sunday night down in Dallas. Is
Speaker 1: gonna be a huge matchup. All right, friend, we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of a break here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna uh, we're gonna send it to Mike Quick, who
Speaker 1: got to talk with head coach Jack Peterson one on one.
Speaker 1: Here's that interview. Coach, thanks you for joining us. First
Speaker 1: of all, tell me about the decision to go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down with Jake Keller on the fake
Speaker 1: field goal. Yeah, we had we had worked out in
Speaker 1: practice this week and it's it's a look that the
Speaker 1: Vikings presented actually on our earlier in the game, and
Speaker 1: so we we elected to go right there. We still
Speaker 1: had some time on the clock. We execute that properly,
Speaker 1: we get out of bounds, give us another opportunity to
Speaker 1: shoot the ball. Into the end zone. Great played by Minnesota,
Speaker 1: But does he have an option there that is just
Speaker 1: the option to throw it too. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was just an option to throw it to Dallas. And again,
Speaker 1: you know, they made a play and and uh you know,
Speaker 1: uh Jake was trying to make it play as well.
Speaker 1: Came back strong in the third quarter. You got it
Speaker 1: to twenty four ten or twenty four twenty. Um. Talk
Speaker 1: about what did it take to get the guys to
Speaker 1: get back into this football game. Yeah, you know, again, halftime,
Speaker 1: they they had no panic. Um, they felt comfortable with
Speaker 1: what we were doing, made that made the necessary adjustments
Speaker 1: that we needed to make, and n the run and
Speaker 1: the pass game and really you know, came out and
Speaker 1: and and and put that nice drive together. We got
Speaker 1: some explosive plays, got it in the end zone. Um,
Speaker 1: and it really was a spark that we needed in
Speaker 1: the second half. And then we went back down the field.
Speaker 1: We got the field goal after that and thought we
Speaker 1: had some momentum, you know, especially in that second half.
Speaker 1: How much are you concerned about the play of your
Speaker 1: secondary Well, you know, it's definitely concern um, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's not the only concerns there's things we can
Speaker 1: we can you know, look at you know everybody can
Speaker 1: look at. But you know, there are some injuries back there. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we got some guys coming, guys are getting healthy,
Speaker 1: you know, but still we gotta we gotta hold it together.
Speaker 1: And and and coaches, we got to coach our players
Speaker 1: up and make sure they're in the right spot and
Speaker 1: then understand the game plan. And um, you know that
Speaker 1: falls on us. But at the end of the day too,
Speaker 1: the players have to go play and make plays, and
Speaker 1: and uh, we got to make sure that we're doing
Speaker 1: doing right by them. Now, how do you handed us
Speaker 1: getting ready for the Cowboys? Do you just turn the
Speaker 1: page on this game? Do you look at it and
Speaker 1: do the corrections? Or I think you gotta look at it.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta see what we did right. You
Speaker 1: gotta see what we did wrong. Um. But but we'll
Speaker 1: do it quickly, um, you know, because we got to
Speaker 1: go back on the road again. A great opponent, NFC
Speaker 1: East opponent, the Cowboys coming up next weekend, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: how to beat them. Thanks coach, good look next week,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Verry candid. We gotta put this behind us.
Speaker 1: Another road opponent coming up. Thoughts on coach's conversation there,
Speaker 1: what do we learn? I mean, he's right, great domainor
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, one thing you don't want is to
Speaker 1: allow one loss to impact you next week. Right, there's
Speaker 1: still a lot of football left to play. They got
Speaker 1: the divisional opponent coming up next week against the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You got twenty four hours to sort of get this
Speaker 1: thing digested and get it out of your system, get
Speaker 1: ready for next week. Coach knows. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: allow one loss to linger into another. It's a cliche
Speaker 1: for well, what are the one of the options? He's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and feel sorry that we lost
Speaker 1: this game, and you know, don't worry about getting ready
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. I mean that the only option is, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna think about this on the flight. We're gonna
Speaker 1: worry about what we gotta fix tomorrow, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna worry about Dallas. I mean, that's that's the mood
Speaker 1: right now. All right, we are going to take a
Speaker 1: quick break. Friend, thanks so much for joining us. As always,
Speaker 1: on the other side, of this break, we will continue
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Speaker 1: as we continue to unwrap the eagles thirty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty loss to the Vikings. Eagles rookie Miles Sanders had
Speaker 1: his first touchdown in the NFL today, was a receiving
Speaker 1: touchdown for thirty two yards. He was three catches for
Speaker 1: eighty six yards and of course that touchdown along with
Speaker 1: another big forty five yard run in tonight's game, and
Speaker 1: he is a star of our RICO review today. Fran
Speaker 1: Duffie has more on that touchdown by the rookie right
Speaker 1: here in the RICO Review. So a rough start for
Speaker 1: the Eagles in this game. The Vikings jump out to
Speaker 1: a twenty four to three lead in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: The first touchdown for the Eagles comes on a long
Speaker 1: pass from Carson Wentz to Miles Sanders. It's a familiar play.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at how they set this up
Speaker 1: and what you're going to see first. Obviously, this is
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders in the backfield next to Carson Wentz. You've
Speaker 1: got Nelson Agilor coming on the jet sweep, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna be coming from left to right, and that's a
Speaker 1: big part of what we're gonna see here. The other
Speaker 1: unique part about this, this is really fun, is how
Speaker 1: the Eagles you both of their tight ends. You're lined
Speaker 1: up in a why why formation? Why why just meaning
Speaker 1: that you've got two tight ends. Two why tight ends
Speaker 1: run on the line of scrimmage on a condensed look
Speaker 1: here on the right side. So when you've got those
Speaker 1: two athletic tight ends here, two guys that are versatile,
Speaker 1: that can get down the field and even be vertical
Speaker 1: stretch options for you down the field, that's where the
Speaker 1: Eagles can get creative. And that's exactly what you're gonna
Speaker 1: see here. They're gonna catch the Vikings in a form
Speaker 1: of man coverage. And really what you've got is you've
Speaker 1: got Dallas Goddard and zach Ertz running vertically. That's ERTs
Speaker 1: running an over route. Here's zach Ertz. He's gonna run
Speaker 1: down the seam. And all that's meant to do is
Speaker 1: just take these two defenders from Minnesota and remove them
Speaker 1: from the picture. So if you just kind of remove
Speaker 1: those guys and say, Okay, they're not going to be
Speaker 1: a factor on this play. Now you're also gonna have
Speaker 1: this jet sweep action from Nelson I brought up earlier.
Speaker 1: That's also just gonna serve as I can you give
Speaker 1: the defense at the second and third level something to
Speaker 1: look at here in the backfield. Really, what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do is you're trying to get Miles Sanders, the
Speaker 1: rookie running back, matched up one on one with the
Speaker 1: linebacker Eric Kendricks. That's the matchup that you're trying to
Speaker 1: get here. So when you remove these two players, you
Speaker 1: have the jet sweep to hopefully kind of minimize the
Speaker 1: rush and pull away from anybody's eyes. The one guy
Speaker 1: that Carson Wentz has to make sure he accounts for
Speaker 1: here is the safety Anthony Harris. And what you're gonna
Speaker 1: see from Carson is after the ball is snapped, he's
Speaker 1: gonna drop back and his eyes are gonna stay to
Speaker 1: that left side quickly, so his eyes are gonna be
Speaker 1: there to hold that safety. And now you're just gonna
Speaker 1: get Miles Sanders releasing down the seam again. Those two
Speaker 1: tight ends here, they're gonna be running out. That's gonna
Speaker 1: open up a nice void for Miles Sanders to run
Speaker 1: through it. We'll let this run and you can see
Speaker 1: exactly how this plays out. Again, maintain focus on the
Speaker 1: relationship here between Miles Sanders and with Eric Kendricks. You
Speaker 1: could see the sea. He's running right down the seam.
Speaker 1: There's the matchup, great throw over the top. It's all
Speaker 1: created by those two tight ends that are stretching the
Speaker 1: defense Vertically. You've got the horizontal stretch with the jet
Speaker 1: suite from Nelson Aglor that helps create a big throw
Speaker 1: and catch from Carson Wets to Miles Sanders. Always great
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Speaker 1: Players of the Week nominee, and we will look ahead
Speaker 1: to the Eagles next opponent, a night game on the
Speaker 1: road against the Cowboys, a division rival. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: new Toyota this week. The nominees are Carson Wentz, Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: and all Sean Jeffrey and three really good choices there. Ike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like Miles Sanders. I like Miles Sanders. I mean,
Speaker 1: the other two guys sort of did what we expect
Speaker 1: them to do when you put the ball up as
Speaker 1: much as they were able to put it up today.
Speaker 1: But I like Miles Sanders in the new role, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're trying to find a way to get
Speaker 1: him involved in this offense. And we talked about this
Speaker 1: offense sort of lacking the ability to be explosive. Well,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders is an explosive player, and his great job
Speaker 1: of these coaches finding a way to get him involved
Speaker 1: in this offense. I thought it helped out the passing
Speaker 1: game tremendously today. Yeah, I think it's kind of an
Speaker 1: easy one here on Miles Sanders based on the big play.
Speaker 1: But look, all Sean Jeffrey gets a touchdown in this one.
Speaker 1: He caught ten pauses twelve times, seventy six yards in
Speaker 1: one touchdown. And he, out of all active players, leads
Speaker 1: the patient in touchdowns and receiving yards against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: So he just has their number out there in Minnesota. Ike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember the big one, a big game in the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, right, called the deep touchdown against him,
Speaker 1: and called a touchdown in Super Bowl fifty two as well.
Speaker 1: So he likes. He likes when he sees the Bikers
Speaker 1: or when he's playing in Minnesota. And I'm sure if
Speaker 1: you talk to all Shan today, he would say he
Speaker 1: does not care how he did. He would rather have
Speaker 1: the win, as all these guys would. Of course, Coach
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson saying in his press conference, look, we still
Speaker 1: have ten games left. There is a lot of football
Speaker 1: to play, and they're in a road. They're in a
Speaker 1: three game road stretch, and it's gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: one next week on the road against Dallas their next opponent.
Speaker 1: Dallas currently losing to the Jets right now seven to three.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that score holds as the day goes on,
Speaker 1: but Dallas currently three and two. We'll see how they
Speaker 1: are at the end of the day. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: that should be a really good game. You know, the
Speaker 1: division rival, but I mean this division is wide open night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: top two teams in this division get a chance to
Speaker 1: meet up for the first time this year Sunday Night,
Speaker 1: America's Game one against that team down there on their field.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Eagles are looking forward to getting back
Speaker 1: out on the field and trying to get get that
Speaker 1: winning taste back in their mouth, get this losing taste
Speaker 1: out of their mouth. What better way to do it
Speaker 1: than against your chief rival in this division, a team
Speaker 1: that you expected to be sort of neck and neck
Speaker 1: with as it pertains to winning this division. And so
Speaker 1: first game you get a chance to see them next week, Hey,
Speaker 1: what a way to get a victory. Go down there
Speaker 1: and get one very high stakes in that one. But
Speaker 1: as we always stay around here, it is the most
Speaker 1: important game because it is the next game. That game
Speaker 1: kickoff at eight twenty so we will be back here
Speaker 1: seven fifty pm with the kickoff show friend Jeffie and
Speaker 1: myself and then of course the postgame show presented by
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Speaker 1: see you next week when we get ready for that one.
Speaker 1: Have a good one everyone,