Speaker 1: It's a statement when the Eagles were looking for and
Speaker 1: it's a statement when they got taking down the New
Speaker 1: York Jets thirty one to six. Welcome to the postgame Show,
Speaker 1: presented by rico Ike Greece alongside me Amy Campbell. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a showdown. A lot of good things to talk
Speaker 1: about for the Eagles in this one. But I felt
Speaker 1: like Oprah out here, like you get a sack, you
Speaker 1: get a sack, you get a sack, ten sacks. The
Speaker 1: Eagles defense was able to execute against the Jets seven
Speaker 1: different players, Brandon Graham a career high three. Let's just
Speaker 1: talk about this effort from the defensive perspective. Was jumping
Speaker 1: out to you off the back. Yeah, just a great job.
Speaker 1: I thought of the defense really taking advantage of an
Speaker 1: offense with an inexperienced quarterback running. It didn't know what
Speaker 1: type of game plan Adam Gase was gonna have to day,
Speaker 1: whether or not he would let him put the ball
Speaker 1: up numerous amount of times, or where they try to
Speaker 1: be a little more conservative and run. They got behind
Speaker 1: in the score and you had to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a great job of our
Speaker 1: defensive line really taking advantage of the the lack of
Speaker 1: performance of that offensive line from New York Jets. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you knew that we're inexperienced a quarterback because Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold was out today, and of course the Eagles defense
Speaker 1: took advantage of it, not just the offensive line or
Speaker 1: not just the defensive line. And look, Orlando scandrick first
Speaker 1: game is an Eagle. Yeah, welcome back to Philadelphia. He's
Speaker 1: been back for a couple of days. First action in
Speaker 1: this Eagles defense. He has two strip sacks, one of
Speaker 1: them for a touchdown. He just took the ball away.
Speaker 1: What do you think he's feeling on a day like today, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's probably very exciting. I mean, you come back,
Speaker 1: you were on the streets at the being in training
Speaker 1: camp with the Eagles, and you're sitting at home waiting
Speaker 1: on the phone call. And then he gets brought in
Speaker 1: and then to be a part of the game plan.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I don't know how many Nickel bl
Speaker 1: blitzes we've run this year, but certainly they haven't been
Speaker 1: anywhere Orlando Scandrick. So that was a great part of
Speaker 1: the game plan from Jim Schwartz to have Orlando Scandricks
Speaker 1: coming in off the edge, bringing that extra pressure on
Speaker 1: this young quarter back in Luke Falk and then with
Speaker 1: the second strip. I love how Orlando scan he was
Speaker 1: picked up in the protection, but he did a nice
Speaker 1: job of defeating that running black I mean running back
Speaker 1: order tight end to get to that sack. And then
Speaker 1: the great thing I love that he did, he went
Speaker 1: after the football. That's what the players have been taught
Speaker 1: today and used to be get a big hit trying
Speaker 1: to knock the quarterback out of the game. We know
Speaker 1: you get penalized in fine for that in today's game.
Speaker 1: So today's players they do a great job of trying
Speaker 1: to get that football. Orlando did it twice today, two sacks,
Speaker 1: two strip bumbles. Was able to take that second one
Speaker 1: in for a touchdown. Yeah, and it was a real
Speaker 1: and really exciting fashion, just kind of like, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: give me that, I'm going to the house. Let's also
Speaker 1: talk about Brandon Graham. He had three sacks today, which
Speaker 1: was a career high but also a milestone. He now
Speaker 1: with his forty five and a half sacks, is sixth
Speaker 1: most in team history, and he almost had four today.
Speaker 1: He was just a tenth of a second too slow.
Speaker 1: To have four sacks today. What kind of performance did
Speaker 1: you see from him? Just another great performance. And the
Speaker 1: thing that I love is that these guys finally got
Speaker 1: rewarded for the pass Russians. Right, We've been talking about
Speaker 1: getting quarterback pressures, getting quarterback hurries. It's one of the
Speaker 1: categories that this Eagles defense is up in the top
Speaker 1: echelon of the NFL. They just haven't been rewarded with
Speaker 1: sacks because quarterbacks tend to get the ball away a
Speaker 1: lot quicker. Today you get an inexperienced guy back there,
Speaker 1: and now these guys got rewarded. Brandon Graham, who was
Speaker 1: one of the more relentless workers out there, does a
Speaker 1: great job of playing with tireless effort, and it was
Speaker 1: great to see him get three sacks. And he's creeping
Speaker 1: up that all time sacked lists. Enfranchise history obviously as
Speaker 1: a player that we all love and root for, and
Speaker 1: the fact that he's get starting to get rewarded for that.
Speaker 1: It's good for him because he puts in a lot
Speaker 1: of work. I don't think there's any person who has
Speaker 1: anything bad to say about Brandon Graham. And of course
Speaker 1: we weren't sure if he was going to be back
Speaker 1: this year. Everybody happy that that all worked out and
Speaker 1: he's having a really solid year as well. We talk
Speaker 1: about Look just the impact that the Eagles defense was
Speaker 1: able to have against any inferior Jets offensive line, still
Speaker 1: ten sacks when they only had three coming into this
Speaker 1: game altogether. So they're gonna be rocketing up those NFL
Speaker 1: teams stats sack numbers across the league on just a
Speaker 1: game like today, knowing though it was against one of
Speaker 1: the worst offensive lines in the league statistically, what do
Speaker 1: you take from that as a team to move forward.
Speaker 1: I think it's a positive. I mean it came into
Speaker 1: this week saying this is a week we can get
Speaker 1: healthy on the defensive side of the ball. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean from a physical standpoint, I mean from a
Speaker 1: statistical standpoint, where we haven't seen the numbers up. They
Speaker 1: were the worst team in the league when it came
Speaker 1: to sacks, only three coming into this game. Well, you
Speaker 1: look at the top of the sack leaderboard with some
Speaker 1: of those teams, they've had the opportunity to play. The
Speaker 1: teams like the Jets, the Miami Dolphins, the Washington risk
Speaker 1: against teams with poor offensive line, poor quarterback play, so
Speaker 1: just keep working hard. Eventually the numbers will bear itself
Speaker 1: out here to start to show up in the standings.
Speaker 1: This is the day where I'm pretty sure the defensive
Speaker 1: line we're saying to themselves, I'm going into the game,
Speaker 1: meet me at the quarterback and so you sort of
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a competition going on amongst
Speaker 1: those d linement trying to get their chance to feed
Speaker 1: on this Jets offensive line. And it was just great
Speaker 1: to see that today. This is a defensive town. We
Speaker 1: love to see our defensive players have success, and today
Speaker 1: was one of those days where you knew the defense
Speaker 1: was gonna have to lead the charge. I thought the
Speaker 1: Jets defense is a little bit better than it was
Speaker 1: giving credit for it coming in. That showed itself today
Speaker 1: as well against our offense. So I thought we were
Speaker 1: gonna have to do a great job of getting turnovers
Speaker 1: shortened the field for our offense. And this is a
Speaker 1: game where you can take this and build momentum, right,
Speaker 1: get your confidence going. You got a tough three game
Speaker 1: road stretch coming up, so it was great they had
Speaker 1: a game like this before they start that three game stretch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we'll continue to dissect all of that. But Eagles
Speaker 1: insider Dave Spernaro standing by from Lincoln Financial Field, Dave,
Speaker 1: how do you we come into this one saying that
Speaker 1: Eagles need a statement when they take down the Jets
Speaker 1: thirty one to six. A lot of really exciting moments
Speaker 1: in this one. How do you evaluate this win for
Speaker 1: the Eagles at first class? You know, I evaluated pretty
Speaker 1: much the way everybody is. The Jets are as bad
Speaker 1: as advertised, particularly offensively. It was just good. You know,
Speaker 1: being around this team for so long, I know what
Speaker 1: this kind of game can do. You know, the pass
Speaker 1: rush for four weeks here has been a big source
Speaker 1: of concern questions, and then to unleash it with ten
Speaker 1: sacks that kind of gets things going, and from a
Speaker 1: confidence standpoint, you really feel good about it, and the
Speaker 1: players aren't. Dajan Hall comes in and gets a quarterback sack,
Speaker 1: Hassan Ridgeway sacks the quarterback. You know, Vinny Curry and
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham dominating, Fletchercocks dominating. So I think that I
Speaker 1: take away that those players can really build off of
Speaker 1: this kind of performance. I think a player like Orlando
Speaker 1: Scandrick comes in and makes two big plays, two strip sacks,
Speaker 1: returns the one strip sack for a touchdown, you find
Speaker 1: a role for somebody found out today that Orlando Scandrick
Speaker 1: can blitz the quarterback from that slot position and be
Speaker 1: effective and do it, so you kind of have another
Speaker 1: tool in your belt. As far as Jim Schwartz is
Speaker 1: concerned from the Eagles offensive standpoint, I really don't read
Speaker 1: much at all into this. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: fairly sloppy performance. The Jets are better, as you said.
Speaker 1: I then a lot of people thought coming in outstanding
Speaker 1: play at the safety position. So the only thing I
Speaker 1: wanted today was to get a win and come out
Speaker 1: of it without an injury. We'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowls. My senses that you know it's going to
Speaker 1: be one of those injuries that you kind of wait
Speaker 1: and see with a player of that age. But otherwise,
Speaker 1: and it was a shame too, because he had just
Speaker 1: moved into fifth place all time in the career yardage
Speaker 1: rankings and then he goes out and gets hurt and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with him. But hey, for the
Speaker 1: most part, this is exactly what you want it. I
Speaker 1: remember asking Rodney McCloud earlier in the week. What did
Speaker 1: that winning Green Bay do? He said it was a
Speaker 1: game that got his back on track. Well, if that's
Speaker 1: the case, this is just one of those games that
Speaker 1: it's a matter of fact, business like, let's get out
Speaker 1: of here with a W and get ready for some
Speaker 1: real competition on the road. It's great to see the
Speaker 1: defense play the way that they played today. I think
Speaker 1: most of us sort of anticipated they would have somewhat
Speaker 1: of a good game, good day, and we would be
Speaker 1: more surprised if they didn't as opposed to the day
Speaker 1: they had. But the offense, I know, they was going
Speaker 1: up against a little better Jets defense than people wanted
Speaker 1: to give them credit for. Greg Williams is a good
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. The offense either fell asleep at some point
Speaker 1: in that first half or they still are struggling to
Speaker 1: sort of move the ball. Which do you think it
Speaker 1: was more of today when you look at how the
Speaker 1: offense sort of stalled at times in the first half.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that football is such a game
Speaker 1: of emotions and intensity, and the Eagles came ramped up
Speaker 1: to go out to Green Bay and win that game.
Speaker 1: When you don't convert a fourth and one. As the
Speaker 1: Eagles did not convert today, Carson Wentz Sneakin just tells
Speaker 1: me that that little extra edge wasn't there. I kind
Speaker 1: of chalk it up to that. Rather than being concerned
Speaker 1: about any exus and o's or personnel, I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles will have a completely different plan and a completely
Speaker 1: different level of intensity next week in Minnesota. I am
Speaker 1: not worried about this Eagles offense. I am very interested
Speaker 1: to see how the Eagles next week perform against a
Speaker 1: Vikings offense that got on track against the Giants today
Speaker 1: that has some excellent receivers in feeling and digs. So
Speaker 1: to have this kind of performance from the likes of
Speaker 1: Craig James and Orlando Scandrick, that is encouraging. And maybe
Speaker 1: just maybe the Eagles get a cornerback back on the
Speaker 1: field this week because they're gonna need to really come
Speaker 1: up with that same kind of defensive effort against the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. D if we know that you need to
Speaker 1: get in that locker room and get the reaction from
Speaker 1: the players and get the vibe. So we'll let you
Speaker 1: get to that and thank you so much. We'll see
Speaker 1: you soon. Thank you guys, all right, really good stuff
Speaker 1: there from Dave as always just on the field, feeling
Speaker 1: the vibe scene thinks that we can't see. Let's get
Speaker 1: to your takeaways. Let's start with number one. What jumped
Speaker 1: out to you from this one? Well, the defense is
Speaker 1: going to be the story of the game, right Amy,
Speaker 1: I'm meaning the fact that they came in to this
Speaker 1: game last in sight with only three that's almost unheard of.
Speaker 1: Through four games they only have three sacks. Well, it's
Speaker 1: very uncharacteristic for this defense as right, and so to
Speaker 1: get ten today. I think they set the tone. The
Speaker 1: Nate Gary interception picked six four touchdown really allowed Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz to start dalling up blitches and heating up Lou
Speaker 1: Falk as a quarterback. And I just thought they really
Speaker 1: set the tone for what today was going to be.
Speaker 1: Like they were real. They smothered this Jets offense and
Speaker 1: they couldn't really get across the midfield until we turned
Speaker 1: the ball over from a muff punt in the second half.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense was just dominating to day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Jets were on fifty five offensive plays, they met
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight yards. Really struggling inefficiency zero
Speaker 1: for zero on goal to go. So that just kind
Speaker 1: of shows you how limited they were by what the
Speaker 1: Eagles were able to do to them. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's what you want, like they got. We talked about
Speaker 1: the road game stretch they have coming up and coming
Speaker 1: off a game like they did against Green Bay where
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodger was able to sort of carve us up
Speaker 1: through the air and we had to sort of play
Speaker 1: band but don't break defense. This is a game where
Speaker 1: from a confidence standpoint, you can just let your hair
Speaker 1: down and play fast. You know, you're not really worried
Speaker 1: about the ball being thrown over your head. You know
Speaker 1: everything's going to be thrown up in front of you.
Speaker 1: So it allow these guys to play with a little
Speaker 1: bit more reckless abandon and quite frankly, this is something
Speaker 1: you can take with you moving forward, because in order
Speaker 1: to be an opportunistic defense, you do have to play
Speaker 1: with a little bit of fearlessness, right, You can't be
Speaker 1: afraid to give up the big plays playing conservative. So
Speaker 1: I like the way the mentality is sort of set
Speaker 1: right now. The big turnover to end that game on
Speaker 1: Thursday night against Green Bay and then carrying it into
Speaker 1: today where they got more turnovers and sacks. It bodes
Speaker 1: well for us moving forward. Yeah, you mentioned the Nate
Speaker 1: Gary interception and also Roddy McLoud hunt an interception. So
Speaker 1: really the defense able to take the ball away, able
Speaker 1: to really make New York struggle in many different ways.
Speaker 1: What else for your second takeaway? And then when you
Speaker 1: look at the offense, right, it's not a ton there, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, car And sort of did what
Speaker 1: he needed to do today from the quarterback position, from
Speaker 1: the running back position. Second game in the role that
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Howard it's really starting to seize sort
Speaker 1: of that top back in this offense. Right. We know
Speaker 1: that he and Mal Sandras are going to be used
Speaker 1: each week both to be a part of the game plan.
Speaker 1: But if you look at when and where the carries come,
Speaker 1: you can tell that Jordan Howard is starting to gain
Speaker 1: the trust of the coaches and from this standpoint of
Speaker 1: being able to use the whole playbook from a running
Speaker 1: game standpoint, with him catching the ball out of the
Speaker 1: backfield tough in between the tackle runs. Got another touchdown today.
Speaker 1: I believe that's his fifth touchdown in the last four games.
Speaker 1: So you love to see that. You love to have
Speaker 1: that big back. We're getting into the fall and winner
Speaker 1: portion of the schedule that had that big back because
Speaker 1: you can trust with the ball. Love what Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: did today, Well, that was something the Eagles did have
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. That was kind of a hallmark of
Speaker 1: this team, something they lacked last year or so very
Speaker 1: exciting to see Howard kind of get going today. He
Speaker 1: has thirteen carry for sixty two yards, one touchdown and
Speaker 1: like you said, his fifth touchdown. Let's get to take
Speaker 1: away number three. And then I got to go to
Speaker 1: the overall performance of the team. Right, You're coming in
Speaker 1: against an inferior opponent like the New York Jets, and
Speaker 1: it's very easy to overlook this team. Dave talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, the level of energy that it could be
Speaker 1: difficult for a team to sustain when you're planning against
Speaker 1: an opponent like this other as opposed to an opponent
Speaker 1: like the Green Bay Packers. I still like the fact
Speaker 1: that the Eagles were able to keep that together for
Speaker 1: the most part, But there are still things they need
Speaker 1: to clean up, right, there are there are still things
Speaker 1: that I need to be worked on. Nine penalties coming
Speaker 1: at critical junctures. I think that also played a part
Speaker 1: and why the offense stalled at times, right, And you
Speaker 1: can't have that where I think at one point we
Speaker 1: had a third and thirty or something like that, and
Speaker 1: you just don't want to have that. That's a lack
Speaker 1: of concentration and focus. And for the third week and
Speaker 1: a roll, those penalties are sort of hampered the offense
Speaker 1: a little bit. They certainly need to get that cleaned up. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, one on the side, they are able to
Speaker 1: score on their first possession of the game, their first show.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since we've seen that. They go up.
Speaker 1: I'm more than more than two scores before, you know,
Speaker 1: before the halftime. So definitely some positives will continue to discuss.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we have Merrill Reese and Mike Quick.
Speaker 1: I know they had a lot of fun up there.
Speaker 1: Call in this game my favorite part of our show.
Speaker 1: Merrill Cam coming at you now. Third to nine, fuck
Speaker 1: in the gun. Four receivers, three left back goes fuck,
Speaker 1: he steps up, he's hit, He's down, bringing him down
Speaker 1: as Brandon Graham. Two hits at a sack for Brandon Graham.
Speaker 1: I formation Wentz under center, he gives it off to Howard.
Speaker 1: Howard plushes, scrapes and he's knocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. This is what I meant when I
Speaker 1: talked about a team with nothing to lose. It's fourth
Speaker 1: and one and they're going for it under centers fall.
Speaker 1: Did they try to power run again? They don't. Falk
Speaker 1: rolls now fires and it's intercepted, intercepted by Gary. Down
Speaker 1: the sideline goes daph and Gary touch down. Nathan Gary.
Speaker 1: He did it in Atlanta and he does it again.
Speaker 1: Back goes Fork. He steps up. He is going deep middle.
Speaker 1: It is intercepted of the deflection by McLeod McCloud at
Speaker 1: the forty at the forty five at midfield, running with
Speaker 1: the football down to the forty two, Rudney McLeod did
Speaker 1: it on the deflection. Wentz takes the snap here, come
Speaker 1: to the the rush. He lets it go complete into the
Speaker 1: end zone. Touchdown. Zach Ertz Wentz and the shotgun again.
Speaker 1: He backs up, looks, steps up, ducks under a rush, fires,
Speaker 1: leaping reception, irks across midfield. At the forty nine, Carson
Speaker 1: went to the special quarterback and you see that unfood
Speaker 1: display on this particular plate. Back again goes Falk. He
Speaker 1: steps up, he bounces around two ladies. Henry's brought down
Speaker 1: another side Brandy Graham his third of the game. Three
Speaker 1: sacks for BG, and he just overpowers that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Back goes Crowder. He's looking, he's got old tea. Now
Speaker 1: he starts to run and he's hit. He's flapped again
Speaker 1: at the ball comes close and it's picked up by
Speaker 1: scan Rick scan Rick at the twenty, at the fifteen,
Speaker 1: at the ten five scan Rick touchdown Eagles second of
Speaker 1: the tame by the defense. He ripped the football away
Speaker 1: from the quarterback din Orlando Scandrick, and then he just
Speaker 1: scampered down the right sideline, runs away from the big
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and into the end zone. I never thought
Speaker 1: I'd like a Dallas cowboy. It does not get better
Speaker 1: than that. As always for En Duffy joining us now
Speaker 1: to break down the scame, analyze all of the exes
Speaker 1: and o's the twelve personnel frand we got his w
Speaker 1: Sorry Prisonellis he really should be like the name of
Speaker 1: this segment, that's what the brand Duffy segment, the twelve
Speaker 1: personnel break down all right, let's talk about some of
Speaker 1: the things that you're going to be excited to dive
Speaker 1: into this film and break down what did you see
Speaker 1: from the Eagles sacker two. Probably that's why I guess
Speaker 1: I would be where I would start. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: and not have to discuss pressures versus sacks this week, like,
Speaker 1: really really happy to not have that discussion. But the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense, obviously they found different ways to get after
Speaker 1: the quarterback whoever was behind center for the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: whether it was through the blitz, stunts, one on one matchups,
Speaker 1: they did it all in this game. Really excited to
Speaker 1: dig deep into that. My guess is that will be
Speaker 1: the topic of tomorrow's Eagle Line in the Sky column,
Speaker 1: So we'll be breaking that down for sure. That's the
Speaker 1: first thing I'm excited to look at. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw and we saw some good things too where and
Speaker 1: like you noted this, the pressure often it's hand in
Speaker 1: hand with the coverage, So I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what the coverage looked like on the back end of
Speaker 1: some of those sacks. But then later in the show,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break down an interception by Rodney mcleoden. How
Speaker 1: the pressure had something to do with that. So so
Speaker 1: often those two are conjoined, and I thought that really
Speaker 1: showed up in this game. So at first glance, one
Speaker 1: of the storylines coming into this was the cornerback injuries
Speaker 1: and the churning of the roster. In the depth there,
Speaker 1: of course we saw at Orlando Skendrick how to heck
Speaker 1: of a game. But at first glance, how would you
Speaker 1: evaluate how that group performed as a whole. It's it's
Speaker 1: tough to say without going in and watching the film,
Speaker 1: but look, clearly the results they show themselves. I mean, rather,
Speaker 1: you had so many sacks, not really a lot of
Speaker 1: big players down the field. I'll be it against the Jets.
Speaker 1: They don't have the best supporting staff in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, I think when you look at the performance
Speaker 1: of this game and the execution from this game, it's
Speaker 1: hard to have a complaint right now. Yeah, you talked
Speaker 1: about the pressure, right and today we noticed that they
Speaker 1: were running a lot of line stunts. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: te stunts, tackle ends, et stunts. The benefit of doing
Speaker 1: that today versus trying to be guys from a straight
Speaker 1: up or a head up standpoint. Yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's such a great way to kind of to break
Speaker 1: down man protection. Those stunts the ways that you can,
Speaker 1: you know, especially when they have substitutions in Yeah, the
Speaker 1: communication isn't always great. So when you're asking those guys
Speaker 1: to pass people off, you know, you have a rookie
Speaker 1: of right tackle, you've got a new player who was
Speaker 1: just acquired the summer in a guard. When you're asking
Speaker 1: those guys to come in and say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: work with this tackle, work with the center that you
Speaker 1: haven't worked with over the last few weeks. Communications paramount.
Speaker 1: By running all those stunts, you're putting a lot of
Speaker 1: stress on those sits, on those guys in a communication standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's tough sledding for those guys. So if we go
Speaker 1: hindsight a little bit on Eagles game plan, some of
Speaker 1: the things that you broke down looking ahead to this matchup,
Speaker 1: Now let's look back, how would you evaluate those things
Speaker 1: that you were watching in this game? Well, you broke
Speaker 1: down the you know, the red zone defense and how
Speaker 1: you know they're really the pressure. It was so important
Speaker 1: for them. It came up in this game once or twice.
Speaker 1: So I think to me that was one of the
Speaker 1: big things that certainly came out. We focused in on
Speaker 1: guys like Jamison Crowder and things like that. Look, the
Speaker 1: pressure rendered those pass threats null and void. I mean
Speaker 1: they were not able to get the ball out of
Speaker 1: the quarterback's hand because whether they were tackled the bending
Speaker 1: back for sacks or if the pressure was just there,
Speaker 1: the ball came out early. I mean, they was tough
Speaker 1: for them to get anything gone from pass game standing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles defense fast flowing to day, trusting their eyes,
Speaker 1: not a lot of complication to the Jets of offense.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's kind of seaball go a tag ball.
Speaker 1: The only touchdown to Jet score is that they use
Speaker 1: the Eagles aggressiveness against them and they basically have to
Speaker 1: run that reverse where they get most of the guy's
Speaker 1: fast flowing to the front side. Other than that, anything
Speaker 1: straight up the Jets ran Jets did not work today.
Speaker 1: I thought Jim Schwartz started to get into a little
Speaker 1: bit of a comfort zone. I mean, anytime he's dialing
Speaker 1: up Slot Blitzeres, I've never seen that from a Jim
Speaker 1: Schwarts defense, right, I mean Orlando Scant because in that backfield,
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Yes, dude, did he see things
Speaker 1: that made that like he wanted to dial it up
Speaker 1: even more so watching the Jets. What about the Jets
Speaker 1: offensive line sent that message like, hey, let's let the
Speaker 1: you know, let them go. I think brand talking about
Speaker 1: having pieces in there that don't really have a ton
Speaker 1: of experience of playing with each other is certainly the
Speaker 1: part of it. But the biggest part of it is
Speaker 1: the young quarterback. His eyes just haven't seen enough. And
Speaker 1: the more you start throwing those green jerseys and helmets
Speaker 1: in front of him, you want to make sure you
Speaker 1: speed up his thought process and make him either hold
Speaker 1: onto the football or get rid of it. And he
Speaker 1: wants to. And that's what you do to a young guy.
Speaker 1: Don't give him time to get comfortable back there, make
Speaker 1: him think fast on his speed calls confusion amongst average. Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you finish that in a minute, but
Speaker 1: head coach Peterson at the podium where you can bring
Speaker 1: a little easier going in the fourth quarter and yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, like I told you guys after the game,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's obviously great to win in this league,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to win in this league, and there's
Speaker 1: many ways to win in this league. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you're in the fourth quarter with that type of lead,
Speaker 1: I mean it's obviously, Um, it's nice to have a
Speaker 1: lot of credits to the defense today to get us
Speaker 1: that lead. Um, and uh, you can you can breathe
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, um, at least halfway through
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. No, No, what was it over? The
Speaker 1: biggest issues for him, Well, one of the penalties. I mean,
Speaker 1: you saw an offense, Um, how a sort of average
Speaker 1: we played. I mean, you know, we take, for instance,
Speaker 1: a first down run for eight or nine and we
Speaker 1: have a whole thing or you know, a pass and
Speaker 1: have a either give up a sack or um, you know,
Speaker 1: holding or it just the penalties just just put put
Speaker 1: us in too many long situations today, second long, third
Speaker 1: and long. I mean haven't looked at the stat book yet,
Speaker 1: but I bet you there was uh many of those
Speaker 1: were second long and third and long plays that it's
Speaker 1: hard to overcome in this league. And then that's a
Speaker 1: good defense. Now, don't don't get me wrong, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good defense. It's a good front. Um. But
Speaker 1: now we didn't we didn't play offensively didn't play good
Speaker 1: enough to uh, you know, we gotta look at it
Speaker 1: and make corrections on the issue. You thought in terms
Speaker 1: of timing out from the ball down field. Well, number
Speaker 1: one again, good pass rush and it's a really good
Speaker 1: pass rush they got they go a good edge rushers,
Speaker 1: good tackles. Um and and um, you know we just
Speaker 1: we got edged a few times. But uh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we we gotta look at the tape. We gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta be hard and critical on ourselves. I gotta look
Speaker 1: at it from from my standpoint as a play caller,
Speaker 1: and and um and get better playing. Uh. I think
Speaker 1: it's just the same kind of cover. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: he's he's he's a he actually he's a he's a
Speaker 1: two deep guy. And there were variations of of cover two. Um.
Speaker 1: At the snap he brought a lot of edge pressure
Speaker 1: with the corners and safeties and um, you know, so
Speaker 1: it disrupts a little a little bit, keeps your backs
Speaker 1: in things like that. UM. And then and then he'll
Speaker 1: switch gears and play single high man um and do
Speaker 1: the same thing. So uh, it's it's a nice it's
Speaker 1: a nice defense. It's a complex defense. But I thought, um,
Speaker 1: we just didn't do enough, um, you know to overcome
Speaker 1: some of the some of the mistakes that we made
Speaker 1: with the games. The stretching got coming up, the three
Speaker 1: on the road, the couple after that, it gets filling
Speaker 1: the teams. What do you and we'd have to do
Speaker 1: to make sure that you knock off you know, the
Speaker 1: slobbyists that you had to do. We just gotta keep working. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it starts when the players come back on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and we get a chance to watch this tape.
Speaker 1: We get to make make the corrections with the players, um,
Speaker 1: and and get ready for for our next opponents. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's the only way we know how to
Speaker 1: do it, you know, is to come back ready to work.
Speaker 1: This week has four games. We've ever concerned that has
Speaker 1: resist going to help? No, I was never concerned with that,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you know, there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of talk about Fletch and and and uh you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's now coming into his own he's feeling good
Speaker 1: and healthy and um, you saw today. I think ten
Speaker 1: sacts today got after them and um, you know, so uh,
Speaker 1: I didn't have any worries you know moving forward. Do
Speaker 1: you think that you're a team considering what helping the
Speaker 1: favor you were the team didn't focus, your team didn't
Speaker 1: play arts or so do you think that that's an issue? Well,
Speaker 1: I know, I know sometimes you can. You can kind
Speaker 1: of get caught up in that, you know, as players,
Speaker 1: as coaches and mean, you get caught up in that,
Speaker 1: you know. But again in this league, it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to win, and and we always focus on
Speaker 1: us and control what we can control, and you know
Speaker 1: we can't make the mistakes, um, and and expect to
Speaker 1: win you know each week. Um, it's as a team.
Speaker 1: Sport takes all three phases and um, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can get caught up in it. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's just a matter of just us focusing
Speaker 1: on us and and and eliminating the mistakes that we
Speaker 1: had today to to get better and and uh and
Speaker 1: try to just you know, again like everybody says, try
Speaker 1: to just go one and out each week. When you
Speaker 1: bring a guy back with the team earlier, but you
Speaker 1: know he's started a situation like that, did you talk
Speaker 1: to him at all this week about what to be
Speaker 1: expect the little bit, how he'd just like to see
Speaker 1: him come out two sacks and yeah, no, I you know,
Speaker 1: he understands. He's a veteran player. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: have any conversations with with with him. Um and and
Speaker 1: you know he just kind of fit in and did
Speaker 1: exactly uh you know what the defense what Jim what
Speaker 1: jimed out up today. It was great to see you know,
Speaker 1: the the uh, the effort that he had. He made
Speaker 1: some big playces today for us. Obviously the touchdown uh
Speaker 1: there at the end of the game. Um, and uh,
Speaker 1: he'll get better each week you coach against the people.
Speaker 1: What makes him NFL because he's he's played that role
Speaker 1: at the past. Yeah, he's. No, he's he's he's a
Speaker 1: smart guy. He's he times up the blitz, is he
Speaker 1: Uh you know sometimes these guys can can kind of
Speaker 1: slither their way through, you know, and and get under
Speaker 1: blocks and and you know they're quick enough to bend
Speaker 1: and edge the corner. And um, this is this is
Speaker 1: who he is, you know and and uh, he's he's
Speaker 1: a great addition that we were able to get him back.
Speaker 1: How much the offensive Sean, and what are your expectations
Speaker 1: of when he can be back? Well, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you know one player um can can add add value.
Speaker 1: But it's again on offense, it's eleven guys and and
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the the opportunity to maybe throw the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit deeper down the field, UM can
Speaker 1: can add with his with his speed, you know, a
Speaker 1: veteran guy. But uh, you know, I thought today too,
Speaker 1: though our our receivers, um, you know, did some good
Speaker 1: things when the ball went off, they did some nice
Speaker 1: things down the field. We're able to take advantage from things.
Speaker 1: I thought the tight Ends played played well. Um, we
Speaker 1: just got too many mistakes, too many mistakes today we
Speaker 1: got to clean up. What was the plan for her city? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He uh he was, he was, you know, healthy enough
Speaker 1: to dress. Um. You know, he didn't know when problem
Speaker 1: was he didn't take any of the a lot of
Speaker 1: reps during the week, you know, because we were trying
Speaker 1: to get him, get him to to today. Um and uh,
Speaker 1: you know he was there as a as a backup,
Speaker 1: you know, corner dB and and well we'll assess and
Speaker 1: and you know, see where he's at this next week.
Speaker 1: And are you concerned at all about him? Maybe holding
Speaker 1: the ball just took too long. He king he was
Speaker 1: been back a couple of times a day. He'd been
Speaker 1: to bed back five or six times this year. Is
Speaker 1: that maybe the next step in his maturation process? Um?
Speaker 1: I thought overall, he handled you know, he handled things
Speaker 1: well obviously until until I go back and look at
Speaker 1: it tomorrow. But um, you know, we got to do
Speaker 1: a better job with protection. We gotta understand, you know,
Speaker 1: with with the core back position too, that you know,
Speaker 1: it's okay to you know, either check it down or
Speaker 1: throw it throw it away from time to time. UM,
Speaker 1: just understand, that's kind of been what we've done, you know,
Speaker 1: leading up up to this game. But I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought he played, he played tough, He played tough, and
Speaker 1: and he did the things we asked him to do today. Thanks,
Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, okay. Coach Peterson with his thoughts after
Speaker 1: this one, I'm really focusing on the mistakes that this
Speaker 1: team made. Um, And yeah, I mean there were some
Speaker 1: of those, mostly on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: What did you take away from coaches press conference? We'll
Speaker 1: start with your friend. I mean, that's the way to
Speaker 1: handle it, right is when you're coming out of that
Speaker 1: kind of a game, you don't want to say, oh man,
Speaker 1: great job, guys, Like all right, now let's go beat
Speaker 1: him this fast you got. You have to help harp
Speaker 1: in on the negative and say and say, look, this
Speaker 1: was not a perfect game. We could have done a
Speaker 1: lot better, especially on offense, and obviously that's where Doug's
Speaker 1: focus is. They certainly could have done better. So I
Speaker 1: absolutely I'm not shocked by that reaction. He's an offensive coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he wants his side of the football to play well
Speaker 1: as also, And when you look at a game like today,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say to yourself, I need coaching points, right,
Speaker 1: teaching points. You know, players, we can sometimes get a
Speaker 1: false sense of security when you play a game like
Speaker 1: this and it's a little harder to go back and
Speaker 1: correct things. But on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: guarantee you Doug is looking at either drop passes, He's
Speaker 1: looking at primarily those penalties that came in critical situations
Speaker 1: that made them get behind the sticks installed drives. You
Speaker 1: have a twelve played drive where you have seven plus
Speaker 1: minutes eating up on the clock, you only get three
Speaker 1: points out of it. Guarantee that didn't make the head
Speaker 1: coach happy there. Or you are pitching a shutout and
Speaker 1: have a little bit situation happening down there as well.
Speaker 1: That was a little confusing, But yeah, to give the
Speaker 1: Jets their only points at the game, it reminds me
Speaker 1: a little bit of your former coach, like Alabama when
Speaker 1: they lose a game, you know what, or they win
Speaker 1: a game forty eight to three and they say, oh, coach,
Speaker 1: would you think after the game it says, I really
Speaker 1: didn't want to give up those three points. So you're
Speaker 1: always gonna have especially you know, early in the season,
Speaker 1: preparing for those late season games for this team to
Speaker 1: get where they want to go, which is obviously be
Speaker 1: playing in February. All three sides of ball have got
Speaker 1: to be You can't give up those special teams turnovers,
Speaker 1: you can't have the mistakes you had on offense. So
Speaker 1: it doesn't shock me at all that Doug would feel
Speaker 1: that way, because that's that's the truth of it. You
Speaker 1: can't win in January having some of those mistakes. A
Speaker 1: couple of notes for those of you watching us at home,
Speaker 1: you can send us your Facebook questions. We may answer
Speaker 1: them if they are suitable for a family show, So
Speaker 1: keep that in mind if you want them to make
Speaker 1: the show, consider those types of things. Also, we are
Speaker 1: waiting for Carson Wentz's press conference, so we'll have that
Speaker 1: here for you in just a few minutes. Let's go
Speaker 1: back front to our pregame keys to the game and
Speaker 1: evaluate that stay on schedule was your pregame key for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. How would you greet them on that? Well,
Speaker 1: they were efficient in the red zone, so they did
Speaker 1: a good job in that area. Third down, I think
Speaker 1: really the big thing was I was shocked. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that stat coming in that they coming into
Speaker 1: the game, the Eagles had converted fifteen straight third downs
Speaker 1: of four yards or less. That's crazy. That goes to
Speaker 1: what we were talking about, where if you're really good
Speaker 1: on first and second down and you can, you know,
Speaker 1: stay on schedule, And that was the key was if
Speaker 1: you're able to stay on schedule, that makes those third
Speaker 1: downs a lot easier to be able to convert. Now,
Speaker 1: they weren't always that easy to convert today because they
Speaker 1: had some mistakes on first and second down. You had penalties,
Speaker 1: you had sacks. You know, it's tough to say what's
Speaker 1: behind those sacks without seeing the film, but ultimately they
Speaker 1: weren't as good. Yeah, all right, we're gonna we'll get
Speaker 1: back to that in a minute, because Carson Lenz is
Speaker 1: ready to address the media. Take it away, It's hard
Speaker 1: to win in this league. So, uh, you know, pretty
Speaker 1: pretty thrilled winning. I love winning. But uh, like you said,
Speaker 1: offensively not our best. Um, something that we definitely need
Speaker 1: to clean up. We definitely gotta better. We gotta stay
Speaker 1: ahead of the change, we gotta stay in the field. Um,
Speaker 1: we know we can be better. We've shown it. We
Speaker 1: know we can, but you know we got to now
Speaker 1: execute it. But again, our defense played incredible, put us
Speaker 1: in great situations. You know, you shoot, gave us fourteen points. Um,
Speaker 1: so they played great. And again that's a good that's
Speaker 1: a good defense. But we can be better offensively. You
Speaker 1: need other quarterback, Yeah, I mean I don't I feel
Speaker 1: bad for quarterbacks. I got to play our our defense,
Speaker 1: our D line, you know, I see it in training camp.
Speaker 1: I see it. Uh. You know. Fortunately I'm wearing a
Speaker 1: red jersey so they're not hitting me. But our D
Speaker 1: lines is great. And then they were able to get
Speaker 1: after him, and especially as we got up, got up
Speaker 1: early and they knew they had to had to pass.
Speaker 1: I mean, our D D line play great. Why wasn't
Speaker 1: the offense. He said, it wasn't your best to speak
Speaker 1: you guys or something they were doing. Yeah, it's hard
Speaker 1: to say. Um, we got we gotta watch the tape.
Speaker 1: But first of all, you know, they do a good
Speaker 1: job on defense. You know, they they play their their
Speaker 1: cover two, their different looks. They you know, bring some pressures,
Speaker 1: you know, make it tough on you as an offense. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, we had some penalties we had, um,
Speaker 1: just some miscues, miscommunications, some things that we got to
Speaker 1: just get ironed out. And um, you know some of
Speaker 1: the bigger things, you know, stay ahead of the chains. Now,
Speaker 1: we were in too many second and really long and
Speaker 1: and those are tough to to convert. So uh, like
Speaker 1: I said, offensively, we just gotta be better time phone
Speaker 1: one and two shot now three and two? Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: three straight road games in the bout where this team
Speaker 1: is at one game plus pass Reporter Bowl. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean being three and two obviously, especially after the one
Speaker 1: and two started, is big for us, especially heading into Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we take it one week at a time,
Speaker 1: but we realize we're on the road three straight weeks now,
Speaker 1: and that's tough to do in this league. Um, but
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna we're gonna rally back and keep
Speaker 1: try and keep this training roll. Is it possibly offense? Guy?
Speaker 1: I took it to put off the pedal a little
Speaker 1: bit when we got to eat in the way the
Speaker 1: defense was dominating guard us a little bit. Today, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. You know, I never want to make
Speaker 1: that excuse. You know, there's there's things that we can
Speaker 1: just definitely execute and be better, especially when we do
Speaker 1: get up on teams and not try and keep let
Speaker 1: them keep, let them hang around. We want to you know,
Speaker 1: put the pedal down there in those situations. So we
Speaker 1: got to be better on the carson. However, the receiver
Speaker 1: is doing it over the last start tw weeks as
Speaker 1: far as getting open and is there a noticeable effect
Speaker 1: without to seawan our things different? Yeah, I mean receivers
Speaker 1: are playing great. You know, I feel extremely confident in
Speaker 1: those guys and um, you know, you know me and
Speaker 1: Nellie for example, just missed the two today and you
Speaker 1: know they had um the ICT on the one. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel extremely confident in the guys that
Speaker 1: we have. You know, receivers tight ends the backs of
Speaker 1: the backfield. I feel really good where we're at in
Speaker 1: the passing game. We just gotta, you know, hit some
Speaker 1: of these some of these plays that are there to
Speaker 1: be made, so each of your knees a little bit
Speaker 1: of I guess the apliability tests today, how were you doing?
Speaker 1: And are those instances where you you could give rid
Speaker 1: of the ball with a big cucker, maybe not trying
Speaker 1: to extend it to fight split hard to say, um,
Speaker 1: feel good though, you know, I feel good. My body's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel feel good coming out of it.
Speaker 1: So um, but yeah, I mean it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: say if those are times you know, I'm fighting to
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball thrown away and um, you know,
Speaker 1: but I do, fortunately feel good. I guess through the
Speaker 1: play when you had to chase down the high snap,
Speaker 1: you were been looking at a pretty big loss there
Speaker 1: until you found I mean, at that point, it's just
Speaker 1: get the ball and try and throw it away, you know.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately Mick was trailing to play, so we had
Speaker 1: a receiver there. Um. Obviously a situation you never want
Speaker 1: to be in, but we're able to salvage it, and
Speaker 1: again in the end zone a couple plays later. We
Speaker 1: sometimes take for granted, but athletes do things that ever work.
Speaker 1: You ducked the sack today. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever but I think it was fully off you duck
Speaker 1: to sack in Asia. Is that the kind of the
Speaker 1: balance you have to strike between you know, living to
Speaker 1: play another day, continuing to play today? I mean, without
Speaker 1: a doubt. I mean that's something you know, you always
Speaker 1: want to make a play for a team, especially on
Speaker 1: third down, and um, you know that that fighter mentality
Speaker 1: that I'm not gonna go down and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: a play, um is something that I'm always trying to
Speaker 1: juggle and balance. And you know, if we were able
Speaker 1: to stay on the field there and I was a
Speaker 1: big pick up fortune, it looked like you had allowed
Speaker 1: a little bit of a smile after that play. Share. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think someone says something so I kind of chuckled,
Speaker 1: But you know we're able to make the play. You
Speaker 1: had a chance to talk with Samla. Did feel out
Speaker 1: toughy You think it was on him not to be
Speaker 1: able to play the day you expect to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I know that's I've been in issues to
Speaker 1: some extent, you know, be able to you know, not
Speaker 1: be out there with your teams when you kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you're you're maybe ready type of thing, and um,
Speaker 1: I do feel feel for him. Um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: confident that he'll be He'll be back out there making
Speaker 1: plays again soon enough. He's a great kid, great quarterback.
Speaker 1: So the future is bright for him and excited for
Speaker 1: him to to get back out there. Jig all go
Speaker 1: out to two interceptions in five games. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Ratios one point one one too or something like that.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you were focused on this year?
Speaker 1: Is it's something we get a post sauce that you
Speaker 1: got here? Um, you know, I feel like I mean
Speaker 1: every every year since I've been here, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to take care of football, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we've just been We've been smarter with it offensively,
Speaker 1: you know, I think play calling and just um trusting
Speaker 1: the receivers and everything that we've put in a lot
Speaker 1: of work through this offseason. I feel pretty good and
Speaker 1: pretty confident with with what I'm seeing with decisions I'm
Speaker 1: making and guys making place. How when did they get
Speaker 1: off to the get started to guys to make trouble
Speaker 1: to the guy. Yeah, it's big, it's big, you know,
Speaker 1: coming out of host start um, the way we were
Speaker 1: able to to get in the end zone, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we had great feel position to start.
Speaker 1: That always helps. You know. The deep fense came out
Speaker 1: swinging right away and made some great plays and um,
Speaker 1: you know we were able to start fast, start um
Speaker 1: and uh you know, the defense kept kept her own force.
Speaker 1: Good thanky, Thank you guys. Of course, give me one
Speaker 1: rock in the denim jacket. Um, you guys, should we
Speaker 1: just all do that next week? I think maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know producers jacket frame. I mean, I can't confirm
Speaker 1: or deny if one of the back of the closet,
Speaker 1: that would be all right, let's get into our places.
Speaker 1: As a game frame, you can go first. To me,
Speaker 1: it's a play that I'm going to break down a
Speaker 1: little bit later on the show, and that's gonna be
Speaker 1: Rodney McLeod's interception. And that big reason why for me
Speaker 1: is that, as I mentioned, it was a great mix
Speaker 1: of rush and coverage coming together. And to me, when
Speaker 1: you play great defensive football, you're gonna need both and
Speaker 1: when you have big plays, one is going to impact
Speaker 1: the other. And to me, that was just a great
Speaker 1: example of it. You know, we've talked all season about Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, the sack totals haven't been there, but the
Speaker 1: pass rush is there and they're impacting the quarterback. I
Speaker 1: know it has a result in sacks, but on that
Speaker 1: play you saw result in an interception. The sacks just
Speaker 1: happened to be there today to go along with those
Speaker 1: kinds of players. But great to see that. The pressure
Speaker 1: turning a big turnover all the turning point for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the ball halting started early and started with my
Speaker 1: man Nate Gary, the linebacker. We got to give him
Speaker 1: some larva here. That's back to back weeks. Guys made plays,
Speaker 1: but Nate that play first of all, the decision of
Speaker 1: Adam Gage to go for it on fourth and one. There,
Speaker 1: I was surprised with your young quarterback. Nate did a
Speaker 1: great job getting caught up in that trash on the
Speaker 1: play action fake Levian bell out in the flash that's
Speaker 1: where they wanted to go. That was his man in
Speaker 1: that coverage. Great job of breaking on that play. And
Speaker 1: then how about that. It's one thing for Nigel Bradham
Speaker 1: to catch a tip ball. We can all do that
Speaker 1: as linebackers, but to pluck that thing out of the
Speaker 1: air the way Nate Gary did. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: he showed you where he used to play in the
Speaker 1: back end of the defense in college. Nice play there,
Speaker 1: not only to catch the ball, but to run it
Speaker 1: in for a touchdown. Really to give the Eagles that cushion.
Speaker 1: Once you go up fourteen to nothing on that team,
Speaker 1: they've become one dimensional, and I think the floodgates opened.
Speaker 1: But a defense afterday, that's when you started to see
Speaker 1: all the sacks started to powelo. Yeah. And then in
Speaker 1: a defensive game, I am taking an offensive plays might
Speaker 1: play the game though it is connected to yours friends,
Speaker 1: So I think it kind of all goes together. The
Speaker 1: zach Ertz touchdown after the riding McLoud interception, so we
Speaker 1: can give a nod to McLoud. There a nod to
Speaker 1: zach Ertz his first touchdown of the year. And of
Speaker 1: course that as time kind of is expiring, as they're
Speaker 1: going into halftime, there's always you know, you take the
Speaker 1: wind down of the other team's sales going into half
Speaker 1: when you can score right before the clock expires and
Speaker 1: not put him up twenty one to zero heading into
Speaker 1: the second half. So to me, that was probably the
Speaker 1: biggest play on offense that we said, surprisingly Zach's first
Speaker 1: touchdown of the season. Huh, I mean, and we thought
Speaker 1: out of the season. He's the guy who's been their
Speaker 1: best receiver over the last three or four years. It
Speaker 1: just goes to show you how Carson is spreading the
Speaker 1: football around and getting the ball to other guys. Zach
Speaker 1: guy is he was leading the team in receptions, but
Speaker 1: got his first touchdown today. And can I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what I love about that play. I broke it down
Speaker 1: actually for the All Twenties review, it would be in
Speaker 1: the segment tomorrow morning. Uh. It was a great blitz
Speaker 1: pick up that the receiver saw pre snap pointed out
Speaker 1: to Carson West. The offensive line changed the protection, Carson
Speaker 1: knew where to go with the football. It was a
Speaker 1: great team effort to get in the end zone. A
Speaker 1: really really fun play. All right, friend, we are going
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to you for now and we are
Speaker 1: going to send it back over to my quick who
Speaker 1: earlier this evening a little bit ago, probably just like
Speaker 1: a few minutes, spoke with head coach Doug Peterson about
Speaker 1: this win. Here's coaches thoughts after the game. Coach like
Speaker 1: win to me gets this swim. Will you convent around
Speaker 1: on this three game? Ny? Any time we can win
Speaker 1: in this league? Big. It was a great defense, really
Speaker 1: really really kind of we had threats, supports game um
Speaker 1: and really tens, very very capable, you know, offensively, would
Speaker 1: together we need to do the jo game was good
Speaker 1: and then and then being a late later in the game.
Speaker 1: Uh ast. You know, there's not the you know, uh enough,
Speaker 1: I think to look at it from this film, right,
Speaker 1: you know, right, we definitely have to get better. It's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a win, it's a great wines, but
Speaker 1: it's one of those that you just look at and
Speaker 1: kind of scratch your head and say, if we play
Speaker 1: like this in the future, I guess good people, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess a quality maybe a playoff caliber type team,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna win these games. Did
Speaker 1: you have any concern coming into this game these guys
Speaker 1: listening all week about they're the better team and they
Speaker 1: should beat them going away? Did you have any concerns
Speaker 1: about them staying up for this game? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you worry about that. You know, they do listen
Speaker 1: to to the to the outside sources and media and
Speaker 1: that's where we have to probably do a better job
Speaker 1: of blocking that out and just just focus on us
Speaker 1: and and and and to having you know, when when
Speaker 1: you have that layoff like we did, um, you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're, it kind of knocks you out of a
Speaker 1: rhythm a little bit. And and and so we guard
Speaker 1: against that. I talked to the team about that and
Speaker 1: try to prepare them mentally to to say, hey, it's
Speaker 1: about what we do and focus on us to to
Speaker 1: get better. You talked about your defense a little bit.
Speaker 1: They seem to be a little more aggressive, a little
Speaker 1: more blitzing attacking that offense. Where does that come from?
Speaker 1: It is that just by this particular game or is
Speaker 1: there something about those defense where you're going to be
Speaker 1: more aggressive. Well, I think I think it's week to week.
Speaker 1: I think it's game plan to game plan. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: that was the That was the game plan today obviously
Speaker 1: to get after the you know, their quarterback and and listen,
Speaker 1: they've got great skill and ability on offense. When you
Speaker 1: look at that that that you know with Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: and labe On uh yeah, with Bell and and then
Speaker 1: you know you get Crowder over there. I mean they
Speaker 1: got some guys, they can, they can hurt you. And
Speaker 1: you know, being able to put pressure on the quarterback
Speaker 1: like we did and uh can can really disrupt some
Speaker 1: timing as we know. On the other side, I mean
Speaker 1: they did the same thing to us. They got pressure
Speaker 1: on Carson and it disrupted our passing game as well.
Speaker 1: Thanks coach, appreciate it. Thank you Mike, Thank you coach.
Speaker 1: As they reflect on the Eagles win over the Jets,
Speaker 1: certainly some positives to build on and some things that
Speaker 1: coach undoubtedly wants to clean up a little bit as
Speaker 1: the Eagles look to a three game road stretch heading
Speaker 1: coming up soon. On the other side of this break,
Speaker 1: we've got Fran Duffie's at Rico review. It's the Ronnie
Speaker 1: McLoud interception. He's going to break that down like only
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Speaker 1: Rodney McCloud's interception in this week's RICO review. Check it out.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's fast forward now to the big
Speaker 1: interception from Rodney McLeod late in the second quarter and
Speaker 1: This is a fun play. There's a lot going on,
Speaker 1: and it has always the front and the coverage are
Speaker 1: tied together. You can have great secondary play without good
Speaker 1: defensive line play. A lot of times you need good
Speaker 1: good coverage play to have good defensive line play. Here's
Speaker 1: a great example of the two working together. Let's first
Speaker 1: look at the Eagles front, and what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: is a five over five look from the Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: On this play, You've got a defensive end and Derek
Speaker 1: Barnett a defensive end sliding inside as Brandon Graham. You've
Speaker 1: got Fletcher Cox lined up as a nose tackle right
Speaker 1: over the center. There's Josh Sweat, and there's linebacker Nigel Adam.
Speaker 1: Five over five helps create some one on one matchups
Speaker 1: up front, but then also gives you the possibility and
Speaker 1: the threat to do all kinds of stuff. From a
Speaker 1: game standpoint, you can run lots of different stunts with
Speaker 1: your defensive lineman. The offense has to account for any
Speaker 1: possibility there. So that's what you have from the Eagles.
Speaker 1: The guy that I want you to watch, and we'll
Speaker 1: just focus from this angle, is just gonna be Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cocks and I'm gonna leave him circled for now, because
Speaker 1: first I want to show you what they do on
Speaker 1: the back end in coverage. This is gonna be a
Speaker 1: form of man coverage. It's called Cover one robber. So
Speaker 1: you've got man coverage across the board, Rasul Douglass matched
Speaker 1: up here, You've got Orlando Scandrick. Here's Craig James, here's
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins. All right, so you've got Manda Mann and
Speaker 1: Nigel Bradham is gonna be manned up on the running back,
Speaker 1: Levion Bell in the backfield, So that leaves your two safeties.
Speaker 1: And what makes this Cover one robber is you've got
Speaker 1: cover one. So a high safety that's gonna be Rodney
Speaker 1: McCloud dropping into the deep middle of the field. And
Speaker 1: that makes Andrew Sendejo as your robber. And now usually
Speaker 1: that guy's gonna drop right here into the intermediate area,
Speaker 1: but in this play, he's actually gonna drop right here.
Speaker 1: Why because you've got a three receiver side. He's gonna
Speaker 1: try and take away any kind of route concept from
Speaker 1: that side of the field. So you've got the deep safety.
Speaker 1: There's your middle of the field defender. Man coverage across
Speaker 1: the board and again, I want you to go back
Speaker 1: and I want you to watch Fletcher Cox because they
Speaker 1: are going to run a stunt here up front of
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense, and we're gonna let this run. Watch
Speaker 1: how Fletcher is able to collapse the pocket against number
Speaker 1: sixty seven, the right guard Brian Winters. He puts him
Speaker 1: right into the lap of Luke Faw. He can't step
Speaker 1: into this throw, and the throw is going to be
Speaker 1: off target. He's trying to hit this deep incut here
Speaker 1: against Craig James, but the ball is gonna be high
Speaker 1: and behind the receiver. Craig James is able to get
Speaker 1: a hand on it. The ball tips up into the
Speaker 1: air and Rodney mccleoud is able to pick it off.
Speaker 1: And you see that the impact Fletcher Cox has on
Speaker 1: this throw get allows the pass to be off target.
Speaker 1: Rodney McCloud picks it off and the Eagles get a
Speaker 1: big turnover that results in a touchdown for the offense.
Speaker 1: Just an outstanding example of the rush impacting the coverage,
Speaker 1: and we see so often the coverage will impact the
Speaker 1: rush at times as well. So the Eagles come away
Speaker 1: with a big turnover late in the first half. Thanks
Speaker 1: for a big pressure from Fletcher Cox. Great stuff as
Speaker 1: always there from friend Jeffie with THREEKA review the Ronny
Speaker 1: McCloud interception. Ike your take on that play from Ronny
Speaker 1: McLoud his first interception of the season after you know,
Speaker 1: being out for a very long time. He just continues
Speaker 1: to get better every week. Yeah, and friend did a
Speaker 1: great job of breaking that down. The pressure upfront getting
Speaker 1: into quarterback's face there by Fletcher Cox really forcing a
Speaker 1: high throw and then as the secondary, I'll tell you, man,
Speaker 1: once that ball is in the air and it's tip
Speaker 1: that's our ball. So great job there of the Eagles
Speaker 1: secondary being being alert and taking advantage of an overthrow
Speaker 1: tip ball because you get you get very few of those,
Speaker 1: and when you get an opportunity, you want to make
Speaker 1: sure you capitalize one. A lot of big places there
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Speaker 1: Toyota Players of the Game nominees. No surprise there a
Speaker 1: couple of couple of three actually three defenders. Nate Gary
Speaker 1: with the I and T pick six. Your your your
Speaker 1: Player of the game. Yes, Ike will always be choosing
Speaker 1: a linebacker for this category. Brandon Graham of course with
Speaker 1: his career day three sacks. Hey you got three sacks,
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of go with brand pretty good stuff there,
Speaker 1: and hey, Orlando Scandre Hey, he's on the Eagles in
Speaker 1: his first game as the Eagle. Two strip sacks, takes
Speaker 1: one to the house. This is going to be an
Speaker 1: interesting vote. Some tough choices there. I don't know the
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz. Jim Schwartz dialing up the defense as well,
Speaker 1: so we know who's getting your vote. I'm a little
Speaker 1: torn here. I think I might have to go with
Speaker 1: BG because of the milestone that he accomplished as well
Speaker 1: with those sacks, and of course a lot of sacks
Speaker 1: in this one. Eagles get a win before they head
Speaker 1: on a three game road trip. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: weeks to be on the road. They have the Vikings next.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are now three and two after a win
Speaker 1: over the Giants today. Any initial thoughts on that matchup
Speaker 1: got to play better than we did today, right, and
Speaker 1: you're going to be on a road in a hostile
Speaker 1: environment is going to be loud. There haven't been back
Speaker 1: to Minnesota since we hoisted that Vince Lombardi Trophy back
Speaker 1: in February twenty eighteen, so I'm sure the guys are
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting up there. But in all seriousness,
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you clean up the minor things,
Speaker 1: the penalties, the things that put your offense behind the sticks.
Speaker 1: You love the fact that the defense is playing with
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. And I know the Vikings one
Speaker 1: to day versus the Giants, there's still a little doubt
Speaker 1: in that Vikings offense, right, Yes, quarterback, the receivers. We
Speaker 1: have heard some criticism from the receivers about the quarterback. Right.
Speaker 1: So if you if you go up there and you're
Speaker 1: able to have some early success, maybe you get a
Speaker 1: little bickering going on on that sideline. And so that's
Speaker 1: what you want. They had to have to get off
Speaker 1: to a fast start. It's probably be my number one
Speaker 1: key for all three of these World games. Especially frustrated
Speaker 1: up there in Minnesota. You want to try to take
Speaker 1: that crowd out of the out of the game early.
Speaker 1: So let's carry the fast start we had today against
Speaker 1: the Jets. Let's take that in the Minnesota. I know
Speaker 1: the Vikings are going to be really eager to kind
Speaker 1: of get the taste out of their mouth from some
Speaker 1: previous matchups against the Eagles last year. Yeah, we ought
Speaker 1: to be looking forward to and that was a that
Speaker 1: was a game that I bet the Eagles as players
Speaker 1: felt like they gave away as opposed to the Vikings
Speaker 1: beat them last year, of course, but you know it's
Speaker 1: definitely the postseason in twenty seventeen is probably haunt them,
Speaker 1: maybe forever. I don't know if multiple wins against the
Speaker 1: Eagles are going to take that away. But of course
Speaker 1: we will be back here with the pregame show, the
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Speaker 1: Eagles win. They're three and two. We'll see you next week.