Speaker 1: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by a Rico. I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker
Speaker 1: Ike Reese. I apologize for the lack of energy right now,
Speaker 1: but another disheartening loss for the Eagles, falling twenty three
Speaker 1: to twenty one to the Minnesota Vikings to fall to
Speaker 1: two and three on the season. Certainly, we all knew
Speaker 1: that both teams were gonna be desperate. Minnesota was gonna
Speaker 1: be coming in not having one since opening week. They'd
Speaker 1: revenge on their minds for the NFC Championship game last year,
Speaker 1: but none of us expected the game to unfold the
Speaker 1: way it did, with the Vikings racing out to a
Speaker 1: seventeen to three halftime lead, extending it to twenty to three,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles making way to make mistakes on offense
Speaker 1: having no answers on defense, found a way to climb
Speaker 1: back into the ball game made it twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Nigel Brawn recovered a fumble, Eagles had the ball in
Speaker 1: Minnesota territory but not able to get any point on
Speaker 1: that drive in the fourth quarter, and then Dan Bailey,
Speaker 1: whom is two easy field goals early in the game
Speaker 1: put it away with of course a fifty two yarder,
Speaker 1: so ike again. The Eagles sitting here below five hundred
Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty sixteen. They never fell
Speaker 1: below five hundred at all during the run to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and a team that still found a way
Speaker 1: to make it close in the end. But it's just
Speaker 1: not the same en Sync team that we saw really
Speaker 1: from the jump in twenty seventeen. Yeah, they really have
Speaker 1: struggled to find their footing, Chris. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at this team and the yet to put together a
Speaker 1: complete four quarters sixty minute football game on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball, or i should say, in all three
Speaker 1: phases of the game. And that's really been the story
Speaker 1: of this young twenty eighteen season for the Eagles, is
Speaker 1: that it's been difficult. Even when they found the way
Speaker 1: to scrap out wins, they've just been difficult to come by.
Speaker 1: And you're looking at a team that has yet to
Speaker 1: find their true identity as a team and really aren't
Speaker 1: playing very fundamentally sound football right now, and they find
Speaker 1: themselves in these dog fights week in and week out
Speaker 1: with these teams and in this league, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a flippable coin as to which way these ball games
Speaker 1: can go. The Eagles have found themselves in five close,
Speaker 1: really one score football games, and they've come out on
Speaker 1: the wrong end three times compared to winning just two
Speaker 1: of them. It's a tough way to make a living
Speaker 1: in this league. And I know every game is going
Speaker 1: to be close, that's just how the league is made up.
Speaker 1: But you make it more difficult on yourself when you
Speaker 1: basically have self inflicted wounds throughout the course of the game.
Speaker 1: You know it's already difficult enough to beat your opponent,
Speaker 1: but when you're beating yourself along with your opponent having
Speaker 1: success against you, that's really not the formula for success.
Speaker 1: There's so much again to hear, so much the unpackage
Speaker 1: here on the postgame show for anybody, Rico. We are
Speaker 1: going to hear from the head coach Dug Pearson himself
Speaker 1: as well as quarterback Carson Wentz, and we're going to
Speaker 1: send it in a little bit over to the link
Speaker 1: to hear from Eagles insider Davi Spadaro and our reporter
Speaker 1: Amy Campbell, who are on this scene. But as we
Speaker 1: just get into what happened here, and I think you
Speaker 1: touch on an amazing point there, Ike with the self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds. For me, when I look at this Eagles team,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that we saw the up and down
Speaker 1: nature that inconsistent play in the first quarter of the
Speaker 1: season through the month of September because you're working so
Speaker 1: many guys in and out of the lineup. You're getting
Speaker 1: Carson back, Wentz back in week three, so you figure
Speaker 1: right there, it's gonna take some time for him and
Speaker 1: the offensive gel to try to get themselves on track.
Speaker 1: When you figured the defense pretty much coming back intact,
Speaker 1: would be able to hold down the form. So today
Speaker 1: I thought today could be the launching pad, the start
Speaker 1: point really for the twenty eighteen season, where if you
Speaker 1: looked at September as an extended pre season of sorts,
Speaker 1: you know one that you know, good teams that typically
Speaker 1: have these deep playoff runs uilize it because you're a
Speaker 1: little more worn down in the off season. I figure
Speaker 1: the Eagles would settle into that mold and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden start to take flight here in the second
Speaker 1: quarter of this season. But today it was a day
Speaker 1: where I thought would happen and it just didn't. And
Speaker 1: as Minnesota Vikings team. It could have been had a
Speaker 1: little kirk Cousins was dealing. They were not able to
Speaker 1: get really to him. They were able to get pressure
Speaker 1: on but he did a great job of escaping it.
Speaker 1: I think his mobility has been a little bit underrated.
Speaker 1: Was pretty much flat out accurate throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game. But really the dagger might have been when
Speaker 1: kirk Cousins was backed up in his own end zone
Speaker 1: after the JGI fumble and he throws a ball deep
Speaker 1: down the right side off his back foot and am
Speaker 1: Feeland finds a way to come up with it, beating
Speaker 1: Jail and Mills down the sideline. And you just said
Speaker 1: at that point, you know, what can this defense do
Speaker 1: to get a big play. So, speaking of the Insider
Speaker 1: day Spender and Amy Campbell, let's send it over to
Speaker 1: them as they are going to provide us with their
Speaker 1: insights from the game, and think, first and foremost, start
Speaker 1: with the reaction seeing how the game unfolded there Dave
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter, and just your takeaways from
Speaker 1: a team that has just been so inconsistent and not
Speaker 1: able to find good footing here early in twenty eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the game is really kind of
Speaker 1: encapsule by the turnover, the takeaway Nigel Bradham, Eagles in
Speaker 1: Vikings territory and then absolutely unable to do anything with it,
Speaker 1: a intentional grounding, a you know, just mistakes of a
Speaker 1: false start. So then they punted Amy first and tend
Speaker 1: for the Vikings at the eleven yard line. Eagles defense
Speaker 1: can't get off the field. Yeah, I think to me
Speaker 1: it was perfectly well said by you that the mistakes,
Speaker 1: the turnovers, the penalties at critical times, right, sometimes it
Speaker 1: costs more than it does those mistakes, those penalties in
Speaker 1: this game at the wrong time, you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about JGI, you know, nearly on the goal line there
Speaker 1: with the turnover, and just unable to kind of capitalize
Speaker 1: on the opportunities that they had there. And interesting, you know,
Speaker 1: going for it on fourth down in certain situations. And
Speaker 1: then what we saw here kind of at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, you know, a chance to a chance
Speaker 1: to to you know, get it within reach there and
Speaker 1: it's unable to capitalize on that as well. So our
Speaker 1: storylines here, Mine was red zone efficiency, Eagles one of
Speaker 1: four in the red zone, Vikings three of four in
Speaker 1: the red zone, and yours was the matchup Eagles secondary
Speaker 1: against the Vikings receivers. They battled for the most part,
Speaker 1: but again not able to keep Adam feeling down. Big
Speaker 1: plays from Kirk Cousins who throws the ball to spots
Speaker 1: and the receivers go make plays well. And I was
Speaker 1: looking at the sacks on both sides, and of course
Speaker 1: I was a wrong. Kirk Cousins only sacked one time.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz sacked three times, running for his life for
Speaker 1: a lot of this game. I don't think that's what
Speaker 1: you want to see. And if it was really any
Speaker 1: other quarterback, Carson so dynamic and so mobile, but any
Speaker 1: other quarterback would have been sacked a lot more in
Speaker 1: this game with the pressure that the Vikings were able
Speaker 1: to get up front. And there were some key plays
Speaker 1: Amy that I wrote down third and one, Eagles first possession.
Speaker 1: Usually that's a quarterback sneak. Instead they pitched to Josh Adams,
Speaker 1: Vikings snifted out Windale Smallwood in the red zone, drops
Speaker 1: pass when he's wide open on the sidelines, an interception
Speaker 1: that Carson Wentz through under pressure returned for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Eagles in the red zone. Again, false start on Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: another fall start later, the Agie fumble, a sack when
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz in the red zone. So these are things,
Speaker 1: look that just can't happen. And it's beyond just being inconsistent.
Speaker 1: There's a lack of focus, there's a lack of execution,
Speaker 1: and something's got to give here. The Eagles need a
Speaker 1: spark of consistency offensively. You can't go through another first
Speaker 1: half with just ninety one yards of offense and expect
Speaker 1: to come back again and again and again. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: you said, that first half was ugly. The numbers not
Speaker 1: great for the Eagles in time of possession and first downs,
Speaker 1: and like you said, the offensive yards absolutely dominated by
Speaker 1: the Vikings in that first half. And it seemed like
Speaker 1: they had some things going in the second half, but
Speaker 1: like you said, just not enough to get over the hump,
Speaker 1: especially with those costly mistakes at those times. Yeah. In
Speaker 1: an era of guys where the league is seeing points
Speaker 1: scored at a record race, the Eagles are scoring twenty
Speaker 1: one points a game and this is really a shocking development.
Speaker 1: The offensive line not playing to the level it did
Speaker 1: last year, the receivers, the red zone, it all adds
Speaker 1: up to a two and three record here one week
Speaker 1: in two and three wore see here for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Short week for the Eagles, so they bounced back and
Speaker 1: get ready for the Giants on Thursday night. Amy, great job.
Speaker 1: Back to Chris and I get an overcare complex. All right,
Speaker 1: Dave and Amy, thank you very much. Dave Spandario's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the locker room and he have a complete
Speaker 1: coverage and is on the inside common. You can also
Speaker 1: download the Eagles Live podcast subscribe to it wherever you
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts, as he'll get reaction from the players
Speaker 1: as well, so a lot to touch on their ike.
Speaker 1: So why don't we get into your three big takeaways
Speaker 1: from this game and we'll kind of both point those
Speaker 1: and go through those more thoroughly. Well, when I look
Speaker 1: at this team, it's a lot of the same things
Speaker 1: that this team has struggled with all year. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the penalties. The Eagles are one of the most
Speaker 1: penalized teams in the NFL. That is a mark of
Speaker 1: not being disciplined, to my fundamentals, Doug harps on these things.
Speaker 1: And yet still every week they come out and they
Speaker 1: still have crucial penalties at the wrong time. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking about presnap penalties, times where you're not lined up correctly,
Speaker 1: illegal procedures, things of that nature. You just can't have
Speaker 1: those when you're struggling to move the football. Far too
Speaker 1: often they found themselves first and fifteen, first and twenty,
Speaker 1: second and fifteen. You just can't have that. Indeed, so
Speaker 1: get on the penalties there. You have so many situations
Speaker 1: where it's all of a sudden the Eagles because the
Speaker 1: bathing comeing in this game was the Eagles had to
Speaker 1: get better situations on third down. Okay, everyone says, how
Speaker 1: did the Eagles went on third down? And fran Duffy
Speaker 1: and the Eagles game plan crew, obviously you're a part
Speaker 1: of that, like they broke it down and the Eagles
Speaker 1: average third and ten last week against the tight third
Speaker 1: and ten. You are not gonna win in the NFL
Speaker 1: if you have that situation. So everyone says, well, jeft
Speaker 1: to execute there on third down. No, you gotta win
Speaker 1: on first and second down to get yourself in bare
Speaker 1: third down situations there, and the Eagles did a bare
Speaker 1: job of that early on in this game. They would
Speaker 1: get to second and four, second and two. But as
Speaker 1: you met illegal formation palats, and you say all right,
Speaker 1: if that happens once toot the course of a game,
Speaker 1: it's one thing three times. I can't I believe there
Speaker 1: were legal formation penalties. It too often that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you went from a second to two to
Speaker 1: a third and twelve situation. Yeah, and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get the first down and you're gonna give the ball
Speaker 1: right back to the Vikings that situation and in the
Speaker 1: one instance I'm thinking of, maybe you're thinking they're the
Speaker 1: same one it's second and two. They get eight yards
Speaker 1: on the carry on the first down, then you get
Speaker 1: illegal procedure and then you get false start or Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, it's third and twelve. This Vikings defense,
Speaker 1: I know they haven't been playing well to this point
Speaker 1: in the season, but the personnel is still the same
Speaker 1: over there, and when you get in third and twelve,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to convert that. I don't care
Speaker 1: who you're playing against in this league, and that's what
Speaker 1: the Eagles have found themselves far to Alton, I thought
Speaker 1: Dave hit on some other key things. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: talking about third and four in the red zone when
Speaker 1: there Smallwood, you got the matchup, you want. You got
Speaker 1: the Vikings confused. They don't even cover him out there
Speaker 1: in the flats and he just drops the ball, has
Speaker 1: the first down. Now you catch that ball, it's first
Speaker 1: and goal from the five yard line. So instead of
Speaker 1: getting three the first three points of the game, maybe
Speaker 1: you have seven there. And another thing they touched on
Speaker 1: this league is begging for offenses to put points on
Speaker 1: the board week in and week out. Around the league.
Speaker 1: They're making it easy for you to score in this
Speaker 1: league nowadays. And yet the Eagles offense can't get more
Speaker 1: than twenty three points. They're averaging twenty one right now.
Speaker 1: It's been a struggle all year for this offense to
Speaker 1: put points on the board, and I just can't figure
Speaker 1: it out what it is, other than they have when
Speaker 1: they have opportunities, they usually hurt themselves. Two for five
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Can't have that. You need more touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Looked at this team last year as this was the
Speaker 1: number one team in red zone efficiency. They scored touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year when they got down there. This year, far
Speaker 1: too many field goals. I think it really comes down
Speaker 1: it's third down the red zone. Carson Wentz was the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the gaming both of those situations, situational football,
Speaker 1: both of those items. He was the best last year.
Speaker 1: And it's not certainly all on him. It's this offense
Speaker 1: is not the biggest thing. And I think you hit
Speaker 1: like the red zone. Theles have been able to move
Speaker 1: the ball, they've gotten themselves in scoring position, they've just
Speaker 1: not been able to finish drives whatsoever. So number one,
Speaker 1: there you went with penalties where you're number two item
Speaker 1: there You're big takeaway from the games, the self inflicted wounds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's that. I mean you can add
Speaker 1: that to the penalties. You can. I mean, whether it's
Speaker 1: a fumble by Carson. I mean, this Minnesota Vikings team,
Speaker 1: while they moved the ball a couple of times in
Speaker 1: the first half, the defense was able to hold him
Speaker 1: the field goal attempts. They missed the field goals, and
Speaker 1: you get a three three ball game in the second
Speaker 1: quarter and Carson fumbles the ball. You know, another sack
Speaker 1: there that leads to the Viking scoring seven points right there.
Speaker 1: You talk about the Vikings being backed up late, I
Speaker 1: mean in the third quarter that passed to Adam Thaling.
Speaker 1: You can't have that. You got the coverage there. You
Speaker 1: have to make the play on the ball. It's just
Speaker 1: far too often. Bad call on Michael Bennett, you know
Speaker 1: the rough and the quarterback penalty. I thought he was
Speaker 1: being blocked into into him. But still you got an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get off the field. You get a big
Speaker 1: sack there, possibly hold the Vikings to three points and
Speaker 1: getting still you get the penalty call. They get seven
Speaker 1: before they go in before half to push that lead
Speaker 1: to seventeen verse thirteen three. Huge difference and maybe with
Speaker 1: the way Bailey was kicking, maybe he misses that and
Speaker 1: it's only ten three, and again you got the ball
Speaker 1: to start their second half. Then you move the ball
Speaker 1: to start to say have you have an impressive drive?
Speaker 1: And then Jhi, it was about to be my next point.
Speaker 1: Then you come out of the locker room ready to go,
Speaker 1: fired up, ready to get yourself back in this game.
Speaker 1: Seventeen to three is nothing in this league. The game
Speaker 1: was nowhere near over. So you're getting the ball out
Speaker 1: coming out of a half, move the ball down to
Speaker 1: feel great. You get down there, man, you gotta protect
Speaker 1: the ball. You have to protect the ball. Sometimes when
Speaker 1: there's nothing there, you have to just go down. But
Speaker 1: if if nothing else you have to secure the football.
Speaker 1: There's an opportunity at worst to put three points on
Speaker 1: the board right there, and maybe it's seventeen to six.
Speaker 1: At least you get points with your first drive. It's
Speaker 1: deflating to move the ball all the way down the
Speaker 1: field like that and then have yourself where you fumble
Speaker 1: the ball really where it shouldn't have happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's he's a veteran running back. He knows that when
Speaker 1: you're in a crowd like that, you gotta put both
Speaker 1: hands on the ball trying to run sideways to make
Speaker 1: something happen. It's just begging for trouble. And then immediately
Speaker 1: following that, you get the big play to Adam Thieling
Speaker 1: to get the Minnesota Vikings out of that hole. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense was able to hold them the three
Speaker 1: points there, but still you flip the field position, that's
Speaker 1: three more points you gave up. You took three off
Speaker 1: your and put three on their end. So you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at the final numbers, there's twenty three.
Speaker 1: Twenty one is the final score of Vikings win. But
Speaker 1: the Eagles, much like last week, much like last week,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be tossing and turning over this game because
Speaker 1: they know they had multiple opportunities to pull this game out.
Speaker 1: The thing is last weekie, figure with the way they
Speaker 1: lost in a situation where they led by fourteen in
Speaker 1: the second half, to give up that lead to overtime,
Speaker 1: office gives you a lead and then you have three
Speaker 1: chances to get off the field and fourth down and
Speaker 1: we all know how the game ended. So you figure, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was the learning lesson right there. Okay, you had
Speaker 1: that really bad experience. You want to get that taste
Speaker 1: out of your mouth. You want to get back at
Speaker 1: home where the Eagles have dominated, and unfortunately the defense
Speaker 1: came out flat. And that's the most disappointing thing for
Speaker 1: me coming out of this was this is where no
Speaker 1: one could score. You have to go back to Week
Speaker 1: nine of last year when the Eagles routed the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos by the score of fifty one to twenty three.
Speaker 1: That's the last time this defense allowed more than seventeen
Speaker 1: points at home, and the Eagles had or the Vikings
Speaker 1: had seventeen points going into halftime. That's just how much
Speaker 1: different of a ball game this was. Today. You figure
Speaker 1: the Eagles were invincible at home, but they lost that momentum,
Speaker 1: They lost that part of the edge today and that's
Speaker 1: what's so discerning moving forward, because the fact there's the Eagles,
Speaker 1: there are two and three, But the slow starts are
Speaker 1: the things that are really really disappointing because come into
Speaker 1: this game, the Eagles were outscored by thirteen points in
Speaker 1: the first quarterball games this season. Okay, the Vikings were
Speaker 1: worse than that, being outscored by fourteen points in the
Speaker 1: first quarter of games this season. So neither team this
Speaker 1: year has been able to get off to a good start.
Speaker 1: And the Vikings kind of fumbled around. They had the
Speaker 1: couple missed by Bailey. The Eagles were still right there
Speaker 1: in the ball game, but Dave touched On this point,
Speaker 1: we can get into some more. The offensive line just
Speaker 1: is not blocked in pass protection. And that was the
Speaker 1: other bugboo from last week. Okay, what was the turning
Speaker 1: point of last week's game? Up in the second half,
Speaker 1: it was Harold Landry beats Lane Johnson off the edge,
Speaker 1: gets the sack and then all of a sudden, Mario
Speaker 1: was able to lead a drive for a touchdown. Okay,
Speaker 1: today it's Lane Johnson gives up the sack to Stephen
Speaker 1: Weatherly and Lynville Joseph goes marching down the field, picks
Speaker 1: up the fumble, rumbles his way down for the touchdown,
Speaker 1: and the Vikings are up ten to three, and that's
Speaker 1: where he started to feel like this could be trouble
Speaker 1: for the offense. So the fact that the offensive line
Speaker 1: as a whole, it's not just on Lane Johnson, but
Speaker 1: overall not protecting Wentz as well this year as opposed
Speaker 1: to last season, is something that the Eagles really have
Speaker 1: to take a look at moving forward to try to
Speaker 1: fix this offense because it all starts up front. You know,
Speaker 1: this offensive line was flat dominating teams last season, both
Speaker 1: in the run and the pass game. That's why it
Speaker 1: was named the league's best offensive line. That just has
Speaker 1: not been the case here in twenty eighteen. And you're
Speaker 1: looking to those big name guys. Many people will say
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson is the best tackle in football, or at
Speaker 1: least he was in twenty seventeen, but that hasn't been
Speaker 1: the case here. You know, in Steven Wisanowski, he was
Speaker 1: bench for Isaac Say a mile today. So the Eagles
Speaker 1: are trying to make the changed up front trying to
Speaker 1: get something going there. You saw a Hollapool Evody Vty
Speaker 1: coming in as an extra offensive line and to add
Speaker 1: a little more beef up front there, but still just
Speaker 1: not enough to get the job done. And Wentz finds
Speaker 1: himself trying to evade pressure, having it work some magic
Speaker 1: in the pocket, you know, and to his credit, he's
Speaker 1: able to a lot of times make something out of nothing.
Speaker 1: But still you're asking for way too much of the
Speaker 1: quarterback as this offense overall is struggling. So when you
Speaker 1: look at the things that are going wrong, and I
Speaker 1: think really ikes takeaways from this game are kind of
Speaker 1: a microcosm of the Eagles through the first five games.
Speaker 1: It's way too many penalties and a second two may
Speaker 1: self inflicted wounds, mainly the turnovers. That's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: there is when you look at what's going wrong and
Speaker 1: why the Eagles are at two and three, is they're
Speaker 1: giving up the ball way too often. They're committ way
Speaker 1: too many self inflicted wounds, and they're just not scoring
Speaker 1: even though they're moving the ball at a decent rate.
Speaker 1: They're just not able to get the job done. And
Speaker 1: the last takeaway for your ike from this game kind
Speaker 1: of touched on already. Is the defense with those explosive players. Yeah, defensively,
Speaker 1: I mean we're giving up way too many eggs plays.
Speaker 1: And I know Jim Schwartz likes the hard point its
Speaker 1: all the time. They don't like giving up explosive plays,
Speaker 1: plays of twenty plus yards and this has been a
Speaker 1: bugaboo for this defense. They haven't struggled in many areas.
Speaker 1: I mean, they still will keep points off the board.
Speaker 1: They you know, the Vikings were just one of four
Speaker 1: I believe in the red zone to day. So the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense doing a nice job holding the Vikings to
Speaker 1: three points at times, and then plus seven of that
Speaker 1: twenty three is attributed to the offense and not the
Speaker 1: def So they really did only give up what sixteen
Speaker 1: points today as a defense. But the biggest plays to me,
Speaker 1: and they came at the wrong times, is where you're
Speaker 1: giving up big plays, whether it's too Stefan Diggs, the
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling played, you know, big plays on third down
Speaker 1: where you need to get off the field, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings are finding ways to convert those third downs. The
Speaker 1: explosive plays have been the biggest thing I think that
Speaker 1: have hurt the Eagles defense all year long, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we haven't had a game in five weeks
Speaker 1: where they haven't give up explosive plays. It seems like
Speaker 1: they're giving up a couple of them every game, and
Speaker 1: that's something that needs to get fixed because this is
Speaker 1: the passing league. Teams see this stuff on film and
Speaker 1: they're going to continue to throw at your secondary weekend
Speaker 1: and week out until you prove that you can stop it.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the secondaries performance overall? Knowing
Speaker 1: coming into this game that Kirk Cousins was gonna get
Speaker 1: rid of the ball quickly, they were not going to
Speaker 1: let them just sit there in the pocket. The Vikings
Speaker 1: have John D. Filippo, the former Eagles of Eagles backs coaches,
Speaker 1: now the offensive coordinator of the Vikings, and there were
Speaker 1: times where you were just seeing some of the plays
Speaker 1: straight out of the Eel's playbook. There run on the
Speaker 1: field tonight at the link. I agree. I thought the
Speaker 1: secondary was up and down today. I thought they tackled
Speaker 1: well when they had the opportunity to, but still balls
Speaker 1: thrown over your head at times. We're still playing soft
Speaker 1: coverage where we're giving up stuff underneath. I thought Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs had way too many opportunities to run after he
Speaker 1: caught the ball and was able to do something with it.
Speaker 1: All right, listening over to the Lake head coach Doug
Speaker 1: Pearson speaking now to the media, Well, penalties and turnovers,
Speaker 1: unwanted turnovers, quite honestly, and you can focus a lot
Speaker 1: of those are happening in the red zone and they're
Speaker 1: self inflicted and those are things that we have to
Speaker 1: correct in a big time. Murray last year, when you
Speaker 1: rank QB sneaks with Carson Wentz, you had it with
Speaker 1: almost perfect success, I think, and we haven't really seen
Speaker 1: that this year, Sir, apprehension with his recovery and or
Speaker 1: maybe a reason with Kelsey or no apprehension. Um, obviously
Speaker 1: this is a new season, and it was a full one.
Speaker 1: I usually go for it in that situation if it's
Speaker 1: under one, and um it wasn't so fourth and twenty
Speaker 1: and the fourth quarter. Why did you let the punt
Speaker 1: there as opposed to the right decision to punt the football?
Speaker 1: Um with time left and UM, it was a situation
Speaker 1: where that we we've talked about in practice, you know,
Speaker 1: try to get them to unique formation, try to get
Speaker 1: them to jump. You know, we need to take a
Speaker 1: shot or get the five yards and now we're in
Speaker 1: a field goal range situation. It wasn't a desperation kick
Speaker 1: at the time, Um, and guys that did the right
Speaker 1: thing in a putting and down thirty five, Yes, correct,
Speaker 1: I think we're at the forty. You don't you happy?
Speaker 1: What did you say to the team? I just told
Speaker 1: him that, uh you know, UM that basically I was
Speaker 1: gonna walk in this room and just I was gonna
Speaker 1: take it for the team because the way the way
Speaker 1: we've been UM playing and performing, it starts with me,
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that the guys understand
Speaker 1: that we can't do these things. We can't we can't
Speaker 1: self inflict um and expect to win championship. Teams just
Speaker 1: don't do that. And we're doing that right now. So
Speaker 1: I have to self examine myself. First starts with me.
Speaker 1: And you know those guys are those guys are busting
Speaker 1: their tail. So UM, we're gonna we're gonna get it fixed.
Speaker 1: It starts with me. This week, you talked about having
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency early, but you wanted to see it,
Speaker 1: thought you saw it in practice, but one to see
Speaker 1: it the game. First quarter was not good offensively. Did
Speaker 1: you think about Tampa in this game, because it seems
Speaker 1: like Carson gets into We just didn't have enough touches
Speaker 1: in the first quarter like we had at six, seven
Speaker 1: eighth something like that. In the first quarter, were justn't
Speaker 1: have enough enough time. You know, we just another ball
Speaker 1: h and and you know, we talked about it on
Speaker 1: the sideline, getting into a rhythm. But you go back
Speaker 1: out there and then boom, you get a spark, you
Speaker 1: get a big pass, big play. And then a couple
Speaker 1: of times we were on the ball and next thing
Speaker 1: you know, we're in the red zone. And and then um,
Speaker 1: you know we got into our red zone offense. So
Speaker 1: we were able to do it at times. Um. But
Speaker 1: but the play either before that sprung and we got
Speaker 1: good yardage on it, or or it was a you know,
Speaker 1: a situation where it was you know, a penalty and
Speaker 1: it backed this out on first down. That's one of
Speaker 1: the challenges and one of the fourth from one where
Speaker 1: you in front and down they turned up for hugely
Speaker 1: what happened on those two things. Um, the UM the
Speaker 1: challenge I thought I saw UM when I was at
Speaker 1: that Uh. Obviously his second foot was down, the third
Speaker 1: step was out of bounds on the white stripe, and
Speaker 1: so what I had seen was wasn't sure quite at
Speaker 1: the time and looking at you know, getting the replay
Speaker 1: that his second step was in third step. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to challenge at that big play of the game.
Speaker 1: Um could have been a big you know, momentum swing
Speaker 1: right there at that time. So one of get that
Speaker 1: challenge in there. And then the second one you asked
Speaker 1: me the fourth and one, Yes, you guys went on
Speaker 1: the score. We got to use the timeout fourth and
Speaker 1: one we were on we were on offense. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: play clock is running down about hit zero, so UM,
Speaker 1: just use the time out right there to make sure
Speaker 1: we had the right call on What did you see
Speaker 1: on the Michael Bennett, what you gimation? Um? Those are hard,
Speaker 1: They're they're hard situations. I'm gonna look at the TV copy.
Speaker 1: I'll look at you know, obviously the coaches tape, you know,
Speaker 1: briefly and and and see. But um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's tough, unfortunate, you know, UM rules the rule, and
Speaker 1: we got to abide by concerned about the inconsistency of
Speaker 1: the offense and the entire year, even the games one,
Speaker 1: the offense seem to kind of fence these dogs all
Speaker 1: right about. Uh well yeah, I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I've been saying. Um, we're self inflicted. You know,
Speaker 1: we're we're shooting ourselves or penalties, turnovers, um that are
Speaker 1: that are hurting our offense. You know, we're we we
Speaker 1: seem to move the ball fine out in the field.
Speaker 1: But then you know, red zone, third down or areas
Speaker 1: that um, you know, heightened awareness when we get in
Speaker 1: the red zone, ball security, all those things we talk
Speaker 1: about from day one, OTAs, Um, we're not doing. So
Speaker 1: we got to get back to that. The calculation in
Speaker 1: your mind when you're going for the two point conversion
Speaker 1: there you'd share that works the calculation. The calculation was
Speaker 1: to go for two if I make it a touchdown
Speaker 1: wins the game, or if I don't, I know what
Speaker 1: I need to do, I gotta go touchdown two point
Speaker 1: to tie or to win. I had to tie at
Speaker 1: the end. You made the right right, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty simple calculation right there. They changed. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you made the move at left card. Uh why did
Speaker 1: you do it? Why did you feel the need to
Speaker 1: do it? And do you think it worked out to
Speaker 1: your satisfaction? Yeah, you know, obviously, Uh, in fairness of
Speaker 1: both Isaac and Stefan, I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: that we evaluate the film on this. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard though, because you know, it's a short week,
Speaker 1: short turnaround. We're onto the Giant. So, um, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, initially he played well, Isaac played well. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll evaluate it again and make the decision
Speaker 1: moving forward. We talked about penalties after the fumble. I
Speaker 1: believe the illegal formation there procedure penalty grounding. There's a
Speaker 1: three straight plays there. Why are are those penalties happening
Speaker 1: in such a whole veteran team. Well, um, the illegal
Speaker 1: formation one is is just uh, there's really no excuse
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, that's just a it's a mental
Speaker 1: air offensively and we can't we can't do that. Um,
Speaker 1: intentional grounding, I understand. I mean Carson was trying to
Speaker 1: break out of the pile and I think I think
Speaker 1: Nelson was in front of him and and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if the ball quite made it to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage at the time, and so obviously by rule
Speaker 1: it could be a you know, intentional grounding and and
Speaker 1: those are just those are just wounds that we can't
Speaker 1: we can't continue to make um and and we'll learn,
Speaker 1: We'll learn, you know, guys will learn. Guys are guys
Speaker 1: are sick of their stomach, you know, and they hate
Speaker 1: this feeling. So we gotta get it fix it pretty quick. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get into that, but we just gotta
Speaker 1: make sure we coach it better. The mental error seemed
Speaker 1: to be the glaring thing compared with last week, compared
Speaker 1: to most teams that are that are really good to
Speaker 1: what do you contribute that It starts with me. I
Speaker 1: got to do a better job of install it, you know,
Speaker 1: installing the plays. I gotta make sure the guys are
Speaker 1: are ready to play during practice, and it starts with me.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna, you know, make sure that they're ready
Speaker 1: to go. This week. This week a tough week too.
Speaker 1: It's hard. I mean it's hard. You're on a you're
Speaker 1: on a short week and you got a quick turnaround
Speaker 1: and you know, we're back in the building tomorrow and
Speaker 1: we're working and getting getting ready for for Thursday night.
Speaker 1: But you know, one thing that I've learned through my
Speaker 1: experience in the NFL. Is uh, getting back on the
Speaker 1: field right away, is is kind of a good remedy,
Speaker 1: you know, for the team, for the coaches, and and
Speaker 1: then that's our focus starting to borrow. Is Carson gonna
Speaker 1: get too much for people? Um? I mean, obviously you
Speaker 1: want to eliminate as many as you can, you know,
Speaker 1: reduce the number of hits. Uh active quarterback. You know
Speaker 1: he's gonna move and and uh you know, made some
Speaker 1: great place tonight with his legs and and found some
Speaker 1: found some holes to run and to throw out of.
Speaker 1: But you know, we just continue to talk to him
Speaker 1: and uh make sure that you know he is protecting
Speaker 1: his But he did a nice job of getting down
Speaker 1: a couple of times too. And you know, he's so aggressive,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what I love about him. You know,
Speaker 1: he's aggressive, he can spin out, he's strong, he does
Speaker 1: some great things back there in the pocket, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, and then and then he can do some
Speaker 1: great things extending place. So yeah, there's a fine line, obviously,
Speaker 1: but uh, I want to make sure that you know
Speaker 1: we're right up against that line, all right. I was
Speaker 1: head coach Doug Pears and addressing the media basically saying
Speaker 1: his message to the teammates was look to the players
Speaker 1: was I'm going to go out there and take it
Speaker 1: for the team here. He's put in the blame all
Speaker 1: on himself, and I mean that's what the head coach
Speaker 1: is supposed to do in a situation like this. Before
Speaker 1: we get into some more of the game annalysis, I
Speaker 1: wanted to give a shout out to the fans out
Speaker 1: there because it was noted on the broadcast. I'm here
Speaker 1: in the studio in our offices here at the Novacare
Speaker 1: Complex throughout the course of the game, so you know,
Speaker 1: we see an in seating fee, we get to see
Speaker 1: the you know, we hear the Merrill mic broadcast, we
Speaker 1: see the Fox telecast, and the fans could have easily
Speaker 1: packed it in when it was twenty three, but they
Speaker 1: brought the heat there in the fourth quarter and gave
Speaker 1: you know, Kirk Cousins as much of a headache as
Speaker 1: possible and try to rally this team so little a
Speaker 1: little love to Eagles fans because I know how difficult
Speaker 1: it is right now with the feeling that the team
Speaker 1: is two and three. Now. One of the topics coach
Speaker 1: Pearson was addressed there was the fact that the Eagles
Speaker 1: have the short week Thursday night game, the first division
Speaker 1: game of the year, going to the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: a team you know, they're licking their own wounds because
Speaker 1: they lost on a sixty two yard field goal, you know,
Speaker 1: to the Carolina Panthers today and walk off fashion almost
Speaker 1: very similar to the way that they lost to the
Speaker 1: Eagles and Jake Elliott in Week three here last season.
Speaker 1: So like your thoughts with the fact that coming off
Speaker 1: a second straight loss, a bitter defeat, that you only
Speaker 1: have a couple of days to get things ramped up
Speaker 1: before you're back on the field on the road on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night, I think it's a good thing for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, this is a second straight difficult loss
Speaker 1: that this team has had to endure. Listen, a short week,
Speaker 1: They're not gonna have much time to harp on this game.
Speaker 1: They may or may not watch the film on this
Speaker 1: day tomorrow, but they have to get ready for the Giants.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be leaving Wednesday, that's three days from now,
Speaker 1: so you basically have two days to get prepared, get
Speaker 1: as much film work done as you possibly can to
Speaker 1: get prepared for the Giants, Because if you think you
Speaker 1: feel bad right now at two and three at the
Speaker 1: two straight losses, imagine what you're gonna feel like if
Speaker 1: you lose three in a row in your first divisional
Speaker 1: game and now you're looking at two and four. So
Speaker 1: they have to put this game behind them. You got
Speaker 1: twenty four hours if that, to really let this thing linger.
Speaker 1: But the Giants are up next, and the Giants or
Speaker 1: licking their wounds. They had a tough loss today where
Speaker 1: they fought to get back in that game against the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers and really should have won the ball game.
Speaker 1: I thought Carolina really blew that game late. But you know,
Speaker 1: is it Graham Guno? I believe it is uh sixty
Speaker 1: three yard game winning field goal. I mean, unbelievable for
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers to pour that game out, But I
Speaker 1: thought the Giants played well enough and fought to get
Speaker 1: back in this game that they should have walked out
Speaker 1: of Carolina with the victory in It'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how they respond after that loss. You know, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get two teams facing each other Thursday night where
Speaker 1: there's some you know, some bad blood because we know
Speaker 1: how this NFC East is. And when you talk about
Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Giants, you know there's no love
Speaker 1: lost between these two teams. I tell you what, whichever
Speaker 1: team loses the game Thursday night, it may speak. You
Speaker 1: may be thinking about twenty nineteen go down that road,
Speaker 1: but for the Giants, but it is, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: they're Giants are going to be thinking going into They're like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, the Super Bowl champs are coming to
Speaker 1: our house. They're looking their wounds after the loss, losing
Speaker 1: two straight games. They're two and three word one and four.
Speaker 1: Giants might realize this ain't gonna be it for us here.
Speaker 1: We're first year coach Sherman. We're trying to get things,
Speaker 1: you know, back going in the right direction. But we
Speaker 1: can spoil the super Bowl champs defending season. We can
Speaker 1: do that sort of like how the Eagles did to
Speaker 1: the Giants coming off the Super Bowl win in the
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven season, where Giants win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl two thousand and eight, the Giants were the ones
Speaker 1: he'd going into the playoffs. Eagles go up to the
Speaker 1: Meadowlands in the divisional round and upset Eli Maang and
Speaker 1: the Giants and an advanced the championship game before losing
Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals. So it's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: one on Thursday night. You hopefully the Eagles will get
Speaker 1: their mind sight in the right frame for that showdown.
Speaker 1: So Coach b has a really touched on everything that
Speaker 1: we've said early on in the show, all the big takeaways,
Speaker 1: the penalties, the turnovers, the self inflicted wounds, and the
Speaker 1: red zone performance. Something again that was a strength for
Speaker 1: the Eagles last year is just not the case here
Speaker 1: in two eighteen. So the voice of the fans none
Speaker 1: other than Merl Reice. It was outstanding in the broadcast,
Speaker 1: with once again teaming up with another Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: in Mike Quick. We bring you the highlights of the
Speaker 1: game through the voices of Merril and Mike. In our
Speaker 1: feature Merrill cam Dan Bailey kicks hit it hits the
Speaker 1: upright and it's no good and hit the left upright.
Speaker 1: He had a chip shot. He had a chip shot. Well,
Speaker 1: that's even better. They go with the fullback again. I
Speaker 1: under now the fullback cj Hab goes in motion to
Speaker 1: the nearest side of the field under Centera's cousins who
Speaker 1: takes his drop. He steps up he's hit me sick.
Speaker 1: They've got him Brown and Braham his first sack of
Speaker 1: the season. WinCE and the gun. He's got a giant
Speaker 1: to his right. Three receivers motion our Sean Jeffrey. That's
Speaker 1: time back goes Wins. He's looking, he is going deep
Speaker 1: and it is God. It has caught. But a great
Speaker 1: catch Dann Field by Sheldon Gibson. He took him away
Speaker 1: from the defender and I love the way he fought
Speaker 1: for that ball. They go max protection here, they bringing
Speaker 1: an extra guy and it's basically a two man route.
Speaker 1: Carson's looking for the big one down the field and
Speaker 1: it's not the perfect thing, but what is perfect is
Speaker 1: the waste. Sheldon Gibson goes up and fights for the football.
Speaker 1: That's a big, big play. Forty eight yards. There is
Speaker 1: a thirty yard field goal attempt by Jake Elliott the
Speaker 1: tie the game. Faula spotted kick is up and the
Speaker 1: kick has gone in. It's three three. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a forty five yard attempt for Dan Bailey.
Speaker 1: Paula spotted. The kick is away and the kick is
Speaker 1: no good. He's one for three. He missed another of them,
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey. Listen they picked in Bailey up after week
Speaker 1: two because they were having these same types of problems
Speaker 1: after two weeks of the season. So it will be
Speaker 1: fourth down and five and the field goal unit comes on.
Speaker 1: That will not be a popular decision, but it's the
Speaker 1: only decision you can make. Yeah, it's three twenty two
Speaker 1: to go in the third quarter. You need points. If
Speaker 1: you get it up to where you've got a yard
Speaker 1: to go to go for the first down, it's completely different,
Speaker 1: but you have to try and get the points. In
Speaker 1: this situation. Eagles need points. They've shown that they can
Speaker 1: move the football. Here it is. It's twenty seven yard
Speaker 1: field goal attempts spotted, kicked up good, and finally that
Speaker 1: three disappears and turns into the six. Thanks, as always
Speaker 1: the Sports Radio ninety four w IP for allowing us
Speaker 1: to provide our bird's eye view through Meryllcam to get
Speaker 1: a glimpse of how they are experiencing the action on
Speaker 1: the field. So let's get into our turning points of
Speaker 1: the game here as we wait for quarterback Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to start things off here because as
Speaker 1: a former defensive player, I want your take on this
Speaker 1: as well. For me, it was the end of the
Speaker 1: first half. Eagles already down ten to three, Vikings are
Speaker 1: driving and all of a sudden, Kirk Cousins dropped back. Okay,
Speaker 1: getting close to the goal line. Michael Bennett comes up
Speaker 1: with a huge sack, and you figure, great, you know,
Speaker 1: push them back, might be a field goal. Maybe with
Speaker 1: the way Dan Bailey's performing, it might miss it, and
Speaker 1: you might be able to hold it to ten three
Speaker 1: or at worst thirteen to three going into halftime. And
Speaker 1: you would say to yourself, look for all the opportunities
Speaker 1: that the Vikings had. The Vikings flout dominated the Eagles
Speaker 1: in the first half all across the board, from time
Speaker 1: and possession, offense, defense, the whole nine. The Vikings flat
Speaker 1: out had control of the game. However, it was just
Speaker 1: a ten point game. Would have been a ten point
Speaker 1: game and the Eagles would have got in the football,
Speaker 1: but Michael Bennett was called for roughing the pastor now.
Speaker 1: Howard Eskin from the sports radio ninety four w IP
Speaker 1: Eagles radio broadcast talked to the referees at halftime and
Speaker 1: they said that the flag was thrown because Bennett rolled
Speaker 1: on Cousin's leg. Tough one to call there, because First
Speaker 1: of all, Kyle Rudolph, the tight end, looked like he
Speaker 1: was basically blocking Bennett to the ground, so Bennett is following.
Speaker 1: Bennett started at the waiste of Cousins and took him
Speaker 1: as gently as you could to the ground. You know,
Speaker 1: with the penalties have been called on players like Clay
Speaker 1: Matthews throughout the course of the season, you know, there
Speaker 1: have been memes and videos and jokes about how defenders
Speaker 1: have to basically pick up the quarterback and gently place
Speaker 1: the quarterback on the ground on a pillow to make
Speaker 1: sure they don't get called for a penalty. Bennett did
Speaker 1: as close as you could too in that situation and
Speaker 1: still got the flag. You know, was it low? It
Speaker 1: was largely because Bennet again was being pushed into him,
Speaker 1: but Bennett still started at the waist before going down
Speaker 1: to pull him to the ground. So all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, first down, fresh stab downs. You know, the
Speaker 1: crowd was ir rate, you can tell the defense was frustrated,
Speaker 1: and Cousins, you know, tosses a dime to amtheland in
Speaker 1: the back corner of the end zone and it's seventeen
Speaker 1: to three going into halftime. So that was my turning point,
Speaker 1: because at that point you just felt like nothing was
Speaker 1: going right for the Eagles. You said at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the show that the Eagles were already beating themselves.
Speaker 1: They didn't need the referees to help out any further.
Speaker 1: But just as from your perspective as a former defensive player,
Speaker 1: what is a guy supposed to do in that situation
Speaker 1: when you're trying as hard as you can and you
Speaker 1: understand that the league is built on offense, and we
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier, the league wants points. Okay, they're
Speaker 1: going to protect the quarterback at all costs, But what
Speaker 1: is the defensive player supposed to do in that situation
Speaker 1: when you're that close, when a guy who has the
Speaker 1: escapability of Kirk Cousins, who's able to make plays with
Speaker 1: his feet as well, it's difficult. It's difficult when it's
Speaker 1: traffic there. In other words, when you're being blocked by
Speaker 1: someone and you're trying to defeat that blocker and get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. It's difficult for a defensive player to
Speaker 1: control where he's going to hit a quarterback at. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I certainly empathize with the defensive players and
Speaker 1: I understand what the offense. I mean, what the league
Speaker 1: is trying to do when they're trying to protect these quarterback.
Speaker 1: Former teammate of mind, a guy who's Roger Goodell's right
Speaker 1: hand man, and Troy Vincent, I've had plenty of conversations
Speaker 1: with him about this whole thing and what they're trying
Speaker 1: to get established. They want to protect quarterbacks, that's what
Speaker 1: they want to do, and these these referees, if they
Speaker 1: see anything in the gray area, they're gonna lean towards
Speaker 1: protecting the quarterback. Throwing a flag there. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a flag. A year ago. A year ago, that's
Speaker 1: not a flag. But for whatever reason, this year, they're
Speaker 1: trying to over emphasize some of these some of these
Speaker 1: calls in an effort to protect the quarterback. The thing
Speaker 1: that's frustrating for fans and for defensive players primarily, is
Speaker 1: that there's no consistency. It's such a it's such a
Speaker 1: judge judgment call, and it's so subjective to who's making
Speaker 1: the call. You just don't know sometimes whether or not
Speaker 1: it's a good hit. We saw Carson Wentz when he
Speaker 1: was sacked last week and fumble. He was hit right
Speaker 1: in the helmet, you know, as he was being sacked
Speaker 1: and you would think, okay, that's a blow to the head.
Speaker 1: Why isn't that being called in favor of Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: to protect him. You know, they let that go and
Speaker 1: then you get a tikie tack play like this with
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett on the back of the legs of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: It's just it's frustrating for defensive players. But I also
Speaker 1: understand that I have a quarterback, a franchise quarterback that
Speaker 1: we don't want to miss any time either. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a double edged sword, right. We know,
Speaker 1: when our defense or hitting guys, we want them to
Speaker 1: get to be given the benefit of the doubt. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I want Carson Wentz protected. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like we're getting the calls that some
Speaker 1: of these other quarterbacks are getting. Speaking of Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: let's send it over to the link where number eleven
Speaker 1: is standing by. Slow start pres to that game pinpoint.
Speaker 1: But I can't. I can't unfortunately slow start something that
Speaker 1: we we preach all the time, talk about it every
Speaker 1: every week, that we want to start fast, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, credit to the Vikings coming out and making
Speaker 1: some stops. Um, yeah, we just slow start Uh this,
Speaker 1: how do you get out of the way of that sack?
Speaker 1: Fum boarder? Can you feel that pressure coming? It's just happening.
Speaker 1: I mean my eyes were the other way. Um, if
Speaker 1: I was looking the other side of the field, I
Speaker 1: probably would have avoided it and been just fine. But um,
Speaker 1: that's football covery. They have to restrict tail time too bad?
Speaker 1: Why is that happened to be better team? Yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: You know, those are things that I mean, we gotta
Speaker 1: take a real hard look in the mirror. Um, little
Speaker 1: mistakes like that, and kind of the same thing I
Speaker 1: really echoed last week after the game. Um, these little
Speaker 1: mistakes that sometimes can go overlooked are just killing us.
Speaker 1: And we're playing like we're a young rookie team and
Speaker 1: we're not. And so we got to really be hard
Speaker 1: on ourselves and learn from these mistakes and uh turn
Speaker 1: it around fast. Frustrating was that drive specifically to get
Speaker 1: the ball with great field position? And yeah, very frustrating.
Speaker 1: I mean we you know, we went down, scored, had momentum,
Speaker 1: got the ball back, uh in a great position, and
Speaker 1: then we just go backwards, backwards, backwards, and um yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's extremely frustrating. Are you feeling more pressure, um,
Speaker 1: in certain circumstances, certain circumstances, Do you feel it when
Speaker 1: whatlitz his versus four man batches or anything that you
Speaker 1: feel like they're getting more pressure for I don't think so. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just been kind of nature of the
Speaker 1: game when you know, unfortunate sacks and little things here
Speaker 1: and there that again, we got to keep cleaning up. Um.
Speaker 1: And I mean the same thing goes for the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. It's it's not one guy's fault. It's
Speaker 1: not just the line, it's not just the backs, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of me. It's it's everything. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to clean it up though, Colson was Malcolm's
Speaker 1: message when you got to addressed the team in I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the beautiful thing for us right now is
Speaker 1: it's a fast turnaround. You know, we need to get
Speaker 1: the bad taste out of our mouth asked and you know,
Speaker 1: go on the road to New York Thursday night. I'll
Speaker 1: be here before we know it. So it's it's really
Speaker 1: coming tomorrow, ready to work and get ready for New York. So, Um,
Speaker 1: like I said, just put this one behind us, learn
Speaker 1: from it. But uh yeah, we don't have to dwell
Speaker 1: on it too long. Of course, in the NFL is
Speaker 1: and enforcing a lot of rules to protect the quarterbacks. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm interesting interested in what your point of view is
Speaker 1: looking at the one against Michael Bay and what do
Speaker 1: you make of the rules and how they're enforced. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: I didn't see that one. Um. I know it's I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the Revs are are in a tough spot
Speaker 1: with with some of the new rules, and um, it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate when it when it happens against you, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't actually see the place. I don't have a
Speaker 1: real comment time. How do you feel just in terms
Speaker 1: of the flow of the game, getting your third game
Speaker 1: back now, where do you kind of feel like you're at? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, person, I feel fine. You know, obviously we're
Speaker 1: um kind of have some ebbs and flows as an offense.
Speaker 1: Low start, I seemed like we got some momentum, then
Speaker 1: we hurt ourselves again, and um, you know it's it
Speaker 1: seems like I kind of feel like that's where we
Speaker 1: were two years ago, you know, like we were that
Speaker 1: young team making these mistakes, kind of having those ebbs
Speaker 1: and flows last year. Uh, you didn't see a lot
Speaker 1: of that. Um, and so the veteran team that we
Speaker 1: have a lot of the guys, I mean, I'm confident
Speaker 1: that will fix it. I'm confident that will turn it around.
Speaker 1: But um, it's frustrating right now, Jerry. Practice this week
Speaker 1: of court started. You even emphasize kind of eliminating the
Speaker 1: self inflicted wounds. What's the next step. It seems like
Speaker 1: everyone's harping on if you can't you kind of get
Speaker 1: that message. Yeah, I mean it's it's frustrating again. If
Speaker 1: we don't get that fix, we're gonna lose a lot
Speaker 1: of games. Um. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I know the guys in that locker room, I know
Speaker 1: guys are gonna play with a sense of urgency. They're
Speaker 1: gonna come tomorrow ready to work. And that's something that
Speaker 1: I haven't really feared, you know, even my my rookie
Speaker 1: year when we were technically out of the playoffs. Um,
Speaker 1: there's no quit in these guys. You know, we're not
Speaker 1: just gonna lay down three and two and three, Like
Speaker 1: we're not just gonna stop. Um, we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: fixed and we're gonna be We're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: But then the lake EXAs especially with you get tho
Speaker 1: turnover and you're in a churchroy and they had good
Speaker 1: to get a score and that to go, but they
Speaker 1: kind of good you did out of it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we kind of talked about it a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I mean we heard we heard ourselves, you know,
Speaker 1: we heard ourselves at some self inflicted wounds. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, hats off of them, you know, they
Speaker 1: got good players over there. Uh, seems like we both
Speaker 1: know each other pretty well at this point having played
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So hats after them for
Speaker 1: making plays and we just got to clean it up.
Speaker 1: They've gotten past the wind to all that went through
Speaker 1: his hand? Was that was that just you saw that
Speaker 1: no one was covering him or was that the where
Speaker 1: we're designed to go? Yeah, that was just we we
Speaker 1: both saw made eye contact and um, Harrison was just
Speaker 1: running over there quick and um yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: happening five straight games. Now, were you having superboard twenty
Speaker 1: three points? Is this offense to enough for you guys
Speaker 1: to be a contender of you? Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think we're going to be you know, I'm not hanging
Speaker 1: hanging my head and dwelling on it, you know. And
Speaker 1: we know what we're capable of. We know we have potential,
Speaker 1: we know we have the right guys. Um and one
Speaker 1: thing that we seem to always do, which does a
Speaker 1: great job putting guys in the right spots. Again, it's
Speaker 1: really the same thing. We just got to stop killing ourselves.
Speaker 1: And um, I know, I know we'll get this thing
Speaker 1: right back on turs. You didn't put a Frank Breich
Speaker 1: and John d Philippo. I mean, obviously we missed those guys.
Speaker 1: You know, they were great, But I mean coach crow
Speaker 1: press Taylor, Um, you know, I think we talked about
Speaker 1: a little bit this week and in the press conference,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's been extremely smooth process with those guys.
Speaker 1: I love working with those guys every day. And um,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's any issue in our slow, slow
Speaker 1: start here. Every quarterback sneak last season one third and
Speaker 1: one in the first half. Was there any conversation? Is there?
Speaker 1: Is your health one of the reasons why they didn't
Speaker 1: go to there? Yeah, I'm really not sure, you know,
Speaker 1: other than um, we saw that that playoff film, thought it,
Speaker 1: thought it would be a good one. Thought we could
Speaker 1: not just get you know, a couple of feet, but
Speaker 1: thought we could get a big play out of it.
Speaker 1: And um, their defensive end made a great play. And Carson,
Speaker 1: you got a deep all to Sheldon. What is he
Speaker 1: to the offense? Just the build, just strutch things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you said it. He's got the ability to
Speaker 1: take the top off the defense. Um, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know we see him in practice kind of every week.
Speaker 1: Just keep getting better and keep building his confidence and um,
Speaker 1: you know, we put him in there in a position
Speaker 1: to make plays and do it he's good at and
Speaker 1: he made a great play to night this season. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously we haven't hit you know, many many deep balls
Speaker 1: and everything, and it's hard to say. Obviously we'd love
Speaker 1: to get those, and we had a handful of those
Speaker 1: last year. But at the same time, a lot of
Speaker 1: it is what the defense is doing to us. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not a ton of opportunities. A lot of teams
Speaker 1: are playing soft zone against us, making us earn it. Um,
Speaker 1: so we just got pick and choose wisely. And you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it was good to see Shelton make that
Speaker 1: one tonight and uh yeah, hopefully they'll be more of
Speaker 1: that in the future. What's your actual level of concern
Speaker 1: at this point. I mean it's not early in the
Speaker 1: year anymore, right, I mean frustrated, yes, concerned No. I
Speaker 1: mean I think we have again kind of just sacking
Speaker 1: what I said. I mean, we have veteran guys on
Speaker 1: this team, guys that have been through at all, that
Speaker 1: know how to win, and I think we're gonna get
Speaker 1: this thing going right away, all right. Quarterback Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: saying that at times we're playing like a young rookie team,
Speaker 1: but he remains confident that they're going to get things
Speaker 1: turned around, and he embraces the fact that the next
Speaker 1: game comes so quickly off the heels of this loss
Speaker 1: on Thursday night against the New York Giants, basically also
Speaker 1: saying that the mindset of the guys in the locker
Speaker 1: room there's no quit is a veteran leading team. Is
Speaker 1: the right group of guys that you want to go
Speaker 1: through this type of hell is situation because you're gonna
Speaker 1: find out what you have on the other side, and
Speaker 1: this is a time when you know, fingers can start
Speaker 1: to be pointed and things can start to unravel. It
Speaker 1: is gonna be key for coach Peers and the leaders
Speaker 1: to keep things intact as a get ready for a
Speaker 1: tough divisional matchup on Thursday night with the Giants. So
Speaker 1: I offer my turning point right before we heard from
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz for you yours. I came in the second
Speaker 1: half as the Eagles we're making a comeback and in
Speaker 1: fact making things very interesting there late in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, just when you thought all the momentum was
Speaker 1: starting to switch to the Eagle side of the football.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a great turn over. There was
Speaker 1: the lateral pass from Kirk Cousins. Great job by the
Speaker 1: Eagles defenders jumping on that ball, and then you get
Speaker 1: you're in scoring position just from the recovery as far
Speaker 1: as getting three points. But we go backwards. We go backwards,
Speaker 1: we wind up having an in the grasp penalty, which
Speaker 1: is like one of the worst penalties to have because
Speaker 1: you get the yardage loss and the downs lost. So
Speaker 1: now they're out of field goal range. It's third and twenty.
Speaker 1: Carson hits Outshon Jeffrey with a great throw on third
Speaker 1: and twenty, would have had the first down from the
Speaker 1: neck and eye. But at worst, if he holds onto
Speaker 1: that ball, it's fourth and one. Now you got a
Speaker 1: decision either kick the field goal or go for it
Speaker 1: right there when the score is twenty to fourteen and
Speaker 1: we wind up with no points out of that turnover,
Speaker 1: I just off that was critical. I thought it was deflating.
Speaker 1: That was the opportunity for the Eagles to really seize
Speaker 1: on the momentum that they had gained and really had
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings start to question themselves. See when your
Speaker 1: team has lost all sorts of ways like the Vikings
Speaker 1: have through this early portion of the season, that was
Speaker 1: a situation right there where if you get points out
Speaker 1: of the drive at a minimum three nine, the Vikings
Speaker 1: are saying to themselves, here we go, Here we go,
Speaker 1: because that's what bad teams do when they see a
Speaker 1: game slipping away, and that game was slipping away from
Speaker 1: the Vikings late. The Eagles got the ball, they got
Speaker 1: a great opportunity there, but they didn't capitalize on it,
Speaker 1: getting no points there. I thought it was a killer.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just thought it was a killer because
Speaker 1: then the Vikings get the ball back and they go
Speaker 1: down and kick a field goal. They go down and
Speaker 1: kick a field goal there. Now it's a nine point lead,
Speaker 1: it's a two score game. There, more than willing to
Speaker 1: give up a touchdown as long as you eat up
Speaker 1: the clock on the score. That's exactly what happened. I
Speaker 1: thought when the Eagles recovered that fumble there, I said
Speaker 1: to myself, this is where we take the game. I
Speaker 1: truly believe that the Eagles were going to go down
Speaker 1: and score a touchdown momentum, and I thought al Sean
Speaker 1: was starting to cook. I thought he and Carson were
Speaker 1: starting to hook up. And we went backwards version early
Speaker 1: in the game. So it wasn't like he hadn't come
Speaker 1: up with clutch plays already in this game. It was
Speaker 1: just you haven't seen that from him. Usually when they
Speaker 1: go to him in a big situation, he comes up
Speaker 1: with it. For whatever reason, just wasn't able to do it.
Speaker 1: And you gotta get a Viking defended. There a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. It's good to hit by Harrison Smith. It's
Speaker 1: one of those plays where as a receiver he caught
Speaker 1: the ball, but before he can land and really secure
Speaker 1: the ball. It was an impact right there, jarred the
Speaker 1: ball loose. You can tell he kind of called al
Speaker 1: Sean by surprise with the hit. But that's a big guy.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to protect the football and yourself
Speaker 1: knowing that if you're going in in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field versus a zone, somebody's gonna be there to
Speaker 1: hit you, all right. So one of our favorite parts
Speaker 1: of this postgame show is we get a one on
Speaker 1: one exclusive with the head coach Doug Peterson and Mike Quick.
Speaker 1: You know, goes from the radio broadcast booth too down
Speaker 1: outside the locker room. He always has some fascinating questions
Speaker 1: for Coach Peerson. I think Coach Peterson provides some excellent
Speaker 1: insight that he might not give to the reporters. So
Speaker 1: here's this one on one interview Eagles Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: wide receiver Mike Quick and head coach Doug Peterson. Coach,
Speaker 1: looking at the offense, you only scored seven points in
Speaker 1: the first quarter in five games. How do you really
Speaker 1: get to fixing that portion of your offense? That is
Speaker 1: something that's uh, you know, something that we're very aware
Speaker 1: of and something that we try to emphasize even in practice.
Speaker 1: By how we start in practice. I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you know we're doing everything at the beginning
Speaker 1: of practice that allows us to start fasting, meaning we
Speaker 1: got to execute better. We gotta be right on point.
Speaker 1: And and you know it starts there, um and and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, you know we're doing We're doing things well
Speaker 1: to get down there. We're coming away with either a
Speaker 1: field goal or in this case tonight, a turnover. You know,
Speaker 1: some penalties and just things that have really kept us
Speaker 1: from scoring a couple of touchdowns. How frustrating is it
Speaker 1: when you have the presnappers and what do you do
Speaker 1: about that? All the precap stuff. Yeah, those are things that, um,
Speaker 1: it just flat out can't happen. Um, you know those
Speaker 1: things we talk about going back to OTAs and the
Speaker 1: spraying and training camp and you know, um, you know
Speaker 1: it starts with me. I gotta make sure when we
Speaker 1: I get a meeting that that you know I'm on point.
Speaker 1: I'm reiterating the fact that, hey guys, we you know,
Speaker 1: these are the things and show the players, show them exactly,
Speaker 1: whether we agree with the call or not, whatever it
Speaker 1: might be, to show the players and show the show
Speaker 1: the mistakes so that we can learn from them. You
Speaker 1: trouble winning on third down again to the only two
Speaker 1: of done and third down for that project, A lot
Speaker 1: of times it comes from our first and second down execution.
Speaker 1: We're we're keeping ourselves in third and you know seven, eight,
Speaker 1: nine pluses and those are those are tough. When teams
Speaker 1: just come out and flat out pin their ears back
Speaker 1: and rush the passer and give you exotic blitz looks,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard. And so we're putting ourselves in in
Speaker 1: hard situations that we shouldn't be in and and we
Speaker 1: should be. You know, we try to be in more
Speaker 1: of the third and two to threes and fours and
Speaker 1: fives where you can you can, you can. The throw
Speaker 1: is a little bit faster, ball out and coming out
Speaker 1: of Carson's hand a little bit faster, and you have
Speaker 1: the ability to run the football. So we're gonna look
Speaker 1: at that and uh, you know, we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: get better. We got a short week this week, and
Speaker 1: how do you prepare and plan to get ready for
Speaker 1: the New York games on such a short Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for for coaches and players in the
Speaker 1: National Football League is one, Um, you know, we're back
Speaker 1: to work tomorrow on another opponent, so we can flush
Speaker 1: this loss pretty quickly and get back out on the
Speaker 1: practice field and get ready for another one on a
Speaker 1: short week. But you know, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in my staff, a lot of confidence in these code,
Speaker 1: these players, and UM, you know we're gonna get We're
Speaker 1: gonna get this thing fixed and that and that's starts
Speaker 1: with me. I'm gonna make sure I do everything I
Speaker 1: can to help this football team and and and be
Speaker 1: successful that way. And um, I'll look forward to get
Speaker 1: back out on the field tomorrow. Thanks loving Thursday, Nrning,
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, great stuff as always from Mike
Speaker 1: Quick and special thanks to coach Peterson for doing that
Speaker 1: right after a difficult loss. So Coach Pearson touched on
Speaker 1: something and we've talked a baleray on the show, and
Speaker 1: just the third down conversions two of nine. Didn't realize
Speaker 1: that was the toll. They're two of nine on third down.
Speaker 1: So I was actually trying to go through the game
Speaker 1: book to see what were those third down situations because
Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier, it was an average of third
Speaker 1: and ten last week against the Titans, So obviously you
Speaker 1: got to do better on first and second down. The
Speaker 1: disappointing thing is a couple of these third down situations
Speaker 1: in the first half, third and one you're not converting.
Speaker 1: That's where they go for the toss play to win
Speaker 1: Nel Smallwood that doesn't succeed, and then a third in
Speaker 1: three which they don't convert. So they were doing a
Speaker 1: better job of getting themselves into those third and managable opportunities,
Speaker 1: but they're just not converting. And then in the second
Speaker 1: half when you basically have no option but to convert
Speaker 1: at that point because you're behind so far by so
Speaker 1: much in the ballgame, that you're getting into third and twelve,
Speaker 1: third and twenty situations and the odds are you're just
Speaker 1: not going to make those on a consistent basis, especially
Speaker 1: when the defense can just back up and say we
Speaker 1: can allow you to get the yards as long as
Speaker 1: you don't get in the end zone. That's perfectly fine
Speaker 1: with us. So we have more analysis coming up here
Speaker 1: on the postgame show presented by Rico. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: our Rico review with Fran Duffie and Grey Cosell on
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Speaker 1: rest of the show much more here as we dissect
Speaker 1: the Eagle's latest loss to the hands of the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings by a score of twenty three to twenty one.
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Speaker 1: to get hold, but it feels like another line. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: back to the postgame show presented by Rico. One. Injury
Speaker 1: concern for the Eagles early on in the season has
Speaker 1: been at running back, where again no Darren Sprowles, and
Speaker 1: while Corey Clement was active, I don't know if he
Speaker 1: played on offense. I think he was basically an emergency
Speaker 1: reserve to fill if needed. Jayagi had to miss a
Speaker 1: little bit of time, banged up his knee during the
Speaker 1: course of the game, and of course he's battling that
Speaker 1: back injury. So top to bottom, you know, not a
Speaker 1: lot going on here with the running back position from
Speaker 1: a health standpoint, but good to see Wendell small would
Speaker 1: step up once again in a much more expanded role,
Speaker 1: showing tough running in between the tackles and also helped
Speaker 1: catching the ball. Of course, he had that one drop
Speaker 1: early on in the game which was costly in the
Speaker 1: red zone, but came through later on Ike in a
Speaker 1: big way. Yeah, and you know, I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: should be disappointed in what Wendelle small One has brought
Speaker 1: to the table this year, considering what the backfield has
Speaker 1: looked like. He's been one of the few guys that
Speaker 1: have been healthy for all five games, and I think
Speaker 1: the opportunities that he's that he's been able to get
Speaker 1: through the first five weeks of the season, he's made
Speaker 1: the most of most of them. But you can't have
Speaker 1: the plays like you had in the first quarter where
Speaker 1: you drop a ball at the four yard line where
Speaker 1: it's an easy first down four year and it could
Speaker 1: be first and goal. Great catch later on in the game,
Speaker 1: had some tough running yards in between the tackle. He
Speaker 1: certainly deserves to be a part of this offense, and
Speaker 1: you like what he can't contribute, but it's hard for
Speaker 1: coaches to have full trust in you when there's fear
Speaker 1: of that one or two plays where it's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, he didn't take care of that. But I
Speaker 1: thought when Dale had a good game to day, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he'll he'll be thinking about the play
Speaker 1: in the first half more than he will anything else
Speaker 1: he did today. But I thought it was a nice
Speaker 1: way to bounce back after that play after that disappointing drop.
Speaker 1: Early really made a tough catch, but a touchdown late
Speaker 1: in the game. That's not an easy catch to make
Speaker 1: over your shoulder, and I thought they made the correct
Speaker 1: call couple steps in the end zone, knee down. If
Speaker 1: it had been last year, that would not have been
Speaker 1: a touchdown. That would not have been a touchdown last year.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was the correct call. All right,
Speaker 1: speaking of that touchdown, how did that play come to life?
Speaker 1: Let's send it over to Fran Duffy and Great Corsell
Speaker 1: who break it down in Arica review. All right, Greg,
Speaker 1: let's look at the play that really got the Eagles
Speaker 1: back in this football game. Late, they're down twenty to six,
Speaker 1: they're in the red zone. They haven't had much success
Speaker 1: in that area of the field really at all this season.
Speaker 1: They get a touchdown catch to Wendell Small would really
Speaker 1: draw this playoff for us. Here. It's a really well
Speaker 1: designed play. You see this formation all throughout the NFL
Speaker 1: and the red zone where you have trips to the field,
Speaker 1: three receivers to the field, and then on the boundary
Speaker 1: side you have an ex receiver the single receiver to
Speaker 1: the boundary. Here it's Alshon Jeffrey and you have the
Speaker 1: back Wendell Small would offset to the same side to
Speaker 1: the boundary, so you have two receivers in the boundary. Now,
Speaker 1: what this normally means is that the defense, the corner
Speaker 1: has to match up to the wide receiver. Whether it's
Speaker 1: a manned concept or a zone concept, that corner must
Speaker 1: match up to the wide receiver. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: happens here now. Because of that, again, there's only one
Speaker 1: player who can now play Windell Smallwood, and that's a
Speaker 1: linebacker inside and here it's Eric Kendricks. So what you're
Speaker 1: essentially setting up with the wheel route by Windelle Smallwood
Speaker 1: is you're essentially setting up a one on one matchup
Speaker 1: with your back on the linebacker. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: happens here because Jeffrey runs his route and removes the corner.
Speaker 1: So let's play this and you'll see exactly how this works.
Speaker 1: You see Jeffrey run vertically, you see the wheel route,
Speaker 1: you get the matchup, you want the one on one,
Speaker 1: and you get the touchdown. A well designed, well executed play, yeah, certainly.
Speaker 1: And you saw a nice job there from Parson Wentz
Speaker 1: as well, making sure that safety state in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. Great throw, great catch, good execution there
Speaker 1: from the Eagles in the red zone. Just not enough
Speaker 1: of that here today. McDonald's proud partner of the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles great stuff as always from Fran and Gregg, and
Speaker 1: you can check out the entire reco review tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com and make sure to
Speaker 1: read frans Eagle Eye in the Sky column, which will
Speaker 1: break down exactly what went wrong for the Eagles in
Speaker 1: today's loss to the Minnesota Vikings. And it'd be great
Speaker 1: to see if they can conjure up some more plays
Speaker 1: like that ike in the red zone to try to
Speaker 1: get that on track. It's I know that Coach Peterson
Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz were asked about the influence of John d. Philippo,
Speaker 1: who obviously left in the offseason to join the Vikings
Speaker 1: coaching staff. But to me, the coach, you have the
Speaker 1: right coaches here, okay, And this is still Doug Peterson's
Speaker 1: offense at the end of the day. But it is
Speaker 1: shocking to see how much of a drop off there's
Speaker 1: been in the red zone performance from last year to
Speaker 1: now here, or at least the early portion of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: And it hasn't been the sole reason for the drop off,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly been part of the reason for the
Speaker 1: drop off. I go back to the self inflicted penalties.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're having mishaps down there in the red
Speaker 1: zone where you're pushing yourself away from the red zone
Speaker 1: as opposed to getting closer to the goal line and
Speaker 1: getting in the end zone. And I just thought today
Speaker 1: they had too many of those chances. I mean, whether
Speaker 1: it's whether it's a drop pass by when Dell, or
Speaker 1: whether it's an illegal formation, a holding call, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be, they found themselves really moving away from the
Speaker 1: goal line as opposed to moving closer. I don't think
Speaker 1: it has anything to do with who's here as the
Speaker 1: red zone coordinator. You mentioned it. We had the same players, primarily,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz is a great red zone threat. Getting al
Speaker 1: Shone back for the second week, that's another guy that's
Speaker 1: a red zone threat. Running backs coming out of the
Speaker 1: backfield catching the ball like when Dale did today. That's
Speaker 1: also going to be an option for them moving forward.
Speaker 1: But you gotta stay ahead of the chains. You can't
Speaker 1: go from first and ten at the twenty to first
Speaker 1: and fifteen at the twenty five, or first and twenty
Speaker 1: at the thirty because you got a holding call. And
Speaker 1: that's happened far too often to this team down there
Speaker 1: in the red zone. I don't think we have very
Speaker 1: many turnovers in the red zone this year. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're turning the ball over down there,
Speaker 1: but it's either drop balls or penalties things of that
Speaker 1: nature that have hurt them their opportunities to put touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the board instead of field goals. Well, the turnovers
Speaker 1: have become because of pressure in the pocket and Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz loses the ball. That's the reason. That's the only
Speaker 1: turnovers you've really had, you know, with Carson Wentz coming
Speaker 1: back and reassuming the rains at the quarterback, since they've
Speaker 1: all been the same turns, sack, fumble, that's what's been
Speaker 1: right there. So when you look at the box score there,
Speaker 1: it's just amazing that if we had the halftime box score,
Speaker 1: the final game box score, Minnesota just dominated across the board,
Speaker 1: from time of possession the total yards. Eagles could not
Speaker 1: get anything going on offense in the first half and
Speaker 1: to pretty much finish with almost the same numbers in
Speaker 1: every category really is a testament how they were able
Speaker 1: to fight back in the second half. However, it showcases
Speaker 1: the struggles are having in the first thirty minutes of
Speaker 1: games of not being able to contend again mentioned the
Speaker 1: stat earlier in the show. The Eagles were one of
Speaker 1: the worst teams in the league in first quarter differential.
Speaker 1: You know, they were outscored twenty to seven in the
Speaker 1: first quarter of games coming into this contest. Minnesota was
Speaker 1: actually worse. But Minnesota, even despite the Dan Bailey field
Speaker 1: goal miss, was still able to jump on the board
Speaker 1: first in this game here, and they raced out to
Speaker 1: an eventual seventeen to three halftime lead. Yet the Eagles
Speaker 1: got into a one possession game, had the ball in
Speaker 1: Vikings territory, could have scored, but did so. Once again,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are left to wonder what if. But at
Speaker 1: least they'll be a short week before they could possibly
Speaker 1: take care of those bad feelings. All Right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break here on the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. We're gonna look ahead to what's going on
Speaker 1: from a scheduled standpoint for the Eagles and offer our
Speaker 1: Toyota Player of the Game nominees right after these messages.
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Speaker 1: new Toyota. So to lead off the nominees, we're gonna
Speaker 1: start with the man who, even though it seems like
Speaker 1: at times that the numbers aren't flashy, it's he's been
Speaker 1: so good at accumulating stats throughout the course of a
Speaker 1: game that once again, just look at the stat line.
Speaker 1: Another one hundred yard outing, eleven targets, but ten receptions
Speaker 1: on those eleven targets and it gets this. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe his first touchdown of the season. Zach Ertz starting
Speaker 1: us off with this is now his third double digit
Speaker 1: reception game of the season, and I believe seventh in
Speaker 1: franchise history. Yeah, I mean he listen. He is a
Speaker 1: reception king man. And obviously quarterbacks love going to their
Speaker 1: tight ends. It's their security blanket. And you had a
Speaker 1: guy like zach ertzt that pretty much catches everything you
Speaker 1: throw to him. You know, I throw it to him
Speaker 1: as well. It's great to see him get in the
Speaker 1: end zone finally. Last year I thought he got over
Speaker 1: that hurdle of having a lot of catches and yards
Speaker 1: but not having many touchdowns. Last year he had eight touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It's good to see him get his first one, albeit
Speaker 1: in the fourth game of the season. Well, maybe that
Speaker 1: breaks the seal on him getting into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Now we can open up the floodgates and Zach can
Speaker 1: start turning some of those receptions into touchdown receptions. I
Speaker 1: also like the fact that when he has ten catches
Speaker 1: that he goes for over one hundred yards, that he's
Speaker 1: averaging a first down per reception. Also, if he's getting
Speaker 1: ten catches for eighty yards. It's kind of like, all right,
Speaker 1: obviously he's the checkdown guy. He's not really moving the
Speaker 1: ball down a field, but he's being reliable and coming
Speaker 1: with big players for the offense. Our second nominee. We've
Speaker 1: talked about him a short time ago in our reco review.
Speaker 1: And there's wen Delle Smallwood, who again had the drop
Speaker 1: early on, but came back with that fourth quarter touchdown
Speaker 1: and followed that with a nice two point conversion run
Speaker 1: where he dove into the end zone to be able
Speaker 1: to get those extra points. Yeah, nice job. You know,
Speaker 1: he's talking about a mash unit at the running back
Speaker 1: position and win Dell not getting getting a ton of
Speaker 1: touches when you look at the Russian attempt sending the receptions.
Speaker 1: But the good thing is seems like whenever he has
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, he's making the most of it.
Speaker 1: And so nothing but positivity from Wendelle Smallwood in his
Speaker 1: fourth year, starting to show why the Eagles have really
Speaker 1: kept him around. And with the way the backfield is
Speaker 1: up and down with who's healthy and who's not, it's
Speaker 1: great to have at least one guy who you seemingly
Speaker 1: can depend on every week, and that's when Dell. He's
Speaker 1: been healthy every week, which is ironic because that was
Speaker 1: the knock on his first couple of season. You showed,
Speaker 1: he showed promise, showed talent, but just couldn't translate it
Speaker 1: to the field because he was always on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Our last nominee. Look, Carson Wentz. I'm telling you look
Speaker 1: at the completion percentage sixty nine percent, almost seventy percent
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards, two touchdowns, no interception, a one
Speaker 1: fifteen quarterback rating. You know, outside of the pressure that
Speaker 1: he's dealing with, he's been outstanding. You know, it's and
Speaker 1: without looking at the tape, it's hard to see is
Speaker 1: he missing guys or guys open things in that nature.
Speaker 1: But overall, though he's making smart decisions with the football,
Speaker 1: the velocity has increased, the accuracy is there. You know,
Speaker 1: we saw a little bit more of him taking off
Speaker 1: and running today as opposed to recent weeks. So overall,
Speaker 1: I just love what I'm seeing with Carson Wentz. You
Speaker 1: just hope that they can put it together in the
Speaker 1: red zone so that it adds to more becomes more
Speaker 1: points and they come out with winds instead of these
Speaker 1: tough losses. Yeah, that's a prized possession right there. When
Speaker 1: you look at the quarterback of this team, he is
Speaker 1: the franchise, and I think he's gotten better every week.
Speaker 1: There's three straight weeks that I've been impressed with Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz's performance. When you look at the dress that he's under,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about pressure coming from his laugh, coming
Speaker 1: from his right, he rarely gets an opportunity to step
Speaker 1: up in the pocket because teams are now starting to
Speaker 1: bring pressure through those A gaps. Every once in a
Speaker 1: while he'll hold onto the ball. But you got to
Speaker 1: take the good with the bad as far as that
Speaker 1: goes with Carson Wentz, because he's always looking to make
Speaker 1: a play down the field, and I think as the
Speaker 1: season goes along, he's going to get more and more
Speaker 1: comfortable with the speed of the game. I still don't
Speaker 1: think he's necessarily had his A game yet. He's given
Speaker 1: us a bunch of B plus A minus performances, but
Speaker 1: we know that he has one of those three hundred yard,
Speaker 1: four touchdown, five touchdown games in his arm. The thing
Speaker 1: is is that guys have to get open. You got
Speaker 1: to catch the ball when he throws it. To you
Speaker 1: because he's doing everything that he can to keep you
Speaker 1: in the game. I thought today it was gonna be
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, I actually sold it. I said on
Speaker 1: the Kickoff show we do Bowl prediction. I said the
Speaker 1: number to watch was three sixty four. That was his
Speaker 1: career high in passing yards. I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: surpass it, and I thought he would lead. I thought
Speaker 1: we were going to see MVP Carson Wentz. I thought
Speaker 1: he was going to carry this team on his back today.
Speaker 1: And look, the numbers were outstanding. He did run the
Speaker 1: offense efficiently, just could not get the ball in the
Speaker 1: end zone. That really was the difference at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. So let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: upcoming schedule. Of course, the Giants the Eagles are traveling
Speaker 1: up to MetLife on Thursday night, short week. That game
Speaker 1: will be eight twenty pm Fox and NFL Network at
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. But what's amazing about this schedule so far
Speaker 1: is five games Eagles are two and three. The combined
Speaker 1: differential if these games is twenty one points five games
Speaker 1: twenty one points, one game going overtime. The biggest margin victory,
Speaker 1: you know, was the Week one against the Falcons in
Speaker 1: the following week against the Buccaneer six points, all one
Speaker 1: possession games. That's how thin the margin is between being
Speaker 1: an the league team and being an average team in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Just too many small things that need to
Speaker 1: be cleaned up for this Eagles team. And you look
Speaker 1: at those scores, you look at the schedule movement forward.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Eagles they can turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: They really can. They just have to stop all of
Speaker 1: the little small things that hurt themselves. And you just
Speaker 1: play a clean football game. You're gonna look up at
Speaker 1: the end of the game and realize you have more
Speaker 1: points than the other team. Because this is a good
Speaker 1: football team. It really is. And I'm not here to
Speaker 1: make excuses for this team. They've had as many issues
Speaker 1: or adversity to overcome, just like other teams around this league.
Speaker 1: So this isn't an excuse league. You got to get
Speaker 1: the job done with whom you have to go out
Speaker 1: the field the battle with every week. And I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles for the most part, with the exception of
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game, they've had enough at their disposal
Speaker 1: to go win football games. And so this is a
Speaker 1: team that if they don't beat themselves easily sitting at
Speaker 1: four and one right now. But like Bill par Sales
Speaker 1: once said, you are what your record says you are.
Speaker 1: It's a two and three team. Two and three says
Speaker 1: inconsistent play. That's what that says. And when they look
Speaker 1: back on the first five games of this season, they're
Speaker 1: gonna know that they've contributed to the three losses as
Speaker 1: much as the other team did to beat them. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have really put themselves behind the eight ball
Speaker 1: at times, and they got to clean this stuff up
Speaker 1: so that they can be playing their best football come
Speaker 1: in November and December. Indeed, you know three great tests
Speaker 1: had first and foremost, the Giants come up on Thursday
Speaker 1: night to division matchup here. You know, the Eels are
Speaker 1: two and three, Okay. Two of the losses are within
Speaker 1: the conference, one to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team
Speaker 1: that has fallen off after its hot start. And then
Speaker 1: the other one you know, coming here to you to
Speaker 1: the Vikings, a team that you know is probably going
Speaker 1: to be in the mix as well. Okay, MC North,
Speaker 1: you know, hotly contested with Detroit, come up with a
Speaker 1: big win today over Green Bay in Chicago, off to
Speaker 1: its great start, but overall in Minnesota is going to
Speaker 1: be in the picture here, So the Eagles need to
Speaker 1: focus on the nc East. It's wide open. Okay. The
Speaker 1: Giants losing today, you know, they don't have a ton
Speaker 1: to play for. It probably doesn't it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: in the cards for them in twenty eighteen, but they
Speaker 1: can play spoiler to the Eagles, and they Nobody wants
Speaker 1: to see the Eagles go to two and four in
Speaker 1: the month of October. Okay, So it's one thing to
Speaker 1: say we're gonna play our best football in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season, but you need September and October
Speaker 1: to stack wins to put yourself in position so that
Speaker 1: when you are playing your best football that you are
Speaker 1: gonna win the division. You're gonna get a good seat
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and then you could possibly have home
Speaker 1: field advantage. So you look here at the NFC East. Look,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are gonna be right there in the mix,
Speaker 1: and they just need to start things off with a
Speaker 1: big win on Thursday against the Giant Tyke and they
Speaker 1: can wake up Tuesday and look and be looking at
Speaker 1: a two and two d Scans team. They have to
Speaker 1: go to New Orleans tomorrow night. That's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough game for the rad Scans coming out the bye week,
Speaker 1: going to play the Saints and the Cowboys tonight are
Speaker 1: playing the Houston Texas in Houston, so you know that
Speaker 1: that can be a tough game as well. So a
Speaker 1: lot of football still left to be played. Hes just
Speaker 1: need to clean up their own backyard so that the
Speaker 1: rest of this division is looking up at them the
Speaker 1: way it should be. Indeed, Dallas winning early six to
Speaker 1: nothing in that ball game on Sunday Night football, So
Speaker 1: Houston needs to turn up a little bit. Marks and
Speaker 1: Reese tomorrow afternoon on Sports Radio ninety four, w IP
Speaker 1: what do you think the big topic is gonna be.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's gonna be the Eels lost, But what do
Speaker 1: you think the fans are gonna be calling the most.
Speaker 1: What's gonna be the primary storyline? Well, the first question
Speaker 1: they'll probably throw out there is I thought you said
Speaker 1: this was a lock, You said this was a guaranteed win,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what I told them all last week. No,
Speaker 1: in all seriousness, Um, they're gonna be some some angry
Speaker 1: fans and get it out of the system tomorrow. We
Speaker 1: gotta get ready for the Giants on Thursday night. A
Speaker 1: lot of football left to be played. But you know
Speaker 1: how the passion runs deep for this this this football team,
Speaker 1: through these fans in this city. So it'll be a
Speaker 1: lot of yelling and screaming tonight. I'm pretty sure my
Speaker 1: co workers and Angelo Katoldy, he'll he'll get them rolled up. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll have some things to talk about, just transitioning. We listen,
Speaker 1: we'll talk it out, we'll talk it out. We'll have
Speaker 1: our Eagles community and I'll do my best to make
Speaker 1: sure no one is jumping off the ship. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of football still left to be played. And
Speaker 1: you know this team has championship DNA, A lot of
Speaker 1: football left to be played. Man, a lot of football
Speaker 1: left to be played. They just need to clean some
Speaker 1: stuff up and get back to playing Eagles football. So
Speaker 1: some therapy on Sports Radio ninety four w IP and
Speaker 1: then before the game you get a little bit of
Speaker 1: the excellent os and how the Eagles can beat the
Speaker 1: Giants on Eagles Game Plans, So make sure to check
Speaker 1: out that. Check that out later on in the week.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it for us here on the
Speaker 1: postgame show, presented by a Rico for Rykereason. Everyone here
Speaker 1: at the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm Chris McPherson signing off the
Speaker 1: Eagles fall twenty three to twenty one to the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Will be back tomorrow as head coach Doug Pearson addresses
Speaker 1: the media at noon. Until then, have a Greagles and
Speaker 1: everyone mm hm