WEBVTT - Post-Game Show: Eagles Lose 23-21 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.240 Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the postgame show presented 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.400 by a Rico. I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.079 Ike Reese. I apologize for the lack of energy right now, 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.160 but another disheartening loss for the Eagles, falling twenty three 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.680 to twenty one to the Minnesota Vikings to fall to 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.600 two and three on the season. Certainly, we all knew 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.360 that both teams were gonna be desperate. Minnesota was gonna 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.120 be coming in not having one since opening week. They'd 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.920 revenge on their minds for the NFC Championship game last year, 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.919 but none of us expected the game to unfold the 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.280 way it did, with the Vikings racing out to a 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.920 seventeen to three halftime lead, extending it to twenty to three, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.239 and the Eagles making way to make mistakes on offense 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.680 having no answers on defense, found a way to climb 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.279 back into the ball game made it twenty to fourteen. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.120 Nigel Brawn recovered a fumble, Eagles had the ball in 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.920 Minnesota territory but not able to get any point on 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.600 that drive in the fourth quarter, and then Dan Bailey, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.520 whom is two easy field goals early in the game 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.960 put it away with of course a fifty two yarder, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.560 so ike again. The Eagles sitting here below five hundred 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.600 for the first time since twenty sixteen. They never fell 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.039 below five hundred at all during the run to the 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.240 Super Bowl, and a team that still found a way 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.360 to make it close in the end. But it's just 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.960 not the same en Sync team that we saw really 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.560 from the jump in twenty seventeen. Yeah, they really have 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.959 struggled to find their footing, Chris. I mean, you look 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.600 at this team and the yet to put together a 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.000 complete four quarters sixty minute football game on both sides 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.000 of the ball, or i should say, in all three 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.360 phases of the game. And that's really been the story 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.680 of this young twenty eighteen season for the Eagles, is 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.960 that it's been difficult. Even when they found the way 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.440 to scrap out wins, they've just been difficult to come by. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.920 And you're looking at a team that has yet to 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.640 find their true identity as a team and really aren't 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.520 playing very fundamentally sound football right now, and they find 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.760 themselves in these dog fights week in and week out 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.600 with these teams and in this league, you know, it's 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.080 a flippable coin as to which way these ball games 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.360 can go. The Eagles have found themselves in five close, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.280 really one score football games, and they've come out on 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.799 the wrong end three times compared to winning just two 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.920 of them. It's a tough way to make a living 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.880 in this league. And I know every game is going 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.840 to be close, that's just how the league is made up. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.600 But you make it more difficult on yourself when you 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.840 basically have self inflicted wounds throughout the course of the game. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.000 You know it's already difficult enough to beat your opponent, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.400 but when you're beating yourself along with your opponent having 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.519 success against you, that's really not the formula for success. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.080 There's so much again to hear, so much the unpackage 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.160 here on the postgame show for anybody, Rico. We are 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.720 going to hear from the head coach Dug Pearson himself 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.160 as well as quarterback Carson Wentz, and we're going to 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:02.920 send it in a little bit over to the link 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.880 to hear from Eagles insider Davi Spadaro and our reporter 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.160 Amy Campbell, who are on this scene. But as we 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.320 just get into what happened here, and I think you 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.800 touch on an amazing point there, Ike with the self 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.200 inflicted wounds. For me, when I look at this Eagles team, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.480 I'm not surprised that we saw the up and down 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.400 nature that inconsistent play in the first quarter of the 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.400 season through the month of September because you're working so 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.480 many guys in and out of the lineup. You're getting 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.200 Carson back, Wentz back in week three, so you figure 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.480 right there, it's gonna take some time for him and 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.120 the offensive gel to try to get themselves on track. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.040 When you figured the defense pretty much coming back intact, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.760 would be able to hold down the form. So today 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.200 I thought today could be the launching pad, the start 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.600 point really for the twenty eighteen season, where if you 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.760 looked at September as an extended pre season of sorts, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.080 you know one that you know, good teams that typically 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.200 have these deep playoff runs uilize it because you're a 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.440 little more worn down in the off season. I figure 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.320 the Eagles would settle into that mold and all of 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.400 a sudden start to take flight here in the second 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.760 quarter of this season. But today it was a day 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.200 where I thought would happen and it just didn't. And 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.440 as Minnesota Vikings team. It could have been had a 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.880 little kirk Cousins was dealing. They were not able to 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.080 get really to him. They were able to get pressure 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.840 on but he did a great job of escaping it. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.160 I think his mobility has been a little bit underrated. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.800 Was pretty much flat out accurate throughout the course of 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.120 the game. But really the dagger might have been when 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.200 kirk Cousins was backed up in his own end zone 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.880 after the JGI fumble and he throws a ball deep 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.200 down the right side off his back foot and am 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.240 Feeland finds a way to come up with it, beating 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.160 Jail and Mills down the sideline. And you just said 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.039 at that point, you know, what can this defense do 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.279 to get a big play. So, speaking of the Insider 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.280 day Spender and Amy Campbell, let's send it over to 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.080 them as they are going to provide us with their 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.240 insights from the game, and think, first and foremost, start 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.960 with the reaction seeing how the game unfolded there Dave 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.520 late in the fourth quarter, and just your takeaways from 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.040 a team that has just been so inconsistent and not 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.159 able to find good footing here early in twenty eighteen. Yeah, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.360 I mean, I think the game is really kind of 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.960 encapsule by the turnover, the takeaway Nigel Bradham, Eagles in 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:10.000 Vikings territory and then absolutely unable to do anything with it, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.600 a intentional grounding, a you know, just mistakes of a 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.800 false start. So then they punted Amy first and tend 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.600 for the Vikings at the eleven yard line. Eagles defense 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.400 can't get off the field. Yeah, I think to me 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.480 it was perfectly well said by you that the mistakes, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.640 the turnovers, the penalties at critical times, right, sometimes it 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.520 costs more than it does those mistakes, those penalties in 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.720 this game at the wrong time, you know, you talk 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.240 about JGI, you know, nearly on the goal line there 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.520 with the turnover, and just unable to kind of capitalize 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.479 on the opportunities that they had there. And interesting, you know, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.039 going for it on fourth down in certain situations. And 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.000 then what we saw here kind of at the end 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.640 of the game, you know, a chance to a chance 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.440 to to you know, get it within reach there and 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.680 it's unable to capitalize on that as well. So our 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.359 storylines here, Mine was red zone efficiency, Eagles one of 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.400 four in the red zone, Vikings three of four in 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.880 the red zone, and yours was the matchup Eagles secondary 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.120 against the Vikings receivers. They battled for the most part, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.640 but again not able to keep Adam feeling down. Big 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.200 plays from Kirk Cousins who throws the ball to spots 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.159 and the receivers go make plays well. And I was 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.640 looking at the sacks on both sides, and of course 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.920 I was a wrong. Kirk Cousins only sacked one time. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.480 Carson Wentz sacked three times, running for his life for 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.200 a lot of this game. I don't think that's what 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.839 you want to see. And if it was really any 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.320 other quarterback, Carson so dynamic and so mobile, but any 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.359 other quarterback would have been sacked a lot more in 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.080 this game with the pressure that the Vikings were able 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.599 to get up front. And there were some key plays 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.480 Amy that I wrote down third and one, Eagles first possession. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.000 Usually that's a quarterback sneak. Instead they pitched to Josh Adams, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.760 Vikings snifted out Windale Smallwood in the red zone, drops 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.040 pass when he's wide open on the sidelines, an interception 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.000 that Carson Wentz through under pressure returned for a touchdown. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.600 Eagles in the red zone. Again, false start on Jason Peters, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.040 another fall start later, the Agie fumble, a sack when 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.640 Carson Wentz in the red zone. So these are things, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.480 look that just can't happen. And it's beyond just being inconsistent. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.280 There's a lack of focus, there's a lack of execution, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.720 and something's got to give here. The Eagles need a 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.840 spark of consistency offensively. You can't go through another first 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.239 half with just ninety one yards of offense and expect 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.000 to come back again and again and again. Yeah, like 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.840 you said, that first half was ugly. The numbers not 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.760 great for the Eagles in time of possession and first downs, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.920 and like you said, the offensive yards absolutely dominated by 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.120 the Vikings in that first half. And it seemed like 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.880 they had some things going in the second half, but 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.240 like you said, just not enough to get over the hump, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.880 especially with those costly mistakes at those times. Yeah. In 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.960 an era of guys where the league is seeing points 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.360 scored at a record race, the Eagles are scoring twenty 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.200 one points a game and this is really a shocking development. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.440 The offensive line not playing to the level it did 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.760 last year, the receivers, the red zone, it all adds 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.200 up to a two and three record here one week 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.280 in two and three wore see here for the Eagles. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:05.800 Short week for the Eagles, so they bounced back and 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.280 get ready for the Giants on Thursday night. Amy, great job. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.440 Back to Chris and I get an overcare complex. All right, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.720 Dave and Amy, thank you very much. Dave Spandario's gonna 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:14.920 be in the locker room and he have a complete 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.240 coverage and is on the inside common. You can also 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.080 download the Eagles Live podcast subscribe to it wherever you 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.160 listen to podcasts, as he'll get reaction from the players 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.720 as well, so a lot to touch on their ike. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.680 So why don't we get into your three big takeaways 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.079 from this game and we'll kind of both point those 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.280 and go through those more thoroughly. Well, when I look 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.240 at this team, it's a lot of the same things 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.560 that this team has struggled with all year. Let's start 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.320 with the penalties. The Eagles are one of the most 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.640 penalized teams in the NFL. That is a mark of 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.760 not being disciplined, to my fundamentals, Doug harps on these things. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.880 And yet still every week they come out and they 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.080 still have crucial penalties at the wrong time. And I'm 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.600 talking about presnap penalties, times where you're not lined up correctly, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.160 illegal procedures, things of that nature. You just can't have 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.640 those when you're struggling to move the football. Far too 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.160 often they found themselves first and fifteen, first and twenty, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.080 second and fifteen. You just can't have that. Indeed, so 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.360 get on the penalties there. You have so many situations 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.319 where it's all of a sudden the Eagles because the 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.680 bathing comeing in this game was the Eagles had to 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.960 get better situations on third down. Okay, everyone says, how 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.960 did the Eagles went on third down? And fran Duffy 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.760 and the Eagles game plan crew, obviously you're a part 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.720 of that, like they broke it down and the Eagles 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.160 average third and ten last week against the tight third 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.360 and ten. You are not gonna win in the NFL 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.920 if you have that situation. So everyone says, well, jeft 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.960 to execute there on third down. No, you gotta win 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.960 on first and second down to get yourself in bare 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.400 third down situations there, and the Eagles did a bare 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.600 job of that early on in this game. They would 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.880 get to second and four, second and two. But as 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.480 you met illegal formation palats, and you say all right, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.280 if that happens once toot the course of a game, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.320 it's one thing three times. I can't I believe there 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.000 were legal formation penalties. It too often that all of 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.400 a sudden you went from a second to two to 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.160 a third and twelve situation. Yeah, and you're not gonna 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:04.760 get the first down and you're gonna give the ball 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.280 right back to the Vikings that situation and in the 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.960 one instance I'm thinking of, maybe you're thinking they're the 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.720 same one it's second and two. They get eight yards 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.200 on the carry on the first down, then you get 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.960 illegal procedure and then you get false start or Jason Peters. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.760 Next thing you know, it's third and twelve. This Vikings defense, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.360 I know they haven't been playing well to this point 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.400 in the season, but the personnel is still the same 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.680 over there, and when you get in third and twelve, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.040 it's gonna be hard to convert that. I don't care 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.120 who you're playing against in this league, and that's what 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.920 the Eagles have found themselves far to Alton, I thought 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.520 Dave hit on some other key things. I mean, you're 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.719 talking about third and four in the red zone when 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.240 there Smallwood, you got the matchup, you want. You got 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.000 the Vikings confused. They don't even cover him out there 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.480 in the flats and he just drops the ball, has 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.160 the first down. Now you catch that ball, it's first 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.720 and goal from the five yard line. So instead of 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.120 getting three the first three points of the game, maybe 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.839 you have seven there. And another thing they touched on 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.720 this league is begging for offenses to put points on 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.080 the board week in and week out. Around the league. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.240 They're making it easy for you to score in this 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.800 league nowadays. And yet the Eagles offense can't get more 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.680 than twenty three points. They're averaging twenty one right now. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.440 It's been a struggle all year for this offense to 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.320 put points on the board, and I just can't figure 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.719 it out what it is, other than they have when 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.320 they have opportunities, they usually hurt themselves. Two for five 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.640 in the red zone. Can't have that. You need more touchdowns. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.240 Looked at this team last year as this was the 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.559 number one team in red zone efficiency. They scored touchdowns 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.240 last year when they got down there. This year, far 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.559 too many field goals. I think it really comes down 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.800 it's third down the red zone. Carson Wentz was the 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.760 best quarterback in the gaming both of those situations, situational football, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.520 both of those items. He was the best last year. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.480 And it's not certainly all on him. It's this offense 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.280 is not the biggest thing. And I think you hit 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.760 like the red zone. Theles have been able to move 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.800 the ball, they've gotten themselves in scoring position, they've just 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.280 not been able to finish drives whatsoever. So number one, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.319 there you went with penalties where you're number two item 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.240 there You're big takeaway from the games, the self inflicted wounds. Yeah, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.240 I mean, and that's that. I mean you can add 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.760 that to the penalties. You can. I mean, whether it's 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.120 a fumble by Carson. I mean, this Minnesota Vikings team, 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.600 while they moved the ball a couple of times in 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.560 the first half, the defense was able to hold him 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.880 the field goal attempts. They missed the field goals, and 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.720 you get a three three ball game in the second 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.199 quarter and Carson fumbles the ball. You know, another sack 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.440 there that leads to the Viking scoring seven points right there. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.400 You talk about the Vikings being backed up late, I 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.120 mean in the third quarter that passed to Adam Thaling. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.280 You can't have that. You got the coverage there. You 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.040 have to make the play on the ball. It's just 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.840 far too often. Bad call on Michael Bennett, you know 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.520 the rough and the quarterback penalty. I thought he was 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.640 being blocked into into him. But still you got an 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.800 opportunity to get off the field. You get a big 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.000 sack there, possibly hold the Vikings to three points and 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.880 getting still you get the penalty call. They get seven 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.319 before they go in before half to push that lead 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.520 to seventeen verse thirteen three. Huge difference and maybe with 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.560 the way Bailey was kicking, maybe he misses that and 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.439 it's only ten three, and again you got the ball 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.840 to start their second half. Then you move the ball 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:21.720 to start to say have you have an impressive drive? 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.400 And then Jhi, it was about to be my next point. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.840 Then you come out of the locker room ready to go, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.680 fired up, ready to get yourself back in this game. 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.160 Seventeen to three is nothing in this league. The game 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.559 was nowhere near over. So you're getting the ball out 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.719 coming out of a half, move the ball down to 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.040 feel great. You get down there, man, you gotta protect 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.199 the ball. You have to protect the ball. Sometimes when 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.920 there's nothing there, you have to just go down. But 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.000 if if nothing else you have to secure the football. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.920 There's an opportunity at worst to put three points on 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.480 the board right there, and maybe it's seventeen to six. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.360 At least you get points with your first drive. It's 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.920 deflating to move the ball all the way down the 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.680 field like that and then have yourself where you fumble 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.719 the ball really where it shouldn't have happened. I mean, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.160 that's he's a veteran running back. He knows that when 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.360 you're in a crowd like that, you gotta put both 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.000 hands on the ball trying to run sideways to make 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.559 something happen. It's just begging for trouble. And then immediately 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.800 following that, you get the big play to Adam Thieling 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.280 to get the Minnesota Vikings out of that hole. Thankfully, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.040 the Eagles defense was able to hold them the three 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.320 points there, but still you flip the field position, that's 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.400 three more points you gave up. You took three off 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.400 your and put three on their end. So you know, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.520 when you look at the final numbers, there's twenty three. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.440 Twenty one is the final score of Vikings win. But 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.080 the Eagles, much like last week, much like last week, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.720 they're gonna be tossing and turning over this game because 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:50.280 they know they had multiple opportunities to pull this game out. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.240 The thing is last weekie, figure with the way they 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.520 lost in a situation where they led by fourteen in 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.800 the second half, to give up that lead to overtime, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.560 office gives you a lead and then you have three 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.680 chances to get off the field and fourth down and 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.360 we all know how the game ended. So you figure, Okay, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.320 that was the learning lesson right there. Okay, you had 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.400 that really bad experience. You want to get that taste 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.240 out of your mouth. You want to get back at 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.800 home where the Eagles have dominated, and unfortunately the defense 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.440 came out flat. And that's the most disappointing thing for 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.800 me coming out of this was this is where no 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.680 one could score. You have to go back to Week 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.760 nine of last year when the Eagles routed the Denver 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.880 Broncos by the score of fifty one to twenty three. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.920 That's the last time this defense allowed more than seventeen 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.960 points at home, and the Eagles had or the Vikings 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.520 had seventeen points going into halftime. That's just how much 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.120 different of a ball game this was. Today. You figure 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.440 the Eagles were invincible at home, but they lost that momentum, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.840 They lost that part of the edge today and that's 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.200 what's so discerning moving forward, because the fact there's the Eagles, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.160 there are two and three, But the slow starts are 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.080 the things that are really really disappointing because come into 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.040 this game, the Eagles were outscored by thirteen points in 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.360 the first quarterball games this season. Okay, the Vikings were 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.760 worse than that, being outscored by fourteen points in the 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.040 first quarter of games this season. So neither team this 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.280 year has been able to get off to a good start. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.840 And the Vikings kind of fumbled around. They had the 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.760 couple missed by Bailey. The Eagles were still right there 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.160 in the ball game, but Dave touched On this point, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.600 we can get into some more. The offensive line just 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.200 is not blocked in pass protection. And that was the 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.560 other bugboo from last week. Okay, what was the turning 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.560 point of last week's game? Up in the second half, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.800 it was Harold Landry beats Lane Johnson off the edge, 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.320 gets the sack and then all of a sudden, Mario 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.160 was able to lead a drive for a touchdown. Okay, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.840 today it's Lane Johnson gives up the sack to Stephen 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.600 Weatherly and Lynville Joseph goes marching down the field, picks 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.920 up the fumble, rumbles his way down for the touchdown, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.840 and the Vikings are up ten to three, and that's 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.320 where he started to feel like this could be trouble 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.600 for the offense. So the fact that the offensive line 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.560 as a whole, it's not just on Lane Johnson, but 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.520 overall not protecting Wentz as well this year as opposed 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.440 to last season, is something that the Eagles really have 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.639 to take a look at moving forward to try to 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.159 fix this offense because it all starts up front. You know, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.200 this offensive line was flat dominating teams last season, both 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.280 in the run and the pass game. That's why it 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.120 was named the league's best offensive line. That just has 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.520 not been the case here in twenty eighteen. And you're 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.760 looking to those big name guys. Many people will say 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.520 Lane Johnson is the best tackle in football, or at 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.160 least he was in twenty seventeen, but that hasn't been 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.480 the case here. You know, in Steven Wisanowski, he was 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.000 bench for Isaac Say a mile today. So the Eagles 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.679 are trying to make the changed up front trying to 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.480 get something going there. You saw a Hollapool Evody Vty 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.280 coming in as an extra offensive line and to add 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.600 a little more beef up front there, but still just 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.200 not enough to get the job done. And Wentz finds 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.800 himself trying to evade pressure, having it work some magic 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.880 in the pocket, you know, and to his credit, he's 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.520 able to a lot of times make something out of nothing. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.080 But still you're asking for way too much of the 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.520 quarterback as this offense overall is struggling. So when you 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.439 look at the things that are going wrong, and I 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.920 think really ikes takeaways from this game are kind of 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.080 a microcosm of the Eagles through the first five games. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.240 It's way too many penalties and a second two may 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:09.000 self inflicted wounds, mainly the turnovers. That's the biggest thing 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:10.679 there is when you look at what's going wrong and 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.080 why the Eagles are at two and three, is they're 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.000 giving up the ball way too often. They're committ way 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.320 too many self inflicted wounds, and they're just not scoring 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.200 even though they're moving the ball at a decent rate. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.000 They're just not able to get the job done. And 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.360 the last takeaway for your ike from this game kind 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.600 of touched on already. Is the defense with those explosive players. Yeah, defensively, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.159 I mean we're giving up way too many eggs plays. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.199 And I know Jim Schwartz likes the hard point its 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.439 all the time. They don't like giving up explosive plays, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.760 plays of twenty plus yards and this has been a 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.440 bugaboo for this defense. They haven't struggled in many areas. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.840 I mean, they still will keep points off the board. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.520