WEBVTT - Drive Time: Eagles Perspective with Fran Duffy 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.280 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.080 your pulse if you're not for what is up? 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.680 Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:17.919 the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.119 How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.239 And on today's show, we're gonna hear from the opponent's perspective. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.800 Fran Duffy from the Philadelphia Eagles helps us preview this 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.200 week's opponent. Plus we're gonna stop by the assistant coaches 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.159 podiums they spoke to the media on Thursday. We'll get 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.479 the latest from those guys. And we'll also pick the 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.640 week seven NFL games from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:46.760 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast, Maggie, Daffiehirs. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.279 As we do every single Thursday, we head to the 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.400 opponent sideline. Let's go ahead and welcome in my guest today, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.000 fran Duffy. You guys know who he is. He joins 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.160 us every year during the draft cycle. But now as 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.200 we get once every represidential campaign to pick his brain 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.800 on the team. He actually covers Eagle Eye and the 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.320 Sky podcast for the Eagles Podcast Network, also the Journey 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.800 to the Draft podcast. Fran Duffy Fran, good morning to you, sir, 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:12.759 and thank you for joining us. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.800 Travis, good morning, Happy to join you guys. Obviously, it's 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.800 gonna be a fun weekend this weekend with these two 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:18.680 teams facing. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.720 Off, a lot of anticipation for this one. We are 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.679 recording this on a Thursday morning, and I'm already kind 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.640 of counting the hours down until kickoff. It's going to 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.200 be a long long wait on Sunday, yes, to get 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.000 to that a twenty kickoff, But just kind of give 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.160 us the vibe around the building, around the team, around 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.880 the city right now. Off the first loss of the year. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.120 But I'm sure that didn't really deter excitement around the 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.280 Philadelphia Eagles. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.679 Yeah, I mean, you know, Jalen Hurts was twelve to 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.920 zero in his last twelve road starts. You know, this 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.360 team is just not lost a lot of games with 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.560 Jalen Hurts as the starting quarterback over the last couple 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.520 of years, So unfamiliar territory this week, I think for 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.040 the fan base, but I think when you look at 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.080 what this team has done over the last two years, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.440 a lot of reasons to think, hey, you know what, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.560 that was a bump in the road and let's keep 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.560 things rolling. They haven't had a losing streak since the 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.280 twenty twenty one season, so they'll be looking to not 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:06.880 let that happen here this weekend. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.359 So what I do on my weekly schedule frame is 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.640 I do my own preview where I watched the tape 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.200 and break the game down on Wednesday, and then Thursday, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.600 I welcome in my guests like you, and I kind 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.040 of try to test my theories and the things that 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.120 I found with someone that has more knowledge on the 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.519 team than I do. And when I was watching the Eagles, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.000 I noticed a bunch of explosive plays, vertical passing game, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.840 very consistent running game, but some not errors, but just 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.480 not the efficiency in the short intermedia game we're used 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.160 to seeing. So I wanted to just kind of put 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:37.679 that question to you, What have you seen in terms 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.560 of where they've excelled offensively and where they've struggled so 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:41.679 far through six games? 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.960 Yeah, I think when you look at the overall talent, right, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.639 I mean you look at Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.040 and Devontae Smith and Dallas s Goddard and DeAndre Swift, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.240 like the explosive plays are going to be there, and 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.440 both the run in pass game, you know. So I 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.200 think that all of that you're going to You're going 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.360 to get those right, come hell or high walk, Like 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.680 Jalen Hurts is going to make some superhuman plays on 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.359 a weekly basis. AJ Brown is going to make superhuman plays. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:06.880 And you go down the list and each of them 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.400 have kind of taken turns on a weekly. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.280 Basis of making those explosives. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.600 Over the last few weeks, AJ Brown has been kind 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.480 of the centerpiece of the past game. He became the 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.440 first Eagles receiver in like fifty years to have four 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.440 straight performances one hundred and twenty five yards through the air. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.840 And he does it in so many different ways, you know, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.560 down the field, intermediate yards after catch, I mean so 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.600 many different ways that he's able to hurt you both 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.400 outside the numbers and between the numbers. So I think 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.400 when you look at aj Brown, all the production in 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.720 the past game, it's all there. What they've said over 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.840 the course of the five to zero start and then 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.560 certainly last week even still that they have not played 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.360 their best game yet. They have not played a complete 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.480 game yet offensively, And that's what has made it kind 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.840 of funny because I think everybody in the outside, yeah, 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.040 like you know's there's still kind of like a feeling 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.520 out period. Obviously, there have been some changes on a 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.080 personnel front. You know, there's some swapping up front along 0:03:59.120 --> 0:03:59.800 the offensive line. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:00.640 Injury. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.480 You lost Isaac Samlo, the starting right guard a year ago, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.080 so you got a new right guard in there coming 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.520 in and then he got hurt in Cam Jurgens. He 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.080 won't play for this game. Lane Johnson got hurt on 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.240 the opening series last week against the Jets, so you 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.320 had a whole new side on the right side of 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.080 the offensive line and just filling out the new play caller, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.080 Brian Johnson, right, So you have just kind of feeling out, like, 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.440 all right, the offense isn't quite the same feel. But 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.200 then you also like step back, you're all right, let's 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.560 just look at the numbers. And when you look at 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.560 it from like an EPA standpoint, from a success rate standpoint, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.440 this is a team that's in the top six, top 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.599 seven in pretty much every like impactful category. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.880 The one area that has not been. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.640 Super successful, especially over the first like three four weeks 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.120 was the red zone where they were in like the 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.800 bottom qure tile of the league. But even since then, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.240 like they were two for three in the red zone 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.560 last week they got started a good start of the 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.599 week before against the Rams. So I think when you 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.120 look at this offense on the hole, you would say, yeah, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.039 like not hitting on all cylinders, but also still performing 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.680 at a high rate. And that's kind of a good 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.279 place to be at right where it's like, all right, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.160 we haven't peaked too early. We're still like climbing that ladder, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.320 and you hope that you want to be going to 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.280 kind of hit full stride by the time we get 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.440 into like November December. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.680 I've got my thoughts on, you know, the football discourse 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.440 landscape as it were, frame what people think about certain 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.920 players and teams and schemes. And you know, I see 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.640 Buffalo fans are up in arms about their offense. It's 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.279 ranked I think like third and EPA exactly the Eagles 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.479 their second overall offense, and there's like what's going on 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.280 with the Philadelphia Eagles. It's like they're five to one 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.120 with the number two offense in the NFL, and watch 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.760 them on tape. The Jalen Hurts stiff for him while 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.359 I'm throwing a ball on a comeback. Like outside the podcast, Sam, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.760 there's not probably anybody else in the league that can 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.479 do that. You know, he's a freaking powerlifter playing quarterback 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.600 back there. He's just such an impressive, impressive player. And 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.800 you mentioned, you know, Brian Johnson the new play caller, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.320 and obviously the right side of the offensive line was 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.680 banged up last week. And on top of that, two 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.039 of those picks are never going to happen again this year, 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.320 like the one that gets you know, batted off someone's 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.200 thigh pad and goes back to the defensive line for 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.360 a pick a one where his arm gets hit mid throw. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.000 Like that one could happen, but it's just very fluky occurrence, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.560 is what I'm trying to say. But I want to 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.360 get your your just general feel for how you think 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.360 he and Brian Johnson have worked together. Excuse me, how 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.480 that relationship has kind of started, where it is right 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.640 now and where you see it going here for the Eagles. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.160 Well, you know, for everybody in the Philly area kind 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.239 of knows this, but externally you don't have that same knowledge. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.440 Brian Johnson and Jalen Hurts have known each other since 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.480 Jalen Hurts was basically a little kid, because Jalen Hurts 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.800 his father coach Brian Johnson, in high school, so they've 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.039 known each other for a long long time. So that 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.280 relationship was already there. He's been the quarterback coach here 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.960 over the last couple of years under Nick Sirianni, and 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.479 then stepped into the offensive coordinator role this offseason, and 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.720 so that relationship is rock solid and now. But again, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.839 anytime you have a new coordinator or a new play caller, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:45.800 there's still just going to be like kind of like 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.200 that feeling out period. And every team, as you know, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.400 like every team every single season, you're gonna have different 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.400 strengths and weaknesses just because of natural turnover and development 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.880 and evolution. So it's like, all right, those first few 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.560 weeks of the year are always about what is what 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.880 is our identity? What do what this is this version 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.360 of this team do best, you know, and just kind 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.400 of figure feeling out where that is. But I think 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.680 right now there's a lot of reasons to be excited 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.000 about Jalen Hurts, this pass game, this offense. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:11.800 Last week was was not. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.480 Like the prettiest, but especially down the stretch in the 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.040 fourth quarter. You mentioned some of the flukey plays, but 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.680 certainly some players where you look at and say like, yeah, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.640 like Jalen's got to be better in this situation, and 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.600 he took ownership of that final interception in the fourth quarter. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.200 You know, I think when you look at overall, though, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.520 there's a lot of reasons to be excited. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.920 Like I said, yeah, that last pick was the one 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.760 that I was like, oh, that's very on. Jalen hurts 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.320 like of him, and you know it's gonna happen to 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.000 every quarterback. Every quarterback is gonna have a couple of 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.400 throws and maybe get away from them or maybe they 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.160 didn't see the right read or whatever the case may be. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.440 But one thing you can count off for this Eagles team, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.360 because even though the passing success right right now I 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.480 think is forty four percent swift and hurts, I think 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.440 our second and third or third and fourth overall quarterbacks 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.000 had running backs in success rate on the ground. Tell 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.200 us about this run game. I'm also just kind of 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.000 curious to get your gauge on whether or not Lane 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.760 Johnson plays this week high ankle sprain. I know he's 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.520 trying to get back out there and played, but just 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.760 his his potential absence or not. And then the running game. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:04.960 How have you seen a playoffs so far? 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.360 I would say, real quick the last part. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.720 First, when it comes to Lane Johnson, you know, there 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.040 has not been anything like officially put out, you know, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.040 in terms of where he's at. I guess we'll check 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.480 the injury report that drops later today. On Thursday, there 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.040 were reports from external media that he was going to 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.000 try and give it a go. So and Lane Johnson 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.800 is one of the toughest players I've ever been around 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.680 in my thirteen seasons here with the Eagles, so it 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.800 would nothing would shock me when it comes to him 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.680 and his ability to kind of gut it out. So 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.120 that'll be something certainly to watch for in the next 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.360 couple of days and see what his status is. But 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.640 I think when you look at this run game, Travis, 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.480 what has really stood out to me over the years. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.880 You know, Jeff Stoutlin has been the offensive line coach 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.800 here since the twenty thirteen season, so he's been here 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.560 through you know, I guess it's three different coaching staffs, right. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.320 He was bought in by Chip Kelly was here for 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.840 the entire Doug Peterson era and then obviously here with 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.600 Nick Sirianni, and what has always stood out is, yeah, 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.080 like they're going to have their their core principles right 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.439 there in terms of, hey, this year, we're going to 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.640 really major in the pin pull sweep or the different 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.200 versions of inside zone or outside zone, right, you know, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.600 whatever whatever that is. But they've always been extremely multiple, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.800 so that in any given game, whatever your weakness is 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.640 as a defensive front and the way that you fit 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.840 the run and how you line up to certain formations, hey, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.840 you know, we are going to attack that weakness if 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.160 we feel like there's an area there, you know. So 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.080 they've basically they've got all the different clubs in their 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.079 bag to use a golf reference, they got it, and 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.600 they know how to use all of those clubs. So 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.120 depending on what your weakness is on the ground, and 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.839 they're not afraid to spam the same play over and 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.240 over and over until you adjust. And we saw that 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.960 it was week two against the Minnesota Vikings where they 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.920 came out and ran the same formation, the same play call, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.440 the same basic like inside zone play from the same 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.640 formation like seven eight times in like a two drive 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.760 span and just said yeah, like go ahead, stop it, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.400 like try try and stop it, and until you guys adjust, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.640 we're going to keep doing it. And that might seem 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.360 like boring from a play calle exam, like all right, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.920 here we go, let's inside zone. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:58.640 Let's do it again. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.560 But you know, the credits to the coaches for sticking 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.559 to it, and you've seen that in the past over 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.800 the years with this offense. So to me, this is 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.000 an offensive line and a run game where they've got 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.720 a bunch of guys up front that all have very 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.280 unique skill sets. Right, you have Jordan Mylotta, who is, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.679 you know, all every bit of six foot eight and 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.360 three hundred and seventy five pounds, but you look at 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.640 him and you're like, man, this guy is a put to. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.360 He looks like he's three forty, which again that's not 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.600 a small guy, but the way he's put together, Like 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.560 there are like probably five people on planet Earth that 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.800 are built the way Jordan Mylotta is and move the 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:34.520 way that he does. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:35.280 Like that combination. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.720 Jason Kelcey a unicorn at the center spot Lane Johnson, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.040 one of the freakiest athletes on the offensive line in 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:41.439 the NFL. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.240 Right, So you go down the line, Landon Dickerson is 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:43.720 a behemos. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.200 So you have all these guys with unique skill sets, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.360 and I think what they do is do such a 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.760 great job. And it's honestly, it's not unlike Mike McDaniel 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.160 and the way that he uses his players. Right, it's like, hey, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.520 you know what, we've got tyreek Kill, We've got Devin 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.559 ah Chan, you know we've got Raheemoser. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.760 All right, what does this player do really really well? 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:02.200 All right? 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.960 How do we put him in position to you know, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.560 really magnify those strengths and hide any. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.040 Weaknesses that might that player might have. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.040 And I think that that's the approach that Jeff Stotlin 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.280 takes to this offensive line and to this run game 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.800 is just trying to find ways to really kind of, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.520 you know, explode any player's strengths inside the scheme. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.600 I was gonna say when you mentioned that, they just 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.400 kind of do what they do best and if you 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.240 can stop it, go for it. But most teams can't 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.080 stop it. We actually heard Mike McDaniel say something similar 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.120 to that back end. It was either training camp this 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.960 year or last year, when somebody asked him about like 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.839 putting too much out there for the fans or here 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.920 see training camp and whether or not you want to, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.960 you know, you know, divulge too much of your playbook there. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.680 And he said, well, the best teams can they team 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.080 the opposing defense knows what's coming and they can still 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.920 do it successfully. And if I just may add a 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.960 variable to Jordanilata as well, not many humans can move 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.040 like that or built like that and have the pipes 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.000 that guy has, if I do say. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.800 So myself, exactly right, Yeah, no, but he is. He 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.200 is a rerannaissance man for sure. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.760 Yeah, he's awesome. I love watching him play football. Let's 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.400 go ahead and get over to the defensive side right here. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.120 My guest today is Fran Duffy excuse me once again, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.679 Eagle Eye and the Sky podcast for the Philadelphia Eagles 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.840 podcast network. There and we talk about you know, Brian Johnson, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.360 Mike McDaniel, a couple of new coordinators for both these 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.120 teams as well, Vic Fangio and Sean Desaigh and Desai 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.760 cut his teeth under Fangio back in Chicago. I believe 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.920 it was not mistaken. Just give us the kind of 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.400 one on one here behind to sigh and what this 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.560 defense looks like so far through six games under his guidance. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.920 I think certainly the bones of it are very similar 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.520 to what you guys are seeing down there in Miami 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.320 with Fangio. Right as you mentioned, Sean cut his teeth 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.520 in Chicago in the NFL, he was previously he was 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.600 actually at the University of Miami under Al Golden That's 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.520 who kind of gave him his introduction into coaching. Was 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.280 down there with the Hurricanes for a year and then 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.920 jumped to a couple spots in college before moving into 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.800 the NFL and learning under Fangio. And so you know, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.439 that was something that he kind of talked about in 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.480 his introductory press conference, was outside of like what he 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.559 wanted the identity to be. He was like, look, there 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.160 are a lot of teams in the NFL that are 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.000 trying to run some version of the Fangio defense. Was like, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.840 but I'm a guy who actually like learned under Fangio 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.000 for more than just a year, right, Like, he is 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.559 a guy he was kind of brought up in that system, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.160 and I know that he and coach Fangio are close 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.480 to this day. So I would say, like, from the 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.880 bones of it, it's similar, but there's always gonna be 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.920 tweaks and there's always going to be some differences. You're 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.760 always gonna put your spin on things. Certainly, you know 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.080 Sean is going to lean into the strengths of this 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.080 defensive line and it's been as one of the best 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:24.960 lines in football. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.400 They go two three deep at most positions. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.400 When you look at like things like next Gen stats 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.760 and say, okay, let's just look at all QB pressures, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.120 the Eagles are like the only team with at least 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.120 twenty with two guys with twenty eight pressures. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.400 They're the only team with three guys or at least twenty. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:39.600 Right. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.160 It's always like those kind of barometers with this. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.040 Group because it's extremely deep, and you hope Jalen Carter, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.680 the rookie first round pick, a top ten selection, he's 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.960 able to go. He missed last week against the Jets. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.920 But Fletcher Cox is playing great football right now. Josh Sweat, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.480 who's playing at right defensive end, he'll be going up 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.959 against Kendall Lamb at left tackle, playing great football. Hassan Reddick, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.079 he's had multiple sacks for two I think it's three 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.360 straight or two straight weeks. He's had at least two sacks, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:06.880 and he's had a sack and at least the last 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.079 three games he had a broken thumb to start the year, 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.040 was playing with a cast. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.680 As soon as that sack, as soon as. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.200 That cast came off, the sack party started for Hassan Reddick, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.160 Brandon Graham being used all up and down the formation 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.480 like it's just a Milton Williams, Like it is a 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.560 really really good group up front. Now, when you go 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.600 up against the Dolphins with how fast two it gets 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.360 the ball out of his hands, You're gonna need more 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:27.760 than just the D line because the D line can 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.840 win one on one and you can get home. But 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.120 that if that balls out, those wins don't do you 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.200 any good. So I think the big thing in this 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.160 game will be ken the Eagles do enough to force 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.720 it to hold onto the football and allow that defensive 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.240 line just that extra tick to be able to get home. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:42.760 It's good to me. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.360 It's that is the matchup and the aspect of this 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:46.960 game that will determine the outcome. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.760 You know, doing the podcast the preview I did yesterday, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.520 I kept laughing throughout the whole show because of all 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.960 the star power in the names on either roster and 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.640 you just did it right there. For me again, I'm like, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.560 you did it offensively, you did it defensively. This team 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.600 is just so load with talent and fran When I 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.040 plugged on the tape against the Jets, one of the 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.600 first things I look for when I watch tape is 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.960 to just see who consistently can reset the line of 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.440 scrimmage offensively or defensively. Jordan Davis was walking the center 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:11.240 back all game long. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.680 I didn't even mention Davis, right, I'm sure it was 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:14.760 just on your. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.320 Apartment, Like, what the hell, man? This team is so good, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.440 it's so deep, it's so loaded. But you touch on 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:20.880 something that was kind of my nice question for you. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.040 Here was the secondary and you know, the passing game 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.000 of the Dolphins here because obviously you know, kind of 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.480 rewriting the record books through six games so far. But 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.400 the just I know, you can't really get a pulse 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.320 for this until we see that injury report come out 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.120 at the end of Friday. But so banged up back there, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.240 how have they kind of managed the attrition they've gotten there? 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.160 Because a couple of guys in ir Justin Evans, whom 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.680 I forgetting one of their potomatics. I'm in the middle 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.400 of the football field, and I'm kind of wondering that 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.520 it seems like the attrition hasn't just occurred at the 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.240 corner safety spot, but in particular down the middle of 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.000 the field where might be so successful in the passing game. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.600 How do you think that might kind of shake out 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:55.280 come Sunday night. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.680 Well, you know, it was a few years ago. I 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.600 want to say it was the twenty twenty season. It 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.480 was the cod year where the Eagles were just so 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.400 banged up along the offensive line, and it was something crazy. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.720 It was an NFL record where I think in the 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.760