Speaker 1: Welcome everyone as Eagles three sixty Eagles insider Dave's Finnaro
Speaker 1: along with Joe di Camera on an absolutely beautiful Wednesday
Speaker 1: at the Novacare Complex, feeling the vibe. It's football week
Speaker 1: here in Philadelphia and the Eagles getting ready for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Healthy Eagles team, Joe, what does that mean
Speaker 1: as the Eagles get off this bye week and get
Speaker 1: ready for the stretch. It means you get your best
Speaker 1: players to play as much as possible, which is key, Dave.
Speaker 1: Some of the players of course at the Eagles are
Speaker 1: counting on at the start of season. Look, this is
Speaker 1: a big game up at head versus Dallas Cowboys. Something
Speaker 1: I football. The bye week, it's done, and you want
Speaker 1: your best guys in there. That means, you know, of course,
Speaker 1: hopefully Jason Peters, Nelson Aglor who's you know, the expectations
Speaker 1: were big contributions from him this year. You want to
Speaker 1: see a better second half from him. Obviously, it starts
Speaker 1: with being healthy, the opportunity the inside linebacker rotation, getting
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks back, perhaps Kiko Alonso back in there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Bill Davis and Chip Kelly will have some decisions about
Speaker 1: playmaking and time, you know, dispersing the time out there
Speaker 1: between the inside backers. But hey, look it's good to
Speaker 1: be healthy. It gives you a shot. Yeah. And Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he kind of has to play
Speaker 1: in this game against Greg Hardy, who's just been so
Speaker 1: good as a pass rusher for the Cowboys. Nelson Aglor,
Speaker 1: can he add some punch to a passing game that
Speaker 1: really is lack consistency. Of Eagles taking Aglore with a
Speaker 1: twentieth pick in the first round, and he was the
Speaker 1: receiver that most of the Draftnicks said was the most
Speaker 1: ready for the NFL game. We'll see if he's able
Speaker 1: to contribute to the Eagles passing offense, which really really
Speaker 1: needs it. A lot of drops, a lot of inconsistency,
Speaker 1: and going against the Cowboys defense, Joe that I gotta say,
Speaker 1: it really surprised how good they are. I know that
Speaker 1: Hardy's an impact player, Randy Gregory good play. I thought
Speaker 1: that a loss of Orlando Scandrick would really hamper this group.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to have done too much. Now it's
Speaker 1: the offense obviously for Dallas and struggling without Romo. But
Speaker 1: what the Eagles did in Week two versus Dallas. Eagles
Speaker 1: offense versus the Dallas defense, it was a struggle. And
Speaker 1: as we talk about areas for the Eagles to improve,
Speaker 1: you touched on it, Dave, as far as what Nelson
Speaker 1: Aglore and the other receivers can do, because if you
Speaker 1: go back to Week two in the struggles, the Eagles
Speaker 1: have actually improved in a variety of ways, the offensive
Speaker 1: line probably being the most prominent way the Eagles have improved,
Speaker 1: But it's the outside, the receivers, the pass and attack,
Speaker 1: the lack of the vertical game that I think too
Speaker 1: many of us prior to the bye week stood out
Speaker 1: as the number one area the Eagles really got to compact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I got a sense in the locker room these
Speaker 1: first two days of the week that bad Eagles offense.
Speaker 1: They were embarrassed big time by that Week two lost
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. The offense shut down really almost completely
Speaker 1: in that loss tooth A cow is a linkol financial field.
Speaker 1: So round two comes Sunday night. Let's get you caught
Speaker 1: up with everything happening at the Overcare Complex today. Alex
Speaker 1: Smith our Eagles three sixty update. Hi everyone, I'm Alex
Speaker 1: Smith and this is your three sixty update. Another day
Speaker 1: at work here at the Novocare Complex as the Eagles
Speaker 1: get set for Sunday Nights game in Dallas. Today, we
Speaker 1: heard from offensive coordinator Pat Shermer and a number of
Speaker 1: the Eagles receivers on fixing some of the drop problems
Speaker 1: from the first half of the season. You know, i'd
Speaker 1: like to I like to hope that's the case, because
Speaker 1: we've seen these guys catch the ball very, very well
Speaker 1: and at a high level throughout their careers, and they've
Speaker 1: done it for us, and we just gotta get those
Speaker 1: bad plays out of their system. I think Jordans and
Speaker 1: the drops, and I mean I've had you know, I've
Speaker 1: had one, and Jordan's had a couple and I think
Speaker 1: now he's had a couple. That stuff just kind of
Speaker 1: I mean, those are growing pains on Sam takes and
Speaker 1: that a fair amount of blame for mistakes that we've
Speaker 1: made and me being the number one person, so he's
Speaker 1: putting the ball and then played for us. We said
Speaker 1: to go out there and make the plays, you know,
Speaker 1: But like I say, I sit here and say, like, oh,
Speaker 1: as a receiver group, we gotta do that. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I can only control one person.
Speaker 1: That's Jory Matthews. So for me personally, I have to
Speaker 1: go out there and help him out because I think
Speaker 1: just the blame that he gets on the day basis
Speaker 1: is really unfair. He's putting us in really good positions
Speaker 1: to win. We just got to go out there and
Speaker 1: make the plays. You know. As machiever, I gotta help
Speaker 1: Sam out. I got to be his best matchup and
Speaker 1: I have to create separation. And if I'm not doing that,
Speaker 1: he can't feel comfortable going to me. He can't feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, he can go outside of it. I just
Speaker 1: so I think I have to do a better job
Speaker 1: as an indivisu. Also speaking at the podium today was
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Bill Davis, who spoke about just how far
Speaker 1: this defensive unit has come since the start of the year.
Speaker 1: We put a huge emphasis on it and we've got
Speaker 1: the dummies all around the building. We really believe since
Speaker 1: the beginning of football that that's stat to take away
Speaker 1: differential has been a huge stat in wins and lossues.
Speaker 1: So we put a lot of focus on it and
Speaker 1: the guys have it on the front of their mind. Therefore,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's been. It's where we're at at the
Speaker 1: halfway point. We needed to be there at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. We also heard from Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford,
Speaker 1: who spoke about clearing his mind a little bit during
Speaker 1: the bye week and coming back recharged and ready for
Speaker 1: an NFC e showdown a little bit of both, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, early in the week, you know,
Speaker 1: it was good to kind of look at some things,
Speaker 1: but then really just kind of tried to get away,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of clear on my mind and
Speaker 1: get a break. So that way, you know, when I
Speaker 1: got back here for this week, I was fresh, ready
Speaker 1: to go, you know, ready to attack the back end
Speaker 1: of the season. And finally, an injury update here from
Speaker 1: the Novicare Complex. Linebacker Demiko Ryan's and left tackle Jason
Speaker 1: Peters did not practice today. Meanwhile, Ryan Matthews and Brian
Speaker 1: Brayman were limited, while Nelson Aghilor, Brandon bar and Kiko
Speaker 1: Alonzo were all full participants. And for all the latest
Speaker 1: Eagles news, be sure to keep it right here on
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Thanks so much, Alex, We've got
Speaker 1: a lot to get to In today's show, Joe and
Speaker 1: I will talk about some of the adjustments Eagles need
Speaker 1: to make in this second half of the season. We'll
Speaker 1: talk with Bill Davis, Eagles defensive coordinator, in studio, a
Speaker 1: good one on one with him. But when we return,
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Speaker 1: if he goes three sixty Dave SPIDERO Joe to camera time.
Speaker 1: Now for a little cover too, Chris McPherson bringing into
Speaker 1: studio a couple of Philadelphia Beat reporters, Amy kempsky from
Speaker 1: Philly Voice and Tim McManus from Birds twenty four seven.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, I'm Chris McPherson, and welcome to this week's
Speaker 1: edition of Cover two here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com.
Speaker 1: The Eagles were big winners during the bye week, losing
Speaker 1: no ground in the nfcast. Has both the Giants and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys lost their respective games, and to look at
Speaker 1: what's something ahead for the Eagles, I brought into my
Speaker 1: favorite journalists here. We got into mcmans from Birds twenty
Speaker 1: four seven and Jimmy Kemski from Philly Voice dot com. So, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: as we look ahead to the second half of the season,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are three and four. Big Sunday, they met
Speaker 1: up with the Cowboys who needs to step up for
Speaker 1: the Eagles in the second half of the year. Um,
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews, and I'll double down on Jordan Matthews. I
Speaker 1: think Jordan Mathews is gonna have a really long, really
Speaker 1: productive career. But just so far the season it has
Speaker 1: not gone well with the he has jobs. Josh has
Speaker 1: had a drop in the last game, Miles Austin's had drops. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you go right down my roster that I
Speaker 1: mean to have more drops than than any team in
Speaker 1: the in the NFL. So the wide receiver production has
Speaker 1: to be has to pick up big time, and they
Speaker 1: just have to make the catches that they're supposed to make.
Speaker 1: And really a big problem is the wide receivers aren't
Speaker 1: making the quarterback better, and the quarterbacks certainly isn't making
Speaker 1: the wide receivers better. Bradford has been, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: of major disaployment for the first seven games of the season.
Speaker 1: He's got to pick it up. And if the Eagles
Speaker 1: can just play average offense the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: they do have a defense that I think can carry
Speaker 1: them clearly to an NFC's title and possibly make some
Speaker 1: noise in the playoffs. All right, So Jimmy with that
Speaker 1: in mind, Why should fans be optimistic for the final
Speaker 1: nine games of the regular season. The defense, defense has
Speaker 1: been great. Defensive line obviously with Fletcher Cox and Benny Logan,
Speaker 1: and now you have you know, Suchric Thornton, who was
Speaker 1: out for a little bit is back. You have the
Speaker 1: linebackers across the board. You have you know Kolons it's
Speaker 1: going to be possibly returning this week against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: if Jordan Hicks who stepped in and it just played
Speaker 1: phenomenal football with Keiko out and with Michael Kendricks being
Speaker 1: out and Demiko Ryans of course Mufassa, and then you
Speaker 1: have the outside backers who really haven't had great production
Speaker 1: numbers wise, but I think have actually played fairly well
Speaker 1: in Brandon Graham and from so that front seven of
Speaker 1: that defense, with the back end also playing pretty well
Speaker 1: in my opinion as well, especially the safeties. I think
Speaker 1: that defense is just a really complete unit that again
Speaker 1: can carry them through the rest of the season. Hey, Timmy,
Speaker 1: your reason for optimism that we're going optimism here the
Speaker 1: other side here, and I would get there, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say, look at look at the look at
Speaker 1: the numbers on defense and the way the rate in
Speaker 1: which they're taking the ball away from the opponent, and
Speaker 1: they're right up there with Denver, and Denver is playing
Speaker 1: crazy good defense, and the Eagles have been too for
Speaker 1: the most part. And if the offense can just get
Speaker 1: out of their way in large part. Now, that's not
Speaker 1: the way that Chip Kelly is wired, that's not the
Speaker 1: way that this operation is set up for the office
Speaker 1: to kind of take a back seat. But if they can,
Speaker 1: just if Bradford can be a better game manager, if
Speaker 1: they can stop turning the ball over and sustain some
Speaker 1: drives a little bit of consistency going on, and then
Speaker 1: they can do something, all right, Tim flip the script.
Speaker 1: Why should Eagles fans be not so optimistic well down
Speaker 1: the stretch here? Do they have the horses on offense
Speaker 1: to be competitive, to get the job done over the
Speaker 1: final nine games and do something in the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: hope was that Sat Bradford was going to kind of
Speaker 1: take this team from good to great. He hasn't done
Speaker 1: that in his career yet. I mean, and that's just
Speaker 1: the facts in Saint Louis, and people gave different reasons
Speaker 1: for it, but he wasn't able to elevate them to
Speaker 1: the next level so far, and it's still young in
Speaker 1: this time in Philadelphia, but he hasn't done that yet.
Speaker 1: So is the quarterback good enough or the wide receiver
Speaker 1: is good enough? Is the offensive line deep and good
Speaker 1: enough in order to make it to the finish line
Speaker 1: and make some noises? So that's where the pessimism will
Speaker 1: creep in. Hey, Jimmy yea, again it comes back to me.
Speaker 1: It comes back to the quarterback for me. He's seven
Speaker 1: games in and he's, you know, obviously coming off the
Speaker 1: two ACLS hairs and hasn't played since the middle of
Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen seasons, so there's an argument to be
Speaker 1: made while he's just still kind of knocking off the rust,
Speaker 1: which all right, So I get that to some degree,
Speaker 1: but I think at least through the first seven games,
Speaker 1: we'd like to see some sort of flashes of what
Speaker 1: he and b and I don't think we even see that.
Speaker 1: We saw in the preseason a little bit against the
Speaker 1: Packers and just the way he played leading up to
Speaker 1: the season, but in the actual games that have mattered,
Speaker 1: I don't really think he's shown much of anything. And
Speaker 1: if you ask, if you ask the question, what does
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford do well. I think it's really hard to
Speaker 1: come up with a really great answer for that. So
Speaker 1: he's got to really turn it around, played better this year,
Speaker 1: or play better as in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: And then I'd go offensive line too. I mean, Jason
Speaker 1: Peters went down last week or two weeks ago rather
Speaker 1: against the Panthers, and you know, I think they adjusted
Speaker 1: well enough to a certain extent in that game, but
Speaker 1: as the game wore on, Jared Allen eventually was able
Speaker 1: to get to Sam Bradford and they were able to
Speaker 1: get pressure late in that game. So I do think
Speaker 1: if they do have a guy that goes down at
Speaker 1: some point during the rest of the season, they don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of depth there and could suffer. All Right,
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Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson. Thanks for joining us in this week's
Speaker 1: edition of Cover two. We'll see if the Eagles can
Speaker 1: get on track Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys. Thanks
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Speaker 1: three sixty. Dave spidero Joe to camera time now to
Speaker 1: talk Eagles and Cowboys and adjustments the first time around, Joe,
Speaker 1: it was ugly. The Eagles offense absolutely, as Trip Kelly said,
Speaker 1: an embarrassment. So let's start on the offensive side. What's
Speaker 1: the offense need to do better on Sunday night. Well,
Speaker 1: just to remind folks, it was a twenty to ten
Speaker 1: Eagles loss back then in September. The offense, to the
Speaker 1: reminder Joe, total disaster and DeMarco had nowhere to run
Speaker 1: thirteen carries two yards. Now, that was really the epitome
Speaker 1: of when the Eagles offensive line was just an incomplete turmoil,
Speaker 1: total disaster, particularly in the interior portion of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: which really struggled that day. As remember Sean Lee Dave
Speaker 1: really was dominant in that game. And you know, when
Speaker 1: you go back to to what happened and what I
Speaker 1: believe Chip Kelly should look to do differently, there was
Speaker 1: a there's a simplicity to the Eagles offense and it's
Speaker 1: part of what enables the Eagles to run a fast tempo.
Speaker 1: As we know the Eagles run a fast temple in
Speaker 1: part because it's a simplified approach you can get plays
Speaker 1: in quickly, but it's also a schematic approach that defenses
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to game plan against and has some
Speaker 1: advantages in that regard. I think Dallas really benefited from that.
Speaker 1: That was a time in the year where the Eagles
Speaker 1: were in the shotgun almost literally every play. It was
Speaker 1: also a time of the year back then Week two
Speaker 1: when the Eagles at that point, we're running eighty one
Speaker 1: percent of their runs to the opposite side of where
Speaker 1: the running back was lined up, and we can just
Speaker 1: see Sean Lee. He was just seeing the play. It
Speaker 1: was coming right down the line. He was meeting DeMarco Mary,
Speaker 1: and DeMarco was getting crushed. So, you know, I think
Speaker 1: by diversifying Dave what Chip Kelly's offense is and frankly
Speaker 1: making it harder for Dallas to gain plan and you know,
Speaker 1: Chip has changed things a bit since then. There's been
Speaker 1: more under center. There's been a couple play action passes,
Speaker 1: not as much as they want, but just been I
Speaker 1: want to see more diversification, but I don't know what
Speaker 1: diversification does for you if you're not executing the basics.
Speaker 1: Iing the Eagles need to, let's be I don't know
Speaker 1: the answer here, but they've scored ten points in the
Speaker 1: first quarter of games this year. They're two and four
Speaker 1: when opponents score first, and somehow on Sunday Night. Look,
Speaker 1: they've had two weeks to get ready for this game,
Speaker 1: come out with a great script, and maybe it is diversity,
Speaker 1: maybe it is hitting them with something that they haven't
Speaker 1: shown on tape this year. Score first, Make the Cowboys
Speaker 1: get out of their comfort zone of running the football,
Speaker 1: pounding it, playing for field goals. Make Matt Castle beat
Speaker 1: you with some early points. I think that is such
Speaker 1: a huge game, and Dave, I think that's fair. But
Speaker 1: I'll go beyond that because to me, let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Sam Bradford and the read option. We know
Speaker 1: the Eagles don't run a real pure read option at
Speaker 1: this point, but consider this, there's a lot of mesh
Speaker 1: handoff points where you know it's going to be the decision.
Speaker 1: Am I going to hand the ball off? On bradform,
Speaker 1: I'm going to hand the ball to DeMarco or the
Speaker 1: other running backs, or am I going to keep it
Speaker 1: and keep in it oftentimes to drop back and pass
Speaker 1: the ball. But as we know, and I've seen a film,
Speaker 1: I look at the film every week with Jaws, and
Speaker 1: I cannot begin to emphasize enough how overwhelmingly obvious it
Speaker 1: is that there's room for Bradford to run. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking Bradford to be Kaepernicker, Cam Newton or any of
Speaker 1: the great Russian quarterbacks in a span of NFL history.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you there's six yards. I'm not looking
Speaker 1: for thirteen. I'm not looking for fifteen. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: they've take the six yards because I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: six yards is there? Take the six I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. Is it because he can't do it?
Speaker 1: Or the knee? Both six yards? When your average third
Speaker 1: down gain is seven plus yards, right, That's what the
Speaker 1: average on the Eagles have been third and plus seven
Speaker 1: on average of this year. I'm not exposing Sam Bradford. Instead,
Speaker 1: I'm asking for a better execution, catch footballs, block better upfronts.
Speaker 1: There are receivers open, so Sam has to deliver the
Speaker 1: ball timely, more accurately get something going in the red zone,
Speaker 1: which has been a huge disappointment this year. They've brought
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford in in large in large part to be
Speaker 1: a better red zone quarterback, and he hasn't been a
Speaker 1: better red zone quarterback. Than Nick Foles and Mark Sanchez
Speaker 1: last year. So if the answer is read option, run
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford, yeah, it may work one or two times,
Speaker 1: Joe and the may that may be enough, Okay, to
Speaker 1: keep keep a defense. That's what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to stay. Honest. I don't think one
Speaker 1: or two Sam Bradford runs will ever keep a defensive
Speaker 1: end out here. And I don't disagree with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'll take the six yards and instead
Speaker 1: of having the third and seven, which you're right about,
Speaker 1: that's what it's been, I'll take the second and four,
Speaker 1: I'll take the third and two. I agree, Dave with
Speaker 1: basically everything you said. I'm just asking sprinkle it in,
Speaker 1: like if I got some some salt here. I'm just
Speaker 1: I just think the offense needs more than a sprinkle.
Speaker 1: I think the offense needs more down the field. I
Speaker 1: agree with that. To me, the passing game has been
Speaker 1: the disappointment more than the running. I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's fair. And the one thing is Bradford has
Speaker 1: gotten good protection in the passing game, and that's where
Speaker 1: it's disappointing. Both from a Bradford standpoint, and the outside receivers.
Speaker 1: Dave's exactly right. The Eagles, the play design has got
Speaker 1: to get the players down the field more. Bradford's got
Speaker 1: to see them better, that's clear. He's got to be
Speaker 1: more accurate with the passes. But also, as they've said,
Speaker 1: hey guys, when the ball's there, please please, please, can't
Speaker 1: and they've worked on it, and look at there are
Speaker 1: enough issues with the offense that you're right, We're all right.
Speaker 1: We just want more points, all right. So defensively for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I think the whole objective here is to
Speaker 1: stop the run. The Cowboys have been really challenged without
Speaker 1: Tony Rome with the quarterback position. They do have Dez
Speaker 1: Brian back. I expect Dez Bryant to get a couple
Speaker 1: of shots down the field. Eagles are going to be tested.
Speaker 1: I think Jason Witten is a huge, huge area player.
Speaker 1: He controls the middle of the field. He's going to
Speaker 1: require a lot of attention. I like Keiko Alonso in
Speaker 1: that matchup against Witton. But to me, Joe, if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys play it the way I think they will, they're
Speaker 1: gonna come out and try to smash mouth the Eagles,
Speaker 1: just like the Carolina Panthers. Dude. Yeah, the Eagles obviously
Speaker 1: had their worst run defense in that game, given up
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards. And you know, I'm not really
Speaker 1: particularly fearful of the Dallas Russian attack as we know
Speaker 1: Joseph Randall knell off the team and with the quarterback
Speaker 1: scenario of what Dallas has, I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles have a real opportunity in this game to have
Speaker 1: a quality defensive performance. Now, I still in the second
Speaker 1: half of the year. I want to see greater pass
Speaker 1: rush from the from the from the guys on the outside.
Speaker 1: Chipped down played that a little bit yesterday day. You've
Speaker 1: go talking about that Bill Davis today. Yeah, you've used
Speaker 1: the past rush kind of accumulative effect. But here's the
Speaker 1: bottom line. I mean, what Fletcher Cox is doing and
Speaker 1: his success it isn't listen, Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: are different players. Fletcher Cox is doing his job. I
Speaker 1: want to see Brandon Graham gets to the quarterback mornings.
Speaker 1: That's a simple way to look at it. Chip and
Speaker 1: Billy Davis can stay anything they want about they clump
Speaker 1: everybody together. Well, I don't clump everybody together. Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: is doing his job. At want Brandon Graham to do more.
Speaker 1: All right, So we we've outlined a little bit for
Speaker 1: even of course the special teams. They've got a little
Speaker 1: payback as well, the Cowboys blocking Donnie Jones returning it
Speaker 1: for a touchdown early in the second half of that
Speaker 1: week two games. So special teams need to step it
Speaker 1: up as well. Yeah. So that's that's our adjustments. Simple right,
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Speaker 1: talking defense. Bill Davis defensive coordinator joins us. When you
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Speaker 1: Welcome back from the bye week. I know it was
Speaker 1: the time for you to get some relaxation and also
Speaker 1: to do some self scouting and talk about the defense.
Speaker 1: Here at what kind of progress you make through seven
Speaker 1: games in the big picture, Well, we from game one
Speaker 1: to the last game, we felt like we were making
Speaker 1: steady progress. Now, the Panther game was not as good
Speaker 1: as we would have liked it, so we felt like
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a step back in
Speaker 1: the run game, and it really was just a little
Speaker 1: minor technique alignment issues that we had been so disciplined,
Speaker 1: and so the self scout really was encouraging in the
Speaker 1: growth that we have going on. And we're hitting some
Speaker 1: goals like the points allowed per drive and the turnovers,
Speaker 1: which are big indicators of playing win in football, and
Speaker 1: so that was growing. But you know, there's some other
Speaker 1: areas that we saw, Hey, we need to put a
Speaker 1: little more attention on those things. I came up to
Speaker 1: your office after the win over the Jets and you
Speaker 1: talked about wanting the players to own the defense. With
Speaker 1: so many new players, particularly in the back end, have
Speaker 1: you seen that ownership progressed through seven games. Yeah, we have,
Speaker 1: especially with the guys that come new to the system.
Speaker 1: It's a foreign language. That's the best way to relay
Speaker 1: it is although they know these techniques, but you're saying
Speaker 1: in a different way with different terminology. The defenses are
Speaker 1: called a lot of times some different words, so it
Speaker 1: takes a while to really settle in, to have a
Speaker 1: lot of reps to make their mistakes. I've all is
Speaker 1: thought that the more mistakes you can make in the
Speaker 1: offseason and training camp, that's what true learning happens. So
Speaker 1: you know, we've grown through some of those mistakes and
Speaker 1: the guys that were buying in and you can see.
Speaker 1: The way I can see the ownership is when they
Speaker 1: have ideas about scheme on the upcoming opponent or within
Speaker 1: a game and they say, hey, you know, coach, that
Speaker 1: one tool we have of a deuced call, can we
Speaker 1: use that here? When they align like that, absolutely, now
Speaker 1: they start understanding how the different aspects and tools are used.
Speaker 1: Now you've got some and then does that allow you
Speaker 1: then to expand the scheme to really get into things
Speaker 1: that you want to get into. Coverage wise, it does
Speaker 1: really what we try to do. They're really the more
Speaker 1: football I watch and bay around it. There's years and
Speaker 1: years of it. You either have the middle of the
Speaker 1: field open with the safeties or you close it. Everything
Speaker 1: inside of that is just different forms of middle open
Speaker 1: coverages and the tools you use. No matter what you
Speaker 1: want to call it cover to cover for, it's just
Speaker 1: it's the tools you use. So the guys really under
Speaker 1: standing when we're splitting the safeties what tools are available,
Speaker 1: and when the middle of the field is closed, what
Speaker 1: tools are available. That's where you have the communication on
Speaker 1: the back end, and they've taken a huge step this year.
Speaker 1: It really seems that with Walter and with Malcolm having
Speaker 1: converted cornerbacks who can cover, who can play the run,
Speaker 1: or intelligent guys, has really allowed you to communicate better,
Speaker 1: open up the defense and have a lot more success
Speaker 1: with those X plays. Those are quarterbacks, you know, the
Speaker 1: middle backer. Demiko's a quarterback force and sets the front seven,
Speaker 1: and then in the secondary we need when we split
Speaker 1: the safeties. They both own their half of the field.
Speaker 1: When there's a post safety. They won as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and they have a smart, intelligent instinctive safeties has made
Speaker 1: a huge difference for us to expand the package and
Speaker 1: to apply tools within a drive. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of times you hope the drive ends when a major
Speaker 1: mistake happens so you can get the guys in the
Speaker 1: sideline and get the thing fixed. Well, when the drive
Speaker 1: is going on, if you have the veteran and intelligent
Speaker 1: men out there, they can fix it in the drive,
Speaker 1: you know, in between, and that's when you really have
Speaker 1: something special. I know you weren't happy with the run
Speaker 1: defense against Caroline. Do you think it's stung that front seven,
Speaker 1: the front the group do you have? Oh? Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: We take a lot of pride in all aspects of it,
Speaker 1: but stopping the run and again it's as simple as
Speaker 1: one or two guys not fitting where he's supposed to fit.
Speaker 1: I mean it is. It takes to play good defense,
Speaker 1: eleven men doing their job and handling their their park.
Speaker 1: Because it's all affected you. The D line effects the linebackers.
Speaker 1: The linebacker affects the D line. Safety's alignments, you know,
Speaker 1: tells anything you have that you can give a coverage
Speaker 1: away affects everybody, so it's all attached to each other,
Speaker 1: and as you as you have one guy misfit, and
Speaker 1: all of a a sudden that big run happens, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there's a plus forty run on you,
Speaker 1: and then all those other all the good stuff. You
Speaker 1: have twenty five runs of two and three yards and
Speaker 1: that one forty crushes the you know, the total total game.
Speaker 1: We've all enjoyed this early success here of Jordan Hicks,
Speaker 1: and he's a rookie, seems so much more mature than
Speaker 1: his years. We'll kind of respond ability. Do you feel
Speaker 1: comfortable putting on him? Can he handle everything? You know
Speaker 1: what he's growing in that Carolina game plan because of
Speaker 1: the different types of run game that came at us.
Speaker 1: We put a lot on his plate as a as
Speaker 1: a quarterback calling getting us in and out of I
Speaker 1: give him two calls. You know, we're playing this call
Speaker 1: unless they're in gun and then I want this call.
Speaker 1: And he did a great job of communicating and executing it.
Speaker 1: So for a rookie, that was about as hard as
Speaker 1: it gets and he did a nice job. Bill It's
Speaker 1: Dallas on Sunday Night. No Tony Romo but they have
Speaker 1: Des Brian. We're trying to figure out what that offense
Speaker 1: is capable of doing. What do you see from them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's been tough on them because
Speaker 1: they've had three quarterbacks over the course of this season,
Speaker 1: three running backs that they've been moving in and out
Speaker 1: of the receiver Des has been out now he's back in,
Speaker 1: so there's a a little bit of shifting the old line.
Speaker 1: So what they've done is you've seen different games that
Speaker 1: we're trying to do is to say, Okay, when McFaddens
Speaker 1: are running back and Castles a quarterback, what are they
Speaker 1: showing and who are they? And I think they're trying
Speaker 1: to discover who they are, what running game works best
Speaker 1: from a fan, and what is the best passing game
Speaker 1: for Castle. So as you move through, you're kind of
Speaker 1: studying in small segments of who we think they're going
Speaker 1: to be versus us. Then you take an account their
Speaker 1: plans against us last year and this year with the
Speaker 1: same coordinator, and then he's okay, you kind of put
Speaker 1: it all together and you try to stop what they
Speaker 1: what they want to do and do best and make
Speaker 1: them go away from their best players and try to
Speaker 1: beat you that one. How did Dez look from a
Speaker 1: physical standpoint against the Fine he's back out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a phenomenal athlete that heals very fast, and he's
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to get out there, and we
Speaker 1: expect the ball to him often. Bill Matt Castle when
Speaker 1: we played him a couple of years ago, really athletic game,
Speaker 1: big game against the Eagles. Are your thoughts on him
Speaker 1: and what he brings to the table. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: well rounded quarterback that's seen him and played a lot
Speaker 1: of football. So when he comes out there, and we
Speaker 1: know even last week he made a couple of third
Speaker 1: down conversions with his legs, he sees the field well,
Speaker 1: he's learning that system. So you can see the growth happened.
Speaker 1: I know they haven't had the success that they were
Speaker 1: a lot not a lot of people have the success
Speaker 1: against Seattle that they like, but he is. He's getting
Speaker 1: more and more familiar. The running game has kind of
Speaker 1: been a little bit more Taylor to McFadden and he's
Speaker 1: having some success. So you can see it getting better
Speaker 1: week in and week out than that. Castle is a
Speaker 1: is a great decision maker. Really, Thanks so much. Luck okay,
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