Speaker 1: After racing out to a sixteen to three lead, the
Speaker 1: Eagles fall to the Miami Dolphins twenty and nineteen at
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field and followed to four and five on
Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen season. Hello everyone, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson alongside former Eagles linebacker Ike Reese. Ike
Speaker 1: what happened with the offense coming into this game? Mike,
Speaker 1: we questioned could the Eagles gift to a hot start?
Speaker 1: And the Eagles scored touchdowns on their first two drives.
Speaker 1: You had the big plays by Brent Sellek setting up
Speaker 1: the early touchdown by Josh Huff and then Ryan Matthews
Speaker 1: punched the ball from one yard out. Walter Thurman in
Speaker 1: between got the safety, knocking Ryan Tannehill in the end zone,
Speaker 1: getting the ball loose, and then going out of the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone for the safety. So sixteen
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter. They came into this game
Speaker 1: scoring only ten points in the first quarter of their
Speaker 1: first eight games combined, so it seemed like the offense
Speaker 1: was on track ray to roll. This was a Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense that had been reeling what happened to the offense
Speaker 1: after that point in your estimation, Ike allowed the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense led by and Dominican Sue in my estimation up front,
Speaker 1: who was very good to be able to get the
Speaker 1: Dolphins back in the game where they shot themselves in
Speaker 1: the foot repeatedly. I mean, whether it was a big
Speaker 1: play that happened on first down and it was called
Speaker 1: back the a penalty, or a touchdown that was taken
Speaker 1: off the board. I think we had two of them
Speaker 1: the day taken off the board due to penalty. And
Speaker 1: that's basically what a board down to, you know, basically
Speaker 1: shooting themselves in the foot. Sloppy played things that you
Speaker 1: thought this team had sort of cleaned up through those
Speaker 1: first few weeks. It looked a lot like the Eagles
Speaker 1: from the first few weeks, where you got a lot
Speaker 1: of new players, people unsure where they're supposed to be,
Speaker 1: and you're basically getting penalties that kill yourself. And I
Speaker 1: thought the Eagles had sort of cleaned that up over
Speaker 1: the last month or so. They've been playing much better
Speaker 1: football on the offensive side of the ball. And I
Speaker 1: also thought we didn't run the ball well today. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a Dolphins defense that gave up two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty six yards last week to the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and we weren't able to capitalize on that today. All Right,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do now, send it over to Lincoln
Speaker 1: fancil Field. Well here from head coach Chip Kelly and
Speaker 1: a little bit to get his reaction. But first let's
Speaker 1: bringing Eagles insider Dave Spadero for his instant take on
Speaker 1: the Eagles twenty and nineteen loss, four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: six yards of offense a sixteen to three lead at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter not enough for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: as they opened the second half of this two thousand
Speaker 1: fifteen regular season in extremely disappointing fashion, losing to Miami
Speaker 1: twenty to nineteen on Sunday Lincoln Financial Field. Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: knocked out of the game in the second half with
Speaker 1: a left shoulder injury and a concussion. Ryan Matthews out
Speaker 1: of the game also in the second half with a concussion.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles found ways to lose this game, ranging
Speaker 1: from a blocked punt that's set up a Miami's score,
Speaker 1: a miss field goal opportunity on a bad snap from
Speaker 1: John dorm boss and late in the game, quarterback Mark
Speaker 1: Sanchez rolling left throwing into the end zone, a play
Speaker 1: that he didn't even have to make. The ball was
Speaker 1: intercepted and then from there the Eagles defense unable to hold.
Speaker 1: They got the ball back late in the last minute
Speaker 1: without any time out remaining unable to do anything with
Speaker 1: the football, so Miami escaped South Philadelphia with the victory.
Speaker 1: The Eagles just a really tough way to lose this game.
Speaker 1: The Miami offense struggled all game, but they scored on
Speaker 1: a touchdown with Connor Barwin deflected a pass high up
Speaker 1: into the air and the Eagles defense slow to react
Speaker 1: Landry Jarvis Landry making the catch for the touchdown. So
Speaker 1: Miami crept back into it, crept back into it, finally
Speaker 1: took the lead late, the Eagles could not overcome the deficit.
Speaker 1: They are now four and five, a very disheartening way
Speaker 1: to start the second half of this regular season. Many
Speaker 1: questions need to be answered. They finally got the first
Speaker 1: quarter they wanted. They just didn't play well the rest
Speaker 1: of the three periods. All right, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Dave Ike. It's amazing the fact the Eagles offense gained
Speaker 1: over four hundred and thirty yards a toll offense over
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty yards through the air. However, they
Speaker 1: struggled in the red zone and produced the only turnover
Speaker 1: of the day. The Mark Sanchez passed in the end
Speaker 1: zone in tend to four miles Austin that was intercepted
Speaker 1: by safety Rashad Jones. That pretty much put the game
Speaker 1: away for Miami. All right, so again we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from head coach Chip in a little bit, but first
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot com. I'm Chris McPherson alongside for Eagles
Speaker 1: linebacker Reice. The Eagles fall twenty to nineteen at the
Speaker 1: hands of the Miami Dolphins. Coming into this game, Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly had said that, look, last week's Whenever Dallas and
Speaker 1: overtime was great, but if they didn't carry over that momentum,
Speaker 1: didn't capitalize on it, they wouldn't have made a difference.
Speaker 1: Did you sense that this was a trap game today
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. No, I really didn't. I knew it
Speaker 1: would be a difficult game. Listen, anytime you went on
Speaker 1: the road in your divisional, in your division, it's going
Speaker 1: to be tough to come back the following week and
Speaker 1: get up for that same that same sort of sense
Speaker 1: of urgency and emotion that they had in Dallas. I
Speaker 1: knew it would be a little bit of a struggle,
Speaker 1: but I was surprised. I thought they would come out
Speaker 1: and start slow. Because they came out and they started fast,
Speaker 1: they just weren't able to sustain it. And what I
Speaker 1: think happened is is they relaxed a little bit and
Speaker 1: then you started to see sloppy play, whether it was
Speaker 1: via penalties or whether it was via drop pass or
Speaker 1: poor quarterback play. But this team came out ready to go.
Speaker 1: I saw a different offensive design the first couple of series.
Speaker 1: I mean those players where Brent Selick is running down
Speaker 1: the field wide open. I hadn't seen that play before,
Speaker 1: and neither had to Minami Dolphins, as it took them
Speaker 1: at least three or four times that the Eagles ran
Speaker 1: it for them to figure out who was the open
Speaker 1: target on the play. So I thought the Eagles came
Speaker 1: out with the right mindset, they just did not sustain it.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference between being a team that's accustomed
Speaker 1: to winning and know how to finish teams and a
Speaker 1: team that's not accustomed to plan with the lead and
Speaker 1: sort of relaxing thinking that the other team is going
Speaker 1: to quit. And the Dolphins didn't quit. It's interesting you
Speaker 1: say that because it seemed like each and every week
Speaker 1: the Eagles fall behind seven or nothing. They're always giving
Speaker 1: up touchdowns on the opening drive, so therefore they have
Speaker 1: to come from behind, they have to get into a
Speaker 1: rally mode. So it was different today and that you
Speaker 1: were probably righting that like that, they are not used
Speaker 1: to that sentiment surprise once again, like that special teams,
Speaker 1: we alread talked about the missfield goal, but the punt
Speaker 1: block the second of the year against Donnie Jones, it
Speaker 1: looked like Chris Maragos not able to hold up his
Speaker 1: and in the protection, and that set up the finds
Speaker 1: in perfect field position, deep in Eagles territory and they
Speaker 1: were able to capitalize on that. Yeah, the one thing
Speaker 1: this team has been able to rely upon since Chip
Speaker 1: took over as the head coach and Dave Phipps is
Speaker 1: a special teams coordinator. They've been able to rely on
Speaker 1: that third phase of the game not just to do
Speaker 1: their job, but to also contribute in a big way
Speaker 1: to victories, whether it's via them blocking punts or a
Speaker 1: big return from Darren Spros, and that's sort of been
Speaker 1: missing a little bit this year. This is the second
Speaker 1: block that's been i mean, the second punt that's been
Speaker 1: blocked on the Eagles this year. And that's unlike a
Speaker 1: day fifth coach team. He normally coaches. This guy's up
Speaker 1: very well. Get a Dolphin's credit. They saw something in
Speaker 1: the inside there. They brought an extra guy and Chris
Speaker 1: Marrigos had a hard time but basically anchoring and holding
Speaker 1: this point in there. He was basically pushed back into
Speaker 1: Johnny Jones's lap, where his guy he was blocking was
Speaker 1: able to get a hand up and block that punt.
Speaker 1: But you typically don't see this type of play from
Speaker 1: the Eagles special teams uniting, they've been very stellar, if
Speaker 1: not the best special teams unit the last two years
Speaker 1: in the national foot certainly. And it was in fact
Speaker 1: a special team's miscued by the Dolphins that allowed the
Speaker 1: Eagles to extend its early lead to nine to three.
Speaker 1: Damian Williams, who had an injured hand coming to this game,
Speaker 1: mistakenly took the ball out of the end zone and
Speaker 1: when he tried to stop himself, he slipped was down
Speaker 1: at the one yard line, and then you saw Walter
Speaker 1: Thurman come on that beautiful safety blitz and he drilled
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill to force the ball out of bounds to
Speaker 1: get to safety. So certainly special teams playing a big
Speaker 1: role for both sides of the football. So we're waiting
Speaker 1: to hear from head coach Chip Kelly to get his reaction.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll hear from some of the players as well. Again,
Speaker 1: we'll get the lace on Sam Bradford. He exited the
Speaker 1: game after the four sack by the Dolphins. It was
Speaker 1: a Chris McCain sack that knocked him out of the game.
Speaker 1: Bradford was taken to the locker room for X rays
Speaker 1: on his left shoulder, his non throwing shoulder. They were
Speaker 1: deemed negative, but he still didn't come back in the
Speaker 1: game and the Eagles. You mentioned the run game there,
Speaker 1: like losing Ryan Matthews to a concussion. In fact, it
Speaker 1: was a third down play that Mark Sanchez came in on.
Speaker 1: He hit Matthews, converted the first down, but unfortunately Matthew's
Speaker 1: interning the play. Now, I'll say it to Lincoln Fancilfield
Speaker 1: and here from the head coach, you know, it looked
Speaker 1: like we we struggled at times to handle the inside guys,
Speaker 1: specifically sou but um, you know, we we had a
Speaker 1: little momentum going there for us. We didn't h didn't
Speaker 1: capitalize on that third drive. Then we end up missing
Speaker 1: the field goal. Um, and then after that, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of it was trying to get the quarterback
Speaker 1: away from them. That's where we ran a lot of
Speaker 1: naked and bootlegs to try to get the quarterback out
Speaker 1: of the pocket and try to stay away from that rush.
Speaker 1: What happened on the mists, Yeah, that's that's what I saw.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously the tapes see specifically well, but it
Speaker 1: looked like it looked like it was a low Sam
Speaker 1: were about to touchdown. I mean the interception that Sanchez through,
Speaker 1: which did you do there? Yeah, we had a couple
Speaker 1: other guys we were hoping he would just you know,
Speaker 1: you take a peek if you don't have it because
Speaker 1: they're in coverage. It looked to me like Brent was
Speaker 1: open underneath. Just dump it down and you know, play
Speaker 1: the next snap. I'm gonna get a positive yard age.
Speaker 1: We're already in field goal range. Um, that would have
Speaker 1: put us up. But you know, you obviously want to
Speaker 1: try to score touchdown because there's time left in the
Speaker 1: obviously time left in the game. But UM, you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to more specifically about that play, but UM,
Speaker 1: we had some other options for them underneath. You have
Speaker 1: an update on Sam's condition, I know now, I don't
Speaker 1: have any updates. I know he had a concussion. That's
Speaker 1: all I'll have been told. But I don't meet with
Speaker 1: the trainers until after this. So I think him and
Speaker 1: Ryan both had concussions. But I don't have any uh,
Speaker 1: any other anything else besides that. So the touchdown I
Speaker 1: got balled back the second time this year it's happened.
Speaker 1: Uh why are these things? I don't know what the
Speaker 1: first one you're referring to, but I know on this one,
Speaker 1: we just we weren't set up. We weren't set in
Speaker 1: the formation we need. We didn't get lined up as
Speaker 1: fast as fast in terms of snap in the football
Speaker 1: and um, you know that that that's what I think
Speaker 1: is the game. We didn't play smart. You know, we
Speaker 1: had too many penalties that I think they gated big
Speaker 1: games for us, a lot of them. I think there's
Speaker 1: only seven on the when you look at the play,
Speaker 1: um the game sheet, but there was a lot of
Speaker 1: them that were off setting, you know. So we obviously
Speaker 1: had more than that. But we had way too many
Speaker 1: penalties on the offensive side of the ball to be productive.
Speaker 1: Why did you run the ball? Why couldn't run the
Speaker 1: ball against a lot of defense that came second to
Speaker 1: play and I don't I think again, I think so
Speaker 1: it looked like we weren't weren't doing a good job
Speaker 1: handing those guys in the middle. Should looked like Mark
Speaker 1: and DeMarco hasn't got twisted or tied up to get
Speaker 1: our few handles. Yeah, it kind of tidy thing there. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, Eve, when Mark Mark practices during the week,
Speaker 1: he's only going to get X amount of reps because
Speaker 1: you know, we should get your start a ready, so
Speaker 1: you know, but those are things that those on excuses
Speaker 1: we need, we need to be able to execute when out,
Speaker 1: you know, when one guy goes down. So but there
Speaker 1: are two occasions where it looked like Miles Austin didn't
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for the ball to come to him. Are
Speaker 1: they taught to look at a certain point in a
Speaker 1: round for it, Yeah, they are right, you know. On
Speaker 1: the one of them was a shallow cross and should
Speaker 1: have been looking for the football. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't remember the other one, but I know on that
Speaker 1: one he should have been looking forward. The other one,
Speaker 1: I think you're talking about with Sam, where it was
Speaker 1: Sam is he was uncovered, but he was just going
Speaker 1: to block his guy. Was a run play. Sam tried
Speaker 1: to pull up because the defense wasn't set and tried
Speaker 1: to throw one to him. So they just weren't on
Speaker 1: the same page. We had a run play called I
Speaker 1: think Sam just saw no one covering Um Miles and
Speaker 1: tried to throw it to him, But Myles was doing
Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do. Miles is going to
Speaker 1: block that the near high safety. So I do think
Speaker 1: Samon formed before the injury. Um. I think he was
Speaker 1: up and now I think the rush got to us
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um, but I think the whole offense
Speaker 1: was like that, What did you steal the block. Uh,
Speaker 1: looked like another snap issue. Um, and then it looked
Speaker 1: like they got Marigos linebacker on Marigos that came in
Speaker 1: real quick. And I think one I think Chris could
Speaker 1: have could anchor well enough. So um looked like that
Speaker 1: was the guy who got the got his hand on
Speaker 1: the ball. Number forty seven I think, or forty two
Speaker 1: close with Jason Peters to go, he wasn't. So I
Speaker 1: don't put a percentage. Just wasn't going. So it's just
Speaker 1: going to be an issue that's going to keep him
Speaker 1: out beyond not that I know. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what a lot of Bellot giving her candyon with the
Speaker 1: defense just was this just coming down to a question?
Speaker 1: You know, why am You're not giving you guys as question?
Speaker 1: What Dallas give you lasting? Now? I think, I mean
Speaker 1: we moved the ball. I think we hurt ourselves and
Speaker 1: that's what I told our guys. We ran eighty something
Speaker 1: plays and you know, but we stalled, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has to do I
Speaker 1: think the penalty has kind of put us behind the count.
Speaker 1: You know, where we got an opportunity, we're moving the
Speaker 1: football and then obviously, uh, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: those penalties were just real big drive killers for us,
Speaker 1: and those are those are on us, you know, the
Speaker 1: whether it be a hold inside or hold on the edge. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't do a good job I think
Speaker 1: in terms of putting ourselves in situations where we can
Speaker 1: be successful. We knew we could move to football and
Speaker 1: we did. Um, you know, you run that many plays
Speaker 1: and have that many yards, but we didn't come away
Speaker 1: with enough points, and um, you know that's on us.
Speaker 1: Like Mark, Brandy offments appreciately faster than sand did with
Speaker 1: Are any adjustment for the offensive regard? No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it that way. The offense open to
Speaker 1: more stages. Yeah, I'm confident in Mark. You guys had
Speaker 1: some nice Amentum we're winning this season building two words
Speaker 1: in any way, three out of four or whatever. The
Speaker 1: dead obviously just set back, But can you judge how
Speaker 1: big it one? This is obviously a disappointing Now I've
Speaker 1: been and we say it all the time. I think
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to make last week's game the turning point
Speaker 1: or whatever, and that that's what you better come to
Speaker 1: play every single week in this in this league, and
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. And you flush whether you
Speaker 1: want or lost on when you get back to work
Speaker 1: on Monday and get ready to play who your next
Speaker 1: opponent is, because they're going to be comeing and gunning
Speaker 1: for you. And you pick your head up at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, see if you want enough games
Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. And that's always been the
Speaker 1: way we'll approach it and always will be the way
Speaker 1: we approach it. Kind of special team stays. Are they
Speaker 1: lunch at this point? Yeah, anytime you have a block
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, you know, it's it's we can't have that.
Speaker 1: You know, those are momentum changing plays in a game,
Speaker 1: and um, it's our second block punt of the year. Um,
Speaker 1: we gotta get that straightened out because that's we're not
Speaker 1: going to We're not gonna win when we're doing things
Speaker 1: like that. You know, you had a block punt for
Speaker 1: a touchdown, we missed a field goal and way too
Speaker 1: many penalties on the offensive side of the ball for
Speaker 1: us to be successful. So the quick slant seem they
Speaker 1: seem to be really gooding quick sliant a lot that
Speaker 1: they was at just they were a little running, a
Speaker 1: little rub rout when were in man coverage, other picking
Speaker 1: off the guy that's coming back underneath. And so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta we gotta make some adjustments in
Speaker 1: terms of when we're in pressed and they're trying to
Speaker 1: pick you, we gotta try to play over the top
Speaker 1: of the pick or maybe try to run some in
Speaker 1: and out combinations. We ran an in and out combindation
Speaker 1: on the goal line and Malcolm broke it up. They
Speaker 1: did the same thing on the goal line and that
Speaker 1: was the big break that Malcolm had. We switched off
Speaker 1: those two receivers. So, but those other ones are pick
Speaker 1: plays that, um, we got to get through the pick
Speaker 1: or we got to try to switch it off. It's time.
Speaker 1: Sam's getting hit. I don't pressure, I mean I made
Speaker 1: him on the quarterback because he had to kind of
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. I'd have to look in
Speaker 1: terms of which ones you're specifically talking about. So what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about it the more he fumbled it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got beat pretty quick, so I think he didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to really get to the top of
Speaker 1: his drop on that one. So did they sing anything
Speaker 1: should They didn't say anything else. They just said he
Speaker 1: had a concussion. And he was out so on their
Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown the jump ball, I mean, is that
Speaker 1: just bad luck? With what did you see there? It's
Speaker 1: not good luck the way it is. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Malcolm was in coverage and had his back to it.
Speaker 1: I don't think Malcolm even knew Um and I can't
Speaker 1: fault to him. I don't think Malcolm even knew the
Speaker 1: ball was tipped. You know, he's trying to play coverage,
Speaker 1: and when you're down on the red zone, you're trying
Speaker 1: to play underneath receivers and not on top of them,
Speaker 1: because if you're on top of them and they catch
Speaker 1: the ball, they're already in the end zone. You want
Speaker 1: to try to try to stay underneath them. So the
Speaker 1: ball's strown over Um, and I thought originally he was
Speaker 1: in good coverage. It was a great play by Connor
Speaker 1: Barwin Um. But I've never been a part of a
Speaker 1: play like that. And so whatever Chelsea's snapped it whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, it was high. That's I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened. I didn't get specifically with Jason on
Speaker 1: in terms of what happened, but it was high that
Speaker 1: some of the snaps were eron today and um, we
Speaker 1: got to clean that up because it affects the timing
Speaker 1: of the offense. We just thought those matchups for us,
Speaker 1: we were something we felt like going into the game.
Speaker 1: You know, we run the ball a lot with with
Speaker 1: with Brent when Brent's in there, so obviously we felt
Speaker 1: like in play action pass we could exploit some things there,
Speaker 1: and I thought Brent did a really nice job with it.
Speaker 1: They made some adjustments, played a little bit more man
Speaker 1: coverage and z own coverage kind of takes some of
Speaker 1: that stuff away. But we felt like those matchups in
Speaker 1: the inside with their linebackers and safeties were you know,
Speaker 1: to our advantage with our tight ends. So if you
Speaker 1: get the first out, kind of feel either way, whether
Speaker 1: you decided it or not what but the terms whether
Speaker 1: you're going to try to do that by depends on
Speaker 1: where you are on the field, how many time outs
Speaker 1: the other team has. You know, if you go three
Speaker 1: quick clays and or off the field, then you're turning
Speaker 1: the ball back over to them and they have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to to go down and score. Today, we felt
Speaker 1: there was enough time today. They see you felt there
Speaker 1: was enough time to get something, get get through today.
Speaker 1: The last time we got it. Yeah, we just thought
Speaker 1: if we could take a shot and get it to
Speaker 1: midfield and take another shot, and you know, we'd have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to kick a field goal. No, Mark, the
Speaker 1: sanchez Is interception, wasn't it a lot like what he
Speaker 1: did last year? In no situation. I'm not thinking about
Speaker 1: last year last just thinking about today and hurt us
Speaker 1: and we'll work. We'll work, we'll work around it and
Speaker 1: get and get with him in film and figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on. Might be getting high. All right, there's
Speaker 1: head coach Chip Kelly addressing the media following the Eagles
Speaker 1: twenty to nineteen loss at the hands of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick commercial break here on the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico, and then we'll hear from
Speaker 1: quarterback Mark Sanchez right after. Okay, actually we're gonna stay on.
Speaker 1: We're actually about to hear from the quarterback in a
Speaker 1: few short moments. A couple of interesting there things there, like, uh,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, the fact that Chip Kelly said that look,
Speaker 1: everyone wanted to paint a picture that that went over
Speaker 1: the Cowboys was the quote unquote turning point. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't come back and play strong in the
Speaker 1: next week, it really doesn't make a difference. But we'll
Speaker 1: touch on that after we hear from quarterback Mark Sanchez. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was just a miscommunication between
Speaker 1: me and Miles. I thought he was going to do
Speaker 1: one thing and he was thinking another. Um, So I
Speaker 1: put the ball expecting, trying to anticipate where he was
Speaker 1: going and um, and it didn't pan out very well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't want to say too much about
Speaker 1: the scheme, and just another play that we'd like to
Speaker 1: have back. What happens will handle just different quarterback footwork
Speaker 1: and um, I think something we'll get ironed out um
Speaker 1: this next week in practice. But every guy's different and
Speaker 1: depending on how you run some of those inside zones
Speaker 1: and outside zones and reads and all that. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the footworks a little different because you see by you
Speaker 1: a couple of passes like receivers haven't even turned around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, I was ready, uh to
Speaker 1: throw the ball a couple of times and you know,
Speaker 1: anticipating sir and looks and um, you know, they just
Speaker 1: didn't pan out. So that's too bad. Well, we'll work
Speaker 1: on those and we'll correct them on film. And that's
Speaker 1: a good thing about it. We gotta got a good
Speaker 1: week of practice ahead of us, and we'll be just
Speaker 1: fine set on getting ten boat going taste and taste.
Speaker 1: Maybe he came in and see appreciated faster we keep
Speaker 1: in something. You were cobvious it up? Did you wanted
Speaker 1: to just kind of speed things up? May mean that's
Speaker 1: how the how Uh, I've always tried to run it.
Speaker 1: You know, you just get up and get going as
Speaker 1: fast as we can. And um, I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: we had some we moved the ball really well, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately we weren't set on one of them, and then
Speaker 1: Miles was just out of bounds on another one, and
Speaker 1: then we turned the ball over. So um, it's really
Speaker 1: too bad. We just gotta finish one more of those
Speaker 1: drives and and uh, you know, we end up winning
Speaker 1: the game last year. Yust are these days you don't
Speaker 1: get a bunch of practice time winking. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make ex shooters for that. That's there's Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm charge of the job just like anybody else,
Speaker 1: whether you get the reps in practice or not. And um,
Speaker 1: it's my job. To go in and there should be
Speaker 1: a seamless transition, and um, I thought at times they were.
Speaker 1: At other times, you know, sure, can we get a
Speaker 1: little more familiar, of course? And is that only going
Speaker 1: to get better with repetition and practice? Of course, But
Speaker 1: the point was just getting to win the game, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately that didn't happen. But we got a long season
Speaker 1: ahead of us, and you just gotta be ready to play.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I just saw him go down.
Speaker 1: I was charting stuff and looking at defensive stuff, so
Speaker 1: I didn't see exactly what happened. All I heard was
Speaker 1: the left shoulder. So did you get to talk people?
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I was trying to hustle over
Speaker 1: and get some throws in. I mean, you gotta do
Speaker 1: it every week. You gotta be ready to go every week.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. You never want to see a
Speaker 1: teammate go down. Um, that's never the circumstance in which
Speaker 1: you want to play. UM. But you know, when you
Speaker 1: do get a chance to play, you got to make
Speaker 1: the most of it. And that's what I was trying
Speaker 1: to do. Any advantage to comming way through a game.
Speaker 1: See what I got, Candles as opposed to coming into
Speaker 1: fresh from the great start. I guess there's advantages and
Speaker 1: disadvantages either way, you know, the pros and cons, But um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The point is you got to come
Speaker 1: in and win the game, and unfortunately we didn't. Did
Speaker 1: win that throw the touchdown ball back. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Miami had the twelve guys on the field at that point,
Speaker 1: we're trying to go. I saw somebody running out of
Speaker 1: the corner of my eye, like making sure we're set,
Speaker 1: and I guess we moved on the edge. But while
Speaker 1: I was making sure we're set, I'm seeing somebody trying
Speaker 1: to run and there they were just confused. They didn't
Speaker 1: know they were trying to make their calls. And so
Speaker 1: that's when you know we can really go. And um,
Speaker 1: we got them on it a couple a couple times
Speaker 1: during those drives, and um in that fourth quarter where
Speaker 1: they were out of position or running somebody on, running
Speaker 1: somebody off, and unfortunately we were set final drive. We
Speaker 1: did well, We got the drive started and then two
Speaker 1: quick passes of scrolls and then UM, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to avoid defenders of Zach. It's a little high
Speaker 1: and UM, I think I missed that throw a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: and then I was expecting Miles a little quicker and
Speaker 1: he was running, uh something that we're just on the
Speaker 1: wrong page. So two more guys to lose a game,
Speaker 1: you know, do you guys have the lead and stuff
Speaker 1: on top? Is that? Oh? I mean whether you're up
Speaker 1: a bunch or down? And I almost went, I mean
Speaker 1: the loss is a loss. It's just too bad because
Speaker 1: the defense played really well and unfortunately we heard ourselves
Speaker 1: with some of those penalties and um and the turnover there.
Speaker 1: So we'll, uh, we'll assess it and just come back
Speaker 1: and um and play smarter and play better next week.
Speaker 1: And we got a got a big one next week
Speaker 1: here at the link, so it'll be it'll be fun
Speaker 1: for us. You were in this situation last year or not,
Speaker 1: But where did you learn coming in there? Yet? How? Um?
Speaker 1: I think you know, the most important thing is just
Speaker 1: to take it one week at a time and um,
Speaker 1: you know, learn from the mistakes each week and continue
Speaker 1: to be old. And I think you know we have
Speaker 1: a chance down the stretch here to be a really
Speaker 1: good football team, so we'll do our very best. Thanks.
Speaker 1: All right, there's quarterback Mark Sanchez leaving the podium at
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field following the Eagles twenty nineteen loss at
Speaker 1: the hands of the Miami Dolphins. He's like, I'm Chris McPherson.
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Speaker 1: Com Chris McPherson alongside ike reas Ike. We hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Chip Kelly. We've heard from quarterback Mark Sanchez.
Speaker 1: What did you think of the performances by the quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: Let's start with Bradford, who again exited the game with
Speaker 1: a left shoulder injury in the third quarter. He had
Speaker 1: X rays done. They were negative. No further update from
Speaker 1: the coach. Yeah, I thought both quarterbacks played well. Let's
Speaker 1: start with Sam Bradford. I thought Sam Bradford was outstanding
Speaker 1: in the first half. I liked the mobility he showed
Speaker 1: in the first half getting out on a perimeter. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of play action. This play right here,
Speaker 1: This is a new play right here that he was
Speaker 1: thrown in there he's extended. This play looks like Joe
Speaker 1: Montana in the NFC Championship game in nineteen eighty two
Speaker 1: to the White Clark There. Look at this play, Brent Selleck.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the twenty fifteen season, Brent Sellick. Dolphins still
Speaker 1: don't know that he's playing in Eagles Green to day
Speaker 1: because he was wide open several times for every one
Speaker 1: of his catches. Here's another one, Nelson Agla up the field.
Speaker 1: These are all plays that I think are new wrinkles,
Speaker 1: and they're new wrinkles because Sam Bradford is a much
Speaker 1: more comfortable quarterback in the pocket. I thought he threw
Speaker 1: the ball well. I thought he threw the ball on time.
Speaker 1: For the most part, the times in the red zone
Speaker 1: where they made good throws, it was a penalty that
Speaker 1: had the plays called back. So I don't think the
Speaker 1: quarter even when Mark Sanchez came in, I thought in
Speaker 1: a critical situation, no real warm up. He was able
Speaker 1: to come in there where are you throw? For one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and basically a quarter and a half.
Speaker 1: That lets you know that there were some plays to
Speaker 1: be had against this secondary. The interception nine, he said,
Speaker 1: is a mix up on he and males Austin. I
Speaker 1: think Males Austin could have could have helped him out
Speaker 1: a little bit by at least fighting for the ball,
Speaker 1: and that's a pass break up if nothing else. So
Speaker 1: they moved the ball down the field in between the twenties.
Speaker 1: I thought on the last play, well, we didn't pick
Speaker 1: it up on fourth down, I thought Sanchez the throw
Speaker 1: was rushed because Lane Johnson missed his block on the outside.
Speaker 1: He was forced to throw the ball right there to
Speaker 1: Miles Austin, who came up short for the first down.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I thought the quarterbacks did
Speaker 1: their job. The running game was not affected today and
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks still they were able to complete a high
Speaker 1: percentage of their past Ask you about Bradford real quick,
Speaker 1: did you think that he held onto the ball too long,
Speaker 1: especially on a fourth sack, the one where Chris McCain
Speaker 1: came around the corner beat Dennis Kelly, And you could
Speaker 1: say Bradford had played time in the pocket, maybe he
Speaker 1: could have stepped up to avoid the sack, but still
Speaker 1: took a huge hit. You tell it right away that
Speaker 1: he was hurt and unfortunately he had to exit the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you can say, could he have got rid
Speaker 1: of the ball a little sooner? Well, it depends on
Speaker 1: if there was a wide receiver open for him to
Speaker 1: get the ball too. So, and I will say that
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford took a lot of hits today. He took
Speaker 1: it hits early in this game, and I was wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, he's getting up a little slow off the ground,
Speaker 1: starts to have a little bit of a cumulative effect
Speaker 1: and if nothing else, you're gonna start to watch that rush.
Speaker 1: That's where the impact of those hits earlier in the
Speaker 1: game start to have their effect and show show their
Speaker 1: effect is that he's worried about the rush as opposed
Speaker 1: to getting the ball out of his hands. But I
Speaker 1: thought for the most part, Sam Bradford played well. I mean,
Speaker 1: he stood in there, took some big shots. I didn't
Speaker 1: see him get gunshot. You know, argue whether or not
Speaker 1: he held onto that ball right before this injury a
Speaker 1: little bit too long. But again, unless I'm looking from
Speaker 1: his view, I don't know if there's anybody open there
Speaker 1: for him to get the ball too. Of course, now
Speaker 1: looking at Sanchez and performance, there was a certain miscommunication.
Speaker 1: There was that one pass too to Marca Murray on
Speaker 1: the wheel where he drilled him in the back and
Speaker 1: it was unable to make the pass incomplete. You saw
Speaker 1: that from time to time, But of course that's just
Speaker 1: that comes from a quarterback who has not taken the reps,
Speaker 1: that has not been able to be in there with
Speaker 1: his players. So I thought Sanchez did a great job
Speaker 1: coming in there, moving the ball up and down the field.
Speaker 1: You see that he has that rhythm, that tempo. He
Speaker 1: can step in there right away. Just unfortunately they were
Speaker 1: unable to get that touchdown or the field goal late
Speaker 1: in the game. They had the touchdown throw it to
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz, but unfortunately the Riley Cooper penalty wasn't on
Speaker 1: the last scrimmage long enough that negated that. And then,
Speaker 1: as I point out, on that fourth down throw, the
Speaker 1: last ditch effort, unfortunately the ball had to come up
Speaker 1: shore of the sticks simply because of the past protection there.
Speaker 1: So but still I thought Sanchez came in there. I
Speaker 1: looked back to last year. I thought there was kind
Speaker 1: of interesting that in Week ten of last season Sanchez
Speaker 1: made his first Stars and Eagle and that Monday night
Speaker 1: blowout against Carolina to get things rolling for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I thought, maybe, hey, something about week ten, he'll come
Speaker 1: off the bench and to be able to help the
Speaker 1: team get the win. But alass, it was not going
Speaker 1: to be the case here tonight. Yeah. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the result of allowing a team to hang around
Speaker 1: that had nothing to coming here and played for. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins are coming off two straight losses on the road.
Speaker 1: This is the third leg of their three game road trip,
Speaker 1: and in that first quarter it certainly looked like they
Speaker 1: didn't come here to play. They were ready to get
Speaker 1: back to Miami as soon as possible. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: Sturgis misses the field goal and the lying. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins sort of have life now, and that's all
Speaker 1: it takes in the National Football League. I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys they pick up paychecks as well, and if you
Speaker 1: don't put them away early, they're gonna believe that they
Speaker 1: have a chance. If they make a few plays and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. I think they recognize that they
Speaker 1: could defend the Eagles offense after that first quarter, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles need to come up with something else a
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Mark Sanchez said in his press
Speaker 1: conference that it's still a long season ahead and even
Speaker 1: though the Eagles are four and five, he's very much correct.
Speaker 1: After Dallas lost its seventh straight game to Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: who comes to Lincoln Financial Field next Sunday, Washington they
Speaker 1: want so they're tied with the Eagles with the four
Speaker 1: and five record, with the route of the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: and then right now the Giants and the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: they are tied at seven. You've want some more surprises.
Speaker 1: How about atlant bo Field the Detroit Lions, who the
Speaker 1: Eagles will see on Thanksgiving. They upset the Packers. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if Hell's frozen over or what's going on,
Speaker 1: but it's a topsy turvy NFL at this point. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what the commissioner wants. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: exactly what he wants. He wants parody in the National
Speaker 1: Football League when December rolls around. It would much rather
Speaker 1: have twenty to twenty two teams and buying for playoff
Speaker 1: spots as opposed to having twelve seeds locked up already
Speaker 1: from you already know who's going to be in there.
Speaker 1: So it should be an interesting season after Thanksgiving, especially
Speaker 1: in the NFC, where there's at least ten to twelve
Speaker 1: teams still in the hunt. Just in the NFC there's
Speaker 1: only six spots available. There's at least ten to twelve
Speaker 1: teams that are right within the game of each other
Speaker 1: that are still saying we are still a lot for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I know it hurts today. I'm not
Speaker 1: here to sugarcoat anything, but when we wake up tomorrow,
Speaker 1: there's still football left to be played in the Eagles
Speaker 1: season is not over with yet. Certainly, depending on the
Speaker 1: Giant's outcome, the Eagles might just be a half game
Speaker 1: out of first place. Still, so let's start getting your
Speaker 1: reaction on the loss. We're going to go to New
Speaker 1: Mexico and welcome in Keith to the post game show
Speaker 1: presented by Rico Keith. Welcome aboard, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 1: My question is about the offense and their red zone offense.
Speaker 1: It seems like the Eagles offense when I get in
Speaker 1: the red zone they really don't have good play calling
Speaker 1: to sort a touchdown. So, and this is like the
Speaker 1: eighth game of the season, I would think that they
Speaker 1: would be a lot better by now. Why are they
Speaker 1: still having red zone offensive problem? Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I think at times they showed that they
Speaker 1: can move the ball down there. You know, two for
Speaker 1: five in the red zone the day certainly unacceptable two
Speaker 1: to two to start, yeah, and they started off with
Speaker 1: two for two, so really are over for three in
Speaker 1: the red zone? Their last three trips down there procedure
Speaker 1: penalogy called back the zach Ertz touchdown. I think that's
Speaker 1: the second time that's happened to zach Ertz. The year
Speaker 1: we had a touchdown and it was called back because
Speaker 1: the receiver was not up on a line. It happened
Speaker 1: in the rescue in his game earlier this year with
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilar and then running the ball effectively in the
Speaker 1: red zone, something the Eagles had been doing the last
Speaker 1: four weeks. They couldn't do today. They could not run
Speaker 1: the ball with consistency against a Dolphin defense that was
Speaker 1: ranked second to last in the league. It seemed like
Speaker 1: they're trying the inside zone to get to Marco Murray
Speaker 1: going early in the game, and they had the short
Speaker 1: yard touchdown with Ryan Matthews from one yard out, so
Speaker 1: you said, at least they're converting in red zone and
Speaker 1: shortyard situations. And they still had the tempo going because
Speaker 1: they were getting first downs, so they were able to
Speaker 1: keep the Dolphins on the field. But unfortunately it was
Speaker 1: not able to work enough. You weren't able to get
Speaker 1: the tempo going because I thought, maybe you can get
Speaker 1: those Dolphins defenders tired, and we would have a remake
Speaker 1: of what we saw last Sunday in Dallas, where you
Speaker 1: saw the defensive lineman like Greg Hardy huffing and puffing
Speaker 1: coming off the field. So we're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: the phone lines here. Let's bring in our next call
Speaker 1: here on the postgame Show presented by Rico. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: what's up? Carl? Oh, I'm sorry I heard next caller.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was me. I abologize there, Carl.
Speaker 1: Now a problem freak job there, guys. Is always a
Speaker 1: couple of two different questions for a team to stunt
Speaker 1: used to planes from ahead, uh so to seek Like
Speaker 1: the Eagle said today, they came out fast, they looked great,
Speaker 1: and then I think you're right. I think they relaxed
Speaker 1: and the first shout for the foot. Um, is this
Speaker 1: a learning experience that every team goes through? And if
Speaker 1: it is, I'd rather it happened now that you know,
Speaker 1: in the last game of the season. My second question
Speaker 1: is how much do then that's Jordan Hicks on the defense. Wow,
Speaker 1: And answer that first question first, you go that I
Speaker 1: think it is a little bit of a learning experience.
Speaker 1: You know, playing with the lead is not easy because
Speaker 1: when you get the lead, a sixteen point lead in
Speaker 1: the first quarter of a game, you tend to think,
Speaker 1: what we got this game one, and the other team
Speaker 1: is gonna quit. But in the National Football League, that
Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. And you give a team life, they're
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to fight them fight their way
Speaker 1: back into this thing. So I will say playing with
Speaker 1: the league can be difficult, especially for a team like
Speaker 1: this Eagle is made up of where they basically had
Speaker 1: to come from behind pretty much all year long. They
Speaker 1: aren't a custom to play with the league, so it
Speaker 1: is a little bit of different. And then when you
Speaker 1: talk about Jordan Hicks, I certainly believe they missed Jordan
Speaker 1: Hicks because Jordan Hicks is a fundamentally sound football player.
Speaker 1: He's rarely out of his gaps. He typically plays his
Speaker 1: responsibilities to a team and he's not trying to do
Speaker 1: someone else's job. When you see big runs happened like
Speaker 1: we saw today, typically it's because someone is not in
Speaker 1: their gap where they're supposed to be. And I know
Speaker 1: when Demiko and Jordan Hicks were in there, we stop
Speaker 1: the run with pretty much consistency. And since either one
Speaker 1: of those guys have been injured and out of the lineup.
Speaker 1: We've started to see a little bit of leakage in
Speaker 1: our run game because I don't think we're as fundamentally
Speaker 1: sound and gap sound as we have I've been with
Speaker 1: those two guys in there. Well, if you notice in
Speaker 1: the Nickel package with Jordan Hicks out of the game,
Speaker 1: it was Kiko Alonzo and Michael Kendricks. So those two
Speaker 1: on the field, and usually you have Eire, Jamiko Ryans
Speaker 1: or Jordan Hicks is the one who kind of calls
Speaker 1: out the plays, who gets everyone lined up. So without
Speaker 1: one of those guys on the field, you certainly were
Speaker 1: surprised to see those big runs up the mill from
Speaker 1: the impressive rookie JII. So we're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: the phone lines here. We're gonna welcome Domin from Atlanta. Domin,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the postgame show presented by Rico. Hey Um.
Speaker 1: I was here and unfortunately I was there at the
Speaker 1: game when we lost to the falcon Um. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that we shut ourselves in the play. Do
Speaker 1: you think that we should run the ball out of
Speaker 1: a single set instead of inside the shotgun because it
Speaker 1: looks like the Marco. He's better like that, especially now
Speaker 1: we lost Matthews for like a few weeks. Maybe well, well,
Speaker 1: it remains seeing how long that Matthews is going to
Speaker 1: be out, So Dom and thank you very much for
Speaker 1: the phone call there. But you've seen the coaches adjust
Speaker 1: to get Murray more comfortable. You've seen him changed up
Speaker 1: the alignment in the backfield. You've seen Sam Bradford understand there.
Speaker 1: You've seen him change the direction they go with with
Speaker 1: the football in the running plays just to make Demarca
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable. And I think it's also Murray
Speaker 1: getting adjusted to the eals offense. So the Eaels rushing
Speaker 1: attack had been so proficient in the previous five weeks,
Speaker 1: second best team in the league over one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy three rushing yards per game. Again, they started strong.
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to be able to get
Speaker 1: things going early on. You know, we saw Demarca Murray
Speaker 1: getting in some short yards first downs. There was a
Speaker 1: third down play where he was able to get to
Speaker 1: the outside and he slid for the first down. Again,
Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews was able to gain the touchdown from one
Speaker 1: yard out. It seemed like they were able to get
Speaker 1: those third down conversions, but unfortunately after the first quarter
Speaker 1: they were not able to sustain it. Still, the passing
Speaker 1: game was moving the ball up and down the field.
Speaker 1: They were able to get into the red zone. But
Speaker 1: I do agree they I don't know exactly what they
Speaker 1: could have changed there or what the Dolphins did to
Speaker 1: adjust in the second quarter and on. But like you said,
Speaker 1: this was a Dolphins run defense that allowed over two
Speaker 1: hundred yards a pair of individual one hundred yard rushers.
Speaker 1: Just a week ago, I thought Ryan Matthews was gonna
Speaker 1: have a field day going to the outside, which was
Speaker 1: a weakness. Dolphins linebackers were banged up coming into this game,
Speaker 1: and Jelani Jenkins, one of the better linebackers, was injured
Speaker 1: and had to come out of the game. Still not
Speaker 1: able to get the run game going, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: This is probably the worst run blocking game the office
Speaker 1: on line has had. And over a month, I mean,
Speaker 1: they'd been making steady progress with great running running the football,
Speaker 1: and today I got to give credit to the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive front. They won the battle up front. They were
Speaker 1: constantly in the backfield. It wasn't due to a lack
Speaker 1: of running that the Eagles running game wasn't effective. Thirty
Speaker 1: three rushes between Murray Matthews and Spros to day, that's
Speaker 1: more than enough to get your running game going. They
Speaker 1: showed a commitment to the running game. The big runs
Speaker 1: were just not there, and it's because the guides up
Speaker 1: front we're beinging pushed back. There weren't as many open
Speaker 1: lanes as they had been the last month when the
Speaker 1: offensive line was doing a great job. The Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: line starting within big number ninety three and Dominican Sue
Speaker 1: hasn't showed up to play much this year, but he
Speaker 1: showed up the play today. Yeah, he showed up the
Speaker 1: play today. All right. So for our last phone call
Speaker 1: here on the Postgame Show presented by Rico, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go overseas and welcome back Liam from the United Kingdom. Liam,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Postgame Show. What time is it over there?
Speaker 1: By the way, Hey guys, ten DM. So not quite
Speaker 1: sad as the five am we had last weekends for
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football, but thus to be back again. And
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna talk about was that I might know
Speaker 1: what you got to speaking of just a moment, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't think the Eagles offensive line lost the
Speaker 1: battles to day. And it wasn't it the Dolphins won.
Speaker 1: It was that the Eagles lost the Battle of the Trench.
Speaker 1: It seemed that of a lot of miscommune dication. There
Speaker 1: was some more high snapsop limbs, a lot of veras
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford was having some way way more in the
Speaker 1: pocket than he should see. Yeah, the same thing with
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez as well, as there wasn't a lot of protection.
Speaker 1: And it was the same thing he saw in the
Speaker 1: opening weeks. The guys couldn't cart the holes opened. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Olphins were good, Yes that it was summinant, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't the same. I mean a lot of it
Speaker 1: could be down to Jason Peter's absence, but I don't
Speaker 1: think the running game was as active as it could
Speaker 1: have been because it's the way the offensive line was playing.
Speaker 1: It just seems to be outnumbered time and time again.
Speaker 1: The tight tend betilis much more in the passing game,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic, but I would have much rather seen
Speaker 1: out than static kind of safe back of it and
Speaker 1: help the guys back in the offensive line. Liam, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for the phone call. A lot of
Speaker 1: great points there. I love the coaches getting Brent selak
Speaker 1: involved and seeing the matchup they could have had from
Speaker 1: the tight end. So it wasn't You would think if
Speaker 1: the tight end was going to get involved, it would
Speaker 1: have been zach Ertz, but you know, in fact it
Speaker 1: was Brent Sellek with a big day, four catches, one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four yards receiving, so the six of
Speaker 1: year catch an early on to get things going. But
Speaker 1: you know, Les Sweetike, we talked about the offensive line
Speaker 1: and the absolute Jason Peters and how you know Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson set up at left tackle, Denis Kelly did it
Speaker 1: well a right tackle. You know, I think there was
Speaker 1: a question about how long could they sustain it without
Speaker 1: Jason Peters in the lineup. Peters unable to go for
Speaker 1: a second straight week. What did you think of the
Speaker 1: offensive line of all? I thought they regressed today. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought Lane Johnson, who played exceptionally well last week,
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a tough day. Jason Kelsey
Speaker 1: still struggling up front. I sort of expected it. Listen,
Speaker 1: you put sue over the top of Kelsey or forcing
Speaker 1: that had to block and Dominican sue one on one
Speaker 1: or from an angle, it's just not gonna happen. And
Speaker 1: those two interior guys for the Miami Dolphins, they were
Speaker 1: getting pushed up against our offensive line. We just weren't
Speaker 1: moving guys off the ball. Now, maybe it's because this
Speaker 1: is an unfamiliar team that the Eagles are facing in
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, whereas those other teams were all NFC teams.
Speaker 1: They may have seen, you know, their fronts before. For
Speaker 1: whatever reason, a poorest Dolphins run defense came to play today.
Speaker 1: I mean they came to play today. We're talking about
Speaker 1: how the Eagles got sixteen to three and allow the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to come back. Do you think the fact that,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it was an unfamiliar opponent might play
Speaker 1: the factor where if against Dallas or the Giants or
Speaker 1: Washington or, like you said, another NFC team, maybe that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. But because it's an unfamiliar foe like the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: that made a reason that they were able to climb
Speaker 1: back into it. I think that certainly as a part
Speaker 1: of it. Because listen, when you don't face the team
Speaker 1: like the Miami Dolphins but once every four years, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a little different or difficult to stop
Speaker 1: some of the things that they do, and I thought
Speaker 1: both teams were sort of filling each other out early.
Speaker 1: The Eagles brought out some new wrinkles in their plays.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins, I hadn't seen that throw to Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: on Michael Kendricks, hadn't seen that out of their defense.
Speaker 1: So there were some different things going on with both teams.
Speaker 1: They settled down in that second quarter and then it
Speaker 1: became a little bit of a slug fast after that.
Speaker 1: All right, Like the Eagles, it was twenty and nineteen.
Speaker 1: Final thoughts for me. I thought the defense they played well. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they didn't get a turnover in the game for the
Speaker 1: first time all season. But still despite the adversity that
Speaker 1: the offense went through, they were able to hold it
Speaker 1: Dolphin down throughout the course of the game. But of
Speaker 1: course it wasn't enough and still at four and five. Look,
Speaker 1: there is a lot of season left to be played
Speaker 1: because of the way the rest of the not just division,
Speaker 1: but the rest of the conference is shaking out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I mean maybe at the end
Speaker 1: of the season they look back at this loss and
Speaker 1: it hurts a lot more at the end of the
Speaker 1: season because of the results will be final at that time.
Speaker 1: But right now, the Eagles don't have enough time. They
Speaker 1: don't have time to lick their wounds. They need to
Speaker 1: get ready to get back on the saddle, get ready
Speaker 1: for Tampa coming in here. This is a young team
Speaker 1: in Tampa. They're hungry. Any win that they get is
Speaker 1: above the board for them. They're not expect to do
Speaker 1: a whole lot this year. The Eagles need to stay focused,
Speaker 1: not throw a pity party for themselves. This nfcast will
Speaker 1: come down to the last month. The Eagles need to
Speaker 1: make sure they're in position to capitalize in the month
Speaker 1: of December to win this division. A lot of football
Speaker 1: left to be played. Season out over with yet point there,
Speaker 1: so Ike, we'll hear you on the radio tomorrow morning
Speaker 1: m The Mike and Ike Show. She had been an
Speaker 1: interesting week this week, certainly to say the very least.
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Speaker 1: the night here on Philadelphia Eagles dot Com. Tomorrow Monday,
Speaker 1: at one pm, head coach Chip Kelly with his day
Speaker 1: after press conference, Will you have an update on the
Speaker 1: stats of quarterback Sam Bradford, And then at five pm,
Speaker 1: Dave Spinner and Brian Westbrook will bring you all the
Speaker 1: latest news and notes on Eagles three sixty as they
Speaker 1: breakdown what happened to the Eagles in today's game. So
Speaker 1: for ike Reas, I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the
Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Rico. The Eagles fall twenty and
Speaker 1: nineteen to the Miami Dolphins.