Speaker 1: Happy Veterans Day to everyone and for all the veterans
Speaker 1: who are serving, who have served, who are going to
Speaker 1: be serving. Our deepest gratitude, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: providing safety to all of us in this great country.
Speaker 1: I'm Dave Spidero Eagles Insider along with Joe D. Cameron,
Speaker 1: and we're talking Eagles and the Dolphins, and we've got
Speaker 1: a great show for you today on Eagles three sixty.
Speaker 1: Head coach Chip Kelly stops into the studio to talk
Speaker 1: about the Eagles and the Dolphins. We'll get to that bit.
Speaker 1: Go behind eneb lines. We get to be that in
Speaker 1: a bit. I got one for you, though, Joe, We're
Speaker 1: gonna start it off with you. We've been talking to
Speaker 1: Sam brad for all years, had a big game on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Is the time for Sam Bradford to rise
Speaker 1: in your mind? I think he's got a shot there.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, Willie, won'ty I'm asking you, Joe,
Speaker 1: you've been very fair and critical with Sam your opinion
Speaker 1: of how he played Sunday Sunday night. He was good.
Speaker 1: I mean he was he was very good Sunday, especially
Speaker 1: in the second half. He really came alive in the
Speaker 1: second half. I think Bradford certainly can use this as
Speaker 1: a launching pad to play better football the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. Here's the thing. I look at this kind
Speaker 1: of from a big picture, thirty thousand feet view. If
Speaker 1: you look at it from the first two or three games,
Speaker 1: not very good at all. I mean, really, frankly, very
Speaker 1: very bad. Over the last couple of games day he
Speaker 1: has gotten better. So when you ask me, okay, what
Speaker 1: does the next eight games look like? First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. I think there's too much
Speaker 1: inconsistency to be able to prove and determine, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. But he's certainly trending in the right direction.
Speaker 1: What is he doing better in your mind that he
Speaker 1: wasn't doing early in the season, more accurate, for one thing,
Speaker 1: even than he was just two games ago versus Carolina.
Speaker 1: But I would also say, and this is the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: greater pocket awareness, greater pocket mobility, greater pocket presence. He's
Speaker 1: got a better feel of where the pass rush is coming.
Speaker 1: I watched the film every week with Jaws down in
Speaker 1: NFL Films, and you can just see that he's more
Speaker 1: comfortable day within the pocket and he's understanding that very
Speaker 1: important nuance of when to step up, when to slide back,
Speaker 1: when to slide over those things at the great quarterbacks
Speaker 1: today is getting better and better at that. We'll see
Speaker 1: if he takes another step forward on Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. A busy day on Wednesday at the Novacare Complex,
Speaker 1: the Eagles on the field, training and trying to get
Speaker 1: some better news from the injury side of things. Let's
Speaker 1: get you got up with everything happening with the Philadelphia Eagles. Hi. Everyone,
Speaker 1: I'm Alex Smith and this is your three sixty update.
Speaker 1: The Eagles were back at practice outdoors today here at
Speaker 1: the Novacare Complex as they get set for Sunday afternoons
Speaker 1: matchup with the Miami Dolphins. Today inside the locker room,
Speaker 1: we heard from a number of the Eagles defenders as
Speaker 1: they get set to get the run game back on track. Yeah. There,
Speaker 1: if we have to get back to playing run defense
Speaker 1: like we know how to play. We remember, we played
Speaker 1: good run defense, you know, up until the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, that's not who we are, you
Speaker 1: know what are we focused on stopping the run first?
Speaker 1: So we have to get back to to playing good
Speaker 1: solid run defense. For us, we just I think for us,
Speaker 1: we just got to stop talking about it again because
Speaker 1: we was more so talking about turnover, turnover, turnovers and turnovers,
Speaker 1: been having it. But I think in the beginning we're
Speaker 1: talking and stopped run, stopping doing the man. So we
Speaker 1: got to get back to just put in our head
Speaker 1: talk about it. And I think we should be fine
Speaker 1: because I tell about the in Beaksville, I just didn't
Speaker 1: wrap up and wrap up and tech the votcare would
Speaker 1: not didn't do that. That lows them to get six
Speaker 1: to seven yards thing like that, So I could definitely
Speaker 1: say that would be the main thing for my part
Speaker 1: of is make sure we tap when there we get
Speaker 1: that opportunity to technic votcare and make sure next up
Speaker 1: we have an injury update, as two Eagle safeties did
Speaker 1: not participate today's practice. That would be drum coupled and
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins. Jenkins is still going through the leagu's concussion protocol,
Speaker 1: although head coach Chip Kelly did say that Jenkins should
Speaker 1: be able to return on Thursday. Meanwhile, four Eagles were
Speaker 1: limited in today's practice as Josh Andrews, Demiko Ryan's Riley Cooper,
Speaker 1: and Jason Peters were all limited. We did hear from
Speaker 1: Peters afterwards, who explained that the week of practice will
Speaker 1: determine whether or not he goes on Sunday. I want
Speaker 1: to say either tomorrow Friday. Just feeling why if I
Speaker 1: had to make a decision today, I tell coach play,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's gonna be up to him in
Speaker 1: how I feel. And finally, as today is Veterans Day,
Speaker 1: we heard from Chip Kelly and Zach Ertz on their
Speaker 1: appreciation for our military. Well, I think it should influence
Speaker 1: not just your coaching career, should influence everybody's lives in
Speaker 1: terms of we're allowed to do what we do right
Speaker 1: now because the men and woman that made sacrifices to
Speaker 1: defend this country and what this country stands for. And
Speaker 1: I think not only them, I think it's their families
Speaker 1: also that you know, the ultimate sacrifice a lot of
Speaker 1: them make in losing a loved one or having a
Speaker 1: loved one being stationed overseas while they're back care in
Speaker 1: the States. But I think we're all fortunate it's a
Speaker 1: day like this, And honestly, to me, I don't think
Speaker 1: it should be one day that we'd recognize the military
Speaker 1: in terms of the sacrifices they make, but it should
Speaker 1: be on a daily basis when you get an opportunity
Speaker 1: to just say thank you for what they do because
Speaker 1: they've done made a choice in their lives to do
Speaker 1: something so that we're allowed to do this. So yeah,
Speaker 1: in the off season, Sanchez had a big camp with
Speaker 1: some of the wounded warriors down there this preseason. I
Speaker 1: gave all my tickets to some of the guys that
Speaker 1: were in between tours right now. So, I mean, those
Speaker 1: guys sacrifice everything. We play a game compared to what
Speaker 1: they do each and every day. We have a privilege
Speaker 1: as Americans to have our freedoms because of those guys,
Speaker 1: and I mean my hats off to them. I have
Speaker 1: ultimate respect for those guys. That will wrap things up
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Speaker 1: We are back at Eagles three sixty Dave Spidero, Joe
Speaker 1: Di camera time now for some cover to Chris McPherson
Speaker 1: with Less Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News, Elliott Shore
Speaker 1: Parks from NJA dot com, a lot of Eagles fans.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson, and welcome to this week's edition of
Speaker 1: Cover two here in philip Delphia Eagles dot Com. We're
Speaker 1: gonna look back at the monumental thirty three to twenty
Speaker 1: seven overtime win over the Dallas Cowboys. And to help
Speaker 1: me break it down, I brought in Less Bowen from
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Daily News and Elliott shore Parks from NJA
Speaker 1: dot com. So, gentlemen and Less, I'll let you start
Speaker 1: things off overall, just what is your biggest takeaway from
Speaker 1: the Eagles getting this big one on the road. Well,
Speaker 1: the most obvious one is that they showed resiliency. They
Speaker 1: came back time and time again to win. They got
Speaker 1: off to a horrible start and persevered. But more nuanced
Speaker 1: would be I think in the second half we actually
Speaker 1: saw the offense work again with tempo, wearing a defense down,
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, Sam Bradford making throws. These are
Speaker 1: things that had kind of been in question that really
Speaker 1: hadn't been happening on a regular basis or very much
Speaker 1: at all since early you know, since the season begins,
Speaker 1: since the preseason DSP Yeah, I mean along those same lines.
Speaker 1: Tip talked about it at as press conference today, actually
Speaker 1: out how this team, you know, when you put it together,
Speaker 1: you knew there's gonna be some growing pains. And I
Speaker 1: think this was a game where maybe as a group
Speaker 1: of guys, not just a football team, but has like
Speaker 1: new teammates, you really build and you could build upon this.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a tough spot, primetime, biggest rival on
Speaker 1: the road, losing, if you lose, your seasons essentially over
Speaker 1: close to it. For them to come back and win
Speaker 1: that game, I really think it could do a lot
Speaker 1: for their confidence going forward, because let's be honest, up
Speaker 1: until now, I mean at three and four, there was
Speaker 1: plenty of reasons to be skeptical. But now that they
Speaker 1: win that game, I think they can maybe feel good
Speaker 1: about themselves going into a potentially easier part of the
Speaker 1: schedule or esp Sam Bradford threw for two hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five yards at the game winning touchdown in overtime.
Speaker 1: Was this the moment for Sam Bradford, the one that
Speaker 1: fans have been waiting for. We'll find out next week,
Speaker 1: because I mean every quarterback's capable of having a really
Speaker 1: good game. I mean, you know, you look at some
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks around the league, like Kirk Cousins has
Speaker 1: done it so but Bradford, that was him at his best.
Speaker 1: This is what the Eagles won from him. He was accurate,
Speaker 1: he was very decisive to did a good job. You know,
Speaker 1: putting spreading the ball around. Let's see what he does
Speaker 1: next week to make I think he has the ability
Speaker 1: to do. It's just a matter of whether he can
Speaker 1: be consistent. Less. Any concern on your part about the
Speaker 1: defense last two weeks. Give up a lot of yards
Speaker 1: on the ground, one hundred yard individual rushers, something that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen from this team. Any concern that the
Speaker 1: offense is starting to catch up to the defense, but
Speaker 1: maybe the defense is coming back a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's funny how that works, isn't it. It does seem
Speaker 1: that way quite a bit. Connor Barrowin told me yesterday
Speaker 1: that it's more a matter of them sometimes only having
Speaker 1: six guys in the box now because they're playing you know,
Speaker 1: defenses like nickel and diamond stuff like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: it is a concern. I mean, I would have said
Speaker 1: going into the Carolina game that this was a dominant
Speaker 1: run defense and that it was going to be very
Speaker 1: hard to beat them, you know, with a run based offense.
Speaker 1: They lost that Carolina game pretty handily, and they gave
Speaker 1: up two hundred and four yards rushing, and then Dallas
Speaker 1: wasn't two hundred and four. It's like one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty four, I think, but Darren McFadden, I really gashed
Speaker 1: some holes in the Eagles. There was a lot of misdirection.
Speaker 1: The Dallas's offense worked much better than it has in
Speaker 1: any game since Tony Romo went down, and that's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a concern, and especially with all this
Speaker 1: uncertainty at the inside linebacker position, with Demika Ryan sitting
Speaker 1: out the last two games and now Jordan Hicks down
Speaker 1: for the season. Michael Kendricks to me, I tried to
Speaker 1: sort of gingerly talk to him about this yesterday. He
Speaker 1: didn't quite agree, but I thought he looked really rusty.
Speaker 1: Is still again Sunday night. I thought he missed tackles.
Speaker 1: I thought he went to the wrong places a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got to be the guy that he
Speaker 1: was last year. I was gonna say on that note,
Speaker 1: I mean, going into the season, you look at the
Speaker 1: inside linebackers, you had Kiko Kendricks, Hicks. Demiko was kind
Speaker 1: of a bit of a forgotten man. But he's been
Speaker 1: out the past two weeks. I mean, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think that's a big reason that the run defense
Speaker 1: has struggled. I mean, you know, he's not the most
Speaker 1: athletic guy, but he's their best inside linebacker in terms
Speaker 1: of run the defense. So I think him coming back
Speaker 1: will actually care a lot of those of his problems. Okay,
Speaker 1: looking ahead, they have Miami this Sunday, followed by Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay and Thanksgiving in Detroit. Is this the time ESP
Speaker 1: where the Eagles need to get hot and take advantage
Speaker 1: of a week NC East as well as a favorable schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if the Eagles win these next three games,
Speaker 1: they might have that NFC. He's locked up the way
Speaker 1: this division has been so, I mean you look at
Speaker 1: the eagles remaining schedules, not just these next three weeks.
Speaker 1: You look at their next eight games. I think they
Speaker 1: should be favored at seven of them. I mean, as
Speaker 1: you look back at their season now, I mean they
Speaker 1: had at Landed that was a tough game. Caroline is
Speaker 1: a tough game. They've had some tough opponents on the
Speaker 1: Jets was a tough one. I think the second half
Speaker 1: of the the schedule really sets up well for them to
Speaker 1: make a run, and I think obviously the next three
Speaker 1: weeks they can really start that off. But your thoughts, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so. I don't know about being favored against Arizona
Speaker 1: even though it's but you know, they have these three games,
Speaker 1: didn't they go to New England. So they need to
Speaker 1: win these three games. And they need to really you know,
Speaker 1: not get anybody else crucial out for the season or
Speaker 1: anything like that, and get get healthy and established what
Speaker 1: their offense is going to be in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. I think these are good opponents to
Speaker 1: do that against. And yeah, there'll be evened each of
Speaker 1: these next three games, and they should win each of
Speaker 1: these next three games. All right. He's Less Bone from
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Daily News at La Shore Parks from j
Speaker 1: dot com, and I'm Chris McPherson. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for joining us on this week's edition of Cover two.
Speaker 1: You're on Philadelphia Eagles dot com. Well done, gentlemen. It
Speaker 1: is interesting, Joe we I think the narrative changes just
Speaker 1: about every week, as it does in the NFL. That's
Speaker 1: why the NFL is so great. Do you believe that
Speaker 1: the offense as it stands now is ahead of the defense? No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think I think it's a better defensive
Speaker 1: football team than offensive football team right now. Think there's
Speaker 1: greater room for growth for the for the offense certainly,
Speaker 1: And I like the way Chip is starting more and
Speaker 1: more to diversify the offense. You know, we're seeing more
Speaker 1: and more two tight ends. We're seeing in the game
Speaker 1: versus Dallas, two running backs not in the backfield, but
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowls in the slot. Sam Bradford was six for
Speaker 1: six when they had two running backs on the field
Speaker 1: in the game. So I think you're starting to see
Speaker 1: great a diversity, all diversification also Sam Bradford. This kind
Speaker 1: of went under the radar on Sunday Night, but sam
Speaker 1: Bradford was more designed rollouts, not a plethora of them,
Speaker 1: not a ton, but four times Chip had him faked
Speaker 1: the handoff and move, and of course that's to prevent
Speaker 1: Seawan Lee and when Shaun Lee was out from just
Speaker 1: coming down and hitting to Marco or hitting Ryan Matthews.
Speaker 1: What many people saw as a very predictable Eagles offense
Speaker 1: in the first couple of weeks of the season. So
Speaker 1: I like the fact that Chips opened it up a little. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when the Eagles put it all together here for
Speaker 1: four quarters of this offense really could be devastating. But
Speaker 1: we are, we are done with Dallas. It's on now
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Speaker 1: Time now to take a look at the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and it's time to everybody get up for this game.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys is over, Let's talk about Miami. It's Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly said after the game, doesn't matter if you lose
Speaker 1: this week. So let's see how focused Eagles are on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins at a glance with a new coach,
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell midseason, Joe, nothing really jumps out at you
Speaker 1: other than they've been waffled the last two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have, and against New England two weeks ago. You
Speaker 1: expect that most teams are gonna lose big to the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and certainly they did. But last week
Speaker 1: for them was a tough one and a bad one
Speaker 1: because they played Buffalo. That's certainly a winnable game and
Speaker 1: they got smoked by the Buffalo Bills. This early hurts
Speaker 1: the Dolphins within their season now at three and five,
Speaker 1: obviously they're not going to win their division. They're in
Speaker 1: the same division with the New England Patriots. We all
Speaker 1: know you can roll that out. So for Miami that's
Speaker 1: what makes this a very important game for them, Dave
Speaker 1: coming up here against the Eagles Sunday at the Link,
Speaker 1: because the Dolphins at three and five, currently sit two
Speaker 1: games behind the wildcard spot in the AF set and
Speaker 1: that team's the Jets. So you got some opportunity because
Speaker 1: I don't think the Jets maybe will be in it
Speaker 1: for the long haul. Got a bunch of teams at
Speaker 1: four and four, So the Dolphins are still in it,
Speaker 1: but they desperately need a win, and if they lose
Speaker 1: to the Eagles, their season's really gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 1: And to get a win, they need their quarterback to
Speaker 1: play really good football, and he hasn't played really good
Speaker 1: football this year. He's been okay. Is Ryan Tannehill ever
Speaker 1: going to be the franchise quarterback that Miami in vision
Speaker 1: when they selected him in the first round a few
Speaker 1: years ago. You see the numbers. He throws the football
Speaker 1: down the field, He's got some good receivers who break tackles.
Speaker 1: The sixty four percent complete percentage is nice. Thirteen and nine.
Speaker 1: Really nothing stands out about Ryan Tannehill playing behind a
Speaker 1: not very good offensive line. Yeah, still pretty early in
Speaker 1: his career, and there's certainly room for growth and a
Speaker 1: sense that Ryan Tannehill can become a pretty strong quarterback
Speaker 1: in this leg. I mean, we'll say, if I had
Speaker 1: to put my money down, I'd say middle of the
Speaker 1: road kind of careers up ahead. But you know, he
Speaker 1: has shown glimpses and signs of promise, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: really been able to put it together consistently. And I
Speaker 1: think in many ways that kind of defines what the
Speaker 1: Dophins have been this year. And Sam Bradford, of course,
Speaker 1: is trending up, as we all agree. After that win
Speaker 1: against the Dallas Cowboys. How about the running back situation
Speaker 1: where the Eagles have been pounding the rock. It hasn't
Speaker 1: just been to Marco Murray, it's been Ryan Matthews since
Speaker 1: Week three of the season. The Eagles second only to
Speaker 1: Saint Louis rushing to football Joe, this running game is
Speaker 1: lethal when they get it going well. I want to
Speaker 1: start with because it's where the season started, and I
Speaker 1: think the conversation unfortunately has moved too far away too
Speaker 1: frequently from this. The offensive line's gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1: So for all to talk about the running game being
Speaker 1: strong and the running backs being strong, and certainly they're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, some really good football right now. DeMarco I think,
Speaker 1: had his best game in the season by far versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and Ryan Matthews every time he's in there delivers.
Speaker 1: But let's start with the offensive line, because that's really
Speaker 1: you want to talk about. Game one versus Atlanta, Game
Speaker 1: two versus Dallas, and the whole town, including me, everybody
Speaker 1: really concerned because the offensive line looks so bad day.
Speaker 1: They've come a long way, and by the way, they've
Speaker 1: done it without Jason Peters now in four different games,
Speaker 1: not finishing the game or three games he didn't finish.
Speaker 1: The last game he didn't play, So it'll be good
Speaker 1: to get Peters back whenever he's able to play. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it's this week, we shall say. But I give those
Speaker 1: guys credit. But to your point about the running backs themselves,
Speaker 1: they're really delivering. I mean they're playing some good football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And for Miami, Lamar Miller is part of a two
Speaker 1: headed backfield. They run the football well, they catch the
Speaker 1: football well. They use their running backs in a variety
Speaker 1: of ways. Who do not sleep on Lamar Miller and company.
Speaker 1: That's a good group in the backfield. Jay, if I've
Speaker 1: pronounced that correctly. A rookie who was activated last week
Speaker 1: from Boise State runs hard, brings it really, really hard.
Speaker 1: So I would imagine the Eagles will have to obviously
Speaker 1: focus on a run game that hasn't been something they've
Speaker 1: been shutting down last couple weeks. They've had trouble against
Speaker 1: Carolina and then against the Dallas count Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And now, of course with Jordan Hicks out for the season,
Speaker 1: you know that's part of the equation here. Now, it's
Speaker 1: it's good to have depth at that position. You got
Speaker 1: three players that have had some real success, big success
Speaker 1: in the league with Demiko, Ryan's, Michael Kendricks, and Kiko Alonso.
Speaker 1: I think Kiko is a little rusty coming back playing
Speaker 1: that game Sunday night. I think it was about twenty
Speaker 1: nine snaps for him, So getting him going more and
Speaker 1: more will be important. Obviously, Demiko was playing really well
Speaker 1: before his injury. I was incredibly impressed with Demiko's growth
Speaker 1: through this season. I was really concerned in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. He looked so bad versus Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: the bottom line is I was really concerned about whether
Speaker 1: he was gonna be able to come back from that
Speaker 1: Achilles and ever be himself. He was playing terrific football
Speaker 1: before his injury. So when you talk about the run
Speaker 1: game Dave and now trying to fortify it, you know
Speaker 1: those linebackers are gonna be very important in the pass game.
Speaker 1: Four the Eagles, of course, Jordan Matthews coming off his
Speaker 1: tremendous game against the Cowboys and his numbers look great
Speaker 1: at the halfway point of this season. This week, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a battle of two players from that twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen draft class. Jarvis Landry is outstanding the LSU product
Speaker 1: catches the football. A lot of bubble screens they run.
Speaker 1: He's really good with the football in his hands. After
Speaker 1: the catch. They will use him in a variety of ways,
Speaker 1: including throwing the football. And I believe this. I believe
Speaker 1: that Miami will challenge Byron Maxwell to make tackles, so
Speaker 1: they'll get the ball out of Tannehill's hands quickly, throw
Speaker 1: that screen out there and make Maxwell, who was not
Speaker 1: wild anybody with his tackling technique. They're gonna make him
Speaker 1: tackle on Sunday. Well, well, we've seen a few of
Speaker 1: them through Eagles history, Bobby Taylor, Asante Samuel and I'll
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Byron Maxwell not that not the best tackler.
Speaker 1: It's good to have the safeties and you know Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins water firm and that they can't hit and they're
Speaker 1: not afraid to get in there. But be right, Dave,
Speaker 1: I mean, Maxwell's technique has to get better on tackling.
Speaker 1: And you know, when we talk about Jordan Matthews, I
Speaker 1: think one sign that was very interesting from the game
Speaker 1: versus the Cowboys at two different times including the game
Speaker 1: when he touchdown, you know, Chip with a play design
Speaker 1: that got Jordan Matthews deeper down the feet. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's it's no secret the Eagles outside receivers are struggling
Speaker 1: enormously right now. They combined for three catches in the
Speaker 1: entire game, talking obviously about Josh hoff and Riley Cooper.
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilor was out as we know, but but Miles
Speaker 1: Austin just three catches for that group not good. So
Speaker 1: getting Matthews a little bit deeper from time to time
Speaker 1: to try to utilize I mean, he is the best
Speaker 1: receiver on the team, try to utilize his talent to
Speaker 1: get down the fields. Good. They did that in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Was the first time all season, Dave, they
Speaker 1: ran that play and connected to Jordan Matthews this year
Speaker 1: and his ship talked about after the game. He said
Speaker 1: he knew that if they got across the fifty yard
Speaker 1: line and overtime, he wanted to go back to it,
Speaker 1: and he went back to a play he utilized on
Speaker 1: the third quarter for I think it was a twenty
Speaker 1: nine yard game and of course, big game winning play
Speaker 1: there in overtime. Yeah, good catching run from Matthews on
Speaker 1: that first one. Let's take a look at the tight
Speaker 1: ends because the Dolphins have a good one. Jordan Cameron
Speaker 1: is a pass catcher, gets down the field, athletic and
Speaker 1: somebody that obviously Ryan Tannehill likes to go to the Eagles.
Speaker 1: We'll have to contend with him in coverage. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: talking about Connor Barr Becolm Jenkins, you know, having to
Speaker 1: defend him. And I thought Malcolm Jenkins struggled a bit
Speaker 1: in the game versus the Cowboys. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a smart play when he basically tackled Jason Witten at
Speaker 1: the end of the game because he was trying to
Speaker 1: prevent Dallas from getting the ball deeper down the field.
Speaker 1: And all that was just the five yard penalty and
Speaker 1: seconds went off the clock. They had a kick to
Speaker 1: field goal. They made it. But but certainly Malcolm Jenkins
Speaker 1: can play better than he did. And I would think
Speaker 1: Keiko Alonzo though, would be that guy. I mean, Keiko
Speaker 1: came in early against the Cowboys. His job was to
Speaker 1: work against Jason Witten in the nickel and he just
Speaker 1: had so much rust on him that he had his
Speaker 1: twenty seven snaps, twenty nine snaps, whatever it was, and
Speaker 1: came off the field. I would imagine Keiko from a
Speaker 1: physical standpoint is a better matchup, I would agree. Now, look, guys,
Speaker 1: Kiko is gonna be huge one way or the other
Speaker 1: swing factor for this team's success or failure in the
Speaker 1: second half of the season. I mean, let's remember the
Speaker 1: Philadelphi Eagles trade it the all time leading rusher and
Speaker 1: franchise history, Lashawn McCoy for Keiko Alonso. Big expectations come
Speaker 1: with that. Now we know it wasn't just as simple
Speaker 1: as player for player. Here's you're talking about shedding a
Speaker 1: lot of contract in a salary cap league and being
Speaker 1: able to allocate that money elsewhere as the Eagles did
Speaker 1: with you know, signy Byron Maxwell or acquiring Sam Bradford.
Speaker 1: So it's not as simple as this player for that player.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's be real, when you trade a
Speaker 1: guy as good as the Shawn McCoy, there's an expectation
Speaker 1: that the player that's brought in form is going to
Speaker 1: be a big time player. Now, the defenses, well, we
Speaker 1: take a look at the numbers in Miami's defense was
Speaker 1: supposed to be outstanding. They went out and got the
Speaker 1: Crown Jewel in free agency and Damakasu. However, they lost
Speaker 1: Cameron Wake with an injury a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and that has absolutely crushed this defense. They gave up
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty six rushing yards last week to
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. It's not a good defense right now.
Speaker 1: It's not and that plays into the Eagles hands in
Speaker 1: two ways. First off, because the Eagles are running the
Speaker 1: ball so successfully right now. I mean, it really has
Speaker 1: been incredible growth over the last four or five weeks
Speaker 1: with what the Eagles have done with the running game,
Speaker 1: very very impressive, but also Sam Bradford and the comfortability
Speaker 1: for him, and you know, hopefully the Eagles in this
Speaker 1: game versus Miami can get the ball down the field
Speaker 1: more because I think when you look at the areas
Speaker 1: where the Eagles have struggled this year, in many of
Speaker 1: the areas they've gotten better. Maxwell has been better than
Speaker 1: he was in the first couple of weeks, Bradford has
Speaker 1: been better than he was in the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: DeMarco has been better, and certainly the offensive line has
Speaker 1: been better. But the one area where I think, Dave,
Speaker 1: they still really do lag behind fairly dramatically is the
Speaker 1: outside receivers and getting the ball, you know, down the field.
Speaker 1: And listen. This is modern day NFL football where teams
Speaker 1: are constantly twenty five thirty five forty yard plays down
Speaker 1: the field, and it's not just about the completions, but
Speaker 1: the interference penalties you get as well. You know when
Speaker 1: you take those chances. So they really do have to
Speaker 1: open that up and get great And if you can
Speaker 1: get the run game going and everything works off the
Speaker 1: run game, the play action game goes, and then the
Speaker 1: passing game explodes. That's the idea. Hopefully Nelson agilore on
Speaker 1: the field on Sunday. So there's your look. The first
Speaker 1: look at the Miami Dolphins ahead of Sunday's game. When
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Speaker 1: Before we talk about football, November is Salute to Service
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Speaker 1: what you guys did? Well said time to talk a
Speaker 1: little football. The Dolphins come to town. Ryan Tannehill is
Speaker 1: one of the young talented quarterbacks in this league. At
Speaker 1: one point last week, twenty one of twenty four passes
Speaker 1: completed against Buffalo. What have you seen from him? Very accurate.
Speaker 1: I think he's really grown as a passer. M extremely
Speaker 1: dangerous with his feet, can beat you running the football. Also,
Speaker 1: they have design quarterback runs for him because he's at athletic.
Speaker 1: Actually played wide receiver at Texas A and M while
Speaker 1: he was biding his time before we became the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback there. So um, he's a true dual threat quarterback
Speaker 1: in beach of both plays has really really improved as
Speaker 1: a pass from the doing really nasty cap. They also
Speaker 1: have a very talented backfield with Lamar Miller rookie jag
Speaker 1: he makes his debut Lestic. How do they use their backs? Um,
Speaker 1: you know they're one back set, but they do a
Speaker 1: good job now with with Miller and a guy where
Speaker 1: they can rotate the two of them and always keep
Speaker 1: a fresh body in there. But uh, it's it's an
Speaker 1: attack that it's because they run some zone replays. Is
Speaker 1: that you have to worry about the quarterback too, so
Speaker 1: you just can't gang up on the running back. So um,
Speaker 1: we don't present a problem similar to what Carolina did
Speaker 1: to us. Bill Lasers their offensive coordinator. He was here
Speaker 1: with you as the quarterbacks coach, is there a lot
Speaker 1: of familiarity with what they do and what you guys run.
Speaker 1: There are some plays that are you know, you can
Speaker 1: look at and say, hey, we ran that when when
Speaker 1: Bill was here with the Eagles, But he's got his
Speaker 1: own offensive system. It's not he didn't take what we
Speaker 1: took from there. He had a varied background before he
Speaker 1: got here, So there'll be some plays that will look
Speaker 1: familiar to us, but there's other plays that are just
Speaker 1: specific to the Dolphins on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: and Domica Sue is their bigg to the defensive line.
Speaker 1: What kind of impact has he made. He's made a
Speaker 1: big impact, I think just because of everybody has to
Speaker 1: know where he is. He's gets a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: gets a lot of double teams, and when people are
Speaker 1: double teaming because he's such a good player, then it
Speaker 1: frees up other people. But there's some other good guys
Speaker 1: across the front, especially Olivia Vernon at the defensive end,
Speaker 1: then it makes it difficult to always double Sue when
Speaker 1: they have a really good defensive end outside of him.
Speaker 1: But obviously one of the premier defensive tackles in this
Speaker 1: league change down there, Chip and what have they done
Speaker 1: defensively the whole season? And then since the coaching change,
Speaker 1: they haven't really changed defensively. I know they have a
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator, but he was the defensive back coach there,
Speaker 1: so they seem like they're running the same system and
Speaker 1: doing the same things they did before they made the
Speaker 1: change with this team. Again, on Sunday Night, the Eagles
Speaker 1: score a touchdown to open up the second half first
Speaker 1: offensive possession. That's five touchdowns on offensive possessions first offensive
Speaker 1: possessions in second half this year. What has that meant
Speaker 1: for your success to come out so strong? Exactly. We've
Speaker 1: been betting close games when it comes to halftime, and
Speaker 1: you're always talking about set the tone when you come
Speaker 1: the second half, and our players are really executed in
Speaker 1: those five opportunities. What did Sam Bradford do so well
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night that really stood out to you? I
Speaker 1: think Sam's done similar things that he's done in earlier games.
Speaker 1: I think, really it is we caught the football, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think we u still had three drops on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, but our number of drops were down and
Speaker 1: allowed us to keep our offense on the field and
Speaker 1: extend drives. But I felt Sam's played well the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and um, I think everybody on offense
Speaker 1: is starting to get together and kind of rise up
Speaker 1: towards Sam's playing. So I think everybody helped each other out.
Speaker 1: Key stat two of two on goal to go situations
Speaker 1: in Dallas went well inside that close area. Just execution,
Speaker 1: you know, And it's like anything. The first time we
Speaker 1: played Dallas, we didn't do a very good job blocking,
Speaker 1: we didn't do a very job got good job catching me,
Speaker 1: weren't very good offensively. But this game, Um, we executed.
Speaker 1: I thought our offensive line did played an outstanding game
Speaker 1: against a really good defensive front, and we just executed
Speaker 1: on defense. Jordan Hicks now lost to the season. How
Speaker 1: do you look at the rest of the group inside, Well,
Speaker 1: one of our goals was to increase our that inside linebacker.
Speaker 1: We lost Tomko Ryans for the year last year, and
Speaker 1: we lost Michael Kendicks for an extended period of time. So, um,
Speaker 1: part of bringing Kiko in here and part of bringing
Speaker 1: Jordan in here was to add to that depth. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: losing a player that was playing as well as Jordan,
Speaker 1: you know, hurts us. But what we should get Tomko back,
Speaker 1: We got Michael back, we got Kiko back, so we
Speaker 1: feel like we're still pretty good there. We also have
Speaker 1: Nagi Goody's playing really well for us on special teams
Speaker 1: to go along with those guys, So I think we'll
Speaker 1: be okay now. We can't afford probably to miss too
Speaker 1: many other people, but I think we're okay right now
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It's Eagles three sixty. Dave Spidero Eagles Insider,
Speaker 1: along with Joe di camera our final segment today. We're
Speaker 1: here every Monday through Friday at five o'clock. Of course,
Speaker 1: Joe will be with us on game day on Sunday.
Speaker 1: You feeling like we got a big blowout coming up,
Speaker 1: like everybody else is talking about, which I hate, I hate,
Speaker 1: I hate. Clenn mcnell said it yesterday, jinks all over
Speaker 1: the place. I think it's a tough game. You're well.
Speaker 1: First off, I don't know if i'd say tough, but
Speaker 1: at this point I'm not in the mode of thinking
Speaker 1: that anything is a given for the Eagles. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Eagles have proven yet to be
Speaker 1: good enough to just stamp it, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: You know, three game winning streak as people are talking about. Look, Dave,
Speaker 1: they had the opportunity for a three game win, and
Speaker 1: I think that's exciting, but particularly important when you recognize
Speaker 1: that New England's the four games away from here and
Speaker 1: that's you know, an all but guaranteed loss. You are
Speaker 1: looking ahead, Joe shocked. That's what I do. It's what
Speaker 1: I definite team. Listen, there's a difference between those fifty
Speaker 1: three and may. I mean, it's you know, that's what
Speaker 1: it is. But you know, you look at the landscape
Speaker 1: of this season right now, David, the Eagles at four
Speaker 1: and four, the Giants says, we know at five and four.
Speaker 1: Now I look ahead week seventeen. I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: John's is gonna play for the division. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that right now. But with that said, the bottom line
Speaker 1: is that mark this down. The New York Giants will
Speaker 1: not have won another football game by the time the
Speaker 1: Eagles play their third game out of these three. Eagles
Speaker 1: play the third game of these three versus the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions Dave on Thanksgiving Day, and I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 1: the Giants will still have they have five wins right now.
Speaker 1: They will still have five wins when the Eagles play
Speaker 1: that game on Thanksgiving Day because their next two weeks
Speaker 1: are against New England, they will lose and the bye
Speaker 1: week they will not win, so they will still have
Speaker 1: I've wins. When the Eagles played the Lions Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: I really thought it was gonna be something really bold
Speaker 1: you're proclaiming here, but it really is. But my point
Speaker 1: is is there's opportunity. That's what I agree with Theday
Speaker 1: is being a funny guy here being a tough guy
Speaker 1: talking about you know, but listen, here's what it's about.
Speaker 1: It's about the fact that with where this season started
Speaker 1: at oo and two and one and three and just
Speaker 1: tremendous angst amongst Eagles fans and frankly inside the building
Speaker 1: obviously with regard to oh Man, this is not looking good.
Speaker 1: They have settled it down by winning four or six,
Speaker 1: and with the Giants being what they are, the Redskins
Speaker 1: and cowboys, you know, I mean, they Eagles really helped
Speaker 1: themselves dramatically by submerging the Cowboys with now a two
Speaker 1: and six record. So I really do believe this division
Speaker 1: will come down to the Eagles and Giants. Again. That's
Speaker 1: no bold statement. I think that's common sense. But from
Speaker 1: where they were, they've come a long way and there
Speaker 1: is opportunity. All right, let's get you caught up and
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Speaker 1: Our Amrosso's on the menu segment here, Well, we've got
Speaker 1: coming into studio. We're going behind enemy lines tomorrow with
Speaker 1: Elaine Poopar from Dolphin Digest, and I'm going to go
Speaker 1: with the last word our little Q and A that
Speaker 1: we started last week with Ron dro Warski. This week's
Speaker 1: subject Jordan Matthews from a completely different perspective. So make
Speaker 1: sure you're with us tomorrow, Friday, and then of course
Speaker 1: Sunday with Joe Chris mcpheerson. I agrees, great, go sell
Speaker 1: everybody covering Eagles Dolphins from start to finish. We thank
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