Speaker 1: Along everyone, We welcome you at Eagles three sixty at
Speaker 1: an Overcare Complex our Exfinity studio Davis Spidero along with
Speaker 1: Chris McPherson. First time that I've had a chance to
Speaker 1: sit here and talk since the Eagles loss on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: to Detroit. We are not going to go through that
Speaker 1: game piece by pieces, far too painful. We do want
Speaker 1: to kind of look ahead at this football team as
Speaker 1: it gets ready for New England on Sunday, with or
Speaker 1: without Rob Gronkowski will update that of course as the
Speaker 1: week go along. Chris, you've been around the building all day.
Speaker 1: What do you sense is the mood around here? They're
Speaker 1: moving on and obviously it's a cliche of New England
Speaker 1: to use very successfully Last year, after that disappointing loss
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, they moved on to Cincinnati, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what the Eagles are doing at this point.
Speaker 1: I like Chip Kelly's approach of how he takes every
Speaker 1: game a week at a time, and it's very important
Speaker 1: that with all the outside noise starring to circumvent here
Speaker 1: at the Novocare Complex, people saying this then and the other,
Speaker 1: that the team just focuses on its own business and
Speaker 1: handle what they can control what you can control. At
Speaker 1: this point, you're not going to be able to make
Speaker 1: up any ground in the division. You know, one fell swoop.
Speaker 1: They need to get back to playing the way they
Speaker 1: were earlier in the season, and will offer our suggestions
Speaker 1: on exactly what the defense, for example, can do after
Speaker 1: consecutive games of forty five points allowed. Brian Westbrook will
Speaker 1: join us later in the show. First things first, let's
Speaker 1: get you caught up on everything going on with Eagles today.
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly meeting the media amid a lot of speculation.
Speaker 1: Report it's inuendo and fascinating rumors. Hi everyone, I'm Alex
Speaker 1: Smith and this is your three sixty update. The Eagles
Speaker 1: will be back out on the practice fields here at
Speaker 1: the Novacare Complex on Tuesday, But on Monday we heard
Speaker 1: from head coach Chip Kelly, who gave an update on
Speaker 1: the status of quarterback Sam Bradford and while the Eagles
Speaker 1: will have to wait and see how Bradford responds this
Speaker 1: week in training, Kelly did talk about which areas of
Speaker 1: the game he's seen improvement in Bradford. I think there's
Speaker 1: a comfort level with him. Obviously he missed a lot
Speaker 1: of the offseason program. Was here every day, but not
Speaker 1: taking the reps every day, you know, in the offseason program.
Speaker 1: So I think his obviously when he's around it and
Speaker 1: he's in it and practicing in it every day, playing
Speaker 1: every day, you know, you could see him grow. When
Speaker 1: I thought he grew, you know, really in those last
Speaker 1: couple of games. So he played really well when we
Speaker 1: played Dallas, you know, and I thought he was on
Speaker 1: track when we were playing in Miami, and then he
Speaker 1: gets hurt. So we'll hopefully we'll see where he is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his status would be this week.
Speaker 1: Over the past two weeks, the Eagles defense has had
Speaker 1: their fair share of struggles, but according to Kelly, he
Speaker 1: has full confidence in defensive coordinator Bill Davis and the
Speaker 1: rest of the Eagles defensive coaching staff because I've seen
Speaker 1: Billy do a great job. And up until two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we I thought we were playing really well on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. I thought we're doing some
Speaker 1: really good things on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know. The last two weeks, obviously, we haven't played
Speaker 1: as well as we can as a team on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball or in any phase of the
Speaker 1: in any phase of the game in the last two weeks, offensively, defensive,
Speaker 1: or special teams. But I've seen him coach, and I
Speaker 1: know Billy knows football. I know Billy's a really good communicator.
Speaker 1: I know Billy's a really good teacher, and he's a
Speaker 1: really really good football coacher. And finally, it seems that
Speaker 1: with every major college coaching job that becomes available, Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly becomes a candidate for that job. But today Kelly's
Speaker 1: shot down any rumors of him leaving for the USC
Speaker 1: job or any other college football job, as he says,
Speaker 1: all focus is on beating the New England Patriots. No,
Speaker 1: I really don't, because there's so many things that are
Speaker 1: written and said nowadays that it's ridiculous, and it's it's
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times we just chuckle and
Speaker 1: laugh to be honest with him. You know that I
Speaker 1: had a meeting in Philadelphia with the USC on Friday.
Speaker 1: I mean I was in New Hampshire, So no, I've
Speaker 1: never I mean, it's it's crazy, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: really it's kind of sad that everybody can just write
Speaker 1: whatever they want or say whatever they want, and then
Speaker 1: everybody takes it as the truth. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the world we live in. But if you have
Speaker 1: to sit there every single day and combat everything that
Speaker 1: comes out, it's it's I mean, you're just I think
Speaker 1: you're wasting time. Our focus and energy is going to
Speaker 1: be on the New England Patriots. So it's I don't
Speaker 1: know why it comes up or why it has to happen,
Speaker 1: but to have that every day, with every rumor that
Speaker 1: you hear about every person or everything, is just it's crazy.
Speaker 1: That will wrap things up here from the Novacare Complex.
Speaker 1: Be sure to stay tuned to Philadelphia Eagles dot Com
Speaker 1: throughout the week for all of your latest Eagles news.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Alex. Let's be honest here, Chris. It
Speaker 1: will never stop with Chip Kelly. He will always be
Speaker 1: linked to the glamour jobs in college football. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the team was say seven to four and
Speaker 1: four and seven at this point, I don't stop it
Speaker 1: last year, that's true, but guys like Pete Carroll, there's
Speaker 1: other guys who have come from the college ranks who
Speaker 1: have intrenched themselves in the league that I've been able
Speaker 1: to escape. But Pete Carrol was in the NFL, then
Speaker 1: they went back to college and then he came back.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we just want Chip Kelly here and we
Speaker 1: want to turn things around for this football team right away.
Speaker 1: When we return to Eagles three sixty, we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at Sunday at least a little peak and what
Speaker 1: the impact could it be. Sam Bradford hopefully back in
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Speaker 1: Eagles insider Dave Spiderow along with Chris McPherson's segment two
Speaker 1: of Eagles three sixty on this Monday time to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about the Eagles offense Chris, which you
Speaker 1: know it really in the last year has taken some
Speaker 1: hits since Eagles were nine to three against the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Went over the Dallas Cowboys last year the offense has
Speaker 1: has not been as explosive consistently. We all wonder why.
Speaker 1: I would say, first and foremost, you have to look
Speaker 1: at the play of the quarterback position and the fact
Speaker 1: that you inserted Sam Bradford into the lineup, and look,
Speaker 1: it took time for him to adjust after not playing
Speaker 1: football for the better part of two seasons. As Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly said earlier today, Bradford starting to improve. We started
Speaker 1: to feel more, were more comfortable in the offense, and
Speaker 1: a play in particular that I pointed to was him
Speaker 1: rolling out of the pocket down the red zone early
Speaker 1: against Miami and finding Josh Huff in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone for the touchdown. Being able to see
Speaker 1: him finally put all of those skills together. So unfortunately
Speaker 1: the injury came when it did. Hopefully we'll be back
Speaker 1: in the lamp this week now. As for what he
Speaker 1: can do for the Eagle's offense, I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing with him is he can challenge defenses outside the
Speaker 1: numbers and vertically down the field and utilize the talents
Speaker 1: there where. You look at when Mark Sanchez did, he
Speaker 1: ran the offense with tempo, He got everyone to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage quickly, but I thought defensive were starting
Speaker 1: to creep in knowing they pretty much had to defend
Speaker 1: just the middle part of the field there. I think
Speaker 1: Bradford will make defenses respect, especially outside of the numbers,
Speaker 1: a lot more. And let's be clear, the Eagles one
Speaker 1: of the main objectives coming into the season was finding
Speaker 1: that franchise quarterback and finding him not only for twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: but for many years to come. I don't think that
Speaker 1: there's an answer yet to that question. To that picture,
Speaker 1: it's not clear. That's why it's important that Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: gets back on the field stays healthy for five games.
Speaker 1: It gives you more of an opportunity to evaluate him
Speaker 1: and find out the weaknesses, find out the strengths, find
Speaker 1: out how you can tailor the offense better to fit
Speaker 1: his skill sets. So I know how Eagles fans feel.
Speaker 1: Four and seven disappointed, three straight losses, got it understood.
Speaker 1: The Eagles still need to find out about their football players,
Speaker 1: and the quarterback position is at the very top of
Speaker 1: the list. So let's all hope that Sam Bradford gets
Speaker 1: healthy now. The Eagles the running game has just not
Speaker 1: been there for much of this season. Chris Ryan Matthews
Speaker 1: out with a concussion, sounds like he's a major question
Speaker 1: mark to get back for this Patriots game. It's a shame,
Speaker 1: very scary. In fact, they's already missed the last two games,
Speaker 1: and the fact that his stats is still question marks
Speaker 1: hanging into this week is certainly a surprise. But when
Speaker 1: Matthews and Murray the market Mury were on the field
Speaker 1: together that mill part of the season, the Eagles rushing
Speaker 1: attack was getting going, and I thought they did a
Speaker 1: great to have a compliment one another. Demarca Murray very
Speaker 1: good with those inside zone runs in between the tackles
Speaker 1: and use Matthews to be able to get on the
Speaker 1: perimeter in the sweeps and the outside zone plays as well. Look,
Speaker 1: they just bring two different things to the table. Murray
Speaker 1: is more of a finisher. Matthews is a little bit
Speaker 1: more quick, a little bit more elusive. I would say
Speaker 1: Murray is tougher to bring down, but it's hard to
Speaker 1: get your hands wrapped around a guy like Matthews who
Speaker 1: has that big size that you see typically in bigger
Speaker 1: running backs, but has the quickness and the agility to
Speaker 1: be able to beat defenses on the perimeter. So from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, Dave, I think that's what the Eagles are
Speaker 1: missing right now, is just that complimentary piece that they're
Speaker 1: not focusing all the attention on Murray. Yeah. I tend
Speaker 1: to think that the offensive line is really the culprit
Speaker 1: here in terms of the running game. Over the years,
Speaker 1: we see when they're offensive line is working well, doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter who the running back he is. Unfortunately for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, that offensive line has not been consistent from
Speaker 1: its play, from its stability, from its continuity, a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries, and the Eagles just not able to get
Speaker 1: the running game going, which, as we know, sets up
Speaker 1: everything else in this ship Kelly offense. So Ryan Matthews
Speaker 1: or not, the Eagles need to get something going. And
Speaker 1: I gotta be play a little keepaway from Tom Brady
Speaker 1: on Sunday question. I don't see the Eagles going tempo tempo,
Speaker 1: tempo tempo unless they've got something going and scoring a
Speaker 1: lot of points. Well, what was so frustrating was we
Speaker 1: saw early in the game against Detroit. You saw the
Speaker 1: offense matriculate the ball down the field. They made some
Speaker 1: third down conversions, and he figure, Okay, they're getting themselves
Speaker 1: in position for an early scoring strike, but then they
Speaker 1: had the Lane Johnson penalty when he was moved over
Speaker 1: to left tackle after Jason Pierce had to exeter just
Speaker 1: ten snaps, and then cab Sturgis attempted the fifty yard
Speaker 1: field goal that claimed off the uprights, and that really
Speaker 1: just kind of set the tone for what was a
Speaker 1: dismal day down there in Detroit. Good starts against Miami,
Speaker 1: good start against Tampa Bay, not a bad start against
Speaker 1: Detroit offensively, and the Eagles are the owners of three
Speaker 1: consecutive losses. Certainly not the offense by itself. It's taken
Speaker 1: a team effort to go from four and four to
Speaker 1: four and seven. And when we returned to Eagles three
Speaker 1: thick set Chris McPherson, I are going to talk about
Speaker 1: the d We're not Billy Davis. We don't pretend to
Speaker 1: know some suggestions that we have for maybe all the
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Speaker 1: at five o'clock Monday through Friday. We wait till Sunday.
Speaker 1: We want to find out Sunday what the Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna do. Defensively got to be better, Chris. We think
Speaker 1: than Tampa Bay forty five points Detroit forty five points,
Speaker 1: five touchdown passes in each game allowed by the Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: This is an Eagles defense Chris did earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: taking the football away, stopping the run better in the
Speaker 1: red zone. First, what has happened, and then what can
Speaker 1: we do here in the final five games? Look at
Speaker 1: what's happened last couple weeks day. The first thing I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look at is the offense, and maybe you're probably thinking, well,
Speaker 1: you guys just delved into the offense. Was a to
Speaker 1: do here? I feel like that the defense may have
Speaker 1: seen the offense struggle on the field and realized that
Speaker 1: they had to play virtually a perfect game in order
Speaker 1: the peoples you keep the Eagles in it, and it just,
Speaker 1: unfortunately was not going to come to fruition. So from
Speaker 1: MeTL standpoint, they need to forget about that and focus
Speaker 1: on their jobs on the field. I'm looking first and
Speaker 1: foremost at the defensive line here. We've talked about how
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox has played at an all pro level this season.
Speaker 1: Benny Logan has had a very very good twenty fifteen campaign.
Speaker 1: They need to bring their a games against a hobble
Speaker 1: New England offense. You know you're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of quick passes. Tom Brady is going to get
Speaker 1: rid of the football quickly. But you cannot allow what
Speaker 1: Garrip want and that run game to get going. They
Speaker 1: need to win the upfront to set the tone for
Speaker 1: the rest of the defense. Yeah, and then along with
Speaker 1: that you win the physical battle at the line of
Speaker 1: screaming jaw. Very important. The concerning part to me, and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna blame the offense for the Eagles defensive struggles.
Speaker 1: I see a defense that has allowed far too many
Speaker 1: third down conversions that lived on the takeaway early in
Speaker 1: the season. There have been zero takeaways in the last
Speaker 1: three games. A team that in the last three games
Speaker 1: has just had so many troubles in the red zone.
Speaker 1: So what do you do. Well, You've got to mix
Speaker 1: things up, no doubt against Tom Brady, but fancy gimmicks
Speaker 1: and schemes and this splitz and that it's not going
Speaker 1: to work. Against Tom Terrific, he's seen it all comes
Speaker 1: down to execution. Eagles just need to man up and
Speaker 1: be more physical. This defense has lost its physical edge,
Speaker 1: not only up front, the linebackers, particularly the inside linebackers
Speaker 1: running around blocks, not taking on blocks. Quarterback Byron Maxwell
Speaker 1: needs to play more physical. He needs to be more
Speaker 1: interested in tackling the man rather than going for the strip.
Speaker 1: Eagles safeties, I think they've been consistent and find Jenkins
Speaker 1: and you know he's played very well back there with
Speaker 1: Walter Thurman, he's played well. But the Eagles secondary has
Speaker 1: absolutely no chance if you a don't stop the run
Speaker 1: and b if you don't get to the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people out there saying, well
Speaker 1: Eagles aren't blitzing enough. Well, they did almost the entire
Speaker 1: game against Matthew Stafford. You see what it did for them.
Speaker 1: Comes down to being more physical, playing more as a man,
Speaker 1: winning your battle, and then mixing up the scheme. There's
Speaker 1: certainly a part of that. I'm not excusing Bill Davis
Speaker 1: from this, but this defense has I would think Chris
Speaker 1: hit Rock from a pastoral standpoint, I want to see
Speaker 1: a little more Vinny Curry two sacks in fifteen snaps
Speaker 1: on Thursday against the lines. He has been very, very
Speaker 1: productive in those types of situations and that's where he thrives.
Speaker 1: So why not give him more of an opportunity, because
Speaker 1: quite honestly, the Eagles are lacking that number three pass
Speaker 1: rusher after Connor Barrow and Brandon Graham. Graham had that
Speaker 1: role the number three guy year ago, they really haven't
Speaker 1: had someone to fulfill it. So hopefully maybe Vinny Curry
Speaker 1: will get some more action into your point, David about
Speaker 1: the secondary. I want to see a little more press coverage.
Speaker 1: The Eagles emphasize the desire to have these tall, long,
Speaker 1: physical corners. They need to utilize that at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Too much off coverage and that is really
Speaker 1: going to hurt you going against a team like New England. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and listen, no disrespect to the weapons that the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots have, because they make it work no matter
Speaker 1: who they put on the field. And we've got a
Speaker 1: quarterback like Tom Brady, He's going to make it work.
Speaker 1: But Brandon LaFell is their leading receiver, not exactly a
Speaker 1: superstar talent. So I'd like to see and I agree
Speaker 1: with Chris, I'd like to see the Eagles challenge more
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. As for the pass rush
Speaker 1: with Brandon Graham and Connor Barbin, the Eagles know that
Speaker 1: neither one of them, and they knew before the season
Speaker 1: neither one of them an elite pass rusher. The lack
Speaker 1: of development from Marcus Smith has really come back to
Speaker 1: hurt this defense. You're talking about a first round draft
Speaker 1: pick who cannot get on the field, who cannot produce
Speaker 1: for this defense, and you really miss that edge rusher
Speaker 1: that offenses have to account for. At this point, the
Speaker 1: only real player of the Eagles have is who kind
Speaker 1: of says, hey, let's worry about this guy is probably
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, and he's not necessarily a pass rusher in
Speaker 1: a three four defense. So the Eagles, if you don't
Speaker 1: win an upfront, you're gonna pay for it in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And that's what's happening to this football team. When we
Speaker 1: return to Eagles three sixty, the Hall of Famer Brian
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Speaker 1: got some opinions on the Eagles. At four and seven,
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Speaker 1: team very carefully here every Monday on Eagles three sixty. Brian,
Speaker 1: you saw Thanksgiving, You've lived through games like that. What
Speaker 1: are you seeing from this football team. We're seeing a
Speaker 1: team that is not playing very well right now. And
Speaker 1: when you have a small margin of era like this
Speaker 1: football team has, you can't make any mistakes. You can't
Speaker 1: have the off side penalties, you can't have the holding,
Speaker 1: you can't have the drop balls, you can't have the
Speaker 1: missfield goals. And then you're gonna need some luck as well.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need to be able to make plays on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball and get some special
Speaker 1: teams plays and all of those things this football team
Speaker 1: is not getting at this point. And so you have
Speaker 1: to be able to play a complete football game, and
Speaker 1: right now they're not doing that. Probably gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of heat on the coach as a head coach
Speaker 1: in particular, But how much ownership do the players have
Speaker 1: to take in getting things turned around? You know, as
Speaker 1: a former player, my only concern when I was playing
Speaker 1: was making sure that I perfected my craft and the
Speaker 1: guys around me perfected their craft. The coaches have to
Speaker 1: do their job and the players have to do their job,
Speaker 1: and right now it seems like there's a failure on
Speaker 1: both sides, the coaches side as well as the players.
Speaker 1: But the players have to make sure that they hold up.
Speaker 1: They're part of the market. That means the penalties. That
Speaker 1: means knowing your formations and your person nails and knowing
Speaker 1: what you have to do as a football team. That's
Speaker 1: part of the player's job. And it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: they're doing their end of the job. And it all
Speaker 1: plays into a big part and all stirred into the
Speaker 1: big pot of not winning football games. And right now
Speaker 1: the players are not doing their job either. Sorry. With
Speaker 1: the offense here, if you are Chip Kelly and you
Speaker 1: see what's happening, the offensive production is dropping dropping dropping.
Speaker 1: What do you do? What's happening with the offense? How
Speaker 1: do you get things better? For the new Patriots game.
Speaker 1: I think the number one thing that you're probably going
Speaker 1: to see from the Patriots is trying to pressure the quarterback,
Speaker 1: whether that's Bradford or Sanchez. So the first thing that
Speaker 1: I'm going to do is find a way to protect
Speaker 1: my quarterback, and that means full protection, max protection, leaving
Speaker 1: my tight ends and making my running backs help out
Speaker 1: my quarterback. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to
Speaker 1: find a way to protect my quarterback. And then when
Speaker 1: they are blitzing, when they're trying to get out of
Speaker 1: our quarterback, we have to find a way to hit
Speaker 1: our home run. We have to find a way to
Speaker 1: make them play pay for making that decision of blitzing
Speaker 1: or trying to take advantage of our protection. If they're
Speaker 1: able to do that, then they have a chance here
Speaker 1: to move the ball offensively. You've had eleven games to
Speaker 1: watch the offense and the fit with the running backs,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Matthews has been out to Marco Murray's been
Speaker 1: fairly mediocre numbers wise. As we evaluate to Marco Murray
Speaker 1: good fit for this offense or do you need to
Speaker 1: tweak things? What is your opinion of number twenty nine?
Speaker 1: I still think de Marco Murray is a pretty good
Speaker 1: running back. I think that in some of the situations
Speaker 1: you may be using him in the wrong way. I
Speaker 1: think that some of the play calls are just not
Speaker 1: to his strength. And the most important thing for a
Speaker 1: coach is to play to the player's strength. You can't
Speaker 1: put a pocket passer in a situation where he's running
Speaker 1: an option. You can't put an option quarterback in a
Speaker 1: situation where he's solely a pocket passer. And so the
Speaker 1: coach's job is to make sure that he knows a
Speaker 1: strength and weaknesses of every player and make sure you
Speaker 1: play to those stremps. Right now, running the outside zone,
Speaker 1: Jamarco Murray kind of laboring to get to that outside
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best use of his skills.
Speaker 1: I think more of a downhill approach, more of approach
Speaker 1: where he has to showed the square to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage will go you know far in helping to
Speaker 1: Marco Murray be a more productive running back in this offense. Brian,
Speaker 1: you talk about weaknesses, does quarterback Tom Brady have any?
Speaker 1: And if he does, how can the defense exploit those?
Speaker 1: On Sundays when you're on Tom Brady's level, you just
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of weaknesses. But what you've seen,
Speaker 1: and I saw a little bit of it when they
Speaker 1: played the Broncos, was a quarterback that if you do
Speaker 1: get around him, you can frustrate him. And the only
Speaker 1: way to get around him is blitz and that's been
Speaker 1: one of the problems for the Eagles. And that means
Speaker 1: if you blitch, you're gonna have a weakness in some
Speaker 1: of your coverages and these outside guys and your secondary
Speaker 1: have to have a great game and covering. But the
Speaker 1: only way to get to Tom Brady, to rattle him
Speaker 1: is to get around his legs, make sure he has
Speaker 1: to move in the pocket, not allow him to set
Speaker 1: up in any chance at any time during the game.
Speaker 1: And if you do that, then you have a chance
Speaker 1: of kind of rattling the great Tom Brady. You know
Speaker 1: how this week's going to be for the players. They
Speaker 1: are going in as heavy underdogs. The media will come
Speaker 1: after them hard. They will be told that they have
Speaker 1: no chance to beat the ten and one New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Take us into the mind of what a player should
Speaker 1: feel and how a player should react after two lopsided
Speaker 1: losses and going into the den of the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots on Sunday Dave and Chris. As crazy as this
Speaker 1: may sound, I think this may be the best place
Speaker 1: for the Eagles players. If they're in the place now
Speaker 1: where they're not expected to win. No one you know,
Speaker 1: they've been put up forty five points against them the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. No one said thinks that they can
Speaker 1: beat these guys. Everybody knows how good Tom Brady is.
Speaker 1: Everyone understands how many how much trouble has been going
Speaker 1: on in the locker room of the Philadelphia Eagles. Now
Speaker 1: they can if as long as they're focused, they can
Speaker 1: focus on football. All you have to do is focus
Speaker 1: on winning a football game. You don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about and there's not a lot of pressure on you.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of pressure because no one believes
Speaker 1: that you can beat the Patriots anyway. But if you
Speaker 1: can still focus on football, find some way to rally
Speaker 1: around your team. This may be a week that you
Speaker 1: come into a game where you're an underdog and maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe things go your way. A couple of calls,
Speaker 1: a couple of great big players on special teams in defense,
Speaker 1: some consistent play on offense, maybe This is the week
Speaker 1: that you can turn things around. Hopefully they can at
Speaker 1: least take a step in the right direction. This is
Speaker 1: a kind of week where all or nothing, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Eagles rise up in this one or it's gonna
Speaker 1: be real tough to do. That's for the last month
Speaker 1: of the season. But I want to see a team
Speaker 1: that wants to go out there and play like their
Speaker 1: hair is on fire. I want to see that passion.
Speaker 1: I want to see that energy. If they show me that,
Speaker 1: even if they lose by five, ten points, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: then I'm okay with that. But if I go out
Speaker 1: there and see a team that lays down to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions and allows Tom Brady with the average
Speaker 1: group of characters around him offensive line receivers to just
Speaker 1: look great, then I'm gonna have a little bit more
Speaker 1: problem with it. But um, I think they can go
Speaker 1: out and they can do certain things to this offense
Speaker 1: and defense, but it's gonna take a great game from
Speaker 1: this Eagle's football team and they cannot make any mistakes
Speaker 1: against this Bill Belichick coach team in Westbrook. The Hall
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Speaker 1: Com Monday through Friday, five pm. Gotta look at the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The invincible Patriots took it on the chin in overtime
Speaker 1: on Sunday in snowy Denver, Colorado. Great football game. Your
Speaker 1: thoughts on the Patriots and maybe how you beat them.
Speaker 1: You wonder if the injuries at some point and you
Speaker 1: know if it's now or down alone, will catch up
Speaker 1: to them. You look at the offensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: No Julian Edelman, no Danny A. Mendola. His stats will
Speaker 1: be in question for this week's game. We will Robert
Speaker 1: Frankowski his stats b for the upcoming week. Will he
Speaker 1: be able to play through the knee injury. And that's
Speaker 1: not just the offensive side of football, it's defense as well.
Speaker 1: Dante High Tower, Jamie Collins. Those players may not be
Speaker 1: able to sup against the Eagles. So a love question
Speaker 1: marks involving some key players. But from a game playing standpoint,
Speaker 1: I know the Eagles had had some extra time to
Speaker 1: look at the tape and prepare for this game because
Speaker 1: they played last Thursday. But the Patriots are so good
Speaker 1: at throwing new wrinkles, you know, showing you one thing
Speaker 1: the entire season and then kind of zig zagging the
Speaker 1: other way, so to speak. So the coaches will need
Speaker 1: to be on their heels to make sure that they're
Speaker 1: ready for everything that New England could throw. I just
Speaker 1: go back to the end of regulation on Sunday night
Speaker 1: and watching Tom Brady take the Patriots down the field
Speaker 1: with one time out with Gronk on the sidelines, lined
Speaker 1: it up, and Stephen Gostkowski booms the field goal to
Speaker 1: tie the game. As long as you've got Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: you've got a chance. And I remember when the Eagles
Speaker 1: did well against Brady, they blitzed him. They effectively got
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, they took him off of his spot.
Speaker 1: I would expect an extremely aggressive game plan from Bill Davis.
Speaker 1: That means the Eagles on the back end better be
Speaker 1: prepared for some tight coverage and the Eagles blitz needs
Speaker 1: to get home because while they've called a lot of blitzers.
Speaker 1: They certainly did. Detroit just did not get to Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford enough and Stafford had one of the best games
Speaker 1: of his NFL career. So what's ahead for you on
Speaker 1: Eagles sixty this week? It's our Amrosso's on the Menu segment. Well,
Speaker 1: Glenn mcdown joins me in studio on Tuesday, and we're
Speaker 1: talking upsets, the Eagles and the Patriots. We know who
Speaker 1: the favorite is. Buy a big long shot. New England
Speaker 1: is expected to win this game. Huge, But we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a look back at some of the Eagles upset
Speaker 1: wins in the not so distant past of this football team.
Speaker 1: We'll also take a look at fantasy football and our
Speaker 1: Joe Dolan inspired fantasy football segments. As the playoffs near
Speaker 1: and Chris, I'm going to write about the locker because
Speaker 1: the players are back in Novicaire tomorrow. You wonder how
Speaker 1: quickly they can shake it off. They said they would
Speaker 1: shake off the Tampa Bay loss. Didn't happen to the charge. No,
Speaker 1: you definitely have to take accountability for what's happened in
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, and you know, maybe the
Speaker 1: week and offered a chance to reflect on what's happened.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, the coaches, they can't go out
Speaker 1: there and play. They obviously have to put the players
Speaker 1: in the best situations possible, but it's up to the
Speaker 1: players to be able to execute what's being asked upon.
Speaker 1: And Eagles still with an opportunity there. The NFC East
Speaker 1: is just a big heaping mess and the Eagles are
Speaker 1: radio so for Chris mc pherson, Dave Spidero, we thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us on Eagles three sixty on this Monday,
Speaker 1: have yourselves, Eagles fans, a great Eagles Day.