Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to the postgame show presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: I'm Cryptic pier To alongside Fool. The Egal linebacker Ike
Speaker 1: briefed the Eagles on the losing side of a twenty
Speaker 1: six to twenty four decision at the hands of the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football to open the twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen season. Ike a valiant effort by the Eagles. They
Speaker 1: were down twenty to three at a half time, all
Speaker 1: looked lost. They rallied to even take the lead, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately Atlanta campback got a field goal to take the
Speaker 1: lead back. The Eagles got themselves in position for Cody
Speaker 1: Parky attempt he was automatic virtually last season, missed the
Speaker 1: field goal. They got the ball one last time and
Speaker 1: then Sam Bradford's pass should have been caught by Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews over the middle of the field. It was intercepted,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles coming up just oh so short after
Speaker 1: trailing so early in the contest. Yeah, just a disappointing
Speaker 1: loss for the Eagle Like, obviously we didn't see this
Speaker 1: happening down in the atl But that's why they played
Speaker 1: the games. That's why they played the games. And here's
Speaker 1: what I'll tell you to me, this game was more
Speaker 1: about the slow start the Eagles got off too, and
Speaker 1: the fast start the Falcons were able to get off too.
Speaker 1: They were able to build momentum early in the game.
Speaker 1: The Eagles sort of seemed to be trying to field
Speaker 1: themselves through the first half of the game. Great effort
Speaker 1: in the second half, but when you're on the road
Speaker 1: in the tough environment and the opening game of the season,
Speaker 1: when everyone believes they have a shot and being successful
Speaker 1: this season, you know, this is what happens. When you're
Speaker 1: lett an inferior opponent, get confidence and gain a little momentum,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a deep hold of dig yourselves
Speaker 1: out of The Eagles were able to do that with
Speaker 1: their playing the third quarter. Love the way they came
Speaker 1: out of the locker room, made adjustments look like a
Speaker 1: much better team. Really had an opportunity to take the
Speaker 1: league with the Parking field goal. But again I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure with the way they played in the first half,
Speaker 1: should they have been in the game at the end anyway.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were fortunate to be in this game
Speaker 1: at the end just due to their person parents and
Speaker 1: the fact that they work. They never give up sort
Speaker 1: of attitude. But you can't go on the road and
Speaker 1: go down twenty to three at the half, dot matter
Speaker 1: what they expected. When they don't care who you're playing
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, that's going to be difficult
Speaker 1: to overcome. But give them credit, they overcame it, and
Speaker 1: then the Falcons found a way to regroup and and
Speaker 1: sealed it in the end. The thing for me is
Speaker 1: watching this game, it was very eerily similar to last season.
Speaker 1: They opened against Jacksonville Jaguars. You know, Gus Bradley's a
Speaker 1: disciple of Pete Carroll ran the defense there. But I
Speaker 1: think the one difference here when the Eagles were able
Speaker 1: to come back last year is the Falcons with Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn making his debut and as an NFL head coach,
Speaker 1: is that they have Matt Ryan, they have Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: they have all those weapons, the veteran presence on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: The defense was able to hold up to at the
Speaker 1: end of the bargain at the end, but Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones just a one two comba way too tough
Speaker 1: for the Eagles to slow down this night. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a teal of two halves we know Ryan's
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is one of the best duos and all
Speaker 1: the football is. Julio Jones is really putting his stamp
Speaker 1: on this league as the best wilde receiver in all
Speaker 1: of football. So you weren't going to shut him out tonight,
Speaker 1: regardless of who was covering, where you would double coverage
Speaker 1: him or not, he was going to get his because
Speaker 1: the targets would be there. So but what the Eagles,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, needed to do was trying to find
Speaker 1: a way to sustain drives in the first half. I
Speaker 1: thought their defense was on the field far too long
Speaker 1: in that first half, allowing Matt Ryan and Julio to
Speaker 1: sort of get in the rhythm. You could tell that
Speaker 1: the Falcons didn't really trust their offensive line to protect
Speaker 1: Ryan on deep routes, so everything was quick hitting routes
Speaker 1: or play action passed. I was really surprised at the
Speaker 1: way the Falcons were able to ignite a little bit
Speaker 1: of a running game so that play action would work
Speaker 1: for him. But again, the first game of the season,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 1: totally upset tonight and then to the mall, it's one
Speaker 1: of sixteen. They were not eliminated from the playoffs nights,
Speaker 1: A lot of football left to go in the seat.
Speaker 1: If you want to feel optimistic as an Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: you look at how they play in that second half.
Speaker 1: You saw the defense play with his hair on fire,
Speaker 1: able to get to the quarterback. Forced that Walter turn
Speaker 1: over there to start the second half. That's the same
Speaker 1: of plays you can expect from this Eagles defense about
Speaker 1: the course of the season if they can get after
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Fletcher Cox, I thought was phenomenal All Pro
Speaker 1: second team last season, certainly building the case to be
Speaker 1: in that category again once again this season. Right off
Speaker 1: the jump the offense, Sam Bradford looked like he couldn't
Speaker 1: miss in the second half at times, just pinpointing receivers
Speaker 1: left and right all over the field. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: one guy's target. It's not like you have a Julio
Speaker 1: Jones or a Rodyway per se. But he's dumping it
Speaker 1: down to Darren Sproles, He's hitting Sprowls on the wheel,
Speaker 1: hitting Jordan Matthews here and there, Miles Austin zach ertzt
Speaker 1: with a nice grab down the seam. So many different
Speaker 1: weapons of Vaud and that's what's gonna make this offense
Speaker 1: so difficult to defend. As they get the timing down
Speaker 1: and get the rhythm down more and more. Is effect
Speaker 1: that who do you key on? Yeah, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a great thing about this offense. They don't mind spreading
Speaker 1: the football around. It's about finding a mismatch. And in
Speaker 1: the second half, that's what you were able to see.
Speaker 1: You're able to see Darren Sprowles being matched up on
Speaker 1: Corey Breman outside line back. If the running backs were
Speaker 1: put to good use in the second half. One thing
Speaker 1: about Sam Bradford, he's not gonna force throws. He's gonna
Speaker 1: take what you're giving. And if the running backs, we
Speaker 1: had three very good running backs in Matthews, Scrolls and
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray catching the ball out of the backfield, making
Speaker 1: guys missing open space, and that's what Sam Bradford is
Speaker 1: gonna take. And the Eagles were able to move the
Speaker 1: ball up and down the field. The receivers have to
Speaker 1: become a little bit more involved in the offensive our
Speaker 1: passing game. But the one thing about this offense is
Speaker 1: that they'll take the open man and let him move
Speaker 1: the chains, pick up yards and then capitalize on that.
Speaker 1: I just thought the first half defensively, we didn't really
Speaker 1: seem like we knew where we wanted to be coverage wise,
Speaker 1: too many guys running wide open and allowing plays to
Speaker 1: be extended. Took a little bit where the offense is
Speaker 1: getting the rhythm because the Falcon's defense came out and
Speaker 1: got some good stops on third down, but our defense
Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field on third time third down
Speaker 1: in the first half, which didn't allow the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: to find it rhythm. Second half, you saw sustained drives,
Speaker 1: you saw big plays, you saw multiple weapons being used,
Speaker 1: and I think moving forward, they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: build off this. The difference from this year's game to
Speaker 1: last year's game where they fell down seventeen points as
Speaker 1: you were on the road. This time you had a
Speaker 1: frenzy crowd who probably showed up late that we're excited.
Speaker 1: They got to the game and realized their home team
Speaker 1: was winning. They started to get a little loud. That's
Speaker 1: a little different than what the Eagles faced last year
Speaker 1: playing in Lincoln Lincoln Financial Field against the Jags. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from head coach Chip Kelly, and I
Speaker 1: would expect to hear from quarterback Sam Bradford in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. What did you think overall of Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford's debut When he was dealing the rock there in
Speaker 1: the second half. I thought it was a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: to watch, the way he's like a point guard just
Speaker 1: distributing the ball all to his different playmakers there in
Speaker 1: the field. But you saw when you don't have the
Speaker 1: offensive line, you don't have the protection, you don't have
Speaker 1: to threat the run game, and a defense is willing
Speaker 1: to just go full board at you that Even the
Speaker 1: quarterback like Sam Bradford, who's who got rid of the
Speaker 1: ball as quickly as anyone who I've ever seen, you
Speaker 1: can have problems and issues. Yeah, but the play, the
Speaker 1: design of the offense is if you're gonna take away
Speaker 1: our running game, we're gonna dump the ball off to
Speaker 1: our running backs coming out of the back build and listen,
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't, you can't. You can't take that
Speaker 1: away from the Eagles. They have multiple weapons to get
Speaker 1: the ball too. They're gonna then, I gonna allow you
Speaker 1: to take away all phases of their game. Our running
Speaker 1: backs were a big part of the passing game. Sam Bradford,
Speaker 1: I thought in the second half looked more calm, more relaxed,
Speaker 1: more poise. You saw in the first half. He's trying
Speaker 1: to hook up with Zach Ertz, who hasn't played all preseason.
Speaker 1: Josh Huffey missed on a connection with him. Where Josh
Speaker 1: thought it was a running play, was a passing play.
Speaker 1: This is where the lack of playing time in the
Speaker 1: preseason also comes into effect. If you just look around
Speaker 1: the National Football League at the Week one, there were
Speaker 1: teams that you expected to win games did not look
Speaker 1: the way you expecting the play and that was primarily
Speaker 1: because there's not extended playing time in the preseason. This
Speaker 1: is the first extended action for most of these guys
Speaker 1: playing this week, and I saw rust in the first
Speaker 1: half from the Eagles. They looked a lot better than
Speaker 1: the second half. Once they went in, made adjustments, figured
Speaker 1: out what dan Quinn was trying to do to them defensively,
Speaker 1: and they said, Okay, this is where we're going to
Speaker 1: take advantage of what the Falcons are trying to do.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let us get the ball behind them.
Speaker 1: They want us to dump it off. Great, we'll dump
Speaker 1: it off to our running backs, let them, let them
Speaker 1: make guys miss on defense, and the Eagles were able
Speaker 1: to sustain drives. I thought their most impressive drive was
Speaker 1: the I think it was a thirteen play ninety something
Speaker 1: yard drive. Four penalties on their drive, so the total
Speaker 1: yards amounted to like one hundred and thirty yards, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles were able to go down to score. The
Speaker 1: bottom line is it was just too big of a
Speaker 1: hole to dig themselves out of. It really was. I mean,
Speaker 1: they played as best they could in the second half,
Speaker 1: but Atlanta had a seventeen point cushion to play with. Really,
Speaker 1: all they needed to do was kick a couple of
Speaker 1: field goals in the second half. That's all they did
Speaker 1: was kick field goals in the second half to win.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the Eagles, they rallied, they
Speaker 1: took the lead, they gave the lead back up, all right,
Speaker 1: They went right back down the field again and got
Speaker 1: in position for Cody Parkey to kick the field goal.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because from the TV broadcast perspective, it
Speaker 1: looked like Chip and Dave Fifth, the special teams coordinator,
Speaker 1: they're kind of beating back forth whether they go for it.
Speaker 1: Chip looked like he might have wanted to go for it.
Speaker 1: They're a fourth down, but I think obviously you're on
Speaker 1: the road. You've rallied from behind to this point. You
Speaker 1: want to take the points and give yourself the edge
Speaker 1: and leave it to your defense. And you got a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl kicker. I mean, let's face it, I mean,
Speaker 1: hansign is twenty twenty. They go for that there, they
Speaker 1: get stopped, They get stopped on fourth down, and then
Speaker 1: the next thing you know is everybody's complaining, well, you
Speaker 1: got you got a Pro Bowl kicker? Why why didn't
Speaker 1: you let him kick? So I understand Chip felt his
Speaker 1: offense was in a rhythm. They were moving to football,
Speaker 1: and he's no different than any other coach. When the
Speaker 1: ball is in your hands and you're doing well with it,
Speaker 1: you want to keep the ball. And fourth and one
Speaker 1: is not a big deal to this offense, especially when
Speaker 1: Chips it has the offense rolling. But I think it
Speaker 1: was the right call because at that point, you're late
Speaker 1: in the game and you have a Pro Bowl kicker
Speaker 1: on your team. Everybody has a job to do, and Cody,
Speaker 1: he was automatic last year in a lot of those situations.
Speaker 1: Let's just hope this is just a hiccup this first game,
Speaker 1: and he's able to bounce back from it. But it's
Speaker 1: easy to second guest the coach when he makes the
Speaker 1: play call and it does not work out. Should we
Speaker 1: know it? With Bradford that you mentioned the rust that
Speaker 1: some of the players were shaken off because of the
Speaker 1: preseason and they haven't played since last year. For Bradford,
Speaker 1: it's been since October of twenty thirteen since he last
Speaker 1: played in a regular season game. So I was very
Speaker 1: interested to see how he would maintain his composure, his
Speaker 1: poise down the stretch because he hasn't really been in
Speaker 1: a big time game situation like that. You know, you
Speaker 1: look at you know quarterbacks and they go through the
Speaker 1: clutch situations Matt Ryan, you know, one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league and fourth quarter comebacks in recent years.
Speaker 1: Bradford just has not been in that position. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the things that you want to see and
Speaker 1: learn and hope that he'll develop and gain an appreciation for.
Speaker 1: Is the season wears on, is the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna get this team into the postseason, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to win some of these close games in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. It was good to see him rally
Speaker 1: the team in the second half and get them in
Speaker 1: position to win like he did, and that was huge.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been nothing but encouraged by what I've
Speaker 1: seen from Sam Bradford through preseason and even in this
Speaker 1: first game. Sure he got off to a little bit
Speaker 1: of a slow start, little communication issues here and there
Speaker 1: in the first half, or what I liked about Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford is that he didn't get rattled, he didn't seem
Speaker 1: to force the ball in areas that he didn't that
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have, and he took what the defense was
Speaker 1: given him. And that's what this design of the offense is.
Speaker 1: It's not about trying to prove how good of a
Speaker 1: quarterback you are by making risky throws and putting your
Speaker 1: team in a difficult situation. It's about taking what the
Speaker 1: defense is giving you and keeping the ball moving and
Speaker 1: keeping the chains moving. And that's what Sam was able
Speaker 1: to do in the second half. You watch him in
Speaker 1: the pocket. He looked poised, he looked calm, and you're right,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played in a lot of big games, you know,
Speaker 1: out there in Saint Louis, and I don't be at
Speaker 1: this being the first game, there's a lot of eyes
Speaker 1: on Sam Bradford on Monday Night football coming into this game,
Speaker 1: and I thought he acquitted himself very well. I really
Speaker 1: did forget about what you saw in the first add
Speaker 1: even that wasn't as bad as it may appeared. I
Speaker 1: love what he was able to do going into the
Speaker 1: locker room, making the adjustments coming out in the second
Speaker 1: and a half and really making some key throws in
Speaker 1: that second Yes, and despite the struggles in the first half. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna set it Now to Georgia Dome head coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly about to address the media, Let's hear what
Speaker 1: he had to say following the game. Good question, she's
Speaker 1: forty four yarder. You know you're down too. Thought, you know,
Speaker 1: got great confidence in Cody that we're gonna put it
Speaker 1: through my year. We weren't. We didn't get it, you know,
Speaker 1: a third and one, we didn't get a lot of
Speaker 1: movement upfront. Hone. You and I kind of thought that again,
Speaker 1: it was a forty four yarder. Paul was in the
Speaker 1: you know, great kind of in the middle field, so
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a tough one. You know,
Speaker 1: he's hit those performance art Is Matthews and not murried
Speaker 1: about that. That back was just it was ever in
Speaker 1: the game at that point in time. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't have a specific back. Everyone's specific place. We didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't play very well at all in the first half,
Speaker 1: you know, and it give up ten points right there
Speaker 1: and the inside of the last two minutes, um, you know.
Speaker 1: And I told those guys at half time it was
Speaker 1: a tale of two halfs. We played a lot better
Speaker 1: in the second half, um, but we did not come
Speaker 1: to play in the first half. We did. I couldn't
Speaker 1: really get much moving on their d line. You know.
Speaker 1: We were concerned with their defensive line. They hadn't do
Speaker 1: a lot of new guys, um Basilely and uh uh Clayborne.
Speaker 1: You know, some guys that we saw in preseason that
Speaker 1: we had a lot of respect for them. We knew
Speaker 1: we're gonna be uh, you know, some difficult matchups in there.
Speaker 1: But we we uh you know, played well enough in
Speaker 1: the second half, but it was too late, put ourselves
Speaker 1: in too big a hole. In the last two season
Speaker 1: games practice, he was fine, you know, and he was
Speaker 1: fine on every other kick today. It just I don't
Speaker 1: know if the timing was off on that. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the film in terms of um
Speaker 1: where he was. But you know, we kicked it was
Speaker 1: seven seconds ago on the play clock, so it wasn't
Speaker 1: like we were rushed and trying to you know, uh,
Speaker 1: he didn't have a chance to get it set. So
Speaker 1: I don't love to look at that, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought again, and I talked about them earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: I thought their D line, you know, did a nice job.
Speaker 1: They're one gap penetrating, get up the field, um and
Speaker 1: and they did a good job. You know. I think
Speaker 1: we settled down a little bit in the second half
Speaker 1: and kind of got it going. Um. You know, in
Speaker 1: terms of some of the matchups, we felt that, you know,
Speaker 1: we felt it outside guys were really good in coverage,
Speaker 1: but I thought we could exploit some things inside. That's
Speaker 1: where the running backs really showed up in the uh,
Speaker 1: in the passing game for us in the second half,
Speaker 1: and obviously Jordan, you know, being an inside receiver force
Speaker 1: and or TV and inside receiver force, some of those
Speaker 1: matchups we thought, well, we're beneficial force. But in the
Speaker 1: first half, we we can't get a lot of traction
Speaker 1: on those first five drives. Um, I think it's a
Speaker 1: combination of both. I think Matt had a lot of time.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think the pass rush was what
Speaker 1: it needed to be. You know, we had some of
Speaker 1: those routes were deep down the field that you got
Speaker 1: a cover for a long time. But you know, we didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't get we didn't generate a good enough pass
Speaker 1: rush on some of those. And then and then um,
Speaker 1: you know we weren't close enough and coverage and some
Speaker 1: of those other ones. Expectations obviously this team, see you guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're gonna learn. We I thought our approaching
Speaker 1: out what we did in the second half, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we can build upon that, and then we have to
Speaker 1: look at what went wrong in the first half correct that.
Speaker 1: You're right. We do have a short week. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll just have meetings tomorrow and we're gonna be back
Speaker 1: out the field on Wednesday. We gonna get Dallas coming
Speaker 1: in here, so that's got our attention as we move forward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did you know on that screen, you know, we
Speaker 1: had the ball deep down inside and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we we brought up, um, you know, brought up brought
Speaker 1: us back too far, and Um, in some of those drives,
Speaker 1: we overcame that one seventeen played drive, you know, with
Speaker 1: penalties in there. We overcame a lot of penalties in
Speaker 1: those situations. But UM, you can't do that against a
Speaker 1: good football team and continue to think you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to build yourself out of those holes. Obviously, Uh,
Speaker 1: some critical penalties there, solowd us down. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to anybody, but he looked fine to
Speaker 1: me walk off the field. US. It seems like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think our line settled down a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: Um did a better job in protection. He gave him
Speaker 1: some time to get the ball off, and then it
Speaker 1: was just a combination of understanding zone and man and
Speaker 1: we had some answers for both. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think um, obviously, well we liked what happened in the
Speaker 1: second half, but I think he had some time to
Speaker 1: settle and throw the ball in the second half. So
Speaker 1: now they're playing the same defense that they normally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of those times there was there was they
Speaker 1: were in max protection, you know, so it was deeper
Speaker 1: down the route to scrows, but they had a lot
Speaker 1: of guys into protection, so Obviously it's a little bit
Speaker 1: more difficult to get to him, but you know, we
Speaker 1: we we got to kind of overcome that. You can't
Speaker 1: just have him sit backtives. I think it's a you know,
Speaker 1: a real combination to him and the one thing they
Speaker 1: do a real good job. Kyle's always in a good job.
Speaker 1: He's not in the same spot all the time. So
Speaker 1: it's it's not like you could say, hey, one guy
Speaker 1: could cover him. He's inside, he's outside emotions. He lends
Speaker 1: up at the third receiver, he's the second receiver, he's
Speaker 1: the first receiver. You know, he Matt hit him twice
Speaker 1: on those quick slants on run players right off the backside. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of credit goes to him.
Speaker 1: I'm not send did decent job, you know. I think
Speaker 1: some of the protection issues. I think that we cleaned
Speaker 1: up when we gave him time to throw and set
Speaker 1: his feet. I thought he did a really good job.
Speaker 1: But there's a couple of times where you know, he
Speaker 1: got hit pretty good. So I think the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: as I come out of it before we look at
Speaker 1: the tape, is is we got to show up our
Speaker 1: protection in certain situations. We had more success running outside
Speaker 1: in the second half. Yeah, you know, now we just
Speaker 1: kind of again we talked about it. They did a
Speaker 1: nice job inside, you know, and kind of shut some
Speaker 1: things down there. So then obviously, you know, we've got
Speaker 1: to make we counter their counter. So you know, they
Speaker 1: do a good job inside, so we got to get
Speaker 1: the ball to the perimeter. Felt like we got the
Speaker 1: ball to the perimeter a little bit in the second
Speaker 1: half in the run game, and then obviously you can
Speaker 1: throw it on just because we didn't know Whereroley was,
Speaker 1: I mean, where Julio was gonna line up, so there
Speaker 1: was gonna be some matchups where you know, their best
Speaker 1: receiver was going to be in the slot, and we
Speaker 1: felt most comfortable with malcolming that situation. Chris point in
Speaker 1: complete safety there. Yeah, because we dropped this, we dropped
Speaker 1: the safety down to our next safety minute the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's our third safety. Ko playing Nickel, That's how we
Speaker 1: kind of alternated with him. Obviously hasn't had a ton
Speaker 1: of snaps, so we felt like with Michael stayed most
Speaker 1: of the time when we were all tonating Kiko and
Speaker 1: uh In, Demiko and Bason and Nickel. Ence, my confidence
Speaker 1: in I had a lot of conference in Coney Park
Speaker 1: Kings and Paul Bowl kicker and I've seen him make
Speaker 1: a lot of big kicktrels. Correct. Then okay, all right,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the post game show presented by Rico
Speaker 1: Chris McPherson, along as Ike Arsis heard from head coach
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly. We're gonna possibly hear from quarterback Stan Bradford
Speaker 1: in just a little bit. But first going off what
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly said there. You know, what do you think
Speaker 1: was the biggest turn of events to change things up
Speaker 1: there in the second half. Whether you want to the
Speaker 1: offense go to defense. Honestly, I thought the defense came
Speaker 1: about him playing much better and in the second half. Chris, listen,
Speaker 1: when you come out you get a turnover on that
Speaker 1: first series from the Atlanta Falcons from Walter Thurman. That
Speaker 1: was a huge momentum builder for the Eagles. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're in the locker room, they're pumped up. You know,
Speaker 1: they're yelling at each other. You know, this is not us.
Speaker 1: We need to come out there and play better defense.
Speaker 1: You up, first, Let's go out here and get a
Speaker 1: three and out or get a turnover. That's what you're
Speaker 1: saying to yourself when you're down like the Eagles were
Speaker 1: in that first half, and they come out put pressure
Speaker 1: on on Matt Ryan, forced that turn over there, taking
Speaker 1: it in score with DeMarco Demo Demo, DeMarco Murray, Demico DeMarco,
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray. And I think the momentum completely switched to
Speaker 1: the Eagles side. They had the Falcons or in their hills,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles could be aggressive after that, but the
Speaker 1: Falcons settled down once you got to the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they settled down and started to make plays. But I
Speaker 1: thought the Eagles coming out that first series, it's really
Speaker 1: what got the juice is going for the team, because
Speaker 1: it's one thing for the coach to go into the
Speaker 1: locker room, you know, and you give the pep talk.
Speaker 1: You know, Chip just spoke about how he informed the team, Hey,
Speaker 1: you guys aren't playing well. You know, you can't come
Speaker 1: out here and just give up ten points in the
Speaker 1: first couple series of the game. And it starts with
Speaker 1: the defense. You gotta get off the field. So I
Speaker 1: thought they took it upon themselves to come out and
Speaker 1: try to gain control of the momentum and they were
Speaker 1: able to do that, and that's why I really was
Speaker 1: a teller two halves. The Eagles clearly outplayed the Falcons
Speaker 1: in the second half, but they had too much of
Speaker 1: a hill to climb. Even though they eventually took the league,
Speaker 1: the Falcons still never felt as if they were out
Speaker 1: of the game. They knew the field goals where all
Speaker 1: they needed was to win, and you gotta give them credit.
Speaker 1: Man's it's a disappointing loss. It's difficult to squallow. But
Speaker 1: you know, now we can put away all the press clippers,
Speaker 1: not saying that the Eagles players were reading them, but
Speaker 1: outside of the novercare, we can stop making reservations in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, do all those things. You have to earn.
Speaker 1: Your w every time you step on the field is
Speaker 1: not going to be given to you whole mantra. Any
Speaker 1: given Sunday is not there for anohing. It's there for
Speaker 1: a reason. You better show up and even on Monday nights,
Speaker 1: you better show up to play or you'll be walking
Speaker 1: away with all like, let me ask you about what
Speaker 1: goes on a halftime, because certainly there was a change
Speaker 1: or was a spark something happened there? It was it
Speaker 1: simply coaching. Is there's something that sometimes happens with speeches
Speaker 1: and the players get on one another and say, look,
Speaker 1: you need to hold up. You're into the bargain here. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I there. I wasn't in the locker room. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: up here in Philadelphia. But the coaches, they only get
Speaker 1: a few minutes to draw up the schemes on the whiteboard,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen minute a halftime. It takes three four
Speaker 1: minutes to even get in the locker room. They get
Speaker 1: up there, they're gonna tell you about the adjustments, but
Speaker 1: they can't just whole throw out the game plan completely.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you the leaders in that locker room guys
Speaker 1: like a Malcolm Jenkins, guys like a Jason Peters. Those
Speaker 1: guys are in there, not necessarily yelling at each other,
Speaker 1: but making everyone a wearing there. We're not playing Eagles football,
Speaker 1: and we need to go out and pick up our play.
Speaker 1: We know we're better than what we showed in the
Speaker 1: first half. We're a better team than this team. We
Speaker 1: need to go out their first series on defense, first
Speaker 1: series on offense, re establish the pecking order here. We
Speaker 1: are the better team and that's why they went out
Speaker 1: there and did in that second half. It's just unfortunate.
Speaker 1: They had already given the Falcons a ton of confidence
Speaker 1: with the way the Eagles played in the first half.
Speaker 1: But the Falcons actually went in the locker rooms feeling
Speaker 1: as if they belonged in this game, that they deserved
Speaker 1: to win this game. And while the Eagles were able
Speaker 1: to snatch the momentum away from him in that early
Speaker 1: part of the third quarter, it had already been established
Speaker 1: that we deserve to be on this field with you guys.
Speaker 1: We just need to make a couple of plays, because,
Speaker 1: let's face it, they got two Pro Bowl with three
Speaker 1: when you want to include Roddy White, He's not at
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl level right now, but he made big
Speaker 1: play tonight as well. The two receivers in the quarterback
Speaker 1: are just as good as anybody in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Roddy Well, it was a forgotten man. Yeah, go into
Speaker 1: this game and he had almost one hundred yards receiving
Speaker 1: in that almost yah, you know, because you have Julio
Speaker 1: Jones who was getting obviously all the hype and deservely
Speaker 1: so after the phenomenal year he's had. But Roddy White
Speaker 1: had elbow procedure done in preseason miss some time there.
Speaker 1: There's some question about whether he was gonna be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent ready to come out there on Monday night,
Speaker 1: but he certainly showed that even though he might be
Speaker 1: a little bit older now that he's wise and can
Speaker 1: still get open and still make big players down the field.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what else called me by surprise, Chris.
Speaker 1: The Falcons being able to run the football tonight. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean as a team over one hundred yards, DeVante
Speaker 1: Freemen and Kevin Coleman, the rookie out of Indiana. They
Speaker 1: didn't run rupshaw over the Eagles, but they ran much
Speaker 1: better than I thought they would be able to run
Speaker 1: the night. I mean with that offensive line with three
Speaker 1: new players basically brought in off the streets. Uh, that
Speaker 1: weren't even with the Falcons in training camp. I was
Speaker 1: surprised at this success, albeit moderate, that the Falcons run
Speaker 1: game we're able to have against which I believe is
Speaker 1: easily one of the top five run defenses in the league.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not really surprised. I was shocked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was quite honest. That's the one thing you figure
Speaker 1: the EAGs were gonna take away. They were gonna take
Speaker 1: away the run game and leave it to Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and force Matt Ryan to be you know, and then
Speaker 1: at that point, you know what they're going to their
Speaker 1: Brent Butter Julio Jones a rodayway, and if the Eagles
Speaker 1: are give up too many explosive plays who made big
Speaker 1: plays in the past game, so be it. But there
Speaker 1: were times there in the second half where the Eagles
Speaker 1: could have gotten off the field on third down, but
Speaker 1: the run game, of all things, was able to sustain
Speaker 1: the drives. And Kevin Coleman give him pray. The third
Speaker 1: round pickout Indiana, big fast. He was known for making
Speaker 1: the biggest supposed to plays at Indiana. You know, he
Speaker 1: proved up to that tonight. I don't quite know exactly
Speaker 1: what he finished with, but a very nice rookie debut
Speaker 1: for him and DeVante Freeman, who was supposed to be
Speaker 1: the starter going into the season but mistime due to
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. Hey, you know, he was able to
Speaker 1: be a nice complimentary piece, not just in the run game,
Speaker 1: but the past game as well. But again, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's that man number eleven. Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one receiving yard and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And this is why he was as effective as he was.
Speaker 1: I mean, part of the run game played off of
Speaker 1: what Julio was able to do. And I noticed early
Speaker 1: in the game where the Falcons weren't having as much success.
Speaker 1: This play right here is what the Falcons decided. This
Speaker 1: is how we're gonna try to run the ball. Just
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan pop up, dumped the ball quick to Julio
Speaker 1: Jones on the perimeter. He's big enough to make a
Speaker 1: defensive back miss him in the open field. And that
Speaker 1: was sort of their complimentary run to what they were doing.
Speaker 1: And they standard size a man of standard running formation.
Speaker 1: The Falcons knew that they couldn't protect Matt Ryan very long.
Speaker 1: They had to get the ball out of his hands quick,
Speaker 1: and if they were going to be able to have
Speaker 1: any success running the football, they were going to set
Speaker 1: the run up from the running backs off of the
Speaker 1: passing game to Julio Jones. Once you get the Eagles
Speaker 1: defenders to back out of that box, now there's a
Speaker 1: little bit more running room for those running backs. And
Speaker 1: that's what you were able to see tonight. We didn't
Speaker 1: get to see the flip side of that where the
Speaker 1: Eagles passing game should have been able to open up
Speaker 1: running lanes for the Eagles running backs. Instead, we basically
Speaker 1: had to supplement our running basically handing the ball off
Speaker 1: to dump offs to our running backs to compliment our passage.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing you saw early on where the
Speaker 1: Eagles linebackers having to come in knowing that look, they
Speaker 1: had to respect the run game just enough and then
Speaker 1: just left that little bit padding in between the secondary
Speaker 1: and the backs of the linebackers to be able to
Speaker 1: fit the ball in for a couple of dethrows there.
Speaker 1: To White and Jones, what did you think of the
Speaker 1: strategy of utilizing Malcolm Jenkins as the slot the nickel
Speaker 1: corner so to speak here and Chris Marrigo's coming in
Speaker 1: and basically bringing a third safety on the field for
Speaker 1: those nickel packages. Well, you know, this is what the
Speaker 1: Eagles have been cooking up the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Say that they didn't want to allow us to know
Speaker 1: what they were doing defensively, and so I was a
Speaker 1: little surprised to see Chris maragoes out there, but Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins planning in the slot. This is a former first
Speaker 1: round draft pick at the cornerback position. Acker so certainly
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised to see him playing in the slot because
Speaker 1: he's certainly got to fit into that moat. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna head back to the Georgia Donna. Here from
Speaker 1: the quarterback San Bradford following his Eagles debut. Um, just
Speaker 1: for caution, you know, I took a few hits. They
Speaker 1: just want to get something checked out. Uh, don't work
Speaker 1: about I'm all good. They said everything was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel good. Um, you know, I just felt like
Speaker 1: we were playing behind the sticks all day. You know.
Speaker 1: It seems like, uh, you know, we couldn't really anything
Speaker 1: going on first down. It was a second long. You know,
Speaker 1: I think some penalties to put us in a second,
Speaker 1: really long third and really long. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think the difference between the first half and the second
Speaker 1: half is we were much more efficient on first down
Speaker 1: in the second half. Um, you know, we played from
Speaker 1: ahead of the sticks. We got things going, you know,
Speaker 1: and then once we got a rolling, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we can't keep it that way. You guys are operating
Speaker 1: a pretty high level step Yeah. Um, you know that's
Speaker 1: still coaches call you obviously, He felt good about the
Speaker 1: kick right there. Um, you know they had just stuffed
Speaker 1: us on third and one. I think, you know that's
Speaker 1: the bigger issue if we can get it on third
Speaker 1: and one, that we're not in fourth and one. Yeah. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we felt like with the way they were
Speaker 1: playing some of their coverages, you know, after we got
Speaker 1: into the game tonight, made some adjustments. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: we had linebackers and safeties you know on sprawls almost
Speaker 1: all nine we have that. We kind of like that matchup. Uh, bad,
Speaker 1: very bad throw. I mean it's just one of those
Speaker 1: things that can't happen. Um, you know, with that little
Speaker 1: time left and a half. Um, you know, I've got
Speaker 1: to be careful with the ball when we're back though,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't give them the ball with a
Speaker 1: short feel. I know you're playing a couple of preseason
Speaker 1: games obviously. You know, what was it like for you
Speaker 1: to be back out the first years two years ago?
Speaker 1: Okay do you do? Um no, I mean it was fun,
Speaker 1: you know, even though we lost. You know, I think
Speaker 1: just getting back out there and playing forward then, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: especially the second half was a blast. You know, once
Speaker 1: we got things rolling, when we took the lead. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've been that excited in a long time. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and so it was good to get that feeling.
Speaker 1: And you know, hopefully, you know, next week we can
Speaker 1: start a little bit faster. And I think ourselves such
Speaker 1: a big hole draining. I mean, you still had a
Speaker 1: chase to hear to really like that and did not win.
Speaker 1: Tough Um, yeah, stup, I think every loss is tough. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the good news is just you know, it's
Speaker 1: week one, it's one game. We still got three ahead
Speaker 1: of us. Um, you know, we got a short week,
Speaker 1: so we can get this one out of our minds. Quicker,
Speaker 1: proud of what's up? Drive? Yeah, what were you guys
Speaker 1: thinking going? Um, really the same thing we've been thinking
Speaker 1: the past three or four drives. Just get it going.
Speaker 1: You know, they had a hard time stopping us in
Speaker 1: the second half, and you felt really good about it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Unfortunately we just weren't able to get that
Speaker 1: first course down through the ball tonight. But was that
Speaker 1: the game play going? Um? Yeah, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I was a little bit surprised. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you dig yourself a hole and you go down, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty three at halftime. Then you gotta throw the ball
Speaker 1: in the second half. So you know, hopefully next week,
Speaker 1: you know, we can be a little bit more balanced.
Speaker 1: I think what we were doing here, I think we
Speaker 1: killed ourselves. Um, you know, too many negative players. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I wasn't good enough in the past game
Speaker 1: to get us going. Um, and then penalties. You know,
Speaker 1: it just seems like we kept putting ourselves you know,
Speaker 1: behind the sticks in the first half. You were able
Speaker 1: to come back in a little bit everyone yeah sometimes
Speaker 1: there yeah, um yeah. I think that just shows the
Speaker 1: fight that we have on offense. You know, the one drive,
Speaker 1: the seventeen play drive. I don't know how many penalties
Speaker 1: we overcame on that drive, but you know, we just
Speaker 1: kept going. And I think it's a credit to our guys.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes an offense, you get a penalty inner
Speaker 1: really put you down and you know you kind of
Speaker 1: stall out. But you know we kept fight and kept
Speaker 1: grinding through them. Was picking there. Um. You know, like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, I think we played ahead of the sticks.
Speaker 1: You know, when we use our tempo after we get
Speaker 1: that first first down and that defense gets tired, Um,
Speaker 1: we're really dictating everything out there. But in the first half,
Speaker 1: we just struggled, you know, to really get into our tempo.
Speaker 1: Scrolls a lot, Mom, what kind of weapons are you guys?
Speaker 1: Are each other? Um? You know, just I think they
Speaker 1: were scared as scrolls running, you know, buy them on
Speaker 1: the wheel route and so they were getting us a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff underneath. And then finally we got them
Speaker 1: on one of the wheel routes. But anytime we get
Speaker 1: Scrolls and matched up one on one, it's a match up.
Speaker 1: We like, Yeah, all right, Quarterbacks Sam Bradford following the
Speaker 1: Eagles twenty six to twenty four, a loss at the
Speaker 1: hands of the Atlanta Falcons that we want you to
Speaker 1: be part of the show. You can call it two
Speaker 1: on five three two zero, five, one seven zero. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to those calls in just a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we're also going to welcome in Great Cosell from
Speaker 1: NFL Films to break down some of the all twenty
Speaker 1: two of the highlights from this game. But before we
Speaker 1: get to our first break, like, what is gonna be
Speaker 1: the biggest overreaction that we're going to hear from Eagles
Speaker 1: fans tomorrow? There there's no doubt about it. The defense,
Speaker 1: it'll be the secondary and Byron Maxwell and whether or
Speaker 1: not he was worth the money that the Eagles paid
Speaker 1: him to come in here to be a quote unquote
Speaker 1: shut down corner. I think that was the most glaring
Speaker 1: thing in the beginning of the game. Anyways, how Atlanta
Speaker 1: sort of got his momentum going is that it seemed
Speaker 1: as if Matt Ryan was just picking the secondary apart.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, you know how this fan base
Speaker 1: is when when you pay pay a guy light that
Speaker 1: that much money, they won't results. So if you want
Speaker 1: to overreaction, that'll be where everybody focuses their attention at all. Right,
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Speaker 1: the Inside Linebacker Trio for the first time tonight. It
Speaker 1: was Demiko Ryans and Michael Kendricks who got to start,
Speaker 1: but we saw plenty of Kiko Orlando being mixed in
Speaker 1: there as well. Seemed like he was playing more as
Speaker 1: the game progress and then he did his best Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham impersonation in the red zone of all times, getting
Speaker 1: that one handed grab to help keep you know, additional
Speaker 1: points from getting on the board there early as the
Speaker 1: Falcons were piling up the league. Yeah, really excited to
Speaker 1: see Keiko get out there and play a full game.
Speaker 1: Didn't get to see much of him during the preseason.
Speaker 1: A couple of drives in that final preseason game against
Speaker 1: the Jets tonight. You saw while they brought him here.
Speaker 1: He's a playmakers. He's always around the football, it certainly
Speaker 1: appears to be. And Demiko looked a little rusty to me.
Speaker 1: But I thought the young guns, Keiko and Michael Kendricks,
Speaker 1: they were flying around all night making plays in the backfield,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what you're gonna do. You can
Speaker 1: expect all year long. I mean, those three guys will rotate.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Keiko and Michael will play on most
Speaker 1: of the passing situations. But you still need you still
Speaker 1: need MoU Foss's leadership out there on the field. So
Speaker 1: I like the linebacker situation, I really do. And it's
Speaker 1: just these guys didn't play much in the preseason, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, I thought they played okay tonight. Now,
Speaker 1: Keiko Alonso was not the only player to come up
Speaker 1: with an interception early in the third quarter. It was
Speaker 1: safety Walter Thurman, who was all around the foot ball
Speaker 1: in training camp in the preseason at a couple of picks. Well,
Speaker 1: he continued that trend into the start of the regular season.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in NFL films as Great Cosell to break
Speaker 1: down the all twenty two of Walter Thurman's interception. The
Speaker 1: play that got the Eagles back into this game was
Speaker 1: on the Falcon's first possession of the third quarter. Who
Speaker 1: was the interception by Walter Thurman. Let me show you
Speaker 1: how it all happened from a coverage standpoint right now,
Speaker 1: before the snap of the ball, what do you see?
Speaker 1: You see two deep safeties Marigoes here to the right,
Speaker 1: Thurman to the left. That's what Matt Ryan sees before
Speaker 1: the snap of the ball. Let's clear the screen and
Speaker 1: let this run a little bit. You can see as
Speaker 1: we start this play freeze it right here. What this
Speaker 1: now becomes as the play developed is you're going to
Speaker 1: see Maragos drop deep into the middle as a single
Speaker 1: high safety. You're going to see Thurman right here in
Speaker 1: what we call robber or lurk position. He's a lurk
Speaker 1: defender as part of this man free coverage. Now, as
Speaker 1: we clear the screen and unfreeze it, you can see
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan does not pick up Walter Thurman. He thinks
Speaker 1: he's out of the play, so he throws to White
Speaker 1: on the deep dig. Thurman makes the pick interception. Eagles
Speaker 1: that got the second half started. Grace uff Greg Now,
Speaker 1: if we can just get Malcolm Jenkins haul in some
Speaker 1: of those interceptions. Yeah, two come as way they could
Speaker 1: have had tonight. Now on the phone, it's not Leo Carlin,
Speaker 1: the longtime Eagles ticket director. It's our fan Carlin from DC.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the postgame Show presented by Rico. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how you doing, Joe watch you all the time, guys
Speaker 1: do up and on the job. Yeah, it's Um, two
Speaker 1: things I saw. I'm not going to talk about the defense. UM,
Speaker 1: I think they'll get that straightened out. But what I
Speaker 1: saw him the first half was a team playing tentative,
Speaker 1: or at least it's what it appeared. They didn't. They
Speaker 1: weren't on the balls their feet they were. They were
Speaker 1: just kind of I to think a half a stat
Speaker 1: they didn't have the sharpness they had in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: But what really one of the glaring things that I
Speaker 1: looked at the stats was we only had sixty three
Speaker 1: yards rushing the ball. And I thought, with this offensive wine,
Speaker 1: we would do a lot better. With the different backs,
Speaker 1: we would do a lot better rushing than we did. Now.
Speaker 1: We got with the short pass of scrolls was great
Speaker 1: as always, but I really thought we'd do a better
Speaker 1: job rushing the ball. And there's my two says. I
Speaker 1: think we'll get Dallas next week. I think this is
Speaker 1: a good thing now in the first game of the season.
Speaker 1: If we're going to have a letdown like this, there's
Speaker 1: going to be mistakes. We're going to have six after
Speaker 1: every game. So I mean, I've heard you say that
Speaker 1: hundreds of times. No game is perfect, But I love
Speaker 1: the way the Eagles came back. I was at the
Speaker 1: home opener last year and watched them come back. I
Speaker 1: really thought they could do it this time. But hey,
Speaker 1: we'll get them next weekend. Now, Colin made a great
Speaker 1: point that maybe in some ways, when you have a
Speaker 1: comeback like that, it's sort of like fools goal or
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you think, all right, it's great
Speaker 1: they came back in one. But you know this was
Speaker 1: good tonight. But maybe I'm not gonna say you want
Speaker 1: to see that have a setback, But at least it
Speaker 1: puts you in perspective that there is a lot of
Speaker 1: things after you worked on a lot of kinks that
Speaker 1: have to be ironed out, And certainly in the first
Speaker 1: half you have to agree that they just looked a
Speaker 1: little bit off from a timing perspective. But the run game,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with the numbers because it was really the
Speaker 1: pass game was what was open up tonight. They were
Speaker 1: selling out to stop the run. They were making it
Speaker 1: their mission not to allow du Marco or Ryan Matthews
Speaker 1: or Dann Spurrols to go wild on the ground. They
Speaker 1: were allowing them to have the checkdowns and the short passes.
Speaker 1: And Sam Bradford will be more unhappy to go up
Speaker 1: and down the field and carve up a defense like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and listen, when when the deepness is taking something away
Speaker 1: from you, or you're not having much success running certain plays,
Speaker 1: you definitely had needed an alternative. I sort of agree
Speaker 1: with Carlin on the run game. I've been surprised about
Speaker 1: the lack of effective runs throughout the preseason, and you
Speaker 1: chalk it up to its just preseason, or when the
Speaker 1: young guys get in there, when the young guys getting
Speaker 1: there in the third and fourth quarters, you just don't know.
Speaker 1: But when I look at this first team and I
Speaker 1: look at the preseason games, whether it was due to
Speaker 1: the lack of touches to Murray and Matthews, or the
Speaker 1: offense just wasn't running the ball. But I've seen the
Speaker 1: same type of struggles in this first game that I've
Speaker 1: witnessed with the first team running the football in the preseason.
Speaker 1: And I'm a little surprised by that. Because we have
Speaker 1: runners now that will go downhill north south runners. You
Speaker 1: should be able to hit those holes a lot quicker
Speaker 1: and you should have more success now. We haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to break down the film to look exactly
Speaker 1: where the Eagles had some miscues along that offensive line,
Speaker 1: but I saw a lot of penetration from this Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons front four, and it wasn't just due to blitzes.
Speaker 1: I saw penetration through those A and B gaps that
Speaker 1: needs to be short up. It's gonna be difficult to
Speaker 1: run east and west versus team on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: The Eagles had some success with it, but eventually you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to run that ball downhill and knock your
Speaker 1: defenders off the ball to create holes. And that's what
Speaker 1: you're expecting. King that smash mouth approach. You figure you
Speaker 1: get these tough downhill backs who you know, run with
Speaker 1: a violence and a passion and anger, that you're going
Speaker 1: to see more of that. So maybe we didn't see
Speaker 1: it tonight. You know, maybe Dallas, we'll be in for
Speaker 1: something this coming Sunday. Let's go back to the phone
Speaker 1: line to bring in the Ron from Virginia. Ron. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the postgame show, Erica. Ron. Great to hear from you, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's the first game. We don't need to panic.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of penalties, a lot of misques,
Speaker 1: a lot of things happening, you know. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to denigrate any player, but I funk Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: on that fourth and one. You got two Pro two
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl running backs. Put Branford on the center and
Speaker 1: put it on your Pro Bowl running backs. Here's the thing, though, Ron,
Speaker 1: if they get stuffed because Atlanta's going to be expecting
Speaker 1: to run, sir, then we'll be complaining that Chip didn't
Speaker 1: trust his Pro Bowl kicker to kick the ball. But
Speaker 1: Tony Parker is coming off I think a grown injury
Speaker 1: or a thigh injury. Secondly, he was wavering in preseason
Speaker 1: because yeah, no, that's true, het up and down in
Speaker 1: the preseason. Listen. I think Chip gave it some thought
Speaker 1: over there on the side the question he gave. He
Speaker 1: certainly gave it a consideration. But I can't fault him
Speaker 1: for turning the ball over to his his Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: field goal kicker and letting him kicking it. That's a
Speaker 1: forty four yard field goal to end makers, that's makeable.
Speaker 1: What did you need at that time? You need a field.
Speaker 1: You need a field put in the hands of your kicker.
Speaker 1: You know, set the NFL record for most points by
Speaker 1: a rookie in history one hundred and fifty year ago,
Speaker 1: went to the Pro Bowl half and did you see
Speaker 1: that from a rookie kicker? Deserve the honors, and you
Speaker 1: figure he would be able to continue that. Cody park
Speaker 1: is a young player that we hope is here for
Speaker 1: a very very long time. Like David Ankers, you want
Speaker 1: to continue the twos and still confidence in Cody Parky.
Speaker 1: What does that say to Cody Parkey if you don't
Speaker 1: want to give him the opportunity to go out there
Speaker 1: and kick a field goal. I honestly believe Chip made
Speaker 1: the right call. It's the call I would have made.
Speaker 1: It didn't work out, but that's not on Chip. That's
Speaker 1: on Cody to do his job. We'll go back to
Speaker 1: the Monday night game last year. Who want it in Indianapolis?
Speaker 1: Cody p Cody park he'sa gets a former team, so
Speaker 1: certainly he's got the ability to get done. Just didn't
Speaker 1: get done to do it. So again, Eagles fall twenty
Speaker 1: six to twenty fourth hands of the lamp Falcons. We're
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Speaker 1: show presented by Rico and I could use a little
Speaker 1: bit of a brightening up. So after he gels lost
Speaker 1: to the Falcons, but nonetheless it is now a football season,
Speaker 1: so you're transitioning from summer. But we're going back to
Speaker 1: the phone lines here and bringing Anthy from California who's
Speaker 1: he's got the tuned on in the background. He's trying
Speaker 1: anything to drown out some of the sorrows from the
Speaker 1: Eagles Monday Night lost Andthy, welcome to the show. What's up?
Speaker 1: I just thought Sam brought for he did a good
Speaker 1: job from on the first season game, so like he
Speaker 1: could have done a little bit better, could have could
Speaker 1: pull off a little bit more yards through It's a
Speaker 1: little bit more this the ending wasn't the best for him.
Speaker 1: I felt like he got through at least one least
Speaker 1: interception that game at the end. Malcolm Malcolm Jenkins, Yeah, certainly,
Speaker 1: I mean That's the whole thing is there were some
Speaker 1: opportunities that they missed. But look, if Keiko Alonso doesn't
Speaker 1: make that amazing play, if Walter Thurman doesn't make the
Speaker 1: play that he made, you know, the Eagles wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been in position. So certainly you would have loved to
Speaker 1: see Malcolm Jenkins get those interceptions the way he did
Speaker 1: so well at the beginning of last season, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't Yeah, what wasn't going to be tonight, so but
Speaker 1: at least he was in position. So I guess the
Speaker 1: question is moving forward, do the Eagles want to continue
Speaker 1: this nickel package where Malcolm Jenkins is the one who
Speaker 1: comes down the slot, because all during training camp in
Speaker 1: the preseason, Bill Davis was basically saying, we want one
Speaker 1: of the corners to win it. Whether it's Jayala Watkins
Speaker 1: who's obviously not here, whether it's Eric rowe E J
Speaker 1: Bigger's Denzel Race. They want one of those guys. So
Speaker 1: I think it could free up the safeties with their responsibilities.
Speaker 1: But if they felt it was effective enough, maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be able to keep it going. Unfortunately, we won't be
Speaker 1: able to see its true effectiveness this Tounday against Alice
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna have Dez Bryan out in the
Speaker 1: field after he broke a bone in his right foot.
Speaker 1: So that's true. So speaking of former Cowboy DeMarco Murray,
Speaker 1: his first touchdown as a Philadelphia Eagles came on a
Speaker 1: sweet play in the third quarter to help get the
Speaker 1: Eagles back in the game. And to break down the
Speaker 1: all twenty two of that touchdown score, here's NFL Films.
Speaker 1: There's great co sell. This was the Eagles first touchdown
Speaker 1: or the third quarter following the Walter Thurman interception. What
Speaker 1: they're going to do is have a sweep to the
Speaker 1: right with DeMarco Murray. It's a staple running play that
Speaker 1: the Eagles use, and what they're going to do is
Speaker 1: pull the center Jason Kelsey and the right tackle Lane Johnson.
Speaker 1: Let's clear the screen and let this start. This is
Speaker 1: really well executed, really well executed by the Eagles on offense.
Speaker 1: Here as we start this play, you see Kelsey, you
Speaker 1: see Johnson, really well done. Freeze it right here. Another
Speaker 1: really good block is Josh huff down here that wraps
Speaker 1: it up. A sweep to the right. You can run
Speaker 1: the play. You'll see Murray's clean to the end zone.
Speaker 1: This is a staple of the Eagles run game. They
Speaker 1: get their backs out on the perimeter with their athletic
Speaker 1: offensive lineman pulling. Thank you very much, Greg, and he'll
Speaker 1: have a complete All twenty two analysis that will be
Speaker 1: available here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com on Tuesday. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna start to turn the page just a little
Speaker 1: bit as well. Eagles lost. You know what, it's Dallas week.
Speaker 1: No need to read that book again. Yeah, let's get
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. Favorite memories playing Cowboys. Yes, easy, two thousand.
Speaker 1: Pickle juice opening game, pickle juice game, surprise on sidekick.
Speaker 1: I think that was the beginning of a five year
Speaker 1: run where we were were the dominant team in an
Speaker 1: NFC easton. It started in Texas Stadium, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty degrees out there, pickle juice of plenty for every
Speaker 1: you drink it. Yeah, of course I did. Okay, I
Speaker 1: didn't even think Rick Burgharder told me to do. He said,
Speaker 1: pickled juice work, give me a whole jar lastic. I'm
Speaker 1: your man. But yeah, that was the game, and it
Speaker 1: was the surprise on side kick from coach read that
Speaker 1: I opposed prior to the game. Luckily I wasn't coaching,
Speaker 1: he was. We ran it and I think we were
Speaker 1: off and running as Deuce rushed for over two hundred
Speaker 1: yards that day, and I think that was the first game.
Speaker 1: That's the game that will always stick out to me
Speaker 1: as the biggest Cowboy game victory for us SO Eagles
Speaker 1: Cowboys Sunday, Lincoln found the field the home opener. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna have Dez Bryant, who broke a bone in
Speaker 1: his foot and his scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: He'll be out for a duration of time. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna have Greg Hardy. They're not of Randy Gregory, who
Speaker 1: was impressive in the action they played Sunday against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and no Rolando McClean who was also suspended. So in
Speaker 1: your estimation, is this a game that the Eagles. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do the must have because you're on
Speaker 1: the teams that started oh and two and so on
Speaker 1: the NSC championship game. But it seems like a perfect opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's right in their grasp. Yeah, you gotta take advantage
Speaker 1: of this. You know, NFC East, NFC East opponent at home,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to go down there and play Dallas
Speaker 1: and about a month or so again, can't get can't
Speaker 1: give away this game at home. You certainly don't want
Speaker 1: to go down O two. I don't care who's not
Speaker 1: playing for the Dallas Cowboys. The Eagles need to focus
Speaker 1: on what they need to get fixed with their team
Speaker 1: and go out there as if Tom Landry, Tony Dors said,
Speaker 1: Troy Aig, then Michael Urban and everybody is playing for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and take this game serious and get to W.
Speaker 1: I don't care who's not playing. Eagles need to come
Speaker 1: out and play, play well Sunday. I'm motivated after hearing that.
Speaker 1: Dallay Man. We need a W Sunday. No way. We
Speaker 1: can't lose to the Cowboys at home. Can't do it.
Speaker 1: So make sure to join us tomorrow on Tuesday. Actually
Speaker 1: by this point it might already be Tuesday, so later
Speaker 1: on in the day today as head coach Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: will give his day after press conference. Brian Westbrook, the
Speaker 1: future sum to be Hall of Fame Eagles running back.
Speaker 1: We'll be the co host, your man. He'll be the
Speaker 1: co host with Dave spar On three sixty Eagles three
Speaker 1: to sixty which you can see at five pm, and
Speaker 1: we'll recap all the day's news and notes. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. Like he's like Greece. I'm
Speaker 1: Chris McPherson. You've been watching the postgame show presented by Rico.
Speaker 1: Eagles fall to the lamp Falcons twenty six to twenty
Speaker 1: four on Monday Night football. Everyone get some sleep, but
Speaker 1: we'll be back at tomorrow. Have a great Eagles night, everyone,