Speaker 1: We welcome you to Eagles three sixty. Davis Spidero and
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Brian westb are got a most
Speaker 1: unusual Monday as we take care of this short week. Brian,
Speaker 1: the Eagles losing a heartbreaker in Baltimore twenty seven, twenty
Speaker 1: six to the Ravens and here in three days they
Speaker 1: host the red hot New York Giants. Today, we will
Speaker 1: break down the loss in Baltimore and take a peek
Speaker 1: at not only the game against the Giants, but also
Speaker 1: a look at the Dallas Cowboys. Brian, the first question,
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Eagles yesterday in general, the performance
Speaker 1: that you saw. You know, anytime you lose about one point,
Speaker 1: you have a chance to win the game. I think
Speaker 1: that shows that you're team is focused, that your team
Speaker 1: has come out and played with effort and pride, and
Speaker 1: I think from that standpoint, that's something that's very good
Speaker 1: for this football team because that was questioned early on.
Speaker 1: When I see the way that we ran the football,
Speaker 1: that means we progressed, we got better because because there's
Speaker 1: games where we haven't been able to run the ball
Speaker 1: at all, we ran the ball against the best run
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. For one hundred and twenty plus yards.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. That's something that we can build doing. There
Speaker 1: are other things that we need to fix, but at
Speaker 1: least that's one thing that we can build on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles going for the two points at the
Speaker 1: end of the game instead of kicking the extra point
Speaker 1: of going into overtime. Yeah. Agree. You know, for my money,
Speaker 1: I probably would have played it for overtime because I
Speaker 1: want to see my offense and defense have a shot
Speaker 1: of trying to win this football game. But I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with Doug being aggressive and going for it.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since we won a game
Speaker 1: around here, and I think as a head coach, you're
Speaker 1: trying to manage the emotions of your team. You're feeling
Speaker 1: some momentum, you you're driven the field, and you scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I don't have a problem with it. I
Speaker 1: guess in hindsight, being in the Monday morning quarterback, I
Speaker 1: wish we would have just played for overtime. Five consecutive
Speaker 1: losses for the Eagles, nine of their last eleven since
Speaker 1: that three and oh start. So we will go over
Speaker 1: the game position by position, group by group here as
Speaker 1: we moved through the show. Monday a big day for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, who came back to the Novicare Complex in
Speaker 1: the afternoon for some meetings for some prep work for
Speaker 1: the Giants. One of the players in the building Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: who has served his ten game suspension and so there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Doug Peterson met the media on Monday.
Speaker 1: Let's hear all about it and get caught up. Will
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson play against the Giants. Here's Alex Smith and
Speaker 1: our three sixty update. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith here
Speaker 1: with your three sixty update. The Eagles coming off of
Speaker 1: a heartbreaking one point loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But it is a short week for the Eagles as
Speaker 1: they get set for a Thursday night NFC East matchup
Speaker 1: with the New York Giants. Today we heard from head
Speaker 1: coach Doug Peterson, and some good news for the Eagle
Speaker 1: is that Lane Johnson is back from his ten game
Speaker 1: suspension and according to coach Peterson, he should be ready
Speaker 1: to start on Thursday night at right tackle. Going into
Speaker 1: this game considering the nature of the injuries that we've
Speaker 1: had and everything, and with Lane being back today, Lane
Speaker 1: will going as a starter. I haven't seen him yet today.
Speaker 1: I know he's been here in the building and he's
Speaker 1: been with h coach Statlin and Eugene, and of course
Speaker 1: I've been I've been game planning and been in my
Speaker 1: office all morning, so I haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: see him yet. You just have to kind of see
Speaker 1: when I put my eyes on Lane, just to see
Speaker 1: where he's at physically and what he's been doing over
Speaker 1: the last ten weeks. But he's such a tremendous athlete that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't expect anything too traumatic
Speaker 1: to happen in the next couple of weeks. Coach Peterson
Speaker 1: also praised rookie quarterback Carson Wentz for his ability to
Speaker 1: lead the Eagles on a potentially game tying drive late
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter when all of the elements seem
Speaker 1: to be against him. Just the way he was poised
Speaker 1: in the pocket, he can ended you know, he was
Speaker 1: communicating in a loud stadium, loud environment. Whether everything that
Speaker 1: could affect you as an offense was was in that,
Speaker 1: you know, besides having you know, precipitation, there was, um,
Speaker 1: everything was kind of against the offense. Because we were
Speaker 1: going into that wind and for him to be able
Speaker 1: to communicate and uh, you know, standing there and deliver
Speaker 1: the football and do the things that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we we put him through um and then eventually scramble
Speaker 1: and you know, take on a really good safety Eric
Speaker 1: Weddle and and and you know make him miss and
Speaker 1: score the touchdown. I think is just uh just shows
Speaker 1: his grit and toughness and willingness to h you know,
Speaker 1: sacrifice himself for the team. Coach Peterson also gave an
Speaker 1: injury update, saying that running back Kenyon Barner, who suffered
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury yesterday, will not be available for Thursday
Speaker 1: night's game, but everyone else should be good to go
Speaker 1: for Thursday's game against the Giants. With her three sixty update,
Speaker 1: I'm Alex Smith. Alex, thank you so much. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot to get to on the show. When we return,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the defense, an interesting performance
Speaker 1: from the Eagles defense, some really good stuff, some not
Speaker 1: really good stuff, and then the special teams battling remarkable
Speaker 1: elements in Baltimore. We've got a lot to get to
Speaker 1: here on Eagles three sixty. Thanks for joining us. We'll
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Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty Dave Spidero, Brian Westbrooker. Look at the
Speaker 1: Eagles defensive performance in that twenty seven, twenty six loss
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens. You know, Brian, they did some
Speaker 1: good things. Nigel Braden on the blitz strip sack of
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. Eagles recover turned that into a touchdown. Late
Speaker 1: in the game, Jordan Hicks picks off Flacco, Eagles turned
Speaker 1: that into three points. But there were also some big
Speaker 1: plays allowed, particularly one at the end of the first
Speaker 1: half touchdown past the seat Smith Senior. And I know
Speaker 1: that everybody is really upset about that one. Yeah, yesterday,
Speaker 1: we gave up five plays or twenty yards or more.
Speaker 1: And when you look at that play in particular right
Speaker 1: before the half, the one thing that you can't give
Speaker 1: up on that play is the big play. Allowed them
Speaker 1: to cast the ball for ten yards, allowed them to
Speaker 1: kick the field goal, but you can't give up the
Speaker 1: touchdown on the long ball. I think Jaylen Mills and
Speaker 1: Jaylen Watkins the communication has to be much better between
Speaker 1: those two guys. And as a coach, you have the
Speaker 1: coach situational football, and I'm sure Jim Schwartz, who has
Speaker 1: been around the block a lot many times, has coached that.
Speaker 1: That's something that you learned in practice. The one thing
Speaker 1: you can't give up is the big play. Those guys
Speaker 1: didn't perform on that play. Interestingly, the story after the
Speaker 1: game was why did your blitz. I'm sitting there watching
Speaker 1: the Eagles and I'm saying, keep the blitz coming. I
Speaker 1: like the pressure they were giving the Ravens some problems
Speaker 1: with that blitz, and in that situation, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: take the football away at the same time not allowing
Speaker 1: the play over the top. Yeah, you're trying to serve
Speaker 1: two masters. They are just a bit. If you're Jim Sports,
Speaker 1: if your blitz, you're giving up some some opportunities in
Speaker 1: the coverage and coverage breakdowns, and if you don't, you're
Speaker 1: allowing a very good quarterback to sit back there in
Speaker 1: the pocket and pick your part. And so there has
Speaker 1: been plays in the game where Jim Sportz is blitz
Speaker 1: and they've gotten beat. When they didn't blitz, they Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco had so much time, they've gotten blitzed beat. The
Speaker 1: one thing that the answer to that question, honestly, Dave,
Speaker 1: is that you need your front floor who had three sacks.
Speaker 1: We need more production from them. They have to have
Speaker 1: an even better game. If we want to be better
Speaker 1: and protect the guys on the back end. Those guys
Speaker 1: are front have to get more pressure and more sacks.
Speaker 1: And in the big picture, it's not about protecting the
Speaker 1: guys from the back ends. You got to be in
Speaker 1: the back end. And Eagles giving up something two of
Speaker 1: three possessions for Baltimore in the red zone resulting in touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and that cornerback position, Brian, I mean, I think Jayleen
Speaker 1: Mills really battles and other than that played played well.
Speaker 1: I'd like him here. As you look at the Eagles
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen and beyond, where does cornerback rank on
Speaker 1: your wish list? I think when you when you're thinking
Speaker 1: about Dez Bryant and DeShawn Jackson may or may not
Speaker 1: be back in Washington, you're talking about Odell Beckham Junior
Speaker 1: and Shepherd up there in New York, You're gonna face
Speaker 1: some very good receivers and offenses of quarterbacks that are
Speaker 1: willing to throw the football. Even if you look at
Speaker 1: Dallas with Dez Bryant, they have a running game and
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to dedicate seven to eight guys
Speaker 1: to stop the run. So it's gonna be critical for
Speaker 1: us when we move into the offseason to think about
Speaker 1: fulfilling the cornerback position. You have to make sure that
Speaker 1: you have a guy on the outside that you can
Speaker 1: leave alone and say, hey, this is your one guy
Speaker 1: to check and shut down all game long. That's the
Speaker 1: one thing that we're missing. And when we want to blitz,
Speaker 1: we want to take advantage of situations, we want to
Speaker 1: push the offense back. We can't do that because the
Speaker 1: guys in the secondary are giving up big plays, big
Speaker 1: time crossing routes plus twenty yard plays, big time streaks
Speaker 1: down the field plus twenty yard plays. You can't win
Speaker 1: and play winning football when you have those types of
Speaker 1: things going on. And when you watch the film, Brian,
Speaker 1: how much are you seeing the Eagles front four working
Speaker 1: against Max Protect meeting six or seven blockers. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, there's been other situation where you
Speaker 1: guys got when you have guys completely one on one
Speaker 1: and they're not winning those battles. And so when I
Speaker 1: have the conversation with the defensive line, the most important
Speaker 1: thing I'm going to say is if you're a double team,
Speaker 1: I still want you to continue to work, But if
Speaker 1: you're single it's man on man. You have to win that.
Speaker 1: We're paying you a lot of money to win those matchups,
Speaker 1: and right now you're not winning enough. Of them. We
Speaker 1: want to have a dominant defensive line. This defense actually
Speaker 1: is predicated on having a dominant defensive line. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're good, We're not dominant yet. In this special teams
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, now, they were just you know, huge wins,
Speaker 1: dropping temperature, very unusual weather conditions. Caleb Sturge's four more
Speaker 1: field goals. We'll talk about the offensive side of things
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Donnie Jones a couple of big punts.
Speaker 1: For the first time in a long time, the Eagles
Speaker 1: kickoff coverage team really got beat here and gave up
Speaker 1: some big yards, which on the touchdown at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half set up by a big kickoff return,
Speaker 1: and Baltimore gashed him. That's the one thing you can't
Speaker 1: you can't afford when when your team was not playing
Speaker 1: very well, you can't afford to lose the field position battle.
Speaker 1: That's why you need your special teams to be able
Speaker 1: to step up, and they have been. The kickoff teams
Speaker 1: have been playing good all season long. Yesterday just wasn't
Speaker 1: very good. Wasn't good enough to help this team. You
Speaker 1: know what, a good offensive team like the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: to only have to go six yards. That's just too
Speaker 1: easy for them. Good to see Kenyon Barner in the
Speaker 1: pun return game and the kickoff returns game to a
Speaker 1: nice job. Until I never really thought he was at explosive.
Speaker 1: I thought he was just another guy for the entire
Speaker 1: time he's been here. I think I've thought that he's
Speaker 1: an explosive player. If you get the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands in space, he can make someone miss and make
Speaker 1: some plays for you. I don't know that Doug feels
Speaker 1: the same way, but I think that he can make
Speaker 1: some plays for you. It's unfortunate that he wasn't able
Speaker 1: to finish the game. So there you go. That is
Speaker 1: our look at Eagles defense and special teams. When we
Speaker 1: return to Eagles three sixty, we're gonna talk about the offense,
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Speaker 1: We are back its Eagles three sixty on this crazy
Speaker 1: Monday at the Novicare Complex. David Brian here talking about
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense. Some good things happening with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: They ran for one hundred and sixty nine yards against
Speaker 1: the NFL's best run defense. They control of the clock,
Speaker 1: They converted third downs. Ryan Matthews looked great while he
Speaker 1: was on the field. Carson Wentz shrugged off an early interception,
Speaker 1: Zach Ert six more receptions, Jordan Matthews some clutch catches,
Speaker 1: but Brian, not enough. And I'm gonna point to the
Speaker 1: red zone, where the Eagles ranked twenty fourth in the
Speaker 1: NFL in red zone efficiency at fifty percent. How does
Speaker 1: that improve moving forward? Well, you're gonna need a playmaker.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the biggest thing. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: you're missing right now. Not only in the open field,
Speaker 1: because yesterday we got contribution from the offensive line, which
Speaker 1: really won in the trenches and a running back Ryan
Speaker 1: Matthews that ran wild, ran determined, ran hard. But in
Speaker 1: the red zone, when you get in there things tighten
Speaker 1: up just a big and defenses are not going to
Speaker 1: allow you to have some of the things they had
Speaker 1: you that they allowed you to have out in the field.
Speaker 1: And so now you need that big time player that's
Speaker 1: able to catch a five yard hitch, make a guy miss,
Speaker 1: and make it into the end zone. Right now, we
Speaker 1: don't have that type of player that we can throw
Speaker 1: the jump ball that lob up to and him able
Speaker 1: to go up and snatch the football from the defender.
Speaker 1: And until we have that guy, we're gonna we will
Speaker 1: continue to struggle in the red zone. The two point
Speaker 1: conversion is a slant to Jordan Matthews against the zero blitz,
Speaker 1: meaning there's no safeties. They're coming after. Kerson wentz, how
Speaker 1: can you make that playwork? I think the way that
Speaker 1: I would have liked to have seen the play is
Speaker 1: that you have twins. You have two guys when the
Speaker 1: left hand side the same way that you have it.
Speaker 1: I would have had Jordan Matthews on the outside. I
Speaker 1: would have had DGB on the inside. The inside guy
Speaker 1: runs a clear route that's going to clear an awful
Speaker 1: lot of space out he runs right at the goalpost.
Speaker 1: That's exactly where you want him, and so now you
Speaker 1: have just a whole bunch of space because you have
Speaker 1: the other eight guys on the defense inside of the box.
Speaker 1: Now you've created a lot of space for Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: the work and he has to find a way to
Speaker 1: win against one defender in a lot of space on
Speaker 1: the outside. The unfortunate part the way that the play
Speaker 1: was designed was that Jordan Matthews on the inside and
Speaker 1: he won. He I think he could have ran a
Speaker 1: better route, but he did win just enough. But when
Speaker 1: you have so many guys on the inside rushing the passer,
Speaker 1: they're putting their hands up, you can't really see the
Speaker 1: receiver and you can't get the ball to him fast enough.
Speaker 1: That's the downside of throwing the ball inside against zero
Speaker 1: blitz and then the Eagles getting a little boost from
Speaker 1: zach Ertz again six catches. He has really come on, Brian,
Speaker 1: has zach Ertz turned the corner. You know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you get challenged, you reveal some thing about yourself, and
Speaker 1: I think zach Ertz over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: has shown that, first of all, he's tough, that he
Speaker 1: can go out and play. He can be the tight
Speaker 1: end that we all have thought that he should be
Speaker 1: and now he's starting to become that guy. He caught
Speaker 1: a ball on the sideline yesterday keeping his toes in.
Speaker 1: I was absolutely impressed. We know that he's an athlete.
Speaker 1: We saw some things yesterday against a very tough nose,
Speaker 1: hard nosed defense. We saw zach Ertz being physical, being nasty.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of situations with him in Terrell
Speaker 1: Suggs one on one. He won those situations. Terrell Suggs
Speaker 1: is one of the better defensive players, one of the
Speaker 1: more physical defensive players in the league. Zach Ertz found
Speaker 1: a way to win those matchups. I was impressed. That's
Speaker 1: the type of passion and effort he has to play
Speaker 1: with every single week, not just when you're challenged. Eagles
Speaker 1: have twenty seven first downs, they control the clock for
Speaker 1: nearly thirty seven minutes, They run eighty one plays and
Speaker 1: yet not enough, just like it was the week before,
Speaker 1: oh and six in one possession games to Philadelphia Eagles. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna say this, and it's never good
Speaker 1: when you lose a game, but I think when you're
Speaker 1: at where we're at right here, we haven't won, You've
Speaker 1: lost nine out of the last eleven. But there's been
Speaker 1: some close games, some games where you have another playmaker
Speaker 1: here and there, you don't make a bad interception earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, that those games change a little bit.
Speaker 1: And so if I'm Doug Peterson, I'm telling our team
Speaker 1: that listen, we're not as bad as we may seem.
Speaker 1: We're not as bad as we may look. But we
Speaker 1: have to change some things. We have to continue to
Speaker 1: get better at a lot of different positions, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna work on that over the next couple of weeks
Speaker 1: leading into the off season. Guess what a lot of
Speaker 1: coaches in the NFL are absolutely so if the key
Speaker 1: is to have a really, really good offseason, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that a little bit later on when we returned.
Speaker 1: Eagles three sixty two games remain on this twenty sixteen schedule,
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Speaker 1: three sixty two games remaining in the twenty sixteen season,
Speaker 1: both in Lincoln Financial Field, both against seemingly playoff bound
Speaker 1: NFCAST teams. Remarkable that the Giants have turned things around.
Speaker 1: All of those editions they made in the offseason to
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball really paying off for them.
Speaker 1: And yet I think the Eagles a gonna come out
Speaker 1: on Thursday and whoop them. I feel great about this game. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we should feel great. They've played much better
Speaker 1: at home these last couple of weeks. They struggled, but
Speaker 1: the Eagles have been in a lot of these games
Speaker 1: even if they won or lost. I think we have
Speaker 1: to find a way to play that spoiler role. We
Speaker 1: want to make sure that the Giants understand that maybe
Speaker 1: we might not be in the playoffs this year, but
Speaker 1: you have something to look forward to next year in
Speaker 1: the years to come. I think our team needs to
Speaker 1: get up for this game. Let me ask you about
Speaker 1: a couple of young players here who should see some
Speaker 1: action moving forward. Byron Marshall makes his regular season debut
Speaker 1: on Sunday, plays who else? Trips a little bit early,
Speaker 1: trying to do too much, slow down a bit, had
Speaker 1: some nice runs and with Darren Sproles still in concussion protocol,
Speaker 1: we don't know about his situation with Kenyon Barner and
Speaker 1: the hamstring injury. With Ryan Matthews banged up. After a
Speaker 1: big day on Sunday, Byron Marshall could figure into the
Speaker 1: plans in a big way. On Thursday, how's he look? Well?
Speaker 1: I saw some good things from Byron Marshall. I think
Speaker 1: you're right at the beginning one of the things that
Speaker 1: the running back coaches will always tell you is not
Speaker 1: about speed to the whole. It's about speed through the hole.
Speaker 1: And at the beginning of the game, he was just
Speaker 1: going too fast. He was missing some holes because he
Speaker 1: was trying to get to the hole too fast. As
Speaker 1: a running back, you have to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more patient, and I think as a game continued on,
Speaker 1: he got much better with that. And so that's that's
Speaker 1: a type of improvement that you want to see as
Speaker 1: a game went on. He's quick, he's shifty, he can
Speaker 1: make you miss in space. That's the type of running
Speaker 1: back that we need in this offense. That's something that
Speaker 1: we can build on. And then right tackle on Sunday,
Speaker 1: Isaac Sayamalo hadn't played a position since twenty thirteen when
Speaker 1: he was his sophomore at Oregon State, and he went
Speaker 1: up against Terrell Suggs, he went up against Elvis Dumerville,
Speaker 1: got beat a couple of times, but showed what kind
Speaker 1: of athlete he is, how powerful he can be in
Speaker 1: the run game. Brian, when you look at this kid,
Speaker 1: where do you project him in the future. Well, the
Speaker 1: fifth time, the fifth starter that we had at right
Speaker 1: tackle but I see a kid that wants to play.
Speaker 1: He's tough, he's nasty, he's tenacious, and that's what you
Speaker 1: went in the offensive line. But no matter what position
Speaker 1: he plays at, I think in the future where he
Speaker 1: can help us out the most is at the center position.
Speaker 1: He's going to add size, athletic ability, and just a
Speaker 1: nasty player. If you want to run up the middle,
Speaker 1: you have to have a center that has that type
Speaker 1: of ability. That's where I project him at all, right,
Speaker 1: And then on the defensive side, Jalen Mills still battling
Speaker 1: out there showing some good things. Got bet for the
Speaker 1: Steve Smith touchdown on Sunday, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: I thought he hit a wall. I think he's kind
Speaker 1: of come over that hurdle and has picked up his
Speaker 1: intensity for the last couple of weeks. I like Jalen's
Speaker 1: competitive nature. I like the things that he's willing to
Speaker 1: go out there and not back down from anyone. Steve
Speaker 1: Smith bullies people across his league for sixteen games every
Speaker 1: single season for the last fifteen years. He's done that,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Mills didn't back down. He was competitive every
Speaker 1: single play this all season. Is going to be very
Speaker 1: important for him. He's gonna have to understand get a
Speaker 1: better understanding of the defenses that have a better understanding
Speaker 1: of his leverage and where he's gonna have help from.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna have to work on his technique an
Speaker 1: awful lot to become a better player. If you can
Speaker 1: find a way to be a little bit faster, that's
Speaker 1: going to help him as well. But listen, he has
Speaker 1: a number one thing. He's competitive and he wants to win.
Speaker 1: I love the way he goes out and plays every
Speaker 1: single week. Brian, We've waited all season to find out
Speaker 1: about Nelson agal Or, we've waited to see about Dorio Greenbeckham,
Speaker 1: and now we're here with two games left, and you
Speaker 1: wonder are they going to take that next step or
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep waiting for them? Um, what do you
Speaker 1: see with these two guys you know from DGB. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen an awful lot. I haven't seen a lot
Speaker 1: that's gonna say, hey, he's ready to take that next
Speaker 1: step next year, he's gonna be a much bigger part
Speaker 1: in the offense. I haven't seen that. And for Carson Winson,
Speaker 1: his development, that's a bad thing. You're gonna need wide
Speaker 1: receiver that can cast the football to make big plays
Speaker 1: for you on the outside, and DGB just doesn't give
Speaker 1: us that element. He's not a guy that's gonna cast
Speaker 1: the football and take it thirty or forty yards for
Speaker 1: a testdown. And he's also has proven that he's not
Speaker 1: the same guy that's gonna catch the jump ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone. So he isn't helping us as much
Speaker 1: as we need him to help us. Nelson, you know,
Speaker 1: before last week, I thought that he was improving, just
Speaker 1: that his body language looked better. He's seen like he
Speaker 1: had a little swagger gathered up. This week, he just
Speaker 1: didn't look like the same guy. He didn't look like
Speaker 1: he was ready to help us in the same way
Speaker 1: that I saw in the last couple of weeks. Even
Speaker 1: though the numbers weren't there the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: he just looked more confident as a player. He has
Speaker 1: to find a way to help this team. He's going
Speaker 1: to give an He's probably going to give another opportunity
Speaker 1: next year, but he needs to figure things out. He
Speaker 1: has to become a much better route runner. He has
Speaker 1: to be more confident in his play, and he's going
Speaker 1: to have to figure out how to be an NFL
Speaker 1: release guy. And this is a science. How do you
Speaker 1: get off the line of scrimmage? How do you release?
Speaker 1: That's going to also help you on the back end
Speaker 1: of running your routes and getting open. He needs to
Speaker 1: learn that science. It takes a it takes a long
Speaker 1: time to learn that. But in the NFL you have time.
Speaker 1: Hopefully for him. He doesn't run out of time here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. So those are some of the young players.
Speaker 1: Of course, Carson Wentz leads the way in these final
Speaker 1: two home games. One segment to go here on Eagles
Speaker 1: three sixties and final thoughts from Brian. He's been through
Speaker 1: this very difficult assignment before a Sunday road game, a
Speaker 1: Thursday home game. How do you treat your body in
Speaker 1: the three days between the games? We'll find out when
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Speaker 1: York Giants on Thursday. Brian will be back in studio
Speaker 1: on Friday for our day after analysis of game number
Speaker 1: fifteen of this twenty sixteen Eagles season. Let's get set
Speaker 1: up with what's going on in this very truncated week.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we are back here. Our emros was on the
Speaker 1: menu segment. Glenn mcnow my co host. He takes a
Speaker 1: look back at the game against the Ravens. Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: in studio. All right, always always good to have the
Speaker 1: head coach here, and we take a look around the
Speaker 1: NFC East, which very well could send three teams to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Amerosos the reason Philly sandwiches are so famous. Brian,
Speaker 1: how do you get your body back after just such
Speaker 1: a I mean, look, Eagles haven't had a the way
Speaker 1: this season worked out. The bye week in Week four, nothing,
Speaker 1: no kind of break until now. It just guys got
Speaker 1: to be hurting so much. I laugh because when I
Speaker 1: saw Ryan after you mean, he ran hard yesterday, twenty
Speaker 1: carries look really really good. But then you turn around
Speaker 1: and try to get that same repeat performance this week three,
Speaker 1: four days later on Thursday's just tough. I think the
Speaker 1: only way to really recover is the ice. Get as
Speaker 1: much treatment as you can and try to your best,
Speaker 1: and the coaches play a big part in this, and
Speaker 1: not to put too much pressure, too much stress on
Speaker 1: your body. As practices go, and I think in this
Speaker 1: day and age in the NFL, they don't practice too
Speaker 1: too hard, not very long. But I think Doug just
Speaker 1: has to be smart, make sure the guys understand mentally
Speaker 1: what they have to do. The physical part is going
Speaker 1: to be there. This is week fifteen. Let's clean up
Speaker 1: some of the mental rors. If we do that, I
Speaker 1: think both teams will be prepared to play Eagles and
Speaker 1: the Giants on Thursday. Brian back with me on Friday.
Speaker 1: Until then, Brian, thanks very much, thanks very much for
Speaker 1: joining us here on Eagles three sixty. I'm back with
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