Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to Eagles three sixty. Here at
Speaker 1: an overcare complex in our Extinity studio. I'm Dave Spiderow
Speaker 1: along with Joe did camera and it's the hump day.
Speaker 1: We are getting ready for the new England Patriots, a
Speaker 1: chance to see Tom terrific with a depleted cast of
Speaker 1: characters around him. And honestly, Joe, I don't think it
Speaker 1: matters for the guy now, brill Look, Brady's amazing. He's
Speaker 1: I mean, he might be the best of all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is the best of all time. I think I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go there. I last year, at the end
Speaker 1: of playoff, I was still Brady Montana kind of equal
Speaker 1: issue Montana with Hall of Famer Jerry Rice and great
Speaker 1: receiver John Taylor and great running back Roger Craig and
Speaker 1: great tight ends in Brent Jones, etc. Great coach. To me,
Speaker 1: Brady has done it the longest with a group around
Speaker 1: him that has changed a lot. And there really are
Speaker 1: no stars except I mean, Gronkowski is a great player,
Speaker 1: but there have been no great wide receivers and no
Speaker 1: great running backs. Really, I think it's fair, Dave. Other
Speaker 1: than a couple of years with Randy Moss as we know,
Speaker 1: and Wes Walker was a contributor for sure. But now, Dave,
Speaker 1: I think you're on point there. It's it's absolutely been
Speaker 1: amazing what Tom Brady has been able to do in
Speaker 1: the length of time now about decade and a half
Speaker 1: and think about that, a decade and a half in
Speaker 1: this So yes, to heck of a challenge for the
Speaker 1: Eagles to go up against Tom Brady. We know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of players out from New England. Just it
Speaker 1: creates well, yes, some additional opportunity for the Eagles, certainly,
Speaker 1: but still an unbelievable challenge in that if you're Bill Davis,
Speaker 1: mister talk show host, what are you doing in this game?
Speaker 1: What's your scheme? First off, I think the criticism of
Speaker 1: Bill Davis in one regard is unfair, the fact that
Speaker 1: people are so heavily criticizing what happened with you know,
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe in the coverage in the second half of
Speaker 1: that game versus Detroit. The bottom line is a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator has to mix and match. It's not as simple
Speaker 1: as just double team one player every play, because if
Speaker 1: you do that, it's going to be hard as heck
Speaker 1: to ever have a blitz. So you got people saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you got a blitz. You got people saying, hey, you
Speaker 1: got a double team. Well wait a minute, you can't
Speaker 1: have it both ways. Obviously, what Bill Davis is trying
Speaker 1: to do is mix and match. Now, as we know
Speaker 1: Dave in the process of mixing and matching the other day,
Speaker 1: the reality was there were times where Eric Row clearly
Speaker 1: got beat and got beat bad so. But it's just
Speaker 1: not as simple as I think some people make it
Speaker 1: and sound. With that said, the bottom line is that
Speaker 1: you know, they've got to play better football. I think
Speaker 1: they've got to play some more inspired football. And the secondary,
Speaker 1: which really has struggled dramatically in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and this includes the safeties as well, they've got to
Speaker 1: play a lot better. Yeah, and the run game doesn't
Speaker 1: get excused in that of the whole defense. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: you give up forty five points in back to back games,
Speaker 1: nobody gets a pass on that defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Let's get you caught up with everything happening. We've got
Speaker 1: a great show for you today, Chip Kelly in studio.
Speaker 1: We take a deep look at the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: But first let's get you caught up on what's going
Speaker 1: on here at the Novacare Complex. The players in full
Speaker 1: pads in the training facility today. We've got your three
Speaker 1: sixty update right here. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and
Speaker 1: this is your three sixty update. Another rainy day here
Speaker 1: at the Novacare Complex, but the Eagles did practice outside
Speaker 1: today as they get ready for the Elements on Sunday
Speaker 1: in New England. The big story today centered around quarterback
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford, who said that, barring any setbacks, he does
Speaker 1: expect to play on Sunday. Today we heard from Bradford
Speaker 1: and head coach Chip Kelly on how the Eagles quarterback
Speaker 1: has been progressing. You know, he threw the ball and
Speaker 1: it was just good to see him get backut in
Speaker 1: the field and told the ball. The thing that we'll
Speaker 1: see is can he is there residual effects of him
Speaker 1: throwing it? How about where's the soreness level and things
Speaker 1: like that, And we'll find that out a little bit
Speaker 1: more today. So it gets bigger as a week goes on.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope. So, you know, I think, barring
Speaker 1: any setbacks, you know, I expect to But you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. That's going to be
Speaker 1: up to coaching the training staff if they feel that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm ready to go out there and it
Speaker 1: play at a high level. The Eagles may have lost
Speaker 1: three games in a row, but players inside the locker
Speaker 1: room are not putting their heads down. We heard from
Speaker 1: a number of players today who spoke about how the
Speaker 1: team is keeping their head up high heading into Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, we played really really poorly the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and you know, if we can come
Speaker 1: out here against a good New Year team and put
Speaker 1: forth a good game and oakes, we're really good testing
Speaker 1: yes and no, I mean yes. And the fact that
Speaker 1: no one's gonna put more pressure on us than we are. Um,
Speaker 1: we hear everyone talking. But at the same time, we've
Speaker 1: invested so much in ourselves and in this team throughout
Speaker 1: the off season. No one works harder than us in
Speaker 1: the off season. In a summer Uh, I'm in a
Speaker 1: summer training camp as well, no one works harder than us.
Speaker 1: So in that regard, we're gonna put a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on ourselves to be successful. Obviously we're not up
Speaker 1: to part right now being for are seven, but we
Speaker 1: got a great opportunity these last five games kind of
Speaker 1: make a run. I'm trying to put that in the
Speaker 1: past now because we're on a new week, um and
Speaker 1: we got New England. But yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's frustrating because we feel like we have a great
Speaker 1: team and you know, we just haven't showed it the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. But we've got another opportunity this week
Speaker 1: to show it, so we can do it. There's no
Speaker 1: there's no one that can stop us except ourselves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously the season, you know, it hasn't gotten the way
Speaker 1: that we had hoped for. But you know, with that
Speaker 1: being said, we're still in a physician, you know, to
Speaker 1: get on a roll here and make the playoffs. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, every game from here on out, it's
Speaker 1: critical and I think we're all aware about that. Will
Speaker 1: wrap things up for this edition of the three sixty Update.
Speaker 1: We should have stay tuned to Philadelphia Eagles dot com
Speaker 1: as we get the eagles first official injury report of
Speaker 1: the week and for all the latest Eagles news. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much, Alex lots to get to. Today on the show,
Speaker 1: we will have a little look with Chip Kelly at
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, Tom Brady from the coaching standpoint. We've got
Speaker 1: some cover two for you. Chris McPherson. Howard Eskin on
Speaker 1: our air. We'll hear what he has to say about
Speaker 1: the Eagles at four and seven. But next step on
Speaker 1: three sixty here Eagles three sixty. Joe and I are
Speaker 1: going to take our deep dive, our first look at
Speaker 1: the new England Patriots ten and one with some new
Speaker 1: cast of characters around Tom Brady. They just signed Demarris Johnson.
Speaker 1: Could he be a factor in Sunday's game? Stay tuned.
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Speaker 1: Now we know it's the Patriots on Sunday, Joe, and
Speaker 1: we know it doesn't get a whole lot easier after
Speaker 1: that with Leshaun McCoy and the Buffalo Bills on a
Speaker 1: playoff drive, visiting Lincoln Financial Field in a week and
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, that game is going to be essential
Speaker 1: for this Eagle season to have a shot to become
Speaker 1: something that the Eagles are absolutely gonna have to beat
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Unfortunately, Dave, when you when you think
Speaker 1: about the New England game, so many people just think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a flat out loss. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's the reality of how a lot of people view it,
Speaker 1: which means, if it is a loss in those final
Speaker 1: four games, three of which are at home, the Eagles
Speaker 1: at that point would need to win three out of
Speaker 1: those four to get to seven wins, four out of
Speaker 1: four to get to eight wins. Obviously, seven maybe gives
Speaker 1: the Eagles a shot to win the division. Eight would
Speaker 1: put them in better shape, especially because those wins would
Speaker 1: involve beating Washington and the New York Giants and then
Speaker 1: you start working some tiebreaker factors and stuff of that nature.
Speaker 1: But without question, as Dave said, playing Lashawn McCoy in
Speaker 1: two weeks as the Eagles will, it's an absolutely essential game. Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm it's just so hard to look down the line.
Speaker 1: We've been doing it all season and it really hasn't worked.
Speaker 1: So let's take a look at the first look at
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and we started the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, the Marquet player in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: We've talked about how great he is. The big story
Speaker 1: here is the Eagles with Sam Bradford hopefully having no
Speaker 1: setbacks the rest of the week and getting his start. Joe,
Speaker 1: what could that mean for the Eagles offense? I think
Speaker 1: it can mean a better offense. Bradford was not, certainly
Speaker 1: by any standard, what the Eagles I think fully we're
Speaker 1: hoping for in the acquisition, essentially a big upgrade over
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. That that did not happen. But there's no
Speaker 1: doubt that Bradford was playing better before his injury, especially
Speaker 1: in those final couple of games before he got hurt,
Speaker 1: playing better than what Sanchez then came in and played
Speaker 1: as And you know, you go back to Bradford's injury,
Speaker 1: Eagles leading at the time, and it was two and
Speaker 1: a half games ago, and we know what happened when
Speaker 1: three losses since then. So you get Bradford in there,
Speaker 1: you hope you have a surge up, which I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles would Hopefully he's you know, healthy enough and
Speaker 1: the squad can respond. Tom Brady twenty eight touchdown passes
Speaker 1: just four interceptions remarkable. How about the running back position
Speaker 1: the Patriots earlier this year really relying on Dion Lewis,
Speaker 1: former Eagle, quite a bit. He's out for the season.
Speaker 1: Like Garrett Blunt brings it, He's a former Argon player,
Speaker 1: hard running guy, power back. Eagles have not stopped the
Speaker 1: run really very well at all the last three weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's got to improve a lot. I mean, you want
Speaker 1: to talk about the biggest area where I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles have have regressed the most dramatically in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, it's the runde and so yes, Blunt,
Speaker 1: you know, with an opportunity here, the way he runs,
Speaker 1: the style of his running and let's face fact, so
Speaker 1: much of the Patriots rushing success through the years has
Speaker 1: been predicated on the fact that defenses are built to
Speaker 1: stop Tom Brady's passing game. I mean, that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's obviously very simple the way that works in
Speaker 1: football schematically, with how teams match up against each other. Now,
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Patriots receivers being out, it
Speaker 1: could be a spot where there's going to be more
Speaker 1: emphasis defensively for the Eagles to stop Blant and give
Speaker 1: the Eagles a better chance in that regard. But as
Speaker 1: we know through the year's Dave, Bill Belichick and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady are so phenomenal at adapting their their approach week
Speaker 1: by week, quarter by quarter to the matchup they have
Speaker 1: and they just run weeks and they go after it,
Speaker 1: and they go after it, and they go after it
Speaker 1: and they go after it again. All Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at wide receiver for the Eagles. Jordan Matthews has
Speaker 1: been a productive player for the most part the season.
Speaker 1: Have been some ups and downs for him as far
Speaker 1: as dropped and for the New England Patriots skeleton crew.
Speaker 1: Brandon LaFell, former LSU the big time star there is
Speaker 1: really matured with New England. He's been a dependable receiver,
Speaker 1: not a game breaker at all, but he can get
Speaker 1: down the field. He's got some size, he'll break some tackles,
Speaker 1: and interesting to see how the Eagles work it with
Speaker 1: Byron Maxwell on one side Eric Rowe on the other side.
Speaker 1: I imagine that no matter where Eric Rowe is on
Speaker 1: the field, Tom Brady's gonna find him and throw at him. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question He'll be targeted and
Speaker 1: targeted often. And last week was tough. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. For Eric Rowe stepping in there, he struggled.
Speaker 1: You know, I also thought it was noteworthy that, you know,
Speaker 1: the play at the goal line, when Byron Maxwell is
Speaker 1: off the field and Malcolm Jenkins was on the field.
Speaker 1: You really, I think, want to see Byron Maxwell in
Speaker 1: those spots against the receiver as good as Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 1: So again, the Eagles cornerbacks got to be better. The
Speaker 1: safeties have got to be better. When we talk about
Speaker 1: the Patriots wide receivers, Dave, you know, obviously part of
Speaker 1: why you mentioned the receivers that you mentioned and not
Speaker 1: others is because there's some quality players that are out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't know about Damie m and Dollo. We know
Speaker 1: that Julian Edelman is not going to play. I'm not,
Speaker 1: again not sure it really matters a whole lot to
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He gets back, get rid of the football,
Speaker 1: puts in the right spot. And when you wonder who
Speaker 1: makes a player better? Does a wide receiver make a
Speaker 1: quarterback better? Does a quarterback make a wide receiver better?
Speaker 1: I think it's very obvious in this case that the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks make the wide receivers much much better tight end
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles. Friend Selik, who's been coming on
Speaker 1: feather touchdown against Detroit, the veteran just keeps chugging along
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's having a really good season. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: Selik's been a fantastic Eagle through the years, you know,
Speaker 1: now gone on, you know, almost a decade, and certainly
Speaker 1: one of the better Eagles for sure in that span
Speaker 1: of time, and still playing at a high level, still
Speaker 1: blocking well and contributing more and more in the passing
Speaker 1: attack over the last couple of weeks. Sin's good to
Speaker 1: see Print doing his thing, and zach Ertz, you know,
Speaker 1: we know, a contributor for sure as well. It'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see down the stretch here if Chip looks
Speaker 1: to prioritize having more two tight end formations. He's certainly
Speaker 1: been doing it more as the season's gone on. But
Speaker 1: you wonder at this point, with the struggles of the
Speaker 1: outside wide receivers, if it'll happen even more. Getting Darren
Speaker 1: Sproles also involved in the passing game for two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have we have and it hasn't happened. As much
Speaker 1: as you want to watch out for Scott Chandler. Really good,
Speaker 1: tall target for the Patriots, and he will be used,
Speaker 1: particularly in the red zone for Tom Brady, who obviously
Speaker 1: misses Rob Gronkowski. We don't expect Gronkowski to play, although
Speaker 1: you never know what gronkied might pull up Willows Reid
Speaker 1: and are you too young for Wills Reed? Well, I
Speaker 1: wasn't imported at that time, but I certainly know. Here's
Speaker 1: what I do now. No, Gronkowski is a big thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, Gronkowski is I think the best tight end
Speaker 1: and football. And I don't say this about too many
Speaker 1: people pops up from from time to time. Gronkowski is
Speaker 1: a player that if he continues on the raid he's
Speaker 1: been and stays you know, relatively injury free for a
Speaker 1: long period of time, which he hasn't done, but if
Speaker 1: he can sustain it enough as a guy headed to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, I mean, that's that's how good
Speaker 1: he is. There's no question, as Dave mentioned, tom Brady
Speaker 1: makes the receivers in large measure what they are, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't apply to Gronkowski specifically. Certainly Brady makes Gronkowski
Speaker 1: better than he would be if Brady didn't exist, but
Speaker 1: not to the same extent as he does with the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Gronkowski on his own as fully legit and
Speaker 1: so him not being in the game, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: we remember their struggles in playoff spots when he was
Speaker 1: injured a couple of years ago. So New England with
Speaker 1: altkronkowskis and we have to see if the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: can take advantage of a Patriots defense without linebackers Dante
Speaker 1: high Tower and Jamie Collins. Big losses for New England's defense.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Eagles defense struggling mightily in losses to
Speaker 1: Detroit and the week before to Tampa Bay. So that's
Speaker 1: your first look at the New England Patriots. They're pretty
Speaker 1: darn good, and you know that that coaching staff will
Speaker 1: have the Patriots ready to rebound after Sunday Night's loss
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Speaker 1: can start things off the bigger issues offensive side or
Speaker 1: defensive side. After the recent three games slide by the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I think that the bigger problems, the more systemic problems,
Speaker 1: are on the offensive side and defensively, this was a
Speaker 1: pretty good unit for the first half of the season
Speaker 1: that has obviously hit a skid in a major way.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about talent, I think it's still there.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a pretty decent front seven, and even
Speaker 1: the secondary, though it's been much maligned and has been
Speaker 1: given up big plays, most notably to Calvin Johnson last week, overall,
Speaker 1: hasn't been that bad and doesn't have a kind of
Speaker 1: a down talent level, Whereas on the offense, the offensive
Speaker 1: line it's it's hard to get that right. The wide
Speaker 1: receivers it's hard to make them appreciably better. So I
Speaker 1: would say the bigger issues is on the offensive side.
Speaker 1: Long term power degree or disagree, I don't actually agree,
Speaker 1: because you can't give up forty five points in two
Speaker 1: straight weeks and say, well, the defense is okay. That's
Speaker 1: just my point you got Byron Maxwell, who I think
Speaker 1: between us we could probably do a better job of
Speaker 1: touching people to try to tackle. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: be honest. Do you want me to be honest and
Speaker 1: being honest? And they're not getting a pass rush. They're
Speaker 1: not getting turnovers, which may create the pass rush, may
Speaker 1: create the turnovers. So if you don't get turnovers. When
Speaker 1: I look at Seattle, they beat Pittsburgh and they scored
Speaker 1: a lot of points, but I think the turnovers created
Speaker 1: twenty one points for Seattle in last week's game against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: You need that, and I think the last two or
Speaker 1: three weeks they haven't gotten a turnover. That's just it's terrible.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would count the safety, so I'll give
Speaker 1: them one of the Miami game that could count it,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't officially count as a turnover. However, they
Speaker 1: just need and now without Nolan Carroll, who wasn't a
Speaker 1: pro bowler, but he certainly cuts you down with the
Speaker 1: depth issue, Alonso is really not the same player as
Speaker 1: we saw before he went out injured. So I don't
Speaker 1: think the linebackers are giving him what they gave them before.
Speaker 1: You need some turnovers, and there's no question you're right
Speaker 1: about the offensive line quarterback situations up in flux, the
Speaker 1: running games, not their combination of things there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that aren't happening on offense. The reality is
Speaker 1: the team needs players in a lot of areas, whether
Speaker 1: it's offense or defense. But to your question, I would
Speaker 1: point to the defense first. You need some players, and
Speaker 1: they just right now don't have the players that are
Speaker 1: getting a job done or tim going to the offense.
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford should make his return this Sunday against New England.
Speaker 1: What would he bring to the offense. Will he give
Speaker 1: it a spark and be able to help maybe try
Speaker 1: to stem the tide so to speak. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that it's going to look like a cleaner operation overall,
Speaker 1: and I think that they're will be a little bit
Speaker 1: more juice within the team. I'm not gonna draw a
Speaker 1: direct comparison and correlation to the fact that they gave
Speaker 1: up forty five points and they looked like a mess
Speaker 1: when Bradford was out of the lineup, But there is
Speaker 1: kind of a sense, I think around this locker room
Speaker 1: right now where they just have been zapped and so
Speaker 1: I don't think that Sam bradford injury helped them in
Speaker 1: that respect. I mean, you get warmed down, and this
Speaker 1: is why I point more to the offense. I think
Speaker 1: that some of the defensive problems relate actually back to
Speaker 1: the offense, Howard, Because if you have an offense that
Speaker 1: is a napped week after week, that is doing these
Speaker 1: quick three and outs right back on the field, if
Speaker 1: if the number of players are getting logged more and
Speaker 1: more on the defensive side, eventually, I think that's going
Speaker 1: to suck some life out of you. And that's basically
Speaker 1: what we saw the last two weeks against Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: and against Detroit. Bradford comes in and he's not going
Speaker 1: to be a cure all, but I do think that
Speaker 1: there's going to be a little bit more energy to
Speaker 1: the team with him in there. Yeah, and I agree
Speaker 1: that Bradford will make things better. He's obviously Mark is
Speaker 1: a good bat, Mark Sanchez a good backup. But Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford has to be the guy that the Eagles traded
Speaker 1: for and has to generate some offense with the passing game.
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's part of it, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: the offense that created that. What was it a fifteen play,
Speaker 1: ten minute drive that Tampa had to start the second half,
Speaker 1: So the offense didn't go three and out to start
Speaker 1: that drive, And I know that you guys are all, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if the offense goes three and out, is the defense weren't.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the h I believe that the tempo
Speaker 1: has an adverse effect, absolutely, But Bill Davis pointed out
Speaker 1: this week that they still had the same amount of
Speaker 1: defensive series that are the average. So it's not they're
Speaker 1: just not getting it done. That's what's he gonna say. Though,
Speaker 1: He's gonna put the finger to chip and so yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to slow it down. I mean, there's people
Speaker 1: on this team that believe that it needs to be
Speaker 1: that needs to be slowed down. And year after year
Speaker 1: after year, they're last in snaps against. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: they if they huddle, they have the players to make
Speaker 1: it if they have a huddle. And so you're playing defensive,
Speaker 1: you're playing offense defensively the strength of your team. Well,
Speaker 1: so you're limiting the exposure that your defense. But your
Speaker 1: defense isn't your strength right now, well not anymore. It's
Speaker 1: not because it's it's been beaten down. Well, see, it's
Speaker 1: been beaten down because they're not getting it done. Because
Speaker 1: the players on that side of the ball aren't getting
Speaker 1: it done. I don't believe they're worn out. Hey listen,
Speaker 1: it's only a sixteen minute game. Even if it's three
Speaker 1: and out. They're coming. They're high level athletes that got
Speaker 1: to stop the other team and got to put the
Speaker 1: offense in position to give them a chance. Now, there's
Speaker 1: been a few games where they've put them in position
Speaker 1: and they haven't scored touchdowns, and that I agree that
Speaker 1: is a problem as well. But hey, listen, whatever they
Speaker 1: do the huddle is not going to change it. You
Speaker 1: gotta have You gotta make plays, and I don't care
Speaker 1: how you make them. You gotta make plays. And right
Speaker 1: now the team's not making plays. All right. How are
Speaker 1: last thoughts here? How do the Eagles beat the Patriots?
Speaker 1: Pray Tom Brady gets knocked out in the first series?
Speaker 1: How's that? How's that for a How's that for a reason?
Speaker 1: I actually think it can be close now with a
Speaker 1: lot of breaks and turnovers and you're not going to
Speaker 1: get from Tom Brady. And the reason I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be close is because one of the reasons
Speaker 1: the Patriots have lost a lot of their offense with
Speaker 1: the receivers and Gronkowski won't play, Lewis Old sudden now
Speaker 1: he's a star. He wasn't with the Eagles, but now
Speaker 1: he was a star with them. But whatever, they just
Speaker 1: plug people in. But there's a point where you can't
Speaker 1: keep one plugging people in and hope it's going to work.
Speaker 1: So I don't think the Patriots will score a lot
Speaker 1: they do. The defense really has got to be skeward here.
Speaker 1: But I think that's the reason they can keep it close.
Speaker 1: Can they win? Ay? Listen? AJ Philey went in there.
Speaker 1: How many years ago? Was that? Yeah? And almost did it.
Speaker 1: Now that's a past history and it's a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and nobody had any expectations. I think the Eagles were
Speaker 1: like a fourteen point underdog that game. They're ten this week.
Speaker 1: They can keep it close. Miracles miracle, Tim, you have
Speaker 1: the final word, all right, Well, I think if the
Speaker 1: pass rush is really going to come down to that,
Speaker 1: and Howard you rightly hit on that that the pass
Speaker 1: rush has been pretty much non existent recently and that's
Speaker 1: a big part of their issues. If they can generate
Speaker 1: a rush on Tom Brady, then they have a chance.
Speaker 1: If they don't, they have none. Even if even if
Speaker 1: the weapons are depleted and they are for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: Brady can still carve your part any will if you
Speaker 1: give him time. So if the pass rush can get home,
Speaker 1: then maybe they got shot. He's to mcmason Birds twenty
Speaker 1: four seven. He's Howard asking from Fox twenty nine and
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Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Patriots this week. Want to start
Speaker 1: on the sidelines first, Coach, and I know you love
Speaker 1: the game. You love the challenge of coaching against the
Speaker 1: best minds in the football world. What's that like for
Speaker 1: you every week? Hey, I don't you know. You'd probably
Speaker 1: think of it in retrospect after the game is over,
Speaker 1: but you earlier focus is just going against a really
Speaker 1: good Patriots team. You know that that I've said before.
Speaker 1: They have a Hall of Fame coach, but they also
Speaker 1: have a Hall of Fame quarterback. So you know, really
Speaker 1: that match up with our defense versus is good a
Speaker 1: quarterback to ever play the game? I think that's the
Speaker 1: that's the real challenge for us. Let's talk about coach Belichick.
Speaker 1: What's he do so well. That has made him so
Speaker 1: successful year after years. I think his teams are just
Speaker 1: always prepared no matter what the situation is from terms
Speaker 1: of the players that he has available to him. He
Speaker 1: puts his players in position to make plays and they do.
Speaker 1: I mean, his success record, especially in New England, is
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of off the charts in terms
Speaker 1: of how many games they want, how many championships they won.
Speaker 1: So um just always is a good job of putting
Speaker 1: his players in position to make plays. Over the years,
Speaker 1: the no matter the personnel, Tom Brady has won games,
Speaker 1: move that offense had success. What is so good about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Uh, you know, he's everything you want in
Speaker 1: a quarterback. He's got repetitive accuracy, is extremely tough. Um
Speaker 1: he's seen it all. You know, any coverage ever thrown
Speaker 1: out on every front, any any blitz that can be
Speaker 1: brought to him, He's seen it before and can recall it.
Speaker 1: Um gets really runs the offense on the field and
Speaker 1: checks plays, checks protections and um. You know, I think,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of cocks have the intelligent
Speaker 1: factor that, but then to have the toughness he has
Speaker 1: in it and the competitiveness he has in the accuracy
Speaker 1: he has is what kind of separates him. What do
Speaker 1: they do so well from a scheme standpoint offensively, it's
Speaker 1: just they're they're always in the right play because he's
Speaker 1: calling plays on the line of scrimmage. Self. It is
Speaker 1: early in the training week. We don't know whether Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford will play on Sunday. I just wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you what kind of progress you saw from him before
Speaker 1: his injury. Seemed like he was getting better and better
Speaker 1: and better he was, you know, and it's just a
Speaker 1: maturation project. You're talking about Tom who's been in the
Speaker 1: same offense for fifteen sixteen years now, and Sam's been
Speaker 1: in our offense for fifteen sixteen weeks, you know, if
Speaker 1: you count preseason. So but we've seen him get better
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. You know, he played really well
Speaker 1: against Alice, was playing well against Miami before he got injured.
Speaker 1: Just getting more comfortable in terms of the scheme and
Speaker 1: understanding the protections and know more people are He's obviously
Speaker 1: got a tremendous skill set, but you could just see
Speaker 1: him kind of the game slowing down for him. The
Speaker 1: offensive line has had some in and outs with players
Speaker 1: being up and down and hurt, and I wondered if
Speaker 1: has that been a setback in terms of not having
Speaker 1: a continuity. And I mean, we don't use any injuries
Speaker 1: as any excuse. Everybody in the National Football League has
Speaker 1: lost players at this point in time, So you just
Speaker 1: prepare the players you have and go play them as
Speaker 1: they come. Passing game, what have you seen from the
Speaker 1: Eagles of Leads, um, You know, again, we've we've been
Speaker 1: a little bit inconsistent. I think we're catching the ball better,
Speaker 1: um than we did earlier in the year. You know.
Speaker 1: Obviously our drops are down from where they were earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, um, you know, and we're moving the
Speaker 1: ball through the year where I think we had had
Speaker 1: some guys. Trey Burton stepped up and had a nice
Speaker 1: had a nice couple plays for us on Thursday against
Speaker 1: the Lions. You know, some guys are filling in there
Speaker 1: with Zach being out, um. But you know, I've seen
Speaker 1: improvement there in our passing game. On the defensive side,
Speaker 1: the rookie Eric Rowe has more responsibility at cornerback. What
Speaker 1: are some of the challenges that a young guy like
Speaker 1: that has as he matures his game, just getting used
Speaker 1: to the game, itself. You know, you're you're playing against um,
Speaker 1: great players weekend and week out. You know, we got
Speaker 1: matched up with Calvin Johnson there in the second half
Speaker 1: a little bit when when no one went down. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, in just getting a feel for the speed
Speaker 1: and the timing of the game. You know, as you're
Speaker 1: out there at a full time basis. Back to Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: just a bid. He's not going to be fooled by
Speaker 1: anything that he sees. So what do you emphasize to
Speaker 1: the defensive players when you when you play are the
Speaker 1: points of empasis against the guy like that? Well, you
Speaker 1: have to be sound. You know you're not going to
Speaker 1: fool him and come up with something that he's never
Speaker 1: seen and say, hey we if we do this, we're
Speaker 1: gonna trick him. You know you're not gonna trick him.
Speaker 1: You gotta be sound. Um, you got to contest every throw.
Speaker 1: You need to generate a pass rush so that he
Speaker 1: doesn't have time to just kind of pick you apart
Speaker 1: so the ball, get the ball to come out of
Speaker 1: his hands quickly. And then as the ball strow, we
Speaker 1: need we need to rally to the ball and if
Speaker 1: it is completed, we need to tackle really well, coach,
Speaker 1: thank very much. Good look on Sunday, thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 1: Joe on what you think you're going to see on
Speaker 1: Sunday Eagles Patriots. In the end, I think I'm going
Speaker 1: to see a loss from the Eagles, because that's what
Speaker 1: happens when you face a ten on one team with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's on the other side. New England's very motivated
Speaker 1: coming off that loss to Denver and certainly still in
Speaker 1: a fight with five games for them to go in
Speaker 1: their season to try to capture home field advantage in
Speaker 1: the AFC, and we know, you know through the year's
Speaker 1: house significance that that's been You can just go back
Speaker 1: two years ago and in a Tom Brady loses to
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning on the road in an ANFC championship game.
Speaker 1: So certainly he's going to be extremely motivated now when
Speaker 1: we step back from what a lot of us think
Speaker 1: will be the inevitable situation at the end of the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday Day, which you know, again a lot
Speaker 1: of people think will be a loss. What are the Eagles?
Speaker 1: What are the Eagles have to do to try to
Speaker 1: prevent that from happening. Well, obviously, play better football on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Defensively, they've got to show
Speaker 1: up the run defense, which has been a big problem.
Speaker 1: The cornerbacks and safeties have got to play a lot,
Speaker 1: but it it got a long list here, by the way,
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and safeties getting that in fresh. The offensive line
Speaker 1: offensively has to both the run block and pass block better.
Speaker 1: The quarterback position, whoever plays, you know, hopefully it's Bradford,
Speaker 1: has to be better. Can you tell us what doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be better? Fletcher Cox does not need to
Speaker 1: play better football. Everything else got to fifty two other
Speaker 1: guys play better. Fletcher Cox. Keep doing what you're doing, buddy. Okay,
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm calling Eagles twenty four Patriots thirteen.
Speaker 1: You've heard it here first, Well, good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I'm an optimist. What is coming up on Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: four you Tomorroko by mcdown studio his bold predictions, which
Speaker 1: are bold, brash, and often wrong. We go with the
Speaker 1: Meryl Reese portion of the show. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: great to hear from Merrill. He was very critical of
Speaker 1: the Eagles against the Lions, deservedly, so we'll give him
Speaker 1: in studio and we go behind enemy Lions. Chris mcpheerson
Speaker 1: talking with the guys in New England who absolutely adore
Speaker 1: this football team that just wins and rooms and nights. Joe,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The NFL is about quarterbacks and coaching. Okay,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and coaching, and there's no better demonstration of that
Speaker 1: than the New England Patriots. They've got the quarterback, their
Speaker 1: coaches make everything around them better and that's why the
Speaker 1: Patriots win. It's very simple. Let me ask you one
Speaker 1: question here. Yeah, through the years, decade and a half,
Speaker 1: none I don't know the answer. To this. The Patriots
Speaker 1: success obviously primarily is Day's mashing the quarterback and the coaching.
Speaker 1: Give me a percentage breakdown, Belichick Brady, who is more responsible?
Speaker 1: Belichick took a six about that. It took a sixth
Speaker 1: round draft pick and made him into a Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame best ever quarterback. And when you take quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: put them in the wrong system around the wrong coaches,
Speaker 1: those players, whether their first round picks as we saw
Speaker 1: with Tim Couch or second pick overalls like Donnis McNab
Speaker 1: who came to the right system. A stable coaching staff,
Speaker 1: a good offensive line, good enough weapons around him, organizational
Speaker 1: stability that plays a huge part in development of a player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is your your head coach, is your CEO
Speaker 1: of the franchise. He is your number one most valued asset.
Speaker 1: Was Walsh more important to San Frand than Montana? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I mean, Dave might
Speaker 1: be already might be wrong. I mean there's something he
Speaker 1: said for this wrong without without you know, without as well,
Speaker 1: have Steve Young pop in there from for games? Well,
Speaker 1: everybody where was Steve Young before that? He was such
Speaker 1: a he was so great. He was in the USFLS
Speaker 1: he was coming. Yeah, okay, we can talk about him.
Speaker 1: I got you there on that one for Jodey Camera,
Speaker 1: Dave Spidero, well, thank you for joining us on Eagles
Speaker 1: three sixty. Have yourselves a great Eagles Day.