WEBVTT - Eagles 360: Quarterback Picture Clarifying 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.519 Hello everyone, and welcome to Eagles three sixty. Here at 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.599 an overcare complex in our Extinity studio. I'm Dave Spiderow 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.640 along with Joe did camera and it's the hump day. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.000 We are getting ready for the new England Patriots, a 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.280 chance to see Tom terrific with a depleted cast of 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.640 characters around him. And honestly, Joe, I don't think it 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.600 matters for the guy now, brill Look, Brady's amazing. He's 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.360 I mean, he might be the best of all time. Yeah, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.000 it is the best of all time. I think I'm 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:59.600 ready to go there. I last year, at the end 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.920 of playoff, I was still Brady Montana kind of equal 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.920 issue Montana with Hall of Famer Jerry Rice and great 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.440 receiver John Taylor and great running back Roger Craig and 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:14.520 great tight ends in Brent Jones, etc. Great coach. To me, 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.960 Brady has done it the longest with a group around 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.000 him that has changed a lot. And there really are 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.400 no stars except I mean, Gronkowski is a great player, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.800 but there have been no great wide receivers and no 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.959 great running backs. Really, I think it's fair, Dave. Other 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.680 than a couple of years with Randy Moss as we know, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.240 and Wes Walker was a contributor for sure. But now, Dave, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.280 I think you're on point there. It's it's absolutely been 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.280 amazing what Tom Brady has been able to do in 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.319 the length of time now about decade and a half 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.280 and think about that, a decade and a half in 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.640 this So yes, to heck of a challenge for the 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.680 Eagles to go up against Tom Brady. We know there's 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.360 a lot of players out from New England. Just it 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.280 creates well, yes, some additional opportunity for the Eagles, certainly, 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.000 but still an unbelievable challenge in that if you're Bill Davis, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.520 mister talk show host, what are you doing in this game? 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.160 What's your scheme? First off, I think the criticism of 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.560 Bill Davis in one regard is unfair, the fact that 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.640 people are so heavily criticizing what happened with you know, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.200 Eric Rowe in the coverage in the second half of 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.600 that game versus Detroit. The bottom line is a defensive 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.400 coordinator has to mix and match. It's not as simple 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.680 as just double team one player every play, because if 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:20.960 you do that, it's going to be hard as heck 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.720 to ever have a blitz. So you got people saying, hey, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.680 you got a blitz. You got people saying, hey, you 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.480 got a double team. Well wait a minute, you can't 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.600 have it both ways. Obviously, what Bill Davis is trying 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.640 to do is mix and match. Now, as we know 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.840 Dave in the process of mixing and matching the other day, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.400 the reality was there were times where Eric Row clearly 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.760 got beat and got beat bad so. But it's just 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.400 not as simple as I think some people make it 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.760 and sound. With that said, the bottom line is that 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.600 you know, they've got to play better football. I think 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.760 they've got to play some more inspired football. And the secondary, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.639 which really has struggled dramatically in the last couple of weeks, 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.400 and this includes the safeties as well, they've got to 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.400 play a lot better. Yeah, and the run game doesn't 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.680 get excused in that of the whole defense. Obviously, when 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.280 you give up forty five points in back to back games, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.040 nobody gets a pass on that defensive side of the ball. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.920 Let's get you caught up with everything happening. We've got 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.960 a great show for you today, Chip Kelly in studio. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.560 We take a deep look at the New England Patriots. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.679 But first let's get you caught up on what's going 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.520 on here at the Novacare Complex. The players in full 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.360 pads in the training facility today. We've got your three 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.400 sixty update right here. Hi everyone, I'm Alex Smith and 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.280 this is your three sixty update. Another rainy day here 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.080 at the Novacare Complex, but the Eagles did practice outside 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.480 today as they get ready for the Elements on Sunday 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.359 in New England. The big story today centered around quarterback 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.280 Sam Bradford, who said that, barring any setbacks, he does 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.120 expect to play on Sunday. Today we heard from Bradford 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.840 and head coach Chip Kelly on how the Eagles quarterback 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.880 has been progressing. You know, he threw the ball and 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.280 it was just good to see him get backut in 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:48.839 the field and told the ball. The thing that we'll 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.800 see is can he is there residual effects of him 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.080 throwing it? How about where's the soreness level and things 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.520 like that, And we'll find that out a little bit 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.720 more today. So it gets bigger as a week goes on. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.840 I mean, I hope. So, you know, I think, barring 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.240 any setbacks, you know, I expect to But you know, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:04.720 at the end of the day. That's going to be 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.320 up to coaching the training staff if they feel that, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:08.840 you know, I'm ready to go out there and it 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.880 play at a high level. The Eagles may have lost 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.000 three games in a row, but players inside the locker 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.160 room are not putting their heads down. We heard from 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:17.960 a number of players today who spoke about how the 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.920 team is keeping their head up high heading into Sunday's game. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.320 I mean, obviously, we played really really poorly the last 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.080 couple of weeks, and you know, if we can come 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.800 out here against a good New Year team and put 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:36.680 forth a good game and oakes, we're really good testing 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.640 yes and no, I mean yes. And the fact that 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.920 no one's gonna put more pressure on us than we are. Um, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.520 we hear everyone talking. But at the same time, we've 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.960 invested so much in ourselves and in this team throughout 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.520 the off season. No one works harder than us in 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.280 the off season. In a summer Uh, I'm in a 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.320 summer training camp as well, no one works harder than us. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.200 So in that regard, we're gonna put a lot of 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.960 pressure on ourselves to be successful. Obviously we're not up 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.080 to part right now being for are seven, but we 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.120 got a great opportunity these last five games kind of 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.719 make a run. I'm trying to put that in the 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.480 past now because we're on a new week, um and 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.760 we got New England. But yeah, I mean, I think 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.400 it's frustrating because we feel like we have a great 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.159 team and you know, we just haven't showed it the 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.880 last few weeks. But we've got another opportunity this week 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.200 to show it, so we can do it. There's no 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.000 there's no one that can stop us except ourselves. Yeah, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.360 obviously the season, you know, it hasn't gotten the way 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.240 that we had hoped for. But you know, with that 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.520 being said, we're still in a physician, you know, to 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.400 get on a roll here and make the playoffs. But yeah, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.760 like you said, every game from here on out, it's 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.520 critical and I think we're all aware about that. Will 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.120 wrap things up for this edition of the three sixty Update. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.400 We should have stay tuned to Philadelphia Eagles dot com 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.800 as we get the eagles first official injury report of 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.640 the week and for all the latest Eagles news. Thanks 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.719 so much, Alex lots to get to. 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For the only one verified way to 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:31.480 buy or sell NFL tickets, visit NFL ticket exchange dot com. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.000 Now we know it's the Patriots on Sunday, Joe, and 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.360 we know it doesn't get a whole lot easier after 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.080 that with Leshaun McCoy and the Buffalo Bills on a 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.559 playoff drive, visiting Lincoln Financial Field in a week and 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.040 a half. Yeah, that game is going to be essential 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.400 for this Eagle season to have a shot to become 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.319 something that the Eagles are absolutely gonna have to beat 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.160 the Buffalo Bills. Unfortunately, Dave, when you when you think 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.360 about the New England game, so many people just think 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:58.880 it's gonna be a flat out loss. I mean, that's 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:00.680 that's the reality of how a lot of people view it, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.000 which means, if it is a loss in those final 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.040 four games, three of which are at home, the Eagles 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.080 at that point would need to win three out of 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.480 those four to get to seven wins, four out of 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.560 four to get to eight wins. Obviously, seven maybe gives 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.400 the Eagles a shot to win the division. Eight would 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.480 put them in better shape, especially because those wins would 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.040 involve beating Washington and the New York Giants and then 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.080 you start working some tiebreaker factors and stuff of that nature. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.040 But without question, as Dave said, playing Lashawn McCoy in 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.520 two weeks as the Eagles will, it's an absolutely essential game. Dave. Yeah, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.560 I'm it's just so hard to look down the line. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.520 We've been doing it all season and it really hasn't worked. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.000 So let's take a look at the first look at 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.800 the New England Patriots, and we started the quarterback position. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.920 Tom Brady, the Marquet player in the National Football League. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.760 We've talked about how great he is. The big story 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.760 here is the Eagles with Sam Bradford hopefully having no 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.600 setbacks the rest of the week and getting his start. Joe, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.200 what could that mean for the Eagles offense? I think 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.640 it can mean a better offense. Bradford was not, certainly 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.719 by any standard, what the Eagles I think fully we're 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.360 hoping for in the acquisition, essentially a big upgrade over 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.840 Nick Foles. That that did not happen. But there's no 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.160 doubt that Bradford was playing better before his injury, especially 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.880 in those final couple of games before he got hurt, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.720 playing better than what Sanchez then came in and played 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.240 as And you know, you go back to Bradford's injury, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.000 Eagles leading at the time, and it was two and 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.600 a half games ago, and we know what happened when 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.880 three losses since then. So you get Bradford in there, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.040 you hope you have a surge up, which I think 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.120 the Eagles would Hopefully he's you know, healthy enough and 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.520 the squad can respond. Tom Brady twenty eight touchdown passes 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.760 just four interceptions remarkable. How about the running back position 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.640 the Patriots earlier this year really relying on Dion Lewis, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.720 former Eagle, quite a bit. He's out for the season. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.280 Like Garrett Blunt brings it, He's a former Argon player, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.760 hard running guy, power back. Eagles have not stopped the 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.079 run really very well at all the last three weeks. Yeah, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.800 that's got to improve a lot. I mean, you want 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.680 to talk about the biggest area where I think the 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.880 Eagles have have regressed the most dramatically in the last 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.440 couple of weeks, it's the runde and so yes, Blunt, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.760 you know, with an opportunity here, the way he runs, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.760 the style of his running and let's face fact, so 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.640 much of the Patriots rushing success through the years has 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.800 been predicated on the fact that defenses are built to 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.559 stop Tom Brady's passing game. I mean, that's you know, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.880 it's it's obviously very simple the way that works in 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.920 football schematically, with how teams match up against each other. Now, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.560 when you talk about the Patriots receivers being out, it 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.199 could be a spot where there's going to be more 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.640 emphasis defensively for the Eagles to stop Blant and give 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.600 the Eagles a better chance in that regard. But as 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.920 we know through the year's Dave, Bill Belichick and Tom 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:37.960 Brady are so phenomenal at adapting their their approach week 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.880 by week, quarter by quarter to the matchup they have 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.200 and they just run weeks and they go after it, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.440 and they go after it, and they go after it 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:45.679 and they go after it again. All Let's take a 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.160 look at wide receiver for the Eagles. Jordan Matthews has 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.480 been a productive player for the most part the season. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.040 Have been some ups and downs for him as far 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.920 as dropped and for the New England Patriots skeleton crew. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.200 Brandon LaFell, former LSU the big time star there is 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.560 really matured with New England. He's been a dependable receiver, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.079 not a game breaker at all, but he can get 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.360 down the field. He's got some size, he'll break some tackles, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.000 and interesting to see how the Eagles work it with 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.200 Byron Maxwell on one side Eric Rowe on the other side. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.160 I imagine that no matter where Eric Rowe is on 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.280 the field, Tom Brady's gonna find him and throw at him. Yeah, No, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.200 I don't think there's any question He'll be targeted and 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.319 targeted often. And last week was tough. There's no doubt 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.520 about it. For Eric Rowe stepping in there, he struggled. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.320 You know, I also thought it was noteworthy that, you know, 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.679 the play at the goal line, when Byron Maxwell is 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.880 off the field and Malcolm Jenkins was on the field. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.920 You really, I think, want to see Byron Maxwell in 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.920 those spots against the receiver as good as Calvin Johnson. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.880 So again, the Eagles cornerbacks got to be better. The 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.839 safeties have got to be better. When we talk about 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.080 the Patriots wide receivers, Dave, you know, obviously part of 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.280 why you mentioned the receivers that you mentioned and not 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.880 others is because there's some quality players that are out. Yeah, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.520 we don't know about Damie m and Dollo. We know 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.200 that Julian Edelman is not going to play. I'm not, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.240 again not sure it really matters a whole lot to 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.080 Tom Brady. He gets back, get rid of the football, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.320 puts in the right spot. And when you wonder who 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.240 makes a player better? Does a wide receiver make a 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.480 quarterback better? Does a quarterback make a wide receiver better? 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.520 I think it's very obvious in this case that the 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.719 quarterbacks make the wide receivers much much better tight end 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.400 for the Philadelphia Eagles. Friend Selik, who's been coming on 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.000 feather touchdown against Detroit, the veteran just keeps chugging along 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.960 all of a sudden, he's having a really good season. Yeah, listen, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.680 Selik's been a fantastic Eagle through the years, you know, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.600 now gone on, you know, almost a decade, and certainly 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.120 one of the better Eagles for sure in that span 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.280 of time, and still playing at a high level, still 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.640 blocking well and contributing more and more in the passing 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.240 attack over the last couple of weeks. Sin's good to 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.240 see Print doing his thing, and zach Ertz, you know, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.439 we know, a contributor for sure as well. It'll be 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.560 interesting to see down the stretch here if Chip looks 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.160 to prioritize having more two tight end formations. He's certainly 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.040 been doing it more as the season's gone on. But 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.040 you wonder at this point, with the struggles of the 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.079 outside wide receivers, if it'll happen even more. Getting Darren 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.600 Sproles also involved in the passing game for two years. Yeah, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.720 we have we have and it hasn't happened. As much 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.000 as you want to watch out for Scott Chandler. Really good, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.800 tall target for the Patriots, and he will be used, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:05.480 particularly in the red zone for Tom Brady, who obviously 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.360 misses Rob Gronkowski. We don't expect Gronkowski to play, although 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.000 you never know what gronkied might pull up Willows Reid 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.600 and are you too young for Wills Reed? Well, I 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.520 wasn't imported at that time, but I certainly know. Here's 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.720 what I do now. No, Gronkowski is a big thing. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.680 I mean, Gronkowski is I think the best tight end 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.800 and football. And I don't say this about too many 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.320 people pops up from from time to time. Gronkowski is 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.480 a player that if he continues on the raid he's 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.280 been and stays you know, relatively injury free for a 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.880 long period of time, which he hasn't done, but if 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.680 he can sustain it enough as a guy headed to 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.080 the Hall of Fame, I mean, that's that's how good 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.800 he is. There's no question, as Dave mentioned, tom Brady 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.480 makes the receivers in large measure what they are, but 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.160 that doesn't apply to Gronkowski specifically. Certainly Brady makes Gronkowski 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.320 better than he would be if Brady didn't exist, but 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:50.760 not to the same extent as he does with the 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.080 wide receivers. Gronkowski on his own as fully legit and 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.160 so him not being in the game, you know, listen, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.800 we remember their struggles in playoff spots when he was 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.000 injured a couple of years ago. So New England with 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.120 altkronkowskis and we have to see if the Eagles offense 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.440 can take advantage of a Patriots defense without linebackers Dante 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.480 high Tower and Jamie Collins. Big losses for New England's defense. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.040 Of course, the Eagles defense struggling mightily in losses to 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.800 Detroit and the week before to Tampa Bay. So that's 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.320 your first look at the New England Patriots. 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Are 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.520 the three straight games they're going into Foxborough, New England 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.120 or We're going to figure out how they can get 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.200 a victory. And to help me project that, I run 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.159 timoc Mass from Birds twenty four seven and Howard Askin, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.200 sideline reporter for Sports Radio ninety four w IPS broadcasting 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.760 Eagles games as well as a sports anchor for Fox 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.160 twenty nine. Now, guys, I kind of maybe flue into 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.840 a trap there. Didn't tell you we're off the bat. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.720 We're gonna explain how the Eagles will win this game. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.119 Segment's gonna be one an hour and a half. Problems. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.320 We're gonna fix everything right here. So but Tim, you 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.520 can start things off the bigger issues offensive side or 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.520 defensive side. After the recent three games slide by the Eagles, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.960 I think that the bigger problems, the more systemic problems, 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.520 are on the offensive side and defensively, this was a 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.560 pretty good unit for the first half of the season 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.320 that has obviously hit a skid in a major way. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.880 But when you're talking about talent, I think it's still there. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.040 You know, that's a pretty decent front seven, and even 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.280 the secondary, though it's been much maligned and has been 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:48.720 given up big plays, most notably to Calvin Johnson last week, overall, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.040 hasn't been that bad and doesn't have a kind of 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.680 a down talent level, Whereas on the offense, the offensive 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.160 line it's it's hard to get that right. The wide 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.560 receivers it's hard to make them appreciably better. So I 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.119 would say the bigger issues is on the offensive side. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.399 Long term power degree or disagree, I don't actually agree, 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.400 because you can't give up forty five points in two 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:14.040 straight weeks and say, well, the defense is okay. That's 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.040 just my point you got Byron Maxwell, who I think 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.639 between us we could probably do a better job of 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.000 touching people to try to tackle. I'm just trying to 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.359 be honest. Do you want me to be honest and 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.520 being honest? And they're not getting a pass rush. They're 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.600 not getting turnovers, which may create the pass rush, may 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.320 create the turnovers. So if you don't get turnovers. When 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.000 I look at Seattle, they beat Pittsburgh and they scored 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.200 a lot of points, but I think the turnovers created 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.359 twenty one points for Seattle in last week's game against Pittsburgh. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.760 You need that, and I think the last two or 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.600 three weeks they haven't gotten a turnover. That's just it's terrible. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.560 I mean, I would count the safety, so I'll give 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.800 them one of the Miami game that could count it, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.480 but it doesn't officially count as a turnover. However, they 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.359 just need and now without Nolan Carroll, who wasn't a 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.600 pro bowler, but he certainly cuts you down with the 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.160 depth issue, Alonso is really not the same player as 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.480 we saw before he went out injured. So I don't 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.680 think the linebackers are giving him what they gave them before. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.560 You need some turnovers, and there's no question you're right 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.480 about the offensive line quarterback situations up in flux, the 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.639 running games, not their combination of things there's a lot 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.520 of things that aren't happening on offense. The reality is 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.000 the team needs players in a lot of areas, whether 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.760 it's offense or defense. But to your question, I would 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.000 point to the defense first. You need some players, and 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.159