Speaker 1: Eagles Entertainment All right, seventeen to ten as your final
Speaker 1: score as the Eagles fall to the Patriots. No points
Speaker 1: scored by either team in the fourth quarter. After going
Speaker 1: up ten to zero, the Eagles do not get it done.
Speaker 1: Patriots come from behind seventeen to seventeen to ten year
Speaker 1: final score. Thanks for joining us on the postgame show,
Speaker 1: Amy Campbell, fran Duffie, Ike Reece joining me as always
Speaker 1: to break it down. Guys, Let's just start with some
Speaker 1: initial thoughts. This was kind of hard to watch for me.
Speaker 1: What was your initial thoughts? I thought the game, you know,
Speaker 1: played out exactly the way I figured it would. I
Speaker 1: knew this would be an ugly defensive type of performance.
Speaker 1: Either one of these offenses are very explosive at this point. Eagles,
Speaker 1: due to their lack of personnel on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, not having al Sean Jeffrey and Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard certainly was going to limit some of the things
Speaker 1: they could do offensively in New England all year long
Speaker 1: if you follow them. If they don't typically get turnovers
Speaker 1: in short fields, their offense isn't as explosive either. So
Speaker 1: the Eagles, with the one turn over the day able
Speaker 1: to hold them to three. Other than that you saw,
Speaker 1: other than that first drive out of the locker room
Speaker 1: at halftime, New England really struggled to move the ball today.
Speaker 1: I thought it would come down to a single possession
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and it was gonna be can
Speaker 1: you make plays in crunch time against one of the
Speaker 1: best defenses in the league. And you got to give
Speaker 1: New England a lot of credit. Man, they didn't give
Speaker 1: up the plays when it was time too. I love
Speaker 1: the way our defense kept us in the game throughout
Speaker 1: the day, really harassing Tom Brady, keeping everything in front
Speaker 1: of them, really giving this team a chance to stay
Speaker 1: in this game while the offense struggled to find their footing.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense put they matched New England's defensive performance.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, we just couldn't pull it out in
Speaker 1: the end. I think when you talk about complimentary football,
Speaker 1: this game was a great example of that, because you know,
Speaker 1: when the offense doesn't have its best day, you're missing
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, you're missing Alshon Jeffrey obviously to shun Jackson again.
Speaker 1: But I think when you look at you know the
Speaker 1: offense coming to this game, they're under man Defensively, they
Speaker 1: came to play and what they did against Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in this offense, I think it is very commendable. They
Speaker 1: did a great job of highlighting that throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the broadcast though so for those at home they
Speaker 1: were watching the game, they got to kind of see that.
Speaker 1: But defensively, you got to give him a lot of credit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: defense doing their job, giving their offense a chance to
Speaker 1: win the game at the end going down the field.
Speaker 1: Can't ask for too much more than that from the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense against Tom Brady. Let's head back over to
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field. Dave Spadaro standing by, Dave, you got
Speaker 1: to see this one up close, catch the vibes of everything.
Speaker 1: Let's give us some of your initial thoughts on this
Speaker 1: Eagles loss. Yeah. I really like the way the Eagles
Speaker 1: came out offensively. They mixed it up. The ninety five
Speaker 1: yard drive was absolute perfection. Sixteen plays, nine and a
Speaker 1: half minutes. And then Lane Johnson went out of the
Speaker 1: game and the offense went nothing, no rhyme, no rhythm.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz didn't play a good football game, didn't get
Speaker 1: help around him. The running game was not utilized. Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders in the passing game. At times I saw the
Speaker 1: Patriots really clamped down on Miles, not allow him to
Speaker 1: get out of the backfield, and then at other times
Speaker 1: when he was a bit of a leak, the ball
Speaker 1: went in another direction. But certainly a disappointing performance from
Speaker 1: an offense that I thought had some opportunities to put
Speaker 1: some points on the board. And again a very disappointing
Speaker 1: last few minutes here. The Eagles had what two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty plus yards of offense, and if you take
Speaker 1: away the ninety five yard drive and the two drives
Speaker 1: here at the end, what they have sixty seventy yards
Speaker 1: of offense. I mean, it was just a very very
Speaker 1: poor performance. Carson holding the ball too long, fumbling it,
Speaker 1: missing some wide receivers again, not getting the help from
Speaker 1: receivers as well. But the Eagles, look, you gotta get
Speaker 1: used to this. Al Sean Jeffrey, we don't know when
Speaker 1: he's coming back. Jordan Howard, we don't know when he's
Speaker 1: coming back. You've got to find a way to manufacture points,
Speaker 1: create good matchups, and the Eagles didn't do that today. Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Carson and watching him in the pocket, I
Speaker 1: thought there was time for him to get rid of
Speaker 1: the football. Looked to me like he's waiting for guys
Speaker 1: to get open, really pressing to try to make something happen.
Speaker 1: Kind of put the team behind the sticks a little
Speaker 1: bit early in the game. What'd you see from the
Speaker 1: ground level as far as open receivers are, having guys
Speaker 1: available to him to be able to get the ball too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's interesting, you know. I remember the
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz as a rookie those first three games and
Speaker 1: then two thousand and seven getting the ball out quick, quick, quick,
Speaker 1: quick quick. So maybe he really trusted his receivers then
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he's waiting until players are open for
Speaker 1: the most part before he's throwing the ball. Now, certainly
Speaker 1: he's got a comfort level with Zach Ertz. Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: had three drops I think today, but on the outside.
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews a non factor today. Nelson Agilore, you know,
Speaker 1: I had a couple of catches here and there, but
Speaker 1: nothing really, Mac Collins nothing. J j Arthega Whiteside made
Speaker 1: the play on the scrambled drill. That was nice to see,
Speaker 1: But I think you got to get back to throwing
Speaker 1: it on you when you anticipate a receiver getting open,
Speaker 1: not waiting for him to get open and then throwing it.
Speaker 1: It seems like he's laid on some balls. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's holding the football at times too long.
Speaker 1: I just I remember seeing Carson get the ball out
Speaker 1: quicker quicker, quicker quicker. And I know when the TV
Speaker 1: broadcast they talked a little bit about that. His ability
Speaker 1: to extend plays is certainly a gift, but you also
Speaker 1: have to realize when it's not there and get the
Speaker 1: football out, Dave. I want to bring it over to
Speaker 1: the defensive side because obviously the defense. You know, what
Speaker 1: else can you say about what they are able to
Speaker 1: do against Tom Brady and Julian Edelman and the rest
Speaker 1: of that supporting cast staff from New England. What was
Speaker 1: the energy like all on the sideline for that group
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the football, because certainly made
Speaker 1: their share plays today, Yeah they did, Fran And I mean,
Speaker 1: that's wonderful, But did you really expect New England to
Speaker 1: come in here and light it up with an offense
Speaker 1: that is very middle of the road in the NFL,
Speaker 1: with a running game that I gotta tell you that
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots put up something like eighty one
Speaker 1: yards on the ground, and they were effective in the
Speaker 1: second half running the football. And so the adjustments that
Speaker 1: they made once they saw the Eagles bracketing Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: like a great coaching staff, they made it adjustments and
Speaker 1: they hurt the Eagles on the ground. They heard him
Speaker 1: with some you know, quick releases from Tom Brady getting
Speaker 1: the football up. Yeah, the defense did a nice job today. However,
Speaker 1: when they have the chance in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: New England's down at their own whatever it was, three
Speaker 1: yard line, get off the field, win for the offense,
Speaker 1: Eagles didn't do it. There. Take real quick before we
Speaker 1: let you go. We heard about the wind all throughout
Speaker 1: the game today, the broadcast crew talking about it a lot.
Speaker 1: You're there, How is it? Yeah, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: a bit of wind. It certainly didn't seem to affect
Speaker 1: the kicking game. The field goals were true, the extra
Speaker 1: points were good. There were a couple of times I
Speaker 1: thought the ball may have sailed on Carson and I
Speaker 1: think Boston Scott, I gotta say this terrible judgment. Terrible judgment.
Speaker 1: A couple of times here on punt returns late in
Speaker 1: the game, you don't catch the ball at the five
Speaker 1: yard line. Now, maybe he's under instruction to do that,
Speaker 1: but you've got to let the ball go into the
Speaker 1: end zone and give your offense a chance to have
Speaker 1: some breathing room. It didn't do that, So maybe the
Speaker 1: wind had a fact was a factor in that, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't really amy as big a deal, certainly as
Speaker 1: it wasn't Buffalo a few weeks ago. All Right, Dave,
Speaker 1: as always, thanks so much for your insight. We'll let
Speaker 1: you get to the locker room. Thank you. All right,
Speaker 1: So we heard about that wind and awful lot on
Speaker 1: the broadcast. So interesting to hear Dave say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: really didn't make too much of a difference here. Up, Fran,
Speaker 1: let's get to you. You're kind of some of your
Speaker 1: initial thoughts here, especially after hearing from Dave there on
Speaker 1: the sideline. What you know what he observed? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I personally was pretty impressed with the defense. Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 1: I know, wasn't that impressed to me. I think he's
Speaker 1: a tough one, Yeah, he is, said, we know that
Speaker 1: about that balance each other out here in this dysfunctional
Speaker 1: family about it. I think when you look at what
Speaker 1: the defense is able to do, I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that the numbers haven't been great with Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: this passing game over the course of this game, and
Speaker 1: there were some occurrences we sat late in the game,
Speaker 1: we were sitting here in the studio. Yeah, we wanted
Speaker 1: to the defense be able to get off the field
Speaker 1: and on that drive right late and say like, all right,
Speaker 1: you got them, pin back, get off the field quickly,
Speaker 1: get the offense the ball around midfield. But if you
Speaker 1: look over the course of this game, the field position
Speaker 1: for New England started, they had like three or four drives.
Speaker 1: It started at right around midfield, and they were able
Speaker 1: to get stops when they needed to if not holding
Speaker 1: the three. How many times do we see them holding
Speaker 1: the three in the first half alone? I mean that
Speaker 1: to me, those are things that keep you in the game.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are not able to come back and potentially
Speaker 1: tie this game up if the defense doesn't do that
Speaker 1: over the course of three and a half quarters. So
Speaker 1: to me, I think defensively, I think there was a
Speaker 1: lot to take away from a positive standpoint in this matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so as well, and especially when you look
Speaker 1: at the red zone numbers for the Patriots, they were
Speaker 1: one of three in the red zone thirty three percent.
Speaker 1: That's not great. You know that they settled for field
Speaker 1: goals several times, and it was really the Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: I mean there was that one drive where they were
Speaker 1: on the Eagles four yard line, first in goal, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles were able to stop them on defense and
Speaker 1: have them settle for a field goal. So I think
Speaker 1: there's definitely some things to build on. A couple of
Speaker 1: nice pass breakups there as well. There's going to be
Speaker 1: some good film to dig into. I'm not as well.
Speaker 1: Let's get into your takeaways. Well, piggyback off of that
Speaker 1: all right. Again, I don't know what Spuds is talking about,
Speaker 1: darl I mean he has a former defensive player. I
Speaker 1: mean that was an Ayes. That was an Aman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's an A performance in my opinion. The
Speaker 1: only reason there's not an A plus performance. They had
Speaker 1: their hands on some balls that could have been turnovers,
Speaker 1: could have possibly given you some good field position or
Speaker 1: got the Patriots off the field where you didn't get
Speaker 1: any points. You certainly want that as a defensive player.
Speaker 1: But other than that, man, how many times did they
Speaker 1: come up big on third down, particularly in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: where the Patriots are known for putting away football teams
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That's what they do in clutch time.
Speaker 1: They salt away the clock, not giving you an opportunity
Speaker 1: to steal away of victory. And this defense in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter time and time again gave this offense to
Speaker 1: football with an opportunity to go out, go down and
Speaker 1: try to tie this ball game up, including their final
Speaker 1: drive where they were able to hold the Patriots. So
Speaker 1: I love what the Eagles defense was able to do.
Speaker 1: You can't take away everything when you're trying to stop
Speaker 1: an offense. They took away to run in the first half.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was dinking and duncan. They made some adjustments.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball a little bit more in the
Speaker 1: second half after that first drive. But man, I don't
Speaker 1: don't think I could have asked for anything more from
Speaker 1: this defense. I mean, last the last night Eagles took
Speaker 1: the field against Chicago, we talked about how it was
Speaker 1: such a great game plan to say, you go into
Speaker 1: that matchup worried about Khalil Mack and Leonard Floyd and
Speaker 1: that Chicago pass rush look at the game plan. The
Speaker 1: Eagles busted offensively screen game play action, moving the pocket.
Speaker 1: How often did we see the Patriots do that today?
Speaker 1: Because they were terrified of that defensive front. They were
Speaker 1: terrified of Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham and Derk Barnett.
Speaker 1: Tony Romo talked about it a lot on the on
Speaker 1: the broadcast about how you know you could tell by
Speaker 1: the way that they're playing they're not they're worried about
Speaker 1: those matchups up front, and they were still able to
Speaker 1: get home and get a number of big hits on
Speaker 1: Tom Brady earlier on that first half. He was anty
Speaker 1: he wanted to get that ball out as fast as possible.
Speaker 1: He was done taking hits from Barnett and and the
Speaker 1: rest of that defensive line well, and I thought we
Speaker 1: got to give a lot of credit to the second
Speaker 1: area as well. We're holding up the way that they
Speaker 1: did in order to give that defensive want a chance
Speaker 1: to get home. And this was something I think that
Speaker 1: has kind of been a weakness of this defense, even
Speaker 1: going back to the Super Bowl season, that the secondary
Speaker 1: was giving up a lot of big place. Today that
Speaker 1: was not what we saw. No points scored in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter by either team, but the secondary really holding
Speaker 1: up as well. And you mentioned the third down numbers.
Speaker 1: I thought this was kind of interesting. Patriots five of sixteen,
Speaker 1: so that's thirty one percent, which is not great, but
Speaker 1: that they had sixty and thirty chances in this one
Speaker 1: and the defense still came up for them. Place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the factor Cherry would get the Patriots toit third down
Speaker 1: and able to get off the field. That you got
Speaker 1: to tip your cap there. I mean, they scored one
Speaker 1: touchdown today and that was on a sort of a
Speaker 1: trick play. So the Patriots had to dig, they had
Speaker 1: to dig deep into their playbook to move the football
Speaker 1: against against this team, and they were certainly an advantageous
Speaker 1: situations when you talk about field position pretty much the
Speaker 1: entire game. They started a lot of air drives, you know,
Speaker 1: would only sixty sixty five yards left the goal, whereas
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I don't think they started a drive outside
Speaker 1: of the twenty eight yard line. Certainly was much more
Speaker 1: difficult on their offense to the football. The Eagles defense
Speaker 1: put in some difficult situations at times, able to hold
Speaker 1: this Patriots offense to just field goals. I like what
Speaker 1: the defense was able to do what they're gonna need
Speaker 1: to continue to do that because we don't know when
Speaker 1: these players will be back, and this offense may struggle
Speaker 1: to put up points throughout at least the next few
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. Listen to Tom Brady's stat line.
Speaker 1: He completed fifty five percent of his passes two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen yards, zero touchdowns, a rating of sixty seven
Speaker 1: point three. So he threw forty seven passes. My guess
Speaker 1: is like thirty of them were screens. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that speaks to what their game plan was coming into
Speaker 1: the week, because if you're if you're worried about a
Speaker 1: pass rush, you're trying to suck them up and trying
Speaker 1: to slow them down with the screen game. And when
Speaker 1: you throw play action into there, all those screens were
Speaker 1: off of play actions, You're giving that defensive line all
Speaker 1: kinds of things to think about making sure that they
Speaker 1: slow up on their way to the quarterback. They did
Speaker 1: not want Tom Brady to have to drop back five
Speaker 1: step drop, seven step drop clean from under center against
Speaker 1: this defensive line. And to your point, Amy, I'm in
Speaker 1: the coverage held up really really well. Not only do
Speaker 1: we see some pass breakups down the field. But we
Speaker 1: also saw a number of checkdowns from Tom Brady when
Speaker 1: they would not have wanted it. They saw, we saw
Speaker 1: some throwaways. We had to eat the throw when he
Speaker 1: would not have wanted to eat that throw. I think
Speaker 1: ultimately the coverage, that's one of the things I can't
Speaker 1: wait to go down and watch tomorrow morning. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good one to dig into. Obviously, takeaway
Speaker 1: number one gives us a long discussion, and we could
Speaker 1: probably keep going. But let's get to take away. And
Speaker 1: then I look at the offense. Right, the offense I
Speaker 1: thought sputtered today, right, you know, And I'm putting it
Speaker 1: kindly by saying they sputtered. They look good the first
Speaker 1: couple of drives. You go down and get three points
Speaker 1: in an opening drive I know was aided by passing afference,
Speaker 1: but you're able to get three there. They put a
Speaker 1: touchdown up there early. Really their longest drive of the
Speaker 1: game ended with the Goddard touchdown, and after that, for
Speaker 1: basically the next quarter and a half, almost two quarters,
Speaker 1: the offense basically did nothing but punt the football or
Speaker 1: either turn it over with the fumble when Carson's holding
Speaker 1: onto the ball too long just this was gonna be
Speaker 1: a day that you were gonna need a balanced attack
Speaker 1: to give the Pagris credit. They knew the Eagles wanted
Speaker 1: to come in and try to establish a run game.
Speaker 1: They were trying to make sure the Eagles couldn't run
Speaker 1: the ball today. No effectiveness out of the running game,
Speaker 1: whether it be the running backs not being able to
Speaker 1: find the right holes or the offensive linemen upfront not
Speaker 1: creating the holes to really put you in down in
Speaker 1: distant situations where you can sort of use your bootlegs
Speaker 1: and your waggles and things of that nature where it's
Speaker 1: third and five or less, so that you don't make
Speaker 1: it as tough on you offensively trying to pick up
Speaker 1: first downs, couldn't get anything going, and really will found
Speaker 1: themselves fortunate to be in a position to tightest game
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter because their offense really left
Speaker 1: a lot to be desired today. Two guys they really
Speaker 1: missed in this game. Jordan Howard for sure really missed
Speaker 1: his presence between the tackles downhill and then Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: losing him in the first quarter to the head injury.
Speaker 1: Those two Ivy absences, though, really really affected, especially that
Speaker 1: run game yeah, let's it seems like you could, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of draw that line of with Lane Johnson in
Speaker 1: and with Lane out, and everything kind of unraveled their
Speaker 1: own offense as soon as he went out. And then
Speaker 1: you know, five sacks on Carson wentz obviously not all
Speaker 1: of those on the right tackle, but having Lain there,
Speaker 1: you know, it is it is that unit. How big
Speaker 1: of a loss was that for this team? I mean
Speaker 1: eighty four yards in the first quarter, forty yards in
Speaker 1: the second and third quarter combined. I mean they were
Speaker 1: Dave mentioned they had two hundred and fifty five yards
Speaker 1: total in the game, but uh, you know they couldn't
Speaker 1: do watch the second third. All right. Coach Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: about to take the podium to kind of sum up this, uh,
Speaker 1: this loss. Let's hear what he has to say. Offensively, obviously,
Speaker 1: after the long drive, I assume that didn't go as
Speaker 1: you projected. How did not have a Jordan all Sean
Speaker 1: affect you all? Offensive? Um? I mean it affects you,
Speaker 1: uh you know, um in in in a few ways.
Speaker 1: But you know, I thought I thought that, uh you know,
Speaker 1: really to that that long drive to score was obviously
Speaker 1: something positive. We had a nice little mix there running
Speaker 1: past and we stayed kind of positive, you know, and
Speaker 1: ahead ahead of the change around first and second down.
Speaker 1: Really at that point, um, I felt like that that
Speaker 1: you know, we we we kind of found ourselves going
Speaker 1: backwards a little bit. And in games like this too,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the penalties, whether they're pre snap
Speaker 1: or you know, uh during the play obviously, the turnovers
Speaker 1: and and then you know, just lack of production overall
Speaker 1: as an offense really kind of kept us. Uh uh
Speaker 1: you know, kind of stimy. The rest of the game
Speaker 1: was like in the locker room. But what was your
Speaker 1: message to the team house? The guys are the guys
Speaker 1: are disappointed. I mean it's uh, I mean they're frustrated.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, they understand that we're we're better football
Speaker 1: team than than what we played and tonight, and um,
Speaker 1: you know it's just, um, we just have to we
Speaker 1: as coaches, we got to coach better. Obviously, we understand
Speaker 1: that we got to play better. We didn't make enough plays.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense really kept us in this football
Speaker 1: game for the most part. Um, and and and then
Speaker 1: offense we would just failed to execute, you know, and
Speaker 1: and uh, something that the guys really pride themselves on
Speaker 1: we all do and and um uh it just just
Speaker 1: not enough, not enough plays. There was Your assessment of
Speaker 1: carson performance, particularly on the drive, really got you got
Speaker 1: down there laying the game. Um yeah, I thought overall,
Speaker 1: you know, he really was was it was into the
Speaker 1: into the game plan, into the game. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: made made some really good decisions. I think you know
Speaker 1: where where it kind of it was hard for the
Speaker 1: offense was really you know on first and second down
Speaker 1: that the success we've had leading up to this game
Speaker 1: was we were positive on first and second down and
Speaker 1: and we were in too many second longs and third
Speaker 1: longs today. And you know that's that's hard. It's hard
Speaker 1: for your quarterback and to put your quarterback in at
Speaker 1: that position because you know you're gonna have to throw
Speaker 1: the ball and um, you know, routes are a little
Speaker 1: bit deeper and things like that. But I thought, overall, um,
Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, played played pretty well.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we'll watch it tomorrow and make a
Speaker 1: better assessment of that. Look, I know you're short handed
Speaker 1: on offense, but it seemed like a lot of times
Speaker 1: the offense was in the huddle not coming to the
Speaker 1: line until we're defense seconds left on the on the
Speaker 1: play clock. There was no up tempo. I mean, why
Speaker 1: why do you think that was? I just gotta get
Speaker 1: the play out sooner. It was just confusion. No, there's
Speaker 1: no confused. I just gotta get the play at sooner.
Speaker 1: We know good. Lane left with head injury. You have
Speaker 1: any idea yet, I'll find out tonight and then probably
Speaker 1: in the morning. Change that change anything you had to
Speaker 1: do it particular league or one day change? What do
Speaker 1: you mean lane out with lane out? These? No? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't change anything. No, I think some of the
Speaker 1: younger receivers played. Um, I'll evaluate the film tomorrow. Let
Speaker 1: you know early in the fourth or get a fourth
Speaker 1: or two that you're on thirty nine? Did you consider
Speaker 1: calling forward? There was a field position field position. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the cornerbacks held up against obviously
Speaker 1: top matchup with these They played well, you know, just
Speaker 1: quick observation. I thought they played well. You know, um,
Speaker 1: obviously you know they're a good football team, good passing team,
Speaker 1: and they did make some plays, but overall I thought
Speaker 1: we held up well. How do you think Jordan Matthews
Speaker 1: handled a pretty big role for just getting back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did. He did did some good things. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you'd like to really again going back until I see
Speaker 1: the film tomorrow. But you know, he knew the offense,
Speaker 1: he knew you know, he knew the game plan. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't shy away from anything, you know, play
Speaker 1: call wise. Did they make any judgments that they have
Speaker 1: in terms of their defense. No, it was still the same,
Speaker 1: pretty much the same defense throughout the whole game. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you spoke about the third and longs you did. You
Speaker 1: run the ball as much as as you planned to,
Speaker 1: as much as you wanted to. I mean, you always
Speaker 1: like to maybe run it a few more times, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you get in a game like this and
Speaker 1: when it's again you're either second ten or second and eleven,
Speaker 1: maybe second nine. It kind of you know, uh it
Speaker 1: you're not staying ahead, you know what I mean? Um,
Speaker 1: And that's that was kind of our struggle in the
Speaker 1: run game tonight. Something we got to look at and
Speaker 1: uh fixed before next week. Decision not to use a
Speaker 1: joy he was just too quick of a turnaround for
Speaker 1: him coming on Friday. Ye, I'm sitting the injuries effect.
Speaker 1: How you went about game planning this week, not knowing
Speaker 1: you're tracking that outshine, and you know, we still game
Speaker 1: plan the same, and we feel like that, uh you know,
Speaker 1: uh with with Zach and Dallas, you know we can
Speaker 1: do some things there obviously with our runners Miles and
Speaker 1: and and and again listen, give give them credit. They
Speaker 1: did a nice job on defense kind of taking those
Speaker 1: players away, and we knew that coming into this game,
Speaker 1: and we just didn't make enough play. So from a
Speaker 1: game plan standpoint, we went about out it the same way,
Speaker 1: um and then and then used to use different you
Speaker 1: know formations, try to move some guys around to try
Speaker 1: to try to free up some of the uh, some
Speaker 1: of the routes. How much do you feel like you
Speaker 1: missed Jordan and its inside running ability? I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: you always miss uh, you know, players, and he's one
Speaker 1: of them. Al Shawn's one. You know, you'd love to
Speaker 1: have Deshaun out there and Sproles and all those guys too,
Speaker 1: but this is football, and and uh, you know you
Speaker 1: got to coach up the guys you got. Did you
Speaker 1: get an explanation all the forced humble by Malcolm Jenkins
Speaker 1: when they told you couldn't challenge Uh? Yeah, supposedly forward progress,
Speaker 1: whistle blown forward progress, So you can't challenge that. Did
Speaker 1: you did you get get another look at it? Or
Speaker 1: did the guys who tell you what it they thought
Speaker 1: that was? Yeah? It was obviously yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: it was a mute mute point at that time. His
Speaker 1: first drive and the second half they come out and
Speaker 1: go no huddle and zo its and sudden gave a
Speaker 1: queen to that get you off God, or you could
Speaker 1: have done Yeah, I mean it was you know, something
Speaker 1: that to you anticipate. Um, they're a good no huddle
Speaker 1: team and um, just just caught us, caught us in
Speaker 1: a situation where where we were a little out of
Speaker 1: position on the on the on the double pass and
Speaker 1: it was just well executed played by them. Did you
Speaker 1: get any thought to going up tempo offensively? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but again, you know, you can go up tempo all
Speaker 1: you want if you're you know, if you're moving the ball,
Speaker 1: and I felt like in the second half we weren't
Speaker 1: doing that, So it was kind of hard to really
Speaker 1: kind of get any kind of rhythm going. Picture. If
Speaker 1: you look at the offensive big picture, what makes you
Speaker 1: think it's going to be better? There's going to be
Speaker 1: more firepowers through the forward years. Well, we've proven that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've proven it when when we have everybody healthy,
Speaker 1: when I mean everybody. Man, know, we haven't had to
Speaker 1: sean the whole season, and and but when you have
Speaker 1: you know, your guys out there with al Shan out there,
Speaker 1: in Jordan out there, and we've proven that, you know,
Speaker 1: we've we've been able to execute and move this Listen,
Speaker 1: this is a good football team. Is a good defense
Speaker 1: coming in here. It's a great third down defense where
Speaker 1: we third and three for thirteen or something down on
Speaker 1: third down. We knew that going into this football game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you'd love to have all your guys, um,
Speaker 1: but this is the National Football League and and the
Speaker 1: next man has to step up and make plays. And
Speaker 1: again tonight we just didn't. We didn't do that. Person
Speaker 1: was sacked a lot the first half. Did you feel
Speaker 1: that maybe his old ball too? You know, I think
Speaker 1: a couple of times, Um, it might be the m
Speaker 1: might have been the case. But again with so much again,
Speaker 1: with so much man to man coverage that uh uh
Speaker 1: and some of their cover two stuff that you know, again,
Speaker 1: we got to do a better job on the perimeter
Speaker 1: and execute a little bit better. Okay, that that might
Speaker 1: be like the most upset I have seen coach this season.
Speaker 1: What do you guys take from his vibe? I mean
Speaker 1: they were they were in this game. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: there was a tough we talked about it was. It
Speaker 1: was a tough offensive performance. So as an offensive coach,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be happy. Uh, And he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be happy when he's going through the field. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of missed opportunities. Um that he's gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know, if we had made this play, if we
Speaker 1: had made that play, Um, it's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those nights. It's been one of those mornings tomorrow morning. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly where France said. As an offensive coach, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he's the head coach, but he takes pride in
Speaker 1: the amount of time and effort that they put into
Speaker 1: putting together a game plan offensively and thinking that things
Speaker 1: are gonna work as long as the players go out
Speaker 1: there and execute the game plan. But then sometimes you
Speaker 1: gotta tip your cap to the defense, and sometimes you
Speaker 1: know they're going to get the best of whatever it
Speaker 1: is you're trying to do. And on any particular play
Speaker 1: that can be a multiple thing, multiple things that go
Speaker 1: wrong that doesn't allow you to be effective on that play.
Speaker 1: And so Doug right now is just looking at it
Speaker 1: from being on the sidelines witness at first hand. His
Speaker 1: offense only puts up ten points. He's not going to
Speaker 1: be very happy about that output. But one thing that
Speaker 1: we know about coach Peterson is that he has no
Speaker 1: problem going back to the drawing board seeing where they
Speaker 1: didn't do things well at making adjustments and coming out
Speaker 1: with something different that's going to help this team so
Speaker 1: to get things going. He has a tough job when
Speaker 1: you don't have your personnel available to you, and that's
Speaker 1: one of my that's my final takeaway from the game
Speaker 1: is it's the lack of personnel they had on the
Speaker 1: offensive side out of the ball. It just makes it
Speaker 1: that much more difficult for you to be at your
Speaker 1: best when you got so many substitutes in there that
Speaker 1: aren't used to playing together. And it's not an excuse,
Speaker 1: it's just the reality of their current situation is that
Speaker 1: when you have young players in there that haven't been
Speaker 1: put in a situation where they're going to be relied
Speaker 1: on as much as this group was relied on. Today.
Speaker 1: There's going to be some moments of ineffectiveness. And the
Speaker 1: quarterback wasn't very good today. You know, whether it's a
Speaker 1: lack of familiarity with the guys he's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: to or what have you, or he's trying to make
Speaker 1: players when something may not be there. That can also
Speaker 1: be sort of a drawback. When you have a guy
Speaker 1: as competitive as Carson is and with some of his ability,
Speaker 1: sometimes he believes too much in his players and he's
Speaker 1: just trying to allow them to get open so that
Speaker 1: he can make something happen. But it's gonna start there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna start with how well he plays from that position,
Speaker 1: and those other guys have to do their part to
Speaker 1: make sure you can bring it all together. And today
Speaker 1: they just weren't at their best today. And even with
Speaker 1: all that being said, they had a shot there at
Speaker 1: the end. He gave his guy an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: a play. You gotta make the plays when they present themselves.
Speaker 1: I've been sitting here crunching some numbers. Yes, yeah, they
Speaker 1: are crunched, well, they're very crunched. One of the big
Speaker 1: things to me and I talked about a little bit
Speaker 1: earlier was the starting field position in this game, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think when you talk about the defense and
Speaker 1: what they were able to do, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a game football of hidden yardage show. Often games are
Speaker 1: decided by not offensive yards, but by the yards that
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily see in the box score that catch
Speaker 1: up to you. And I think when you look at this,
Speaker 1: the Eagles had ten of their twelve drives start inside
Speaker 1: their twenty five yard line. Ten of twelve started intide
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line. So when you play offense the
Speaker 1: way that the Eagles have to right now, which is
Speaker 1: matriculate the ball down the field, we saw that ninety
Speaker 1: five yard touchdown drive that you went into the second
Speaker 1: quarter nine minutes off the clock, longest touchdown drive the
Speaker 1: Patriots have given up the regular seasons since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's a great drive, but it's tough
Speaker 1: to do drive after driving a drive. The Eagles had
Speaker 1: to do that because of their starting field position. Then
Speaker 1: you go to the other side and you look at
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Six of their thirteen started inside the twenty five,
Speaker 1: so less than half started inside the twenty five. Four
Speaker 1: of them started within five yards in midfield, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles held them the two field goals and two punts
Speaker 1: on those four drives. So I think really that when
Speaker 1: you look at field position, that was a huge, huge
Speaker 1: thing that had a seven point game. Any of those
Speaker 1: drives turn it the other way, well, that's a great
Speaker 1: point because, like you said, those yards are not going
Speaker 1: to show up in the box score on the net yards.
Speaker 1: And look, you can say, hey, a ninety five yard drive,
Speaker 1: that's great, but that also tells me that you're starting
Speaker 1: way too far away from the end zone and if
Speaker 1: you have to go ninety five yards to get all
Speaker 1: the way down there, I'm going back to the offensive personnel.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just gonna kind of read some of
Speaker 1: this to you guys. The receivers today that caught passes
Speaker 1: zach Ertz, Nelson, agil Or, Dallas Goddard, second year in
Speaker 1: the league, jj R Sega Whiteside, rookie Miles Sanders, rookie
Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews wasn't here a week ago. Mac Hollins missed
Speaker 1: all of last season, so these were kind of the options.
Speaker 1: And again, nothing to gainst these guys. But it's not
Speaker 1: all shun It's not DeShawn Jackson. It's not Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: out there making plays, and so there's only so much
Speaker 1: you can do when you're limited in that kind of way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you almost need to be perfect right when you're
Speaker 1: playing well with with with backup guys. And I've been
Speaker 1: in that position where I had to go in and
Speaker 1: fill in for a starter as a backup. It's one
Speaker 1: thing when you're one of eleven players, but when there's
Speaker 1: four or five six guys out there, the Jets aren't
Speaker 1: used to being out there for seventy five eighty percent
Speaker 1: of your snap counts. They're gonna be mis hits out there.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be mistakes being made because there's reasons why
Speaker 1: we're backup players, right. You know, the more the more
Speaker 1: you're out there. And it's not a slight of these guys,
Speaker 1: it's just to let you know that there's a difference
Speaker 1: between having guys that are former Pro Bowlers, guys that
Speaker 1: are former All Pro guys, and then having backup players
Speaker 1: coming area. If there is a drop off where you
Speaker 1: talk about talent and when you're talking about the ability
Speaker 1: of being playmakers, because what those other guys will do
Speaker 1: for you. D de Sean Jackson's the Alshon, Jeffries and
Speaker 1: Jordan Howards. They have the ability to make something out
Speaker 1: of nothing. So when you have the backup guys out there,
Speaker 1: you almost need everything to be perfect. It's rare that
Speaker 1: those guys are going to go up and do things
Speaker 1: out of the framework of what their capability is that
Speaker 1: will allow him to do it. And today you really
Speaker 1: need it Carson to be closer to being perfect so
Speaker 1: that those guys didn't have to be perfect. And I
Speaker 1: thought he was off today with some of his throws,
Speaker 1: and you can you can say it's a lack of
Speaker 1: preparation time together, right, having enough chemistry together out there
Speaker 1: trying to force the issue or press it. Because as
Speaker 1: a quarterback friend you can speak to this. You get
Speaker 1: to a point where you get frustrated that you're punting
Speaker 1: the ball all the time and you almost feel like,
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta make something happen this time when
Speaker 1: we go out there and you start to press a
Speaker 1: little bit. And the one thing about Carson when he's pressing,
Speaker 1: his throws are high, you know, and it can get
Speaker 1: him in trouble at times. And I thought to day
Speaker 1: he obviously wanted to play well today and lead this
Speaker 1: team in the victory. Just wasn't able to come down
Speaker 1: with it. And you know what, it's something they can
Speaker 1: learn from. They'll have another week to get better for
Speaker 1: next week and hopefully the offense continues to grow as
Speaker 1: we move forward. This is a team too this year
Speaker 1: that has been really really good on third down? What
Speaker 1: were they three or thirteen today? I'll third down. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you're Carson Wentz, you're expecting speak enough. He is
Speaker 1: ready to take the stand right now here we go.
Speaker 1: The offense can be its own. Were sentemy kind of
Speaker 1: letting the blaze out there? And do you feel like
Speaker 1: you guys left a lot of plays out there? For sure? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean we definitely did. I mean the turnover I had,
Speaker 1: we can't be doing that. I gotta be better than that.
Speaker 1: Left some plays out there, miss some throws, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a couple of penalties. You know, that's that's football sometimes,
Speaker 1: but against a good team like that, we got to
Speaker 1: clean that up. So you guys down or you're driving
Speaker 1: complete the game? Had it like you know twenty what
Speaker 1: happened on news for the next four next plays? Um
Speaker 1: just missed the couple, you know, just miscues Um, you
Speaker 1: know they made some places too. You know, they made
Speaker 1: a couple of plays and hats off to them. They
Speaker 1: had had a really good game plan, especially late there. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's frustrating, especially the way we were able to
Speaker 1: move the ball get down there and then we kind
Speaker 1: of just, uh, we're staggnant there at the end, especially
Speaker 1: with that last job. Um. You know, they do a
Speaker 1: good job of kind of keeping it simple. But um,
Speaker 1: what they do is they do it really well and
Speaker 1: you know, mixing up the man coverage and how they
Speaker 1: play their leverages and techniques and um, you know what
Speaker 1: they do with the safeties and all of that, and
Speaker 1: then they throw and cover two in there as well
Speaker 1: and mixing some pressures and um, they do a really
Speaker 1: good job. You know, they do a good job. But
Speaker 1: you know, I thought we were we were ready for
Speaker 1: we prepared, We just didn't execute it well. No Steve
Speaker 1: Layne Johnson's um injury affect you guys. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know you had that long drive and the second quarter,
Speaker 1: then you couldn't really get anything going after that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't really know the status of Laneer
Speaker 1: was going on. You know, I'm checking in on him
Speaker 1: and praying for him. But um, you know, not to
Speaker 1: discredit Lane at all, because I mean, shoot, he's are
Speaker 1: probably the best right tackle in football. But um, we
Speaker 1: feel we have a really good, really good depth at
Speaker 1: that position and Big be able to step in and um,
Speaker 1: you know a ton of confidence in him. So I
Speaker 1: don't think that was the deal breaker by any means.
Speaker 1: Last pass that he did, you think that was a touchdown?
Speaker 1: So yeah, well that last pass did you think that?
Speaker 1: Did you touchdown? Dail Mary? Uh? Shoot, did it even
Speaker 1: get there? I don't think it even got to the
Speaker 1: goal line, So now I did to aglar. Um, I
Speaker 1: didn't get to really see it. Um, you know they
Speaker 1: brought cover zero and um just try to try to
Speaker 1: give him a chance and we just just missed it.
Speaker 1: What do you think the reason was for the lack
Speaker 1: of execution offensively? I mean, why couldn't you guys get
Speaker 1: anything started? Yeah, it's hard hard to say, you know
Speaker 1: right now, we'll go back and watch the tape, as
Speaker 1: you know, as we always say. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, they had a really good plan. You know,
Speaker 1: that's there they always do. Um you know that that's
Speaker 1: a really good defense. Um, so hats off to them.
Speaker 1: They did a great job taking away some things that
Speaker 1: we wanted to do. Um, it's frustrating because we came out,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty hot. You know, we didn't convert that
Speaker 1: first drive, but got three points and then went down
Speaker 1: and scored um and then that was it. You know,
Speaker 1: that was it for our offense. So um, you know
Speaker 1: that's after them. They played a great, great defensive game.
Speaker 1: But we gotta be better. We'll go last drive. A
Speaker 1: couple of messages you had right common game in the
Speaker 1: um trying to remember, Um, yeah those are you know
Speaker 1: those two Um definitely the arts said, you know, I
Speaker 1: think we both want to have backs not on the
Speaker 1: same page a little bit. And when I when I'm
Speaker 1: definitely missed, Um, I gotta be better in the situation.
Speaker 1: I gotta be better and put it on him. Um,
Speaker 1: give him a chance. You know. They made a couple
Speaker 1: of good plays on on the other one. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's frustrating to be right there and
Speaker 1: then you know, fail to execute for straight times and
Speaker 1: no tour now ur something you guys quite didn't find
Speaker 1: out the leader we couches that affect the offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know those guys are great players. Those
Speaker 1: guys are great players, and um, you know they mean
Speaker 1: a lot to this offense. But UM, kind of the
Speaker 1: same thing I said in regards to Lane Johnson with
Speaker 1: with a big V stepping in, you know, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence and um, you know jam At
Speaker 1: being here and stepping in and j J getting more
Speaker 1: reps and um, you know, Miles in Boston stepping up.
Speaker 1: So UM had a lot of confidence in those guys.
Speaker 1: I thought that they did. They did well today. Off
Speaker 1: to again see the tape. Um, But you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think that was the difference maker either, Carson. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you guys struggle all practically tapeou helps doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: you went that way today was up because some of
Speaker 1: the newer guys in there. Maybe that wasn't anything easier
Speaker 1: to do. Um, I think it was, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: part of it. I think, you know, also just what
Speaker 1: what the Patriots do and how they played defensively, we thought, um,
Speaker 1: we could you know, scheme better, you know, getting in
Speaker 1: the huddle and everything, and UM, so yeah, that just
Speaker 1: wasn't a huge part of our game plan to be
Speaker 1: all these questions about lack of all funds and firepower
Speaker 1: are not new questions obviously, what makes you think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be different or it's gonna be better or these
Speaker 1: finals six DAGs or something. Yeah, I mean for me,
Speaker 1: you know, I get to see all these guys in practice,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think you know, everyone in here
Speaker 1: and the public doesn't get to see that. And so
Speaker 1: I have a lot of confidence in the guys that
Speaker 1: when when their numbers called, that they're gonna make plays.
Speaker 1: And obviously we haven't necessarily put it on on the film,
Speaker 1: um put it on the field, you know. I know
Speaker 1: I definitely want a couple of them back today. But um,
Speaker 1: like I said, I get to see these guys at practice,
Speaker 1: I get to work with them, and I have a
Speaker 1: ton of confidence that, uh, that it will be there
Speaker 1: and we'll get it going. Exactly a handful of times
Speaker 1: in the first half, how'd you view, um, why there's occurred? Um,
Speaker 1: I gotta get rid of the the ball. I got get
Speaker 1: rid of the ball. You know, they they you know,
Speaker 1: had some had some good coverages and stuff, but I
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of the ball and be better with that.
Speaker 1: Of so I wanted to stay in the huddle and
Speaker 1: scheme things. It just seem a lot of times you're
Speaker 1: coming out of the huddle with ten seconds left on
Speaker 1: the on the play clock. I mean, is that really
Speaker 1: an optimum amount of time to kind of diagnose what
Speaker 1: the defense is showing you? Um, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: we'd all say we'd love to get out of huddle
Speaker 1: was the twenty seconds left and that you know that
Speaker 1: that's always would be ideal, But that's just not the
Speaker 1: way the game goes. Sometimes there's always, um, a lot
Speaker 1: of things, a lot of moving pieces, you know, personnel,
Speaker 1: um getting lined up all that stuff. So, UM, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, that's something that we want to be better at.
Speaker 1: But UM, you know, with the ebbs and flows of
Speaker 1: the game, you know that tends to happen sometimes the
Speaker 1: whole starting it so I can team to tend the
Speaker 1: whole game coups that. Knowing that so many little feels
Speaker 1: to UM, yeah, I mean it's always tough to to
Speaker 1: go ninety five or whatever. Um we're able to do
Speaker 1: it the second drive, you know, And I thought that
Speaker 1: was really big for us, and UM gave us some
Speaker 1: confidence there. But like I said, we just stalled out
Speaker 1: too many times. And Um'm again Patriots, they did a
Speaker 1: great job defensively, you know, special teams wise. Um, and
Speaker 1: we just didn't get it done today in the second half.
Speaker 1: But it really seemed to shut me down he started early. UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily say they again off to watch the tape,
Speaker 1: but I I don't think they did anything kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: We just kind of um didn't make our place, you know.
Speaker 1: And and like I said earlier, it starts with me.
Speaker 1: I gotta be better. I got to distribute the ball better,
Speaker 1: get rid of it. Um, we gotta be able to
Speaker 1: stay ahead of the chains and all those things. But
Speaker 1: like I said, it starts with me, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get it fixed. So he had it out. The
Speaker 1: defense obviously had a very good game. What was he
Speaker 1: interplay light between know when they would come off the
Speaker 1: field after ye're figured out. Um. Yeah, the defense played great.
Speaker 1: You know, hats off to our defense, UM, playing the
Speaker 1: way they did today. We didn't make it easy on
Speaker 1: them offensively a handful of times. Um, but they played great.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's always that much more frustrating for
Speaker 1: us as an offense to to know our defense played
Speaker 1: the way they did. Um, and we didn't help them
Speaker 1: out or get it done was often about third downs.
Speaker 1: You were three or thirteen too. I know that's a
Speaker 1: good their death defense. But what needs to be better there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's terrible. Yeah, that's not something that we um. Something
Speaker 1: that we definitely pride ourselves on its third downs, and
Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't do it well today playing simple
Speaker 1: you know, they they they all played us on that down.
Speaker 1: You know, I got fooled a couple of times. I
Speaker 1: got to be better. Um, Like I said, it starts
Speaker 1: with me. But um, yeah, shoot, that's something that we
Speaker 1: got to take a hard look at and get fixed. Work,
Speaker 1: you know on that long drive between the person the
Speaker 1: second quarters and then you know why credit you guys
Speaker 1: staying it after that. Yeah, I wish I wish I
Speaker 1: knew the answer to that. Um, you know those first
Speaker 1: two drives, you know we have the big penalty and everything.
Speaker 1: In the second drive, Um, we were just able to
Speaker 1: mix it up really well, you know, and with the
Speaker 1: run game, the screens and um just converting you know
Speaker 1: on third downs. And it seemed after that we kind
Speaker 1: of just didn't execute to the level that we expect to.
Speaker 1: And now we need to against a good team like that.
Speaker 1: You have, you got a lot of those long drives
Speaker 1: this year, but absolutely chunk plays. And how hard is
Speaker 1: it to sort of sustain you know, having to have
Speaker 1: those long drive and hardy score. Yeah, Um, I mean
Speaker 1: you kind of hit it on the head. It is tough,
Speaker 1: especially against a good defense. And you know, being able
Speaker 1: to take chunk plays and get explosive plays. We got
Speaker 1: to keep being creative and five find ways to do that. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, it seems to
Speaker 1: be our recipe is to is to grind it out,
Speaker 1: you know, ball control, um, run throw, you know, just
Speaker 1: move the pocket, those sorts of things, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: when you make a couple of mistakes like we did today,
Speaker 1: like the fumble I had and those types of things, um,
Speaker 1: makes tough for us. And you guys, Okay, there's Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz looking nice in that jacket though. I have to say, guys,
Speaker 1: I always love to see his fashion choices. And this
Speaker 1: was for the salute to service. Perhaps let's go to
Speaker 1: the turning point of the game for each of you
Speaker 1: who wants to go first, I'll go so the obviously,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned earlier, the touchdown pass that they did
Speaker 1: score in this game, New England was that double pass, right,
Speaker 1: So they threw it down to Juliettlman in the flat
Speaker 1: and then he threw it to Philip door Set in
Speaker 1: the end zone for a score. There was the only
Speaker 1: touchdown of the game. To me, the turning point is
Speaker 1: the first play of that drive. And I mentioned all
Speaker 1: those drives at the Patriots had where they started near
Speaker 1: midfield or outside their own twenty five. This one started
Speaker 1: from their own sixteen, so the Eagles actually had good
Speaker 1: field position on this drive. Defensively, first play they ran
Speaker 1: a play action screen little dump off to Rex Burkhead
Speaker 1: and then mistackle in the flat by Nate Gary resulted
Speaker 1: in a thirty one yard pickup. That X play really
Speaker 1: got the momentum going allowed them to get into position
Speaker 1: to then score that touchdown. So if you want to say, okay,
Speaker 1: what's one play that kind of helped turn the tide,
Speaker 1: that would be one play for me, right, So you
Speaker 1: know what, that's one of the defense I really like
Speaker 1: to have back, and I'll go back to I'll go
Speaker 1: back to the eagles last opportunity to really tie this
Speaker 1: ball game up. And despite all the miss throws that
Speaker 1: happened on that drive, I thought the turning point was
Speaker 1: the drop ball at the end of the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's face it, there's an opportunity where you overcome a
Speaker 1: lot of different adversities to put yourself in position is
Speaker 1: fourth down quarterback gives you an opportunity to make a play.
Speaker 1: Got to make the play? Yeah, I think if I
Speaker 1: have to pick something, I'm gonna say Lane Johnson leaving
Speaker 1: the game. But it didn't really feel like it didn't
Speaker 1: really feel like anything turned in this game. It kind
Speaker 1: of felt like this linear climb to me. But I
Speaker 1: guess you know, Lane Johnson, if you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers before and after, that's going to be a thank
Speaker 1: you guys. I appreciate that, all right. Coach Jack Peterson
Speaker 1: went one on one with Mike Quick a little bit
Speaker 1: earlier tonight. Let's take a listen to what coach had
Speaker 1: to say. Coach, when your defense play as well as
Speaker 1: they played tonight, giving up just one stone to Tom Read,
Speaker 1: how difficult is that to deal with that you don't
Speaker 1: come out of this with a win. It's it's it's frustrating,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's what the team felt after
Speaker 1: the game. Defensively, I mean, my hats off to our defense,
Speaker 1: they really played a great game, especially against you know,
Speaker 1: obviously a great quarterback and and to hold him to
Speaker 1: the one touchdown, and um, you know, our offense just
Speaker 1: has to do a little bit more and and uh,
Speaker 1: I know we have some injuries, but we never want
Speaker 1: to use that as an excuse. Um. The next guy
Speaker 1: has to step up and play. And I think it
Speaker 1: was really Um tonight was probably an eye opener for
Speaker 1: some of those young players a little bit offensively, and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll be better moving forward. They'll be better, you know,
Speaker 1: the next time they get an opportunity. Speaking of your offense,
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about your quarterback play tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think he made you know, he made
Speaker 1: made some good plays. I think again, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: they mixed really man coverage with cover two and they
Speaker 1: kind of went back and forth with that and so
Speaker 1: we were you know, in and out that way a
Speaker 1: little bit. And then you know, the success we've had
Speaker 1: in previous games, it was because we were sort of
Speaker 1: ahead of the chains on first down. We were probably
Speaker 1: were in second five, second and sixes and second fours right,
Speaker 1: and we were able to execute. And then it really
Speaker 1: helps your quarterback out because then the play action pass game.
Speaker 1: You know, it starts taking over your ablebility to run
Speaker 1: the football and all that stuff helps your quarterback. In tonight,
Speaker 1: we were in too many long yard and situations that
Speaker 1: really forced him to hold the ball just a little bit,
Speaker 1: wait for wait for receivers to come open, and and
Speaker 1: it makes it tough. But I thought overall, he played tough,
Speaker 1: he played good, he was sharp mentally, Um and uh
Speaker 1: you know, uh, he'll be he'll be better moving forward.
Speaker 1: A lot of men coverage in that first half. They
Speaker 1: made some adjustments in the second half, so a lot
Speaker 1: more zone, I thought in the second half. How did
Speaker 1: that affect the execution? Yeah, because then what it does
Speaker 1: is it just allows that pass rush just to kind
Speaker 1: of kind of get your quarterback. And um, you know again,
Speaker 1: if they're going to play zone and and and then
Speaker 1: play some nickel to our twelve personnel, we should have
Speaker 1: you know, a good matchup to run the ball in
Speaker 1: those situations. And then you know, we just we just
Speaker 1: didn't execute there. And um, you know, Lane went out
Speaker 1: and and you know he's he's obviously a dominant force
Speaker 1: up for offensive line, but Big V's played and he's
Speaker 1: played well. You know for us and and uh, and
Speaker 1: then Dillard came in for a little bit. But you know, overall,
Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta do a better job of
Speaker 1: of you know, from a coaching standpoint, preparing our players
Speaker 1: and uh and then you know, obviously execution. One last thing.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of talk about running the football
Speaker 1: going into this game. The last two teams that played
Speaker 1: the Patriots random ball successfully. You threw the ball twice
Speaker 1: as many times as you random ball. What did you
Speaker 1: see that led to passing the ball that much? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that you know, sometimes uh, you
Speaker 1: get you get caught and your your your first down.
Speaker 1: And we had a couple of pre snap penalties tonight.
Speaker 1: We had uh some some lost yards situations. Um, and
Speaker 1: it just makes it hard because you want to be
Speaker 1: able to you know, not necessarily run the ball to
Speaker 1: control the clock, but you run the ball to help
Speaker 1: set up other things as well, and then use your
Speaker 1: passing game off of that, and and and and really
Speaker 1: that kind of opens up your offense a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And and we just had again too many too many
Speaker 1: long yard second longs and third longs that really, um,
Speaker 1: there's not many runs and can get you ten yards
Speaker 1: you know in this league, and so you know, we
Speaker 1: just got to do a better job on first time.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get an easier next week. You got Seattle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you know we knew this stretch. You know
Speaker 1: when you look at the schedule, it's a great, great
Speaker 1: football team coming in here. Obviously they're coming off of
Speaker 1: buy so they'll be they'll be rested. We just got
Speaker 1: to come to work this week and get ready for
Speaker 1: another challenge. Thanks coaching, Thanks Quick, right, and coach kind
Speaker 1: of touching on what was my key to the game
Speaker 1: coming into this one, guys looking for that balance on offense?
Speaker 1: Is that did we see? You know, the as Mike
Speaker 1: Quick pointed out to coach, they passed it three twice
Speaker 1: as much as they ran. It is the lack of
Speaker 1: balance because they ended up in second and long, third
Speaker 1: and long. Is that why you have to go to
Speaker 1: the passing game in that situation? Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 1: No coach likes to give away downs, right, So if
Speaker 1: you're not having success on those early downs running the football,
Speaker 1: then a coach is going to more than likely you
Speaker 1: want to put the ball in his quarterbacks hands and
Speaker 1: see if they can find a way to move the
Speaker 1: ball there. The difference over the last two games versus
Speaker 1: this game is they had success running a ball on
Speaker 1: first and second down and you can sort of have
Speaker 1: third and manageable situations. Doug mentioned it just far too
Speaker 1: many second and long, third and long type of situations
Speaker 1: where we just didn't run the ball effectively. I don't
Speaker 1: want to put it all on the fact that Lane
Speaker 1: wasn't in there, but obviously not having him available certainly
Speaker 1: had an impact. And the other part of that too
Speaker 1: is the fact that you know, look in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they're trying to come back. You had that two minute
Speaker 1: drive at the end of the game. What was that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's eleven passes right there. That's gonna kind
Speaker 1: of really depend the other way. Scows a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Eagles Loane touchdown today coming on a Dallas Goddard reception
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Speaker 1: So the Eagles marched down the field. Now they are
Speaker 1: knocking on the door about to score a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: they are able to punch it into the end zone
Speaker 1: on this touchdown from Carson Wentz to Dallas Goddard. And
Speaker 1: it comes on a staple route concept that we've seen
Speaker 1: from the Eagles going back over the last few years,
Speaker 1: ever since Doug Peterson arrived here in Philadelphia. What you're
Speaker 1: gonna see here is that the Patriots they're gonna try
Speaker 1: and worry about Zach Gertz. And you know coming into
Speaker 1: this game that that was gonna be a priority for
Speaker 1: them on defense on money downs, they were gonna put
Speaker 1: their rise on him and try and double team him,
Speaker 1: take him away from the progression. So the Eagles they
Speaker 1: smartly put him over to one side, and Carston Wentz
Speaker 1: he's gonna start over to the left because he knows
Speaker 1: that extra attention is going to be paid to number
Speaker 1: eighty six, this guy right here. So what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get here from the Eagles is a staple route concept.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a three man route, and what
Speaker 1: you're gonna see is Nelson Agiler work inside, try and
Speaker 1: clear out, take this defender out of the picture, remove
Speaker 1: him from the action. Then you're gonna have Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: He's gonna work up and get to the flat again
Speaker 1: to try and widen this defensive back take him out
Speaker 1: of the picture. That isolates Dallas Goddard one on one
Speaker 1: with this defensive back again. With one receiver here and
Speaker 1: one receiver route here, that's a whole lot of space
Speaker 1: for Goddard to try and win one on one against
Speaker 1: a dB. So we're gonna take the snap here and
Speaker 1: let it roll and show you exactly what they're getting.
Speaker 1: They confirm man coverage here with this little mini motion
Speaker 1: from Zach Gertz right off the ball. Yeah, Dallas Goddard's
Speaker 1: gonna fight through contact here from the rookie Chase Winovich.
Speaker 1: But you can see how this is starting to develop here.
Speaker 1: Nelson's getting ready to run the little shallow cross. Here
Speaker 1: comes the rookie Sanders. He's running to the flat again,
Speaker 1: just trying to widen out that void right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field here for Carson Wentz. Make the
Speaker 1: picture nice and clear for him and we can let
Speaker 1: this roll right As soon as he hits his back foot,
Speaker 1: he's got his eyes on Goddard. He wins right in
Speaker 1: front of the safety and crosses the plane for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Great pitch and catch, ninety five yard touchdown drive. That
Speaker 1: was the longest touchdown drive that the Patriots had given
Speaker 1: up in over eight years. So an awesome job by
Speaker 1: the Eagles matriculating the ball down the field, punching it
Speaker 1: in and taking a tend nothing lead. Gotta love that
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Speaker 1: Comed grug Hill, Jalen Mills. Who stands out to you?
Speaker 1: I would have to go with someone on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, So I would have to go
Speaker 1: with Jalen Mills. I thought he and his defensive bagmates
Speaker 1: did a very good job today trying to cover up
Speaker 1: these wide receivers. Tom Brady, you don't necessarily rattle Tom
Speaker 1: Brady to wear this defense. Rattle Tom Brady today, and
Speaker 1: he didn't have anybody to throw the ball too. I
Speaker 1: can't even keep up with how many throwaways he had today,
Speaker 1: and that's primarily because that secondary did a good job.
Speaker 1: So for me, I let Jalen Mills represent the secondary.
Speaker 1: They did a great job today. I'm totally with you
Speaker 1: at a lot of good work there by that entire secondary.
Speaker 1: And of course there's going to be some things that
Speaker 1: don't show up on the stat sheet as well. I'm
Speaker 1: with you on Jalen Mills. All right, let's look ahead
Speaker 1: to the eagles next opponent. They face the Patriots coming
Speaker 1: off of bye, and then they're going to face the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, who will also be coming off of bye.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem very fairyteened. Hey, look, there are no
Speaker 1: excuses here. It's maybe a one pm kickoff. Of course
Speaker 1: we will be here to break it all down in
Speaker 1: the pre in the post game. Whatever. What do you
Speaker 1: see from the Seattle Seahawks Russell Wilson, Yeah, he certainly
Speaker 1: would be at one or two between here and Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson based on what they've done to this point in
Speaker 1: the year, and I think Russell Wilson is easily, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, MVP or not top two or three quarterback
Speaker 1: in this league. He's got that team on his back.
Speaker 1: They believe in even he typically finds a way to win.
Speaker 1: It's not always the prettiest or Russell Wilson is just
Speaker 1: a winner, has been that way since his days in college.
Speaker 1: Has carried that over to the NFL. I'm happy the
Speaker 1: game is here, They're gonna have to travel here. I'm
Speaker 1: also happy the game was moved up to one. Yes,
Speaker 1: that could be an advantage having them a West Coast
Speaker 1: team playing at basically ten o'clock back in Pacific Coast time.
Speaker 1: But Russell Wilson also is dangerous because he extends plays
Speaker 1: and your defense can have the perfect coverage, your defensive
Speaker 1: lineman can do a great job of pass Russian, and
Speaker 1: this guy's like Harry Houdinia, can find a way to
Speaker 1: make a play. So a lot of scrambled drills the
Speaker 1: defense is gonna have to do this week. We had
Speaker 1: a benefit to day that forty two year old guys
Speaker 1: gonna stay in the pocket. Yeah, Russell Wilson poses a
Speaker 1: different sort of a threat to any defense and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have their work cut out for him. Unfortunately, going
Speaker 1: up against Russell Wilson, I think he's three and old
Speaker 1: or either four and or against the Eagles in his career.
Speaker 1: So hopefully next week we can break that and get
Speaker 1: a big win. I'll tell you, Amy, I know this
Speaker 1: lost hurts today, but in my opinion, with these two teams,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be difficult to sweep them. Was certainly
Speaker 1: looking for a sweep, and if a sweep is all
Speaker 1: we can settle for, I would rather have that victory
Speaker 1: come against an NFC opponent rather than an AFC opponent.
Speaker 1: So good opportunity to get back on the horse next
Speaker 1: week and take care of your business at home against
Speaker 1: a very good Seattle Seahawks team. Well read yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited for that matchup. I just it's Seattle's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite teams. Russell Wilson is one of the
Speaker 1: most entertaining guys to watch. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how the Eagles prepare for this team, how they match
Speaker 1: up against this team. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a really fun one. I am so pumped for that,
Speaker 1: and of course we will be right back here thirty
Speaker 1: minutes before kickoff twelve thirty next Sunday to break it
Speaker 1: all down in the Kickoff Show presented by Exanta, and
Speaker 1: as always we will be dissecting every angle of this thing.
Speaker 1: As soon as the game is over. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back here next week. Have a great week everybody. We
Speaker 1: will see you next week.