WEBVTT - Eagles 360: Episode 35 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.000 We are back from the bye. It's Eagles three sixty. 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.040 Dave Spiedero, Eagles insider, along with the Hall of Famer 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.160 Brian Westbrook, rested, Relax, you look good. Good weekend. Yeah. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.680 Ready for some Eagles football though, right, Misseda. So we're 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.680 watching on Sunday, and the NFC East gets a whole 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.040 lot better for the Eagles who win during the bye week. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.440 The Giants lose to New Orleans in a shootout. The 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.080 Cowboys lose to Seattle in a game where the offense 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.600 is for their team. Just nothing going on there. So 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.000 b West briefly here the NFC East, as we say 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.800 every week, wide well, it is wide open, and I 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.560 think that's a great thing for the Eagles. And anytime 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.160 that you can not play, not lose a game and 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.720 everyone else in the division loses definitely helps you out. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:20.720 I think the biggest thing that they should be able 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.720 to do in the bye week is to get helping 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.160 get all your guys back. It's great to have the 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.880 other teams lose, but most importantly get your guys back 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.520 that you need for the long stress to the end 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.240 of the season. If they could do that and get 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.040 those guys back, it's a much better team coming after 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.760 the by than it was going in. We are all 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.120 so curious to see what happens to this football team 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.000 after the bye week. Eagles off on Monday. They return 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.160 to training on Tuesday, and of course, the Dallas Cowboys 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.840 Sunday Night football awaits for the Eagles. The Cowboys really 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.640 struggling at the quarterback position. With their loss to Seattle, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.240 they are now two and five. We'll get a look 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.600 at the Cowboys a little bit later on some thoughts 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.000 on that team. 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We welcome you back at 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.320 Tigales three sixty Dave Spidery O'Brian Westbrook, And whilst not 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.480 exactly the middle of the season, we have a break, 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.360 so we're going to treat it as such. Brian and 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.880 I are gonna talk about some of the players we 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.840 think have improved this football team and some as we 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.680 get along in the show, who have a lot to prove. Brian, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.480 let's begin here with some players. Maybe the most improved player, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.920 don't I'll start this, how about the best newcomer on 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.720 this team. I think the best newcomer has to be 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.000 Jordan Hicks. The things that he's been able to do 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.880 on that football team of the football field has been great. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.080 When you're talking about you're losing Michael Kendricks and you 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.760 lost to Miko Ryans for games there, and you have 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.240 a rookie come in to play the way that he's played, 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.360 it's been outstanding. He has really that defense hasn't missed 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.680 a beat. He's making plays on the sideline. He's made 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.839 plays in a past game, he's intercepted the ball, and 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.480 he's making a lot of plays in a run game. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.560 I love the way these young players play. I love 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.960 the way he's playing as well, But I'm going to 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.840 go with another defensive player. This time it will be 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.520 safety Walter Thurman. Walter Thurman was one of the players 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.840 nobody really talked about during the free agency period. The 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.919 Eagles go out and get DeMarco Murray, and they signed 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.040 Ryan Matthews, and they trade for Sam Bradford, and they 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.160 acquire Byron Maxwell, and then Walter Thurman. Well, what's he 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.799 gonna do here? Will? The Eagles saw something in him 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.160 to really compliment this defensive secondary, moving him from cornerback 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.120 to safety, where he and Malcolm Jenkins have been just 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.160 terrific together and their ability to cover down the field 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.600 has allowed Bill Davis to do a lot of different 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.400 things in his defense. And I think this defense is 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.320 in a whole lot better shape now than it was 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.240 last year, no question about it. When you had that 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.479 leadership from Malcolm Jenkins and you add another guy that 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.280 can cover just as good as Walter Thurman, and the 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.080 thing that you talk about for safeties is being able 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.039 to cover. But he's one of the better tackles on 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.720 this football team, and I think that goes a long 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.040 way because he's a success of this defense. How about 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.800 we talk about the most improved player here on this team. Now, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.880 I will go with a player who's was on the 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.320 roster last year, and it's Benny Logan. Benny Logan has 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.640 been a game changing nose tackle for this Eagles run defense. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.839 And I know that in Carolina the Eagles giving up 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.600 two hundred plush yards on the ground. But Logan's power 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.000 is versatility, the passion that he plays with, the physical 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.240 nature upfront. Fletcher Cox gets the credit a lot of it, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.560 and deservedly so. Fletcher Cox an outstanding player, But to me, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 Benny Logan is really made that leap into a premier 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.240 nose tackle, and I think that sets up this entire 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.440 three four front Friend, It's taken a couple of years. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.200 Eagles seem to have the pieces in places. When you 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.240 look at Benny Logan, you're telling a player that's going 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.159 to consistently be double team every single game. I mean 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.920 you're talking about offensive lineman three hundred plus pounds every 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.920 single game. He's going to get a double team almost 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.840 for every play, but he still finds a way to 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.719 make a play. Benny Logan is a great foot how 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.680 he got one for most most improved. Yeah, I think 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.880 the guy does most improved offensively, especially is Ryan Matthews. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.040 And the reason why I say that is because he's 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.440 coming into a situation from being a starter in San Diego, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.320 he played a lot of plays sixty seventy plus plays 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.120 per game. In this situation that he's in here in 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.080 Philadelphia is that he's going to play ten fifteen plays 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.240 a game, and it's very hard as a running back 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.400 to find your rhythm only playing that limit to the 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.000 amount of plays. But he's been very successful. He's been 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.160 very productive offensively, and that's why I think he's one 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.200 of the most improved. So how do you handle that situation, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.120 Coach Brian Well, I think you have to get closer 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.040 closer to fifty carry fifty fifty for East guy. You 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.320 have to give DeMarco Murray his carriers because he deserves it, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.479 and you also have to give Ryan Matthews his carries 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.480 because he deserves it as well. He's been the most 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.600 explosive player on offense. You have to have him gab really, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.160 you have to give him the more touches, that's the 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.120 most important thing. Give him some more touches either in 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.080 the run game or the passing Okay, and we will 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.600 see if that happens if DeMarco Murray continues to take 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.880 the Lion's share of the carries. Now, most outstanding player, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.360 it's easy to go with a defensive player, as I'm 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:25.920 sure Brian will do. I'm going to go with an 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.360 offensive player and kind of specialize this category. The most 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.720 outstanding player on this football team Jason Peters at left 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.240 offensive tackle. You see what happens when he's out there 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.520 and dominating against the Saints, against the Giants, played great 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.480 at left tackle. Eagles offense really showing its ability moving 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.720 up and down the field when he's been hurt, which 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.560 has been more often than not in the first seven games. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.040 To see the ripple effect that has on the offense. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.920 Pieces have to move. The Eagles not as potent off 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.200 the edge. So I go with Jason Peters and hope 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.560 that he comes back from the back spasm suffered in 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.760 Carolina and has just a great fight on nine games 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.680 of the season. If he can do that, brand I 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.520 just think it helps the entire offense. Well, I think 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.120 what you're describing is a great player in Jason Peters. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.800 But what great players do is they make the players 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.880 around them better. And that's what Jason Peters does. He 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.480 makes that offensive linement, the offensive line position group much 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.440 better when he's out there, and of course when he's 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.480 not playing, I think it definitely hurts that entire offense. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.560 You got the most outstanding player for us. Well, I 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.880 think defensively, when you look at these guys up front, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.440 it's been really really hard to get past these guys 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:28.720 in a run game. And I think a lot of 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.560 it has to do with Fletcher Cox. A lot of 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.600 time people spent talking about him not will being willing 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.679 to two gap, but this year he's two gap in 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.040 his butt off. He's playing the run. He's playing the past, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:39.920 and you don't get that from a lot of defensive 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.520 linement in the league. The league is so specialized these 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.800 these days. Is that either play the run or you 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.960 play the past. Fletcher Cox has done a great job 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.040 playing both. A very worthy choice. So that is our 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.520 midseason look at some of the players, some awards, if 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.280 you will, for this three and four Eagles team. When 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.319 we return to Eagles three sixty, we've got to look 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.400 at the Dallas Cowboys. 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Go to FanDuel dot com for 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.400 your free accounts. Now we welcome you back. At the 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.120 Eagles three sixty Dave Spideryo Brian Westbrook taking a look 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.240 at the Eagles getting ready for the Dallas Cowboys on 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.080 Sunday night, Prime time for the Eagles starting the final 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.560 nine game run of this regular season. Brian, let's talk 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.520 about some of the players that need to step up. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.960 We all know that everybody needs to step up on 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.600 the roster. It's a complete team effort here, but specifically offensively, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.320 Eagles really not as potent in the past game as 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.360 we thought they would be. Yeah, they need some big 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.920 time production from the wide receivers. But Nelson Aguilar in 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.320 particular has to step up. I know he's a rookie, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.160 but they need some outside presence. They need someone that 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.439 has ability to stress to feel like he does. They 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.679 need some playmaking coming from his way. And if they 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.520 do that, that's going to open things up for for 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.719 Jordan Matthews. That's going to open up everything for the 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.079 running game as well. It's gonna make it a lot 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.240 easier for Sam Bradford to be a confident quarterback of 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.200 person that can field the ball down the field. He 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.240 has to step up in this second half of this Sason, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.040 if this team offensively wants to be successful. Your thoughts, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.040 Brian on Matthews on Josh Huff There has just been 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:10.040 inconsistency with Jordan certainly catching the football and Josh performance 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.520 wise production wise not as consistent as I think everybody 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.640 hoped you would be. Yeah, I hope this bye week 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.160 as an opportunity for all of those receivers to get 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.160 away from the game and understand. Listen, don't worry about 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.600 the pressure, don't worry about anything else. Just go out 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.720 there and play your game. Play be the player that 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.960 they drafted you here to be, be the player that 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.160 you are in practice, and if you can develop that 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.920 type of consistency in that thought process, then you can 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.520 be successful in the NFL. My offensive player needs to 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.400 step out. Obviously, everybody knows that Sam Bradford really needs 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.040 to get his game more consistent. He certainly has shown 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.680 signs in recent games of playing at a higher level. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.640 But my player that I'm going to say is kind 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.439 of on the spot or needs to raise his game, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.240 and he knows about it is Jason Kelsey. Jason Kelsey 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.080 talks about it every single week, good or bad. He 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.280 is the key to the Eagles in terms of setting 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.679 the blocking schemes, being the brain of the offensive line, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.360 setting the tempo for this Eagles offensive line. Really one 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.760 of the leaders in the locker room. And as important 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.760 as Jason Peters is at left tackle, that is very 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.600 much how important Jason Kelsey is at the center position. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.560 And this year he's been taken out of the game 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.360 just a little bit. Teams are really penetrating, not allowing 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.440 him to get to the second level, not allowing him 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.520 ryan to use his athletic ability. If you want this 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.800 running game to go, you have to be you have 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.840 to get pushed from your center. And I think Judson 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.800 Kelsey is the type of guy. He's an all Pro. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.520 He's a guy that can get it done in the 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.400 running gag. They just need him to be a little 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.200 bit more stern, a little bit more stiff upfront, not 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.960 allowing guys to penetrate so much in the backfield. And 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.760 it he's able to do that, this running game will 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.319 take off all right. On the defensive side of the 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.280 Football Eagles defense has played quite well for seven games 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.800 for the most part. Now they want to get even better, 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.960 and they've got some players coming back from injury who 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.920 could make a difference. Yeah, I think they had definitely 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.920 had some guys coming back with Matthews, it's give me 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.679 Ryan's as well as ken just I think the group 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.679 that needs to get better. You need more production from 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.559 the outside linebackers. You saw that last year. Connor Barbin 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.240 was an All a Pro Bowl type of guy, a 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.720 lot of sacks. This year, he hasn't had that same 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.040 type of production. Maybe it's because of the numbers just 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.040 aren't right, but we need to have production from colar 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.520 Ol Barman as well as Brandon Graham. We need pressure 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.520 on the quarterback that's going to take the pressure off 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.000 of everybody on this defense. If they had that, then 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.840 this defense could be even better than it has been 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.440 already this year. And you want to talk about a 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.800 defense getting better, how about the cornerback play getting even 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.600 more improved. I mean, Byron Maxwell has shown signs step 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.120 by step of becoming more comfortable in this defensive scheme 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.200 as you look at the schedule ahead, though Dez Bryant 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.800 he's ready to play football. And then the Miami Dolphins 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.360 come to town with players like Jarvis Landry and Tampa 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.440 Bay with all their big receivers Mike Evans, and then 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.680 Detroit with Megatron. You've got Odell Beckham, You've got to 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.360 Sean Jackson, You've got the Patriots running all sorts of 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.440 things that you're including a bunch of tight ends. So 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.600 Byron Maxwell needs to get better and better and better 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.520 and really become kind of the shutdown cornerback that the 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.000 Eagles envisioned he would be. I'm not talking about Richard 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.200 Sherman here, because we know that in free agency you 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:06.440 overpay for players. I'm talking about a consistent, dependable, solid, functional, scrappy, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.760 tenacious Byron Maxwell. And we're seeing signs of that Brian 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.320 the final nine weeks. I want to see that every week. Yeah, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.600 we saw him struggle early on in the season, but 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.680 I think as a season has gone on, he's done 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.920 a much better job of protecting what's most sacred to 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.120 a dB, not giving up the big place. He's doing 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.280 a much better job of that. I think Billy Davis 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.080 has finally understand exactly what type of player he is, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.360 and I think as the season continues to progress, he'll 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.400 continue to get better, but he definitely has some big 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.360 challenges coming up in the second half of the year. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.560 Speaking of big challenges, it's Dallas Week and that means 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.280 we're gonna have a lot of fun around here. On 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.920 Eagles three sixty, it's the Cowboys two and five showing 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.240 signs season on the brink. We'll talk about them when 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:58.720 we return. Eagles three sixteen. Just one second. 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They win three of their last four games. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.040 They win the division at nine and seven. The Eagles 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.479 in Dallas both at eight and eight, and everybody said, yah, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.520 the NFC East, it stinks. Well, the Giants went on 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.040 to win the Super Bowl that year, beating the Patriots, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.880 So you never know. It's Eagles three sixty. Dave Spidero 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.600 and Brian Westbrook, let's chat about the NFC East for 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.119 a moment here. Is it as bad as it looks? 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.760 Or is it just starting to get a separation cream 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.960 And I think it is as bad as it looks. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:01.840 What you're seeing is that you're not seeing a lot 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.200 of consistent play by any team. And we talk about 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.840 consistency and execution every single week here about the Eagles, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.880 but you haven't seen very much of that throughout this division. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.480 But this is a good thing for the Eagles that 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.919 they have an opportunity and this week they play one 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.600 of the teams in the division and it's a must 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.240 win game. You can't afford to go one and three 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.359 in division. You can't afford to have two losses to 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.440 Dallas throughout in this season. The Eagles have to win 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.320 this football game, and it's going to take a big 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.199 push from them offensively as well as defensively. But this 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.199 is definitely a beatable team in Dallas. Cowboy. If the 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.600 Cowboys interesting thirteen to twelve losers to Seattle on Sunday, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.800 they get Dez Bryant back, Yes, two catches, twelve yards, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.560 pretty inconsequential numbers from him. They ran the football fairly well, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.920 but no touchdowns. Brian and I don't know if there's 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.439 a solution for the Cowboys until Tony Romo gets back. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.040 I mean, if you're Bill Davis, what do you want 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:50.720 to do to if you stack the box to stop 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.720 the run. You're gonna double team Brian, You're gonna double 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.600 team Jason Witten. What do you want to do defensively? Well, 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.200 I think defensively you have to start by stacking the box. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.520 You don't want to allow this offensive line take over 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.720 the game, similar to the way that the Carolina Panther's offense, 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.840 the line took over the game, especially in the second half. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.800 The last time the Eagles play, so you have to 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.399 stack the box, make sure that this Darren McFadden doesn't 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.480 get going, because he's looked pretty good the last couple 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.520 of weeks. And then you play one on one outside 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.040 with desk. You had your safety take an eye look 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:18.919 at him from time to time. But I'd like to 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.960 see Byron Maxwell in his face, physical play, just like 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.359 Richard Sherman was last week. Make him get off the 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.600 line with that sore foot. And if you do that 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.040 and you stack the box, then you have a much 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.879 better chance of getting to the quarterback, especially if they 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.800 throw the football. And for the offense, it's kind of 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.080 a get back at him game. The Eagles shut down 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.560 in Week two against the Dallas Cowboys. The offense that 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.560 day was really ineffective, a couple of big mistakes from 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.120 Sam Bradford, including that end zone interception a great pick 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.439 from Shaun Lee. So the Eagles offense wants to come 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:52.920 out roaring against the Dallas Cowboys. A second look at 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.680 a team now that has Greg Hardy, Randy Gregory. They're 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.840 much better upfront and the secondary. Remarkably, Brian has kind 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:02.800 of withstood all of these problems and they're keeping the 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.600 Cowboys and games. Yeah, the secondary has played pretty decent 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.760 because their front seven, they're actually getting out the quarterback 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.040 just a bit. And I think one thing that's important 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.240 for this Eagles team is to get a fast start. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.040 In the first seven games, they've only scored ten points 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.359 in the first quarter. That's just not gonna be enough 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.760 to compete throughout the second half of the season. They 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.800 had to get a fast start going on. They need 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.520