Speaker 1: He gets the win after he tips the pass or
Speaker 1: Sewel Douglas there in coverage, Cooper tips the pass up,
Speaker 1: he's able to catch it for the fifteen yards score,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles never touched the ball in overtime, losing
Speaker 1: by seven. So it's so difficult because the defense did
Speaker 1: everything in its power to keep the Eagles in this
Speaker 1: ball game. After what was a very tight first three quarters,
Speaker 1: Cowboys led nine to six. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: floodgates open for both offenses, Eagles outscoring the Cowboys seventeen
Speaker 1: to fourteen to tie it up to get to overtime,
Speaker 1: and you felt the momentum there. You thought the Eagles
Speaker 1: were fine, going to get over the hump, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: Dallas gets the ball first and never allows the Eagles
Speaker 1: to get it. You're hoping the Eagles defense could just
Speaker 1: salvage the drive with allowing only a field goal. Obviously
Speaker 1: not the case, as Cooper over two hundred yards and
Speaker 1: his third touchdown of the day, torching the Eagles defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a tough game. I mean, when you look at
Speaker 1: this game, it really boils down the two halves, pretty
Speaker 1: much like the first game boiled down to and a
Speaker 1: lot in similar fashion, except that the Eagles lose US
Speaker 1: for an overtime instead of regulation. Well, when you think back,
Speaker 1: the Eagles gonna look at this game, man, they're just
Speaker 1: gonna kick themselves for the slow start offensively. That's really
Speaker 1: what this game boiled down to. This defense has been
Speaker 1: shorthanded over the last month, playing with basically unknowns in
Speaker 1: the secondary at times, guys that are coming in off
Speaker 1: the streets. So they've been a little bit hamstrong as
Speaker 1: far as what they could do on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball, and they really kept the Eagles in the
Speaker 1: game as best they could, give this offense a little
Speaker 1: bit of time to get going. They got going late
Speaker 1: in the game, and really a board down to you
Speaker 1: couldn't get stops when you needed them late in the game.
Speaker 1: And just a tough, hard faught loss down in Texas
Speaker 1: for the Eagles today in the game they needed they
Speaker 1: must have they I would say they played well enough
Speaker 1: to win this game. They played well enough to give
Speaker 1: themselves a chance to win this game. I can't necessarily
Speaker 1: say they played well enough to win this game because
Speaker 1: they didn't play for four quarters on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football. And it's really been their Achilles Hill all
Speaker 1: year long is that they haven't been able to put
Speaker 1: four quarters of solid football together on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball very often this year. They played well in
Speaker 1: spurts on either side of the ball, but having problems
Speaker 1: being able to put it together for a complete sixty
Speaker 1: minutes in order to win a game like this against
Speaker 1: a tough Dallas Cowboy team in their building is the effort.
Speaker 1: It was going to be needed today, and it's just
Speaker 1: unfortunately that the Eagles didn't really have it early in
Speaker 1: the game offensively, and it was just too late in
Speaker 1: the game, and I think the defense basically ran out
Speaker 1: of gas. Dallas dominated time and possession today. That big
Speaker 1: offensive line Ezekiel Elliott, a physical runner, Jess couldn't stop
Speaker 1: him from getting those tough yards. They held him down
Speaker 1: in the second half from the explosive plays, But those
Speaker 1: tough yards, those three yard games, those two yard games,
Speaker 1: the fourth and one where he finds a little crease
Speaker 1: to sort of get in under Malcolm Jenkins. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what he's good at doing. And the Eagles defense
Speaker 1: in the second half and into that overtime, I thought
Speaker 1: it just ran out of gas. Limited the explosive plays
Speaker 1: a Zeke Elliott. But then Amari Cooper took over the
Speaker 1: game two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, a twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard reception on a go round against Sydney Jones, who
Speaker 1: was battling through a hamstring injury certainly was not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent out there whatsoever, and then a seventy five
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. Jones comes out of the game, DeVante Bosby
Speaker 1: goes in and Cooper takes him down the field for
Speaker 1: seventy five yards. This is right after Dallas got scored
Speaker 1: on a three yard touchdown reception to tie the game
Speaker 1: at sixteen, and then Amari Cooper getting the game winner
Speaker 1: in overtime for the Eagles. So it's almost like in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Corey Davis that was his breakout performance there. It was
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper show here. As we always have been debated
Speaker 1: during the course of the week, who's the bigger weapon
Speaker 1: you have to zop, Zeke Ellet or Amark Cooper. I
Speaker 1: will still say a hundred times out of one hundred,
Speaker 1: it's Zeke Ellett. He's the one who that offense funnels through.
Speaker 1: He's the one who's the callous to start things off.
Speaker 1: He was able to methodically move the chains down the field,
Speaker 1: got the fourth and one conversion to put the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in position so that Amari Cooper could get them over
Speaker 1: the top. Now, this is gonna be, like you said,
Speaker 1: a lot of what it could have shown us for
Speaker 1: the Eagles here today. And really it starts from the
Speaker 1: opening kickoff. Okay, the Eagles looking to set the tone.
Speaker 1: We're probably forgetting about this play because of the fact
Speaker 1: that this game had a throwing finish. It went to overtime,
Speaker 1: but the opening kickoff, Jordan Lewis returns it for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins with the hit lifting him up, forcing the
Speaker 1: ball out. Here's the play right here. Okay, he's gonna
Speaker 1: lift them up. The ball is gonna come out. And
Speaker 1: by everyone in America, it clearly looks like with five
Speaker 1: or six Eagles around the ball, it clearly looked like
Speaker 1: that Commu Gruge Hill had the recovery. Now Commu Gruja
Speaker 1: Hill and made the comments this week about the Cowboys choking,
Speaker 1: it seemed like he was backing up his words right
Speaker 1: from the opening kick to give the Eagles the great
Speaker 1: field position to get the offense set up. However, initially
Speaker 1: the referees declared that I was down by contact. Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson smartly calls for the challenge flag and the say, well,
Speaker 1: while there was a fumble on the play, however, it's
Speaker 1: not clear who recovered it, who recovered or the fact
Speaker 1: that any Eagle recovered whatsoever. So everywhere in America except
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium and I guess New York where
Speaker 1: they're doing the replay office, where're doing the replays from,
Speaker 1: those are only places that they couldn't tell. So right
Speaker 1: from the jump there, the Eagles, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: not able to get on track there. You thought that
Speaker 1: they were gonna have that big play to set the tone.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the case. The other thing that we can't
Speaker 1: forget here is Jake Elliott missing the extra point was
Speaker 1: perfect on the ear for extra points coming into this game.
Speaker 1: After the Eagles finally get a touchdown, al Sean Jeffrey
Speaker 1: scores following Corey Graham's interception return which gets them into
Speaker 1: the red zone. So one pass Wentz to struggle throughout
Speaker 1: the first three quarters, but lit it up in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, has the easy pitching cast of Jeffrey for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Elliott comes out and misses the field goal
Speaker 1: or misses the extra point, and when you're going to overtime,
Speaker 1: that one point making all the difference. It's not like
Speaker 1: the Boys had to have a two point conversion or
Speaker 1: something like that to make up the points. So right there,
Speaker 1: you probably say, if he makes that, maybe this game
Speaker 1: is not going to overtime. So certainly forces the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to have to go for twodown. Right, they would have
Speaker 1: to go for two exactly, so at least to press
Speaker 1: the Cowboys into that situation. But that's not the case.
Speaker 1: But this defensive line, Okay, you know you have Tim
Speaker 1: Juragan not playing because of the back spasms. Josh Wett, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's knocked out of the game with an ankle injury,
Speaker 1: and you might be saying, well, Josh Wet maybe hasn't
Speaker 1: done a lot. He's at least taking up snaps to
Speaker 1: give the guys like Chris Long, Brandon Graham, Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: a breather. Michael Bennet out there playing virtually every step
Speaker 1: it felt like, whether it was an or tackle. Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: Chris Long, Fletcher Cox, they brought as much as they
Speaker 1: could throughout the course of the game. In fact, you
Speaker 1: felt the pass rusher was getting to Prescott more in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter than it was earlier on in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, had a couple of game changing plays, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately when they needed something in the overtime session, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't there. But again, a couple opportunities for the
Speaker 1: Eagles to get off the field. The third and nine
Speaker 1: to Mark Cooper. That's gonna be the one that fights
Speaker 1: them more than anything else because you're in a long
Speaker 1: yard situation. That's the one where you felt like that
Speaker 1: that's where you know Cooper is gonna get the ball,
Speaker 1: and they were not able to defend them on that play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's those are the type of players that
Speaker 1: as a defense you're gonna be when you when that
Speaker 1: plane ride back home, you're thinking back to yourself, Man,
Speaker 1: if we just make that play, we got a chance
Speaker 1: to win this game. We give our offense to ball
Speaker 1: and over time to at least give them a chance.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I don't think the defense has
Speaker 1: anything to hang their heads about today. I thought they
Speaker 1: did as best they could. I would have liked to
Speaker 1: have seen a better job done on Amari Cooper considering
Speaker 1: that that's really the only passing threat that Cowboys had.
Speaker 1: You know, they hit a couple passes to the tight
Speaker 1: end the day that I thought it was a little
Speaker 1: frustrating at times, but for the most part, you had
Speaker 1: to know when they needed a big play, they were
Speaker 1: gonna find Number nineteen out there. And I thought we
Speaker 1: could have did a better job in the coverage. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned the defensive line. I thought Fletcher Cox and
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett and Brandon Graham played a heck of a
Speaker 1: game today. Trying to get after Dak Prescott really made
Speaker 1: him uncomfortable late in the game. Force some turnovers from
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. In this game, you get three turnovers from
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, you gotta win this football game. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: they took the ball away from the Cowboys. The Eagles
Speaker 1: only gave it up once, right on the Wentz sack
Speaker 1: and fumble. I believe so to force the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: turn the ball over three times, you win the turnover margin.
Speaker 1: You got to convert those things into touchdowns. And I
Speaker 1: just thought, this is a game. When they look back
Speaker 1: at it, they're gonna say to themselves, we gotta get
Speaker 1: off to a faster start. We had to get off
Speaker 1: to a faster start. The defense gave you what you
Speaker 1: wanted in the first half of this game, and unfortunately
Speaker 1: the offense didn't have much going in the first half.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz looked out of rhythm, the wide receivers looked
Speaker 1: like they couldn't get open, the running game was non existent.
Speaker 1: These are all the things that really ailed the offense
Speaker 1: in the first a half. Why the deep was really
Speaker 1: holding on for dear life and really kept them in
Speaker 1: the ball. Games should have been a three nothing game
Speaker 1: going into the locker room, but give Dallas credit. Their
Speaker 1: kicker knocked down a sixty two yard field goal to
Speaker 1: make right to make it six nothing, and you got
Speaker 1: to feel a little comfortable, I mean a little relieve
Speaker 1: going into the locker room at six nothing, considering your
Speaker 1: offensive done virtually nothing the entire first half. I think
Speaker 1: I saw where they had their first five possessions on
Speaker 1: three of them that were three and outs on those possessions.
Speaker 1: So it's you look at these numbers and just look
Speaker 1: where Dallas just really able to dominate the game. Man,
Speaker 1: that's that's time of possession. I know you got ten
Speaker 1: extra minutes almost from the overtime that you add on
Speaker 1: to the But that's just I mean, man, that's two
Speaker 1: to one easily. Time of possession are at forty five
Speaker 1: minutes to basically less than twenty three minutes. Man's it's
Speaker 1: amazing that they were even in this game. When you
Speaker 1: look at those type of numbers from an offensive standpoint
Speaker 1: that Dallas was able to put up today, it's amazing
Speaker 1: that they were even in this game. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: takeaway here is that as badly as the Eagles played
Speaker 1: in the first half, Dallas should have blown the doors
Speaker 1: off this Eagles team. Okay, it was six nothing at halftime.
Speaker 1: You kind of felt like it might have been fourteen nothing,
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing or so at the half. But the thing is, okay,
Speaker 1: So you go into halftime down six nothing, You're thinking
Speaker 1: to yourself, Okay, offense is gonna get the ball back.
Speaker 1: Maybe they could finance rhythm. Remember the first time the
Speaker 1: Eagles played the Cowboys back in November eleventh, the Eagles
Speaker 1: struggled on offense in the first half, able to turn
Speaker 1: up the heat in the second half, but that's when
Speaker 1: the defense took a step back and regress probably worn
Speaker 1: out at that point, and by that point the Eagles
Speaker 1: were not able to get things going and not pull
Speaker 1: ahead of the Cowboys. A lot of the same things
Speaker 1: happening here today. We're the first drive of the second half.
Speaker 1: It's a three and out, and you can say to yourself,
Speaker 1: how much more or how much longer can the defense
Speaker 1: hold on here to try to keep the Eagles in
Speaker 1: this ball game because of the fact that matters, you know,
Speaker 1: is zeke ellet and a physical run game. With the
Speaker 1: offensive line as strong as it is for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be wearing down on this defensive line. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be putting the ball in Elliott's hands to try
Speaker 1: to make this a short game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: And you see the total numbers there, one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two yards on the ground, four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four passing yards. And we talk about the defensive line
Speaker 1: dealing with injuries in the secondary, Sidney Jones getting hurt
Speaker 1: as to come out of the game. You already have
Speaker 1: lost Jaila Mills who's put on injured reserve, Avante Max
Speaker 1: not playing in this game. You know, you go back
Speaker 1: to Roald Darby played in the first game. This is
Speaker 1: the game he got injured in a month ago, he's
Speaker 1: not on the field, so you're left with Russell Douglas,
Speaker 1: who held a very strong provide the first game changing
Speaker 1: play the interception which came in the red zone, which
Speaker 1: allowed the Eagles, you know, to kind of survive a
Speaker 1: weather the storm there. But it was an undermanned secondary,
Speaker 1: a defensive line that you have your top players there
Speaker 1: but not allow of depth there. They're fighting and scratching
Speaker 1: and clawl to try to keep the Eagles in this
Speaker 1: ball game. They're just looking for some signs of life
Speaker 1: from the offense because you started to worry that if
Speaker 1: the defense is watching the Eagles offense go three and out,
Speaker 1: three and out, three and out, how much what are
Speaker 1: they gonna have to do? Okay, I mean they Fortunately
Speaker 1: Corey Graham got the interception, almost returning it for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and that allowed the Eagles to get on the board
Speaker 1: and the offense was starting to get his rhythm from
Speaker 1: that point on there to try to get back in
Speaker 1: this ball game. The Eagles never took the lead in
Speaker 1: this game, but we're able to tie it out throughout
Speaker 1: and then got the game to overtime, and you wondered
Speaker 1: if they were going to be able to especially coming
Speaker 1: up the fact that you know, Jake Elliott ties the
Speaker 1: game at nine with his twenty six yard field goal
Speaker 1: early the fourth quarter. Then a Mark Cooper gets the
Speaker 1: first of his three touchdowns. Dallas Cowboys go sixteen and nine.
Speaker 1: All right, Dallas got response, You have another touchdown, tie
Speaker 1: game there, while Mark Cooper goes back down with a
Speaker 1: seventy five yard touchdown one play seventy five yards, you know,
Speaker 1: regains the lead. Darrence Browles ties the game, sends it
Speaker 1: toto overtime, and you felt like they were right there
Speaker 1: in position. The problem is you lose the coin toss
Speaker 1: in overtime. Dallas gets the ball and they're able to
Speaker 1: go down the field. And even even if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't score, they had pretty much milked the whole clock
Speaker 1: that it wasn't gonna be much time for the Deals
Speaker 1: to do anything. So you were at that point almost
Speaker 1: looking at either a loss or a tide. Tide was
Speaker 1: almost going to become your best case scenario there, you know,
Speaker 1: t Yeah, I mean just you look at this defense
Speaker 1: and they were basically worn out late, right, Dallas gets
Speaker 1: the ball late in the game with an opportunity to
Speaker 1: try to win the game and regulation. The defense is
Speaker 1: trying to hold on. They get a big sack to
Speaker 1: force Dallas out of field goal range, made them decide
Speaker 1: to go into overtime. We lose the coin toss, Dallas
Speaker 1: takes the ball, the defenses right back on the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was difficult. I knew we were in trouble.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, man, we gotta win this coin
Speaker 1: toss because our defense just got off the field, and
Speaker 1: so Dallas wins the coin toss. They're able to convert
Speaker 1: third downs. You look at the box score, man, when
Speaker 1: you look at the third down and fourth down conversions
Speaker 1: for both of these teams, that's the real difference in
Speaker 1: this game. Combined Cowboys ten eleven for twenty I believe
Speaker 1: on third and fourth down conversions, the two for ten
Speaker 1: on third and fourth down conversions. That's your ball game
Speaker 1: right there. That's how you extend drives. That's how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys dominate time of possession. They're able to convert third downs,
Speaker 1: extend the drives. The Eagles too many, too many three
Speaker 1: and owns, too many times they couldn't convert third downs,
Speaker 1: eventually having to punk the ball to the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: their defense wears down and eventually they get in. It's
Speaker 1: unfortunate you have that last play that ends the game,
Speaker 1: the Marii Cooper touchdown Russeu Douglas and perfect coverage does
Speaker 1: a nice job pass defense, ball just tips up into
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper's hands. That's that's an unfortunate bounce right there.
Speaker 1: Dallas should have been lining up to kick a field
Speaker 1: goal on fourth down. But that's just the way the
Speaker 1: ball bounces sometimes. And I tell you, when when you've
Speaker 1: had enough opportunities that you don't necessarily capitalize on and
Speaker 1: scenes eventually it's gonna bite you in the end. And
Speaker 1: that's what happened in the end. There is that is
Speaker 1: that the Eagles, even though Russell's there to make that play,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys finally got a fortunate bounce their way. Fortunate. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right from the start of the game they open and
Speaker 1: kick offsappointed at yes, yes, either way however you want
Speaker 1: to take a bounced call. Whatever way, it was something
Speaker 1: that went the Cowboys way. You look at the Dallas
Speaker 1: got or touchdown that was taken off the board by
Speaker 1: questionable offensive pass interference. You know, Fortunately the Eagles were
Speaker 1: able to march back down the field and score the touchdown.
Speaker 1: It didn't hurt them, but you could argue Eagles score
Speaker 1: quickly there. There might have been more time there when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you know, we're trying to get the field
Speaker 1: goal late in the game. They have to get off
Speaker 1: the field. Maybe the Eagles have one more chance to
Speaker 1: go down the field. You don't know, but that's one
Speaker 1: of those what it could have showd have moments that
Speaker 1: you're gonna be thinking about. But just another crazy call
Speaker 1: with that big explosive play taking off the board. You know,
Speaker 1: credit the Eagles for being resilient coming back because easily
Speaker 1: that could have crushed their spirit. Sure, okay, but seeing
Speaker 1: this team fight. But you know, while we talk about
Speaker 1: the quarterback here, Carson Wentz first three orders just looked
Speaker 1: out of sync, just did not look comfortable in the pocket.
Speaker 1: There was time. I mean, the offensive line protection for
Speaker 1: the most part held up well. And you're gonna look
Speaker 1: at these final numbers here, you're gonna say he could
Speaker 1: play at sixty nine percent of his passes three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: did have the lost fumble, But overall, you know from
Speaker 1: what you've seen from Carson in his first two plus
Speaker 1: years in the league that this was not the caliber
Speaker 1: performance you would expect it from him in such a
Speaker 1: pivotal game here tonight. Yeah, and it's it's hard without
Speaker 1: looking at the ALL twenty two tape to see what
Speaker 1: was the exact issues. He certainly had time in the
Speaker 1: pocket to throw the ball. But unless you're down there
Speaker 1: on the field and you're seeing exactly what he's seeing,
Speaker 1: I don't know if receivers were open, was he missing
Speaker 1: open guys, was he looking at the wrong guys and
Speaker 1: there's someone else open in the route? Or is he
Speaker 1: holding the ball waiting for someone to get open. They'll
Speaker 1: be able to determine that once they actually look at
Speaker 1: the film. But you could tell he was not comfortable
Speaker 1: in the pocket. I'm with you. I thought he had
Speaker 1: plenty of time to at least get rid of the
Speaker 1: football at times. Again, like I said, unless you're looking
Speaker 1: at the ALL twenty two and you can see all
Speaker 1: the routes, I don't know if receivers are open, he
Speaker 1: doesn't see the receivers, or he's sitting back there holding
Speaker 1: the football waiting on someone to get open. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: this this offense struggle today to get any rhythm. There
Speaker 1: was no true identity in the offense early in the game,
Speaker 1: they tried to run the ball, didn't have any success.
Speaker 1: And when you when you're having three and outs early
Speaker 1: and the imposing team's offense, it's chewing up the clock.
Speaker 1: Even though the score wasn't out of whack. The fact
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys had long, sustaining drives and the Eagles
Speaker 1: were trying to get big, chunk plays. They were trying
Speaker 1: to get something going, and they couldn't get anything going
Speaker 1: in that first quarter. Really in the whole first half,
Speaker 1: they couldn't get anything going on. When they finally had
Speaker 1: a little momentum going, you got the sack and the
Speaker 1: forced fumble on Carson Wentz there right before the half. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's been it's really been the
Speaker 1: bugaboo of this team all year long. Slow star with
Speaker 1: this offense. We've looked at so many different variables as
Speaker 1: it pertainers to the offense to try to figure out
Speaker 1: what the exact issue is. And the biggest problem is
Speaker 1: there isn't one issue, because because if it was one thing,
Speaker 1: it would be easy to fix. And I have no
Speaker 1: idea why they aren't clicking the way that they were
Speaker 1: last year. Give Dallas some credit. This was the number
Speaker 1: two scoring defense in the league, it's the number two
Speaker 1: rushing defense in the league, the number seven passing defense
Speaker 1: in the league. We saw what they were able to
Speaker 1: do to the Saints offense all night long, with holding
Speaker 1: that Saints offense to just ten points. So it's not
Speaker 1: unheard of that an offense struggles against this Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: But you would have liked to have seen the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense get it going a little earlier in the game,
Speaker 1: able to get some stuff going through the second half,
Speaker 1: really in the fourth quarter of the game, when I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys kind of loosened up a little bit
Speaker 1: on some of their coverage. But just a game where yeah,
Speaker 1: just I mean, it's it's a game where you kind
Speaker 1: of say to yourself, opportunities there. But I can't necessarily
Speaker 1: say that the better team didn't win, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are a good football team and they played
Speaker 1: a very good football game today. It's really that I
Speaker 1: believe the Eagles found themselves fortunate team and be in
Speaker 1: this game late in the game. Credit to their defense
Speaker 1: and what they were able to do that they almost
Speaker 1: were able to steal one if they could have got
Speaker 1: the ball on overtime. I would have liked to have
Speaker 1: seen what Carson could have did with the ball in overtime,
Speaker 1: since they had the offense rolling a little bit. But
Speaker 1: that defense man, that defense just ran out of gas
Speaker 1: and couldn't get off the field late in the game.
Speaker 1: First game against the Cowboys, it was the same thing.
Speaker 1: It was finally, you know, the defense keeps Eagles in
Speaker 1: the ball game. Fourth quarter, offense starts to heat up,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately Zeke Elliott took over in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of that first game. Cowboys get fourteen points and able
Speaker 1: to close up the twenty seven to twenty win. Tonight
Speaker 1: it's twenty nine to twenty three in overtime, the Eels
Speaker 1: going down again, the second time the Eels have lost
Speaker 1: in overtime this season. Now following two games behind the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys in the MC easton with three games to go,
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys really putting the clamps on the division, with
Speaker 1: Washington getting blown out, Mark Stantons being benched, and obviously
Speaker 1: the Giants being out of the picture right now, so
Speaker 1: very difficult way for this game here to end, especially
Speaker 1: with the spear to come back that the Eagles had
Speaker 1: trying to keep this one closed throughout it. It was
Speaker 1: largely an ugly defense of slug fest for three quarters
Speaker 1: again nine to six. Going into the fourth quarter, the
Speaker 1: Eagles able to rally get the things going on offense.
Speaker 1: You know, you're seeing other guys come to the forefront.
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the big things areas when
Speaker 1: this offense has worked well, it's not just say zach
Speaker 1: Ertz or Alshon jeffer As. You're getting multiple guys involved
Speaker 1: in the offense. That fourth quarter, Dallas Goddard was the
Speaker 1: go to guy. Nelson Aghalore with maybe the catch of
Speaker 1: the year, maybe the after the year for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowles showing that he's not finished just yet. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys stepping up that point. I thought
Speaker 1: Carson went with some pinpoint passes. There was a one
Speaker 1: to Dallas, got her along the sideline where he buzzed
Speaker 1: it right over Jalen Smith to get themselves in scoring range.
Speaker 1: So everything started to pick up, you know, even though
Speaker 1: they had injuries. Corey Clement going down with a difficult
Speaker 1: injury that was tough to watch when he was tackled
Speaker 1: early by Millie Collins. Isaac Samle, who's been playing much
Speaker 1: better at left guard. He goes out with the peck
Speaker 1: injury and Stefan Wisnowski has to go in there. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's very difficult there from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: seeing them try to rally, see everything start to click,
Speaker 1: and then just not get like you said, the chance
Speaker 1: in overtime to try to get themselves the victory here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's that's really been the issue with
Speaker 1: the team all year long, right, is that they haven't
Speaker 1: been able to put four quarters a good football together
Speaker 1: and going into a game like this they needed it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's send it down to atenc Stadium, Doug Pearson.
Speaker 1: It was a one point the game. Uh yeah, decision
Speaker 1: making was to kick the extra point, tied up and
Speaker 1: then uh I'm talking about the penalty afterwards to be
Speaker 1: able to go for it. Uh No, I just I
Speaker 1: just elected at that point just to go for the
Speaker 1: kick and tied up. We had a little discussion, but
Speaker 1: at the time we felt where we were as a
Speaker 1: team at the time, we felt we felt good about
Speaker 1: it and kept the points on the board. What was
Speaker 1: the explanation given on the fumble in the first play
Speaker 1: of the game. Um, just basically there was a uh
Speaker 1: you know, it was a clear fumble and then and
Speaker 1: then just didn't know exactly who who necessarily recovered at
Speaker 1: the times a big pile I guess, um, and just unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Some of the issues for the slow start again, well,
Speaker 1: I think some of it, Uh, you give credit to Dallas.
Speaker 1: I mean this is a good defense. We knew that
Speaker 1: going in. Uh. Some of it is uh, you know,
Speaker 1: their design very disruptive upfront. Um, and then just comes
Speaker 1: down to you know, attention to detail, focus and and uh,
Speaker 1: things that have kind of hampered us a little bit
Speaker 1: all season showed up a little bit early in this game,
Speaker 1: and it was tough, too tough to get things going early.
Speaker 1: You knew the stakes of this game. What did you
Speaker 1: tell the guys in there afterwards? Exactly right, we knew
Speaker 1: the stakes of the game. Um. I just told him,
Speaker 1: I said, listen, you know it's one of those games where,
Speaker 1: you know, proud of the way they fought, proud of
Speaker 1: the way they hung in there, battled back. We were
Speaker 1: really never out of this football game at all. And
Speaker 1: just basically told them that, you know, listen, the way
Speaker 1: we all felt in that dressing room, you gotta hate
Speaker 1: this moment. You gotta hate this feeling. You just you
Speaker 1: gotta hate losing, and you gotta you gotta learn from it,
Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta move forward and pick ourselves
Speaker 1: up off the mat and get ready to go for
Speaker 1: another one. Go on that. Sorry, you got to go
Speaker 1: back to the two point inversion. That's a situation that
Speaker 1: you typically have gone for in the past when there's
Speaker 1: been a penalty on the extra point. What was different
Speaker 1: about this game than in the past. Yeah, just a
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Um, you know, late in the game where
Speaker 1: it was opportunity, you know, to just keep the points
Speaker 1: on the board. Um. Nothing other than that. Would you
Speaker 1: agree that Carson looked a little hesitant to the first
Speaker 1: three quarters. I think there's enough to go around offensively.
Speaker 1: I don't think we put it on on the quarterback. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I think we'll take a look at this
Speaker 1: film and and um and uh you know, make make
Speaker 1: uh make the corrections where we need to. Um. You
Speaker 1: know this this is a tough game, and he's done
Speaker 1: some great things, just great things tonight in the second half.
Speaker 1: So we'll evaluate the film and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody will look at it and go from there, I think,
Speaker 1: what do you think it took three quarters to finally
Speaker 1: get good things going with him? Well, again, I think
Speaker 1: I think you give credit to Dallas and their defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, this defense is playing extremely well, and uh
Speaker 1: that's where the credit lies. You all have pretty tough
Speaker 1: spots in terms of your postseason opportunities. Perhaps, how do
Speaker 1: you keep those guys from reading the standings and saying
Speaker 1: it's just not going to happen this year. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're not focused on that. We're focused on, you know,
Speaker 1: getting back to Philly, getting ready for the Rams next weekend,
Speaker 1: and uh take them one at a time, officiating to listen,
Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta job. They got a tough job,
Speaker 1: and I respect everything that they do. And uh again,
Speaker 1: we'll take a look at it, and you know, if
Speaker 1: we need to send some stuff, and we'll send some
Speaker 1: stuff in. But uh, appreciate those guys. I mean it's
Speaker 1: hard work and uh, you know, they they bust their
Speaker 1: tail out there for you. You got in the short hand.
Speaker 1: You guys are shorthand in the second dirty hare's so
Speaker 1: many injuries. But still if what Amari did to the
Speaker 1: defense tonight, you know, fourth, especially in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and overtime. How frustrating is that even though you are
Speaker 1: shorthanded and it looks like Sydney's hurt still and I
Speaker 1: mean it's frustrating, but you know, we just gotta continue
Speaker 1: to push, continue to fight, continue to work these guys. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's obviously it's a great experience for Bobs,
Speaker 1: but it's unfortunate with Sydney in his situation right now.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, we just uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: is what it is right now, you know, and we
Speaker 1: just gotta keep working and uh, you know, get everybody
Speaker 1: ready to play, get everybody caught up and uh and
Speaker 1: get ready for the next one. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's no quitness in this in this group, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think you'll see that next weekend. This decision puts
Speaker 1: the knee back out there and then to pull Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we checked him on the sideline, you know, and
Speaker 1: and felt felt comfortable. Um, and and you know, just uhum,
Speaker 1: he felt felt comfortable with him going back in there,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we'll evaluate it again, you know,
Speaker 1: tomorrow and see where he's at. But yeah, um, because
Speaker 1: of the injury or because he wasn't performing, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just it was unfortunate because it started to flare
Speaker 1: up again. So we decided to risk any further injury,
Speaker 1: just pull him and put Bossing there. You had a play.
Speaker 1: There was small wood in the game pretty importantly where
Speaker 1: he got to bought enough it's a checkdown to him.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't putever, but he hadn't touch the ball a good wall.
Speaker 1: It seemed like an odd spot for him either. Well,
Speaker 1: when Corey went down, um, it was not so much
Speaker 1: an odd spot anymore. UM And and so um, you
Speaker 1: know we had we needed him in a couple of
Speaker 1: spots and we used him. Yeah, as you get on
Speaker 1: the play tonight, what part of this games could bother
Speaker 1: you the most time? I think, I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is going to disappoint me is just the look
Speaker 1: in those players eyes in there and and to see
Speaker 1: the disappointment that that we felt, even even with this
Speaker 1: close a game it this really was um and still
Speaker 1: not playing great offensively, um for the defense to come
Speaker 1: up with some big, big turnovers keep us in this
Speaker 1: football game and not finish, you know, not finish this
Speaker 1: football game. Um. Because we felt at the end, even
Speaker 1: going into overtime, that that there was some momentum on
Speaker 1: our side and just needed that one stop. Um. But
Speaker 1: for me, it's going to be you know, the look
Speaker 1: of disappointment you know in the players and coaches eyes,
Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna bother me on this right home.
Speaker 1: What'd you see with Dallas Carter what all of a
Speaker 1: sudden kind of freed him up points Well, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a trends tight end um And again
Speaker 1: we felt going into the game that we could we
Speaker 1: could do live as our two tight ends and in
Speaker 1: the second half we'd um, you know, mix them in
Speaker 1: there really well and it just created some matchups, you
Speaker 1: know with their base defense that we felt we felt
Speaker 1: comfortable with. And uh, he did a great job. There
Speaker 1: was a third down throw that Carson threw pretty well
Speaker 1: short of the end zone to zach Ertz. What do
Speaker 1: you think his decision making was there? Of course it
Speaker 1: was the one after the small would play was ninety
Speaker 1: six dollars, you guys settled for a field goal. He
Speaker 1: slanted to earth, but he was at the five yard line.
Speaker 1: Third down? Was it after the penalty? It was after
Speaker 1: the small would run. It was like third and goal
Speaker 1: from around the nine nine arts had a pushing the
Speaker 1: back that put you guys back. Then you had a
Speaker 1: catch and then Small would run. And then on third
Speaker 1: down and nine, Carson was to the left, left, left
Speaker 1: flat and fall short of the goal line. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a chance to catch and run at that point.
Speaker 1: And then if I do remember the play, um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a chance to get a little bit of a pick
Speaker 1: pick scheme over there with I think him and al Sean,
Speaker 1: I think that's the one you talk about. Put it
Speaker 1: in his hands, chance to score, or you're in a
Speaker 1: situation because we had talked about possibly staying on the
Speaker 1: field on fourth down and going for it. In that situation,
Speaker 1: I had two downs right there. You've been asked about
Speaker 1: that two point version there. If you had to do
Speaker 1: it over again, would you have done? If you stand
Speaker 1: by the decision there, I mean we could sit here
Speaker 1: in hindsights, you know, but twenty twenty fifty fifty or
Speaker 1: whatever the deal is. You know, I'd kick I'd kick it.
Speaker 1: I'd kick it. I mean it's easy to sit in
Speaker 1: here and go, yeah, let's go for two out there
Speaker 1: A little different and I stick by my decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, there's head coach Doug Pearson addressing
Speaker 1: the media from AT and T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Speaker 1: You know, really it's the emotion of the moment more
Speaker 1: than anything else. Is addressing the players in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and you know, dealing with the long flight home after
Speaker 1: such a bitter defeat again Eagles falling twenty nine to
Speaker 1: twenty three. Not a lot of answers in terms of
Speaker 1: why the offense was not able to get going for
Speaker 1: the first three corps And I think again, I can
Speaker 1: We've talked about this already. That's really been the storyline
Speaker 1: of the season. You thought Monday night against Washington, after
Speaker 1: they got off to early lead, scored on the opening
Speaker 1: drive for just the third time all season, you felt
Speaker 1: maybe things were coming into focus. And a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to say, well, was that win fool's gold,
Speaker 1: because obviously McCoy's that quarterback for Washington. He went he
Speaker 1: was injured, But the offense was playing well, and that's
Speaker 1: what you were hoping for because no matter what, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to criticize Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: in the defense for the overall performance this season, but
Speaker 1: really the defense has kept this team in pretty much
Speaker 1: every game with a few exclusions, but really it's up
Speaker 1: the Saints game exactly. For the most part. It's kept
Speaker 1: the team in every game, and the offense has just
Speaker 1: not been able to get up to speed and get
Speaker 1: that spark to get going at least early in games
Speaker 1: to play that. You know, the Unicorn sixty minute game
Speaker 1: so speak that we keep looking for. Yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: it's no question in my mind about when you look
Speaker 1: at some of the keys to this game and takeaways
Speaker 1: from this game, I gotta look at the offense, right
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the offense trying to find some type
Speaker 1: of identity early in this game. Listen, I know you're
Speaker 1: growing up against a better defense in the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: So it wasn't gonna be like we saw last week
Speaker 1: against the Redskins. When you're playing at home, when you're
Speaker 1: playing a good defense in their building, it's difficult. The
Speaker 1: crowd is loud, it's loud, it's hard for you to
Speaker 1: communicate offensively what you want to do. So I thought
Speaker 1: the offense struggled early in this game, couldn't get the
Speaker 1: running game going. Doug had to abort it first five
Speaker 1: series of the game, three and out on three of
Speaker 1: those five series. The offense just struggled completely early in
Speaker 1: this game to find the identity. And then the defense.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense did a great job of trying
Speaker 1: to at least keep them in the game. They had
Speaker 1: some turnovers early in the game, forced the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: eventually punt the ball, even though they had some sustained
Speaker 1: drives where they ate up some time on the clock.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys were still coming away with field goals as
Speaker 1: opposed to touchdowns, and there was a six nothing ball
Speaker 1: game going into the locker room at the half. So
Speaker 1: the Eagles, even though a man felt like it was
Speaker 1: worse than six nothing, they had to feel fortunate to
Speaker 1: be down only six nothing. And then my final thing
Speaker 1: in this game, my final takeaway from the game, as
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz late in the football game, talk about, as
Speaker 1: you will, his early struggles and they are duly noted.
Speaker 1: He needs to get off to a better start. We
Speaker 1: talked about being able to take care of the football.
Speaker 1: He had to keep fumble early in the game that
Speaker 1: I don't think that I don't remember if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: even able to convert points out of that turnover. If
Speaker 1: they did, it was just three. But he struggled early,
Speaker 1: finally got it going late in the game. I thought
Speaker 1: he did a great job bringing the team back, making
Speaker 1: some key throws late in that game, tying this ball
Speaker 1: game up twenty three twenty three. Just unfortunate they lost
Speaker 1: the toss in overtime. The Eagles offense never had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to continue that momentum they built in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter in overtime because I really believe had the defense
Speaker 1: been able to hold the Cowboys to at a minimum
Speaker 1: of field goal attempt and in three points, I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles would at least gotten the ball and taking
Speaker 1: it down to at least tie the ball game up,
Speaker 1: which more than likely they would have gone for it.
Speaker 1: So eventually they may have even gone ahead in that game.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if Doug plays for a tie
Speaker 1: in this ball game, I think he goes for a
Speaker 1: win if it gets an overton. You look at the
Speaker 1: fourth down conversion the Eagles had in the second football game,
Speaker 1: where you know you're pretty much feeling at that point
Speaker 1: the seasons on the line. Yeah, Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: playoff game for the Eagles, and Wentz makes the throw
Speaker 1: in the flats of Darren Sprowles, who you know, jukes
Speaker 1: up the field and gets them in the red zone.
Speaker 1: And the the Eagles offense not bad in the red zone.
Speaker 1: That's actually what kept had to get there problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: once they were in there two or three I believe
Speaker 1: on the day in the red zone the Cowboys. The
Speaker 1: only red zone conversion for them was the final drive
Speaker 1: of the game and overtime Ormark Cooper scores his third touchdown,
Speaker 1: going for over two hundred yards to give the Cowboys
Speaker 1: the twenty nine to twenty three victory. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's interestally because I was talking about this was a
Speaker 1: playoff type atmosphere for the Eagles. You know, as ugly
Speaker 1: as the NFC has been this season, which at the
Speaker 1: start of the year, we all wondered, you know, we
Speaker 1: thought this was gonna be a superpower conference with LA
Speaker 1: and New Orleans. If you're Green Bay's gonna be mixed,
Speaker 1: Minnesota's on the rise, and then team you know, San
Speaker 1: Francisco was gonna be the hot up and coming team
Speaker 1: this year. It's gonna be a very difficult conference to
Speaker 1: maneuver this year. The Eagles at six and seven, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, the wildcard is you know, no one's
Speaker 1: gonna want to talk about this point, but it's still
Speaker 1: a possibility for this football team. Yeah, they can find
Speaker 1: a way to get to nine to seven. And I've
Speaker 1: always felt this, where I shouldn't say always, I felt
Speaker 1: this way for the last couple of weeks. Then if
Speaker 1: they can find a way to get to nine and seven,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a chance to get in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Whether they win this division or the bottom of the
Speaker 1: wildcard comes down to a bunch of tie breakers. And
Speaker 1: that's the way the Eagles have to look at it.
Speaker 1: As devastating and crushing as a defeat as tonight was,
Speaker 1: they have to find a way once they get back
Speaker 1: here to Philadelphia to put it behind them. Well, it's
Speaker 1: an ATNT, Carson went standing by, it's a good defense.
Speaker 1: That's a good defense, good team. They play hard, and
Speaker 1: we just couldn't down on the field, and we couldn't
Speaker 1: down the field, and then uh yeah, we just couldn't
Speaker 1: established long drives and put things together and just didn't execute.
Speaker 1: On the second and goal from at the eleven, it
Speaker 1: looked like, tell me, if the spread, did you check
Speaker 1: to a run there where you hand the smaller and
Speaker 1: if so, what did you see on that fudd it was.
Speaker 1: It was already a run play down the next play
Speaker 1: after that, you drew to this on a slant. It
Speaker 1: looked like what was your decision making behind that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were just playing super soft coverage, you know. I
Speaker 1: was just trying to get it to him underneath so
Speaker 1: he could hopefully get in get in from in the
Speaker 1: middle there, because they just went Shelt coverage and got wide.
Speaker 1: So when we just didn't hit, it was a crag
Speaker 1: where you went. The opening kickoff wasn't reversed the council. Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm not I never even saw it, so I just
Speaker 1: I just know that that we all went on the
Speaker 1: field assuming it was that way, and um yeah, I
Speaker 1: got no opinion on that though. How frustrating is it
Speaker 1: getting that it seems like every week we sit here
Speaker 1: and ask you about the slow starts and we're here
Speaker 1: with thirteen or fourteen death Yeah, it's frustrating. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely frustrating. And with the talent that we feel
Speaker 1: we have on the offense side of the ball, and
Speaker 1: um just couldn't execute, couldn't sustain drives and came up
Speaker 1: short here and there, and um yeah, without a doubt
Speaker 1: that's frustrating, which really flipped in, you know, down the
Speaker 1: stretch in the fourth quarter there. What was the key?
Speaker 1: Hard to say? Um, you know, I think we just
Speaker 1: started playing our football, you know, just kind of went
Speaker 1: back to the basics a little bit and just gave
Speaker 1: our guys, um, you know, they were playing a lot
Speaker 1: of one on one on the outside, and just gave
Speaker 1: you know, Nelson and uh Aj some opportunities there and
Speaker 1: they were able to make some big place We went
Speaker 1: to more dual personnel down the stretch in Dallas became
Speaker 1: a factor that. Yeah. I mean, first of all, Dallas
Speaker 1: is a great player. You know, he's a great player.
Speaker 1: Tough matchup, um, as far as being covered and everything. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's just kind of in a
Speaker 1: response to how Dallas was playing us defensively, UM, to
Speaker 1: get Dallas and Hurts on the same on the field together, um,
Speaker 1: and we tried to take advantage of it a little bit.
Speaker 1: How do you explain kind of where the teammates at
Speaker 1: this point? Say it again, you knew the stakes of
Speaker 1: this game, obviously, how do you explain where the teammates
Speaker 1: at this point or I guess rationalise where the teamsiness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're not gonna you know, get anything, do
Speaker 1: anything crazy. You know, as far as you know where
Speaker 1: we're at, you know we um, we will never quit,
Speaker 1: you know, I know that will never quit. And um,
Speaker 1: you know we're just gonna keep competing our tails off
Speaker 1: and preparing our tails off and let the chips fallwere
Speaker 1: than me. There was strip at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half. What happened on that part? Uh, it's trip sac.
Speaker 1: You know, I was trying to get it out and
Speaker 1: I didn't just feeling more ore here or I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was behind me. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: hard and stuff, but ideally I could get that ball
Speaker 1: out earlier, hopefully. And there was a lot of frustrating
Speaker 1: moments in this game. And how much of an impact
Speaker 1: you think the rest had from that opening kickoff to
Speaker 1: even if they got her teaving coming back. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: never want to sit and question the rest. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have a hard job to do, and uh, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't ever really see the calls. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't really see them on the JumboTron from where we're at,
Speaker 1: so I don't really I'm not gonna stand up here
Speaker 1: in question, um what they did and how they affected
Speaker 1: the game at all, Like a stunned silence and a
Speaker 1: lot your perspective. What were you guys feeling? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a tough loss. It's tough loss. I mean again,
Speaker 1: we kind of knew the stakes of this game, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know we were able to uh stay in it.
Speaker 1: You know, we were able to stay in it. And
Speaker 1: you know, we were we were struggling there for a
Speaker 1: while and then we battled back and we were extremely
Speaker 1: resilient and we just came up short, you know, and
Speaker 1: and that's uh, that's never fun. It's never fun. And
Speaker 1: then to lose on on that play the way it happened, um,
Speaker 1: where Ursul made a great play and it just you
Speaker 1: know bounced their way and um, yeah, just kind of
Speaker 1: you could say, stunned a little bit, but just frustrating
Speaker 1: for sure. This part of the journey maybe over for
Speaker 1: you guys this season. Yeah, we don't we don't look
Speaker 1: at that at all, you know, I mean everyone, Um,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, we're gonna just keep competing and
Speaker 1: keep preparing, um and not really look at any of
Speaker 1: that outside stuff and just keep doing what we do
Speaker 1: and you know, try and get on a role here
Speaker 1: and like I said, let the ships fall where they may.
Speaker 1: Did you want to go for them? Two? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's coaches call. You know, that's coaches call. And UM
Speaker 1: with him one hundred percent. And you know it's always
Speaker 1: you could always argue it's easy in hindsight to to
Speaker 1: look at that, but um, we made the decision and
Speaker 1: went over time and just didn't get it done. That said,
Speaker 1: after after you guys didn't go for towo and you
Speaker 1: do get to touch the ball again, So let's go
Speaker 1: with your mind as you watched the rest of the
Speaker 1: game on pulled and helpless feeling. You know, it's helpless feeling.
Speaker 1: You know, I got a lot of confidence in the
Speaker 1: defense they were making place today and then you know,
Speaker 1: we just didn't you know, like I said, it's help
Speaker 1: was feeling not going back out on that field. But
Speaker 1: you know, we just didn't do enough early offensively and
Speaker 1: that cost us as much talent as you guys have.
Speaker 1: And you kind of mentioned it there with the slow starts,
Speaker 1: But are you surprised you guys are sitting where you're
Speaker 1: sitting with three games to go with what you guys
Speaker 1: did last year and having so many pieces that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're absolutely surprised where we're at. You know,
Speaker 1: we never envisioned ourselves. We never kind of pencil ourselves
Speaker 1: into be a losing record at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: We hold ourselves to high standards and high expectations, and um, yeah, this,
Speaker 1: this is extremely frustrating where we're sitting right now after
Speaker 1: seventy five yard touchdowns called back? What are you saying there?
Speaker 1: What are you doing at that moment? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and first of all, everyone was tired because everyone just
Speaker 1: ran all the way down there and had to come back.
Speaker 1: But you know, I just said, hey, keep a leaving,
Speaker 1: keep a leaving, and then let's let's go get this done.
Speaker 1: And we did. You know, we went down and scored
Speaker 1: there at the end. But again, it was just too little,
Speaker 1: too late. It's sort of arbitrary for a coin toss
Speaker 1: to have such a big impact on the game. But
Speaker 1: did you but why did you choose what you chose?
Speaker 1: Did you consider? Yeah, I didn't make the call. I
Speaker 1: didn't make the call. And you know that's just over time,
Speaker 1: you know, that's just the way it happened today. And um, again,
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. You look back at this game previous twelve.
Speaker 1: Is the overriding theme that you guys did not being
Speaker 1: able to get a rhythm game. I mean you could
Speaker 1: say that a little bit. You know, we we obviously, um,
Speaker 1: everyone's seeing what we put out there, you know, and
Speaker 1: and getting in rhythm and starting slow has unfortunately been
Speaker 1: a common theme for us, and that's something we got
Speaker 1: to look hard at. And um, again we believe we
Speaker 1: have the guys to start fast and just stay on it. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, that's it's tough, and you could say there's
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a theme there that's that's frustrating
Speaker 1: for sure. That's a follow up to that as you
Speaker 1: fly back tonight. What's going to bother you the most?
Speaker 1: The fact that we lost. I mean, first and foremost
Speaker 1: fact that we lost. You know, there's there's handful of
Speaker 1: plays that you know, I think everybody wants back. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna watch the tape and be critical
Speaker 1: of myself and everything. But it's hard to say one
Speaker 1: specific thing other than that we just didn't get it done.
Speaker 1: Thanks said all right. Quarterback Carson Wentz saying it was
Speaker 1: a hopeless feeling watching the overtime on the sidelines, not
Speaker 1: being able to do anything, having faith in the defense
Speaker 1: that they would get one crack at it, and then uh,
Speaker 1: while rallying in the fourth quarter against seventeen fourth quarter
Speaker 1: points after just after just six I should say in
Speaker 1: the first three quarters, too little, too late there for
Speaker 1: Carson Wentzon company. Which really is the storyline of the
Speaker 1: season for this offense. Yeah, I mean, you know when
Speaker 1: we're in week thirteen, week fourteen looking at the team
Speaker 1: and we know the offense has struggled to sort of
Speaker 1: find this identity, and I think every game it's been
Speaker 1: a sort of a different reason. You know, whether you're
Speaker 1: you're trying to fit in a new personnel member, whether
Speaker 1: it's al Sean back at the week three, Carson coming
Speaker 1: back out the week two, trading for golden tape, you know,
Speaker 1: getting Darren Spros back there. It's been you know, offensive
Speaker 1: linemen in and out due to injuries or what have you.
Speaker 1: It's been sort of a an offense that hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to really rely upon the same eleven guys eleven
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen guys every week to really build some sort
Speaker 1: of chemistry and cohesiveness and get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a rhythm going and like they had last year. You know,
Speaker 1: last year, you know, other than losing Jason Peters earlier again,
Speaker 1: you didn't lose Carson until week thirteen. They pretty much
Speaker 1: had the same offensive personnel groupings out there every week.
Speaker 1: And that's what it really allowed that offense to flourish
Speaker 1: the way that it was able to flourish last year.
Speaker 1: This year, we see that they're having issues at the
Speaker 1: start of games, you know, we see that they're having
Speaker 1: issues being able to sustain drives picking up third downs
Speaker 1: a Carson, I don't I don't think Carson is playing
Speaker 1: the quarterback position the same way he played it last year.
Speaker 1: Forget about the level in which he played it that
Speaker 1: last year. I'm just talking about the way he plays
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, the way we watched him his rookie season,
Speaker 1: the way we watched him prior to getting injured last year.
Speaker 1: The fact that he uses his legs, the fact that
Speaker 1: he's able to extend plays, he's able to add lib
Speaker 1: make those all scheduled plays, things that we saw last
Speaker 1: week versus the red Skins. Now, when you're going to
Speaker 1: get a defense like the Dallas Cowboys, where they have athletic,
Speaker 1: speedy linebackers. Now he's going to be conscious of when
Speaker 1: he's gonna leave that pocket, and so is Dallas. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna make sure that they have somebody watching him
Speaker 1: so that he's not able to use his legs. But
Speaker 1: when I look at the offense, a big part of
Speaker 1: the reason why they aren't as effective as they were
Speaker 1: last year, I have to believe that's part of it. Now,
Speaker 1: I think it understandable. The guy is just a year
Speaker 1: removed from that reconstructive knee surgery that he had last year.
Speaker 1: But that was the sort of the unaccounted for. An
Speaker 1: element of the offense last year that defenses just can't
Speaker 1: really scheme for and plan for was the off scheduled plays.
Speaker 1: It's what makes the quarterbacks like Carson Wentz, Patrick Mahoons,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Aaron Rodgers, all these guys Russell Wilson difficult
Speaker 1: to defend because when the play breaks down, he still
Speaker 1: has the ability to make something happen. And so that's
Speaker 1: what I believe the offense is missing. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta get a defense credit, especially when you're playing against
Speaker 1: a good defense. Rarely are you gonna be able to
Speaker 1: put the ball where you intend for it to go,
Speaker 1: So you're gonna need some of those off scheduled plays,
Speaker 1: And I just think for this offense this year, that's
Speaker 1: what's been missing when you add the fact that we
Speaker 1: took to week ten to find a true back identity,
Speaker 1: to find a true running identity, So that's part of
Speaker 1: it as well. Whereas last year you had blunt a
Speaker 1: Gie and Corey Clement that you sort of knew you
Speaker 1: were gonna have every week. I think it made a
Speaker 1: great point about Wentz and the mobili and the fact
Speaker 1: that that brings to it. And I think you're a
Speaker 1: spot on with the fact that Monday night we saw
Speaker 1: those improv plays, or we saw him early on. We
Speaker 1: saw him on the two of them on the opening drive,
Speaker 1: both the Golden Tape, and he sort of felt like,
Speaker 1: all right, maybe those players are coming back into vogue.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's gonna be in his arsenal to be able
Speaker 1: to use. And they weren't there today. So the reason
Speaker 1: as to why that's not the case, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: something that the deals are gonna have to wonder, you know,
Speaker 1: as they prepared for the last few weeks of the
Speaker 1: season tell you what it is already. Dallas made sure
Speaker 1: they rushed Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence. Why they made
Speaker 1: sure if Wrentz was gonna escape the pocket, it was
Speaker 1: gonna have to be up the middle and through that
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to be able to get out to
Speaker 1: his outsides. And that's what you do to quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: have his type of athleticism. You take those speed ins
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence and Randy Gregory, and you make short now
Speaker 1: on the outside. The other thing I think the Eels
Speaker 1: coaching are going to figure out is how come guys
Speaker 1: like Nelson Agilor, who had a great toe tap reception
Speaker 1: tonight to get them in scoring raids late in the game.
Speaker 1: They have not been able to get those plays out
Speaker 1: of him. You go back to the first House game.
Speaker 1: He had a fifty one yard reception in that game,
Speaker 1: stretched the field and he said, all right, maybe Nelly's
Speaker 1: coming along here. We haven't seen that. And Scottard Dallascott,
Speaker 1: it might be the most explosive weapon in this offense.
Speaker 1: And I'm going across the board. When he has the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands, he's making things happen how can
Speaker 1: we see more of that down stretch? Why haven't we
Speaker 1: seen more of that this season? So those are the
Speaker 1: different things I think the Eels coaches are going to
Speaker 1: try to figure out is maximizing the personnel that's available
Speaker 1: to him. I thought they've done a much better job
Speaker 1: in recent weeks, you know, and like you said, they
Speaker 1: seemed like they had finally got some semblance of the
Speaker 1: ground game going. Josh Adams was the lead guy. They
Speaker 1: tried to feed him the ball early. Corey Clement was
Speaker 1: that change of paceback, but he got injured early in
Speaker 1: the game. And that's why, you know, rapports were asking
Speaker 1: Doug Pearson, why is Wendel small Would in the ball
Speaker 1: in the red zone? Well, because Windel Smallwood is now
Speaker 1: your guy with Corey Clement being injured and on the sideline.
Speaker 1: So we heard from Doug Pearson his press conference, but
Speaker 1: he's always much more candid and is one on one
Speaker 1: with Eagles Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike Quick. Let's
Speaker 1: take you to that interview right now. Coach again, how
Speaker 1: difficult is it when you fought this hard? I feel
Speaker 1: like I watched a heavyweight fight and not come up
Speaker 1: with the win. It's exactly how I felt after this
Speaker 1: football game and really going into this game from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of you know, the NFC's Cowboys Eagles, it's always
Speaker 1: always a fight to the end. Um. Both games this
Speaker 1: year have come right down to the end. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate that we're on the on the short end
Speaker 1: of this one again. Um, But but there there is
Speaker 1: no quit I mean the fact that our guys compete
Speaker 1: in battle right to the end. It definitely is a
Speaker 1: learning opportunity, a moment for our guys, for our coaches, UM,
Speaker 1: that we're gonna learn from. We'll get ready for the
Speaker 1: next one and and uh, you know, we'll just keep
Speaker 1: this team together. We speaking of that battle, the offense
Speaker 1: didn't get going for a long time, but you really
Speaker 1: moved the ball well in the fourth quarter. Will was
Speaker 1: the difference? I think, I think a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but I think number one, Um, you know, we we
Speaker 1: found we found some matchups that we could kind of exploit,
Speaker 1: you know, uh in on their defense and Dallas made
Speaker 1: a couple of huge, huge catches. Obviously it was unfortunate
Speaker 1: though you know the the PI I guess, uh right,
Speaker 1: that was unfortunate, but he made a couple of nice catches.
Speaker 1: Alshan made a couple of nice catches, and you know,
Speaker 1: and we were able to do some things with the
Speaker 1: play action game in the second half that really sort
Speaker 1: of even though we were running the ball very well,
Speaker 1: it's still sort of UM kept their d line you
Speaker 1: know at Bay and and uh just opened up a
Speaker 1: couple of windows. Force. Do you think when you got
Speaker 1: into the the overtime, the fact that your defense was
Speaker 1: on the field for so long, do you think that
Speaker 1: hurt in the overtime? I think it can, um, you know,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, they're they're on the field so long and
Speaker 1: and and it's tough, and especially a team that you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna run the ball at you. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's hard, um. But but we were just looking for
Speaker 1: for any stop, one stop we you know, not even
Speaker 1: right there before the end of end of regulation, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of sacks and they just dug down and
Speaker 1: dug deep and found a way to make a play.
Speaker 1: And we just needed that and overtime and just unfortunately
Speaker 1: we didn't get it. We've got three games to them.
Speaker 1: How do you handle this team moving forward? This week?
Speaker 1: Going out to La well, um, you know, number one,
Speaker 1: we gotta we just gotta get back to work. Um,
Speaker 1: we're still not necessarily out of out of the postseason,
Speaker 1: even though you know, we know people are probably gonna,
Speaker 1: uh kind of rite us off, but um, it is
Speaker 1: what it is right now. But but we've we've got
Speaker 1: to focus on next week. We gotta get ready for
Speaker 1: next week. We got our long trip again, and and
Speaker 1: just quite frankly, um roll up our sleeves and go
Speaker 1: to work, you know, and and and just just continue
Speaker 1: to grind, all right, Thanks coach and Mike Quick and
Speaker 1: you know, talk talking about the resilience of this football team.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be interesting to see can the Eagles
Speaker 1: dig deep once again, because a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: after they were badly in New Orleans, a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought at that point four and six at the time,
Speaker 1: this team might throw in the towel. And then they
Speaker 1: fell behind nineteen to three against the New York Giants
Speaker 1: at home, and I think many of us thought, are
Speaker 1: they just gonna get steamrolled right of the building. And
Speaker 1: that's gonna be how the twenty eighteen season, for all
Speaker 1: intents and purposes, comes to an end. But the team
Speaker 1: fought back and route they got the win Monday night,
Speaker 1: they put themselves in position to take first place in
Speaker 1: the division. They come up short and overtime, and as
Speaker 1: Doug said, look, things are not over yet. You know,
Speaker 1: the division a long shot at this point, but they're
Speaker 1: still gonna be in the wildcard mix. And I totally
Speaker 1: get fans don't want to hear that right now whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But still you're gonna have to go on the road
Speaker 1: primetime Sunday and eight to face an outstanding La Rams team,
Speaker 1: a RAMS team that's gonna want revenge for losing that
Speaker 1: game to the Eagles. That was the critical turning point
Speaker 1: game last year when Carson Wentz got injured, Nick Foles
Speaker 1: led the fourth quarter rally, Eagles won the division and
Speaker 1: set themselves on toward the Super Bowl run. The three seed.
Speaker 1: Yeah huge Sports didn't have to play the opening week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: forcing to play the Falcons, and then they end up
Speaker 1: getting knocked out by the Falcons. So so much of
Speaker 1: that history is going to be brought up here. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see how deep can the
Speaker 1: guys go in the emotional reserve in the tank there
Speaker 1: to find what they've got because there's still three games left. Okay,
Speaker 1: two of the teams are in playoff contention. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Rams may have the division all but secured, and may
Speaker 1: they may have home a first round by security effect
Speaker 1: with a win tonight over the Bears. They're playing right
Speaker 1: now in Suddnight Football. But Houston is still in the
Speaker 1: playoff mix. You know, we're we gotta find out a
Speaker 1: lot about the players in that locker room over the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. But you wonder what are they
Speaker 1: gonna have left after giving so much emotionally these last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Yeah, I think the players, the players
Speaker 1: feel a lot like we as observers feel right now
Speaker 1: and the fans felt going into this game. It really
Speaker 1: was about this game. And now you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pretty much um wait your fade out with some other
Speaker 1: teams as well as overcome the difficult task that you
Speaker 1: have in front of you when you look at the
Speaker 1: next two weeks talking about the Rams and the Houston
Speaker 1: Texas to division leading teams that still have a lot
Speaker 1: to play for. So uh, it's a difficult one today
Speaker 1: to swallow this. This feels like, um, this was a
Speaker 1: huge punch in the gut, big opportunity missed. And I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure the players feel that. And and it's going
Speaker 1: to take a lot for them to really put this
Speaker 1: from behind them and really focus in on that game
Speaker 1: next Sunday in Los Angeles. These guys are human, These
Speaker 1: guys are human, and they knew and they know what
Speaker 1: was this at stake with this game, right, Winning your
Speaker 1: division is always the easiest path to the postseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's your first goal. And so because they didn't
Speaker 1: take business, take care of business after the bye week
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys at home, this was a must win.
Speaker 1: Today's game was a must win for him. Now they
Speaker 1: aren't eliminated, and they have to get back on the
Speaker 1: horse Tuesday when it's time to get ready for Los
Speaker 1: Angeles next week. But right now, and this one hurts.
Speaker 1: I've been in this position, man, this one, this one hurts,
Speaker 1: and this one hurts in that locker room because they fought.
Speaker 1: These players fought. They fought today. Man, they fought, and
Speaker 1: this thing didn't look good early in the game. And uh,
Speaker 1: this defense kept them in the game as long as
Speaker 1: they could. They came up with turnovers, they came up
Speaker 1: with stops to get this offense an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: back into the game. Um, this is a tough one,
Speaker 1: this one. This is a tough one that when these
Speaker 1: guys coming back, it's gonna hurt because they know that
Speaker 1: they left it all out there tonight and they really did.
Speaker 1: They left it all out there. And this is an
Speaker 1: under man team. This is an under man team. And
Speaker 1: as much as it pains me to say it, and
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say it, now you have to
Speaker 1: se say it because they've beaten you twice. Cowboys are
Speaker 1: a better team. They just they just yeah, they just
Speaker 1: yet you look at both games, they never let Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not leading either Cowboys games a great point. That's
Speaker 1: a great point. Even though they were one score games,
Speaker 1: they were close games. The fact that the matter is
Speaker 1: the Eagle. I mean, the Cowboys pretty much dominated both
Speaker 1: of these games here in Philadelphia and down there in Texas,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles had opportunities and this was one that
Speaker 1: they needed to find a way to steal. And man, Um,
Speaker 1: it just just it just stinks that they came up
Speaker 1: a little short. It just they just stinks that they
Speaker 1: came up a little short. Man, because they really fought.
Speaker 1: They fought their butts off to get this when it's
Speaker 1: just it stinks at the offense. They didn't get get
Speaker 1: an opportunity in overtime. So latest gut punch in a
Speaker 1: season full of them, here for the Eagles, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. All right, welcome back to the postgame show
Speaker 1: presented by Rico. We were talking there off camera there
Speaker 1: Ike and it felt like death by a million paper
Speaker 1: cuts in overtime, or to the point where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: almost could have just ran the clockdown until no time
Speaker 1: was left and then kicked the game winning field goal
Speaker 1: instead of Mark Cooper scores from fifteen yards out to
Speaker 1: give the Cowboys to six point win in overtime. Now,
Speaker 1: before the show, we try to list a couple of
Speaker 1: things like Ike's big takeaways, the turning points, plays of
Speaker 1: the game, things of that nature. Turning point we kind
Speaker 1: of were going back and forth because so many things
Speaker 1: were happening throughout the course of the game. But certainly
Speaker 1: Corey graham interception there in the second half looked like
Speaker 1: it was going to prove to be a big one
Speaker 1: for the Eagles, not only getting the turnover, the second
Speaker 1: interception for the Eagles there, but putting the Eagles in
Speaker 1: prime scoring position, and they were able to finish things
Speaker 1: off with the Alshon Jeffrey touchdown. Yeah, nice play there
Speaker 1: from Corey Graham, the old guy, you know, made some
Speaker 1: plays out there today. I thought. Great pressure by the
Speaker 1: guys upfront forced Dak to sort of you know, elbow
Speaker 1: didn't get it tucked in, so he releases that ball high,
Speaker 1: overthrows this receiver Corey Graham Johnny on the spot. Nice
Speaker 1: interception there, and like you said, and even better return
Speaker 1: setting up the Eagles in scoring position because quite frankly,
Speaker 1: it was difficult up until that point for the Eagles
Speaker 1: to get in scoring position and been in scoring position,
Speaker 1: so that return yardage was greatly needed and sort of
Speaker 1: got the ball rolling for the Eagles offense. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna send it into the film room the RICO
Speaker 1: whiteboard for the Rico Review, where fran Duffy and Great
Speaker 1: Sell from NFL Films are going to break down Graham's
Speaker 1: interception followed by Jeffrey's touchdown. They get the Eagles on
Speaker 1: the board. Well, in the third quarter of the Eagles
Speaker 1: got another big turnover and this one was big. Greg
Speaker 1: They're down nine nothing here and they have the Cowboys
Speaker 1: backed up and they get a huge interception from Corey Graham.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this play and it starts
Speaker 1: really the bad throw from Dak Prescott. Yeah, that's really
Speaker 1: what it is. But you'll see that here's Corey Graham
Speaker 1: right here, right now. He looks like he's a deep
Speaker 1: middle defender, but look at his body position. He's clearly
Speaker 1: facing to his right and that tells you that he's
Speaker 1: going to move in that direction at the snap of
Speaker 1: the ball, and basically he's just playing over the top.
Speaker 1: And what you're gonna get here is a dig rout
Speaker 1: by Michael Gallup, who'll come into the screen. And as
Speaker 1: you said, Fran, this is an overthrow. You could argue
Speaker 1: that Gallup was open, but and we can run it
Speaker 1: and you'll see it. Dak Prescott just overthrew an open
Speaker 1: receiver here. But hey, in a game like this where
Speaker 1: one play could mean a big deal, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: And Corey Graham actually made a nice interception because the
Speaker 1: ball was tipped by Gallop on the high throw. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people have asked where are the turnovers
Speaker 1: out with this Eagle's defense, and Jim Schwartz has said,
Speaker 1: you got to just make the plays when they come
Speaker 1: to and that's Corey Graham making the play when it
Speaker 1: comes Exactly what happened right there. Absolutely so big play
Speaker 1: here and at least to this touchdown catch by Alshon Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: So after that interception by Corey Graham, we now have
Speaker 1: this touchdown throw from Carson Wentz to al Shan Jeffrey
Speaker 1: and it's all a play greg that we've seen earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. Eagles scored touchdown against the New York
Speaker 1: Giants a couple months ago on this very same play,
Speaker 1: same part of the field, right inside the two yard line.
Speaker 1: Tell us what we're seeing here on this play. It's
Speaker 1: a really good play down here because what you get
Speaker 1: is normally you can't really get true press man where
Speaker 1: they're right up on the receivers. So what you're getting
Speaker 1: is a natural rub element or a natural pick. And
Speaker 1: here's alshon Jeffrey right out here, and here's Nelson Aglar
Speaker 1: in the slot. But now, in order to create this,
Speaker 1: what they do here is they take Jeffrey and they're
Speaker 1: going to motion him tighter to the formation so they
Speaker 1: can really use Aglar's release as a natural rub. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they do. And plus, when you do
Speaker 1: send a receiver in motion like this the corner, he
Speaker 1: can't work forward. He has to either work laterally or
Speaker 1: even take a step back. That's the way it works.
Speaker 1: So now let's run this and just see exactly what
Speaker 1: we mean and then freeze it right about there. You
Speaker 1: see exactly how this is set up. Okay, there's Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: look where he is. He is in no position to
Speaker 1: play this. There's Jeffrey right behind Aglar, So you get
Speaker 1: the natural rub element. Simple basic concept. Let this run
Speaker 1: and you'll see it play out and it ends up
Speaker 1: being a touchdown. But just really well designed, well executed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like what they did too by putting three receivers
Speaker 1: to the boundary on the other side. That helps RaSE
Speaker 1: some traffic there, direction space absolutely, so the Eagles get
Speaker 1: into the red zone there are gett into the end
Speaker 1: zone there for the first time in the game. Makes
Speaker 1: it nine to six. They missed the extra point. That's
Speaker 1: the score going into the fourth quarter. Thanks Fran and Greg.
Speaker 1: Like house twitter out there, let's see your tweet away.
Speaker 1: Not good right now, not good right now. The Natives
Speaker 1: are restless, and but uh typical. You know, it's it listen,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's still wrong. It's right after, right after
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, fans, uh, it's it's. It's
Speaker 1: a little different this year, right obviously, coming off the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl win and with the season going the way
Speaker 1: that it's gone this year, where it's been up and down,
Speaker 1: there have been some fans that have really been one
Speaker 1: foot in, one foot out over the last couple weeks.
Speaker 1: Really after they lost to the Saints at four and six.
Speaker 1: You know, you had some people thought that this isn't
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a special year, so they've been sort
Speaker 1: of bracing for the end. But I think most people
Speaker 1: after the last two weeks felt like this was the
Speaker 1: last ditch effort. Yeah, this was the last ditch effort.
Speaker 1: But um so what you're getting is not as much
Speaker 1: outrage and and people being upset and mad, but more
Speaker 1: or less, you get some frustration and you get you
Speaker 1: probably get more u It's ironic because you kind of
Speaker 1: get more of relieve people that's relieved. I'm getting more
Speaker 1: people saying on Twitter, well, now we have to worry
Speaker 1: about the next three weeks and season is over with
Speaker 1: and we kind of know what the fate is of
Speaker 1: the team. That's the most difficult part is for me,
Speaker 1: you just keep keep this train rolling. We're still in
Speaker 1: this thing. Yeah, the thing but that's the thing is
Speaker 1: you want to keep everyone on board because you kind
Speaker 1: of had a sense that if they lost today, they
Speaker 1: would be like, you know what, like you said, maybe
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be the year for this football team,
Speaker 1: and they look the next two weeks and they know
Speaker 1: the next two weeks are tough. So you look at
Speaker 1: losing this game and then you're saying well, man, we
Speaker 1: lost in Dallas. How we're gonna go to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and win and then how we're gonna come home and
Speaker 1: beat the Houston Texas SOUM. But like I always tell
Speaker 1: my listeners, it's not over until it's actually over, until
Speaker 1: they are mathematically eliminated. UM, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep my fingers crossed, and I'm gonna keep hopes high
Speaker 1: because after what they did last year, when I still
Speaker 1: believe that was more improbable than anything once Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: went down, Um to do what they did even with
Speaker 1: the playoff birth locked up and most backup quarterbacks can't
Speaker 1: go in and win the Super Bowl. Believer, I'm surprised you.
Speaker 1: But but I don't know. I'm just saying the circumstances. Circumstances.
Speaker 1: When you look at most teams that they lose their
Speaker 1: starting quarterback with two or three weeks left to go
Speaker 1: in the season, most teams would think they aren't winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Um. But the Eagles were able to
Speaker 1: do it in the fashion and they did so in
Speaker 1: my opinion because of that, UM, they get the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt for me. So until they are mathematically eliminated,
Speaker 1: for good. Then I'm still riding with them. I'm still
Speaker 1: you know that it's still possible, still possible with this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still possible. And this NFL is crazy. You see
Speaker 1: some of the way these games end of the day.
Speaker 1: You see how the Patriots lost today to the Dolphins. Uh,
Speaker 1: this has been a crazy NFL year. When you look
Speaker 1: at teams and then some of the improbable performances that
Speaker 1: we're getting from some individual players and some teams. Um,
Speaker 1: until you're actually out of it, you're still in it.
Speaker 1: You're still and that's all it matters. Anything can happen,
Speaker 1: that's all it matters. And I'll tell you even if
Speaker 1: I were to look at the Cowboys situation, right, I
Speaker 1: can go this deep. The Cowboys have the Coats next
Speaker 1: week in Indianapolis. They got Tampa at homes, a Tampa
Speaker 1: team that just went toe to toe with the Saints.
Speaker 1: They can score some points. And then a hot Giants
Speaker 1: team with an offense that can put up points. When
Speaker 1: you look at eli Odell Beckham, you missed today, say
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley went off. The Redskins don't have a lot
Speaker 1: to play for. Giants put up forty plus points on them.
Speaker 1: So that last game of the season for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in New York. New York's not gonna lay down for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. So who knows what the Cowboys record is
Speaker 1: gonna be. They may be looking at this thing like
Speaker 1: they've won, uh, the NFC East tonight, that they've clinched
Speaker 1: the playoff spot, when when in all actuality, they've done neither.
Speaker 1: They didn't clinch the playoff spot today, and they didn't
Speaker 1: clinch the NFC East. They're closer to doing it, but
Speaker 1: they can all collapse, right and they still, like I said,
Speaker 1: they still have the Coats to play the Bucks at
Speaker 1: home and then the Giants on the road, So that's
Speaker 1: obviously a little easier of a road to toe than
Speaker 1: what the Eagles have looking at the Rams, the Texas
Speaker 1: and then finishing up in Washington. But like I said,
Speaker 1: stranger things have happened. Minnesota still has Seattle to play tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They still play Chicago late in the season. Seattle has
Speaker 1: Minnesota tomorrow, and they to play the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: I believe, and Arrowhead. So you know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of football left to be played. You know, the Eagles
Speaker 1: are gonna have to sort of use this plane ride
Speaker 1: back home to sort of lick their wounds. And then
Speaker 1: you know, Tuesday, who knows what this thing is gonna
Speaker 1: look like Tuesday when we all wake up. Who knows
Speaker 1: what the NFL standings are gonna look like when we
Speaker 1: wake up Tuesday morning. You remember it's ten years ago,
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, forty six, Yeah, where you go
Speaker 1: into the last day of the regular season needing a
Speaker 1: whole litany of things that happened to even have a
Speaker 1: chance to get into the playoffs. I remember that day
Speaker 1: vividly because the Eagles and the Cowboys had the late
Speaker 1: afternoon start. Yeah, And I said it would be just
Speaker 1: like the Eagles for everything to fall right, for them
Speaker 1: to put themselves in position for that game to matter
Speaker 1: and then lose it to Dallas. But instead Brian Dawkins
Speaker 1: had you know, it was his last home game as
Speaker 1: an Eagle, and he went he went off as the
Speaker 1: Eagles rounded the Cowboys forty forty six, one of the
Speaker 1: rate Eagles Cowboys games of all time. From Philly's perspective,
Speaker 1: I actually watching the overtime, Mike, you know, the fourth
Speaker 1: and one was Zeke Elliott. I had Merrill's fourth and
Speaker 1: one from ninety five where they stopped Emmett Smith again,
Speaker 1: that iconic call. I had that ringing in my head, thinking,
Speaker 1: is this gonna be it? Going from you know, you
Speaker 1: know Zeke Elliott being the franchise back for them like
Speaker 1: Emmett Smith was back then. You know, big game, this
Speaker 1: one of course in Dallas. You know, still I thought
Speaker 1: maybe this was gonna be the fourth and one for
Speaker 1: this generation this decade so speak, And unfortunately it didn't
Speaker 1: come to fruition today. But you know, still a few
Speaker 1: weeks left down the road here, so we showed you
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Speaker 1: So we broke down his big one of his big
Speaker 1: plays earlier. Let your cocks there starting things off here,
Speaker 1: here's a number for you. The Cowboys ran with the
Speaker 1: overtime ninety plays. Ninety plays. Once you once you're getting
Speaker 1: into seventies, you're already high for a game. They ran
Speaker 1: ninety players to forty six. Yeah, that's a lot of plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of plays for any defense to be
Speaker 1: out there. And that's why I said to the Eagles
Speaker 1: to find themselves even in this game late in the game,
Speaker 1: with the with the way the Cowboys offense basically dominated
Speaker 1: the game from a time of possession standpoint, from a
Speaker 1: yardage standpoint, really is nothing short of just miraculous that
Speaker 1: the defense were able to come up with key stops
Speaker 1: late in this game. So yeah, no surprise to me
Speaker 1: that when Dallas won that coin toss that the Eagles
Speaker 1: were really plan on fumes going into that to that overtime.
Speaker 1: And then give give give Jason Garrett some credit, man,
Speaker 1: he didn't take the field goal, he went for it
Speaker 1: on fourth down and overtime. So they played, they played
Speaker 1: the win, they knew, they knew what they could do
Speaker 1: to the Eagles in that situation. And plus if they
Speaker 1: saw that the Eagles offense was also moving the ball,
Speaker 1: and I also would say they knew they could pretty
Speaker 1: much knock the Eagles out of the division contention there.
Speaker 1: And if I have Zeke Elliott and a mobile quarterback
Speaker 1: in Dak Prescott, Anna Mark Cooper, I'm probably with that offensive,
Speaker 1: I'm probably going four on fourth down as well. So
Speaker 1: our second nominee there, Fletcher Cox, our first one, number
Speaker 1: two safety Corey Graham. Uh, you know, stepping up with
Speaker 1: the big time play. You needed a game changing player
Speaker 1: two in this in this one, and Corey Graham not
Speaker 1: just getting the interception because the offense struggle to move
Speaker 1: the ball at this point in the game. Getting the
Speaker 1: Eagle putting the right on the doorstep and then Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz following up with the two yard touchdown pass alshon Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: But Corey Gram there ten total tackles on the day,
Speaker 1: a pass deflection in the course that interception. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was the big play in the game
Speaker 1: for the defense. Really gave the offense, uh, some momentum
Speaker 1: right there, set up the first touchdown to Ali Sean
Speaker 1: Jeffrey in the game. So, you know, Corey Graham had
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit, uh this year, probably probably playing
Speaker 1: a lot more than he had anticipated playing this season,
Speaker 1: not only him, the coaches had anticipated him playing. But
Speaker 1: good to see the veteran come up with a good
Speaker 1: football game today. All right, last, but not least, defensive end.
Speaker 1: Michael Bennet. I mean, look, I just have a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for the job the defensive line did here
Speaker 1: today with the amount of pressure that was put on them.
Speaker 1: No one that from a death standpoint. You again, no,
Speaker 1: Tim Jernigan, Josh what knocked out during the game. These
Speaker 1: veteran guys, you know, playing like I said, ninety snaps.
Speaker 1: Most of these guys, Chris Long branding Graham as well.
Speaker 1: We're on the field for virtually all of them. It
Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, obviously Bruce Hector, Traylons, those those
Speaker 1: guys are able to rotate in a bit. But still hello,
Speaker 1: not as well. But Michael Bennett, you know, from end
Speaker 1: tackle was the one creating pressure on Dak Prescott throughout
Speaker 1: the entirety of the game. Yeah, let's let's let's face it,
Speaker 1: you know, this guy needs to be given his credit
Speaker 1: for what he's been able to do. Started off the
Speaker 1: season really splitting reps there, you know, Derek Barnette getting
Speaker 1: a lot of those defensive in reps on third down.
Speaker 1: But really, since Derek was injured and lost for the season,
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett has really been a savior for this defense.
Speaker 1: I honestly believe you know, he and Fletcher Cox have
Speaker 1: by far been the two best defensive lineman all year long.
Speaker 1: And then having my Michael Bennett really pick up his
Speaker 1: play over the last six seven weeks of the season
Speaker 1: has been huge. He really has been a nice addition
Speaker 1: to that room. And the fact that Brandon Graham has
Speaker 1: struggled to come back from that ankle injury is great
Speaker 1: to see Michael Bennett making the most of his opportunities.
Speaker 1: All Right, So those are your Toyota Player of the
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Speaker 1: Before we close up shop, we talked about the jumbled
Speaker 1: NFC picture, So let's take a look at how things look.
Speaker 1: You know, through week fourteen, and you have your division
Speaker 1: leaders again. The Rams and the Bears are playing right now.
Speaker 1: The Rams can clinch a first round by with a win.
Speaker 1: It's a three to three game there on Sunday Night football.
Speaker 1: Cowboys in control of the nfcas winning today, the Saints
Speaker 1: escaping the Bucks. You look at the teams in the
Speaker 1: hunt though, six and seven. Yeah, depending on what Minnesota
Speaker 1: does tomorrow night, that's gonna be. That's really gonna be
Speaker 1: the big one for the Eagles is Minnesota plays Seattle.
Speaker 1: If Seattle can win, you're knocking the Vikings down the peg,
Speaker 1: and you're really murking up that sixth seed there in
Speaker 1: the conference because again the roads to the NFC East,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a collapse by the Cowboys at this point,
Speaker 1: plus the Eagles surging down the stretch for them to
Speaker 1: come back and win it, because they would have to
Speaker 1: win all three. Cowboys have to lose all three. They
Speaker 1: are playing some good teams. Okay, so it's not all
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility, but you know that's where the
Speaker 1: Eagles are that you need help from everyone else. That's
Speaker 1: the most disappointing thing of this one is you're not
Speaker 1: in control anymore that you need these other teams to
Speaker 1: step up to get the job done. So I get
Speaker 1: to hear you tomorrow in the airwaves two pm, you know,
Speaker 1: Marksiri Show. We'll get through it. Yeah, we'll get through it.
Speaker 1: And listen it's it's uh well, I laugh because you know,
Speaker 1: I you know, sometimes and this team means everything to us,
Speaker 1: to this city. It just does. And immediately after loss,
Speaker 1: it feels like it's the worst feeling in the world.
Speaker 1: And I get it. I get it, and that's why
Speaker 1: there there there is no fan base like the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: fan base, and particularly when it pertains to their Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: So we'll get through. We'll talk about it, We'll we'll
Speaker 1: console each other, you know, we'll be uh therapy for
Speaker 1: each other, you know, and uh um. But you gotta remember, man,
Speaker 1: when in the end, when you're filling the most gloom
Speaker 1: about this team, just think back February fourth right there.
Speaker 1: That's the ring that they will always be there. We
Speaker 1: got that that will always be there. So it ain't
Speaker 1: that dark around here. No, it's not that dark around here,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Still you but you're enjoying
Speaker 1: the most basically wait all year for these twenty weeks
Speaker 1: or so, you know, especially coming off the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: run and Carson Wentz coming back and getting some of
Speaker 1: the guys back in the line who missed that run.
Speaker 1: You figured, there's there's no way that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: any kind of setback because or step back this year,
Speaker 1: because of the fact that all these guys are going
Speaker 1: to make sure they get back there again. But it's
Speaker 1: very similar to you know, I was around the team
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four going to the two thousand
Speaker 1: and five and obviously you had left after that run
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl to design to deal with Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I think everyone assumed we cruised to the NFC, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be right there in the mix next year. It
Speaker 1: took him until two thousand and eight to get back
Speaker 1: to the championship game, just in the Championship game, and
Speaker 1: then to last season to me to get to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It is very, very difficult, And the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is the Eels took advantage of the opportunity in
Speaker 1: February when it was That's the most important thing is
Speaker 1: once you got there, that you want it and you
Speaker 1: have that ring, you have that championship, and now I'll
Speaker 1: never be taken away from you. So it's hard to
Speaker 1: win in this league, Chris, It's hard to win footballs
Speaker 1: in the football games in this league. And to me,
Speaker 1: the best franchise of the modern generation, after they won
Speaker 1: their first Super Bowl over the Rams, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the New England Patriots, they went nine and seven
Speaker 1: the following year and missed the playoffs. So before they
Speaker 1: learned how to deal with the success after winning the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They even struggle the very next year after
Speaker 1: they won their first one. So, um, just understand we're
Speaker 1: going through a little bit of a transitional period here
Speaker 1: dealing with success at that level, something none of us
Speaker 1: are accustomed to the following year. But the Eagles haven't
Speaker 1: thrown in the towel on the season. We just aren't
Speaker 1: getting the ball to bounce our way as as frequently
Speaker 1: as we did last year. Right. But but but the
Speaker 1: players and the coaches didn't take the season. They didn't
Speaker 1: throw in the towel in on the season. They're still
Speaker 1: out there putting forth their best effort. We just aren't
Speaker 1: getting the bounces to follow our way, uh this year.
Speaker 1: And so um um, I know you got full confidence
Speaker 1: and so do I in them that they will continue
Speaker 1: to fight until this thing is over with. We've seen
Speaker 1: it so often in the last couple of weeks where
Speaker 1: the Eagles could have thrown in the towel, given up
Speaker 1: on this again. I will just go back to that
Speaker 1: Giants game down ninth tea three yea. That right, there
Speaker 1: was a moment where you said this could be it,
Speaker 1: and they fought and then one there on the Jake
Speaker 1: Elliott field goal to escape, and then they get to
Speaker 1: win against Washington and he thought things were wrong. Not
Speaker 1: the case. Okay, So they stumble today against the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: losing in overtime twenty nine to twenty three. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be back at it primetime next Sunday night, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Monday morning, but Ike and I will be
Speaker 1: here for the postgame show presented by Rico. You can
Speaker 1: watch him on Eagles Game Plan to preview that game
Speaker 1: against the Rams. During the week head coach Doug Pearson.
Speaker 1: He'll be addressing the media at noon after the team
Speaker 1: arrives back from Dallas. Will have complete live coverage then
Speaker 1: and throughout the week here on Philadelphia Eagles dot com.
Speaker 1: So for Ike reason all office here at the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I'm Chris McPherson. You've been watching the postgame show presented
Speaker 1: by Rico. Everyone try to relax and try to enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of what is this Eagles night. Thanks everyone,