Speaker 1: Eagles Entertainment. All right, seventeen to nine, your final score
Speaker 1: kind of like deja vu. There the Eagles fall to
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, ending this season. Thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: on the postgame show, presented by Rico, Amy Campbell, I,
Speaker 1: Crease fran Duffy. As always, guys are really disappointing way
Speaker 1: to lose, especially the big story Carson Wentz going down
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, put into concussion protocol, ruled out.
Speaker 1: Josh McCown makes his playoff debut, but this team just
Speaker 1: unable to really get in the end zone on offense
Speaker 1: there with Carson missing from the lineup. There's of course
Speaker 1: a big difference between your franchise QUB and a solid backup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the difference was where it showed up
Speaker 1: was in the red zone. We know how effect that
Speaker 1: this offense has been when they're down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: We know how Carson how effective he's been down there
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Nineteen touchdowns, no interceptions. And when
Speaker 1: they look back at this game, there were opportunities they
Speaker 1: moved the ball late, even with Josh McCowen in there,
Speaker 1: but the big difference was obviously not being able to
Speaker 1: get touchdowns and having to settle for field goals when
Speaker 1: you got down there near the scoring area. And then defensively,
Speaker 1: the big plays given up, that really was the difference
Speaker 1: in the game today. I thought the defense did a
Speaker 1: nice job of keeping them in the game, but the
Speaker 1: big plays they couldn't overcome. And then the fact that
Speaker 1: we didn't get touchdowns in the red zone is really
Speaker 1: the difference. Yeah, I think really the two things that
Speaker 1: we saw. You know, Josh McCown obviously doesn't have that
Speaker 1: athletic ability that Carson Wentz has that ability to create.
Speaker 1: So you know, six sacks, I believe on the night
Speaker 1: you might have been seven with that final one. A
Speaker 1: couple of those the ball has got to come out,
Speaker 1: and you know he's trying to create, he's trying to
Speaker 1: avoid some of that defensive pressure. Doesn't have that same
Speaker 1: athleticis and that Carson Wentz has. Honestly, one of my
Speaker 1: big takeaway is coming from this game and as I'm
Speaker 1: sitting and watching it unfold, this was the same offense
Speaker 1: that we had watched over the last five weeks. But
Speaker 1: I think that's what we saw was the difference. And
Speaker 1: when you have a Carson Wentz in the lineup versus
Speaker 1: when you don't have a Carson Wentzon the lineup. Nine
Speaker 1: points to show for it against the Seahawks defense. All right,
Speaker 1: Dave spannarrow standing by at Lincoln Financial Field. Dave, you're there.
Speaker 1: You're soaking in the atmosphere. What do you guys? What
Speaker 1: is the temperature of the space right now? I mean
Speaker 1: you can hear a pin drop basically on that. A
Speaker 1: couple of big plays here and there, and when Carson
Speaker 1: went out, a lot of the energy went out of
Speaker 1: the building. And like you all said, the Eagles so
Speaker 1: prolific in the red zone all season, third in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz in the red zone this year, nineteen touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: zero interceptions, and tonight Eagles z of three. They couldn't
Speaker 1: get off the field third downs. The Seahawks seven to
Speaker 1: fourteen on third downs. And that's the difference in your game.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson made just enough magic for the Eagles miss
Speaker 1: a tackle on a third down catch. They have the
Speaker 1: delay of game at first and goal from the five.
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett has the roughing the quarterback penalty. No matter
Speaker 1: what you think of it, had no reason touching the
Speaker 1: quarterback there and shades of Ricky Manning junior ike in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three NFC Championship game, Ricky Manning Junior
Speaker 1: takes out Donovan McNabb and the Eagles Following that game,
Speaker 1: tonight to Davey and Clowney takes out Carson wins on
Speaker 1: what most people believe was a dirty play, dirty hit,
Speaker 1: late hit not penalized, and there go the Eagles chances
Speaker 1: to advance in the playoffs. Yeah, no doubt in my mind,
Speaker 1: day that that was a late hit that should have
Speaker 1: been flagged for fifteen yard penalty. And it's funny that
Speaker 1: you bring up that Carolina Championship game because the moment
Speaker 1: Carson left that game and he stayed out long for
Speaker 1: a long stretch, That's what it felt like to me.
Speaker 1: It felt like that Carolina Championship game where the offense,
Speaker 1: no matter what they did, they couldn't get anything going
Speaker 1: in the defense was just holding oning. You brought up
Speaker 1: the red zone, and I'm wondering, Day, I don't even
Speaker 1: even recall us throwing the ball into the red zone
Speaker 1: this evening, and I'm just wondering what you may have
Speaker 1: seen from the Seahawks and what they were doing to
Speaker 1: our right hands down in that area, whereas normally our
Speaker 1: main targets when we get into rids on. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were certainly paying a lot of attention to the targets
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. And then you know, Josh,
Speaker 1: not having the experience this season working with any of
Speaker 1: these players in game situations, try to make plays with
Speaker 1: his legs, which is not the most advisable thing to
Speaker 1: do for a forty year old quarterback to pocket closed
Speaker 1: very quickly around him. But certainly the Patriots well aware
Speaker 1: of the packages the Eagles ran, understanding that they look
Speaker 1: to get the ball to the tight ends in those situations.
Speaker 1: I think the only real throw into their red zone
Speaker 1: was the long pass down the field. It was called
Speaker 1: pass interference when they were in the red zone. Eagles
Speaker 1: just didn't get anything, literally anything going in the passing
Speaker 1: game other than a swing pass to Miles Sanders here
Speaker 1: and there. But you know, like in these games, everything
Speaker 1: is magnified, and you've get that penalty on the goal line,
Speaker 1: you have the bad pass drop on fourth down, the
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders catches at the first down, third down opportunities,
Speaker 1: the defense had to get off the field. Those things
Speaker 1: add up and you can kind of feel it. At
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the game, Carson calls an audible
Speaker 1: and he pitches it back and there's no Miles Sanders there. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, just plays like that kind of indicated that
Speaker 1: the Eagles just didn't have that really laser sharp focus
Speaker 1: early in this game. They just can't make mistakes and
Speaker 1: playoff opportunities. Dave, we'll all be tuned into the Eagles
Speaker 1: Insider podcast later this evening. Can you tell us as
Speaker 1: there's something that you haven't brought up yet that you
Speaker 1: feel like you'll definitely hit on the show. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. It's all about the player's reaction in the
Speaker 1: locker room, and I'm sure it's extreme disappointment. Very Look,
Speaker 1: everybody's very proud of this football team for getting to
Speaker 1: this point, but today was a winnable football game, and
Speaker 1: in the locker room you will hear that emotion from
Speaker 1: a team that believes just another one just got away
Speaker 1: here to a Seattle Seahawks team that again made just
Speaker 1: enough plays to win seventeen to nine at Lincoln Financial Field.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, we will let you get to that
Speaker 1: locker room. Thanks so much for the insight. We'll catch
Speaker 1: up with you later. Yeah, I think I totally agree.
Speaker 1: It was a winnable football game, and that's why I
Speaker 1: think it hurts, especially and especially after the narrative with Carson.
Speaker 1: He finally gets his chance for a playoff game. He
Speaker 1: has four attempts, one completion before going out with that concussion.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how frustrated disappointed he must be,
Speaker 1: especially thinking, man, maybe things would have been different if
Speaker 1: I would have been out there. McCown's number is pretty good,
Speaker 1: completed seventy five percent of his passes one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four yards, but again no touchdowns, and you could
Speaker 1: see that he was kind of hobbled there at the end, possibly,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of grabbing the hamstring a little bit.
Speaker 1: As Dave alluded to, you can't really get things done
Speaker 1: with your legs when you get to be forty years old.
Speaker 1: Let's get to your takeaways. Yeah, from the season, you
Speaker 1: look at the Eagles, and obviously this ended in a
Speaker 1: disappointing fashion, but let's not overlook the fact that they
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs, and when you think about what
Speaker 1: this team had to persevere through in the injuries that
Speaker 1: they overcame. When I look back at this season, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing to me is the fact that again
Speaker 1: this team was able to overcome some major injuries to
Speaker 1: key contributors on both sides of the ball, particularly on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. Well documented about the
Speaker 1: practice squad players, guys that have come in off the
Speaker 1: streets and had to contribute to this playoff run. So
Speaker 1: when I look back at the twenty nineteen season, it's
Speaker 1: almost to tell of two seasons, And the biggest thing
Speaker 1: to me is how they were able to overcome those
Speaker 1: injuries and still salvage the season and make something out
Speaker 1: of this season where when they were five and seven
Speaker 1: coming off that loss to Miami, that appeared to be
Speaker 1: the end of the season right there. But this team,
Speaker 1: credit to them, they were able to pick themselves up
Speaker 1: and had that next man up mentality once again for
Speaker 1: the third year in a row, and find themselves in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's just a shame that the quarterback couldn't
Speaker 1: participate a lot more in today's game. Most to me, like, exactly,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right when you look at the full season
Speaker 1: and all the players as we went from start to
Speaker 1: finish and We've talked about the names so right, We've
Speaker 1: talked about DeShawn Jackson and al Sean Jeffrey. You lose
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson for periods of time. We lose Jason Peters
Speaker 1: for periods of time. We lose Brandon Brooks at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. Nelson Agiler hasn't played since you know,
Speaker 1: Week eleven. We've had all these guys that have been
Speaker 1: out of the line up, Jordan Howard out of the
Speaker 1: line up for six weeks. Yeah, they're missing all these players.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz held it all together, you know. He kept
Speaker 1: those guys going and got them to the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season, got them here to the postseason. Losing
Speaker 1: him with all the other pieces already out, it was
Speaker 1: it was a stack of card so you pulled him
Speaker 1: out from the bottom of it, and everything else falls out.
Speaker 1: That's kind of where we were at today. If everything
Speaker 1: else was intact, I feel like Josh McCown, Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: they could have figured it out. They could have gotten enough.
Speaker 1: You know, if the right side of the old line's healthy,
Speaker 1: maybe that run game is getting is going a little
Speaker 1: bit harder. Maybe some of those receivers are making some
Speaker 1: plays on the other side, they just couldn't get it going.
Speaker 1: Today wasn't enough. Yeah, I mean, I think when we
Speaker 1: watched this team all season and we saw all these
Speaker 1: guys go down with injury one at a time and
Speaker 1: pulling up another practice squad guy and it's a different
Speaker 1: guy making plays every week, you kind of asked yourself,
Speaker 1: how long is this really going to work? And what
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and these guys have done is incredible, But
Speaker 1: like you said, how many, how many more? How much
Speaker 1: more weight can this team carry when it comes to
Speaker 1: those injuries, And at one point tonight, I think on
Speaker 1: offense there were only four starters that were that were
Speaker 1: original like day one starter it was three offensive linemen
Speaker 1: and zach Ertz but the only people still starting. And
Speaker 1: so just how much of that can you overcome? And
Speaker 1: the fact that they overcame so much of that to
Speaker 1: this point is such a testament to the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and to these players just stepping up in big ways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's unfortunate that the biggest domino
Speaker 1: failed today to the injury bug and the fact that
Speaker 1: he's able to get through the entire season and only
Speaker 1: able to make it through a series or two of
Speaker 1: his first ever playoff game. They it was just too much.
Speaker 1: It was just too much to overcome. Let's get to
Speaker 1: your next takeaway, Yeah, Carson. I think when it season started,
Speaker 1: it was all about Carson Wentz and you know he
Speaker 1: was finally going to be healthy and everyone that was
Speaker 1: excited to see what he could do and could he
Speaker 1: return to an MVP form. It didn't go necessarily how
Speaker 1: we planned for his season ago, but you watched the
Speaker 1: way he finished the season. I think he erased any
Speaker 1: doubt that was out there in the Delaware Valley about
Speaker 1: his potential to be a franchise quarterback that you can
Speaker 1: win with, that can get you to the postseason. He
Speaker 1: basically put this team on his back the last four
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. They aren't in the playoffs if
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz isn't playing at the MVP level the last
Speaker 1: four weeks of the season. That's my other takeaway from
Speaker 1: the season is that he was able to go out
Speaker 1: there and play sixteen games and then sort of return
Speaker 1: to his form at the end of the season the
Speaker 1: way he was in twenty seventeen, and I think that
Speaker 1: bodes well for the future moving forward. I know it's
Speaker 1: unfortunately he got injured today, but I'd rather have that
Speaker 1: type of an injury as opposed to an injury that's
Speaker 1: going to require a surgery this alf season that could
Speaker 1: linger into his ability to get prepared for next year.
Speaker 1: So that's the other takeaway I look at from this
Speaker 1: season is the playoff Carson Wentz, how he re established
Speaker 1: himself as the leader of this team, as one of
Speaker 1: the top young quarterbacks in this league. And if you're
Speaker 1: an Eagles fan, you gotta feel good moving forward with
Speaker 1: number eleven as our quarterback. Yeah, and this wasn't an
Speaker 1: injury where you say, like, oh man, you're bringing the
Speaker 1: injury prone questions right, Yeah, this for it was a
Speaker 1: dirty hit, like unquestionably, like uncalled for. It is what
Speaker 1: it is, so to me, like that whole discussion kind
Speaker 1: of goes out the window. Unfortunately. It's just it's terrible
Speaker 1: to see you end this way. But it's remarkable that
Speaker 1: people are bringing that up on Twitter still because in
Speaker 1: the narrative world that we live in, and that's yeah,
Speaker 1: I completely agree. Well, we've seen him do this season,
Speaker 1: and I think back to that moment where we were
Speaker 1: sitting here, like after the Giants game, the first Giants game,
Speaker 1: and you said this a defining moment in Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: his career and the best performance that he has had
Speaker 1: so far. And I was like, whoa, but that really
Speaker 1: was the turning point for me. And seeing that belief
Speaker 1: start to come for him and for everyone around him.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree, And they were able to grab
Speaker 1: a hold of at and rode it for the next
Speaker 1: four weeks, got them into the playoffs. Big win versus
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys at home and then having to go
Speaker 1: on the road and beat the Giants mixed in there
Speaker 1: with a couple of comeback wins, including that first Giants game.
Speaker 1: I think he re established himself as a guy that
Speaker 1: when the ball is in his hands late in the game,
Speaker 1: you have full confidence that he's going to find a
Speaker 1: way to go down there and make a play. And
Speaker 1: I know hindsight is twenty twenty, but the way the
Speaker 1: defense played today, I can't help but believe of number
Speaker 1: eleven is out there for four quarters, we find a
Speaker 1: way to win this football game today. Yeah, completely agree.
Speaker 1: Just to be able to get a touchdown, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it probably would have made all the difference. Let's
Speaker 1: get to your third takeaway, and then my third takeaway,
Speaker 1: probably it should. It should It's the most important one
Speaker 1: and that's the way this team continues to play for
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, the head coach here. I think he deserves
Speaker 1: votes for Coach of the Year. Probably won't win it,
Speaker 1: but he deserves votes for a Coach of the year
Speaker 1: considering the adversity his team went through, considering how he
Speaker 1: continues to get them to play for him when it
Speaker 1: seems to be nothing to play for, and for them
Speaker 1: to find themselves in the playoffs as NFC East Divisional champs.
Speaker 1: That's a direct reflection of his ability to get his
Speaker 1: players to buy in and continue to play hard and
Speaker 1: knowing which buttons to push and at the right time,
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, the fact that he had
Speaker 1: to coach a guy who hadn't played all year long
Speaker 1: in the most pivotal game of the season and had
Speaker 1: them on the doorsteps of at least being able to
Speaker 1: possibly tie this game up a couple of times late
Speaker 1: in this game. That's another testament to him as a
Speaker 1: head coach, his coaching staff and how they're able to
Speaker 1: adjust and adapt on the fly. Yeah, to me, if
Speaker 1: they won the game like rename the trophy. Oh yeah right,
Speaker 1: like this coach of the year. Yeah, no question, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and not only a guy who hadn't played all year,
Speaker 1: but a guy who had never played in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: An besides the fact that he's been in the league
Speaker 1: seventeen years, Josh McCown has played for nine teams. This
Speaker 1: was his playoff debut, the oldest quarterback in NFL history
Speaker 1: at forty years old to make his playoff debut. I
Speaker 1: think one of the things Doug Peterson does so well
Speaker 1: is adapt to what he has. There are not that
Speaker 1: many coaches that can continue to put every player in
Speaker 1: a situation where they can be successful. So many coaches
Speaker 1: come in and say, here's my system, let's get the
Speaker 1: guys that are going to fit my system, and they
Speaker 1: kind of like to always say, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: work with what I got. Will put everyone in a
Speaker 1: situation for success. But the way Doug Peterson has adapted
Speaker 1: to whoever is on the field and like you said,
Speaker 1: giving them always they always have a chance to win
Speaker 1: when he's calling the place. Now, unfortunately, this team has
Speaker 1: a lot of practice at having the next man up
Speaker 1: right and the coaches having to adjust, especially on that
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, and like like you said, Amy,
Speaker 1: it's just a testament to their ability to bend and
Speaker 1: have flexibility and not be stubborn, and to do it
Speaker 1: on the fly. You know, Josh McCown needed time to
Speaker 1: get warmed up, to get comfortable. If you think you
Speaker 1: look back at that offense in the first half, it's
Speaker 1: a little more conservative. He's getting the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hands quick, they're running in it a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and in the second half they started to open it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, let him throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field as he got more and more comfortable. Friend mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's the same offense from the scheme wise, but you
Speaker 1: can just tell the difference at the quarterback position from
Speaker 1: a young athletic Carson wentz to a guy like Josh
Speaker 1: McCown who's coming in cold off the bench. Yeah, to me,
Speaker 1: I think you're right, because they came out. Remember they
Speaker 1: came out in the third quarter and it was it
Speaker 1: was a rough ending to that to that first half, right,
Speaker 1: the first half, kind of an ugly ending. They give
Speaker 1: up a score, then they come out, Miles Sanders got
Speaker 1: hurting the final play and then the clock runs out.
Speaker 1: They come out at halftime. Big play to Zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: big play to Dallas Goddard, you got a big run.
Speaker 1: They start chunking plays up and then you know, the
Speaker 1: drive kind of stalls. They kick a field goal. But
Speaker 1: I think that that kind of speaks to Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: get going into the locker room, rallying those guys and there, guys,
Speaker 1: this is what we've got. We're gonna unload the barrel here,
Speaker 1: give him everything we've got here. Unfortunately, just unable to
Speaker 1: execute in key opportunities that inside the twenty yard line.
Speaker 1: One thing I thought was really interesting, not interesting, but
Speaker 1: the PI calls Shelton Gibson did the PI call that
Speaker 1: he drew the fact that it was Shelton Gibson that
Speaker 1: was the one right, A guy who was signed to
Speaker 1: this team on New Year's Day, I believe, or New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve from the practice squad, making him the fifteenth
Speaker 1: practice squad player on this team's factive masters. Now, not
Speaker 1: all of them spent time made the immediate transition from
Speaker 1: the Eagles practice squads. Some of them were from other
Speaker 1: practice squads, but obviously Shelton Gibson has been in the
Speaker 1: Eagle system for a little while what can we say
Speaker 1: about just the coaching staffability did Peterson's ability to get
Speaker 1: these practice squad guys playing in NFL playoff games and
Speaker 1: making an impact. He said it last week. It goes
Speaker 1: to the position coaches as well, because you know, also
Speaker 1: the veterans on this team and the guys themselves. So
Speaker 1: it's really like a trifold effort there. But I think
Speaker 1: when you talk about all those guys, it's not easy
Speaker 1: if you were our Boston Scott to say, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna go through practice
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pretend you know this week that I
Speaker 1: am say Kuon Barkley. Next week I'm Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: then oh, by the way, I'm getting called up and
Speaker 1: I have to be ready to be the change of
Speaker 1: pace back in week thirteen. Like, that's not easy. Duce
Speaker 1: Stalley has to get credit for that, The coaches have
Speaker 1: to get credit for getting him into the scheme, and
Speaker 1: you gotta get credit as well. Boston Scott from making
Speaker 1: sure that he was always ready, making sure that he
Speaker 1: was always attentive, that he was always you know, doing
Speaker 1: what he needed to do away from the field, and
Speaker 1: that goes across the board to all those guys Boston Scott,
Speaker 1: Greg Wore, Josh Perkins, up and down the line offense
Speaker 1: and defense. Those guys that were able to get the
Speaker 1: job done. Are other teams this good at developing the
Speaker 1: practice squad, I honestly don't know across the NFL. I
Speaker 1: wish I can give you an honest answ I not
Speaker 1: having paying close attention to other teams, But it's rare
Speaker 1: for any team to have used this many practice squad
Speaker 1: players exactly so the fact that the Eagles have used
Speaker 1: as many as they have, because you'll get some teams
Speaker 1: that may feel like their practice squad players aren't ready
Speaker 1: to go in, are still underdeveloped, and they'll try to
Speaker 1: sign guys off the streets, old veteran guys that are
Speaker 1: sitting at home and try to plug those guys in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give the Eagles a lot of credit for trying to
Speaker 1: stick with guys that are at least somewhat familiar with
Speaker 1: their system. And I'll tell you another thing. It also
Speaker 1: handicaps coaches from the offensive side and defensive side as
Speaker 1: to what they can call, because if you're calling guys
Speaker 1: off the practice squad, they don't have all of the
Speaker 1: intricacies of the offense and the defense down, so you know,
Speaker 1: like an Harry up offense, it kind of hamstrings a
Speaker 1: quarterback as to what he can call if these guys
Speaker 1: they need to take time to figure out I line
Speaker 1: up here, I line up there, so it slows down
Speaker 1: what you can do a little bit. These guys, it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it happened with them, especially on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. When you look at this
Speaker 1: offense and the way they've run it four hundred yards
Speaker 1: for four straight games. With these same guys, We've watched
Speaker 1: up tempo offense, We've watched them late in the game
Speaker 1: and a two minute drill, and they don't seem as
Speaker 1: if they are limited and what you can run on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, it's certainly been effective.
Speaker 1: I think today was more or less. Seattle has seen
Speaker 1: some of the schemes for the second time, so they're
Speaker 1: a little more familiar with what the Eagles wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you know you're not dealing with
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz back there that can check some of the
Speaker 1: things you do defensively. Yeah, it did kind of seem
Speaker 1: like that and I think Dave mentioned that as well,
Speaker 1: especially in the red zone, that they seemed like they
Speaker 1: kind of knew what the Eagles would want to do
Speaker 1: and kind of took away maybe some of their priority options.
Speaker 1: It's not something you're going to be looking at the well,
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye off of that. When I watched
Speaker 1: the film, it was tough to be able to tell
Speaker 1: watching off TV copy it. Certainly, I think when you
Speaker 1: look at what they were able to do schematically, like's
Speaker 1: exactly right when you have those guys come in. That's why, Honestly,
Speaker 1: if you watched, you know, offensively, with what those guys
Speaker 1: have had to have to do over the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: You bring in Josh Perkins and JJ and Deontay Burnett
Speaker 1: and all these othererent receivers, you can't just say, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go eleven personnel with three receivers and all
Speaker 1: three of these guys are gonna play, and then go
Speaker 1: two tight ends with two receivers. They're doing hockey line
Speaker 1: changes and everybody's out, everybody's in because all right, JJR
Speaker 1: Thig WHITEID You're gonna learn the twelve personnel package and
Speaker 1: that's it. You're not gonna worry about anything else. Here's
Speaker 1: your list of plays, your short menu. Deontay Burnette, you're
Speaker 1: gonna learn this package. Greg Ward, you're gonna learn this package.
Speaker 1: You're Robert Davis. You're gonna learn this package. And we're
Speaker 1: just gonna try and make it work like That's again
Speaker 1: attestaments to the coaches. Gibson, Shelton, Gibson, You've got this.
Speaker 1: Let's look back on the journey a little bit, just
Speaker 1: kind of putting this season in perspective. This is a
Speaker 1: team that had a five and seven record, finished nine
Speaker 1: and seven, go on a four game winning streak after
Speaker 1: a loss to Miami, which could have been an emotional
Speaker 1: death blow to this team. And losing to Miami, a
Speaker 1: team that was very beatable, a team that nobody took
Speaker 1: very seriously from the outside looking in, they go on
Speaker 1: to win four games and win the division. How do
Speaker 1: you build on this moving forward? Well, that's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting because I think some of these young guys
Speaker 1: opened up some coaches eyes, and so we'll see what
Speaker 1: they're able to contribute next year. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the offense, there are some young pieces there
Speaker 1: that are encouraging. You still need to add young players.
Speaker 1: I think at the wide receiver position. Obviously, when you
Speaker 1: go in the off season, because you had so many
Speaker 1: injuries on that offensive line, some of the players are
Speaker 1: getting a little long in the tooth. You obviously want
Speaker 1: to shore up that offensive line by adding depth there
Speaker 1: as well. The running back position, I think Boston Scott
Speaker 1: has found a nice little role on this team. You know,
Speaker 1: the Jordan Howard thing, I'm not sure how healthy he was.
Speaker 1: He wasn't used over the last two weeks, even though
Speaker 1: he was active, may have been sort of a break
Speaker 1: in case of an emergency type of a situation. So
Speaker 1: the running back position, you may still look to add
Speaker 1: something there or retainer Jordan Howard because I like Sanders
Speaker 1: and Scott in there, but I still like having a
Speaker 1: big back guys that can run in between the tackles
Speaker 1: when you're down there at the gold line or a
Speaker 1: short yard of situations. And on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. There are some pieces there you there you're
Speaker 1: encouraged by, but they're they're also with those same pieces
Speaker 1: you're saying I'm not sold on just exactly yet. So
Speaker 1: the secondary, you're gonna bring in talent there. The linebacker position.
Speaker 1: I like some of the guys there. When mine adding
Speaker 1: another guy the defensive line, you gotta get another d
Speaker 1: tackle in there so that Fletcher doesn't have to play
Speaker 1: as much as he played this year. And then while
Speaker 1: I like what Josh Sweat was able to do this
Speaker 1: year as an extra defensive man, I still like to
Speaker 1: see another one added to Brandon Graham, who I think
Speaker 1: will be in what is twelfth year next year, and
Speaker 1: Derek Bartnett show flashes. I still like that. You can
Speaker 1: never have too many pass rushers. So I don't think
Speaker 1: the organization from a front office standpoint, when they look
Speaker 1: at the personnel, I don't think they will allow the
Speaker 1: late season run to cloud their judgment as to where
Speaker 1: there needs to be improvement on the roster. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately we're gonna go into this offseason and next
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty, this team's gonna look different than this
Speaker 1: team right now. That's just that's the nature of football.
Speaker 1: That's the NFL. So trades, waivers, free agency, the draft,
Speaker 1: right after the draft, the June first cuts, all the
Speaker 1: way up through training camp, they're gonna be mixing and matching,
Speaker 1: acquiring pieces to try and make this team better. It's
Speaker 1: gonna look a lot different well, and we are going
Speaker 1: to be breaking down some of that stuff. Key dates
Speaker 1: coming up, free agents to put on everybody's radar. Coach
Speaker 1: jug Peterson about to take the podium, so we'll be
Speaker 1: breaking all that stuff down after we hear from coach.
Speaker 1: I told them that I really appreciate everybody in that room, um,
Speaker 1: for how they handled this season, for how they handled themselves. Um,
Speaker 1: you know during this game, even as much adversity as
Speaker 1: we faced all year, uh, to put ourselves in this
Speaker 1: position to win the NFC East, to have a home
Speaker 1: playoff game, that I was really proud of the effort
Speaker 1: all season, even tonight. Um, and uh, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: move on from here. I didn't. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything, no comment. I didn't really see it.
Speaker 1: I was looking to call the next play, actually, so
Speaker 1: I didn't really I didn't see from the team. In terms,
Speaker 1: there's nothing I can do about it. It's out of
Speaker 1: my hand. I mean, it's it's got to be called
Speaker 1: on the field. So uh, you know they didn't call it,
Speaker 1: so obviously they didn't. You know, they didn't think it
Speaker 1: was Did you have any discussions with the officials about
Speaker 1: how they we were appreciating the games there. Now you know,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about coaching the team and trying to win
Speaker 1: the game. The offensive challenge, UM a little bit. We
Speaker 1: we eliminated some of the motions. We just kind of
Speaker 1: got back to some of the core plays, some of
Speaker 1: the things that Josh was comfortable with in the run
Speaker 1: game and the past game. UM, and and just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we did some good things. We just kind
Speaker 1: of stalled out in the red zone a little bit
Speaker 1: tonight and um had opportunities, you know. Um, but I
Speaker 1: just got back to some of the core stuff with Josh,
Speaker 1: thing about being able to be with us who were
Speaker 1: very good playoff team, the person uppocied with the offense
Speaker 1: of person els, you had all the build at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. Just uh, for me, it's about
Speaker 1: just how how brazilient our team is and and giving
Speaker 1: ourselves an opportunity like like that to be, you know,
Speaker 1: to be down one score against a really good football
Speaker 1: team and in a playoff game, and you know, it's just, um,
Speaker 1: it's remarkable for me to see our guys battle, how
Speaker 1: the defense kept us in this football game. You know,
Speaker 1: and and um offense, you know, uh, move the ball,
Speaker 1: but just we just you know, failed to score. But
Speaker 1: uh to still be within a within a within a
Speaker 1: score of you know, at least in a two point
Speaker 1: conversion to tie the game just shows a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, character and resiliency. This to this team disappointing
Speaker 1: for everybody in that road. Let Carson particular four years
Speaker 1: and at last eight plays in the postseason as as
Speaker 1: an awfully disappointing a blow for him. Yes, and how
Speaker 1: would I feel for him? I feel bad for him.
Speaker 1: I mean I have spoken to me. I just I
Speaker 1: just briefly saw him in the in the dress room
Speaker 1: after the game. Was yeah, I mean, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: you know, I'll let him, I'll let him speak for it.
Speaker 1: But um, I'm disappointed, you know, for him, you know,
Speaker 1: because I wanted this for him, you know obviously, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of a lot of his teammates
Speaker 1: did too, and the team, the organization did. I mean,
Speaker 1: he needs he's battled through a lot and and uh,
Speaker 1: but um, we'll learn from it. We'll move on to
Speaker 1: a different game. I don't know, it's hard to say.
Speaker 1: I would say, I would say, yes, you know, if
Speaker 1: he's healthy, you know, with the game plan that we had,
Speaker 1: I think so. Um, but you know it's hard to
Speaker 1: speculate the Mexicans forgetting he didn't come out right away.
Speaker 1: What was the Do you get a call from upstair? No,
Speaker 1: I just had Joe Pella, one of my trainers came
Speaker 1: up and said they were just gonna evaluate Carson and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, defense was on the field and that was
Speaker 1: that was it. And then you know, they came to
Speaker 1: me later on and said that they were gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: uh take him into the locker room and evaluate him further.
Speaker 1: The spoder independent NFL spodder that. I don't know all
Speaker 1: of that. I mean, it was just I just know
Speaker 1: because I'm in the game, I'm coaching the football game,
Speaker 1: so you know, I just have the trainers are communicating
Speaker 1: with me, and they just said they're just they're just
Speaker 1: evaluating Carson. At the time on the fourth the second
Speaker 1: to last fourth down in the fourth pool, did you
Speaker 1: just interrogating goble there? What are you thinking needed touchdown?
Speaker 1: The parties? I was, but I was I was also
Speaker 1: maintaining trying to maintain the aggressive us there, trying to
Speaker 1: get the first down and stay on the field and
Speaker 1: score the third down issue. Yeah, just um, you know,
Speaker 1: I obviously Russell had had breaken you know, broken some
Speaker 1: some runs there too, and you know, so we're trying
Speaker 1: to keep him in the pocket at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, when he's when he's holding out of the ball,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to you know, hang on to
Speaker 1: the coverage a little bit. But uh, just guys got
Speaker 1: some separation and they made some place and and you know,
Speaker 1: credit them there. I think they had a really good
Speaker 1: percentage on third down. I think eight or fifteen something
Speaker 1: like that on third down, and um, probably the story
Speaker 1: of the game really, Miles Sanders played random brand came back.
Speaker 1: You have the same thing happened I think a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, where guys might have stayed out and
Speaker 1: came baverything to play. To say about the the level
Speaker 1: of committed you know from some of your market players,
Speaker 1: and how does that Yeah, I mean these guys, Um,
Speaker 1: they're tough guys. They do everything they can to get
Speaker 1: themselves back on the football field, and and they want
Speaker 1: to play and they want to help, you know, help
Speaker 1: help their teammates win. And it just shows I think
Speaker 1: the character of each each individual, the type of people
Speaker 1: and the type of men that we have in that
Speaker 1: locker room and on this team, and um, it's a
Speaker 1: credit to them to to do everything they can during
Speaker 1: the week to you know, prepare themselves more mentally than
Speaker 1: physically obviously, and then and then put themselves in a
Speaker 1: position to h to play in this game. So it's
Speaker 1: a hats off to those guys that you know, battled
Speaker 1: through some injury this week and got themselves ready to
Speaker 1: play the final play. Josh and Town always to play
Speaker 1: ball there and your avantage point player and he had there.
Speaker 1: We had two plays, um called and uh we alerted,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to the second play. Actually he
Speaker 1: alerted to the second play and at the line and UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess not everybody got the alert and
Speaker 1: so we had a couple of busted assignments on the play.
Speaker 1: And it's just unfortunate, Um, you know, especially on a
Speaker 1: fourth down call uh to uh to try to take
Speaker 1: advantage of the get the first down. So something we'll
Speaker 1: learn from and you know, get better. There was an
Speaker 1: alert earlier in the game, Carson, we pitched back the
Speaker 1: miles and it went by him. Was that was that
Speaker 1: another one that wasn't pick up. Yeah, that was again
Speaker 1: a miscommunication. Miles. Uh either didn't hear or see the
Speaker 1: the signal for the check and uh just missed it.
Speaker 1: Just made it made a mistake. If you're on the
Speaker 1: sideline it you find out Carson's not coming back, what's
Speaker 1: going through your mind? What's your message to Josh. My
Speaker 1: message to Josh is, um, you know, uh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna still maintain our aggressiveness, you know best we can.
Speaker 1: And I just told him, I says, well, as we
Speaker 1: look at the call sheet, I'm gonna eliminate some of
Speaker 1: the motions and shifts and just try to line up
Speaker 1: and let him see the defense. Felt like we had
Speaker 1: to utilize the run game a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: for him and help him out and then get to
Speaker 1: some of the play action stuff, which we did and
Speaker 1: it was successful. And and really trying to get him
Speaker 1: into a flow, get him into the rhythm. It's been
Speaker 1: a while since he's been out there, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: just try to get him into that rhythm with with
Speaker 1: Kelsey obviously, um, and then and then the flow of
Speaker 1: the game for himself, and just trying to get back
Speaker 1: to some of the core stuff that we that we uh,
Speaker 1: you know that he was comfortable with. Excuse me your
Speaker 1: first thoughts that Carson. You know I was listening, you know,
Speaker 1: I was into the game. I was getting Josh ready
Speaker 1: to go, and and uh, you know, I felt for Carson,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, we still playing in football.
Speaker 1: Left three and a half quarters. Thank you. Okay. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about last year the loss to the Saints, and
Speaker 1: the guys are coming into the Walker room, and I
Speaker 1: was standing right there, and I watched coach hug every
Speaker 1: single one of those players, and so no surprise to
Speaker 1: hear him start this press conference saying I told them
Speaker 1: how I was so proud of them. These are players
Speaker 1: that play hard for this coach. They feel loved and
Speaker 1: they play hard for him. Really cool to hear that
Speaker 1: emphasized even there. What else stood out to me was
Speaker 1: how we talked about the resilience of this team to
Speaker 1: be down. The defense kept us in it, The offense
Speaker 1: moved the ball, just couldn't get into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the defense a little bit, though, because
Speaker 1: I think what we all can point out is, are
Speaker 1: those third down numbers really killed this Eagles defense today?
Speaker 1: Seattle eight of fifteen on third down fifty three. A
Speaker 1: lot of those were third and very long where you
Speaker 1: had back them up, back them up, and then they
Speaker 1: would break loose for a big play. It's a shame
Speaker 1: because Fletcher Cox was dominant in this game, you know,
Speaker 1: without Brandon Braham for a good chunk of it. Number
Speaker 1: ninety one was unblockable for most of the night. So
Speaker 1: to have that effort almost wasted by some of the
Speaker 1: big plays that they were able to have offensively, again,
Speaker 1: you mentioned eight to fifteen. This was a team that,
Speaker 1: especially over the stretch, we had just you know, bragged
Speaker 1: about their you know, their prowess in situational football, red
Speaker 1: zone offense, red zone defense, third down offense, third down defense.
Speaker 1: You know, the Eagles were top five in third down offensive,
Speaker 1: red zone offense on the season. Today they go over
Speaker 1: two in the red zone. They go three for eleven
Speaker 1: on third down, and the Seahawks were eight to fifteen
Speaker 1: on third down, one for two in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're talking situational football, I mean that
Speaker 1: doesn't we saw that field goal block. I'm gone to
Speaker 1: go from Vinny Curry. That's the closest we got to
Speaker 1: a turnover for the Eagles defense, certainly a big play,
Speaker 1: but they were over two on fourth down offensively in
Speaker 1: their own right. Yeah, yeah, I look at the big plays, right,
Speaker 1: the big plays I think really hurt them obviously on
Speaker 1: third down. You can't give up almost fifty well over
Speaker 1: fifty percent, yeah, on third down. But this team had
Speaker 1: done a nice job of keeping the ball in front
Speaker 1: of them. They hadn't had the ball thrown over their
Speaker 1: heads in a few weeks. Seattle obviously missed on some
Speaker 1: opportunities the first game they played against the Eagles, so
Speaker 1: they knew that those things will be available if they
Speaker 1: got those same looks, and they were able to capitalize today.
Speaker 1: As bad as dk Metcalf played in that first game,
Speaker 1: and he had a few drops in that first game,
Speaker 1: he was outstanding the day when the ball was in
Speaker 1: the air and he made the big plays. And so
Speaker 1: when I look at the defense, that's what I think
Speaker 1: about when I think about what hurt them today. Fran
Speaker 1: brought up how dominant Fletcher was, and I thought Malcolm
Speaker 1: was right there with him with the way that he
Speaker 1: played today. And when you're down some of your best players,
Speaker 1: the ones that you have available to you. They have
Speaker 1: to take up they have to take their game to
Speaker 1: the next level. And I thought ninety one and twenty
Speaker 1: seven on the defensive side of the ball did everything
Speaker 1: they could today to keep this team in the game.
Speaker 1: And they did because Seattle struggled getting the ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone. They got the big play to dk
Speaker 1: Metcalf for that touchdown to give him seventeen. But other
Speaker 1: than that, they didn't necessarily get in a lot of
Speaker 1: in scoring range, and the deepest was the reason why
Speaker 1: we were still in this game late in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely crediting the veterans there. As we are waiting to
Speaker 1: hear from Josh McCown. We will be having him in
Speaker 1: a few minutes here, whenever he's ready to take the podium.
Speaker 1: Let's look at some of the unrestricted free agents on
Speaker 1: this current Eagles roster, of course, long list of guys.
Speaker 1: You know they always say about a third of the
Speaker 1: roster is different from year to year. Some of these
Speaker 1: guys veterans, anything really jumping out to any of you here, Yeah, good,
Speaker 1: You've got three quarters of the starting secondary there, like
Speaker 1: Taylor Mills, Rodney McLeod, Ronald Darby. You've got one starting
Speaker 1: linebacker and common Gruge Hill. You've got a couple of
Speaker 1: running backs obviously, we know Darren Sprowles announced that he
Speaker 1: will retire, but Jordan Howard obviously, um no, it's I mean,
Speaker 1: every position looks like it's it's touched on there, from
Speaker 1: quarterback all the way back out the secondary. Every position
Speaker 1: is touched on. Both of Carson Wentz's backups Josh McCown
Speaker 1: and Nate Sudfeld. You've got backup offensive lineman there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the bodyguard Jason Peters as well. It's a there's a
Speaker 1: lot of names. The list going to be interesting, going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting offseason. Of course, you know some
Speaker 1: of these guys you can't imagine them anywhere else. But
Speaker 1: that's always you know, a part of it as well. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what happens with the quarterback situation,
Speaker 1: especially with Nate Sudfeld, you know, having some options there.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see, especially what might happen with him.
Speaker 1: Funny thing when I look at that list of fifteen players,
Speaker 1: and obviously we don't know what the Eagles are going
Speaker 1: to decide to do as far as who they're going
Speaker 1: to bring back or not. I mean Jalen Mills may
Speaker 1: be the only player on that list that I saw
Speaker 1: it in Big V. Because Big V has been probably
Speaker 1: your top backup tackle left and right side, so losing
Speaker 1: him isn't some small thing, you know. He and Jalen
Speaker 1: Mills are the guys that I think probably have the
Speaker 1: best chance of possibly being retained, although Big V may
Speaker 1: see a market out there for him since he has
Speaker 1: so many starts under his belt, so the Eagles may
Speaker 1: not be looking to pay that price tag for a
Speaker 1: guy like Hallapuli vot Vitium. But that's what happens in
Speaker 1: the NFL every year, and this team coming into the
Speaker 1: season was the third oldest team in the league on
Speaker 1: average when you looked at their roster in the last
Speaker 1: three years, they played a lot of football games, and
Speaker 1: because they've been a postseason participant, what you typically do
Speaker 1: is you try to keep that window open. That window
Speaker 1: is probably closer to closing with this group of guys
Speaker 1: than it is a window that you're going to remain
Speaker 1: open and try to retain as many of those guys
Speaker 1: as you can. So it'll be business as usual in
Speaker 1: the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. When the free agency
Speaker 1: market hits because guys they they tend to find new addresses.
Speaker 1: The Eagles can't pay everybody, and these guys are going
Speaker 1: to be looking for an opportunity to cash in as
Speaker 1: big as they can. And like I said, the Eagles
Speaker 1: can't pay any everybody, and they're also guys on their
Speaker 1: roster right now, I wouldn't be surprised if they're looking
Speaker 1: to try to extend, so you could see that as well.
Speaker 1: When does that typically start to happen when it's kind
Speaker 1: of the beginning of that process, the extensions, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, as far as I know it. I
Speaker 1: mean it's been happening throughout the time, and with several
Speaker 1: guys dock ERTs, we've seen the offensive line or we've
Speaker 1: seen the offensive lineman rather, yeah, you know, we've we've
Speaker 1: seen them extend some of these guys. But certainly, I
Speaker 1: mean there's decisions up and down the depth chart that
Speaker 1: they're going to have to try and make some of
Speaker 1: those decisions on, you know, and some guys that we
Speaker 1: haven't even mentioned yet. But obviously the key dates starting
Speaker 1: just in a couple weeks here, Yeah, friend, this is
Speaker 1: your draft season beginning January eighteenth, The Shrine Bowl, the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, the Pro Bowl of course not a scouting event,
Speaker 1: but then we get into the combine, we get into
Speaker 1: free agency of course, and wrapping things up there with
Speaker 1: the draft April twenty fifth, when you talk about all
Speaker 1: the changes coming to the roster, I love this time
Speaker 1: of year because I'm a huge nerd about the next
Speaker 1: guys coming in, and I know you guys are right
Speaker 1: there with me. Yeah, we'll be heading down to the
Speaker 1: Shrine Bowl in January a couple of weeks now, a
Speaker 1: week from tomorrow is January. A week from tomorrow, we'll
Speaker 1: head down there. We'll be doing all that coverage for
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Speaker 1: action for Shrine Bowl, Senior Bowl, combine all those events.
Speaker 1: But look, in the meantime, this hurts if we're there
Speaker 1: all right days away from that. So I think ultimately,
Speaker 1: when you look at this team, I think some of
Speaker 1: the things that we've already touched on. We talked about
Speaker 1: the resiliency, We've talked about how there's gonna be decisions
Speaker 1: to be made. There are players now that we could say, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we feel good. You know, I talked about it.
Speaker 1: There should be no question about Carson Wentz, there should
Speaker 1: be no question about some of the other key players
Speaker 1: on this team. We saw Fletcher Cox go all out
Speaker 1: after he got hurt a year ago in the divisional
Speaker 1: round and it took him some time to get back.
Speaker 1: You know, I know the sack numbers were not super high,
Speaker 1: but what I thought, I think what we saw was
Speaker 1: a dominant force upfront, especially in the second half of
Speaker 1: the year down the stretch. Thankfully they put it on
Speaker 1: display tonight because there are a lot of game where
Speaker 1: he plays like this and you see it on film
Speaker 1: and it doesn't always you know, get talked about because
Speaker 1: it's not talked about. One of the things that Chris
Speaker 1: Collinsworth did in this broadcast that was good was highlight
Speaker 1: the play of Fletcher Cox. Yeah. I think it was
Speaker 1: really fun to watch him play tonight, especially with Seattle.
Speaker 1: We talked about they have some backup offensive lineman at
Speaker 1: backup center there that Fletcher Cox just absolutely took advantage of.
Speaker 1: And you saw Jim Schwartz really scheming to give him
Speaker 1: that matchup one on once because you could just see
Speaker 1: that the Joey Hunt, the backup center for Seattle, could
Speaker 1: not handle it. Fletcher Cox and strength and the weight
Speaker 1: of that. It was a lot of fun to watch him.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you're going to be able to
Speaker 1: break down a little bit more moving forward, No question.
Speaker 1: We talked about it this week. Actually an Eagles game plan.
Speaker 1: A lot of the things they did this week were
Speaker 1: the things that they did last time that these two
Speaker 1: teams played back in Week twelve. So getting Fletcher isolated
Speaker 1: on the center, Joey Hunt, using Nigel Brad, I'm using
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins, those guys up close to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Malcolm had another sack in this game where it was
Speaker 1: a similar kind of scheme. So everything that they're doing
Speaker 1: with those guys, look and you know, those are the
Speaker 1: things that you're hoping to be able to continue to do.
Speaker 1: You're always going to kind of tinker with the scheme
Speaker 1: and make some changes. You don't want to carry too
Speaker 1: much over from year to year. But that was one
Speaker 1: of the big things that we saw this year is
Speaker 1: I thought they did a really good job defensively of
Speaker 1: creating those one on ones in passing situations didn't always
Speaker 1: result in sacks, but those guys were able to get home.
Speaker 1: I thought they did some good things schematically, not just today,
Speaker 1: but this year as well. Yeah, and let's not forget
Speaker 1: you're gonna get Malie Jackson back, no doubt next year. Right,
Speaker 1: So you add him in Arratill Fletcher Cox, obviously you
Speaker 1: hope that he can get through the season. He's a
Speaker 1: year older. But you know, Malie Jackson is a guy
Speaker 1: who's been a former Pro Bowl he's a Super Bowl champion,
Speaker 1: So we were looking forward to seeing what he and
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox could do pair it up. That was supposed
Speaker 1: to be this defensive one. That was what this team
Speaker 1: had been planning for bringing him in here. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're going to need that. And when I look at
Speaker 1: what the guys were able to do upfront with just
Speaker 1: the guys they had available, I mean Fletcher Cox not
Speaker 1: to say that he needs some type of help in
Speaker 1: order for him to be a All Pro Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: caliber player. He's typically the one who draws the attention
Speaker 1: and allows his teammates to shine, but he's also a
Speaker 1: guy that if you put a player who also you
Speaker 1: have to pay attention to Now, Fletcher's gonna get those
Speaker 1: one on one matchups. Now, He's going to get freed
Speaker 1: up from time to time. And if nothing else, today
Speaker 1: showed you that there's a lot of football left in
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox. You started hearing a little rumblings as to
Speaker 1: whether or not is his best days behind him? Will
Speaker 1: he be able to come back from the injury. Is
Speaker 1: closer to thirty than he is twenty five. I think
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks shows you that, you know,
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, you know, Fletcher Cox still has a
Speaker 1: lot of good football left in him. Yeah, no question.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at, you know, some of
Speaker 1: the key players on this team, guys that they were
Speaker 1: able to extend. You look at Brandon Brooks and Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: the right side of the offensive line, you bring bring
Speaker 1: back a first round pick in Andre Dillard, a guy
Speaker 1: that you can now you know, build this offensive line
Speaker 1: around the extended Isaac say am All the last offseason,
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey obviously still there at the pivot. That offensive
Speaker 1: line is a strength through this team moving not just
Speaker 1: you know what they saw this year, but moving forward.
Speaker 1: That's something to be excited about. When you pair that
Speaker 1: with what we saw from Miles Sanders, you'd have number
Speaker 1: eleven back there. You can continue to add more weapons,
Speaker 1: we'll continue to see that. But when you have that core,
Speaker 1: all best, all the best teams are built trenches and
Speaker 1: quarterback right up the middle, so you know, start inside
Speaker 1: and build your way out. That's the building block. Those
Speaker 1: are the building blocks for this team. Well, let's not
Speaker 1: forget Matt Pryor getting some meaningful experience this season as well,
Speaker 1: maybe possibly having Jordan my Laudaback next year as he
Speaker 1: was on injured reserve, and then a couple other young
Speaker 1: guys Nate Herbig, Sua Opetta, also guys who are being
Speaker 1: developed by this team and by just Allen. They're always
Speaker 1: going to be adding offensive linemen because they know that
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of talent at the offensive line
Speaker 1: position in the NFL. Those guys are seen as very,
Speaker 1: very valuable. So while you can people you said about
Speaker 1: quarterback all the time, right, you know, order Dandy Reid
Speaker 1: always say we want to draft a quarterback, if not
Speaker 1: every year, every other year. It's the same thought process
Speaker 1: now today's league with offensive line, because you don't have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of talent with that around the course
Speaker 1: the NFL. I know the Eagles fans get a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, frustrated with the offensive line of times. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, like you watch around the league, it gets
Speaker 1: a lot worse. It's not in the league. This Eagles
Speaker 1: of offensive line looking forward is one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league, without questions deepest as well. And the
Speaker 1: other thing I hear from covering the college game so
Speaker 1: much and from the draft process is coaches are saying guys,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive line, are less and less NFL
Speaker 1: ready coming out of college. A lot of that is
Speaker 1: because of the college offenses with the spread and the
Speaker 1: you know, different types of schemes there that don't necessarily
Speaker 1: prepare offensive lineman. And because it's such a developmental position,
Speaker 1: it takes so many years to really build that technique.
Speaker 1: I think you have to give a lot of credit
Speaker 1: to the offensive line staff here, especially Jeff Stoutlin, who
Speaker 1: is one of the best developers in the league. It's
Speaker 1: the opposite of what it used to be when when
Speaker 1: you came out offensive line, they're safe. If you take
Speaker 1: that guy in the first round, I'll start for fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Not not the case anymore, but no, I think when
Speaker 1: you look at how this team is built, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be excited about. There will continue to be
Speaker 1: changes that as there is with every single team, but excited.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's a fun time of year.
Speaker 1: This is the time now where we say, okay, we
Speaker 1: sit back, we reflect. Obviously, we live with this loss.
Speaker 1: You take the team rule. He's all right, we live
Speaker 1: with this for twenty four hours. We've take this through Monday.
Speaker 1: Now let's take a look and how how does this
Speaker 1: team improve moving forward? How can they get better across
Speaker 1: the board? That I'll be discussion over the next you know,
Speaker 1: a few months, not just in this in this building,
Speaker 1: but in all thirty two other buildings as they try
Speaker 1: and get better throughout all the different phases of the
Speaker 1: off season. And we have one more big college game
Speaker 1: coming up next to Monday Day as well. It should
Speaker 1: be pretty good. A lot of a lot of pro
Speaker 1: prospects going to be in in that matchup as well.
Speaker 1: I think we're about a minute away from Josh McCown
Speaker 1: where you going to add something onto that about the
Speaker 1: draft conversation. Well, I just think you know, the draft
Speaker 1: is always huge around here, and fans get excited about
Speaker 1: the draft because you're bringing in young talent and we
Speaker 1: all think we're scouts and gems, and you know, we
Speaker 1: spend the next ten weeks looking at these guys and
Speaker 1: going over tape and trying to figure out where we
Speaker 1: could sort of implement guys that we like to try
Speaker 1: to improve this team. But they have to hit on
Speaker 1: this draft, right. I think there's been some nice young
Speaker 1: players they've taken over the last couple of years. They
Speaker 1: got to continue to do that. You got to continue
Speaker 1: to replenish the talent on this team. Those are what
Speaker 1: the good football teams do. You know, Carson's salary will
Speaker 1: be a difference maker as you move forward, so you
Speaker 1: have to get younger, cheaper guys that you can continue
Speaker 1: to develop and have them play to surround him with
Speaker 1: because it becomes harder to build a roster full of
Speaker 1: free agents when your quarterback is one of the highest
Speaker 1: paying quarterbacks in the league. I think that's a good point,
Speaker 1: and there is. We've seen a lot of teams go
Speaker 1: really far with a quarterback on a rookie deal because
Speaker 1: they're able to spend a lot of money on the
Speaker 1: pieces around. So that changes kind of how you would
Speaker 1: build a roster. Yeah. Yeah, when you look at some
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league, they have found ways.
Speaker 1: So okay, if we're gonna give the quarterback a lot
Speaker 1: of money, look at the team that's all the other sideline, right,
Speaker 1: that's team we just played and we just lost to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Put it to Rush. I mean,
Speaker 1: did he did he win a super Bowl on a
Speaker 1: rookie deal? He won the super Bowl on the rookie deal.
Speaker 1: They had to reach shuffle the deck a little bit
Speaker 1: and then all you look at the success they have
Speaker 1: and continue to have. Tom Brady in New England another example.
Speaker 1: All right, I believe we are getting close to hearing
Speaker 1: from quarterback Josh McCown as he made his playoff debut today.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from Josh. Yeah, just just um, you know,
Speaker 1: the finality of of you know, playoff football and just
Speaker 1: you know, being done and uh and you know, not
Speaker 1: not getting it done and you know, just those things hurt.
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of people put a lot
Speaker 1: of time energy into this game and uh and uh
Speaker 1: just hurts when you don't get it done. And I
Speaker 1: want to be there and and uh help you know,
Speaker 1: rallied the team even get going, and we just didn't
Speaker 1: get doing. So it's just you know, just hurt, hurt
Speaker 1: for that, you say, Oh, it's just me. I just
Speaker 1: gotta make a better throw. You know, Miles the heck
Speaker 1: of a player, and it's gonna be He's gonna be
Speaker 1: a special player in this league. I love that kid.
Speaker 1: And uh just uh just gotta get my better ball,
Speaker 1: you know, and then give a chance to run. And
Speaker 1: uh I didn't do that. We nailed, we nailed the
Speaker 1: protection call and everything about it, and just uh just
Speaker 1: didn't get the ball on him, you know. And uh
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's how mesh a big point and sometimes
Speaker 1: unince you were out there, I mean, how did you
Speaker 1: feel when you you know, you finally put the field?
Speaker 1: I felt good, you know, I felt good. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, procedurally some of the things you know, um,
Speaker 1: in a in you know a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a of an advanced uh game week you know, different
Speaker 1: than the preseason. I think some of those things. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was trying to get up to speed
Speaker 1: and and and handle a little bit better. Uh but
Speaker 1: uh but you know I felt good. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Doug's always you know, excellent on in the headset with
Speaker 1: with just helping with different things. So um, so I
Speaker 1: felt good. It was just uh just you know, you
Speaker 1: just when that when those things happen, you're you're kind
Speaker 1: of flooded with a lot of different emotions. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously you don't want to be on the field under
Speaker 1: those circumstances and um and uh but then it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. We gotta go, and we gotta get going,
Speaker 1: and so um, you know kind of started a little slow.
Speaker 1: We should have got you know, going a little bit faster.
Speaker 1: But uh, but you know, the guys around me and
Speaker 1: Doug and the coaches and you know, helped me settle in.
Speaker 1: Something was up with the Carson he was at the
Speaker 1: rough time right. Well, we talked on the bench and uh,
Speaker 1: you know and and obviously you expressed concern and told
Speaker 1: me to stay ready and then um and then uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you when when you're dealing with these things
Speaker 1: as a player, Uh, you know, it's it's tough, and
Speaker 1: it's tough. You know, Carson Wentz has put a ton
Speaker 1: into the season and to get to this moment, and
Speaker 1: especially you know the things that he's gone through. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it's a tough call and he's you know, but
Speaker 1: he's sitting there, you know, not feeling right, and obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, knew he needed to get checked and uh.
Speaker 1: And so uh, I think for the state of our
Speaker 1: game and and and the questions that that come around
Speaker 1: those type of injuries, I think it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: step forward in this progress because it's the right thing.
Speaker 1: And um and uh and you know he was he
Speaker 1: was smart by getting checked and and and doing those
Speaker 1: things and making sure he was all right. And uh.
Speaker 1: So you go through that and then you just you know,
Speaker 1: you you you turn the page and and you know,
Speaker 1: as bummed as I am for him, and then you
Speaker 1: got to go do do your job and and go
Speaker 1: try to you know, move the team well perspective that
Speaker 1: you have Carson, Yeah, I mean, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a fast game. Guys are playing hard. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Uh. Always you hate to see guys when
Speaker 1: when a guy's going down to add on to finish
Speaker 1: on on top. But but those guys are playing hard
Speaker 1: and uh and you know without seeing it on on
Speaker 1: uh on video. Yet you know, it's hard to it's
Speaker 1: hard to make a full comment about it. But um,
Speaker 1: but you always hope there's there's no you know, ill
Speaker 1: intent on those stuff and and and I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that to be the case. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just unfortunately the delay of game always it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of the guys being lined up along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I'll take that one on on me again
Speaker 1: and just um getting getting in and out the huddle better.
Speaker 1: And that's what I mean, some of the some of
Speaker 1: the stuff you know in a in a in and
Speaker 1: again at avance advanced game plan, you know, in this
Speaker 1: time type of week, you know, the management and of
Speaker 1: the huddle and getting in and out a little faster,
Speaker 1: you know, we could have done a better job of.
Speaker 1: And and uh so I'll put that on me. Play
Speaker 1: a support down playing dug in Manchion, you got a
Speaker 1: couple of shoots. Check the one tabe nervous and bustle
Speaker 1: assignment s order look like yeah, well he's exactly right.
Speaker 1: We had an alert on the play and we alerted
Speaker 1: it and uh and and again if it didn't get
Speaker 1: communicated clear enough, then I saw me you know, and
Speaker 1: we didn't get that done. But they did a good
Speaker 1: job of covering. Uh, the the part that we wanted
Speaker 1: to get alerted and the guys that that we were
Speaker 1: the intention of the play, they did a good job
Speaker 1: of covering those guys, you know. And so try to
Speaker 1: step up and buy a little time and hopefully get
Speaker 1: some you know, some moten and uh and we just
Speaker 1: didn't didn't get that done. Josh, I saw you after
Speaker 1: the game. Can you explain your emotions if you come
Speaker 1: off the field in a situation is obviously just incredible
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, Like I said earlier, I mean, you
Speaker 1: just there's there's a lot that goes into this and uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, everybody that that sets foot in that
Speaker 1: building over there and overcare um puts a lot into
Speaker 1: getting this getting this thing done. And uh. And when
Speaker 1: you come into that game and and put everything you
Speaker 1: can into trying to you know, win the game and
Speaker 1: then it doesn't doesn't get done, you just that's it's
Speaker 1: just painful. It just hurts, you know, it just sucks
Speaker 1: and and uh and you you know, from my standpoint,
Speaker 1: it just it feels like as a quarterback, you want
Speaker 1: to do more and you feel like you can do more,
Speaker 1: and you start with playing these these plays in your
Speaker 1: mind of where maybe you could have been better and
Speaker 1: and um, and so I just always have that perspective
Speaker 1: of of I could have been better and and you
Speaker 1: feel like you let a group down, You let those
Speaker 1: people down there come to that building and uh, and
Speaker 1: that's a sick feeling. It's a hurt, hurt feeling and um,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to have that. And so it's
Speaker 1: just a reflection to that. Josh Woods is you're a
Speaker 1: been lifel you kind of coming out of do you
Speaker 1: want to keep playing after? Uh? Man, I've had to
Speaker 1: tell my life. I told told those guys in there,
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful that they that they
Speaker 1: called me and uh and and al Sean and and
Speaker 1: the guys that hit me up and and you know
Speaker 1: coaxed me to come out. You know, just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I've chased this my whole career. Um. And have have
Speaker 1: been in moments where you know, we were five weeks
Speaker 1: ago where where you're coming home on a plane ride
Speaker 1: from Miami and you feel like all is lost and man,
Speaker 1: this thing so it's a dark place and and then
Speaker 1: you're talking and you're gonna can we can we win
Speaker 1: all these games? And get in, you know. And I've
Speaker 1: been in those moments a few times in my career,
Speaker 1: and we don't get it done, you know, and it
Speaker 1: goes the other way. And uh man, what an honor
Speaker 1: it was to be in that group and watch Doug
Speaker 1: lead this team, watch the veterans in this locker room
Speaker 1: lead this team, watch Carson play a way to play
Speaker 1: the way he did down the stretch. Um, that's special
Speaker 1: and more than anything, solidifies what I've thought and all
Speaker 1: those moments of just if the collective, if the if
Speaker 1: the belief of the group can can rise to a
Speaker 1: certain level, we can we can run the table. And
Speaker 1: uh and we did that, we got in, you know,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately at the end of the day. But um,
Speaker 1: but this year has been short of special for me.
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed it. I've learned so much from so
Speaker 1: many people and um and just thankful to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. And as far as the future goals,
Speaker 1: we'll see, you know. And made any decisions yet and
Speaker 1: get with my fan family and um, you know, talk
Speaker 1: with him obviously if retired once so I know how
Speaker 1: to do that. UM. So uh so we'll just see,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know yet you have any moment
Speaker 1: during the game or in the shower right now that
Speaker 1: you has played your first playoffs snaps seventeen years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll probably reflect on that later. Um and
Speaker 1: again you know, probably with a sour taste. Uh but
Speaker 1: but thankful, um yeah, thankful. Just you know, UM, my
Speaker 1: wife and my family moved around a lot and been
Speaker 1: been a lot, been there for me and so um
Speaker 1: my mom and dad and and uh so to go
Speaker 1: out there and get to play in a playoff game
Speaker 1: with special and uh and I can't think them enough
Speaker 1: for the support and uh it was it was a rod.
Speaker 1: I left it all out there. I know that much. Um.
Speaker 1: Uh it's different playing at forty now, so your body
Speaker 1: talks to you a lot. And uh and um you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think more than anything it was that was.
Speaker 1: I think I'll reflect on that later. But it was
Speaker 1: fun to be out there for sure. Thanks, thank you. Okay,
Speaker 1: if there are any dry eyes out there, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to tell you. Um. An emotional Josh McCown
Speaker 1: reflecting on his journey, saying, I've had the time of
Speaker 1: my life and really tearing up there when thinking about
Speaker 1: his family and the support and just how much they've
Speaker 1: moved around again, seventeen years in the NFL, I believe,
Speaker 1: nine different teams, first playoff game. But you also can
Speaker 1: sense the disappointment that they didn't get the win today
Speaker 1: and that that was more important to him than his
Speaker 1: own experience. Fran Let's just reflect on this amazing player
Speaker 1: and the year and what he's meant to this team
Speaker 1: this year. Well, I think just like the last couple
Speaker 1: of minutes there that we just saw, to me, it
Speaker 1: kind of encapsulates that. You know, for a lot of fans,
Speaker 1: these guys are maybe lines on a on a TV
Speaker 1: screen when they're playing Madden, like a first name, last name,
Speaker 1: ovar rating, or you know, they're on your fantasy football team,
Speaker 1: but they're people. I mean, they're humans. They're people. They've
Speaker 1: got families, they've got friends, they've got issues, they've got
Speaker 1: highs and lows. And to me, you know that that
Speaker 1: showed the human element of the sport. Yeah. I've been
Speaker 1: in that position, and it wasn't at the seventeen years,
Speaker 1: it was at the nine years. But I knew I
Speaker 1: didn't have much left in me, and it's ironic that
Speaker 1: had happened right in that stadium the final game of
Speaker 1: the season back in two thousand and six, as I
Speaker 1: was with the Falcons and we lost to the Eagles.
Speaker 1: You sit in that locker room and you reflect after
Speaker 1: that game is over with, when you know your season
Speaker 1: is ended. And watching Josh up there talking, I'm sure
Speaker 1: today was bitter sweet for him. He's a competitor, He's
Speaker 1: been in this league a long time, but you know,
Speaker 1: playing that position, he does not want to come in
Speaker 1: and play under those circumstances. You know, he's been here
Speaker 1: as a tutor, as a mentor for Carson, someone for
Speaker 1: Carson to lean on when he comes to the sideline,
Speaker 1: almost like an extended coach, and to have to go
Speaker 1: out there knowing that was Carson's first playoff game as well,
Speaker 1: and for him to only play a short period of time.
Speaker 1: Josh as a fellow quarterback, feels for Carson also, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, he knows that he may have
Speaker 1: just finished his last game in the NFL, playing in
Speaker 1: his first ever playoff game, and so there's a lot
Speaker 1: of emotions going through him right now because he may
Speaker 1: not put that uniform on again. So as a player,
Speaker 1: when you know you're at the end and you may
Speaker 1: have just left it all out there on the field.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to find the words to put
Speaker 1: it in the right words. And I can only imagine
Speaker 1: Josh been in the situation that he's in as a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback at forty years old after seventeen years. You know,
Speaker 1: he can't stand up there and talk about a funny
Speaker 1: head out there playing to day, just getting an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play in his first ever playoff game because he's
Speaker 1: so locked into the team oriented goals and so man,
Speaker 1: that was you could feel it. Yeah, I'm standing there talking.
Speaker 1: You could feel it absolutely. And he's only been here
Speaker 1: one year, right, Well, he left you know, the future
Speaker 1: open ended, kind of jokingly saying I've already retired one
Speaker 1: so I know how to do that. But it's different
Speaker 1: playing at forty. Your body kind of talks to you
Speaker 1: a little differently. I would like to point out also
Speaker 1: that Josh McCown was the last forty year old quarterback
Speaker 1: alive in the postseason this year. Who saw that one coming?
Speaker 1: All right, we are going to now check in with
Speaker 1: Mike Quick, who went one on one with head coach
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson to reflect on this game. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look Coacy. Obvious thing todays you lost your quarterback early
Speaker 1: in the football game. But aside from that, give me
Speaker 1: your impressions up today's game. I think today's game kind
Speaker 1: of sums up our season. Yeah, with all the adversity
Speaker 1: that we faced in this game with losing Carson, Brandon
Speaker 1: ram came out, you know, Miles got nicked up, even
Speaker 1: backup quarterback got heard, Josh got a little banged up
Speaker 1: in the second half. It just kind of sort of
Speaker 1: symbolizes how our season went. And but also what I
Speaker 1: look at is how how these guys hung together. Our
Speaker 1: defense battled kept us in this football game. Uh, special teams,
Speaker 1: and the guys just you know, continued to be resilient
Speaker 1: time and time again. And and you know, we just
Speaker 1: came up a little bit short obviously with some four
Speaker 1: thounds the red zone, but all things that we'll look
Speaker 1: at and uh, you know, obviously move forward to get better.
Speaker 1: You've lost a lot of guys, as you said, throughout
Speaker 1: the season. But how difficult is it when you lose
Speaker 1: a Carson and what are the adjustments that need to
Speaker 1: be made. Well, you know, you plan all week obviously
Speaker 1: for your starter and the whole game plan is as
Speaker 1: kind of at your disposal with Carson, but you know,
Speaker 1: with Josh and there, he's a veteran guy, he's played,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played in a while. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we had to kind of eliminate some of the some
Speaker 1: of the moving parts a little bit that we had
Speaker 1: the motions and shifts and just kind of line up
Speaker 1: the offense and just let him see the defense, utilize
Speaker 1: the run game, let him feel comfortable with that, and
Speaker 1: then just mixing some of the play action as we win.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, it worked for us. We moved
Speaker 1: the ball, but we just failed to score. It's a
Speaker 1: defense that familiar with your offense. Did that make it
Speaker 1: even more difficult because especially in the red zone where
Speaker 1: they were able to shut you down on a lot
Speaker 1: of places. Yeah, you know, and and a lot of
Speaker 1: it was just our failed execution down there. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, they understood probably what we were doing.
Speaker 1: And um, and it's a credit to them. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good defense and uh, you know, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so they're in the postseason as well. So, um, just
Speaker 1: something we gotta we gotta look at as we move
Speaker 1: forward this offseason. We'll study the whole thing and um,
Speaker 1: you know, get ready for next year. You mentioned your
Speaker 1: defense holding them again to just nineteen points and giving
Speaker 1: you a chance to win this football game. Over the
Speaker 1: last few games, and especially at home, they've been really good.
Speaker 1: Tell me why, I just think they won. The crowd
Speaker 1: has been unbelievable. Our fans have been unbelievable during this stretch,
Speaker 1: during this whole season. And then and then our defense,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, um, I don't know, playing in
Speaker 1: the league, playing at home, playing together when it's loud
Speaker 1: like that, communication is obviously a premium for the offense.
Speaker 1: And when they can't communicate it, it helps us get
Speaker 1: off the ball and and uh and do some things.
Speaker 1: And um, and our defense has played lights out really
Speaker 1: at at home, and um, you know, we just gotta
Speaker 1: be able to put it all together though, and try
Speaker 1: to figure out where to win. Do you take a
Speaker 1: little break now or do you go right into scouting?
Speaker 1: How do you handle this? Yeah, I mean we'll wrap
Speaker 1: up the season and everything tomorrow, and um, and then
Speaker 1: and then we're right back into you know, evaluations, and
Speaker 1: you know that obviously that it just it just starts
Speaker 1: over again, you know, And build to the draft, build
Speaker 1: you know, and plan for OTAs and then uh, you
Speaker 1: don't get ready for twenty twenty. Thanks coach, Thanks quick,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks Mike. As coach reflects on today's game
Speaker 1: and on the season, we're taking a quick ninety second break.
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Speaker 1: Cox and man him just showing how absolutely disruptive he
Speaker 1: was on the Seattle Seahawks opening drive. Fran Duffy has
Speaker 1: more and we're gonna start things off by looking at
Speaker 1: the dominant performance from Fletcher Cox. This guy could not
Speaker 1: be blocked in the first half. Really kept the Eagles
Speaker 1: in this football game. That play of that defensive front seven.
Speaker 1: Really the guys in the back end as well in
Speaker 1: the secondary making some plays. But let's look at what
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox did on this opening drive, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: see here they nearly come up with a huge play
Speaker 1: on the second play of the game. Here's number ninety one.
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox line up in the B gap between the
Speaker 1: right guard and the right tackle. He's gonna explode up
Speaker 1: field with a quick first step and beat the block
Speaker 1: from the right tackle Jermada Fetty. He's gonna eventually get
Speaker 1: to the running back here, Travis Homer, but the guy
Speaker 1: who helps set him up is his counterpart here on
Speaker 1: the other side, Tim Jernigan, who's gonna be really stout
Speaker 1: on contact. And we'll let this play run, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see him take on the double team right there.
Speaker 1: So he gives up no ground. He does not give
Speaker 1: up any space here on the double team. That causes
Speaker 1: Travis Homer, the rookie, to kind of chatter his feet
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Now you can see here Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: he's already well on his way to defeating that block
Speaker 1: from the right tackle of Fetty. That explosive first step
Speaker 1: brought him into the backfield. Now he's gonna take this,
Speaker 1: put his foot in the ground and explode to the
Speaker 1: ball carrier. Let this play run. You're gonna see Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox get the ball on the ground here. Unfortunately, bad
Speaker 1: bounce lands right and back into the hands off Travis
Speaker 1: Homer doesn't erase the fact that Fletcher Cox dominated there
Speaker 1: on that play really kind of a sign of things
Speaker 1: to come for number ninety one. I could watch that
Speaker 1: play again and again and again. All right, we are
Speaker 1: taking one more quick break. Stay with us for sixty
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Speaker 1: um Ike, what has been your favorite part about working
Speaker 1: with me? Well, well, the fact that we added another
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