Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I think there's a couple of things.
Speaker 1: First is, um, when when you get me right before
Speaker 1: I'm going out to practice, my mind is certainly not
Speaker 1: talking to you guys. I'm trying to get mentally ready
Speaker 1: for practice. And the other part would be, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to make it tough. But when we
Speaker 1: started with Derek, Um, we're talking about media, and I said,
Speaker 1: the one criteria that I have for speaking to media
Speaker 1: is I never want to speak on the same day
Speaker 1: to take coach speaks. I have way too much respect
Speaker 1: for that chair when I sat in that chair, and
Speaker 1: I got way too much respect for Doug and the
Speaker 1: chair he's got to sit in to to speak on
Speaker 1: the same day. So anyway, that that that was my thing.
Speaker 1: But if this works better for you guys, um, you know,
Speaker 1: then then that's fine. Um, we can we can keep
Speaker 1: we can keep going. Yeah, well, we already played him once,
Speaker 1: so you know that's probably the downside of this is
Speaker 1: we're not going to be were weren't we Our game
Speaker 1: plan is not final and you guys know me, I
Speaker 1: probably don't talk very much about game plan anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: but that is sort of the downside of this. It
Speaker 1: probably helps um recap the game maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: better at a time timely your fashion. But it also
Speaker 1: we're not into the game plan weekend, and honestly, you know,
Speaker 1: Doug hasn't really had a chance to set the tone
Speaker 1: for the upcoming week. So it's probably a double edged thing.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how it goes. Yesterday they gave effort.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that, particularly on the defensive. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think anytime things aren't going well, you're
Speaker 1: looking at everything that you can, whether it's schemes, whether
Speaker 1: it's individual effort, whether it's collective effort. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: tough situation. It's twenty nine to nothing in this game. Here.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'd say about that, and I actually UM
Speaker 1: talk to the defense about that this morning. Um, when
Speaker 1: it's all said and done, we have to take the
Speaker 1: most pride in our effort. And sometimes there might be
Speaker 1: a difference between effort and energy. It's hard to have
Speaker 1: energy when you're down twenty nine to nothing. Um, it's
Speaker 1: not hard to have have effort. And I think you
Speaker 1: saw us have effort. It's twenty nine nothing. We give
Speaker 1: up a first down and Benny Logan runs twenty five
Speaker 1: yards down the field and uh and cause us a
Speaker 1: fumble And was that the fourth quarter? That was the
Speaker 1: beginning of a fourth quarter. You don't do that without effort,
Speaker 1: you know. We we cut it to two scores with
Speaker 1: whatever that was six minutes to play and didn't get
Speaker 1: the on side kick and got the twenty four years
Speaker 1: in the NFL, don't tell me about a two score
Speaker 1: game with six minutes to play. Man, I've been on
Speaker 1: the I've been on both sides of those. And we
Speaker 1: didn't get the on side kick, and it was it
Speaker 1: was a little bit deflating. You know, it's hard to
Speaker 1: have energy. You didn't get the on side kick. Go out, Um,
Speaker 1: we go out and and force a fumble, you know.
Speaker 1: And Nigel actually was covering an eligible tighten and they
Speaker 1: sort of ran a trick play they wiped seventy four
Speaker 1: and he had him covered and they booted way and
Speaker 1: then he started he fell off him and then it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, man, I gotta go get him.
Speaker 1: Guy catches the ball. He didn't give up on the play,
Speaker 1: you know, he did. He went out and caused to
Speaker 1: fumble and when Michael Kendrick picked it up, Michael didn't
Speaker 1: pick it up and fall down on the ground to
Speaker 1: avoid a hit. He didn't step out of bounds. He
Speaker 1: picked it up when he was trying to score, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm encouraged by all those things. You don't always
Speaker 1: play your best, but I'm encouraged by by those kind
Speaker 1: of things. I think that I would agree that we
Speaker 1: need to play with more energy. And that's that's a
Speaker 1: hard thing sometimes too. You know, you're down twenty nine
Speaker 1: to nothing. I've been there. You know you make a sack.
Speaker 1: It's twenty nine to nothing. If you get excited and
Speaker 1: high five and have a sack dance. Man, you guys
Speaker 1: probably say it. I probably say at home watching TV,
Speaker 1: man they did not go know what the score is.
Speaker 1: But if you walk back to the huddle and put
Speaker 1: your head down and you know, and just go through
Speaker 1: the motions, then everybody says the other things say, man,
Speaker 1: they're not into it, they're not spirited. So I just
Speaker 1: I just told our guys, hey, lets the chips fall
Speaker 1: where they may play with some emotion, play with some
Speaker 1: play with some Uh be willing to put yourself out there.
Speaker 1: And I think, don't worry about you know anything else.
Speaker 1: I seem like when you were falling behind. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's I think if we had a handle on that,
Speaker 1: if you could just put a formula on that every game. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that ever anybody in sports, whether it's football,
Speaker 1: whether it's the Eagles, whether it's baseball or hockey or basketball, Um,
Speaker 1: you'd have a you'd have a pretty good monopoly. Um.
Speaker 1: There's human nature that goes into this game. Um, you
Speaker 1: know we didn't start that game very well. We went
Speaker 1: three and out on offense, that got the ball at midfield,
Speaker 1: We gave up a field goal, We had a chance
Speaker 1: to get an interception. Man, what a change that would
Speaker 1: have made. Imagine, imagine we make that play, get that interception. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, get that lead. Man, you're probably be writing
Speaker 1: a writing a different story. You'd say, Man, they did
Speaker 1: have energy to start. And I think I goes to
Speaker 1: what I was talking to the to the guys about today.
Speaker 1: Regardless of what that scoreboard says, you got to come
Speaker 1: out and you got to play. And as there's, um
Speaker 1: the camaraderie there, it's it's too precious, not too and um,
Speaker 1: you know I was a little bit, um, I would
Speaker 1: say disappointed at that disappointed might be a fine word
Speaker 1: or an okay word. Um, but you know we need
Speaker 1: to play with more energy, whether it's at the beginning
Speaker 1: or at the end. And um, you know that's that's
Speaker 1: a challenge every week. Yeah, you're talking about Rodney. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think you're I'll say you're you're off base.
Speaker 1: But I looked at that play because Derek brought that
Speaker 1: to my attention, and um, his fit on that play
Speaker 1: is not inside, his fit is outside, and he got
Speaker 1: caught flat footed. You know, he's getting ready to fit backside.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden the ball pops out front side
Speaker 1: and he wasn't expecting anything right there. I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: I'll put my name on Rodney McCloud any day. That
Speaker 1: guy plays the way the game supposed to be played.
Speaker 1: He's tough, he's not the biggest guy on the field,
Speaker 1: but that guy is a warrior and he's going to
Speaker 1: do everything he can to win that game. He got
Speaker 1: caught flatfoot. It probably no different than a baseball player.
Speaker 1: That's that's looking at sitting on a fastball and you
Speaker 1: throw a change up and he looks full of showing
Speaker 1: a play that wasn't his best presentation. He didn't look
Speaker 1: good on that play, but I think that had a
Speaker 1: lot more to do with where he was expecting that
Speaker 1: ball than anything else. That's early in that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I would probably even agree with you, say, after
Speaker 1: we got that ball back on that play and Carson
Speaker 1: threw his last interception and it's two score and they're
Speaker 1: in field goal range, if if we had given up
Speaker 1: that touchdown, then man, that would have perked my eyes
Speaker 1: right there if he would have had that play early
Speaker 1: in that game. Right there. That guy's a warrior. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I'll put my name on, put my
Speaker 1: name beside Rodden Cloud. Anytime previously season they have you
Speaker 1: guys this game just wait, the season is trending. That's hey,
Speaker 1: I have better game. Well, you know we talk all
Speaker 1: the time, and this goes back to training camp. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, for nine weeks you probably could not mention
Speaker 1: best defenses in the NFL without mentioning the Eagles. Um,
Speaker 1: the last three you probably can't mention worst defenses in
Speaker 1: the NFL without mentioning Eagles. Hey, facts life, man, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's what it is, Um, same schemes,
Speaker 1: same same players. I mean, other than Ron Brooks pretty
Speaker 1: much the same, the same bunch. We're in a slump,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we have to we have to
Speaker 1: own that we're in a three gat three game slump.
Speaker 1: We've had. We had good games and bad games in
Speaker 1: that nine stretch early. You know, some games we played
Speaker 1: better than others. But these last three we've we've been
Speaker 1: in a slump. You know, for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 1: Third down the last two games, third down has been
Speaker 1: a significant part of that. This last game, penalty has
Speaker 1: had a significant partition of that. And sort of to
Speaker 1: go back to the to the effort question, those penalties
Speaker 1: we had, they weren't from lack of attention. They weren't
Speaker 1: from um lack of composure. They were aggressive penalties. I
Speaker 1: mean anytimes I mean Brandon Graham is fighting to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, He's three hundred pounders, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to get him. He's off balanced, you know, he goes
Speaker 1: low on the quarterback. I mean, he knows he can't
Speaker 1: go low on the quarterback. He's trying to get him.
Speaker 1: If he swipes his leg, he's got a better chance.
Speaker 1: U Jalen Watkins, I mean, that guy's got that ball.
Speaker 1: That guy's fighting to try to get a first down,
Speaker 1: you know, and he goes in to clean that tackle
Speaker 1: up to try to get us off the field on
Speaker 1: a critical third down, and the guy ducks his head.
Speaker 1: He ends up hitting him in the head. You know,
Speaker 1: those penalties hurt us. We recognize that, and we want
Speaker 1: to avoid penalties the best we can. But I tell
Speaker 1: you what, if you gave me the choice of Jamen
Speaker 1: Watkins um getting that foul right there or passing on
Speaker 1: that hit and that guy fighting for the first down,
Speaker 1: I mean we all would have lost our Philadelphia card
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, you know, you could never be
Speaker 1: able to step out for pizza and sail Philly if
Speaker 1: if he had, if he had, if if he hadn't,
Speaker 1: if he hadn't tried to make that play, And um,
Speaker 1: I think that, But that doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 1: penalties had a big effect. Their down had a bit
Speaker 1: of a big effect in this game. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we blitzed an awful lot in this game. I think
Speaker 1: I think I called nineteen blitz is seventeens. A couple
Speaker 1: of them we audibled out of um, you know, since
Speaker 1: he was since he was gonna try to make it
Speaker 1: hard to blitz and a couple of those looks, and
Speaker 1: you might get sued for malpractice if you try to
Speaker 1: blitz a couple of those looks during max protection. They're
Speaker 1: wanting you to blitz and then keep you lighting coverage.
Speaker 1: You know, facts were in this game. We got beat
Speaker 1: in blitz, we got beat in in zone. We got
Speaker 1: beating covered two, we got beaten two man, we got
Speaker 1: beaten six. We rolled through every one. We got beating
Speaker 1: all of them. And you know, and facts of life,
Speaker 1: our corners aren't playing very well right now. It doesn't
Speaker 1: meet I've lost confidence in them because that's the same
Speaker 1: bunch of corners that shut down some of the best
Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL. But we're in a slump. And
Speaker 1: it didn't matter what we were calling. And I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when I was up here,
Speaker 1: we were talking about I think it was Minnesota, maybe
Speaker 1: at Land. I think Minnesota, and I said, it didn't
Speaker 1: matter what I was calling. They were all working, you know,
Speaker 1: And in this game it didn't matter, and it didn't
Speaker 1: matter what we're calling. It wasn't working. You know. I
Speaker 1: think I watched enough baseball and talk baseball players deal
Speaker 1: with slumps all the time. The only thing you can
Speaker 1: do in a slum is go back to basics, go
Speaker 1: back to technique. If you're a corner, it's all about technique,
Speaker 1: one of those two things. It's about technique and it's
Speaker 1: about confidence. We're not playing with a lot of confidence
Speaker 1: a corner, and we need to taighten up our technique.
Speaker 1: Talking about and a lot of invested in the musician, UMAs,
Speaker 1: don't do that. I don't think that's the only outside
Speaker 1: is that where you is that your school thought? When
Speaker 1: it comes to you know, personnelity, well, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of it is availability. Also, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great corners in the league that
Speaker 1: don't become available in free agency. And you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta take every chance you can to improve our team,
Speaker 1: um or to improve any way you can. There's something
Speaker 1: to be said for being strong up the middle. Also.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, so I guess I'll bet I'm on any
Speaker 1: other way to answer it with that, But the corners
Speaker 1: are important, you know, blown, I don't know which one
Speaker 1: you're referring to it when you say blown coverages. We
Speaker 1: got beat with technique. I don't think we had anything
Speaker 1: that yeah, he got. If you watch it, he's set
Speaker 1: down inside. He bit on the first move and then
Speaker 1: and then the guy got up and threw it open
Speaker 1: on the on the outside. I mean, it wasn't a miscommunication.
Speaker 1: That's just one bad step. And that's this league. Man.
Speaker 1: You take one bad step, you can look bad. I
Speaker 1: think it falls a little bit with um. You know,
Speaker 1: with our you know talk before about got technique. It's
Speaker 1: a technique and it's confidence and that's not just a
Speaker 1: corner thing. That's a safety thing. But you know, you
Speaker 1: look at I think cross, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I don't think that communication was an issue. Um.
Speaker 1: In this we there was only one play I think
Speaker 1: that we had a miscommunication. That was when they were
Speaker 1: backed up and they ran the ball out of that
Speaker 1: full house backfield. There was an adjustment that we had
Speaker 1: made after the first time they ran it, because they
Speaker 1: had never shown that before that the second time we didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't make that play and we gave a some
Speaker 1: rushing yards. But I thought our rushing defense certainly wasn't
Speaker 1: a problem in this game. We played the wrong pretty well.
Speaker 1: I mean I missed no, no, no, we all we
Speaker 1: all about it. I think seventeen of them were actually executed.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a couple that weren't. There was there
Speaker 1: was two that weren't. I guess I don't know that
Speaker 1: the first UM, I don't know how many yards it was,
Speaker 1: but the first third down we gave up unling down
Speaker 1: the field. That was blitz um. You know, there were
Speaker 1: all ways, and sometimes the best answer to being able
Speaker 1: to cover them is get the ball to come out quicker.
Speaker 1: There's double edge to that too. If they pick up
Speaker 1: that blitz um, you can get isolated and coverage a lot.
Speaker 1: And I'll go back technique confidence. We need those things
Speaker 1: so UM. You know, it really depends on situation, It
Speaker 1: depends on opponent, it depends on UM. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of different things. There are times to be aggressive.
Speaker 1: There are times, UM, you know that you're better off
Speaker 1: in a different technique. I think you can't go to
Speaker 1: too steady a diet of anything, any one thing right there.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I do think it goes hand
Speaker 1: in hand with UM with coverage. If you're not covering well,
Speaker 1: you can rush all you want, you're not going to
Speaker 1: get there because the ball's coming out quick. The other end,
Speaker 1: of that is if you're not rushing well, you can
Speaker 1: cover as well as you want. If that quarterback's holding
Speaker 1: the ball forever, Um, you know it. Those guys understand that,
Speaker 1: they understand that their success has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with with other guys success. I think that, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's times to be aggressive in coverage. A couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago playing Atlanta, um LEO was very aggressive
Speaker 1: on a play, give up an eighty yard touchdown. You know,
Speaker 1: it's all probably right, too aggresive in coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: and then and then you're off and you give up
Speaker 1: a play in front. Not aggressive enough in coverage. Man,
Speaker 1: it's tough league. It's it's it's tough business out there. UM,
Speaker 1: can't lose your confidence back, you know, I think, And
Speaker 1: I'll go back to that baseball UM comparison because I'm
Speaker 1: a big baseball fan and I've heard guys talking. And
Speaker 1: I was kid in Baltimore. It was an oriole player
Speaker 1: named Lee May and he was a streaky hitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean he was that guy that when he
Speaker 1: was hot, it didn't matter. You could throw him, you know,
Speaker 1: high fastball and he was hitting it, change up, curveball,
Speaker 1: the ball was probably like a beach ball to him,
Speaker 1: and he was just stroking. But he could also go
Speaker 1: in some wicked slumps. I mean, just just terrible slumps.
Speaker 1: I was, I was, I was too young to remember,
Speaker 1: but watching all the other stuff in nineteen seventy and
Speaker 1: the Orioles beat them. Since he in the um in
Speaker 1: the World Series, he was the only guy that could
Speaker 1: hit for the Reds. He batted like four hundred with
Speaker 1: two home runs. He was they were down five to three.
Speaker 1: It's the only home run that or he you have
Speaker 1: the only win in that game anyway. Um, But when
Speaker 1: when it's not going good, it looks like a seed.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not You're not hitting it. And he
Speaker 1: had a famous quote one time. They wanted them to
Speaker 1: take extra batting practice, and he said, who's going to
Speaker 1: be pitching. It's like a pitching coach. And I'm not
Speaker 1: having a problem hitting him. You know, I'm a problem
Speaker 1: with those other guys. Um. But alongside, way way too much,
Speaker 1: way too long story there. Um, here's here's the thing
Speaker 1: that always got me with baseball players and hearing those
Speaker 1: guys to get themselves out of the slump and slumps
Speaker 1: happening in baseball. I mean, it's probably more so than
Speaker 1: any other any other sport. You'd go over sixteen or
Speaker 1: something like that. Every single guy that I've ever heard
Speaker 1: talk about getting themselves out of a slump. It had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with burning his bats or um changing
Speaker 1: his sweatshirt or changing you know, his whole approach. It
Speaker 1: was always about going back and watching himself be successful. Hey,
Speaker 1: let me go back and watch when I was hot,
Speaker 1: and let me go back to that, and let me
Speaker 1: see where I've got away from those things. And I
Speaker 1: think that falls a little bit what I talked about before. Technique, technique, technique,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think that you know, you go
Speaker 1: back and see what you're doing well and when you
Speaker 1: were doing it well, and if you did, you're abably
Speaker 1: playing with good technique. You're playing with energy, um those things.
Speaker 1: And we can get back to that, do you watching
Speaker 1: they were successful more than games where they made mistakes.
Speaker 1: And you know we do that all the time. You're
Speaker 1: always trying to positively reinforce. You know, I think it
Speaker 1: probably falls a little bit like coverage. You can't go
Speaker 1: too much into that. You know, sometimes sometimes there's some
Speaker 1: fire and brimstone. Sometimes you can't shy away from some
Speaker 1: of the place that you that you put on on film.
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes coaches, um, you know that when
Speaker 1: things aren't going well, you need to find a way
Speaker 1: to bring guys up. And when things are going well,
Speaker 1: you need to find a way to, um, you know,
Speaker 1: bring them back to reality a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: think in this case, it has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with confidence and we need to we need to get
Speaker 1: back to that and they need to know that, um.
Speaker 1: You know, first nine weeks, you know, they were respected
Speaker 1: as for what they put on tape, and the last
Speaker 1: three we've been in a slump and we need to
Speaker 1: we need to get back to those first nine so,
Speaker 1: you know, but we do that a lot follow all right,