WEBVTT - Postgame Show: Eagles Lose 37-10 vs the Cowboys 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.040 Thirty seven to ten is your final score. The Eagles 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.520 failed to get it done in Dallas. Thanks for joining 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:10.080 us on the postgame show presented by rico Ike Crease Brand, 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.160 Duffy Amy Campbell. We are going to try to unpack 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.160 this thing. The Eagle is not really in this from 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.320 the start. Ike, Yeah, I'm surprised too. I mean, obviously 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.680 a big game coming up this week, we knew what 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.240 was the stake, a chance to be in first place, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.440 getting the division win on the road over the team 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.120 that you're tied with, and just a little surprised that 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.760 the team didn't come out and performed the way we 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.519 expected them to. And I'm pretty sure that'll be the 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.760 talk in the locker room. It's just how flat they 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.280 seemed when you think about some of the miscuse, the 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:46.160 things that has continually plagued this team all year long 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.120 showed up again today. I mean, last week it was 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.000 the two big plays on defense in the first quarter 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.440 that put them into an early hole. This week it's 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.840 two big players on offense, you know, And that's why 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.800 when people talk talk about why why are the slow stars? 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.480 Why does this happen? It's not the same thing week 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.720 after week it's not oh, you know, third down, they 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.560 got to get better, or you know, they gotta run 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.280 the ball better. It's something different each week, and those 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.440 things just kind of spiral, and it certainly did today. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.280 I mean, that's to jump out to an O fourteen hole, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.920 it is tough to bounce back from. They obviously not. Yeah, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.960 within the first six minutes they're down O fourteen. Coach 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.080 Peterson elects to receive to start the game, hoping to 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.760 give the offense a little bit of a spark, and 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.760 they didn't even really have much of a chance to 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.440 get that going. Like, yeah, again, self inflicted wounds when 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.480 you turn the ball over the way they did. You 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.640 think about early in this game, the miscues. Fran just 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.319 mentioned that, you know, Dallas gott are coming out fumbling 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.200 on that opening drive. You know, Dallas takes that in 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.920 and scores. Then they come back get the ball, Carson 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.200 gets sacked, strip fumble, Dallas ball again right there. So 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.000 before you even before the defense can even catch their breath, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.600 you're down fourteen nothing. Dallas with the ball in a 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.840 great situation deep in Eagles territory, setting up for the score. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.160 And these are the things that I'm sure they talked 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.760 about all week not wanting to happen, not allowing to happen, 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.720 focusing in on not beating themselves, and to still come 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.800 out and have that happen has to be very disappointing. Yeah, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.160 I think anytime you have this kind of scenario where 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.919 on all three sides of the ball, you just didn't 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.880 have the kind of effectiveness that you would have wanted 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.959 in a division game, in a high stakes game. It's 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.280 still earlier. We're not even the mid season yet, but 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.359 we talked about on the Kickoff show. May I mean, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.359 this was this was a high stakes game. You know, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.200 winner goes home as first place in the NFC East 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.399 and the Eagles are coming home now losers are too 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.440 straight still have to go on the road next week 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.480 against a five and one Buffalo team, and then you've 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.799 got Chicago, who's going to be a desperate, hungry team 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.840 that was in the playoffs last year coming back for 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.320 revenge for last year's playoff loss. Yeah, I mean, we 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.440 knew this would be a difficult part of the schedule 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.760 that they would have to try to navigate through, and 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.240 that lost last week in Minnesota, didn't get off to 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.639 a good start with the three game road trip. I 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.760 thought you would be able to bounce back going up 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.560 against the struggling Dallas Cowboy team that had lost three 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.120 games in a role, you know, including losing to an 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.919 OH and four Jets team last week. It just didn't 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:11.239 look like the same Cowboys team from the previous three weeks. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.080 And for the Eagles, they pretty much resembled how they've 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.480 looked all year long. I mean, they've been able to 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.600 overcome it at times, but you play this way every week, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.360 you're gonna lose your fair share games. It's just difficult 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.120 to come from behind when you're on the road down 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.480 by double digits early in the game. And the Eagles 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.840 had been living on that tight rope all year long, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.720 really trelling in just about every game, with the exception 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.520 of the Jets game. And as we wait to hear 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.560 from coach Chuck Peterson and Carson Wentz on their thoughts 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.560 on this game, will continue to unpack it here on 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.600 the show. Guys, let's go to the trenches, because this 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.720 was something Brand and I really talked about before in 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.360 the in the kickoff show, that this is going to 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.280 be a battle on the line of scrimmage, and let's 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.480 let's talk about Eagles defensive line versus the Dallas offensive line. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.400 They had some injuries on the offensive line, but those 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.839 guys were back tonight. They were healthy, and it really 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.400 seemed like the Eagles defensive line. There's some injuries there 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.680 at the defense of tackle position, but they really got 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.800 pushed around up front. Yeah. I mean, you had three 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.440 sacks I believe overall in the game, you know, and 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.920 somewhere were key in the first half, and it was 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.320 good to see Derek Barnett get home for that sack 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.520 that helped get the Eagles the ball back, and on 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.480 one score game, it was still kind of a situation 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.880 where you thought, all right, let's go make something now. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.799 After that sack by Derek Barnett forces third long, Eagles 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.680 get the ball back and give it back to them. So, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.159 you know, I think when you look at the defensive line, 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.120 I am excited. That's probably one of the big things 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.120 I'm interested to go back and see tomorrow when I 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.480 watched the film, is you know, what did the pressure 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.080 look like? I will say this early in the game, 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.719 first half, I might just chart in the game a 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.039 lot of checkdowns from from Dak Prescott, so that goes 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.680 back to the coverage and say, okay, so the coverage 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.520 down field look good. He's forced. They're forcing checkdowns by 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.800 the quarterback. I do want to go and see what 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.440 the pressure looked like. I'll say this though, we talked 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.960 to Amy about all the things they do schematically. You know, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.640 we talked about it this week as well. Play action 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.560 screen game, stacked receiver bunches made more of a quarterback 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.440 friendly offense. We saw all that. The quarterback run game 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.680 was prevalent for Dallas tonight, you know, and obviously Ezekieliot 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.000 and what they want to do in the run game. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.840 So all of that goes to the gate. A pass rush, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.960 the ball comes out quick. You know. Those are the 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.000 things where it can be a little bit tough to 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.520 evaluate just watching live on TV. Yeah, I thought they 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.720 did a nice job in the passing game. Listen, when 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.280 you dropped back like Dallas does and you got Ezekiel 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.039 Elliott back there, it makes it difficult at times to 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.120 get that pass rush there. It was a back and 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.920 forth I thought between the old line and D line 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.320 when it came to the pass protection. But the running 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.520 game is where we struggled there. I thought Zeke was 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.120 able to get too many yards on first down at times. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.320 And when you're playing a team like the Cowboys to 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.240 run the ball as well as they do and we 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.920 struggle in the passing game, you're gonna have to decide 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.400 through your game plan what are you willing to give up? 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.800 And it looked like this week they paid a little 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.159 bit more attention to the passing game and helping these 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.599 corners out in coverage, and the running game was going 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.360 to be defended by six and seven man box and 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.919 Zeke is just too good. You need an eighth man 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.599 up there, and eventually he's gonna get his. And I 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.400 thought tonight Dallas won the battle. As far as the 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.560 run game goes. They ran the ball on as better 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.000 than anybody I've seen pretty much all year. Yeah, when 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.360 you're looking at the statuetes, they rushed for one hundred 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.679 and eighty nine yards I believe one hundred and eleven 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.480 of those were Ezekiel Elliott, and then the passing game 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.600 two hundred and thirteen yards through the air for Dallas. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.600 But really the big number, I mean, if those numbers 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.080 aren't big enough, what really jumps out to me is 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.000 the first down. So they had twenty three to the 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.520 Eagle sixteen brand. Yeah, and the first I mean, those 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.800 rushing numbers are that's the states that we haven't seen 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.440 that and that's really what this Eagles defense. They've always 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:38.960 been able to hang their hat on being able to 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.400 stop the run. In this game, that was not the case. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.599 And certainly I'm just going going through my you know, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.039 my chart here and just looking at Zeke plus seven, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.320 Zeke plus eight, Zeke plus eighteen, Yeah, Zeke plus thirteen, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.720 Zeke touchdown run. I mean it started early. It wasn't like, oh, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.880 that was all garbage time in the second half. They 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.680 were able to pick up chunks of yardage on the 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.560 ground early in this game. That brings up third manageable 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.520 allow was going to keep moving the football, and that 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.000 makes it very very tough to play defense. Yeah, it 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.919 really does. And and Dak probably hit two big throws 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.880 to day. I mean he hit the wide open one 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.280 on the double move by Mary Cooper and the other 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.760 one of the Marty Cooper called that's just an outstanding catch, 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.280 great coverage, and it was just one of those moments 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.400 that just kind of you pick You're like, well, that's 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.880 you know, that's that's an example of a guy going 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.960 up and making a play. Yeah, right, I mean that's 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.400 the coverage is there and the receiver goes up and 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.360 makes that play there. Um, So that's sort of what 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.720 we need on our our side of the football, right, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.600 We gotta have guys come up and make Yeah. I mean, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.040 you just can't make the ordinary play. Sometimes you got 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.800 to make the extraordinary play when you want to start 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.640 to get your offense gone. And that's really what Dak 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.880 had going for him tonight is that this guy's made 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.040 a couple of big catches for him, But really it 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.120 was that running game that allowed him to operate back 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.960 there with really no pressure around him, especially in the 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.480 play action. Like, why don't we get to your three takeaway? 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.120 Since we have been taking away many things from this one, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.360 let's get to ikes three takeaways. Well, we've discussed pretty much. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.000 I mean some of them early miscues in the game. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.960 You just can't have that turn, the fumble by Dallas 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.960 Goddard can't have that, and then the strip sacked that 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.800 Carson gave up. You know, Lane, I thought I had 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.840 a tough night tonight. Back there in pass protection, DeMarcus 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.120 Lawrence got his first sack against the Eagles in his 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.080 career right there, setting up that touchdown. So having those 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.720 early miscues, not being able to get off the field 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.160 on third down, A couple of key penalties on defense 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.679 put this team behind the eight ball in that first 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.560 half where Dallas just pretty much controlled the clock. Key 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.199 penalties on special teams too. Yeah, that was a big 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.120 penalty the punt return for you know, Boston Scott brings 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.000 a back pass midfield. Rudy Ford penalty on a block 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.160 in the back that was it was an unnecessary penalty. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.440 There was no reason to pushing the back there, brings 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.040 it back inside the fifteen. That's a forty yard swing 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.679 in a two score game. It's a critical play that 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.600 is hidden yardage that no one talks about. But that's 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.319 four first downs for this team that has to be 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.960 able to create those big plays at forty yards as 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.920 an eternity. That's I mean, that's a huge, huge impact. Uh, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.840 you know on special teams that you know they weren't 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:10.959 able to happen. And then you had a couple of 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.400 kick returns as well, where the ball you know, was 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.600 kicked into the end zone could have been a touchback 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.600 that came out bad. Blocking whatever you want to call it. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.480 They get caught tackled inside to twenty and that's another 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.520 again ten fifteen yards. They were talking about a big 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.080 difference in the end, you know, in the end game 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:27.840 of those drives, it adds up well, and when we 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.040 look at the Eagles offense, I mean, not really able 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.960 to get a lot going there as well. Friend, you 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.720 didn't have I think Alshan didn't have any catches until 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.760 the third quarter and you were looking kind of down 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.840 those receiver stats. Z Arts didn't get anything I think 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.640 until the fourth quarters. So just really unable to get 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.200 anybody going in the passing game. Yeah, when you have 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.600 thirty I want to say it was thirty three plays 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.280 run in the in the first two and a half quarters. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.920 That's gonna happen. There's only so many balls that go 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.679 around and in that kind of scenario. So I think 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.920 when you look at the way that this offense operated, um, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.840 you know, they weren't able to create those big plays. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:01.439 They weren't able to stay on the field. You had 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.720 too many penalties, you had too many Uh the turnovers 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.960 obviously certainly set this team back. But look, this is 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.640 this was a game that they're gonna go back and 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.160 they're gonna watch this film and say, you know, from 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.040 the jump, it just was not our night. Well, I 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.760 know it's something. Yeah, you guys are gonna want to 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.240 go back and watch the film. But I just at 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.080 an initial takeaway, what were they doing so well on 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.600 defense that the Eagles were not able to get really 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.240 much going in the passing game, in the run game, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.839 whatever it is. The offense just wasn't able to get 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.720 anything going. Yeah, mother takeaway Amy fran Is the pass 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.920 protection and night I thought the best day and the 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.720 Cowboys did tonight was get after Carson Wentz without having 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.480 to bring extra pressure. They did at times, but for 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.720 the most part they were able to get pressure on 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.160 Carson with just their front four. I thought Andre up 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.800 and down night with his first start over there and 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.640 left tackle, and I mentioned a second ago Lane I 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.920 thought struggled a little bit tonight as well. Carson Rise. Yeah, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.080 and Lane typically plays well against de Marcus Lawrence. But 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.640 you know, DeMarcus Lawrence is a is a pro bowled 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.360 defensive ends led his league in sacks, so it's no 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.600 shame and giving up one or two to a guy 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.960 like that. But I thought Carson was hit way too 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.320 much tonight. There were times where you had coverage sacks 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.440 right where he was standing there and holding the ball 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.720 with no one to throw it to, and you wanted 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.800 to be able to get rid of it, and they didn't, 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.439 and he was hit alten tonight. So I thought the 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.320 pass protection kind of failed in the night and it 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.400 makes him jittery in the pocket. You know, when you 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.160 start getting hit like that, you start to see ghosts. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.840 Either get get out of the pocket too soon or 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.200 you're holding onto the ball too long. And I thought 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.640 they disrupted his slow tonight when he was able to 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.840 extend a few things just by doing what he does. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.360 But like you said, still the breakdowns with the coverage 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.240 and the offensive line still as magical as he can 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.160 be in that moment, Fran he could only do so 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.520 much in those situations. You alluded to it earlier that 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.440 you know at some point you also need guys to 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.520 go up and make place for your Carson Wentz it 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.760 made some great place to individually for himself to create 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.160 in the backfield, but you also need guys to come 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:00.840 up with some big players the back end for you 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.400 as well. It takes two to tango. You know, we've 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.000 started watching, you know, Sunday night game, so we get 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.559 to watch the one o'clock games. We watched the four 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.160 o'clock games. You see up and down the league teams 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:11.800 that were able to make those big plays in the 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.840 passing game. The Eagles have just not been able to 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.640 make them consistently enough over the last four or five games, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.640 and it's come back to hurt them for sure. Yeah, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.400 and one guy who did make big plays when he 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.240 needed to was Dak Prescott. I thought Dak when he 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.200 needed to make a big throw tonight, he was able 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.800 to make the throws. Really the one turnoverhead late in 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.520 the game. Other than that, I thought he played a 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.160 relatively clean game, didn't force many throws, was able to 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.720 run the football at times as well. And he rushed 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.800 for another touchdown tonight. So in a game like this, 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.600 your quarterbacks are gonna have to come up big. And 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.920 I thought, you know, Carson didn't get the help they 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:47.960 needed to be able to come up big tonight, and 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.040 Dak got the help that he needed to be able 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.760 to come up big. Starting with an effective running game. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.760 When you rush for over one hundred and eighty yards, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.800 that's gonna make life easy for your quarterback back there, Fran, 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.720 let's go back and reflect on your key to the game. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.520 Obviously you're gonna want to watch the film kind of 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.600 dive in a little bit more. But I first glance, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.000 how do you evaluate? That was gonna be a tough 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 one to off the initial evaluation, and we're talking about 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.320 just the communication in the secondary being able to handle 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.840 all the different things that the Dallas offense was going 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.760 to throw at them. I will say I saw a 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.040 lot of those stacked receiver sets, So Dallas, you know, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.080 stay true to what they had been doing over the 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.160 course of the first six games, and you know that's 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.200 stacking receivers, that shifts motions little a lot of variety 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.520 with the formations, a lot of play action obviously the 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.280 run game, in the screen game, we saw a lot 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.000 of two back sets from them, So they kept things, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.839 but you know, multiple they did. They tried to attack 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.120 the Eagles in a lot of different ways and they 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.120 were able to have success. So tough for me to 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.640 say exactly how they did for me. I think one 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.120 of the big things too is you know, you look 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.000 into this and say, all right, if you're the Eagles, again. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.360 You know, Doug Peterson said it earlier this week, and 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.160 it's tough to say it when you're in a game 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.760 like this where you lose by you know, twenty seven points. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.840 A few plays early in the game completely outweigh and 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.480 say and send the game going spiraling into a different way. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.400 You say, if you don't fumble that opening drive, like 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.200 where's this team at? If you don't give up the 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.160 stack fumble, like, where's this team at? It's it's frustra 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.520 But that's that's football. That's exactly what the NFL is 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.440 on a week to week basiness. And the other thing 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.960 that that ripple effect is from those early turnovers and 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.360 you get down fourteen nothing, Now you have to scrap 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.400 your game plan because now you're in catchup mode. And 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.160 that's pretty much what they were in from what ten 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.400 minutes to go in that first quarter when Dallas went 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.440 up by fourteen. At that point, you basically are just 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.960 in a throw throw, throw, throw, throw mode, and it 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.360 makes it easy for a defense to sit back and 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.080 and sort of divide, i mean, disguise what they want 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.000 to do, bring an extra pressure of times dropping guys 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.520 back off in coverage because they know you have to 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.360 throw the ball to try to catch back up. What 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.600 do you guys think the turning point was for this game. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.280 We'll start with you like, well, I think the early turnover. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.400 I think when you when you're on a road like that, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.720 and Doug decided to take the ball to try to 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.320 get this team off to a fast start. Um, and 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.280 you turn the ball over on that opening drive, man, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.880 that is deflating. And for the home team to have 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.600 something like that happened early in the game, it just 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.520 energizes that crowd. It gives that whole team life over there. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.760 And I thought Dallas was able to ride that wave 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.440 of energy for the entire first half, and so they 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.680 sort of fell asleep in the third quarter and then 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.960 picked it back up. About it, it was just too late. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.520 Once you turn the ball over like that early in 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.840 the game, it's hard to overcome. Remind me of the 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.760 playoff game we had back in two thousand against the Giants. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.520 I mean, we went up there opening kickoff, they took 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.640 it to the house for a touchdown and we never recovered. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.600 We never recovered from it. Crowd was into the game, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.280 and once you have something like that happened to you 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.080 early the first thing you say to yourself is, man, 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.680 here we go again. Here we go again. So it 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.280 becomes deflating for you as well, because you've told yourself 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.440 all week, I'm gonna do this, right, I'm gonna do this. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.360 We gonna make sure we do this on the first drive. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.800 You know, Doug is preparing to get that ball on 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.400 the opening drive because the Dallas wins the toss, they're 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.000 gonna defer to the second half, so they know they 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.200 had a pretty good chance of having that ball coming out. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.280 And to have that happen on the opening drive, it's deflating. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.440 And sorry, Doug does that to try and set the tone. Yeah, right, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.520 and unfortunately it's set the tone going the other way. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.480 I mean, that's the you know what if they go 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.440 you know, we'll say six, seven and out and you 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.400 putt and you pin them into the inside the fifteen, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.040 you feel good about it. That's fine, Like you know, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.120 you live and you play play in the next series. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.880 But to turn the ball over on the fifth play 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.360 of the game and give them the ball inside the 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.920 thirty yard line, that gets you going the other way. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:31.480 Then you get back and you give it away on 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.360 your second player the next drive, it's really tough to 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.920 bounce back. That's the killer. And I'm telling you, I've 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.920 been on teams where you struggle to get out of 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.960 your way and get out of your own way, and 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.800 when something like that happens early, it's just human nature 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:47.920 that you're in the back of your hair. You said, Man, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.880 here we go again. We can't do And it's just 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.640 it's just human nature. When you don't have the positive 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.200 reinforcement coming from positive plays and things that you're doing 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.720 well out there, that stuff just starts to creep in 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.920 your hand and it festers. And the Eagles got to 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.080 find a way to get off to faster starts. And 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:06.920 I know it seemed like we say this every week. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:08.920 A matter of fact, we have said it every week 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.120 because it applies. Because it applies every week, man, And 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.880 and to have that go down like that, man, it's 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.600 just it's just difficult to overcome when you're on the 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.640 role like that. I did. I did want to give 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:26.840 Dallas Goddard some credit for having that yet a touchdown 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.439 and um, you know, getting that place one touchdown there 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.679